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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 funeral of Mrs. Susan Moffett, wife of City Hall janitor Charles C. Moffett, was held from her son Henry Moffett's residence at 602 Broadway, with city officials serving as pall bearers and interment in Harleigh Cemetery.
Frank Yeager, arrested for selling liquor to minors at Locust and Spruce Streets, was discharged by Mayor Pratt, who found he had bought the saloon from Christian Eppinger but the license had not been transferred.
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 19, 1891: local Camden items, including a burglary at J. Hermann's tailoring establishment at 1120 Broadway, the start of cars on the new Fourth street line, and Mayor Pratt holding William Kemble in $500 bail on a policy-writing charge.
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 1890: Camden briefs, including a robbery at installment man Llewellen B. Jackson's place at 94 Federal Street, a coal-unloading accident that injured George Burton, and Minnie Aaron jailed by Mayor Pratt on a theft charge.
Philadelphia Inquirer - December 16, 1889. Adolph Meyers, of 1109 Emma street, who attempted to kill himself late Saturday night, is locked up at the City Hall; a christening at Mount Ephraim and Kaighn avenues ends in a free fight.
A dying Thomas McDonough, of Eighth and Mountain streets, Camden, identifies Andrew Eckert as the man who stabbed him at Beideman's station, in a bedside declaration at the Pennsylvania Hospital.
The body of a young girl, Kate Gutenkunst, was found at a Philadelphia undertaker's and traced to a Pine Street house in Camden, where Mrs. Engle was held on a malpractice charge.