Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-12
LITTLE SCRAPS OF LOCAL NEWS.

THREE cases of diphtkeria and three of
scarIatina were reported to the Bureau of
Health yesterday.
SUPERINTENDENT TURNER and his assistants
| started on an inspection of the Panhandle to
| Columbus yesterday.
TIE residents of Allegheny are denounc-
| ing the pad streets and many stagnant
| pools along their thoroughfares.
THERE we're thirty deaths in Pittsburg last
week. Pneumonia headed the list with ten.
Cold caused the MAJ aj6rity OF deaths.
OWING to an over-pressure of gas Sunday
night. the house at IL James street caught
fire. but the blaze was soon extinguished.
PETER scHATzMAN has been appointed po-
lice captain in Allegheny, to succeed Cap
tain James Bell who has been indefinitely
suspended.
THE ministerial associations of the Meth
| odist. Presbyterian and United P esbyter-
ian Churches met yesterday and discussed
| subjects of interest to their calling.
MRS. SLATrERY, wife of the ex-priest who
was recently arrested On the charge of dis
trfbutins obscene literature, is billed to
lecture in Lafayette Hall this evening.
SERGEANT HEADR1ok, of the Fourteenth
| ward police station. was slightly burnt
about the face and hands last night by a
flash of natural gas while lighting the stove
in the cell room.
last night, James Canivan, an employe of
Woods mill. was struck on the head by
piece OF coal that fell from an engine on
the trestle above him.
THE Southside Medical Society met last
night at the Office Of DR.. j. NJ. Duff Reports
indicate that the new plans for collecting
old doctor bills have worked charmingly for
those who have tested it.
On account of the non-appoin tment of the
committee that approves the pay roll Of the
Allegheny officials, the clerks and other Of
fcials have not been paid, and as a conse-
quence there is some vigorous kicking.
The tenth anniversary of the Sharpsburg
and Etna Young Mems Christian Association
will be celebrated in the Grace NJ. P. Church,
Tuesday evening, April r. at 8 o'clock. The
annual address will he delivered by Rev.
George I. Purves. d. d.
THE directors of the Southside Hospital
will meet this afternoon at 8 o'clock to elect
a Secretary to succeed William j. Frost, de-
ceased. The candidates are Al Reisfar,
brother of Charles Reisiar, of the Central
Board of Education; Bert Rossitor and John
Z. Cook.
AT O. joint meeting of the Ellwood in
dustries yesterday Cashier Mclean, of the
Marine National Bank was chosen Treasurer
of the Ptttsburg Company. which controls
the new town of Lllwood. the Ellwood
Water Works, the Ellwood Short Line and
the Ellwood Short Line Railway.
MRS. JOHANNA KELLEHER, aged 73 of Thir-
teenth and Smallman Streets has fallen heir
to $lO0, 900. left to her by her brother, jerome
Cain, who died at Lithow, County Kerry Ire
land, not long since. ASH consequence she
is very happy. Father Wall will help Mrs.
Kelleher in securing the handsome fortune.
THERE will be special Lenten services held
in st. Matthews Protestant Episcopal
Church, at Homestead, on Wednesday,
THURSDAY and Friday evenings of this week;
and on Thursday evening there will be
celebration of the Holy Communion, Rev.
Nassau S. Stephens, of New Jersey, offici-
ating.
The semimonthly report of the Associa-
ton for the Improvement of the Poor shows
that there were 80 new applicants $40 fami-
lies visited, 4S2 families aided, sS5 visits were
made to the poor, los visits for the poor, l3
situations obtained and days work for 40.
There were 10 children placed in Sabbath
schools and ten in public schools.
JOHN F. RocKsTEAD, who has been an in
mate of the insane department of the Poor
Farm for eight years, died at that institution
on Sunday. He was sent to the farm in 1884
from tine JAIL where he was sent by the po-
lice authorities, having been found roaming
about the streets without home OF friends.
The deceased was about 81 years old.