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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1892
Page
5
Dispatch describes 17 gun salutes and Governor's planned review. Quarters delays due to missing lumber, new details form to finish quarters. Sixteenth Regiment praised for drill and tactics while Thirteenth Regiment from Scranton grows from Scranton riot era. Attending regiments prepare for inspection. patrols and picket duties expand as Homestead tension rises.
Corporal David Lester of Company A, Fourteenth Infantry, stabbed Captain Frank Calhoun three times with a bayonet in front of Devore's undertaking establishment on Grant Street yesterday morning. The assailant is in Central Station awaiting arrest. The captain sustained three wounds two in the right breast and one in the abdomen. The severity of his condition is described as serious.
Desolate Beaver Falls mills of the Carnegie Company show no workers as a strike widens. Six watchmen guard a 30 acre site while a Vigilant Committee tracks entrances and exits. Leaders cite nonunion restart amid local pressure and shopkeepers warning of credit denial.
Washington July 1 The special Homestead Labor troubles committee chaired by Mr Oates is expected to hold a formal meeting tomorrow but likely take no action amid Congress adjournment. Oates contemplates summoning Pinkertons if Congress stays in session next week and will close the inquiry with testimony read. He has drafted a bill based on the testimony received so far.
Representative Broderick of Keceas, a Judiciary Committee member, introduces a bill to bar cross state transfer of private or voluntary police forces not part of the U S military, naval service or state militia until Pinkerton hearings conclude.
Yesterday afternoon a secret meeting at the Homestead Opera House discussed the report of the Special Committee on Superintendent Potter. Mechanics and old day laborers voted to stay neutral and not return to work, awaiting the Amalgamated Association versus company struggle, and arranged for a relief fund and headquarters for laborers in need.
Johnstown workers at Cambria Iron Mills show sympathy for Homestead men after a telegram claimed 4x4 billets were to be sent there to fill an order. General Manager Price denied involvement, but workers doubt the denial and feel the Homestead mills may receive the order.
Railroads face growing crowds at Homestead as aisles fill with passengers. One woman rode a train with five children and had to squeeze into a space meant for a single person, among many similar incidents noted.
Delegates from all St Louis labor unions meet and adopt a plan to fund future strikes. Each union elects a one year delegate who serves on a Strike Board with authority to levy dues of ten cents per member to aid any affiliated union in a strike. The board may draft its own constitution and bylaws.
Hughes & Patterson's iron works in Philadelphia resumed operations this morning after a lockout by the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers began July 1. The mill employed about four percent of its workforce, with no signs of trouble or violence among the locked-out workers.
Police pursue Thompson and Gildernew after an assault on Dairyman Lontzinger Joseph Blumer and Charles Nagle on Perrysville avenue. Thompson and Gildernew, both about 20, are charged with disorderly conduct. two other assailants unnamed face assault and robbery charges. Blumer suffered a head wound. hearings set for this morning.
One witness, Frank Clinton, testifies that on five Sundays he was with Harry Home at work, while Home faced a charge of worldly employment on Sunday. Alderman Kerr curiously withholds the prosecutor’s name and reserves final decision pending Roche’s recent appeals ruling.
Commercial Agent Hall of the Rock Island road said it is hard to gauge the impact of labor strife. He noted it is the dull season with glass houses and iron mills shut, and the lines expect little traffic in the territory.
The United Brethren Societies of Western Pennsylvania plan their annual picnic at Idlewild on July 28. They have chartered 11 rail trains, totaling 110 cars, with many more expected to attend. The gathering will span communities from Youngstown to Altoona and beyond.
City finance committee approved an ordinance creating five police magistrate posts for Allegheny with salaries of 1500 dollars a year for the First district. Nominees include Alderman Charles V Lewis or Alderman McKelvey, depending on a solicitor's ruling on eligibility. The other four posts will be honorary. Auditor Bigger's final report on Controller Brown notes mostly correct vouchers with minor errors and urges double entry bookkeeping and quicker collection of delinquent taxes.
The body of John Ryan, killed earlier by a Baltimore and Ohio train at Rankin, remains unidentified at the morgue after hundreds viewed it. Friends have not recognized him, and he had said only his name and that he lodged with a Mr. Duffy. If not identified, Ryan and Kirshner, who died by own action in West End, will be buried today in Potter's Field.
McKeesport steps in to collect donations for locked out Homestead workers. The Advisory Committee will receive money and goods directly from McKeesport and has asked local lodges to contribute. The message praises flour brands and bread quality, noting Iron Green Milling and Rosalina as top choices.
A somnambulist, H H Hunter of Dinwiddie street, was severely injured after wandering from a third story window and falling into a yard. Joseph Magonigel Fa is 29 died falling from a 5 foot retaining wall near West Carson street. Additional incidents include a wagon collision injuring drivers, a tramp falling from a train, a jaw injury from a shovel, a fatal train collision, a miner killed by a train, and a burn from a wire mill incident.
The annual summer night concert by manager C. V. Gates at Silver Lake Grove was canceled as a constable with a writ of attachment entered the grounds. Fewer than 150 spectators attended. Gates announced the cancellation and received audience sympathy. The writ, issued on Prof. Brockett for an old professional services claim, could not be enforced due to the lack of a performance.
Twelve year old newsboy Andrew Cool was treated at Mercy Hospital for a two inch wood splinter embedded in his right thigh plus a second gunshot wound on the left thigh from July Fourth. Doctors stated both injuries serious but the boy is expected to recover. Meanwhile harvest excursion plans were announced by John R. Pott, traveling passenger agent of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line, with trips starting August 30 and September 27 and noted Milwaukee road’s local land and industrial commission aiding settlers.
Detectives Robinson and Demmel arrested Frank Steel, Michael Flaherty, and James Hennessy after catching them stealing from a Second Avenue ice box. The trio were detained at Central station and charges will be filed.
An excellent rendition of Monte Cristo plays at Harris Theater this week. Horace Lewis leads as Edmond with Fanny Hard as Mercedes and A. D. Johnstone as Noirtier, others in the cast add solid support and the scenery impresses. Also notes Mr John Cook of Pilot Vermilion County praising Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy for his children's bloody flux. Plus details of an excursion by B and C Railroad to Atlantic City on July 3, 1902 with round trip ten dollars and stopovers included.
A Pleasant Valley electric car fatally struck a 5 year old on Duquesne way. The father John McKibben, distraught by the death, twice attempted suicide by stepping onto the tracks but was restrained by strong men and police. He was jailed overnight and to face an inquest. funeral arrangements to be from the morgue.
A testimonial from James Forey of McVeytown Pa proclaims Chamberlain’s Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy cures bowel complaints rapidly and better than rival medicines. The ad also touts Boorse killa roaches bed bugs and insects as effective products priced at 23 cents.
Local shop announces a new import line of Oriental rugs with a dozen different makes. They state the collection covers all sizes and will expand as new patterns arrive from the Orient. Prices start at eight dollars.
Our matting department proudly features the latest weaves with a Celestial Empire native stationed in the show window daily turning samples for inspection.
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