New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-11
GATHERED ABOUT THE TOWN.

Professor Thomas Davidson will lecture on Evolu-
ton of Sculpture before the Brooklyn Ethical AS
ISOLATION tomorrow evening at 30 O'Clock in the
Second Unitarian Church, at Clinton and Congress sts
The lecture will be illustrated by stercOptcon views
Chief Judge Clement, in the City Court yesterday
fled his decision in the suit of John Grafton to
$4,000 for personal injuries from the Union
Ferry Company, whose charter expired on November
8, 1900. The plaintiff raised the point TO whether
not a suit for negligence could not be revived
against the directors of the defnct company. Judge
Clement held that the suit could not be revived,
the law of 1892 the only one under which the court
could continue such an action after the expiration Of
q company's charter, had been repealed
The man who was taken with 1T In his seat at
the Grand Opera House Thursday evening, Just
before the curtain rose upon The Dead Heart and
who died after he carried ont proved to be James
Farrell printer, sixty years old, Of No. les Sands
st. He in the habit of going TO the theatre, and
usually went to the same house every Thursday even
ing, and got the seat in the balcony. Mr.. Far
rell was the fatherin-law Of John j. OConnor, mem
Der Of Assembly from the WITH District, and he had
lawyer The funeral Will take place tomorrow
afternoon.
Flveyearold Sarah Pollak, while playing yesterday
In the kitchen Of her home at LvOna and Thatford
sts upset pan Of grease that had been left the
stove The hot grease over the chllds face, arms
and shoulders, burning her badly that she will prob
ably die. She was taken to st. Mary's Hospital.
Detective Sergeant John Lowcry, who has been at
tached to the Brooklyn Police Headquarters for four
years and who has been member of the force for
sixteen years is at St. Mary's Hospital suffering from
pneumonia supernduced by the grip. The physicians
reported late night that hope Of his recovery was
slight.
The funeral Of Benjamin D. Horton, who committed
suicide on Thursday at no 81 st. James Place, will
take place to-day 1t will be privately conducted
constable from the Lee Avenue Police Court was
on his way TO serve summons on Mr. Horton In
suit brought BY a physician to recover Zee. when
he learned Of his death The papers in the case were
endorsed Dead" and filed In the court records.
John Cooney was indicted by the Grand Jury yes
tcrday for murder in the second degree IN killing Ben
jamn keenan, on March IL.
Henry b. Davis a lawyer, indicted by the Grand
Jury Yesterday for assault in the second degree.
Daniel j. Byrnes who abscondcd with 5000 Of
the funds OF the Long Island Railroad Company last
fall. and was arrested in Tamaqua Penn, where his
parcnts noe on Thursday, arraigncd before Police
Justice T1ghe yesterday and held for examination
When he went away he left letter admitting the theft
and saving that he greatly in debt.
Colonel Robert G. ngersoll will deliver his lecture
upon Shakespeare In the Academy Of Music to-mor
row evening.
Some of the friends Of Charles McElvane, the muir
derer awaiting death at Sing Sing State Prison, have
forwarded petition 10 Governor Hill asking for the
Communication Of his sentence TO life imprisonment
The Governor has asked for the views OF District
4ttOrney Rldgway and County Judge Moore and they
bth say there is no need for interference.
Dr. Charles II. Hall conducted the funeral OF the
Re- Joseph Moore Waite, former assistant pastor OF
St. Ann's-on-t the Heights, in that church yesterday
Theburial was in Greenwood.
TIE right, title and interest Of the unfinished Gaiety
Theare I'm Fulton-st. Hoytst., begun by Pro
fessoi Hermann last fall were sold yesterday 10
F. Douglass Hickman. The price was not made
public
The fair of the Bushwck Avenue Baptist Church.
Bushwfkave and Weirfield-st. will be opened on
Tuesday evening in the new church Just completed
The operng address will be delivered by Mayor Chaplin
The proceeds of the fair Will go toward paying OIL the