New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-25
NETWORK CITY.


applicants for Park policemen's berths yesterday
Fifteen selected for appointment
John c. Emo waived examination before Commits
sioner Shields yesterday and was held to await
the action Of the Federal Grand Jury.
Thomas Kelly and Neil Corcoran. convlcts who
escaped from the Massachusetts, Reformatory at
Concord the night of october &C. were arrested
in the Bowery Thursday evening by Detectives
McManus and Murphy. of the Central Office. y
young man who said he was Patrick Connolly. of
Lawrence. Mass, was in the company of the es-
capped convicts. and he also was arrested on sus-
pcion. James F. Scott. the superintendent of the
reformatory, arrived in this city yesterday morn
ing and identified the prisoners. Kelly and Cor
coran will be taken back to the reformatory and
Connolly will be discharged.
Commissioner Michael T. Daily. OF the Public
Works Department who has been suffering from
a severe attack OF rheumatism. has been ordered
by his physician to take course of treatment at
the Hot Springs. Arkansas soon as he Is able
to travel. He may start to-day.
The Gas Commission has approved the scheme to
place 143 additional electric lights in the Annexed
District. They will be set up in One-hundred-and-
sixty-sxth. Birch and Orchard SITS. and Bailey.
Anderson, Boston, Elton. Claremont. Manhattan.
Marcher. Rider. Riverdale and VANDERBILT aves.
Babu Protap Chunder MoEoomdar head OF the
Brahmo Somaj of India movement for religious
reformation on national lines will speak in All
Souls Protestant Episcopal Church. Madson-ave.
and Sixty-sixth-st., tomorrow evening
Deputy Sheriff Terry yesterday seized eight year
lngs which Judge William G.. Bennett OF West
Virginia, had just purchased at the horse sale in
the American Institute Building. on an attachment
for 81 600 against Judge Bennett in favor Of Albert
Kraemer. who claims that amount as damages to
his stallion Richmond. which he let out to Judge
Bennett
Among the passengers arriving here yesterday
he
Count and Countess Burgan, Lieutenant ". Won
Hummer. military attacne to the German Embassy
at Washington; Gustav Vomer. German Consul
General to Mexico; DR.. w. Younger and Julius
Meyer. The White Star steamer Germanic had
among her passengers NJ. Cottrell Dormer. Il. Lloyd
Still c. Conillard Kendall c. a. Van Auden and
l.. T. Wordsworth
Constantin Makowsky painter OF 1.-THE Russian
Wedding Feast and other weknown paintings,
will be among the passengers to arrive by La Bre-
tagne tomorrow from Havre In New-York he
will complete the portraits he left unfinished last
winter
Thomas o. Conant who has been chief clerk at
the Assay Office for several years and who has
been connected with the service for than
thirty years has resigned his place TO become as
sstant editor of 1.-The Baptist Examiner" He Is
succeeded by James w. Corsa. warrant clerk. who
has been in the Assay Office for about twenty
years The changes understood to possess
neither political religious significance.
Mails from Melbourne, October IS: Sydney. Oc-
tober 30: Auckland. November 4. and Honolulu.
November &c. are due at the General Postoiice
the morning of Tuesday. November %. The
mail for Australia etc. Will close at the Postolce
at $50 D. m. on December 9. or oil arrival here OF
the steamer Etruria with the British mails
The frame house at No. 5s6 East One-hundred-
and thirty -ffth-st was damaged by an explosion
of gas In the cellar yesterday afternoon. and two
men were injured seriously. George Bridgeworth.
of No. 20 Eas. One-hundred and -hfteenth-st.. and
William Milton of No. 2.05l Second-ave., had gone
there to work on the service pipes. and they
cidentally ignited gas which had collected in the
cellar Both burned severely about their
faces hands and by the explosion and the
floor Of the house was broken in places. The in
iured men were sen. to the Harlem Hospital.
judges Lacombe and Brown yesterday appointed
Sully Glllet. a broker at No 81 Wall-st. Federal
Commissioner of Jurors, in place OF Henry A.
Rogers resigned.
Ieonidas Mort Boggs supercargo on the II. o.
Hartman from Baracoa, yesterday found TO
have with him $50 cigars and 29O cigarettes. Boggs
los, his cigars and cigarettes. and narrowly es-
capped arrest as smuggler
The Custom House officials yesterday completed
the appraisement of the dresses which were seized
from Miss Elizabeth McEnroe. the daughter Of
Eugene McEnroe when she reached here La
brought over from France by Miss McEnroe
valued at 1926. and the dresses found In her
trunks, but marked with the name Of Nine. DonO-
van. the dressmaker. were valued at .sS9 IS. The
original seizure valued At $1,000. but con-
siderable quantity OF the goods has been released
on Miss McEnroc's proving that the dresses
her personal property and had been made In this
country.
At the request of Inspector Mclaughlin the police
OF Richmond Va on Thursday arrested In that
city David Frazer. OF New-York. on the charge OF
bigamy, made by Mrs. Frazer No. ]. who lives at
No S33 Eighth-ave. She was married to Frazer
two years ago In Philadelphia About three weeks
ago Frazer married Miss Fannie Potter in this city,
the ceremony being performed by the Rev. DR..
Davis of No. 800 East Fourteenth-st. Frazer took
his latest bride to Richmond. and living with
her there under the name of Davis when he was
arrested. Detective Mccarthy sent 10 Rich
mond yesterday to bring Frazer back to New
York.
Coroner McKenna yesterday held an inquest on
the death of Patrick j. Conley. OF Woonsocket, Il.
l., who killed week ago by Broadway
cable car while on his way to Palmers Theatre.
The jury severely censured the management OF the
cable road for not having proper safeguards on the
cars. The motorman exonerated from all
blame
The body OF the young who was found dead
on Wednesday with a revolver in his hand and "a
bullet hole over his heart in room of Spinglers
Hotei' Fourtcenth-st. and University Place, was
positlVey identified yesterday that OF Frederick
Van sickland weatherby, an empoye OF the United
States Express Company In Jersey City Weatherby
was about twenty-eight years old and was Of good
family. He came from the West about six months
ago.