Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-20
HITLER AND THITHER.
Movements of Pittsburgers and Others of
Wide Acquaintance.

Wide Acquaintance.
Mayor McCallin yesterday received a
letter from Fred Leughmeyer, of North Mon
roeville, o., inauiring for some information
concerning his parents. whom he has not seen
or heard of since just after the close of the
war. Leughmeyer states that he was born in
or about Pittsburg in 1853. He was raised, he
says, in utter ignorance of his parents and the
only recollection he has of them was visit
they paid him of about an hours duration just
after the close of the war. He is now very
anxious to locate them, and says he has SUBJ
scribed for Pittsburg morning paper for sew.
eral years and has written to its editor, as well
as the postmaster of this city for information,
but they could furnish none. He would come
TO look for them himself, but is ignorant of the
city. He offers to pay literally for any trouble
incurred in finding his parents
Thomas C. Carson, of Allegheny City,
who has been connected with the firm of Car
negie, Phipps & Co. for some years, has taken
up his residence in Denver, COL, where he will
represent the great iron firm and have the en-
tire stock to look after. MI Carson with his
wife and daughters, JESSIE Mamie and Mil
dred, and Mrs. Carson's sister, Miss Mary E.
Langmore, left for their new home on last
Tuesday. There was quite party of their in
innate friends at the Station to bid them good
by sorry to see them go, but who wished them
every joy and blessing in their new home.
Claus Spreckels, the great sugar mer-
chant of San Francisco, with his wife and
daughter, and Samuel Parker, his Hawaiian
car, the Coronet, on their journey to New
York. Mr.. Spreckels is bent on business His
secretary said that he was prepared to continue
the fight against the Sugar Trust.
superintendent William Hamilton, of
the Allegheny Parks, came home yesterday
morning from his attendance at the sessions Of
the Forestry Congress in Philadelphia. He
heating apparatus for the aquatic plant house.
which is to be finished by December i.
Mrs. n. P. Johnston, mother of G. W.
c. Johnston of James A. Henderson & Co.,
who has been living for 40 years in Cincinnati,
has come to Pittsburg TO make her home with
her sons on Heron Hill.
John Lewis, nephew Of the late Cap
tain Jones. has been appointed chief chemist of
the Edgar Thomson steel works at Braddock
Mr.. Lewis succeeds Thornton Burke who re-
signed few daps ago.
President Roberts and other officials of
the Pennsylvania lines, having completed their
annual inspection of the roads west of Pitts
burg, departed yesterday for Philadelphia.
IF. Pierce Kepner, postmaster of the
Union line, went to Port Royal, Pa, yesterday
accompanied by his wife, to spend month with
his parents.
Mr. Earl H. Black, who has for seven
years been a clerk in the Prothonotary's Office
has accepted more lucrative position in the
City Hall.
-Brigadier General John A. Wiley and
Major Green stopped over night at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel, and go on this morning East
ward.
p. H. Kane, prominent manufacturer
of OIL City, is guest at the residence of Mr..
Mccullough, Of Penn avenue and Thirteenth
street.
Captain Frank Ellison, OF the steamer
Hudson, is in the city for few days from Gin.
cinnad.