New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-26
The News in Brief

The state will conduct final inquiry into
the sanity Of Dr.. Arthur Warren Waite be-
fore il sends him 70 his death for the murder
OF his father-in-a~. John r. Peek.
Ernest II. Shacketon, explorer or the An
tarctic. will arrive here tomorrow on h.s
way from New Zealand 10 the front. The
Half Moon Club viii give a dinner IN his
honor.
The city has forbidden the American Bank
Note Company to erect thirty-hVe-story
etyscraper on It's property from IS 20 80
Trinity Place. The company has claimed
that Trinity Cemetery, on which the building
was so have faced. was a public place. The
City Board Of Appeals decided that il ~aS
not.
David Qualla. OF Newark. y j.. sold his
house for g. $40. put the money IN satchcl
and started of for the bank. When he
aighted from streetcar be left the bag be-
hind him. Symptoms Of heart disease APP
reared in Quala and remained until William
Lynch. conductor Of the car, turned in the
satchel at the Offices Of the Public Service
Corporation.
While PLAYING in front Of his home. l1i2
Lexington Avenue. Nathan Isaacs, ten years
old. backed into an auto truck. fell beneath II
and was killed.
While two aeroplanes circled over Bellevue
Hospital
by the doctors and NURSES was raised over
the buildings. A salute was fired from
yacht IN the East River
New York University has started war
time course in bookkeeping and accounting
to train substitutes for the clerks who VIII
be called TO the colors.
The fire wouldn't light. 30 Mrs. Martin
Ryan. Of $50 North Avenue. jersey CITY.
poured kerosene upon it. She died later IN
the City Hospital from burns
The $1,000 men and women Of the Cloak
Makers Union Of New York. are holding
tag day to-day for the benefit Of the Ameri-
can Jewish Relief Committee. The commit
tee is raising a Sl0.00UoOo fund for the re-
nef OF Hebrew war sufferers.
Mrs. Annie The. Of 9i2 summit Avenue.
Jersey City. committed suicide IA the bath
room Of her home by nhaling gas.
The Bellevue Hospital Social Service has
appealed to New Workers for gifts Of castof
clothing Those who have garments that
men. women or children may wear should
send a postal 10 Miss Mary Wadley Of the
bureau. wagon will call
Because of the war. the National Electric
Light Association will hold no exhibition and
convention in Atlantic City this year In
stead IN executive session viii be held m
New York City from May to 10.
fve-.op automobile truck broke through
fb, wooden covering of the new subway on
Lexington Avenue and dropped three feet to
the roof Of the tunnel. Traffic wa tied ip
for an hour.
Six persons were slightly injured when
northbound Columbus Avenue car colided
with a motor truck at Eighueth Street. Inc
truck was thrown against an elevated pillar.
Patrick Mckinney. private in the Nth
Coast Defence Command. was held IN Sl,UVl
bail in Harlem Court, where he was 6harten
with breaking into the locker Of Rudolph
Retheimer at the srmory while me regiment
was Oh parade April -.
Joseph Castellano, purchasing agent m me
United States for the Spanish government
who took bichloride tablets as sedatlve lu
the Hotel AibemArle. Sunday night. was d's-
charged when arraigned IN the West S,qe
Court. charged with attempted suicide ne
explained that he suffered with insomnia ana
took the tablets by mistake
David Jayne. eighty years old. Of New VII
lsge y. J.. is dead there from diphthera
lie contracted the disease shortly after
visit 10 a home in Free Union. where the
children were III with tonsillitr.
with the hope Of boosting attendance AZ the
Frankford Plains, y. J., Methodist Chnreh'
tho officials have established sunday llthey
srryice between Papakating and the edihce.
The Montclair Board Of Education has
changed the hours in the Monteiair hisn
Sebool from Ave hours work each day. win
eigb,e,n minutes for lunch. 20 seven hours
vork with an hour OF at midday. Nor.
lime will he given 20 manual training ana
gymnasium WORK
Hanad Ala. a leper. who ceaped rseenuy
from the Newark. n. j., City Hospital = az
large The man "a n Syrian. and came ION
Springfield last winter. Shorty AIteh "p'
rosy appeared