New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-05
NETWORK CITY.

The executive committee Of the Battery Park Com
nittee Of One Hundred met at No. Al Nesey-st yes
terday afternoon l.. J. Callahan presided. IL was
announced that the committee had sufficient funds TO
take tho matter into the courts and 1t was decided TO
employ counsel and take advice 10 the best means
of carrying out the objects of the committee.
Justice Patterson. in the supreme Court, Chambers,
has denied the application of Sylvester f. Wilson for
q stay pending an appeal from Judge Marines de-
cision refusing to appoint commission to decide as
TO his sanity. Wilson was convicted Of abduction In
the Court of General Sessions.
This will be "clubnight" at the Republican Club.
and the Century Club will have its monthly meeting
and an art exhibition also this evening.
Recorder Smyth in General Sessions yesterday SEN
fenced Frank Lsrkin, Of No. 3l5 Hudson-st, to ten
years Imprisonment for shooting his wife in the back
of the head on September % at Houston and King sts
Iarln pleaded guilty TO assault in the first degree.
Ills wife is slowly recovering.
Robert s. Sceboh, ex-postmaster Of WiIllamsbridge,
was committed 10 the Emra Reformatory by Recorder
Smyth in General Sessions yesterday. He was re-
Gently found guilty Of forging the names Of two per-
sons to guarantee Of his ability to pay his debts
Frederick Krause, in whose name the Irving Hotel,
at Fourteenth-st and Irving Place, licensed, was
arraigned in General Sessions yesterday indict
nent charging him with keeping disordery house.
He was released in 81 900 BAIL His story Is that
while he was sick Billy" McGlory, who has also been
arrested ran the house and allowed disordery people
10 gather there.
The trustees of the Harlem Library applied to Con
troer Myers yesterday to have their taxes cancelled
for the years from 1887 TO 1891. They amount to
S1,72s 75.
Henry Supple pianomaker tirty-two years old,
living with his wife and three small children at NO
AZ East Seventeenth-st, held for trial In the
Yorkvllle Police Court yesterday, for threatening to
kin his children If tile Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Children did not take care Of them for him.
The North German Lloyd steamship Trave arrived
here yesterday, after a stormy passage across the
North Atlantic. On December she passed through
heavy snowstOrm.
The regular monthly meeting Of the samagundl Club
was held last night at the club rooms No. 40 West
Twenty-second-st. Only routine business was trans
acted. The usual monthly exhibition Of sketches and
studies By members will begin next Friday evening"
continuing thereafter for four days On December
1s the Society of Amateur Photographers will give
private lanternslde exhibition at the cub-rooms. The
annual oil exhibition will take place about the middle
Of January.
G. C. Hall, twenty years old, Of No. las Bowery,
was sent back TO the Elmra Reformatory yesterday for
not reporting regularly to that Institution from which
ne was liberated ON parole months ago, after a
years Imprisonment for grand larceny.
Meyer r. Bmberg, proprietor of Nilsson Hall, at
No. 1874 East Ffteenth-st arrsigned in the Court
OF Special Sessions yesterday, charged by agents Of
Mr. Gerry's society with cruelty to children in allow
ing young girls 10 dance and drink there with men
at night. He was fined 800.
Gabriel Rousseau, wagner-car porter, Of No. e39
West Forty -frstst., arraigned in the Court Of
Special Sessions yesterday, charged by the auditor OF
the passenger accounts Of the NewYor Central Rail
road with petit larceny. For eighteen months the
railroad company has noticed discrepancies in tho
ticket returns from their Syracuse and Auburn branches
and detective traced the operations to Rousseau,
who confessed to stealing several hundred dollars. He
was sent to the penitentlary for six months.