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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
PLAGUING A CELESTIAL
Youthful Hoodlums Have Heaps Of Fun
With a CHARTERS Chinaman.

Youthful Hoodlums Have Heaps of Fun
With CHARTERS Chinaman.
A Chinese laundryman has located in the
uninco-porated town of CHARTERS on the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie Railway, and. could he
vote, he certainly would vote for a borough
government McKee's Rocks can probably
turn out about as many devIlish ur.
chins as any other similarly sized
town on the Continent and if they continue to
annoy that Celestial there is likely to be a case
of justifable lnfanticide ere long. He is at his
wits end for if he have all arrested who bad
ger him he will get but little custom for his
laundry, and SO much of his time at present is
expended in repeling raiders that he cannot get
his work done.
The boys post two or three of their number in
the neighboIhood of the laundry, and they
watch to take the heather Off his guard. No
sooner Is he absorbed in his employment, than
a boy thrusts a stick over the thumb-latch of
the door. Then the hoodlums gather in
force and lombard the house with sticks,
stones and mud, and drum on the windows
In a manner that would exasperateleven the
elect Meantime the poor pagan finds himself
looked in and can only gnash his teeth in i'm
potent rage until some good Samaritan comes
along and raises the blockade, when the young
scalawags take to their heels, and as the China
man has not learned the fording places in the
mud he is liable To be suffocated il he pursue
his tormentors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
THREE FROSTS MAKE RAIN.

No Prospects OF Dampness Before Tonight
Annoying Effects Of the Early Spring
Drouth = 1t Has, However, Saved the
Fruit Crop From Destruction.
Nature seems to be in contrary mood at
present. After the weeping of the heavens
for two years and six months, 221k times as
long as the wet spell in Noah's time, the
weather all of sudden has become so drying
that Mr. Stewart. of the Signal Service office.
states an inch of rain will be necessary to do
farmers any substantial good in this section.
and yet it was but week yesterday since there
was considerable down-pour. The trouble is
that the surface of the earth had been reduced
o the consistency OF paste, and the sun and
wind combined have baked it as hard as hard
tack. The present would be good time for
the Rain Commission, lately appointed by Con-
gress, to begin the work of balloon explosions.
but the grangers are afraid to loosen the corks
lest they get two years more Of dampness.
One of the human barometers of the rural
districts stated yesterday morning that there
would be rain soon, and the fact that there
have been three white frosts will induce many
oldtime farmers to argue with him, as three
white frosts are popularity supposed to be suf-
fcient to bring rain even in Peru or in Egypt,
but Mr.. Stewart does not pin his faith to the
theory and stated that he would be astonished
II there were any rain in this section before.
this evening, and he DIDN'T seem to feer'
sanguine that it could come then. The Signal
Service treefrogs, nor any other Of its menagerie
are yelling for moisture.
Yesterday mornings frost was the heaviest
We have had since winter let up. Even on the
hills. above the upper coal strata of this dis
trict, 1t resembled small snow. and this is the
dark of the moon. too. But everything Is so in
tensely dry that not much of the fruit bloom is
believed to have been cooked. 1t is so copious
that half might be destroyed and still an
abundance would be left. /
The ground is SO hard that single teams can
not plow il, and when they are doubled plows
break. Clods as large as cellar doors are thrown
up and unless rain comes soon there will be
but little ground broken IN this county for corn.
Oats sown cannot germinate and a spark sets
the woods afire, and destructive confagrations
are Imminent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
WHEN THE POLICE ARE AWAKE.

JOHN p. HILL is under bail on charge of
cruelty to horse.
SAMUEL ERBEN entered bail on a charge of
cruelty to horse.
PETER RUSSELL Will have hearing Satur-
day ON a charge Of assault and battery.
MARTHA CAREY charges her husband with
deseftion. and he will answer Tuesday.
ARCHIE MCCULLOUGH will have hearing
Friday on a charge of aggravated assault.
ROBERT LENHARD. of the East End. is
charged by Agent Dean with neglecting his
family.
SIMON KEHL will have a hearing to-day on
a charge of assault and battery on Charles
o'Keefe.
MRS. KATE DoNLEY, of Soho, was arrested
last night on a charge of breaking in neigh
boris door.
LEWIS BAKER and Frank Lornski are
charged with the larceny of S2sl from John
AdamaZzek.
JACOB HoLETzING will have hearing Sat-
urday on charge of assault and battery pre-
ferred by Simon Kotnitz.
FRITZ RENNING will have . hearing Friday
on charge of the larceny of cutlery from the
Bindley Hardware Company.
W. H. MILLER, of Braddock. was eonsnitted
to Jail yesterday on charge Of <elonious as
sault and battery on Bridget Morton.
= G.. s. NELSON came to town from Indiana
county yesterday with a constable. charged
with obtaining goods under false pretense.
JOHN sHERoTIcHKI was fined $40 and costs
yesterday on q charge of neglecting his minor
Son. The boy worked In the mill. but his father
drew his pay.
WILLIAM MANGER was held for court by
Alderman Succop on charge of the larceny Of
some cigars from Plttsburg, Virginia and
Charleston freight car.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
MORE TIME REQUIRED.

a .cr.rx. r,
- sns VI Dases 'nofe tSeeueu Anan .
Board of Revision-It Would Save
$4,000 a Year To the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Under Dimculties.
From, the manner in ubiob Countv Cam
missioner boyle ana Clerk w en- murray dis
cussed the bill in the Legislature providing
for a hoord orr;.;, - .a,,a,ts; =
'OA oo"iu VI ietisIon " ssA @esessen.e ~
would appear that the Commissioners office
of this county Is not CRYING for the bill. Both
gentlemen agreed that If instead of nearly
three flo,on cIarLs ho;,,,r or,rIovad fonr montbs
: 80 - DeE
year uuFhs tue rusn' oae'sniru VI ehas mum
Der were employed all the time, they would De-
come experts, and the proposed revision could
be made as effective as is nrovided nv Mr.. Mes
Mis- hin ,1;thno.an .Idi,io,,,I oost ~ sIs mn
ya,r ~ n.o,.s. - a..ss.a.es =. .,,n ~ ~,
seAt. WV a"ouu' eosin@'eo w iuu '"0 @oH
templateo bureau.
The trouble both gentlemen stated, IVES that
assessors and commissioners work under the
lou of 1sq1 a ~ ,s,ssa5 49, ~. Corntv
tsommissione,s Lnsw nsrsons,Iy almost eyary
nan in the con,fv and wben tbars were com.
naratively little nrice modifications ACCORDING
E fro lnra,ion For ins,once rai1,vavs and far'
torias bad NOT srba, cod tba vai,,a of artIcnlar
sections as AZ nressnt and cboica io,ations for
business were not worth co much In thoss davs
when people we're NOT in such n hurry as at
present, and thought nothing of going two or
three SQUARES off a fayorite avenue to trade
Transient custom was not worth SO much then
az now and in conseonanca nrone,tv on one
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
THE FIRE RECORD.

AT New Bedford, Mass. 100 bales of cotton
were destroyed by fire Tuesday.
AT Wellsburg, w. Va, Morris Jones'Idwell-
ing was damaged by fire Tuesday night. Loss
covered ty insurance.
NEAR Baltimore "Ingleside," the country
home of b N. Baker, of the Baker Whitley
Company, whas destroyed by fire Tuesday
Loss about $4,000 partially insured.
THE large barns on the farm of Henry Bar
rows, on the Brookvile pike, near Covington,
Ind, burned yesterday morning. Fifteen fine
amount OF machinery were consumed. In
cendiarism suspected; loss unknown.
AT London yesterday morning a disastrous
fire occurred at NJ. G. Duffy & Sons lumber
yards at Bermondsey,s southeastern suburb.
The lumber yard was surrounded by a.number
of tenement houses, occupied by poor families,
nearly all of whom were uninsured. When the
fire broke out there was wild comm0tion and
dismay among these poor people. A number Of
the houses were destroyed by the fire, which
also laid the lumber yard in ashes.
AT Chattanooga yesterday morning property
to the value of ss5O, 600 went up IN smoke, and
the burnt district covers 20 acres. The fire
started in Campbell & Co.'s furniture factory
on King street. The loss Is about as follows:
Campbell q Co.. furniture factory, loss $4,000.
insurance about s50.OOO; g. 6. Lilly, two-story
brick just completed and not occupied loss
$4,000; Peaks warehouse, loss Sl5. 900 insurance
$4,000; the East Tennessee and Virginia Rail-
road freight depot, loss on building about s25-
OOO contents estimated at SIS OOO. There were
also about 10 freight cars destroyed, about so
of them being filled with freight. The destruc-
tion of these will not fall short of s75.0o0
making n total loss to the railroad company of
about Sl25000. with insurance unknown. ..-ere
were several small buildings destroyed, which
may aggregate $4,000 in loss. While this fire
was raging another broke OUT on East Mont
gonery avenue. near the Grandview Hotel, and
a rwo-story brick aud eight frame cottages were
destroyed, involving loss of about S20, 900;
fully covered by insurance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
MANY PEOPLE INJURED YESTERDAY.


ELMER MCGILL had two fingers crushed
while coupling cars in. the GlenwoOd yards
yesterday.
JAMES WATTERsoN had hand crushed in
a mortislng machine at the Verona Railroad
shops yesterday.
JOHN HoLsTEIN was struck on the head
and severely injured by pulley at Oliver Bros.
Woods Run Mill yesterday.
WILLIAM MCANDREws fell into an ash pit
at the Black Diamond Steel Works yesterday
and was very severely burned.
JAMES CAMPBELL. a painter, fell from a
ladder while at work. on; house on Carson
street yesterday and broke his arm.
WILLIAM WELSH fell from a 20-foot
trestle at Carnegie's Thirty-third street mill
yesterday and his skull was fractured. He
will probably die.
ANNA SLANENI, l6.year-old Siayish girl,
was struck by shifting engine near the lsa-
bella furnace yesterday morning and died at
the West Penn Hospital at 1l:30 O'Clock
WILLIAM PRIrcHARD is at the Mercy Hospi-
tai suffering from severe burns received at
Moorhead d McCleane's Soho mills. He was
cleaning OUT boiler and being overcome by
gas fell into the ash pit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30

said card. Said card must be paid for before
the expiration of the first month in the quarter.
and any member failing 10 do SO shall pay fne
All members of the .. B. while working in
district shall recognize the authorized special
agent of the district and submit their cards to
him for inspection, and any member falling to
comply with this section shall be subject to q
nne OF e upon the agent reporting him.
Most Not Take Strikers' Places.
No member of the o. B. shall, under any
consideration whatever, work on job while
the me1 are or a strike; nor shall any member
accept work where any difficulty has occurred
in consequence of question involving the
rules of the L. us or account of the price
o. labor or reduction thereof, until the difi-
Guilty is arranged and the question involved Is
settled.
No member of the U. B. shall be allowed to
inlure the interest of a brother member by un-
dermining him in wages, or to do any under
haud act by which the situation of a brother
member may be placed in jeopardy.
Members knowing of any violation of these
rules shall be required to report the same
promptly to their l. U. or to the l. U. of which
the guilty party is a member.
The fact that the miners have decided not to
strike for eight hours is not tn be taken as an
more wages. Secretary Boyd, of Dis
trict 3 was in the CITY yesterday
securing hall for meeting to-day. ]. Morton
Hall said yesterday that nothing would be done
here until the matter is settled in Ohio. While
the Interstate agreement has been broken, the
usual dltferential is likely to be maintained,
and whatever agreement Is reached in Ohio
will indicate the result in Pennsylvania, except
that the operators here are likely to confer
with their employees individually.
Miners Make a Nine-Hour Proposition.
The Ohio operators were in session last even
ing considering the proposition of the Exscu-
tive Board of the United Miners to work a year
for 20 Genus in the Hooking Valley with nine
hours for day. The attendance was large
and the operators determined. They refused
TO accept the proposition, and appointed COM
lnittee, which met the officers of the United
Miners in consultation and had long talk.
The operators said they could not afford to
make an arrangement of that kind without
knowing something of what is TO be done in
the Pittsburg and ether competing districts.
The operators remained over and Will con-
suit to-day with the miners of the State who
have been called in conven ntion to ratify the ac-
tion of the Executive Board. In case the
operators fail to come to terms Patrick
McBryde, the Secretary, states hat the miners
will not touch proposal such as the operators
intimated they would make. Mr.. McBryde
states he has been receiving kilograms all day
from miners organizations in different parts of
the country, making inquiry as to whether they
shall go out on Monday next. The miners seem
10 be under the impression yet there is to be
strike.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
QUICK WORK IN ALLEGHENY.

Contractors Hurrying Up Preparatory to
the Beginning of the strike-Buiiders
Confident That They win Win in the
Coming Trial of Strength.
Architects and building contractors in Al
legheny are rushing their work, that is, that
portion of it which must be done by the end
of the present month, or else pay penalty.
Hurry up has been the order of the day ever
since the talk of general strike on May was
rirst begun, and it has put money in the pockets
of the mechanics. Hundreds of them have
been working day and night under high press
ure. While the men are perfectly willing to
go out. they are not ayerse to making few
extra dollars, and they have shown willing
ness to pitch in and help the bosses up to the
time the tocsin sounds.
last what effect the strike will have across
the river is a matter upon which there are
variety of opinions. Some days ago the larger
number of the architects and builders were
under the impression that the eight-hour ngnt
would be a long and bitter one. Since the
action of the miners at Columbus they nave
changed their opinion, and now say that owing
to the fact that the miners will keep their
hands off, the struggle Will be short Ihe
other side, however, was expressed IN the re-
mark made by a s;onemason, VINO was all by
his lonesome putting few stones one upon the
other in the foundation Of building on East
street: 1--WE 60 out to wfn this time. My boss
says he Will win, but he is mistaken. He is
good fellow and like him, but am sorry for
him."
Architect Linkenheimer thought the situ-
alton was Father blue. Many clients" said
he, have given us orders TO stop work on
plans. The season started out in a most promis-
Ing way, the best building season that Allie
gheny has ever known. Just as soon. however,
as this talk of strike for eight hours began,
orders were i'll some cases entirely counter
manded, while in others we were told to 20
slow The builders have made up their minds
to have this fight TO the finish. My i'm
preston is that the trouble will be settled In a
month. The men cannot hold out, and the
builders are SO confident of the unreasonable
ness of the demands that they are standing
closer together than ever before. Nearly all
the new residence building over here is being
done in the vicinity of California avenue.
Much of it will have to stop just where 1t is"
representative of James Hay, who does as
much plumbing as any one across the Allie
gheny said that they proposed to take things
as they came. They had been hurrying up
some of their work, and but few of their Jobs
would be left uucompleted, 1t was NOT pro-
posed, said he, 10 take any steps whatever, but
simply let things 90 on until the men came to
sense Of reason. OF course it would be
losing business all round, but he thought the
time had at last come when stand should be
made
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
AN ATTRACTIVE KEG.

Two Lawrenceville Men Were Thirsty and
Took Mr.. Hannigan's Beer.
PJ. O'Donnell ana ]. p Forsythe, of Forty
eighth street, had thirst ON Sunday which
could only be satiated with beer. Patrick Han
nigan, of the same street, likes a little beer on
Sundays, and to enable him to pass that day in
comfortable enjoyment, Mr.. Hannigan brought
nome nlce new, cool and fresh keg of beer on
Saturday night.
He thought it would retain its freshness best
in the air, and left 1t in his yard over night.
The keg, or the beer, possessed some unusual
magnetic attraction, for 1t drew O'DOnnell and
Forsythe over a six-foot fence, and attached
itself to them so forcibly that it still remained
IN their possession when they disappeared. Mr..
Hannigan made information yesterday against
them before Squire MeNeirney for larceny,
and Coustable,John Rodgers is keeping his eye
open for them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
SHE JUST MOVED IN.

A Lawrenceville Woman Wanted Apart
menrs, So She j ust Took Them.
Mrs. Annie Jeffreys is a good-looking young
woman OF Is summers who occupies four
rooms In the old Duncan mansion on Duncan
street. near Fifty-second, very much against
Cabe, the owner.
Toward the end of March Mrs. Jeffreys
called on Mr.. McCabe one day and asked for
the key of the rooms, stating that if they
pleased her she would send her husband to say
SO. Neither she nor her husband put in an ap-
pearance, and the next Mr.. McCabe heard of
the lady was that she had moved in and was
has made various but Intellectual efforts to OBJ
tain his rent. and as a last resort he has ap-
pealed to Squire McNeirney for assistance.
Constable Rodgers was instructed to find the
woman, but could not do so. Neither did her
husband materialize.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
BUILDING DISCOURAGED.

Ahc Sdube u suspension Oh
Work-Many Persons Already Alarmed
and Abandoning Their PIans-Afraid to
Take Chances-Far-Reaching Effects.
Contractor Alex. Gilliland, who erected
The DISPATCH building, said yesterday,
don't care to talk about the strike, and am
not sure that il will take place. My contracts
are so made that if the strike comes the houses
won't be built. suppose have at least ten to
erect this summer, and the money value will
range from 100000 to $4,000 This is now a
strike would al ect my business" .-
William Witherow, of the Duquesne: 81 am
having my dining room frescoed, and if the
painters strike it will put me to considerable
inconvenience. An eight-hour strike will para
lyze the building interests of the city and will
retard its growth. To show how, gentleman
told me yesterday that, with five Others he had
gheny, with the intention of building stone
house this summer. Rather than take chances
with the strikers, the six lots are now offered
for sale and the houses will not be built He
said they would rather invest the money in
good mortgages than to tie it up in an uncer-
tainty. Buena Vista street has recently been
improved In the locality of which l speak"
Contractor Chance says work on all his
houses will have to stop, and he is building
great many.
w. P. Lupton the roofer, is now in Virginia,
eight-hour strike has scared a great many
people who intended to put up houses this
summer. They won't do it now. and the build
ing interests will suffer to this extent 1t re.
fleets also on my business, for without houses
there VIII be no roofs to put on"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
GIVEN TO MOVING.

An Allegheny Man Contracts for Furniture,
but Forgets to Pay for IT.
Robert Hewig, present occupation and resi-
dence unknown, had information entered
against him yesterday before Alderman Nc
Neirney, for larceny by bailee at the suit Of
C. w Mozle the Allegheny furniture dealer
1t appears that last October. Hewig, who then
lived on Federal street, Allegheny, obtained
SI29 worth of furniture from Nozzle on the in
stallment plan OF this amount be paid S45,
but forgot to make any further payments.
Subsequently he moved to the Twelfth ward,
this city, and then. supposedly to Lawrence
VILE. Constable Rodgers is on the lookout for
him. -.f. ~
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
BOSSES ALSO CONFIDENT.

A Denial That COntractO - Who Accede to
Their Mems Demands Can Get Mate
riaI-HOme Dealers Not Expected to Sell
A Question of Cost
Auy bosses or contractors breaking away
from the ranks of the employers on the
eight-hour question. who expect to buy what
they require from tn. builders supply men
will be disappointed. The Builders Exchange
ii seems, has not yet asked the supply men not
- sell TO breakers" but the sentiment among
this trade is with the Exchange, and their own
interests will prevent them from helping the
enemy by selling him goods.
MIR. Williams, OF Garrison, Williams & Co., is
a gentleman possessing a very intelligent sense
of the situation, He said yesterday that the
supply men were, as members of the Builders
Exchange, of course in sympathy with the en-
ployers, but that, SO far. the supply men, as a
branch OF trade, has not been requested to re-
frain from selling to any one who had money
TO buy with. He thought though that the sem
tlmeDt in his trade might be against selling to
any one who broke away from the stand taken
by the employers.
Would Not Offend Old Customers.
Few men, he said. would think well of
disDleasing large number of their old GUS
toners by selling to those who were antagou-
izing them. If any bosses do seek to work
against the sentiment of the ma jority they will
NOT be able to buy material in Pitusburg.
don't think they can buy 1t at all. They cannot
get l. from the adjacent towns because the
trades there have too much business with Pitts
burg employers to do anything which would
hurt them in their fight. They will be thus
obliged TO buy from distance, and must pay
cash for their purchases as well as the cost of
transportation, a considerable item. Gener-
ally, if the strikers expect support by seces-
sions among employers, and believe that such
men can buy material where they will, my
opinion is that they will be very much disap-
pointed
Mr. Williams believes the struggle will be
hard-fought one, and is of the opinion that
the employers will win it. They recognize he
saws, that the relations between the two parties
to the fight have reached critical point, and
employers see very clearly that if they are
beaten IN this struggle they are beaten for
long time 10 come.
Business viii Suffer.
Mr. " illiams says that business will suffer
will have TO cut down working expenses when
$50 qen employed in his trade who will be
thrown idle from this cause.
The strike may not be of long Duration" he
aid. ! understand that the sentiment of q
~ge proportion of the carpenters is opposed |
the eght-hour strike, and this fact may
up way to a settlement on the basis of
ours work at the advancein wages asked. !
that such a compromise of the diff |
nd be favorably considered by the |
Tpply men. who were averse to be- |
i'd not think that any of the bosses |
to make concessions to the men /
Ito purchase material. They cer- |
ottav~ rity traders, and IT was |
5 Of out-of-toWp firms /
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
SEEKING THE TOWNS.

England's Census Returns Show a Large
Decreasein the Rural Districts.
rBY DUNLAP's CABLE CoMPANY.l
LONDON. April 29.-Already the census re-
turns have begun to be published. These for
the purely, agricultural villages in Essex show
an average decrease of 10 per cent since the
last census was taken in 1881 and some of the
parishes show decrease of as much as 80 per
cent.
This migration of the rural population to
London and the other industrial centers is
going on to an alarming extent. and creates a
good deal of talk, being given as the reason
why the farmers are unable to obtain sufficient
labor for their own purposes.