Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
Business News and Gossip.

Oil traders think the Standard is favorable
to speculation. There is many slip.
Five important deals in real estate werc
consummated and reported in this column
during the week. They involve S227, 900 The
lot market was very active.
The tendency of the local stock market
last week was upward. With two exceptions
everything on the active list finished the
week with gain.
street railway company has been organ
lied at Scottdale with q capital of $50 000 J.
D. Hill is President.
holders of Westinghouse atr-brake stock
yesterday commenced receiving checks for
the per cent dividend.
The general impression on the street yes
terday was that the Oliver-Roberts difficulty
would soon be fixed up.
The September fire loss of the United
States and Canada amounted to $40 65S, 20O
against Sc, ,943 700 in 1890.
r. B. Ivory has sold to Maude Rohm a resi-
dence property in Sewickley for SIG OOo
On call Yesterday los was bid for Citizens,
Traction SIS, and l03 for Pittsburg Traction
Us.
There is strong demand for downtown
business property, a good deal Of it from
outside sources.
Movements in Realty.
J. B. Larkin & Co. sold Tor j. H. Bran thover
to Frank Y. Over the lease, furniture and
fixtures of Branthover's Hotel, on Franks
II
Baxter, Thompson & Co. sold to Thomas
Crawford lot No. 23I, Bank of Commerce ad-
dition plan, Brushton station, size 4Ox137
feet, with two-story frame house OF six
rooms, for s. 200; also lot No. ia, Ruch
Place, fronting p feet on Ruch avenue and
extending back leO feet to 20-foot alley, for
Eighteenth ward, fronting 20 feet on Morn.
ingside avenue by 100 feet, for 500.
Black & Baird sold to August Fristch lot
ID avis Of
Place addition, Nineteenth ward, for $3.50
Morris s. Aisbitt sold lot No. $50 in Schenley
View Place to George E. HemphiIl for S4O0:
also two lots in Reymer Place, Grafton, to l.
j. Duval for $3.50.
Sd. Fleming sold for Albert Bentley to
Mrs. Margaret Schaill, of lakewood, a frame
dwelling of six rooms, with lot OK xl60 feet,
on CHARTERS street, lakewood. for 81, 100 cash;
also sold for the estate of William Ward TO
Prof. G. E. Wood lots and s. in the Farrow
plan, Wylie avenue, IS feet front, for 81 ,6l5;
also sold for c. E. Cornelius to J. H. Aaron
two lots in the Sawyer plan for $500 each;
also sold lot us on Ridge street, Thirteenth
ward, 22Xl25 leet, for 81 600.
A. z. Byers s. Co. sold to the Park Home
stead Loan and Trust Company a new frame
house of six rooms, hall and vestibule, with
lot 35xl05 on Harrison avenue, n. S. Land
Association plan, West Bellevue, Pittsburg,
FIT. Wayne s. Chicago Railroad, for s., 500.
NJ. F. Hipnel & Co. sold to W. S. McCul-
lough and j. C. Robinson, of Sharpsburg, an
interest in the Keystone Manufacturing
Company, which has paid up capital of
5000
Charles Somers & Co. report the following
additional sales of lots in Blaine: Nathan
H Jones, McKee's Rocks, lot 5. in block q
73 and one-halt of lot 72, in block L. s725 fer
all; H. Rodesky, city, lot 10, in block Il, $3.50;
Thomas Mckinley. Franklin, Pa, lot "a, in
block 8, $400; P. kneer, Allegheny, lots q and
%, in block 10, $500 for both; John Schriever,
city, lot 60, in block 9, 500; F. A. Strouser,
city, lot &c, in block Ii. s4o0: Sarah Taylor,
Allegheny, lot 90 in block s. $3.50; B. \ EN-
lenton, Southside, city, lot 8, in block 8, $3.50.