Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-11
City News in Brief

THOUSANDS or BLACKBIRDs which
| roasted at night In the trees on LinoenWViu
| the country seat OF DR. r. " Matt.son
the asbestos millionaire. at Amber nay nnne
been dispersed by attaches OF the es'hte,
| who nightly gathered beneath the trees anu %
fired volleys OF blank cartridges into tne
air.
PHILADELPHIA NAVY YARD win b'
In the front rank among the countrys sta. M
tions by the improvements which have peen
authorized by President wilson's signature
TO the naval appropriation bill, accorulhs
60 Congressman william S. Ware. Inc
Congressman said he would be present on
Wednesday at the hearing in Washlngton
to decide on the location Of the fil,ooO,OVv
Government armor plant and that he wouio
set forth the claims of Philadelphia.
VERDICT OF accidental death has been
rendered by the Coroner Of Delaware Couh-
~ In the case OF Josephine De Forge q
sixty-year-old Philadelphia woman, VINO
was run down and killed by a trolley car
on the Ardmore and Llanerch street rail-
way, at Manoa road, on Friday night
FALLING A DISTANCE OF seventy-two
feet from the top of a crane on which he
was working at the Midvale Steel Com
pany, Ncetown yesterday, Charles Achen-
back, OF 43l9 Hicks street, Is in the Ger
mantown Hospital suffering from frac-
ture Of the skull and internal injuries.
Physicians at the hospital say his condi-
tion is critical
STRING STREET SETTLEMENT, 1873
1926 Spring street the only institution OF
lis kind for work among the negroes In that
section Of the city, was reopened yesiei- :
day. The settlement has been closed for
several months for repairs, which have
been completed at cost of more than TWO
thousand dollars
INOCULATION AGAINST typhoid fever
has not yet been generally accepted by the
public, In spite OF its well-recognized value.
This Is shown by the recent weekly In
creases in the number OF cases. which occur
annually at this season of the year as va
cationists return from summer resorts Di-
rector Krusen says in his weekly bulletin.
CRAP SHOOTING on a church door at
Sepviva and York streets resulted today in
seventeen year-old Frank Jordan 241b Let
tery street, being sent to the county jail
for five days by Magistrate Dletz OF the
Trenton avenue and Dauphn street station.
He was arrested after chase by street
Sergeant Williamson.
A FRACTURED SKULL. mysteriously
inflicted. caused the police of the Twentieth
and Federal streets station today to inves-
tigate a report that Patrick Murray, 2026
pany fireman. was attacked By strikers at
the plant last night. He staggered home,
where he fell unconscious
THE TWENTY-FIVE BATHHOUSES of
the city had an attendance OF 10s,717 per-
sons last night. The cooler weather brought
a marked decrease in the number of persons
visiting the lighthouses. The total atten-
dance included 15444 men, 4167 women,
79,422 boys and 1854 girls.
BILLY" SUNDAY left every penny OF
his $4,000 free-will offering in Ocean Grove
for the purchase of a house and the main
tenance of a poor minister, according to the
Rev. Groves Drew, secretary and treasurer
of the Baptist Ministerial Union in an ad-
dress delivered before that body in the
First Baptist Church today. The ministers
reconvened after the regular vacation. They
will hold the regular weekly conference
until next June.
WILLIAM WEISS, who gave Eighth and
Vine streets as his address. was held in
$2500 bail for court by Magistrate Steven
son today on charge Of selling narcotic
drugs. Magistrate Stevenson was sitting
as a United States Commissioner in the
absence Of Commissioner Long. Rocco
Ferro. of 7S5 Montrose street, who is said
to have bought the drug from Weiss. was
also held in $500 bail as a material witness,
and was allowed to sign his own bail bond