Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-01
HITLER AND THITHER.
Movements of Pitrsburgers and Others of
Wide Acquaintance.


Wide Acquaintance.
Mr.. J. 6. Hornbarger, ofEmporia, Kan :,
an agent for several large Touring mills in the
West and owner of considerable farming land,
is in the city en- route East. His wife accom-
panies him. lie said that Kansas would have
full crop of wheat and corn this year, but
that the frost and wet weather had rusted the
OATS reducing the coming crop probably one
half He has Travelled all through the North
west in the interests of the Touring mills he
represents and says that notwithstanding the
reports to the contrary the wheat crop of Mime
sofa, Dakota and Montana will be cut down
one half. He says that spectators are trying
to give credence to contrary report, but he
knows it to be a fact. He has been all through
Illinois and questioned farmers. and finds that
the acreage in that State in wheat is not near
as large as previous years. corn and oats being
the chief products. He anticipates that the
light crops in the Northwest, and the failure
of the crops in Europe, will make good de-
mand and bring good price for all the surplus
of the coming wheat crop.
Mr.. N. q. Walker, of the N. q.
Walker Clay Manufacturing Company, Boston,
is at the Seventh Avenue. He has a large
warehouse in tn is city. He said that he
thought the pottery trust would eventually be
formed, but it would be a hard thing to bring
the East Liverpool and Trenton firms into
union, , as the G former are on good financial
cally bankrupt. He has no large contract in
view in the city.
-Drs. George I. Mcleod and Cadwala-
der Biddle. of the State Board of Charities, are
in the city on their annual inspection of the
different charitable and penal institutions of
the State.
Mr.. George N. Mccain, State political
editor of the Philadelphia Press, is at the Du-
quesne, watching the game of political check
ers now being played in this part of the State.
The Chicago Baseball Club left for the
"Pork city" last night ON the elegant buffet
Pullman car, Vacunia. The car Is lighted by
electricity and is truly palace on wheels.
Joseph Lamar, ex-Councilman of the
Thirty-sixth ward, received a telegram from
Apollo yesterday stating that his son, Philip
Lamar, had died there very suddenly.
Attorneys E. T. Kurtz, Charles A.
Reed, S. L. McCracken and Mr.. Campbell, of
New Castle, were in the city last night en- route
to the sea shore.
Miss Adelaide Gross and her brother
Herman, from Philadelphia, are visiting Mrs.
Thomas Mcconnell, of Winebiddle avenue,
East End.
General Manager McCrea, of the Fort
Wayne, and his two sons left for the Thousand
Islands in private car last night on a vacation
tour.
NEW. II. Barnes, receiver of the Allie
gheny Valley Railroad in conjunction with Mr..
David McCargo, is at the Anderson.
Mr.. j. E. Dubois, a millionaire lum-
herman at Dubois, Pa, is at the Seventh
Avenue.
Mr.. H. M. Breckenridge, of Natrona,
was registered at the Seventh Avenue last
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hazlett, of
Wheeling, were at the Duquesne last night.
Mrs. J. F. Feather, of Uniontown, was
among the Anderson's guests yesterday.
Mr.. J. H. Donnelly and wife, of Free
port. were in the city yesterday.
MIR. Warren McCreary, of Olean, N.
Y. was in the city yesterday.