The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
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Frederick ~Spowhouse and Alfred Ed.
wards, both aged twenty-five years, residing
respectively ct No. 1864 Germantown road
and 1914 Palethorp street, we're drowned yes
terday In the Delaware, near Beiderman's
Point, back of Petty's Island. They left the
city early in the morning on a private excur-
sion, their relatives and friends comprising
the party. When the bodies were recovered
Edwards had %Spowhouse in his arms, and it
is supposed that they we're drowned while the
former was trying to rescue his friend. The
bodies were brought to this city, and an in
quest was held 5y Deputy Coroner John c..
Sees, when a verdict Of accidental drowning
was rendered.
"A match-game of base ball was PLAYED
yesterday at Seventeenth and Columbia
avenue, between the Excelsior Club, of this
city, and the Bailey 81 Futile, of New York.
II YVES for the junior championship, and was
won by the Excelsiors by a score Of % to Z.
The Athletic Club returned from the West
last evening, and had reception by members
Of different city clubs. A torchlight pro-
c%ession, headed by a band of music, with a
transparency conspicuously displayed, on
which were the words welcome Home
Champions, and the figures I'll, ~ met the
Athletics at the depot and escorted them to
their headquarters. Several hundred persons
were in line.
-Ll6lLBDhUJ hlIlbChy. OI Inc IOurJn u.s.
trict Police, has been held to bail by Alder
rnan MAXIM, TO answer the charge of assault.
ing Officer McMahon, OF the Sixth district.
Yesterday morning, while Mrs. Sarah
Pinkerton, Miss Bebec.a w. Pinkerton, Miss
Hettie J. Pinkerton, and II. VI. Dorland
were ridingin a park carriage, near the Girard
avenue bridge, a serious accident occurred.
One Of the shafts became detached, causing
the horse to turn aside suddenly, and in do
ing this the carriage was overturned and all
the occupants were thrown violently upon
the ground. Miss Rebecca and Miss Sarah
Pinkerton were dangerously injured about
tie head, the others were bat slightly hurt.
The injured parties were removed to their
residence ct No. S33 Cherry street.
Yesterday the Board Of Commissioners of
Highways appointed the following named
gentlemen as supervisors Of streets: First
ward, Samuel Peak; Second ward, Charles
Peak: Third and Fourth wards, Samuel F..
Mitchell; Fifth and Sixth wards, Mr.. Boyce:
Seventh and Eighth wards, Ephraim II. Shaw;
Ninth and Tenth, Robert W.. Liberton: Ele-
ventb and Twelfth wards, John A.. johnson;
Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards, Jacob 5.
Fish; Fifteenth ward, Thomas Gilligan; Six
reenth and Seventeenth wards, Joseph Ash:
Eighteenth ward, William II. Namely: Nine
teenth ward, George Boyer; Twentieth ward
First division, Hen. Meyers-Twentieth ward
Second division, William Thorn; Twenty
first ward, Timothy Clegg; Twenty-third
ward-First division, Enoch Foster; Twenty
third ward-Secoud division, Janison Lott;
Twenty-fourth ward-First division, Palmer
q. MCKINLEY; Twenty-fourth ~ward-Second
division. William A. Fredericks; Twenty-ffth
ward, Francis f. kerbaugh; Twenty-sixth
ward, postponed; Twenty-seventh ward,
Joseph Freas; Twenty-eighth ward, Martin
Ulrick.
In the case Of Marcus Porter the coro-
ner's jury yesterday rendered q verdict that
the said Marcus Porter came to his death
from violence blows and kicks, inflicted by
Francis McCully, on the morning of August
4, 1870, On screw dock wharf, Delaware ave-
nue., above Laurel street. Francis McCully is
etlll at large.