New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-30
GATHERED ABOUT THE TOWN.

ExRegister Hugh Mclaughlin returned to the city
yesterday from hi, stay at buzzards BAY with Park
Commissioner George V. Brown He had enthusiastic
stories 10 tell Of fishing. He Will prObobly spend
August at Pleasant Lake and Lake George.
The body If the young man who evidently comnhttcd
suicide. found In Flatbush sunday identified
yesterday as that of Henry b. Smith, age twenty five.
Of No. 2l4 Claeson-ave. lie a clerk in a brokers'
Office in New York. and lived with his uncle and aunt.
lie had been drinking heavily before he ended his life
The work OF widening the platform for incoming
passengers in the Bridge station is nearly completed.
Tho waiting in the Fulton Ferry house is also
being enlarged.
superintendent of transportation, is suffering from
paress, and that he i, recovering rapidly from the
prostTation which lie suffered when lie left his Office
He Is at Jamesport, l.. ].
Experiments being made with the electric sOr
age battery system Of the River and Rail Company
the Third line Of the Brooklyn City Railroad Com
pany between Fort Hamilton and the city line Street
railroad are much Interested in its operation.
Mrs sarah f. Lockwood. of No. l72 M4dsOn-st
stepped banana peel on saturday afternoon and
sustained bad which fractured her shoulder blade
An ambulance called, but she refused 10 enter it,
and although seventy old and suffering great
pain, she insisted upon walking several blocks to the
house Of a friend. where she was cared for.
George l.. Nichols said yesterday that Gordon L.
Ford was stin chairman If the Building Committee Of
the Academy of Mnsc but Mr. Nichols il In charge of
the work Of rcdecorating the interior Of the Academy
and Mr.. Ford has had nothing 10 do with II. The in
terror Of the building viii be greatly improved
The will Of Mary +. c. O'Connor. who died In Febr
ary 1885, admitted 10 probate by surrogate Abbott
Yesterday. Miss O'COnnOr sister Of cx state
senator Eugene f. O'COnnOr. At the death of her
father who lived in Vandcrbilt-avc.. she received
500 600 of the estate Of 900 which he left She
and her sister Ruth, now the wife Of Dr.. Arthur
Johnstone lived with their mother until her death on
August A. ls65. ON August IS Miss OCOnnor made
will leaving all her estate 10 her sister, Mrs. john
stone The will contested by another sister.
Mr. Josephine Sattery. the ground of undue III
huence and that the will did not out the wishes
OF the testatrix.
The BODY Of a drowned about fifty years Old
was found OF Broadway Yesterday forenoon. 1t had
been long in the water. letter was found in his
pocket dated June IA. lSs0. signed By Archibald
ehensbone. law Office No. $50 Broadway, New York.
and directed to c. smith There also baby's
daguerreJtype and three ~ bills.
Mary Brenann, aged twenty eight attempted 10 light
fire with kerosene oil in the kitchen stove Of her
house, No. i2S Raymond st. yesterday. She was badly
burned about the hands aud face Ambulance surgeon
Kimball attended her and She taken to the City
Hospital.
Tie Lawson Consolidated store Service Company
Is suing \. ID. Mathews d son In the supreme Cont
for SO $40 for the rental Of ;he store service Railway
system. The defendants have "A counter claim foI
SLIP 10 Tor repairs on the railway, and ask 5000
damages failure the part of the plaintiff Ia keep
the requiring the railway to be kept in good
order.
The West Indies Asphalt Company has brought &C
ton In the supreme Court to eniOn Road Commits
sioner John O. Kcefe from interfering with the cree
ton Of factory at strOngpoint, Rockand County
The company also seeks 10 enlon the Health Com
mssiones from proceeding against II a nuisance, al
leging that the proceedings against them attempts
at blackma. Judge Cullen reserved decision in both
contrivance 10 catch ashes and water falling from
locomotives Is 10 be placed under the elevated station
Of tho Kings County road at Sands and Fulton SIS.
Edward Howard owner Of the canal boat sarah has
brought lilel against the steamboat Monmouth and
the steam ting Rartan 10 1920 damages for In
1uries 10 the canal boat caused BY collision the
two steam vessels IN Gowanus Bay July ID
County Judge Moore yesterday approved the bond OF
John l.. VOoris commissioners OF investment for the
moneys derived from the sale of lands In the
0uesaeAaA. His bondsmen are A. Sheehan, Charles