Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-13
P0ILADEL1uIA As1ra
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| A'spsoisl meeting +, Of, the Couscils
Committee On Highways WAs held
yes estsrday, when 10 WAS decided 10 AL
the various Passenger Railway Com
panies 70 clear spch portions Of the
st6ssts they occupy OF SNOW - ths
Chief Commissioner may designate.
The property owners on Master
street, between Fifteenth and Ridge
avenue, on Thursday evening, blocked
the passenger cars by causing the
snow which had bssn thrown on the
pavsments by the sweepers TO be
shsvel)ed back upon the tracks. The
| blockade lastec oil through the night,
and yesterday tho Presidents OF the
companies using the tracks were noti-
fed that unless they complied with the
ordinance OF Councils requiring the
removal OF snow. proceedings would be
taken TO enforce compliance.
The picker house Of Fitzpatrick b
Holt, st Manayunk, WAS destroyed by
FIRE yesterday with Its contents. invol-
wing loss of about $40, 900. The insur.
ance fully covered the loss.
At meeting Of the Trustees Of the
Gas Works, yesterday, resolution WAS
adopted directing the Chief Engineer to
examine and report at the next meeting
whether the complaints OF private con.
sumers In regard to receiving excessive
bills we're we'll founded, and, II 10, to
state the cause from which, In bis opin.
ion, 1t has arisen. A resolution locking
to the removal OF the manufacturing
department Of the Ninth Ward Works
to the Twenty fifth Ward Work; was 70.
ferred to the Committee on Works.
A special meeting Of the Board Of
Guardians Of the Poor was held ysstsr
day 1t was reported that there we're
2, 866 inmates In the House. The Com
mittse on Out Wards was Instructed to
report 1t tho next meeting . plan for
providing FIRE escapes for the Aims
house.
The bills Of indictment against
Samuel Il. Eastburn, ex-clerk in the
Office Of the Receiver Of Taxes, cbarR.
Ing him with embezzlement, we're
quashed yesterday by Judge Finlettsr
on the ground that the prosecution was
barred by the statute Of limitations.
Professor Austin Flint, ST., OF New
York, = distinguished physician and
author Of medical works, was rendered
q complimentary dinner, at the Hotel |
Bellevue, last evening, by q number OF
the leading practitioners of this city.
Governor. elect Pstt,son will leave |
this city for Harrisburg on Monday
next. The clerks In the Controllers |
Department bid him farewell yester.
day, and preseo' ed him with q large
gilt frame containing their photo.
xraphs.
Michael Clsary, the puligist, whose
application for permission to give q
yparring exhibition on Monday even
Ing at the hall Fifth and Csilowhall
streets, WAS refused by Mayor King,
will, 1t 10 said, carry out his purpose.
John Morrow, Of 953 Cantrsll street,
received . knife wound In the right
hand during an encounter with John
Lawrence, In tavern at Tenth and
rasker streets yesterday.
James E. Garter, who WAS convicted
1f smuggling iron, was sentenced by
Judge Butler, In the United States
District Court yesterday, to pay = fine
II twenty dollars and the costs oil
Milton p. Pierce, who 10 oop pnected
with the United States Fishery Com
last evening lectured before
he Anglers Association, ct Broad
'treet and Fairnount avenue, on fish
Acknowledgment IL made by Drexsl
3 20. Of the receipt Of subscriptions to
he fund for the relief of the sufferers
~ the floods In Germany aggreeating
y 1928. 80; previously ackno wlod ged,
y, $50 total, e3,l73 80.
John LaDdron, OF 1927 Morris street,
VAS stabbed In the right thigh, as al
eyed, by two men named Mountain and
cnrman, In q tavern At Psssyunk ave-
lus and Morris streets ysstsrday. The
man was taken to the Penn
ylvania Hospital.
George Sey mour, colored, who was
'rrested on Saturday last while endea.
'oring to pawn diamond brooch with
'eudants, worth q, 900, which is claim.
d to have been stolen from his employ
r, J. W. Doane, OF Chicago, was before
q daRistrate South yesterday. The
thief Of Police said the prisoner .ad.
nitted the theft. Mrs. Doane will be 9
ere to-day to identity the diamonds
nd Seymour.
The third annual meeting of the
traw bridge q Ulothier Relief Associa. '
Ion, was held last evening at Wesley
iall, 1918 Arch street. Clarkson
'lothler presided. This is a beneficial '
saociation made up of employees OF
d Clothi.r, and its annual u
Bport shows ,ts vitality and usefulness. l
is intended to hell sick members f. y
ancially, and to pay to the family r
eneAt in the event OF death. The list '
membe Is large. s
BBLI0IOUs NOTIONS.