Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-28
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of n Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

Incidents of a Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
MEssRs. A. E. WINDSOR, of Allegheny. have
secured the contract from Jr. o. U. A. NJ. for
the erection of the equestrian monument to
Washington to be placed in the Allegheny
Parks. The Committee of Awards was A. 8.
Smith, Ed OBrien and A l.. Sofoman. The
monument is to cost 500 of which s., ,0O0 is in
the treasurer's hands. The balance, it is ex-
pected, will be raised by the winter. The
statue will be placed in position next summer.
THE persons arrested Monday for camping
on the farm of Frank Curry, in Reserve town
ship. just outside Of the Allegheny City line,
were arraigned yesterday morning before
Mayor Pearson. Maggie Smith, the one woman
days. Spitz Haas. John Delp and George
Krepley were fined SIS and costs each. Jacob
Schindel went to Jail for Is days, and Wendell
Miller was scolded for being in bad company.
OFFICER TRULY sHAUL yesterday made a
raid on the house of Bridget McCarty. on Sec
ond avenue, near Try street, and arrested three
women and two men. They:gave their names as
Hugh Kirk, John inland, Catherine Denhart,
Hannah Ryan and Bridget McCarty. An in
formation will be made against the proprie-
tress this morning for keeping disorderly
house.
A YOUNG man named Messner is lying dan
gerously ill at his home, on William street,
near the head of Mcclure avenue, Eleventh
ward Allegheny. On Sunday last he was driv-
ing dairy wagon which coll1ded with another.
Messner was thrown out and was seriously in
jured.
PLUMBER named W. F. Bell was badly
burned by gas explosion while he was work
ing about the pipes in the house of Theodore
Schleize, at Bellevue, yesterday morning. Eva
Schleize, a little daughter of the owner of the
house, was burned about the face.
ROBERT DICKSON, an insane inmate of the
III l,zI kvo
terday. He was As years Of age and had been
an inmate for 16 years. In 1872 Dickson was
tried for stealing a watch and was acquitted on
the ground of insanity.
JAMES FIELDS and William Brooks fought
out an old feud Monday night, before a large
crowd, at the corner of Twenty-eighth street
and Mulberry alley. Fields drew knife and
cut Brooks deeply in the neck. near the jugu-
lar vein.
THE name of William Corliss, of 91 Allen av-
enue, Southside. was inadvertently published
in this paper in connection with the Southside
.'speak-easy" arrests Mr.. Corliss nor his son
have ever frequented "speakeasies."
THOMAS ERNEST. the oldest mailer in ALE
gheny City, and the father of Walter Ernest,
of the Allegheny Poor Board Office, died of
hemorrhage of the lungs at midnight Monday.
He lived at 2S2 Sandusky street.
STANLEY CHATHAM, a boy 13 years old, was
struck by an ehgine on the Pittsburg and West
ern Railroad, near Gallery junction, yesterday.
He was badly injured, and was taken to the
Allegheny General Hospital.
LAST evening Thomas Martin was kicked in
the stomach by one of Adam Diehl's horses. in
Carey alley near South Eighteenth street. 1t
is thought that he has been injured internally,
and is in critical condition.
JOHN COLLINS, driver for Frederick Piper,
brick manufacturer of the Eighteenth ward,
was thrown from his wagon yesterday and suf-
fered fracture of the skull
JOHN MCCARTHY, injured yesterday morn
ing at the keystone Bridge Works, died
two hours later at the West Penn Hospital.
He was married and lived on Forty-third street.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS. charged with larceny
while an attache of patrol wagon No. 2, had a
hearing before Magistrate Brokaw last night
and gave $500 bail for trial at court
ROBERT H1LIEN, a boy of le, who escaped
from Morganza two months ago, was captured
by the police yesterday and sent back to the
reformatory
JAMES RosEBoARD, Andrew Kerr and Felix
Vanister were lodged in the Fourteenth ward
station yesterday for fighting on Fifth avenue.
HARRY sPRAGUE, a boy living on Mt. Wash
ington, lost two fingers while experimenting
with blasting torpedo yesterday.
SQUIRE ROBINSON, of Sharpsburg, fined
Frederick A. Meinhart $40 and costs for ILL.,
treating horse.
WILLIAM PANEY's arm was crushed by An
ingot at Walkers Bridge Works.