New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-30
NETWORK CITY.

death Of Kate Ryan Blackwels Island. at The
age OF 100 years She died from consumption In
the Almshouse.
At the yearly election of the Union Croquet Club
Of Central Park. held Saturday, the following
officers were chosen: j. O, Fowler. president; L. W.
Fullam vice president; James Taylor, treasurer
and T.. 1avendo secretary.
Charles wsner. of No. IS West Twelfth-st.. was
Yesterday appointed school inspector Of the Ninth
District by Mayor Stroag.
William Henry Phelps. Of Colonel Dudley !.
Phelps Deputy Collector in charge Of the Law d.
vision of the Custom House. who was graduated
this year from Harvard. will sail to-day by the
Grenada for Venezuela on an ornlthoIosical eX-
petition The young man was formerly president OF
the Harvard Natural History Society. which was
founded by Agassiz.
Kitty Wells the Chicago badger thief, VINO mas
q trick of taking diamond studs from the shirt
fronts of her victims with her teeth, and who was
arrested in this city week ago as fugitive from
justice in Illinois, was remanded TO the CUSTODY
of a Chicago detective by Magistrate Deuel. IN the
Centre Street Police Court yesterday morning ana
will be sent back to Chicago.
sixty-eght sheep OF the Central Park herds were
sold at auction yesterday afternoon for S53, an
average price Of s. 90 each. The sale was oc-
casoned by tho desire get better lot of sheep,
the Park Board being anxious 20 get as many
short horned Dorscts as possible
Justice Andrews. In the Supreme Court. yester-
day handed down his decision in tho case OF Daniel
Noble the well-known thief. His decision Is prac-
tically that Noble must go back TO Auburn PRISON
and serve out his unexpired term OF three years
and three months. The Justice denies that tho
law under which the prisoner was rearrested is an
OK post facto one and he remands Noble back 10
the custody Of Captain OBrien
The young woman who committed suicide in Cen
p,r
acid was yesterday found to have been Carrie
simon OF No 1873 Thrd-ave. The girls lover
Charles Singer, pawnbrokers clerk identihed
her body He said they had had jealous quarrel
and had parted just before Miss Simon Killed her
self.
Edward Loony. the former employe OF The west
colt Express Company In this city, VINO gave MIN
self up 10 the police Of Chicago on Monday, Will
be brought here for trial. The manager of the
company said yesterday that Loony did not steal
5000 as stated in the Chicago dispatch. but w.
He is about twenty years old, and had been In the
employ of the company for about year lie was
a helper on one OF the wagons which delivered
C. O. D. packages He got the package containing
the money on April to deliver 10 one OF the GUS
toners but he failed TO do and left the city
He wandered about the country and finally drifted
TO Chicago. Being then out Of money and unable
10 obtain work he gave himself up 10 the police.
Henry Katt the saloonkceper. Of No. g. Broome-
ST. who while trying to stop an invasion Of rowdes
into his saloon on Monday shot one OF them, was
held to await the action Of the Coroner by Magis-
tratc Brann In the Essex Market Court yesterday.
Katt said that he shot merely in self-defence.
George H. Newsom. chief clerk in the distribu-
ton department of Postofiice Station H. is to be
appointed superintendent of Station J. in place Of
Robert I4ooney. who recently removed on ac-
count of the alleged lax business methods that re-
suited in a small deficiency. The appointment will
probably go into effect July !. Mr.. Newsom has
been in the Postofiice service about twenty-five
years He entered IT as a carrier. and has held
his present place since December. 1893.
Examinations for admission 10 Harvard began
Yesterday at the Twenty-third Street Branch Of
the Young Mems Christian Association. The sub
jects were advanced German. advanced chemistry
and advanced algebra, analytic geometry, advanced
physics and English. DIR. Benjamin Rand. Of the
philosophical department. in charge, ana
twenty young men were present for examination.
An examination for admission to Radcliffe, the
Harvard for women, was In progress in an adjoin-
ing room. There were eight candidates. The ex-
amna tons will be continued tomorrow and Satur-
day.
The hearing in the brought against the
Plymouth Social Club by the State Board OF Excise
TO revoke its charter continued yesterday be-
fore the referee, Edward +. OBrlen, in the St.
Paul Building. number Of policemen testified to
the bad character OF the women who frequent the
place and the hearing adjourned until to-
morrow al p. m.
An excursion TO Lake Mahopac is to be given by
the Young Mems Christian Association Of the City
OF New-York on Monday, July g. A special train
will leave the Grand Central Station at $40 a. m;
returning the train will leave Lake Mahopac at
p m
The forty-one sick immigrants who have been
in Bellevue Hospital since the Ellis Island fire
Yesterday transferred 10 the Long Island College
Hospital IN Brooklyn.
AT a meeting Of the Washington Heights Pro-
gressve Association. held at No. 2,l75 Amsterdam
ave yesterday resolutions adopted calling
upon the Mayor and Board of Aldermen in prepar-
ing new franchise for a railroad along the Kings
bridge Road to the city limits to provide that the
road connect with such routes will enable the
people Of Washington Heights to travel continu-
ously along the West Side TO the lower part Of the
city for one fare.
A statement was published in a contemporary
Yesterday TO effect that the City Directory for
the present year, which will be shortly published.
will omit the names of nearly hundred thousand
residents which have heretofore been printed.
those of laborers, Cinnamon, the poorer classes Of
Italians and such persons. Al the Offices of the
Directory Publishing Company, however, this was
denied yesterday. To Tribune reporter the man
ager said: The City Directory will continue 10 be
published with the same completeness In past
years, and will include the names Of all residents
in the city Of New-York."
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