Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-17
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.

Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
THE last stone on the Masonic Hall was laid
yesterday at noon.
CHIEF ELLIOTT calls attention to the neces-
sity for city police ambulances.
THE real estate agents yesterday collected
s75 for the sufferers from the Wood street
wreck.
REV. AND MRS. W. T. BROWN left for New
Orleans on the steamer Hudson yesterday af-
ternoon.
THE Fifth Avenue Traction Company cars
are making fast time now, going over the route
in IS minutes.
JAMES DoRAN. an Allegheny boy was sent
to court by Mayor Pearson yesterday for re-
peated larceny.
FERD. sEIBoLD fell through hatchway in
Campbelrs glasshouse yesterday. He was
dangerously hurt.
THE real estate agents committee reported
yesterday, recommending plan for the pro-
posed exchange here.
FIVE residents of Magee street got into a
free fight on Tuesday and went to the work.
house yesterday for 30 days.
DAVID ELKINs, charged with perjury by
Tom Whitaker, waived a hearing before
Alderman Porter last night.
W. F. PENToN's skull was fractured at the
American Iron Works yesterday. A bar of
iron struck him on the head.
JOHN GALLERY had his hand crushed yes
terday while loading rails in Oliver Bros &
Phillips mill at Woods Run.
On the 10Th of February the Knights of
Pythias will nationally celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary of their organization.
]. BROWN and a boy were thrown from q
buggy on Brownsville avenue yesterday The
horses ran away. The boys leg was broken.
THE Till Family, from London, will give a
concert at the Soho school on Friday evening,
February 1, under the auspices of Battery B,
THE Southside members of the company will
present the Washington Infantry with flag
tonight at the American Mechanics fair, Sal
isbury Hall.
CHIEF BIGELow reported yesterday to the
Controller that he received during December
Alb q from the various market houses,
wharves etc., in the city.
THE assertion of Baron H1rsch that the sal
walton of the Jews lies in their assimilation
with Christians is treated as an absurd idea by
leading resident Hebrews.
THE city authorities say they are not fright
ened by the appeal in court of the Denny heirs
against the assessment. 1t is based on the
same ground as the Schenley's suit.
JAMES MORTON. manager for George s.
L
last Friday, with g, 600 of the firms money. He
leaves wife, who resides IN Dlillyale.
Two colored rascals tried to rob the resi-
dence of City Clerk Shepherd, in Oakland,
yesterday, but the women in the house fright
ened them away by telephoning for policemen.
INSPECTOR McALEEsE received a letter
from Charles Faulkner, Lincoln, ILL.,, asking if
Henry Faulkner, injured in the Wood street
wreck, is his son. Ae states his boy left home
Al years ago.
JOHN BENEDICT, of Bedford, Pa, fell down
in front of Stevenson's drugstore, on Arch
street, Allegheny, yesterday. When picked up
it was found that he had severe hemorrhage
of the lungs.
The Allegheny school teachers of steps one.
two and three will meet next Saturday morning
in the Fourth ward schoolhouse to discuss the
subject, Language and Arithmetic, and How
to Teach Them"
STOCKHOLDERS SPEER and White, of the
Bridge Company have petitiored
the McKeesporr Street Committee for the right
to build q bridge from McKeesport across the
river into Miff1in township.
A FEW days ago an item found its way into
these columns to the effect that Prof. John
Morrow, of Allegheny, had received a broken
nose at the new High School at the hands of
boy iinging stone. The opportunity is taken
to correct this by saying that the Superintend- |
ent was slightly scratched in the face by stone
flung by careless workman.