Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-10-06
clTY News IN eRleF.

Shoe dealers report increased sales Of
rubber shoes
Snow fell for few minutes between 9
and 10 o'clock this morning.
Schools No. 8, 16 aud 26 were opened as
night schools last night with large at
tendance.
Persons complain that there is
stsgnant water and putrid matter in the
Tenth street basin.
The Ferd Fullmer male chorus will
bold rehearsal tonight at o'clock,
at No 604 Market street
The office Of the clerk OF the Peace
is infested by Italian ieas. and it is al,
most impossible to remain In it.
Hon Thomas F Bayard has. by tele
graph, congratulated ex- President
Cleveland upon the birth Of his
daughter
The annual report Of the Home for
Aged Women shows number Of inmates
= - 90 AAaas @aa2 haa been r@a~av~a
as donations.
The Tuesday Club held rehearsal ia
Eden Hall last evening. II was the first
rehearsal Of the season. About 100 mem.
bers were present.
The schooner Penobscot, Captain Mason.
sailed from Jacksonville, Fla. on Satur-
day with large cargo of lumber for the
shipysrds Of this city.
The cold snap has caused the steam
heaters in the p, w. & B. station TO be
put into service and the conductors and
brakemen are wearing their dark blue
winter caps
Tonight Thomas b. n. Messenger, r.
G. howard, Lewis @ Young, John Long,
Robert 81 Hanna and George @. Byrne
will 60 to Newark to form a tribe Of the
Improved Order of Red Men.
Alexander Frazier. colored. at one
time a coachman In the employ OF ]
Taylor Cause, died on Sunday from
Brights disease at his home. No 10
Girard street. He leaves a wife but no
children.
Edward Seeds, a young man of this
city, was arrested while in Chester on
Saturday for ins5ructing a policeman
how to arrest a law breaker. His assist
ance was resented by the officer and he
was locked up.
Mrs Ruth Guyer. 81 years old. died at
the residence Of her niece. Miss Fanny
Jones Of No i03 Adams street on Sun
day She was a member Of Asbury
Church, and seven children survive her.
Her funeral took place to-day.
People living 10 the vicinity of Jack
son street and Maryland avenue are
made sick by the odor arising from gar
bage. which some neighbors living on
Maryland avenue throw on the pave
ment. and wish that the Board Of Health
would attend to it.
The Harlan & Hollingsworth Company
has shipped six carloads of narrow
guage car material to Baltimore for re-
shipment to Vera Cruz, Mexico. The
jackson sharp Company has shipped
three carloads of the same kind of ma
terial to New York, from whence Il will
be shipped to points in South America.
Frank @. Murphy Of this city and Miss
Bessie F. Collision, daughtor Of General
h G. Collision Of Dover. will be married
In the M. e. Church, Dover, to-morrow
evening Miss Annie Chambers OF tbis
C ty will be one Of the maids of honor A
large number Of Wilmingtonlans will
witness the ceremony.
The slarm Of fire from boz No. 81 at
o. NJ " NApsh J oSNcAANJ &AhcIuOOu WAS
caused by the burning of the roof of
bridgetender A. ]. Corners house. on
Market street bridge The flames were
extinguished by a stream from the
pleasure boat Greenwich, which was at
Shipley street wharf The damage will
amount to about $25.
Miss Mary @. / Williams Of school No
8, president; Miss Sidney Wells
OF school No. Z, vice president; Miss
Ellen Samworth of school No 49, secre-
tary, ana Miss Sophia Simmons of
school No. 8. treasurer, were elected
as officers at the meeting OF the Associa
ton of Primary Teachers, which CON
vened in Ne. school, yesterday.
Fire was discovered in the boarding
house Of Charles Nickerson Of No. 307
Shipley street, about 30 o'clock last
night. An alarm was sounded from box
No. % to which the whole DEP artment
responded. The roof Of the building was
enveloped In flames and for time it was
thought the fire would spread to the ad
joining property. 1t was checked after
causfnp 4o0Q worth ~ dumaOa