News in Brief.

New York, 1895

District school No. 2 at Stony Brook is closed on account of scarlet fever.

A broken eccentric rod delayed a passenger train at Sayville one hour.

Ten children have been stricken with measles at St. Joseph's school in Astoria.

The body of an unknown man was found in the East River near Astoria Thursday afternoon. He was about 50 years old.

The wife of the Rev. John Bentzein, of Rochester, died suddenly at the home of her father, Dr. Bates, at Hempstead, on Tuesday.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 8.