New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-31
part of collecting bills without authority, lie Is
about twenty-eight years old, tall and SLENDER anu
wears moustache and whiskers.

part of collecting bills without authority lie Is
about twenty-eight years old tall and slender, ana
wears mOustache and whiskers.
BROOKLYN.
In the last year permits were issued for the cree.
ton of 1897 new buildings at estimated cost Oh
S9,629, 367. Of these 255 were In the Iwenty-'hru
| Ward.
Frederic Marouand has offered to give 10000,
March L for the purpose of erecting permanent
building for the Young Mems Christian Association
The statistics of the Coroners Office for the year
| lust ending show that 800 inqueSts were neid
The number of suicides was 50, and OF homlcldes
Ia. Nineteen accidental deaths were caused ,oy
kerosene. 3S by drowning eight persons were hleS
| by vehicles, by horses by railroad cars anu o
| by motors.
| Mr. Beecher baptized by immersion last evening
| after Plymouth pTayer-meetlng. EllZaDetn u MY
| mOnd The water in the tank beneath the pulpit
| floor winch was removed was warmed. The girl
| baptized was about twelve years or age ana was
| dressed in a white flannel robe.
| At the meeting of the Supervisors Committee
which is investigating the alleged mismanagement
OF the Kings County Penitentary under eX,NardI n
Shevlin Keeper NewsOn testified that each OF the
blank commitments found in the office represented
| n prisoner who had been recommtted at his own
| request. Some had remained from choice many
| years; among them one Tor twenty years, WIN
| could not be induced to go away.
While in n cell in the Butler rect Police station
| for drunkenness, yesterday morning. Mary Zines
| age twenty nine, of No.. ia Butler-st, uie9 10
commit suicide by choking herself. one i tieu "a d
| the ends when she was discovered and prevented
from ending her life. She aferward tried to choke
herself with her hands In court yesterday she sald
that she was friendles and Destitute and ready to
die. She is said TO belong to respectable family,
| by which she has been disoTned tor drunkenness
| and evil ways. She was committed 70 the jail lOr
ten days and said that she would XIII herself there'
JERSEY CITY.
County Physician Converse has ordered an inquest
| TO be held III the case OF John Rooney and william
COnnell. labOrers, who on Thursday morning WINE
he vi | n road
Newark meade were cau-ht between two frelgnt
ears and crushed to death.
NEW-JERSEY.
| P,TrRsoN-Diphthcria and scarlet fever arc
spreading to an alarming extent III fa1e1Son'
! Smallpox is also prevailing. There has, however,
been only ono death from the latter disease OuI
numerous dea' b, have occurred from the two others.
The city ply Sic ans have forbidden public funerals
in cases III which persons die from any Contiguous
STATEN ISLAND.
R1cuMovD.-Tho Richmond County Supervisors
have fixed the salary of the County Clerk at S3OoV'
RossvILE-Scveral horses belonging TO Mr. Ben
edict the icweier have died in the stables al MOSS
vile from the disease call d - plnk-eye.'
NEW BRlGHTos.-Th Rev. Theodore A. Leggett,
recently installed pastor OF Calvary FreSD{ tcrla1
! Church ut West Brighton, was formally welcomed
| by the congregation on Thursday evening" Whcn nc
| tool. possession of the parsonage
LONG ISLAND.
| HCNTiNGrON.-An epidemic of sore eyes has Tor
some time prevailed at Huntington among emil
! drrD and has finally attacked adults. ! he nrst
symptom of the disease IS swelling OF the eyehds,
| followed By almost total blindness. The aIlnent
| battles the skill Of the local physicians.
MIcoX.-Michael Howard, age fifty, OF, Micox,
| was drowned in MicoN Bay on Thursday, while en-
| Gagged in ceiling. Persons who witnessed the 2ccl-
dent but were at too great distance TO aid MIN,
! saw that Towards spear-handlc broke as he was
! sounding. and hc fell overheard. Being encum-
barcd with heavy rubber boots and unable TO SWIM,
! he was drowned Inc Doay, WheH io ,JanI ""'