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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1890
Page
15
The item notes regular availability at Brentano's in New York and stores in Paris and London. It invites readers who have been disappointed in hotel newsstands to offer the book.
The Dispatch urges carriers agents and newsdealers to report supply issues promptly and notes voluntary contributors should keep records. It warns editors are not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts and requests stamps for returns. Postage rates include two cents for Sunday deliveries and for multiple copies needing prompt delivery.
Peracne plans summer city departure and offers insurance forwarding by carlicat trail at 9 cents monthly or 5 dollars for three months. Sunday edition included, daily edition 7 cents monthly and 2 for three months. Change of address requires both old and new details. The Dispatch Business Office moved to Corner of Smithfield and Diemond Streets.
Judge Acheson refuses to discharge the Leechburg liquor dealer and warns that U S Supreme Court principles may be applied by State Courts. The decision foreshadows strict enforcement of the ruling, with implications on nonresident versus resident agents and the route of beer shipments through Pittsburgh to Leechburg.
After three days the Scotch-Irish Convention in Ohio drew both praise and apathy. The President of the United States and Governor Campbell were the central figures with reports split on audience reaction. Observers note a restrained, decorous mood rather than rousing demonstrations.
In an interview Mr Chauncey M Depew argues for a postal savings bank aimed at helping colored individuals in the South save money. He cites opportunity and government solvency as incentives while acknowledging objections that it could promote wider government reliance.
The article argues for fostering industry and wealth via the postal savings bank scheme at 2 per cent. It questions corporate risks like stock watering and manipulation and suggests Mr. Depew cannot ensure honest management, making postal savings the safer eduction in thrift for the common people.
The Ways and Means Committee rejects the Farmers Alliance Government warehouse bill after leaders vow to curb demagogy. The piece criticizes sweeping, costly federal schemes and warns that legislators push bills to print at government expense. It laments entertainment of utopian ideas and urges continued demagogy elimination.
The primaries pitted veterans against new candidates with Bayne decisively defeating Shiras for the Northside Congressional nomination. Shiras shows campaign skill but must wait for future chances. Senator Rutan narrowly edges Need for the State Senate seat in Allegheny, with the younger candidate prevailing by a strong majority.
The nominations were scarcely contested as local nominating conventions settled this week. With those settlements the field is cleared for the State conventions to form the lines for the political year ahead.
A column rails at Oakland drawbridge and a Texas tinder box hotel fire that killed 14 and four respectively, blaming managers for lax safety. It calls stricter penalties for senior officials and notes New Haven ice price reform. The piece lampoons various public issues and headlines as examples of incompetence.
Up to Thursday last George Kennan had delivered his Siberian lecture 192 times. Queen Victoria will confer the Order of the Garter upon King Charles of Roumania. General Samuel F Cary of Cincinnati is a relative of Alice and Pholre Cary. Father Iatexius the English Benedictine will visit America and meet with a cordial reception. Mrs A Gant sold her house in New York to Frank J Sprague for 70000 dollars. Mrs Osean Wilds is a dress reformer favoring the divided skirt. The English Countess of Carloty died in Paris leaving 50000 dollars found in her apartments. DUGE COOLER of the Interstate Commerce Commission is ill and out of work for now.
A servant misbuys one cent stamps, thinking two cent stamps were needed, and the master jokes about thrift while Decoration Day chaos and reminiscences follow. Other vignettes include a beef tea deception and a doorbell confusion involving Charlie.
A collage of political jests and regional notes. It mocks legislative quirks with references to Speaker Reid and a disrupted quorum, notes shifts in New Jersey prison deputies, and jokes about Kentucky whisky. Local incidents include a shooting in Columbus and a Milwaukee courtroom quip about marriages.
At Union depot in St Louis Mrs Wilhelminie Freeman rejoiced as her 12 year old daughter Annie was returned from Fort Bayard Texas after seven years apart. Shipley a soldier friend had taken Annie to Fort Apache Arizona and later to Fort Bayard. The case, pursued by Assistant U S District Attorney Cahoon, ended with mother and daughter reunited though not seeing each other until now.
A mixed fashion column describes strawberry cream facial tricks, a shadow hat priced 3 to 4 dollars, and 55 to 80 dollars of powders for upkeep. It notes rose paste and white scented hair touches, superstitions in tennis attire, old skirts for theater wear, bridal trousseau in white silk, and a rustic tea cloth in German linen with white lace cord motifs.
A crowd surrounded the special at Alliance de pot as President Harrison greeted eager faces from the rear platform of the last car. A shifting engine neared the crowd while a heckler shouted Blaine. The president remarked Blaine is not with us and urged spectators to look for the locomotive.
A poem-long tribute recounts Scots Irish and Norse heritage fueling liberty. It links Covenanting Scots to Patrick Henry and the American quest for freedom, praising courage against tyranny and the spread of republican thought across colonies.
John McKenna a former Pittsburgh resident died in St Louis Friday afternoon. He was a steamboat steward on the Mississippi and later ran a steamboat supply store in St Louis. He was renowned for his character and had many friends in several cities. His sister and friends departed for funeral services. A separate brief notes Sylvester Pierce from Porter near Passiso in Borver county about a half century ago.
A Chicago writer laments the pending census as intrusive and compares it to foreign practices. He recounts anecdotes about Senate pages including Jimmy Fagin and Fundy during Charles Sumner era, noting pages’ autographs and ink gauge quirks in the Senate.
A Sunday dawn look at elevated trains in New York shows a mix of male night workers and women with escorts returning from late entertainments. Guards manage the crowd as newsboys pile huge bundles of Sunday papers, and a street portrait emerges of reporters, policemen, i cemen, milkmen, and other workers starting their day. Nick Engels beer saloon near Broadway is noted as a hub to find baseball men or actors without prior appointments.
In New York a bustling establishment lines its walls with scores from games and letters to baseball stars. Actors, club men, professionals, and hotel magnates gather after theaters close or during off seasons to drink beer, share stories, and enjoy German hospitality. The scene blends sport and stage lore under one roof. Charles T. Murray reports from May WW.
State political notes report Craw ford county candidates including Joan K Manisere for Assembly. Democratic fund managers in Venango include George E McIntire W A May Jared A Frank and G B Tracy. Em len ton's J Eakin seeks Assembly. Crawford DA hopeful M C Powers cites poor weather hindering outreach but seeks voter support. Butler county writer Rat tijas denounces the delegate system as corrupt after touring mills and conventions.
A young woman employed by Mrs. Herpst collapsed into cataleptic sleep after Friday dinner following two prior fright sleeps. Found in the outhouse, she later awoke claiming to have heard sweet music. Doctors note muscles may hold rigid positions while remaining mobile.
The Democrats of Union County plan a convention on Tuesday June 10 while Buatn County Republicans meet a day earlier The York Gazette favors Chauncey F Black as a compromise candidate but voters three years prior held a different view The Philadelphia Press notes Lt Governorship attention waning and a consolation prize may go to the runner up The Crawford Erie district race promises tension with a winner needing to mend wounds from a hard fought canvass
The St. Louis Republic recounts a brutal murder: Henry Hall killed without cause by Jacob Bainley near Sikeston Missouri, then makes good his escape. The tale is compared with a Pennsylvania tinsmith incident of a tinsmith who fell from a church tower and was fatally put not seriously injured.
Odd reptile stories recount a Renake mishap in Sedalia Missouri a large black snake tumbling onto a carriage during a Florida ride a judge in Georgia harpooning a moccasin mistaking it for a sea serpent and a cow herd relation ending with a chicken snake wrapped around a cow leg while two boys near Carrollton Ohio kill snakes and discover pheasant eggs within.
Press notes praise barbers as fearless performers and public figures. The Washington i ar lauds a barber's rise to fame while the Heston Bulletin notes his bold persona. Other papers from Washington Post Yonkers Gazette reference his road life and lively quips about brushes and dust.
A collage of brief items: a Paw Paw man worth $100,000 gains circus entry by carrying water. a Detroit streetcar collision with a hearse. Florida general W. W. Loring buried without headstone. a Baltimore synagogue amid Byzantine plans. London electrified traction and an omnibus line forthcoming. assorted curios from Egypt to Michigan to Calcutta, including a photog rapher multilingual, a bigamy case, and a St Bernard training anecdote.
A garbled dialogue touches on clothing orders, Ibsen, Kant and other philosophers, and a scene with officers and troops. The passage weaves misreadings and misstatements, referencing Puck and Purnisher, with a stray note about esprit de corps and Western trade hints.
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