New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-25
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

The United States authorities have settled theft
u,,Io account with the Charities Commissioners for
the board OF Federal prisoners. The check was for
$1,000.
J,n,as O'Keefe a plumber charged yesterday
before Justice Steers in the Grand Street Police
Court with failing to provide for his VIE. Mary.
and their three children. who live at No 40 St.
Marks Place. He held in 800 bonds to pay his
wife S. week. and came near peihs sent u jail lux
saying he would rot In jail first
Navor Wurster. ex-Commissoner Alfred T. White
and CORPORATION Counsel Burr had talk yesterday
over the proposition renew the contract with the
Flatbush Water Company. Mr.. White was present
on the invitation of the Mayor. who desired certain
information from him. Legal complications nave
arisen on which Corporation Counsel Burr will pass
before the Mayor takes final action. He has re-
ceived petition from a number OF property owners
asking for a renewal OF the contract
The Brooklyn Barnard Club incorporated at
Albany Yesterday. II is to promote social and 1T
erary intercourse and maintain a library. reading
room and gallery of arts in its own clubhouse. The
directors Of the new organization are Blanche
Wilder Belamy Helen NJ Ford. Margaret D.
Dreier Florence NJ. Demell, Alice B. Munro, Eliza
beth b. Estes and Caroline McPhai Bergen, all OF
this city
The Nassau Electric Railroad has secured permits
to build its extensions in Church Lane Eighty
St. Flfth-ave.. Fourteenthave. and Bath-ave. COM
missioner of City Works Wills has received an ap-
p.icaton for permit to build the extension OF the
Park-ave by the Atlantic-ave. road winch the
Nassau will control after April T.
Mrs Annie OBrien, seventy-two years DID, OF NO.
GIG Myrtle-ave.. died suddenly on Monday night Ia
a drugstore a few yards from her home. She hao
a small grocery and tobacco store and had left her
home TO go 10 a nearby cigar store for tobacco.
when she fen I'll and was taken to the drugstore
She died there before the arrival OF DOCTOR
! BERNARD T. Dooey a resident Of the Eastern Dis
! trct died on Monday afternoon at his nome. NO.
374 South Fourth-st He was thirty-seven years ou'
! For a long time he collector OF Leonard COUNCIL
the largest Catholic benevolent legion In the CITY,
! Mr. and Mrs Frank Patten celebrated the tenth
! anniversary of their wedding on Monday night ct
! their home No l43 North Sixth-st The ceremonies
were very pretty and a large company OF guests
we're present Among the guests Edward Cur
lev Joseph Standish and Thomas j. Dorion. OF New.
York city: Mr. and Mrs James Borradell. Mr. and
Mrs John Whitacre. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Abrams.
the Rev. w. c. Wilson. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
! Gleasing Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Moore. S. NJ. Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin, Mrs. Leveder. Mrs William
| Schaefer, the Misses Maggie and Gussie schaefer.
Conrad Schaefer the Misses Lizzie and Mary Hasks.
| Frank W. and Howard +. Patten. Mr.. and MT.
| Leonard r. Prosser. John Crawford. Miss Kate
| Crawford, Mr.. and Mrs. Collins Mrs. Russell. Miss
| Mamie Russell Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wilson. NJ
| and Mrs. Charles T.. Williams
| Justice Kellogg and jury heard testimony
yesterday in the suit OF Annie Readyhough against
| the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company to recover
$25 900 damages for alleged personal injuries. The
plaintiff asserts that account Of the defective
stairway Of the road at Crescent-st she was thrown
| to the ground and Of her kneecaps was broken.
The defence Is that the accident was her own fault