Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-02
PITTSBURG NOTES.
Matters of Interest TraDspiring in the
Smoky City"

Matters of Interest Transpiring in the
Smoky City"
The carpenters inaugurated a strike
Thursday evening for the eight-hour
day. The master builders have refused
| to grant their demands and have posted
notices in nearly all the planning mills
and contracting establishments, notify
| ing all employees who refuse TO return
TO work May I to call at the offices ana
get their pay. In accordance with TINS
REQUEST nearly 1000 men have called
! and been paid off.
Wholesale liquor dealers have been
closed all over Allegheny. Retailers
cannot sell except in pint quantities.
and even the pint trade is frowned upon
by the Judge of the License Court.
Mrs. Greener, of Southern avenue,
Mt. Washington, who was seriously IN
jured in runaway last week, died yes
terday.
DR.. John l.. WerselS, Of 65 Madison
avenue. assumed theduties Of physician
for the Department of Public Charities
in the Eastern district of Allegheny.
Mary Schafley, a % year ola comes
tic employed by Mrs. Pohr, who Keeps
boarding house near CHARTERS Statloh'
was lodged in Jail Thursday evening
charged with the murder OF her INFANT
child. The infant was found dead In 4
run near the station. At the Coroner ;
Investigation 1t appeared that Mary
was taken sick on Wednesday morning
and two physicians called. Drs. ). a.
Burr and J. r. Miller examined her ana
found that she had had . child wlthln
As hours. The same physicians heiu
an autopsy on the child and found that
it was female and had been porn awe,
out had been chOked TO death Mar!
stoutly denied her guilt.
At the wage scale Of the hint glass
workers no conclusion has yet been ar
rived at.
President HollingswOrth, of the Corn
inc Flint Glass Workers Local Union,
has been on an inspecting tour OF lac
tories where the locked out men from
Corning are employed. He says they
are making excellent goods.
Muck iron is very scarce in PittS6urg
at present. Hardly more than one halt
the demand can be supplied at present.
There are four idle iron mills in Pitts
burg at present, thus restricting the
daily output about 500 tons and throw
ing 5000 men out of work.
During the months of March and
April lust ended l,521 burial permits
have been granted. OF these about $50
were still births.
Typographical Union No. : and l.. A.
t690 X of T., have demanded an ad-
vance Of from 4215 to - cents per
thousand ems on morning papers, and
from 37]% to 40 cents on afternoon
papers.
A bid will soon be made by the Spang
Steel and Iron Company for some OF the
heavy armor plate that is greatly in de-
mand by the Government. 1t will cost
about S25O,OOO to equip the new depart
ment.
A convention of the Pittsburg district
of miners was held Thursday. The
reason for their withdrawal OF the eight
hour demand was that it could not be
brought to a successful termination
now. The operators passed resolutions
demanding an advance OF 10 cents per
ton.
Peter wise, leader OF Ine coal SCIIhe
workers, says that he feels confident
that the miners will win the strike. He
was in PittSburg yesterday procuring
tents for the evicted strikers.
More than 5000 emigrantS have ar
rived in PittSburg during the month OF
April. This is an increase of 500 per
cent. as compared with the same month
for last year.
Edward A. Armstrong, Chief Of the
Department of Public Works Of Ale
gheny, died yesterday morning, at 2:3O
o'clock
Furnace No. /, of the Isabella Com
pany at Etna, which has been idle for a
long time, made its first tap on Thurs
day. II was blown in last Tuesday
A new financial institution under the
title of the Pennsylvania Guarantee
Loan Company, has started to do ouSl-
ness. The corporation is largely backed
by oil capitalists, and has paid up cap
ital of S15O,OOO It's object is the pur-
chase and sale of securities, engage In
the real estate and title insurance ousl-
ness and selling securities by guaran-
teeing them when desirable.