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

Prof. Milton Jones from the principal
ship of the Seventh ward schools. French
glass blowers flock into the city to OBJ
tain higher wages. Charles Weakley, OF
ShamburG, commits suicide.
2-Virgiria Knox divorced in Philadelphia
from Count Montercole. East End Gym
nastic Club takes the Athletic ball park.
Chief Bigelow explains that markets will
not have the wharves. Welshmen hold
banquet in honor of st: David.
3-RoDert Wilson, of Jefferson township,
sues for a share of his fathers estate. A
Fayette county doctor arrested for at
tempt to bribe the court. An economical
ahen% ahe see Rs cRonpe Emms
clay i'll q So, 600 dress turned to ashes in a
P1ttsburg crematory. sensation pro-
duced in the coke region by the arrest of
NIL the labor leaders at instance OF W. j..
Rainev, on charges of conspiracy, par
ticipating in riot and committing as
sault and battery upon him and others.
4-Cremation will no longer be carried on
in secret if Chief Brown can prevent it,
as it may remove evidence OF crime. The
railway through Shousetown and Clinton
to be completed. Alex. Lee convicted of
assault on 9-year-old colored girl, gets
10 years in the penitentiary.
5-Another Silsby fire engine purchased by
Allegheny. Burglars get into Freeport
bank and crack private boxes, but fail to
reach the banks cash. Attempt TO blow
up and rob the California postoffice sew
eral days ago just discovered.
6-The Duquesne National Bank cashes
matter was settled quietly. William
Jacobs, of the Southside, develops re.
markable hypnotic power. The Randall
Club favors the Allegheny wharf inn
provement. Eva Bloch, pretty Polish
girl, friendless and deserted by her Rus
sian lover, commits suicide at the Union
station.
7-Miners at Mt. Pleasant denounce Opera
tor Rainey. Central Trades Council pro-
tests against the treatment OF coke strik-
ers. John Blondon arrested for the muir
der of Patrick Burns in Upper st. Clair
towlsship. Henry Wentzhoff assaulted
and robbed on the Forty-third street
bridge,
s-Harvey Bankerd, aged IA, shot while tax
ing 81 revolver from Frank smith on AL
len aveAue, and the latter exonerated by
the Coroner's jury. Ancient enmity for
Russians excited among the Poles by
Eva Bloch's suicide and they raise funds
TO pursue her recreant lover to the ends
of the earth. Christian Hoffarth, the mis-
sing heir of Pittsburg fortune, located
in Cleveland.
8-The Carnegie Library location is dis
cussed at length in Councils. Allegheny's
newly elected heads Of departments are:
john R. Murphy, Department of Public
Charities; Edward Armstrong, Depart
ment of Public Works, and William
Stevenson, of the Department OF Lii
brary.
1o-Tho Union Switch and Signal Company
deposes George Westinghouse, Jr., from
the Presidency, and doesn't even leave
him on the Board of Directors. Some of
the smaller coke operators are starting
their ovens. Poles protest against the
death sentence OF the Braddock rioters,
convicted of killing N. Quinn.
property at Diamond and Wood streets.
A natural gas explosion in the Weldin
block, just before midnight. starts fire
which soon ruins that and the Germania
Bank building across Diamond street,
while numerous other houses are
threatened by falling sparks. A mania
for suicide prevails, six persons having
sought destruction in as many days,
Tilife Lang, the latest, discarding bridal
robes for a cup Of poison. George West
inghouse to enter protest against the
Union Switch and Signal Company's
election.
Zone of the board Of the Union Switch
and Signal Company to resign to allow
the election OF Westinghouse man.
pass the Common Council. The Oil Well
Supply Company purchases two big mills
at Soho. Pittsburg underwriters averse
to insuring lofty buildings.
ia delegation OF the Jr. o. Z. A. M. asks
Mayor Gourley to prohibit the Irish flag
from appearance in the st. Patrick's Day
parade. A. T. Rowand gives up the Pres
idency of the Union Switch and Signal
Company to E. H. Goodman and West
inghouse representation. The two cities
struck by the hardest March storm for
years. Great damage done by hurri-
cane in Westmoreland county and many
people injured. Chief Brown advocates
the purchase OF a water tower for fight
ing downtown fires.
Dor leaders charged with assault
and battery at the Rainey works are ac-
quilted. Alleged conspirators against
the Niceleys acquitted. President Eliot
addresses the Harvard Club. A South
slider is getting cured by Koch lymph in
Philadelphia. Manufacturers protest
against the passage of the employers
tSa Ry Gass Wofks pn
quesne. locked out because they organ
lied. Chief Brown wantsa fireboat.
Italians 1rate over the New
Orleans killing. Billiard experts arrive
in the city to take part in the tourna-
ment.
l6-The Supreme Court sustains the ruling
of Judge Slagle, by declaring the street |
acts OF 1887 and 1859 illegaI and uncon- |
stitutiona., and Justice Williams points |
the way to- better improvements by cura- |
tive legislation. Only 8 OF the 80 living |
argonauts of Pittsburg and vicinity meet |
at the annual reunion. An English syn
dicate alleged to be gobbling Westing- |
house interests. Local billiard tourna- |
perman family are fatally burned at a |
tenement house fire out Penn avenue. |
Tha License Court begins its hearing.
l7-Supreme Court decision gives DEATH |
blow to the Department. Of Awards and |
Law Rev W. Holland, OF the Belle |
field Presbyterian Church, is given the
refusal of the Chancellorship of Western
University.
ls-City officials place the street improve
ment matter In the hands of legal au-
thorities. Allegheny's millage increased
to 13. A thousand cokers locked out by
Armstrong Bros. & Co.
l9-City officials once more show their belief
in the efficacy of curative legislation, |
and claim they will collect money on all
unpaid street assessments for two years
back The net increase of Finance COM
mittees advised appropriations Is $76, 49o.
Annexation petitions are 1ndustriously |
circulated in Allegheny.
,Q-PittSburg APPROPRIATIONS passed with |
scarcely any change. Two thousand
Italians assemble in mass meeting and
protest against New Orleans methods.
s. T. Harvey commits suicide and others
make attempts. La grippe has taken a
hard hold on Pittsburg and vicinity, par
ticularly the East End. Four hundred
liquor license applications heard the
first week of court The Shaw test in
dorsed at the meeting of Western Penn
sylvania Central Mining Institute.
1-Detective d. III. Gilkinson shot and killed
+. at McKeesport by Fred c. FitZSimmons.
The joint committee of Pittsburg and
Allegheny Councils considers new street,
park and wharf bills. Pittsburg and
Western Railroad bonds to be issued to
amount of So 900 and used for better
ments. Closing exercises OF the Y. nj. L.
A Industrial school. Quarter centennial
Laughlin wins the State billiard cham
pionship. Elmer Collins completes his
30 days fast.
2-Fitzsimmons, the murderer of Detective
Gilkinson captured at Homestead, and
threats of lynching are made, but he is
pitals. n. P. Tobin, OF Franklin robbed
and killed and his house fired to conceal
the crime.
3-Lively tits in both branches Of City
Councils. Dozens of deaths due to Ia
grippe. Supporters of the curative legis-
Ietiye sJlres in the interests of Pitts |