New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-04
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turnlng on the gas in the Empire HOTEL IN nas
Nipe,v-seventhst on Wednesday, has been ioenuhco
nv his brother who is employed at the west WASH
tncion Market MCGEE lived at Clinton MASS
The Young Arions will give their ball tomorrow
night in the Arion Hall, ParK-aVe anu fn'. .,'
IT. The juniors have issued fastciu ihV''"'on''
which will be pleasant memento OF tne oo0"'o'
August Randel, German bartender, who was s'A
feel and four inches high and wenty-nine years ou
hanged himself yesterday to bedpost IN MS rooii
at No lac West Twenty -eighth-st his suoiuo uooo'
less was caused by insanity.
The Health Board yesterday directed Sanitary gu
nerintendent Day TO have the building No. $50 East
Sevcntysixthst vacated within ten days, because IL
Is In an unsanitary condition
John Hart, the MINSTREL who fell from the fronu
platform OF a Fourth ave. car and was taken 70 'no
81 vincent's Hospital went home yesterday House
Surgeon Mitchell said that Hart was suffering rom
nothing more serious than scalp wound
George EItby, ffty-sx years old brchayer' icl
from the sixth story of new BUILDING IN onohun'
ured- and thirty secondst, near Lnoolnave., yester
dav 10 tle street He escaped with his life, but lies
badly hunt in the Harlem Hospital
This being the twenty third anniversary OF the
death of the Rev. DR.. jeremiah W. Cummings, FOUNDER
and first pastor Of st. Stephens Roman 'a'hoiio
Church I'm East Twenty eighth-st, solemn requiem
high mass will be celebrated there at 10 m To-Day
Tie public schools were reopened with a large a.
tendance yesterday. There were no speoia oAoi
ciscs.
The annual meeting of the Young Mems Christian
associations of this State Will be held IN
beginning February 81
The Board Of Charities and Correction yesterday
awarded TO George W. wyant the contract for 1000
tons of white ash coal, be distributed among the
outdoor poor of the city.
The textbooks for 1889 will be open for inspection
Mt the Tax Department on January ID
The annual meeting of the National Rifle Associa-
ton will be held in the cod Regiment Armory on
Tuesday at p. m.
Chief Examiner Lee Philips, Of the Municipal Civil
Service Boards will receive applications for the posi-
tons of Milk Inspector of the Health Department
and Measurer In the Department OF Public WORKS.
Adoph Reich, the condemned wife-murderer spent
the greater part of yesterday in prayer and in read
ing the Talmud. He is anxiously awaiting the Gov
errors decision.
John Lamson, the track-repaier who fell from the
sixth-ave elevated road structure ON Wednesday,
while at work near Murrayst, sustaining con-
fusion of the back, much improved yesterday.
He Will be kept in the Chambers Street Hospital for
some days, however
Mayor Grant said yesterday that all reports of ap-
pointments made by him were groundess
The Armory Board January IA will open the
bids for the 22d Regiment Armory.
Frederick A. ODER will deliver his illustrated lecture
on Splendid Cities of spain in Association Hall on
Monday evening The lecture will include one hun
dred Spanish photographs.
The Gustavus White collection of modern paintings
win be sold at auction next Tuesday Wednesday and
Thursday at James p Slo's Art Gallery, NO. 43
Itbery-st In the collection 131 artists are repre-
scented, among the list being Bume, Brown, Beard,
Coomans De Haas, Diaz Clifford, Gerome, Guy,
Herzog, Huysmans, Laurent, Muller, Rousseau,
Troyon, and Van den Bos.
The organ grinder whose instrument of torture
bears the placard al cannot get any work to do "
IS evidently anxious TO apologize 10 a ongsunering
public for his present cacophonous occupation
Cork soled shoes are largely taking the place OF
rubbcrs for gentlemens winter wear
Leonard Bros & Co have exhibition at
the Academy Of Design, at Twenty thrd-st and
Fourth-ave, the Isaac Walker collection of modern
paintings. The auction sale OF this fine gallery Is
announced TO at Chackerng Hall on the evening
OF January 9 and 10. Among the artists represented
I'm the collection are Schreyer, Diaz, Van Marcke
August Bonheur Edouard Frere, Volt, De Lort,
Meyer Won Bremen, Boughton, Kaemmerer, Jacque,
Ca.anova Vcrbocckhoven, Micheth, Cheminsh
Bruck Lajos, Chlebowski, David Johnston. Simmons
GUY. George lines, Constant Mayer, william Hart
BlashGcd j. G. Brown, Bierstadt, Joseph Lyman and
Bristol.
The members of the Chamber of Commerce have
forwarded petition 10 the Secretary OF the
Treasury asking that the site for new public stores
be near the Battery. Among those who signed the
petition were Andrew Carnegie David Dows. Frank
lin Edson W. T. Havemeyer, A. Heidelbach, Motifs
X JeSup, j. Pierpont Morgan, John Jay Knox, Robert
Olvnhant O. b. Potter, William Rockefeller, S NJ
Roosevelt, Jesse Seligman, Ambrose Snow John H.
starin, W. B. wetmore A II. Whitney & Co., f.
Woodruff and John Bigelow.
After the services at the Church of the Holy
Disciples. in East Eichty-ninthst. Third ave-.
on TUESDAY, the wardons and vestrymen, led by the
rector, the Rev. S. Gregory Lines, called upon the
AGED Miss Caroline Talman. Miss Talman was the
founder of the church and its properties as
memorial to her father, John H. Talman, who was
at one time of the leading merchants of this city
The third annual convention of the Young Peoples
Association of New-York City Will be held in tho
Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church on
January "a.
The twenty-ffth annual dinner of the Dartmouth
Coucce Association, of NewYork, will occur on
January -, at Delmonicos.
Charles IT, Beckett, who has been probate clerk
I'm the Office the Surrogate for five years has become
a member Of the law firm of Booraem, Hamilton d
Beckett
Tho Fourth New-York Volunteer Cavalry Assocar
tion met at Central Hail. No 147 West Thirty second
st., last evening, and made final arrangements for
the annual reunion, which will be held on January
81 at the Knckerbocker Cottage, in Sixth-ave.
A meeting which recalled campaign times was held
last night by he Republican Association of the klXth
Assembly District at Linden Hall, Sfxty-seventhst-
and the Boulevard. Nearly eighty new members
signed the roll and enthusiastic speeches were made
by moro than dozen well known Republicans
The funeral of Dr. William Madison Pratt, who
died on New Years Day from Brghts disease of the
Kidneys was held yesterday afternoon at his home.
No. c09 Madison-ave
The recently elected officers Of Lloyd Aspinwall
Post, G. A. r., were last night Installed by Z. J.
Atkinson, Of ii. B. Clafiin Post