Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-26
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

Incidents of n Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
The scholars of the Ralston school will pic
mic at Hutton to-day.
ABOUT 500 pupils of the Birmingham public
school will picnic at Rock Point on Friday.
ABOUT GOO children of the Knox school en-
joyed themselves at picnic at Aliquippa yes
terday.
THE scholars of the Thirtieth ward public
school held picnic at Aliquippa Grove yester-
day. They enjoyed themselves hugely.
THERE were 100 deaths in the city last week.
Twenty-Five were in the old city, AZ in the East
End, "A on the Southside, and Il In public In
stitutions.
JAMES W. BROWN has been appointed Dis
t1ct Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic
bodies of this district He succeeded the late
Geter G. Shidle.
FoRTY-Two persons died last week in Allie
gheny, 26 of whom were children. The maiori-
ty of the children died from measles and
cholera infantum.
FIRE engines No. 9 and No. ID were sent to
Johnstown yesterday to relieve the Philadel-
phia engines Two hose carriages with extra
hose were also sent
THE Fourth Presbyterian Church will give
lawn fete and concert at Baum's Grove to-mor-
row afternoon and evening, with music by Ger
merit Guenther.
THE lime used in the construction of walls in
the new county building has changed color,
and it will be necessary to rebuild part OF the
wall of the third floor.
OFFICER CHARLES WAcHTER has been sus-
pended from the police force. He says this was
done because he stopped a councilman from
fast driving on Forbes street.
THE Committee on Grades and Text Books
of the Allegheny School Controllers met last
night and decided that the grade and text
books for next year would be the same as this
year.
HARRY GRANT, while removing a ''tap" at
the Union Iron Mills yesterday was seriously
burned by molten iron. One of his eyes was
destroyed. He was taken to the West Penn
Hospital
AN alarm from station 81 last night at $50
was caused by slight fire in Stucky's drug
store, where a small quantity of alcohol caught
fire. 1t was extinguIshed before doing any
damage.
IDA BISHOP had hearing before Alderman
McKenna yesterday on charge of taking $40
from the pocket of a saleswoman at j. d.
Bernd's store on last Saturday. She was held
tor court.
S. W. TENER. of Oliver & Roberts Wire
Company, and AL Fraser, of Oliver Bros. &
Phillips, left for the Paris Exhibition last
night. They will take the steamer State of
Pennsylvania to-day in New York
THE Second Methodist Protestant Church of
Allegheny City. located on Rebecca street near
Walker, will be sold by the sheriff. 1t has been
occupied lately by the North Presbyterian con-
gregation as Sunday school chapel
HUGH CoYLE was arrested by Detective
Weber of Alderman McMaster's Office yester- |
day. Robert Montayne, of Mcdonald station,
alleges Coyle hit him with blunt instrument, |
cutting his head and breaking his nose,
JOHN FLINN and John McNally, two news |
boys, were arrested by Detectives Carney and |
Tom Murphy Of Alderman Gripp's Office, yes |
1t is alleged the boys encountered a drunken |
man in Scrip alley and relieved him of 81.
MAJOR HUNKER, of the Allegheny Poor |
Board, was notified yesterday that Amelia |
Flanagan, resident of Allegheny who is at |
present an inmate of the jail, had become in |
sane. Major Hunker will take charge of the |
woman to-day and send her to the County |
Home.
THE congregation of the Zion Reformed /
Church, North Hiland avenue, East End, is
about to be divided on account of a proposition |
made by the pastor, Rev. J. w. Miller, to erect
3 new structure. A part of the congregation |
objected to a new church because they had no
funds for new building.
THE Board of Viewers in the case of the ap-
propriation of the property of ]. ]. Wander
yrift for the purpose of erecting lock house
for the Herr's Island dam, met yesterday in
United States Attorney Aliens Office. No
action In the matter was taken and the board
for one week
RESIDENTS near the foot of South Seven
'eenth street are getting up a petition to be
presented to the Commissioners of Highways
Hal Along the sO riyep bsnt Tbe nenne SI .'n ns sn1
hat the stencil is worse there than at Johns
own, and three men who work in the gas
works at the foot of Seventeenth street are
lick with malarial fever on account of the bad
atmosphere.