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Evening .journal. The EVENING JOURNAL has the Largest bonaflde Circula tion in the state.__ MuNDAY JANUARY 1890. ONE ATLANTIC CI TY, W. J. _ CAN MARCOS HOTEL, NOW OPEN. Paclflc and Massachusetts Avenues, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., After thorough houeecleantng and renova tion has been reop-ued ter the w luter ander the p«raon*l supervision of Mrs. Annie (trn^b, formerly proprietress of the Kenilworth Inn. Steam Heat. Hydraulic Elevator, Sun Par lor, Baths, all conveniences. W rite for rates. Ht.LF WANTED. WANTED—THHE* UR FOUR TRUST V» worthy men to sell Watches, Diamonds ami Jewelry on easy payments. Foremen In mills or factories preferred. Address, D1A MON DS. t his of fice.______ CALESMAN-g« A «EEK TJKIN8 OR O ders for K'umiilnm and othe good special ties anil letters for eigne, store fronts, show windows,vehtdes.»tc; ligures and numbers for honsss.hotels; elegant goods rapid BeUers,wlth growing demand; permanent employment for rightperson. WORLD MANUFACTURING COMPANY. W5. Columbus, O _ S ALESMAN WANTED—$100 to $135 per month and expenses to 1 troduce our goods to the trade. Staple line; position permanent, R ieasant and desirable. Address,with stamp. Ing Mfg. Co.. D. 53. Chicago. _ __ SITUATIONS WAN TED._ 1 )0 ITION WAN I ED BY EXPERIENCE D salesmen and office man Low salary If good chance Address BALK« MAN, this office. t _LOST AND POUND._ T 08T.-A SMALL FOX TtRRIEtt BITCW. J .(white, with black marking Lame In right eg Reward will be paid for return to BUSH. Eleventh and Market str eets._ I UBT-BLA K L ATHER BILL BOOK J containing % couple of bills and common green covered memorandum book. Return to Evknino Journal Office. hind I J. it __ RP A I, ESTATE. I rtOR KENT—3-ST RY B ICK HOUSE. 10 rooms and bath. <o. 1230 King street Apply to WHITE BROTHERS. northe.Bt corner Front and Orange street». _ P JR SALE—A FIRsT-OLABS THIRTY acre farm. Inquire of JOHN PYLE, 405 West Fifth streq^^ _ HOARD AND ROOMS. TVTEW' HANDSOMELY front room, with or * ithout board; table board; all conveniences; low rates. New Eng land Boarding House. U East Seventh St. FURNISHED NOTIOBH HAKLEH A. FEIL. FORMS RLY WITH D. P Smyth, la prepare, to do all kinds of fine watch, clock and j welry repairing at 513 Market street for the present. 1 will be pi seed call. c te have all my friends and the public CHARLES A. FEIL. KW CASTLE COUNTY. HS: THE STATa OF DELAWARE. To the Sheriff of New Caetle County, Greet lng: Whehcas. Rena Dennewll', by her Petition to the JudgeB of our Superior Conrt. filed In the office of the Prothonotary ol aald Conr In and for New r-aatle Oou ><y, for th« cause of oomplalut therein alleged, hae made applies tion to our aald Judges that e decree may be pronounced uleeolv.ug the ma rlage exi ting between the Petitioner and Willard Penue wl'l. We. therefore, command you. as you »ere heretofor« commanded, that you tummon Willa d Pennewill that he he end appear be fore the Judges of our said Conrt at the next term thereof to be held at Wilmington, on M ndey. the third day of February next, to answer the allexattona of the e Id petitioner. Kenn Pennewill, according to the Act of Akh-tii bly ln euch case in d« and provided, and also to do and receive what the Court shall then and there consider concerning him ia this behvlf as to th« Conrt aha 1 seem meet and consistent with the provlalo-a of the bald Act of Assembly. And have yon then and there this writ. witness the Honorable Charles B. Lore, Esquire, at Wllm'ngton, the twenty-fifth day of November, A. D., eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Issued January 4 line N VICTOR B. WOOLLEY, Prothonotary. VroncE.-THE COUNCIL F1KKOE THE 1« Great Council of Delaware, Jm'd O.H.M . w U be kindled In special session oa Tu «.day's a e»p. (January 7tb) at the Hit, ran In the Red Men's Wigwam, No. 617 bhlpler street, for the ß r irpo»«£ot takine action on the death of ret her Joseph Pyle, by order of the Great Bachem At est; GEORGE C. GUTHRIE. _ O. C. of R. TIIIRTÏ - FOUR TH rerlrBof block of Perpelutl Savings anil Loan Aaaociaiiou lsuow being Maned first pay ment dae Tuesday, January 7th, I8M Hhares can be obtained at any time on application to the secret-rj .office northeaetcorner Fifth and Hhlpley etreets. open Tuesday and Friday evening«. LEA PUoEY, Pre«ldeut. William H. Gibbons, Hecretarv. OTICE - THE N rp IE COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE X existing and carrying os business under • he firm Dame of A. L Alnscow A Co., at No. 802 Market street, Wilmiugton, Delaware, and at No 100 East Fourth street, ia said city, b«a this day be-n dis olved and terminate;;. The undersigned will condact the business of keeping a restaurant and cafe, and alan t e wholesale and retail oyster business at No. 80S Market street. All notified that the undersigned will not be resp .nslbie f r any debts o' claims hereafter contracte J In the uame of the late firm of A. L. Alnscow & Co. persons are hereb ALFRED L. ATNSCOW. Wilmington, Del., Janu »ry 2,18W'>. N otice h bereby given that my wife ha« left my hou-e and all persona are forbidden to trust her on my account. Jan . 8,1896 ■\roflCE-ELECTION. lx Central national Bank 1 or Wilmington, > Wilmington, D»l„ December 10. 1895. | The annual election for directors of the Bank will be held at tho ba' k'ng bouse, on Tuesday, January 14, ltkO, betwe-n the hours of 12o'clock noon and 2o'clock p. m. H. P. R UM FO-tD, Cashier. I ADIE ! Chlche-ter'a "ngllsh Pennyroyal J Pills (Diamond Brand) a r e the best. Safe, reliable. Take no other, .-«end 4c, stamps, for particulars. "Relief for Ladles," Iu letter by return mall. At druggist*. Chichester Chemi cil Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. CHAULES N. HUB CRT. BPBICTBa OABDB flOTO THE WILMINGTON PHOTO U Company's new gallery. Finest In city. Gieat redaction In prices. 40758 Market street , above Fourt h.__ EWING MACHINES, O'DONALD. 12 East Seventh street, leads them all In low pricee. Brand new $80 machines reduced to $16, $18 and $20 All makes to select from. Blnger, Wheeler », Wilson, New Home, l>o me«tlc, White, Standard and all other makes. Any machine «ent on trial, free,slx months for oaah, two years on installments. Bend postal. J. H. O'DONALD. No. U East Beventh Street. Any machine repaired. M cents up. 8 yylLMINGTON FURNITURE STORAGE EXCHANGE. All kinds of Furniture bought, sold and ex changed. stove» and heaters repaired, oil gee and gasoline stoves called nvet-baniod and returned at i onAiucea. stoves ana neater« repairea, on, gas and gasoline stoves called for, thoroughly overhauled and returned at a moderate cost Stoves taken down, stored for the season and put up In the fall Address or call, ORANGE STREET. Wilmington, Del. n UOKGELBBERUEK. M. D., . 816 MARKET STREET, Made THE EYE HIS SPECIAL STUDY In the Universities of Vienna, Austria, and Nsw York City, In the Philadelphia Poly ollute and Wills Eye Hospital. He EXAMINES EYES FREE and guaran tees satisfaction. GOLD GLASSES, $3.00, HP EEL GLASSES. toot 50 CENTS. Backed Over an Embankment. While wotkiug on a dump at Third and DaPont atroats, Saturday afternoon, a hor»e attacked to a dirt cxrt, ownad by W. F Gsngelbacb, of No 500 8oott «treat, barkad oyer lbs embaukmsut. Fortunately co damage was dour. THE SUNDAÏ SCHOOL A GREAT FORCE. Interacting Talke of William Kevno'da, International Superintendent ol Or ganization— The Sunday School Army. Superintendent William Reynolds, of tbe International Sunday School Asso elation'* organization work, arrived In this city from Peoria, III., yesterday and addrasaad tbiea meetings of Sunday The superintendent la past middle age and a very impressive »p-aker, and he Interested a large audience in West Presbyterian Church last uigbt. Mr. Reynolds said that In the United States there were 150 000 Protestant Sunday sobools, and In them were engaged as teaohers and officers 15 000 of the best officers and teachers on the planet. He believed tbe beat people in the world are In the church aud the beet aod most active people in tbe cbnrch are In tba Sunday school These teachers era teichlDg the word nf God to 11.000,000 children It Is the most important work in the community The great want In the nation waa not ao much iatelllgenca as it .was morality, tie was afraid of an intelligence which was not tempered with heart qualities I.i addition to the 11.000,000 ohlldren la Protestant Sunday schools, he said there were 3 000 000 In Catholic schools Tbs ensns shows, however, that there a e 26,000,000 persoas In tb* United States under 20 years of age What wan going to be done with the other 13,000, They are the ones for whom pealtentlarles would have te be built and courts maintained. It it cheaper he said, to build a Sunday schsol at on* end of the road or a prison and a gallowa at tbs other end Mr R.yuolde concluded by a tonching reference to Joseph Pyle, xhas# bedside, he said ha had left bnt a few momenta before Joseph Pyle, he aald, was one »f beet men he ever knew and had left be bind him a reoord of which any man might be prond. Fchool worker«. 000 CAPTAIN CAMT'S MURDER, NOTHING NEW DEVELOPED AT THE CORONER'S INQUEST. The Ten-pound Hledge-hammer Used By the Murderer Wee Restored to Its Place Alter Being Used—Remains Bent to the Captain's Lata Home at Goshen, Salem County. Elkton.MJ ,Jan 6.—The coroner'» jury at Cheeaprake City rendered a verdict that Cep'ain Thomas Cemt, of the schooner Mauawa, waa killed last Tbnrs dav night by "some person or persona nnknown ; that the wonud* upon the head were inflicted by a sledge-hammer or some blunt instrument, and that tbe motive for the crime was robbery " The last time Cemt was seen alive was on Thursday evening abont 5 o'clock at his boat. He wai then repairing a broken ehatu and doing other odd jobs about the sohooner. He told EdwlD Delbert, foreman of the drydoek. that he wanted to pay tbe oosts of repairs and showed Delbert some mousy, whleh ha etid, he thought was ab <nt $50 Another witness stated that -Cemt bad said he had an Invltatt "t to attend a dance on Thursday »-i*h. * «host distance from town, bnt that he was not going. Nothing was brought ont to throw light npon the mystery, and tbe mnrderer Is still nnknown As Captain Camt had mide a fire in the stove In his cabin and had placed some potatoes ou to cook, the murder must have been committed before 9 o'clock. After this hoar It was moonlight. Oamt was either going from his boat Into town to purchase something for his meal or else wss coming from town to hie boat when he was set. upon by the tesiasln or assassins He had to pass the door of the englne bouse In going to or coming from his boat. Tbe murder was probably eta mitted right at the door of tbe engine room, as a pool of blood there would Indicate He was then dragged toward tbe creek and the pockets rlfl-d In'he rear of a building that stands opposite the engine honse, secure from observa tion. His pocket book, containing only a few receipts and a letter from bis eon Frank, was found a few feet from this spot. As bis face was all bruised and scratched It Is llkaly that be was dragged with his face to th* ground The hammer nsed by tbe mnrderer was a ten pound sledge hammer belonging to tbe engine honee. which w^s restored to its place after being usrd The fact that the building wee sat ir • ated with oil enggeit* th* theory that the murderer was going to take Camt, to his boat, and then eUnrated the boat with oil and fire It. Tue oil wav on a high enelf. After geling It down the murderer mast, have tripped In the dark over an iron rod that extends aoross tbe room and spilled the nil. The mlshao. it Is thought, mast bave suggested the change of plan to throwing tbe corpse overboard A bnneh of keys wae found last night In the center of Chesapeake City which were Identified as belonging to Oaptaiu Camt. The remains were prepared for bnrlal and yesterday were sent to Captain Camt'e home, at Goshen, Salem county. New Jersey Hie sou. Frank Oamt. came on yesterday and proceeded t* Ousts pease City. He said bis father had abont $150 with him tbe day before Christmas. This was tbe day bis son left him at Chesapsaae City The Royal Stove Lifters on the Oavpat. Tbe Royal Order of Anolent Stove Lifters, composed of jovial members of the looal police force, will begin their season's operation* In a few days, when the annual ehctlon will be held The officers now are: Royal poker, R W Chambers; Imperial teokerof th* centre joint, John Little; oonneoter of the regal elbow, Harnuel Durney ; controller of i he for* lege, Georg* Blaok ; controller of the biud lege, Thomas F Bailev ; oarrier of the royal coart plaster, Frank Kane; gnardian of the kids, Frank Stout; supervisor of the ooal bole, Charles Thomas; keeper of the pantry key, Bernard J. MoVey; holder of the imperial corkscrew, Frank W. Hyland The place selected for tbe Initial moving will be announced later. The Pioneer Will Bring Bar Hare. Ths schooner Gertrud* Abbott, from Feruandina for Wilmington, wav sighted yesterday, anchored off Holly Beach, on the coast of New Jersey. She wa* atortn bound and will procréa to her destination, iu taw of tha tug Pioneer aa soon as the weather permits. « GREAT MAN HAS FALLEN Joseph Pyle Stricken Down in a Sunday School. HI8 FUNERAL ON WEDNESDAY Servleea Over the Beloved end Bénéfi cient Bfleu'a Remetua to lie Conducted et Ccder Grove llj Kava. Terrj, Berrett end Murrey, All Former Pastors—Mr Pyls'a Cotlrlnjc Servie« to Hla Church, City, Borne end Fellowmen. While engaged in bis favorite work of life—in tbs Sunday school, Joseph Pyle was yesterday stricken down ana died si "Cedar Grove,'' his baudsome home, at Front and Union streets, lest evening at 7.80 of paralysis. Mr Pyle, though Indisposed from tbe effect of recent attacks yesterday accent panlad William Reynolds, tbe celebrated Weetern Sunday school worker, in. his vielte to the Reformed Eplsoopaloburohes of the Covenant and Redeemer, Hanovei Presbyterian Cbnrch, at each of which churches he made addresses with Mr Reynolds In eaoh of these Sunday schools Mr. Pyle was deeply interested In the work. At Hanover Church he spoke with mach feeling nolde was making his address at Hauover Church Mr. Pyle waa taken ill, and at the close had to be assisted to hie carriage On hie arrival home Mr. Pyle was com palled to go to bed, and Dr. J H Rile was summoned. At 4 30 o'clock he be cam' unconscious. St Paul's Church In Mourning. Imm-dlately after tbe announcement of their beloved associate's death watt made by Pastor Terry in St. Paul's Church last night, a meeting of the -ffiotal board was held and a resolution was adopted requesting the family to allow tbs funeral of Ur Pyle to take place from the ehnrob. It was also decided to drape the cbnrch in mourn ing A special meeting of tbe trustees has been called for this evening at 8 o'olock At the same time a meeting of the Bnuday school teacher's association of the cbnrch will be held Tbe officiel board last night appointed Rev, T E Terry, 8 H Bayuard and J«m9s J Wyatt a committee to represent the ohurch and to confer with the family In teferenoe to the funeral It was also decided to hold m-mortal services in the oharoh on 8nnday next Funeral of the »«loved Man. Services will be held at tbe 1st« reel deuce of the deceased, Cedar Grove, Lancaster and Grant avennes on Wed needs y afternoon at Ir, Is expected that the honee will be throngtd with churchmen, lodge official* and members. Rev. Thomas E. Terry, pastor of 8t. Paul's M E. Cbnrch and a warm personal Mend of Mr. Pyle, will conduct tbe ssrvic-s He will be assisted by Rev L tris E. Barrett D D, presiding elder of Wllmlugtou district, and Rev. W. L. 8. Murray D. D, of Dovar, ex-preeldlng elder All of the ministers were pastors of Mr. Pyle's church. Interment will be mads in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery. The secret endet lee will probobly have entire charge ef the remains aud tbe cemetery services Mr. Pyle's Karl? Lite Hs was born In Salisbury township Chester county, P* , March IX, 1826, but his parents removed to this city when he was 3 weeks old. They took no their residence lu Mill Creek hundred. Mr., Pyle as a boy worked on tb* fare* In Summer and attended school ,ln Winter In 1813 Mr Pyle apprenticed himself to the firm of 0. W Pyle & Co., to learn the patent leather badness. .He received $30 a year and hie biard. Manufacturer and laventor. Mr Pyle wee the pracdoal head of tbe C. A I. Pyle Company, tbe enly manufacturer! of patent leather In the city. The business wee started in 1844 upon a small scale, on Orange street between Fifth and Sixth etreetr, but grew so rapidly that it was removed to lta present spacious site four years later. Mr. Pyle soon became president of the concern and to day the plan* covers whole aqnare, tbe olfioes being on Stx'h street. Beside this the company bonght. In 1887, a tract of eight seres of ground on the lower side of the Christiana between the New Caetle eeueeway aud South Wilmington. There It established second plant whleh has sines grown lute one of the most important patent leather factories In the Etat Tue company chips extensively to England sometimes aver aging over 500 "aides" of potent leather a week The operatives have been so well treated that strikes were nnknown to the eonovra Mr. Pyle has been acknowledged ss haviag most praetlcsl experfenee ia the manlfaeture of ptten. leather aud several years sgo be invented an invaluable "seftvnleg" machine wbleb Is now in general use here and site where. A Champion of Secret Societies. Always enthusiastic and active in th* sneoesa of eeoret societies, believing them to be a great benefit to anv commnBltv, Mr Pyle toon won th* highest esteem and ooufiJenc* of lodge man everywhere Of late years he has been k«pt busy representing Delaware in international society conventions, In uaarlv all of which he waa elected to some office In the Improved Order of Red Men he was a member of Keokuk Tribe, and waa great lDcohona* of tb* state, and held the same office In tb* Hreat Coonoil of the United States, that being the highest office In the order He had also been treasurer or greet keeper of wampum of tke Great Coanoll of lb* United States for twentv years. He was also president of the Red Men's Hell Company. He was a member of Mechanics' Lodge of tbe Independent Order of Odd Felloe s. and bad reeelved tb* highest honors both in the lodge and encampment. In the Order of Hrptasopbs or 8evan Wise Men he was snprems arobou, the highest offics In the country. Ia Politics und Public Life. While Mr R«y 2.30 o clock Mr. Pyle was an ardent Republican aud was mentioned as that party's candidate for goveruor of Delaware two years ago, but failing health compelled him to rsfus* any overture* to that end. Just previous to this Mr. Pyle was oboseu chairman of the greatest Republican mars mestlog ev«r held ia Wlimtugtoa which Governor William McKinlay, of Ohio, and Uultsd States Senator Higgins ^ Ai a metnbtr of Ci'y Couusil he was made atirriug spreche* faithful, alert and activa, and held sev eral Impartant chairmanahlps He was also a member of tha Beard of Education aod a* chairman of tbe Finance Commit as of that body reudered valuable aervicea for many year«. He waa always Interested In eohool matters. An Anient ru« 1 Constatant Christian. In his yonth Mr. Prie baoame a zeal ona member of 8t. Paula M K. Church For thirty vasts he baa barn supertn tendent of Its Sunday school and prési dant of tha Board of Trustees /Votive lu all Monday aohaol work, he waa oonapleous at all tbe conventlana and anniversaries. He was a most In terestlng and effective Sunday school speaker He waa president of the State Sunday School AH8oclatton, president of the Young Men's Christian Association, president of the Board of Truatesa of Wilmington Csnftrer.ee Academy at Hover, a trustee of Dickluaou College, reprexeuting tbe Wilmington Confer ence, lay delegate from Wilmington Annual Conference to tbe General Con ference at Omaha, Neb. Ilia Inexhatmtlble Munificence, Scores of churches in Wilmington have been wonderfully relieved aud helped by Mr. Pyle'a open parse The fine pipe orgau Iu St Paul's M E Church was •resented by Mr Pyle Sllverbrook M. E Church has received from Mr. Pyle and hla family about 420 000 He aleo made contributions of smaller amounts to many other churches, aud In the reesrr bard times he ooutributad largely . in eld of the poor He had long enjoyed j tbe renntetlon of tfelng one of the moat liberal men in tbe city He gave $1,000 to Epwnrth M E Church oa condition that $10 000 should be raised tbla year Mr Pyle was married In 1848 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of B. C Harris They bad five children, three daughters aud two sons. Cedar Grove, near Front and Union streets. Illustrated his love of boms Within eight of his home are tbe homes of hie son and his two daughters, the grounds so oonnected as to practically make but one plot. a a WRIGHT W4MS Til THOUSAND. Special .Jury Strack to Try the Case Between Him ; and tb* W. C. it. Company. The following special jnrors have been struck to try the case of John W Wright ve the Wilmington City Rail way Company iu the Bnperloi Court next Mo day: George W Gray John P Donghtsn, James Megary, W P Richard son, Herbert Yeetss, Joseph Derrleksou, Ei Davie, George G. Herr, Patrick McQrory, William Dsakyne, David C. Roia. Jr , Namtiel Alilehs, William M. Btnekert, John B LvFevre, Jos eph Hersei, Levi 0 Hoott John W Oarrow, Clarence E Poole, George M. D. Hart, Alonzo 8 Whlttoek, Tb'imas Maloney, lsaao L Staats and William Lockerman Wright, who was a uto'orman, claims $10,000 {for injuries to the right arm snetalued at, E'evtuth street bridge on Heptember 27, 1834 by the firing places of a broken frog He will be represented by Artemee Smith. NOT FAR BEHIND QUAKERS. All Philadelphia Won the Sheet Bat By Duly Six Points. Philadelphia's team of skilled marks man dafaatad Delaware's picked gnnuers et Front and Uniou streets, on Haturday by a scant six pointa Tbe home team wae captained by Cbarlei Fehrenbacb, while Harry Thurmau had charge of th* Philadelphians. Stout and|Ewing of tbe home team each got twenty three birds out of twenty five, while Walker—for the visitors,— eint twen'.y four and Cowsn twenty three. Tb* snmsxry : All Philadelphia—H. French, hit 19, missed 6: W H Wolstescroft, 22, 8; J Heery, 21. 4; G. Anderson, 18, 7; Barton, 18. 7; J. Thurman, 19, 6; H Blonden, 22, 8; I H Wolitencro't, 18, 7; Peters. 22, 3 J. Cowati, 23. 2; J Learning, 21 4; F Whitoora*. 15. 10; N Swop*. 12 13; C. Irwin, 18, 7; E David, 20 5; Duke,22 8; Trambtne, 21, 4; MeFella, 19 6; Walker, 24 1; Pepper, 15. 10; Devoa, 21 4; Yost. 17. 8; Fortsch, 20 5; H Lindis 22.3; H Thormaa, 18,7; totals, 487, 138 Delaware State League—J. Haber, hit, 20, missed. 5; Maso*, 18, 7; Springs, 21, 4; Stont, 23 2; Lynam, 19, 0; Yonug, 15, 10; Bnrrougha. 17 8; 18, 7; Craedan, 21, 21, 4; Marshall. 22. S; 18. 7; King, 16, 9; Bird, 17, Gsorga Miller, 18. 7; Martina, 21, 4; C. Buckmaate«, 21, 4; Ewing, 23, 2: Bll derb'Cb, 17, 8; Cleaver, 23, 3; Evana, 19, 6; Mm 'll 1, 21,4; George Haber, 10, 9; Ford, 20, 6; B. Millar, 21, 4; totals, 481, 144 Uartlove. Springer, Gatighsn, 4; 8 ; Will Address the Teacher*. A rare treat will be accorded to the Teachers' Association of th* pub'le schools, to morrow afternoon, In the abap* of three addresses which will ba delivered at tbe New-Csntnry Olub rooms Mrs J. Frank Ball will apeak on "Compulsory Education" a subject whleh she has given much attention and on which aha is conceded to bs an authority and Mrs Gertruda W Nialds and Mlaa Emma Worrall will speak on • Normal School Work." Meerschaum Pipes $1. 8eu Aubou segar, at 5c. Durststn, No. 6 East 2nd street. Chin«.• ioholars Matartaln. Twenty bright-faced Calnamsx enter tained s number of thalr Aaglo-Sexen friends at a New Year's tea .yesterday aftrrnosn at tha Ohinaaa Sunday school, Sixth and Pann «treats. Tha Cslaatiala did this in return for a Chriatnus treat servtd to tham on December 32. by tbe superintendant, 'Mrs. G. W. Lyala, and tha eleven teachers of the Chinese aebool. Charged With Keeping a Apeak K«ir. Au alleged speak easy kept by Antonio Sandooe at Esst Junctiou was raided yesterday by Detectives McVay, Witall aud Hyland aud Officers Lucas and Ward, aud Baudone arrested. Ne ou* was around at tbe time, but a lot of liquor was found aud confiscated, Ha will be heard to-morrow Beautifui and Cheap, Wa have a few eooiea of a beautiful work, handsomely bound, containing sev eral hundred picture» of high artistic merit, which will be sold at $1.75 a copy, at which ia about oue-feurth the publioa tlon price. Also some copies of Ruud and j McNally's Cyelopedta at $3 25, worth ; four times the prie* atked Cau bo seeu ' at the Evknino Jojhnai, efflee. 1 ITHAS GONE TOTHE JURY Plaintiff Wirkins On the Anxious Bench. EL0Q0CHT ÂRQUMF.1TBT KN0WL18 Andrew K. Isnbora Put I« llaw Prayori of th* I'lalatlff isnd Aaked for 11,000 I)amaK*«-Pra}«ri of the City Put lu II» the City Solicitor-- Wllktua Looked et Hla Watch to See Whet Time the Ao r Meut Occurred. Tbe closing seen in the damage suit of William D Wilkins vs the Mayor and Council of Wllmlogton began at 10 o'olock thla morning Mr Hauborn, who Is associated with Mi Bird for tbe plain tif!, mad* présenta. ion of tbe plaintiff's prayers to the court. They were in effect that tbe etty waa responsible for the oou dltlon of the public streets In order to be excused by reason of »form, It must show b,yond doubt that the itorm was of such extraordinary character that human agencies could not guard against Its destructive effects, and go far enengh to connect It with the accident, City Holloitor Harmau pat In the prayers for tbe defendant: "Id case of any part of, or a plan* In, a street requiring repair, the city Is expected to use only an ordinäre and reasonable amount of diligence and celerity even )*«* being required of It than from an Individual "A el tv Is not an lnaurar of th* safety of ite public streets, but it* whole duty la discharged If it and its agent* exarots* reasonable car* to keep tbe streets safe for ordluary use "Even though th* city [did leave the pipe nuclostd, yet If there was an inter venlag and Independent agency such thla torrent of rain {that oansed th* linkage around the maubole without which independent would not bave occurred, then the pipe was t he remote retire of the (linkage, and tbe city Is not liable. "If the alnkage or cavity In that point of the street was at the time so guarded by barriers aud danger lights that they were visible to persons traveling along the streets, and by looking the party might have seen them, then he was gntlty of contributory negligence If he drove into the hola so marked, and he oenrot recover "Even though the defendant were ever eo guilty of negllgenoa, yet if the plaintiff hlmeelf were guilty of neglig ence or went of ordinary oare, however alight wbtoh contributed to the happen Ing of the Injury, then he cauuot reoover "In order t* prove negllgtno* establish liability neree-ary to product strong evidence to the effect that either actual or construe live notice was glreu te the olty. aud that constructive notice should not. be applied whore tbe defect lias ossj a very abort conTnnanen as municipal corpora tluus are held only to rsaauikbio care end diligence in search for highway defeats and particularly where they are conoealed by darkness ' The burden of proof is tipm the plaintiff to eonvlnee tbe jury of th* liability of tbs dofondtut for tb* elleged injury beyond a reasonable doubt, or at least by a prepondervue* of evldenoa, and If such a doubt exists in the minds of the jurors, their verdict should be for the détendant " Mr Sanborn w*at to th* jnry, and. after reviewing tb* testimony In ao able manner, Asked the jorors to rendvr verdict for $5,000 In favor ef the plain tiff. ■-a agency slnkage it Is absolutely Horace G. Knowles, associate counsel for tba defendant, then began an abl« argument for tha elty. His speech would have don* credit to on* of th* oldeat member* o'th* bar He held tbe eleseat attention of every one In th* court room while he want over the testimony In convincing and, at th* same time, inter est lug manner. Gee of his moat tailing pointe was reference to tha testimony of Wilklna, which was that, as soon as be got up from tb* borse'e body, he looked to see what lima it waa. He argned that the pipe below grin id was properly closed aud that the slnkage wae th* result of the heavy ralustorm The olty* had no ccnstrnatlve notice of the cavity, I' filled In the cavity as soon as It kuew of Its exla'encs Mr. Bird, he ssld, waa ous of there men eo fortunate and blessed with oratory that evidence, to him was of secondary importance—In faot, ond Demonethenes and He appealed to the B*c Choato jur-r* to say to him that hla eloquent argument and ingtnlons twisting of evidence were Inadéquat* to th* present emergency Ha elos*d hla ninety minuta address at 12.40 and bla elrqusnce *nd argnmant weta faverably'cawattutsd tip>u by tom* *f th* leading members of th* bar Mr Harman succeeded bltn aud argtisd before tha jnry until tb* noon rsoesa was taken. Mr Bird will close thla aftarnoon Oa application of Lawiv 0 Vandsgrlft, of eaxnael for tha olalatlff tba time for th* filing of plena in tha replevin case of lbs E. F Kerwin Manufacturing Cam pany va Joseph P Truxtou, sheriff of 8nss*x county, waa continued until Saturday, January 18 Tb* action to recover from th* chsilff $0 00) worth of cans, part of tb* assets of Morrow aud Ooulbourn, of Heaford. John M, Richardson and Brad f>rd, Vandegrlft and Byrne, represent ■be Kerwin Company aud Charles Richards. Charles M Cullen and Wil iiam M Boyce 'ba sharlff. Henry K Bringhurst, Jr., for the defendant, naked for and obtalnad a rule to show cauae why tha judgment In the rase of James Hayes va Bosz Adkins, In Magistrate Sutton's office, should not ba vacated on tbe ground that hs had not received legs! notice of tbe suit and that he owed nothing to the plaintiff, who was re presauted by T. Bayard Halse). Tbe rule waa made returuabl* on Wednesday a A Dull Dav In Court. In Municipal Court to day Frank Jouaa. colored, charged with aisaulliug Howard Chamhsri. colored. with a brick and coat*, better known fiord ' $25 Gardon was George as "Whistling Gsorga" aud Aunl* Scott, both colored, were oharged with keeping a disorderly hone* The state wai not ready aud th* case was postponsd until this svenlug The esi* of Murray Bickers against Thomas K Wilkins for atsault nailed, but the prosecuting witness had left the city aud the charge w.s dis missed. METHODIST MASTER'S ASSOCIATION Tlie Death of Joseph File Am euuoad Committee Named—Other Bti.lne.e Traneneted. At tbe meeting ofJQtbe Methodlat Miulsters' Association this morning Presiding Elder Barrett annonnced tbe death of Joseph Pyle, and a committee consisting of Rev. L E Barrett, Rev Merritt Hulburd and Rev. Vaughn 8 Colline named to draft raa ilutlons of regret Tbe association decided to attend the funeral In a body. Tbe regular order of tbs day, a paper on "Historic Christ'' by Rev. Merilt Hulbutd waa deferred to next Monday. Rev L. W La; field reported progress in the work of obtaining lallef for Kpwnrth, and tha committee ou burying tbe county poor reported progress tu its Investigation. R*aoi«tlooa And is A NEW WRIRKLE. Club« That Are Likely to Become Popular. Just Bootiah of Mpoculatlon to Make Tht tn Interesting. One of the newest Ideas to push the sale of diamonds, watches, jewelry, etc , Is that just Introduced by the well kuown manufacturing J.welry bouse of Wm G Eerie, of Philadelphia, who has a branob In this city at the southwest earner of Eighth aud Market str»*t, no stairs. By a nsw club system which has be eu formulated by Mr. Earle one member of each club gets a $65 gold watch or other jewelry to the earns amount for $2. a aecind member get* the same for $4. a third metoher hes paid bnt $6 for $65 worth of goods, aud so on until thirty two members have esch received $65 worth when on the payment of $1 eeoh the remaining thirty-three members of the club will eeoh be entitled to $65 worth of jewelry. By this system eaoh member Is gnaran teed the full vaine for hie money aud some of tha members are fortunate enough te practically share profits with Mr Eerie Tbe advertisement beaded "Join Oar Club" prln'ed on the last page will farther explain Mr. Earle's plan Irish National Alliance Elects. The Wllmlnglun branch of the Irish National Alliance wee formed yesterday afternoon in Shlsldi Library Hail, and there was a large a'tendauoe about 75 signing tbe membership roll. Judge Maurice F Wilber* and J O Sullivan, chief of tha mall delivery service, bath of Philadelphia, made able addresses The following officers were e'ected President, Owen J Hesslnu; vice pres' deut, J I). K*ll*v; secretary, John P Donaboe; treaeuer, W A Rallloy, Tue next meeting will be hell Bnndsy after noon 2 o'clock Mr. Dnleny Cuming for Revival Work. Rev Henry 8 Dultny, lat* p»ator of Kingaao d M. E. Clturob, but now of Onanoook, Va., will arrive her* this evening to begin * two wcake' revival service at Union M E Ohurch Mr. Dnlany la well known throughout th* Wilmington Conference and baa bad greet aucceas as a raward for bt* zealous ravivai woik Ills Intention» Were Not Carried Ont. William J Kelley, batter known ne ' Calice Bill" wee refused free drinks in Ooltint' saloon at Wa'*r and Market street* Saturday afternoon and started In to break ont ail tbe windows He waa arrested and fined (5 and ooat* for hla fan He did not deny the ehsrpe bnt *«ld he meant* to break alt the windows only he didn't get the obanoe Sheriff as a fthoedealer. This morning Sheriff Gillls «old the I lock and fixtures of John W Burnett, shoe dealer, No. 403 Madison a>re*t The Foster Rubber Company bought $896 vorlh. Robert O Fretm representing H. P. Hanford Co, purohrsed most of the sttek and all fixtures for $2,5tl W.«N ef Braver at Grara. The week of prayer will be observed at Grace M E Chnreh. Spécial ravivai meeting! will ba held everv evening 7 45 o'clock Thursday at 3 o'clock p. m. there will be a wowea's meeting, led by Mr* Brawn*, aud Ha urdav afternoon tbe sam* heur there will b* a general mteliag far onescratlon and prayer. a Fire In e Greenhouse.' Bvtwesn 1 end 2 o'clock this morning Watchman Hamucl J. Bock discovered fire In tho greenhouse belonging to J. Teylot Gaueo and In tha rear of his residence on Pennsylvania avenu». Tbs cent* was defective flu*, Tbe fir* was extinguished with a garden hose before mush damage was dona. _ Plash cases redoeed to close out Dnrateln's, No. 5 East Second street. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. —Tie annual meeting of the Farmen.' Mutual Fire Inauran e Company, of Mill Creek hundred, D being held at Hookeuin this afternoon. —This afternoon th» stickholder« of the Wilmington and Philadelphia Turnpike Company an# Kennet! Turnpike Company, will meet In annual session In this city and elect offlo ra To-mo-row Chancellor Nicholson will here, render a decision on a demurrer in the case u( Mertha A. Boyd v* Jaroe« Morrow, aud haar argument In the Merritt lieuse oa-e of Georg* H Mlnulok vs. Mary Merritt. This evening the Water W'tch fteam Fire Engins Company will *leot officers for the ensuing year. —'Th# remains of Isaac Henderson, the colored law office Janitor, were Interred yes terday. —HowellS. England, on Saturday, sold the three-storx brick house, No.24l Tatnall »trsot. owred by Moses W., William A. and Jo«eph A. Kenyon an# Mary K. Woody, to Moses W. Keavoa for $850. —8. J. Horn, who died In Parkersbnrg, W. Va., wax-not a rich man. Home old and worthless -took certificates .led«to the er roneous assnmpiloa. —At a meeting of the stockholders of the Wilmington Dental Manufacturing Company, held ou 8»tu-d»y.lt we* de lie« to defer until next Nalurdev farther cousldetutlon tke plan of recr«anlz*tlou,Iu orth r to give tne re irganlzatlon committee time to max* an additional effort to sscuie the adoption of th* reorganization plan recently pieseuted. —John Jacoby has Just completed building a large coal dump for tbe Pennsylvania Kail roul Company at Washington. —To-day Is th* feast of the Epiphany. —Several Wllm'ngtonlans will attend the Maryland's ■ ' Governor Inauguration Lowndes on Wednesday. —A. W. Hawks, tbe humorist, lectured the ew Ueutury Club on Nxtunlsy evening under the »»«pices of the Young Men'» Christian Asaoclatlon —Stockholders of the Chester and Wilmlng to i Electric Kallwaw Company met at the Clayton House to-day aud transacted business lets live to ths projected road. — W. C IT. U. meuibrrs of the city will hold devulloual a rvlces at their h-adquarr-rs. No. 1UU Weal Eighth stre-t, on Monday, Wednes day and Friday evenings. CHÂRGESQFFRAUDMADE Shareholder Ocheltree Files His Answer ia U. S. Court TO THE SUIT BY THE BL0E1VB1 Of the Oafiint W Hin I an ton OH aod I,«ether Coio|ieuy Against the Stooh lioldera- He CUIma to Kiev« Bought Vila Hherea Believing Them Fully Feld Vp end Nnn-eseeaslble. In the United Slates Conrt thla Ing was filed tbe answer to the bill ef complaint brought by WIMUm 6. Prlckett, receiver of tie Wilmington Oil aud Leather Company, a corporation ef the state of Delaware, against Lewis F, Adair and others, stockholders of that company The Joieph L Ocheltree, defendants, aud ia a ro umlnoux one. Iu It he dlaolelms any aeourate knewl • dge concerning the aggregate Indebted ness on the company, Wut dosa net balleve that tbe property, real and personal, of tha eon piny ha* been preperly and legally taken in ixeeatiou and mid by lta ersditora, and that It may ba possible to rtenver passerais* ef a part ef It frem tboae who elalm title by reason of jndloltl «ales mad* nu der cover of Illegal proceeding* It is aieo daalad that tha ealy remaining asse's of tha company available for tbe llqnldatlon ef the debt« are thea'i amounts due fram shareholders, but that tbe officers by tbe laenaace ef the stack have made themselves jelntly aud severally ILble for tbe deb«* eoa traoted while they were stockholder* sad (Beers, aud l ha receiver should! look to them for these debts and should be compelled to proteet the Innooent holders of stock mors» answer Is mad* by one of tkt : Dees Not Owe Aur thing. The defendant denies that he owe» *r ever did own the company any money,and that If h* Is charged «Rh any Indebted ness on the bosks of the concern, th* eutries ere false, end uurellabl* and that tbsoklef debtor* are not made defend ant* In their proper eepaelty, Tk* answer set* f. rtb the fallowing. Th* Wilmington Oil and leather Company organic d under *n eat ef cbeuer, though Its effleer* leaned up werde of 6 000 shares of th* par value of $75. ail of which expressed on their face that tbe share* of tha capital stock represented by them were fully psld end non esseselhle. That np warda of 3,000 ef that* eher** weis Issued to oertelu pereeas who were promoting and organtzieg th* company, wirhont any consideration,aud nothing sal paid into the trsaanry *u them aud that the balance ef them were 'only partially paid up and wer* leaned to the holder* on payments of sums rang ing flam $5 te $25. llueskt la Good Foltla. Mr. Oohaitrse then atatsa that be potcbxsrd fifteen rhare* fr«m B F. Jsckseu. undue stifling at tbe time that tbsy wore fully paid uo sad that he waa buying from Mr Jackson and not from tb* company That on February 11. 1889. the company by a oertalw paper written tinder the band of lie president deut ronfeabsd judgment to Daniel W Taylor, trustee, for $17,400, which judgment he bellvea waa to protect the efficera who had «adoretd oortaln notai of tbe coirpany and was au attampt fay th* poaeibl» preferment of poeelbl* ered tora, they betug etfleera, es agelnat the defendant. That tmmedlataly confession of this judgment, an effloer ef • he co r par y v.otlug as sUornay of reoord fer D W, Taylor dLeoted the Dan* of a wilt of tivrl facias, on whleh a levy waa mad* by tbe sheriff and all the personal prupvity of tlie compeuy levied on end taken in rxvcutlen for a larger rnm than it was actually werth. Not Coedaeted Lawfully. Tbe defendant claim* that tha bual ueae of the company baa not bean con ducted lawfully and with a vlaw of pay I' g Just debts, nor to the Interest of the storkbo ders That he owes nothing, aa ha bu_ght hla attek from an Individual, relying on vtatemen'a contained In the Ctrl llicetea t hat th* ahvree wore paid up aud non aasanslble, and be suggests that i b« most important defendants and tbe ones most culpable, end liable, the officer* of tbe company, hev* been omitted from tba receiver's bill, and urges that ttey bs jolued aa defendants. Chargee an Officer With Fraud. Defendant Oiheltree then sets forth t hat hela "Infoimed and believes that en* of the officers, to wit, Henry C UoDrad, hue fraudulently endeavored to aecap* bis personal liability to aald o«mp«uy by a irtnsfer of scene or all of hla stock t* some Insolvent or financially Irresponsible perton, with whom ho while an officer of said coqypauy, frandn 1-ntly contrived or si tempted a eurren d*r of annh stock to aald campany, and that this ic. aud an? other sets of a Ilka character should be brought to th# knowledge and wltbln the jurisdiction ef this h luoi-ab'e court bv an amendment ef the bill filed In 'bis nans* tbe books, ptpirs and acernn's of seid company being uow lu tbe pose»selon of the rsoaiver appointed by thla honorable court to th* end that justlc« and equity may be don* aud decreed wllb leaped to the right*, untie« and liabilities of all tha parties aid persona Intt-rasted whether creditors or debtera." Prej* (or a Decree in Bis Raver. Ia concluding, the defendant prays that the bill may be amended ao as te bring all dslicqneut end debtor effioers of tb* company into conrt for tb* par pose of making them pay all earns for which tbsy ere liable, tbet luneoent persons may not be called on to respond unnecessarily for their delinquencies end legal and official mtsdevds. He further prays '.bat after a dicree In hla favor for tba too due him as a creditor and payment of seme, he bs dismissed with hie reasonable costs Tbe officers of the Wilmington Oil and l eather Co were: President, Z James Melt; vice-president, 8 L West; treasurer, Henry C Conrad; secretary, Benjamin F. Jackson ; business manager, Johu Waluwright A a of at Mrs. M*loy Hailed At K*eton. Remains of Mrs Mary E Graham, wife of Rev J. Earl Maioy, who died at tho residence of Ler sou la-law, Dr. Millard F Oorkraa, were taken t* Eastern Md , for iu'erinenl to-day. The funeral party left on ihj Delaware rail road traih'eaviog this city at 8 13 a m.