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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1890
Page
5
A long seated analysis notes stringency in money markets nationwide with bankers warning over speculation and crop failures. Officials say funds flow west for grain while New York’s flurry tightens lending, and critics blame tariff politics and the silver bill for curbing circulation.
Ex-Postmaster Larkin downplays alarm over financial conditions after Pattison’s prospects. He mocks a Republican administration for a president at a mountain resort directing the Treasury to avert crisis. He sees no danger in the money market, blaming New York importers for trying to “pinch somebody and retaliate on the Government.”
Fidelity Trust files inventory of the defunct bank's estate in Common Pleas Court. Assets include real estate and cash totaling about 275 thousand dollars, with notes worth 156 thousand and doubtful, plus 210 thousand in notes deemed worthless. Liabilities and potential recoveries may reach near one million, while several large debts and missing certificates cloud final settlement.
Alexander King, a prominent Pittsburg businessman, died last night at his East End Negley avenue home at 9 30 pm. He was 12 years old in era terms, in feeble health for months, and his passing was due to natural causes. King, of Scotch Irish descent, ran a Fifth avenue real estate office and supported Scotch Irish events, including a $500 subscription for the Scotch Irish Congress chaired by Robert Bonner. Funeral date not announced.
The annual main line track inspection starts today, a month earlier than last season, with supervisors and foremen finding unfinished work. General Manager Charles E. Pugh Chief Engineer W H Brown General Superintendent F Wolcott Jackson and division superintendents oversee the survey to judge track condition and award premiums, with the party lodging at Monongahela House and set to depart eastward.
Philip Richards Sr. dies at 48 in Port Perry from injuries from a Baltimore and Ohio railroad accident two weeks earlier. An inquest is held. The coroner censures Dr. A K Young and Mrs. Elizabeth Husterkamp over Martha Braun’s death. The Fifth Avenue Line gripman is cleared in John Findlay’s fatality. Matthias Gilchrist’s death near Frankstown Avenue is ruled suicide.
The Hebrews of two cities wore holiday clothes yesterday marking the pew year and Orthodox Hebrews continued the celebration today as almost all stores were closed yesterday.
The exercises will be held Wednesday morning 17th at 9 o'clock with Rev. Richard S. Holmes of Shadyside delivering the address. Friends and patrons are invited. Examination of candidates for admission as pupils will follow at 10 o'clock.
Old proprietor seeks sale of the Messer House due to advanced years and retirement. Best property for cost of investment in the State. For particulars address J Messer Sharon Pa.
Hon. George W. Delamater with Al Edwards Harry English and David Collingwood toured Allegheny county visiting Brad dock Edgar Thomson Steel Works Homestead and Windsor glass houses. A crowd of about 500 heard Delamater praise the party and attack independent Republicans as he outlined tariff ballot and pension positions before a Pittsburg-ward departure.
The County Executive Committee of the Prohibition party met at the Yoder building to organize the campaign. Committees were formed for organization finance speakers and other work and a fund of at least 2000 dollars was set as a target with five hundred dollar subscriptions pledged. A Pattison club of about 150 Polish citizens was formed with aims to reach 1000 members by October 30 and only naturalized citizens may join.
State League of Republican Clubs secretary R H Lindsay sails for Philadelphia to arrange the convention. 17 county clubs will send three delegates and three alternates each, with 39 Philadelphia clubs raising 9500 for honors and entertainment. Delegates will tour sights, attend a mass meeting at the Academy of Music with Reed McKinley and Ingalls, plus a navy yard excursion and Lincoln Park picnic.
Pittsburg Democrats forecast Pattison winning as delegates head to Reading for a state club meeting. Squire Herman Handel urged farmer support for a home market, while ex Postmaster J B Larkin and others noted party unity and a potential landslide in Pattison's favor.
The County Republican Executive Committee outlined campaign actions with invites to Blaine Sherman Kinley Reed and others. A major demonstration is set for Exposition Park on November 1 to close the campaign with a bang, with multiple October events and possible speakers including Blaine Kinley Reed and Sherman.
About 3 o clock yesterday afternoon at a Glenwood saloon a colored man named David Single cut an unknown white man with a razor during a dispute over a drink. The assailant slashed the opponent on the right leg, creating a noticeable gash.
Thomas Watson of the Southside owned a horse that was struck by an electric rail on Brownsville avenue and died shortly after. Watson was driving home when the horse stepped on the car rail of the St Clair electric road and collapsed instantly. The animal endured severe pain and had to be shot. its value to the owner was considerable.
Sheriff W. C. Mehl of Erie county escorted Jerry Grant Alva Oaks John Ward and Edward Dundon from the scene after their larceny burglary and receiving charges. They were placed in the County jail overnight before transport to the Huntington reformatory.
Margaret Elizabeth Von Vetter, once a German baron’s daughter and social belle, was confined in the Heppenheim Insane Asylum after family conflicts over her estate. She later traveled to the United States, faced robbery, and arrived in Noblestown, Pennsylvania, still intermittently insane. Chief Elliot of the Department of Charities was asked to protect her amid uncertain guardianship.
At the Pittsburg Exposition H Kieber & Bro. Music Store 506 Wood St offers a 5 to 10 percent price cut on pianos organs banjos mandolins guitars brass instruments and sheet music during the fair. They advertise eight to ten year warranties and easy payments, claim long traditional reliability and sole agency for Steinway Conover Gabler Opera Emerson pianos Vaccalion church organs Earhoff parlor organs. They urge visitors to buy there to save about fifty dollars.
The Arnheim Live Stock Company of 52 Second Avenue Pittsburg Pa receives forty head of extra good draught and general purpose horses weighing 1 450 to 1 800 pounds per head. They invite teamsters and draught horse enthusiasts to view them. Their mule yards hold seventy five head of choice draught and pit mules. They also offer several Shetland ponies at low prices.
A Pittsburg city display touts the largest French pattern bonnet exhibit in town open today tomorrow and Thursday at Jos. Horse & Co. 609 621 Penn Ave with related ads for local banks galleries and rail excursion offers featuring 50 cent round trips and photography services.
Local window glass manufacturers led by Chambers Duncan Campbell Howard Smith Philipps Thursen and Loeffler travel to Chicago for an adjourned meeting to finalize a plan for uniform rates quality improvements and market protection from foreign glass. Some fear lack of full unanimity though most expect a formal organization. Loeffler clarifies the plan aims at trade alignment rather than a trust.
Industry reports show iron and steel firms booking large year ahead orders. J Painter & Son leads cotton ties while Solar Iron Works keeps a double turn rolling. Railroads like Union Pacific, Chicago Burlington and Quincy, and Pennsylvania Railroad plan heavy rails, with 85 to 100 pound sections replacing lighter stock.
Fifty seven iron workers, many former Carbon Iron Works employees, left for the South yesterday morning. They were hired by the Birmingham Rolling Mill Company in Alabama to work at the plant there. Amalgamated rates prevail. The mills can produce about 30,000 tons annually. The puddling department has 48 furnaces and the finishing department includes sheet, bar, plate, and angle mills with two forges. Fuel gas is used.
Mr J Reiling, an iron railing and iron worker at 3230 Penn avenue, voluntarily paid his 30 employees for 10 hours while only working 9. The workers, grateful yet determined to repay the gesture with increased zeal, praise the concession.
Smith and Dillon of the Flint Glassworkers Union returned from Washington where they met with a committee of flint glass manufacturers to urge preservation of the flint schedule in the tariff bill. They saw several Ways and Means members and reported favorable reception of the request.
Alderman Warner holds Joseph Wormser for court after Isaac and Ephraim Wormser were found in violation of the factory act. Wormser admitted superintendent role. bail converted to bond. Hooper Bros. & Co. begin new brick plant at Centre and Bellefield. progress prompts relocation from Fifth avenue. Machinists report tense shops with 25 Westinghouse workers returning home.
Mr. James Campbell appeared before the Tariff Committee in Washington to press the window glass trade case. He spoke with Mr. Chambers and caulkers along the Monongahela were reported to seek a 25 cent daily wage increase starting Thursday.
A lamp explosion seriously burned Mrs Iton Uenel in Oakland and injured a little daughter. Dennis Kelly fell from a moving van and broke his leg in two places. A cable line collision injured another man near Forty-third Street. Mrs Mary Corin fractured her left shoulder blade after a fall on her porch. Thomas Peal escaped serious injury when a fragment from rolling iron struck him in the chin and face at Jones Laughlin's mill.
About 200 residents of Allegheny Twelfth ward gathered at East street school house last night to address alleged bribery connected with a Congressional nomination. They accused George W. Dierdorf of taking bribes to transfer his credentials for a voter who supported Shiras. Henry Snaman chaired the meeting. A three person committee was formed to investigate and prosecute the fraud.
Mollie Trout, a well known Pittsburg young woman, jailed at Central station for allegedly obtaining valuables illegally. Police traced her from Altoona to Harrisburg after a Cleveland visitor, Mr. Marshall, reportedly robbed him of a gold watch, eight gold rings and $100. She reportedly spent most money on clothes. a hearing is set today.
City Treasurer Joseph Denniston Department Commander of the G A E and HB Bengough left for Cresson to invite President Harrison to the Rock Point veterans reunion tomorrow. Pennsylvania Railroad officials offered a special train. if he accepts the train would reach Pittsburgh about 10 am and proceed to Rock Point via the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago and New Brighton and New Castle routes.
James Mader, an East End pipeline worker, assaulted saloon keeper Frank Beacom at 265 Frankstown Avenue. He knocked Beacom down with a can of corn and fled to the Nineteenth Ward station house. Beacom may die from his injuries.
Jarrett, a Southside real estate broker, failed to attend a creditors meeting yesterday and has not been seen since last Friday. His uncle, ex-Alderman J C Jarrett, denied endorsing his nephew's paper beyond his responsibility.
Hundreds of Paris pattern bon nets and London round hats showcased by the millinery buyer. Visit today tomorrow or the next day at 609 621 Penn Ave to see the selections by Jos Horne and Co.
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