The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
City Affairs.

\ Last evening the Committee on Fire and
tusts oil City Councils met In Select Council
Enamoer, and had under discussion the recent
ght between the Niagara Hose and Franklin
Engine.
Y Last evening, while the prisoners at the
Gentral Police Station were being transferred to
ne van to be conveyed to Moyamensing, one of
&he number, Amos Tucker, broke away from a
fate. The officer, in pursuing his prisoner,
Eilpped on the sidewalk, but citizens took up
me chase and recaptured Amos at Sixth aud
Walnut streets. He was brought back and
&aiely lodged in the prison van.
Shortly before IL o'clock last night, three
ncendiary fires occurred Ia the western section
~ the city, and all we're discovered about
/he same time. They were-slight burning of
nmber pile at Twenty-frst and Race; destruc-
lion of Coleman's carpenter shop, Twenty-drst
Rnd Cuthbert streets; and the burning out OF
&Wo one'story frame buildings on Market street,
&pove Nineteenth.
4 Before Alderman Kerr, at the Central
STATION, yesterday, stephen Green, W, ID. Alex
8nder, James Buckby, Charles Matthews, and
Peter DAILY had a hearing on the charge of par
ficipating in a riot and assault on several
persons, on the evening of the 18th inst, at the
Paloon OF Godfrey Fringe, in Girard avenue,
fboye Tenth street. The accused were held to
pail to answer.
<1iber yesterday, in which soldier who served
In the late war was charged with perjury.
~ Is based upon an ahdaSit made to sub
X.antlate claim on tnS Govern ncnJ IOf bounty
honey. in which the defendant swore that he
bad not received any money as bounty. The
Allegation is that be had received portion of it,
&nd an effort was made to prove 1t. The defend
INT was held for further hearing on Thursday.
4 "A large meeting of, ingram carpet weayers
WAS held last evening at the hall Front and
Master streets. The reports from the various
manufacturing establishments showed that,
Since the previous meeting, fifteen of the manu-
Eacturers had agreed TO pay the advance wages.
[On motion, a committee of tive was appointed
10 wait upon delinquents, and bring tn en- TO the
/meeting. prolonged discussion then took
Xplace in reference TO matters of minor i'm
|portance, after which an adjournment took
place.
The trial trip of the new city ice-boat, No.
H. was made yesterday. At II o'clock A. NJ. she
left the wharf of her builders, Messrs. CramD IL
8Brother, at Palmer street, and proceeded down
Hire success as far as speed, working of her ma
tchinery, etc, we're concerned; but there being
3no ice on the river, her forcing power could not
fbe tested. The trip demonstrated the fact that
&she could make Oh q run l6 knots per hour.
3 She has been constructed with view to great
/strength. Her dimensions aTe:-Length, 100
|teet; beam, 80 feet aud 6S feet over all; depth OF
land inch iron. She is provided with a cabin
4 rs feet long, containing twelve state-rooms, all
{of which aIe handsomely fitted up. She has two
non. condensing engines, the united power oil
(which is about 1000 horse. The cylinders are
AS inches in diameter, with an eight-foot stroke
5the maximum pressure OF steam being 60 lbs
Where are six boilers, feet IL diameter and l;
3feet in length. The wheels are % feet in dame
tier aud IL feet face each wheel, with its shaft
&weighing 80 tons. Some two hundred persons
the principal number of whom were Council
Xmen epiOyed the trip,