Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-24
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Trenfed.

Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.
CAPTAIN HUNT has been reelected COM
mandant of Battery B.
WANTED-A street in Pittsburg not torn up
for some new railroad.
JOHN MCCLUsKEY had his arm crushed at
French's spring works yesterday.
IT is estimated that the cost Of widening
Arch street will not exceed 5000.
R.R JOHNSON. colored citizen, wanted IN
Erie, was arrested in the East End last night.
ErHELBERT NEvIN, composer, has come
over from Boston to this county to visit his
friends.
THE Sons of Temperance met in the Warren
M. E. Church last night to start alodge for
colored men.
WIN. PARKER died from the result Of in
juries received in an accident at Lucy Furnace
several days ago.
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT E. A. FORD
left yesterday on his annual visit to his district
and local agents.
THE colored runners for the Albion and st.
James Hotel had fight last night. They were
taken to the Central station.
Posi- SO, G. A. R., accepts the invitation Of
the Sewickley ladies to attend the memorial
services on Decoration Day.
JOHN MAN1oE was iostled from wagon on
Fifth avenue above Soho yesterday, and in
jured SO badly he cannot live.
HARRY NEwMAN's watch and purse were
stolen from his pockets yesterday at board
ing house near the Court House.
THERE'LL soon be two pints in quart Of
Strawberries. Prices are coming down. The
less you pay the more you get-see
THAT Center avenue pond has about six less
feet than it had. But it manages pretty well
@ae ,%o afutv, feat
ANDREW CABLE fell from a new house on
Mt. Oliver, yesterday. He was carpenter
there. His skull and leg were fractured.
THE E. & o. will run its annual excursion to
Ohio Pyle on Decoration Day. Division Pas
senger Agent Smith expects big crowd.
MRS. MARY EDWARDS made an information
before Alderman McMasters yesterday, charg-
ing her husband, W. W. Edwards, with deser-
tion.
A BLOCKADE for 20 minutes occurred in the
Pennsylvania yards last evening" Freight
trains were held on Penn avenue and Liberty
street.
THE cantata Of ESTHER" was nicely given,
before a fairly good audience. in Lafayette
Hall, last evening" for the benefit Of the Hol-
liday Chapel.
EIGHT of the new county bridges are to be
painted. The contract was let yesterday. the
color to correspond with the nearest barn In
each instance.
AT the dedication of st. Peters German
Church Prof. Francis Lohman and the Orpheus
Singing Society will furnish the vocal music
for the occasion.
DEFECTIVE CoULsoN will arrive from Balti-
more. this morning with George Owens, the
colored man. charged as an accessory in the
Bud Lee murder.
THE delegates to the General Assembly of
Ira g.
Springfield, O., over the Lake Erie road In
special car yesterday.
The English liquor syndicare's representa-
tive in Pittsburg, James Godfrey is now inves-
tigating an offer of 81. 200 900 distillery COM
pany in Kentucky to sell.
A LITTLE son of ]. G. Logan, out Penn ave-
nue., yesterday tried to climb on farmers
wagon. He fell under the wheels, and had his
leg broken in two places.
THOMAS A. EDISON with his lawyers re-
turned to New York last night The wizard
was in good humor. and not at all fearful
about the outcome of his patent suit.
LOCAL fishing club men say they will not take
long flights this summer, on account Of the
increase In railroad passenger rates. There
will be Just as many TASKS and kegs and bar
rels of bait as ever, though,
THE Sharpsburg Tennis Club, recently organ
lied. has about leased tract of ground on Six
teenth street, between Main street and the
river. 1t IS large enough to permit the con-
struction OF four tennis courts.
A LITTLE daughter Of John Bartell, Of Mt.
Washington. swallowed two l0-cent pieces and
nickel day before yesterday. She will not
die, yet cannot live long enough to spend that
money, even if she turns century
LAWRENCE MoRRIso, German, aged Is
l.
las night. He says his home Is in Mansfield,
O.. and that he wandered away the other day
and could not get back. He will probably be
sent home to-day.
THE Allegheny Saltwater Committee roc
ommends the awarding of contracts for laying
Is miles OF pipe as follows: 6-inch pipe at 2511z
cents foot to ]. R. McAfee; 6. 10 and 12inch
mains to T. M. Scanlon at 24A, III and 34A
cents per foot respectively
AT the Smthtield Street Methodist Church
a lecture will be delivered by the pastor, Rev.
G. E. Locke, this evening. It is the fifth in
series, entitled "a Stay-at-Home Tour
Through the Holy Land" The ramble for this
evening is "From Jerusalem to the Sea of
Galilee."
CHAIRMAN HUNTER. of Allegheny Com
mon Council. had a narrow escape from death
yesterday. He was standing on the river bank
near his lime warehouse when the ground gave
way and he rolled down on the P. & W. R. R.
tracks. A train was approaching, and he sue
ceeded in rolling off the track in the nick of
time.
THE examination for teachers professional
certificates will be continued in, Pittsburg and
Allegheny tomorrow Superintendent Luckey
will conduct the examinations in the High
School building. where grammar, composition
and penmanship will be the branches taken up.
In Allegheny Superintendent Morrow will hold
the examination in the Fourth ward school.
BESIDES the official stenographer Of the
United States Court, there IS quite an array of
stenographers and typewriters engaged in the
Westinghouse-Ed Edison case. The stenographers
are George H. Smith, Frederick M. Adams and
Charles Munson, of New York. The type
writer's, Messrs. Lappman and Hall, of New
York, assisted by Miss Garfield and NJ. Cook,
of Pittsburg.
The old rumors that the P, & W. will have
an eastern outlet by way of the Beech Creek
and the Lehigh Valley are once more revived.
They spring up like mushrooms IN the night.
Drexel, Morgan & Go. are said to be backing
the latest scheme. Let's see: Competitor to
the P. R. R., do they say? Beech Creek owned
by the Vanderbilts; Vanderbilts sell all CON-
petitive interests in this State to P. R. RI ergo,
Vanderbilts are to become P. r. r. competi-
tors! Nice logic, isn't it?