The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-11
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"A meeting Of employing house painters
wae held yesterday at which resolution
agreeing 10 pay jOurneymen painters $3.50
per day for ten hours work on and after the
FIRST Of March next was adopted.
The second anniversary of the Young
Mems Union Christian Association was eele-
brated at Concert Hall last evening. Ad-
dresses were made by John Wanamaker, Esq,
Rev. VIM. a. Aston, Rev. 4. ID. Miller, and
Rev. b. II. Tanner.
The following officers were elected yes
terday by Councils in joint conventions
Chief Commissioner of Highways, Mahlon II.
Dickinson; Commissioners of Highways,
Hiram Horter and James Work; Commissioner
of Markets and City Property, Jonathan II.
Pugh; Chief Engineer of the Water Works.
Frederick Graf; Superintendent of City Rail
roads, John Bosler; Superintendent of Girard
Estate, Charles S. Smith; Agent of Girard
Estate, Samuel $. Gavin; Superintendent Of
Trusts, Charles Dat.
Yesterday afternoon Reserve Officer Crout
arrested q middlu-aged, respectfully dressed
woman, who had been collecting money upon
the false pretense that hNa was an authorized
agent Of the Lindley Dorcas Society of the
Fourth Presbyterian Church. Shehad book
in which was what purported to be q minute
of the society, setting forth its needs, and it
was stated in addition that this was the first
time the society had been compelled to solicit
aid from the public.
The Coroners jury in the case of the un-
known man who was found dead in cell a
the Third District Station, yesterday rendered
the following verdict: THAT the said un-
known man came to his death from conges-
tion of the lungs The jury are of the OPT
MON that the officers in charge of the station
house at the time were derelict in their duty
in not ascertaining positively whether the
man was not insensible from sickness and ex-
haustion when placed in the CELL the post
mortem showing that he must have been suf
fering from illness for some time"
Last evening Peter Mccartney, residing
No. POI Manship street, died from injuries
received on Saturday night. 1t appeared that
the deceased was quarrelling with his wife.
In order to escape from him, she ran mp
stairs into another room occupied by John
McGuttridge. Mccartney followed her, and
McGuttridge endeavored the save the woman
from further violence; he was assailed by
Mccartney, and McGuttridge alleges that in
self-defense he was compelled to use a stove
plate, and strike the deceased. The blow
took effect upon the head, and death resulted
last evening McGuttridge was arrested, and
the Coroner notified to hold an inquest.
The Secretary of the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, l. o. o. F., has issued a circu-
lar giving the names of the following men,
bers who have accepted their nominations for
office in the Grand Lodge, the election to
take place next April:--
For M. w. Grand Master-John B. Springer,
of No. 127.
For r. W. Deputy Grand Master-Alfred
Slack, of No. PAL.
For r. w. Grand Warden-W VIM. Stedman,
of No. 113; Philip Lowry, Jr., of No. 572;
Francis M. Rea, of No. SO; George Bertram,
of No. 100; George Madill, of No. 343; John
G. Moxey, of No. 4; Theodore Cornman, of
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For r. w. Grand Secretary-James B..
Nicholson, of No. 100.
For r.. w. Grand Treasurer-M. Richards
Muckle, of No. 4G.
For II. W. Grand Representative to the G.
L. u. S.-Robert A. Lamberton, of No. 160.