Democratic Platform Sparks City Hall Debate in Pittsburg
The County Platform committee in Pittsburg amid the Homestead strike debated a draft platform. John B Larkin read a unity platform endorsing the national Democratic line and Pattison administration while opposing violence and favoring labor organization. The platform was only recommended to district conventions amid protests by critics like William Dickson who condemned Pattison and urged a broader Democratic alignment.
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Pattison
General Democratic Committee
Diamond Street
John F. Miller
John B Larkin
Allegheny
Sena Arnd
Piots
Larkin
William E. Howley
J.C O'Donnell
Pittsburg
Aberheny
Howley
William Dickson
Sewickley
Dickson
Pennsylvania
Mr. Dickson
P. M. Carr
Mr. Larkin
Charles Lordan
Mr. Carr
John L. Sullivan
Conferees Convene to Nominate in Twenty Fourth District
Republican county chairmen from Washington Fayette Greene and Allegheny met at Monongahela House to plan nominating Colonel Stewart for the unexpired term of the late Congressman Craig. Delegates chosen to meet in Pittsburgh September 8 to select a candidate. Bailey asserts county demand for Stewart nomination.
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Twenty - Fourth
Enoch County
Washington, Fayette, Green
Allegheny
Monongahela House
Craig
Twentyfourth
Messis
John R
Fayette
James A. McGuiffin
Washington
Allen P. Dickey
Greene
John Gripp
Frank Fuller
5. M. Bailey
Fayette County
Colonel Stewart
George W. Miller
Allegheny County
Washington County
Green County
Pittsburg
Dicky
Greene County
Acheson
Beaver-Lawrence Republican judicial nomination selects Stone as third commissioner
After a brief prolonged session starting yesterday afternoon and ending after eleven last night, Beaver and Lawrence counties settle on Congressman William A. Stone to join the commission to name the district’s judicial candidate. Remaining members, ex Senator J W Lee and George H Andrews, proposed successors after Judge Stowe refused service. The new panel will meet in Pittsburgh Monday to nominate between William D. Wallace of Lawrence and John M. Greer of Butler. The district leans Republican by about seven hundred votes.
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Beaver-Lawrence
William A. Stone
J. W. Lee
Venango County
George H. Andrews
Lawrence County
Stowe
Allegheny County
John M. Greer
Butler County
Fifth District Names Committee to Present Candidates
The Democratic committee of the Fifth Legislative district calls a meeting of the convention at 7:30 p m in the Common Council Chamber on Tuesday August 30. T O Leary chairs with J W Patterson secretary and others. Names to be presented include Saal Rutleventy first ward Twenty third ward Fred H Lansteemie Adam Schuster Charles Breitweiser George Acklin William Walls. additional names possible before the convention.
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Fifth Legislative District
Common Council
T. O'Leary
J. W. Patterson
Frank J. Miller
John C O'Donnell
P. M. Carr
E P. Carnes
Saal F. L Rutleventy
Fred H. Lance Teemie
Adam Schuster
Charles E. Breitweiser
George W. Acklin
William Walls
Printing Fraternity Forms People's Party Club
A Sunday meeting of the printers' meeting formed the People's party club with 38 members present. Hugh D. McGaw was elected President and R. D. Secretary, with an executive committee including Hugh D. McGew J. Ahl J. K. McClelland T. J. Dacius Stan Owns E. Boyd W. J. & Marshall. A committee was appointed to.
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Forms
People’s Party Club
Printing Fraternity
Hugh D. McGaw
R. D
Hugh D. McGew
J. Ahl
J. K. McClelland
T. J. Dacius
Stan Owns
E. Boyd W. J. & Marshall
Fifteenth Ward Republican Club Hosts Picnic at Idlewild
The Fifteenth Ward Republican Club invites friends to a picnic tomorrow at Idlewild Park. A special train will transport guests from Thirty third Street at 8 o'clock. The Gernert Orchestra will provide the dances.
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Fifteenth Ward
Republican Club
Idlewild
Thirty-third Street St
Gernert
Allegheny County Teachers Hear Advanced Plans of Instruction
The forty second annual session of the Allegheny Teachers Institute opens with Eastern and Western educators presenting new teaching methods. Miss Matilde Coffin proposes rapid instructive reading focusing on comprehension with instructional readers, while Prof Emory P Russell argues for mental music training taught by tone to ensure lasting learning.
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Allegheny County
County Institute
Mathilde E. Coffin
Detroit
Emory P. Russell
Boston
Teachers’ Institute of
Allegheny Teachers’ Institute
Miss Coffin
Russell
Thousand Arrests Aimed at Sidewalk Obstructions in City
Police plan to file at least 100 informations daily against merchants who blocked sidewalks after an order by Chief Brown. Mayor Gourley allowed six feet on Liberty Street, while authorities promise strict enforcement citywide. Officials report 168 violators in the lower city with Southside among the higher counts. enforcement extends to all districts.
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Democratic Party
Chicago
Grover Cleveland
Adini E. Stevenson
Republican Party
America
Pattison
Commonwealth
Pernard
Conneils
O'Mara
Brown
Gourley
Sixth Street
Gus Braun
Liberty Street
Central Station
Thirsting on Sunday Sparks Law and Order Crusade
A movement by the Law and Order Society targets Sunday milk sales after midnight with Alderman Bohe noting six to seven inquiries for alleged violations. He says charges often mislabel milk or ice cream sales as violations, and a man seeking water after hours reflects the city’s drink restrictions and the awkward consequences of the Sunday law.
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Law and Order Society
Alderman Bohe
Smithfield
Chinese to be registered in western district task force
Washington ordered Deputy Revenue Collector Mitchell to start immediate registration of Chinese laborers in Allegheny and Pittsburg and across 24 western state counties. About 200 Chinese in Allegheny and Pittsburgh and 600 in the 24 counties will be counted. ten deputies will handle the work with no rush to file the report. Mitchell aims to complete the tally early in the fall.
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Washington
Mitchell
Donehoo
Allegheny
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Synod Extends Session to Ridgeview Park
The Pittsburg Synod of the United Presbyterian Church announces a four day session at Ridgeview Park starting Thursday at 2 PM and continuing to Monday morning. Afternoon conferences tag Reform Day Denominational Day Temperance Day and sermons, with free entry all week but Sabbath gates closed after Saturday night.
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Pittsburg
United Presbyterian Church
Ridgeview Park
the Park
Recovered Babe Returned to Mother by Court Ruling
Mrs Gertrude Kautzman won a court order restoring her four month old child from Joseph Ehautaman who had deserted her. Judge McClung admonished the father for keeping the infant and ordered immediate return to the mother with costs charged to him.
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Gertrude Kautzman
McClung
Joseph Ehautaman
Ham Accident Ends Inquest On Diamond Street Death
Magistrate Gripp closed the inquest into Elijah Woods’s death at L. Marshall’s Diamond Street store. Ida Donley testified she accidentally dropped a ham down an elevator shaft, striking Woods on the head. The jury returned an accidental death verdict and censured Donley for carelessness and the firm for lacking a shaft guard.
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Gripp
Elijah Woods
L. Marshell
Diamond Street
Ida Donley
Woods
Miss Donley
Fire Destroys Roth Vineyards On East Street Hill
A brush fire in a garden sparked a blaze that swept vineyards and forest above East street extension in Allegheny Fourteenth ward yesterday afternoon. Firefighters laid 1,500 feet of hose to reach the hilltop and halt the flames. Loss to John and Charles Roth is about 2000 dollars.
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John
Charles Roth
East Street
Fourteenth Ward
Allegheny
Fie
Roths
Blaze destroys stable housing valuable horses at corner two streets
A fire last evening gutted a stable at Forty-seventh and Hatfield streets owned by Robert Lucas. Four valuable horses were killed, harness valued around $200, and the structure, worth $150 to $200, was destroyed. Lucas, uninsured, faces a severe loss to his capital.
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Forty-seventh
Hatfield Streets
Robert Lucas
Lucas
Confession Exposes Judge in Dravesburg Case
The daughter of Josiah Guinn, a justice of the peace at Dravesburg in Mifflin township, says several young men were wrongly accused and her father is the true criminal. Warrant issued for the father’s arrest based on her testimony.
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Josiah Guinn
Dravesburg
Mifflin Township
Young Farmer Beaten On Highway Near Lower St. Clair
Joseph Loll, a young man from Lower St. Clair township, was assaulted by an unknown man on the highway near his home Monday night and is seriously injured. W. H. Riggs, attending Loll, believes he will recover. The assailant’s description is not provided.
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Joseph Loll
Lower St. Clair Township
Storr
W. H. Riggs
Loll
Death on the Wire: Frederick Schmidt Electrocuted on Building Roof
Frederick F. Schmidt, 18, was killed yesterday when he touched a live electric wire on the roof of a Jos Home & Co building under Allegheny County Light Co. wires. M R Zahniser warned, Schmidt died after gasping on the roof with insulated underground conductors. The fire escape crew had been working two months on the site. officials search for cause and note prior warnings.
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Frederick F. Schmidt
Allegheny County Company
Allegheny County Light Company
United States Fire Escape Company
Jos. Home & Comy
Schmidt
M. R Zahniser
Zahniser
Zehuiner
Ape
Miller
Fire Escape Company
United States
Cemy
Ohio Street
Allegheny
Law and Order Hounds Sunday Sacred Park Concerts
President McCrory of the Law and Order Society pressed City Hall for details on who paid the bands at Schenley Park Sunday sacred concerts. Controller Morrow could not identify the sponsors but agreed the events were a desecration and should be halted. Gusky led the first concert. the last two were allegedly funded by others.
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McCrory
Law and Order Society
Schenley Park
City Hall
Morrow
Gusky
Man Arrested for Menacing Tide Steamer Passengers
John Riddle, an employee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was arrested at the Tenth Street Bridge yesterday afternoon on a complaint by Captain Clark of the Tide steamboat. The man had appeared daily for a week and while the boat passed he acted out a hanging pantomime with a rope directed at non union men aboard Carnegie wills at Homestead.
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John Riddle
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Tenth Street Bridge
Carnegie Wills
Homestead
Clark
Postmaster to Seek More Corner Letter Boxes for Pittsburg
Postmaster McKenn left for Washington to press the postal authorities for additional corner letter boxes in Pittsburg after a prior rejection. An encouraging Columbus Club meeting on Discovery Day reported support from Columbus and Pittsburg mayors and promises of a grand Catholic parade with multiple societies.
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MciKenn
Washington
Pittsburg
Columbus Club
Save Money And Still Get the Boat
Mellorn and Horne offer a vast stock of rosewood and walnut pianos and organs with antique oak and mahogany cases. Large display of instruments, low prices for quality, rent options, and installment plans. Full catalog and information available at 771 Fifth Avenue.
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Chickering
Hardman
Krakauer
Olida
Trent
Catan
Auction of 150 Head of Horses by Arnheim Live Stock Co
The Arnheim Live Stock Company will auction 150 horses on Thursday August 25 at 10 o clock. The sale includes 37 driving horses pacers and trotters without record able to beat top Saddlers, 83 imported Percheron stallions and one Percheron mare registered in the American and French stud books, 10 three year old Percheron colts, and 50 head of bus horses and mares. All stock sold without reserve to the highest bidder with no by bidding and stock guaranteed as represented. No weather postponement.
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Arnheim Live Stock Company
Limian Aw
Second Avenue
Pittsburg
Kentucky
Arnheim Live Stock Company, Limited
Rosalia and Our Best Flour Draw Buyers Across Grocers
Grocers report frequent calls and brisk sales of Rosalia and Our Best brands as the Iron City Milling Company promotes its flour. Consumers seek quality for better bread, with many choosing these celebrated products.
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Iron City Milling Company
Last Excursion to Atlantic City by B and O Railroad
Tickets priced at 10 dollars for a round trip on August 25 with 13 day validity. Stops include Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington. Trains depart Pittsburgh at 84. and 20 Fr. mu.
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Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Pittsburg
Dying to Live and Living to Dye in Lagheny
Fragmentary OCR notes report a dyeing business at 100 Federal Street Lagheny with unclear contact numbers and statements about immediate fatalities. The text is incomplete and lacks coherent event details or names.
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Aes
Ena
Federal Street
Lagheny
Becomes a Footpad: Laughner Assaulted and Shot at Near Verona
A. Laughner, of Verona near the city, was assaulted, robbed, and shot at by two men while returning home with his wife and children. Police suspect one assailant, Charles Havers, of escaping workhouse a week earlier. Laughner’s hat shot through, money stolen, and a pursuit by local officials continues without results.
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A. Laughner
Verona
O'Mara
Charles Havers
Laughner
Westinghouse Electric Works
Laughlin Station
Plum Creek
The
Valley Railroad
Mr. Laughner
Laughlin
Anyon
Havers
Laughmer
Allegheny
Muth
Neer
West Park
Rascal
Leading Dry Goods House in Pittsburg Penn Ave Stores
The Leading Dry Goods House in Pittsburg Pennsylvania advertises its Penn Ave stores run by Jos Horne & Go. for Tuesday August 23 with goods and prices highlighted by the dry goods house.
August Clearance Sale Wraps Up Week of Large Discounts
The store promotes its final stretch of August clearance with continued attractions aiming to sustain a strong summer business and draw customers through the last days of the season.
Fall dress goods bargains in Storm Serges and plaids
Dress Goods Today features fall lines at deep cuts across woollen fabrics. 1500 yards of stripe mixtures at 25 and 35 cents, 42 inch plaid suitings at 50 cents, and storm serges at 50 and 75 cents a yard. Bedford cords 75c to 1.25, 50 inch English sailings at $1, Scotch home spun suitings at $1, plus French charlies 25 to 45 cents.
Lansdowne Fabrics Bold Price Line In All Shades
Lansdowne offers a single price of 1.20 dollars for all fabrics for house and evening wear. The store markets many shades with no variation in price, claiming Lansdowne has no peer among fabric suppliers.
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Lansdowne
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W. J. Brennen
Twenty-fourth Congressional District
Colonel Stone
Lawrence-Beaver
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United Presbyterian Church Synod
Ridgeview
Law and Order
Mellorn & Horne
Fifth Avenue
Seockinnean
Cialing
Esen ™Orke
George Biber & Easton
H. S
Marert ST
Edward
Groetzinger
Penn Ave
Saunders
Jos. Horne & Go.’s
Dos. Horne & Co
JK. Miller. & CO
Smithfield St
Pittsburg, Pa
Syira
Iowaeloon
W. V. Dermitt & CO
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