Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-07
LOCAL ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LOCAL ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE Welsh Baptist Church picnicked at
Idlewild yesterday.
DURING last week there were SO deaths in
| Allegheny. OF this number 81 were under
five years of age.
A PATROL wagon and fire engine collided
at the corner of Carson and Fifteenth streets
| yesterday at noon.
ARTHUR PLAToR was arrested yesterday for
| assaulting Detective McTighe. The man had
| just been released from the workhouse.
| L. T. YoDER was yesterday elected Chair
| man of the County Prohibition Committee.
| A vice chairman will be elected next Mon
| day.
| II. F. McArEER has been appointed private
| secretary to F. Van Dusen, one of the assist
ant ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Com
pany.
| Two sisters from the House of the Good
| Shepherd at Columbus, O., are taking up pri-
| vate collection among the Catholics in this
| diocese.
THE Allegheny Sub Committee on Streets
| and Sewers last night approved bills to the
| amount of $lS,97S So. Its other business was
| only routine.
j. r. j. MILLIGAN's congregation was last
night given the right to use the lecture-room
ing services.
THE school children of St. Augustfne's
congregation, in Lawrenceville, nearly 1000,
will hold their annual picnic at Silver Lake
Grove to-day.
THE fifth of George C. jerks select river
excursions will take place this evening.
The boat will leave the foot of Wood street
at 1:30 O'Clock,
CLARENCE EDDY will dedicate the new
Thursday evening. Miss Christine Nelson
will take part in the entertainment.
THE cover of No patrol wagon has been
removed for the summer, and the curious
public will now have an opportunity of see
ing prisoners on their way to the station.
Mrs. ANDREW BARKsELL and James Taylor
are held by Alderman Succop, to answer
charges of immortality. The suits we're en-
tered at the instance of Andrew Barksell.
THERE were three Polish weddings on the
Southside last night All were attended by
a large number of Poles and q policeman
was placed on duty at each to keep order.
THE board of directors, from the st. Joseph's
Orphan Asylum on Troy Hill, has decided
that picnic be held for the benefit of the in
stitution at Mckee's Rocks grove, August "a.
KATE JACKSON, aged "a years, died yester-
day at the Poor Farm. She WAS a white
woman and was the wife of Andrew jackson,
the 9O-year-old negro who died there in
March.
THE Public Safety Committee of Councils
was to have met yesterday afternoon to
consider further the underground wire and
fire boat ordinances, but failed to get
quorum.
STREET CAR IS, of the Birmingham electric
line, collided yesterday with a horse and
wagon of Graf, Hugus & Co., at South Sew
enteenth and Carson streets. The horse was
badly hurt.
REV. G. G. CONWAY, of New Brighton, has
been called to the passionate of the First
Methodist Protestant Church of Allegheny
Rev. W. w. Cowl, the present pastor, will go
to Beaver Falls.
REV. FATHER MAURITIUs, of the Capuchini
Order, and formerly rector of st. Augustine's
Church, Butler street, but now rector of st.
Aphonso's Church, Wheeling, is lying at the
point of death.
In compliance with the order of court, Act
ing Street Commissioner Arch Berry yester-
day began with large gang of men to clean
off the Allegheny wharf which the court
ordered some days ago.
PEOPLE on the Hill are much elated over
the successful opening of the new Central
Park. For q short time it will be closed, un-
til q railing is put around the basin and sew
eral officers are stationed there.
THE Methodist Protestant Sunday schools
of Allegheny county will hold union pie
mic at Idlewild tomorrow. A programme of
addresses and singing will be carried out,
followed by various athletic contests.
GEORGE MARUsoN, of Wilson street, Seventh
ward, was committed to jail yesterday by
Alderman Cahill, on a charge of assaulting
Mary Kelly with club, Sunday evening. K
hearing will be had Thursday morning.
CHARLES HENRY, aged 50 years, former
well-to-do citizen of the Southside, was a
lodger at the Twenty-eighth ward police
to support himself, owing to physical dis
ability.
THE annual retreat of half the secular
priests in this diocese will commence at
Laretto, Monday, July 90 The divine sery-
ices will be conducted by missionary, Rev. |
Father Stuhl of the Redemptorist order
from Annapolis, Md.
THE Shadyside Musical and Literary As |
sociation will give its second free open air |
concert of the season this evening at 7:45 |
o'clock, on the Ia wn in front ofthe Twentieth |
ward public school, Ellsworth avenue. |
Music by the Great Western Band.
CArHARINE GALLON, aged 80 years and de-
mented left her home, rear of $40 Forbes |
street. Sunday morning, and it is feared she
has met with an accident. When last seen |.
she was dressed in black dress and shawl. |
carrying prayer book in her hand.
THE members of the Young Peoples So
cfety of Christian Endeavor of the Presby-
terian Church, of Williamsburg, have their
complete for a lawn fete, to be |
Civ en- this evening on the grounds surround |
ing the residence of Mr.. Robert Ferguson
CHIEF ELLIOT, of the Department of Chari-
ties, yesterday submitted to the Controller
the advertisement for a new poor farm, as
provided by the ordinance passed over the
Mayor's veto last week. The ordinance
provides that the advertisement shall be
printed and open to bidders for ten days.
AT meeting of the chiefs and captains of
the Bureau of Fire yesterday it was decided,
in accordance with the wish of their late |
comrade Benjamin Banford, not to attend |
his funeral in body, though the large ma
iority of the members will be there. The
funeral will take place this afternoon at
o'clock at his late residence.
THOMAS FEE was lodged in the Twenty
eight ward police station last night charged
with disorderly conduct. Fee. it is alleged
assaulted Constable Quigley, of the Twenty
fourth ward without cause. The constable
tried to arrest Fee but failed and Oficer
Y oung placed him under arrest for disorderly
conduct. Quigley says he will enter suit
Too for a scar l1lt nj ha /