Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-20
PHILADELPHIA AFFAIRS.


Representative Frank M. Ritter has
been appointed Directtf. of Public
Safety.
Henry B. Blanchard, one of the oldest
upholsterers in the city, died Sunday
in his SD year.
Frederick A. Herwig, widely known
as an advocate of free trade, died Fri
Friday, aged 81 years.
The German ship Fritz, which ar
rived on Saturday, lost man overheard
in gale on January 14th.
The Danish steamer Horsa has been
sold and it is intimated her new owners
are Cuban sympathizers.
The steamer Earnwood, from ST.
Jago, was towed into port on Sunday
with her machinery disabled.
Bishop Foss Sunday dedicated the
new Chelten Avenue Methodist Epis-
copal Church, Germantown.
Thomas II. jackson, aged 90 years. a
Reading railroad brakeman, was fatally
crushed while coupling cars at Mana-
yunk Monday.
The Rev. Charles Brown, the oldest
Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia,
died on Friday, in his Dist year. He
was ordained in 1888
John Lockhart, who was serving
three months sentence for larceny,
committed suicide in the county prison
on Saturday by hanging.
Mrs. Adeeni Coleman Potter, widow
of Thomas Potter and mother of Hon.
William Potter, ex-minister to Italy,
died Friday, in her 18th year.
Robert W. Ryers, president of the
PENNSYLVANIA Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Animals, died on
Sunday at his home near Fox Chase,
aged "a years.
Contributions for the Armenian Re
lief Fund aggregating So, ,046. % have
been sent to the acting treasurer OF
the International Relief Committee at
Constantinople.
The Rev DIR. S. ID. Mcconnell has
resigned the rectorshipof st. Stephens
Church, to take charge of Holy Trinity
Church, Brooklyn. He will remain at
st. Stephens until Easter.
Deputy Constable Robert Mcclellan
was Monday held in $1,000 bail 10
answer the charge of misdemeanor in
falling to make return of collections
of delinquent mercantile taxes.
Tho james W. Queen Memorial Lii
brarv, Twenty-third street, below
Wharton was formally committed on
Saturday to the care of Hope Presby-
terian Church. whose house of worship
ii adjoins.
During a political row in Nine.
teenth ward saloon on Monday James
Turner was shot through the hand, it
is charged, by Harry W. Fell, whose
head was lacerated with bottle. Fell
was arrested.
y The Clearing House Association on
Monday defeated motion to make
Philadelphia a central reserve city. A
report favoring the movement was
adopted by the executive committee of
the Board of Trade.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
Grace Baptist Temple celebrated the
birthday of the pastor, the Rev. Rus
sell II. Conwell, Saturday, by distrihu-
ting bread free to poor families living
in the vicinity of the Temple.
The negotiations Of the Church of
the Epiphany for the purchase of the
property of the Church of the Atone
ment, Seventeenth and Summer streets,
for use as chapel, have been declared
off on account of the opposition of
Grace Church.
The Fairmount Park Commission
ON Friday directed Superintendent
Thayer to procure plans and specifica-
tions for an electric lighting plant of
300 lamps capacity in the Queen lane
pumping station, and requested Coun-
ellis TO appropriate S25, 900 for the pur-
pose
Herbert M. Frame, who sued the
Electric Traction Co. TO recover dam
ages for injuries received on May 30th
at Forty third street and Baltimore
avenue, when wagon he was driving
was struck by car of the defendant
company and Frame was thrown out,
sustaining injuries TO his spine which
will disable him for life, was awarded
$40, 600 yesterday by jury in the COM
mon pleas.