Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-28
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.

Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad is now taking
freight for all points. and forwarding it East
without delay.
MRS WINTERS, of Penn avenue, fell down a
| flight of stairs yesterday. and was badly cut
| about the head.
INSPECTOR Nc CUTcHEoN has inspected the
| milk of Al dairies during the month and found
all up to the re quired standard.
THE Improvement of the Poor Society yes
terday sent At children and three women to the
summer home at Oakmont. They will remain
two weeks
THE work on the Ohio Connecting Railroad
bridge is going forward as rapidly as possible,
and it is n ow stated the bridge will be finished
within year.
ORD NANCE OFFICER HENRY SCHULTZ
proposes to stop teamsters from feeding horses
on the street at noontime. He says stables are
made for that purpose.
AT the regular meeting of Teamsters' As.
sembly 1877 K. of L, last night, James Rodan
was elected Master Workman, and Timothy
Doyle Recording Secretary.
The subcommittee on grounds Of the ALE.
gheny Parks will meet this afternoon at
o'clock at the greenhouse, to consider the
proposed Zoo on Monument hill.
MISS CHESTNUT Of No. 20 Church avenue,
Allegheny was knocked down by Pleasant
Valley street car on Sandusky street yesterday
afternoon but was not severely hurt.
PRESTON SEARIGHT, carpenter who lives
in the East End, fell from a scaffold in new
house at BrushtoD, a distance of 20 feet, break
ing his arm in two places and bruising himself
generally.
AGENT O'BRIEN. of the Humane Society,
yesterday entered suit before Alderman Means,
of the East End, against a beer wagon driver
named W. Allison, for cruelty abusing a horse
that he was driving.
SUIT was entered before Alderman Reilly
yesterday by Morris Lynch against Hugh R.
Coyle an ex-constable, for pounding Lynch
over the head with handy billy, infiicting
injuries that laid him up for some days.
s THE school children of the Twenty eighth
ward will picnic at Rock Point to-day to the
number of 700 or more The members of the
Southside German M. e. Sunday school en-.
joyed themselves at Castle Shannon yesterday
A DOMESTIC employed at the Hotel Rhodes,
in Allegheny, yesterday entered the room of
one of the boarders and refused to come out
when ordered. The proprietor notified the
police authorities and they broke open the
door and arrested the occupant of the room.
A LAWN fete and promenade concert was to
have been given at Baums Grove yesterday
afternoon and evening by the congregation of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, but the usual
daily rain put in an appearance at about
o'clock and damper was placed on the affair.
A LITTLE fellow, not more than II years of
age, who gave his name as 'Cooney" Sims, was
arrested in Allegheny for drunkenness. When
II.
said lot Of boys had bought keg of beer
from brewer, and he and they drank it in a
stable.
In the case of Daniel Greiner, who jumped
from the Smithfeld street bridge on Saturday
under the impression that the Knights of
Labor were after him, a Coroner's jury rem
dered verdict of suicide. In the case of
Thomas GriDbon, verdict of accidental death
was rendered.
AT meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Wickersham school. the following named
teachers were elected Principal, l. N. Former;
Assistant Principal. Miss NJ. Wightman; Misses
Ada Downs, Gina Coleman, A. Shramm Rena
Good, Sallie Hagan, Mollie McGary, Emma
Mays and Mary Laughlin.
CHIEF BIGELow said yesterday that the
scheme to make park of the Allegheny wharf
below the suspension bridge had been delayed
by the Johnstown disaster, as had many of the
OCner CITY Improvements, Dub NOW Lu6 maLb6T
will be revived. The filling up of the wharf
will probably begin to-day
SMALL black worms in hydrant water on
Hill street are disgusting the people in that
section. A physician pronounces them ground
worms and accounts for their presence by the
excessive moisture of the season. The expla-
nation explains to a certain extent, but does
not render the drink altogether desirable
A MEMBER of the Chamber of Commerce
states that there is not nearly SO much dissatis-
faction over the portable houses sent to Johns
town as is reported by certain correspondents,
and that the houses are gratefully accepted by
the citizens, who regard the houses. small as
they are, as great improvement upon tents
or rough lesn-to's.
AS an indication of the RESUMPTION OF busi-
ness at Johnstown, Charles Griffith, before the
food prosperous druggist Of the ruined city,
forwarded an order for an entire new stock of
drugs to a firm on Wood street yesterday morn
ing. and other druggists of Johnstown are pre-
pairing to resume. Terms are being made very
easy to all Johnstown merchants by Pittsburg
wholesale men.
tAT the Bureau of information, at Exposi-
ti9n building, yesterday Squire Ammon called
attention to the sad case of Mrs. Conrad
Supbes the second wife of Conrad Suppes,
owner of the Hurlburt House property in
Johnstown. Mr.. Suppes died three months
since, leaving the property to his children, and
its total demolition and the ruin of a produce
farm at Noxham left the poor woman entirely
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