Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-09
GOSSIP OF THE TWIN CITIES.

CORONER Mcdowell, in company with
| Boiler Inspector f. j. Manley, yesterday
visited Rankin's station, the scene of Thurs
| day nights boiler explosion. The Coroner
| hnpaneleu q jury and after making an eX
| animation of the place continued the in
quest until next Monday afternoon at ::
o'clock.
THE Father Lambing Total Abstinence So
ciety will hold a temperance rally tomor
row evening, at 7:30 o'clock at Duquesne
Hall. No. 2l6 Penn avenue. Prominent
speakers will address the meeting and the
exercises will be varied with recitations and
songs. Admission is free and all are invited.
The regular meeting of the Iron City
Microscopical Society will be held at the
Academy of Scieaae and Art next Monday
evening. C. C. Melor will read paper on
"Diatoms." Next Tuesday the academy will
hold meeting ut which Walter B. Scaife
will lecture on university Extension
TIE Society for the Improvement of the
Poor has its hands full at present. An un-
usual amount of sickness exists among its
charges. There is great demand for assist
ance in that particular line. Every piece of
bedding on hand has been given out and
donations are earnestly asked for.
TEE Fifteenth Ward School Board, OF ALLIE
gheny, at n meeting last night, settled on a
tax of mills for the ensuing year. This is
reduction of one-half mill from last
board hope to reduce the millage still fur
tber next year.
REVIVAL services are being held in the
OaKdale N. f. church, and will be kept up
until January 23 under the leadership of
Rev. G. l. Barker. formerly General Secre-
tary of the Y. NJ. c. A. Camden, \. j.,
assisted by Isaac Meredith
THE report of contagious diseases at the
Bureau of Health yesterday showed five
new cases of scar.atina and five new cases
of diphtheria. One half of the total number
of now eases are in the Thirty y-secont ward
but are not epidemic.
PW WoHLEBER, aged % years, died yes-
terday afternoon at his home in Allegheny
On New Years, while loading a revolver
the weapon discharged, the bullet piercing
his right hand. Lockjaw set in and death
was the result.
Tue II. J. Heinz Company gave its annual
banquet to its employees at the general Off.
ces o. the company on Main street, Allie
ghenv, last evening. Covers for about 100
persons were laid. A very enjoyable time
was spent.
CORONER Mcdowell held q partial inquest
yesterday on the death OF Mrs. Lizzie Nc
Fade, who was killed on the Pittsburg. Nc
Keesport and Youchiogheny Railroad on
Thursday. The inquest will be concluded
to-day.
A MEETING OF the Secular Society will be
held in Curry University Hall on Sunday
next Mt o'clock. The meeting will be ad-
dressed by II. Barker, whose subject is "Our
Platform"
A HORSE, attached to a sleigh, which was
tied to post on Liberty avenue and dashed
up Sixth avenue. At Wood street it collided
with post, breaking its neck and dying in
stantly.
A MASONIC banquet was given at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel last evening About
q guests were present. 1t was a private
affair, and little information could be OBJ
tanned.
Mis- LIZZIE FADRY was killed by a train at
Braddock Thursday night while crossing
the track in Il snow storm. She was on her
way with a basket of food for poor family.
THE Temperance Mission will hold an an
niversary meeting at 92o Fifth avenue on
Sunday afternoon and evening next. Good
speakers have been engaged to be present.
The committee on Public Works met YES
terday and afiirmatively recommended the
sidewalk ordinance published few days
ago.
DAVID GRIFFITH was thrown out of sleigh
on Craig street last night, but escaped in
jury. The horse was slightly cut