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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1889
Page
2
Carlisle envisages fines of 25 dollars plus costs for buyers of Sunday milk-shakes and sodas, citing a Supreme Court ruling that buyers share liability with sellers. Captain Wishart plans to intensify enforcement, with indictments to follow for those found purchasing on Sundays.
An afternoon paper claimed Captain Wishart was assaulted Sunday by a saloon keeper from Penn Avenue. The Dispatch reporter found the Law and Order League disputes the story as all lies. Wishart denied knowledge of any Negley or W A Herron involvement until written confirmation appears.
Captain Wishart filed informations before Alderman Brinker against John Martin Thomas Quinn and A J Kaercher for selling on Sunday. They posted bail for hearings 9 to 10 this morning. Brinker warned that actions to evade the Law and Order League by paying fines beforehand are futile and that information could be made on Sunday as well as any day.
This morning Officers Kroesen and Crane of Allegheny travel to Johnstown to assume permanent positions with the Johnstown and Stony Creek Railroad Company. Chief Police Kirschier arranged the offer, citing their commendable service in the ruined city.
County commissioners sent blanks issued by the state for a full tabulation of taxes in the county including state and local taxes plus licenses and corporate taxes. Controller Morrow warns the work will need two clerks for weeks and complains no funds exist for extra help. The blanks were routed to Morrow for completion with limited staff.
Report says Southside shows no typhoid epidemic as of last night though warning voices linger. Dr Duff and E A Mundorff caution that a drought and river conditions could trigger future illness if water supplies stay unchanged.
Arthur Dudley Vinton, associate editor of North American Review, visited city amid a big Reading Railroad suit. Andreas Meyer, Hamburg States chief engineer, toured American mills eight days in New York. Others include ex-Building Inspector G. Frank, Sitwell Harris of Army and Navy Journal, and Secretary Blaine’s health report to Cresson.
Detectives describe a scheme by Bauder and Doyle Detective Agency to settle liquor fines for cash. Witnesses recount bailings, slotted payoffs, and Squire Cassidy and Maneese in back rooms arranging $25 settlements and gifts while cases collapsed without hearings.
Simon Mathias and A Mathias, both butchers in Boho, were arrested for aggravated assault and battery and felonious pointing of firearms. Simon Kehl, another local butcher, filed the charges after a free fight broke out at a neighboring slaughterhouse. Kehl sustained a head injury, and the dispute involved improvised weapons and damage to property.
Members of the Young People's Christian Endeavor Society of the Fourth Avenue Baptist and Mt. Wash Baptist and Presbyterian Church plan a trip on the Menenge bela next Friday. They have chartered the Mayflower and Harrison's orchestra will accompany.
A. C. Hoyer was laid to rest yesterday afternoon from his Fortieth Street residence. A large gathering of attorneys attended the funeral. The cortege proceeded to Bot Fp oy Ceme for interment. The death occurred earlier today.
The Keystone Construction Company secured a contract to build a 750 Westinghouse incandescent electric light plant in Marquette Michigan bringing electrical infrastructure to the area and signaling a major utility project for the region.
Fragmentary railway advertisement lists Union Pacific routes to Colorado towns Cheyenne Rawlins Laramie Ogden and Salt Lake City via Portland Tacoma and Seattle with rates maps and agents in Pittsburgh and other locations.
A mixed crowd at Lafayette Hall hears appeals to raise funds for lawyers in the Flemon case. Rev W H Brown pledges $100 from Beaver County while Isaac Morton and J H Baldwin lead a push to obtain $200 on the spot. Additional meetings and a planned reception for Flemon and Echella are announced.
A conference between Shoenberger & Co and Amalgamated Association officials adjourned without agreement. The three year scale will resemble Carnegie Phipps concessions with sliding wages. A key issue is reinstating a roller with an automatic attachment that reduces labor by five men. Harmony of the Association plans a meeting in the Ninth Ward with President Weihe expected.
Police swooped on a disorderly house at Twenty-ninth and Smallman streets last night after weeks of complaints of illegal retail and wholesale liquor traffic. Seventeen men, mostly mill hands, were arrested and taken to the Twelfth ward station for processing.
Dr Francis L Campbell famed blind educator arrives in the city and plans to discuss the Blind Institute with promoters. He describes a multi-wheel bicycle machine that carries eight and requires a sighted guide for the blind riders. He notes long journeys by bicycle in England and Norway and says American roads hinder such ventures.
Deputy Coroner Donley and Coroner's Clerk Miller investigated the death of Helen Isel after noon yesterday. The girl, described as an imbecile with epilepsy, died after years of hardship and alleged abuse by her father and husband. Doctors Haworth and McCandless authorized a post mortem.
A coroner was notified last night about a seven year old child near Walker's Mills possibly killed by whisky. Squire McMillan of Manatiela was ordered to investigate the case and hold an inquest.
A coal car derailed from a Little Saw mill Run Railroad trestle yesterday afternoon near Steuben Street. The foremost of six loaded cars broke free, dropping about 30 feet to the ground. Thomas Athringhan was thrown but escaped with a scalp wound and bruises.
Yesterday afternoon several youths saw two silver plated napkin rings and a table bell under boards in Chisholm's lumber yard on Papacy alley Allegheny. The goods appear stolen and are now at No 33 Esplanade Street.
Michael Caragua, the Italian stabbed Saturday in Splane's court by Pasquale Cione, is recovering. Cione remains held at Central station as Inspector McAleese plans to lodge information today for felonious cutting.
Inspector McKelvey filed suit before Igney Brokaw against James Cratty of the Thirty-fourth ward for selling liquor without a license and on Sunday.
The Kittanning Rolling Mill Company signed the Amalgamated scale yesterday and will resume operations this morning. The mill has been greatly improved since the shutdown.
Real Estate Savings Bank LIM lists 401 Smithfield Street at Fourth Avenue in Capital with surplus 45 000 and a 4 percent rate. Excursion to Atlantic City via B and O schedule August 15 with round trip ten dollar tickets valid ten days to Washington City return. Also promotes parlor and sleeping car accommodations and limited daily sale bids with various local vendors and beverages.
Telegram from Scottdale reports Morewood Coke Works resumed after union officials signed the scale. Hungarian strikers' wives and daughters are described as the only threatening element in the coke region. Guards remain at works as authorities seek to prevent outbreaks while repairs proceed. A fight at Mammoth left one worker seriously injured.
Workers at Phillips Nemick and Co. Sligo mill threaten to strike over handling non union iron linked to the Solar Iron Works dispute. Mill committee warned Superintendent they will quit if non union iron comes in. Manager Bailey absent, decision deferred to to day with possible work stoppage this evening.
Secretary-Treasurer Robert Watchorn of the Knights of Labor’s Miners and Cokers traveled from Columbus to the Connellsville coke region to urge rioters to return to work and press operators for the signed wage scale. Some firms report ongoing idleness, while others say workers are at or near full force. no coke price advance has been settled.
May advance prices loom as Captain Murdock Campbell Herron and John Chilfant travel to New York for a Wrought Iron Pipemakers Association meeting. Demand is high mills busy while oil and gas industries face supply squeezes and shut downs. The group aims to raise pipe prices from 15 to 25 percent.
Glass houses resumed yesterday as chimney works restart. Tableware firms plan to begin later this week with several firms resuming in coming days. Tarentum firms Richards Hartley Challinor Tay lor and Bryce Higbee of Ho will restart, while King Son & Co starts today. The Cotton Belt road announces plans to double track from Cairo to J, with a demand for 000 tons of material.
A correspondent notes English alarm over American tin plate plants funded by a new Exposition project. British and Welsh makers fear loss of monopoly as export boxes rise from 2.15 million in 1873 to 6.95 million in a later year, with US demand absorbing most sales and provoking tariff concerns.
Report states five of the striking workers with warrants were captured while the remainder hide and elude deputy sheriffs at Carrie Furnace, continuing to avoid arrest.
The old flint bottle glass house at California Pa on the Monongahela river will resume operations after 18 months idle. Production restarts October 1 as the plant comes back to life following the shutdown.
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