Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-25
ANOTHER LITTLELIST
Of Licenses Handed Down by Judges
Ewing and Magee Yesterday.
ALLEGHENY WHOLESALE DEALERS
Just FOrtY-Four of Them Decided Out of
Seyenty-Feur Who Applied.
A NUMBER YET TO BE ACTED UPON

The License Court yesterday heard 70
wholesale applicants from the boroughs,
seven of the listed men failing to appear.
To-day the boroughs will be finished, and
Baldwin and CHARTERS townships heard.
Two wards of Brsddock were heard dur
ing the forenoon. The First ward had 15
applications. P. j. Brennan and Morris
Rosenbloom have had Wholesale licenses
during the past year; so has the Eberhardt
& 0ber Brewing Company, whose Braddock
manager is George Oskin. Joseph Levi
was licensed to sell at retail, and withdrew
his wholesale application. Joseph d. Ridge
did not answer. W. II. Conlon, David
Goldman and Patrick S. MCGOWAN are ex-
saloon keepers. Goldman works for Eber-
hardt & Ober, MCGOWAN and Bernard Raf-
ferty for Pittsburg wholesalers. B. O'Con-
nor, a stonemason, was injured In the tall OF
the Wiley building. The other First ward
applicants were Nicholas kolb, Patrick
Kenny Martin McNally, James Quinn and
Jacob j. Winkenbach.
The Second ward of Braddock had II ap
plications, but John Rodgers did not ap
pear Jacob Friedman and Miles J. Hughes
are licensed. Hughes admitted selling in
buckets and sometimes to women, Thomas
Cox and Michael Murray and John McGul-
gan, doing business as Murray & Co., are
ex-salooa keepers. James +. Bowling ap-
piled as the Braddock agent of the Iron City
Brewing Company. John A; Lawrence mas
been in the produce business. Nicholas Schafer
is a brewer. The other applicants were Charles
P. Behr, Edward F. Kelly and James Morrow
John ]. Bonner, of the Third ward, was heard
before the noon recess.
BACK FROM CHICAGO.
After dinner Thomas Brennan was heard. He
has been keeping saloon in Chicago having
been refused a retail license in this county in
1855 Attorney Yost asked Brennan if he was
not indicted, in September, 1883, for the illegal
sale of liquor, and if he did not fly to Chicago
on the same day that the Indictment was found.
Mr.. Brennan declared most emphatically that
he had never heard of such thing. Mr.. Yost
later produced the record of indictment. George
Morrison and Michael Mooney are opposite
one another at the northern end of Braddock.
Morrison is a blacksmith and Mooney an ex
press wagon owner. both being ex-saloon
keepers. Joseph Striebich was refused retail
license. He was never in the business
The CHARTERS borough tMansfeld) appli-
cants were cross-examined by Attorney w. NJ
Price There were is on the list. all but three
being on Fourth avenue James Gallagher is
an old butcher who has been hauling beer for
D. Lutz & Son. He was asked by Attorney G.
p. Murray ii he did not deliver beer at the
house of Quinn, at Bridgeville, the place being
called 'the dolar-in-the-slot cellar" Mr.. Gal
lagher admitted the delivery of as many as ten
kegs some weeks, but said that he had never
heard of the SLOT Mr. Murray alleged that
man would put 81 into box and walk away
with an eighth of beer watchman looking on
to see that there was no fraud.
Nearly all other CHARTERS applicants were
cross-examined by W. NJ. Price. Julius Gott-
fried, now licensed. has done business of SSS-
800 since July TO- 1882 Henry HANNA, who is
licensed, has a bottle trade, and hauls whisky
farmer customers. Jacob RaDDel. IL
censed has a $4,000 trade. The Keystone
Brewing Company, d. LutZ & Son. Pier d Dan
nails and The Iron City Brewing Company apply
for licensed agencies in Mansfield. They were
told that they must exercise great care with
their agents. James E. Moran. who wishes to
associate his brother-in-law, James P. Rea.
gan, with him, and Morgan Thomas, are ex-sa-
loon Keepers. Samuel Alpern has been a bar
tender in Boston, Emil Grimm was recently a
brewery agent. and William Mosebruck is
driver for Spencer & Liddel. The latter con-
tessed that he had delivered beer to speak
easies. James B. Nelson and James Carrick are
miners. Carrck has lost foot D.Cotton Davis
is druggist who wants wholesale license.
August Datig is new to the business. Michael
O'Keefe withdrew.
ETNA BOROUGH PEOPLE.
In Etna borough Joseph Ackerman did not
answer, having been licensed to retail. Joseph
Reedy withdrew. George Canister and Fred c.
Aieber are licensed. Canister admitted that
Fuchs bought great deal of beer from him
and took it, the back way, to his cigar store
next door. August d. Kraus has been in the
ice business and John Kammerer is a shoe
maker. Michael Metzgar is an old gentleman
who runs small brewery.
The First ward of Homestead had four appli-
cations. Thomas II. B. Eckels has been driv-
ing beer wagon for Winter Bros. George
Jefreys kept asaloon, after the old loose style,
up TO 1855 c. A. Whitaker a grocer and
Lawrence Oeffner collector and barrel maker.
fO crOf fnTO hn nc + a
William Walton is now a manufacturer of soft
drinks.
The Second Homestead ward furnished l6 ap-
plications, five of them by the c. Bauerlein
Brewing Company, the Keystone Brewing CON-
pany, d. Lutz & Son, Pier & Dannals and the
Iron City Brewing Company. Louis Amshel
and Herman Labovitz are young Hebrew ci-
Garmakers. Stephen Bauer cannot speak En-
glish and his wife stood up and talked for him.
John Donahue is an ex-saloon keeper who has
been trying to keep family of ten with pick
and shovel for two years.
David r. Lewis died on March 81. His attor-
ney, S. A. Wills, filed petition to have Mrs.
Lewis substituted, but Judge Ewing said that
the court had no power to do such thing.
Levi Myers has been working for Joseph Levi,
Braddock liquor dealer for several years.
Samuel Osborne is lame miner whose wife
is in the Westmoreland County Insane
Asylum. Patrick Rodgers used to keep
a saloon in England, and in this country
has been mill man and boss baker. Peter
Schmitt was held over until to-day, because his
attorney could not be present Jacob Traut-
man has been conducting paper hanging bust
ness. John Weisskircher's application was
withdrawn. He was recently returned for viola
tion of the liquor laws.
Charles A. Schulz the only applicant for the
Third ward is brewer.
Judge Ewing yesterday extended the time for
the payment of the wholesale license fees in
Pittsburg to May l. because the judges have
not had time to approve all the bonds
No more lists of grants will be handed down
until the entire list of applicants is finished,
probably next Monday or Tuesday.