New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-04
NETWORK CITY.

The Grand Jury yesterday dismissed 'he Coin-
plant against Mrs. Eliza Landau. OF No ~ East
Forty-frst-st., the midwife who was charged WIN
causing the death OF Gussie Rosenkranz by
criminal operation. The necessary witnesses are
all in New-Jersey and could not be Induced TO
como to New-York. The girl died at the homo OF
her uncle. Just outside OF Hoboken
Abraham Plonsky. ofsNo. $50 Vernon-avc' BROOK
Iyn. who was arrested on February 10, charged
with attempted arson in his shoe store, No. 2S
Bowery. was yesterday discharged by Magistrate
Crane in the Centre Street Court.
Mayor Strong. Controller Fitch and Corporation
Counsel Scott expect to go to Washington on March
as 70 appear before the House War Claims Com
mittee in relation to the 100000 debt which the
Government has owed the city since 1861 for money
advanced for equipping and maintaining troops
delegation OF North Side citizens called on the
Mayor yesterday and invited him TO attend the
dinner OF the Taxpayers Alliance at PROTECTION
Hall on the date mentioned for tho hearing Inc
Mayor pleaded the previous engagement with the
Congress committee.
Professor T. c. Mendenhar formerly OF the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. will de-
liver a lecture on THE Alaska Boundary Cues
ton" before the American Geographical Society
next Monday at $50 p. m. IN Chickerihg nan
There will be stereopticon illustrations
The trustees OF the Harlem Law Library have
adopted a resolution protesting against rule NO "
OF the Appellate Division OF the Supreme Court.
which, the trustees say discrim!nates against the
citation and the OF any other than the So
called official reports The trustees add that they
heartily approve Assembly bill No. 147, now pend
ing in the Legislature. prohibiting the making or
enforcement OF any such rule.
William II. Cline, OF No. I46 East One-hundred-
andtwenty- ninth-st, the former transfer agent OF
| the Third Avenue Gable Company. tried and
convicted In Part III. General Sessions, yesterday
before Judge Cowng OF selling transfer tickets Of
| the company and keeping the money. He sem
| fenced to two months in the penitentiary. John
| Beaver, treasurer OF the company. who was the
| complainant asked 10 have sentence suspended.
| but the Judge refused.
Notices Of appeal were filed in the County Clerk 9
| Office yesterday morning from conviction OF muir
der in the first degree by the counsel for Charles
| Pustalka and Louis p. Hermann. who were re-
Gently sentenced to death by Justice Keogh. in the
| Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court
| Nine seegredr T.. Magnissen will lecture In cos
| tune on women Of Iceland" before the New-York
| City Woman Suffrage League. No. 4 Lexington
ave. tomorrow at p. m.
| The Metropolitan Museum OF Art is open free TO
| the public from 10 a. m. to sunset Tuesdays.
| Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; on Sunday
! afternoons from l o'clock TO sunset and on the
| evenings OF Mondays and Fridays. On Mondays
and Fridays from 10 o'clock until sunset copyists.
! art students and members Of the Museum only are
admitted free; others have to pay an entrance fee
| OF Is cents these two days
The Museum OF Natural History is open week
| days from to o'clock. On Tuesday and Saturday
| evenings from to 10 o'clock the public is admitted
| free On Sundays II Is open from TO o'clock.
Admission Is charged on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The Commissioner OF Public Works yesterday
| sent to the Corporation Counsel a list OF twenty
railroad companies which. he alleges. have violated
the law. and against which suit will be brought 10
reimburse the city in the sum Of s649 In the
various railroad franchises issued there is a clause
| requiring the surface companies TO pave the street
| in the space between the tracks and for two feet
| on either side OF the tracks. The companies have
uniformly neglected to comply with this provision.
| The officers OF the Chapman Wrecking Company
declare that the credit for getting the ship J. r.
Walker off tne rocks near Bedlows Island is due
to them. and not. as alleged in quarters to
| the tug Dalzell. which. they declare. was never
| employed upon the job at all.
| At the Emmett celebration at the Grand Central
| Palace tonight W. Bourke Cochran will deliver
| an address 1t is said that Mr. Corcorans speech
| will enunciate programme OF national policy. on
which II Is hoped that all sections OF Nationalist
throughout The world can unite.
| Charles Smith. a retired business man. living at
No East Forty-slxth-st.. died suddenly yesterday
at his home from heart disease. He had been
| as,een and awoke complaining Of dizziness Dr.
| Irving Townsend OF No. Is West Forty-slxth-st
was summoned but Mr. Smith was dead when the
! musician reached the house. Mr. Smith the
| proprletor OF the Turkish bath at No. East
Forty-s.xth-st
Leopold Zimmerman. OF zimmerman & For
shay said yesterday that the premium on gold had
| practically disappeared. brokers' commission
might have TO be paid for gold required to pay for
| bonds but this was In sense a premium.
| REPRESENTATIVES OF Arnold. Constable & Co., Lord
A. Taylor and several other large drygoods houses
| called upon the Mayor yesterday. and had an IN
| formal talk with him regarding auctioneers who
| engineer fake" sales OF drysoods which they ad-
vertise az coming from the large drygoods firms
throughout the city. The Auctoneers' bill now be-
fore the LeRSlaturo was Also informally discussed.