Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
FEBRUARY.


FEBRUARY
IA new tax system, advanced in the Mes.
bitt bill, proposed for Allegheny county.
2The Legislative Investigating Commit.
Killed 107 men in the Mammoth Mine was
not the first one, and that carelessness
prevailed at the mine. George Roesch
(alias Busch), formerly of Allegheny, ar
rested as an accessory in the murder of
Philip Stadtler in Cincinnati, makes a
partial confession, duplicating Henry
krieger as principal. Pittsbur.'s rail-
road tonnage shown to be greater than
almost any two cities in the country-a
total of $1,000 600, or ,0o0 carloads per day.
Judge Slagle hands down an opinion
In the street improvement suits, showing
that the new city charter Is mistaken.
but that the street laws of 1887 and 1889
are unconstitutional
8-Mahoning and Shenango valleys iron
men ask for n cut of one-third on east
and west transportation rates. The AL
legheny Board of Control takes affirma-
tive action on the teachers salary Ques-
ton and they are to have an increase.
z-The city to receive a boom from the
double tracking of the junction road
and the running of the Baltimore and
Ohio main line through the municipal
limits.
6-Two nephews and niece inaugurate
legal proceedings to break the will of
large bequests for city charities and
churches. Big boom promised in build
ing Southside street car lines. -
6-Contract for 5000 tons of armor plates
given by the Navy Department to Car
negie, Phipps i Co. PittsDurg manufac-
turers express strong approval of the
\Brazilian reciprocity treaty, and predict
"a great increase in exports.
1.-THE Bar Association recommends the
creation of "a new court. Strike in the
coke regions begun. Applications for
liquor licences l925, against $3.50 in pre-
ceeding year. Chinese new year opens.
Labor unions indorse the park memorial
scheme.
s-The Chinese of the city celebrate their
New Years Day. The Adams process
guarantees the saving of 81 per ton in
making steel. Pig iron producers still
stand firm in their determination to
maintain the shut down.
9-The Poor Farm deal set back in Councils
by point of order on the ground that
the plural recommendation of the De-
partment of Awards is no report at all.
The city's Thirteenth ward will have no
representation on the Central Board of
Education because of dogged deadlock
in the district board permitting no one
to be elected. Thirteen thousand men
lay down their tools and inaugurate q
strike in the coke regions. The only
9iption of the pig iron trouble in The TIE
with the railroads, which must concede
lower carrying rates.
0ELarge orders for American tin coming
into Laufman & Co, of Apollo.
Census Superintendent Porter. Armed
detectives are guarding the men at work
in the coke regions. A new trial asked
for the Huns, Rusnok, Sobal and Todt,
convicted of murder i'll the first degree
(Braddock riot case.)
2-Coke strikers are preparing to force out
the men who are at work. Two thousand
more are idle. Miss Katherine Drexel,
the u1illinnairaSC n Phila dalphie TO Hac
the black veil at Mercy Convent.
3-Pittsburg is shown to have spent $40 900,
900 ON new buildings in year. Protests
against placing the Carnegie Library in
Schenley Park come from the Southside.
George Duvall, who killed Jarvis B..
Griffin in Philadelphia May, 1887, arrives
at the Central station, this city, having
been arrested in Memphis. The city
seeks relief from the Supreme Courts
decisions upon the street cases. The
coke strike as one of its effects enhances
the price of iron and other Pittsburg
products.
Bessemer steel plant at Du-
quesne adopt new steel billet. Attor-
ney Achesnn appointed executor of
John McKeown's estate and gives bond
for So, 100000. Coroner's jury in the Mann
moth mine disaster render their verdict.
A law suit begun so wears ago in Pitts
burg is revived. Jones Mclaughlin
introduce a new furnace which may
revolutionize iron pudding. Riot of
Hungarian coke workers near Latrobe.
5-The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at
Braddock close down, making idle 4,CO0
men. Eighty-sixth anniversary of the
founding Of the Harmonites' Society cele-
brated with prayer and feasting. Police
Inspector John A. McAleese makes his
annual report. Eulogy on General Sher-
man by DIR. Townsend, OF the Unitarian
Church.
,-Four men imprisoned in burning mine
at Scottdale. Validity of the law under
which Pittsburg's Police Department op-
=
decision. Burglars bind and gag whole
family at Monongahela City and ransack
the house.
The two cities suffer heavy flood, the
greatest since 1884, many houses being
under water, much property destroyed
and travel by the bridges cut OFF; two
big explosions in the flooded district of
Allegheny wreck four houses and injure
II persons. Two Pittsburgers, wife and
granddaughter of G. f. McC1eane, per-
ish by the wrecking of the steamer Sher-
lock ut Cincinnati. Stockholders of the
Castle Shannon Railroad demand an in
vestigation.
The flood receding and great damage
done, but load of suspense lifted.
Downtown business men suffer from loss
OF trade, and many mills are shut down
in both cities. The oil region suffers |
heavily.
Damage done by the floods in both cities, |
computed S5O00O0. Police arrest negroes |
implicated in the attack upon Quincy |
Finance Committee ad- |
yances the tax levy over mills. Flood |
sufferers in Allegheny need more help. |
The carpenters enter solid protest |
against the eight-hour demands. Smith |
Beal confesses shooting Daniel Quincy. |
The Sherman funeral train viewed by |
thousands on its way through the city. |
Western Penitentiary Inspectors issue |
their annual report, and ask the Legisla-
ture for an appropriation to finish the
south wing.
Rev. william Robertson addresses the
Central Trades Council on the chief
end of government. boy burned to
death in coke oven at Mcdonald.
The Vice President of a Grant street He |
brew congregation whips man i'll tho |
synagogue and the tumult is quelled by |
the police.
of Washingtons birthday
deferred from Sunday to this date great
success in both cities, the street parade
being a fine demonstration. A monu-
ment to Washington unveiled in Ale
gheny by the Jr. o. q. A. M. Allegheny
City tax. fixed at Is mills. The coke
strikers endeavor to compel the Rainey
men to join their forces and there was
an exciting time in Dawson.
"A portion of the ruined walls of the Ex-
celsior building in Allegheny fall, killing
Park Romack
George N. Chalfant, trustee, issues an
execution for $l40,7I6 against the Pine
Run Gas Company. Attorney W. j.