The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-25
NEWS suNTnIARx.


enry Fellows, aged twenty-seven years,
aided to death on Monday last by fall
hto boiling vat at Mansyunk dye
Eptain Terrence McCusker, of the In
ce Patrol, reports that the number of
IND alarms of fires during the year 1870
"a; box alarms, 21G; silent alarms, 2gS;
larms, 20; accidental fires, 4S; careless
.; incendiary fires, 10; supposed in
Il ry fires, as; spontaneous combustion,
Unknown, Il; fireworks, Ii; malicious, %;
#A spread by Patrol, S06 covers lost by
~ Amount of insurance as far as known,
OPS; loss by fire, $4,000, ,0i3; insur-
lover loss by fire, 1850, ,9S5. Number
pa attached TO the Patrol, 10; wagons be-
kng to the Patrol, . covers, 80; horses, 2;
full complement of axes.
about 81 o'clock last evening a fire
3 out in the basement of the Appren-
Library building, Fifth and Arch
Us, but by the strenuous efforts of the
en- the flames were confined to the
tment in which they originated, which was
:pied by Mr.. John G. Kuhnle as manu-
3ry of spring mattresses. Mr.. Kuhnle
bates his loss at $500. No insurance.
damage to the building is fully covered
'hsurance.
| On Monday morning, about o'clock,
sE @. Marsh, residing at No. 1888 Locust
Bt, went into his cellar for the purpose of
hing the waste-pipe leading into the
3r in front of the house on Locust street.
3 cleaning the pipe, he took lighted
4 le and looked in it to see if the pipe was
b, when, in an instant, the gas which had
Emulated there from some cause ignited.
flames slightly burned the face of Mr..
bh. He Immediately replaced the iron
E which belonged over the top of the pipe
[ngto toe cellar, thus sending the force of
Egas into the street, causing an explosion
be end of the culvert at Nineteenth and
lst streets, and tearing up about thirty
| of the culvert.
Immediately following the explosion at
point, similar result followed at two of
Iborners of Twentieth and Locust streets,
ling the iron plates over the sewer into
ir and tearing an awning to pieces in
of grocery store at the northeast
er.
At meeting of the Merchants Fund held
'erday afternoon, Mr.. j. Gillingham Fell
be chair, the annual report was read,
cS showed that at the date of the last re-
\ the invested fund was $50, 939 50; cash
and the same date, 1898 '53; total,
tSeo IS. The invested fund now is
E,072'9S; cash on hand, $1610'O3 total,
B, ,OS3'0l, which shows an increase during
year of S2l ,849'S the same having been
lived from the legacy Of John w. Grigg,
>, and from donation made by Isaiah V.
Hanson, Esq, of $40, 254'19.
|he Ireasurers report shows the receipts
h all sources, during the year, to have
"a $1s, 7G9'90, and the expenses $1S, 1897,
which $Gl00 was paidito benefciaries, and
/, $3.50 permanently invested. The as
5 of the association invested in bonds,
ns, ground rents, ETC., are stated at
l2, ,07g'9S.
AT the session of the Grand Lodge of
lights of Pythias of Pennsylvania held
terdsy, the report of the Grand Recording
ibe vas read, showing that there are in
Stat 276 lodges, with membership of
1856, nearly 5000 of whom have been added
ing he past year During the past year
members of the Order died, and POO
mbeB were suspended for hon-payment of
% anl other causes. The total amount of
astet funds belonging to the lodges is re-
ted It $254, GOO, an increase of $40, 34G
i thereport of 1869.