New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-13
NETWORK CITY.

A bououet will he given to each lady who attends
the 15Oth performance at the Harlem Theatre
COmiQue Tonight
James McGrath of East One-hundred- and-thir
teonth-st., was killed by Harlem train yesterday
at Willis-ave.
The body of an infant that evidently had been
stranged was found in Westinghouse. near Little
Twelfth-st yesterday.
Ferdinand Hamberger. of No. 1852 East Fifty
fourth-s driver of cOal-caft, was Killed yestel-
day by his horse, when be was feeding
General George W. Palmer, ex-deputy collector
of customs. who is in poor health Will sail for
Bermuda on Monday.
A boat-load of spoiled fish, found near Fulton
Market and $500 pounds of bad mac erel were
sent TO the ofa dock yesterday by order of DIR.
Cyrus Edison.
Thomas Fennee, who was charged with man.
slaughter in killing William A. Masterson on Aug
ust 8 In HOratlo-st was acquitted yesterday III the
General Sessions
The police were warned yesterday to search for
Dumb Asylum at Tenth-ave. and One-hundred-
and-siXty secOnd-st.
The man who slipped from cake of ice at Pier
No IS North River and was drowned on Wednesday
was identified yesterday as Patrick McDermott, of
HOl yoke, Mass.
John Harrington, who killed his wife Ellen with
an axe at No. 231 Westinghouse. on December 80
was adjudged insane by jury yesterday and COM
mtted TO the asylum at Poughkeepsle.
The Rev: DR.. Morgan Dix gave the first of series
of Lenten lectures on The Reimbursement of Chris
Time" last night at Trinity Chapel
The improved Coal Gas Company was incOr-
Grated yesterday by John w. Newbery, Albert
II. Kolford, Edward L. Snow De Witt Z. Bates
and Joseph EmmersOn, with 100000 capital.
The directors of the National Prison Association
met yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The
dates for the National Prison Congress at Atlanta,
Ca were fixed as November to H. inclusive.
The Police Commissioners yesterday discussed a
resolution prepared by Mr.. McCave, TO send six
police captains, including Captain Williams, before
the Civil Service Board for examination but action
was delayed.
Mrs. Barbara Glanbartang, who had smallpox at
No. 4O1 West Forteth-st., aud Henry Schroeder,
vagrant who appeared at Bellevue Hospital yester-
day suffering from typhus fever, were sent to North
Brother Island.
The first games of the Brooklyn Athletic Asso-
citation will occur tonight III the Madison Square
Garden. The programme consists of running,
walking, bicycling, hurdllng, high and broad
jumping and shOt-puttng. Some prominent am
ateurs ale entered.
The business failures throughout tn, country
in the last seven days, reported to X. G.. Dun q
Co., of the Mercantile Agency, number for the
United States PA and for Canada 20, as compared
with 2fG last week
Kate Slote, age eighteen, of No. 200 East Ninety
ffth-st., was found yesterday i'll LexnGton-ave.
apparently drunk. She told Police Justice Ford, IN
the Harlem court, that a policeman had given her
a glass OF rye-and-rock and then assaulted her.
BITTEN BY BULLDOG.
Henry Mengel, shoe dealer at NO. 235 West
cnty-seventh-st., has a bulldog. William Du-
fall age thirteen, of No. $50 Bleecker-st., was
fOOllng with the dog Yesterday, when he was bitten
severely the left hand and on the left foot. lie
was sent to ST. Nincents Hospital.
THE ETRUMA THE FASTEST STEAMER
ct r. S"-The Etruria, of the Cuuard Line, has
made the quickest transatlantic voyage. In Au-
gust 1885, she came from Queehstown to New
York in days, hours, II mInutes and III Sep
TENDER she was days. hours, 30 minutes from
NewYOrk to Queenstown.
WIDESPREAD RAIN.
Chief Observer ElchiebeIger. of the Signal Ser
vice office. cOmfOrted people yesterday by telling
them that the storm which visited TINS city yeSteT
day with rain extended from Minnesota to the
Gulf of Mexico and eastward 10 the New England
States. He promised that to-day should be clear
and slightly colder.
BROOKLYN.
The Rev. j. Mcclure. who went TO Brooklyn about
four months and took charge OF st. ThOmass Fps
cOptl Chapel has returned to California, whence he
came II is understood that the question Of salary
caused him TO leave Brooklyn
Thomas Madden, OF No. 395 Grahan-ave.. who is
charged with numbering his wife by smOthering her,
waI arragned before Police Justice Naeher yesterday
and sent to the Raymond street Jail
The funeral Of Dr. James L. Farley took place yCster
day in the ThrOOp Avenue Presbyterian Church. 1t
the l4th Regiment the War Veterans of that regiment
and number OF Grand Army representatives attending
Several Masonic bodies also The Rev.
l. X FOote conducted the services The military bodies
escorted the body to Greenwood.
The Rev. Dr. Franklin II. Kerfoot has resigned the
pu pit OF the Place Baptist Church OF
III health He went TO Brooklyn from the Eutaw Place
Baptist Church. Baltimore, three tn succeed
the Rev. Dr. Wayland HOyt. He Will go 10 Kentucky
and take years rest.