Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-31
FEBRUARY.

IA battle fought between a constable's
posse and farmers in Fayette county. A
body found in the ruins of an old Lib
erry street fire. The Beaver libeIers OF
Senator Quay arrested. A meeting of
downtown property owners demand a
reduction or taxation.
2-Pittsburg Presbytery refuses to pass q
resolution against Sunday newspapers.
Two underground gas explosions in Al
legheny. The DuQuesne CoInpany's
tracks on Bayard street declared Illegal
3-The embezzlement trial of Hastings,
City Clerk or Allegheny, begins. A mid
night passenger holds up a West End
street car conductor. A Manchester
street car filled with employees wrecked
by Dynamite; no one hurt.
4-Fftzsimmons commits suicide in the
New Orleans Jail. A strike begins at the
Moorhead.McCle Iron Works.
5-Market Clerk Hastings convicted of en-
bezzlement. Two hundred employees of
the Continental Tube Works, Franks
town, strike. The first local branch of
the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
organized in Pittsburg.
est Anne's Church, Millvale. damaged
by fire. The Manchester street car strike
broken.
7-Pittsburg Socialists organize.
S-Mayor Wyman, OF Allegheny, arrafgned
in court Tor extortion in office.
81. C. Alderman, an Allegheny con-
tractor. commits suicide.
10-H. &. Porter 4 Co. share profits with en-
ployes. r. W. d. Hermen arrested for
forgery IN Ofeo0e county. freshmen
win a cane rush at Washington, Pa.
11-Mayor Wyman, of Allegheny, convicted
OF extortion in Office Caroline J. Gard
ner frightened to death near Federal
Street station, by Thomas and James
SkidmOre, who were arrested for man
slaughter. The American Institute of
CiYics organized.
13-License Court passes upon 1853 fewer ap-
plicants than last year. Eight immi-
grants from q typhus injected steamship
arrive in Pittsburg.
IA Baptist Church dedicated at Duquesne.
A Methodist Church dedicated at Allen
town. Pittsburg Socialists permanently
organize.
15-Mayor GourIey issues a proclamation
asking relief contributions for Russia.
Miss Fay, the spiritualist, trapped at a
seance. The Coroners jury siGTing over
the remains OF the victim of the Liberty
street fire hold SaiUta and Mazza for
manslaughter. County Commissioners
reduce mileage.
1e-Municipal elections held; Citizens tick
cts win in a majority of cases. John d.
Boyd, grocer, OF Allegheny, assigns. An
ton hlatZback commits suicide.
h-Roger O'Mara appointed Chief of Police.
Five men burned by an explosion in
Conway & McFailey's mill. George
Grumbling commits suicide at Nineveh.
1S-Mayor Wyman, of Allegheny, resigns.
Z, H Andrews assigns the Boston Nov
city Store" A rock falls upon the Pan
handle track, killing and wounding five
I9-Saran Joyce found dead from wounds:
Christian klenK commits suicide. Davis
old trunk factory burned; loss, $1,000.
20-A B. o. passenger train wrecked near
Whitehall; leo passengers narrowly es-
cape death. Allegheny Councilmen, in
caucus, nominate Yoegtly for Mayor; six
members bolt. Burgettstown tramp bur-
glars surrender after 80 shots are fired.
birthday celebrated in
Pittsburg and McKeesport by the Jr. o.
q. A. NJ. Ex-President Hayes speaks at
the Loyal Legion banquet. An attempt
made TO rescue the Burgettstown bur-
glars
chosen Mayor of Allegheny.
Miss Alice Gaskell John NJ. Zeigler and
William Dewer run down by train in
Williamsburg and all killed or mortally
wounded. Mary G. Travers and G. j.
Rosenheisen attempt suicide. A desper,
ate shooting affray between police and
toughs at Beaver Falls; one officer
wounded, two crooks fatally injured and
another badly hurt but escapes
24-Annual encampmenJ of the Pennsylva-
mia q. A. r. Tin plate manufacturers
establish scale or wages. Sixty-flve
oleomargarine cases dismissed at Will
kinsburg.
imposed in the Quay Post libel
case. The sentence of The Braddock
rioters commuted.
21-Ex- Market Clerk Hastings sentenced to
eight months imprisonment and 8 cents
fine. Jones & Laughlin close down 81
furnaces; 200 men discharged. Judge
Joseph Burlington, of the United States
District Court, installed. Four persons