Saloon case at 2341 Butler street cited in court
Alderman Doughty ill and absent as Attorney Dickey presses for his testimony. Judge Ewing sternly warns House to run a strict but lawful boarding house citing prior licenses and admonitions. The hearing ends with mixed findings as House faces renewed scrutiny over alcohol sales to boarders and outsiders.
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Doughty
House
Dickey
Fetterman
Butler Street
Hoe
Iss
Ewing
Eee
Dickes
United States
Joseph McGroarty
Wainwright 4 Co
Suppert
Ditsati
McCarthy
S. 5. Wainwright
Ignatius Pomm
Penn Avenue
Wiedmann
Central Hotel
Mr. Wiedmann
M.A. Snyder
Thirty Sixth Street
Lovder
Spans
Pitcburg
Elias H. Waidler
Butler County
Orcas
Eidler
Elias
Patrick Flood
Liberty Avenue
Andrew Gangwish
Catharine Hellstern
Brewers Supported Applicants Face Licenses In Court
Judge Ewing conducts a licensing session for saloon requests in the Fifteenth ward as bondmen include landlords doctors and Wainwright Co. executives. Several applicants admit past liquor sales while others seek three month trials to prove compliant under the Brooks law.
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Ewing
Leopold Kress
Butler Street
George Se
George Kretzler
Judge White
Hamlin
Kate Louis
Boser Street
Lyon
Ferdinand Jacober
Liberty Avenue
Wilson
Mr. Jacober
Z. Wainwright & Co
Twelfth Ward
Ferdinand
John Kleist
Penn Avenue
License requests fill crowded Pittsburgh court docket
The fiery proceedings cover dozens of applicants for liquor licenses at Penn avenue and Butler Street. Judges grill owners about orderliness and past licenses while noting Birmingham ties and Sunday sales. Census work meanwhile gears up with Oliver planning district maps and rapid data collection.
Heavy grain shipment and possible tariff changes
C. B. Wight, Baltimore and Ohio general freight agent, left for New York to discuss trunk line rate changes amid lake and river competition. He expects a possible special commodity tariff and notes heavy Western grain shipments continuing through May, with the 1858 corn crop being the largest on record.
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Wight
General Western
Baltimore and Ohio
New York
Trunk Line Association
Wieht
That High School Racket
The Central Board will not review the suspensions of Phelps and Tibbey. The boys were suspended under Central Board rules, and expulsion cases will be referred to the board.
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Phelps and Tibbey
Central Board of Education
Central Board
Rivers Falling Rapidly Amid Flood Cleanup Efforts
The Monongahela and Allegheny rivers receded from peak levels as about 1,000,000 bushels of coal to go out awaited lower water. Boats like Enterprise and Nellie Walton prepared to run. flood debris cluttered riverfronts and city streets while Mayor Pearson urged cleanup and officials eyed reopening rail lines.
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Walton
Enterprise
Acorn
Nellie Walton
Sam Miller
Jim Brown
Sam Brown
Belle McGowan
Monongahela
Allegheny River
Chestnut Street Bridge
Pittsboro and Western Railroad
Chicago
Xiabary
Ohio
Duquesne Way
Brotherhood Team
Morris
Brotherhood Club
Ald
Pearson
Copeland
Allegheny
Messid
Pittsburg Architects Alarmed by Buddensteck Style Buildings
Pittsburg architects warn about Buddensteck style blocks with four brick walls and thin partitions that fail to contain sound or fire. Controller Morrow calls for legislation to empower building inspectors to act against such structures, urging builders and architects to seek safety-focused rules.
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Pittsburg
Exposition Hall
Dime Museume
New York
Morrow
City awards printing and stationery contracts
The Department of Awards recommended contracts for city printing and stationery. Peck & Son won the tax book contract, John P. Devine took municipal records printing at 197 per piece, Best & Co. won Council files at 124 per page, and Weidin & Co. W G Johnston and Jos Eichvanm got stationery. Water pipe bids went to Dennis Long & Co. at 23 per ton, with coal bids discussed for garbage furnaces.
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Department of Awards
Charles F. Peck &Son
Best & Co
Peck & Son
Eliott
John P. Devine
Weidin & Co
W. G. Johnston
Jos. Eichvanm
Dennis Long & Co
Louisville
Pittsburg
Fred Greiner
J. B. Bteen
Father Suhrs New Church Planned for Saints Peter and Pan
Rev Father Suhr of Saints Peter and Pan Church in the East End announces a new brick church with stone trim. The old structure is being torn down and by next month removal will begin to clear the site for a 170 by 86 foot building with two 20 foot towers and a cone height noted, under roof framing to be completed at a cost exceeding prior estimates.
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Father Suhr
Saints Peter and Pan
East End
Miners' Convention Holds Election For Officers Today
The district coal miners in the U M W organization meet at Labor Hall to elect permanent officers and consider ratifying the new wage scale adopted at the go lam bus convention. The proposed scale calls for a 17 cent per ton increase in mining pay, with ratification not certain though strong expectations remain. The organization is growing rapidly with promising outlook.
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Labor Hall
Miss Grace Kelly to Speak at Vassar Commencement
Two Pittsburg young women receive honors from Vassar College New York in advance of June commencement Grace KR Kelly chosen by the 1890 class as orator Mamie Cochran of Sewickley elected chairman of the graduating class In Ebenezer Baptist Church controversy Judge Collier divides costs with the outs satisfied while the case moves to the Board of Sustentation. Merits and Lily dress shields mentioned.
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Vassar College
New York State
Pittsburg
Grace KR. Kelly
Mamie Cochran
Sewickley
Belgians Indignant as Soho Tube Workers Strike
Arnold Schneider Belgian consular agent in the city gathers data to expose an American employer importing Belgian laborers. He cites an ad from Charleroi offering work for boys 13 to 15 at 6 to 10 francs per day and notes strict Belgian and American immigration laws. He plans to notify the Belgian government of the advertising and potential illegal recruitment.
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Arnold Schneider
Belgium
Journal de Charleroi
Charleroi
North America
M. P. Watelet
Schneider
Ths Dispatch
Jeannette
Fints
America
Strike at Soho Pa Tube Works Leaves Six Hundred Idle
The Pennsylvania Tube Works in Soho saw a shutdown as six hundred workers idle after a trio including John Lane and Thomas King were discharged for rule violations. Discharged men were reinstatement demanded by night shift, while a Knights of Labor meeting was called to decide action. The affair highlights a rift as the discharged men are nonunion.
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Pennsylvania Tube Works
Soho
John Lane
Thomas King
L. A
Knights of Labor
Coal Meeting Today Signals Possible Rate War
Hocking Valley Railroad agents meet in Columbus to discuss a 25 cent differential in favor of Hocking Valley operators. If the Traffic Association is not sustained the roads may launch a rate war. Pittsburg operators oppose large differentials favoring competitors and prefer higher rates for longer hauls.
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Columbus
Hocking Valley Railroad
Hocking Valley
Pittsburg
Readjustment of Wage Scale at Homestead Mill
Amalgamated workers at Carnegie Phipps Co. Homestead mill face a likely small wage cut as the three month scale ends on the 31st. A new two month scale covering April May and June will be set based on blooms and billet prices which have fallen. A committee will meet the firm this week to finalize adjustments.
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Carnegie Phipps & Co
Homestead
Imported Marble Mosaic Sparks Labor Inquiry
An AFL officer received a letter from George K. Lloyd of New York’s Building Trades Board asking an investigation into marble mosaic work on Col. Schoonmaker's house. The Italian Marble Mosaic Workers' Union of New York attached a report alleging imported material and nonunion labor, with past strikes cited in New York.
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Col. Schoonmaker
American Federation of Labor
George K. Lloyd
Board of Delegates
The
Building Trades of New York
Colonel Schoonmaker
New York
Painters Protest Archibald Appointment as Factory Inspector
Union No 14 of Allegheny instructed its secretary to send a protest to Governor Hill of New York against appointing James P. Archibald as Factory Inspector after the current term ends. Archibald, a Master Workman of the Painters National District, is accused by the Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of being their enemy.
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Union No
Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators
Allegheny
Governor Hill
New York
James P. Archibald
Archibald
Painters’ National District
Land
Glass Works to Rise Near Buena Vista Site
Dispatch reports Pittsburg capitalists plan a large glass plant and steel works on the Hamilton Brothers tract near Buena Vista station. The 300 acre riverfront property between Murraysville Bellevernon and Graveville gas districts offers sand and limestone with nearby coal. West Newton Board of Trade recently contracted Slize Iron Mill to develop the Robinson and Carothers tract for a big iron works employing 400 to 100 workmen, with construction to start immediately.
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James M. Swank
Philadelphia
Iron and Steel
Americana Iron and Steel Association
Department of Petroleum, Coal and Natural Gas
Joseph D. Works
Pittsburg
Board of Health
Allegheny
Bradley
Larkin
Buena Vista
Dispatch
West Newton
Hamilton Brothers
Buena Vista Station
B&o. R. RK
Murreysville
Bellevernon
Graveville
Boa
Slize Iron Mill Company
Robinson and Carothers
Carpets Fill House West With Immense Stock
A local advertisement touts a vast carpet stock at a house west of New Carpets. The message highlights extensive selections for flooring needs and invites shoppers to inspect the large display.
Ohio glass makers brace for soda ash shortage
Findlay Ohio glass manufacturers report readiness with ample stocks till season end despite rumors of exhausted soda ash supply in New York and strikes among English drug makers. They anticipate a price rise and will convene the Ohio and Indian River Glass Association to act. Commercial Agent Scully travels to Philadelphia to report Mt Shasta road reopening after 20 days snowbound between Portland and San Francisco.
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Ohio
New York
Findlay
Findlay Glalsmen
Sesson
Ohio and Indiansindow Glass Association
Scully
Northern Pacific Railroad
Philadelphia
Mt. Shasta
Fortland
San Francisco
Bargains on crockery and china at local hotels and restaurants
This week offers special prices on crockery and china used by customers with touts promising great value. French Kenpnrice Co. and Chas Reizenstein advertise white china and novelties arriving from Europe, plus a large stock at low prices. Jos Horne & Co. promote home decor items including curtains, sash curtains, portieres, mattresses, and upholstery services to save money.
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Kenpnrice & Co
Smithfielder
City Hall
Europe
Chas
Jos. Horne & Co
Peou Avenue
New York trip for Easter novelties hints at opening
Hardy & Hayes partner J A Harpy sails to New York to select Eastern novelties for an upcoming opening that will delight ladies seeking new goods. Exhibition planned Wednesday to Friday March 26 to 28 at 94 96 Federal street Allegheny City with trimmed bats bonnets and more. Waite Goops promotes large assortment and bargains in that department. Ussa Hueus & Hacre advertise tapestry Brussels carpet 50 cents per yard at Arthur Schondelmyer Co. 68 70 Obiest Allegheny.
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J. Alex. Harpy
Hardy & Hayes
New York
Gines
Federal Street
Allegheny City
Waite
Ussa Hueus
Arthur, Schondelmyer & Co
Coal shipments surge as L nat Joseph Walton firm lands big St Louis contract
The L nat Joseph Walton & Co. secures a 2.5 million bushel coal contract for St. Louis Gas Co and will begin shipping immediately. Monongahela mines and river operations are active with total shipments since January 1 reaching 21.08 million bushels, well above last year’s 6.401 million. A Southside strike at Oliver Iron and Steel persists, affecting local mills and production goals.
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Joseph Walton & Co
St. Louis Gas Company
Monongahela River
Oliver Iron and Steel Company
Pth Accent Pos
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