Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-01

FREDERICK SMITH, Of 1919 North
Twenty-hrst street. was Today appointed
Deputy Coroner. at a salary Of tl2OO per
year by Coroner knight Smith nils the
vacancy created when Deputy Coroner
James +. waldin resigned.
CITY HALL APPOINTMENTS today
include William Games. 62l Pine street,
Inspector. Bureau of Highways, salary,
$1,000 Ronald H. McCaughey, 2i0b East
Susquehanna avenue, rodman, Bureau Of
Surveys, salary $500. and Charles Cole
man, l45S Kerbaugh street, fireman, Bureau
Of Water salary $500
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES won over
Woodrow Wilson In a straw vote taken at
a Halloween party at the Central Y. NJ. G.
A. last night The vote was 257 to 1i9, The
men OF the association were hosts TO more
than 100 women, most OF whom we're resi-
dents Of the Y. w. c. A.. Eighteenth and
Arch streets.
THE PHILADELPHIA MINT broke all
records during October for the number of
pieces coined. The total number turned out
was 46,2Sl4lS, or more than one-fourth OF
the largest coinage in any one of the last
hve busy years The Mint has been work.
Ing twenty-four hours day with three
shifts OF operatives.
iEbih-F ULbiN0 APPARATUs, elec-
trlcal dental appliances and everything
used by the dentist of today are included
In an exhibition of the Dental Manufac-
turers' Club of the United States in the
roof garden of the Bellevue Stratford.
The exhibition will continue until Friday
SWALLOWING A SMALL NAIL at her
home yesterday Silvia womelsdorf, two
years old, of 2038 Martha street was al
tvha
or her family got her to ST. Mary's Hos
pitaL and surgeons tried in vain to save
her.
FIVE NEGRO WOMEN, living at 1910
Saybrook avenue, were slightly overcome
by smoke in fire early today on the third
moor OF 1912 Saybrook avenue The loss
was $1,000.
JOSEPH II. WIDENER entered his entire
collection of rare orchids for display in the
sixty-seventh annual Chrysanthemum Show
which opens next Tuesday In Horticultural
Hall. Broad and Spruce streets The Penn
sylvania Horticultural Society Immediately
allotted the collection the principal location
IN the hall, the landing at the head of the
stairs. The collection is valued at approxi-
mately $4,000 and will be insured.
THE AMERICAN GROCERY STORES Ia
the title of a new s1,000,O00 corporation
with Delaware charter. The concern. IL
Is understood, will deal in all kinds of gro
ceries and proposes to open a chain of stores
In various cities,
CUTTING HIS FATHER-IN-LAW with
razor caused George Simpson, 1888 North
Thirty-hfth street, to be held in 5000 bail
today by Magistrate Price. of the Ridge and
Midvale avenues station. for a further hear
Ing. After slashing his father-In-law.
George Muench, Sr, in an argument accord
ing to the testimony, Simpson was severely
beaten by his brother-in-law, George
Muench. Jr., 3461 Queen lane.
STRUCK AND KILLED by n train. N
man believed to be George Lewis, a laborer.
employed at the Philadelphia Hospital for
Contagious Diseases. Second and Luzerne
streets, was found early today at American
FOR KILLING fve-year-old John DovI-
ing ll2 Olive street. with the trolley car
on which he was motorman, william
Szymkowiak, S214 East Thompson street.
was held without bail today by Magistrate
Hogg. OF the Third street and Fairmount
avenue station, for the action of the Cor
oner The boy. who was run down at
Fairmount avenue and Second street Mon
day died yesterday at the Roosevelt Hos
pitaL