Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-17
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of a Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

| Incidents of Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
THE Colored Laboring Mems Protective As
| sociation will hold open meeting at the
| Franklin schoolhouse on Tuesday evening,
August 90 at 8 o'clock. Speeches of political
character y will be made BY RICHARD Keys. Ajax
ments for the colored mems convention to be
held in this city on October Is will be discussed.
AN Syear-old boy named Patrick Dougherty,
living on Pennsylvania avenue, Allegheny, was
hit on the head with a stone yesterday while
| QUAR- cling with another lad. He Is badly hurt,
but will. it is hoped. recover. His parents say
they will prosecute the boy who threw the
stone. =
KISSING and hugging in the parks. was the
complaint made by an officer against 5ohn Nc
Clure and Sadie Morton at the Allegheny
woman's fault. He was let off with fine of 81
and she was sent to jail for Eve days.
WORK was commenced yesterday on the long
talked of Lawrenceville fountain. Tetley d
Folsom have got the contract for the work.
The treasurer for the project Mr.. n. Freker,
of 1905 Butler street, will be happy to receive
subscriptions.
EVAN JONES, the contractor Daniel Jones'
his son. and Thomas Nevin. his foreman, had a
hearing before Alderman Porter last night on
the charge of conspiracy, preferred against
them by Annie Marsden. They were dis
charged.
ALBERT NoRTHRoP yesterday entered suits
In the United States Circuit Court against
Skeighly & Co. and Rasner d DInger for an
injunction to restrain them from infringing
upon his patent for a metallic ceiling.
CHARLES DAVIS. arrested in the Fifth police
district for stealing $50 worth of butter and
eggs from w. ]. Marks, of Glade Run, was
taken back to Butler county on the additional
charge Of horse-stealIng, yesterday.
ALTHOUGH typhoid fever is quite prevalent
in the Twelfth ward and scarlet fever in the
Seventeenth ward. there is nothing to show
that either disease has made worse ravages
than in former years.
GEORGIA. l. MoCAFFREY, of Twenty-nmth
street, was yesterday morning held for court by
Magistrate McKenna in S, 900 bail for keeping
q disorderly house and selling liquor illegally
The sixty-second Regiment Association will
hold meeting tonight at the City Hall. The
object of the meeting is to complete the roll Of
members entitled to transportation.
THIEVES entered Orinson's drygoods store,
No. 225 Wylie avenue. early yesterday morn
ing and stole s55. The police were notified, but
the thieves have not been caught.
ROBERT SHORT, of Mt. Washington, was
fined VS. and costs yesterday on a charge of
cruelty to his children preferred by Humane
Agent O'BIien,
YESTERDAY additional accommodations
were arranged for the Southside Hospital. The
place has been fully Occupied for several days
THE improvements at Engine House No. 10,
Thirty-sixth ward, are now nearly finished
The building has been enlarged and painted.
A MAN named Rainey, employed at the Allie
gheny Locomotive WORKS. had his foot crushed
yesterday by heavy weight falling upon it.
JOHN CoTwoRTH, employed at Painter 4
Sons mill, West End. fell from a wagon yester.
day and had his shoulder dislocated. :