Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-25
City News in Brief

The steamship Erlesson, Of the Ericsson
Line. was beached today In the Delaware
Canal seven miles from Delaware City,
when a large hole was stove in her bot
tom. Her 65 passengers, who were asleep
in their berths, were rescued without diff
flculty.
John Kavano, of Americ and Somerset
streets. who pleaded guilty last Tuesday
before Judge McMichael to a charge OF
assault and battery with intent TO kill his
wife, Lizzie Kavano of 1859 orkney street,
was today sentenced to six months in the
county prison.
on information obtained from those
caught in the gang of Germantown thieves
Wednesday night James Kane. 20 years old,
$500 Baynton street, was found by Detec~
tives Cory and Mcfarland in Vernon Park.
He was held with the Others of the gang
without bail for a further hearing on Sep
tember is.
The body of a weu-dressed man was
found in the Delaware River on the Allie
gheny avenue wharf early today by Luke
Armstrong, 306 West Sergeant street, a
fisherman. The body, which had been in
the water several weeks was that Of a
man about 45 years old, Weighing nearly
200 pounds, with sandy hair and mustache.
II is awaiting identification at the morgue.
Mimi, the chimpanzee owned by DR.. II.
n, I uIUeSSs IT., mas new quarters, IdlNel
elaborately equipped. at the Zoo. She has
a lot more furniture than when she lived
out at Wallingford. and II is difficult for
her to get used to it,
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, IL is eN'
pected, will come from Washington to at
tend the closing session and participate in
exercises at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
attendant to the convention of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association to be held
in this city September IL to 10. Plans for
the celebration on Friday, September 10
we're discussed at conference held Mt the
navy yard yesterday, attended by CCaptain
Russell, commandant of the yard Con-
gresham Moore president of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association and Sec
retary Sproule, of the Commissioners of
Navigation
An aged woman was rescued from her
sick bed when fire damaged the home of
Harry Finkel. 2139 South Sixth street,
early today Mrs. Finkel. the invalid was
carried to safety by her daughter, Esther,
and her son. William. The fire started
in the kitchen and spread to other rooms.
The damage was $3.50.
Assurance that the new steamship line
between Portland, Ore, and Philadelphia
will start in November has been received
at the Chamber of Commerce. In a letter
from +. C. Knapp, president of the operat-
ing company. IL was said that 20 frames
had been laid in the first of the steamships
and the keel for the second was laid last
week
with a hole in her bottom, caused by
being rammed by a swordfish, the fishing
schooner Reita has reached Boston. This
is the second time within a few weeks |
that the Reita has been pierced by sword |
fish.
Lightning, attracted to n wire clotheslne, |
killed Mrs. Grant Herring at Harrisonburg |
Va as she was gathering her washing in |
the face of an approaching storm, and then |
jumped to n doorway nearby and killed a |
neighbours child.
Two telephone linemen, l.. Il. Behrman |
and Harold Smith. while returning to York.
Pa, from Dalastown, were lifted from the |
seat of wagon during a storm and hurled |
into the road. Behrman suffered twisted |
neck and Smith escaped with slight bruises.
Excitement during n fire that destroyed
all OF the outbuildings on the A. L. Butz
farm, between Pemberton and Lewistown.
Y. j., caused the death OF Anna Lynch,
domestic in the Butz family 40 years.