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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1890
Page
4
Christian Endeavor groups prepare a Sunday school topic on the Transfiguration and the afterlife. Lyman Abbott’s notes discuss heaven beyond common beliefs and how the resurrected life relates to earthly existence. The piece also urges support for ministers and cites examples from Millburn church.
Local church notices report sermons at the sixth U P Church on Colling Avenue East Kod and at Cedarville pulpit. Preachers include Rev J I Mankin Denver Colo and Rev T Brmovn Cedarville. Also noted are meetings of the Society of Friends of Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware Wave and a baccalaureate sermon invitation for Rev Oldham Holyoke College.
A Westmoreland county man named Phynn visits the Dispatch office boasting a talent for snake music. He reports training snakes to play accordion and describes plans to entertain museums nationwide. The tale ends with a blackout and a vanished visitor as a coroner may investigate witnesses from Greensburg.
Coroner held an inquest into the death of Mrs. Ella Eckert of Forty-Three and a Half Street Seven Teenth Ward. Officials believed natural causes but evidence of poisoning via rough on rat led to a verdict of death by own action while despondent.
B and O R R will sell excursion tickets to Wheeling starting next Sunday and through the summer at a low rate. Tickets are valid for Sundays only with 8:30 A.M. departure from Pittsburg and 7 P.M. return, arriving 10:15 P.M. in Pittsburg. An additional $1 excursion to Washington Pa and return available on this train. Also notes Nottingham guipure and Irish point curtains sale at Usual Houves & Hacks.
Readers are invited to visit Harrison’s on Lock Street and Hamneroyr’s Toy Store at 123 Federal Street in Allegheny to shop with children. Aufrecht’s Elite Gallery at 516 Market Street in Pittsburg offers a fine photograph cabinet priced at 100 dollars per dozen.
Advertisement notes Jos Hoax Co. department offers suede items and fashion goods this week. Mentions 50 por. fine suede at 115 and deals at Jrosenbaum Co. featuring Macs and Mriene with color options black or tan.
Three plaintiffs Uncle, Augusta Wolf, and Maggie Redder sued for 10 000 each for false arrest connected to abduction cases. Porter testified and discharged by Alderman McNulty. A. J. Nellis Manufacturing sues Peter Radice and wife for 8 000 over iron plates consigned to them in April 1589 kept rather than returned to owner.
Judges Collier and Glagle heard a motion for a preliminary injunction in A B Young et al versus Bobcol Board of Robinson township and Hale. Plaintiffs contend the board lacks authority to lease school property and that drilling a well on the leased acre would create a nuisance on school grounds. Defendants argue the board may lease unused property and that the well is distant from the school house. court reserved decision.
In Criminal Court Angelina Harris was acquitted of assault. William Kenneweg pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm at his wife and, citing morphine habit, asked for cure and received 60 days in the workhouse. Clemcloskie convicted of larceny. Ann Mozersky acquitted of malicious mischief. Gottlieb Huffnagle case, assault on Peter Sic, jury continuing.
The will of James P. Miller of Allegheny was filed yesterday for probate. It divides the estate among relatives and directs one hundred dollars to the building fund of the First Presbyterian Church of Allegheny. An uncle's odd note references saving 1883 nickels for a namesake.
The Bank of Pittsburg sued the Keystone Coal Company limited to recover 10 160 on notes and security held by the bank. In the Allegheny National Bank suit against Meynione Company for notes a verdict for the defense was returned yesterday.
Fragmentary notes record the will of Mary Met and multiple lawsuits. Cases include Nicholad B Mohmid against a plaintiff over an estate dispute, Gustav Bahule versus the Vitteburg McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railway for injuries, and an ejectment suit by O W Robb against the Pittsburgh Allegheny and Manchester Railway for property seizure in Allegheny. The docket notes substitutions and continuances as proceedings advance.
The Cincinnati Musical Festival runs May 20 21 29 23 and 24 with evening and afternoon sailings via the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line. Louis A. Sherley Keystone State Andes and Hudson steamers depart May 17 19 20 and 21 with returns and midnight layovers in Cincinnati. Three concerts aboard the Hudson Friday night Saturday afternoon and evening. brass and string bands onboard. Round trip fare 12 including meals and state room. for rooms and information contact Jas. A. Henderson superintendent at the wharfboat.
The B&O Railroad offers a rare $150 round trip excursion to Wheeling. Tickets are sold for excursion months at a popular low rate, with return departures from Wheeling at 7 p m.
An offer advertises 8 by 10 photographs free with every dozen car racers selected, priced at 16 dollars per dozen. The deal highlights free photos of the buyer or their children and promotes life-sized or other image options.
Curcaco May 16 Judge Thomas Drummond of the United States Circuit Court died suddenly at Wheaton Illinois. Born October 10 1800 in Bristol Maine he studied at Newdale College and read law in Philadelphia. He moved to Galena Illinois in 1835 and Chicago in 1854 becoming judge of the Seventh Circuit in 1866 retiring in 1900 after 34 years on the federal bench.
Dr Joshua Thorne in the St Louis Globe Democrat explains his experience with hypnotism. He states he can hypnotize about half to eighty percent of people he tries and denies any miraculous transfer of power between bodies. He says consent is essential and that theft via hypnosis is greatly exaggerated.
The Philadelphia Times notes arrival of western ponies bought for 20 to 30 dollars in Wyoming Texas or Montana and sold in the East for 50 to 200 dollars. The ponies are lively but not truly broken and require careful handling. They are described as light, elegant and active compared with the Shetland pony.
Ada Bhkutram, wife of a mechanic, went insane and hurled her two children from a second story window in Onicaco. The eldest, two years old, died at the scene from skull fracture and injuries. the younger, one month old, was hospitalized and may recover. The mother is detained at the hospital and had no prior insanity signs.
Joe Gasper of the Indianapolis Council displays a bizarre talisman a watch charm formed from his preserved amputated toes. Once two toes were removed years ago and preserved in alcohol. After an accidental bottle break the toes were found mummified still intact and mounted in gold as pendants on his watch chain.
The New York Sun reports Mrs Frances Cleveland holds a one sixteenth interest in the Folsom estate in Omaha now valued at 800000. The Folsom family originally held 67 lots, 20 sold, with the property acquired in 1859 when Benjamin R Folsom served in the Territorial Legislature.
The notice explains a May 18 schedule change for the US Pennsylvania Company. The Pittsburg to Rock Point route replaces Beaver Falls on Sundays with a 8 20 a m departure and 8 15 p m arrival central time. Further alight changes will be shown on corrected time cards and timetables to be distributed this afternoon.
A garbled late news item lists rioting in Harriaburg, wrecks involving Nat Goodwin's company in Montana, Chicago fire remnants, gunfire injuries to Reynolds in New York, and accidental death of a wife in Bloffion, Jod. Various other items include ships sailing to Halifax, a habeas corpus case in Texas, a large mining sale near Lake Superior, prison incidents in Joliet, river disasters near Moose River, and strikes by union stonemasons and bricklayers.
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