Evening journal., 1901-05-04
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

The Rev. G. V. Brown will remain
In Wilmington to speak at the meeting
OF the Christian and Missionary Ali-
ance on Sunday evening as well as the
other meeting already announced in
the Mission Hall. in Scott street.
Contracts for the sails, awnings
and hatch covers for the steel yacht
Can Garda, building in the yards OF the
Pusey and Jones Company. have been
] awarded To Thomas -. Wilkinson, OF
this city.
Referees have awarded Annie O'Don-
nell verdict Of $50 IN her suit for board
against Joseph Canning.
-R ~ Deeley and George w. Wollis-
craft Of the Midland Railway, of Eng
land, will shortly visit this city for the
purpose of studying methods Of the Penn
sylvania railroad and Philadelphia and
Reading Companies.
Young women Of 81. Mary's X. c.
Church gave a dance in the hall of the
Sacred Heart Church last night,
In German Hall this evening the sew
eral conclaves Of the Improved Order Of
Heptasophs will give a reception.
There was one conversion at the
prayer meeting service In Brandywine NJ.
+. Church last night.
On Monday the annual meeting Of the
stockholders of the Wilmington a North
ern railroad will be held in Philadelphia
and directors for the ensuing year win be-
elected.
Tax bills from the county tax Office
are being collected by Magistrate Brad
ley.
New headquarters OF the West End
Democratic Club at No. 7O2 West Fifth
street will be opened next Tuesday even
ing.
Rockford Park now has waiting
room, the Wilmington City Railway Com
pany having removed there the house
which formerly stood at the corner of
Delaware avenue and Union streets.
The Hebrew Charity Association IL
looking after the interests Of jacob
Roodiniski and Louis Shapiro, the two
peddlers who have been committed {,
New Castle Jail in default Of $1,000 bai
each. ON charges of murderous assault
In a match game on the alleys Of th,
Wilmington Bowling Club last evening
the Y. NJ. @. A. second bowling team de
feated the club team by thirty-nne pins
-Interment Of the body Of Charlie,
Linck was made in Greenhill Cemeter,
this afternoon
The body of Frederick G.. Meyers
who died in Camden was inferred In LON
, hardy Cemetery to-day.
In qualifying for positions on tn
Pennsylvania railroad applicants mus
answer about four thousand question
relative to the air brake system.
Seven boys of the Delaware Orphans
Home and Industrial School will go T.
Chadd's Ford tomorrow and will sing Il
Ebenezer Church.
, From the yards of the Jackson an
Sharp Company the parlOr car Ma
Queen was shipped to the Queen Anne
Railway Company yesterday afternoon.
In the Sarah White Home to-morro,
afternoon the Rev. G. l.. jefferson. paste
Of Gilbert Presbyterian Church, wi
preach.
An all-day meeting will be held ia
morrow in Harvesters Mission, From
and Jefferson streets, commencing with
testimony meeting at $50 a. m, conducte'
by Evangelist V. J. Welsh, of Chicago.
There is considerable agitation owe
Z the city tax rate and some property own
ers fear that it will be at least 1.S0.
-Lineman Frank Hyland is concealin
the electric wires that furnish the curren
20 the interior of the police station.
The annual entertainment of the pu
pills of ST. Paul's Parochial School will b
given next Wednesday evening in tn
Opera House.
Alfred johnson has returned TO hi
duties as barrel man for the Street an
Sewer Department