New-York tribune., 1890-05-29
NETWORK CITY.

House, Fifecntl-st. and Rutherford Place. Tic speak
ers Miss Lydia II. Price, Miss Lousa j. Roberts
Of Pennsylvania: Miss Martha 5. Townsend, and Oar
lington Hopes, Of Maryland. First Day school work
was considered in the afternoon. 1t is thought that
the business will be finished by tomorrow
The New-York Cricket Club will hold i.s second
annual smoking concert tonight at international Hall
The students of st. Johns College. Foraham, will
rive a representation Of the " Mkado" in the college
aall tomorrow afternoon
The University of the City of Ncw-York's commence
ment exercises for the Department of Law will take
place to night at the Metropolitan opera House. over
City young will be graduated. The address to
The class will be given by st. Clair McKelway
Tho large number Of women who attend the after
noon entertainment at the Eden Musce is notceaoe.
The conurng feats of Yank Hoe and Omene are e1-
cellently done.
Lafayette Post, G. A. r., will present an American
nag to the primary department Of Grammar School
No. 81 this morning at 10 80 O'Clock The piesenta
ton Will be made by General Viele.
The sloop-of-war Pensacola which returned from
South Africa with the solar eclipse expedition week
ago, will not go 10 the Navy Yard until saturday
She will take part in the celebration of Decoration
Day by firing salutes opposite the tomb Of General
Grant, after which she Will transfer the remainder Of
her ammunition to tie temporary magazine at Fort
Wadsworth.
The training ship Minnesota put into the new
drydock at the Navy Yard yesterday. As She was
entering the dock she drifted against the Enterprise
and damaged her to the extent of about 500.
The Rev. 5. b. Halliday. with about Of his
Sunday sGiool children, visited the Navy Yard yes
teiday.
All Of the ammunition has been transferred from
the naval magazine Ellis Island TO the temporary
magazine at Fort Wadsworth. where it will remain
until the magazine 10 be built the Army powder
depot at Dover. y. j., is finished. The apparently
long time which ii has taken 10 the powder
from Ellis Island was not due TO there being large
amount 10 transfer. but each package had 10 be
amned and marked with the date of it, manufacture,
and then separated accordingly, that the Oldest
might be first used explosives deteroratc with
A A"muslcal metempsychosis" in aid of the New Yorl;
Medical College and hospital for Women will be given
In the Central Congregational Church tonight.
literary and musical entertainment in aid of the
church building fund will be given in the Knox
Presbyterian Church this evening.
The Veteran Association of the sd Regiment. New
York Volunteers, will have summernights festival
at Harlem River Park June A. The object is 10
raise money toward the erection Of monument 70 the
memory Of their dead associates at Getty sburg.
Edward OIonnell, who has teen engaged in many
petty thefts, pleaded guilty yesterday 10 charge Of
burglaN, and was sentenced by Judge Fitzgerald to
seven years and six months in the state Prison.
Girardo Conpobasso. Italian boarding. house
keeper who has been trial for several days before
Judge Fitzgerald charge of murder, acquitted
yesterday. The accusation against him from
the killing of Rafael Ricco in quarrel among
ersl aborers at onemndred and seventy lrstst. and
Nebster-ave. February =.
Commissioner Shields decided yesterday 70 hold First
Assistant Engineer Rockefeller. of City Of
Washington, 10 await the action Of the Grand Jury.
He is accused Of beating Reinhod Sanger, a coal
passer on the steamer, who died the day after the
alleged ilLtreatment.
Public Works Commissioner Gilroy has ordered Chief
Engineer Loomis, of the Bureau of Sewers, make
thorough examination Of all sewer-traps the city,
for the purpose of asceraining what leaks there
from steam pipes and their effect upon the sewers.
The Aldermanic Committee on Bridges and Tunnels
had another hearing yesterday regarding the pro.
posed tunnel under the East River and Forty
st. which the New-Nork and Long Island Railroad
Company want TO build John Donnelly, representing
Drckaycrs Union No. :, urged that the franchise be
granted, because it would give employment 10 many
Colonel Palmer, counsel for the company
handed in quantity Of documents TO prove the
responsibility of the corporation and the hearing
declared closed.
The Continental Trust Company has fled % Ger
tincatc Of authorization from the Banking De
partment in the County Clerks Office. Its capital is
$500 900, and the trustees Henry A. oakley, Will
IAN Potts, William A. smith, William H. Wsncr,
Hugh y. Camp, Arthur J. Peabody, Gordon Noric.
Charles VI. Fry, Robert Olyphant, John G. Havcmeyer
Robert ;. Holt, Henry NJ Taber and William Jay
The VIII of Henry Chuck filed for probate yes
terday. lie gives $1,000 to the Tamud Thor, school,
$1,000 10 the school for the Study Of the Tamud, in
canalst; $3.50 TO the Orphan Asylum Society
Hebron Palestine; and $3.50 for distribution among
the poor of Jerusalem.
Mrs. Pbila A. Barry, inmate Of the Friends
Seminary, at East sxtcenths, and Rutherford Place.
left the seminary early Friday, announcing her
Intention Of visiting her mOthcr-in Park Ridge,
y. J. Since then she has not been seen heard Of.
Her husband William Barry, who is also an inmate OF
The seminary, said yesterday that Mrs Barry suffered
rom general debility and frequently subject
fte of melanchola. lie feared that she had become
demented and had forgotten her destination
The fair IN aid Of the Immigrant Girls Home, now
being held at the armory Broadway and Thirty fifth
st.. will close tomorrow night. The Committee Of
Arrangements will Monday evening give IA recep.
ton 10 the ladies who have laboed hard to make
tie fair "a IT Will be held III the faif-lall,
ginning at O'Clock
stercopticon views of Palestine. with explanatory
remarks by F. Bruckbauer, Will be shown in the
Church Of the and Land, at Henry and Market
sts, this evening at 8 o'clock proceeds for the
benefit Of the church.
The state of Alabama came up TO her
pier yesterday. on her voyage she encountered q
series of heavy gales, which carried away three star.
board feboats, damaged railing, and flooded the
ciiartroom and wheelhouse SHE passed a number Of
tcebergs.
Mary Ann Donahuc, young Irish immigrant. who
arrived here on Sunday by the City Of Rome and was
reported at the Barge Office missing, heard
from Yesterday. she went to relatives IN Clifton,
s. l. There was nothing III the to justify tho
published reports of her my stcrious" disappearance.
II was in fact, typical case out Of which several
sensational stories have been published. simply 10
throw discredt upon superintendent Weber and the
large Office officials
Police Inspector Steers who went on a trip to Nor
folk Va. with his wife, a week ago, returned yes
terday.
Westminster Hotel, was crushed TO death in the pas
senger elevator yesterday. lie was brushing out the
car probably started 1t by accident AS the car
went up, his legs hung of the door, aud he war