Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-03
LOCAL ITEMS. LIMITED.

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Four of them are typhoid fever cases.
LOCAL ITEMS. LIMITED.
for Ready Reading.
THE Allegheny Police Committee met las
night and approved payrolls amounting tt
S. sos IS and bills to the amount of SoO2 81. Tht
resolution for placing covers on the patro
wagons was referred to the Subcommittee OF
Wagons and Stables. The Mayors report fol
the month of August, showing total of 30
arrests and 81, 1852 03 collected by fines. was re
ceived and approved.
THE Coroner had the body of the child found
at the foot of Forty-third street Sunday exam
ined by physician yesterday, and the exam
nation developed that the child had lived aftel
its birth and its death had undoubtedly beer
produced by foul means There is no clue a;
yet as to the parentage of the babe or Its mur
derers, but the Coroner will continue his investi
cation to-day.
JOHN SCHERER was charged yesterday E.
fore Alderman McGary with assault and surety
Of the peace by his grandfather, Henry kruse
and August KlinziDg. Scherer is a son Of
Nicholas Scherer, who was murdered some
llu6 ago. 1OunU SCu6TeI l6ll OuL Will Ills
stepfather and, it is charged, threatened tc
shoot him. Klinzing, who Interfered, was also
threatened
A CUTTING affray over girl was reported tc
have occurred on Duquesne heights last
night. The police investigated the affair and
report that about o'clock a young man named
Joseph T. Welch, while out walking with a
girl, was offered an insult by some party
Welch pulled out a knife and threatened tC
cut the man. No arrests were made.
THE Allegheny Park Committee met last
night and approved bills and payrolls amount
ing to l5O5 43. The letter of o. P. Scaife, read
at the last meeting of Select Council calling
the attention of Councils to the good bargain
of purchasing the Watson estate on the Perrys
vile road for park purposes, was reread and on
motion, received and filed.
THE new schoolhouse of West Bellevue Dor
ough will be dedicated tonight. E. Wright,
Secretary to the Board of Directors: County
Superintendent Hamilton. Rev. E. Rutherford,
Rev. j. n. Swift and A. e. Rankin will deliver
interesting addresses. The Jr. o. U. A. M. will
present flag. and music and song will fill up
the intervals agreeably.
FREDERICK EAKIN of Second avenue, is
charged with selling liquor without license, be.
fore Alderman Jones, by Constable Jones, Of
the Fourteenth ward. The defendant gave
bail in the sum of $500 for hearing. Mary
Lynch, charged with the same offense was held
for trial at court by Alderman Jones.
MARY MCGANN, the girl who was run over
by buggy at the corner of Soho street and
Fifth avenue. on Sunday night, was reported
by DR.. Scott the attending physician, to be
much better yesterday. Peyton st. Cloud who
drove the buggy, is still confined in the Central
station.
THE Society for the Improvement of the
Poor distributed in the last two weeks 5S2
loaves of bread, 259 bars of soap. 23S grocery
orders, l75 bushels Of coal and Ito pieces of
clothing. There were 4l5 families visited and
1S7 aided, which included 1853 persons.
AN ARA BIAN boy named Joseph Simon has
been reported missing. He is II years old, of
dark complexion. and has a deep cut on his
forehead and cross on his right hand. 1t is
said he has been spirited away by wandering
Arabisns who lately passed through this city.
CHEF BROWN has decided that all old sol.
diers in the police and fire departments who
desire TO attend the celebration of Pennsyl-
vania Day at Gettysburg next week will be al
lowed to go, provided they give notice of their
intention in due time.
CHRISTIAN OLENHAUsER, an old-timer on
the Southside. fell from the Castle Shannon
platform yesterday, breaking an ankle and dis
locating his shoulder. Mr.. Olenhauser's failing
sight occasioned the accident. His injuries are
very serious,
THE corner stone of the new English Catho.
lie Church at McKee's Rocks will be dedicated
on next Sunday afternoon. The knights of
ST. George will turn out with band, and other
Catholic societies will attend.
IT was mistake to publish, as a paper did
yesterday afternoon, that the State Medical
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Hotel this season. 1t adjourned to meet the
second Tuesday in June, 1890.
THE Prohibition County Executive Commit.
tee met last night in the office of ]. R. John
ston, the candidate on the Prohibition ticket
for State Treasurer. Nothing but routine bus
mess was considered.
THE re-examination of scholars for admis.
sion to Allegheny High School, who had failed
in one study, will take place this morning in
the new building, and be conducted by Super
intendent Morrow.
ALLEGHENY's new High School BUILDING
will be opened for school purposes on Monday.
September 9. The dedication is left to the sub.
committee who will fix a date for The exercises
late this month.
THE Chinese laundry of Wung Lee CORNER
of Wylie avenue and Crawford street. was en-.
tered by thieves early yesterday morning and a
trunk broken up and rited of S50 No cew to
the thieves.
MAYOR PEARSON, of Allegheny, sent Mary
Smith to the workhouse for 80 days on the
charge of offensive and persistent pegpino
from the residents of West View and Perrys.
vile road.
HAL DICKSON, boy, while taking n broken
buggy to repair shop on Fifth avenue near
Soho yesterday, was pulled over the dashboard
and dragged fully square, sustaining severe
bruises.
THE Fedora Club gave ball at the Allie
gheny Avenue Hall. Allegheny, last night The
Roval Italian Band was in attendance, and the
guests numbered very nearly 800.
ONE of wainwright's beer wagons was struck
by shifting engine on the Allegheny Valley
Railroad near Thirty-sixth street yesterday and
smashed to kinding wood.
MAYOR PEARSON received bail yesterday
morning from Annie Mccarthy, in the sum of
$500 for stabbing Mary Payne IN the face ON
August 25
JAMES DoNAHoE, who cut ames Flaherty
at Mansfield Sunday, was brought to Jail last
night, on charge of felonious assault and
battery.
JOHN BoYNE, of 279 Second avenue, who was
charged with conducting speak-easy, was dis
charged by Alderman McMasters last night.
ON TUESDAY next the annual convention of
the county w. c. T. U. will be held in the Third
q. P. Church. commencing at 9A.M
NEW and thinner poles and wires are to be
put up by the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany in Allegheny Parks.
THE Bureau of Fire yesterday placed FIRE
alarm box, No. 5l5, in the Exposition building.