Brotherhood meeting tale in Cleveland talks and guesses
The Sporting News reports a quiet Brotherhood gathering in Cleveland with few actions taken. Delegates Stricker Brunell and others observed, schedule changes were minor, and Detroit's bid to join was dismissed as bluster.
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Cleveland
Brunell
John Stricker
Frank Brunell
Brotherhood
Weddell House
Fred Pfeffer
John Addison
Chicago
J. Farr Wagner
Philadelphia
al Joinson
Pariori
Hrawell
Pittsburg
Boston
New York
Detroit
Stearns
State of Mt
John Ward
Western Trap Shooters Win Kansas City Match
Traveling trap shooters from the East and West faced off at Elliott's Park in Kansas City. The Western team dominated the 30 singles and 10 doubles event with a clear total victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Elliott’s Park
Blue Rocks
Budd
Cartex Race Track Finishes Slick Despite Sand Aid
At Cartex Race Track on March 10, Superintendent Clare used several tons of sand to prepare a gate track. Large fields and strong crowds marked the day as Little Jim won the first race over Adonis in a tight heat, with odds listed and times noted. New Orleans also hosted racing at the Louisiana Jockey Club meeting with Karl winning as sold and later barred amid controversy.
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Brotherhood
Beck” Ewing
Dan Browthers
James White
Juliana B. Hart
Beeston Club
Weddell House
Buck
Brunell
New York
Erbood
Cartex
Clare
Little Jim
Ran Adonis
Briting
Han Adonia
Wid _ Orst
Ftosand
Ito
St. Mary
Little Jake Fret
Freedom
Hemance
Grimaldi
Young Duke
Defendant
Nee Howard
Fo Hs Nets Harrison
Wieland
Ato & Crispin
Jim Murphy
New Orleans
New Louisiana Jockey Club
Tom Kari
Blackborn
Skoubelof
Karl
Bonn
Lady Bisckburn
Bunn
Tom Karl
Celling
Little Here Secant
Sam Jones
Mar T
Hardee
Besrie Hriggs
Dakeotw
Elorine
Caxtantes
Palthiess
Landicap
Willis
Frank Clapp
Entries at Guttenburg track list for Tuesday races
The Guttenburg track announces Tuesday entries with multiple forlong distances. Names include Littie Marcfoot Monte Cristo Mamie Hay along with numerous others and weights listed for each entrant.
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Guttenburg
Tepacial Teleoram
Dispraren
Carrie
Grav Glondi
Dk Donmus
Doll
Metooe
We Thang
Amal
Bodie Mareac
Carlow Dery
Ksomely
Ingo
Unsdagete
Two Fights in One Week for Billy Myer May Bouts
Billy Myer declares plans for a finish fight with Andy Bowen on May 7 in New Orleans for a 5000 purse under Queensberry rules. He also seeks a finish fight with Jack Hopper in Fort Worth for 1000 a side, with a requested two to three week extension after a wrestling injury, creating two finish fights in one week. Ward Trial Begins March 24 in New York. The Metropolitan Exhibition Company sues John M. Ward, the famed shortstop, with a hearing set for March 24 in Supreme Court.
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Billy Myer
Dispatch
Bloomington
Andy Bowen
Athletic Club
New Orleans
West End
Ube
Jack Hopper
New York
Fort Worth
Tex
Jack
Leonard
Hopper
Lawrence
Supreme Court
Metropolitan Exhibition Company
John M. Ward
Chicago Versus Philadelphia Box Score Note
Chicago versus Philadelphia game details list ST ASST March 10 with Hatteries Coughlin Hettridge and Vickery Gleason and Clements and umpires Lauer and Decker.
Controversy Settled on Carnegie Library Control in Allegheny
An Allegheny Common Council special meeting settled control of the Carnegie library. Ordinances placed the building under the City Property Committee and created a Public Library standing committee to govern the library art gallery and lecture hall with a librarian salary of 2500 and an assistant at 1200.
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Allegheny Common Council
Carnegie Library
Library Committee
Messrs
Rudolph
Knox
Thompson
Ammon
Park
Neeb
Appomatox
Aoea
Cramon
City Property Committee
Union Passenger Railway Company
Common Council
Common Branch
Accidents of a Day Prompt Grim Toll and Injuries
Mishaps affected workers and transit riders yesterday. Michael McCartney, a laborer on the steamboat C. W. Batchelor, had his right foot crushed by an falling iron girder. Paul Benovsky at Edgar Thowson Steel Works lost an eye to hotwire. Layman Hill, a P RK freight brakeman, was killed when run over by a freight train at Hawkins station. John Williams on Enoch Street was struck by a cable car on Central Traction and hurled onto the curb. K. C. Harvey at A French Spine Works had both feet crushed in a cogwheel. Oliver McIntosh at Howe Brown & Co. fell from a scaffold, breaking his right thigh.
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Michael McCartney
C. W. Batchelor
Paul Benovsky
Edgar Thowson Steel Works
Layman Hill
PRK
Hawkins Station
Springborough
Crawford County
John Wiliams
Enoch Street
Central Traction
Wylie Avenue
Fulton Street
K. C. Harvey
A. French, Spine Works
Oliver McIntosh
Howe, Brown, & Co
Seventeenth Street
Allegheny Considers Roney Stoker for Electric Plant
The Allegheny Gas Committee recommended buying a smokeless furnace called a Roney Stoker for the new city electric light plant. The device, similar to one in Pleasant Valley Electric Road power house, would cost about £4,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allegheny Gas Committee
Pleasant Valley
New City
Officer Tower Found Intoxicated On Beat
Officer Tower who faced charges was found intoxicated on his beat and taken to Central station where Captain Dan Silvis ordered confiscation of his keys shield and other insignia of office.
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Tower
Central Station
Dan Silvis
Central Pennsylvania Conference Condemns Bishops Esher and Bowman
The Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church passed resolutions expressing empathy for Bishop Dubs and condemning the conduct of Bishops Esher and Bowman in York Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Central Pennsylvania
The
Evangelical Church Today
Dubs
Esher
Bowman
Bishop O'Connor Nearing Death at Mercy Hospital
The bishop O'Connor was gravely ill at Mercy Hospital with death expected soon. He requested burial at St Xavier's Cemetery in Latrobe Pennsylvania as his final resting place.
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Bishop O'Connor
Mercy Hospital
St. Xavier's Cemetery
Latrobe
Fire damages Prof. Hickman residence in Reynoldtown
The home of Prof. E. D. Hickman in Reynoldtown, Pa., was partially destroyed by fire at 1 o clock today. Damages are estimated not to exceed $500.
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Mckeessport
E. D. Hickman
Reynoldtown
Tri State Brevities From Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia
Reports from Wheeling Bellefonte Parkersburg and New Castle note a fortieth anniversary for Rev F J McUivre a boy killed in a wagon accident a hotel porter accused of robbing guests ice men prepare for first harvest a 9 year old woman fatally injured in Parkersburg a jail plan for Wheeling a safe deposit ground purchase and a dynamite accident injuring James Beckham a boy arrested for poisoning springs a church call to Dr L A Thayer and bridge contracts for Wheeling.
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Pennsylvania
Ohlo
West Virginia
F.J. McUivre
Wheeling
Tucson
William Lucas
Bellefonte
Charles Menks
Washington
Mercer County
Hannah Jackson
Parkersburg
W. Va
Board of Commissioners
Pittsburg
Wheeling Title and Trust Company
Market Street
James Lamhouse
Grafton
New Castle
L A. Thayer
Maysville
Ferris & A. of
Stanford Plan for Government Loans to Aid Farmers
Senator Stanford proposes government loans at low or no interest backed by real estate, limiting to half or a quarter of assessed value to aid impecunious farmers and stimulate circulation. The plan argues such loans could energize the economy by turning land into active capital and expanding employment across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford
Washington
Senate
Committee On Finance
United States
Tome
Caught on a Trestle He Falls to Death in Millerstown
William Edgar of Tie Dispatch territory met with a fatal accident near Millers town Saturday evening. He alighted at Carbon Center and walked north when a fright train on Dwen ers trestle caused him to lose balance and fall into a ravine. He suffered internal injuries and died early this morning after being taken to the Central Hotel Millerstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fatah
Butlen
William Edgar
Millerstown
Carbon Center
Dweners
Central Hotel
Municipal Elections End in Democratic Victory
March 10 reports considerable excitement over the city election. Deputy U. and Marshal Stackpole drew a revolver and arrested a special officer. Clubs were drawn in several meetances. The election resulted in a complete victory for the Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Properorrd
U. & Marshal
Stackpole
Third Fayette murder case set for tomorrow
A special telegram from Uniontown reports Marion Crowell will face trial tomorrow for the December killing of Joseph H. Porter at Duanbar. The March term marks the county's ninth homicide in Fayette in the past year.
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Uxiontown
Marion Crowell
Joseph H. Porter
Duanbar
Fayette County
The Peoples Store promotes vast carpet and drapery stock
The advertisement urges Pittsburg shoppers to visit The People’s Store on Fifth Avenue to see an enormous, varied stock of carpets lace curtains upholstery goods and home furnishings. It claims royal Wiltons Axminsters moquettes body Brussels tapestries rugs mats rugs and window coverings at low prices and invites public scrutiny and comparison. It emphasizes lighted show room and broad assortment to prove value.
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Pittsburg
Madras
Weather and river readings from Morgantown to Warren R
Telegraph report notes Warren River at 19 10 feet and falling with cloudy warmer conditions. Brownsville River at 4 11 and stationary with cloudy weather. Morgantown River at 4 feet inches and stationary with cloudy skies. Thermometer readings around 43 degrees.
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Repectal Telegrama
Warren—River
Brownsville
OP. M
Morgantown
Wall Street Squeezes Reading Reading Pool Short
A dramatic short squeeze hits Reading stock as the New York and Philadelphia pool forces shorts to cover. Trading explodes with over 280000 shares changing hands, while Wormser allege involvement remains unconfirmed. Moore Schley and associated firms coordinate stock recall and deliveries.
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New York
Wall Street
Ble
Philadelphia
Reading
Wormser
Pool
Wormsers
Wormers
Moore& Schley
Moore & Schley
Wermeers
Exchange
Wermsers
Alfred Sully
Junction stockholders meet annual reports show business rise
Pittsburg Junction Railroad stockholders met to review 1588 and 1889 receipts and expenses. Receipts from freight, perishable and other items totaled 45 675 61. Expenses included maintenance, maintenance of way, transportation, and general costs. Thomas M. King was elected director alongside John W. Chalfant C B Herron H W Oliver and others.
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Pittsburg Junction Railroad
Thomas M. King
John W. Chalfant
C. B. Herron
H. W. Oliver
Jacob Painter, Jr
Reuben Miller
William Meteslf
W. L. Vankirk
William Vankirk
A. E. W. Painter
C. L. KitzHugh
Charlies F. Mayer
William Frick
City Officials Nominated and Elected in McKeesport
McKeesport city council elected George Herwick as City Clerk E Wolfe as Assistant Thomas Miller as City Treasurer Joseph Ecoff as Superintendent of Water Works John W McCleary as Street Commissioner W H Young as Chief of Police Charles W Tucker as Lieutenant of Police James McAllister as Fire Captain W Lewis as Fire Lieutenant and named several new firemen Police officers elected include James Mc Quaide Robert Tate Join Larish William Thomas Samuel O'Hara Thomas Manning Charles Gilchrist Daniel Jenkens John Hohn James Winn Thomas Wheatley Charles Parker James Neel In Elmer Sharkey matricide case the jury convicted murder in the first degree for the January 12 1889 Eaton deed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mckeesport
George Herwick
E. Wolfe
Thomas A. Miller
Joseph Ecoff
John W. McCleary
W. H. Young
Charles W. Tucker
James McAllister
W. Lewis
George Milliamson
Robert Card
John Carr
Thomas Swaney
Michael Lynch
James McQuaide
Robert Tate
Join Larish
William Thomas
Samuel O'Hara
Thomas Manning
Charles Gilchrist
Daniel Jenkens
John Hohn
James Winn
Thomas Wheatley
Charles Parker
James Neel
Jailed for Deserting His Wife Charged by Spouse
Alderman Reilly ordered George Kurson jailed for trial on a desertion charge filed by his wife Sarah A Kurson. The case centers on marital abandonment amid local civic tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reilly
George Kurson
Sarah A. Kurson
Tutt's Liver Pills Regulate the Bowels Cure Constipation
Habitual costiveness deranges the system and threatens life with headaches memory loss and nervousness. Regularity of the bowels restores health and vigour, and Tutt's Liver Pills are said to renovate the system, create mental clarity, and induce a hopeful, uplifted mood.
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Tott
Ordnances Granting East End Street Railway Access Rights
Two city ordinances grant the East End and Larimer Street Railway Companies authority to enter, occupy, and operate railways along specified Pittsburgh streets. Provisions cover track installation, overhead electric systems, power supply, and rights to lease to Duquesne Traction or similar firms. Repeals of conflicting ordinances and formal mayoral approvals follow.
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East End Street Railway Company
Pittsburg
Penn Avenue
Shady Avenue
Ita
Gen
Saldomnene
Duquesne Traction Company
Ion 3
H. P. Ford
Select Council
Geo. Sheppard
G. L Holliday
Common Council
Geo, Booth
Common Couneil
Aygeerss
McCay
W. H. Mc
Nance
A. D
Larimer Street Railway Company
Collins Avenue
Station Street
Larimer Avenue
Trimer Avenue
Mayflower Street
Lincoln Avenue
Shetland Street
Collings Avenue
Jong Broad Street
Dequesne Tractionmpany
H. PF. Ford
Select Couneil
G. J. Halliday
WM. McCallin
W. H. Eee
A. D. Lau
Market Street Railway Company
Diamond Street
Old Avenue
Market House Square
Wild Avenue
Shuingiss
Geq. Shieppard
Geo. L. Holliday
Geo. Booth
W. H. McCleary
Mbna
Dquesne Traction Company
Dumesne Traction Company
Bord Street Raiway Company
People’s Street Railway Company
Engat Railway Company
Craig Street Railway
Highland Street Railway Company
Howe Street Railway Company
Wikineburg Street Railway Company
East End Street Railway
Wilkinsburg and
East Liberty Streetway Company
Sail Traction Company
Uan Electricity
Paid Traction Company
Ely
G. L. Holliday
Wilkinsburg
East Liberty
Necesary
Sand Company
Wilkinsburg and East Liberty Street Railway
Shill
Comany
Ordinanes
Nongeil
A.D
Mera Penn Ea
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