| Show A distressing SIGHT A woman and her child freezing Iree zing in hi the streets street of pittsburg A pathetic story comes from pittsburg pa in a police station there the other night were v era sheltered a young woman and her babe they hall had been taken from the street by officer ficera of who found them famishing wi with theold co d and hunger the woman was shivering with cold and holding her child to her breast to keep it warm she gave her name as mrs tillie gardner her age as 20 years and her homo home as jamestown N Y some time ago her h husband who is a painter went west to get work A week ago she received word that he was lying sick at altoona she immediately used what what money she had to purchase a ticket to reach his side arriving at altoona she was informed that her husband had left for home and that she and her babe had bad passed him on the way being in a strange city and penniless she was advised to apply to the city authorities for transportation home which she did but instead of sending her to jamestown they forwarded her to pittsburg the babe is 20 months old the mother was nursing it in the bitter cold of the street where she had fallen being too cold and weak to stand the infant was insensible and was restored to consciousness with considerable difficulty after the mother and her babe recovered from the effects oi of the cold they were sent home by the pittsburg pr poor authorities I 1 |
