New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-09
NETWORK CITY.

A fury In the City Court yesterday gave to FRANK
We,gman a verdict for s6S against Police Captain
Daniel C. Moynihan. Wegman sueG 10 recover
SIPS the balance of the price of sleighs, carriages
and a hearse he had sold TO Edward a. Moynihah'
the Captains son. and his partner Charles Siegner'
The Captain denied having assumed liability lor
his son. but the jury decided in favor OF the PLAIN
tiff.
John r. Jackson Of No S3G Ninth-ave., the fore
man Of the Gainesville Boiler Company. who put
in the tanks in Browns soap factory, at the north
east corner Of Twelfth-ave. and F'fty-ilrst-st.,
which collapsed and killed two men, was arrested
and taken before Coroner Fitzpatrick yesterday
afternoon on a charge Of criminal negligence Cor
oner Fitzpatrick paroed Mr.. Jackson In the GUS
tody Of his counsel
A Judgment obtained on Saturday for S'6S
against the Block Lighting and Power Company
No. !, Of this city: Malcolm c. Anderson. Wolstan
r. Brown and James Irvine by the Bank Of Sagi-
naw Mich, was opened and vacated yesterday by
consent Of the plaintiffs attorneys.
Deputy-SherlT Butler has received an attachment
against the Mannesmann Tube Company, maker
~ h,cvc,e tubing Of South Wales, for s3i,657. In
favor of David b. McIlvaine. who was the New
York agent for commissions and advances IL
was served on a cycle company and bankers mere.
The employees Of Hackett, Carhart co. VIII
have their twelfth annual afternoon ana evening
picnic on Saturday at Benners R!dgewood Grove
and Geological Garden. Long Island The proceeds
will be added to the mutual aid FUND. me us
play Of fireworks will be giver.
A number of New-Engand men have been at
the Hotel Imperial for a day or two looking after
telegraph and telephone interests They held
short meeting yesterday morning The business
transacted not made public. but II Is sald
TO have been connected with tho AFFAIRS OF tho
Standard Telegraph and Telephone Company and
the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Com
rrho tOc1n A
Wilton n H.; David S. Greenough and Charles D
Tuckcrman of Boston, and George b. Perham' T.
r Glidden c. E. Adams j. w. Pickering and Lew
Sprague. Of Lowell.
Without leaving their seats Coroners jury yes
terday afternoon declared that William Honman'
saloonkeeper Of No. "a West e-hundred-and-thir-
ty-sixth-st was blameless OF the death OF Walter
Stewart a colored youth. who In the early morn
ing of Friday last was shot and killed by HOFFMAN.
who accidentally discharged a revolver which he
was showing TO Stewart.
Professor Jean j. Charlouis will sail hence on tho
Hamburg-Amercan liner Columbia for Hamburg
Tomorrow accompanied by Nine. Charouis. Pro-
fessor Charlouis goes abroad to witness the cere-
monies attending the Queens Jubilee. and as
governor of the League Of Press Clubs he is
delegate to the fourth annual session OF the In
ternational Press Congress, which is to be held In
Stockholm, Sweden
William Sherer. manager OF the Clearing House.
sailed for Liverpool on the Cunard Line steamship
Serva from this city yesterday. Mr.. Sherer said
the trip was 10 benefit his health. and that he
would be gono about two months
The Pilot Commissioners wrote a letter yesterday
TO Lieutenant Robert McGregor. Of the United
States Engineer Corps. asking that steps be taken
for the remova! Of the wreck OF the Atlas Line
steamship Alvena. which was sunk In the Lower
Bay through a collision with the steamship British
Queen on January 90 The wreck lies in the South
Channel. and Is an obstruction to navigation
An American warship supposed to be the cruiser
Raleigh bound for the Mediterranean. was sighted
on May Is in latitude 36:o7 longitude s:45 by the
British steamship Narrowing. which arrived hero
from Palermo yesterday.
The suit brought by Miss Mary Hughes against
the New-York College Of Dentistry to recover DAM
ages for alleged wrong dental treatment by STU
dents Of the college dismissed by the jury in
the Supreme Court yesterday. at the direction OF
Justice Bookstaver.
, Tho directors Of the Collectors Club at a meet
Ing held on Monday at their clubhouse No. 81
Fourth-ave unanimously decided to undertake the
defence Of the suit brought by the United States
Government against the Walter S. Scott stamp
Company for Offering for sale certain United States
newspaper stamps on the ground that the stamps
had been STOLEN embezzed and purloined from
the Government" The club and the National
Ph,atelical Society assert that large quantities OF
the stamps in question were openly sold to dealers
nv the Government for about ten years. and they
Indignantly protest against the bringing OF the
suit.
An auction sale Of goods abandoned by their
,nonorters and taken in charge by the Customs
officials was begun at the Barge Office yesterday
The catalogue included motley array OF merchan-
disc consisting of padded tights for ballet dancers
hair dye bar fixtures cement. clothing dress
goods decayed chestnuts and various other com
modites There were four hundred lots sold for
teal NJ s4Ua The sale will be continued to-day
when there Will be offered ten packages OF Egyp-
tan cigarettes valued at s2i which were sent here
for the Duke OF Marlborough. who left them IN the
custody Of the Customs officials
rrPPyRO4T AND TUG IN COLLISION.