Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-05
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of a Dny In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

greatest NUMBER OF buildings, having taken
out 81 permits for buildings valued at S5365S,
although the Twentieth ward had only 81 per-
mits and the valuation runs up to SlS9.575.
The Thirteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-first
wards each had 20 permits. the valuations be-
ing S2S 56s, sl7.334 and $50 COS respectively The
valuation of 26 buildings in the Fourteenth
ward was $50, ,42l; Thirty.second ward, 25 build
ings, SSl.2 .297; Twenty-seventh ward, 1Sbuildings,
Sl23l7; Seventeenth ward, 16 buildings, S35, 300;
Eleventh ward, Is buildings. Sl3.750: Twenty
third ward, IL buildings: sl2. SO2; Thirty.trst
buildings, 81, 900; Fourth ward, building, S22-
800; Sixth ward. 6 buildings, sl7.3O0.
JOHN KENNEY entered an information
against Harry Daughcrty yesterday. charging
him with larceny. Daugherty was employed IN
Kenney's barber shop. and the first day after
he went TO work stole sum of money, it is
alleged, and left during Kenney's absence. He
will have hearing before Magistrate Gr1pp on
Monday. This is the second charge of this
character against Daugherty.
CHARLES HOWE had hearing yesterday
before Magistrate Gripp on charge of fraud
ulently approprlating funds of a co-partner.
The information was brought by his partner,
William BOYD. The amount in dispute was $780,
Howe claimed the $50 had been paid Boyd. A
decision was reserved.
A MEETING of the Grand Army Day Com
mittee will be held to-day at $50 P. NJ. in Com
mon Council Chamber. In order to settle up
the affairs of the committee promptly it is Ie-
quested that all finance books be returned to
the Chairman of the Finance Committee at this
meeting.
WILLIAM PUNCH was arrested yesterday on
complaint of Albert Wire, of 26 Franklin
street. that he struck him on the head on
Thursday evening on Wylie avenue, knocking
him down. because he refused him money.
Punch furnished $500 forfeit for a hearing Mon
day.
SOME person unknown walked behind the
counter of Stuckey's drugstore, at the corner of
Seventeenth street and Penn avenue, last even
ing while the clerks were engaged, and ab-
stracted SO from the money drawer The mat
ter was reported at police headquarters.
THE funeral of John W. Mckay brother of
the well-known brewer, took place from the
residence of James Mckay, in the East End,
yesterday. The funeral cortege was very large,
and the body was laid to rest in Allegheny Gem
etery.
EDGAR CAMPBELL, of Lawrenceville who
about month ago disappeared from his home
on Twenty-eighth street. returned on Monday
from Cleveland, whittier he had gone on a holi-
day and $SO The money spent, he came back.
THE Bureau of Water Assessments has begun
the second assessment of the present year, the
buildings to be assessed to be those which were
not finished or supplied with water connections
at the time of the regular assessment,
AN iron company is contemplating the ac-
ceptance of the location at Christy Park offered
by B. c. Christy. The Yough Connecting Rail-
road would then be run to the park and the
Bissell Wheel Works
AHUNDRED additional men will soon be en-
ployed at Molsberger's mines at Webster. The
new tipple will also be used to coal the engines
of the McKeesport and Bellevernon Railroad.
A YOUNG man named Jones, who is en-
ployed in McKee's grocery store, SO Ohio street,
Allegheny, had his arm caught in the elevator
yesterday afternoon and very badly crushed.
DoD CosToDAN was committed to Jail last
night on a charge of larceny. John Kelly
alleges that the defendant, who boarded in the
same house with him, robbed him of $50.
The Grand Army Day Committee haven't
funds enough to pay expenses, and the veterans
will be asked to contribute. They claim those
most benefited gave scarcely anything.
A 9-YEAR-oLD girl named Fisher was run
down yesterday by horse and buggy on Lib
erty street, Allegheny. The girl suffered Sc
we're but not dangerous injuries.
JOHN MILLER, of Forty-frst street, charges
Lizzie Hart with the larceny of lace curtains
and underclothing. Lizzie is serving zQday
sentence in the workhouse.
Two boys named Peter Steinbaugh and Mi.
cbael Reardon were arrested and fined So 40
each Yesterday for trespassing and stealing fruit
in the Allegheny Cemetery.
SOMEONE told Charles Richey of Sewickley.
that his son who Is serving term in the work.
house was dead and buried. The fellow leo to
him. The boy is living.
MRS HALEY, of Jones avenue, who went to
Gallon, O., to reclaim her three children, who
have been on exhibition there as Albinos, did
not return last night.
THOMAS COLLIN, brakeman on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, had his leg crushed at
Moorhouse & McClean's siding yesterday while
coupling cars.
WYLIE AVENUE storekeepers are kicking
because the streets in the vicinity of the new
power house are blockaded. Their business is
declining.
THE Wheeling and Lake Erie managers have
decided to build their road to Wheeling in
stead of Steubenyille. according to the original
plans.
HENRY GAss made an information before
Alderman Dougherty, alleging that Fred
Schultz struck him with piece of iron in the
face.
THOMAS CoNNoRs, who works at Carnegie's
Thirty-thtrd street mill, was burned about the
head and chest yesterday by flash of natural
gas.
RUDIEN MAY, aged % years, a coal miner.
was killed yesterday at Mansfield while walk
ing on the Panhandle track.
T. II. LovKTT, of Lovett Co., was thrown
out OF his carriage yesterday, and sustained
considerable injuries.
The Mercy Hospital received three typhoid
fever patients Yesterday