Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.

Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
FRANK d. MORRIS, of this city, went East
last night.
A CHARTER was granted yesterday to the
American Mechanics Hall Association of the
Southside.
A HORSESHOE wedged in the slot of the Citi-
zens Traction road delayed the cars for 30
minutes last night
ALLEGHENY Association of Stationary En-
gineers No. 5 N. A. 8. E, will hold their an
nual picnic on Mag 80 at Forest Grove.
A MUSICAL, literary and social entertain
ment by the Order Of Tonti will be held at, at the
Bijou Theater Tuesday evening, June 4, 1889.
WILLIAM OWENS the coIored man who is
wanted as a witness IN the Lee-Allen homicide
case, was brought back yesterday from Balti-
more.
THE stockholders of the Squirrel Hill road
will meet in the Chamber of Commerce next
week The unsoId stock will be put on the
market.
H.M. BUTLER, depot master at the Union
station, left last evening for Atlantic City TO
visit his sick brother-in-aw, Mr.. Shidle, Of this
city.
JOHN Lewis, stonemason employed by j.
B. Young. of Braddock had two of his toes
crushed yesterday by large stone falling on
his foot.
THE rain last evening prevented two Consti-
tutional amendment meetings, one in the Allie
gheny Diamond and another in a vacant lot on
Forty-third street.
Mrs. NANCY D. EVANS. of Petrolia, Butler
county, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. a. B.
Kennedy. for few weeks at her residence. SO
Cedar avenue, Allegheny.
A. F. DIGUowITY, of this city, received from
bis Mariposa farm in West Texas, yesterday
some very fine specimens of corn, some feet
in height, with matured roasting ears.
The trouble at Chess, Cook & Co.'s mill has
been settled, and the mill will start up in full
on Monday. The discharge of two men caused
the trouble and kept the mill closed for two
weeks.
JAMES CosGRovE, an employe at the Edgar
Thomson steel works at Braddoek, while un-
loading car of large castings yesterday,
allowed the casting to fall on his right foot,
crushing 1t.
A DEFECTIVE hue caused fire at the house
of Adam Gilman, No. 81 Howard street, ALLIE
gheny, yesterday morning. An alarm was
turned in from box LIB and the blaze was ex-
tinguished with loss Of $500.
PRoTHoNoTARY JOHN BRADLEY returned
from the East yesterday. He says there is no
trouble between Mr.. Finn and himself. MIR.
Finn, when seen about the matter. smiled
pleasantly, and said he was at peace with the
world.
AMOS MOORE, a colored witness at the Carter
murder trial, was taken i'll yesterday afternoon
and was taken to his home on Thirty-irst street
in the patrol wagon. Moore has been bed
ridden for some time and went to court as
witness under protest.
ALDERMAN LESLIE, Secretary of the Con-
stitutional Amendment County Committee,
leaves this afternoon for Chicago to attend the
session Of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of
Good Templars. Squire Leslie is the Worthy
Chief Templar of Pennsylvania.
A HORSE belonging to R. NJ. Zang, of 81
Ohio street, Allegheny, became frightened yes
terday afternoon and ran away. The driver
was hauling an organ to purchaser in the
upper end OF town and the instrument fell out
of thetwagon and was wrecked.
PREPARATIONS have been made by the
Chamber of Commerce for the reception of the
Hon. Erastus Wiman, of New York. who will
be in the city tomorrow and address the cham
Der and business men generally at their rooms
on Wood street. Mr.. Wiman's address will be
on "A Commercial Union With Canada" 1t is
one of his pet ideas.
A UNION gospel temperance meeting will be
held in the Opera House under the auspices of
the Gospel Temperance Union No. this even
ing, commencing at 7:45. John W. Moreland
and s. A. Haines, ESQ.,, a prominent merchant,
Of New York, will speak Jordon's Coiored
Quartet, of Allegheny, will sing during the
meeting. Doors open at 6:45 P. M.
/ EDWARD DEXTER a colored man, fell in a
it near the Union bridge yesterday He was
taken to the Allegheny General Hospital in a
patrol wagon. Dexter was injured while
marching in a parade during the last
Presidential campaign by being hit on the head
with brick. The physicians say he is suffering
from brain affection caused by the injury.