New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-16
NETWORK CITY.


Second Assistant Postmaster-General J. Lowre Bell
was in the city yesterday general tour OF inspec
ton.
Judge Fitzgerald in General Sessions yesterday dis
missed the demurrer in the case OF William H. NJ
sistare the banker, who is charged with mis-
appropriating securities worth $4,000 belonging to
Heckscher Bros, Of Philadelphia
The Manhattan Athletic Club will give ladies'
day entertainment at . O'Clock this afternoon
The committees that arranged the complimentary
dinners to Commodore Charles II. Loring ex-Chef OF
the Bureau Of Steam Engineering at the Union Leaguc
Club, Brooklyn, and at the Engineers Club, OF TINS
city, have compiled the addresses of Commodores b. r.
sherwood, G. W. Melville and c. H. ;Lorng In small
pamphlet together with list Of the guests. 1t is In
tended as a memento Of the two dinners.
A special meeting has been called Of the Jackson
Democratic Club Of Harlem for Saturday at p M
The New York Association of the Alumni of Trinity
College will have its annual dinner at Dcmonicos to-
night The members will sit down at Z p. m.
The Ncw-York. Microscopical Society will have its
twelfth annual reception tomorrow night at the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History There will be music
and an exhibition of lantern slides.
Frederic Bancroft will read paper on efforts
of tho Confederacy Secure Recognition from France
before the Academy of Political Science at Columbia
College on Monday evening.
The thlrtieth anniversary of the enlistment OF the
Second Battery, National Guard. in the United States
service will be celebrated by beefsteak dinner" at
tho arnory at p m. on Saturday.
The certificate of incorporation Of the Colonial
Danes of America was filed in the County Clerks
Office yesterday.
James D. Steele of Philadelphia, vii, be ordained
and installed pastor of the First Reformed Presby
terrain Church. Twelftl-st between Sixth and Seventh
ayes. this evening; services TO begin at 8 O'Clock
Madame Van Norman will give large reception at
her home seventy -frst-st. and West End-ave to-
morrow from 4 to 10 p. m.
The Canadian Pacific steamship Empress Of India
was yesterday at Kobe, japanese port on the far
famed inland sea- She is expected to be In Yokohama
this morning.
Thomas GARRISON, who was charged with selling
counterfeit money to Frank H. Darling. Of West Hart
ford Conn, was discharged at the Harlem Police Court
yesterday because Daring couid not ruiiy iuehtly
him.
The subject of George Guntons free lecture, de-
nvercd last evening at the Institute of Social Eoono
mics No. 1876 East Twenty -thirdst., was g Profit
Sharing Open discussions Of labor questions in
which all present are invited to take part in
teresng feature of these Wednesday evening lectures
The fifth monthly meeting of the American Associa-
ton for the Study and Cure of Inebrety was held
last night at the New-Yori Academy Of Medicine, No.
10 West Forty-third-st. The Heredity and Treat
ment of Inebrieyo was discussed in short papers by
Dr.. Norman Kerr, of London Dr. Bradner, of Phila-
delpha DR.. Shepard, of Brooklyn DR.. Watson, OF
Mattewan; and Dr.. Crothers. Of Hartford.
In aid Of St. Bencdicts Home for Colored Children,
Miss Bertha Weby gave literary and musical en-
tertainmcnt at Hardman Hall last night. The pro-
gramme entertaining and extensive.
! Friends Of the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby will be In
terested in excellent portrait Of him now TO be
at Rockwoods new gallery, in the Holland Building,
| Broadway and Fortieth-st.
| Dr. II. W. wooton, Of No. 427 Lexington-ave and
DR.. r. T. Steele of No. 1T Alexanderave. have been
appointed medical sanitary inspectors in the Health
Department, each at a salary Of 81 400 year.
A man about twenty-five years old, who had black
| hair and small dark mustache, shot himself fatally
in the head in the yard Of the house No. Col East
Sixtccntl-st. early yesterday. he was not
known 10 the inmates Of the house. The police did
not ascertain. his name. lie left a letter addressed
| 10 his mother, Mrs. John Farkas, widow in lorna,
! County Abawj, Hungary The letter not signed.
Joseph Schmidt. German blacksmith, who lived
| with his wife in the tenement house No. 3l5 East
Forty -fourthst., went up the roof of the house
yesterday and shot himself twice In the breast The
second bullet entered his heart and killed him. lie
was sick from the effects Of recent drunkenness and
was afraid that he had lost his employment.
Tho White star steamer Majestic brought a large
number of passengers yesterday from Europe. There
were 230 saloon, 205 second cabin and 9e4 steeage
passengers, making total OF LAOS.
The German Charity Ball takes place this evening
at the Lenox Lyccum. The demand for boxes and
tickets lnsures the successful result Of the undertake
ing from a financial well as a social point Of view
Some of the surface roads out summer yes
terday for the first time this season.
Jordan l.. Mott presided at the regular meeting Of
the Harlem Democratic Club last night John De witt
Warner, Allen v. Mordecsd and J. G. Smith were pro-
for auoba I'm md fhQ nCalc
ieITed " the Committee Admissions. ]. J. Casey,