New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-29
G1THERED ABOUT THE TOWN.

WHAT "a GOING on TO-DAY IN BROOKLfN
Meeting OF colored Republicans at Fleet street
Zion Church. evening
Charles f. Underhlll in Shakespearian readings AZ
Rushu-ck Avenue Congregational Church evening"
Concert. Yale Glee and Banjo Cub for me nene
n, OF the Brooklyn Industrial Schooi AsS'0'"''o'''
Academy OF Music. evening
organ concert German Evangelical Church.
Schermerhorn-st.. near Court-st. evening
"Our strategstS" Gilbert pran"a'o No''''
AthenPum, evening.
p,rs, annual dinner Of Bushwick Wheemen
choral concert by the Aroh Singing society as
sisted by Mile Flavie Van Den hen ni' ,opS and
carl Naeser. tenor. Association ihi' "o"' anu
Fulton sits. at 1880 ana y. III
Tho Cermania Real Estate and Improvement Com
many will give twelve prizes for the best kept
and surroundings OF homes OF the residents OF
yanderveer Park The prizes viii he 1lo. u ana -
respectively and nine otner prizes Consisting Vi '"o
patent tree guards each. Judges have been APP
no,n,ed and will announce awards on July T.
John Hicks q well-known negro character OF Fort
Hamilton was removed to Flatbush Hospital yester-
dav from a shanty which he had occupied for
long time Hicks Is almost helpless from rheu-
matsm and has been depending upon the charity OF
friends for some time. He Is nnety-seVep years oih
md IN his prime was Hercules In strength. lie
has been In Brooklyn for the last twenty-five years
one of the peculiar things about the old man Is that
he has never ridden In trollcy-car. and has been
I'm horse-cars only three times In his NE
Miss NJ T. Robinson. a wel-known local painter
started for Holland yesterday with n party OF art
students, which she will chaperon during the trip
The party will first go Paris and Journey by easy
stages TO Holland.
The Rev DR.. George p. Mains. tho Rev. Dr. Will
lam d. Kelly. the Rev. DR.. james 8. Chadwick.
pastor OF the Sumner Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church. and the Rev Dr. Charles y. Wing, together
with John French. Methodist lay delegate, VIII
leave Ncw-York to-day for Cleveland TO attend the
Methodist conference there They were appointed
at the New-York East Conference which held Its
session in New-Haven early this month. The Cen
eraI Conference will hold Its first session for
ization on Friday morning.
In the Supreme Court yesterday verdict in $500
was rendered for the plaintiff In the suit OF Frank
s. Szer, as administrator Of Josephine Sizer
against the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban
Railroad Company for damages for the death OF
the girl The testimony showed that she was
knocked down by a sumner-ave. car at Broadway
and Heyward-st. and dragged for fifteen feet. The
accident occurred on January p. 1895. and she died
ten days later
Henry Sullivan, twenty-five years old. OF No. III
Eagle-st., who employed In the Chelsea Jute
Mills at Manhattan-ave and Newtown Creek. was
almost instantly killed few minutes before b
o'clock last night. by being struck by rope belt
In the cellar OF the building and hurled against the
brick wall
Otto Hueseckel. sixty-one years old. painter.
was thrown from his wagon Monday by running
into a heavy truck. and received probably fatai
INJURIES. He was removed to his home. No. l1s
Freeman-st
sTbe Progressive Education Club held a social
meeting last night at the home Of o. O. Walbridge.
No 8, Ninth-ave. The subject for discussion was
"Chiidren's Rights" The meeting was addressed by
the Rev. DR.. Charles Cuthbert Hall. Miss Alice T.
Fits and Mrs. Lillian W. Belts.