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


cross the Hudson to Staten Island. Royal
Palace at Laeken, Belgium, burned. A
bemb thrown by Slcilian as an attempt to
assassnaVe the Monarch Nof Italy. The
Philadelphia Press locks out its union men.
2-Nard McAllister's New Years ball a most
magnificent triumph. Wool growers ap-
pear before the House Tariff Committee.
An unsuccessful attempt to kill Rev.
Father Kelly, of Oneida, by unknown per-
sons. Editor Mclnery, of the Limerick
Leader, convicted of intimidation.
S-Ir0uble expected if Colombian authorities
persist in seizing American merchantmen.
The arrest OF Pierre Gross at Warsaw, re-
Yeals evidence of plots to murder the Gar
and his entire family. New York police
authorities close the pool rooms of that city,
4-English syndicates invest $1,000 900 in the
United States in past is months. England
alarmed at the spread of the Russian in
huenza; ten thousand cases reported in
London. Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Bra
zil, insane. Forty thousand cases of la
grippe reported from Chicago.
5-Ihomas II. Chapman, Newark miser, who
leaves Sl50,00o TO his niece, dlsinherits his
wife and daughter. Congress requires
months to settle the question of the
Worlds Far. A split in the 6. A. r.
threatenet in New Orleans.
GA severe blizzard sweeps over Kansas and
Missouri. Marquis of Salisbury demands
prompt satisfaction for Serpo Pintos acts
The American Association formally organ
lied Tor the season.
T-Dowager Empress Augusta, aged rs years,
dies The city building at Lewiston. Me-,
destroyed by fire; loss. over $3.50. GOO Boston
and New York report the influenza worse
than ever before. New crematory opened
at Troy, n. Y.
s-A ride upon a rail given Johnston Calhoun,
an aged and wealthy citizen of Hookstown.
Beaver county, for i'll treating his young
and pretty wife Miss Purcell and DIR.
Kniffin committed to jail for the murder of
the doctors wife at Trenton, M ]. Rufus
& Kugler's furniture establishment San
dusky, o., destroyed by fire; loss $50. 900.
9-Hon. Z. s, Brice, of Lima, nominated on
the second ballot for United States Senator.
Congressman n. P. Cheathman colored, of
North Carolina. in danger of losing his seat
owing to the exodus of negroes from the
South. DR.. Kniffin and Miss Purcell re-
leased on bail. Street duel at Heflin. Ala,
in which Samuel =. Creamer Marshal
shoots and kills Dock Bell.
l0-Capitsiists purchase 600 acres of ground at
New Brighton for manufacturing plants.
Parnelrs letter to the Board of Guardians
of Ennis. County Clare, Ireland. stolen.
Washington City presents her claim for the
Worlds Fair. White and black school
children fight for the possession of a school,
house at Alton. Ill. New trial asked for
the Cronin murders.
ll-Inhuenza in Europe abating. Imposing
ceremonies attend the funeral of the Dow
arer Empress Augusta, at Berlin. New
York and Chicago have their innings before
the Senate Worlds Faif Committee.
l2-CyclOne visits St. Louis; four lives lost and
many injured; enormous damage to prop
erty. Storms raging all over the West.
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the British embassy at Lisbon. The name
of Richard Brown, Youngstown, forged for
So coo. Miss Purcell declares herself inno-
cent i'll the knitan murder case Palace
steamer City of Worcester went ashore
near Bartletts reef, Conn; so passengers
rescued by the lifeboats.
lS-Fiye hundred newsboys strike at Buffalo
n. Y. Canada Web Company's factory, Nj
agara, Ont, blown down; l50 girls narrowly
escape. General Master Workman Pow
derly arrested on the charge of conspiracy
A case of strawberries, the first of the sea-
son, shipped from Charleston, S. c., to New
York. Williamsburg school destroyed by
fire; loss, S45,0CO Mickey WeIch signs a
League contract
l4-Repubiicans In Portugal stronger than
ever and hard to keep in check. Kunze. of
Cronln murder lame, granted a new trial:
the other three prisoners sentenced to
prison for life. President Harrisonis first
state reception success. Train of cars
struck by hurricane near Montreal and
blown from the track; u persons seriously
injured.
lo-Portuguese indignation against England be-
coming more intense. The House refuses
topay salaries lost by Silcott's defalcation
Powderly accepts service on the warrant
Plusburg Phil loses $1,000 the season
hmln Pasha has a relapse and supposed TO
De dylng. Superintendent Porter recon-
mends George L. Oliver, of Pittsburg as
Census supervisor. The House Committee
in favor OF special Worlds Fair Commit
Tee.
l6-The Ohio ballot box sensation being inves-
uGated by Congress. Compromise of the
Stewart will case. The Johnstown Flood
Commission winding up its work; loss of
lie estimated at 1850; nearly s., OOO, COO con-
tributed. The New York bucket shop tick
ers stopped. The National and Eastern
glass manufacturers elect officers Comiskey
a Brotherhood man. The Ward Injunction
case left with Judge O'Brien.
H-Dead body of W. C. Rogers, millionaire in
London hotel three weeks after death.
All railway employees on the Vanderbilt
system unite for strength; 100 900 members
Portuguese Republicans issue a manifesto
g. q. Green, millionaire patent medicine
maker, Woodbury., n. j., orders all non-
union men out of his glassworks. Prof. ].
N. DaCosta talks Of la grippe and Its
cure. Congressman Morse, Mass. kicks on
the Interstate commerce law. Organiza-
tion Of the State Non-Partisan w. c. T. q.
completed.
ls-General Master Workman Powderly ar
rested and gives bail in the conspiracy case
An English trust purchases five potteries at
Trenton, n. j., and ii at East Liverpool, O.;
price. S5,O0OO00. The Car takes to drink
Abraham Lincoln. American Minister'S
son, moved from Versailles to London, in
@@roeT 20 save his life. Influenza epidemic
an Iasseii, Brotherhood of Locomotive
engineers. short about $1,000; dismissed
from the order. Chinese ready TO 60 to
work eleaning streets in New York. Theo-
Io-lcA students must serve time in the
German army. The son of the King Of
Wurtemourg dies in poverty IN Washing
ton.
le-John Ruskin, famous English literary
leader, hopelessly insane. Trouble feared
IN connection with the strikes i'm Belgium:
military in readiness Clemens M.lIer New
York. taxed $4,000 for trifing with Miss
Caroline j. Cammerer's affections. Parson
Davies earnings on his European trip, S82-
W. BUY Sarnie slated 20 manage the