Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-23
CITY News in Brief

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Thomas r. Archer, - yesrs old, Of esss s,sa
| Ambrose street, died this morning IN tns ,
| CSernnantown Hospital from FRACTURED
/ skull. caused by a fail down stairs az nus
| bor1e HIS wife was at work IN the kitchen
when he called her to the foot OF the staiIs .,ls
| TO talk to her. He lost his grip on tne
banister and fell the whole length OF tne
! flight
Two lille RirIs were so severely burned
that they died after being carried 70 nos
pitfalls by their mothers Annie miller, >
| ing with matches in her home, Trenton ave
nue. and Hazard street She died IN tne
EpiscopaI HOSPITAL Elsie Rothberger,
years old died In ST. Mary's Hospital from
injuries received when she fell into kettle
of boiling starch in the kitchen of her nome
437 Flora street.
A small wooden shed in the rear OF 4es
North Second street was damaged by fre
of mysterious origin at 9 a. M today. Inc
loss amounted to 5000
one Thousand Philadelphia Foresters OF
America last night rendered reception to
Supreme Chief Ranger C. ID. Rendon, of
stockton CAL at Belmont Mansion, Fair
mount Park. He is making an eastern
inspection tour, visiting many lodges here
RanfeI Roper, e2 years old, and septlmus
Edwards, 2t years old, negro stowaways
aboard the Norwegian fruit steamship Bow
den. in port here, viii be deported to Port
Antonio, Jamaica, by immigration officials
The men we're not discovered until the ship
had passed Marcus Hook, when one OF the
engineers, looking into coal bunker, saw
one of the negroes move. Captain Naess
called for the men to como out. When the
order was not obeyed he got his revolver
and began shooting. with the result that
Roper and Edwards appeared.
''Bllly" Sunday, accompanied by Mrs.
sunday, will visit this city on Friday on
his way to ocean Grove, N. j., where the
evangelist is to conduct a 10 days CAM
paign He will arrive at Broad Street
Station at 10 o'clock in the morning, where
he will be greeted by committee OF pas
tors and laymen. Then will follow re-
ception in the Bellevue-Stratford.
Word has been received at the
Women's Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals 80 South Eighteenth
street that Mrs. Caroline Earle White, the
aged president Of that organization who
was taken Ill last Tuesday with an attack
of heart disease while at her summer home
in Nantucket Mass, was resting easily, but
still was in a serious condition.
r., A. Lundquist, consulting engineer, of
minneapolis, mas DeeH SeleCteu ny tHe Du-
reau Of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
Department Of Commerce, to study the mar
kets for electrical goods In China. India,
Australia. South Africa and number Of
other countries in the Far East. Before
leaving on the trip the agent will spend
some weeks In the principal centers con-
ferring with manufacturers, exporters and
business houses on the scope of the inves-
tisatlon.
william NJ. Coates, president of the PHIL
adelphia Board of Trade, has written TO
President Wilson on behalf of the board,
commencing his attitude In endeavoring
to avert a railroad strike The letter states,
however. that the board believes arbitra-
ton the practical way of solving the prob
lem. and suggests that the matters be taken
up by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. or under the provisions of the New
lands act.