Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
JUNE.

l-Meetings called in all large cities through
out the country Tor the purpose Of aiding
Johnstown. Committees from every branch
of business actively at work in behalf of the
survivors. Physicians leave the city in a
body for Johnstown. Reservoir at Cuba,
N. Y, bursts. Floods sweep Maryland and
Virginia. Meeting of Good Templars at
Chicago. Five railroad officials indicted in
Chicago under Interstate Commerce Act
2-An American vessel fred upon off Cape
Hayti. Adjutant General Hastings arrives
at Johnstown. President Harrison says the
State Board of Health should act immed-
lately. Allegheny county members of
Legislature volunteer their services
for an extra session.
3-Inquest held in the Cronin case Governor
Beaver issues a proclamation appealing to
the people of the entire country.
4-Mass meetings held in different cities
throughout the country; subscriptions to
sufferers generously made at all points; ill.,
surance companies question their liability
Tor damages sustained by the flood; Presi-
dent Harrison makes an appeal for aid of
the JOhnstown sufferers at the Washington
mass meeting. Williamsport in destitute
condition; repeated appeals for assistance.
6-Thieves and marauders infest Johnstown;
England sends assistance TO JohnstOwn;
money from Maine to California floats into
the Chamber OF Commerce; employees of the
Gautier Steel Works receive one months
wages from relief fund; relief committee
organized at Johnstown; delegations from
Ohio towns pass through en- route to Johns
President consults with Attorney General
Miller and the Government will furnish all
possible aid to Johnstown; another appeal
for laborers and money comes from Johns
town.
Ex-Governor Beaver refuses to call an extra
session; New Hampshire Legislature ap-
propriates $4,000 for ConeIhaugh sufferers;
Brooklyn navy yard sends out the monitors;
Cambria Iron Works take fire at Johns
town, adding renewed terror to the scenes.
millionaire Farwell bunkoed out of $4,000
in Chicago.
7-Dillon gives sensational evidence against
Alexander Sullivan in the Cronin case.
President Harrison commutes the sentence
of two Southern murderers. City of Seattle
Washington Territory. destroyed by fire.
Pennsylvania Railroad opens its lines to the
East. All saloons in the Conemaugh Val
ley closed. Volunteers leave Johnstown in
dr0veS. Lock Haven appeals for aid
@Whit Sunday generally observed. Cover
nor Beaver visits Johnstown.
retracts her S2U000 gift. Corner
stone to the monument of Confederate
dead in petersburg.
1.-THE State takes charge in Johnstown.
Alexander Sullivan charged with the muir
der of DR.. Cronin. Johnstown under mar
tial law. A Boston man withstands l,50O
Volts electrlc snock.
borrows one million dollars. Buffa-
< loo Bills benefit nets s., 900 for Johnstown.
0Donovan Rossas libel suit against the
Catholic NeICs dismissed.
l3-A bomb thrown at Gladstone in Cornwall.
14-Samoan treaty signed.
at the Johnstown bridge divided.
Woodruff, the Cronin suspect confesses.
Ensign George 0rmsby dismissed from the
Navy. Pontiac wins at Coney Island. More
rumors of trouble with Russia. Grand
Duke Paul, Of Russia, betrothed to Princess
Alexandra, Of Greece. Twenty lepers in
England.
of Cronin fame, makes another
confession, duplicating Sullivan. Three
lepers loose in Ontario. Cambria iron Off
oiaIs tell of past protests against the dam.
I7--rhe food unfavorable to prohibition.
Cambria Iron Company resumes.
l8-Carnegie entertains Gladstone in London.
Raceland wins the suburban.
o-Five thousand laborers strike at Johns |