The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-20
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Hrs, Joseph Stosckle yesterday observed
| ~ Joseph's Day.
nov. u. M Collins, we'll known evan
selist, will speak at the Peoples Mission
Tomorrow afternoon.
The primary Union Of Sunday School
Teachers will be held every Saturday at,
tornoon In Central Church.
A large number of Wilmingtonians
went down to Chestertown Today to at
tend to.morrow's Conference exercises.
4 Senator Gray has been employed as asso.
ciate counsel in defending Captain John
p, Hart In the United States Court OF
4 Appeals.
The Rev. George M. Christian of New
y ark, N. j., will conduct the annual Quiet
Day for Women to be held in St Andrews
r. y. Church on April. 1st
\ Employees of the F. Blumenthal Com.
! pany yesterday began the work of tearing
I down adjoining properties preparatory to
erecting the big addition to the plant.
Tomorrow night Rev. 7. A. McCurdy
l will begin a series OF sermons to young
I men The subject will be Startling Con-
|. trasts Ia National and Social Life"
The House Committee on Claims of the
Legislature was yesterday shown through
I the plant Of the +. Blumenthal Company
and that part of Reed street which the
Company wants closed.
Powell Clayton of Arkansas who has
been nominated TO be minister to Mexico,
4 IL Pennsylvania by birth, but he stud
led engineering in this city. Judge Thorn
as j. Clayton of Delaware county, Pa, is
brother.
William R. McClintock has a severe
attaok OF the grippe at the home Of his pa
rents near Lobdell's works.
y The Rev. Mr. Mao George of the Mari.
ness Temple, New York, is holding revi-
val services at the North Baptist Church,
Delaware Avenue and Lincoln street.
The services will be continued all next
week.
@ When q gentleman who visited Wash.
angton OH behalf Of another candidate for
the U. S. Judgeship says that he thinks
Harry G. Conrad will be the lucky man,
he must know something of what he is
talking about or else is good guesser.
A team belonging to Armour and Com
pany ran away this morning from Front
and West streets. Officer J. +. Welsh
4 stopped it at Front and French streets.
Commissioners Gallagher and Lynn
this morning sat at the Court House and
went over the books Of the Road Commits
sioners of Brandywine Hundred.
William Michael Byrnes' lecture on
"Macbeth" at the Delaware College last
evening was able and eloquent and was
listened to attentively by a large number
OF people
The numerous children who attend Du.
Point School OH the Kenneth Pike have
begun to recover from the epidemic of
measles which some one hundred were
taken down with, and have begun to
make their appearance once more at
school. Several Of the teachere were
afflicted with the same complaint.
J. r, Beetem, formerly of this city and
more recently manager of the Union and
Peoples street railway systems in Phila-
delphla, will shortly become general man.
ager of the New York & Queens County
Railway Co, which owns and operates all
ehe trolley lines in Long Island City.
Some time last June Mrs. Tomiinson of
Aelton was injured at that place while
getting off train. To-day in the circuit
Rourt at Elkton she sued the railroad com
pany for damages. Her lawyer is At.
torney Constable.
General o. o. Howard U. S. A, has
written q letter highly comp limenting
General John P. Donaboe upon the man
nef In which he commanded the third Sec
tion of the inauguration parade and for
the appearance of the veterans General
Donahoo has accepted an invitation to
command the veteran division In the
parade in New York on April 81 where
the Grant Memorial will be dedicated