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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1889
Page
5
James McCready and farmer John Rosensteel were threatened by two footpads two miles west of Wooster. McCready fired at the assailants, one whistled from the brush, and a pool of blood was later found. detectives pursue the attackers.
In Belleveenon on October 25 Captain Bowell and Captain Abrams argued before Lang's livery stable. Abrams hurled a large stone striking Bowell on the head, incapacitating him as onlookers watched. Three doctors attend Bowell but he remains in a critical state.
Jailer reports Bergiar Harter Shoffer engineered escape attempts from Jalil. He allegedly asked relatives to bring an iron eating tool and drafted a letter to Miss Alice Devery now in Clyde Ohio inviting her to bring a revolver. The 18 year old, whose mother faces trial on stolen property charges, remains under containment.
October 28. Henry Kelly a druggist in Beastrxerox West Virginia went behind the prescription case in the dark and took a bottle from the shelf mistaking whisky for tincture of aconite. He died in about two hours leaving a stunned town to ponder the accident.
Wooster October 2 After a jury had been empanelled for William Fisher on an indictment for selling valuable goods his counsel moved for discharge under a technical law. Both Fisher and the jury were discharged.
An unidentified man about 60 was struck by passenger train No. 72 north of town and suffered a broken left leg below the knee and a neck injury. He wore three shirts two trousers a knit waistcoat and had C. on his left arm.
A police report from October describes the discovery of a dead body on Tenth Street between Market and Market. The shell was crushed and there are unclear details about the timing and perpetrators.
Braver Falluis reports in October that Beaver Falls faces a diphtheria and scarlet fever outbreak. Officials urge heightened attention to sanitary conditions and premises to curb the spread amid rising cases.
Clara Elizabeth Huntington, daughter of Mr and Mrs Collie P Huntington of New York, married into European nobility at the Roman Catholic Oratory in South Kensington. The wedding, conducted by Bishop W L Patterson, featured mourning attendees and a traveling green velvet dress with sable trim.
The bridal couple attended a breakfast at the German embassy with Mr. Whitelaw Reid presenting a repousse tray to Mr. Anil-Is Mers. They then departed for Castle Schonstein on the Rhine to spend their honeymoon with the Hatzfeld family.
Mississippian J Percy Alston told Judge Dubose he came to Memphis eight years ago for business but became ruined by gambling. At Ormsby’s house he bet his entire roll, showed four aces, then lost after Ormsby’s sequence flush, prompting the judge to send him to the grand jury.
A jumble of late items includes the Greek minister at Harre Delyannis praising Franco-Greek friendship at a launch. Henry Horwitz, a New York diamond broker, fatally shoots himself on the third floor of 17 March Street. letters from Inter-State Commerce Commission figures warn of duties to return to Washington. diphtheria and scarlet fever rage in Lawrence Mass with funeral limits in churches. Caleba, 73, commits suicide in Claremont. Additional items cover a Montomery County death, a bank suspension in Abilene Kansas, a Chicago swindle involving mail-order brides, and political maneuvers in the House.
A stream of court decisions is reported with multiple cases from Greene Beaver Clarion Venango Mercer Somerset and Cambria counties affirmed or reversed in Common Pleas or County Courts. The list includes Eisemsinger Hartman Steel Kearney Renner Burgess Gaskell Miller Neale Simmerville Hasner and others with several appeals affirmed and a few reversals. An advertisement notes Dr. D Jaynes Tonic Vermifuge restores appetite in delicate children and strengthens them.
An assortment of fragmented items lists a sale of gin soda crackers and cashmere fabrics, plus a gallery ad and a string of death notices and funeral details. Names include James Dawson Thomas Montgomery Ellen O Reagan and Theodore Wagner with addresses in Pittsburgh and Allegheny, and funeral times set for October 29 and 30.
A large purchase offers Black Silk yardage at radically reduced prices with 0c, $110, $125, $135 and $150 marks. The ad highlights Black Silk values, Latin and Armure Royale striped silks at $125, plus evening silks and novelties at notably interesting prices.
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