Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-26
NgMs oE ouR MgIaHeoRs.
Happenings of Interest la Several states
Briefly Chronlcled.

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tary and treasurer, r. G. Carroll, Of Union.
There were no delegates from Columbia or
Hobart
William B, Rothschild. Of Hartford, Conn,
called at the morgue in New York and after
reviewing the remains OF the man who com
mitted suicide in Central park declared that
the body was not that Of his missing brother
Samuel
Nearly score Of persons, including ten
women, met at No. Gj0 Arch street phnn.
dolphin, to take part in the annual conven.
tion OF the Union of Societies for Ethical
Culture. There were present twenty-five
delegates from New York, Chicago, st
Louis and Philadelphia, in which cities the
four branch societies OF the union have been |
established.
Twelve switchmen in the Nickel Plate yard |
IN Buffalo struck because Of the refusal Of
tho company 20 discharge a switch engineer
who was not a member Of the union.
The recent sudden departure from Bloom
field, N. j., OF ex-Chief Marsh, OF the fire
department, is still ruling topic Of conver
saton in the town The friends OF the old
soldier, Myers who loaned Marsh $1,000
are indignant and talk Of appealing 70 the
grand jury. Myers takes his loss very hard
William S. pierson Post No. 5s, q. A. r.,
Of which Marsh was q member, has chat
tel mortgage on his furniture TO the amount
Of $500, and will be unable 10 get the money,
as the furniture is held in his wile's name
Lawyer Howard MacSherry, Of New
Brunswick, N. J., whose crookedncss has
been mentioned, has disappeared aud his de-
facntion Is growing 20 great proportions.
Il is now thought they viii aggregate $i5,
| 200, most Of which comes from poor clients.
| It is said MacSherry has been leading a
double life
The residents OF Sea Isle City witnessed a
very unusual spectacle Thursday afternoon.
Swimming back and forth in the ocean, "a
short distance beyond the breakers, was an
object pronounced By some 10 be a whale
IL seemed about forty or fifty feet long, with
a head bearing resemblance TO huge alli-
gator and its back appeared rough and cor
rugated It Is thought by some that the
creature is wounded and may finally be cast
upon the beach.
A trial is on In the Union county, n, j.,
court at Elizabeth which is causing deep
anxiety to many prominent gentlemen.
Jennie Wiley is defendant on charge OF
keeping a disorderly house, and spicy revela-
tions are promised
Il Is rumored in inner political circles at
Elizabeth that Governor Green is likely to
slrprise the knowing ones in his appointment
Of successor TO Supreme Court Judge
Dixon. It IS said that Leon Albeit could
have the position, but his friends are saving
him for gubernatorial candidate next fall.
Judge Kirkpatrick has been prominently
mentioned, but the man Governor Green has
ia his mind Is one whom the others have not
thought of at ALL
The senate has agreed to the house bin for
the establishment Of light ship with fog
, signals, at Sandy Hook, n. J.
The senate has confirmed the nomination
! Of George Washington Hensel to he collector
+ Of internal revenue for the Ninth district o
+ Pennsylvania.
{ Bishop Whitehead, Of Pennsylvania, as
I sisted AZ the conservation Of Rev Boyd Vim
d cent as assistant bishop of the protestan
y Episcopal church Of the southern diocese o
o Ohio at Cincinnati
Two years ago the Knights Of Labor he'll
't a convention IN Harrisburg at the beginnin
o OF the session Of the legislature, and passe
r Judgment upon the various bills that ha
II been introduced affecting the general interes
t. Of the wage Garner. The disintegrntion q
e the Knights has been SO marked since thn
o time that the order now finds itself both TO
If poor IN membership and IN finances 70 call
If convention for this Legislature. There are
4 number of important measures pendn
which deeply concern the workingmen Q
a the state, and particularly those engaged i
e the mining industry.
j. Newark fears an ice famine.
II While on his way home at night, Georg
10 Rafferty, who lives near the Belleviils
o n. j., poor house. was startled by lou
It cries for help On going to the place
b found a woman standing in the road scream
s. ing and two well built men fighting savagel
e in the mud Finally one pulled a revolve
a and fired. Rafferty, succeeded in separation
the combatants. when the under man got u
and ran. The other man pursued, and fire
again, without apparent effect Then he n
!, turned, and was about to assault the woman
hut was prevented by Rafferty, Il transpire
F, that he was the woman's husband and II
other man was her lover, and they had bee
= followed by the suspicious husband The il
T jured man later applied 70 Rafferty, for d
D. recton to Newark He was badly pounde,
s. but the revolver wound was only skin deeI
ie Jersey City detectives are following u
Is suit Of Philadelphia officers in looking Of
m for crooks. They arrested two men on su
II picion and discovered that they had two
the most expert an around crooks.
I. The meeting Of the Central Baseball leagu
y at Elmira, n. ~, was attended by repr
= sentatives from Newark, Jersey City, Elmir
HAzelton and Wikesharre Eastoh's fra
chse was declared forfeited. Secretary
r. Fuller resigned and j. NJ. Braden VI
u y elected to the vacancy Applications 4
- membership were received from Haitfor
" New Haven Worcester, Lowell, Aubu
and Shenandoah. The next meeting will
y held at Jersey City during the first week
March, at which vacancies will be filled.
About twenty-five elergymen from varso
We congregational churches ia New York, Pen
~ sylyania and New Jersey assembled in {
=. school house at Cedar Grove, n j., and {
= new Congregational church organized in th
~ place recently was duly admitted into t
hg union OF the Congregational society. Wo
me will be begun on a church cdiice in
ne spring.
vi The Hudson county board Of health a.
In vital statistics reports COG deaths during I
the last month. OF these $50 were in Jers
on City, S6 in Bayone, % in Hoboken, p
out West Hoboken, 10 in Union Hill. 23 IN Nor
els Bergen, IL in Harrison and u in the rest
'els the county The death rate N Jersey 81
the was 233 in 900; in Bayone, Isl IA hot
ac- ken, 27.g. aud in West Hoboken, 800
ain A movement is on foot among the Pass
boat clubs to have the national regatta q
year rowed on the Passaic river course.
= Samuel NJ. FELTON,, president Of the Per
sylvania Steel company and the president
~ tbe Philadelphia, Wilmington and BaitimC
did railroad. died at his residence, No ,026 w
1m- nut street Philadelphia, in his S0th year.
by The members-of which there are many
S q A., s+f.s aud ,siilotYas Of pannSyiFauia n,