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2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
The Third Ward Republican Club held its first annual dress ball at Turner Hall, with a grand march led by Mr. and Mrs. J. Edward Way.
Policeman Albert Keaser and ex-Policeman Robert "Bob" Miller went on trial for assault and battery on George Murray, the second case to come out of the Third Ward election riot at Third and Beckett streets; the jury in the Charles Wagner case could not agree.
The main court room was crowded with interested Third warders this morning, when the first of the criminal complaints growing out of the riots at Third and Beckett streets, on the night of July 28, last, during the Congressional primary, was taken up. It charged Charles Wagner with assault and battery on Policeman Harry Miller.
Col. George G. Felton, real estate dealer and former City Treasurer, was found dead of gas in his office in the Felton building at Second and Federal streets. The same Camden Daily Courier column reported the sudden death of Walter C. Fish, florist of Broadway and Spruce streets.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of December 22, 1898: an incorporation, a missing boy, a burglary, a man charged with stealing overcoats and captured at the Federal Street Ferry, and city officials and policemen down with the grip.
Mayor Westcott announces four members of the Board of Public Instruction and a fresh batch of new policemen, including Edward Hyde of the Seventh Ward, while asking Democratic holdovers to resign.
The Camden Daily Telegram's account of Mayor Westcott's appointments of Commissioners of Public Instruction and members of the police force, including Edward Hyde of the Seventh Ward, followed by a column of political notes.
William McCann of 124 Taylor Avenue came home drunk, slashed at his son Robert with a butcher knife and cut neighbor John Tweedy, who had come to quiet the fight. Officer Harry Miller arrested him.
A July 1, 1886 Philadelphia Inquirer column reports a deck hand's attempted suicide at the Federal Street ferry, the appointment of Harry Miller and Thomas Walton to the Camden police, and a Pine Street man held for assaulting his wife.