Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

HARRIS BUCHANAN was admitted yesterday
as member of the county bar.
THERE is some talk of producing the "Iast
Days of Pompeii" in an outdoor theater al
Pittsburg.
A coBBLEsroNE, harder than Victor Zektro-
cy's head. hit the latter So hard as to land John
Copcosky in jail.
CORONER MCDOWELL sent Lizzie Nolan to
jail yesterday from the hospital for abandon
ing her babe.
REV. ]. H. PRUGH, of Grace Reformed
Church, has figured out $40 sermons as bis
pulpit work in nine years.
EXCAVATION has commenced for so new
dwelling houses on the site of the old saw fac
tory on Dinwiddie street.
The Board of Viewers yesterday viewed the
ground on the opening of Atlantic avenue from
Liberty to Rosetta streets.
"WAR in Heaven" was one of the attractive
features placarded by a church entertainment
on Fulton street last night.
DANIEL MACKAY, Herman Sweitzer and
Sam Webster were committed to jail charged
with violating the fish laws
CHARLES BAER and ]. B. Youngson went to
Easton to attend meeting of the Grand Com
mandery of Knights Templar.
WILLIAM HALFoRD has been appointed
agent at CHARTERS on the Lake Erie road. TAX
ing the place of F. II. Kennedy, who resigned.
COMMERCIAL AGENT PAssAvANT, of the
Union Pacific road. scooped about S5 cars of
oil and other commodities from Pittsburg ter
Titory last week.
So 1T seems both wet and dry are to "carry
| Allegheny" Poor Ally! If she doesn't look
out she'll fall between the two, and we'll all
hear the splash.
n T. o rN.gr
| put in jail for hearing on a charge of keeping
speak easy" made by Mrs c. Cheny, of
Williamsburg.
A STEEL rail tumbled the wrong way off a
wagon at the Linden Steel Works yesterday
| and smashed two fingers of Samuel Hills
right hand.
A MEETING of the Steel Shaft Association
of the United States will be held at the Ander-
son Hotel to-day. About l. representatives
will be present
| ERAsTUs WIMAN visited the mills in Pitts
| burg yesterday morning. In the afternoon he
was compelled to omit all mention of Canadian
mills in his speech.
WHEN Law and Order League methods are
condemned in U. P. meeting, as was done
last night, it is time that one kind of 'spy-
glasses" cease to magnify.
GENERAL FREIGHT AGENT c. s. WIGHT,
of the Baltimore and Ohio road, went to New
York last night to attend meeting of the
Classification Committee.
THOMAS KELLY was sent to Jail for trial on
charge of aggravated assault and battery.
Benjamin Sultzer claims Kelly hit him on the
head with an iron instrument
A RESOLUTION to pay certain debts incurred
by the Department of Public Safety during
the work of cleaning up the Wiley wreck was
passed by Councils yesterday.
ATTORNEYS JOHN ROBE and William Rear
don went to Harrisburg last evening to make
pleas before the Pardon Board for a man
named Byers, from Turtle Creek, and one Nc
Goorlick.
Mr.. PATTIsoN, the Government Building
Inspector, arrived in town yesterday. Would
new Pittsburg postofice on account of ad-
vanced age?
THOMAS DAWSON was found early Sunday
morning in the Ft. Wayne yards with his leg
cut off. 1t is supposed he attempted to board
a freight train. He was taken to the West
Penn Hospital.
THE Society for the Improvement of the
Poor distributed in the past two weeks 623
loaYes of bread, 2S9 bars soap, 27S grocery
orders, $50 bushels coal and 130 garments; AL
families were visited.
WHEN James Hanlon of Carey alley, Southside,
attempted to settle an argument with his wife
yesterday by striking her, Officer Wright inter
fered and promptly landed Mr.. Hanlon in the
Southside police station.
CHIEF DISPATCHER CULP, of the Pennsyl-
vania road, has been promoted to Assistant
Train Master. and will have charge of the
passenger department. His superiors evidently
deemed him both Culpable and capable.
]. K. MURRAY, leading tenor of the Carleton
Opera Company the past season. and his wife,
Miss Clara Lane" soprano, with the same
company, arrived in Pittsburg, their home,
yesterday morning to spend the summer.
WHILE that furious wind blew yester-
day afternoon every mothers son of us
on the streets sought diligently and with tears
to pluck the beam out of his own eye rather
than to see or remove notes from any brothers
optic.
A DRUNKEN countryman had a woman ar
rested last night, claiming she had robbed him
of 500. b e gave his name as Harry Miner,
Armstrong county, and she said her name was
Nellie Heidelbeck She had only 81 on her
person.
MISS MARY FLETCHER alleged before Al
derman Richards yesterday that Lucy Hopkins
threatened to poison her with "Rough on
Rats" and the magistrate held Lucy in $500
bail for hearing on next Saturday. Lucy and
Mary live on Hill street.
WILLIAM LAPPIE is alleged to have mis- |
taken John Schmidt's head for a piece of iron
in Dilworth Porters mill yesterday. and to
have hammered it so hard as to strengthen its |
terry before Alderman Succop. \
CAPTAIN BRoPHY of the Lawrencevile DO |
lice district, yesterday arrested young mah |
named Owen Clark and lodged him in the Sew |
enteenth ward lookup on charge of beng imp
plcated in the robbery of Totten q Binders |
drugstore on Friday night last.
T. h. WILLIAMS, with the firm of Hugus & |
Hacke, arrived in the city yesterday from an |
extensive trip abroad. During his travels he |
crossed the Great Sahara Desert in North |
Africa, and travelled thence to Egypt, Italy, |
France and Continental Europe.
THE annual reception by the directors,
teachers and pupils of the Forbes School will |
be given tomorrow afternoon, from l:30 to $50 |
o'clock, in the school building, corner of Forbes |
and Stevenson streets. Citizens of the ward |
and friends of the school are cordially invited. |
EDWARD WILSON and Lizzie Wilson were |
arrested by Constable McNeary. of Alderman
Reillys Office, last evening and committed to
Jail in default of s., 500 bail to answer charges
of selling LIQUOR without license and on Sun
day; also of keeping disorderly house at No.
81 Poplar alley.
To help him receive the peoples tax on June
!, City Treasurer McFerron, of Allegheny, has
appointed the following clerks: Albert Smith, /
James Witherspoon, James McClarren, James I
F. Bailey. Peter Moul, Alfred Gill; Robert h
Baxter, William Purvis, Joseph Knollinger, G. /
William Gerwig, Andrew Armstrong. Jr.
SINGULARLY enough, three gondola cars be-
longing to the Canadian Pacific Railway pulled
M at Fortv-third street on the Allegheny Val
lev Railroad yesterday with their loads of
Canadian lumber. Erastus Wiman, Canada's
commercial champion, reached town at the
same time. Rolling stock from that railroad is
rare in this city.
THE special train bearing Manager c. e.
Locke and party of so people, which left Pitts
burg Sunday morning via Pittsburg and West
ern and Wheeling and Lake Erie Railways for
Indianapolis, made the run from Orrville to
o1s, I