Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-07

March 10. and will draw up a Uniform scale
of wages to present to the operators of that dis
trict.
o. E. ABER, of Industry, is indicted for vio-
lating the license law by selling certain kinds
of patent medicine for other than medicinal
purposes.
SHARON contractors have agreed to pay
stonemasons and bricklayers an advance of 25
cents day, eight hours to constitute full day
on Saturday.
THE Illinois Steel Company at Scottdale is
building six additional furnaces, which, it is
| claimed. will give it a greater capacity than
any other steel works in the country.
MARTIN j. MORRISON Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman, was run down and killed while OPEN
ing switch Wednesday. He was 80 years old
and leaves wife. His home was at Bidwell.
A FREIGHT train jumped the track yester-
day near Carlisle and blockaded the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad. The loss is estimated at
S20.0 Fireman Samuel Cox had his arm
broken.
EMPLOYEES of the Berwind White Coal Com
pany, at Horatio, have adopted resolutions
asking the miners of Beechtree and Eleonora
to aid the strikers at Walston and Adrian by
also quitting work.
THE general store of Mrs Susan Erb and
dwelling owned and occupied by Isaac Harper,
at Pine Grove Mills, Pa were destroyed
Wednesday evening by a fire caused by an ex-
ploding lamp. Loss, 1920; insurance, sc. 5O0
THE Hazel Glass Works at Washington will
resume operations shortly on the manufacture
of cathedral lights. The new company is COM
posed of Messrs. Butler and Blair, of Pitts
burg, and G. n. Brady, of the old Hazel Com
pany.
THE Baltimore Annual Conference of the NJ.
E. Church is in session at Cumberland, Bishop
Merrill. of Chicago, presiding. To-day Rev. W.
n 1f pat;
mon in celebration of his fiftieth year in the
ministry.
MRS. JOSEPH kUHNS, of West Jeanette
was jealous of her husband and tried TO end
his life with revolver. He seized the weapon
and diverted her aim, the ball entering his
thigh. Mrs KuhnS has been arrested for at
tempted murder.
FIRE last night destroyed the large barn, to-
gether with engine house and machinery.
with outbuildings. belonging to Alexander
Goodhart, near Palmstown, Pa. The loss is
about $4,000; insurance, 81 500 The origin of the
nre was incendlary.
MRS. MARY RECTOR, the young wife of Rev.
Jonathan Rector, who is 81 years old and pastor
of Baptist church at Parkersburg. has sued
for divorce, alleging desertion and extreme
cruelty. She is the third wife of Rector, who
has children and grandchildren.
WILLIAM ELLINGER, a farmers son. has
been arrested for making several attempts to
wreck New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio
trains near Youngstown recently. He made
confession duplicating Farmer Joseph Laugh
lin. who has disappeared. Ellinger gives no rea-
son for his actions.
THE West Virginia and Pitrsburg Railroad
has been leased to the Baltimore and Ohio for
s99 years. This road comprises all the lines
which Senator Camden has been building
through the central portion of West Virginia,
and its acquisition practically gives the Balti-
more and Ohio control OF all the railroad de-
velopment OF the State.
GEORGE HORTON was non-suited at Frank
lin yesterday in his suit against the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railroad Company to
recover $4,000 for the death of his daughter,
who was killed while walking on the tracks.
The Court held that the deceased was trespass-
ing. and no liability attached to the Railroad
company.