New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-28
NETWORK CITY.

The American Institute Fair VIII Close V-HisnV'
A massmeeting will be held at Asbury Methodist
Episcopal Church at 3 40 tomorrow AFTERNOON ino
Rev. Dr. James NJ King will deliver an address on
"The Relation of the National Government and the
Churches TO Indian Education'
The lecture this evening in the Cooper Union free
course will be delivered by L. b. ]. Lincoln, on "lhe
Newspaper in American History
The Christian League for the Promotion OF social
Purity will hold Its regular monthly meeuhg at i's
headquarters, No. SO East Twentysecondst.' on MOI
doy at D. m Addresses will be made by Mrs. Mary
T. Burt New-York state president OF the W. u L. u,
and the Rev. Leighton Williams; to be followed by
discussion. A women's meeting VIII be heid ao 'iie
same place to-day at p m.
At meeting of the executive council Of the Military
Service Institution of the United States. held on Gov
ernor's Island yesterday, the gold medal OF the In
st,tution for 1891 was awarded TO First Lieutenant
Henry A. Reed cd United States Artillery, for the
hest essay on The Terrain In Its Relations TO MIL
itary Operations"
Annie Miller, the servant who declared that Mrs.
Josephine Hayman sent her out 70 find employment
and then to steal everything she could from her ms
tesss house. pleaded guilty to grand larceny In Gen.
eral Sessions yesterday. Mrs. Hayman, VINO is inc
wife of Ferdinand Hayman, dealer In sponges at NO
80 Pearst pleaded NOS guilty to an indictment for
receiving stolen goods.
The great clearance sale OF Charles T. Dillingham;
No 700 Broadway affords an unequalled opportunity
for lovers of books to get them at exceedingly low
prices.
At the rooms OF the Society Of Chinese Baptist
Brethren No. 100 East Twenty -ninthst. there VIII
be a Christmas sale on Monday from to 8 p. M
The proceeds will 80 to help pay the rent Decorated
china by Chinese artists will be on sale.
District Attorney Nicoll said yesterday that he knew
nothing about the rumor that the Canadian Govern
ment intended TO ask for the extradltlon OF owen
Murphy and Robert McGreevy on the charge OF de-
fraudng II BY means of their contracts with the pub
Lie works department.
aNational Perilsp will be the subject Of the sermon
nv the Rev. Dr. David G.. Wylie at the Scotch Presby
terrain Church. In FOurteenthst., tomorrow evening
The Tribune has received IS from al. L." for the
starving people in Russia
petition TO the Board of Street Opening asking for
new parks and Fairgrounds, has received l,ooo Sig
natures There will be meeting Of young men al
the Office of the secretary of the Union for Concerted
Effort No. 222 West Forty -thirdst., tomorrow at
8 80 n. M, to organize band OF loo young heh io
active work in the movement.
The Ward Line steamer Santiago. from Cienfuegos,
which arrived Yesterday, reports that while passing
Cane Cruz on the south side OF Cuba, meteor sp-
peared I'm the sky, and seemed to hang Tor re"
seconds directly over the ship. Then 1t plunged into
the ocean, almost alongside The ship
The December number of The Club" has just been
published and II even improves on the high stahdard
set in the three previous issues. IL Is pleasing III
general appearance and contains much that is Of in
terest to those who are not members Vi 'iuo "s well
as to those who are. =.
The directors of the Prudential Fire Insurance CON-
many OF Boston, have decided to rensure the COM
panys risks and discontinue business. The capitai OF
the company which organized In 1883, Is SAID 10
be considerably impaired.
The steamer Mariposa arrived at San Francisco on
Thursday with mails from Australia, New Zealand ana
Hawaii of the following dates: Melbourne, OCTOBER
81 SYDNEY November 2; Auckland. November -
Honolulu, November TO- They are due to arrive In
New-Ycrk Tuesday morning. The next mail Tor
Australia. etc. will close at the Postofce at 6 80
D. m. on December 5.
Collector Hendricks and Surveyor Lyon returned
from Washington yesterday afternoon. Elk Collectors
Erbart and Fassett both called at the Custom House
In the afternoon.
Charles S. Wilbur, Chief Of the Special Treasury
Agents at this port appeared at his Office again yeser-
day. after illness OF nearly two weeks
Professor Albert S. Blclmore will continue his series
OF lectures the teachers Of this city Mt the Museum
OF Natural History at 10 80 o'clock this morning.
His subject will be Food Fishes from Fresh Waters
Cumberland G. White, sixty years old. who was for
merly a broker at No. 60 Ncwst., remandcd for
trial Yesterday In General Sessions lie was arrested
| in Chicago charged with unlawfuly retaining two
81 900 railroad bonds intrusted to his care by Mrs
| Emily de Silver OF No. 1853 West Forty sixth-st,
The hearing before Commissioner Shields In the case
of Peter ii. Wyckof, general freight agent OF the Cen
trail Railroad Of New-Jerscy, who Is charged with
| violation OF the Interstate Commerce Law, was ad
journcd yesterday until Monday at 10 go a. m
| Edward Dynan robbed Mrs. Marietta Newton OF
No 1856 West Fifty -sxth-st, Of purse containing
| $500 on July 10. She was in a cab the window
OF which open, and Dynan leaned In. struck her
| on the knuckes, seized the purse and dartrd away
| Mrs Newton chased him for several blocks, but he
escaped and not arrested until week ago. Dynan
pleaded guilty to larccty in the third degree In Gen
cral Sessions yesterday and Recorder Smyth sentenced
| him 10 Imprisonment for six years and half.