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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1889
Page
4
The Pittsburgh Dispatch marks Decoration Day as both a festival and a time of sorrow. It urges planting seeds of patriotism in children while recalling the sacrifices of soldiers who served the Union. It notes flowers, banners, and cannon as symbols of remembrance and national duty.
The piece argues US policy in Alaskan waters favors a single sealing company. It claims US authorities restrict non members, oppose monopoly protection, and warn against a US Britain dispute over open seas. It urges government reconsideration of monopoly support in sealing.
The piece discusses arrests related to the Cronin murder, noting Clan na Gael members deny involvement and praising police work. It mentions grand jury secrecy and suspect confessions, with expectations that the trial will reveal the truth and vindicate or convict those accused.
A Chicago county insane asylum faces heavy criticism for brutal conditions, overcrowding, and mistreatment of patients. The report links abuses to spoils-system appointments and political control by County Commissioners, with testimony alleging female patient exploitation and at least one death from brutality.
The passage argues that elected officials justify appointing allies to offices and blames citizens for political influence. It questions whether appointees, left unchecked, can neither abuse power nor safeguard the insane, and challenges whether higher intelligence would improve duties in public offices.
The Amalgamated Association learns from manufacturers that there will be no conference on the scale this year because the Manufacturers' Association collapsed last year. The lodge will present a new scale at mills, with hoped for settlements but unlikely uniform results.
The Supreme Court's Baltimore trust decision is cited as reflecting long standing principles against combinations that restrain trade. It holds a Maryland statute voids such contracts and states that corporations cannot bypass public duties to serve private interests. The piece notes this doctrine is echoed by Pennsylvania Ohio Massachusetts and New York courts. It warns big capital continues policy despite established law.
A Jacobin tone describes elites in a mêlée of free seats and banquets while a yacht race comedy unfolds. The piece notes the English yacht Valkyrie’s shift from loss to wins and contrasts Allegheny Baseball Club’s pattern of early success followed by losses. It cites Chicago Sugar Trust profits dropping ten percent due to a Magdeburg clique and claims foreign interference cuts 40 percent profits, with a tone suggesting relief at curtailing the pinchers.
A collage of brief items: Sybil Sunderson’s vocal prowess. debates over immigrant labor law efficacy. coal imports defying strikers. a political machine at Paris Exposition. Whitelaw Reid and Lewis Molone sightings. Allegheny baseball woes. a Reynolds town resident seeks the President’s job. Erv Heser Newtons remarks on trusts. Earl of Zetland as Ireland’s Viceroy. Manton Crawford consulate candidacy. grasshopper boom fears and census counts. Guthrie Oklahoma real estate scrapes and hardships.
A fragmented column mixes anecdotes about allantus trees and a temperance tale with a jewelry and whisky anecdote. It contrasts odors from trees linked to Grant era plantings with a watering-hole joke about prohibition era drink orders, then pivots to a humorous verse about the bore who constanly introduces everyone and ends with a satirical fatal judgment.
The piece notes Lydia Thompson's American tour struggling financially in Pittsburg. It accuses the aging star of juvenile stage acts, cites a Chicago youth's suicide from infatuation, and urges Thompson to return to London as the American appetite for antiques grows absurd.
Citizens expect Colonel Elliott F. Shepard to condemn the current administration after the President's Sunday excursion down the Chesapeake Bay.
A collage of society notes from The New York World covers Rev. Dr. Joseph D. Wickham's Yale ties, Mme Blavatsky and the Keely motor saga, Ameliz-Rives Chamler in Paris consulting on poems, Arditi in Berlin hosting a diner with a millionaire patron, and a quip about Arditi's rise from second fiddle to dinner prestige, then a note on Lady Onslow and public health concerns as a precursor to her role in New Zealand governance.
The article argues New York should host the 1892 Columbus Centennial World's Fair but warns against repeating past abuses. It notes other cities like Washington seek the honor and mocks New York's governance for misdeeds, urging reform before any national commitment.
A series of complete novelettes by noted authors will be published weekly in The Dispatch. Joaquin Miller and others will contribute, with the first installment on Funday, June 2, a novelette by Miller titled For Forty Eight Days about the Modoc campaign. The work blends history and romance in a bold poetic style.
A crowd of thirty three anxious women, including ten black and five red haired, besieged Gus Heckler's Hohomin yesterday afternoon. Each carried a mysterious parcel as they answered a bizarre newspaper ad promising a liberal payment for a cat related matter. Bohemia was with tomcats fighting on stairs and in a cellar.
The Oliver residence on Ridge Avenue in Allo Ebony hosted the second at home event for Mr and Mrs Henry Rea. The home was decorated and filled with attendees from two cities during the afternoon reception.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a proud father and a caller discussing a baby with political ambition. The father rejects politics for the child, preferring apprenticeship to Buffalo Bill, while the caller compliments the infant’s potential.
A local moral twist in the Heston Herald notes that a man who aims at nothing in life ends up certain to miss. The piece frames aimlessness as a failing strategy and urges purposeful effort.
Dr. Wolfred Ego delivered a paper on yellow fever at the fourteenth annual State Medical Society of Arkansas meeting. He discussed Panama and Havana research, inoculation, and acid treatment aimed at making blood inhospitable to the fever germ. The audience ordered publication and thanked the reader.
Detroit May 2 Representatives of butchers spoke against the Chicago dressed beef monopoly led by Phil Armour. Thomas Armour urged more state legislation and stronger organization to resist encroachment into small towns and ensure safe meat through better inspection.
In Philadelphia on May 22 Mrs. Susan Weaver owner of a two story brick house is confined to her second floor apartment by tenants who occupy the first floor store and space above. Neighbors assist by delivering provisions via a basket while Weaver pleads from a window to be freed.
In St Louis on May 28 a snake was found inside a package at the Post Office distributing area. Clerks avoided handling the box due to a foul odor until Major Harlow urged opening it. Porter cut the string revealing a small garter snake about 12 inches long, described as very fragrant.
A government reservation of 1,900 acres near Stove River, Col. Wasnineros, supports shad work by the Fish Commission. Colonel McDonald recently received two shad from the With laggroohes river in Florida, planted years ago, as part of the stock program. Prizes for Pig Driving noted in New York. An engine company in New Brunswick plans a novel rink contest.
A romantic scene unfolds in a half dim hall where the belle sits while dancers circle. A crowd gathers around her as suitors vie for attention, the narrator wondering about her appearance and who might claim a glance at her face.
The article discusses historical fears of being buried alive in tropical regions where death was harder to confirm. It cites cases from French author M. Brobler and mentions figures like Abbe Prevost and Colonel Stevenson. It notes attempts to prevent premature burial but finds none effective and questions an autopsy in Mr. Bishop's case.
The Philadelphia Record reports engine No. 206 of the Wootten pattern setting a record with a five coach train moving at 70 miles an hour and more, with veteran engineer John Hogan in the cab. Comparisons are made to earlier claims of speed on American lines, and interest grows in how an American locomotive would perform on a straight line British track.
Baron and Baroness Von Sucrow are reconciled after a period of estrangement sparked by a marriage controversy. The baron claimed an accident confined him to bed, prompting the baroness to travel to his bedside and conclude a complete reunion at 114 East Twenty-fifth Street.
The preliminary round for the gold medal in elocution occurred at Mount St. Marys College in Emmerspora Missouri on May 2. Several entrants showed notable elocutionary skill including Lancaster Casey and John F Seton among others from Pittsburgh Baltimore and surrounding areas.
A collage of oddities and local notes from Ohio and neighboring states. Snakes, birds, lost money, misdelivered corpses, banana races, and mysterious threats appear in brief items from towns like Miami County Ohio East Liverpool and Scranton reflecting quirky 19th century regional miscellany.
The US cruiser Yankee arrives from Haiti with Admiral Bancroft Gherard aboard and a crew of 400. analysts say Haitian conflict nears resolution as fighters return home for crops. Mrs. Leslie Carter, Chicago, is expected back in New York next Friday with most theaters lining up her star engagement. one manager has already booked her.
Sadie Martinot and her mother set sail to Europe to discuss roles with M. Coquelin. They will land in Bremen and travel through Germany to Paris within two to three weeks.
The cornerstone of a new regiment facility will be laid by Mayor Grant and Graystone. The project costs about $545,000. The main drillroom measures 175 by 236 feet.
Frank Rafferty quarrels with Partridge who accuses him of being drunk and ejects him from a lumber yard. Rafferty swings as if drawing a revolver and is struck, fracturing his skull in the clash. Partridge is held to explain the Centennial celebration note follows. The New York Bar Association plans a February celebration for the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court with other bar bodies invited to cooperate.
The Guion Line steamship Wisconsin brought 132 Mormon converts from Liverpool including men women and children. They went to Castle Garden for registration then transferred to the Old Dominion for Norfolk Virginia and will travel by rail to Utah. Emigration Commissioners did not impede the party.
The will names 2600,00 in furniture real estate bonds and jewelry. Her second husband James B Mix and her daughter inherit about 125,000 each. The estate rents go to her only son. Mix works in the foreign service of the post office. Her first husband was a Spanish merchant. The will cites a tomb over her grave in Woodlawn Cemetery.
The sale of James G. Blaine Jr and Marie Nevins Blaine’s Fifty third street furniture closed at James B Silo’s auction rooms. Items included an antique oak bedroom suite a Wandstand tomato table and a chiffonier with a beveled mirror drawing bids, while a pine table with the couple’s names sold for $2. Separately Edmund B Hyde of Brooklyn a lunatic case from Middletown asylum questioned the legality of his 1656 confinement prompting Justice Pratt to consider removing the committee and appointing a commission to review his condition.
The commission picks a 16 acre site along Rock Creek northwest of Washington between Woodley Lane and Eliegel Road for the new national zoological park despite earlier appropriation of 250000 by Congress. The site is praised for its scenic orientation and proximity to the Rock Creek area as the project advances.
A garbled column from Dosry Ga recounts oddities and curiosities. Items include a horse returning home after a ride, sea star pests, a missing linen overskirt, a man attracted by a negro woman, gray feathers on fowls, a 16 year old goose, and long tales of king snakes and quahogs. Reports mention Opobo cannibals, Creek trading killings, and a Jack son Ga resident valuing hen fruit. The San Diego seawall fame is described as immense with vast timber use.
A collage of quirky snippets from stage and social life including comic exchanges between spouses and relatives, a jailed political figure anecdote, bemused reflections on lighthouse carelessness, diary style prompts, and stray lines about love and poetry. The extract blends humor and melodrama with mock dialogue and verse fragments.
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