New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-08
NETWORK CITY.


A meeting of the Executive Committee OF the
Grant Monument Association will be held ats D. H.
to-day.
The first of John L. wheeler's lectures on Tho
Great Battles OF the Civil War Will be given In
Chickering Hall tomorrow ut $3.50 p m
The steamship Scheidam which arrived yesterday
from Amsterdam was detained thirt y-seEen hours
iu the North Sea by dense fog. On TUESDAY
sailor Hendnck Sever. was drowned
Members of the 1st Regiment, New-York Volun-
terrs which was organized III this city In April,
1851 will meet at No. 291 Bowery on April ID at
Sp. M
The STEAMER Gaelic arrived at San Francisco on
Tuesday with mails from China and Japan due 10
arrive in this city for the first carriers delivery
next Tuesday.
The independent Order Free Sons Of Israel pre-;
scented ex-Grandmaster Herman Stiefel with gold
watch and chain last night at the lodge room NO.
259 East Third-st.
Agnes higgins, age five was drowned on Tuesday
IN cstern IN the OF the house where her par
epts live in Northumberland ghty-second-st.
near Kingsbridgc road.
The Veteran Flremen's Home Association was in
corporated yesterday by George W. Anderson. John
Ne WaTJ bTa@ Hull Thomas ceary
lei d. COnoyer and Others.
James r. Gardner, engineer and DR.. Balch, of
Albany secretary of the state Board OF Health,
yesterday began an inspection OF the shanties OF
ire laborers on the Aqueduct, the ventilation OF
the shafts aud tunnels and the precautions taken
to prevent loss OF life.
Mencure D. Conway's subject this evening at
$50 IN the University Club Theatre will be Lon
don 1t, Prose and Poetry" This will be the Sec
ond OF his of four lectures on English SUD-
Jecis.
| The steam tug Haviland on Tuesday off Hereford
Shoals spoke the schooner Caroline Young OF
Philadelphia, which had lost her sails and was
otherwise damaged. The tug also passed several oi
| the OTcgon's life prescryers.
CAPTAIN Embery of the bark Ironslde, which ar
rived yesterday hom Calcutta, reports encounter
| ing heavy gale on February l, ana at noon OF
! that day he saw remarkable halo around the sun
| and the barometer Immediately began 10 lall.
| The MetropoIitan Temperance Board, a branch of
the Church Temperance Society, held its monthly
meeting OH Monday night al Grace Chapel IN Four
teenth-st, General Wager Swayne, presided. he,
ports were read from various committees, and
| favorable progress III the work was reported
An in vest CATION by Coroner Eidman showed YES
| terday that the sudden death OF Henry Feldman,
at No. 90 Willett-st.. caused by smallpox, and
the Coroner called upon the tary officers TO re-
move the body. edward Geynan was removed
from No. 10 Centre-st. suffering from typhus fever.
| The flower exhibition of the New-YOrk Borticut-
ural Society al Nilsson Hall East Fifteenth-st-
! Will remain open to-day-a day longer than was
| original V lntended-because the nclencnt weather
has heretofore prevented many people from attend
| ing
| Congressman John J. Adams appeared before JUS
| tice " eide III the Jefferson Market Ponce Court
Yesterday aud argued that his brother. Thomas d..
Adams, accused of having swinded Patrick Nc
Cam out of $4,000, should be discharged. The
| examination goes on to-day.
| award the Bennett Medal for bravery i'll 1885 to
Foreman Peter Short. of Hook and Ladder Com
pany No. l, on account of the part which be took
| III the rescue OF the Jarde family at Beaver and
| William SITS. about year ago.
Henry Holdings, unmarried plumber, was con-
fined to his bed at No $50 FIrst-ave. by an attack
| of typhoid pneumonia on Saturday. Yesterday
| morning while deIrious he threw himself from q
third story window into the rear yard The fail
| killed him.
| The following officers of the Columbia Yacht
| Club were elected on Tuesday evening: Commo-
| dore r. L. II. Ahell; vlce-cOmmOdore, e. X. stone
! secretary G. NJ. Armstrong; treasurer, Joseph A.
| Weaver; measurer. A. Fowler Gore; steward, {.
| II. Knubc; feet surgeon. Henry Grswold. N. d.;
regatta committee. a. NJ Everett Charles Dctz, L.
| T. Wills l.. u. Urban W. j. Greaccn.