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A RECORD OF EVENTS, 1898-April-Continued.

H. Pon was shot by John Petersen, dies of her wound in the Seney Hospital.-New York City's debt said to be $30,000,000 in excess of the limit.-Albert Carrington shot dead in his home on Lawrence street by one of his two boarders, Wm. Burns and Charles HI, and Mrs. Carrington also shot.

4. Frederick Mine, ex-inspector of Water Purveyor's Bureau, Brooklyn City Works Departmen:, indicted on charges of conspiracy, bribery, pleads guilty of misdemeanor.

5. Edward G. Ward elected Superintendent Public Schools for Brooklyn and Queens.

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6. Frederick Milne, inspector in former Brooklyn City Works Department, sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $500.

9. Recidence of Lawyer Max Klein, 950 St. Marks av., valued a: $30,000, gutted by fire.Fierce early morning fire in a lumber yard at McKibbin and Lorimer sts. destroys $10,000 worth of property.-Mayor Van Wyck stops public works involving bond issues.

10. Easter Sunday.

11. New York Board of Education grants an additional milion for Brooklyn schools; over $10,000,000 for the city.

12. Mrs. Catherine Miller of 376 Tompkins av., Brooklyn, burned to death by her clothes catching fire.

13. Comptroller Coler withholds contracts pending forthcoming statement of city's indebtedness.Jefferson's birthday celebrated by the Bedford Democratic Club.

14. Mayor Van Wyck vetoes the Grout bill providing that repaving in Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond shall be a charge on the city at large. Lombardo 15. Giovanni murdered by Luigi Mutarelli while being shaved by the latter in his barber shop at 313 Van Brunt st.-Police Capt. Kitzer resigns.-Frank B. Kellar and James Ford arrested on charge of stealing $15,000 worth of works of art from Goupil & Co.-Rev. Fred K. Bruce Russell, president of Law and Order Society, arrested in Bangor, Pa., on charge of libel.

16. Papers in the action of Baird and others, former commissioners of the new East River bridge, to oust their successors, served on all defendants.-Dinner to Richard Croker at the Man

hattan.

17. Torpedo boat destroyers Eagle and Hornet start from Brooklyn Navy Yard for Southern waters.-Reception to John Daly, the Irish political prisoner, by the Clan-na-Gael in the Park Theatre. 18 Torpedo boat destroyer Hawk starts from Brooklyn Navy Yard for the South.

19. William Hepburn, alias "Colonel Webster," arraigned and he.d on charge of bribing jurors.

20. Early morning fire destroys the Ravenswood art glass works in Long Island City; loss $10,000.Fredk, G. Isles testifies before the grand jury in the city works corruption cases.

21. Elwari Bender fatally shoots Richard Bennest and wounds Policeman Danie! Driscoll and Henry Dager.

22. Explosion at Bostwick, Harrison & Co.'s chemical works on Marion st., Brooklyn; two boys injured and much property destroyed.

23. Richard Croker sails for Europe.-Chauncey M. Depew in his speech at the Montauk in celebration of his birthday praises the firmness of Cieveland and McKinley.-Alleged smuggled jewelry seized on board steamer Aquileja from Palermo.

24. Alleged Spanish spy arrested at Fort Hamilton. A burglar ransacks fifteen offices in the Mechanics' Bank building, Brooklyn.

25. Mr. J. S. T. Stranahan's 90th birthday.

27. The long protracted suit of Father Francis Dent against Archbishop Corrigan is dismissed by Justice Keogh in Supreme Court, with consent of the litants.

28. Comptroller Coler transmits to Mayor Van Wyck his long expected report showing that the city is $50,193,246 in excess of the debt limit.

29. Seventy-first Regiment, N. G., S. N. Y., the first to march to the camp at Hempstead on call for troops.-Regular Army commences recruiting. -Brooklyn Mannerchor dissolved after an existence of 22 years.

30. John Y. McKane discharged from Sing Sing prison, after serving four years and two months.Frederick Dent Grant receives his commission as colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment.-The wrestling match between Roeber and Yousoff, the "Terrible

Turk," at the Metropolitan Opera House, breaks up in a disgraceful free fight.

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May.

3. Disgraceful conduct of certain militia men at Camp Black, Hempstead, who got drunk, robbed hen roosts and insulted women.

4. Charter day.-Senior Brigadier-General James McLeer ignored by Adjutant-General Tiling hast in recommending brigadiers for command of New York troops.-Jubilee of Archbishop Corrigan. 5. Wheat at $1.50 in New York.-Lillian Russel obtains decree of divorce from her third husband. 6. Arbor day.-Colonel Wm. L. Watson and the non volunteering members of the Thirteenth Regiment ordered home from Camp Black.-Wheat reaches $1.75.-Philip Berliner, the wealthy Washington avenue dry goods merchant, commits suicide.-Commissioners of Accounts report a waste of $536,566 in reindexing records, etc., in Register's and County Clerk's offices of Brooklyn.

7. Burglars visit five houses on Bedford av. early in the morning and rob three of them; Dr. Darlington's escapes.

8. Rev. Dr. Sylvester Malone celebrates his 77th brithday.-Gov. Black promulgates order disbanding the Thirteenth Regiment, N. G., S. N. Y., and excites much indignation throughout Brooklyn. 9. Wheat sells in New York at $1.90 -Newsboys boycott the Morning Journa..-Chas H. Havemeyer shoots himself.-$200,000 voted toward continuing the work on the new East River Bridge. 12. John Smith, prisoner, drowned in attempt to escape from Randa's Island.-Charles F. Sutton murderously assaulted early in the morning at the door of his snop, 752 Gates av., by two men.-Cash payments account of city contracts resumed.

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Five story building in course of construction at 20 and 22 East 116th st., Manhattan, colkilling lapses, twenty-three persons -Supreme Council of the Catholic Benevolent Legion in eession at 44 Court st., Brooklyn, pledge their loyalty to the U. S. Government.-Four companies of the old Fourteenth Regiment mustered into U. S. service at Camp Black, Hempstead

14. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Information Bureau designated an agency for the sale of the United States Government 3 per cent. bonds.Seventy-first Regiment, N. G., S. N. Y., leaves camp for Tampa, Fla.

15. Collapse of the pier at foot of South Third st. caused by the weight of 10,000 bags of sugar; loss estimated at over $40,000.

16. The Thirteenth Regiment mustered out at the armory on Sumner av.-Reception to Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Lyman Abbott in Plymouth Church lecture room.

17. Representatives of the Women's Clubs of Long Island meet at Garden City-Pillsbury ani Showalter sail for Europe to take part in the great International Chess contest at Vienna.Josiah J. White, who escaped from Raymond Street Jall, is rearrested by Sheriff Creamer at Stamford, Conn., and taken back.-Cataldo Laferado shot dead by his brother-in-law, Angelo Laferado, at 389 Bushwick av., Brooklyn.

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18. Deputy Commissioner Walton, for the city, takes possession of the armory on Sumrer vacated by the disbanded Thirteenth Regiment. 19. Ferryboat Dakota of Brooklyn and New York Ferry Co. collides with a railroad float in the East River; ferryboat damaged about $30,000. 20. Dr. Harlow D. Woodruff of 960 Gates av. arrested on complaint of his wife, charging him with abandonment.

21. Mayor Van Wyck removes Police Commissioners Phillips and Hamilton and Chief of Police McCullagh.-Mrs. Mary Frazer, in escaping a fire at 116 Duffield st., falls three stories and is killed.

23. Semi-centennial of St. Peter's P. E. Church on State st.-Hebrew Congregation Ahawith Achim, on Johnson av., celebrates its 25th anniversary.

24. Protestant Episcopal Diocesan convention at Garden City.

26. Robert W. Fielding, ex-Deputy City Works Commissioner, sentenced to two years and six months in Sing Sing and to pay a fine of $2,171 for fraud and bribery.-Reception to Minister Stewart L. Woodford at the Academy of Music.

27. Lowering skies prevent a general parade of the Brooklyn Sunday schools; exercises in the schools.

A RECORD OF EVENTS, 1893-Ma.,-Continued. 28. Handicap day at Gravesend race track.Religious services refused by Father Donohue over the remains of Peter Llaves of 167 Bridge st., a Catholic, because he belonged to the Order of Odd Fellows.

29. Burning out of the Municipal Electric Light Co.'s power house on Ainslie st, early in the evening leaves several Eastern District streets in darkness for the night.

30. Decoration day; thousands cheer the heroes of 1861, etc.

31. The speculators in compliance with order of Comptroller Coler vacates the Wallabout Market. Aldermen disobey the mandate of Supreme Court requiring them to recognize the election of Alderman Howard P. Okie.

June.

1. Grand parade of the consolidated police, over four thousand strong, in Manhattan.

3. Thirty-nine Spaniards, prisoners of war, arrive by the Clyde line steamer Seminole, at Pier No. 29, East River, being crew and passengers of the Spanish steamship Rita.

4. Horee Tahama killed in steeplechase at Gravesend.-Parade of the Brooklyn Whip Club.Small boat containing seven is capsized by a squall on Prospect Park Lake and George Guenther, a boy, is drowned.

5. Inwood, L. I., People's Church burned down, supposed by an incendiary.

6. Edward Eastment, ex-cashier of accountants' bureau, City Works Department, under fresh indictments, is required to furnish additional bond of $2,500.

7. Rights of trolley companies on the East River Bridge under existing contracts confirmed by the Court of Appeals.

8. Board of Estimate makes an appropriation of $7,000 for Brooklyn ambulance service.-Adelphi College confers its first degrees on six young women.

9. Grand parade of the Brooklyn Eastern District Sunday schoole, twenty thousand children in line.-Mayor Van Wyck makes a eavage and indiscriminating attack on Brooklyn.-Young People's Union of Brooklyn hold their 21st annual business and social cession at Greene Av. Baptist Church.

10. Barney Morris, a Prospect Park laborer, still healthy and active, celebrates his 106th birthday.

11. Children's day.-Elisha West, an aged and well known Brooklyn, E. D., resident, fatally injured by being run over on upper Fulton street by a horse and wagon.

12. Fifteenth annual festival of the Plattdeutsch Volksfest Vereen at Ridgewood Park.

13. Hon. Jacob Worth declares to an Eagle correspondent at Saratoga that he is out of politics.

for their new club house at Ewen and Meserole sts.-Fierce tropical simoon sweeps over Manhattan and Long Island from the West, tearing up trees and unroofing houses.

27. A $40,000 fire breaks out in the dry goods store of Joseph Moore, Third av. and Forty-third st., Brooklyn.-John O. Petersen, the murderer of Laura M. Faulkner, of 303 Schermerhoint, eentenced by County Judge Hurd to imprisonment for life.-Brooklyn Presbytery discusses methods of disposing of the Shepard bequest.

28. Crescent Athletic Club's annual rowing races at the Narrows.-Canarsie and Be gen Beach Ferry Co. serves injunction on the Bergen Beach Ferry Co., restraining the latter from landing at the new dock.

30. Three million war tax stamps sold in Brooklyn on this date.-Three hundred and ten employes of the East River Bridge discharged.

July.

1. Mayor Van Wyck's power of removal terminates.

3 Great nine days' festival of the National Sharpshooters' Association at Glendale Park com

mences.

4. Church of St. John the Evangelist at Centre Moriches dedicated by Bishop McDonnell.

5. Early morning fire at Brady's Hotel, Long Island City.

6. Long Island Water Supply Co. moves for an abandonment of the condemnation proceedings brought by the City of Brooklyn for acquiring their plant.

7. First New York Regiment starts for Manila on the longest journey ever made by troops under arms.-Corner-stone of eynagogue of Congre. gation B'nai Jacob laid.

8. The letter written by Judge Gaynor to Mayor Wurster on June 21, in relation to the failure to acquire the Long Island Water Supply at the commissioners' appraisal made public for the first time. -Commissioner Shea reduces his demand of 15 cents per car to 10 cents per car, bridge toll, for the elevated roads.-Mre. Martha Place found guilty of murder in the first degree, in the killing of her step daughter, Ida Place.

9. Brooklyn Eagle rowing trophy won by the Ravenswood Boat Club in the 13th annual regatta of the Long Island Association at North Beach. 10. Thanksgiving services in the churches for victories in our war with Spain.

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William Hayes of Newark, N. J., crowned king of the National Sharpshooters at the close of the 9 days' festival at Glendale.

12. Order issued from War Department for removal of mines from the harbors of the United States.-Weather Forecaster Dunn superseded by Eben H. Emery.

14. Flag day observed in all the schools, etc.-- 14. Appellate Division of Supreme Court affirms The last four companies of the Forty-seventh judgment for the plaintiff in the long standing Regiment leave Camp Black for Rhode Island.-suit of Walter R. Smith against the old City of Another workman, Michael McCue, killed at the Brooklyn for diverting water from his pond at new East River bridge by fall of a piece of cast-Freeport. ing from a derrick.

15. Large amount of spurious silver dollars, half dollars, quarter dollars and dimes received at the Treasury Department. Washington, from the Brooklyn trolley car lines of Brooklyn.-Sallie, the bear, breaks loose in Prospect Park and leads the policemen a long chase.

17. Antonio Tomberello, Italian, killed by the caving in of a vault at 21 Spring st., Manhattan.Huntington, L I., greets the advent of the trolley car with a celebration.

18. Police Capt. Dunn issues an order for the suppression of games of chance men and fakirs generally, on Coney Island.-Tillo wins the Suburban Handicap of 1898, at Gravesend.

20. The new seaside home for mothers and children opened at Coney Island.-Rear end collision on the Brooklyn Heights Bergen Beach road at night; five persons hurt.

21. Reception to O. S. Straus, minister to Constantinople, by the National Civic Club.

23. Monument of late Past Grand Regent Justin F. Price of the Roval Arcanum unvailed in Greenwood Cemetery.-Fire at 23 Wallabout market causes damage to the extent of $10,000 to property chiefly of Horstman & Bruno.-William Thorn. murderer of Guldensuppe, sentenced by court of appeals to die in August.

24. Corner stone laid of the new Caledonian Hall on Eighth av., near Fifty-fourth st., Manhattan. 25. Ground broken by the Deutsche Liederkranz

15. Secretary Alger orders torpedoes and mines to be removed from the rivers and harbors. 16. Tom Linton wins in bicycle race against Jimmy Michael, the Welsh wheelman. 17. New Rockaway Beach route by Brooklyn Elevated Railroad opens.

19. Preliminary test of the pneumatic mail tubes between Brooklyn and Manhattan.-Aldermen pass resolution authorizing the $23.000.000 bond issue by a vote of 47 against 9 Brooklyn reen.

20. Early morning fire in the Chelsea Jute Works on Manhattan av., Greenpoint, destroys $50,000 worth of property.-Only one prisoner untried in Raymond Street Jail at the close of the County Cour: til September.

21 Fire in the National Lead Company's Building on John st., Brooklyn, destroys $95.000 worth of property: heroic conduct of Fireman Farrell saves the Mves of several of the men.

23. Henry Kline, a Prospect Slope liquor dealer, fined $10 by Magistrate Lemon in the Butler street court for profane swearing under the new law.

23. Italian boy, Michael Decarto, kliei by trolley car on Borden st., near East av.-Ex-Fire Marshal Brymer on appeal wins his suit for reinstatement. -John Y. McKane sells the last of his Sheepshead Bay holdings.-Nine millions of dollars worth of gold carted from clearing house to the subtreasury of New York.-Hospital ship Relief arrives from Siboney with 500 sick and woundel

21. Carlinal James M. Gibbons of Baltimore

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Md., arrives in Brooklyn on visit to Mgr. James | compelled to get new clothing uniform with that
Duffy of St. Agnes Church.-Submarine mines ex-
ploded experimentally in Long Island Sound near
Willets Point by the Engineer Corps.

26. Mayor Van Wyck signs the resolution of the Municipal Assembly for the issue of bonds to the amount of $23,000,000 for city improvements.

23. Brooklyn Ferry Company files its certificate of incorporation.-Humidity reaches 100.-Eleven officers of the National Guard, mostly of Twentythird Regiment, forcel out by Adjutant General Tillinghost.

29. Funeral at St. Mark's Church, Second av., Manhattan, of Hamilton Fish, jr., sergeant of Rough Riders, who was killed in the battle of Santiago de Cuba.-George F. Allen, an ex-convict, repulsed by Mrs, Ida Lunger of 502 Gates av.. shoots her dead and then kills himself.-During a jam of trolley cars on the East River bridge about 6 P. M. one of the steel stays of the main truss of the bridge buckled with a loud sound, which produced consternation among the car passengers, who believed the structure was about to fall.

30. John L. Ryder, ex-supervisor of Flatlands, one of Kings County's most exemplary public men, dies. He had been continued in his office of supervisor by the votes of all parties for 30 consecutive years.

August.

1. Hempstead obtains injunction to cut off 50,000,000 gallons from Brooklyn's water supply in consequence of Mayor Van Wyck's refusal to pay the town for dredging out five sources of supply.— Martin Thorn, murderer of Wm. Guldensuppe, executed at Sing Sing.-Formal opening and official test of the pneumatic mail tubes of the New York Mail and Newspaper Transportation Company between Brooklyn and Manhattan.

2. Rockaway Beach's new police station (Seventy-ninth) opened.--Corner stone of Church of Good Shepherd on McDonough st. laid.

3. Forty Greek flower merchants have an early morning fight on Broadway, Manhattan.-Illicit still raided at 229 Wallabout, Brooklyn, in conjunction with a yeast factory at 318 Henry st., Manhattan.--Blockade on the East River bridge caused by a broken motor.

4. Old West End R. R. car shops on New Utrecht av. and Seventy-ninth st. burned down. Sharks shot off Bergen Beach.-The three daughters of Druggist Otto Frohwein of Manhattan drowned by upsetting of a boat in Prince's Bay, off Richmond Valley, S. I.

6. Old Union Fire Company No. 1 of Gravesend sells all its property.--John Kynaston, third officer of the White Star Line steamer Britannic, held by Justice McCormick of Jersey City on charge of stealing government bonds valued at $24,600.

8. Controller Coler opens bids for the first bonds to be sold by the city since consolidation; high prices offered for the issue of $12.688,992.36.-Commisisoner of Charities deals out the city's annual allowance of $50 a piece to the blind, paying them in gold.

worn by Manhattan men.-Comptroller Coler served with an order to show cause why he should not award bonds to the Vermilye syndicate.-The transport Grand Duchess arrives at Montauk Point with two cases of yellow fever.-Miss E. C. Reynolds mysteriously murdered in the Grand Hotel, Thirty-first st., Manhattan, during the night.

16. Early morning fire destroys the Wiardi Chemical Works, 259-273 Greene st., Greenpoint.-Acting Mayor Guggenheimer's anti-swearing resolution killed by the Board of Aldermen.

17. Dentist Samuel J. Kennedy arraigned on charge of murdering Emeline C. Reynolds in the Grand Hotel, Manhattan.

18. Order issued for the arrest of ex-Judge Willlam Fullerton of Newburg. N. J., on behalf of Mrs. Agatha Allen of Plainfield, N. J., charging him with retaining money intrusted to him for investment.

20. The naval parade; grand ovation to the war ships of Sampson and Schley in New York Harbor and up the Hudson.

21. United English Singing Societies hold their annual festival at Glendale Schuetzen Park. 23. The Canadian colt Martimas wins the Futurity of 1898 on the Sheepshead Bay course.

24. B. H. Howell, winner of the diamond sculls and amateur championship oarsman of England, arrives on the Teutonic.

25. Yellow fever signals reported from the Yale at Montauk Point.

26. Comptroller Coler wins again in bond fight.Pugilist Alexander Scott dies in the Norwegian Hospital as the result of his fight in the Greenwood Athletic Club with Thomas Butter.

27. Rev. Christopher S. Williams of Fenimore M. E. Church arrested on charges of threatening Wm. E. Raynor, a house painter, with a pistol 28. Corner-stone of the R. C. Church of St. Francis of Ariel, laid at Flytbush..

29. Seventy-first regiment enthusiastically greeted by the people on its return from Camp Wkoff to Manhattan.-Admiral Sampson visits the Brooklyn Navy Yard

30. Mr. J. S. T. Stranahan, aged 90, stricken sick and convalescen: soldiers from Montauk Point with apoplexy at Saratoga and dying.-Over 100 received at St. John's Hospital.-Desperate attempt of David Kirkwood to k Dentist Theodore R. Augsburg at Bath Beach.

31. Admiral Schley and Genera! Gordon of the Military Mission stail on the Seneca from the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Porto Rico.

September.

2. Eagle outing party off for Duluth by special train from Jersey City. Several alleged counterfelters arrested in Manhattan.-Several deaths in Brooklyn caused by extreme heat of weather.Hon. James S. T. Stranahan dies at 12:16 P. M at his Saratoga cottage, aged 90 years.-Brooklyn Eagle Outing party reaches Cleveland, O.

5. Labor Day.-Early morning fire in the Frank9. Knee pants makers to the number of 1,500 golin Trust Company's building, Montague and Clinon strike in Manhattan and Brownsville.-An- ton sts. nual meeting of the New York State Hotel As- 6. Eagle Outing party in Duluth.-Porto Rican sociation held at Manhattan Beach.-Brooklyn troops arrive at New York on the Chester.Base Ball team home from their disastrous West- Justice Pryor decides against Comptroller Coler in ern trip. the suit of the Westchester Water Co. to recover judgment against the city for $4,000.-Knights of Labor call on Mayor Van Wyck in the interest of shorter hours for alleged overworked railroad employes.

11. Troop C and a detachment of Troop B, Rough Riders, on their return from Santiago, land with their horses at Bay Ridge.--Policeman H. O. Hawley of Manhattan shoots his wife and children, killing two of the latter, and then kills himself. 12. Memorial requiem mass celebrated by Father Van Rensselaer in St. Francis Xavier's Church, West Sixteenth st., Manhattan, for the repose of the soul of the late Spanish Premier, Antonio Canovas del Castillo.-Notice of will suits against the possessors of the A. T. Stewart estate filed in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn.

13. Early morning fire in the "West End" apartment house, Pineapple and Hicks sts., causes damage to extent of $13,000.-Cornerstone of the new Liederkranz Hall on Ewen st. laid.

14. Ninth annual Bavarian Volksfest opens at Wessel's Ridgewood Park.

15. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, General Wheeler and all the Rough Riders and Third Cavalry troops land at Montauk Point. from the Miami.Brooklyn police undergo inspection. dressed in their heavy winter clothes, preparatory to being

7. Funeral of Hon. James S. T. Stranahan.Battleship Oregon safely dry docked in Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs. 8.

Admiral Cervera in New York.

9. Comptroller Coler wins fight over his award of nearly $13,000,000 of city improvement bonds to the Produce Exchange Trust Co. Syndicate.-Eagle outing party at Duluth.

10. Grand welcome and reception of Troop C in Brooklyn on their return from the war.-Eagle tourists home from Duluth.-Hall Caine, the novelist, arrives.

12. Smith's box factory in Greenpoint burned down.-Oil tank on premises of Brooklyn Union Gas Co. explodes and fires building.

13. New York State Street Railway Association holds its sixteenth annual sesion at Manhattan Beach.

14. Benj. D. Silliman, the lawyer, celebrates

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A RECORD OF EVENTS, 1898-September-Continued. his 93d birthday at his Islip summer residence.The police get their long looked for back pay. Brooklyn Internal Revenue Office robbed of 12,000 war stamps.-Thos. F. Farrell appointed Deputy County Treasurer.-Dinner by the Eagle staff to Anthony Fiala on his return from the Porto Rican campaign.

12. Discovery day dinner of the Knights o Columbus at Hotel St. George.-Amaranth Society dinner at the Montauk Club.

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16. Fourteenth Regiment back from Brooklyn gives an enthusiastic welcome to the Fourteenth Regiment on its arrival home from Camp Anniston.-Atlantic Conference of German Baptist ministers formally organized in First German Baptist Church, Wallabout street, Brooklyn. Total registration of Brooklyn Public Schools, 144,000; that is 4,000 more than was estimated.

17. The Gran Antilla, Spanish merchant steamer, the first since the declaration of war, arrives from Havana.-Antietam celebration by Brooklyn War Veterans and Veterans' Sons in Prospect Park.

20. Andrea Cassagne, a city street cleaner, found about 12.10 A. M. in his bed in the tenement, 253 N. 3d st., having been strangled to death and attempt having been made to strangle his wife also, the murderer leaving no trace.Three incendiary fires discovered at 12.32 A. M. in the four story brick building, 425 and 427 Gates

avenue.

21. Justice Hirschberg dismisses the demurrer of ex-Commissioner Willis to his indictment for bribery.

23. Explosion of grain elevator at Blissville, L. I., kills two men.

26. Receiver appointed for the New England Loan and Trust Co. at 30 Broad st., Manhattan. 27. Gen. McLeer issues orders for the reception and parade of Brooklyn's representatives in the war with Spain.

28. Kings County Women's Christian Temperance Union hold their fifteenth annual convention in lecture room of Baptist Temple, 3d av. and Schermerhorn st.

29. Presentation of medals in the Twenty-third Regiment Armory to the men and of a sword of honor to Capt. Cook of the cruiser "Brooklyn" by Gen. Woodford and Dr. St. Clair McKelway on behalf of citizens of Brooklyn.

October.

1. Parade of returned Brooklyn soldiers; thousands of citizens turn out to welcome them.Major-General Fitzhugh Lee arrives in New York from Jacksonville, Fla.-Body of Daniel O. Esbaugh, the missing president of the New England Loan and Trust Co., found in the North River.

2. Immense attendance in Washington Avenue Baptist Church on the occasion of the memorial service of George Elis, chief yeoman of the cruiser Brooklyn, the only American killed in the naval battle at Santiago.

3. The Forty-seventh Regiment ordered to Porto Rico for garrison duty.-Founder's day at Pratt Institute celebrated.

4. Tradesmen's National Bank, Manhattan, suspends.

5. Mayor Van Wyck exhibits a threatening letter purporting to have been received by him from ex-Public Works Commissioner Charles H. T. Collis, and talks of the "rottenness" of public works department under Mayor Strong's administration.-Water main extensions authorized by the Board of Estimate in fifty Brooklyn streets. 6. General Collis pronounces the threatening letter alleged to have been sent by him to Mayor Van Wyck a forgery.--Banquet by the Bushwick Club to Lieutenant Henry Claus of Troop C on his return from the war.

7. Deputy Commissioner Walton makes demand on the Board of Estimate for an adequate appropriation for lighting Brooklyn's streets.-Death of ex-Mayor A. Oakey Hall.

8. Heavy fog on the East River, but several vessels put to sea.

9. Fifty-ninth anniversary of the rectorship of Rev. Dr. S. M. Haskins of St. Mark's P. E. Church.

10. Largest initial enrollment ever known in the evening schools.-Reception to Rev. Dr. S. M. Has kins on the sixtieth year of his rectorship of St. Mark's Episcopal Church.

11. Justice Wilmot M. Smith decides that the creation of the County of Nassau was constitutional.

14. Jury in the case of Martin O'Donnell, an employe, against the American Sugar Refining Co., in the Kings County Supreme Court, award the plaintiff $25,000 damages for loss of his right arm, due to negligence of company as to machinery.

15. Eagle Cup won by the Kings County Wheelmen in the third annual team road race of the Associated Cycling Clubs of Long Island.

16. Cornerstone of St. Jerome's R. C. Church, Manhattan, laid by Bishop Farley.-Seventy of the Brooklyn cruiser's crew present a relic of Santiago to and are entertained by the Letter Carriers' Association, at Saengerbund Hall.

17 Fourteenth Regiment men, to the number of about 900 back from the war, answer roll call at their armory at Eighth av. and Fourteenth st., Commodore Brooklyn. Enthusiastic reception of J. W. Philip by the Brooklyn Union in Hanson Pl. M. E. Church. 18. Comptroller Coler certifies Brooklyn street contracts where they were let under the old administration.

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19. Celebration in the Brooklyn public schools in honor of the memory of General Lafayette, Trade of land containing 100 acres on Coney Isan avenue sold to a Boston syndicate for $200,000. 20. The office of bell ringer in the Fire Department of Brooklyn abolished by Fire Commissioner Scannell.-David B. Hill in a speech at the Brooklyn Academy of Music adviser lawful voters to "slap in the head and knock down any one who interferes with them."

22. Terrific explosion in the Polytechnic Institute chemical lecture room caused by quified air in contact with red phosphorus: Professor Fay painfully injured.-A six pounder shell which was taken from the Santiago battery which fired on Hobson and the Merrimac presented to the Brooklyn Eagle by the sailors of the cruiser Brooklyn. 23. The new R. C. Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Flatbush, formerly dedicated by Bishop McDonnel..

24. German-American stores foot of Coffey street, Brooklyn, burned down; loss estimated at $500,000 25. Edward F. Knowlton, a prominent and wealthy Brooklyn man, commits suicide at West Upton, Mass., by shooting, while demented.

26. Middle Universalist conference opens in the Church of the Divine Paternity.

29. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company indicted for alleged violation of the ten hour labor law. Ex-Street Cleaning Commissioner Waring, returned from Havana, dies of yellow fever at his home in Manhattan, and is cremated on Swin

burne Island by his own request.-Brooklyn Heights Railroad system squares itself on score of tax indebtedness to date.

30. Throop Av. Presbyterian Church opens a week of celebration, including silver jubilee of pastor, Rev. Dr. Lewis Ray Foote.-New York Av. M. E. Church opens a week of celebration on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.-R. C. Church of St. Thomas Aquinas dispenses with pew rents.

31. City budget for 1899 made public, calling for $93,520.082.03: departmental estimates having been cut down $19.020,185.02.-The Degraw-Attrill litigation, involving title to lands at Rockaway valued at $1,000.000, settled after nearly 90 years' duration, in favor of representatives of original claimants.

November.

1. Doscher's sugar refinery in Long Island City starts at its full capacity to turn out 4,000 barrels a day.-State Federation of Women's Clubs hold convention in Manhattan.-Sudden death of Rev. Bernard McHugh, pastor of St. John the Evangelist's R. C. Church.

2. Great meeting of Independent Democrats at Brooklyn Academy of Music; addresses by George F. Peabody, Edward M. Shepard and others.

3. Frederic A. Ward appointed a judge of Supreme Court, Apellate Division, for unexpired term of Augustus Van Wyck, resigned.-Supreme Court, Appellate Division, sustains Justice Gaynor's school fund order.

6. Large congregation welcomes Rev. St. Clair Hester on his assuming charge of the Church of the Messiah, at Greene and Clermont avs.

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in the city's history.-Arrest of Albert Forester, a painter, on charge of theft, revives the Brooklyn marine barracks scandal.

8. Election day. Several houses in Flatbush brok-, record and the sale one of the most successful en into and robbed during the nigat.-Dr. St. Clair Mekelway delivers an address before the inaugural meeting of the Brooklyn Civitas Club on Journalism and Privacy."-Knights Templar parade in Brooklyn, E. D., in honor of the State Grand Commander.

9. Brooklyn Elevated Railroad sold to the reorganization committee at public auction for $5,507,500.

10. Corner-stone laid of the Kings County Medical Society's new building.

11. Dinner to General Nelson A. Miles, commander-in-chief of the Army, at the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan.

13. New Church of the Visitation at Richards and Verona sts., Brooklyn, dedicated by Bishop McDonnell.

14. Annual horse show at Madison Sq. Garden. -Formal transfer of the power houses, wires, etc., of the Edison Illuminating Co. to the Kings Co. Electric Light and Power Co.-Twenty-four Brooklyn Navy Yard mechanics discharged.

15. Mustering out of the Seventy-first Regt., N. G.. N. Y.. preceded by the hooting and hissing of an effigy of the chaplain, Rev. Dr. George R. Vandewater, by the men.-Henry Hamilton, the widely known stage proprietor, dies at his home near Sheepshead Bay.-Floating oil on the East River, near the Standard Oil Company's works, catches fire and acres of flame imperil shipping and docks.

30. Mayor Van Wyck instructs Bridge Commissioner Shea to formulate plans for a third East River bridge, 120 feet wide; route not yet determined.

December.

1. Members of Troop C, who served in Porto Rico, receive bronze medals.-Dinner to General Shafter by Grant Post, G. A. R.

2. Mysterious explosion on a morning train of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad: Miss Mudge H. Jenkins severely hurt by fragments of glass.-Will of David T. Leahy of Brooklyn probated, by which the sum of $100,000 is left to Roman Catholic charities.

3. Shocking death of Miss Sarah Cassin by being crushed under a trolley car in lower Fulton st.-Rothschild building, 8 stories high, on Fukon st., declared in an unsafe condition and the people shut off from it.

4. Corner-stone laid of Christ Evangelical Church at Lafayette and Patchen avs,-An eighty mile an hour gale breaks on the city at night; much damage on Long Island.-Fire breaks out about 10 P. M. in the lower part of Rogers, Peet & Co.'s store, 258 and 259 Broadway, Manhattan, and extends to the 15 story building of the Home Life Insurance Co., 256 and 257, occupied by about 900 tenants; ofpapers burned; total loss estimated at $700,000, 5. Miss Beatrice P. King and Mrs. Martha J. teachers, Minshull, transferred from Brooklyn Public School No. 44.-Dedicatory services ccmmenced in Immanuel Congregational Church, Decatur st., by Rev. A. J. Lyman.

17. Twenty-first annual convention of the Sun-fice of the Rapid Transit Commission wrecked and day schools of Kings County held in Lafeyette Presbyterian Church.-Church Charity Foundation annual donation party.-Rev. George R. Vandewater rosigns chaplaincy of the Seventy-first Regiment in consequence of the hostility of the toward him.-Championship tournament of the Brooklyn Chess League inaugurated. 18. Fierce $125,000 fire at Manhattan avenue and Java street early in the morning; the result of explosion; several factories and

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dwellings involved.

19. Big office building, 72-74 Broadway, Manhattan, burned; loss, $100,000.-Borough President Grout hears protestants against and advocates of, the combination trolley cars.-John H. Starin's ship yards at West New Brighton, S. I., burned; loss estimated at $400,000.-Eighty men discharged

from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

20. Hebrew Infant Asylum erected on Eagle avenue, Manhattan, at cost of $150,000, dedicated. Middle Village Methodist Church celebrates its one hundred and thirtieth anniversary.

21. Edward Eastment, former clerk of the Brooklyn City Works Department, pleads guilty to an indictment charging him with grand larceny in the second degree in collecting money on false and fraudulent bills for payment of water taxes, etc., in villages not subject to them.

22. Demurrer, which was sustained by Judge Hirschberg. in the case of ex-City Works Commissioner Theo. B. Willis and William E. Phillips, indicted on enarge of defrauding the city, is overruled by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, and indictments stand.-Judgment affirmed on appeal in favor of ex-County Clerk Jacob Worth against the city for $14,500, expenses of readjusting the fallen shelves, etc., in the County Clerk's office.-Sharkey declared winner of the fight with Corbett at the Lenox Athletic Club. 23. Twenty-second Regiment of New York mustered out at Fort Slocum.

24. Evacuation Day and Thanksgiving. 25. Troop C paid off and mustered out. 27. New chapel of Immanuel Congregational Church on Decatur street opened with dedication sermon by Rev. Dr. Albert J. Lyman.-Thomas N. Rooker memorial window unvailed in Church of the Messiah.-Manhattan and Brooklyn in the grip of a blizzard; traffic interrupted.-Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott tenders his resignation as pastor of Plymouth Church.-Janes M. E. Church celebrates its thirty-ninth anniversary.

28. All local mails delayed; worst storm since blizzard of March 12, 1888.-Edward Eastment, former Assistant Cashier of the Department of Brooklyn City Works, convicted of presenting faise and fraudulent claims against the City of Brooklyn, is sentenced to one year in the Kings Co. Penitentiary.

29. Bords, 3 per cent., representing $1,725,000, offered for sale at the Comptroller's office by the

city results in one of the largest biddings on

6. Yacht Oneida, with ex-President Cleveland on board, is struck by a raft, off the Battery, but nobody is hurt.-Explosion on board U. S. hospital ship Bay State, killing the cook, George Twist, and injuring several.

7. Three hundred brewers meet in Arion Hall, Manhattan, and protest against the further continuance of the war tax.-Half a block of Broadway, near Hopkinson st., Brooklyn, E. D., burned; loss, $22,000.

by new forces.-First reception and dinner of the

9. Knickerbocker Steamboat Company controlled Erasmus Hall Principal, Dr. Walter B. Gunnison, and faculty at the Clarendon.

10. Maj. Clinton H. Smith relieved of command of the Seventy-first Regiment, N. G., N. Y., and to be tried by court-martial.-Tenth annual dinner of the Masonic Veterans' Association at Aurora Grata Cathedral.

11. Ruinous deluge caused by a broken water main in the region around Central av. and Covert st.; narrow escapes of residents and numbers of houses and much property injured and destroyed. -Fire at Prospect pl. and Flatbush av., in which one of three children of the Buck family is burned to death, another fatally, and Joseph Noblit killed by fall in trying to escape by an upper window.

13. Terrible gas tank explosion in the Consolidated Company's works, Manhattan; several lives lost; streets flooded and impassable.-Will of John Pfalzer probated, by which $20,000 is left to Rev. George D. Sander, pastor of St. Leonard's Roman Catholic Church, on Hamburg av., Brooklyn. 14. Coldest 14th of December since 187.-Berrien's Island sale to John D. Crimmins completed by record of deed of sale.-Dinner to Henry E. Abell at the Clarendon and address by Lieut.-Gov. Woodruff.

15. Lebmann Bros. go into voluntary bankruptcy, -Catholic Synod, consisting of 290 priests and Bishop McDonnell, at the Church of St. John the Baptist in Willoughby av.

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