Licensing Court Sees Stringent Bond Scrutiny and Debating Bonds
First Saturday session of the License Court tightens bond requirements as applicants face strict verification. Judges weigh witness attestation, assess room counts and conduct, and rebuke noncompliant witnesses while pushing to finish by May. Multiple Homestead Millvale and Knoxville cases reveal terse rulings on licenses, transfers, and allegations of treating and disorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Leahy
James P. Giffen
William F
James P. Walsh
George Lehrman
Joseph Grimm
Samuel Bennett
George Deai
Christy
George Jeffries
Homestead
Theodore Sample
Jeffreys
Deieys
Krueger Licenses Faces Scrutiny In Drunken-Row Hearings
A city hearing room heard fifty three applicants as John Krueger and others face questions about liquor sales, minors, and speak-easies. Testimonies from residents and officials described drunken activity, refusals, and alleged illegal deliveries at houses and shops in Millvale and surrounding streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ma Flocker
Judge White
Mr. Flocker
John Krueger, Jr
Hooker Street
Judge Kite
R Eger
Ntates White
Price
John Callahan
J. ©. Reed
Burgess
Millvale
Krueger
Thomas Brown
Joseph Nuller
Meade Alley
M. C. Reder
Sedgwick Street
Dixmont
Frank Voelker
Grant Avenue
Henry Wagner
Lincoln Avenue
John Wingold
Michael Boz
John Wakker
Michael Enz
Newport
Joseph Fischer
Stanton Avenue
German Street
Enz
Sherman Street
Adam Maner
Osterling
A. Schmeiderlochner
Breach of Promise Case Laughs in Common Pleas Court
In Common Pleas No 2 Judge Ewing hears Mrs Sarah Ann Ayres v John Wesley Smith a breach of promise suit. Testimony includes a witness who jokes about love and two marriages. Jury awards Mrs Ayres fifty dollars for a lacerated heart in a Mansfield based case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Pleas
Sam Weller
Sarah Ann Ayres
John Wesley Smith
Ewing
Bardell
Mr. Smith
Verdicts rendered in several early 20th century suits
Yesterday juries returned verdicts in multiple cases. Defendants prevailed in the Hallett versus Bord partnership actions and in the Kohel versus Rosenblatt false arrest suit. A separate commission for real estate sale damages favored the plaintiffs in Black & Co. against Fleming & Co. Interventions were allowed for Gould, Marx, and Caskey against the City of Pittsburg barge claim. A default verdict was returned for Craig in a use of W. Fal case. A damages action against the Penn Incline Co. and a pit injury suit remain under trial before Judge Biaaie.
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E. Hallett
J. 5. Bord
W. Black & Co
Fleming & Co
United States
W. C. Gould
C. C. Marx
W. J. Caskey & Co
Pittsburg
J. W. Craig
B. Rosenblatt
Kobo
President's Memphis Stop Promotes Law Supremacy and Growth
The presidential party arrived in Memphis after a Birmingham to Memphis run with no Alabama stops. A local committee greeted them at Belleview, with Mayor Clapp presenting the welcome. The President praised diversified Southern agriculture and manufacturing, river commerce, and a strong legal framework while urging public order.
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Memphis
Birmingham
Ala
Mississippi
Jasper
Wanamaker
George W. Boyd
Russell Harrison
Belleview
Harrison
L. C. Clapp
Main Street
Merchanta’ Exchange
Clapp
Ohio Valley
Presidental party departs for Arkansas capital aboard ferry
The depot escorts the party to Little Rock as the tram descends to the Little Rock and Memphis Railroad ferry. At 11:55 the tram reaches the ferry, and at noon the boat departs amid a din of whistles, carrying the presidential group toward the Arkansas capital.
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Little Rock
Little Rock and
Memphis Railroad
Arkansas Capita
Chicago Coke Famine Deepens as West Virginia Substitute Rises
The Connellsville coke strike tightens Chicago supply as Illinois Steel and smaller mills grapple with dwindling stocks. Manufacturers face ruinous prices for inferior West Virginia coke or factory closures if the strike lasts two weeks. Rail storage costs push prices higher, with West Virginia coke around 5 dollars a ton and possible gains if Frick works delay resolve. Pocahontas coke travels via Knoxville and Cincinnati but high freight limits competition. Wakeman plans a feature on Robert Collyer’s boyhood home in THE DISPATCH.
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West Virginia
Cutcaco
Connellsville
Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
Frick
Pocahontas
Virginia
Kourville
Tenn
Cincinnati
Noted man Alfred Corey dies at 87 in Dravesburg
Alfred Corey father of J B Corey died at his daughter Mrs William Whitaker home in Dravesburg aged 87 years 11 days He was born in New Jersey and moved to New York as a youth He helped build mills locks and dams including Beaver and Sandy Canal and Port Perry on the Monongahela He faced financial ups and downs including bankruptcy and a paralysis that left him an invalid for decades He shifted from Whig to Republican and supported Cleveland in two campaigns
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dravesburg
Alfred Corey
J. B. Corey
William Whitaker
Mr. Corey
New Jersey
New York
Allegheny
Rachel Adams
Franklin
Venango County
Corey
Moses
Beaver and Sandy Canal
Port Perry
Monongahela River
Monongahela Navigation Company
Messrs
Alfred
Walker
James Ekin
Sheriff's Sale
Oliver Farm
Braddock
Braddock and
Duquesnere
John Sherman
Chicago
Cleveland
Huston’s Wife Snub Sparks Treasury Resignation Talk
E L Mattice, partner of ex Treasurer Huston, cites social snubs and ignored official matters as causes for Huston’s resignation. He says Huston believed he deserved a Cabinet post but faced prolonged neglect from the President. Mattice notes Lemeke’s failure to succeed Huston due to a loan during Indiana treasurer tenure, a political precedent concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huston
Indiana
Mattice
Lemeke
Tressurer
United States
Executions Issued Against Multiple Defendants
Yesterday saw executions issued in several cases including Birmingham Fire Insurance Co versus Gregor and Casper Stein for 935 dollars 41 cents and Winter and Dellenbach against Elizabeth Wolf for 106 dollars 36 cents. Other docket items include Paul Wuesthoff versus Fred Spier 450 dollars, Arbuckles and Co versus Leon Leschue 386 dollars 95 cents, Gregor Meyer trustee versus CG Yeager 1 004 dollars 30 cents, same against E M Butz 1 004 dollars 50 cents, and Joseph Eichbaum & Co against C H Holmes 440 dollars 47 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham Fire Insurance Company
Gregor
Casper Stein
Winter & Dellenbach
Elizabeth Wolf
Paul Wuesthoff
Fred Spier
Arbuckles & Co
Leon Leschue
Gregor Meyer
CG. Yeager
Same Va
Burns sues railway company for five thousand dollars
Frances E. Burns files a case against Federal Street and Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Company seeking $5 000 damages for injuries after being knocked down by a streetcar on Sandusky Street while crossing on March 5 1891. The notice also mentions sales at Saller and Co and Rosenbaum and Co with discount apparel offers.
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Frances E. Burns
Federal Street and
Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Company
Sandusky Street
Real Estate Savings Bank Lim Real Estate Address Malformed
A garbled OCR fragment lists banking and street details including Smithfield Street and Fourth Avenue with unclear city and entity names. The text appears to reference real estate and related addresses but lacks coherent structure or complete identifying information.
Trade Outlook Mixed as Weather Boosts Some Goods
Telegrams to Bradstreets report improving trade in Duluth Minneapolis St Louis Omaha and San Francisco with better weather and roadways. Dry goods hardware and spring clothing rise while cattle higher hogs down. wheat exports strong but wool slow. coke iron and coal markets show weakness amid mixed global demand and rising prices.
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New York
Bradstreets
Duluth
Minneapolis
St. Paul
St. Louis
Omaha
San Francisco
Northwest
Pee Wheat
San Joaquin
Europe
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Memphis
New Orleans
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
United States
Pacific
Atchison
Burlington
Canada
Dominion
Ontario
Quebec
Montreal
The
Br, G. Dun & Co
Chi
Denver
Kansas City
Atlanta
Actress Marietta Melton Seeks Absolute Divorce in Suits
New York April 17 An absolute divorce suit is filed in the Supreme Court by actress Marietta Melton Leggie against her husband John V. Seggie known as John V. Melton. She charges infidelity and cruelty citing letters from women and attempted strangulation. The couple married in this city eleven years ago. Melton formerly Miss Marietta Davidson of Pittsburgh. Several letter writers and prominent Pittsburgh women are named in the case.
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Eighth Avenue
Patrick J. Quinn
Fifth Avenue
City Farm Lane
John F. A
Seles White
John Raushe, Jr
Homestead
Bridget Rattigan
Bridget
Robinson
Charles Strigel
Sixth Avenue
Philip Simon
Newman
New York
Supreme Court of
Marietta Melton Leggie
John V. Seggie
John V. Melton
Melton
Marietta Davidson
Pittsburg
Marie Davidson
Booth Company
Han
Hockstadter
Neilie Melton
Washington, D. C
Frankie Scanlon
Toledo
Florrie Mellinger
Census Figures Compiled in City Buildings Tour
Commissioner Porter escorts Frank G. Carpenter through the buildings where census data are being gathered. A note mentions a valuable letter in tomorrow's dispatches and describes the electrical counting machines used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter
Frank G. Carpenter
New Patents Issued Week End April 14 For Western Pa Ohio And W Va
List of patentees from Pittsburgh Youngstown Akron Columbus and nearby towns with inventionsincluding table for conveying and cooling metal plates sheaf gatherer porous cell for galvanic batteries slate picking mechanism metallic railway tie car coupling vehicle axle nut governor for steam engines and more.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
O. D. Levis
Fifth Avenue
Pittsburg
Henry Aiken
O. P. Brinker
Nebraska
William Burney
North East
E. D. Se
H. Dasher
Middletown
J. M. Davidson
W. H. Flender
Allegheny
Findlay
W. J. Fleharty
Norwalk
Joy Parachute
Julius Gottfried
Chartiers
Shelring
John Green
Reoova
G. H. Hamric
Philippi
Jones Harrold
Columbiana
A. J. Hopkins
Beaver Falls
D. W. Johnson
Bucyrus
Railway Ente
J. A. Elt
Shrewsbury
D.F. Llewellyn
Sugar Notch
Ed. Nichols
Greenville
Charles Reed
Jacohb Heese
Jacob Reese
C. W. Rosenbusch
Indians Uneasy at Pine Ridge After Sioux Outbreak
Captain G J Penny acting Indian agent at Pine Ridge reports Indians view recent Congress legislation as a government pledge but fear future trouble. He urges swift rations policy, notes unrest, plundered homes, and lingering grief over lost kin, and suggests renewed delegation visit with General Miles to restore peace.
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G. 3. Penny
United States Army
Pine Ridge
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Congress
Penoy
Ashington
Miles
Farmers In Council Elect Officers For Year
The National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union state meeting adopted the Ocala reform platform and elected state officers led by President Alva Ages of Gallia county and Vice Presidents H W Loomis Scioto and Harry Parker Brown. The group discussed a Cincinnati third party move and Polk urged a principles platform rather than a new permanent organization. BILL NYE to start Texas tour in THE DISPATCH tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CencmBus
National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
Ohio Alliance
St Louis
Ocala
Alva Ages
Gallia County
H. W. Loomis
Scioto County
Harry Parker
Brown County
Albert Sperry
Fairfield County
W. E R. Parsons
Franklin County
A.D. Foster
Adams County
Cincinnati
President Polk
L. L. Polk
National Alliance
J. H. Todd
Kansas
Alliance
Anya
Purgatory
Todd
Maine
California
Canada
Gulf
Boundary dispute question over 1859 survey in Canada
A San Francisco dispatch reports Ensign Moore claims a mistake in the 1859 Canada United States boundary survey near the forty-ninth parallel that could have given Canada territory while Captain Deville of the Canadian Surveyor General questions the finding. Earlier estimates show historic errors favored New York and Canada in other segments, with no remedy possible once treaties were ratified.
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Ottawa
Ostagro
San Francisco
Ensign Moore
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
International Boundary Survey
Bayne
Waah. T
United States
Rhode Island
Canada
Deville
Port Mondy
Auarter
Teele Sam
Caoasda
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Ocean
Forty-Ninth
Quebec
New York State
Canadian
Elegant Manhattan dress shirt sale at Saller & Co
Free to the public today at Saller & Co. corner Smithfield and Dismond streets. An elegant perfect-fitting dress shirt offered with every $10 suit or higher, showcasing the store’s promotional deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Saller & Co
Cor
Smithfield
Diamond Streets
S. Cor. Smithfield
Dismond Streets
Kid Glove Bargains at Rosenbaum & Co
Bargains on rolls of oil cloths and related goods advertised by Rosenbaum and Company. Prices listed include 50e, $1, and $125 with notes on best grades. Available at Wineoral Street locations 65 67 69 and 71.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosenbaum & Co
Wine Oral Street
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Eueral
Portia
Shylock
Antonio
Astor
Vanderbilt
Gould
John Hancock
Owen Murphy
Dickson Street
Maloney
Fult
Charles McGinley
Dickson
John F. Cox
Patrick O'Neil
Ann and
McClure Avenues
Ellen O'Brien
Pracaepeboeana Ie
Audge Magee
Nicholas Schwartz
Peter J. Schmitt
O. O
Peter Trautman
Thomas Watkins
Heise] Street
Charleston
George Jeffrey
Mansfield
John Cunningham
James Gallagher
Lewis Hurd
Main
Chestnut Street
Patrick Newell
Jame
Mary Street
Cunningham
Gallagher
Hurd
Newell
John Bennett
Grant Street
Bennett
Mr. Bennett
Josiah Cohen
George Dillig
White
Barbara Bauerlein
Bonds
William Bauerlein
Bauerleins
William W. Flecker
Flocker
Ben
South
Dixie
Lyell
Mississip
South America
Gla
Cheera
Oura
Cheerz
Rusk
Louisville and
Nashvile
Citi
T Seth
Wakeman
Robert Collyer
Uncle Sam
Pleasant Valley
Real Estate Savings Bank
LIM
Smithfield Street
Fourth Avenue
Bui Sebum Ereen
Bradstreet
Due
Treasury
Smalles
Peints
Penny
Pine Ridge Agency
Farmers IN Council
Third Party
President Pole
Committee On
Louis
Anderton
Bill Nye
Texas
Dispatch
Canada's Boundary Line
Surveyor General
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