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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
THE YEARS HISTORY.
Chronological Review of the Import
ant Events of the Year 1889.
MANY GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT
Affairs and Men of Great Interest to On
Coming Generations,
WITH HOPES OF A GRAND NEW YEAR

With the last reluctant tones of the mid
night bells there passed into history the
records Of 1889. Be these records good OF
bad. great or small, that each must answer
unto himself
While looking forward with firm hope
to the future, there is always a sad pleasure
in turning back over the leaves of the past,
and no matter what the victories to come,
they can never atone for the defeats of the
past. One year nearer to happiness, or per-
hRps one year nearer to shame, one year
nearer the goal of ambition, and alas, one
year nearer death. What world of mourn
full philosophy lies buried in the bare rec
ords Of the world for but one heeting year,
a feeting moment in the cycles of destiny,
but lifetime in the age of man.
The past year has seen wondrous strides
in civilization; it has witnessed the triumph
Of art, and calamities innumerable, one, the
greatest that ever befell the human race.
What the coming year will show, but One
alone can answer; let blind man rest con-
fent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
JANUARY.

1.-The Economics celebrate New Year in
quaint style. Chief Elliot's report. Annual
report Of postofice shows big gains. Over
800 newsboys enjoy the annual banquet at
Grand Central Rink.
2-Gigantic union Of temperance organizations
OF Western Pennsylvania formed. Tom
Barry talks about K. of L. officials, charg-
ing some croOkedness. Two Penn avenue
6-Allegheny Councils consider charter legis-
lation. Coke workers ask for q sliding
scale. Andrew Carnegie purchases Henry
Phipps' interests in the great iron firm for
S2060000
"A remarkable romance Of q sons revenge
on his father, who deserted him % years be-
perintendent Starr. of the FIT. Wayne road,
indicted for negligence and involuntary
manslaughter.
0--The bequests Of Mrs. Jane Holmes to local
public charities through a clause in the will
are doubled. making the total amount $780,
O00 Tom Barry gives some inside knowl-
edge as to the workings Of the X. OF L A
syndicate gobbles the Pittsburg, Allegheny
and Manchester Street Passenger Railway.
Hattie Lewis wins the bicycle race at the
Grand Central Rink. Details Of the cele-
brated Cleveland fur robbery.
6EDruggists close their establishments owing
to the war on them by the L. & o. Society.
]. +. Nicholson gives up the contract for
raising money to build an exposition.
T-Tom Barry prevented from holding meet
ing in X. Of l. hall The supreme Court
decides the natural gas suits in favor Of the
companies. Allegheny citizens meet and
protest against q change OF government.
Al Davis, an East End restaurant keeper,
murdered at his home. VIM. Carr,s will
filed. He leaves 81, go. 900 to relatives.
8-The County Controller reduces constable
fees. Tom Barry organizes anew branch OF
his Brotherhood. The State Board OF Char
itles finds fault with the Humane Society's
methods.
e-The unfinished seven-story brick building
of G. L. Wiley. 81 Diamond street, blows
down. wrecking ten other buildings and
killing 16 aud injuring IS persons; DR..
James L. Reed, the veteran homeopathic
physician among the number killed; thrill
ing incidents Of the great disaster. The
Westinghouse Electric Company finishes 4
contract for lighting the Hoosac tunnel
l0-Work OF clearing away the wreck on Dia-
mond street commences; Coroner Mcdowell
begins an inquest on the bodies. Annual
meeting Of the Monongahela Navigation
Company. W. G. 7. q. adopts a novel plan
70 secure votes for the Constitutionai
amendment.
1-Dssperats robbers do business In the East
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
SEPTEMBER.

1-Graham goes over Niagara Falls and lives.
War of races in Gretna, La; many
shot: militia ordered out. Ten Thousand
coal beavers join the London strike.
2-Another lineman killed by electricity in
New York.
3-Mrs Ray hamilton's conspiracy exposed.
Difficulty IN securing Cronin jury. Neff
4-Hungarian riot near Mt. Pleasant; one
man murdered.
5--Celebration of the founding OF Old Log
College, now Princeton College, attended
by $1,000 people; President Harrison and
Wanamaker make speeches. Jennie 3.
Chamberlain and Captain Leyland married
in London.
6-NagIe testifes he believed his life in danger
from Judge Terry. Citizens Of Johns
town raise 81 500 with which to sue
the South Fork. Ray Hamilton testi-
hes how he was duped by a bogus child
MRS. Marle Nevins Blaine very iii. Labor
ers win the London strike. Edison almost
worshiped in Paris.
S-Johns Hopkins University in financial
trouble. Enormous tidal wave sweeps
Rockaway Beach. many buildings swept
away. ,s1
9-searle beats o'Connor on the Thamea
10-Neterans gathering at Gettysburg.
L-Pennsylvania Day at Gettysburg. The
Pennsylvania Reserves addressed by Tx
Governor Curtin who first called them out.
Gereral Pearson addresses the One-Hundred
and Fifty-tfth at Gettysburg.
R-UniVersal mourning for Sunset Cox.
B-Sworn losses at Johnstown exceed 5000,
900.
14-Millionaire Gesswein shot in his Office by
Inventor Deyhl. Ives confesses OF his
methods on the stand. Langtry divorced.
Chicago Exposition damaged by fire.
Strange services in Foxburg church in
honor of the memory of VIM. Fox.
15-Mormons establish mission in New York
City to capture emigrants.
18-Marshal Nagle released.
H-Mysterious shower Of stones in West Vir-
ginia.
Ex-senator Rosenberg's son, of New Jersey.
suicides; religious dependency. The blue
and the gray unite at Chattanooga to form
the Chickamauga Association.
l9-Forest fires in Oregon. Mrs. Hamilton
sentenced to two years in States prison.
made chairman of the Chickamauga AS
sociation.
20-The brotherhood baseball scheme booming.
2S-An Austrian appropriateS $780, 600 and is
nabbed in New York.
A-George Francis Train arrested for a debt.
25-The Chinese Lees declare war against the
Wongs on account of complications in China.
Cumberland celebrates her centennial.
Smokeless powder adopted in foreign
countries.
28-Boulanger badly defeated in the French
elections. Emmons Blaine and Miss Anita
Mccormick married at Richheld Springs,
NY.
N-Fred Douglass insulted by steamship cap
tains, who refuse to take him TO Hayti.
Edison made Commander of the French
Legion Of Honor in Paris. Scott explains
the ILLINOIS coal troubles Open polygamy
in Utah stopped.
28-Bogus medical colleges in Boston sell
diplomas for $50. Marie Blaine wants
divorce.
30-Fred Douglass and party SAIL Matt. Quay
celebrates his 56th birthday. State workers
leave Johnstown.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
OCTOBER.

2-Evidence closing in around LIE Coney
3-William T.. Endicott and Miss Thoron mar
Tied.
4-Powderly receives an ovation in St. Louis.
5-Father Boyle sentenced to hang for Grim
lnal assault, Raleigh. N. G.
6-Count Thomas Edison returns. Captain
Nattery, st. Louis millionaire, brutally
beaten-a mysterious affair. Pan-Amerf-
cans welcomed everywhere.
T-Slattery. the victim of conspiracy.
800 900 Knights Templar parade in Washing
ton. A mother and her child swept over
board from the City of Paris. Comedian
Bishop dies while acting in the Lyceum,
New York. Still finding bodies at Johns
town almost daily.
drowned. Knights Templar received at the
White House.
IQ-Grover Cleveland and Proctor Knott eulo-
gize Sunset Cox.
Mrs. Richard Ambrose, of st. Louis. cele-
brate their wedding anniversary by drink
ing themselves to death.
12-Conspiracy discovered to buy the Cronin
jury.
I3-Brooklyn Tabernacle destroyed by fire.
Sault Ste Marie DESTROYED by fire.
14-G. P. Morris, social leader. suicides in New
York. Conference of the K. of L. and the
A. F. of L. results in harmony. Scientific
expedition sails for Africa
l5-Alex Sullivan connected with the Cronin
jury conspiracy.
1S-Johnstown people ask about that delayed
2l-Frank ]. Bowman, a st. Louis lawyer, shot
by an ex-bank president in a financial
quarrel.
22-cronin jury at last secured. Johnstown
sufferers to receive portion of the money
2-Another Johnstown victim suicides EN-
nett Wells sues his wife to recover his lost
money
A-The great Cronin trial opened. Ericsson
successfully tests his new explosive.
2-Navasso rioters charged with murder.
26-The Tariff Club banquets Q. L. Magee. p.
T. Barnum makes hit in London.
N-MexicO refuses American beef Reception
to Clara Barton in Washington d. @.
2-Arthur elected President of the Brother
hood Engineers. A rash footpad shot in
Greensburg. Talmage breaks ground for
his new church.
29-The Talmages sail for Europe.
30-The Murat COlwell engagement declared
of. The Prince wants too much money
31-Cashier Cresson of Conshohocken, flies to
Canada with $4,000. Wanamaker and the
Western Union Telegraph Company COM
promise. Burke in bad box.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
MAY.

Centennial ends in q blaze of
glory. Ben Butler says Farragut was the
hero of New Orleans and Porter ran away
-Four more McClellandtoWn outlaws ar
rested Taylor sentenced to hang for Nc
Causland's murder.
2-Three strikers shot in Reading coal riots.
Two-thousand Indiana miners strike. Fear
fui exposure of crulties in Chicago insane
asylum.
S-sensation in Harrisburg over Mr.. Hhiras'
intended impeachment Of Judge White.
Sir Julian Pauncefote presents his creden-
tials. Mind-reader Bishop married again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
THE LOCAL RESUME.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN ALLEGHENY
COUNTY OF ANY IMPORTANCE.
Steps Tint Mark the Advance of a Great
City I6Aau Even Higher Niche in the
Eyes of the WOrld-A Year
That VIII be Pleasantly
Remembered.

1t is always pleasing thing to read Of
the success of ones own, and the records
Of Allegheny county for the past year are
those of which all may be proud. With an
old year closing in wave of prosperity, the
new can offer nothing but encouragement.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

The Editor of the Perham Bulletin,
in an exceedingly misty article, cast
ing reflections upon Hon. Henry
Plowman, of Otter Tail County, says
We fully expect that Mr.. Plowman,
when he sees this. will rush for his
pen and tell the Fergus Falls Journal
of the conversation we had with DR..
Fish, during his visit to Perham last
month. We especially invite it; two
can play at that game.
The only conversation had with
Editor Davidson on this subject was
the straight statement that we did
not know whether Mr.. Plowmar
wanted to go to the legislature OF
not-but that he would make a GOOD
candidate. That was the sum, and
the total, and the aggregate. AND
it was the truth, on either statement
Sometimes editors "insinuendo' more
than they intend-but Mr.. David
son would hardly do this intention
ally.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28


The Executive Committee are criti-
cised by some members for putting
state officials ON the program. This
is owing to q misunderstanding on
the part of our friends. 1t is always
the rule to have the Governor adj
dress the state meeting, for our own
interest-as he is the head OF the
government which we seek to modify
and transform. The R. r. Commits
sioners are expected to explain them
selves-and they will do it. Their
course will be sweetly justified
an angelic blandness and profound
acumen. Mr.. Baker was put on for
an evening address because, we sup
pose, he was the first R. R. Commits
sioner and can give some facts as to
what a commission can do if they
want to.
The session viii undoubtedly last
three days-come prepared to stay
from Monday night to Friday morn.
ingif you can.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28
Is Flour in Liverpool Worth $3.50 a
Barrel?

The millers of Blue Earth Co., have
furnished us with freight rates on
four-Minnesota to Liverpool, only
4 600 miles-to show the ignorant
editor that he don't know anything.
These rates" are gratefully received.
Thanks gentlemen-you probably
have trunk full of thanks down
stairs, but kindly accept ours. Let
us see-it costs 50 cents hundred to
ship an old tub and a cupboard 100
miles in Minnesota! If you want to
send to your dear cousin out in
Grant County, a barrel of rags to
make a carpet with you can do SO
for SO cents hundred lbs.
But if the miller wants to send his
-four to Liverpool, 1900 miles, he
can do so for A cents a hundred. AT
the same rate the Minnesotian pays
to local points it would cost $4,000
to send a sack flour to Liverpool
$3.50 a barrel. Come up and call on
us Mr.. Millers-we've a little puzzle
for you-with -four at $3.50 a bar
rel how much is that for wheat at J.
bushels to the barrel?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

No more interesting matter will
come up before the State Alliance
Tuesday than the formation OF con-
stitution. Among the questions to
settle will be that of conditions OF
membership to the Alliances.
In view of the fact that upon all
important questions there are as vari-
GUS views as there are human minds,
let all-without exception-come pre-
pared to have some corner knocked
Off Do not expect to be completely
suited as to the eligibility for mem
bership. No scheme on earth can
prevent some members from joining
for personal interests. But rules
should be made as clear and just as
possible. 1t seems to us that two
lines of restriction can at least be
drawn: That a member shall not be
in commercial or general business.
That a member, if not working q
farm must be in the employ of the al
lance so that he cannot farm. But
wherever the lines are drawn, let us
all acquiesce and go to work with
energy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28
What is It For? We don't know

What is It For? We don't know;
The following, taken from a per-
sonal letter from a delegate to the
meeting OF March 18th suggests an
early publication:
n 1--WE have been invited to an in
spection in St. Paul on Monday, or
'sumtings like dot and we would
rather know what it is. Can you
tell us?"
Further comments cast a shadow
upon this matter. dimlY conveying
the idea that delegates are to be
seen by some one." Seen for what
and by whom? Who is there in this
Farmers Alliance that has anything
to purchase and what is it that is to
be purchased? We do not know
more than the above, nor is there
more time to find out. Nor would We
lie awake nights over it when the
moon is full. We don't believe the
bank will hold out anyway!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

This is the last issue before the
state meeting. Let us urge upon all
a spirit of kindness and forbearance.
What ever differences may have
arisen on account of the forcing of
Mr.. Scheffer's Insurance Co. on the AL
lance are removed by the reorganiza-
ton of the defunct Wisconsin Hekla
Company into a general Minnesota
Stock Company, with Mr.. Sprague
as President, Mr.. Scheffer as Treasur-
er and Mr.. Hodgson as Secretary.
Mr.. Sprague states freely that he will
not be a candidate for reelection
and there is no legitimate reason
why there should be the slightest in
harmony.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

The farmers alliance of this state
as to-day coming in for it's share OF
attention. While we are no granger
and only indirectly interested in their
welfare we can not help but think
that every farmer should bein it. In
it not for political reasons or IN the
hope OF causing a revolution in com. !.
merce but for the enhancement OF
those interests which are really con-
ducive to their prosperity. They
should be in it as a unit, demanding
their rights; they should be in it as a
solid body demanding the enforce
ment of justlaws which concern them.
They should be in it for the correc-
ton, Of evils thatnow exist and to pre-
vent the creation OF new ones. Ii
properly conducted, and for it's orig
inal purpose, it is for their good.
In fact it is their board of trade or
chamber of commerce.-St. Peter
Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

Have we all the privilege now of in
discriminate lying? If SO this paper
wants to know it. Most party pa
pers in the state, SO far as we have
been able to discover, which have re-
ferred to the Iowa granger-railroad
matter, have misrepresentation. Look
out now, you swell-head oracles-
there'n come along a shot with a
trail behind it one of these days.
One true lie on our part would keep
your whole gang 'sexplaining'' for a
month.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28
Common Sense Survives.

The parties who were endeavoring
to hoist an Insurance. Company in
to the Alliance with Albert Scheffer
as President, and four Alliance men
on a salary to work it's interests,
have withdrawn their plan. They
have united with several business
men in St. Paul to revive the broken
Hekla ms, Co., of Madison, Wis,
which has already reinsured it's risks
in Mr.. Scheffer's Company.
Mr.. Sprague is president OF the
Company; Albert Scheffer, Treas
urer; and T. C. Hodgson, Secy.
Albert Scheffer is president of the
Board, and the other members OF
the Board are: W. C. Bredehangen, J.
@. Haas, VIM. G. Hendrickson, Henry
Ahnemann, C. H. Brush, John A.
johnson. w. J. Bodkin, Halle Steens.
land, Geo. w. Sprague, Geo. w.
Haigh, Thos. Hodgson and C. H.
Bulls.
On this board of twelve men there
are the four alliance men who under
took to organize the Scheffer-Alliance
Company. We shall be pleased tc
see them succeed in business. Thei1
course in giving up the ALI
ances scheme commands itself te
every Alliance man. The put
ting of the farmers business
to the extent of hundreds o
thousands of dollars into the hands
of the St. Paul bankers and business
men was a blow at the very existence
of the Alliance. st. Paul has too
much of the farmers SWEET frozen in
to "gelt" in their safes already. Ru'
no man will begrudge Sprague ant
Hodgson a successful career in bust
ness on an independent basis. It vii
naturally take them out of the ALI
ance on q strict construction of tn
rules.
Every member of the Alliance vii
breathe more freely, and rejoice tina
the field has been left to the Nationa
Alliance Company without conten
] ton.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

We have now heard from four OF
our counties-and in each the num-
Der Of farm mortgages has very
largely increased during the past
year. We have heard of no county
where they have decreased-and yet
there was bountiful eropl See
statement Of Rice Co., from Albert
Lea Standard, in another column, in
which the value of the mortgages
equals about one-half the assessed
valuation before the recent drop!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

Since the exposure of the Scheffer-
Sprague combine, this Office has
probaly received fully 600 letters. Of
this vast correspondence not one
solitary letter was received criticising
the GREAT VESTS course, but a host
commencing us-until at last, one
poor lonesome neighbor of Mr..
Sprague took up the cudgel and pro-
posed to pound us.
Now, friend Daniels, we will only
say two things to you:
1st.-The exposure was delayed
until the alliance people were accus-
ing us of standing in' on the mat
ter-and one claimed that no man
had right to delay information for
one moment.
2d.-1t was necessary to expose it
before the state meeting. To bring
the whole history of that affair before
the alliance would have broken it up
on the spot.
And we might add the paper is not
a thoroughbred iackass-if it is one
it don't know it. And it saw a hun
dred wires going out into the state
to pull in the "blind forces"-anG
we may as well understand, nov
and henceforth, that the Alliance has
carmine streaks in it's glimmer-
blood in it's eye. 1t is through-whol
ly through-e ternally through-witl
the still-hunt secondhand politica
vibrators. The political vibrator
is an animal who has solo
his backbone and keeps his bacl
straight by hanging by the chin tx
St. Paul politicians.
The alliance has no use for them
Personally, it feels kindly enough
but in any other sense it would tur1
them out on the barren wastes of lif
tO-wOrk for a living!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28
Bv Request.

Once again the farmers of the Uni
ted States want bill introduced in
Congress, and some Senator does
the introduction act, stating that it
is done "By Request" When the
farmers get tired Of sending lot of
gold mounted hogs to Washington
they will probably get in q bill CT
two with out the label-"By Request. -
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

Prices on Irvine already feel the ef
feet of the new trust. They have ed
vanced considerably. Pure manila
is now listed at 1870, sisal 16c-,
sisal crow 14c. These, of course, will
be enlarged" by the retail dealer
The trust is in the hands of the Eliza
bethport Steam Cordage Co. Now
is the time to agitate this matter,
and not wait until the last hour, as
was done last year.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28
THEY HAVE CONFIDENCE IN US

EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Yours received, and will 60 over
Monday and try to organize. You
are all right. We are glad you did
just what you did. It is a little hard
on these old political traders to lose
all their influence. But if we are
going to sweep out the other fellows
who rob us, we better begin at home.
] must say that / thought you a
brave man before when you struck
out so hard against the rich and the
strong, but now you are a "biger
man than Grant" Don't hold back
from striking. You~see your courage
gives lis courage. OLD JOE.
Douglas. County, Feby Goth, 1890.
DR.. FISH:
~ - When you first
brought out that insurance matter
against Mr.. Sprague, L was sorry.
But when l looked the matter over,
and my neighbors talked of it, we all
concluded that twas a brave thing
and a good thing, and we thank you
That is the paper we want and the
men to manage it too. i cansee that
it.took some grit and some sand to
do SO. And if the men went, back on
an :honora2ole contract with the Ali
:ance Insurance Company, ought such
men to be Alliance men? Doctor, W.
will stand by you.
JOHN D. BENT.
Stearns Co., Feb. 1890.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28
Wheat Rates.

doctor, compare wheat rates with
the advertised tariffs of the R. R.
companies, and tell us how they COM
pare-so we can understand it.
THE QUESTION ANSWERED.
Average wheat freight for 100
miles out, into Minneapolis, &c. a
bushel.
Seven cents for 100 miles is OF oil
a cent for one mile.
Seven-hundredths of cent for one
mile for 60 Tbs. is
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28
Local Insurance Companies.

There are about 70 local Mutual
Fire Insurance Companies doing a.
good work. There will be no antag-
onism between the local and the Ma
tional Alliance Co. There is q COM.
mon interest between the locals and
the Alliance Insurance work. The
locals only cover about one-tenth of
the state-and the field is abundantly
large. The locals will find immedi-
ately, that the occupation of the
state by the Alliance Co. will not
modify them in any manner. There
is too much unoccupied territory.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-28

Be sure and read our poem, written
by an alliance man of Canton, S. Oak.
It is full of inspiration for the hearts
of our delegates.
Some people make light of poetry
but we notice that when armies go
out to fight the brass band goes with
them!