Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-19
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condense
for Ready on dfun

Incidents OF a Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
OFFICER PEOPLES, injured five weeks ago
in a street car collision, is on duty again.
Mr.. V. B. MENGER returned to the city last
evening after a two months absence in the
East.
PIECE of iron fell on Albert Barry's foot,
in the American Iron Works yesterday, and
smashed it.
A NUMBER of Allegheny citizens were at
City Hall to-day looking up points on the Pitts
burg charter.
THE children of the Ninth ward school, Alle-
gheny. will give musical and literary enter
tainment on Washington's birthday.
DURING the past week the Homeopathic
Hospital has received a number of substantial
donations from the churches and citizens.
IT is said that Powderly has patched up the
bad feeling existing between the Democratic
and Republican members of the Window Glass
Workers Association.
REV. R. D. WILSON will open the discussion
in the ministers meeting, Monday morning, OH
the subject, Important changes made in the
Pentateuch by the revisers."
REV. ]. R. SUNDERLAND, D. D., of Rock
ford ILL.,, who was recently given call to the
Second Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, will
preach in the church tomorrow.
and a member of the Knights of Labor, en-
ployed at Adams & Co.'s glass factory, died YES
terday at his home in Allentown.
SENATOR RUTAN yesterday tclegraphed
friend in Allegheny that there would be no
trouble in passing the bill admitting Allegheny
to the cities of tile second class.
.PITTsBURG Select Council will meet next
Monday afternoon to further consider the ordi-
nance for the disposition of the bodies of those
who die from contagious diseases.
AT the hearing of George Anderson yester-
day before Magistrate Gripp for perjury,
charged by Constable McInerney, Anderson de.
MED the charge and was held for court.
Mrs. SUHR, an old lady of Sewickley found
herself in Allegheny yesterday without any
money. She tried to walk home, but was COM
PEELED to appeal for aid, which was given her
DANIEL O'LEARY accused Joe Stevens and
Jas. Reed, before Alderman McKenna yester-
day. of stealing his wagon from a metal ward
on Second avenue. They gave bail for hear
ing.
Mrs. WARNEs HUNTLY, the evangelist. late
of England, will address the Sons of TEMPER
ance meeting tomorrow evening. at 6S Ohio
street. Subject, ''Sights of London, England"
will be good singing, as usual.
REGARDING the Lippincott purchase of the
Edison phonograph, a local broker conversant
with the facts had this to say yesterday: II
will say that Mr.. Edisons lawyers could nave
easily taken $3.50, 900 and there would still have
been big pile left out of the purchase money"
THE funeral of Daniel Cain, aged 1O2 years
months and days, who died at his home. 3l9
Spring alley, Wednesday. was held at o'clock
yesterday afternoon, and was quite largely at.
tended by friends of the family, as well as bv
few persons curious tc see even the coffin of |
the Oldest man WHO had died in Pittsburg in a |
long while.
JUDGE WHITE yesterday held an inquest on
the sanity of George Koegler, young man
aged 26 years. The inquisition was asked for
by his sister, Mrs. Rose Firger Koegler was |
shown to have been unsound mentally since |
his infancy, and he was declared lunatic, and |
his sister given charge of his interest in their
parents estate.