Evening journal., 1891-08-14
CITY NEWS IN eRlEE.

The Y. M. G. a. managers have set
apart Monday and Friday evenings for
foot bali practice.
Peaches sold at % TO 70 cents basket |
in the local market yesterday. Bartlett |
pears sold at 90 cents basket.
The old colored folks who went to
Pennsgrove, N. j., yesterday. on their
annua. excursion had an enjoyable time.
Officer Beale chased burglar from
Twelfth aud West streets last night. but
the burglar knew the rounds better than
the officer and escaped
The Delaware Railroad carried 100 car
loads of peaches yesterday Thirteen
car loads came to Wilmington The total
for the season is sos car loads.
Richard Boeck. fireman on the p, w.
& railroad has poisoned his hand by
allowing acid to get into a cut he was
using the acid TO clean his engine
Plans for the B. & o. overhead bridge
at Lancaster avenue are completed As
soon as the plans are approved work upon
the bridge, and its approaches will begin.
Two freight cars were derailed at the
foot OF East Eighth street yesterday
afternoon. signal post was broken off
and the northbound track was blocked
for an hour
The George w. Bush & Sons Company
used their new coal elevator this morn
ing for the first time. Three carloads Of
coal were placed In it, and it worked very
satisfactorily.
officer Gainor found little year-old
Willie KeRrney on the streets near
Eleventh street bridge, yesterday, and
carried him to his home at Fifth and
Tatnall streets.
The Front and Union Street Railway
Company have now all the new tracks
lnid from Broome to jackson streets, and
the work Of lowering the grade is pro.
crossing rapidly.
Galvanized drip pans are being swung
beneath the B q o. bridge at Delaware
avenue. the idea being to prevent the oil
from cars and locomotives from dropping
upon pedestrians.
John Dinneen. railroad laborer, who
lives at No Robinson street, had q
thumb badly crushed at the p, w. & B.
railroad station yesterday, by car door
slamming against it.
Persons having occasion to pass Eighth
and Madison streets complain that the
crowd cougregated around cigar store
in ths neighborhood make insulting re-
marks concerning them.
Elder Moore OF the Shiloh Baptist
Church has been granted months leave
Of absence. which he will spend in AS
bury Park and Long Branch. his con
gregaation will pay his expenses.
If the storm king prevented Company
f.. N. G.. D., from giving a moonlight to
Augustine Pier 1t did not prevent the
gallant soldiers from eIecting Sergeant
]. Fl. Neal to the Office of second lleuten-
ant.
A rumor. prevalent in the Ninth ward
yesterday, that two boys, Irwin Stetzsr
and William Gossom had been kidnapped
was proved to be unfounded by the re
turn Of the boys to their hs~e in the
evening.
A pot of molten brass upset yesterday
afternoon in the chop of j. D. Carter &
Co., at No. 315 East Third street. max.
ing a report like that Of an explosion.
Frank Cardwell, an employe, was slightly
burned by the brass.
Fourteen hundred persons went to At
| lantic City on the Reilly Lyceum Asso-
citation excursion yesterday. The excur-
sionists returned to this city at 30
o'clock last evening, and all we're de-
| lighted with the trip.
The Rockford Base Ball Club will play
the Quickstep Club of Chester at the
Front and Union streets grounds to-
morrow. Donaho and Langston will be
| the battery for the Rockfords The
game will be called at o'clock.
A surprise party was rendered James
Dawson at his home, No. 213 Madison
street. last evening. About thirty Eve
couples participated in the festivities Of
the occasion. The evening was spent in
social intercourse, games aud refresh
ments.
Complaint was made at the police sta
tion yesterday, that man in corn field
along Pennsylvania avenue was insulting
every woman who passed. Sergeant
! Wigglesworth and Officer Sherer and
Lorrigsn started in pursuit of him, but
he escaped
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