New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-04
NETWORK CITY.


recording secretary Mrs. Edward Iaium corfespohu-
Ing secretary. Miss Anna B. Day treasurer MISS a.
lent The mission has debt of 1886 3D. ana MAKES
an urgent appeal to the public for assistance
A meeting viii be held at Association Hall this
evening for messenger boys. The Rev. Dr. John H.
Paxton Will deliver address, and there VIII DC an
exhibition Of ficehand drawing.
The ladies Of the French Evangelical Church. NO
100 and 1os West Sixteenih-st, Will hold fair 10
morrow and Thursday. at the southeast corner OF
rifh-avo and Forty hftlrst.. TO pay OIL the church
debt.
The Amateur Photographic Society OF Ncw-York,
which has C. w Garfield for president, is now holding
highly interesting exhibition of prints and photo
graphs at the rooms of the society, No. II: East
Thirty sxth-st
telegram was received in this city yesterday from
] T. Jameson. of California, Offering prize OF
rs $50 10 Pugillsts Dempsey and Mitchell. providing
they go the Pacific Coast 10 settle the question
OF pucil,stic supremacy. Mr.. Jameson is member
of the Golden Gate Athletic CUB
DR. F. n Otis who for a long time has been on
the staf of visiting surgeons of the charity hospital
on Blackwens Island. resigned that place, and yes
teday appointed consulting surgeon OF the hos
pital
The Harvard Club will hold its third regular meet
ing on Saturday night at the club house, No IL West
Twenty second-st
Albert j. Conant gave interesting talk on his
personal "reminiscences Abraham lincoln, before the
Baptist Ministers Conference. yesterday
The Rev Dr. Z. 7. Corwln delivered an address
on THE Significance of Johns Baptism of Christi
before the Pastors Association of the Reformed Church
yesterday.
INSPECTORS Thomas Brown and T. j. Donohue, of
Surveyor Beatties force seized Tuesday last three
fine gold watches, a diamond ring worth 5000, ana
handsome pair of diamond earrings, from j. NJ
Pcon, a passenger Oh the steamer Umbria.
The auctoneer again visited The Office Of The
Star yesterday. intending to sell the plant under
the foreclosure of chatel mortgage of $4,000, held
by Charles Dayton, trustee, but before the property
offered for public bids a compromise was reached
and the sale abandoned.
The new Clyde steamer Iroquos, $50 tons. cost
ing 1900 OOO arrived here yesterday from the Cramps
shipyard on the Delaware River. She is anchored
under the Bridge at the Clyde pier She Will make
her first TIP Charleston Saturday. The lroquois
has triple expansion engines, steam steering gear,
electric lights, and all the modern improvements
Judge MARITIME yesterday appointed Morris Woodruff.
of No % Twenty second ST., as foreman OF tho
December Grand Jury.
william Fogaity, who killed his brother James BY
stsbbng him in Cathalne-st on september o, PLEADED
guilty yesterday before Judge MARITIME TO mansaughter
in the second degree The prisoner hit his brother
In the eye with umbrella, causing almost mme-
date death. Fogarty was remanded for sentence.
Mayorelect Grant received petition from the
property holding members of the Real Estate Ex-
change yesterday. which appeals TO him to give carly
and earnest attention 10 the West side rapidtranst
question the Improvement of the business streets
of the city. The petitioners hope that by the char
acter of his appointments and by his aid and influence
the new Mayor will give early encouragement to these
projects
II was thought yesterday that Miss Cynthia II.
Murdoch would be recommended TO the Board OF Ed
ucaon tomorrow for the position of principal OF
Primary school 40. 1, she is the senior teacher OF
the school. but minority report, II is said Will be
In favor of Miss Marianne Brennan.
LGborers in the Aqueduct shaft at Onehundred
and.orty -ninth-st and Convenavc. yesterday morn
ing the dead body of John Kennedy, one Of the
Aqucduct engineers at the bottom of the shaft He
was billed by falling down the shaft lie was TWEEN
iy-four years old and lived at Tenthavs. and One
hundred and forty -nnth-s.
Robert Blum a German age thirty-eight, shot him
self Yesterday at his home, No. 404 West FiftysiXth
st. but did succeed in killing himself
The West End Presbyterian Church, West nehun-
dred- and foarth-st and the Boulevard, the Rev. J.
Balcom Shaw pastor welcomed forty-One new mem
bers at its communion Sunday. This fourishing
congregation expects begin the erection Of large
church early IN the spring.
Fire Marshal Frank, Police Captain Cassidy, and
several detectives Of the Eldrdges squad were busy
nearly all day yesterday, investigating the fire which
folk SITS, Sunday evening and burned out the tcne
ment house over the store. No decision reached
The suit of the American Bell Telephone Company
against the Wallace Company for alleged infringe
ment of patent has been trial in the United States
Circuit Court. The closing arguments will probably
be heard today
Mrs Nathalie Pollard, widow OF L. A. Pollard, the
Southern Journalist and author of The Lost Cause
will lecture Friday night at the German Masonic
Hail. No 22o East Fifteenth-st, on Life Behind the
Scenes in Washington" The lecture will be under
the auspices of the Manhattan Liberal Club
Thirty seven keepers shops held in the
police courts yesterday charged with violating the
Excise law Sunday.
At the trial schooltcachcr Tarpey, by the School
Trustees Of the Nineteenth Ward, last night, Mr..
Tarpey denied the infection Of corporal punishment
any OF his pupils. The examination will be
closed by the Trustees at their next meeting.
The monthly meeting Of the Architectural League of
this city tooh place la night Morrello's. About
seventy five members were present, and passed an
enjoyable evening.
Forestry" was discussed by the Academy of Sci
ences in Columbia College, last might. DR. H. Nicho
las JaIchow read paper the training of forests
in Europe, and was followed by Professor L. y.
southwick, who gave history of the New York State
Forestry Association.
Coroner Levy and jury held inquest in the case
OF Itush - h'ci"' WEI was AbOt ana Killed by David
Ilennessy a week The jury found a verdict I'm
accordance with these facts prisoner was sent
the Tombs 10 await The action of the Grand Jury
BROOKLYN
James Overacre, age eighty, an inmate Of the Home
for Aged Men, IN Casson-avc., attempted cross
the TRACKS OF the Long Island RAILROAD a Atlantic
and Washington ayes, after the gates were down
yesterday. and struck by rapid transit train
and received q fracture OF the skull which is expected
death.
Patrick Pagan, fOity-slx, OF Hicks and Hunt \