Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-22
A FEW 'FESSING UP.
All Speak-Easy Proprietors Don't
Deny They Are Law Breakers.
LAST WEEK OF LICENSE COURT.
To-Day Winds Up All of the Retail Appli-
cants in the County.
ALLEGHENY WHOLESALERS TOMORROW

The License Court yesterday heard the As
applicants from Marshall, McOandless,
North Versailles, O'Hara, Ross, Reserve,
Robinson and Stowe townships All in
North Versailles were opposed, the town.
ship being nearly surrounded by prohibit
ory districts. There was strong opposition
TO the applicants from Marshall and Nc
Candless. One man in Reserve township
confessed to illegal selling, and three such
confessions were made ior McKee's Rocks,
in Stowe township.
The Court will to-day dispose of the few
remaining applicants for retail license, and
will hear those who were not present when
their cases were called. in city and country.
On Wednesday the Allegheny applicants
for wholesale license, SO in number, will be
heard. The court expects to finish its work
this week. The retail list for the boroughs
and townships will probably be handed
down this evening, and the wholesale list
for Allegheny, the boroughs and townships
on Friday.
A petition for a rehearing by Herman j.
Smith, No. 1S9 Federal street, Allegheny,
was refused.
Two applicants apply for Marshall town
ship, Frederick Riley and William NJ. Will
son, both on the Perrysville plank road.
Riley is licensed. At the recent election
he went to the polling place armed with
petition for his relicensing and a half pint
of whisky. He gave drinks to several citizens,
who kindly signed his petition. He admitted
that minors secured drinks, at second hand in
his barroom; that horse dealers played crack
loo on his porch, and that game of poker has
been conducted in house on the opposite side
of the road. Mr.. Christy called five witnesses
against Riley, and was about to call more, when
Judge Ewing said that they could not take an
hour to hear testimony. Richard Henry, bar
tender for Riley, testified that he got the
'Take-of' from the poker game regularly and
gave it to Riley. He said that crack-loo for
the drinks was sometimes played in the bar
room.
HE PAID FOR IT.
Wilson is an oil country man who has been
keeping a lodging and eating house at Brush
Creek, accommodating oil drillers, tool dressers,
etc. In 1885, when he kept a drug store in Nc
Bride City, Butler county, he was prosecuted
for selling whisky illegally. Without appear
ing in court, he settled the case by a payment
of money.
James r. Pearce applied for license in Nc
Candless township. Judge Ewing believed that
McCandless was prohibtory district but the
applicant was heard. Mr.. Christy asked Pearce
if he believed in Supreme Being. The appli-
cant said that he did. Four witnesses were
sworn against him. George Swan said that
Pearce sometimes got as full as boiled oil. Chas
Pearce- an uncle to the applicant, testified that
no licensed house needed there. The
uncle, being pressed for the cause of mis- enmity
against his nephew, finally said: "Well he
used to belong to the same church as l did but
he quit il. married into an infidel family and
broke off from Christians altogether He con-
fessed to me that he was an Infidel and don't
allow my children to have nothing to do with
his children"
North Versailles township has five appli-
cants; A. W. Douds, near Turtle Creek; Au-
gust Goldstrohm, near Brnton station; Charles
Jenkner; at Port Perry; Daniel McMunn, Wall
station; Joseph Redfern, Wilmerding.
Douds is a few feet from the prohibtory
township of Patton. which contains nearly ali
Turtle Greek. GOldstrohm, licensed in lSsS,
during lSS9 delivered beer shipped out by the
Iron City Brewery. Under the old law Jenk-
ner was convicted of selling or Sunday and
was fined Sl25 and costs. He said that ne did
not believe that there was a saloonkeeper in
Allegheny county. prior to lSSS. who did not
violate the law Mum came into court wear
ing his Grand Army uniform and brass but
tons. In the consideration OF the Mum case,
Attorney \. s. Williams urged that the Court
ought to grant license at Wilmerding rather
than TO suffer the continuance of the illegal
traffic there. Judge Ewing said that had be-
ion that there is now more illegal selling than
there was before the Brooks law.
There are seven applications from O'Hara
township: Mrs. Mary Brendle. now licensed
on the Sharpsburg and Kittanning pike; Jacob
Eross, near Sharpsburg; Captain Ezekiel Cor
don, at Montrose; Philip House, near Sharps-
burg; John Hammer, on the Kittannfng pike:
George Schneider, near Guyasuta, and Henry
+. Thomas, now licensed, ON the Little Pine
creek road.
Gordon is an old river captain. He used to
run packets on the Allegheny before the rail- |
roads we're built. House, Hammer and Schneid-
er are eI-saloon keepers. Court took recess
for dinner.
OUT IN ROSS TOWNSHIP.
-Four of the applicants from Ross township
are now licensed: Marcus Jenny and Joseph F.
D. Heating at West View; William Keown on
The Perrysville plank road, beyond " est View,
and Christ -Schauzenback at the Five Mile
House on the plank road. The other applicants
are Matthew Cridge at Evergreen station and
Henry Z. TeDnemeyer at Perrysville.
Cridge Is an old gentleman whose barroom is
In the rear OF his dining room. The material |
assertions of remonstrance were all denied
by him. Five witnesses called against him tes- |
titled that the people of Evergreen did not
want and did not need saloon. Cridge owns |
the house in the Fourth ward of Allegheny
where charles o'Brien is preparing to open a
saloon. The licensed men passed without diff |
Guilty Tennemeyer used to keep a saloon in
the Second ward of Allegheny and for nearly
three years has been in California.
Ten applicants appeared from Reserve town.
ship: Thomas Boehm, No40S East street: Adam
Miller, No. 4O4 East street; Daniel Pfeifer, now
licensed. corner of East street and Royal;Lewis |
Heyl, Mrs. Elizabeth Sigmund now licensed.
and Samuel Tschume, all on the plank road 4
continuation of East street, and near the CITY |
line; Charles Faith, at CITY View;'' Conrad |
Rock. on Royal street: Conrad UnCer and |
Franz Weckel, on the Troy Hill road. |
Heyl admitted the illegal sale of liquor dur
ing the past winter. He said that he had to do |
that to keep up with the procession, as his |
neighbors were selling. Charles Faith, Heyi, |
Miller, Rock, Unger and Weckel kept saloons ]
before the advent of the Brooks law Tschume |
secured bottler's license last year. but did not 1
business.
William Henry Senft, proprietor of the |
summit House." is the only applicant for !
township. In 1888 he was returned |
pushed. During the past year he has not had |
aslcense- Rev. Douthett swore that in 1888
there was much rowdyism and drunkenness
along the road near Senft's place. which had
not been noticed since.
Stowe township brought up l6 applicants
and long list of remonstrants. The following
are the anxious petitioners, all at or near Nc
KEGS Rocks: William 7. Armstrong Mrs
Mary A. Bryan, George Bleibel, Franz Burger
Frank H. Bragdon, James Bryan, John Bryan,
Mrs. Theresa Gensch, James Grogan, William |
Lamb, William Mccarthy, Emil Robitzek. John
Franz Paul Steedle Theodore |
Smith and Al Young.
Mrs Bryan was formerly postmistress and is
the mother of two other applicants. Bleibel
has rented house. whose occupant, his father,
George Blelbel, during the past year had
United States retail liquor license. Burger
Kept saloons on the Southside and in Lawrence
nile before he became a citizen. He was natu-
-alized in 1889. Bragdon was formally employed |
Is assistant steward at the Hotel Duquesne
A CANDID APPLICANT.
James Bryan applies for house kept for
ome time by GeisleT, who gave the place,
Judge Ewing said, a terribly bad reputation,
John Bryan said that during the past year he