New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-14
NEW-YORK CITY.


tho United states Circuit Court. to thirteen months
Imprisonment.
Miss Murphy the Central Park hippopotamus. who
has been i'll with cold, is rapidly Improving 0ho
received the sympathy of several times her usual num-
Der of callers yesterday.
The work of removing the overhead electric wires
which was begun on December IA, is still gong on
Yesterday more than 10000 feet of wire and eighteen
poles were removed The employed on the
wires attribute the death of Inspector Frank j. Gavin
10 the exposure which he suffered whlle remo'-
ing wires from the housetops DOWNTOWN
At the session yesterday of the Baptist pastors the
Rev. L. D. Temple read paper on The Wrongs OF
Prisoners"
The funeral of Mrs Anna Kip Miller, Jay Goulds
mother-in law was held yesterday at her home NO.
Ais Ffthavc the Rev. RoderiCk Terry, of the south
Dutch Reformed Church, officiating. The burial was
In Woodlawn
Although Chicago "put down It's foot" at Wash
ington the other day, nobody seems TO nave peeh
bit hurt.
Alibi and Lunacy have had their day. Poor Old
Grip must now bear the blame for murderous assaults
"Mary" exclaimed an Irish scrvantgirl, who saw
the Brooklyn Bridge towers for the first time'
@wouldnt that be fine place 10 dry clothee =
First Citizen-Are the streets clean?
second Cltizen-NO; theyr cleaned.
The elevated road is again beginning to creep IN
station platforms.
Some wags speak now Of the Prohibitonst head
ouarters in this city as "the drygoods district"
There was no unusual crowdng at Coney Island
yesterday
1t is said that Bourke Cochran would Just as soon
not follow Chauncey NJ Depew any more
The "bobtail cars" being Obliged to carry con-
ductors have employed boys in many instances as
they are cheaper than men.
If the subway Commission deem manhoe ex-
plosion necessary now and again To remind cIuzehS
that the wires are going underground they are mis-
taken
Bertha Anderson twenty two years old, an actress
who was arrested a she about to throw herself
into the East River at Sixty secondst. on sunday
night was discharged in a police court yesterday she
promised not TO try 10 commit suicide again.
At the meeting yesterday at No. 90 Broadway 0.
the commissioners appointed TO appraise the damage
done property by the elevated railroad structure
testimony on the injury done 10 Nos. ~ 30 ana 80
Division.st taken. The hearing Will 20 on at
p. m today.
The Rev. l. W. Gowan, rector Of Grove Church. OF
New Durham, read a paper before the Reformed pas
tors at the synod in Readest. yesterday, on the
work that should be done by lay members OF the
church to aid the ministers.
j. J. DAILY was yesterday reinstated inspector on
the staff OF surveyor Lyon.
The report published yesterday, that statue Of
President Garfield detained here for payment OF
duty was said by the officials of the Custom House
to be entirely false. 40 such statue has arrived
The Colombian Consul yesterday received instruc-
tons from Bogota clear all American vessels bound
for the san Bias coast for Carthagena
The committee of the Cercle Francois dc rHar-
monte, which has in charge the twenty fifth annual
French ball. has opened the sale Of boxes at No "a
TT tfea ho flrCH aSpf
at any Of the leading hotels. The ball Will take place
on Tuesday evening, January at the Metropolitan
Opera House
Alexander Green. a deaf and dumb man, started a
fire in closet the tenement house No. 547 Broome-
St. on sunday night. and then ran through the build
Ing shouting Fire." The flames were put out and
Green was arrested. In police court yesterday he
was sent TO Backwels Island for three months.
IN NJ b. sends So to this Office for Mrs Elizabeth
Connolly.
The second of the dinners Of the University and
School Extension society, which arc given by the
teachers in NewYork, Brooklyn and NewJersey, Is 10
be held Saturday evening, February /, at ChrKs
restaurant President Dwight, Of Yale College Is to
preside. and the principal speaker OF the evening VIII
be United States Commissioner of Education Dr. VIII
lam T. Harris.
The dead body Of Mrs. Bridget Cannon, fifty four
years Old found on the stairs Of No. 400 west
Twenty -eighth-st. at a. Yesterday. She applied
her Joseph who lives in the house. for lodgings
for the night lie shut the door in her face and she
sat on the stairs where She died
The funeral Of John Brennan, engineer of the 69th
Regiment Armory. and brother Of Captain Brennan OF
n Company A. held yesterday at St Vincent FerrerS
Church. Colonel Cavanagh and large delegation from
the regiment attending.
The annual ball Of Company f, seth Regiment. took
place in the armory. The proceeds Will
be given the widow of the sergeant Of the company
DR.. J, Conger Bryan of the LyingIn Asylum, No.
139 Second ave, writes % The Tribune to deny that
the death Of the baby Of Mrs, ZolM at the asy lum on
Saturday was caused by burns received through an
oversight of the lie says that the burns were
only skin deep, and that the child died from hamilton
The commencement exercises Of the NewYork
Training school for Nurses take place at No 425
East Twenty siXth-st this evening.
The ODD Regiment Veteran Corps held their regular
monthly meeting last evening at their headquarters IN
the Hotel Hungaria IN Union square. Only routine
business was transacted.
Maria Wlets has subscribed 500 70 the Washing
ton Memorial Arch Fund which now amounts TO
S66,G50 30.
Lizzie Cunningham who asphyXiaed nearly
two weeks ago. improving at the New YORK HOS
pital YESTERDAY, and her recovery seems likely Her
condition was hopeless until about two pounds OF
blood taken from Amos A. Lincoln. a hneman. was
transfused into her veins
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY HOSPITAL FUND
The special appeal OF the Executive Committee OF the
Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association. account OF
the enormous the Of the hospitals by
the nreyaIng Epidemic is meeting hearty responses
from all classes and final result fall 70 be OF a
substantial character Among the sums received yester.
dsy by Charles Laner the treasurer. No. II Nasesust
were the following:
Mndfs Hat .