Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16
PHILADELPHfA AFRAIRa

GeOrGe M, hlnhloft retlreu lehIner
merchant is dead.
The Rev. W. NJ. Harrison, chaplain
of the Episcopal Hospital. Is dead
Charles Kreiger, Jr., aged IL years,
was run over and killed by his fatner's
business wagon.
Frank Globowaki, IL years old, fell
into the Delaware river, atsPlum street
wharf, and was drowned.
Alexander Moore died Wednesday Of
injuries received in being run over by
a stone wagon in Germantown.
Jefferson Medical College Alumni
have raised $40, 900 for the new depart
ment of pathology and bacteriology.
The Rev. Thomas r. Hutchison has
resigned the rectorship OF Calvary
Monumental Protestant Episcopal
Church.
Albert G. Snedeier, who sued the
Philadelphia Traction Co. TO recover
damages for personal injuries received
in a collision, was on Friday awarded
$50, 600.
George Kleinheinz has been elected
president OF Philadelphia Printing
Prossmen's Union, No. 4, and James
q. Mellon and James w. Connor chosen
d5 dbluEhlNb W lhO Ioh-
vention.
In consideration of his AZ years of
faithful service as professor Of drawing
and bookkeeping at Girard College,
George J. Becker is to be retired April
Both on an annual salary OF 81, 500. Mr..
Becker is so years old.
Mrs. Corneia Morse, wife of Edwin
+. Morse, president Of tho Morse Eleva-
tor Works, was struck by a runaway
team, while riding a bicycle on Girard
avenue above Broad street, Wednesday,
and was killed almost instantly.
A fire in a mill at Firth and Emerald
streets, owned by John Meadowcroft
g. Sons, and occupied by Thomas Mul-
holland, manufacturer of ginghams; j.
Kusner, carpet manufacturer, and James
Brenneger, shoe manufacturer, on Fri
day, caused total loss df sl0 600.
Burglars, believed to be from New
| York, robbed "A safe in tho Office of
Mitchell e. Fletcher of 5000 in cash, a
number OF unnegotiabo securities,
some jewelry and other valuablca The
| Chestnut street and the housetops.
Quaker City Lodge, Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, has announced it's
/
| League, and representatives of the
trainmeu say that the withdrawal was
decided upon because the League had
admitted to membership the local
branch Of the American Railway Union
of which Eugene V. Debs is the leader.
David Garrison, George G. Reukauff
and Edward b. Staggers, trading as
Hall IL Garrison, manufacturers of pic-
ture frames, moulding and interior
woodwork, made an assignment Fri
day for tho benefit of creditors Their
liabilities are estimated at $3.50, 600,
and the assets at about the same
amount. The firm employed about 800
hands.
Joseph Glass, a boy who was disabled
for life in 1889 by falling into a man
hole at tho Fairmount Water Works,
left uncovered, il is alleged, through
negligence of city employees, sued the
city and was awarded $40, 600 by Jury
in the common pleas. His mother also
brought suit for the loss Of her son q
services and society, and was allowed
So, 600 damages.
In his latest " confession" Murderer
II. IL. Holmes says no killed q per-
sons. He admits that he murdered b.
+. Pitezel in Philadelphia, and says
that he killed him by pouring benzine
over his face and clothing and igniting
it with match. Tho medical testi-
mony at the trial of Holmes last Novem
ber showed conclusiyely that the burns
ON pitezel's face were made after death,
anf consequently they could not have
killed him.