Kite shaped tracks spark debate at Homewood Park trials
Pittsburg horsemen weigh kite shaped trotting tracks as Independence records prompt officials to consider faster layouts. Advocates say the kite form speeds times by several seconds, while opponents fear discarding records on traditional tracks and question public acceptance amid local interest.
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Nelson
Jack
Maud
Dexter
Lady Thorne
Goldsmith
Pittsburg
Homewood Park
Secretary Brunell Talks Compromise in City Visit
Secretary Frank H. Brunell of the Players' League arrived in the city and voiced a plan for a fair compromise with the National League. He suggested assigning two strong cities to each side and letting smaller markets seek alternative venues. He indicated Buffalo might stay in consideration and noted four new players have been signed for next season as local clubs prepare.
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Frank H. Brunell
Players’ League
Mr. Brunell
P. L
Cleveland
Potceborg
Indianapolis
Liem
Heffalo
Buffalo
Hiranell
Y Branell
Hanson
Kerr
McCallen
Anderson
Browell
Hanlon
Fragmented OCR Sports Brief Remains Unclear
An OCR read from Gloucester mentions teams such as Hatteries Sterling and Daliv and Syracuse with unclear results. Names like Marr, Athletics, Columbians appear amid garbled numbers and stray terms.
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Gloucester
Hatteries
Sterling
Daliv
Marr
Syracuse
Columbar
Metterses
Gastright
Connor
Sith
Sage
Tri State League to Close Local Club Affairs Meeting
A Telegram from Yorsestown reports a meeting of the Tri State League this week to settle the local club’s affairs. Taylor of the local club has not joined a league, and no action will be taken until after the meeting in New Camestown Olean Meadville and Youngstown.
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Tue Pipaton
Yorsestown
Taylor
New Camestown
Olean
Meadville
Youngstown
Championship Series Plan Between Brooklyn and Louisville
The Brooklyn club and Louisville, champions of their leagues, agreed to a world series not exceeding nine games to award the 1891 title. Admission 50 cents, grand stand 2 cents. Louisville pavillion seats cost 5 cents. Umpires John McQuaid and Wesley Curry, or the on-site umpire if one is absent, will officiate under National agreement rules. Schedule set for Louisville October 16 17 18 20 and Brooklyn October 25 24 25 2 with a possible ninth game to be arranged thereafter. Press courtesy extended only to the press.
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Louisville
Byrne
Brooklyn
Parsons
Chapman
Brooklyn Club
John McQuaid
Wesley Curry
Brooktyn
P. L. Players WI Disbanding This Week
The P. L. ball club will disband for the season today or tomorrow with players paid off this afternoon. Officials settle season accounts and debts this week. Directors meet to hear the Secretary's report as Wisner and Staley head home in the coming days.
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P. L. Ball
Beckley
Wisner
Staley
National League Meeting Sways O'Neil Toward Compromise
Director O'Neil returned from New York where he attended the National League meeting. He believes a fair compromise is possible if the Players’ League acts justly and expects the local NL Club to participate next year. He notes NS mar nates are confident of success and calls the meeting harmonious.
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O'Neil
New York
O'Neill
P. L
N. L
N. S. Marnates
Youngstown Cyclers Sweep at Salem Meeting
Special Telegram to the Dispatch notes the annual Quaker City wheelmen gathering at Salem where Youngstown Creole Club riders dominated events. L. B. Bannister won the one mile novice safety and took half mile open safety. P. H. Stambaugh won the one mile ordinary and placed third in the half mile arch. Bannister also won the half mile open safety. Attendance was large and keen interest shown in the contests.
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Youngstown Cyclers
Yourastows
Quaker City Wheelmen
Salem
Youngstown Creole Club
L. B. Bannister
Ithoughes
P. H. Stambaugh
Bannister
Sporting Notes from Dallas Pacer Update
Dallas pacer updates, racers discussed include Becket, Robinson, and Comtekey’s age. Cincinnati and Washington racing talk, Owens 19-yard record cited, Lady Washington in scarred condition after a kick, and tracks planned near Philadelphia with Ancoin Park site.
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Becket
Robinson
Comtekey
Imstan
Kyree
Ae Broockimnelah
Cincinnati
Burdened With Prosperity At Pittsburg and Lake Erie
An experienced railroad man says the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway Company is overloaded with business. Freight and passenger traffic suffer, trains and engines are overworked, and sidings brim with freight as crews labor through a long, costly expansion. He notes 25 locomotives are used in construction and predicts rework of spring efforts due to severe weather.
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Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway Company
Iron and Steel Institute Delegations Arrive in Chicago
In Chicago on October 12 members of the Iron and Steel Institute and the Verein Deutcher Einenhuttenbuttern plan arrival today with about 500 visiting delegates expected to reach the city by train from Pittsburg tomorrow.
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Chcaco
The
Iron and Steel Institute
Verein Deutcher Einenhuttenbuttern
Pittsburg
Fire alarms report small blazes in two cities
An evening chimney fire at Mrs. Adair house 56 Hemlock street Allegheny caused no damage. A gasoline shed fire near Liberty avenue and Gross street East End Light Company origins unknown. An afternoon chimney fire at 1 Mercer Street Eleventh ward triggered box 66 alarm.
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Box
Allegheny
Dying Justice Miller Defies Death Amid Dignified Struggle
Washington October 12 Justice Miller clung to life through another day as doctors and friends watched in the home on Massachusetts avenue. The aged jurist, long known for stamina and workload, lay unconscious yet vital, with Mrs Miller, Prof Wilson, and family at his side as Cabinet members and Supreme Court associates inquired about his condition.
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Washington
Justice Miller
Prof
Wilson
Smithsonian Institution
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Touzalin
Lacey Corkhill
Colorado
Supreme Court
Cabinet
Fuller
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Capitol
Corps of Justice
Justice Bradley
The Lincoln Ant Analogy and Judge Miller’s Quiet Integrity
The account recalls a meeting at the inaugural ball where Lincoln compared Justices in gowns to ants breaking land on a farm. Judge Miller, simple and candid, rode streetcars, funded fares for workers, and stayed free of scandal across 28 years on the Supreme Court bench amid eras of corruption. He praised the American bench’s purity, noting no Justice misused insider knowledge or profited from decisions.
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Justice Miller
Capitol
Supreme Court
Sau
Miller
Justice Miller Failing at 1 P.M. Report
Washington dispatch reports Justice Miller sinking rapidly at 1 o'clock, breathing difficult and life uncertain as observers struggle to tell if he is dead or alive due to extreme feebleness.
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Washington
Justice Miller
Supreme Court Term Opens with Electrocution and Liquor Laws
The October term begins amid debate over the constitutionality of the New York electrocution law and various state liquor statutes. Major cases involve Colorado mining questions and the original package doctrine following Iowa and Kansas rulings. Anarchist release appeals and Vermont prohibition cases round out a busy docket.
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United States Supreme Court
Justice Miller
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Colorado
New York
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Chicago
Iowa
Kansas
United States
Vermont
News from Three States Highlights Local Incidents
Brief items from Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia include Prof Graham of Ligonier pa raising 15 large pumpkins on one vine. A gas explosion near Youngstown OH kills William Bissles who dies next day. A Sidney Ohio desk factory burns costing 25000 with 21000 insurance. Tramp dogs devastate Bradenville pa flocks. Duquesne Tube Works McKeesport pa plans expansion. A man killed while drunk on track in Toronto wva. A Steubenville clay digger dies after being run over by a train. A Franklin pa stock barn burns. trotters saved. A 13 year old hunter from Butler pa falls 40 feet and may die. Stanley Sird a glass blower found mangled near Lazearville wva depot. A Wheeling wv rainstorm floods streets and blacks out a ward. Mine Inspector Keighley resigns. Du Buena Vista replaces him. McKeesport ta Pa witnesses summoned for Emma Whitney vs Charles Parker case. Jail escape as Gehr and Wald flee Crawl county jail. Gehr vows to murder any squealer.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Graham
Ligonier
William Bissles
Youngstown
John Louchlin
Sidney
Bradenville
Duquesne Tube Works
McKeeesport
Joseph Davis
Toronto
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R. G. Bamberwa
Franklin
Lewis
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Butler
Stanley Sird
Lazearville
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Ilinm du
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Charles Parker
Max Gehr
Marvin Wald
Crawl
Gehr
New Glass Factory to Rise Near Indianapolis
Mr William Cannon plans a green glass factory at Greenfield twenty miles from Indianapolis The notice notes health ads for nervous disorders and sleeplessness with Dr Miles nervous remedy samples at Jos Fleming Son Market Street
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William Cannon
Greenfield
Indianapolis
Miles
Jos
Fleming & Son's
Market St
Four Lives Lost At Putnam's European Hotel Fire
Chicago dispatch details a fatal blaze at 163 East Adams Street where four people perished and many more were endangered. Victims include Mrs Minnie Rolinson barber Tom Dowler H K Sams and Edward Peyton with the fire origin on the top floor. The building lacked a register making exact headcounts impossible.
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Chicago
Putnam's European
East Adams Street
Minnie Rolinson
Tom Dowler
H. K. Sams
Pinkerton
Edward Peyton
Robinson
Noted Divine Dead Rev Loyal Young D D Passes at 84
Loyal Young D D longtime Butler Presbyterian pastor and author died at his home after a protracted illness. Born 1806 in Charlotemoot Massachusetts he served several Western Pennsylvania churches and edited and wrote multiple religious works including a forthcoming Proverbs commentary. Funeral at the Butler Presbyterian Church Tuesday at 2 PM.
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Dispatch
Bates
Loyal Young
Presbyterian Church
Pennsylvania
Young
Charliemoot
Mass
West Virginia
Jefferson College
Western Theological Seminary
Butler
French Creek
Buchanan
Parkersburg
Winfield
Point Pleasant
Pleasant Flats
W. Va
Washington
Pan
Spurgeon
Butler Presbytery
Robert Johnston
H. Young
J. W. Young
Speakeasies raided as officers raid Yellow Row district
Inspector McAleese led officers in plain clothes to raid several alleged speakeasies. Mrs. Coyle of 518 Second Avenue was one arrest with six quarter barrels and four kegs of beer and whisky found. Mrs. Hays at 36 Webster Avenue and Mrs. Quinn near Dinwiddie tested liquor stocks. arrests followed. Additional raids targeted Mary Voelker at South Twelfth and Muriel streets, Mrs. O'Brien at Thirtieth and Smallman, and Albert Bird’s Penn Avenue establishment near Twenty-eighth Street.
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Mrs. Coyle
Hays
Quinn
Dinwiddie Street
Qur Alley
Twelfth Ward
Albert Bird
Penn Avenue
Twenty-eighth Street
McKenna
Steel makers and ship builders to meet at Navy Department
A conference of major steel producers and shipbuilding firms including Carnegie Phipps Co and Bethlehem Iron Works alongside William Cramp & Sons and Bath Iron Works will convene at the Navy Department next Thursday. The aim is to accelerate steel delivery for new ships, with Annapolis experiments possibly influencing the talks and debates over production urgency.
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Pennsylvania Steel Company
Steelton
Chester Rolling Mill Company
Chester
Standard Steel Casting Company
Thurlow
Solid Steel Company
Alliance
Pacific Rolling Mills
San Francisco
Nashua Steel Company
Nashua
N. H
William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company
Philadelphia
Union Iron Works
Columbian Iron Works
Baltimore
Quieterd Iron Works
New York
Bath Iron Works
Bath
Harrison Loring
Boston
S. L. Moore & Sons
Elizabethport
N. J
Virginia Locomotive Works
Richmond
Annapolis
Pittsburg in Seventh Place Exchange Table Summary
Boston reports from October 12 show Pittsburg in seventh place in a weekly exchange table. The dispatches from clearing houses of several cities compare gross exchanges last week with the previous year’s week, noting percentage increases or decreases against 1889 figures.
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Boston
Weekday Hearings Report From City Ward Stations
Surday morning hearings list multiple petty offenses across ward stations. Magistrates Succop Gripp Hyndman Leslie presided on varied cases including fines for noise at parties and stays in the workhouse for a few defendants. Mrs Mary Lynch and Mrs Mary Booker feature among those fined or sentenced.
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Wyman
Allegheny
Gripp
Central Station
Hyndmam
Fourteenth Ward
Mary Lynch
Leslie
Seventeenth Ward
Mary Booker
Harrison Street
Sele
Visitor’s Bracelet Theft Leads to Immediate Arrest
Police arrested a thief after a visitor reported a diamond bracelet missing from John Goins’s room at the Monongahela House. Mrs. David Evans of Limneily, South Wales, identified the bracelet, and Detective Bendel returned it. Goins faces a bearing this morning.
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Monongahela House
David Evans
Limneily
South Wales
Hovel
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Unclear OCR fragment from 1351 Signal Service record
Incomplete historical note dated October 12 1351 references a States Signal Service officer and described fanbing ices in sr term. No clear event or names are readable.
Storm of considerable dimensions forms in western states
A rapidly forming storm spans the West and Midwest with its center over the Dakotas Iowa Wisconsin and Nebraska. Its reach extends to the Gulf of Mexico and toward British America with heavy rainfall reported at Fort Sill 2.24 inches in 24 hours.
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South Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Gulf of Mexico
British America
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Atlantic
Ares
Northwest States
Texas
Indian Territory
Fort Sill
River Telegrams Report Mixed River Stageho
Brownsville Hiver shows 0 feet 2 inches rising as weather stays cloudy and cool with light rain. Wanker Hiver reads 9.10 feet and stationary. Cincinnati Elver level at 7 feet and falling with clear conditions. Sew Orleans Eiver stands at 6 feet with weather unsettled.
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Wanker
Cincinnavi—Elver
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Eiver
Soap Makers Claim Ivory Rivalries Grow Fainter
The piece notes many soaps marketed as “just as good as the Ivory” flood stores yet fail to meet the standard, signaling crowded competition and skeptical consumer response.
Newark Youth Arrested on Train to Chicago at Union Station
Augustus Eichorn a 14 year old runaway from Newark New Jersey was arrested on the afr line at midnight by Lt Robert Denniston on a ticket to Chicago. He carried 7440 dollars and said he fled home for a change of scene and will likely be sent back.
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Afr
Union Station
Robert Denniston
Chicago
Newark
N. J
Hopper
Einhorn
California avenue graded for rapid transit progress
The California avenue project is being rushed to create a leading artery out of Allegheny with improved infrastructure. Pleasant Valley electric cars now offer fast transit, making old horse-car service to the south end seem nearly as slow as walking. The funeral of Fritz Ruffield, a Southside resident, was held yesterday afternoon with a large turnout. Members of the Birmingham Turners Society Post 151 and the Odd Fellows, of which the deceased was a member, attended, led by a band.
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Allegheny
Pleasant Valley
Fritz Ruffield
Southside
Birmingham Turners’ Society
Post 151
The
Odd Fellows
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