Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-31
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

Incidents of a Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
ALBERT GARvIN had an arm broken, coup.
ling cars on the P, V. & c. road yesterday.
THE 10-mill business tax levy has been paid
by all the liquor dealers who first protested
payment.
THE recent frost contracted the slots on the
Citizens Traction line, causing numerous de-
lays yesterday.
THE sale of seats for Minnie Palmer's en-
gagement next week opens at the Bijour box
office this morning.
THE sale of seats for next weeks attraction,
the "Parlor Match" opens this morning at the
Grand Opera House.
JOHN HANLoN's arm was caught IN tie ma
chinery at Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'s mills yes
terday, and badly torn.
THE Republicans of the Thirty-sixth ward
will nominate candidate for Council at their
primaries Saturday evening.
MAGISTRATE BRUSH will hold the first court
in the new $1,000 Forty-third street police
station tomorrow morning
The A!sace-Lorraine Beneficial Society gave
an entertainment last night in the Uniformed
Knights hall, Penn avenue.
AN ITALIAN was committed to Jail yesterday
on a charge of stealing 500 and some jewelry
from Johanna Lorenzo, his divorced wife.
THE Philadelphia Company's mains will be
assessed again this year on new plan, to meet
the requirements of the rulings of the Supreme
Court
CAPTAIN MERCER, of the East End, ar
rested Fred Woods and ]. W. Homes yester-
day for stealing lot of clothing from a
boarding house.
JAMES MAHER, who was believed to be
clever crook, escaped from the Central Station
Wednesday evening, it is thought by following
some tranps out.
THE State Board of Health has received a
communication denouncing the quality of
water used in Allegheny. An investigation
may be ordered
: The delegates to the convention of the Mas
ter Painters Association, yesterday visited the
various points of interest in this section and
returned home last night
THE Exposition Society is contemplating
asking the iron and glass men to contribute the
material for Power Hall, and will SEND repre-
sentative around soon to that end.
LIEUTENANT ]. N .RoHRBAcHER, a Govern.
ment steel inspector at Park Bros. & Co.'s mill,
denies that the inspectors are responsible for
the delay in the work. as Mr.. Park charges.
SEVEN dollars were stolen from S. B. Char
ter's grocery, corner of Third avenue and
Grant street, Tuesday night, by boy who
secreted himself in the cellar. He was ar
rested.
SENATOR ]. r. MCLAIN's bill to tax oil and
gas leases. does not please holders of such
leases. A number interviewed yesterday
thought it was an unjust measure, and an effort
will be made TO defeat it.
A NUMBER of unimportant appeals were
heard from the assessments in Allegheny, by
the County Commissioners. In the Ninth ward
Oliver Bros. Phillips were assessed S99.925,
and the Pittsburg Forge and Iron Company
slO5. .230.
THE Allegheny Homeopathic, and Mercy
Hospitals got the baskets of flowers from the
Press Club banquet the floral chariot went to
the club rooms, and the typical figures were
displayed in clothiers windows at the corners
Of Smithaeld and Wood streets, Fifth avenue.