Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-18
NOTES AND MOTIONS,
Many Matters Of Mach and Little Moment
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Plttsburg 4tactlon road while cleaning out tn
conduit
THE Panhandle express was behind time 8
minutes last night. The train was delayed by
THE Baltimore and Ohio will take the Y. NJ
near future.
R. NJ. SPoHN and R. H. Jones spoke for tn,
Constitutional amendment last nieht in Trinit,
NJ. e. Church.
THIEVES broke into John McAllister's stor,
on Webster avenue Tuesday morning, and car
ried off some tobacco.
ON the lst of June the Jr. o. U. A. N. from
all points east of Pittsburg 70 Greeusburr viii
camp out at Idlewild.
AN infant OF Alexander McTIenery. q car
penter employed at the Dixment Hosuital. die6
from exposure In the recent storm.
THE weather is hot but it is freezing cold fol
the ticket scalpers. They have the undivided
sympathy OF the impecunious traveller.
JOHN MCKEE, one of the party who attacked
colored man in Yellow row, was committed
70 jail ior aggravated assault and battery.
A MASS MEETING of the Citizens of Law
reneeyllle resolved drinking fountain should
be erected at Thirty ninth and Butler streets
WHEN the mercury rose yesterday, the OBJ
servant and perspiring citizen was surer than
ever that there's no rose without its thawn y
THE Pittsburg and Lake Erie has made ar.
rangements to take 30 members of the ALE.
gheny County Butchers Association to Detroit.
CORONER MCDOWELL will notify the Dis.
triot Attorney of the peculiar death of Martha
Miles, in Williamsburg, and take no further ac.
ton.
SAMUEL E. HASTINGS prominently con-
nected with the freight department of the
pennsylvania Company, in Philadelphia, is here
on business.
MORRIS L. WHEAT, the General Worthy
Foreman OF the Knights of Labor. addressed
mass meeting of workingmen at Salisbury
Hall, Southside, last night.
w. j. McCoNNELL viii speak on the prohibi-
tion question to mass meeting in the hall at
Forty-third and Butler streets tonight He
addresses two other meetings tomorrow.
THE Citizens Traction road managers ex-
pect to reduce their fare to cents from Penn
avenue and Sixth street to the East End-some-
time, perhaps, when dimes cannot be had.
FORTY men employed in the nine-ineh mill
at Carnegie's Thirty-third street works struck
yesterday on account of the material furnished
them. The trouble will likely be settled to-
day.
MRS. ]. D. ANDERSON. of this city, is attend
ing the annual meeting of the women's For
eign Missionary Society, of the U. P. Church,
IN Camden, N. j. She Is treasurer of the
body.
AN alarm from box 76 yesterday afternoon
was caused by a pair of lace curtains igniting
from gas jet in residence at the corner of
Forty-eighth and Butler streets. The loss was
trihing
A 2YEAR-oLD child of Mrs. King, Of No. so
Third street. Allegheny, swallowed large
dose of teething cordial yesterday that almost
ended its life. An emetic was administered In
the nick of time.
AGENT DEAN has charge of Bertha Ander-
son, l5year-old girl from Mt Pleasant, who
was sent to Morganza by Squire John D. Nc
Cabe. Mr.. Dean says the girl has been wronged.
and he will get her home.
A MEETING of Sunday school SuperIntend.
ents will be held in the Second Presbyterian
Church Monday evening for the purpose of
forming an INSTRUMENTATION organization
Of Sunday school Superintendents.
THIS is something unusual for Pittsburg
hotel men: -Four newly-married couples acci-
dentally met at the Hotel Albemarle yesterday,
and yet the hotel is still standing. The scene
was too utterly biissful for description.
PHILLIP KRoNENBERG, prominent>mem-
Der Of the Teutonia Singing Society, viii leave
for two months trip to Germany next Sun
day. The society last night rendered him re-
ception at their hall on Pike street. Allegheny
DETECTIVE CoULsoN prosecuted 8. c.
Stern, the Market street pawnbroker for re-
ceiving goods stolen from another pawnbroker.
He was held in 81 900 bail, and William Malta
the boy who stole the goods, was held in $500
bail.
THE Universalist Church, which has been
held at Imperial Hall, viii, on Sunday, begin
services at the new "U. V. L." Hall, on Sixth
avenue, between Grant and Smithfield streets,
over the Pittsburg Gas Office. Rev. w. s.
Williams will preach.
recently celebrated his 101st birth
day. he has the satisfaction Of knowing that
he long ago fooled that old three-score-and-ten
prophet, having scored I've times and beaten
the record Of the Allies
ON Sunday. May 26, at $50 P. NJ, all Sons Of
Veterans are expected to unite with Andrew
Camp, No. l62, to proceed in a body
to hear memorial address by Rev. G. E.
himself the son Of veteran.
A BABY was left on the doorstep of No. 34B
Ridge avenue, Allegheny, yesterday morning.
On the basket In which the babe was lying was
the name Evans" The basket and the little
Moses were taken charge of, not by Pharaoh's
but by the Poor Board.
The work Of the Second Avenue Street Rail.
way extension is being pushed fast, and the
company state that they will be able to land
passengers at the Exposition building during
" EXDOSlIlOn
going to transform this city so it couldn't recog-
nize itself in mirror.
A HUNcEBAcK tailor living out Penn avenue
abused his wife in an outrageous manner yes.
terday afternoon between and O'Clock
choking and kicking her about the yard while
she aroused the whole neighborhood with her
screams. No arrests were made The neigh
oors say it is of frequent occurrence.
HENRY JEFPREYs, a boy 10 years of age,
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7ery severe scalp wounds yesterday afternoon,
he Allegheny Valley Railroad at Fortieth
street. The boy had stepped from another
rain, and attempted to cross the track.
AN open air amendment meeting will be held |
his evening in the Hay market Allegheny,
,nder the auspices of the Twin City Amend |
nent Club Of Pittsburg. Mr.. ]. Boughton.
nd Broadax Smith, will speak on the amend |
nent. l. Mooney will conduct the meeting.
JOHN MURPHY, while laying sewer pipe on |
Pearl street, Sixteenth ward, yesterday after |
loon, suffered a fracture Of the skull by |
,ortIon Of the embankmenr caving in upon |
Tim. He was removed to his home nearby, |
vhere Dr.. Clark attended him, Murphy is a |
narried man, 3S years old. His condition Is
-ery dangerous.
THE operator made the telegram read iCiif- |
on, s. Co. instead of "Clifton, g. I,n in noti-
ying D. 8. Tobin, of McKeesport. of the dis
oyery of his sisters body. Mr.. Tobin was IN /
'ittsburg yesterday on his way home from |
Iouth Carolina. He says he will sue the COM
any for the error in sending him South. He
hen left for Staten Island.
SOME of the property owners on Arch street.
Illegheny, have prepared a remonstrance
eainst the widening of that thoroughfare.
hey wouldn't be satisfied to make.the street
q broad as it is long with fountains in the |