Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-05
City News in Brief

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MONTREAL, sept. s.--The Canadian Pa
cifc Railway steamship officials have re
ceived word that the freight steamship Mon
| treaI from this port was In collision VIII
British warship near the English coast
| but no great damage was done. and IN
vessel is now docked at Gravesend. tn
Montreal carried no troops or passengers.
STABBED AND BEATEN by two mer
when he refused 20 buy them drinks In 2
saloon at Front and Morris streets last
night George Sprazeofsky, 55 years old
| and a tailor living at 1919 Carlton street
| who is now IN the Mount Sinai Hospital
| may die His two alleged assailants, John
| Rutter. % years old. SO Dudley street, and
| Christopher Robinson, IS years, 1873 South
| Lee street, were held In $4,000 ball for a
| further hearing next Tuesday by Magis-
/ trate Baker at the Third and Dickinson
| streets station house this morning.
| Sprazeofsky told the police that he had not
had a drink for 10 years and that he went
into the saloon TO visit bartender whom
| he knew. when the row started.
4 COLLISION with trolley car
resulted in the removal Of fve-year-old
Mchael Barber. Of III Pennsdale street TO
the St Tlmothys Hospital where he Is
suffering from severe lacerations and con-
tusions. Barber while playing with several
companions at Carson and Main streets,
Manayunk. ran into the side Of SOUTH
bound car and was hurled with great force
10 the street
POISON SWALLOWED in an attempt
al suicide may cause the death Of Roselle
Sposorro an italian laborer. 81 years OF
age. residing at 81 East Rittenhouse street.
Germantown. Sposorro was found lying on
the floor OF his home by other members OF
the family. He was removed TO the Ger.
mantown Hospital
STOLEN SCREEN DOORS obliged SAM
uel Kaplan. manager OF the Regent Thea
ter. Seventeenth and Market streets. to
assume the role OF a detective today. kap-
Ian borrowed newsboy's hat, put IL on and
started on the trail OF the alleged thieves.
He caught UP with them at Twentieth and
Market streets. offered to buy the doors
and the men said they would part with
them for SO apiece. Bring them to my
store at Fifteenth and Locust streets and I
will buy them" said Kaplan. The movie
manager led the men to the rear Of the
building at Fifteenth and Locust streets. |
which is the police station. They were ar
rested and gave the names Of Charles |
O'Brien. 27ll North Eleventh street. and |
John Patten, 3425 Walnut street. Magis- |
trate Collins sentenced them TO 80 days |
each in the county prison.
FOUR BOYS were arrested on their re-
turn to Philadelphia. after they broke into
the garage Of Peter Cavanaugh. G and Cam
bria streets and drove his ive-ton auto
truck TO Trenton. where they abandoned IL.
The boys are Andy Voigt, 10 years old, c
street below Cambria; Thomas Martin is
years old. Boudinot street below Cambria |
william Broadley, is years old. Rochelle
street below Cambria, and Robert Dickson,
10 years old, A street above Cambria.
JOHN McQUADE, -. I7s East Hunting
lon street. accused OF slapping the face
Il Grace Holiday actress appearing
Il an uptown theater was sentenced to
70 days In the county jail by Magistrate
)ietz today McQuaids two companions, |
oseph Paul. 20. 25s6 North Howard street.
nd John II. Hepr. 81, 2401 Mascher street. |
we're held in ssOe bail for further hear
n.y. accused OF assault and battery.
A GUST OF WIND famed the flames
( a gas-burner In the home of Schlott i
herman, at 2OO7 South Mildred street.
hortly before noon today and set fire to
he kitchen. A bucket brigade. formed by
eighbors, kept the loss down to several
undred dollars.
INTERNAL REVENUE receipts from all {
ources for August 1916, in the First Dis
-ict OF Pennsylvania, amounted to Sl,23I.-
559s. an increase Of Sls7253.l7 over Au-
ust, 1915. according TO Internal Revenue
ollector Lederer. The increase consisted
taxes on fermented liquors. distilled
Dirits and documentary stamps. The pro-
lction OF beer for this one month exceeded =
lat Of August, 1875. by 72,s7O barrels.
sCALDED WHEN four-ineh steam
pe burst in the main power plant Of the
Philadelphia Electric Company. at Twenty =
'venth and Christian streets. Antonio An
elleccio 80 years old. Of 1914 Fltzwater
rect. and Devitto Hangillnto, 26 years,
632 South Reese street, are in critical o.
'nditon in the Polytechnic Hospital. The \
en- were caught in a small room when the ~
pc burst and could not be rescued until >,
e steam was shut of. h
JOSEPH WATSON, the motorman OF the u
olley car which struck and killed Albert | g
rInkner, 81 years, OF Stone House and p
ern lanes, when he walked out of the | a
enrose Ferry Club yesterday afternoon, ~
as held without bail by Magistrate ="
ecleary in Central Station today TO await
e action of the Coroner.
1T Is ESTIMATED that automobiles at | N
e rate of $50 cars per hour from Atlantic | q,
ty and other seashOre resorts, were car | \
I'd across the river by the eight PennsyI- ar
mia Railroad ferryboats in service at W
arket street on Labor Day, Although the | G,
le OF cars arrived rapidly there was no -,
q
ought up more than thirty thousand per- SC
ms from the seashore points, while the III
liladelphia and Reading carried from l6,-
0 TO $4,000 persons. according TO esti- III
ates. on
FORSTER BROTHERS store, 43s4-ss ou
ain street, Aianayunk, was partly de- 81 81
Dyed by FIRE last night. Two alarms az az
IRE sent in. The loss is estimated at CT
0 900. The fire started in a stockroom
the third floor and was confined there
smoke and water extended the damage IN
lower floors. The building had been ar
'sed since Saturday and the origin OF the in
mes Is unknown. M
WILLIAM HOoPEs, BIo9 PentrIdRe IN
eet, while working at 1925 South Walton ~,
eet. threw a paint brush in a bucket OF "a,
le. The lime splashed in his eyes and ;Tr
may lose his sight. He was taken to "a
, University Hospital ~
DOWN by an AutOmobiIs. ~,
aries Bolger, ~ years old. OF 2256 North II
Tentieth street, had his injuries dressed al