Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-04
HITLER AND THlTHER.
Movements of Piusburgers nnd Others of
Wide Acquaintance.

Rev. Father Tahsney, pastor of St..
Johns Catholic Church, at Johnstown, which
was burned and destroyed during the food,
was in The city yesterday, consulting with
Architect Evans in regard to the plans for his
new church. The latter will cost about $50. 0O0
Part of the convent building, which was left
standing, will be remodeled and used as par
sonage. A new convent building and school
will have to be built. The total cost of the i'm
provements will be about S9O.0OO Father
Tahaney wishes to correct the statement made
by the authors of THE Only Official History of
the Flood that he lost comparatively nothing.
He says that his loss was about Sl25,000 on
church and personal property. and of this
amount he secured SO 600 insurance. A special
collection will be taken up in all the churches
of the diocese Sunday next to raise the funds
necessary to build the church.
j. j. Johnston, leading patent lawyer
of Washington, is staying for few days at the
Anderson. Mr.. Johnston is in the city on legal
business connected with the infringement case
of Wynland and Lyme versus the Pittsburg
Frye case. He says that among lawyers in his
city the opinion is rife that Attorney General
Miller will be elevated to the vacant seat on the
Supreme Bench.
The countrys Capital is the place, in his
opinion, for the site of the Worlds Fair, be-
cause all civic rivalry would be discounted, and,
apart from industrial products, there is no CITY
in the States which would SO impress foreign
visitors with the simplicity well as the effect
iveness of Republican institutions as the Capl-
tal The Capitol and Public Buildings would
themselves form no mean attraction while the
railroad approaches were sufficient.
%. II. Boyer, Assistant Secretary of the
National Board of Steam Navigation; NJ.
Moran, of the tug firm of Moran & Stewart,
and Alexander Smith, the editor of the New
York Seaboard and Reporter, remained IN the
city yesterday forenoon. Captain W. c. Gray
and Captain Joseph H. Dunlap, of Gray's Iron
Line, conducted the New York visitors to the
Black Diamond Steel Works. where they were
shown through the establishment The visitors
departed for the East at about noon, They
will stop on their way at Johnstown. Captain
Gray is an uncle to the Park Bros, who are
part owners of GIay's Iron Line.
james Kearney, civil engineer of St.
Kits. West Indies is in Pittsburg on private
business. connected with farm which he owns
at Grapeville. He has made purchases in
machinery for sugar refining to the extent of
sl0,0OO. He says that the West India mer-
chants are trying to turn all the trade of the
Islands to the United States as the most con-
venlent market The people are very anxious
to establish closer bond of union with North
America, and there is a steadily growing
feeling in favor Of union with the States.
Superintendent Follansbee, of the
Chamber of Commerce, yesterday received a
communication from the Secretary of the
Bengal Chamber of Commerce. located at Cal
cutta, containing a copy of the Indian Mer-
chandise Marks act and also a copy of the
rules as regards Permissible variations,
framed under the authority of section 16 of the
act of His Excellency, the Viceroy of India"
The communication has been duly acknowl-
edged by Superintendent Follansbee.
j. F. Golding, of Chicago, is staying at
the Monongahela. Mr.. Golding is the inven-
tor of a process by which the expanded metal
can be employed for such novel purposes as
lathing the ceilings of a room and other struc-
tural purposes. The method is already ex-
tensively used in this country and Australia,
and on Saturday Mr.. Golding leaves for Europe
to push his business interests there.
Captain James Sweeney, of New Or
leans is visiting friends in the city. He is on
his homeward journey from the East. Captain
Sweeney is interested in the Time Coal Com
pany, of this city, and in the New Orleans coal
firm of Sweeny, Miltonberger Co.
DIR. E. T. Painter, who has been sick in
for some three months past, has
to the city and has resumed the
practice of his profession.
Judge Theo. S. Wilson, of Clarion, will
be a guest at the Seventh Avenue until after
the sitting of the Supreme Court on Monday
Joseph Vogel returned to the city from
Lexington. KY, yesterday. where he has been
visiting for the last week.
DIR. R. c. Flower, the famous Boston
is expected to arrive at the Monon-
gahela House to-day.
S. S. Marvin returned from New York
last night. He was accompanied by his daugh-
ter and Mrs. Hirsch.
Oscar Bradford, President of the
Expanded Metal Company, returned to st.
Louis last night
j. w. Philips, concerned in the iron
in New Castle, is staying at the
w. Il. Comfy, of the firm of Ritter &
Comfy, iron plate manufacturers. left for Chi
cago last night.
H. L. Smith, President of the Petroleum
Exchange of New York, is o guest at the
j. f. Difenbacher and wife have re-
.urned home after an extended tour in the
n northwest
DR.. r. W. Stewart, of the Mercy Hos
2ital, returned to Pittsburg yesterday from the
East.
II. P. Thompson, an oil producer of
has registered at the Monongahela-
DIR. w. 81. Winslow, of Penn avenue,
,as returned from his summer vacation.