Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-25
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of a Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

| Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
BAINBRIDGE COUNCIL 12S Jr o. q. A. M.
will hold a private picnic at Silver Lake Grove
| on August "a.
A. FALCA, a shoemaker at HOS Penn avenue.
reported to the police last night that boy had
stolen a pair of shoes from his store.
A BOY named Devine, living on Thirty-second
street, had his leg crushed at the Black Diamond
Steel Works yesterday by an ingot falling
upon it.
The young girl who became a mother at the
Central station Friday has confessed that her
name is not Kate Murphy, as she previously
stated, but Maria Comfy.
THE Randall Club will meet this evening.
All members are earnestly requested to attend
| and receive tickets for the fete champetre. to
| be gwen at Silver Lake Grove.
The members of the Fifth Avenue Congre-
gational Church held their annual picnic yes
| terday at Rock Point. There were about 400
people present at the picnic grove.
A:PTTsBURG tobacco firm has Just made an
offer of Sll 900 for a new cigar making machine
which will turn out about l00OO0 cigars per
day. An effort is being made to form a stock
company to operate the machine.
ROBERT MUM, one of the men who was in.
jured by the breaking of the sewer a. Red
Pond on the morning of July Ii, has recovered
from his injuries and was discharged from the
Homeopathic Hospital yesterday.
Mr.. COOPER, of the firm of Edeburn A
Cooper, surveyors. denies the report that they
were surveying ground for a proposed new
railroad to Bellevue for Colonel Bayue with
the intention of cutting of the Pleasant
Valley.
JOHN HEDDLE, employed on the Steamboat
Nellie Hudson, was engaged tying up two
barges yesterday, when in some way he got he
tween them, and was badly squeezed about his
hips and back. He was taken to the Mercy
Hospital.
1T is stated by railroad officials that unless
the strike of the coal handlers at the West
Superior docks is ended within few days. it
will have the effect OF stopping shipments TO
that point. and some of the railroad mines will
have to close down.
AT the meeting of the School Directors of
the Seventh and Eighth wards, Miss Powell
late of the Fourteenth ward school, and Miss
Lennon, who has been teaching in one of the
Southside schools, and lives in the seventh
ward were elected teachers.
Ex-PoLIcEMAN THOMPSON. of Allegheny.
has been arrested on q complaint of his wife
who claims that he threatened her with bodilv
injury. Thompson resisted arrest, and IL re-
quired the services Of four Of the best men Of
the force to bring him to subJection.
AN attache of the Highway Department As.
sistant Superintendent Hunter, spoke in very
favorable terms yesterday of the work done b;
the revolving sweepers on the preceding night
and expressed the opinion that. the pripcinai
streets in the heart OF the city would be swent
every night by means Of the machines.
HEALTH OFFICER BRADLEY. Of ALLEGHENY
has started crusade against the doctors who
have not reported their cases of typhoid fever
and threatens to fine them $50 for their neglect
Thereis both an act of the Assembly and CITY
ordinance requiring these reports and bIanks
have been sent to all the city physiciana