Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-12
City News in Brief

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A DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR bearing
phototype pictures OF Ora Lewis. twenty-one
years old Frank Lewis. twenty-five years
old, and Oscar Lewis. twenty-nine years
old, brothers. and Offering reward
OF $4,000 for their apprehension on charge
OF murder nj Wichita, Kan, has been re.
Wichita, by Detective Captain Tate.
LACK or PATRIOTIC cooperation upon
the part of property owners has hampered
the development OF the marine quarter
masters department at Broad street and
Washington avenue, according 20 a state
ment issued by Congressman William ;.
Ware. The Congressman said that real
estate owners had asked exorbitant prices
for property needed by the Navy Depart
ment for the extension OF the marine depot
quartermaster's Office, and officials are
hampered I'm their efforts TO take prompt
action on this much-needed Improvement
FALLING FORrY-FIvE FEET from .
stack at the plant OF tho Modoch Soap
Manufacturing Company, Fifty-hfth ana
Baltimore avenue, yesterday, otto Rocher,
a steeplejack. is In the Presbyterian Hos
pital, suffering from internal injuries.
THE POLICE Of the Fourth and York
streets station are investigating a fire which
consumed n box car Of loaded hay last
night as II stood on the siding at Second
and York streets The car was the third
one TO burn within ten days while walt
ing to be unloaded The hay in all three
instances was consigned 20 Walton Broth
ers, who have Offices in the North American
Building
of the Second Regiment of the National
Guard from this State, IL serving with the
Government forces At FL Paso, his place
as first Assistant United States District
Attorney will be filed by Thomas Ross. a
well-lxnown attorney OF Doylestown. Mr..
Ross was formerly law partner Of former
Judge Herman Yerkes, and was once can
didate for the president judgeship OF the
courts of Bucks County.
BOTH FEET may have TO he amputated
in the case of a little two-year-od lad,
Caspar Morridan, Of Seventh street near
Diamond. who was run down yesterday
by a garbage wagon driven by Lewis Cole
man. n negro of Woodstock street The
child is in the Womens Homeopathic Hos
pital In n serious condition. The negro
attempted to escape but a grocer who wilt
messed the accident pursued the wagon, oo-
tained the license number and had the man
arrested. . ,...
LEAPING FROM q moving train last
night at West Philadelphia Station, two
employees Of a munitions plant at Eddystone
were painfully injured. They are Walter
Salanach nineteen years old, of Bustleton'
and Russell Gallagher, twenty-five years
old, of 204 North Flftieth street They were
sent to the Presbyterian Hospital, surering
from decorations of the head and contusions
of the body.
DEMANDS FOR better working condi-
tions for jewellers will be formulated at a
meeting OF Philadelphia jewelers. Sunday
afternoon, in Brlcklayers' Hail. 7o7 North
Broad street Charles b. Minard, president
of local No. $4,000, of Newark, N. j.. will
speak.
BLACKSMITH, a printer and n ply
slcal culture expert are wanted by the
Board Of Education as instructors The
salaries for all three positions will be $500
a year 70 start. and for 10 years the sti-
pend will be gradually increased TO S1400.
The successful applicants will teach chill
dren under sixteen years old who attend
continuation classes.
IN AN ATTEMPT to levy the house
hold goods of Jasper Paluski, 1900 Cayuga
street, for unpaid rent Constable E. NJ
Slemmer was attacked by the man and his
wife, armed with an iron bar and hammer.
II is charged. He managed to hold his own
until Detective Dougherty, of the Thirty
arrested the couple who were held by
Magistrate Pennock in $500 bail to keep
the peace. Paluslsl owed s16, of which he
paid only 81 before he tried to move.
ACCUSED OF BEATING and robbing n
companion whom they then left lying in the
street, Ernest Price. 245 Rittenhouse street.
and John Briscoe, 5S23 Baynton street,
Germantown. were arraigned before Magis-
trate Pennock this morning and held with
out bail for court. Their alleged victim
was Frederick Newcomb. 1870 East Sharp
mack street, and the amount taken $15.67.
Policeman McKale, OF the Germantown sta
tlon, made the arrests.
DIR. THOMAS EDWARDS, of zoe South
Forty-seventh street. first lieutenant in the
United States Army Medical Reserve, has
left this city for Fort Sam Houston, Tex,
where, with nine other surgeons from other
eastern cities. he will spend several months
attending TO the medical and surgical needs
OF the men on the border.
UNCONSCIOUS SIXTY HOURS, Patrick
Murray. thirty-eight years old, of 202e
South Norwood street. died to-day in St
Agness Hospital from hemorrhage of the
brain. Employed night watchman at the
Atlantic Refining Company. he was injured
there in some way Saturday night. The
police are investigating.
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