New-York tribune., 1896-11-29
HONE NEWS.
NEW-YORK CITY.


The annual German Charity Ball will take place
on February T. 1897. at the Metropolitan opera
House The officers for the coming year ar" as
follows: Oswald Ottcndorfer. president; Charles
Rrandt ir chairman: Robert G. Kammerer, cor
responding secretary: Louis f. Neumann. jr.. re-
cording secretary. Hubert Cils. treasurer
The Ncw-York Historical Society Will hnve It's
next stated meeting in the library. at Second-ave
and Elcvcnth-st Tuesday AT $50 p. m. when
cx-Iudgc Charles T. DAILY will read paper on the
arbitrary .ffort Of Lcutenant-Govcrnor Golden In
1894 TO deprive tho coonIsts OF Ncw-iork OF tho
rights secured TO them OF trial by Jury
There will be a reception in the American Mu-
scurn OF Natural History tomorrow. from 10
y m on the occasion OF opening the new halls
Of cfhnology and vertebrate palacontology. Ad-
mission Will be by invitation
The fourth annual meeting OF the Franco Amer
lean Committee OF Eyangezation Will be held at
. r. III. tomorrow In the parlors OF the Marble
Collegiate church. Mt Fifih-aye and Twenty
y, Addresses will Ice made by the Rev Dr. John
Hall Charles Jung the delegate OF the Paris COM
mittcc and others.
There will he special meeting Of the Repuhli-
can club Al 40 ~ Fifih-aVe. morrow evening.
when tho report OF the Committee on the Greater
N.w-York Charter Will bc considered
Lewis 3 Holmes negro. who on October 10
shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide
tcrlay committed to the Tombs without bail by
Coroner Hocbcr Holmes had been IN tho prison
ward at Bellevue since the shooting.
New-York Lodge No !. - 7. O. Elks. will hold
a.. annual lodge of sorrow Sundny December 6.
a, Hoyis Madison Square Theatre. long musi-
cal PROGRAMME has been arranged
Tn. American Numlsmatic and Archaeological
Society will havc n meeting In the Academy OF
Medicine Building in West Forty-third-st on the
evening Of Thursday. December O. when Walter
Tonncls will read paper on the modern re,as-
sance OF tn" mcdallic art
The annual dinner of tho Douelnston Yacht Club
viii b. held a, the Arena. No. Il West Thirty
nrst-st on Tuesday evening and before the din
ncr there will hc held the annual meeting for the
election Of officers and the adoption OF policy for
the ensuing year
Tho monthly meeting of tho Chamber 'of Com
rnerce will De held Thursday next nj 1890 p. IN
AZ the rooms OF the Chamber In Nassau-st.. be-
tween Cedar and Liberty SITS
Charles Wisncr Of No Is West Twelfth-st.. was
Yesterday appointed by Mayor Strong n school In
spcctor In the Ninth District. In place OF Mrs. NJ.
| q Van Rensselaer,. resigned.
| Mayor strong yesterday returned TO the Board
| Of Aldermen without his approval sixty-hvc per-
| mts for ncwsicalors to erect stands beneath ce-
| waited stations The Board acted on the permits
| on November 10 and they became operative on
| Tuesday last as the Mayor postponed returning
| them until the expiration OF the lawful period
| a benefit performance OF the German Poliklnk
| IS 20 be held al the Metropolitan Opera House on
| the evening OF Thursday. December r. Augustn
Daily has undertaken the management. with the
| cooperation Of other theatre managers.
J. H. Fusscli secretary to r. T. IIargrove, presi-
| dent of the Theosophcal Society will deliver n
course Of four free lectures Theosophy on Mon
dav evenings in the small hail. Room No o.
Cooper Union as follows: November 80. "Theoso-
| ply and Rrotherhood": December 7. Successive
! Lives Earth: December H. Adopts and Ma
hatmas': December 81. THE Future Of America "
These lectures are part Of the Theosophical Home
Crusade" and In accordance with concerted
| plan being pursued locally by Theosophists all
| over the world at,thc present time In support OF
| the travelling crusade headed by Mrs Tingley
| and Mr.. IIargrovc, who. with their band now
| IN India.
tomorrow at $50 p. m. is likely to attract lovers
OF Robert Burns. this will be the subject OF Dr
Watson's dan Maclaren) lecture He considers
| this his finest lecture.
J. H. Fussell will lecture before the Aryan Theo-
sophicaI Society No IA Madison-avc.. this evening
| at SIS o'clock on THE Future Of America"
| Subscrbcr-t'ntil the official is com
| plctcd by every State. the actual number OF elec-
| toral votes for each ticket cannot be stated Sc
far It seems evident that with electoral vote
| from virrina) Mckinley will have 273 and Bryan
| IA
| The condition Of Dr William Fisher GrIcr who
was placed in the pavilion for the insane at Belle
| vue last week much improved yesterday. II,
| talked nationally. and the physicians said his re
| co,cry was only question of time.