Evening journal., 1898-04-18
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

union and TO be auxiliary TO the Penn
sylvania union.
The pupils in the eighth grammar
grade were examined this afternoon.
Two b. & o. freight cars jumped
the track at the Shipley street crossing
Saturday afternoon and broke thecross-
ing gate.
w. N. Hare. of this city, spent Sun
day in New Castle.
The schooner Horatio, of New Bed
ford, was towed up the Christiana to
the Liebig Chemical Works, loaded
with bone.
Sheriff Finn and his deputies are
busy summOning jurors for the May
term.
Six carloads of worl1men passed
through Wilmington yesterday on their
way to Bacon Hill, Md, where the p,
W. & b. Railroad Company is laying a
new cutoff and strengthening the
tracks to expedite travel.
There is talk of a lodge of the Or
der of Shepherds of Bethlehem of
North America being organized
among the women of this city.
Washington Fire Company No. z.
has adopted resolutions on the death
of Benjamin f. Strickler.
The Eighteenth Infantry, to which
Lieutenant Gordon, military instructor
at Delaware College belongs, has been
ordered to New Orleans, but he has re-
ceived no orders to join it.
Captain GoOdley took forty men,
bers OF the Wilmington Bicycle Club
| to Chester yesterday.
Two rifled guns, each thirty feet
long, from Scotts Foundry, Reading,
for New York fOrtifcatfons, and two
| carloads Of marines, passed through
this city yesterday.
The Delaware railroad is being put
| in state of repair.
p, w. & B. railroad porters have
elected William Murdoch arbitrator of
their differences.
George K. Morris, Of this city, has
been granted an increase Of pension,
and Sarah 70. Hastings. Of Laurel, an
original widows.
The janitor of A. o. U. w. Hall. at
| Ninth and Market streets, has a one
legged carrier pigeon which flew in an
open window one day last week.
The Delaware Construction Com
panys pile driver, No. 8, commenced
work to-day at the w. & N. pier.
The steamship Juniati, built by the
Harlan and Hollingsworth Company for
the Merchants and Miners Line, of
Baltimore, has been purchased by the
United States Government.
Rev. J. D. c. Hanna, pastor of
Union NJ. r. Church, yesterday preach
ed to the w. c. T. U.
Rev. DR.. Baker delivered an inter-
esting discourse to young men yester-
day at Grace Church.
"A business session of the Presby-
terian Alliance was held yesterday af-
ternoon in West Presbyterian Church.
The order of Heptasophs is talking
Of establishing a wOman's branch OF
the order.
AT the residence of her son-in-law,
A. Donoho, No. POS East Fourteenth
street, this afternoon, funeral services
were held over the remains of Mrs.
Serina Elizabeth Croft, 81 years old
The burial was private.
War rumors have sent coffee up a
= cent pound.
Sheriff Finn has issued his procla-
nation for a session of the Court oi
, Oyer and Terminer, to convene on May
l6, and try Burt Trusty, accused oil
p Numbering Frances Kelley, and Will.
liam Fisher, who is involved in rap'
case.
There was a cattle sale at Booths
Corner this afternoon.
The body of A. J. Anderson, a for.
mer resident of this city, who died il
Philadelphia, on Friday, was brough
d here to-day and inferred.
Many persons visited Brandywint
Park yesterday.
Mrs. Sarah Webster, OF Brandy
| wine hundred, gave Howard Wilson, Z
. Claymont boy, 81 for finding and re
storing to her a purse containing casl
! and papers worth s2,400.
a AT the Office of Architect J.. R
Springer to-day bids were opened TO
e building a house for J. e. Kane a
i Sixth and Jefferson streets.
e John Ireland, Democrat, of tn
Second ward, wants to be coroner.
This evening the regular meetin
Of the Delaware Historical Society will
o be held.
- The Cuban benefit netted the Gu
y ban Aid Society 1913.
The war scare is affecting the loca
morocco trade to some extent, an
n there may be a reduction OF time Il
= some of the factories.
u This evening w. L. Pettingill, 0
the Pennsylvania Bible Institute, wi
> teach the Y. NJ. c. A. Bible class.
o Rev w. L. S. Murray, D. d., dc
q lievered an address on peace or Wa
- -Which?" at the Y. M. c. A. yesterda
afternoon. Harrison Street M.
Church furnished the music for tn
meeting.
The deciding game Of basketba
u at the Y. NJ c. A. on Saturday eyenin
~ was won by the Whites, who score
IA to Z by the Maroons.
Clarence woodward saved froi
m drowning a mastiff which fell in tn
s. south side race, Brandywine Park, ye'
terday afternoon.