Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-12
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents Of a Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

Incidents Of q Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
THE Erie road will meet the B. d o. cut In
grain rates from Chicago to-day.
TwENTY-NINE glass firms are represented at
the semi-annual exposition at the Monongahela
House.
THE first excursion of the season to Atlantic
City and Cape May, on the Pennsylvania road,
was run yesterday.
LUCY MCCALL charges Emma Punt before
Alderman Bell with selling liquor without Ii
cense at No. rs Center avenue. Emma will
have hearing to-day.
MRS KATE MCGEARY, one the principals in
the celebrated McGear will case, had William
q. Robinson arrested yesterday on a charge of
disorderly conduct. Mayor Pearson fined the
man S25 and costs.
STREET COMMISSIONERS MoUL, of Allegheny,
yesterday brought suit against Captain James
Boyd, Of No. 10 Union avenue, for not comply
ing with the ordinance compelling him to make
sewer connections.
THOMAS JONES, city editor of the Harrisburg
Telegraph. shook hands with his many friends
from the annual outing of the State Editorial
Association, Of which he is one Of the officers.
A PIECE of cornice fell from the house of Mr..
and Mrs. Hardy on Independence street, South
side, night before last, striking a 6-month-old
infant, which was in Mrs. Hardys arms and in
cover.
HENRY X. WHEELER, Supreme President
of the Order of Tonti in PHILADELPHIA, has
issued a circular assuring members of the
order that it is sound financially and has lost
nothing except what was taken by the late
Supreme Treasurer.
ADAM CUTHBERT, baggage master on the
Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad,
died at the West Penn Hospital yesterday, the
result of a fall from car at Ormsby station.
Cuthbert was "a years old, and leaves o wife and
two children on Mt Washington
THE contract for the building of the new
Castle Shannon incline plane has been awarded
and the plane is expected to be completed by
October. The cost will be S150,000; $50, 900 for
work on the river side of the hill $40 900 for the
other side and $4,000 for the right OF way.
CHARLES LIMEGRovER. shot by Jack Hur-
ley, at McQuiston's boarding house, Wilkins
burg. on Wednesday morning, was still living
last evening. but the wound showed symptoms
of Inflammation, and the case was considered
critical Hurley was still in jail awaiting the
result.
LAWRENCE O'TooLE who was ''done up" by
Italians at Cork's Run on Wednesday. is badly
injured, but not fatally. Magistrate Brokaw
committed Dorats Migs and Frank Kill, said to
be two of the assauting party, for q hearing on
the 18th inst, O'Toole not being able to appear
against them.
THE Ft. Wayne shops Of the Pennsylvania
company are DullulnR lU ualry re1r1geratOr |
cars SO for the Jefferson, Madison and Indian |
apolis Railway, and 81 for the Chicago, st. |
Louis and Pittsburg Railway. The cars are to |
be used IN shipping vegetables from st. Louis |
and Louisville to the East |
GLENwooD is enjoying . revival, street |
grades being fixed, boardwalks made, lots sell |
ing and people building houses and more pre- |
pairing to do SO. The Baltimore and Ohio and |
the new electric railway viii afford facilities |
for reaching the place at pleasure and this |
fact adds much to the inducements offered by |
pleasant location.
CAPTAIN FRED FREELAND, Of Allegheny, |
went to Canton, o., the other day. to get the |
body Of Engineer Rissell, who was killed at |
Akron. A woman had taken the body to New
ton, claiming that the deceased was her hus-
band. and thou n she admitted that she had no |
marriage ceftincate, Freeland was forced to
leave the body. Rissell's family deny that the |
woman had any connection with the deceased.
A. c. RowAED, President of the East End /
Electric Light Company, came near being |
killed in runaway night before last In turn
ing on rhe track on Shady avenue bridge the |
carriage wheel slipped into the cable slot and
the horses took fright. The double tree gave
way and Mr.. Rowand was drawn over the |
dashboard and dragged for some distance. The
horses were captured on Penn avenue by
small boy.