New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-16
NETWORK CITY.


W. oulcley has handed to the treasurer Of the
Municipal Council Of the Irish National League 800,
the proceeds OF entertainment held by st. Agnes
| branch OF the organization
Anonymous circulars are not always to be sneered
| at See what followed directly after the thousands
of handbills that scattered In the Academy at
the meeting before last Of the Anti Poverty Society,
stating that McGlynn merely a catspaw' and
that the funds of the society were controlled ny
"ring.n
James DeBois. OF Williamson who challenges
: any in the world for sleeping match Of l42
hours" is said to have discovered this as tho only
means of escaping even for brief perod the torture
of reading about Blaine's motives in writing that
letter.
Senator Evarts made many happy and original
hits In his speech at the Republican League dinner,
in Brooklyn and better than this: ut Is said
tho President has redeemed his pledge that public
office is a public trust am glad he has redeemed
1t. l glad 1t has been called In IL VIII never
DO re-iSsued and Will never pass current secohu
tme.'
Annie Mclaughlin, age fifteen. whose homo was In
tho tenement house. No 442 West Thirty secondst.,
went to visit friend No. 345 West Thirty seventh
st. yesterday and fell down two flights OF Stars
Her skull was fractured and she died hVe minutes
after her fall
Charles r. Freeman, assistant engineer on the
steamboat Providence. suffering from sore
throat yesterday and ambulance from the Chambers
Street Hospital called to the Fail River per
Later the sufferer was sent to the Ne"-iorA HOY
pltaL
Florence Scott. of No. 81 Deanceyst, went to tho
Chambers Street Hospital at IN. yesterday, suffer
ing from a stab wound, which was said not to be
dangerous She claimed that stranger had assaulted
her at Mott and Hester SIS
John A. Mason, Dr. Begen and T. BabcOch 1r.
Of the Board Of Examiners Of the Customs Service,
yesterday tested seventy-one young men who want
clerkshps at $1,000 a year The applicants were
examined In writing, dctation, spelling arithmetic,
letter writing, geography ana history.
General Anderson who is i'll at the Everett House.
a little better yesterday.
Maurice /. Muheman, Deputy Assistant Treasurer
Of the United States, lectured last evening on Money
and how 1t Made" before the Institute OF Accounts
at the University OF the City OF New-fork
special meeting Of the Irish Historical Society
was held last evening at the Sinclair House, to make
arrangements for Its first annual dinner In celebration
of Washington's birthday. Austin T. Ford, Peter T.
Tarpey, Lawrence G. Goulding David b. Healy, N III.
O'Donnel ex-Judge A. L. Morrison, Of Arizona,
Colonel Cavanagh, Ames Rogers and Matthew L.
Bleen were among those present. A list OF toasts
and speakers was submitted The dinner Will 10 al
the New-York Hotel
O'Donovan Rosa charges " Red Jim' McDermott
at time q ward politician OF some note In BrooK
Ign, and since and now an former for whose blood
the leaders Of the Irish Revolutionary party are
thirsting, with having added two more to his list
of Irish victims In the persons Of Callan and Hsrkns
the alleged dynamlters, who were sentenced In Lon
don to penal Servitude for fifteen years
The management Of the Cyclorama Of the Battle
Of Gettysburg will entertain the members OF the
Bethany Institute this week.
Humphrey Lynch and Mrs. Kate L. Cooley, ac-
cused of drawing SGOI 80 a pension claim to
which their brother william H. Lynch, says that ho
is entitled were taken before Commissioner Shields
yesterday with Michael Leo who, 1t IS alleged aoed
thcm The defendants were held III @2,oOO Dali cach
fr;nn he foot NJ EaS
feminist to Greenpont, Long Island was sold for
five years yesterday by order Of the Controller.
Edward s. Knapp, treasurer OF tho present company,
got ii for $4,000 per annum, an advance OF sl,oOo
over the present price
A wen-known baseball manager said yesterday
that It would cost each club several thousand dollars
more TO run Its team this year than 1t cost last
Preparations were madc for putting In stoves
in the Belt Line cars but have been put In so
far The stove supports and car protectors are there
but no stoves.
There was good toboggan!ng at the Polo Grounds
yesterday but the tobogganers were few The sport
seems to have lost Its charm for this Winter.
The Cotton Exchange yesterday appointed E com
mitce to confer with the Board of Fire and Marine
Under " rIters regarding tbs baling of cotton. ard a
plan on tho subject will be adopted which Is To he
submitted to tho Exchange for final action
letterer was busily engaged at the Boree Build
ing yesterday in eraslns from the directory tho
the words Davenport, Smith & Perkins, Thus 1t IS
That John Clinton Gray Is obiileraied as member
OF the old firm and becomes translated to the Court
| of Appeals
Twenty four who held licenses to sell ale and
beer only but who had been caught selling gin or
wb.skey were called before tho Excise Board yes
tcrday Probably all their licenses will be revoked
on Saturday.
The body OF Patrick Comerford bricklayer, OF
No. 2.O44 second ave-, found In tho East River
hist w
believed that he was drowned by accident
There will be private sparring match at the
rooms OF the New-YorR Athletic club tonight. There
Is prospect Of some lively hitting
At a meeting OF sales agents yesterday It was
decided to make no change in the prices of anthra-
cite coal. The supply was said TO be ample and
probably prices would have been lowered II the
Tabor troubles In the coal regions had been fuhy
settled
Conductor French, Of the Business Mems Trsin'
ON tho New-York and New Haven Railroad, was sent
home on Tuesday night suffering from severe at
tack OF neuralgia hen his passengers heard OF his
sic kness Yesterday a number OF them ordered MOWERS
sent to him
AT the stated February meeting of tho New-York
Law Institute. William H. Winters graduate OF
Miami University and of the Harvard Law school,
was unanimously elected librarian TO I'LL the vacancy
caused by the death Of Aaron J. VaDderpocL John
NJ. LodenIck was appointed superintendent
Niagara In winter with Its wonderful Ice bridge,
Is attracting great numbers Of visitors. large
party from New York and Brooklyn took advantage
OF the SIS excursion by the West Shore Railroad last
saturday This road Will run another excursion ON
next saturday evening at the same rate.
Charles F. Krezer. Of No. 220 Le1ingtOn-ave,
charged with practising medicine under all assumed
name, was held In $500 bail to answer yesterday In
the Tombs Police Court. The complainant Is inc
County Medical Society Abou' m9hlh ago INC
defendant was acquitted Of similar charge.
rLo x,uo.ot 80 navld Harry (,ould n retired
taurant keeper took place at his home. No 20 East
sixty-tLird- ST. Yesterday. Tho Rev DR.. Charles H.
Hail. OF Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, oficiated
The burial will DO In Greenwood Cemetery to-day.
The Cohnfeld Company. Of which isdor Theodore
and Albert COhnfeld are trustees. has been incor-