The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-12


KENs1NeToN NJ. E. SABBATH SCHOOL cele-
brated yesterday their fiftieth anniversary. The
church had been handsomely decorated. Occu
pyipg the pulpit recess was a large cross with
the word Jesus" and over the end gallery an
arch with sun, and the words "The lgut of
the world" and over the side galleries the words
"Upward, onward" all of gas jects, which are
to be illuminated as one of the attractions of
their jubilee concert this evening. From the
centre of the ceiling were suspended wreaths of
evergreen end beautiful basket of flowers with
the figures so. The church was filed morning,
noon, and night. The afternoon service was
peculiarly beautiful and interesting. Over 1900
children of Sloan and Kensngton schools occu-
pied the lower floor, and the galleries were
crowded, as well as the vestibules, with friends
of the schools. The singing was not to be sur
passed. Rene Guillou and Thomas w. Price,
Esqs., made most excellent addresses. The
morning service, at which DR.. KynetL preached
an appropriate sermon, and the evening SER
vice, at which short addresses were delivered
by Rev. A. X. Street and other old scholars of
the schools, were both occasions of much in
terest. The whole exercises we're grand sue
cess, and will not soon fade away from the
memory of those who participated in them.
PITCHED BATTLE WITH CORNER LoUNeERs
Officers Baker and Connell, of the Seventh
district, had @ battle with four corner-louugers
at York avenue and Callowhill street. The Off
GERS told the men to leave and the reply of the
men was that they would not An attempt was
made to arrest them, and this started lively
fight They battered each other with consider
able vigor, and for considerable time, but at
last, assistance arriving, the officers of the law
trinmphed, and the four malcontents were Sc
curely housed in the station-house. They were
heard by Alderman Toland, and were each
placed under bail. Their names John
McQuade, John Mulligan, Walter Clary, and
William Green.
LADY STRUCK BY DRUNKEN MAN.-Two
drunken men, named Felix Conner and John
Duffy, were yesterday afternoon standing on the
corner of Fourth and Thompson streets. Tive
ladies who were on their way to church passed
at the time and the drunken men thought it
fit opportunity to have bit of fun. Duffy de-
liberately went up to one of the ladies and hit
her powerful blow in the face, and Conner
stood by aud enjoyed the transaction as If it
was one of the best jokes of the season. Officers
McGucken and Devlin, of the Tenth district, did
not see the matter in this light, and they
marched the practical jokers off to the station
house. Alderman Shoemaker placed Conner in
$500 bail and Duffy in $1,000.
A CHILD RUN OVER BY A MILK WAGoN.-The
driver of milk wagon, named John Henry,
urged his horse at q furious rate of speed at
Eighteenth and Christian streets yesterday. A
child who was crossing at the time was knocked
down and run over, the wheels of the vehicle
passing over its body. Every one thought the
child had been killed, but when it was picked
up it was found, strange to say, much bruised
but not seriously injured. The driver of the
wagon was arrested and taken before Alderman
ing to await the result of the injuries in
ficted.
ALL DRUNK.-Edward Cox, Robert Sink,
John Taylor and William Brown are the names
of four men who hired wagon yesterday. and
became fearfully intoxicated. In this condi-
tion they drove down cambridge street at fu-
| rious rate and destructive tendency. One of the
| men was leaning back with his arm on the
| wheel, and they were all shouting with drunken
| delight. At Third and Bainbridge streets the
all nj oVho ad nd
| the four men taken into custody for cruelty to
animals, riotous behavior and reckless driving.
| Alderman Lutz committed them.
DARING ACT OF TmEF.-Last night a thief
named Jerome Wood snatched a watch and
chain from the pocket of a man at Eleventh and
Filbert Streets and ran off with it, pursued by the
| usual crowd, who were Justify yelling 'stop
| thief" Wood ran into the precincts of the Sixth
district, and was there captured by Officer Kelly.
A partner of Wood, named John D. Mooney,
| was arrested at the same time, and Alderman
Jones held the pair in $500 bail. The watch,
without the chain, was recovered.
In THE WORST KIND. OF PLAoE.-A
drunken man this morning at o'clock fell into
an unboarded welliof an clubhouse at the brew
cry of Ludwig Stein, on Coates street, above
Third. Ropes graphing irons etc, were
brought from the Seventh District Station-house,
and after much difficulty the man was released
from his perilous, and certainly very unpleasant,
situation. A stream from fre-plug was re-
quired to deodorize him.
AN ALLEGED MURDERER.-John Fox, alias
"Scott," who was shot by Lieutenant Flaherty,
taken to the hospital, and subsequently removed
to the County Prison, is in a worse fix than
ever. Detectives Haggerty and Gordon are of
to secure requsition upon which he can be
transported to Clark county, Ohio where he il
charged with the murder of banker some
time ago.
| CRUSHED BY LOCOMOTIVE. - Mr.. Frank
Connolly, aged thirty-four years. was seriously
if not fatally injured by being crushed thii
morning between locomotive and the oil-houst
at the Kensngton depot He was removed tC
his home, at No. 2OSO Sepviva street.
IMPROVING. Daniel Boone, who was stabbed
at Nineteenth and Stiles street on Saturday
night last, and who 1t was feared would die II
consequence, is much better this morning
The physicians predict his recovery.
DIED OF HIS INJURIEs.-Michael McArdle
who was crushed by falling fagstone at Don
nelly's stoneyard, at Eighth and Master streets
on the Goth ultimo, died this morning in st
Mary's Hospital.
OUT OF HAY-Mow.-A man named JohI
Foster was yesterday admitted to the Pennsyl
vania Hospital with serious injuries receivedb by
| falling ont of a haV-mOW at the William PenI