Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-17
A WAVE OF MORALITY
Sweeps Over the Twin Cities, in.
the Form of a Big Epidemic. a,
IT PERvADES THE ATMOSPHERE.
There Were No Arrests in Allegheny and
Very Few in Plttsburg.
DISPOSITION OF SATURDAY DRUNKs

A spirit of morality seemed to pervade
the very air yesterday The epidemic
struck Allegheny the harder of the twin
cities and as result clean docket was
shown at II o'clock last night But Pitts
burg also felt the blow and it was without a
doubG the most quiet day the two cities have
seen for many moons.
The delightful weather wooed people to
parks and suburbs and it proved too pleas
ant to tempt men to quaff large supplies of
| the amber fluid to the extent of depriving
them of their liberties. There was indeed
very little drunkenness all day and police
officers had but little to do, except enjoy
themselves
The police officials at Central station dis
cussed the quietness of yesterday as some
thing of phenomenon. There was some
fear on their part that they might lose their
jobs ifit kept up, but their minds will
| pr obably be disabused on that score. Su-
perintendent Muth, of Allegheny, said that
it was the most quiet day he had known
since he has had charge of the police de-
partment
GOOD RESOLUTIONS IN EFFECT.
Saturday night list of Odds" and other
unfortunates was not long and as a result
the hearings were very short. 1t seems as
though there was general wave of good
resolutions going into effect.
Magistrate Gripp had only So cases to dis
pose of at the Central station, the majority
of which were of the very common order
Samuel Wheeler, a Washington county
citizen, went into Water street saloon and
after partaking of a drink not only refused
to pay for it but wanted to whip the bar
keeper for asking for money. Wheeler was
fined $40 and costs. Mike Joseph was very
drunk on Saturday night and went into the
house of Thomas Male, on Cherry alley, and
drawing a revolver playfully informed
MI. Male that if he said word he would
blow the top of his head off Officer Max
well was called and Joseph tried to pull the
gun on him, but was prevented from doing
so. His fine was S25 and COSTS
p Susie Clark, who had been a domestic in
the house of James Martin, on Wylie
avenue, was caught on Saturday night in
the act of absconding with a lot of Mr..
Martins property. She was sent to the
workhouse for 80 days. Fred Kalb, who
was very drunk, was found on Marvin
street by Officer Batz just as he was in the
act of attacking citizen with beer bottle
Kalb was sent to the workhouse for 30 days.
FINES AND THE woRKHoUsE.
Daniel Fitzpatrick was accused of assault
ing an inoffensive Hebrew named NJ. Ku-
kisky on Fifth avenue. His fine was $40
and costs. John Lydon, while very drunk
Sunday morning, took up position in Our
alley and proceeded to make the night
hideous with his roars Lydon was armed
with o11h opd 10
the entire population if they would only
come out to him. He was given 80 days to
the workhouse.
Police Magistrate Succop held the usual
Sunday morning hearings for both the West
End and Southside at the Twenty-eighth
ward police station. There were 20 cases,
all very ordinary and le5 off with small fines
and light sentences, with the exception of
five, which were dismissed. James Gard
ner, vagrant, was sentenced ten days to
Jail for sleeping in Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad coach against the wishes of
the railroad people.
Edward Duffy was picked up drunk by
Officer L. Spraut on the Panhandle Rail-
road tracks few minutes before train
came along which would have ground him
to pieces had he not been found. He was
let go on light fine.
John Dane, wife beater, was fined S3
and costs for whipping his wife late on Sat-
urday night and disturbing the peace of the
neighbors.
At the Twelfth ward police station yes
terday morning 40 prisoners were given
hearing before Alderman Leslie. They
were all ordinary cases of drunks and dis
orderly conduct, in which light fines were
imposed.
AT the Seventeenth ward police station
yesterday morning 43 prisoners were given
a hearing before Alderman Leslie. Two
were common drunk cases. Pat Disken,
who tried to commit suicide by jumping
into the Allegheny river at Fifty-fourth
street, was held over for hearing to-day
James Mcdonald, who was arrested for |
making an assault on Viola Watson, was |
sent to Jail in default of bail for court.
EAST END AND ALLEGHENY CASES.
Police Magistrate Hyndman disposed of |
IS cases at the Nineteenth ward station and |
IA cases at the Fourteenth ward station. Of |
those at the Nineteenth ward station he dis |
charged 10. He sentenced Joseph Ander-
son and ohm Smith, the two men arrested |
on Saturday morning for assaulting a
woman, to 80 days each to the Workhouse.
Jacob Haller and Henry Moore paid So and
costs for disorderly conduct. At the Four
teenth ward station Joseph Worter, arrested
lOT keeping d uiSOluelly mouse Oh Z anne
stock street, was fined SIS and costs, and
eight persons who were arrested as visitors,
paid fines and costs amounting to S. 40 each.
There were 10 cases disposed of at the
hearing yesterday morning before Deputy
Mayor McKelvey, of Allegheny. James
Quinn was fined S25 and costs for ANNOYING
people about the market house. j. H. Key,
who has a stall in the market, claimed that
be was annoyed for the last ten months by
Quinn, and that Saturday night the latter
treated such disturbance that he had to
throw him out.
In the case of w. J. Thubron, the ALLIE
yheny iveryman who was arrested by
officer Kelsch Saturday evening on charge
If ,fdisorderly conduct, decision was reserved
Until tomorrow.
John Moore was fined S25 and costs for
lbusing his father and mother at his home
IN West Pearl street, Allegheny Bridget
Mulvey was sent to jail for ten days for
drunkenness. She was in such glorious
condition early yesterday morning that she
lisrobed herself on Western avenue and
made a bed on the pavement.