Mayor Seeks Expanded Supervision Over City Departments
The city council debated an ordinance to broaden the mayor's power to supervise department contracts and processing of public complaints. Mayor Gourley argued for clear oversight and a way to investigate violations, while Chief Elliott reported on selecting a new Poor Farm and a related proposal to streamline complaint intake and enforcement.
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Elliott
Select Council
Gourley
City of Camens
Eespec
I. L Govrier
Warmcastle
Pitsburg
Price cuts mark City Poor Farm land deal in Pittsburgh
Chief Elliot reports purchase of the Alexander farm in Plum township for 350 per acre, claiming 532 acres with water power coal gas wells and stone quarries, under city approval and 12 miles from the city by rail and road. The land valued at 600 per acre earlier, now bought for 380 per acre, aims to supply a new city farm with reservoir and pumping site rights.
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Elliot
Alexander
Hulton Station
Department of Charities
Select Council
Enid
Pittsburg
Allegheny Valley Railroad
Allegheny River
Bien
C. Eurorr
H. M. Alexander
BR. C. Elliot
Department of Public Charities
Plum Township
Allegheny County
Union Station
Plum Creek
M. Alexander
R. Ge Benen
Warmcastle
Committee On Charities
Morrow proposes safer city official bonds to council
Controller Morrow recommends bonds for city officers and agents handling public money modeled on U S Government records. He asks the prothonotary hold the records so a default could be countered by a prior judgment. The letter was referred to the Finance Committee to print for Council use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrow
Common Council
United States
Finance Committee
Common Council Passes Chief Clerk Ordinance at 30 Vote
In the Common Council the ordinance establishing the office of Chief Clerk to the Boards of Viewers and fixing the salary at 1800 dollars, as amended at the last meeting, was called up and passed finally by a vote of 30.
Mr Maguire Casts Vote as Seana Reaches Legal Majority
A brief report notes Mr Maguire casting a vote as Seana attains the legal age threshold. The event marks a milestone when Seana becomes eligible to participate in decisions.
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Mr. Maguire
What It Will Cost Chief Bigelow Reports on Electric Light Plant
Chief Bigelow presented in Select Council a cost comparison for lighting the city by electricity. Arc lights total 1 358 at 101 per year, incandescent 318 at 16 per year. Estimated plant cost 160 000 for plant and lines plus 150 000 for poles and real estate, totaling 247 000. The report was received and filed.
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Bigelow
Select Council
N.Y
Dayton
Minneapolia
Baltimore
Charlestown
New Orleans
Cleveoe Detroit
New York
Inci
Speeding Birmingham Electric Line Cars Targeted
In Select Dr McCord a privilege question cited a prior resolution authorizing the Chief of Public Safety to investigate the high speed of cars on the Birmingham Electric road. He warned the danger to life limb and property from speeding and urged immediate action. The motion to have the chief halt the practice was carried.
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McCord
Department of Public Safety
Birmingham Electric
Ment of Public Safety
City council papers on streets and sewers in Pittsburgh area
Various petitions and ordinances referred to committees cover grading and paving Dithridge street and Butler street vacation, sewer on Home avenue, water pipe on Mohawk street, elevated switch on Spruce alley, and Kaerchor avenue. Finances consider damages compromise. several ordinances pass or await form. A mayoral taxpayer address resolution is adopted.
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Belect
Dithridge Street
Fifth Avenue
Forbes Street
Allegheny County Sanitary and Manufacturing Company
Butler Street
Plum Road
Home Avenue
Woolslayer Avenue
Spruce Alley
Mohawk Street
E. Warren
Thirty-third Street
Goannon
Committee On Finance
Mr. Wright
E. P. Jones
Robt. Arthurs
Bridget Daly
Fairfield Avenue
Knorcher Street
Greenfield
Orister Streets
Wright
Treasury Offices to Move Into Government Building
Colonel H L Swords purchasing agent for the Treasury Department arranged to supply oak furniture for the Internal Revenue and Pension and Custom Departments on the second floor of the Government building. The space will have seven Internal Revenue offices seven Pension offices and five for Collector Dravo plus a room for Postmaster McKean. Changes include blinds chandeliers carpets and completion hoped by the holidays with courtroom work not expected until spring.
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Pension, Internal Revenue and Custom
H. L. Swords
Treasury Department
Internal Revenue Offices
Pension and Custom Departments
Post Office
Dravo
McKean
Will Dispute Arises Over Kate Norcross Estate
The deathbed marriage of Kate Norcross of Charleston Me to L P Rollins of Brooklyn prompts a will contest in East Cambridge Massachusetts. Rollins named sole heir and executor of an estate valued around 150000 while twelve cousins join the challenge alleging undue influence and lack of testamentary capacity.
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Kate Norcross
Charleston
L. P. Rollins
Brooklyn
Roxbury
Boston
Rollins
Kate
Middlesex
East Cambridge
E. F. Webb
Fee & Johnson
Waterile
Laxative Product Ad Highlights Various Ailments
An old advertisement promotes a laxative action by grettar Seomean Blears claiming relief in bowel stomach liver and various malarial kidney and rheumatic conditions. It also notes Aufrecht the eminent photographer opening a new Fifth Avenue gallery in Pittsburg and advertises OKeefe's Shoe Blacking at five and ten cents per dozen.
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Aufrecht
Fifth Avenue
Pittsburg
Change of venue denied in Delamater case and Penn Bank ruling
Chief Justice Paxson delivered the Supreme Court opinion denying a venue change in the Commonwealth of George W. Delamater et al case after noting potential juror prejudice from the bank failure. The court ordered assignee Henry Warner to set aside $2,000 for Walters’s claim and to disburse $7,179.9 to balance accounts, with several other appellate decisions summarized.
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Paxson
Supreme Court
Commonwealth of George W. Delamater
Quarter Sessions Court
Crawford County
Delamaters
Delamater & Co
Marly
Said
Warner
Per Curiam
Jacob Walters
Henry Warner
Penn Bank
Walters
Mr. Walters
Mary McCrea
Pine Township
Allegheny County
Paul Clark
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
C. P
Westmoreland
Clark
Laurel Hill
Commonwealth
W. B. Butler
Pike County
S Dicken
Westmoreland County
Harbison
Orphans’ Court
Beaver County
Pt Aleed
The
National Gas Company
Bank
Braden
Rhodes
Common Press
Greene County
McMahon
Ven County
Green—Johnson
McCain
Common Pieas
Armstrong County
Morrison
Truby
Common Pleas
Chavince
Cambria Iron Company
Common
Cambria County
Whitehead
School District
North Huntingdon Township
Common Pleas of
Graham
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Company
Lawrence
New Trial
McCullough Wa Baer
Clarion County
Perry County
Bridge County
van Horn
Mummell
Lawrence County
Delamater Vie Geabe— Sessions
Crawford
Edward McMillan
Oyer and Terminer Court
Luzerne County
McMillan
Plymouth
Harmon Sales
H. Dickson
Hill Devin
Skiles
P. D. Allegheny National Bank
Keystone Coal .Com
John Rea
James R. Bell
C. P. Noi
November term opens with postponed trials and bar admission
The November term of the United States Circuit Court opened with no juries yet to be sworn. W Dill case postponed due to illness. Several suits against W J Rainey continued. Beaver county’s Oger Cope admitted to the bar on motion. Criminal Court lists several defendants in murder and common pleas cases with multiple names noted.
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United States Circuit Court
W. Dill
Pecree
First National Bank of
Clearfield
W. J. Rainey
Oger Cope
Beaver County
A. H. Clark
Multiple Criminal Proceedings in City Court Adjudicated
The docket records James Roney’s murder case delayed to today after a court session yesterday. Other items include John McGraw fined for fraud, James Abriola acquitted, Maggie Daley found not guilty, Joseph Taylor fined, William Brevensch costs paid, Carroll convicted for selling without a license, Joseph F. Brown acquitted of perjury, and L Kotzen jailed for aggravated assault.
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James Roney
Peter Tierney
Roney
Tierney
Patrick Tierney
John McGraw
Southside
Coats
James Abriola
Joseph Criss
Detective Shore
Maggie Daley
Kate Doran
Joseph Taylor
Joseph Pulkofaki
Costa
William Brevensch
Catherine Weiland
Carroll
Mansfield
Oseph F. Brown
L. Kotzen
Gabriel Carey
Esper
Testimony in Darr divorce case filed by Commissioner
The divorce case of Mrs. Lucy G. Darr against hotelkeeper John R. Darr yielded lengthy testimony. Co respondent Harriet Jarrett, wife of A C Jarrett, is named in the libel for alleged infidelity. Witnesses described private conduct at Durr's Hotel on Market Street over the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy G. Darr
George C. Sturgess
John R. Darr
John J. Brown
Harriet Jarret
A. C. Jarrett
Southside
Dorr
Durr
Market Street
Jarrett
Mra Jarrett
Notes From the Courts on Ongoing Trials and Damages
Court notes show Huckesteins & Co. sue Kelley & Jones Co. on a contract before Judge Simowe with a motion for nine months of detention. Elizabeth Wylie et al sue the later Bellovernon eee Company for damages from property loss. Judge Magee presides. A Carnegie Natural Gas Company case and a pipeline negligence suit are before Judge Collier. A capias is sought for Abel amid a defamation claim over a Slavonian newspaper letter.
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Huckesteins & Co
Kelley & Jones Company
Simowe
Bontierin
Nole
Elizabeth Wylie
J. Wylie
J. R. Wyle
G. E. Wylie
W. P. Wylie
Later
Bellovernon Eee
Magee
Capias
Hieba
Ving
New York
Hiebas
Found His Lost Wife Seeks Divorce From Second Husband
Arthur K. Wilson of Morris Minnesota has found his wife Mattie Andrews Fleming in Wichita Kansas after 15 years apart. She divorced him in Omaha in 1885 and married Fleming, now imprisoned for forgery in Nebraska. Wilson seeks divorce from Fleming and aims to remarry.
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Wichita
Kan
Arthur K. Wilson
Morris
Fleming
Nebraska Penitentiary
Wilson
Boutiques Offer Imported Silk Tartan Plaids at Sale
A local shop advertises silk plaid fabrics in tartan patterns from imported stock. Sale price listed as 75 cents per yard.
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Bocas & Bua
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Select and Common
Public Works
Public Safety and Charities
Committee On Corporationa
Chief Bigelow
O’keefe
S Penn Bank
United States Court
Criminal Court—Commonwealth
B. M. Neely
Matthew Gorman
John Hanna
David Bradford
Charlies Heinrich
Mra. J. Conway
Patrick McTighe
Bridget Hannon
A. Cain
Wheeler
Order of Bolon
Watson
McIntyre Naga Richardson
Edgar
Stratton
Ells Burkholder
Hurrell
Donnelly Va
Kummerer
Schwab
Jones
Hegner
Peoples' Mutual Accident and Insurance
Roberts & Co
Phillipe
Abbott
Western Pennsylvania
W. T. Co
Hovey
Thomas
Coon
White
Hall
Will
Wixaton
Es Cal
California
Cowsvass
Dee
Asea Yard
Astrakhan
Rosenbaumys
nolOrrisa
Hopper Bros. & CO
Wood Street
Merchant Tailor
Mithfield
City Hall
L. H. Harris
Seventh Avenue
New Grant Street
Union
L. H. Harris Drug CO
oolTp
Herman Helm
Ellsworth AV
Penn Avenue
Salome
Er Pazskcin
Vadia
Andrew S. Montgo
Washington Street
Andrew L Montgomery
Aspaew C. Moxtoomzer
Thomas Wens
Sharpaburg
Te&ing
Catarrhand
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