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

ate. Rev. DIR. Deems, at the meeting Of the
National Temperance Congress, insisted
that alcohol is poison. A British artillery
the Stars and Stripes. Young Robert a.
Wallace, the New York defaulter, who was
arrested at Havana, tells how he robbsd
his uncle Of $4,000. Massachusetts, State
Senators charged with having received
SlQ coo apiece for helping along railroad
bill. A general uprising Of the Indians in
Montana, led by the Cheyennee, is feared.
Only2,75O marriages reported in Pennsyl-
Vania during the year. According TO the
report OF the Secretary Of the Common
wealth 81 counties of the State show an ag-
gregate debt of s64, At, $50 63
'-Ex-Attorney General Villas, at the State
Board Of Agriculture meeting, declared
that II the laws of Pennsylvania were az
strict as those of other States in the matter
Of railroad taxation the roads would pay
l5,OOO, 900 annually instead of 81, 900, 900 as
at present. The House Labor Committee
takes up the Jeanette contract labor case.
The Illinois Supreme Court says that buying
wheat on margins is not a legi innate business
transaction. National Wool Growers Con-
vent1on suggest certain amendments to the
Mckinley bill. The trial of Silverman for
selling liquor in the original packages at
Ieechburg opens at Kittanning.
E-Silverman acquitted of the charge OF SELL
ing liquor without license and Of selling
to minors; but found guilty Of selling to
persons of known intemperate habits
By o vote of 8 to the Louisiana Legislative
Committee decides 70 report in favor Of the
lottery charter. House Committee on Civil
Service Reform censure Commissioner
Lyman for negligence. Settlement of the
miners strike a. Dubois. Time for general
debate in the Senate on the silver bill ak
tended two days. Prominent agrieulturistS
show the State Board the defects of the
present system of road laws. New Jersey
Charter of the North American Company
with capital stock of 500 OO0OeO fled az
Trenton. The Circuit Court in Kansas de-
cldes that the State courts have no juris-
dlctlon in original package cases. Governor
Beaver. In letter to the Sons of Pennsyl-
vanla at Chicago, says Keystone men don't
appreciGe their State until they are away
from home Actress Marion Manola re-
fuses TO be photographed in tights. There
are 53o building associations in Pennsyl-
vania according to the report of the Chief
of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics.
determined effort to be made to pass the
Torrey bankruptcy bill. Saloon keepers at
Beverly. N. j., excited because they cannot
get license that have been voted to them.
Francis Hill, Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor of Maine, dies suddenly. New Jersey
will not allow alien detectives within her
borders. Cincinnati storm swept and one
man drowned in the street.
Secretary Blaine writes that he is not op-
posed to free sugar. Distillers and whole
salers'to fight the Whisky Trust. During
adebate on Irish questions in the Commons
session Junior Order United American
Mechanics 1t Chicago.
The Senate passes the silver bill, party
lines being obliterated Cleveland switch
men strike and tie up all the railroads The
cause of the accident to the steamship City
OF Paris on her trip to Liverpool unex-
blamed. Mary Anderson married to Joseph
De Navarro, at London. Hungarians at
Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'S steel mills strike
and the works are shut down. Salvador
wins the great Suburban race at Sleeps
head. Increasing business compels the Ed
gar Thomson works, at BraddOck, TO en-
large. John Wanamaker retires from the
wholesale drygoods house of Hood, Boul-
right & Co., Philadelphia.
The Senate Finance Committee reports
the tariff bill with many changes. During
Socialist meeting at New York there was
tight over the presence of a foreigner who
was denounced as a German spy. Funeral
Directors of Pennsylvania meet at Erie.
END Of the switohmen's strike at Cleveland
by the roads making concessions. Heavy
shipments of gold from New York to Ger
many. Ten thousand people celebrate the
anniversary at Valley Forge. The case
against Calvin s. Brice for non-payment of
taxes carried to the Ohio Supreme Court
Blaine earnestly faVors reciprocity in letter
to the President.
The fight began in Chicago against locating
the Worlds Fair on the Lake Front. Silver
man again starts up the original package
business at Leechburg. Powde-ly accuses
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falsehood at meeting in New York.
President Harrison vetoes railroad bill
which he says was passed without proper
examination. Salvador and Tenny matched
to race for So 900 side.
AN uprising in Guanajuanto, Mexico, be-
iieved TO be the beginning of general revolu-
tion. Fourteenth annual convention of the
Central Turn Verein at New York Com
pefs answers Powderly's charges of false
hood and treachery in kind. Uncle Bob Of
Tanuaasaa wins the (JhicSO Darhv Raod
decides that the silver bill had been re-
4. ferred to the Coinage Committee, and his
followers sustain him. The Mormon bill
relating to bigamy again passes the Senate.
-Railroad conductors. who are opposed to
strikes, form a new order in New York to be
known as the Independent Order of Rail-
way Conductors.
The Senate adopts the Conference report on
the dependent pension bill. Republican
Senators denounce Blaine for boosting his
reciprocity policy at the expense of the Nc
Kinley bill. Richard Croker, the Tam
many boss, testifes before the Farrell Com
mittee at New York. The American system
of elections virtually adopted by the Bra
lillian Republic.
The New York Supreme Court sustains the
decision of the lower court in the suit
against the Sugar Trust. Charged at WASH
ington that Harrison vetoed the Arizona
railroad bill to please G. p. Huntington.
Quarter-century celebration Of Washington
aud jefferson College. Strike of employees
incommOdes traffic.
The fishermen in the Onancock, Va,
waters nave a regular Dattle with the Mary
land fishermen over their respective rights.
The illegal catching OF seals still fourishing
in the Behrlng Seas. Secretary Blaine to
present his reciprocity views to the Senate
in modified form. The House defeats the
free coinage amendment by majority OF
IT, The Senate debates the bill for the adj
mission of Wyoming. The text Of the tariff
thar xuit hQ 0hanOpe W "a
committee, reported to the Senate. Saliva
tor defeats Tenny AT Sheepshead Bay.
While investigating the Jeannette case the
House Labor Committee will also look into
the Pennsylvania mining. regions. The
Illinois Central refuses TO remove SlperIn-
tendent Russell, and general strike is ex-
pected. The captain Of the City OF Paris
censured for carelessness in handling the
vessel Defaulting Treasurer Hemming-
way, of Mississippi, sentenced to five years.
Reports TO the effect that Irwin, Pa, is to
be the site of i great glass plant, with
backing Of slOO, 900 put up by an English
syndicate. Jacob Atkinson, paymaster Of
the A. c. Friek Coke Company, waylaid
and robbed of 81, 100.
Fire breaks out again in the Hill Farm
mine, causing all hope for the miners Co be
given up. Illinois Central Railroad strikers
defeated. Not only liquors, but all kinds of
original packages affected by the bill in the
House. Bill for the admission of Wyoming
passed the Senate. The President signs the
dependent pension Dill. An Engllsn syndf
cate secures control OF Roach's ship
yard at Chester and the Morgan Iron Works
at New ork. George Dixon, colored, BAN
tam-weight champion of America, defeats
Nunc Wallace in London in IL rounds.
Several members of the American Society
OF Civil Engineers in session at Cresson
want The report of the South Fork Dam
Committee made public. The Louisiana
Lottery Company raises its bid TO a quarter
million. The Thermometer ut Chicago
registers 100 degrees. Edwin Work, Presi-
dent OF the defunct Bank of Gloucester N.
j., chased into the river by angry deposit
Ors.
Miss Ida Wakely, the night operator at
Swarville station, on the Nickel Plate road,
draws revolver on tramp and thus pre-
vents the robbery of the station.