Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-08
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of a Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

Incidents of a Day in Two Cities CONDENSED
for Ready Reading.
THE Allegheny shanty boaters show f1ght
against Mayor Pearson's ukase bidding then
to move on. Some of them have Clipped il
and hired a lawyer to conduct struggle il
the courts. In the meantime, Mayor Pearson
instructs his police to proceed against the
joboat owners. The latter have wharfage re
| ceipts TO fortify their position.
1T is thought that Thomas Stewart aud
Charles Stoops, two young men of Stanton
avenue East End, have gone to be Ohio
| pirates or Mississippi buccaneers, inasmuch al
| the last heard OF them was that they had sailed
away from Pittsburg in small boat. Theil
| parents are considerably worried.
MRS. AUGUSTA SUMMERvILLE, German
woman resident at No. 18l South Sixteenth
was arrested yesterday at the instance of ]. P.
Freund, the Carson street drygoods dealer.
The charge made was that the woman had
stolen some articles from the store. She will
have hearing to-day.
THE Board of Viewers yesterday held a
meeting to receive claims for damages by the
opening of Webster avenue from Craig to
Orion streets, and a meeting for the grading
and paving of Webster avenue from Craig to
Jefferson streets
DAVID JOHNS was held IN 81, 900 bail yester-
day by Magistrate Hyndman for felonious
shooting. In the course of a Sunday fracas,
Johns discharged a 3S caliher revolver at a
shanty in Soho in which James Duffy was
ensconsced.
H. g. BEsTERMAN. q grocer living on Twen-
ty-eighth street, charged Edward Melstine with
assault and battery yesterday, for ejecting him
from his home when he called to collect bill
Melstine was released on bail for a hearing
to-day.
ANDREW HAINEY, arrested at a speak-easy
in the rear of st. Agnes Church on Sunday in
company with several other men. was convicted
OF being the proprietor at the hearing before
Magistrate Hyndman and was fined 500 and
costs.
WILLIE LoDEN, an afternoon paper carrier.
was severely bitten in the upper lip yesterday
afternoon by Newfoundland dog owned by
John Lanson Of Cliff street. The wound was
dressed by DR.. McCord, and the dog was shot.
JAMES sE1GNER, 12-year-old Mt. oliverIte
found some rock blasting powder last Satur
day and put it in his hat to have some fun. The
fun came when cigar spark ignited the
powder and burnt Seigner very badly.
JOHN NEE and Patrick Burns, fellow victims
with the late Captain w. R. Jones in the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works accident are nearly re-
covered and will be discharged from Mercy
Hospital in few days.
OCTOBER u will be reception and donation
day at the Temporary Home for Children. on
Washington street, between Wylie and Franz
lin, The home is particularly in need of cloth
ing and bedding,
THE old Hempfeld route between Sewiclxlev
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Greens.
burg on the Pennsylvania Railroad, is being
graded. The object is to reach some yaluable
coal land.
THE salaries of the Western Penitentiarv
officials have been recently raised at a
meeting of the Board of Inspection. Those
officials above the keepers were the ones
favored.
JOHN EvERsoN. employed at Carnegie's
mill on Thlrty.third street. had his leg crushed
by metal plate yesterday. He was removed
to his home on Fiftieth street.
MAGISTRATE BRoKAw fined Pat Walls
John Cahill and Tim Dexter the usual IS 40
for being disorderly. Ed Wilson was sent to |
Claremont for 30 days.
THE extension of the McKeesport and Belle. |
vernon Railway was opened for traffic yester- |
day, The road will be officially opened on |
Thursday
SARAH MCGoMREY, of Laurel alley. was |
fined $40 by Mayor Pearson for quarrelinp |
with her husband and striking neighbors, chill. |
dren.
THE steamboat Alarm went down the river |
light yesterday morning. bound for Memphis. |
under its new commander, Captain Cabot.
THE Board of Viewers yesterday received
claims for damages in the opening of Webster
avenue from Arion to Craig street.
THE Pittsburg Gas Company yesterday
elected John Daub. @. s, Frisbee, 8. ]. Vain.
wright and NJ L. Myers trustees.
The aremen suggest that pea jackets would
10 better than overcoats in fighting fire.
THE Mercy Hospital received two typhoid
lever patients yesterday.
THE Councils Committee on Public Works
meets this afternoon.