Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-11
City News in Brief

MILDRED YOUNG. seventeen years old,
| OF xt1f North sixth street. disappeared on
Sunday after attending church Tue girl
lived with her aunt. Mrs. Anna OcrhArt
The police have been asked to locate her
A REVOLVER sHoT. ared by himself
IN NJ OF dependency. ended the life Of
Michael Mehl. sxty-two years old, 7ia
| North Forty-slxth street. today. Tie was
found BY his wife, Elizabeth Mehi. when
sne went TO see why he did not come TO
breakfast Mehl who was a machinist. re-
Gently took vacation because OF M health.
AN ATTACK or HEART DISEASE
proved fatal 20 Miss Mary O'Rourke. sixty
| years old, Of f27 Highland avenue Chest
nut Hin. She died before a physician could
reach her. The woman had been afflicted
| TOR some time according TO Doctor Allen,
OF Chestnut Hill. who was summoned.
BEING JoLTED from the roof Of a box.
car In the West Falls freight yards sent
| Charles Bowers. twenty-nine years old, OF
sti2 North Third street. n brakeman for
the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, to
| 81 Timothy's Hospital where he ls suffer
Ing from many cuts and bruises
PETITION FROM 5000 voters Of Cam
| den that the question Of providing "A two-
| platoon system for the nre department 20
before tho voters on the officlal ballot at
1
| oeved by County Clerk Patterson. The
action In taken under an enactment of the
| Legislature Of 1915. Should the voters
adopt the proposition. city Council must
make II effective. This would mean the
employment OF about sixty additional fire.
| men.
BLANKS FOR 1917 AUTO LICENSES will
ne sent out October le TO those applying
for them 10 the state Highway Department
The advance applications enable the depart
ment TO get the license tags for January |
N advance, thus preventing delay when
thousands OF applications are made.
Civil service examinations for various
Government positions were held today In the
Postofiice Building. Residents OF this city
and nearby points In Pennsylvania took the
examinations. Some OF the positions for
which examinations we're held were for
engineer In the Indian service laboratory
assistant agricultural Inspector and Junior
mining engineer.
THERE ARE 1000 Red Cros. nurses in
tho United States prepared to serve their
country In case OF emergency according to
Miss Nellie NJ. Rennyson, head nurse OF
the Southeastern Chapter of the American
Red Cross, the principal speaker at a
meeting Of the guardians OF the Camp
Fire Girls last night In the Curtis Build
ing
THE WHARTON SCHOOL Of Commerce
~ unable to provide for students applying
for admission to the finance course In the
night school. and Dean Mcclellan has been
forced TO stop registration. The enroll
ment Is twenty per cent larger than last
year. and 1898 students are attending the
night classes. Plans are being made by
the faculty and supporters of the instltu-
tion to obtain larger building
PRESIDENT WILSON will address Phil
adelphla Democrats at Shadow Lawn Sat
urday. special train win leave Broad
Street Station at IL a. m and will arrive
Mt 80 y. m. After the address the visitors
will be received by President and Mrs. Will
son.
story apartment house at 6035-37 Catharine
street, virtually burning out the apartment
of T. c. Mahady. at 6037. and the home OF
the family Of Paul Strathem, at sO35 Cath
arine street The FIRE started In the base
ment In lockers used for storage by the
occupants OF the house. The second floor
apartments were damaged by smoke.
CHARLES NORRIS YOUNG, Of Radnor,
| Pa. has been selected as a member of the
| Art Jury TO award the prizes at the sixth
| annual exhibition of contemporary Amerl-
can oil paintings at the Corcoran Gallery
Washington. The exhibition win open De-
cember l6 and will continue until January
II.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE American Red
Cross Relief Commissions food supply In
Serbia is nearly exhausted, according TO
dispatches reaching here today. DR.. Ed
ward Stuart, director of the commission
expects the supply TO be used up by the end
Of November
LONDON, Oct. II. - Brigadier General
Phillip Howell, one Of the youngest gen
erals in the service has been killed in ac-
ton. He was thirty-nine.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Oct. 11.-Eliseo
Arredondo. Carranza Ambassador desig-
nate to the United States. and General
Juan Barragan, Carranza's chef-of-staff
left here at noon today for Washington
by way OF st. Louis.
DUBLIN, Oct. 1t.-Lord WInaborne, Lord
Lieutenant OF ireland, In an address stated
that the Irish division at the front will neeo
1000 re-enforcements before Christmas.
INTERNATIONAL MONEY ORDERS
issued from the Philadelphia Postoffice dur
ing the quarter ending October 1, decreased
s25.365 compared with the same quarter last
year. the cause being the present conditions
In Europe. according to a statement issued
by Assistant Postmaster Lister The
domestic money orders issued Increased
t30,136 during that period. total value
OF s270.2ll.Ss being transferred.
WOMAN CHASES AUTO
THIEVES AND GETS EN-
Mrs. Michael M. Ritter, Jr.,
Lands Three Youths After
Exciting Race
Most women scream when they see their
automobile In the act OF being stolen
But Mrs. Michael NJ. Ritter. Jr.s OF li0
Glenn road. Ardmore aid no such thing
today. when she saw three youths racing
away In her touring car. She pressed
another automobile into service and gave
chase that resulted In the police nabblng
the trio. hF
Mrs. Ritter, who Is the daughter OF Jo-
sept p Bains OF the Philadelphia Board