, 1872-10-18

A46 4pA d tE141 VI 3eAIa, WILL CeTIAlQ PROVISIONS
Their report Gil be presented to the Council o.
| FI1day afternoon at 4 o'clock. 4 Sub-Commit
tee, consisting Of Messrs Cochrane, Brawer ant
Peck, was appointed to revise the plans, 30 as t.
suit the wants Of the Academy. The building
as proposed, will be we'll adapted to the wants O.
the Academy, and will be IN ornament to tn.
city. It is intended to have the building read,
for occupancy within three months.
Liberal Mass Meeting This Evening.
A Liberal out-dour mass meeting will be hclt
| at tho corner Of Peoria and Adams streets thil
| Turner, General Stiles, and other speakers art
engaged to be present, and 8 band Of music vii
be in attendance.
The Board Of Public Works held no meeting
| yesterday afternoon. They were inspecting
| new brick machine in the country.
| The buildings on tho lake front are melting
| away like SNOW banks in June. Tho city il
shaking it's apron.
Hon. J. R. Doolittlo will speak at Central
| Hall. corner Of WabaEh avenue and Twenty.
second street, this evening, in answer to Senar
tor Morton, Of Indiana.
! The meeting announced for this evening, at
| South Sido Headquarters, No. 45i Wabash
ayenue is postponed to Saturday evening Of this
week, in consequence Of Senator Doo1ittle'e
speaking On the South Side this evening.
| William Judd, George R. Morrison, of Detroit,
| Thomas keating, of Janesville, and j. 4. Brien,
| Of Fond du Lac, Wis, we're at the Liberal Head
| quarters yesterday.
Washington street was slightly damaged by fire
ct half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It is
| owned by Bigler Bro, and occupied by Mrs.
Brown as boarding house. Both parties are
fully insured An alarm WAS sounded from Box
81.
The announcement in vaatardav,s rrprrrsr
that hlr. Gilbert butcher had leased the new
Sherman House was premature. He has been
negotiating with General Sherman for the prop
erty, as have several other persons, but bar
gain has not yet been closed.
A musical treat may be expected at Grace
Church, Wabash avenue, this evening, on the
occasion of the annual meeting of the Trustees
and friends Of st. Luke's Hospital. Tho Cathed-
raj choir, together with the quartette Of Grace
Church, will take part in the services. Ali seats
free.
The Board of Health have notified the Illinois
Central Railroad Company to open sluicewayB
to the lake through the filed portion the
lake front, that has shut in large pools to be-
come intensely unpleasant to the senses Of
smell and sight, if not even more Objectionable
IN any other sense.
A woman named Mary Patterson was run over
and slightly injured BY a runaway hack team On
Milwaukee, avenue last evening. The horses
we're stopped by police officers, and the vehicle
was used in conveying the woman to drug
etore, where she received medical attendance,
and thence to the Madison Street Police Station.
Mr. S. H. Lyman has just completed three
Photographic views Of Chicago one year after
the fire. They represent the rebuilt city from
three different points OF observation, and will
prove valuable comparison pieces. for Mr. Hy-
mans viowB Of Chicago the day after tho conha-
grafton end six months subsequent to that
event.
Mr. Talcott loft word all round the Police
Headquarters that he would be out Of town yes
terday. Mr. Klokke was moving. house, hang
ing pictures putting up stoves, end putting
down carpets. There WAS, therefore, no meet
ing OF the Board of Police Commissioners yestcr-
day, Mark Sheridan not considering himself q
quorum.
The body OF q man was found floating in the
river at the foot Of Harrison street, yesterday
morning, and was taken to the A1orgue, where it
WAS subsequently identified Us that Of Daniel
Norton, who has been missing from his home,
No. 70 Brown street, since the morning Of the
18th. On the evening of that day he was seen
drunk at the corner Of Harrison and Clark
streets by IN acquaintance, and it is supposed
that he fell into the river while in that condition.
Deceased leaveB wife and several children.
An inquest will be held On his remains to-day.
Among the guests at the Gardner House yes
terday WAS Captain Grant, Of England, who has
just purchased for English parties tract Of
land eleven miles square, eighty y-seven thou
sand acres, in Kansas, on the line Of the Kansas
Pacific Railway, tTo hundred and twenty-aeyen
miles west of the Missouri River. Captain
Grant will bring out from England next spring
q colony to plant the new town Of Victoria,
with all the features that make ind adorn civil
ized life.
Coroner Stephens held the following inquests
yesterday: at No. 164 North avenue, on the
body Of young man named Joachim Benthin !;
verdict, death from pulmonary consumption.
This is tie case where suicide by poison was
pectod. At Mrs: Ainsworths boarding house,
William Chenworth, who died suddenly yester-
day morning; verdict, death from congestion of
the liver. At No. 118 Milwaukee avenue, On the
body Of the infant child Of Bernhardt Robir, an
other case of sudden death; verdict, death from
infantile convu1sions.
son, Pascal Pollock, D. s. Hull, G. Hager, and
Police Court to-day. The result was that |
GlaTkson Gn M and Pollock we're fined sl9o each,
ing to Irregularities in the warrants
upon which they were arrested, and Peters was
held for further examination. This trial is but |
the reproduction Of an old farce played many |
powerless to inspire gamblers with the proper |
respect for law.
4 singular fatal accident occurred yesterday t
at Strauss & Hahns brickyard, on the east bank |
of tho Ogden Canal. One of Fox L. Howard's |
dredges employed in cleaning out the cut. broke
t111 Atdfy I4A414 by hd1G1 u WIS A4u0AEus A4A
large pieces Of it flew in all directions. One Of
the pieces, weighing about two pounds, fell into |
the brickyard, distant from the dredSe about |
fifty yards, and struck workman named Carl |
schutt in the breast, killing him instantly. He |
resided on Hawthorne avenue, near North !
avenue, where he leaves wife and several chill
dren.
Some time in July last, of1icor Charles Cramer,
Station Keeper at the Cottage Grovo Avenue
Sub-Station, died in Mercy Hospital from can
Ger Of the breast. He was worth considerable /
variously estimated ut from S., 600 to
$4,000. His will, Of which DR.. Baxter and q
Lutheran clergyman were the executors, be-
queaths the property to Sergeant Thomas Bar
rett and Justice Want Woud. Cramcr and Want
Would cano from the Same town III Holland, but
it is not known If the former left any relatives
there or had any anywhere else. The logateos
have applied to Comptroller Burley for
months pay due Cramer while sick.
BY 8 recent ruling Of the Post Office Depart