Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-01
SEPTEMBER.

board the Pacific Mail steamer Acapulco by
floods in the Tyro have rendered many
families homeless. Mrs. NJ. u. Woodward,
q female evangelist holding forth to audi
ences numbering 10, 900 at St. Louis. and Sc
curing 100 converts night. New Jersey
wiudow-glass factories resume operations.
2-VeteraDs in camp at Gettysburg dedicate
number OF monuments. Congressman Smy-
ser, of Ohio, one of the committee appointed
to investigate Pension Commissioner Raum,
turns out to be partner of that gentleman
in the very transaction under suspicion.
Five hundred delegates attend the labor
congress at Liverpool Henry George re-
turns TO New York from Europe
3-British vessel owners with capital of fl0O,
0G0 600 combine to resist the progress Of the
spirit of trades unionisn. Ex-Governor
Curtin speaks at the dedication of Gettys-
burg monuments. Western glass manu-
facturers trying to form combine to keep
up present prices. Slyerman. the original
package man, sent to Jail The Single-TaX
Convention meets at New York.
LEdmunds and Evarts opposed to Secretary
Blaine's reciprocity scheme. The Sheriff of
Deadwood, S. D., under the new prohibition
law. takes possession of the liquor saloons.
The Western window glass manufacturers
discuss a scheme to distribute the trade
eQuitably through central agency. o. s.
Campbell defeats H. w. Slocum in the big
tennis contest at Newport. Membrlno
Maid wins the S., 900 stake at the Springfield
Grand Circuit. The Single Tax Convention
at New York wranglirg over the Govern.
lnent control of railroads..
5--A manifesto has been issued by the Ar
menian Revolutionary party appealing for
revolt to avenge the outrages perpetrsted
by the Turks. Reported at Connellsville
that the H. G. Frick Company is preparing
to bring suit for 100000 damages against
the men at the Standard works now on
strike for violation OF the wage, contract.
Sunol and PaIo Alto fail to break their
record at Philadelphia.
R+General Antonio Maceo sailed from Cuba
for fear that he would foment another revo-
luton, The Harrison family including the
President, in their cottage at Cresson. The
Whitney & Stevenson gasser at Semple
station struck by lightning and causes tie
throwing up of a fiery column. The report
of the New York State Board of Arbitration
on Central strike cannot be officially made
until about Christmas. Two women, one
American and the other French, arrested at
Paris while about to tight duel.
7-The Trades Union Congress at Liverpool
comes out for the speedy organization of
female workers in England and America
In London theater, Whistler, the artist
attacked Editor Moore, of 4 society paper,
causing quite a row. General Boulanser
d.. to spend the winter in Italy.
Seas fields of probably wide extent discov.
cred in Washington county. Great prepa-
rations in Sweden for receiving the body of
Ericsson. f=--
e-Republican Senators kick over the tariff
bill and refuse TO allow n vote TO be taken
until they have fully discussed the recipro-
city amendment. The dockers at South
ampton out on a strike. President Harri-
son makes . visit to Loretto. Lemon, the
pension attorney before the Raum Investi-
eating Committee
lO-The Senate adopts the amendment to the
tariff bill for reciprocity on very limited
scale; Edmunds and Evarts voting against
the scheme. The Worlds Fair Directors
agree upon the dual site of the Lake
Front and Jackson Park as the place for
locating the Exposition. The police at
Southampton defeated by the dock rioters
and the military are called out. Chicago
rejoicing at the prospect Of soon obtaining
asuPply of natural gas from Pittsburg
party vote and it goes to a Conference Com
mittee. Seventh annual reunion of the
Northwestern Pennsylvania Association of
the g. A r. at Titusyille. English gun.
boats ordered to Southampton to stop the
rioiing of the dock strikers. p. Alexander
Johnstoue, at Chicago, drives blindfolded
in his carriage through the streets of the
city and finds a name secretly selected by
othors in hotel register.
l2-The Tool Trust in trouble over its inability
to control the scythe market. The revela-
tions of political corruption in France at.
tending the Boulanglst meeting become as.
founding, involving nearly every class in
the country. The House to discuss the
tariff bill at length. Wall street at fever
heat owing to violent market fluctuations
in the price of cereals. Cardinal Gibbons
in a letter says that religion. as well as edu-
cation, is necessary to make good and use
full citizens of the colored men.
in London that Mrs. Hessenberg,
daughter of prominent New York mer-
chant, has eloped with James Bigwood, M.P. :.
Quay secures the Adoption Of the order OF
business which will govern the Senate the
remainder of the session. A special election
to be called throughout Canada TO consider
the question of reciprocal trade relations
with United Stares. Prince George, son of
the Prince of Wales, gets into a fight at
Montreal and is arrested. but released when
his identity was disclosed. Strikers in the
coal regions about Scottdale decide to re-
turn to work. Heavy rains around Mercer
swell the streams SO as to cut off all railway
communication. {, Franklin Dickson. a
young Philadelphia lawyer. arrested for
swindling the, Sexennial League out of
about $4,000 W. H. Harrison Of Ohio, ar
rested in Alabama for pension swindles
amounting to $4,000
the informer, in London, pro-
fesses to fear for his life. which Davitt says
no one wants. Crusade,in London against
capital punishment. Quay surprises the
Z Senate by delivering formal and powerful
eulogy of Samuel ]. Randall. The President
- and Secretarv- OF the TREASURY alarmed