Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-02-27
PHILADELPHIA AFFAIRs.
Dir. Ralph O. Smith died Thursda,
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PHILADEbPHfA AFFAIRS.
Dir. Ralph O. Smith died Thursday.
DIR. Owen Jones Wister died Mon
day.
Elk. Common Councilman John Freil-
ing died Thursday.
John O'Neill, aged 50 years, com
mitted suicide by shooting.
4 The club house of the Tioga Athletic
| Association was destroyed by fire last
Monday night.
Alice O'Donnell, aged 90 years, died
| on Saturday of burns, caused by the
explosion Of lamp.
The Rev. Charles G. Fisher, d. D.,
editor of the Reformed Church Mes
senger, died Tuesday.
Charles s. Ridgway, retired liquor
dealer, who took prominent part in
Democratic politics, died Tuesday.
Prof. Albion Dwight Gray of the
| William Penn Charter School, and
widely known educator, died Sunday.
Harry Shethauer, aged years, was
struck and killed by trolley car ut
Brooklyn and Haverford streets Tues
day.
A movement is on foot 10 erect at
Twenty. third and Chestnut streets a
building for exhibition purposes similar
to Madison Square Garden, New York.
The Rev. 4. Edwin Brown, d. D.,
has resigned the pastorate of the Mem
orial Baptist Church and accepted a
call to the Fret Church of Franklin,
Pa.
Francis E. Gilis, Jr., aged years,
1ia,l Hb,ircflav II b11pnu fnI1cn1 hV the
overturnIng Of lamp by his brother
Charles, who was also dangerously
burned.
The our-story building, No. 36
South Second street, owned and occu-
pied by A. j. Widener, lamps, china
and glassware, was destroyed by fire
Thursday evening.
Robert Smith, aged 40 years, it is
alleged, on Saturday threw piece of
blazing muslin over his wife, setting
fire to her clothing and, it is feared,
fatally burning her.
Lucy M. Chapman was acquitted
Tuesday of charges of arson in setting
fire to dwelling with intent to defraud
an insurance company and conspiracy
growing out of the transaction.
Nellie Edwards and Robert Davidson
of Chicago were committed Tuesday
for further hearing on charges OF
conspiracy to defraud and obtain mer-
chandise upon spurious orders from
John Wanamaker.
The survey committee. of City Coun-
ellis Tuesday ordered favorable re-
port of Councilman w. G. Huey' Is
ordinance to place on the city plan an
entrance to Paramount Park, beginning
, at Broad and Wood streets.
/ Councils committee on city property
! Tuesday decided, by vote of 8 to q,
to recommend the removal of the
Municipal Hospital from it's present
site to d location more remote from the
built.up section of the city.
.. Samuel f. Flood, member of the
bar and retired real estate agent ano
] conveyancer, who for many years wat
an alderman of the old district of South.
; wark and lately a member of the Boaro
, of Education, died Saturday.
Judge Henry Reed of common pleas
, court No. 8 died in the New Yorl
/ Hospital, Sunday, from the effect o.
( a surgical operation to remove clot o.
blood that formed ON his brain: He
has been i'll for several months.
Under the auspices of the Philadel
phia Section of the National Council
of Jewish Women meeting was hello
Sunday to devise means of counter
acting the activity Of Christian Mission
:, schools among Jewish children.
The Philadelphia Gas Co. Thursda,
made a proposition to Councils to pur
chase the City Gas Works. Common
Council ordered the communication
! sent back to its signers with the in
= formati+n that the gas works are no
9 for sale,
: At the annual meeting of the Phila
!. delphia Missionary and Church Exten
sion Society of the Methodist Episeopa
Church Bishop Foss was elected Presi
: dent. The total receipts for the yea
! were SCI, csc so and the total expendi
lures 1928, 763. 10.
Harry Pencil was Tuesday held IL
! await the result of tho dangerous in
iuries he is charged with having in
fiicted on John Myers, aged 43 years
! late Monday night, by striking hin
! with brickbat after the latter hat
cut him with razor.
Intending to drown himself, Philip
Christy, aged % years, Monday evening
jumped of ferry boat into the Della
/ ware river, but changed his mind after
, striking tho water, and succeeded IL
I keeping ailoat among the cakes Of ict
until pulled aboard the boat by a decl
| hand.
! On Nineteenth street above Norris,
Tuesday, trolly car struck a mule
I harnessed to coal wagon, knocking il
! down. In falling tho animal STRUCK
Michael Mealey, aged AZ years, this
driver, who was standing in tho street,
throwing him underneath the car ant
killing him. Tho mules back wal
broken.
l Councils finance COMMITTEE Mon,
i day agreed to report favorably ordi
{ nances appropriating 81, DOC, 900 fol-
. widening Delaware avenue, extending
the city's piers and improving the
+ channel; $3.50, 600 for an experimental
filter plant, and S25, 600 for an electric
J light plant in the park, and to increase
the salaries of various officials.
i The 18th annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
ton Co. twas held Tuesday. 1t was
reported that owing to the low prices
obtained there was loss of Sll, 763. OF
on coal mined during the year. The
old board of directors was reelected,
with the exception of j. Bayard Henry,
J chosen to succeed James M. Wilcox,
! deceased.
A conference in favor of the estab-
lishment of an international tribunal
of arbitration was held on Saturday.
Judge Ashman presided, and among
the speakers were Bishop Potter and
; William Dodge and Felix Adler of New
: York; Prof. John Bassett Moore of
; Columbia College, Hon. Robert Treat
: Paine Of Boston, and the Rev. w. Hut
son Shaw of England. A letter eXpress-