Show jennie catfish dead jennie catfish is dead in the northeastern part ot of the city jennie catfish was as celebrated as the muffin man of english tame or the old chimney sweep of 0 charles lambs time states the philadelphia north american her call any catfish any catfish has rung through the streets of 0 the city for nearly halt half a century residents of 0 the northeast say they cannot remember when she did not cry her wares v acs night and day many allany remember it mingled wilh avith their childish dreams the shrill piercing long drawn out wall wail bringing a picture of a little woman who always had seemed old walking swiftly along back streets and alleys with a tray balanced on her head to the children she was jennie catfish chich was as their translation of 0 her cry to her neighbors she was mrs amelia wilson eighty years old she had been ill for some time and had be been en taken care ot of by a neighbor who the other day entered her home with a postal from a niece she found the old woman dead as the result of pneumonia |