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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1890
Page
12
Congressman Thomas M. Bayne hurried from Washington to Allegheny then Pittsburg to drum up backing for a tariff bill. He predicts passage with minor Wool provisions changed and touts an anti convict made goods clause while calling for federal supervision and honest elections amid local political maneuvering.
Friends of Major E A Montooth plan to organize a campaign for governor across Allegheny and neighboring counties. A Duquesne Club meeting set plans for further private meetings with an open assembly in Common Council chamber and a mass gathering in Old City Hall to launch the effort.
P M Carr vs Henry Peiffer and others in the Twenty seventh ward election faces a legal challenge. Counsel met with commissioner John & Robb Jr to prepare a motion seeking custody of ballot boxes and papers. Proceedings to begin as soon as preliminaries finish.
In the Stayton Woman contest for the Allegheny Mayoralty W J Breanen Esq yesterday made a motion.
Judge Ewing orders starting testimony Friday at 10 A M and directs parties to appear at John D. Shafer, Esq., commissioner’s office for the case.
Ex Sheriff Fife named messenger in Public Safety moves from six figure pay to 75 a month drawing comment. Controller Morrow urges honesty over riches while recalling ex Mayor McCarthy’s rise and fall. Clerks seek raises as City Hall salaries average about 1000 a year with an ordinance pending.
Report notes active support for Rotan and Need in Allegheny with bets on Neeb and Rotan. An office visit by Senator Rotan sparked rumor of withdrawal, but exchanges showed no commitment or plans to quit the race.
About 50 members attended the session in Common Council chamber with John Need outside the rail and William Flinn inside to lead the vote. The group adopted a rule change to move primary elections to May 31 and conventions to June 3, with a five member committee named to arrange halls for the events.
William German states he will not seek the delegate seat in the Eighth Legislative district. Dra. B. M. Hansa provides eye ear nose throat care. Address listed as Office, 720 Trap Street, Pittsburg, Pa.
Pittsburg reminiscence recounts Horace Greeley visiting Shoenberger's mill during the Civil War era. A Pittsburg club sent a sharp letter prompting a meeting, leading to an arm in arm walk with Greeley and a favorable Tribune editorial. Greeley later visited with General Butler, where a mill crowd heard a speech and Greeley recalled supporting him for president.
Judge Logan, speaking in Pittsburg, lauds the railroad commission as capable and improving. He notes early law-learning among members, praises General Bragg and Judge Morrison, and says the commission handles rail traffic amid mixed reactions from Western freight interests. He observes farmers must meet Liverpool price pressures to compete with England.
J A Hall of the Rock Island reports peak freight activity in the West with heavy shipments of glass iron oil and petroleum to the Pacific coast. About 3 cars await at Bear Creek refinery and 10 cars of rack rail prepare to move to Pike's Peak and Manitou Iron Springs. Fruit jars and nails show strong demand as 60 cars scattered and 10 000 kegs shipped to Colorado points amid a promising season for horticulturists and farmers.
Former Salt Lake City mayor James Marshall, limited yesterday, coast bound, states he is a Mormon only in a limited sense. He emphasizes a personal religious affiliation amid political questions.
A political figure voices unhappiness with federal laws, insisting his sect is an abused people and that national statutes do not meet their needs or protect their rights.
Vice President Thomas M. King of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad visits the city to assess the lines west of the Ohio River and the proposed Cumberland repair shop consolidation. He notes B&O is in good condition and discusses a $150,000 loan, with potential loss of 2,000 jobs if shops move to Cumberland, and mentions unlikely local issues while denying knowledge of recent South Penn conferences.
A local furnace man reports pig iron prices holding steady with no near rise. Furnaces run, stock stored awaiting better prices while mill men struggle and buyers and sellers remain at odds. Cutting coke rates would lower iron prices further.
M. G. Norton, a Minnesota lumberman, visited the city yesterday and reported enormous timber runs this spring from Wisconsin and Minnesota forests, with prices described as fair.
Citizens meeting at McCandless School, Butler Street, demands partial use of a 44000 appropriation for Stanton Avenue repaving from Butler Street to Woodbine, arguing misallocation toward Highland end. Resolutions call for 22000 to be diverted to Butler Street through Woodbine, appointing a council committee to press the claim.
Allegheny Council Library Committee meets at Carnegie Hall to decide allocation of 10 000 from the first year library appropriation and to choose a librarian and assistant amid 29 candidates. W M Stevenson Erasmus Wilson Howard Bent ney Benney and A H English figure in the contest.
Detective Johnston of Allegheny arrested 16 year old Mamie Campbell at her Rebecca street home on a charge of larceny from the person. James Dugan accuses her of picking his pockets after a street encounter. She returned Dugan’s jacket book and $5, claiming the rest was missing. She awaits a hearing tomorrow.
A mass meeting at Homestead opens to probe the discharge of Alexander McAllister a charger on No 7 furnace amid talk of a strike if the inquiry finds unfair treatment Foreman Lash is implicated with plans to reinstate McAllister if warranted The Amalgamated Association procedures guide the grievance up from mill to district to avoid work stoppage with Vice President William Roberts present to aid resolution.
President Huck McLaughlin of District No 5 calls a special miners convention at K of L Hall 101 Fifth avenue Pittsburg at 10 AM Thursday May 15 to set a uniform scale for day labor and dead work under the United Mine Workers All miners are urged to elect delegates and attend to discuss adjusting prevailing rates to ensure uniform pay across all jobs and locations
Apprentices gathered at James Hay’s shop in Allegheny as the Apprentic es Association urged secrecy to prevent union movements from being learned by journeymen. Nine youths work in one shop with more expected to join elsewhere as a 20 member committee reviews strike conditions. Some master plumbers are expected to sign by tomorrow and workers may return.
The Dispatch reports a co operative shop launching in Allegheny tomorrow. About 200 shares sold and ten jobs secured at start with material backing from a tinner and jobbers. Backers include wealthy citizens. Carpenters of Wheeling used similar tactics. the strike is set for a stubborn fight and not to be settled soon. The master timers met yesterday but kept transactions secret.
Assembly 9863 Knights of Labor formed by Armstrong Bros. & Co. cork makers initiated 150 new members at a meeting yesterday afternoon. It was the largest single initiation in Allegheny county. The surge followed a firm order that only union workers should be employed in the shop, with many initiates being women.
Reports say all glass houses will shut down two weeks earlier than last season due to intense nationwide competition in the glass trade. Doyles have already closed, and Macbeths will lay off one of their large furnaces this week.
The Revere Rubber Company has closed a contract with Vanport Fire Brick Company to furnish the works with brick. The plant was destroyed by fire about two weeks ago, delaying operations but prompting restoration plans.
Westmoreland Paper Company in West Newton reports receipt of a sizable pulp wood shipment from the Monongahela river headwaters arriving by the river.
A charter has been granted for a new lodge of the A A of L and 8W at Pomeroy Ohio. It starts with a good sized list of members and promises to be a success.
Furnace C at the Edgar Thomson furnaces in Braddock is nearing completion after being taken out for work. The project aims to improve production capacity and efficiency at the facility.
John P. Eberhardt has been elected president of the Window Glass Workers' Association amid a close race with Patrick Clarey. About 3,500 votes were cast from various precincts with the West backing Clarey and the North East and Pittsburgh supporting Eberhardt. Clarey conceded gracefully, and Eberhardt's official announcement will follow next Friday by the Executive Committee.
The Grand Council chaired by Grand President J. D. Buckley met to review the order's 8,541 members and 1,175.98 dollars in treasury with 54 councils in good order. A five member committee led by Prof. J. B. McCullough will draft plans for cooperative stores under Grand Council jurisdiction.
The National Tube Works employees resolved to secure a ten percent wage increase or quit work and stay out until granted. A committee met General Manager Converse to press the demand, with instructions to report by 10 o clock Monday and to not return to work until the decision is announced.
In a letter, Mr. Powderly notes Knights of Labor action for a half hour annual cut in work days without wage loss is advancing. The program is said to be succeeding on the Union Pacific and other railroads. Powderly denies hostility toward the Federation of Labor while disagreeing with Mr. Gomper's plans.
The Committee on Constitution of the State Patriotic League met in secret with many local delegates. The constitution and bylaws passed in detail, praising immigration restrictions and opposing alien land ownership and sectarian land use, aiming to energize a broad movement against opponents of American institutions.
Henry Stroup, 60, suffered a broken collar bone after a fall in a mine near Six Mile Ferry on the Pittsburg Virginia and Charleston road. He was taken to West Penn Hospital. Elmer Brady, Keystone mill laborer, had a right foot crushed by a falling iron bloom. William Shaffer, of Boston street, fell from a Fifth cable car near the corner, sustaining a severe head injury.
The Frick Company anticipates no change in the situation at Connellsville and expects no difficulty or disruption to continue.
Telegraph operators in Pittsburg stood in for idle workers at bucket shops and looted brokers through deceptive stock transfers. Operators used ahead of ticker quotations to secure profits, then shared spoils with partners. Several were fired, some hired by Western Union who preferred married men over singles.
An 11 PM blaze from a gas jet in a face curtain at Mrs. Johnson's boarding house on 15 Second Avenue triggered evacuations. Fire apparatus dodged collisions at Smithfield Street and Fourth and Third avenues as No 1 hose carriage broke an axle injuring fireman James Toole slightly.
Mrs. Annie Campbell filed charges before Alderman Burns accusing James Dugan of assault and battery with intent to commit a worse crime. The prosecutrix acts for her 14 year old daughter. Campbell lives at 158 Holman street Allegheny. A hearing is set for Thursday.
The Pachman recital Friday night drew strong praise for the artist and the Chickering piano used. The instrument, a Chickering & Sons Grand, was lauded for tone and responsive action. The piano came from John Henreicks at 79 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, as Chickering’s local agent.
A sales pitch promises a parlor orchestra at home with theafters violins and grand operatic tones. It claims no musical education is needed and a week of practice suffices to imitate a full orchestra, inviting readers to visit Mexicgz & HOExXE at 77 Fifth Avenue to see and hear for themselves.
Advertises corsets including Corseta Corset Walate double Ve waists from Co P R G and brands Dr Warner Thompson Balls Ferris and others. Promotes Angostura Bitters to excite the stomach and aid digestion. sale at A G Campbell and Sons 27 Fifth.
Bargains to Diamonds this week at Jas McKee's 418 Smithfield two doors below the Dispatch office. Local shoppers are invited to view a display of items and special prices released for a limited period.
Ad copy lists seeds such as Nasturtium Sunflower and other flowers with special sowing for the season. It invites readers to request a weekly price list and place mail orders totaling $19 or more, noting affordability and ready availability.
A note on Chantilly style lace called Guipure appears in a fashion brief. Designers reference Spanish influence and delicate game of lace motifs, highlighting how Ip en ow Meares Sosahaceac Hiack contribute to the revival.
The fragmentary OCR reads as a business office note from The Dispatch about Lin Fe te corner onmnass, but lacks clear context, names, dates, or locations to form a full item. The readable words suggest a local business or appointment note without verifiable details for a fuller headline.
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