Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-17
AGENT O'BRIEN VERY BUSY.
he IL After Glade Run Rooster Pushers, but
Attends TO Many Minor Cases.

He II After Glade Run Rooster Pushers, but
Attends TO Many Minor Cases.
Agent O'Brien, of the Humane Society,
is certainly in for a decided war against
brutal sports. He secured the fning Of
more than score of men engaged in the
dog fight at McKee's Rocks. He has had
two men fined for the chicken fight at Oil
City on December 81, and is not through
yet with that case. To-day he will 60 to
Warren, Pa, to investigate chic ken fight
which was held there December 20.
Yesterday Mr.. O'Brien received q letter
from gentleman in Glade Run, Warren
county, Pa, asking him to come to that
place and stir things up. The writer SAID
that the cooking main held In Glade
Run on the Friday night before
Christmas was one of the most disgraceful
affairs ever known in that part OF the coun-
try. About 100 men and boys attended 1t.
The men who conducted the fighting were
from Oil City, Plesssntville, TitusVllle and
Warren. Glade Run is small town two
miles above Warren, on the Allegheny
river, and the fight was held there to avoid
the Warren police. The writer of the letter
SAYS that the affair was conducted IN large
hall on the third floor OF the Glade Run Ho-
tel. of which John BSldensperger is the pro-
prietor. 1t is further charged that the pro-
prietor rented his hall for the fight three
davs before the occurrence for SO, and that
at the fight he acted as doorkeeper. The ad-
mission fee was 81.
The racket was kept up all night, and
about daylight broke up in drunken row.
The citizens OF the town found the bodies of
six chickens lying on the street. They had
been thrown from the windows Of the hall.
Two of them were not quite dead,
Mr.. O'Brien was given the names OF sew
eral residents of Glade Run who can furnish
him with information regarding the dis
graceful affair. At least 20 of the partici-
pants are known.
Agent o'Brien spent the forenoon attend
ing some hearings before Mayor Pearson, of
Allegheny. Arthur Graham and his wife
were each fined $40 and costs for drunken
ness. Agent O'Brien threatened to take
their young son from them, but finally con-
sented that it should be put into the care of
some IF Graham's relatives.
John Huddow and wife were arraigned
for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
They were lectured by the Mayor and dis
charged, and Agent O'Brien told them that
if they were ever caught again in the same
condition he would feel it to be his duty to
take their child from them.
At noon Mr.. O'Brien went to Sharpsburg
to prosecute a complaint before Justice
William Robinson. The, wife of r. H.
Douglas, bricklayer, had prosecuted him
for cruelty and neglect. The wife is very
i'll with consumption and has four children.
She comes of a good family, her maiden
name having been Schad. She complained
that her husband, though he made good
wages, spent nearly all his money for drink,
not giving her sufficient to live on. Last
Sunday she was compelled to leave him and
60 to the house of a sister, TO procure enough
to eat. Douglas was arrested Wednesday
evening and spent the night in the lookup.
Yesterday he displayed penitence, took the
pledge and promised to be good. He was at
first ordered to be committed to court, but
afterward he was released on mis- own recog-
niZance and the case held open, to see if he
will take care of his family better than he
has been doing.