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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1891
Page
2
An array of courtroom matters unfolds as Aldermen hear cases from streetcar liability to larceny and desertion. Notable items include a negligence dispute over a Sharpsburg car stop near a cemetery, a larceny charge tied to a dog collar, and an unusual wedding inquiry for an aged couple, all reflecting late afternoon municipal affairs.
Former congressman James H. Hopkins of Washington analyzes the Speaker of the House race. He favors Crisp of Georgia, notes McMillen of Tennessee lags, and argues Mills is out of contention. Hopkins would prefer Wilson of West Virginia as Speaker and warns party unity matters ahead of 1918.
Morris Gallagher former Salvation Army member who joined the Mormon church died at the City Poor Farm after a roving life. Born in Pittsburg 31 years ago he wandered through many states and Utah before returning home. He was found in a Second avenue stable by Humane Agent Berryman and sent back to the Poor Farm where he died yesterday morning. He is survived by his brother Edward Gallagher of Jeannette.
Adah Young the Buffalo girl arrested in Allegheny for running away from home was placed on a train toward Buffalo last night. The widow Mrs Burns accompanied her and both women, 30s, followed a man named Don or Dempsey now performing at a 10 cent museum. They showed a sketch act at the lockup and paid fares with small sums but insisted on traveling together toward Forty third street then Buffalo. A detective and an old gentleman helped them through to their destination.
A list of injuries from yesterday includes a Lake Erie line accident where a young man lost both legs and died is feared. Other incidents involve Williams, L Williams aged 3, and McIntyre with broken bones, Levins with facial injuries, and Corry knocked down on Spring Garden avenue.
Mr. Lupton advocates establishing a trade school in Pittsburg to curb crime. Citing 3800 parolees last year with many un apprenticed, he argues learning trades reduces tax burdens and future locks in youth reform. He also ties labor unions to limited opportunities and notes a looming eight hour strike affecting summer construction.
Two gangs fought a futile battle on the Brownsville turnpike as workers attempted to install a gas gauge and regulate pressure. The conflict led the Turnpike Company to seek an injunction against Manufacturers' Gas Company, through attorneys Hayes and Noble.
Detective Murphy left for Philadelphia to secure Daniel Dever, charged with complicity in the Homestead jewelry store robbery. Dever denies involvement but concedes his presence in Homestead at the time. Fitzsimmons, who shot Wilkinson, is held as principal.
At the annual directors meeting of the Odd Fellows' Saving Bank of Pittsburg the following board was elected: Andrew age George W. Rankin, John M. Horner, A. M. Brown, J. Wainwright, M. Scavers, George W. Schmidt, Samuel Shaner, Frederick Gwinner, T. J. & BH.
A tense labor scene unfolds as building trades push for an eight hour day. Stonemasons, carpenters, hodcarriers and planing mill owners discuss actions with unclear outcomes. Allegheny firms seek to resist concessions while unions press to unite under the May 1 plan.
Joseph D. Weeks returns from weeks in Virginia where he oversees interests in the steel industry. He notes improvement and pending licenses for Adams Direct Steel Process Company, with two licenses already disposed of and four more pending. New plants and ore mines are opening as the state’s economy thrives.
The Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania held its monthly meeting with Colonel T P Roberts in the chair. W H Barnes urged uniformity in machinery designs. Mr Kremmetz promoted a new store boiler and Mr Steinmets described it claiming high heat with less coal and no clinker waste. Skeptical members questioned the claims.
A wage committee conference between Flint Glass Manufacturers and the Workers Association met yesterday to address the pressed ware scale. The meeting disposed of that scale and planned bundling of the iron mold scale for today.
The Pennsylvania Company plans to publish time tables in country papers to reduce errors. General Passenger Agent Ford says the idea is original and his.
The Ohio Valley Electric Light Company is incorporated to operate in suburban towns along the Ft Wayne road and begin business.
The Sink Manufacturers' Association will meet at the Anderson today. The iron cross weighing 1000 pounds on a church tower 218 feet high in Connellsville is to be taken down. All conductors, brakemen, and nonunion employees of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad donned their new uniforms yesterday. David Hardy has secured the contract to put up 800 miles of telegraph wire for the Tot al Company, two lines between Pittsburg and Harrisburg.
Bertha McKinley aged 14 ran away from Beavor and was arrested Monday night as she stepped from the train at the Pittsburg and Lake Erie depot and sent to the Thirty sixth ward station. Her parents arrived on the next train and reclaimed her, returning home on the 6 20 train yesterday morning.
A Lawrence family occupying a Watson leasehouse in Coraopolis resisted eviction. Constable Backofen arrived from Sewickley with four men after earlier attempts failed. The scene drew a large crowd as the Lawrence man offered passive resistance and was carried out of the premises, with no immediate pneumonia risk noted due to warm weather.
A special meeting of the Pennsylvania Company directors is held in Philadelphia to choose a successor for J N McCullough. Vice President James McCrea, Treasurer Davidson, General Freight Agent William Stewart, and counsel Mr Broa travel by special car. The policy favors promotion with McCrea likely to become First Vice President and other officers advancing in rank.
Yesterday produced a sunny day fading to rain at midnight. Temperatures ranged from 60 to 81 degrees with midday readings near 71. Week's temperatures ran about 10 degrees above the seasonal average. Health notes report one death each from bronchitis pneumonia and spotted fever to the Bureau of Health.
Robert Gilbraith went to the Twenty eighth ward station to request arrest of his wife and John Stern for assault. He appeared battered with a black eye and asked to have Stern and others arrested. Stern, Mrs Gilbraith, and Mr and Mrs Littell were detained and face a hearing this morning.
General Pedro I Varo the Chilean Consul in San Francisco traveled through the city yesterday for New York. He predicts government victory. Navy officers mutinied against Balmaceda's rigid discipline while others cry taxation and debt payments as a polite robbery.
Stumbled over the statutes reports arrests for theft and assault including Frank Burroughs and Albert McCarthy for taking two cucumbers from a market stall. A counterfeit dollar complaint against Wallace Redcliffe is noted with prior arrest. Repair and bargain promotions follow with piano and blanket ads from Hamilton's and Jos. Horge & Co. on Penn and Fifth avenues.
We offer today 3000 boys suits in cassimere cheviot and worsted across 25 patterns for 225 dollars, sizes 4 to 14. Everyone invited. Also notice changes in management at the Inter-State Building and Loan Association Bloomington Illinois with Mr E L Hawley replaced by Mr F B Tomb at 606 Penn building.operator
Advertises ladies cloth shoes at 2 dollars and 250 cents, misses top button shoes at 1.75, children top button shoes at 1.50, and child top button shoes at 9 dollars and 1.25, offered by G. D. Bimen at 7% Ohio Street Allegheny Pu.
Victor Kaufmann, 19, who called himself a detective, discovered the body of Alexander C. Mayberry in the Monongahela River with a rope tied to his wrist and arms bound. Mayberry, employed at Riter Conley’s bowers works, had been missing since January and had injuries from a prior mill accident. The police pursue leads as the inquest is scheduled for 11 o'clock.
A Southside Hospital board meeting was postponed due to lack of a quorum while plans to raise funds for two years of operation were discussed. The state appropriation is expected to cover outstanding debts as the board considers several fundraising schemes. Railroad robbers arrested in Boston Pa: seven men charged and jailed last night on multiple larceny counts.
Charles Rotenkerchen was arrested by Lieutenant Alexander yesterday on a desertion charge brought by his wife before Mayor Wyman in Allegheny. She says he left January last and has since not supported her and their three children. He is a cigarmaker with good wages and will have a hearing today.
A driver for Marshell the grocer of Allegheny drove a team of horses into the Allegheny River near the railroad bridge to wash them. The team went beyond depth and drowned with the wagon still attached. The driver escaped by swimming to shore.
Paul Malgart won a verdict of 1500 dollars in a suit against the Philadelphia Company. He sought damages for injuries to himself and the death of his wife from a natural gas explosion on Thirty eighth street. The blast resulted from gas escaping the main and entering sewer pipes.
George W. Miller superintendent of the Bureau of Water Assessments was recalled from Cincinnati where he had gone to attend a national convention of League clubs by the death of his mother in law Mrs Jane Collins. Mrs Collins was a victim of their but her death was not expected. She was 74 years old.
Local traffic was halted for 30 minutes on Pleasant Valley Road after a car jumped the track near the Ninth Street bridge. Minor injuries were reported in a separate West Carson Street fatality.
The M F Allen departed for Wheeling at noon yesterday while the Louise sailed for Charleston at 4 30 pm. The Bedford is due to leave at noon today for Parkersburg. Deep-water markings on the Monongahela showed 6 feet 9 inches last night as harbor activity continues.
Citizens press for full accounting after Evan Jones contract for the Thirty third street sewer, about a $200,000 to $250,000 liability, fails to appear in Chief Bigelow’s city indebtedness list. Controller Morrow offers no explanation amid rumors of political fighting.
Missouri fruit prospects are excellent. Influenza rages in London and Leeds. The World’s Fair strike halts work at Jackson Park. Malvern Hill battlefield sold to William H Hale of New York. Tallahassee caucus fails to nominate a senator. Chicago cigarmakers threaten a strike for higher wages. Funeral of Bishop Gilmour at St Johns Cathedral Cleveland. Weather worsens corn prospects in Kansas. Detroit streetcar lines tied up in a strike. Secretary Rusk rescinds order moving cattle quarantine line south. Gladstone suffers a fall in the street before Earl Granville’s death. Baron Hirsch buys Pennsylvania land for a Hebrew colony. All Hebrews in St Petersburg ordered to leave by May 1. Naturalist John C Calhoun drowns near Placentia. Thirteen hundred immigrants detained at New York quarantine. London Royal Academy exhibition may crowd out new artists. Montana votes favor Republicans. Butte Democrats win many seats. OMalley speaks on Hennessy case. Ann O Dell a Diss Debar denial by Stanford. Negro William Moscoe hanged at Charlottesville calmly sings before scaffold. Staten Island train hits open drawbridge. no serious injuries. Ignatius Donnelly says bankers paid to defeat usury law. Union League funds to Sherman daughters causes annoyance as Sherman heirs may refuse.
Stoughton and Stolen expand into wallpaper and painting services after remodeling the former Porterfield and Stevenson grocery at 101 Market Street. The store showcases a season's latest wallpaper designs including raised felts and lincrust, with house, sign, and fresco painting and stained glass offered as before.
Trimmed hats, toques and bonnets offered at 60 cents total, with many valued higher. Sheet music and musical instruments promoted at half price, including pipe organs and jewsharp. Inter-State Building and Loan Association advertises 18 percent net yield, 7 percent borrower rate, $3.51 security per dollar joined, with agent F B Tomb listed. Clothing and footwear promotions feature cassimere suits at 225, various gaiters and slippers priced from 1 to 1 25, and silk goods at 80 cents. Advertisements for G C Pittspore Clothing, G D Simons in Allegheny, and A G Campsett & Sons at 27 Fifth Avenue.
The Humane Society will investigate cruel treatment claims at Morganza Reform School after Ellwood Wagenhart’s report. Agents will assist in gathering evidence and arrange care for 13 year old John Doyle to St Josephs Orphan Asylum. Doyle was driven from home by his mother in Crafton amid abuse rumors. society aims to place him in a proper home and school. Contributions totaling several donors were reported by Secretary Davidson.
A wide textile sale highlights dramatic price cuts on 1234c goods now 8c per yard and 20c goods down to 0c with 150 to 300 pieces featuring this season’s prints. New printed dimities at 15c a yard and Japanese crape ginghams announced with designs and colors, plus American challies 36 inches wide at 10c per yard.
Advertises printing fabrics and indigo prints at six cents per yard. Includes dresses and shirtings prints with excellent styles and colors, regular values six and four cents. Also Indigo Blue prints at six cents and new Drews chintzes with Indigo Blues included, plus hundreds of other choicest styles offered.
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