Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-29
LOCAL ITEMS. LIMITED.
Incidents of a Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

WILLIE FRITZ and Joe Shannon. aged about
III and years respectively, were charged before
Squire Burns yesterday with abstracting $40
bill from pocketbook which belonged to D..
Saloncci. of Liberty avenue They had left
Sl65 attracted by the brightness of the new $40
bill. Squire Burns discharged them, as it was
proved that they had found the pocketbook.
THE dead body of Joseph Rosar shipped to
Scranton from the West Penn Hospital, was
identified there yesterday. There Is wound
on the left jaw and several other injuries were
| discovered on the body, which the West Penn
| doctors assert were not there when they
shipped the body At first the parents had
some trouble in recognizing their son.
ABOUT A. NJ. yesterday Michael Kreely, a
puddIer in Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'s Union
Mills, was struck by a shifting engine and
hurled across the yard distance of about Is
feet. He was terribly mangled, and rendered
totally unconscious.
ALBERTINA Mort, a girl employed in Nc.
Elroy's rag warehouse, tried to pawn valuable
Masonic pin yesterday. An officer was called
and the pin was taken away from her. She
said she found it in rags which she was sorting.
HENRY MCARILE who works for the Chess
Tack Company, on South Seventeenth street,
was found yesterday by his employer robbing
his fellow workmen's clothes. He was locked
BIRDIE BATEMAN, aged years, was charged
before Alderman McGarey, yesterday, with
felonious assault. She had hit Mrs. Alice
Moore's little son on the head with a stone
She was held for court in the sum of $500.
The loading of very heavy consignment of
steel rails into barges of Gray's Iron Line has
been commenced at the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works. The rails are intended for various
points down the Mississippi river.
CHARLES HOWE was committed to jail yes
terday by Squire Gripp, on charge preferred
by A, M. Boyd, who alleges fraudulent appro-
priation of assets by co-partner Only
small amount is involved.
On Monday the day express leaving the
Union depot at s A. M. will stop at Morrellville
Johnstown, for the convenience of passengers
wishing to attend the late Father Davin's
funeral.
THE steamer Scotia was removed yesterday
from the wharf at the foot of Wood street to
the docks of Reed & Kreps. in Allegheny.
where its hull will be completely overhauled.
D. c. BRACKEN was arrested last night at No.
l95 Fulton street, Allegheny on a charge of de
serting his wife, who lives in Lawrencevile.
For over a month he had been in Cincinnati
LOUIS BRADY was yesterday sentenced to
three months imprisonment by Magistrate
Rrokaw for making Fanny Libig, of Thirty.
ninth and Pride streets, helplessly drunk
NOAH JACKSON had his hand blown off
yesterday by the discharge of his gun while out
hunting He lived at Coultersville, Pa. He
was brought to the West Penn Hospital.
MIKE SHIELoCK was struck by a train on
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad last
night His left leg was crushed He was
taken to the West Penn Hospital
MRS. KATE GEoGHEGAN had her husband
arrested last night for knocking her senseess
with his fist. Alderman Flack, of the South.
side, received the information.
SNEAK thieves stole $40 from the house of
Joseph Kramer. Crawford street. between
Clark and Reed streets, while the family were
away from home last night.
THE Allegheny Health Committee met on
Wednesday and recommended that Butchers
run be drained as far as Dietzs shop, on East
street extension.
MICHAEL HOPKINS, a laborer from the
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, was brought to
the Mercy Hospital yesterday with crushed
foot.
JAMES ALLISON, an employe of the Pitts
burg Tube Works at Solo, had two fingers
smashed by the falling of large piece of pine.
PETER GALLAGHER was lodged in 1ail for
loaing on the corner Of Elm street and Wylie
avenue.