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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1892
Page
6
The piece recounts Berkman and Frick, Carnegie, and the Homestead labor dispute. It notes Berkman’s attack on Frick, Carnegie’s cautious cable responses, and Frick’s reply via a cable saying No to a truce, amid ongoing unrest and tension between labor and capital.
Western Pennsylvania lawmakers travel to Harrisburg for the Assembly opening. Ex-State Chairman W. H. Andrews seeks a Lower House seat amid contest claims. GOP leaders pledge no franchise disruption on technical grounds. Crawford and Venango counties affected.
The article notes a Rept leader securing a Senate seat after a hard campaign, about 500 votes ahead. It cites Edward Smiley as re-elected Chief Clerk of the Senate and Voorhees as Chief Clerk of the House with Thompson as Speaker. The author expects a short session unless a governor apportionment clash extends it.
The annual American Chemical Society session closed in the Academy of Science and Art after delegates toured Pittsburg mills and plants including Howard Piste Glass Works and Duquesne steel. A new Pittsburg branch will form separating from the Engineers' Society.
Judge Jacobs of Doddridge County Circuit Court holds an express company is the purchaser’s agent in liquor sales. The ruling dismisses the seller’s license violation and allows shipment of liquor into the county if the purchaser pays return charges, ending the prior requirement for prepayment prior to shipment.
Detective Norris of Ohio, famed bunko chaser, presented Governor of Kentucky with requisitions for Haynes and Scribner. The two con men, jailed at Paris, are also wanted in Jessamine for about 20 Bunko jobs. If cash bonds are posted, they will be rearrested for Ohio swindles.
George P. Fisher of New York, a former newspaper man and engineer, visited Pittsburg and stayed at Newell's Hotel. He assists in laying additional tracks on the Pennsylvania Railroad from Pittsburg to New York and says four tracks will run between the two cities before the World's Fair opens.
Constable Jack of Alderman Kerr's office was badly used up yesterday during a failed arrest of Joseph Harbenbach of Butler street. Harbenbach faced $1,000 bail for a hearing this evening. Rev Alonzo T Jones editor of the American Sentinel will lecture for free at the Grand Opera House Sunday evening on Principles of Religious Liberty and national reform.
The Manufacturing Jeweler on 680 Smithfield Street invites buyers to inspect prices before purchase. Open every evening for cabinet work and a large ornate engraving. Hendricks & Co.'s electric gallery at No. 8 Federal Street offers items for sale with low family-group charges.
City department chiefs near completing ten month reports forecast total appropriations for next year around five million dollars with Public Works receiving about nineteen ninety five thousand seven hundred and six, Public Safety eight hundred four thousand one hundred, and Public Charities ninety thousand.
A dedication of the new McMillan school ended in a clash between Prof. A G Smith and Prof. J Caldwell over salary and tenure. Smith resigned citing justice, while Caldwell remained. A large crowd witnessed the adjournment as factions prepared for further conflict. A separate incident reported a broken trolley wire causing city congestion. Deserter Henry Eggers is under army investigation after a release secured for a decades-old case involving his father.
Mary Maloney a 14 year old of John town was escorted by a detective through the city yesterday on a Morgnusa matter. She threatened to kill her mother and sister and had driven the family from their home last week. She was locked up to prevent harm and remains under care. Lydia Castorious, associated with Cooley’s case, was placed in the penitentiary for 18 months. Her infant daughter remains with her. Warden Wright ordered the woman and babe sent to the hospital ward.
Real estate notice shows 84 WINGS BANK LIM with 401 Smithfield Street and Fourth Avenue. Figures cite surplus of 981,000 and a retentive interest rate quoted as percent.
Rivermen brace for a heavy rise in river levels as a warm wave chills the danger from floating ice. Cold snaps have frozen rivers to several inches, but a forecast climb above freezing with rain could cause rapid water rise and dangerous ice jams from the Monongahela Youghiogheny and Allegheny headwaters to Louisville canals. Traffic at Pittsburgh area ports may resume only after days as ice breaks and moves.
The Executive Board of the Union Temperance Association met and listed delegates from multiple temperance bodies. They plan to invite allied groups and organize all local temperance factions into unions modeled after Pittsburgh, with a bureau to supply speakers and workers regionally. A Sunday meeting is set at the Keeley Institute on Fins Avenue.
H Krouse was committed to jail by Squire Madden of Millvale to await a trial on embezzlement and assault charges filed by F Alpert, an Homestead insurance agent who says Krouse collected 190 for M M Tuttle & Co and 200 of his own funds. Alpert was struck and kicked out when demanding the money.
Joseph Swank fell 16 feet from a scaffold in the Keech building on Penji street near Ninth, breaking his shoulder and spine. He was taken home to East street Allegheny and may not recover. Four Chinese of 200,000 have registered under the act by May 3. Deputy Collector Mitchell says none here have registered. Quong Wan Sun says locals wait on San Francisco firms to advise and test the law.
The ad promotes overcoats and ulsters at deep post holiday discounts at FP C CC corner Grant and Diamond streets, with prices from twelve to thirty dollars. It also notes Hampton’s Music House on Fifth avenue selling pianos and organs with large display, low prices, favorable terms, and an offer of New Year delivery bargains.
Fine Fruita advertises evaporated and dried fruit from domestic and foreign sources. Miller Baos offers price lists and delivery. A seasonal sale at four front-store tables near C Keizenstein’s 180 to 16 Federal Street Allegheny features odd and end Haviland and Senne tea and A D coffees at reduced prices today and Saturday.
Morris Ramsey, longtime general manager of the Southwest Coal and Coke Company, is near death at Sutton Hospital Mt. Pleasant Pa. from pancreatic cancer after an operation. Ramsey, once a miner and engineer, led coke industry growth and is highly regarded by H. Frick officials.
Captain William Dalgleish was knocked down by three footpads at Grant street and Virgin alley on Wednesday night. They stole a gold watch worth 150 dollars plus a 25 dollar chain. Police arrested Courtney, Ward Courney, and Henry Hensar, with the watch found in Courtney's pocket.
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