Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-21
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condense
for Ready Reading.

| for Ready Reading.
| JOHN KIRCH will have a hearing before
Alderman Doughty to-day on a charge of may
hem, preferred by Simon Straub.
THE Southside will have the electric lights
turned on tomorrow evening. The gas in the
| street lamps will be done away with.
DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTOR FORD yes
terday reported to Controller Morrow collec-
tions of taxes for May, amounting to $36,8E on.
| ALDERMAN McMAsTERs last evening COM
mitted Saiah Page, alias Brittenture, to Jail for
hearing on charge of keeping disorderly
| house.
| yGRAND ARMY PosT No. 236 of Allentown,
| held festival in the Turner's Hall, Allentown,
last night. The proceeds are to go to the
Johnstown suffers.
HARRY WATT. living on Edwin street, East
| End had his skull fractured yesterday by a
| crowbar falling on him at the Carnegie fur
| naces Rankin station.
| THOMAS SHEBY was arrested by Officer
Duncan last night for fighting on Forbes street
| near Brady street. He was locked up in the
| Fourteenth ward station.
THE National Tube Works Company, of Nc
| Keesport has purchased site on which they
will erect a large brick storeroom for mill sup
| plies, which will cost about $50 900.
| THE Ladies' Aid Society of st. Johns P. E.
| Church will give a garden party at the resi-
| dence Of Mr.. John Perring. Butler street, oppo-
site the car station, Thursday evening, June q.
Two LOCOMOTIVES collided in the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad yards at Twenty-eighth street
last night Peter Conovan was thrown off
| one of the engines and sustained severe scalp
wound.
house of an Italian on Cherry alley and Gre
ated a disturbance. A policeman was called
and he was placed under arrest and will have a
hearing this morning.
BERNARD KELLER, of Kilbuck township,
gave bail in the sum of 81, 900 last night for a
hearing before Alderman Carlisle next Thurs
day to answer charges of selling liquor without
license and to minors.
ST. PHILoMENA's CATHOLIC CHURCH, at
Fourteenth and Liberty avenue, is undergoing
extensive improvements. The inside will be
painted and oiled, and changes will be made in
the brick work outside.
A NEwsBoY named Hardy years old, fell
! from a street car on Western avenue, Alleghe-
| ny, last evening about o'clock, and had his
| foot smashed. He was removed to the ALLIE
| gheny General Hospital.
THERE is strike at the works of the Pitts
burg Steel Casting Company. The firm have
asked the men to work As minutes longer each
| day without any increase in pay, to which they
objected and quit work.
| LAST night at 10 o'clock wagon collided
with cable car No. los, Citizens traction line,
at Penn avenue and Sixteenth street, The
| side of the car was badly cracked but the pas
| sengers escaped injury.
A COMPANY of about 80 men from Woods
Run had made arrangements to go to Johns
| town yesterday to work. They heard that the
men at Johnstown were having trouble about
| their wages and did not go.
MAXSCHAMBERG,t the Austrian Consul in this
city, has been knighted by the Emperor of
Austria to the order of Franz Josef. He has
also received $4,000 from the Emperor for the
relief of the Hungarian sufferers
A WAGON driven by James Mcclure of the
Crescent Steel Works, was struck by an express
train yesterday afternoon, at the crossing on
Fiftieth street and A. ". R. r. The wagon
was demolished, but Mcclure escaped unin-
jured. -f'.-
F. E. CHESTER, Judge of Election in the
Fifth district of the Eleventh ward, yesterday
surprised city officials by turning over to the
City Treasurer 81 80 he had received from the
county as rental for occupying the Eleventh
| ward police station as voting place.
JOHN NJ. ROSE, member of the Legislature
| from Johnstown, whose home was well-nigh
| washed OUT, and who lost his brother, Harry
| Rose District Attorney OF Cambria county, is
| to be assisted by his fellow members of the
| Legislature. A fund has already been started
BERNARD RAFFERTY,, who owns 13 houses on
| Sixth avenue between Grant street and Wylie
| avenue, SAYS that he, with others. will bring
suit against the city for damages for allowing
two tracks of the Central Traction Company
to be laid on that street, which is only about q
feet wide.
THE colored people of the Ebenezer Baptist
Church, Miller street, the Avery Mission
Church, on Avery street, Alleghen and the
Birmingham Lodge, No. 3073, of Odd Fellows,
gave the Cantata of Queen Esther, in Sails
bury Hall, on South Twelfth street, last night
for the benefit of the Birmingham Lodge of
Odd Fellows.
THE Knox School Board organized yester-
day by electing President. Martin Henkle; Sec
retary, Ii. w. Sellers; Treasurer. Fred. Fiehtel
The teachers elected we're: Principal, Ellen
McCutchen; Assistant Principal, Emma Neely;
Primary, Misses Ewens Sellers, Nelson, Mar
tin, Menslnger, Moore; substitute, Miss
Hughes; janitor, Lawrence Rumas.
HUGH BIGERsTAFF, aged years, fell into
the Allegheny river at Tibby's glass house at
Sharpsburg, Wednesday afternoon at
O'Clock, and was drowned. The body has not
yet been recovered The boy was the son of
James Bigerstaff, an employe in the glass
house. When be was drowned he wore a blue
gingham waist and brown jean pants.