Evening journal., 1898-10-14
LOClL NEWS NOTES

The literary society Of Goldey Col
lege held an interesting meeting on
wednesday afternoon.
The deck lighter David Peoples,
for the firm OF Peoples Bros. OF Phila-
delphia, has been launched at the Jack
son and sharp Company.
Who Is this New York politician
who holds such frequent conferences
with r. Eden Bach and eyinces such
lively interest in the Bach side OF the
Delaware campaign?
Sheriff Finn and Clerk OF the
Peace Foard conferred this morning
over the Inscriptions to be placed on
the ballot-boxes for use in the ap-
preaching election.
Water and sewer pipes are being
put in on Fourteenth street near where
the overhead crossing of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad was erected.
The police booth at Front and Mar
l1et streets was taken down yesterday
for repairs
The new police and fire alarm tele-
graph cable across the foot Of King
street, is now in service.
Police box No. 152 and fire alarm
box No 142, both at Guthrie's lane and
the causeway, are now connected and
in service.
The Delaware and Atlantic Tele-
graph and Telephone Company is max
ing cable connections with its new
building, at Sixth and Shipley streets.
On a claim Of sf,200 held by
Thomas McHugh, Sheriff Finn yester-
day levied on the saloon OF w. J. Wag-
ner, No. Z East Fourth street.
Yesterday the Delaware Construc-
tion Company shipped a load of mater
ial for the long trestle to Brandywine
Springs. for the new electric railway.
Corporal Edmund Barnes, of Com
pany x, First Delaware Regiment, is
seriously I'll with typhoid fever at his
home, No. 529 East Seventh street.
The managers Of the Florence Crit
tenton Home will give a supper on No
vember 3.
Track foremen Of the p. w. & B.
railroad are getting their tracks in
shape for the annual inspection on Oc-
tober %.
James Cannon. 21 years old, son OF
ex-Police Sergeant Michael Cannon,
, was buried at Cathedral Cemetery to-
b day. Services were held at ST. Mary's
8 Church.
r Grand Tyler George X. Yates, OF
n 1.-THE A. +. A. M. of Delaware, had light
, stroke Of paralysis at his residence, in
this city.
- Michael Dulcolo, of No. 92S South
r street. Philadelphia, was stricken with
J. cramps at the Fourth street wharf yes
l. terday afternoon and sent to the Della
r. ware Hospital.
= TO relieve the crowded condition Of
the schools and give seats to many
children who are now kept out oi
school for lack of room, the Board o
Education will open two rooms at No
q 6l0 Adams street.
I3 The Water Department has com
st pleted repairs to the partition wall o
: the Cool Spring Reservoir, using 60OO'
bricks and 125 barrels of cement to pu
e. it in good shape.
s. Yesterday was donation day at tn
~ Sunday Breakfast Mission, No IL
L Shipley street
The Chesapeake ana OhlO tran
which arrives in this city at 9.S3, wa
detained for about twenty minutes yes
OF terday on account Of hot box.
Rev. J. w. Ankins, of Phhadelphis
will speak at the Harvester's Mission
at Front and Jefferson streets, on Tues
or day evening, and preach on the subjeC
in Of Divine Healing"
Of The case Of Medholdt VS.. Houns
by deld Is reported to be in progress
ca settlement.
"A G.. McCausland has sold his cal
0oat to Philadelphia parties
General James II. Wilson, CON
70 mander Of the First Corps, Unite
ne States Volunteers, will be stationed q
es Macon, Ga.
The schooner Thomas Godfrey
so unloading lumber at the Pusey an
:. Tones Company.
The famous Bucktail Regiment. {
'st Chester county, held a reunion at KeI
nett Square yesterday.