Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-17
M'KEESP0RT ,SNAGS.
Rough Roads for Many of the Saloon
Applicants From That Town.
JUDGE EWING HAS TO TAKEA2EST.
his Nervous System Exhausted BY the
Prolonged Strain.
TOWNSHIPS BEGIN THIS AFTERNOON

McKeesport occupied the License Courts
attention all of yesterday, and the perform
ance dragged along slowly. Many of the
eases were hotly contested. Attorney B. c.
ChriSty represented the W. c. T. U, At
torney Falkner appeared for various indi-
vidual remonstrants and Attorney Elliott
Rodgers looked after the interest of the Ma
tional Tube Works. One case alone, that
of Morgan, lasted nearly an hour. McKees-
port people turned out by the hundred and
crowded the lobby during the greater part of
the day. After Judge Magee was left alone
on the bench, the examinations were very
slow. He is very leisurely, chews his
tobacco calmly and takes up half the time
looking at the applicants.
NAMES OF THE APPLICANTS.
The 80 applicants from the First ward of
McKeesport are as follows: George Alt
never, licensed, No. Ill Fifth avenue;
Daniel Butler, Fourth avenue and Straw
berry alley; Frank Becker, Nos. 512 and
514 Market street; A. j. Carver, licensed,
Nos. sos and $40 Market street; Thomas c.
Carr, Nos. q to % Third avenue; Thomas ].
Donnelly No. Sll Market street; w. J. Denny,
licensed, Nos. SU6 to $40 Fifth avenue; Henry
Nj. Donahoo, licensed, Nos. l24 and l26 Fifth
avenue; Charles Fechter, Nos. AS and 447
Fourth avenue; Bennett Horr, Nos 22s and 2Sl
jerome street; William knee, No. 423 Fourth
avenue; William A. Kelly. licensed, No. 507
Walnut street: Jacob {. Leger, No. 22S
Market street: frank Logan, No. 20S
Market street; George NJ. Leipzig, licensed.
Nos. 24S and 245 Fifth avenue; Luke Lynch,
licensed Diamond Hotel; Frank H. Miller.
holding license transferred from Mckay.
Jerome street; L n. Morgan licensed, Nos. 5l2
10 SIG Market street; Bernard Morris No. 43l
Fourth street; William Mckay, holding license
transferred from Barlin, Nos, S07 to 81 jerome
avenue; Ernest Reichenbach, Diamond and
Blackberry alley; Peter w. Schmidt, No 4l9
Market street: Peter Spieman, Nos. 2lo and
2l7 Market street: John Teemer, Jr., Diamond
Square and Market street; Peter Ulm, No. 80
W alnut street; Richard j. Volk Nos 2j2 and
254 Fifth avenue; Nicholas Wolf licensed Nos.
10l to los Market street: William T. Weis-
kircher, No. 420 Locust strset, and John Weiss.
No. lSl Fifth avenue. All the IL licensed
houses in Mckeesport are in the tirst ward.
THE EARLY BIRD '.FPRIMANDED.
The only fault found with .,ltmeyer was his
opening his bar before sunrise. Butler. with a
saloon experience of nine years, now keeps a |
general eating house. Into him waded Attorney |
Christy, to whom Butler said that he had been |
returned by a constable on the charge of SELL |
ing liquor without license. Becker has the |
White House, where he was licensed in lSSS. |
Christy accused Becker of selling to Warwick, |
a habitual drunkard. Becker denied that War |
nick was habltual drunkard, saying that the /
man had braced up in recent years.
Carver said that last spring he told Constable |
Piper of a number of speak-easies in the ward |
and suggested that he ought TO return them.
Piper got mad, said he knew his business, and |
threatened to prosecute Carver. Piper did re-
return Carver for selling to minors, but the |
charge was not pushed. Carver said that he |
had furnished information TO the county
agent which had led to the arrest and convic-
ton Of some of the speak-easy keepers in Nc
heesport
Denny keeps the Hotel White, which he
bought last spring from Samuel Carothers.
Donehoo is proprietor of the National Hotel. |
With neither of them was any fault found,
Fechters house is called the Arlington. Dur
ing the past year he has been helping his son in
butcherlng. The rear of his place abutS on an
alley, opposite galvanized iron works.
HE SOLD PoLENKA TO HUNS.
Because Judge Ewing's list had been made J
up wrong he called, out of order. Edward |
Fritsche, No. A Center street, in the Third |
ward. Horr keeps the Hungarian House,
boarding Huns and Poles. and looks after a
little grocery store. In 1883 he vast the agent
for Tom Moore's distillery, and sold jugs of
polenka to the Huns in McKeesport. Hugo
was unable to secure a license from Judge
White and keeps a restaurant now. Knee is
employed in the Edgar Thomson Steel Works.
The house for which he applies is now occu-
pied by Hamilt0n's restaurant Knee was
constable for eight years. Kellys place is in
The Opera House Judge Ewing said that
Kelly mad practically nothing to license ex-
cept drinking place. The restaurant is not
apparent, but Kelly has lively lunch counter
Logan, VINO kept saloon IN Pittsburg for l6
years, now runs restaurant in Mckeesport !
Leipzig went through without break.
Lynch has had license now for only one
year. he employs two bartenders and three !
cooks. His sister, Mrs. Savage, is his house.
keeper. She was the keeper of the hotel be-
fore 1888 One year age Judge
White refused to license Lynch until
he made affidavit that Mrs. Savage
TO show that Mrs. Savage must have share Of
the profits. by showing that Mr.. Lynch and his
sister had jointly bought 81, ,925 worth of real
property during the past year. Lynch said that
saved up years before. Paoli Cooper. funny
little Italian whose testimony and excitable
gestures caused laughter. was sworn. He was |
for nine weeks a beertapper for Lynch, but
said he could not stand il to work from A. NJ. |
TO / or A. NJ. He swore that he had often
seen boys drunkardS and women get liquor in |
Iynch's barroom. When a man would get
drunk there, Lynch would then throw him into
the street. Constable ]. A. Piper swore that
Lynch sold to minors and topers. Among the
latter was Red Jack" whom Piper has sent to
the County Home. Piper admitted that Carver
and Lynch had worked for his defeat at the
last election and that he had said: Its their
day now, but mine will come" George Hazlett
and Samuel W. Collins one of whom eats
daily and the other drinks daily at Lynch's
place, testified that his house was avery decent
one.
MORGAN SOLD TO ToPERS.
Miller went through easily and quickly Nor
gan ran against a remonstrance, charging him
with selling to topers. He declared that he
had refused to sell to several intoxicated per-