Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-13
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Many Matters Of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Treated.

| Will have the TAX pooks reaoy 1or INC eneire
city.
JAMES GREEN, of Webster avenue, was ar
rested yesterday for keeping a gambling
house.
THOMAS CARSON, against William and Eliza
Carson, on mortgage, got SS,7l0 10 verdict
| yesterday.
PNEUMONIA caused 20 out of s6 deaths in
the city last week; consumption II and
measles z.
THE jury says E. D. Wilt must pay James
Owens $40 for that job of plastering at the
Opera House.
WORK on the new wilmot street bridge,
menced yesterday.
JUDGMENT was entered yesterday against
the Grand Lake Coal Company for 81, GIL in
| favor of D. w. Risher.
ALDERMAN CASSIDY says he will pay over
| the funds received by him from Sunday law
| violators to the State.
| WARDEN WRIGHT says there are no indica-
tions of insubordination in the pen, and he does
not spell it subornation, either.
FROM the New Dictionary-Rot: the other
| fellows sayings. Nonsense: the other fellows
| sense. Wrong: they. Right: we.
PAUL R. SHEPARDsoN. defaulting Financial
| Secretary of the local typographical union, was
yesterday indicted for misdemeanor.
| FLossIE WHEATON charges Alice Hamilton
| with selling liquor on Sunday and without a Ii
| cense, and the latter gave 1900 bail Tor court
JOSEPH LoNGMoRE sues K. Solomon. John
Costello and John McTige for $4,000 damages
| for assaulting, arresting and keeping him four
days in 1887.
HATTIE MITCHELL charges George Barclay
with blscking Hatties ordinarily blue eyes
and great big mean old policeman is search
| ing for George
THE Jury is out in the case of Cashier ]. r.
Foster, of the New Bethlehem Savings Bank,
of Clarion, against w. F. Collner and L. ;. VIII
son, that suit on an alleged forged note
FIVE restaurant keepers say they will stop
| cooking meals if they must stop using butter
| inc. Over 500 customers say they Will stop eat
| ing meals if they don't stop using margarine.
THE plaintiffs in the GlocknerSchafer suit
against Allegheny and John Nauz, lost their
| case yesterday because they had driven into
tree box instead of a lumber pile In the street.
THE latest ladies' bonnets will be made be-
! gum shape with trow-trow methods. This will
| be a relief to the anxious husbands who feared
they would be worked by the old-time him-ham
| method.
R. n. HARDY, an escaped workhouse pris-
| oner. was brought back from Philadelphia
yesterday, where he was captured by Keeper
George Best. He had served q days when he
! escaped.
THE Board of Directors of the Standard Car
Heating and Ventilating Company met yester-
the ensuing year. The officers of last year were
| reelected.
| LUDWIG WALLRAD, laborer on the Pitts
burg, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Rail-
| road, who was crushed to death in a sand bank
| on South Twenty-third street, was formerly a
| mail carrier in Germany
ATTORNEY WILLIAM YosT says he has
been unable to find a single hotel in the city
| that uses bogus butter. This is even better
| name than than the Restauranters' Protective
| Association gave themselves.
! ALDERMAN PORTER denies that the alleged
fortune teller, Mrs. McMinaman, paid him $50
for immunity from further molestation by his
| detectives. He admits releasing her, upon
condition that she should stop.
THEY are going to have March musical fes-
tival at the Stevens school, Thirty-sixth ward,
| the latter part of the month, to last four days.
and of the 400 pupils, 100 are now in training for
| the music, and others for nice juvenile oratory.
THE suit of Messrs Park & Orton against
Allegheny county, for damages for failing to
| prevent the destruction of their circus tents
| between Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets,
two years ago by mob of roughs, is on trial
before Judge Collier.
THE hose carriage of Engine Company No. 2
was called TO Graham's hat store on Wood
street, near Fifth avenue, last night at 1l:30, a
fire having been discovered in the joist. The
damage was trifing. A lamp had fallen over
and started the blaze.
| NJ.
| more and Ohio Fifth avenue building is unsafe
above the first floor, and Inspector Frank says
the people must vacate or remodel according
to his suggestion, and that means an almost
entirely new building.
AT the regular meeting of the Humane Soci.
ETY. the work of the agents was read and ap.
proved. Fines and donations were received
amounting to S29. Overseers of the Armstrong
township poor turned in an unwilling $40 fine
for neglecting l2-year-old child.
county counterfeiter took the spring out OF
his watch and sawed off an iron bedpost OF
two intending to reason with Warden Berlin
The latter says this is impossible, as the gang
couldn't scare up Waterbury among them.
H. c. FRY, of Rochester, who has just re
turned from an European trip, says good gar
dener was spoiled in the making of a very bad
count. He says the real Montercoli has estates
bordering the Adriatic, while the castles of the
other fellow are SO high in the air they border
on the moon.
A CHARTER for the Allegheny Geometrical
Wood Carving Company was filed yesterday
under wood molding patents granted to Z. L
Goehring. The capital stock is 500, 900, at $50
share. The directors are Z. L. Goehring. Presi
dent; Louis Morehaud. Secretary; William
Troehe and F. ID. Eschelman.
THE adjoining lands of Ralph Bagaley and
John F. Ireland in Penn township, overlapped
each other, according to records, in all of which
an old beech tree was named as a landmark
Bagaley sued to eject Ireland. The old beech
tree yesterday decided the case for the de
fendant. Nobody can hope to eject Ireland.
WHEN a fellow will frauduiently collect Sl(
of Citizen I. B. Hershberger, in the West End
and goodness knows how much more from
others, to help Chief ]. o. Brown build a gym
nasium for the police, which he doesn't intend
to build, and wants no help to refrain there
to remember yesterday.
NEMESIS has at last overhauled barber. A
loquacious young man employed at Wills
made the acquaintance of a most delightful
customer who listened to everything, objected
to nothing, agreed that it was nice day, and
even said he did want shampoo with a little
bay rum. The quiet gentleman and the bar.
ber's watch disappeared at about the same
time.
CHIEF BROWN has ordered two prison cells
wood, and as soon as it is completed one
| horse patrol wagon Will be located there alsc
to be handled by the fremen of that company
The nearest patrol stable to Hazelwood now is
three miles away. The fremen will each morn
ing bring prisoners to the Nineteenth ward
station for hearings.
PRETTY bright 14-year-old Mary Taylor was
before Mayor Pearson charged with making
faces at Officer Trapp, of the Fit. Wayne depot
The Mayor scratched his head and hunted the
s'statoot" books over and over. but found nc
penalty for such an awful sin. Mary was al
lowed to go. and her release indicates thal
Trapp ought to have faces made at him, or thai
Mary's faces were very pretty indeed.
MIKE MCDONALD and Jack Noonan, fol
stealing Mary Derragh's purse and SIS from hel
pocket, retire to Claremont until the leaves be
gin to fall. Eight months is their sentence
Charles Schreinvr. the Tarentum watch anC
coat thief, has a two years inning; Charlie!
Graham who aggravatingly assaulted Lucinds
| G.. will practice barrels, ETC., for 81,
months. Thus saith the judge of the Crimina
Court.
THE grand jury has indicted Isaac Boles