Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
LOCAL ITEMS. LIMITED.
Incidents off Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
AMEETING OF the Board of Supervisors Of
the Teachers Academy was held at the rooms
of the Central Board of Education yesterday
afternoon. its object being to revise the list of
active and retired members. A number of cor.
| rections were made, subject to appeal at the
next meeting Of the Board.
THE embankment along the Pittsburg and
Castle Shannon railroad is now in process of
| completion. The embankment is of dressed
sandstone, quarried from the Beaver Falls dis
| trict About twenty men are employed on the
work, which will be finished within six weeks.
| YESTERDAY the workmen engaged at the
reservoir by Superintendent Armstrong. of the
Allegheny Wate-: Department, struck for So
per day. They have been receiving 81 65 up to
this time. The matter will probably be ar
ranged.
THE survivors of the Sixty-second Pennsyl-
| vania Volunteers held final meeting last
night, in City Hall, to, prepare for the Gettys-
burg trip tomorrow. There will be some so
members of the organization present at the re-
union.
PAT CALLAHAN, aged IA, fell under a NOV
ing train at East Liberty yesterday morning,
white trying to get on board. The entire IA
cars passed over him. His leg was subse.
! quently amputated at the West Penn Hospital.
JUDGE McKENNA sent four bogus detect
ives to Claremont yesterday. They were H. A.
Donahoe, Scottdale; A. Comfy, Oakland:
Laughlin. Fayette street, Allegheny, and H
Altman Greensburg. They got 30 days each.
THE survivors of the seventy-seventh Regi-
ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, will hold a
reunion in this city about October /. This was
Negley's old brigade, and was commanded at
the first mastering by Colonel 7. E. Rose.
Inn
O.. road to carry the coal from the Mines In
and Dilworth are lying idle. The operators in
tend to stir up the railway men forthwith.
THIRTY TWO coopers engaged in the shop of
NJ G. Dolan, at the foot of South Twenty-sixtb
street, went on strike yesterday for the union
scale of wages. Mr.. Dolan, however, refuses
to recognize the union.
JULIUS SIMRUIKI, of Taylor street. Bloom.
field, made an information against Fritz
Eberle for assault and battery SiHruiki
blow cutting his face.
THE Thirtieth ward police yesterday moved
into their new station on Carson street, South.
side. The house has been rapidly transformed
into station, and the telephone alone remains
unfxed.
A CoLoRED man named Richard Leyton was
arrested yesterday and locked up in the Central
station on suspicion OF having stolen watch
from a workman in Jackman's stable on Penn
avenue.
THE Coroner continued the inquest in the
Homestead accident until next Tuesday.
Isaac Lane. the fifth victim, was buried at
Turtle Creek yesterday.
THE horseshoers' strike still goes on fiercely.
At several of the shops yesterday there were
crowds of horses waiting to be shod, and not a
man to shoe them.
The last Of Pittsburg's delegates to the
Waterways Convention, in Cincinnati, returned
home yesterday morning.
The Pennsylvania Railway Company's pay.
rolls for the month of August contain the
names Of SS,S6S persons