Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
Snap Shots at City Happenin As.

| ALDERMAN RICHARDS, of the Seventh ward,
| returned home yesterday from a two weeks
vacation at Atlantic City.
S. G. COOPER formerly car accountant for
the Illinois Steel Company, has been made
freight agent for Naylor s. Co., the iron
brokers.
YESTERDAY at o'clock q newborn child
was found in the Sawmili run, in the West
End, by Sophia Scheibly, who is about II
years old.
THE sub Committee on Public Lighting, of
Allegheny, met last night, but transacted no
business outside of approving the payroll
and some bills
JOHN BLUFF, an employe at the Republic
Iron Works, had his right nand crushed yes
terday in some machinery. He was taken
to the Southside Hospital.
JOHN LARKINs, of No. 80 Muriel street, had
his hand crushed while unloading iron on
South Tenth street yesterday. He was
taken to the Southside Hospital.
GEORGE AND CHARLES BROWN, the Ale
gheny tobacconists, were attacked by foot
pads Thursday night as they were crossing
Island avenue bridge. On calling tor help
the men decamped.
JOHN RHINEs, Is years old, who was hurt at
Stewart station, on the Allegheny Valley
Railroad, on July IS, died at the West Penn
Hospital, yesterday evening. at $50 o'clock.
He was unmarried.
AT meeting of the school board of the
Springfield sub district last evening, Miss
Hancock resigned the principalship and
Prof. Robert R. Dewar was elected by accla-
nation to fill the vacancy.
WIS. WATTS, the Williamsburg da1ryman,
owns COW that has about broken the
record. On Wednesday she gave birth to
four calves, and three of the quartet are
living, one having died few hours after it
was born.
The County Commissioners yesterday pre-
sented spider, two inches across, to Con-
troller Grier. The vacant space on Mr..
Grier's head is extensive, and the flies are
very bothersome. The spiders duty will be
to keep them off.
WORK was commenced yesterday on the
Sheridan avenue Improvement which is to
be paved with block stone. between Penn
and Stanton avenues. Work is also pro-
crossing on the Park avenue and Marchand
street pavementS.
ABOUT 2,4OO people were present at Silver
Lake Grove last evening to see Miss Ballou's
first balloon ascension and parachute leap
The affair was a success, the aeronaut alight-
ing safely in a brickyard, after an ascension
of about 2, 200 feet.
UPON bis return home, it is generally un-
derstood among the knowing ones, Chief
Brown will appoint Miles S. Humphries the
director. Then, again, it is rumored that
Miles will not accept it.
THE meeting of the county W. C. T. o. will
be held in the lecture room of the Smith
field Street NJ. E. Church Thursday at P M
At this meeting arrangements will be made
for holding the annual convention, which
occurs the second Tuesday in September.
A RELAY box on a telephone pole at the !
corner of Smithfield and Water streets, in
which there are about 500 wires, was burned
out yesterday afternoon. The pole took
fire, attracting large crowd, and requiring
the presence of a fire engine. The tele-
phone wires came in contact with trolley
wire.
HANSON L. FULLERTON of Freeport, who is
in the employ of Internal Revenue Collector
Warmcastle, wishes it understood that he is
not the man who got into trouble in Allie
gheny through driving two stolen horses
into that city. The man who got into that
ludicrous position was Hans Fullerton, as
printed yesterday. At least the Allegheny
police officials say So