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

| Thirteen colored Baptists immersed in the
freezing river. John Czerny suicides in
Allegheny after complaining of not getting
| 2 pension. Musical union committee to
fight the theatres. l4th anniversary of So
ciety for Improvement of the poor held in
| st. Peters P. e. church.
| ZAudttor- General McCamant grants Law
| renee depositors petition for receiver.
Concluding session of the Allegheny County
Presbyterian ministers Armstrong memo
rial ASSOCIATION meets and dissolves.
| S-Black Diamond Co. to erect works at Brad
dock. Lawrence depositors fight bitterly
in court for a receivership. Elder W. G..
Johnston creates. excitement at the Pitts
burg Presbytery by opposing revision Of
6-wrapping paper companies form trust
| Lawrence bank may pay out The
Monongahela House gutred by mysterious
hre; insurance $l95 600. loss about 800, COO.
Mrs. Cusick investigating the St. Ursuline.
Barrel factory at the workhOuse closed.
Randall Club election-F. ]. Weixel, Presi-
dent. Gen. Hastings talks 20 the Young
Mems Tariff Club.
6-Speculators buying Lawrence Bank claims
at 80 cents on the dollar. McGaw REIN
stated by his old assembly; quarrel as to
its legality. General Alger in his tour OF
inspection cordially received by the g. A.
X. Brewers expend 81, ,225.O00 in improve
ments. Local window glass combination
assured. Monongahela House fire; loss
now put at $50, 600
the church owing to the death of Bishop
Tuigg. Fifth Avenue Market House
leased for so years by Eighteenth Regiment
and battery =; Smith sentenced to be
old Joe Mcdonald, Allegheny, suicides.
S-Insane mans freaks frightens Zion congre-
CATION. Moorhead W. G. T. U. meetings
disturbed by mob Of boys.
9-Southside Medical Society after quacks.
Miners organizations unite.
10-Harrison passes through.
R-Pennsylvania Railroad purchasing South
side property. Pittsburg postoffice business
increases 80 per cent in l6 years. Long q
Co.'s property sold at Sheriff's sale. Phila-
delphia Gas Company sells to the Westing
house Airbrake Company, their magnif-
cent building for S600,0O0 Miss. Margaret
Mckee and K. Mitchell married. Owners
of the Wiley building sued for $4,000 for
injuries.
13-P0pular concerts projected in the Exposi-
tion buildings. Carnegie's boom for Cleve-
land considered only compliment here.
National Bank will succeed the defunct
Lawrence. Expulsion of j. NJ. Kelly
from the Trades Council.
lA-Fort Wayne to lay another double track
between Allegheny and Conway. There
will be q total OF 1900 arrests by the end Of
the year.
15-HiDernians disagree and march in three
sections instead of one. Old scores re-
Vived between American and Erin boards.
St Agnes Church, Soho, dedicated.
b-Carbon settlers of Allegheny Light Com
pany strike on account of non-union men
being employed Assignee McKelvy re-
signs. Superb furnishing of the new
H-Postmaster McKean's commission awaiting
him. Joseph Dietz falls down an elevator
and is killed. P. r. r. buying Oak alley
property. Fidelity Trust Company chosen
assignee Of Lawrence bank.
lS-An hospitals to be enlarged. Favorable
comment upon McKean's appointment.
Meeting to consider change in moving day.
Mexican surely postmaster, and will be
banQueted.
19-James Campbell, President of l. A. 800, has
aprivate hearing at the Treasury. Rev. b.
u onfFo rxfS Da
kota College. Randall club will boom
Governor CampbelPs inauguration. Schoen-
berger's mill to start after two years idle
ness. j. G. Doty and Miss Maggie Shaw
20-Attorney General Miller says some mistake
is possible in the tiresome Jeanette case.
W. B. Chaffey. operator. suicides IN Allie
gheny; financial troubles. Warehouse
mems Assembly surrenders its charter.
ZIP. r. R. still tackling Oak alley property.
Oakland wants branch postofice. Des-
perate fight between Cookey Roberts and
Officer John Roach.
2-SOme local complications may ensue because
of that A, F. of l. resolution.
&-Mrs. Paul Rudert brutally shot by masked
murderer IN Tarentum. The town wild, but
the assassin escapes Westinghouse says
the adverse airbrake decision will not injure
him. Row in Allegheny Councils as to who
will manage the Carnegie Free Library.
Great interest in the 72-hour walking match
for 81, 600 in prizes.
24Dr. Charles Ashburner, geologist and
scientist, East End, died, aged 35 Patrick
Masterson found dead in q well. Tarentumis
cold-blooded murderer still aE large.
25-Monongahela House lease purchased by the
proprietors from lessees for S26 000 Christ
mas purchases IN numbers and value and
church obserVances the greatest ever
known.
26-Fire at the Casino Museum, slight damage
and dreadful panic prevented by the ac-
tors. Effort to put workhouse prisoners on
the county roads. Some local merchants
throw cold water on the ship canal
N-Pottery combine perfected. Perkins de-
teetives engaged on the Tarentum murder.
28-Alleged that young children are employed |
in Pittsburg mills. A Pittsburger working |
on amodel ship that will fairly fly over the |
ocean. Testimony all in in the Porter con- |
spiracy case. Hegelman wins the foot race. |
on the Fifth avenue traction dis |
charged as members of unions. Chicago |
gripmen on hand. Ice becomes scarce, |
Diphtheria patients recover and less alarm |
is felt. Saw Mill dam must CO. |
31-The Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sixth |
avenue and Smithfield, to come down and a |
business block will occupy its place. Alder |
man Porter and gang found guilty as in |
dicted. Preparations to celebrate New |
Years Day in churches and hospitals and |
on the street. Traction company running |
smoothly