Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-13
City News in Brief

JOHN w. FORD. former Coroner. was
made supreme dictator OF the Loyal order
OF Moose by the death of Hiram Davis at
Cleveland. o. Mr.. Ford was supreme vice
dictator. and under normal circumstances
would have been advanced next July.
TOURNIQUETs placed on the badly cut
limbs OF Delaware Roy. OF 1898 Montana
street. this morning by Sergeant Harty and
Policeman Feander, OF the Fifty-fifth and
Pine streets station. to check the flow OF
blood, were said by physicians at the West
Philadelphia homeopathic Hospital TO have
saved the mans life. Roy was riding on
a coal truck that skidded through plate
glass window Of bakery at Fifty-eighth
street and Washington avenue after avoid
ing a collision with another automobile.
THE BODY Of an unidentified man was
found In the Delaware River at the foot
Of Chestnut street early today. The mar
was apparently fifty years old and laborer
DEATH OVERLOOK WALTER BEN
corky. 734 South Swanson street, char
aeter in the nelghIorhood, today as he sat
in a cell al the Third and De Lancey streets
police station awaiting a hearing on a
charge Of drunkenness. He was sitting up
right in the same position as he had been
when given a drink Of water by Joseph
Troyana, a turnkey, shortly before. The
body was taken to the Pennsylvania Hos
pitai ana then 10 the Morgue.
PRESIDENT WILSON passed through
Philadelphia yesterday afternoon. ais train
stopping at 8 SO O'Clock for a few minutes
| in the North Philadelphia station of thS
Pennsylvania Railroad. Only ten persons
| were waiting for the train when II came In
and they did not know Of the Presidents 9
presence The President did not leave the
privacy of his coach. the Mayhower.
JOHN A. SMITH, treasurer Of the Cath
oIic Total Abstinence Union for the last
| twenty-six years sent In his resignation
| yesterday at n meeting of the Archdlocesan
Union. He win be succeeded by Charles r.
| Convery a delegate of St Mchaers So
| ciety.
PHILADELPHIA DELEGATES TO the
| National woman's Christian Temperance
| Union. at Indianapolis. Ind, starting next
Friday. win leave Twenty-fourth and Chest
| nut streets Wednesday at 1890 p. m. The
| delegates will include Mrs. Ella NJ George,
| president Miss II. L. Lee. corresponding
| secretary; Mrs. Louise s. Bresette. super
| irtendent of scientific temperance instruc-
tfon; Mrs A. C. Karker, president of II.
/ r. willard Union, and Miss Annie NJ. FL
! lott Mrs. Jennie Hobson Milligan will
| attend as a Nisiter
FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN caused
damage estimated at s150 early today in
the one-story brick tailor shop and resi-
dence Of Louis Seltzer, 1O5 East Chelten
| avenue, Germantown. Seltzer discovered
the FIRE In the store when he returned home
from an engagement downtown. His wife
was asleep In the rear OF the house. She
was aroused and an alarm was turned In
| BRANDED as zone Of the meanesi
thieves known" Charles f. Hin, thirty-two
years old, Of 21S South Eleventh street, was
today sentenced by Judge Shoemaker. In
Quarter Sessions Court, TO a term OF not
less than one year nor more than eighteen
months in the Eastern Penitentiary. Hill
was convicted of stealing a sweater valued
! at IS and So In cash from Bert Collins
fourteen years old, of Wayne, Pa.
TwO-YEAR-OLD ROBERT FRITZ. JR.
in the absence OF his mother, fell out OF tn
| second STORY window of his home. GIL Bircf
| street today Neghbors found the child OF
the pavement and had him removed to th'
| Cooper Hospital where IL WAS found that h
had received fractured skull His condi
tion is serious.
CORN CUTTING MACHINE siI~v-
severed the right hand Of William Stetsor
| thirty-eight years old. OF MuIlica Hill FL
was taken TO the Cooper Hospital, and
was found necessary TO anputate tn
thumb, index and middle fingers