News in Brief

New York, 1895

Miss Julia H. Farwell, principal of St. Mary's school, Garden City, has resigned.

Richard Fleet, of Centreport, died on Sunday of apoplexy. His ago was 80 years.

The Long Beach hotel will be opened June 20, under the management of Thomas H. Brush.

Work is to be commenced immediately on the new Catholic church at Northport. The edifice is to cost $15,000.

The Long Island railroad company has compromised the suit for damages begun by the heirs of John McGoey of Aquebogue, who was killed last August, by payment of $2,500.



A Trolley Line Sold

The plant of the Flushing and College Point electric railroad was sold Thursday to Cravath & Houston, representing the reorganized company. The property brought only $25,000. It cost the original company nearly $100,000 more than the amount received.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 12, 1895, p. 2.