Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-27
SHORT STORIES OF CITY LIFE

ASCENSION Day was appropriately cele-
| brated in the Episcopal and Catholic
| churches yesterday.
THE annex of the Allegheny General Hos.
pital is nearly completed, and will be form
ally opened on June 8.
WASHINGTON ALEXANDER, a 'dog catcher, VI
was badly bitten by bulldog in Lawrence
vile a few days ago.
CARL GEMS, night watchman at Scaffe's
foundry, Twenty-fourth and smallman
streets, has fallen heir to $780,
HARRY STEWART, a 2-year-old boy of No 90
Adams street, Allegheny, fell distance of
20 feet Wednesday afternoon, breaking no
bones.
GEORGE REIsDoRF and wife, living on Coal
Hill, West End, were seriously burned by
the explosion Of lamp on last Wednesday
night.
A LARGE warehouse will be built on the
site of the buildings destroyed by fire on last
Wednesday night at Twelfth and Liberty
streets.
A PARLoR social for the benefit of the
Moorhead W. c. T. q. will be held this even
ing at the residence of Mrs. Emma Grimm,
No. 41 Wylfe avenue.
Mrs. CHARLES WEER, or 81 Lowry street,
Troy Hill, has been missing since Tues LAY.
1t is feared she is insane. She is 35 and
leaves three children.
CONRAD SCHILLER, of South Twenty-secon
stteet is looking for his niece, Anna Kath-
crime Darne, of whose arrival in this coun-
try he has just learned.
PUBLIC meeting will be held in the wylie
Avenue A. NJ. E. Church next Sunday even
ing to take action on the inhuman hanging
of colored people in the South.
THERE were two new cases of scarletina
and four new cases of diphtheria reported to
the Bureau of Health yesterday They
were scattered pretty generally over the
city.
HENRY FISHER, an s-year-old boy, of As Gen.
ter street Allegheny, has been missing from
his home since Tuesday morning, when he
was last sent to school. There are no traces
of him.
THE State Encampment of the Sons Of
Veterans will be held at Easton, Pa., begin
camps each of which will send two repre-
sentatives.
HORSE attached to the wagon of John
Freund, the southside drygoods dealer, ran
off on Carson street yesterday and damaged
the wagon and threw the driver out He
was not badly injured.
DIR. W. T. ENGLISH will deliver the annual
address before the Arcadian and Promethean
Litery Societies, of DuQuesne College, in the
chapel at 2:30 this afternoon. His subject
is, Evolution of Thought"
JOHN LINES, 16 years old, and for several
Carson street, left his employer five day 8
ago. and yesterday was found wandering on
the Southside in a demented condition.
THE teachers and pupils OF the O'Hara
School held their annual reception at the
school building yesterday afternoon from
to O'Clock. A large number of their friends
gathered in and an enjoyable time was
spent.
THE body Of the unknown man found dead
on the Panhandle tracks at Willow Grove
yesterday was identified IS that Of T. NJ Man.
SON, of Noblestown, Pa, The body was iden-
titled by the wife of the deceased. An in
quest will be held to-day.
The triennial meeting of the Society of st.
Vincent of the Holy Ghost College will be
held at the college on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of next week. A nav semi
monthly eight-page paper will make its ap-
pearance next month from Fay's printing
house on Grant street.
THE regular meeting of the United Presby-
terian Woman's Association has been post
poned from to-day to Friday, June 8. at
which time 1t will meet in the Sixth U. P.
Church, Pittsburg, Rev. Mr.. RUSSELL pastor.
The time of the meeting is set for 2:3O
o'clock in the afternoon.
ALFRED SCHWARTZ, a colored man, aged Is
years, employed as a heater at the Black
Diamond Steel Works, was overcome by the
foul gases and heat arising from one Of the
furnaces last evening. DR.. Clark was sum-
moned and succeeded in bringing him to,
after which he was taken to the st. Francis
Hospital