Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-20
NEWS OF THREE STATES.
Items of Interest From Pennsylvania, Ohio
md West Virginia.

md West Virginia.
JoHNsTowN's $780, 900 public library will be
commenced June %.
McKEEsPoRT's new $4,000 parochial school
| will be dedicated Sunday.
| DIPHTHERIA to an alarming extent is
| prevalent ON Southern Ohio.
PITTsBURG capitalists are to build a new
rolling mill at McKeesport.
FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE, at
Lancaster, will hereafter give free tuition.
OVER 1000 people attended the commence
ment exercises Of Bethany College, at Wells
burg yesterday.
A LARGE amount Of unclaimed mail matter
was found in New Castle alley yesterday.
Mail carriers are suspected.
JOHN HELMEs. q, Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman, was instantly killed yesterday. His
home was at keyser. W. Va.
The Society of the Army of West Virginia
will hold their next annual reunion at Parkers-
burg on Tuesday, September IT,
EIGHT charges of extortion have been pre-
ferred against ex-District Attorney Grant. Of
Reading. He is held IN $500 bail.
OHIO has lady preacher in the person of
Miss Hannah Purvis, of North Lewisburg.
Yesterday she was licensed to solemnize mar
riages.
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, of GAINESVILLE, aged
so, committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a piztol. Mental de-
preston.
THE trial of Rev. NJ. L. Fritch is in progress
at Reading. He is charged with the larceny of
half knives. Witnesses claim he is a con-
frmed kleptomaniac.
WILLIAM N1v1soN,. indicted for stealing
s., 500 while agent of the United States Express
Company October "a, 1884, was placed upon
trial in Youngstown yesterday.
THE Farmers and Mechanics National
Banks, of Philadelphia, were non-sulted in
their case against John B. Rhodes & Bro, the
embarrassed mill owners at Media.
ANTHONY DRAKE was killed by lightning
near Spencerville yesterday. The bolt stripped
off one of his shoes and tore his hat to shreds,
but no mark could be found on his body.
T. W. PHILLIPS, of Butler, the oil speculator,
disposed of another tract of oil territory yester-
day in the Murrysville district to J. Z. Nc
Kinney, of Titusville; consideration, Sl2,0O
WILLIAM HUGHES. of Newark, O., un-
earthed the skeleton of a female yesterday
while digging near the road. 1t Is thought to
be that of a woman murdered some years ago.
HARRY, the l0-year-old son of Charles Werth-
miller, well-known business man, was
drowned while bathing in the Sandusky river
near TIffin. The body has not been recovered.
CHARLES MIKESELL, an employe of the
Lake Erie and Western work train, fell between
two cars at Mt. Cory, o., and had his left leg
ground to pieces below the knee. He died
from the shock.
THE quarterly entertainment of the Baptist
Social Union, composed of Baptist church
members of the Pittsburg district was held at
McKeesport last night in the Baptist church.
Two hundred visitors were present.
WITHIN the last few weeks a pest in the
shape of a small worm, and whose name is
legion has made its appearance in the south
eastern counties of this State, and bids fair to
outbeetle the Colorado potato beetle.
REV. MIR. w1LLErrs, faith curist Second
Adventist and wife deserter. who has been con.
fined in the county Jail at Washington. for the
past three months is now endeavoring to OBJ
tain his release under the insolvent law.
ALTooNA's once noted physician, DR.. ].
Lindsay is in Jail at Scottdale, charged with
fraudulently obtaining sIsO from Mrs Eva
Bobbs. The NJ. D. claimed he could secure the
release of her husband from the pen"
THE Bridgeport Bridge Company. of Wheel
ing of which Walter d. Updegraf and G. W.
G. Ferris, Of Pittsburg, are the principal incor-
porators. will commence operations at once for
the erection of TWO bridges across the Ohio at
Wheeling. The capital stock is s300,000.
THE failure of s. Oberlins' Sons, of MassiI-
lon, O.. proves to be one of the most complete
and astonishing in the city's history. The
stores were closed by Samuel .Oberlin. The
claims aggregate S36, O00. A large amount of
it is embraced in cash loans from friends and
neighDors.
BRITToN MEIGS, of Braddock, narrowly
escaped suffocation by impure air while work.
ing in a well yesterday. A workman went down
on rope, and with one hand grasping the rope
and the other holding to Meigs. was drawn up
Meigs did not recover consciousness for three
hours.
TIE Grand Lodge of the Knights of Mac
cabees closed its session at Oil City. The fol.
lowing alternates were elected: II. L. Duncan.
of Rolfe Tent 81 Johnsonburg; w. E. Blaney.
of St. Joe Tent No. S. Joseph Barr. of Custer
City No. 6: A. f. Crossman, of North Claren-
don No. 6S; /. c. Boyd, of Braddock No. 92
Next meeting az W illiamsport the second week
of June, l8eL