The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-15
VIEWS SUMMARY.
City Affairs.


The Committee on Contracts Of the
Public Buildings Commission met yesterday
and received bids for clearing the grounds,
making excavations, and building the founda-
ton walls.
AT meeting of the Finance Committee
last night, the appropriation of the Board of
Health was fixed at $237, 800. Last year it
was $50, $40; the increase Of $177, ,010 is for
the payment of the contracts for cleansing
the streets.
Yesterday afternoon, while a party of
men were gathered at cockpit at a house on
Sixth street, near the Kensington Reservoir,
posse Of police, accompanied by officers of
the Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty TO
Animals, entered the place and arrested Ed
ward Devlin, Andrew McShane, Charles
Dougherty, James Ledger, and John McMul-
len. The prisoners were held to bail by
Alderman Kerr.
Robert McGeagney, aged thirty-one
years, was badly beaten yesterday afternoon
at Dock and Walnut streets, causing frac-
ture of the arm and injuries about the head.
Thomas Crawford, his alleged assailant, was
arrested. McGeagney was removed to the
Pennsylvania Hospital.
Mary Commandery, Knights Templar,
viii attend divine service, in full Templar
uniform, on the evening of the 22d instant,
at St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church,
Fourth street, near New. Rev. and Eminent
Sir Robert II. Pattison will officiate. Other
Communicates have been invited to join with
them.
Supervisor Tuition, of the revenue SER
vice, who was assigned to duty in the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, is now operating in
Chicago, where he has made an important
seizure Revenue Detective James J. Brooks
is temporarily engaged in Cincinnati. At the
present time there are but five authorized
distilleries in operation in Philadelphia, and
some of them are not worked up to their full
capacity
The committee of twenty-five appointed
to devise plans for the proper celebration of
the day to be set apart in commemoration of
the adoption of the fifteenth amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, held a
meeting last evening, at Liberty Hall, Lom-
bard street, near Eighth.
After remarks and suggestions by Messrs
Charles w. Somers Thomas Faucet, and
others, resolution was adopted providing for
another meeting on Friday evening to COM
plete arrangements.
. AT meeting Of the Guardians of the
Poor held yesterday the House Agent reported
that there had been admitted within the past
two week 216 persons. There were also in
the house IL births, "a deaths, 128 persons
discharged, and % eloped. The population
was 1902; same time last year, 1899. Number
of persons granted lodgings within the past
two weeks, 22S; meals, $50. The Board of
Visitors presented their monthly report,
showing the amount of outdoor relief granted
to be ST., 45'OS, while the number receiving
outdoor relief was 1880.
The President, Mr.. Whital, at this juno
ture vacated the chair, for the purpose of
alluding to the late presentment of the Grand
Jury, repelling the charges contained in that
instrument relating to the condition of the
house, lack of sanitary measures, etc. He
challenged contradiction when he stated that
the Poor House was in excellent condition.