New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-29

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George Washington Post dinner, dosei bfunS"ioA'
spssish-Ampriesn Commercial Union. DslmenisO's
Society Of Amateur Photographers No. 10 West
Press view Of Academy Of Design Exhibition -.
Milton Literary Society reception Lexington ~s'Aa'
cnsss Congress NO. Union Square.
Republican primary elections, Bayonne NJ De- sSenins
Mesonie conference Masonic Temple, p NJ
Basar In aid Of ST christcphers Home. No $50 Fifth
rs.xaer, Fvanne sohoo, exhibition Of drawing. No.
255 East onehundred and twenty hfth-st, evening
GERMAN Republican Central Committed Germania Assem-
bly, Rooms, Ncs. 291 and 2ss Bowery, .. M
NETWORK CITY.
young countrymsn named Vernon o. simpson
blow out the gaslrht in his at the Northwestern
Hotel No. 202 Chambers-st, on Tuesday mght aho
be died soon after being found yesterday morning
simpson lived ut Mason's Crook Va. and bis fstner'
4 wealthy farmer, does business with Vogel Brau-
sigam, produce merchants at No. 1o4 Park Piace
Mrx casharins Chiverton, 6fty-three years old and
victim of melancholy, killed herself with rat poison
m the homo Of her married daughter at NO BAT East
onehundred -foureeuth-st early yesterday morn
tng She was o widow and OF Irish birth.
The Columbia College tug-ofwar team wiz 30 10
Harvard to pull tomorrow
Tba sanitary officials have been trying for several
months 10 get the detective plumbing in the tenement
house No bl4 West Forty-sixthst repaired Henry
clark the owner Is In Europe, and his agents IA tne
city say that they are authorized only TO Collect tne
rents Yesterday the Health Board decided 70 oruer
The house vacated
srawberries are now offered for sale in most OF the
markets ana street hawkers have also come oup WIN
their hslf-aned boxes
The Commissioners Of Emigration yesterday modt
ned their resolution requiring alien cabin passengers
no he landed at Castle Garden for examination 30 rs
10 Apply only 10 those coming in the second eso'h
The Rev. DR. John Hall VIII speak to Columbia
students in the college chapel on Monday.
andrew Carnegie has accepted the invitation OF the
r,ernsy1vania Legislature to make address before
A and he win deliver this some evening next week.
urobably on Monday. The address win 90 on
similar Tine with tho ne made at the FRANKLIN IN
ssfz,fe IN philadelphia some time ago, In which ms
eondrmnstion OF certain railway methods in Pennsyl
wanna caused SO much comment in railway circles.
Y,rastzs winan has accepted the invitation OF the
BOARD Of Trade Of Portland Ne, TO address them ana
their friends at dinner given to him there tomorow
nighs on the relations between this country ana
Canada
A consignment Of pictures statuary, etc., WIN DO
sidpped tomorrow for the Paris Exposition THOMAS
z. PICKERING of the American machinery secnon' wiz
san to-morow for Paris.
The water win begin to run In tho fountains OF
Madison and Union Square parks on April l.
A 0lEpaIcn sNSeNAN~S
dat there had been swindio In oats. 1t called at
tsntfon 90 q machine which clips the ends from the
oets fe- the purpose of making them heavier and thus
Increasing the grade On the Produce Exchange nero
Il was said that the clipping Of the ends Of oats was
done merely Ia get rid Of useless part Of the ost
and 10 get more into bushel with the view Of saving
freight expense There possibility that they
might be- mixed with other oats 50 As to increase tho
grade.
Police Superintendent Murray was annoyed yester-
day by published reports that he ana Mayor Grant
had become mixed up IN contradictory statements
about the closing of concert places on Sunday He
said that the Mayor had not given orders to him
on the subject but that the police wocld enforce the
law as 1t was interpreted By the Corporation Counsel
workmen are engaged in repairing the trachs OF the
old Battery bobtaiip line, which down Church
at from vcsey-st no cars have been IN operation
on this road since It purchased BY the Broadway
lire to secure the franchise from Whitehallst to the
Battery.
John Murphy alias Boston Jack" who lives at
Hester.st and the Bowery, was hold at the Essex
Market Police Court yesterday to await tho result Of
injuries which he had Indicted upon Arthur ErtsoE,
of No. Sc East Thlrteenth-st The two quarrelled
On Tuesday night when Murphy stabbed Ertack In
the neck The latter was taken to bellevue Hospital
he may die
C. NJ Crandau, the inventor of the puzzle Pigs
Ia Clover" made complaint at the Tombs yesterday
against Moses Margouisky, Of No. SO Woosterst. and
Thomas White of No. 81 Duanest, whom he charged
with infringing upon his trademark Tho prisoners
promised to stop manufacturing the toy.
verdict Of guilty Of grand larceny in the Ars
degree was rendered yesterday in the Of Franz
E Pearson, who has been trial In the General
SESSIONS for stealing $500 from Mrs. Annie B. Wake
Held. Pearson was formerly teacher In q riding
school and he eioped three years ago with Mrs Wake
zeid who was then the wife Of Massachusetts, million
a,rs
Joseph r. Moss, representing ". r. Howe, ex
pIains yesterday Judge Gdersleeve and the Grand
jury that Mr.. Howe had not obtained his Information
Of the Indictment OF Assemblyman Smith from anl
member OF the Grand Jury. He had obtained 4
through infosmaion as b tho acts Of witnesses Mr.
Howe was SEX yesterday and could not mako the ex
planation In person. The Grand Jurors expressed
themselves as satisfied with the explanation.
special meeting Of the Republican Club Of New
York No $50 Fifth ave, wfi be held Monday even
ing taext al 8 O'Clock Charlton 7. Lewis VIII delye
an address on, Prison Reform In the state Of New
York
This Amherst college Glee Club is to give con
ecrs Of college sopss old and new banjo duets, ghta
solos. ETC.. in chichsring Hall on Saturday evening
April ID.
Agents Of he big anthracite coal barons held mect
fng yesterday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hetel
when the question Of reducing the rates per ton 0
coal was taken into consideration No aotion was De
eided upon ana after considerable discussion the meet
sng adjourned for week
TROUBLES OF BUSINESS MEN!
pspnty-shndn Baske yesterday sold out tho eneess
e Petra Cfussa Matt Comcauy limited interior deeoza
sssns At No. 10 East steepth-st. an execution 70
nti7 in fevsr Of y. n =. Blyen. onHcen OF tho com
pzny say that the busiuess wiz be continued In
sonpany was Incorporated In February 1888. with q
sutarred capital esoooo which 10 sd that ESQ 90
was paid IN cash. and manufactured interior deeoraton
out Of pea crusta the factory being a. Clifton. n.
Lcuis Levy Wholesale deSies In clothing at No. 10
Broadway, has fsisd and tia eherin yesterday tool
pessesscn Of the store executions ard attachment
axgrexans e6eSs in favor Of Charles Lewis Brothers
3fssks Levy ana Henry Newman Co His iiabfiitie
ara rcporteA 10 be about $4,000.