New-York tribune., 1896-05-08
NEW-YORK CITY.


Secretary Hedges sent letter TO the Police Com
missioners yesterday. informing them that Mayor
Strong would have a public hearing on Friday al
noon on the bill amending the acts Of isse and 1851
relating to the Police Department pension FUND.
Colonel warng. Commissioner OF Street Cleaning.
has started for Galveston. Tex. TO be gone week
ten days.
In Part II OF the Supreme Court yesterday Jus
tice Truax dismissed the habeas corpus proceeding
in the case o. Mrs. Mary f. Garoy. OF Syracuse.
who eloped with Carl Becker. and Is alleged TO have
taken $3.50 OF her husbands money. she then
placed In the custody OF the Sheriff OF Onon1aga
County, who was In court with warrant for her
arrest The Sheriff took Mrs. Gaffey to Syracuse
yesterday afternoon
The boy who attempted suicide IN Central Park
Wednesday by taking carbolic ac.d had recovered
sufficiently last night 10 describe himself as Tony
Donfro nineteen years old. OF No. sl6 East Forty
Nfth-st He said he is a barber. His brother and
sister visited him In the hospital and said tina;
they knew reason for his attempt on his HE.
mass-meetng 10 promote better housing FOR
working people will be held In Cooper Union Hall
tonight when Professor f. II. l.. Goulds plan will
be expla ned Carroll d. Wright United states
Commissioner OF Labor. will preside. and Bishop
Henry G. Potter. the Rev. DIR. William S. Rams
ford the Rev. Father A. p. Doyle. Professor Felix
Adler. Seth Low. X. Fulton Cutting and Jacob A.
Riis will speak.
The semi-annual "at home" OF the officers ana
settlement workers OF the Associate Alumnae OF
the Normal College will be held at the alumnar
house. No. 4i6 East Seventy -second-st., to-day
from TO 6. The following doctors and masters
of pedagogy will pour DR.. Emily l. Conant
DR. Jennie b. Merrill. DR.. Hannah De MIlt, Miss
Bruckman Miss Kornman. Mss Lang and Miss
Elliott
A meeting OF the local assembly OF the Daughters
OF the King will be held in the Church OF the Holy
Sepulchre the Rev. DR.. Thomas y. Hughes rector
East Seventy -fourth-st. and Park-ave, tomorrow
at p m. The following clergymen will deliver
addresses on the occasion: The Rev Dr T.. a.
Bradley vicar of St. Agness Chapel the Rev. H.
c. SwentzeI rector Of 81. Lukes. Brooklyn: the
Rev DR.. J. y. Peters. rector OF St M'chaels: the
Rev A. b. Knsolving rector OF Christ Church
BROOKLYN and the Rev II. NJ. Barbour. rector OF
the Church OF the Beloved Disciple
The next monthly meeting OF the Ohio Society OF
New-York will be held in the societys rooms. at
No 236 Fifth-ave. Monday evening. Charles H.
Niehaus, Charles l.. Boyle and II. l.. Earle have
been proposed for membership In the society.
Representatives OF the American Institute OF
Civics will NEE, at the ST. Denis, Broadway and
Eleventh-st.. on the evening OF Tuesday. May H.
TO commemorate the centenary OF the year In which
Washington issued his farewell address to the
American people.
There will be a special meeting OF the John A.
Logan Club No. 325 East Tenth-st. this evening
to make arrangements for a house-warming next
week.
The sixty-ffth anniversary OF the organization OF
ST. Peters Church. at No. I4O West Twentieth-st..
will be celebrated by special services In the church
at II a. m. and 73o p. m. on Sunday.
Another conference between the employing print
and the committee Of the employees held
in the rooms OF the Typothete. in the Downing
Building, yesterday, and 1t was agreed to ask
Seth Low. president OF Columbia College. to act
arbitrator in the differences which now exist
between the employers and employees.
| The annual meeting OF the Maritime Canal Com
| pany OF Nicaragua was held yesterday. The only
change in the Board OF Directors the election
| OF A. G. Menocal In place orr. c. Shannon The
old general officers. including Hiram Hitchcock as
| president, were reelected
The stone-cutters. marble workers and helpers
| employed on the new buildings OF Columbia Uni
| vers.ty. in MornngsIde-ave, went on strike yes
! terday. All work the buildings was suspended
! by the strike which a sympathetic one, to
| compel Norcross & Co. to employ union derrick
| men.
| Private advces received In this city yesterday
state that the Belgian steamer Leibnltz Captain
Graham. from New-York for Pernambuco. etc, is
, ashore near Itamarata. between Pernambuco and
| Parahyba. Assistance has been sent 10 her
| The Department OF Public Works is to Law two
additional water mains In Fifth-ave. from the
| Central Park reservoir to Washington Square and
! 100000 BY special act Of the Legislature the
| Board of Estimate is authorized to Issue bonds
amounting to 100000 for increased water service
In the city. The new mains will do away with the
usefulness Of the Forty-second-st reservoir.
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