Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.
AUGUST LoCH, Of Allegheny, returned yes
terday from a business trip to New York.
SPENCER MEAD, of Elmira, n. Y, is in the
city on business.
CHARLES B. HEAD, the bolt manufacturer,
of Allegheny, left last evening for New York.
THE alarm from box IVA last night was for a
lamp explosion in the house Of William OFT, on
Mount Oliver.
A CHILD of John schmidtlein, of lis East
street, Allegheny. fell down flight of stairs
yesterday and cut its head. The injury is not
serious.
ANNIE WALKER was sued by James Green
before Alderman McMasters, yesterday. for
selling liquor without license at her home on
Second avenue.
1T is said that Colonel Andrews, Chairman of
the Republican State Committee, has rented
residence in the East End, and with his family
will occupy it shortly.
SEvENTY-FoUR people died in PittsDurg last
week. Twenty-six were residents of the old
city, q of the East End, l9 of the Southside,
and two died in hospital.
GEORGE MCGRAw, of Twenty-second street,
employed at Carnegie's Thirty-third street mill,
suffered fracture of the thigh yesterday by
being run over by mill wagon.
JOHN KoUNTz, of Twenty eighth street, suf-
fered very severe fracture of the skull yester-
day bv heavy beam falling upon his head a
Green's lumber yard, Lawrenceville.
THE friends of the Allegheny General Hos
pital claim that the Legislature has discrimi-
mated against that institution in distributing
appropriations and are indignant.
HENRY SIMcox, of the West End, fell from
an embankment in the Sixth ward. Allegheny,
while on his way to attend a lodge meeting,
yesterday. he suffered slight fracture of the
skull.
UNDER the supervision of the old river cap
tain, John Fritchley, the ferryboat William
Thaw has been thoroughly renovated and ar
tistically painted in bright colors for the sum-
mer season.
WALTER WILLIAMS will have hearing be-
fore Alderman Porter on Friday night on
charge of felonious assault and battery. He is
charged with striking James Cooney on the
head with a beer glass.
FELIcIAN STATAPER, chief engineer of the
Pennsylvania Company. has returned from his
trip to Vienna. Austria, where he went to have
a surgical operation performed upon his leg
The operation was perfect success.
A CONSTITUTIONAL amendment meeting
will be held in the Central Presbyterian
Church. Forbes street, near Seneca, this even
ing. W. NJ. Price, Esq, will speak on the
issues of the campaign. All are invited.
A SPARK from a chimney set fire to the roof
of the washhouse attached to the Allegheny
General Hospital yesterday afternoon. The
fire was extinguished by the Columbia engine
company before much damage had been done.
CAPTAIN MCGUIRE, of Engine Company No.
Is, yesterday arrested Conrad Baughman on a
charge of disorderly conduct The prisoner is
accused of insulting some girls who attend St.
Philomena's Parochial school, on Penn avenue.
ANTHONY WEAs Ell, a cripple. was sent as
far as Altoona on his way home to Lancaster
by the Department of Charities yesterday. He
met with an accident. and while at West Penn
Hos oital had both his legs cut off below the
knee.
A CHARTER was filed in the Recorders Office
yesterday for the Church of the United Breth-
ern IN Christ of Williamsburg. The trustees
of the church are James Long. Richard Bibby,
Albert J.. Walner, George Blackmore and
James E. Berkey.
HARRY HOWARD an important witness in
the Beaver Falls murder trial two years ago,
was arrested in allegheny yesterday for dis
orderly conduct. 1t is charged that he knocked
a man down on April "a, and eYaded arrest
until last night.
AN alarm from box l2S at S:l5 yesterday after
noon was caused by a Slight blaze on the roof
of a one-story frame building of Graft Ben
nett & Co., No. 6S Carson. An alarm at $40
from box 325 was caused by small fire origi-
mating from a defective hue in the house of
John Bigge, on Griffith street, East End