New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-08
Nrw-YORK CITY.


Opera House. D. N.
NETWORK CITY.
nh. .nrual mdwinter reception Of the Delta Up
alton fraternity will be held at the clubhouse NO
East Forty-seventh-st, this evening
Treasurer Matthews, of the Dock Department, TO
revived yesterday for the annual rental Oh piers Sleo'
seo. BY February 10 100000 more is que. Ing
receipts are in checks ranging from $40 TO SZo'Voo
These are turned over at once BY the departments -
the Sinking Fund Commission
The Commissioners Of Charities and Correction make
,he, awars to-day for clothing lumber and hardware
20 ba used in the public institutions. The tota es
sImata of the awards Is S175,ooo OF which ABOUT
R125OOO is for clothing
rbs park Board yesterday gave permission TO Grant
Post Of the Grand Army of the Republic 10 hoio SOr
v,ees az General Grants tomb on Decoration Day
ArthoDv comstock viii address the students meet
ing IN the concert-hsn of the Metropolitan opera
House on Sunday evening
Edward pay has Just completed pair of shoes
which General Harrison will wear on Inauguration
nav They are made from American products anu
nv American labor. They are button Shoes WIN
natentleather bottoms and sheepskin tops, anu 'iO
s,ye Is six and one-half Mr. Day win SEND them u
tho Presldent-elect at once
The Rev. DR. Maynard will deliver his new aus
.or,cal lecture on Wales, and the West Oh
frustrated. next Monday afternoon, at Ohiokerlhs
Hall
The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society mas ioausu
sso 600 10 the Young Mems Christian Associaaon'
receiving as security mortgage ON the properly 1T
the northwest corner OF the Bowery and Broome-s''
George Gross, a German truckman, dfty-hve years
old shot himself b death I'm his home at NO. 70 Jones
st yesterday morning. he lived on the secohu Hoor
of the house with his wife and two unmarried oauK
tors Formerly he owned several horses and trucks
and made a good living for his family but an auacA
. araIys,c wear or two ago ruined bis health, and
his business did not pay.
Ieander Kaldron the sailor picked up On raft IN
sbo sound. had recovered sufficiently yesterday from
4he effects Of his exposure TO leave tho ChamDers
Street Hospital and go to his home In Boston Inc
passengers On the steamer Old Colony raised purse
of $40 for him.
harm recital and readings VIII be given by the
Misses Morgan assisted by George W. Morgan, at the
scottish Rite Hail. at Madisonave and Twenty ninth
st., ON next Tuesday at 80 p. m The entertain
mont Is for the benefit of ST. Georges Chapel OF the
Church of the Reformation
One of the latest additions to the General COM
ittee of Tammany Hall is Augustus Winnieth Peters'
Che bigboded and ig-heartec chairman OF the Con-
soudased stock and Petroleum Exchange Mr.. Peters
.omes from, Nova Zembla and the XXIId Assembly
,istrct and besides keeping the oil brokers In order
he &c Grand Potentate of all sorts of Masonic organza
lions His Wall Street friends regret to see him COM
,nittine himself to the Democratic party. but they
feel that his inner nature is right and are leoKng
forward to hts open conversion before 1892
James Grady, whose skull was fractured during
marre with jerry Reagan last Friday. died at the
PRESBYTERIAN Hospital yesterday Both men made
business of buying and selling brokendown horses,
and the quarrel grew out Of the buying Of horse
The police looking for Reagan, ana as soon as ne
Is found an inquest viii be held.
A social meeting of the alumni Of Columbia College
will be held next Friday in the Library Building on
prCfa C.
will deliver lecture on The Discoveries Made by
the American School Of Classical Studies at Athens
illustrated by numerous views taken by the speaker
during his direction of the school In 1887.
The comrade of Post No. 35b, Brooklyn, who offered
IN deliver his lecture, Stirring Events Of the War;"
with Illustrations BY the stereopacon for the benefit
of needy veterans is requested to send his address
again to The Tribune.
r. B. Johnson, who was formerly Methodist
,reaoher in Essex N Y, and recently obtained small
sums of money from many charitable people on the
ureence that church at Essex required assistance,
pleaded guilty yesterday in the Court OF General ses-
aions to a charge of petit larceny. He was emanded
for sentence.
LAFAYETTE Post, No. 40. Sons Of Veterans, VIII hold
Selr installation Of officers this evening at 80
o1cIock at their headquarters, No. 67S sixth-ave.
F1ovd c1arkson will act as installing officer, and adj
dresses are expected to be delivered oy General
Horano c. King, General j. G. Wilson, the Rev. Dr.
Paxton. and ex-Judge cedney.
The case Of Guy f. bingham, charged with having
stolen yacht IN September, was tried yesterday In
the Court of General Sessions. The defendant who
was represented by James H. Pendleon, was acquitted
Colonel J. Annoy Knox, Of "Texas siftingS," sent
his check yesterday TO Chauncey NJ Depew for $25
for the National Confederate Soldiers Home at Austin
Texas.
The sale Of foreign and American paintings at the
reayttt artrooms No. 7s7 Broadway, was finished
last evening The receipts for last evening were
ls4s4o making o total of $1,000.