New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-11
NFW-YORK CITY.

The Homo Insurance Company. Of NewYork has
declared semi annual dividend Of five per cent pay
able to morrow.
The BOARD of Trade and Transportation vii! hold
its annual meeting to-day at No. SIS Lberty-st Tho
reports OF the erc"rs will be read and thrtysix d.
rectors will be elected.
Marshall p Wilder. the we'll known and successful
humorst and entertainer went 81 Washington yester-
dsy to make merriment for lawmakers high Of
hcias and Washington soccty generally white al the
capital he will be the guest Of John Chamberlln
Tho following wore elected yesterday trustees Of
woodlawn Cemetery for three years WI am A. Booth,
Sheppard Candy, Amos Getting and Edward schci
No traces have yet been found Of Frederick C.
AchIey. the former aqueduct-suppl keeper at
Ten'have and one. hundred andsixty Hfth-st, who
has hecn missing since saturday The police were aS
carried the search as far north as lonkers
Grape fruit from Flo h,a Is abundant Its tonic
properties bring IT upon many breakfast tables. The
bitter and acid favor Of grape fruit from Florida is
moi so unpala b!y strong as In Ito West indian Tit
A centennial meeting of all the Presbyterian
Churfes Ct tfis .ty VIII be held II the Brick Church
this evening at 30 O'Clock This meeting will be
in furtherance Of the plan adopted by the General
Assembly for keeping this centennial year of the church
The Rev Drs Hall. Parkhulst Crtsy van DyKo'
Paxton. nj others are expected TO lake part
The board for the acquisition of real estate, com
posed OF the Mayor Controller, p esdents of the Park
and Fire Departments, and Commissioner of Public
WORKS, met yesterday in the Mayors Office and on
recommendation OF the Fire Commissioners. agreed to
purchase site for a engine house In West Eighty
third ST.. 900 feet west of Ninth ave. a, cost OF
$500 The Controller was authorized to issue bonds
for The purpose.
Police Justice Ford, Congressman Merriman Thomas
Costigan. Charles S. Beardsey and Others have gwen
to Civil JusticS John Jerotman a handsome rosewood
gavel. made from wood Of the old British frigaie
Guerrere captured by the American frgate Constitu
ton. Jusfics JeroloInan has appointed Charles A.
Morrison stenographcr of his court.
william Turnbull the oldtin road driver and intl
mate friend of William H. Vanderbilt, and also of the
Commodore. is getting better He will probably
IT, about the corridors of the Gllsey House usual
today or tomorrow.
Henry II. Rajcn will ielivor his Illustrated lecture
ON The Yosemite and Yellowstone Pak' at Steinway
Hall to morrow evening
The James C. Rice Post, No. 90. G. A. r., will hold
its annual installation OF officers and entertainment
In Grand Opera House Hall, to morrow evening There
will be dancing after the musical exercises take place.
The annual installation of officers of the F. ID. Morgan
Post. No 307. G. A. r. will take place at their head
quarters No. SO Union Square, on Friday evening Jan
nary l3 The following officers will be installed:
Commander NJ. r. Hatch: j. W. Gibbs, senior COM
mander: J. d. Hauknson. junior vice commander;
G. W. Werick. quartermaster: F. Burn, adutant;
W. b. Oakden, chaplain; L. Grammar, surgeon; j. L.
Wood, officer OF the day, and william Lyon. officer Of
the guard. Gerard Banckcr. J. A. JOEL George T..
Dewey A. Newbnrgcr and Thomas Gerehart Will be
tho Council of AdminiStI alton. There Will DO ban
qUet after the installation
Constant Reader You ask about the reports
published In Mondays papers of Dr. McGynns speech
on The Pope in Politics." THE TRIBUNE reporter
at that meeting skilled sent n aphcr and )rc
faithful and correct report of the striking passages
in the address given in The TRIBUNE than in
any other paper
Henry Relss Hebrew pedler, age seventy-two,
hung himself yesterday in a room in Muler's Hotel
at No. 80 Park Row Loss az employment was the
of his suicide.
A nhS
would noticed that hosiery of the cardinal tint
TO be falling off in popularity. Black and
white appeared TO predominant
worlmen were kept busy Yesterday packing tho
small supply of snow into the chutes and runways'
OF the tOboggan slides at the Polo Grounds. The
slides will be open to-day
A conductor Broadway car said yesterday,
We don't find much money I'm the cars. average
about twenty five cents a week and most OF that Is
In pennies. found twelve ten cent pieces to-day
on the floor of the and thought was in luck
until looked in my cash pocket and found hole
hut change
Peter wlmOt who, the police say is terror to
his neghborhood and who is accused of assault
Thomas Earncy January was surrendered yes
terday by his bondsman and arrested on bench
warrant.
At the annual meeting, for the election of officers,
Of the stationer's Board of Trade at No 90 Nassau
ST., yesterday, H. b. Barnes, of the firm of A. S.
Parnes Co.. elected president and Samuel j.
knight, of the Acme Paper Company, vice president
The flag ship Richmond, of the North Atlantic squad
ron, is expected to leave New-YOrk on Monday for
a cruise In the West Indies.
Professor H. NJ. LeipzIger, of the Hebrew Technical
School, talked to tho teachers yesterday at No Uni
versity place on Manual Technical and Industrial
Schools
John Dewey, who with the late John J. Breslin
formerly managed " The Irish NaOn,7 which for
time was the organ of the Clan-na. Gael Is now re-
lyman, tho alleged No. l."
Ex-senator Thomas F. Grady, Professor John p
Brophy, of St. Louis College, and Captain Edward
OMeaghcr Condor have been elected members Of the
Irish Historical Society.
Savings Bank On ST. Demands Roman Catholic Church
In West FOureenths The annual interest on this Is
S. 100 and to help pay 1t q collection Will be taken
up In the church next Sunday
John C. Mcclure, the register Of arrears In
Brooklyn was educat to DO priest and read theoo-
gy In Maynooth College, ireland lie IS brother OF
Dr. Constantine J. Mcclure the well-kncwn Irish
Nationalist leader In this city.
The Rev. J. NJ Thoburn OF India, will begin Special
Revival Services In the Madison Avenue Methodist
Episcopal Church at sixtieth-st on Sunday to con-
tinuc for two weeks, daily at and AS p H.
Berkeley German, manager of the Consolidated
Mercantile Agency, at No. 401 Broadway was suffer
ing from paralysis al 81. Vncent's Hospital yestcr
day He removed to tho hospital on Monday
night from a house in West Thirtecnth-st. where he
In the company Of Lille Owens, Of No. lO5 Clin-
ton place. Friends of German said that his wife
not in the city
The coal barge C. NJ Howe sprung leak and sank
yesterday OF Niggor Head Point, of Wards
Island Men the tug boat Russell rescued tho
captain, his wife and three children before the barge
went down
The little unpleasantness between Richard Battin,
Q telegraph operator at Police Headquarters. and his
wife IL In fair way Of being settled by Compromise
The bearing which TO take place vt Mr. O'Bricns
fire N
ponce for one week
The Maple Grove Cemetery Association reelected
its former officers yesterday.
The Liberty Insurance Company, Of No 100 Broad