New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-15
ALTERED ABOUT THE TOWN.

The injunction restraining PARK Commissioner
| Drower from Interfering with The erection Of trolley
wire, across the plaza OF Prospect Park by tho BrooyI
City Railroad Company was made permanent yesterday
John Fox. ,lxty-one years odd Of No. Ij7 Twenty
e,gb,bs, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by
shooting himself IN The night tempt" at lis HON"
No cauae save Dependency assigned for the act
Til. National city Bank hiss purchased the plot
33xs6 feet and buildings at Fulton-s and Rcd IIool
Tane running back 10 the Thomas jefferson Building
for sl25 900 and fine bank building Will be erected
there.
Tie sons OF Joseph Wcchscr. WHO recently old out
his Interest In the firm q Wc,hser Abraa am 70 H.
partner have leased tho Brevoos Building. ~ l'on
- and Bedford ave. and will convert II into drygood
store.
Mrs Rosa Ann Maynard OF Blake ave- and Lnwood
81 called AZ the Health once yesterday and asked
ha, an Investigation he made OF the death OF her son
J. V MAYNARD four and one.half ycnrs old, the death
cert0cai. I'm his case giving diphh"ria the caus"
She declared that her husband had quarreled With
hAr and she believed lie had ampefcd with the child
medicine She I. the mother Of fourteen children.
OF whom eight are living. III" Coroner VIII lnquir'
into the case. The Maynards have disagreed h"cau,"
the husband I, Hebrew and The wife a Roman
catholic.
The HrOoklvn Heights Railroad Company has ratified
the lease 81 III. property and franchise Of the l-ook
lyu CIV Railroad COMPANY which n has leased IN the
lntcre.,, OF the New Long Island Traction Company.
The stakeholder, OF the Brooklyn city Company VIII
ra,ify the lease to-day. More than twothiris of The
stockholders have given proxies Avoifng This action.
suit 1, 10 De brought In behalf Of six stockholders
10 test the right Of the company 10 divert IT. EARNING,
and an Injunction viii be secured after the lease IS
approved.
Thomas L. Maxwell. policeman who was d.
mi sod from the force On last Wednesday. was sent
70 the Insane Asylum at Flnbu-h Yesterday.
The aInyor'- commission To investigate the charges
against the Fire Department continued Us work y"s
,erday District Engineer John j. Tanning testified
In regard 10 the danger from frame buildings. con
,,rucied without party walls. in the parts Of the
no. g. and Foreman ". Kirkpatrick, Of Truck No. H.,
were also examined
Conrad Gran the eleven year old boy who was ar
rested on Monday night on charge OF rohbing his
mother OF sl34 together with jewellery valued at
several hundred dollars. arrns ned yesterday be
fore Justice Goeling. The boys parents live Of No.
44s Keap 81. When the called Mrs. Graf
failed to appear and the youthful prisoner was dis
charged after IA severe lecture.
In the lecture course by college presidents at the
Brooklyn Institute the next Is 10y Chancellor Mac
Craclrn. Of tho New York University upon The Edu
aunna Progress OF the Last Quarter OF Century,
The match between Major j. NJ. Hannah Of Now
York and W. =. shiplcy OF Philadelphia. finished
AT the Brooklyn Chess Club yesterday Two games
were played, a friend and Philidor defence. both
ending In draw.