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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1891
Page
3
A curious Allegheny feature chronicles a drummer who photographed local women, prompting a dangerous incident, plus tales of a whiteface potion hawker, a street-watermelon mishap, and a fashionable lawyer banter scene, all set in a bustling urban portrait.
A staged two act play on Ross street drew a large crowd of laborers building the Court House paving. A child selling lemonade was robbed when a man with an abnormal tag disrupted her stall, spilled the crock, and fled after a brief struggle, paying 8 cents in the end. Separately, Robinson township reports thieves stealing transplanted tomato plants and dugout potato crops, with rumors of seed theft continuing in the area.
James Parker, a colored man, entered the Golden second hand furniture store at 2710 Penn avenue around 10:30 p m. He objected to paying $1 for a bedstead and a quarrel followed. Parker drew a large knife, chased proprietor Golden and was stopped by Officer Brady Thompson. Parker had sold the same furniture to Golden earlier for 9 cents. He lives at 29th and Smallman streets and faces a morning hearing.
A Reformed Presbyterian committee Oliver Wylie and Samuel Wills will organize a branch church at Wildwood station three miles east of Wilkinsburg on the Allegheny Valley Railroad. It will be the first church there and will serve Covenanters living in the area who currently worship in Wilkinsburg. A Sunday school will also be organized.
Bureau of Health reports 190 total deaths in week ending July 18, a rate of 11 per 1000. Old City 47, East End 51, Southside 41, Institutions 19. Infant deaths 4. ages 1 to 9 sum various counts. Measles 3, whooping cough 4, typhoid 7, diphtheria 0, pneumonia 4, tuberculosis 6, cancer 3, nervous troubles 3, heart disease 24, digestive diseases 4, premature birth 51, old age 2, violent causes 5. Ninety four natives of Pittsburg, rest from various regions. marital status shows 105 single, 7 widows, 56 widowers.
A Pennsylvania excursion train left at dawn with five parlor cars and as many coaches, prompting a second section to handle crowds. Nearly 700 passengers boarded the worm train, with the afternoon train full and the last hour busier than picnic crowds, as twelve sleepers and day coaches filled. Colonel Tom E Watt traveled to Atlantic City on the morning special.
Colonel Swords and Inspector Stoddard toured the Pittsburg site and reported the new post office will be ready for occupancy October 1. Swords praised progress and said furniture will be staged for each room as needed before he leaves. Stoddard will visit other Allegheny government sites after departing.
Michael Grogan, 30, of Carson Street, employed at Clinton Mills Southside, was struck by a shifting engine in the millyard yesterday at noon. His right leg was crushed and his left leg badly injured. He died at 8 p.m. fifteen minutes after arriving at the Homeopathic Hospital where his right leg had been amputated near the thigh. He leaves a wife.
The Soho street sewer overflowed after a heavy rain, flooding Fifth Avenue and delaying traction cars by 220 minutes. Cellars of nearby properties were flooded and owners complained about recurring drainage problems and filth debris carried by the water.
Harris faced a hearing before Alderman MacGary on charges of keeping a ferocious dog after Conrad Gundloch said the animal bit him on South Nineteenth Street. The court learned the dog belonged to Julia Harris, the defendant's daughter, and Harris was discharged while Julia was held on 900 bail for court.
Friday sale at Pittsburg Combination Clothing Co. offers affordable men's and boys clothing. Readied stock includes 280 boys short pants cassimere suits size 4 10 4 14, 450 men's cassimere and cheviot sack suits, 100 coats, 365 men's sack and cutaway suits, 80 320 men's worsted pants, and 124 cassimere pants. Prices are for today only at corner Grant and Diamond streets.
A recent gas and electric failure led to a citywide power interruption last night. Police monitored the streets as store owners checked gas lines and ensured proper shutoffs to prevent gas leaks and fires.
An urban advertiser spreads free round trip rail and steamship tickets to Blaine and back, with maps and printed matter at Charles Somers & Co. Also promoting silk shirts, discounted fabrics, and horses for sale at Arnheim Live Stock Company, Ltd. plus other department store bargains on Fifth and Fourth avenues.
Alexander Kilian was scheduled for execution in Tarantum for the murder of Mrs. Paul Rudent. The Governor granted a respite delaying the hanging to October 5, unless further action stops it. East End residents reported a cross of Calvary on the moon, which Prof. Brashear dismissed as a local fascination amid his busy spectroscope work.
Edward Haley, age 15, had his hand crushed last evening when a piece of iron fell on him while driving a buggy at Republic Iron Works on South Twenty fifth Street. He was taken to Southside Hospital. his home is on Brownsville Avenue.
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