.lames 11. Robertson, a brother of
Slate Senator Robertson, of the i.oxow
wmmliloc, wus found dead In 1 hi*
know at Pookskl'll.
The forty mUlloii dollar estait* of tin*
rtite ex-Semi lor Pair of Nevada mid
Cal I fori ula goes lo Ills family mid lowa
rolailves and a pittance to charily.
Francis .1. Onluxs, who obtained a
divorce >ln Brooklyn a few days ago,
was married to Miss Estelle Sylvane,
nn actress and a cousin of Ids llrsl
wife.
The New York Slate Forest commis
sion granted to the Delaware and
Hudson Canal Compary permission lo
build nu Adirondack railroad through
tin* Stale lands
Superintendent Parsons, after a
stormy meeting of li.e Park Board In
New York, was reiinesled lo act as
landscape architect of 'the Speedway,
but he declined.
Negotiations for tin* sale by Hie heirs
of A. T. Stewart of the Metropolitan
Hotel and Nlblo’s Carden, at Broad
way and Prince street, New York, for
$1 ,(100,000 are about completed.
The Stewart syndicate of successful
liond bidders dissolved, the nt lent nee
of Sivreltiry Carlisle on the enrreney
question making further sales at a
piMlil Imposslbh*.
Tin* storm was especially severe in
Northeastern Pennsylvania and Cen
tral New York, where railroad (rathe
was paralyzed, and business almost
suspended.
Stqvt. Byrnes, of Hie New York po
lks*, resigned, lie test Hied before Hie
I.exow committee that In* made his
money In slock speenhrllon, with .lay
Gould's assistance. The eonniiiUlee's
I lives lightlon closed.
Insurance Agent Palfrey appearing,
ns a witness In the supplementary
proceeding against ills wife, at New
York, Insulted Isnvyer Maurice Meyer
•md invited him lo go to (lie street
and light.
