Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-09
Tri.state Brevities.

GREAT damage was caused by a storm pass
ing near Alliance.
BEAVER county soil is being closely searched
for silver and lead.
LIGHTNING struck an Altoona house and
caused a disastrous fire.
GREENsBURG thieves who robbed the post
Office have been captured.
SPLENDID exhibits were made at yesterdays
opening of the State Fair in Wheeling.
FIRE is raging in the Charlotte mine of The
H c. Frick Coke Company, at Scottdale.
A B. NORRIS, a wellsknown Warren, Pa,
sporting man, was shot by Dick Goss, a barber.
AFTER taking 30 morphine pills to kill him.
self, Charles Gilbert of Findlay never moved
again.
THE premature discharge of his gun, while
reloading, tore off James Ackelson's hand, near
Canton.
IT is rumored that the Irwin mine companies
propose to secure Southern negroes to work in
the mines.
YESTERDAY afternoon John Sloan fell 40
feet from the Belmont blast furnace elevator
and was killed.
A MAN named Reynolds was arrested at
Parkersburg for robbing man named Cham
ven of his watch.
OVER 1000 Roman Catholics rendered Bishop
Kain a grand reception on his return to Wheel
ing from Europe yesterday.
THREE locomotives and 20 cars were badly
wrecked in different collisions at New Castle,
on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
THE explosion of a can of gunpowder at No
Grady & Hogg's stonequarry at Brinton sta
tion, Pa, injured William Mcdonald terribly.
OBsTRUCTING the Wheeling street car
tracks was the charge that landed George
Bran, Charles Wilson and James Jack son in
jail.
Two murder cases, several trials for bigamy
and other serious otfenseS will come up at this
weeks criminal business in Cambria county
court.
THREE of the eight new open hearth
furnaces at the new open hearth mill of Car.
negie, Phipps 4 Co. were started yesterday
morning.
TOMORROW and the following two days ex-
cellent live stock and agricultural exhibits, in
cluding races will be seen at the East Pales-
tine, O., fair.
DANIEL WEBSTER, a colored man Of Pitts
burg, was found guilty at New Castle on the
charge of selling liquor without license at
Rock Point last July.
AN unknown German had both legs cut off
at Stonerville yesterday afternoon while crawl
ing under the tender of Southwest Pennsyl-
yania Railroad engine.
THE Harrison county, O., grand jury have
returned IA indictments for violation of the
liquor law, two for provoking quarrel, one
for murder, and several other smaller cases.
NEIGHBoRs of William oswalt, of Alliance,
were Mortified to find Mrs. Oswalt lying in
pool of blood in her house. She was subject to
spasms, and fell, bursting blood vessel. She
died.
PROF. Won WELLER, of Allegheny, who has
been serving as organist for All Saints Episco-
pal Church at Braddock, was arrested on the
charge of assaulting little Maggie Jones. of
Braddock.
ARMED policemen were on hand at the Hun
garian Church of ST. Stephen the Apostle at
Plymouth, Pa, to prevent any disturbance that
might have arisen out of the Sheriffs sale of
the church by ex-Pastor Kocsalko.
ANOTHER chapter in the sensational murder
case of Van Baker, a life prisoner in West Vir-
ginia, is petition. presented by his counsel, to
increase the bond of William Patterson execu-
tor of Mrs. Drusilla McWhas estate.
WHILE stubbornly attempting to ford the
swollen Piles Fork creek In West Virginia the
driver of rig containing Mrs. Conaway and
child lost control Of the team. The horses
sank and drowned the lady and child.