Source:Local-briefs-1879-07-31
Local Briefs. Daily Post (Pittsburgh), July 31, 1879, [p. 4]. Newspapers.com 87629447.
Weather Indications for To-Day.—For Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, warmer, clear or fair weather, with north to south winds, and during the day slowly falling barometer.
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The new tramp law goes into effect to-morrow.
Frank Gist, the man who had his hand cut off last week in Mundorf's mill, is not expected to live.
The body of Mrs. Daly, who was drowned at Shaner's station, had not been recovered at last accounts.
A great deal of complaint is made at the filthy condition of many of our streets and of different vacant lots about the city.
The Allegheny Valley railroad will shortly run an excursion to Toronto, via Niagara Falls. Fare for the round trip $8.
Different repairs to the postoffice have been recommended by a special agent from Washington, who viewed the premises yesterday.
A man named Ryan employed at the Keystone mill, Soho, had three of his fingers cut off yesterday, while working about some machinery.
Samuel Black, an employe of Porter, Bell & Co.'s locomotive works, while at work at a circular saw yesterday morning, had his hand badly torn.
The trains on the Ft. Wayne railroad were delayed somewhat yesterday morning by wash-outs which resulted from the rain on the evening previous.
The contract for the masonry work of the Twenty-eighth street bridge, over the Pennsylvania railroad has been awarded to Mr. James Watt of this city.
John Berry of the South Side, was troubled with the nightmare Tuesday night, and while wandering in his sleep fell off a porch, dislocating his arm.
The Alabama Jubilee Singers will be present at the colored camp meeting at McKee's Rocks this evening. The meeting will be continued over the coming Sabbath.
Yestebday [sic] Sheriff Dean of Fayette county, brought down William Glisson to the Penitentiary, who was convicted of the crime of killing his wife. His term is ten years.
Elijah Harris, who was under a cloud of suspicion, on the complaint of Annie Blackmore, that he had stolen ten dollars belonging to her, was honorably discharged.
On Saturday evening next a meeting will be held in the Allegheny Diamond, under the auspices of the Trades Assembly, to discuss convict contract labor and the question of wages.
A demented old lady, residing on on [sic] Boyd's Hill, became so violent yesterday that her grown up children had her conveyed to Dixmont Hospital by Detective McCandless.
D. L. Finnerty, Esq., a well known Democratic politician of Fayette county, was in the city yesterday. He reports the Democratic prospects as wearing the usual rosy hue in that county.
Mrs. Kernan, who resides on Nineteenth street, near Penn avenue, while walking along in front of her house yesterday, stepped into an open hatchway. Her thigh was fractured in the fall.
A meeting of the Board of Managers of the Young Men's Bible Society of Allegheny county, will be held in the parlor of the Young Men's Christian Association this evening at half-past seven o'clock.
While workmen were yesterday morning excavating in the cellar of George Schrody's house, No. 556 Penn avenue, one of the cellar walls caved completely in, causing damage to the amount of about $100.
Mr. Charles Lockhart, of Lockhart & Frew, and of the Standard Oil Company, is lying at his residence seriously prostrated, doubtless from overwork. It is feared his sickness may cost him his reason if not his life.
A regatta for amateur oarsmen will take place next Saturday evening at six o'clock, on the Allegheny river, between the Forty-third street bridge and the Sharpsburg bridge. Working boats will be used.
{{sc|Messrs. Byers & Co.'s} striking workmen have compromised their difficulty with the firm, and returned to work. They receive an advance of eight cents a day in their wages. Fifteen cents was what they demanded.
One of the most violent inmates of Dixmont hospital escaped yesterday with only a shirt on. A blanket was misssing [sic], and is supposed he took it along. He had been sent from Armstrong county a few months ago.
A new industry has recently sprung up in our midst. One of our firms are building smelting furnaces to be sent to the Leadville silver regions and it is said that Pittsburgh furnaces surpass those built in Chicago or St. Louis.
Manager O. P. Wickham, of the Empire Telegraph line, was in the city the other day, making arrangements for the continuation of their wires to this city. The office will be located in the Oil Exchange building, on Duquesne way.
The little daughter of John J. O'Donnell of Soho, who was run over some two weeks ago while sitting on the curbstone in front of her home and seriously injured, died yesterday afternoon. Coroner Thomas was notified and will hold an inquest on Monday next.
No less than five women have called at an undertaker's establishment in the past few days, to view the remains of an unknown man who was killed on the railroad. Each of the women thought that the body might have been that of her husband who recently deserted her. Each was mistaken.
Mary Gross, aged seventy-four years, called at the Mayor's office yesterday for assistance. She is en route from Elk county to Bellaire, Ohio, where she has a nephew residing. She has no other friends in the world, and her nephew has promised to assist her. Mayor's Clerk Heisel has secured passage for the old lady on a steamboat.
A young girl, named Maggie Holder, was sent to the Reform School by the Mayor of Titusville on a charge of general lewdness. She is only sixteen years of age and shows evidences of once having been a beauty, but dissipation shows itself plainly. She was in the lock-up last night and will be taken to the Reform School to-day.
A Butler street saloon keeper was the victim of a practical joke the other night. He had received a "sweet" letter, purporting to have been written by a wealthy widow and promptly traveled to the place appointed in the letter for a secret meeting. Of course there was no widow present and the saloonist is now hunting the author of the letter.
The undertaker entrusted with the funeral arrangements of Wm. Schleiden, the Mt. Washington lad who was drowned in the Monongahela on Monday, forgot all about the funeral until Tuesday afternoon and the corpse had to be kept till yesterday morning. The friends who assembled to attend the funeral were compelled to disperse.
Branch 48, Emerald Beneficial Association of Pennsylvania, will give a grand musical and literary reception to-night (Thurday) [sic] at St. Joseph's Catholic church hall (old U. P. church), East End. An excellent program has been prepared, as the Emeralds know how to instruct and entertain at the same time.
A number of the South Side glass men are of the opinion that water pipe can be successfully manufactured from glass. An Indiana man has taken out a patent for making gas, water and sewer pipes. The pipe, it is claimed, can be made from one to one and a quarter inches in thickness, according to the diameter, and three feet in length, at a cost of about eight dollars per ton.
The Washington Review and Examiner says: "The prospects are that ground will be broken on the extension of the Pittsburgh Southern railroad immediately. We are informed that a committee went to Pittsburgh last week, prepared to contract for grading the road as far as the National Pike, one mile beyond Hillsboro. A part of this section has already been let, one mile being taken at $1,800."
A Company has been organized in this city called the "Vesper Silver Mine Company," with a capital of $60,000. They have a United States patent. An assay of the ore by the Pennsylvania Lead Works shows $526 to the ton. The office of the company is at the Pennsylvania Insurance Company, Germania Bank building. Jos. H. Brown is the President and Ex-Mayor Henry A. Weaver the Treasurer.