Source:Local-briefs-1879-08-13
Local Briefs. Daily Post (Pittsburgh), Aug. 13, 1879, [p. 4]. Newspapers.com 87629706.
Weather Indications for To-Day.—For Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, slightly warmer southerly to westerly winds, partly cloudy weather and stationary or slowly falling barometer.
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The Exposition will open in three weeks.
Workmen are repairing the Lawrenceville fire bell.
The mercury was sent up to 85 degrees again yesterday.
Work is progressing favorably at the Riverside Penitentiary building.
Officers Wallace and Geary of Allegheny, yesterday shot a mad dog on Ohio street.
The Allegheny Market Committee met last evening and approved bills amounting to $76 25.
The packing room gang of Ihmsen's glass factory left last night for Lock No. 2, for two weeks' fishing.
The Adams Express are receiving from three to four car loads of peaches daily for this city from the East.
The Chubby Fishing Club composed of Alleghenians left yesterday morning for Erie on a fishing excursion.
A picnic for the benefit of the Sacred Heart Church will be given at McFarland's grove, Thursday, August 28th.
A lad named Ryan, aged sixteen years, will be sent to the Reform School by Mayor Lideell [sic], this morning, for incorrigibility.
The Birmingham Coal Company started their river pit yestarday [sic] morning. The company say they can get all the men they want.
The work of preparing the ground for the approaches to the Twenty-eighth street bridge over the P. R. R. tracks has been commenced.
The new Post of the G. A. R. will be mustered this evening at Mendle-hall, Ohio street, Allegheny. The prospects are bright for a fine organization.
M. Welsh, a dairyman, whose place of business is in Lawrenceville, has been prosecuted before Deputy Mayor Porter for allowing his cows to run at large.
Yesterday Market Constable Murphy of Allegheny, confiscated twenty pounds of butter of light weight, which he turned over to the Directors of the Poor.
The alarm from box 35, at the corner of Washington street and Wylie avenue, about half-past 7 o'clock last night, was caused by a chimney fire on Bedford avenue.
The son of Daniel Mike, the butcher, at the corner of Thirty-ninth and Butler streets, who was kicked by a horse on Saturday last, died yesterday morning from his injuries.
The Lowry engines at the Negley's run pumping works have been in operation since Monday morning. As soon as the reservoirs are again filled up they will be stopped.
The County Commissioners have decided to allow the Domestic Telephone Company to extend their wires to the court house, the work to be done at the company's expense.
Messrs. Stevenson & Cartwright of Allegheny, were also victimized to the extent of nearly $100 by H. R. Anderson, the swindler who last week carried on his nefarious operations in Allegheny.
The books at the office of Collector Davis of Internal Revenue show that 5,175 barrels of home-made beer have been sold thus far this month. The home-made beer seems to be fast crowding the foreign made article out of the home markets.
Yesterday afternoon a brother of Mr. James McDonald of the firm of McDonald & Co., liquor dealers, who resides at Johnstown, died. James has been absent from the city for some time and was telegraphed for but his whereabouts could not be ascertained.
The total number of cars of pig metal, scrap iron, iron cinders and ore received in this city over the Allegheny Valley railroad for July was 213. The pig metal and ore received for the same time over the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad was 788 cars.
John Sellman, a boy fifteen years of age, who lived at Etna, was fooling with an old musket on Monday, when he accidentally sent a charge of shot through his head. The load entered under the chin and passed out the top of his head. A verdict of accidental death was rendered.
There is a case on Mt. Washington which requires the attention of the Humane Society. An aged woman residing up that way is said to treat her five year old grandson in such a cruel manner that the little fellow is covered with scars and bruises inflicted by the inhuman relative.
A row occurred in the Twelfth ward varieties on Monday night, during which a man named Gleason was struck on the head with a handy billy, and Officer Reid was injured on the head by a blow from some unknown person. While the fight was in progress some person stole three kegs of beer.
The Allegheny County Prison Society held a regular monthly meeting yesterday. The Treasurer reported that he had spent $105 in aiding forty-nine prisoners. It was also reported that profitable Sunday services were held every week. The meeting adjourned until the second Tuesday in September.
There were 61 deaths in the city during the past week, being twenty-five fewer than the week before. The principal causes of death were: Diphtheria, 4; whooping cough, 5, choleric diarrahœa [sic], 7; diarrhœa, 10; pneumonia, 3; phthisis pulmonalis, 5; bronchitis, 3. Sixty of the deaths were those of white persons, and forty-four of them were natives of Pittsburgh.
A private excursion party of upward of one hundred members from Washington, Pa., arrived in the city yesterday and departed for Lake Chautauqua and Niagara, over the Allegheny Valley railroad. The party included many prominent residents of Washington. Dr. Thompson had charge, and the members of the party seemed bent on having a delightful time.
The Lieutenant in the Thirty-fourth ward, South Side, has reported to Agent Dean of the Humane Society, the case of two little boys, aged six and eight years, who are running around the streets almost naked and nearly starved. The mother owns two tenement houses, but is so much addicted to drink that she pays no attention to them, and abuses them shamefully.
The boat race at Wheeling, on Saturday next, promises to be an important event in boating circles. The Pan Handle railroad has offered extra inducements for the occasion. A train will leave the Union depot at 8:42 on Saturday morning, and will stop for passengers on the South Side. For the return trip a special train will leave Wheeling at 6 P. M. The tickets, which cost only $1 50 for the round trip, will be good until Monday the 18th.
There was a little sensation in Deputy Mayor Porter's office the other evening. A well known lady who previously sent her husband to the workhouse for abusing her while he was under the influence of liquor, had preferred a similar charge, but lost the case. At the conclusion of the hearing she drew a revolver and pointed it at her heart, but Alderman Porter caught her hand before she fired. The husband and wife went home, and it is probable the former will quit drinking rum.
The Ohio excursionists over the Pan Handle and Pennsylvania railroads to the Allegheny mountains arrived in the city shortly before noon yesterday. The train consisted of thirteen well filled coaches, and was under charge of Agent Hall of that company. Upon the arrival of the train at the Union depot there was a grand rush for the lunch counter, but those who carried their lunch with them were best served. The train left over the Pennsylvania railroad half an hour later in charge of Conductor Quartz. The party will return from the mountains to-night.
Many are not aware that Allegheny has now a cricket club, composed of some thirty-five members, which promises to become as famous as the Allegheny base ball club in years gone by. The officers of the club are: J. E. Schwartz, President; Wood McKnight, Vice President; J. H. Willock, Secretary; and Cyrus Clark, Jr., Treasurer. The members have been practicing three days last week. On Friday evening the club go to Cleveland to play a match game with an eleven of the Peninsular of Detroit. On the Monday following they play the Forest City club of Cleveland. Games with other clubs are now being arranged.