Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-09
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.

accidents of a Day In Two O1Eies Condensed
for Ready Reading.
CHIEF BIGKLow went to New York last
evening to see Mr.. c. L. Magee of to Europe.
MRS. A. McNIsH and her son George, of
Robinson street. Allegheny, 60 to Frankfort
Springs to-day.
SUPERINTENDENT PITCAIRN. Of the Pitts
burg division of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
went East yesterday.
WILLIAM THAw and Chas ]. Clarke left
last night for New York. They will sail for
Europe tomorrow on an extended tour.
THE May report of tho Pittsburg and West
ern. road shows an increase in earnings Of
Sl4, $50 for the entire system over last year.
SUPERINTENDENT CowAN, of the West
Penn Hospital, went to Alliance. O., yesterday,
accompanied by Mrs. Cowan, for two weeks
visit.
THE body of DR.. William Robinson, OF Al
toona. was cremated at Samson's yesterday.
The Mayor of Altoona and a number of friends
accompanied the body.
Rev. ]. d. Knox, the banker of Topeka,
Kas., was in Pittsburg yesterday. He is on his
way East He is well known in this city, hav-
ing resided here many years.
CHEF CLERK W. h. CROSBY, of the Ander-
son, will leave for the st. Clair Springs this
morning to spend month. Mr.. Crosby Is q
great sufferer from rheumatic gout.
Mr.. T. E. EVANS, the potter, returned from
Europe yesterday. He says the foreign potters
are making strong bid for American trade,
and are prepared to break the prices.
WILLIAM SMITH, employed in the mills of
Lindsay, McCutcheon & Co.. Allegheny, had
his right arm crushed severely yesterday after
noon by having it caught in some machinery.
FRANK WARRINGTON had hearing before
Alderman McKenna yesterday on a charge of
mayhem preferred by William Sproul- The
defendant was alleged to have bitten the prose-
cutor on the lip.
A MAN named Laner. 80 years Of age, whose
home is on Carson street. near South Nine
teenth. fell while getting of street car yes
terday, and was injured SO that fears for his
life were entertained.
THE Society for the Improvement Of the
Poor distributed in the past two weeks $50
loaves of bread 254 bars of soap. 23S grocery
orders, S75 bushels of coal and so garments.
Four hundred and twenty-five families were
visited.
MRS. SARAH GRAHAM, widow of James
Graham, of the Eighth ward. died night before
last. She was born in 1914, on Smithdeld
street. near Strawberry alley. Her husband
died two months ago. They were born on the
same day.
DETECTIVE MCSwEENEY and Deputy Mar
shal Chambers captured John Ross, charged in
the United States Court with counterfeiting, at
his home in Manifold, Butler county, on Sun
-
the Bob Montgomery gang.
The Wylie avenue traction line will not be
in operation as soon as expected. but It is ex-
pected to De in operation by the time the Ex-
position opens. The track will likely be fin
ished in two weeks, and work has been COM
menced on the power house.
JOHN RIssEL, engineer. and a man named
Boetler, fireman, the former so and the latter
% years old and residents of Allegheny City,
were killed By the wreck on the Pittsburg and
Western Railway near Canton Sunday. The
cause of the wreck was broken axle.
PETER BALIFF says he was struck by his son
William, who also threatened to make mince-
meat of his progenitor according to the old
mans allegations before Alderman Hartman.
a warrant was issued for Williams arrest
The Baliff family live in West Elizabeth.
JOHN HUGHES, prominent in Masonic
circles. was brought dead to his late home,
1870 Sidney avenue. Twenty-sixth ward, from
Uniontown Yesterday. His death was the re-
residence of his son-in-law, Captain Sam
Brown.
AN engineer on a heavy freight train
that could not be checked on the down grade
through Monongahela City, crawled down onto
the COW catcher of his train on Sunday and
caught little child of William Roy, which
until the train could be stopped, some 50 rods
further along
EDWARD VEELY, who lives at 1910 Larlxins
alley, Southside, took his baby in q perambu-
lator to the foot of South Eighteenth street,
and while there fell into doze and was awak-
ened by the child screaming. He found the
child with its head oathed in blood and a piece
of pot shell with blood on it lying beside the
child. 1t is supposed to have been thrown by
some boy. The baby is expected to die from
the injury.
1T is said that the cost of digging bitches,
procuring of carpets bed clothing. ETC., to
cover tanks, TO prevent the spread of the
flames az the time the 36 900 barrel oil tank at
] Johnston station, CHARTERS Valley Railroad,
was struck by lightning. I'd inst, was 81, 500. f.
NJ. Lowry, agent of the Western and Atlantic
Pipeline Company, was forced to hire laborers
at 81 an hour and hash. The loss on tank and
was $4,000. with SIS 200 insurance.
SUPERINTENDENT DEAN, of the s. p. c. A.,
visited St. Francis Hospital yesterday to make
inquiry in regard to a charge that Margaret
Bracken was confined in the insane department
at the instance of her relatives. and that she
was not insane. The Mother Superior, how
ever, thought there was sufficient in the girls
behavior to warrant confinement though the
insanity was of mild type A certificate was
produced from Drs. II. II. Clark and w. c.
Buvinger that the girl was insane