Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

Many Matters of Much and Little Moment
Tersely Trented.
THREE wife beaters were sent to Jail yester-
day by Mayor Pearson.
ALL the private boxes for the May Festival
have now been sold but nine.
THE annual meeting OF the Ohio and Balti-
more Short Line will be held in this city
June 8.
THE frame stable of Straub's Union Brewery
was burned down yesterday afternoon. The
loss is $1,000.
THE Pittsburg. Virginia and. Charleston
Railroad is extending its retaining wall on the
Southside to Fifth street.
Mr.. JOSEPH f. NEELY. druggist, of Alle-
gheny, left last evening for Philadelphia to at
tend the funeral of his sister.
IT is about settled that E. O. Mccormick will
be the new general passenger agent of the Gin
cinnati Hamilton and Dayton.
]. HOWARD MOORE, ESQ.,, of Topeka, Kan,
will deliver an address at Silver Lake Grove,
East End, at 2:30 this afternoon.
CONSTITUTIONAL amendment meeting was
held at Salisbury Hall last night, which was
addressed by Homer Il. Carlisle, Esq, and
others.
AN S-year-old daughter of John McCleland,
of 13l Webster street, Allegheny, fell from
porch yesterday and received injuries that re-
suited fatally.
CHARLES HENDERSON, a brakeman on
she Panhandle Railroad, had his right hand
crushed while coupling cars near Sheraden
station yesterday.
A FORMER empIoye of the Westinghouse
Electric Company has sold patent for start
ing and stopping electric cars to George West
inghouse for S25, 900.
MCRDTnrr 1oh at ba FdOar
Thomson Steel Works, fell off a trestle yester-
day, dislocating his shoulder and receiving
several cuts on his head.
WILLIE SUMNER. IA years of age, living on
Center avenue, Shadyside, while engaged put
ting up a swing. yesterday, fell from tree to
the ground, breaking his arm.
CHARLES BEIsEL Frank Stacy and Charles
Hopkins have been promoted TO conductor
ships on the Fit. Wayne. Conductor Allpaffer
will run OH a through train.
FRANK MANNING was committed to the
Western Penitentiary yesterday to serve a
term of three years and three months for lar
ceny and felonious entry. He comes from
washington county.
JOHN MCTIGHE, employed at the Lucy Fur
mace, suffered a slight fracture of the skull
last night by bar of iron falling upon him.
The injured man was removed to his home on
Ella street, Sixteenth ward.
= HENRY SHAFFER, mach1nIst, i! years OF
age. attempted to jump on freight train near
Mckeesport yesterday afternoon, but fell under
the train and had his left leg crushed He was
brought to the West Penn Hospital last night
and his injured limb was amputated
CHARLES STEEN, driver for the Chautau
qua Lake Ice Company, was arrested, yester-
day, for blockading Wylie avenue. He claimed
he could not move until he had delivered some
ice, as the street was torn up. A citizen who
claimed the. arrest unjust furnished bail for
the prisoner.
THE examination for provisional certificates
for teachers began at the High Sch ool yester-
day. There were LII applicants. considerable
less than the examination of year ago. The
papers were on orthography and physiology
and hygiene in the morning and on music in
the afternoon. The examination will continue
for eevera1 SaturdQvs