New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-27
ITEMS nv TIE NEW BCDGk7.
INCREASED APPORTION TENTS AFFIRMED
BY THE BOARD OF ESTIMATE.
THE MUTUAL LIFE GETS si2,'io3l FOX 'A''
THE CONVICTION OF DR. MEYER


THE CONVICTION OF DIR. MEYER
TIE PoIsoNER-
,,, oror-,a,ion for the new Department oil run
uc Charities was finally settled upon .! wv -,
- E,,r,ste Yesterday for 1896 at sloi3'ii. 1"iii'
Oh rs''' - -, the Twenty-third and Twenty
,or,h ,va,ds got sss3 900 for his department d ~.
alSarah,o Increase over the si3G,i7o for 1870 me
surrorate's office received Nis6'o' me'uu"s '''''
for copying records .ooe o,o On for the
District Attorneys Office for the coming !ea' az
Increase of SloesS over the current allowance "a.
claim OF the Mutual Life Insurance Co'np'"; ~
rupr,nq down and convictng DIR. H. I. H. Me!e,'
the poisoner amounting TO sl2.'49 81 was oo'S'' ,
Ex-Judge Frederick q, Gedney appeareu do go 49,.
for the company. and made out SO st'oHe 800
tho BOARD allowed the whole amount. EN-'"'se
Gednev called on x-Dlstrict-Attorhe! lie LAM
Nlcoll to certify 10 the correctness Oh 'iie e0'r
o,o,ros Mr. Njcoll said the company had uOne an
the work and collected all the evidence heoes'"'
to convict Meyer. who was known 10 nav 49,,
tho death OF seven different persons D! po"'o''"e'
for the purpose of defrauding the me c,
companies The agents of the Mutual i-'i'' W -
nev showed. we're for over three years ehsaseu ~
o.,,,, ,ogother the facts. which were secured III
I'll, dozen States Meyer. on his second u'ai' was
convicted before Recorder Smyth OF H"iue' =" Wv
second degree. and sentenced 10 ne mp "
Distrlct-A,torney Fellows Joined MI N'coi' III q"
visnc the payment EX-JuuSe peH"'s
ulated on his successful presentation Oh tne ni' "
urorca conpanv's claim to the Board Oh Es'iina'e'
The provisional estimate OF the Kesis'ei' VIM
had heen reduced to $4,000 for salaries etc. anu
60 Soo for preserving the records, was pai'an! -
,od IN the final budget, Register-eect Sohiiei
,iu have sl15e0 for the maintenance OF MS olIiJe
and ga zee for preserving the records iotn hjrn
dent Parker and Controller Fitch spohe III me-"
terms of the incoming Register. ,.., ~ o,,,,on ia
CorDOration Counsel Scott submitted al ot'l III
,he eject that under enactment OF the ieglSa ~
nre Of 1895 the city must make an ~
buy text books for the public schoois , 60
atfocts NJ alcoholic stinlulants on the human -
,en, The Board of Education, he sad, co1.u, uuIi
,bn lou order the books and the DooKssi cooiu
comneI The CITY TO pay for them Inc po9kr dc0oiu IN,
in 90 tbe estimate of Superintendent Jasper, VIII
cost S55 0O The Board of Estimate were Oh .iic I'm
ION Yesterday that this sum was eNcessine, an W.
MIR Jasper will be asked to reduce MS es'ii'"' ~
5000 Accounts uere allowed
te5 0o which is double this years Appropriation vi
S32 500 They wanted $1,000 49,, Chor,ec,s
Cornoratjon Counsel Scott said when inc one.ih
annljcat was under considerations tnae he ine.oi
~ serving Jury notices by the Sherins men was
defective He said that they swore 10 the p,rso;:di
psr,,Ica of notices but when 1t came TO coHectihg
fines from those who failed to RESPOND II was oi'c,
discovered that the notices had not been setveu a.
ali sheriff Hansen asked for $500 TO repair Lug. Ih
low Street Jail. and his request was sruIsea' ne
total appropriation for the Sherin ohce was
An CONFORMATION Of AGO allowed 10 Major
Plimlev the Commissioner OF Jurors FOR MS cePaIt
ment and the Polytechnic Schooi was aoWeu sio'ooV'
an increase of $4,000 over 1870 49,, ,,,. ,,oro
The Coroners office next In order put Colo1
ner Hoeber did not appear. Mr.. Fitch wanted 10 senu
a policeman after him, but the matter was HAL!
laid over until to-day