Briggs Case Brings Narrow Presbytery Vote
The New York Presbytery edges toward a verdict on Prof Briggs over heresy charges. A close 69 to 65 margin favors conviction, with debate over voting procedure and possible appeals to higher church bodies.
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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1892
Page
2
Murdered by Mollies in Wilkesbarre mine boss shooting
Thomas Ford a mine boss in Wilkes Barre was shot by a gang of Mollie Maguires while returning home. He collapsed, was found later and rushed home as doctors feared his wound would prove fatal. Identity of the shooter body remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesbarre
Thomas Ford
Ford
Molly Maguire
New York Tragedy Reported as Couple Found Dead
New York on December 27 reports Dennis Corrity age fifty found dying in his room with his wife dead beside him. The gas jet was on full blast and authorities believe he released the gas himself when retiring. The open charge of the cleaning of the...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dennis Corrity
Wns
Cooley gang cases closed by Judge Ewing mercy shown
Asiostown December 27 Special The Codley cases end as Judge Ewing sentences Lida Pastorius and Sam Yeager and suspends sentence on John H Pastorius Mrs Cooley and her children Lida Haddie and Russell Yeager pleads for her father then learns she faces 18 months in the Allegheny county workhouse and costs plus a 6 cent fine Yeager pleads guilty to carrying concealed weapons and receives six months with costs and fines Judge Ewing notes possible charges in other states and suspends Cooleys case after Colonel Searight speaks on their behalf
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooey
Ewing
Asiostown
Alleheny County
Sam Yeager
Cooley
Yeacer
Allegheny County
Cooleys
A. F. Downs, Esq
Colonel Searight
Secretary Dorente helps starving Allegheny family on Christmas
Secretary Dorente of the Anti Cruelty Society investigated Thomas Westwood’s family at 71 Hamlin street Allegheny finding two cramped rooms, emaciated children and a starving mother. Dorente provided funds for food and clothing and exposed the husband’s intoxication prompting reform and a promise to seek work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorente
Anti-Cruelty Society
Thomas Westwood
Hamlin Street
Allegheny
Mr. Dorente
Ex-Treasurer Foerstel Rumored to Be In Asylum
A report from St Louis dated December 2 claims ex-Treasurer M J Foerstel collapsed under stress and was taken to St Vincent Asylum. Officials cannot locate him for a council session. relatives and administrators withheld details while Mechin searches his desk for papers to measure the estate value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
M. J. Foerstel
St. Vincent Asylum
William
Michael Foerster
Mechin
Steerer
George W. Labake
Gus V. Mechin
Michael Foerstel
Edward Foerstel
Report of Rifle Practice Shows 6507 Marksmen in Guard
The annual inspector’s report to the Adjutant General shows 6507 officers and men qualified as marksmen, 726 as sharpshooters. Gains include 743 more marksmen. All units under Governor’s staff and brigades are listed with totals and range-allowance implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haxelsevurs
Adjutant General
National Guard
Dartmouth Bequest From Kansas City Doctor Largest Gift
Hanover N H December 27 Dartmouth College receives a record estate bequest from the late Aaron Butterfield M D of Kansas City valued at about 200 000 with the main portion directed to the college and specified gifts to selected heirs in the executor s letter to the college treasurer the exact language and recipients are partially unclear in the fragment but the frame shows a major endowment and designated gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Hansover
N. H
Dartmouth College
Aaron Butterfield
M. D
Kansas
Dartmoor
International Navigation project backed as commercial transport plan
A promoter of the International Navigation syndicate defends the venture as a purely commercial effort to lower transport costs between producers and consumers. He says New York will not be shut out and criticizes State Department statements as nonbinding, noting potential dividends and vast existing traffic. The plan includes a canal-style route with many locks, raising questions about feasibility and funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Oxt
International Navigation Syndicate
Tur Dispatch
Washington
State Department
United States
International Navigation
New York City
New York
United States Army
Niagara
Tonawanda
Olicott Harbor
Lake Ontario
Oswego
Oswego River
Oneida Lake
Eida Lake
Hudson River
Sault Ste. Marie
United States Army Engineers
Erie
Ontario
Oneida Lakes
Lake Erie
New York State
Panama
Ppec
Homeless man dies risking trestle fall in Baltimore
John Crowley, a destitute mill worker, was turned from a boarding house and, while ill, wandered onto the Baltimore and Ohio trestle at Second avenues and Murphy street. He fell about 20 feet, injuring his stomach hips and back. Police Surgeon Moyer says he is dangerously ill with pneumonia and likely to die. Crowley has no known relatives and the Department of Charities will be notified for possible support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Crowley
Fourteenth Ward
Moyer
Baltimore and Ohio
Second Avenues
Murphy Street
Crowley
Second Avenue
Brady Street
Keystone Mil
Department of Charities
The Champion Brute in Mexico Child Abuse Case
In Mexico on December 27 authorities uncovered a fiendish abuse plot after a five year old boy was found dead with 257 bites and burns. The uncle and his wife, guardians after the mother died, allegedly treated the child brutally. the uncle admits punishing him but denies intent to kill. Three other orphans are missing, and the pair are believed to have disposed of the bodies. The uncle blames his wife for carrying the corpse away and abandoning it in a vacant lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ciry
Mexico
Dea
Yucatan
Parker & Co to sell 6000 acre coal tract in Monongalia
A mining expert reports favorably on the 6000 acre coal land tract along Dent's Run in Monongalia county offered by E L Parker & Co to a New York syndicate. The big sale will close soon as operators anticipate within a year a continuous 33 mile stretch of mines and coke ovens between Clarksburg and Fairmont. Parker & Co. has spent over two years arranging the deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Briggs
Presbyterian Church
Committee of Prosecution
Presbytery
Scotch Presbyterian Church
Book of Discipline of the Church
Prof Briggs
Charles L. Thompson
Madison Avenue Press Church
Parkersburg
Dent's Run
Mongalia County
E L. Parker & Co
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Parker & Co
Farm romance ends with trunk dispute in Pittsburg
Jacob Seifert abandoned a 20 acre Albany Oregon farm after his wife refused to move west. He returned to Pittsburgh, kept the cow and house, and now seeks police help to recover his trunk with valuables. He remains married and lives with his wife in a Dinwiddie Street flat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Jacob Seifert
Albany
Southside
Seifert
Jacob
Pittsburg
Valley Railroad
Linn County
Charles Powell
Powell
Dinwiddie Street
Court verdicts in crime and liquor cases in Penn township
In a criminal court session Solomon was found not guilty of selling hard liquor on Sunday to minors and costs placed on prosecutor George Carpenter. Bridget Gallagher admitted illegal liquor selling. Ed McIlvaine alias Castle Blarney fined fifty dollars and thirty days workhouse. Yates acquitted of illegal liquor selling. Burton pleaded guilty to assault and sentenced. Other rulings include larceny acquittal, malicious mischief conviction, and multiple fines and workhouse terms for illegal liquor sales and related offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Solomon
George Carpenter
Penn Township
Carpenter
Solomon
Bridget Gallagher
Jack's Run
Castle Blarney
Ed McIlvaine
Ulis Yates
McDonald
George Burton
M. G. Frank
Samuel Crawford
N. Welsh
Allegheny
Thomas Marra
William Rosch
J. W. E. Schellman
Fred Schlicting
Catharine Schlicting
Sloan Noulder
John Gavin
John Campbell
Valeria Kapuscaiski
Marie Serz
Oil Operators Idle As Water Lines Freeze Across Districts
Dozens of wells in Willow Grove Nobles town and Oakdale districts shut down due to frozen water lines stopping boiler operation. Several new targets were located and rigs set to work this week as fields report reduced output with detailed production figures and pipeline shipments noted for multiple companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willow Grove
Noblestown
Oakdale
People's Gas Company
Wallace
Dixon Farm
Gordon Sand
Forest Utl
Stirling
Waters
Toney
RK. W
D. K
K. McDonald Farm
Gordon
Elliott
Clark & Lupher
Aiken Farm
Moon District
Undercliff Feld
4 Bwinder's Cute Tricks
E W Robertson faced a United States Commissioner hearing on charges of using the post office in a fraud scheme. Testimony described him forging firm letterheads to order typewriters and watches, sending counterfeit checks, and shipping goods to Chicago, leading to his arrest in Ohio and commitment to jail in default of $1,000 bail awaiting U S District Court trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Robertson
United States
Gamble
Postoffice
McCalmont
Robertson
Chicago
Ohio
Pittsburg
Erie County
United States District Court
Court Grants Restraining Order in Edison Westinghouse Case
The United States Circuit Court heard arguments by Acheson and Buffington on a motion by Fish for Edison Company to restrain Westinghouse from infringing the old incandescent form. Westinghouse, represented by Curtis, offered to not oppose if court retains reservations similar to the Sawyer son case. Charges of bad faith were denied. after a brief hearing the court issued a restraining order with the defense reservations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acheson and Buffington
United States Circuit Court
Fish
New York
Edision Company
Westinghouse Company
New Entowns
Curtis
Sawyerson
Cathedral Church of St John the Divine Cornerstone Layed
In New York on December 27 the cornerstone of the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine was laid in a ceremony led by Bishop Henry C. Potter. The project aims to create a national church complex with seven chapels and free sittings, with an estimated cost of 5 to 10 million dollars and a site purchased for 350000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Potter
St John the Divine
Henry C. Potter
D. DD
GCL
Sp. Mt
One Hundred and Tenth Street
Hudson River
Columbian College
St. Luke's Hospital
Kana
Sim
England
Continent
America
Columbus
Columbus In 1493 On the Island of
Hispanols
Covert Declared Sane and Released from Hospital
Habeas corpus hearing in U S Court granted Rev W B Covert’s discharge from St Francis Hospital after doctors certified mental and physical recovery. The case drew public attention over insanity claims and two physicians supported his desire for a sane declaration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. RB. Covert
St Francis Hospital
Covert
Comedy of Errors in Pittsburg Veteran Rescue
James Carey a Pittsburg veteran came to attend the Union Veterans Fair. Officer McCloskey tried to arrest Here line and Carey intervened. Chief McAllister claimed no recognition and ordered Carey and McCloskey jailed. both were freed by the mayoral court with Carey fined ten dollars and costs. McCloskey was released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKeesfort
James Carey
Pittsburg
McCloskey
Hereline
Carey
James McAllister
Fire Department
McAllister
Names of Defendants in Commonwealth Criminal Court Case
A list of defendants appears in Commonwealth versus case records including Neuman Strothers Murke Kelly Belfer Curdey Newmeyer Jones Keenan Walker Helphar Thantel Helphar Conley Sinnon Gerdes Little Arnold Penrod Baxter Lance Pollock Knuth May Anderson Jordan Strack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Criminal Court—Commonwealth Vn
Max Neuman
Williamn Strothers
Bridget Murke
John Kelly
George Belfer
J. Curdey
John Newmeyer
Mrs. K. Jones
Joseph Keenan A
FE. Walker
Ienry Helphar
Thantel Helphar
W. H. Conley
Louis Snnon
F. W. Gerdes
Virginia Little
Charles Arnold
George Penrod
Robert Baxter
Geo Lance
D. W. Pollock
J. W. Knuth
A May
John W. Anderson
Mike Jordon
Andrew Strack
Dentist Sent to Workhouse After Allegheny Arrest
J. M. Little, a Sewickley dentist, received a 30 day workhouse sentence from Magistrate Brinker of Allegheny. He had come to Allegheny for Christmas, drank too much, and was locked up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Little
Sewickley
Brinker
Allegheny
Executions Issued for Several Firms and Individuals
Yesterday's docket lists executions against Schomaker and Co ve Hackenstein and Co for £1,01483, Israel Fein versus Effie Arthurs, $5,500, Swarts Jerkowski and Co versus A. S and S Hester for $2,254, and H. Kahn and Sons versus sanie for $757.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schomaker & Co
Hackenstein & Co
Israel Fein
Effie Arthurs
Swarts Jerkowski & Co
A. S&s
Hester
H. Kahn & Sons
Sanie
Boys' Sulta Cassimere Sale At Grant and Diamond Streets
A local sale offers 500 boys' cassimere salts at a bargain price of three dollars each. The event is advertised as occurring on Wednesday at the intersection of Grant and Diamond streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant and
Diamond
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Briggss
Bure
Thompson
First Union Theological Seminary
Dispatch
Ilans
Shedd
Perkhurst
Paxton
Bricgs
Bliss
Leom
Riggs
Synod
General Assembly
Union Sem
Henry P. Smith
Lane Seminary
Cincinnati Presbytery
Mollies
Foerstel
Dartmoush
Luce
Uncle Fam
Brute
West Virginia
Rev. W. E. Covert
Fane
McDonald Field
Scott
Buckeye
Nacksburg
Lima
New York Transit
Southern Pipes Line
Tidewater Pipe Line Company
Western Atlantic
W. L. Mellon
National Transit Company
Sarge
London
Antwerp
Newton
Pennsylvania Oil, Spa
Br Boyeau Lita Oil
NEW York Court
Bromo-Seltzer
Ficott & Flo
York
Eee
Christ
Reber
Carrie Reber
Nicholas Alt
Alt
Rebers
Sarah Street
Alt & Son’s Pottery
Ali
Mrapao
Apri
Chicago and
Pacific Coast
To-xas
Remington Bros
Portspure
Dell
ALON
Allegheny, Pittsburg, East
South Side
McKeesport
New Brighton
Freeport, al
Toona
Youngstown
Alliance
Chil
Dren
Boggs & Buhl
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