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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1892
Page
2
The sixth annual convention of Pennsylvania County Commissioners began in the city with about 150 officials present. Sessions covered taxation reforms, stenographers’ fees, real estate transfers, and proposals to standardize assessors’ work, with votes on multiple resolutions and committee actions.
Roher of the Missouri Pacific Railway recounts a hot July evening where he drank a medicine claiming relief from distress. The bottle bore Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy and he endorses keeping such medicine at home in summer.
A mass meeting of Carnegie's Union Mills strikers met in Union Hall on Thirty-second Street with Vice President Sheehan as chairman. Speakers included William Pfeifke of the Trades Council Beaver Falls and Dillon of the Flint Glass Workers, who urged union solidarity and promised support. Homestead officials Burgess McLuckie and McCon EVHY spoke on local conditions and urged perseverance, while W E Weihe and others stressed confidence in victory. The gathering was enthusiastic with no evident rifts.
Captain Whitehouse leads ten officers as Elba Iron Works reopens. Superintendent Everson says paddling and finishing departments started, with many old workers returning and more expected tomorrow. Strikers avoid the mill while ex workers deny a signed scale and remain confident of victory.
More than 100 men who were on strike sought work at Shoenberger's but manager Crawford says only about one fifth can be rehired as many positions are filled. About 200 workers are affected. A firm member promises no change in treatment, just firm control of property. Also reported is a Harrisburg charter for the South Shore Railroad from Allegheny to Pittsburgh with capital of 100000 and directors Frazer Neeper Jones. Mills nearby ran smoothly with no breaks or desertions.
The era reports robust Burgundy grape prospects as growers in the French district enjoy excellent outlook. Nearby, Alton farmer Jurmmin Evss shows assets and debts around seven thousand dollars. Across the nation, the twenty first annual convention of the National Board of Steam Navigation opened with a Nicaragua Canal resolution. Multiple companies including Koelker Store and Plow Works in Evansville face assignment with large assets and debts listed. Major industrial activity includes plans for a Mamouth steel plant in Youngstown and rising Western Union capital stock to a hundred million, while strikes affect coal miners and laborers in Wheeling and Mahoning Valley. Additional items note a bank receiver issue at Narr & Friend and local real estate improvements on Highland avenue Fast End near the Park.
In Manning ton and Butler ventures the Noble heirs farm No. 2 well, Greenlee Forst, reached 24 feet in the sand and is producing about 200 barrels per hour. McDonald field production slipped to 23,000 barrels yesterday as other wells show varied outputs from 15 to 90 barrels per hour. Devonian Oil Company plans more wells along the line between Noble heirs and Royal Gas Company No. 1, with several more rigs deployed across McDonald’s oil district.
York Transit shipments show 2 000 Southern Fipe Line shipments and 13 86. g. 1. Mellon Pipe line runs 5 389 shipments, 6 066. Tidewater line Thursday 5280 shipments 900M total 3 001. Western and Atlantic line October 13th shipments 490 3 50. Thuns to date 82 463 shipments 24 185. Petroleum market opened steady then dull. National Transit certificates opened 37g c, 38 000 barrels sold 24 000 clearances 61 282 shipments 34 900 vans.
The National Convention of street car employees forms an area independent of the Federation of Railway and Steamship groups. A foreclosure decree targets the Mobile Street Railway system. Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix plan to abandon a line due to mountain obstacles. A Houston Galveston railroad link construction has started amid Norfolk rumors of abolition. Firemen and Engineers union leaders meet in Chicago with wage increases and reinstatement agreed. A chattel mortgage in Houston secures a $3 million Inter national and Great Northern Railway bonds issue.
At Washington DC and Baltimore MD a reunion event prompts the B and O R R to sell excursion tickets from September 1 to 20 inclusive. Tickets are valid to stop at all points east of Camber Imud Mid Reto from Pittsburg for a round trip. De Witt's Little Early Risers touted as a cure for constipation and sick headache.
Advertises Johann Hoff's Malt Extract as the best tonic beverage to strengthen the body against contagious diseases. Claims twelve bottles equal a cask of ale without intoxication and cites Prof. Prosper De Pietra Santa on its digestible nourishment. Warns to obtain authentic bottle with the signature on the neck. distributed by Eisner & Mendelson Co. in New York.
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