Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-21
LOCAL ITEMS. LIMITED.
Incidents of a Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Rendy Reading.

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assist his wife on car No. 26 of the Fifth Ave-
nue. Cable road, when the car was crowded,
| and another one was following close behind.
| The conductor refused to let her on. and a
nephew of the lady boarded the car and struck
him in the face. There is talk OF suits In con-
nectior with the matter.
MRS. LANGFoRD lodged complaint before
Alderman Lohrman yesterday. charging Harry
Amler with disorderly conduct. Amler's wife
| lives with Mrs. Langford in boat at the foot
| of South First street. ana yesterday he visited
her while in drunken condition, and. 1t is al
| legged. roughly assaulted her. He was commit
| ted to Jail for hearing.
THERE was a musical entertainment given
at the residence, on Bluff street, of George
Bryan, manager of Oliver Bros steel depart
ment, Thursday evening, and it was very fine
affair, particularly the guitar solos by Ed
| Carter, piano solos by Miss Bryan and the
singing of Master George Clark; also duets by
| Messrs. Lamb and Wild.
JAMES ROBINSON, who was knocked sense
less by handyhlly while returning to his
home over the Thirtieth street bridge late
Thursday night, is confined to his bed. He
will probably be able to appear next week to
identify the two men who are held in the Gen.
tral station on suspicion of the crime
MRS. KATE LIPS. whose case was mentioned
few days ago, appealed to the Humane So
ciety yesterday, alleging that her husband still
| continued to remain away from home and that
| her five children were without food. shoes or
| clothing. Agent OBrien was directed to ar
| rest the man.
MRS. KATE McSTEEN, lady with three
children, living opposite st. Agnes Catholic
| Church, has been deserted by her husband, and
| has struggled bravely for living. Her case
| was brought to the attention of the proper
authorities when sickness had nearly done its
| work.
CHARLES LANGDoN, who lives on Forbes
10 s,,Ho
Jones yesterday, charging Henry Jimlsou with
surety of the peace. Langdon alleged that
Jimson threatened to shoot him. He was ar
rested and gave $500 bail for hearing Monday.
PETER WERTHsNEIDER is charged by Jo-
hanna Field with appropriating the rags she
had sent to him to convert into a carpet and
substituting rags of an inferior quality. She
| therefore asks for 81 damages. Alderman
| Hartman issued warrant for Peters arrest.
THE Johnstown courts are called upon to de-
eide peculiar point Robert Mercer and his
family perished in the big flood, and the parents
of both the husband and the wife are contest
| ing for the property. The point for the courts
| to decide is which of the two died first.
JOHN 7. GEORGE. of Twenty-eighth street,
alleges that Peter Fable, an Allegheny con-
tractor struck him in the face with whip.
George made an information before Alderma an
Warner, who had Fable arrested and placed
him under $500 bail for hearing.
has been prepared for the benefit of Braddock.
Irvine, DR.. McGlynn. Colonel Sanford, l. E.
Bolton, Hon. ]. r. Clarke and ]. DE Witt
Miller will be the speakers
THREE runaway boys named George Gra-
ham. ]. NJ. Durham and John Brooks were
arrested by Detective G. w. Cook at Aliquippa
Grove on Thursday. They are charged before
Alderman Lohrman, of the Southside, with
trespassing on the railroad.
THE Gospel Temperance Union will hold its
usual meeting at Curry University tomorrow
evening, opening at 7:45 o'clock. Everybody
will be made welcome. Mr.. John U. Moreland
will preside. The meetings are growing in In
terest and attendance.
JAMES WHITE, boy of IA years, who lives
on Liberty avenue, fell from the stone wall
near the Tnirty-third street bridge to the rail-
road tracks below. The distance was about 20
feet and he broke an arm in two places, and
stunned himself severely.
ABOUT 4:30 yesterday morning the barn of
John Yager on Spring Hill took fire. and before
the Allegheny fire department could arrive
burned to the ground. The loss is about 5000,
and it is not known whether there was any in
surance or not.
PATRICK HILL and VIM. Boiling, charged
with robbing Hugh Wallace on Market street
early yesterday morning. were each held for
court in default of $500 bail by Magistrate Gripp
them.
MIKE BROKER made an information before
Alderman Warner, alleging that Frank
Bauman, colored. struck him in the face while
at work in the Black Diamond Steel Works.
Bauman was placed under $500 bail.
KATIE SMILEY was playing with her father,
C. A. Smiley, of Allegheny. last night, when
her foot caught in rug and she fell, cutting
cash five inches long in her head. The wound
is very serious and may prove fatal.
THE Coroner was to-day notified of the sud-
den death of VIM. McGrew, a colored driver
for VIM. Semple, who was found dead in bed
this morning. Also of David Montgomery, of
Bakerstown, who died suddenly.
A MAN entered the boarding house of Mrs.
schatz, of 81 Washington avenue, Allegheny,
and, after engaging rooms robbed the estab-
lshment of gold watch and other valuables.
He has not yet been captured.
THE Humane Society was the recipient of
handsome donation yesterday, being a check
for 500 on the Citizens National Bank. Mr..
Andrew Carnegie was the donor and he sends
the above amount annually.
JOHN FLANAGAN and Thomas Mcpherson
were arrested by Detective Cook, of the Lake
Erie road yesterday for stealing ride on a
freight train. Alderman Lohrman committed
them to jail.
P C. KNOX, the solicitor for the South Fork
Club, denies emphatically that that organiza-
ton is going to purchase Lake LIE Boeuf for the
purpose of improving alter the plan of South
Fork Lake.
FRANK BROWN, colored, severely hit Joseph
Mack about the body, int1icting serious inju-
ries. Information was made before Alderman
Warner who held Brown under $500 for
hearing
The following report of moneys collected was
submitted yesterday morning for the month of
August by delinquent Tax Collector Ford: 1887,
S7.26: 1885, Sl5Z65; 1883, S. 2049l; total soS69S2
DANIEL LYNCH, employed at CarnegIes
Thirty-third street mill, was struck on the jaw
Yesterday by a bar of iron. A part of his
tongue was bitten off by his jaws closing.
THE Coroner will hold an inquest this morn
ing on the body of Fred McGrew, colored, who
died suddenly at his home on Gass avenue,
Allegheny, yesterday morning.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Tariff Club will
be held this evening at s o'clock. All the
members desiring to go on the excursion next
week will receive their badges.
A STILL alarm was sent to Engine Company
Nc. IA Yesterday afternoon for small fire in an
ont building of j. B. Smith on Ellsworth ave-
nue.. There was no damage.
CHARLES WEISS and James Willis were Sc
yerely burned about the neck, body and face
Yesterday by splashing metal at Oliver & Bros.
Woods Run Iron Works.
THE inquest on the body of James Dugan,
who died at the Mercy Hospital Friday, was
continued until this morning, owing to the alb
sence of the witnesses.
THOMAS MALONE, laborer at the Linden
Steel Works, had his face and breast badly
burned yesterday by hash OF natural gas from
one of the furnaces.
THE Duff Company, which has the lease on
the piece of property which the city of ALE
pbefly desires to control, has agreed to seek a