Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents ofa Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.


for Ready Reading.
A CIVIL SERVICE examination will take
place at Curry Institute. beginning tomorrow.
for applicants for positions in the Government
departments at Washington. the railway mail
service, postofice inspectors and other posi-.
tions of that kind. The applicants number 100
and represent Western Pennsylvania and East
Washington to conduct the examination. as
sisted by Superintendent Of Mails Steve Col
lins.
JOHN NEFF, who died short time ago In
the Jail from exhaustion, was a member of
South-side Council Jr. o. U. A. M. The Coun-
Gil have furnished County Physician Chess
rown with a death certificate. which they re-
quested HIM to fill out. When this is done Mr..
Ne6s family will receive the insurance on his
life, which is quitea sum.
JOHN ELLSWORTH was arrested on Penn
avenue for disorderly conduct. Ellsworth was
acting as peacemaker between two of his
friends, who were fighting. They ran away
when an oficer put in an appearance, and
Ellsworth was arrested.
WILLIAM McGARIAN was taken to the
Homeopathic Hospital with broken leg yes
terday afternoon. On Friday evening he
stepped on = banana peeling at the corner Of
Eleventh street and Penn avenue, and 1t
brought him down.
HENRY GAw, slightly demented. escaped
from the Poor Farm a few days ago. and was
arrested on Taggart street, Allegheny, yester-
day. Gaw's wife died about two weeks ago.
and since then he has been gradually losing
his mind
IT is very probable that the next convention
of the international Sunday School Associa-
ton will be held in Pirtsburg. There are some
doubts about the matter yet, but the proba-
bilities are in favor of this city.
AN inquest on the body of John NJ. Stewart.
who shot h.mself on Observatory Hill on
Thursday was held by Alderman McKenna
yesterday. A verdict OF suicide was rendered.
THE funeral of Comrade Powers. who was
killed in the West Penn wreck, will be at
sylvania Volunteer Association to-day.
YESTERDAY John Baird. Justice Of the
Peace at Sharpsburg, fined Samuel Staley, Sr..
$40 for cruelty to animals. Agent Samuel
O'Brien had the man arrested
THr limited was crowded last night with
women coming back from the Eastern summer
resorts. It is a rare thing to see SO many pretty
girls on the fast train.
HANNAH REDMER charged r. Burke with
assault and battery. She alleges that Burke
kicked her on Penn avenue without any provo
cation.
THE committee in charge of the carpenters
ond ioiners' picnic to be held at Aliquippa
tomorrow expect 200 people to attend
JOHN COULTER, an employe at Oliver Bros.
a Pbillips' mill Woods Run, had his foot
crushed BY a shifter yesterday afternoon.
JOHN suMMERFIELD had his foot smashed
yesterday afternoon by piece of iron falling
on it in divers south Fifteenth street mill.
MAX LUCAS. aged II, has been sued before
Alderman Porter by Robert McQuillan, aged
Is, on the charge of felonious emitting.
THOMAS FISHER is now in Jail accused Of
stealing John Thomson's vest. Thomson is
from CHARTERS township.
JOHN d. SNEEDER had his leg broken at the
Scottdale mines yesterday. He was taken to
the Mercy Hospital
THOMAS CowALsKI had Joe Chriskowish
sent to jail yesterday on a charge Of illegal
liquor selling.
THE Southside Turner's will hold a potato
roast' at Cowan's Grove, ont the Brownsville
road, to-day.
MARKET MASTER DAVID O'DoNNELL. Of
the southside. condemned 80 baskets Of grapes
yesterday.
THE United States Iron and Tin Plate Com
pany 1t Demler has just purchased q l6-ton set
Of shears.
THREE deaths from typhoid fever were re-
ported 10 the Board Of Health yesterday.