I came across this & saw the FERRIS name about 2/3 of the way down. Hope someone needs it. Terry === Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND, HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON ---Peter & Nancy Pfaff <ppfaff@snet.net> wrote: > > >From the 4 July 1889 New York Times: (it is OK to forward this to other lists) > > CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS > > New-York > > An unknown man, suppposed to be an Italian laborer, threw himself into the > opening of the Fourth avenue tunnel at Ninety-eighth Street before an > oncoming train of the Harlem Railroad about 8 o'clock yesterday morning. > He was instantly killed. In his pockets were found a pocketbook contaning 1 > cent, a cigarette holder, a scrap of paper upon which was written "Vergnoso > Quinto, Marcy Avenue 486", a pay envelope of Stoutenburgh & Co. of Newark, > on which was written "To Peter" and a Pennsylvania Railroad return ticket > from Newark stamped June 30. > > The Custom House Brokers' Clerks' Association is very much agitated just > now because some persons have been selling tickets to the importers, at $1 > a ticket, for an alleged picnic of the Custom House Association. The > tickets said that this picnic was to take place on June 27. There was no > picnic by any such association that day, and the fact is that there is no > such association as that mentioned on the tickets. > > Conrad SCHWARTZ, an aged tailor, was yesterday found dead in his store, 25 > Hudson Street. He had been ailing for some time, and on Tuesday was > suffering acutely from stomach troubles. He leaves a widow and six > children, who live on Staten Island. He is said to hve been well-to-do, but > lived in a miserly manner in his store, and visited his family only on > Sundays. > > John BAUMANN, an infant between one and two years old, died yesterday at > the home of his parnets, 814 Sixth Street, from the effects of paris green > taken on Monday. The child, while playing on the floor, found a can of the > poison which had been procured to kill roaches and put some of it into his > mouth. > > Judge HOLME of the City Court has issued an order for the examination of > Ann O'Delia Editha Diss DE BAR, the fat priestess of Spiritualism, in > supplementary procedings on a judgment obtained against her by Ryerson & > Brown for hack hire. the examination is to take place on July 13. > > The body of a man found in Central Park Reservoir on Tuesday was yesterday > fully identified at the Morgue as that of Michael KEELY. He was a > carpenter, sixty-five years old, and lived at 414 East Seventy-ninth > street. He left home last Fridy despondent, owing to physical suffering. > > Liverpool Jack, who was recently held by Judge MARTINE on $2500 bail, in > addition to $5000 previously furnished, on charges of kidnapping, was > yesterday released from custody. The additional bail was furnished by Capt. > Michael HALPIN, a resident of the Eighth Ward. > > A scaffold fell yesterday at the pencil factory at One Hundred and > Thirtieth Street and the Boulevard and W.H. FERRIS and Daniel NUGENT, who > were painting, were severely injured. They were taken to Manhattan Hospital. > > Frank GRUENTHAL, the young man who recently obtained a lot of books from D. > Appleton & Co. on forged orders in the name of the American Tract Society, > was yesterday sentenced to the Elmira Reformatory by Judge COWING. > > The Albany boats, "People's Line", Drew and Dean Richmond now make > connections at Albany with 7 a.m. special express for Saratoga, Lake > George, Saranac Lake, Paul Smith's, and all points in the Adirondacks. > > A man, apparently a laborer, forty-five years old and 5 feet 8 inches high, > came to the surface of the water in the Central Park reservoir last > evening. The body was taken to the Morgue. > > Michael STEIN, convicted of receiving stolen goods, the proceeds of a > burglary at 95 Delancey Street on May 28, was sentenced yesterday by Judge > COWING to four years in State prision. > > The Board of Health considers the condition of some of the elevated > railroad stations unsatisfactory in a sanitary sense and will ask the > companies to clean and disinfect them. > > Judge INGRAHAM, in the Supreme Court, yesterday awarded the executors of > Philip A. KEKELE $3572 for damage by the elevated road to the property at > 94 South Fifth Avenue. > > The case of William SALLY, who is accused of throwing Benjamin HATTON > overboard from an excursion steamer will be given to the Grand Jury on Monday. > > The Grand Jury yesterday dismissed the complaint for criminal libel of Max > OPPENHEIMER against Julius SCHWARTZ, editor of the defunct "Hungaria". > > More to follow... > Nancy Pfaff > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com