Source:Local-briefs-1881-11-04
Local Briefs. Daily Post (Pittsburgh), Nov. 4, 1881, [p. 4]. Newspapers.com 86368842.
The operatives in the Banner Cotton Mill, 200 in number, are out on a strike.
J. R. Van Horn, the mail agent, was found guilty of embezzlement yesterday.
Electric signal lamps and blocks are being erected in the yards above the Union depot. They are automatic or self-adjusting.
The Democrats of the Tenth ward have organized a committee to get out the full Democratic vote next Tuesday. Let other wards follow the example.
Henry Mason and another Sixth ward boy named Dunn were badly bitten by dogs yesterday. The latter boy had a big piece of flesh taken out of his face.
Judge Kirkpatrick says that unless prosecutors and defendants in criminal cases appear in Court when they are called they will be arrested on attachments.
Henry Burgand has sued J. W. Gallentine for $500 damages for malicious prosecution in connection with a charge of selling liquor without payment of the special tax.
All of the window glass and bottle factories on the South Side resumed work yesterday morning. The mixers, teasers and fillers-in went to work for the old wages at $2 per day.
During the past five years the personal contributions to St. Paul's Orphan Asylum have amounted to $39,643 54, and the receipts from all sources, $193,387 21. The amount of cash on hand is $609 16.
A coal train west on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad yesterday morning jumped a coal hopper at the entrance of the tunnel and the Second avenue bridge, and the early morning trains were delayed an hour or so.
Assistant Agent Graham, of the Humane Society, makes information before Alderman McNulty, of Allegheny, against Mrs. Seip of No. 149 East street, charging her with cruelty to her eight year old step-daughter.
Michael Malloy is a queer sort of hermit who lives in Panther Hollow, near Oakland avenue. He had a little wooden house, but on Wednesday it was burned to the ground. Michael earns his living by hauling stuff in a wagon and is very retiring in his disposition.
The Grand Jury yesterday found a number of true bills against liquor dealers but they were not returned to court. The jury visited the County Home yesterday and will go to Dixmont to-day. They then will adjourn until next Thursday to await the preparation of indictments.
James S. Black was found guilty of selling counterfeit money yesterday in the United States Court. Some of the money made by Black was so perfect that a juror put a bad dollar in his pocket and gave a good dollar by mistake to the Government officers.
John Feerguson tried to rob John Schemm about half past one o'clock this morning on Water street. Schemm was too strong for the robber and held him till officers arrived. Both had been drinking and were locked up. Ferguson had a large cobble stone in his pocket.
The striking caulkers and ship carpenters have pooled their issues with the coal miners through the Knights of Labor Organization. The caulkers and ship carpenters number about 300 men and will hereafter act with the coal miners on the question of wages rising and falling with them.
Wm. Faulkner, formerly Superintendent of the Allegheny Water Works, who is now filling a large contract of laying water pipes in Kansas City, Kan., fell into an excavation there a couple of days since and was seriously injured, according to the intelligence received by his friends in Allegheny.
The Grand Jury of the United States District Court yesterday morning returned the following true bills: James Collins, indicted as a retail liquor dealer without payment of special tax; John Love, Mary M. Love and Sarah E. McDowell, forging pension papers, three indictments; Samuel Simpson, counterfeiting.
Mr. James Gardner was knocked down by four men on Old avenue, near High street, Wednesday night. He was left senseless on the pavement and his pockets rifled, but in some way a valuable gold watch and chain were overlooked by the thieves. They took some money and trinkets. Mr. Gardner cannot identify the men.