Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-12
CITY News in Brief

iIo.n,tat IN the automobile Of his employer,
Iohn M. shappeIl, Of 3s0s North Eighteentn
street Physicians at the hospital say th''
johnson is In critical condition'
A tbree-foot baby shark was captured
by Mrs Ieonzo Pepper, wife OF Poncenau
Pepper, of the Tacony station, whie hshIns
| of Chlncoteague Island where MT @ SIu
Mrs Pepper are spending their vacation.
! The shark Is now on exhibition at the name
| OF Mr. Peppers father, Charles t. Pepper
| at Georgetown, Del.
The poIIce Of philadelphia and the sur
| rounding communities have been asked 10
| search for Harry Lazarus, ~ years Ola,
| former United states cavalryman, VINO mas
| been missing from his home 2blS Nortn
| MArston street, since June u. hls pare nv.
| fear he has been killed or injured in an ac-
cdent Lazarus Is a graduate OF the Ceh-
| trail High School.
Judge Monaghan, Of Common Pleas Court
| No g. has appointed Ralph Sayre Frlsoie
| receiver for the American Galvanizing COM
! pany, "A corporation. with plant at Thirty-
third street and Gray's Ferry avenue. ne
appointment was made upon the application
| OF G. Eugene Harlan stockholder IN tne
| company, who averred that the company
was temporarily embarrassed because OF tne
| lack Of ready cash. The assets OF the cor
poration, Harlan averred, are worth more
| than S25 900, which amount is far In ex-
cess of the liabilities.
Mrs. Catherine I.ippincott, 81 years old,
| was found dead In bed today In her room
| at l3Oy North Nineteenth street, where she
| lived A physician said she had been dead
! three days Death was due TO heaIl d's-
case sister, Mrs Ellen Mack, claimed
| the body.
| CHARLES Brandlcy, a policeman OF the
| Twenty y-sxth and York streets station Wh,le
off duty today. saved the life of his neigh
| bor Harry L. Claus, OF 2457 Marston street
| Claus cut both arms while attempting 10
| insert n new pane into a window of his
| home The pol ceman improyised tournl-
| auet with bed sheet, when he found the
| man weak from the loss of blood and then
sent him to the womens Homeopathic Hos
| ptal.
The Monarch Machinery Company, which
| manufactures machinery for making shrap-
| mel and shells. has purchased the buliolns
| formerly occupied by the Northern Liber-
| ties National Bank, northwest corner or
| Third and Vine streets, to be used TO store
munitions machinery
Encouraged by recent successes OF the
italian armies. Italians In this city are
already planning to celebrate the expected
| fall Of Trieste. Under the direction OF pub
fishers OF L'oplnione, newspaper com
| mittee of 100 is being formed TO organize
the celebration. Sixty members have been
enrolled on this committee, which Will have
a fund of $1,000.
| TIL, poiIcc OF the Tncony station are
| Rrappling in the Delaware River OH the
| Disston street wharf for the body or
Reuben Mackett, negro, 81 years DID, OF
| 7i65 Wlssnoming street. who shot woman
| and In fear of ynching dived into the Del
aware River. 1t is believed he was under
the influence of drugs when he did the
shooting The woman Mrs. Lille Harris
n negro 26 years old, OF the same address,
is in the Frankford Hospital suffering from
n bullet wound in the abdomen.
Today IL the ninety eighth anniversary
of the birth of Lucy Stone, pioneer suf-
fragist and editor and founder or the
woman's Journal The windows OF the
Philadelphia headquarters OF the woman
Suffrage Party 1T2l Chestnut street, and of
the Equal Franchise Society have been dec
GRATED with pictures OF the former leader.
No regular program of observance has been
made by either organization
Reunion Day Is being celebrated today by
the Sons and Daughters OF Liberty of Phil
adelpha at Hunting Park An elaborate
athletic program Is being carried out and
there s music and refreshments. There VIII
be a parade at 6 o'clock and the council
having the largest number of members In
line will receive a silk flag as prize. A
bunting flag will be awarded to the council
having the second largest representation
Two men were thrown from hucksteT
wagon and injured at Eleventh and Race
streets today when the vehicle was struck
| by an automobile truck. They are Louis
Pasteel, 81 years, Of 320 North Thirteenth
| street and George Miles, A years, S26 Wood
street Both were treated In the Jefferson
| Hospital. Michael Noel, "a years, OF 2l6
West Berkeley street. Lansdowne. driver OF
the truck, was held under $500 bail by
Magistrate Tracy for a further hearing.
Police of the FIfty-nfth and Pine streets
station rescued Mrs. A. NJ. Stern in an un'
conscious condition from fire In her home
4ls South Fifty-hfth street. The rre Is said
TO have been caused by three children play
ing with matches. Mrs, Stern heard their
cries and rushed to them. She noticed the
cellar ablaze, and the combination of smoke
and excitement caused her to faint as she
stood at the top OF the stairway. She fell
to the bottom, but escaped serious injury
When the police arrived they found the
children safe, but the flames were close tC
Mrs. Stern They had little difficulty in
extinguishing the blaze.
Advertisements have been published In
the newspapers in effort to learn the
whereabouts OF Frank C. MCGOWAN, OF sS
East Calhoun street, who disappeared In
March, 1903, after kissing his wife and
little son good-by. Alexander j. Fawns
a sailor on the United States cruiser Col
umba has taken the absent husbands
place in the wife's heart, and II the ad-
yertisement is not answered, Mrs. McGowar
and Fawns will be married.
Survivors OF Baxter's Fire ZOuRves, tht
famous local organization of Union soldiers
win celebrate the ffty-ifth anniversary OF
their muster this afternoon at Lemon Hill
After rollcall at 2:aO o'clock the veterans
and their wives and daughters, as well al
the widows of deceased members, will par
ticipate in a campfire. They will have al
their guests the 81 survivors OF Company Z
OF the First Regiment OF Light Artillery
Rhode Island. 1t was this regiment thai
was supported by the Fire Zouayes al
Bloody Angle in the battle OF Gettysburg
Richard A. Smith, lI0 North Sixth street
Camden, fell dead from apoplexy shortly
before noon today at the Philadelphia Post
ohice. where he was employed. He was FOL
so years chief clerk OF the railway mai
service. six years ago being transferred t'
the Postoffioe here. One daughter survives
"POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY," CUE
FOR NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY