New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-26
NETWORK CITY.

Tho pdson Association OF New York has fixed upon
the last Sunday in October 10 be observed as Prison
Sunday The association will shortly issue circular
letter asking that the day DO observed by special
services sermons and prayers for prisoners and that
collections be taken for the phIlantropIc work of
the association.
A meeting OF the Committee on Organization of the
vth Assembly District Republican Association Will be
held tomorrow night, receive applications for APP
pontments pollclerks.
Tho sIoon-of-yar Galena left the Navy Yard yes
tertay at a. m on her way to Hayti. She took
with her supply OF provisions for the flagship Near
sarge, now PortauPrince
The sixteenth annual Bavarian Jubilee will be
begun this afternoon at Suffers Harlem River PARK
and Casino Onc-hundred- twenty ana sec
ond- ave. under the auspices OF the Bavarian Folks
fest-Verein The festival will last three days, Tor
each of which an elaborate programme has been pre-
pared.
Emil storh. OF No. 1914 Greenwich-sve, has re-
ceived an order from the Treasury Departments al
Washington. requiring the Custom House officers 10
refund the articles which they confscated from him
ON August g. believing that he was attempting 10
smuggle them. The Secretary OF the treasury mas
decided that he had no such intention.
For the new Church of st. Mary Magdalen, to oe
buit in East seventeenth-st., $1,000 has been col
lected.
The new Church Of St. Catharine of Genoa, Ono
hundred and fly third St. and TenthaVe, Is no" ooi
pleted. 1t Will seat 500 persons
T. St. John Gaffney of this city, whose iather Is
Mayor of the fourth largest city in Ireland ana
bitter Tory has Joined the Irish National cause mere
and become a warm supporter OF Parneu anu h"me
Rule.
Joseph DAILY, age forty-fve, a laborer In the yaru
Of the New-York Central and Hudson River Railroad,
nv gyUif
and received serious internal injuries. He was taken
TO Bellevue Hospital where the surgeons said that
he would probably die.
Customs Inspectors Brown and Donohue made an
other seizure yesterday They took from Dr. Lsner,
of No. SO Spring ST. this citys passenger on tho
Umhrla dutiable iewery worth several hundred dol
lars which he had not declared. lie was locked up
for the night in the Old slip police station.
The body of a man, supposed to be James Orr, who
has been staying at the Grand Windsor HOTEL No.
200 Park Row, found one Of the Bridge
piers in the East River yesterday by John Freeman,
a boatman. In his garments were found two pocket
hooks three pairs of spectacles, a looking glass,
handbook and latchkey. The body was sent to the
Morgue.
August Eclman age thirty, of No. 1912 First
ave-. went in bathing yesterday in the East River
near Seventy -1rst-st., and was dlowned
Captain Lamb, of the ship Iron Cross of Liverpool,
which reached here yesterday from Hogo, which port
she left on March IL, reports that on June .. when
off the Cape of Good Hope, KirimOto Genara, sea-
man a native of Japan, was washed overheard and
drowned.
The work of removing the telegraph poles in lower
Broadway went yesterday morning at o'clock
A force of forty eight men worked hard until O'Clock
In the afternoon and by that time the twenty poles
ON the east side of the thoroughfare. which all
that remained standing between the Battery and Full
ton-st were cut down.
The cable-road in upper Tenth-ave. seems to be a
popular one for Sunday excursions, especially for
babies and mothers. The vacant lots about the end