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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1890
Page
6
Contending factions at the Homewood Driving Park Association debate retaining or selling the track for development. Stock control and proxy tactics emerge as key issues with potential leadership changes and plans for next meets and purses.
A professor from East Entermoasium organizes an amateur indoor athletic show for mid next month at the Beat End Gymnasium. Events include boxing, wrestling, club swinging, contortion, and hitching with prizes. Admission will be charged. tickets via club members. The aim is to promote winter exercise and showcase prominent young athletes for next year. A letter urges J P ONeill be chosen president of the new baseball club, praising his leadership and integrity.
The fifteenth day of the fall meeting at the West Side Jeckes Club was rained out with a muddy track. Two favorites won: Pind rao over Homiurill in the half mile, Hildy Pinkerton over Meotudite in the furlong, and Fred Fink Son winning mile with seventy yards while others placed. Time records show delays and unusual times due to the downpour.
President Young of the National League proclaims the Player League dead and says its end will save professional baseball. He argues the war would have set the game back years and affected the sport in other ways, urging optimism for the future.
News items report a race between MetCale of Brownsville and Tom William of Const Fulton ending with arrests and costs. a horse sale at Philadelphia Tattersall includes Cochran Park stock, stallions, mares, and roadsters. Stansbury beaten in a Parametta River race. boxing bouts and betting schemes noted. various local sport figures and plans referenced.
Reports from multiple centers show continued strong production at Wildwood field with gains at Zingenbein and Governor Pattison wells. Mansfield notes rising flow from Mellon & Co and new ventures eyed, while Coraopolis suffers mud and stalled hauling and a gas well at Thompson farm has ceased producing.
Ex President Hayes spoke at the Congregational Club monthly meeting in Grand Pacific Hotel on prison reform. He delivered a long address outlining views on reform and justice.
Riot incidents near Moscow last week resulted in the shooting of 100 peasants by military forces. Other brief items note a Dalmatian coast ship capsizing with 38 drowned, executions of alleged plotters, robberies and accidents across various regions, and ongoing legal and political tensions.
Pauline Hall clashes with Mayer and Stern over control of her tour with rival Agnes Huntington drawing in agent Harry Vaughn to record box office. Jealousy and contracts fuel the row with potential sensational lawsuit and claims of financial backing under scrutiny.
Washington dispatch reports A P Cunningham, a Senate Document Room employee, celebrated a supposed Australia inheritance by visiting the White House drunk. He berated President Harrison with savage insults, was placed in custody on Twelfth Street, and no bail appeared forthcoming as authorities assess the claims and his wealth.
Miss Susan Minerva Train, only daughter of George Francis Train, married Philip Danbsr Gulager at All Souls Church New York in a simple ceremony. Gulager, chief clerk in the Gold Department of the Sub Treasury Wall Street, has served 28 years. Also notes ship movements and a death at 1300 a2 1840.
The United States Signal Service officer reports time and temperature readings for November 17, 1690. Observations note atmospheric conditions and related measurements as part of daily weather data.
Rain prevails across most of the country as a moderate cyclone moves from the Gulf toward the lake region. Manitoba storm connects with the lake region low pressure, while a new western high moves toward the Pacific. Temperatures rise everywhere except the extreme Northwest, and fog lines the Atlantic coast from Sandy Hook to Portland.
The Rev. Father Grimes heard a tale from a woman claiming to be the wife of a prisoner, Thomas Alphonso Berryman, who admits stealing two coats to prevent starvation. Berryman, who spoke multiple languages and acted as a doctor, was sent to Onondaga county penitentiary for one year. The couple travelled through Saccarappa Portland Boston New York Cortland before their Syracuse arrest.
Washington November 17. An officer found rivets cut from the door of the new jail cage, leaving only one rivet to hold the outer door. the inmates had been placed after a prior escape attempt and the other doors were locked at night, with unclear plans for exit.
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad vows a strong fight after refusing Union Pacific's demand for a higher share of overland business. It notes it previously carried more west of Chicago than any line but lost much due to delays after handoff to Union Pacific and plans to expand coast business via the Denver and Rio Grande. Governor Campbell fixes December 19 for Elmer Sharkey's execution in Preble county. Big Hosiery Values offered at Jos. Horne & Co. and N Patterson's with cashmere and silk stockings advertised.
The worst is over says the report on liquidation in railway securities. Managers of the Western ronda ignored security holders rights by letting control of income drift to freight agents and canvassers who run facilities for shippers at their own prices.
London financiers rally to support Baring Brothers with more than 10 million pounds in guarantees toward a 15 million pound acceptance backing. The move aims to restore confidence as markets wait on Paris and New York, with South American issues on the horizon and the foreign market showing resilience.
Morgantown river five feet rising. Brownsville river one foot inch rising. Warren river three feet one inch stationary. Evansville river nineteen feet three inches rising. Louisville river rising one foot six inches in canal and feet inches on falls. Allegheny Junction river seven feet three inches rising. Cincinnati river twenty nine feet inches rising. departed Scotia and Pittsburg. Wheeling river one foot six inches falling. departed various towns.
Last week the shop reported record jacket and wrap sales amid steady rain. The store promises daily replenishments, clearly marked prices, and a single low price policy, encouraging customers to find the right garment at savings.
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