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

1-Congressman Stone speaks at Woods
Run.
2-Frank Cooley shot dead by a sherif7s
posse. The first frost of the season.
3-General SnoWden assumes the responsi-
bility for the treason prosecutions. Jack
Ramsey, of the Cooley gang, captured.
John Gorden murders Warren Cook; both
colored. Allegheny Select Council votes
to increase city indebtedness. The Penn
sylvania Supreme Court meets.
6Father Schneurr installed as Abbott ct
ST. Vincent's, near Latrobe. McAllen
convicted OF murder in the second degree.
the first snow falls.
6-Tbe Cooley sisters arrested. Mrs. Marsh
and James Mcintosh brought to Pitts
burg. The Mansion House at Homestead
dynamited
7-David RosentnaI, Wylie avenue dry
goods merchant, fails. An engineer and
a fireman killed in the Sandy Creek tun~
mel Oak Grove Church, at Rochester,
Pa. wfthdraws from the Presbytery.
S-Democrats hold their first big demon
stration. The Girls Industrial School
opens. The steamboat Robert Jenkins
burns at Port Perry; loss, $40 900.
9-The First Presbyterian church OF Ale
gheny dedicated.
1o-Chief Justice Paxson charges the Grand
Jury on the law of treason. The OHariL
avenue ordinance passed.
I1-True bills found against the Carnegie
officials and the Pinkertons for murder
and riot, and against Homestead men for
12-Louis Marx commits suicide. General
Hastings speaks at McKeesport.
David Hughes acquitted of murder.
Three regiments of veterans hold re-
union at Williamsburg.
1.-The Arbuthnot building condemned.
1.-Two Nylie avenue cable cars run into a
Republican processfon; two killed and
seven badly wounded. Great Repub-
lican parade on the Southside. Inc
County Commissioners award the con-
tract for printing the blanket ballots.
The Philadelphia Company advances the
price Of gas 2& cents. The P1tts0urS
ball club organizes for next season.
16-Francis Murphy speaks at the Grand
Opera House. Nuttall's machine shop in
Allegheny burnsi loss, $1,000.
1.-THE Jury finds against the Builders Ex.
change in the conspiracy suit.
1s-James Swanson stabbed to death by
Stewart Rodgers in Lawrenceville; both
small boys. The Allegheny U. P. Pres
bytery refuses to organize the Jacks
Run school. Schwab succeeds Potter as
superintendent of the Homestead mills
19-The Supreme Court petltloned by Pitts
burg citizens for an Injunction against
the printing of the Baker ballots. Rodg-
ers, the boy murderer, held for court.
20-The Columbus cele bration begins; school
children plant Columbus grove IN
Schenley Park. The Pittsburg, Allie
gheny and Manchester Street Railway
Company decides to consolidate with
the Pieasant valley line. Cook Hall
turns State evidence and pleads guilty
to robbing many country postoffices:
The PennsylVania Pres byterian Synod
meets at Washington, Pa John Brad
Ss ford convicted of manslaughter.
2I-The great Columbus Day pageant takea
place.
lie avenue gripmen. New glass works
start mp at KenSlngton
Hungarian Reformed Protestant
Church and st. Andrews English Evan
gelicaI Lutheran Church dedicated
Mrs. Maria Dell found murdered near
McKeesport.
2AThe Presbyterian Synod sentences Prof.
Cooper to admonishment. The United
States Grand Jury finds over thirty in
dictments against persons encroaching
upon navigable rivers. Frank Gerarde,
the murderer of q child, granted new
trial
fireusen partly suffocated at 8
fire in Chestnut & Sons leather store
Hughes and Coleman, the postofice rot
bers, convicted. Ex-Market Clerk Has
ings released from the county Jail.
first snow OF the season falls Mrs.
Stauffer and her two children at e
burg burned to death or fatally
Beaver Falls citizens assem-
the Carnegie Company - r.
Hons. Ex-Speaker
dress at Old City r.
Wood killed by
operators organic
l7-Homestead cfti
against laWlessn,
tary torturers Of
Caten
stilettO on DC
Minshall, the &C
for manslaught
elevator accidS
workers resolve
Frank Carmau
body on the Ca
dan station q.
Pittsburg uni
break out in Sc
.9-Courteny defee
Mayor Kenned
ing the voting
Improvement b
a union. The
indorse q list of
0-The Church oft
wood, consecra
laid of the
Church.
Gourley
tion ordinance,
veto. The State
that hosts have
with liquor.
carmen strike.
Mo-
1-O1icers of tn
Association