New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-28
NETWORK CITY.

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Eew-orleans.
NETWORK CITY.
"E Wn-The matter is still before Congress
No part of Dakota is yet admitted as a STATE
Marie Prescott will give her second lecture on
"AmOng the Stars at the ComeuS ine"'i0 W.
night.
James W. Mason, hardware merchant; made an
assignment yesterday to Henry u hehy WIFI
preferences amounting 10 SZ,OOo'
John O'Rourke age thirteen, of No. 213 East
Twenty-tfth-st.. was fatally injured by a heavy
truck belonging TO Schultz Bros dealers IN mineral
waters
The Executive Committee of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company yesterday directed sub COM
mttee TO buy one or two vessels II the committee
thought 1t advisable.
The East Side Chapel and Bible WOman's ASso-
citation was IncOrporated Yesterday by 6eTaldlne
w. Goddard Helen A. Butterworth, Mary Patter-
son, Annie a. Colgate and others.
The employees of Sheppard Knapp 4 Co., with
their wives and sweehearts, danced at their second
annual ball on Friday night Ill Irving Han. IheIe
was a large attendance.
The estate of Daniel c. and Ambrose G. Kings
land, to be sold at the Real Estate EXllaHge on
Thursday. contains number of large buildings
but none of exceptionally high value
The American Puyer74g GomP9GEE has been Hrp en-
John c. Tomlinson and H. ". Seeley. The object
is to rend and reduce rock. Inc capl1al Is
$500 700.
Miss Clara Spence will give an evening of reci-
tation and song" at the University Climb Theatre
on THURSDAY. assisted by Miss Henrietta Beebe,
Mrs Gerret smith and William IL. Beckett
DIR. Cyrus Edison Yesterday directed the seizure
of 800 boxes of Egyptian onions III Deans store
house, AT King and Greenwich sts. ne onions
were imported at great expense, over Tl'VOo DeIhs
paid IN duties
PRACTICAL SYMPATHY FOR PARNELI-
The following subscriptions Were received yeSter,
day at the Office of the Irish Parliamentary fund
Association, No. 20 Nassa9-st John o a. McSoEIey'
SO; by Captain A. S. COste 70. SOB +. d ).
Schaefer Brewing Company, 500, and Andrew
Clarke 500
MR. CABLES READINGS.
George w. Cable will read hls long promised
AcadIan story Grande POmte" al ChickcIlng
Hall on Monday and Tuesday mornings OF tins
of the success of Mr.. Cables readings in that city
and call for repetition OF the story which is soon
to be given,
FATALLY INJURED BY STREET CAR.
Mary McKenDa, age sixty, who lives IN North
Second-st, Brooklyn, was run over by second
ave- street car, at New-Chambers and Pear SITS,
Yesterday. Nine of her ribs were fractured, her
scalp split open in several places ana she had
several severe lacerated wounds on her body. She
was taken to the Chambers Street Hospital ana Will
die.
Justice Welde yesterday discharged Henry
FRANCE the Pucky groceTs clerk Who shot ana
the latter was irving to break into the grocery Il
No. 427 West Seventeenth-st. Charles, alias "RedD
M'Kenna, who had also been arrested. on suspicion
of having been with Moran when he was shot was
discharged.
MONEY FOUND on A PRISONER.
George Winters living in tifty-nlnth,st? near
FiIst-ave., was caught by Policeman McCaulcy,
while trying, the officer says TO break open a
window of James TalcOtts house, at No. West
Fifty -seyenth-stY early Yesterday IN tne Iolice
four 800 bills were found sewed up III his cloth
ing.
GIFTS TO THE HANCOCK FUND.
The subscriptions to the Hancock Fund Yesterday
were: Henry F. Spaulding. $3.50; W: : Sheldon "
Co, $3.50; Henry Mccormick, Harrisburg, Penn,
$loo and c. Russell Hurd A0rthamPton, Mas.
S33, 745. The gift of 500 by Joseph L. Little was
enormously acknowledged a few days ago as that
of L. VI. Haverty.
CHANGES IN TIE CUSTOM HOUSE.
Considerable stir was created in the Custom
House Yesterday by the removal of Chief Clerk
William +. Warner, and the appointment OF Frank
=. BertTam in his place. John a. Mason, the editor
lector in place OF Camden o. Rockwell, who IS
transferred to the sixth div ison to succeed BenJa
min, +. Wrmans who was removed william VILLAIN
William Barry resigned.
AN INSURANCE BROKER FoRGETS HIS NAME
An old man walked into a store at No. 81 Park
Place YESTERDAY He seemed confused and when
asked 10y clerk what he wanted replied that be
would like to know who he was ard where he lived
lie could tell nothing about himself and pressed ms
hands upon his head repeatedly. He talked gIbiy
but diScOnnectedIy As lie showed some signs OF
becoming violent, he was taken TO Chambers street
Hospital and was subsequently transferred to the
insane pavilion at Bellevue Hospital. lie did not
remember his name, but it found out later that
he was Ben iamin Hanes, an insurance broker OF
No 81 Wiaui-St He lives at Elizabeth, y. j., and
when he left his home in the morning appeared to
lie perfectly saue. He is related to Dr. SABINE, Of
No East Iwenty-iourth-st.
MATINEE READINGS BY PROFESSOR ROBERTS.
At the Madison Square Theatre on tuesday after
nOen Professor Charles Roberts j., will give the
follows: King John and the Abbot Of Canter-
bury" Percy Relquesj " The Fireman's Wedding.'
W. a. Eaton " BTer Fox aud BIcr Rabbit j. {.
Harris The Uncle with orchestral aceompapnl-
ment. composed for Henry Irving by Sir julius
Benedict. f. o. HOwson, leader; A Plea for the
Opera -; The DIVER Bulwer-Schller; " The
Willow Tree" a seriO-comc poem IN two versions,
Thackeiay; Halbert and Hob Browning;
"Come over the River with pianO-forte accom-
pauiment, Hoppin a Trip thro' my Pockets "a
monolOgue, from the French.
BROOKLYN.
The sixteenth anniversary exercises OF the shecrng
Arms Nursery Will take place in Holy Trinity Church to-
flight at 7:3O. Bishop ltejohn Will preside, the Rev
DR.. W. X. Huntington, OF Grace Church, New-NOrk VIII
deliver the address, and the reports will o read by the
Rev. DR.. Suively, rector OF Grace Church, Brooklyn
Alderman McCarty stated yesterday that the Common
Council would undoubtedly order full investigation or