New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-18
GATHERED ABOUT THE TOWN.

.WI,ev q. overton, the colored policeman IN the
First Precinct will shortly be detailed to special duty
and will not sleep at the police station. lie was on
duty at Clinton and Montague SITS. yesterday
About 200 printers besiegcd a vacant dwelling house
at No 10 Gallan Place yesterday morning In answer
10 an advertisement calling for twenty compostors
for a new paper After some trouble a policeman
convinced them that the house was unoccupied. and
that they were the victims of joke. Many OF the
men came from New-Jersey, Harlem and Long Island
City. and three were from Staten Island.
Turner Russell sea-captain. was before Police
Justice Walsh yesterday complaint of Thomas
Chrystie, Of No. 10 Garden Place. clerk at Mar
tins Stores who charges that the captain threatened
his lire Captain Russell denied the charge. said that
no had been most friendly to him, but that Chrysue
had caused trouble in his family. lie was held III
$500 bail.
The body Of a woman picked mp in the Bay at Thir
ty-nnth-s St early In the week identified yester
day as that Of Miss Frances Raugh OF No. 536 West
Forty sixth-st, New-York. She was twentyour years
old and a cripple. She was seamstess. she lc1t
her home after writing letter to an aunt to the
effect that she was tired Of living and meant 10 drown
herself.
The Bedford Heights Baptist Church has extended
call TO the Rev. Mr. Harrison, who has been filling
the pupit for some time to become the pastor of the
church the pulpit of which has been vacant since
the Rev. W. W. Pratt resigned several months ago.
The funeral Of George NJ. Norwood. one Of the VIC
tins of the disaster on board the naphtha launch Ethel
off Long Beach on Sunday, conducted at the mouse
of his father Joseph Norwood IN Diamond-st. flatS
BUSH yesterday afternoon. The Rev James L' man.
pastor of the Fennimore street Methodist Episcopal
Church, conducted the services. The burial was IN
Greenwood.
President Jourdan OF the Kings County Elevated
Railway, said yesterday that the extension Of the
road from Van Sclenave to the city line VIII be built
before the end Of this year.
William JONES' sixteen years Old Of No. no Smith
st. has been missing from his home since Sunday
when he started with another boy for R0kaway 10
fish. Neither he nor his companion have been heard
from.
The Board Of Aldermen propose 10 give dinner to
the retiring president Of the Board John McCarty'
who resigned on Thursday 1t is probable that MI
McCarty will retire from the Democratic state Com
mttee as since his removal TO the Twenty second
Ward he has lived outside Of the lVth Congress DIS
tIict, which lie represents.
Ex supervisor Thomas Harold. r.. died at his home.
No. $40 feminist. yesterday morning lie was forty
wears old and native of Brooklyn. lie a men-
Der Of the Board of Supervisors for two terms, and
was afterward private secretary to state Senator
stephen NJ. GriswOld lie was vicepresident Of the
e. ). Grant Club of the Eleventh Ward.
Mayor Chaplin has agreed to welcome the Turner's
at their fest in Turn Hall. In MeSerOest, this evening"
Joseph schoIer three year-Old child. who's parents
live at No. 9O7 Grand St, drowned yesterday In
horse trough I'm Graham-ave. Tie child at the time
was playing around the trough with number OF chill
dren of his age. Grahani-ave is one of the most
fequented thOroughfarcs in the Eastern District, and
in consequence there is considerable surprise that no
one heard the chllds cries.