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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1889
Page
4
The report states an average Sunday edition circulation for THE DisTaATCH over three months ending August 11 and 13, totaling 55,643 copies per issue.
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The Exposition opens with well appointed structures reflecting Pittsburg’s wealth and industrial pride. Many exhibits may be unfinished in early days due to time constrained work, yet the main building and art exhibit promise a worthy display for visitors and citizens.
The London strike grows bitter as dockyard interests push for an equitable settlement while corporation officers resist. Dispatches show general unease and warn that centralized corporate control creates oppression of labor, with powerful firms confronting large, ill paid workforces and risking dangerous strikes.
A late nineteenth century columnist lampoons the endless flow of royal gossip via cables detailing the Queen's fads, princes’ ailments, and imperial chef scandals. The piece mocks how trivial royal minutiae dominate American public consciousness and seem almost edifying.
Reports from constables on illegal liquor selling show judges pressing officials to discharge duty. Though fewer than rumored speak easies, constables appear aroused to enforce the law, lessening illicit sellers. The court also urges grand juries to pursue violators, promising a potential shift in obedience to law.
A hostile review of Mr Gladstone appears in this month’s Forum. Tom Hughes attacks his political course amid the bitter Tory Radical Irish Home Rule contest. The piece signals deep Tory desperation and warns readers of demagogic appeals crossing the ocean.
The piece argues Mr. Hughes aims to discredit Gladstone in American eyes over his Civil War stance. It notes Gladstone’s past inconsistencies and errors in judging the conflict, but asserts such critiques won’t sway American sympathy for his home rule campaign in Ireland.
The piece compares a proposed city wide building and loan association trust to standard monopolistic trusts. It argues the latter suppress competition, while the former would expand money supply for borrowers and benefit both loaners and borrowers. It stresses careful management and accountability to avoid negative effects.
The Navy Department should seek more funds to build fast, heavily armed ships rather than reduce speed to fit a fixed appropriation. Lowering quality to meet budget harms national defense. the nation must afford vessels that rival and surpass those of other powers.
The piece discusses the Rush patrols against Canadian sealing vessels in Behring Sea, prize crews sent to Sitka, Canadians routing crews to Victoria, and fears of worsening tensions or war. It questions U S policy under Blaine and notes local law enforcement shifts at the courthouse amid Chicago pork speculation.
The Philadelphia Inquirer argues that gambling in staple foods should be prohibited as it harms consumers, comparing it to gambling in cards which is already restricted. The piece notes higher stakes in commercial gambling and questions why such practices persist. It also comments on political talk in Pennsylvania and a push within Baltimore Republican clubs. Additionally, it notes Pennsylvania’s annual fair will be expanded through the York County Agricultural Fair and questions Western Pennsylvania’s need for a regional exhibit, with Pittsburg’s Exposition starting today.
The reed bird season has opened in the Eastern cities and the debate over the extermination of the English sparrow accelerates toward a solution.
The column argues for labor and capital to show readiness for fair settlement in the glass strike. It notes Labor Day in Pittsburgh as well observed and comments on rumors about Sheriff Flack and Tammany Hall. It questions the harmony of today’s Democratic convention and cites Davin Dupley Field on legislatures not being ridiculed, urging public action to reshape the legislature.
Notable figures like Prof. Tyndall vacationing in the Alps show ongoing interest in British politics while Mrs. Jutta D. Grant plans a Washington winter. Novelist Grerce MacDonap lectured in England after a sprained foot. Armenian Father Henselp Saragian conducted Boston services as a Patriarch delegate. President Harrison's Bucks County visit recalls Neshaminy Church trustees, and a Chinese minister and wife may be first envoy couple to accompany a diplomat. J.T. Trowbridge, born 1527 in Western New York, writes for FourA’s Companion, living retired in Boston with a flair for speculation.
Campbell A Walton aged over eighty died on a Nashville bound train after riding from Gallatin to Nashville with his wife near Castalian Springs Sumner county. He entered the smoking car and died suddenly from heart disease amid excitement on the journey. His body was removed at Saundersville. The article notes the editor’s discreet handling of violent events and comments on labor disputes.
A vintage prose piece notes autumn arriving with a drought sunlit gum tree and warns that September signals a borrowing surge. It recounts a Philadelphia neighbor who repeatedly borrowed small items from a piano to a cake basket, always returning them, illustrating a seasonal pattern of loans.
Washington reports progress on war records for Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge. Two Chickamauga volumes are complete. missing Missionary Ridge and Knoxville reports urged to be sent to Major George B. Davis. Lists numerous regiments from Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia with missing units and batteries.
A Philadelphia fireman William Keates and Bertha Filmore, aged 18, planned a Wilmington elopement after a Surf encounter. They boarded the 12:30 express from Reading depot but were stopped by Bertha's mother and Officer Driscoll. Keates faces a charge of attempted abduction at City Hall.
In Marion Arkansas a wealthy merchant's daughter Ella Dassett elopes with Dr. T C Bridgeforth. A mutual friend aides the couple through a waist deep ditch beside a railway ditch during a heavy rain, boarding the sleeper to marry in Jonesboro after a quick crossing. The friend changes clothes afterward.
Colonel Ingersoll's funeral orations, read over the grave of a beloved home companion, may edify listeners but offer little comfort to a human soul bereft of earthly companionship, leaving readers yearning for solace beyond eloquent sermons.
A Pointer for Playwrights from the Boston Herald suggests a Behring Sea muddie as a ripe plot for a farce with millions in it. The Philadelphia Times notes the lost Walter Blaine has surfaced, remarking no Blaine in office ever stayed low.
A discussion on U S treasury debt statements reveals that the current form may misstate surplus by including destroyed or defaced notes as liabilities. Treasurer Huston considers altering the format to remove unredeemable war notes and fractional currency from liabilities, potentially erasing up to 15 million dollars.
Deutsche Handels-Museum cites non North American coal fields totaling vast areas. Europe and Asia hold tens of thousands of square miles in Austria Spain Italy Greece Turkey Persia India Japan China leads with about 400000 sq mi. Additional richness found in Falkland Islands Patagonia Peru Chile Vancouver Island Tasmania New Caledonia Natal. Even without U.S. coal, there is little prospect of famine for years.
A Washington woman in Paris cites a friend’s report that Sara Bernhardt burned her pet dog alive in a stove to punish it. The tale, often recounted as a Parisian custom, portrays Bernhardt’s prank as a calculated act. The account notes the stove’s ornamentality and the dog’s gradual quieting as punishment.
Mr Gustav Wabner, Postal Councilor of the German Empire, heads to Washington and visits the Postmaster General to study United States telegraph and telephone operations. He plans a detailed report after examining facilities in major cities, aided by introductory letters to key figures.
Belva Lockwood argues for commissioning women as officers of the regular army. She claims peace makes military duties light and asserts women can perform the role more effectively than men, challenging the era's gender norms in military service.
Kalamazoo Michigan has sold one million dollars worth of celery this season. With a few more good crops the city could rename itself or press on with the current identity.
The Bijou Theater at Dijon will switch tonight to The Buckeye after Lizzie Evans great success. Face will be repeated at the matinee today.
A dated verse from Montgomery M. Folsom reflects on a year since a beloved shared autumn skies and warm affection. The speaker recalls the hand held, eyes bright, and heart full of faith, yet laments the dream’s end and enduring sorrow at love lost.
A Wales tale from Snowdon centers on Prince Llewellyn and his greyhound Gullert. The dog guards a cradle, wolves attack, and Gullert dies after defending the infant, leaving a monument at Beth Gellert to honor the faithful hound. Locals retain the story as a cherished legend and warn against cynicism.
An ancient knight, his hunter’s life, and a loyal greyhound rescue a child from a serpent. The falcon alarms the dog, a fierce fight ensues, the cradle is overturned, and the dog dies after mistaken blame falls on it. The knight, grieved by the loss, slays the dog, finds the child unharmed, destroys the weapon, and travels to the Holy Land.
The article surveys ancient fables from Sanscrit, Greek, and Chinese traditions that depict animal intelligence. It recounts variations of tales where creatures like the ichneumon, falcon, and eagle avert disasters, save humans, or prove loyal, through clever acts that thwart harm and reveal reasoning power.
The article recounts old European histories retelling a banquet attack by mice on Henry IV and Herodotus narratives where mice defeat armies. It notes variations involving Sennacherib and Egyptian stories with priests, tradesmen, and sieges, showing how these tales framed divine protection and miraculous outcomes.
Absurd stories about a mole that went blind after freeing the sun from a snare are traced to a Dog-Rib Indian tale. A squirrel escapes a high tree into the sky, a sun snare burns the rescuers, and at last a mole gnaws the chords letting light return, but blinding itself.
The tale frames Hera’s ancient temperance myth around Gambrinus a fiddler jilted by his beloved who prays for escape in the woods. A green coated old man offers a bargain to give his soul to the devil and enables him to create lager beer. The devil’s envoy Jocko fails to claim the soul after drinking with Gambrinus, who ends by becoming a beer barrel through endless intoxication.
The New York Tribune notes a shift from the old dog pranks in theater to targeting New York itself. The quip suggests a change in practical jokes within the theatrical world, reflecting urban focus and show business bravado.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes skepticism that adopting postal telegraph will aid women who post telegrams in their husbands pockets, arguing the system offers little practical relief and may not improve telegram delivery for such indivuals.
William Gimmer, a cigar maker, walked onto the Forty ninth street pier with a ham sandwich and a string, slid into the water, and then reemerged. He was knocked back ashore by brickmakers who spanked him with a plank. Last heard, he was begging for money to buy rat poison.
Thomas Vincent, the IS-yeopald son of Pte Sagat Wenn, collapsed after pitching for Redbenk, N J, during a yacht outing. He had sailed for four hours, then threw a high fly to a friend as the game ended. He warned that a chest pain grew weaker, was taken home, and a physician found a ruptured blood vessel near his heart from overexertion. He died two hours later.
About two o'clock this afternoon a wagon crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. Two men alighted then leapt over the rail into the river. One man sank beneath the tide while a rowboat recovered a dummy with a sign reading A Legal Wreck at the Brooklyn Theater.
Max Adler, George Gould, Mrs. Gould, Mrs. John W. Mackey and William Mackey will sail for Europe tomorrow aboard the steamship City of Paris from the port.
Kakel Kura a young Japanese girl from Tomioka is reported missing after her father Kai Kura moved his family from California. The elder sister remains at home as police search follows a late night departure and a £25 reward is offered for her return or information.
The Right Rev Stephen Vincent Ryan Bishop of Buffalo seeks a bill of particulars in Father Francis Dents $100000 slander suit. Dent claims Ryan acted as ecclesiastical judge, plus witness coercion to convict a priest, while Archibishop Corrigan allegedly urged a witness to flee the state. The court requires time and place of the alleged slanderous words. The case stems from a long quarrel over ecclesiastical matters and a woman.
In Richwoxy September morning John Dirk touched an iron wall at Riehart's butcher shop and received an electric shock. Fire chief Parsons and Fred Schweeman watched as sparks traced along the baseboard and a fire broke out over a cellar window. A stray wire on the tin roof fed the current until the iron wall provided a ground, after which the wire was removed and the danger ended.
A 7 year old climbed onto a rear train car in Allentown and rode six miles before discovery. A near sighted rider dropped five dollars and four cents in an Allentown streetcar box, mistaking a $5 coin for a penny. An Akron man walked with a lantern shouting fire to amuse onlookers. A Kennett Square death on the Pennsylvania Railroad was foretold by a death presentment. An Altoona angler caught a 5 1/4 pound bass, 23 inches long, in the Juniata. Mrs Dayrex Hit of Salineville Pa harvested 2000 quarts of huckleberries at five cents per pound. Ricos of Pleasants County West Virginia fished out over 200 dead rats after a water-filled barrel deterred pests. A TeampP arriving in Steubenville claimed twelve miles walked since their last meal, with half a loaf found in a pocket.
A jumble of short items notes proposals and odd events from various locales. Mentions the oldest man in Grass County, a wedding in Arizona, a harvest service at a Lutheran church, thefts and trials in New Hampshire and Texas, and curious medical and historical curiosities including old post office logs and Comanche the surviving horse of Custer's era.
A collage of jokes and short items from urban papers. Humorous snippets feature Miss Bjones, Mr Singley, and Mrs Mjones, plus quips about tomatoes as a fruit, a waiter’s quip, and a parlor scene. Notes from Boston and Rochester papers poke fun at manners, travel, and local foibles.
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