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

l-More than the usual number of removals
In the city. Labor leaders at Scottdale
are greatly encouraged bv the aid they
have received from the Executive Coun-
Gil Of the Federation of Labor. hundreds
OF coke strikers led by band are march
ing to Morewood; the militia is waiting
to receive them, and panic prevails
over the prospect of battle.
2-Ten cokers are killed and 40 wounded at
the Frick Coke Works, Morewood, by
Sheriff Clawson's deputies. Thousands
OF strikers pour into Mt. Pleasant; many
deputies are arrested and ugly threats
are made against Captain Loar. An in
quest on the dead begun. a portion OF
the Tenth Regiment National Guard, on
the ground at midnight by Governor
PattIson's orders. The Eighteenth Regi-
ment leaves Pittsburg for the scene of
the fray on a special train. Ravages of
la grippe decreasing.
THE inquest upon the dead cokers tends
to prove that there was not strong provo
cation for the shooting. Great excite
ment prevails ut MorewOod ana through
out the Connellsville region. Governor
Pattison believes good order has been
restored and that there is little danger
of further hostility. Rev. Father LAM
bing of PittsburE addresses both parties
to the conflict. Conservative labor
leaders prevent demonstrations. Coke
operators will not offer higher wages.
Frick scores labor leaders. Hundreds of
Italians arrive daily in Pittsburg. Alle-
gheny's Common Council refuses to ac-
cord q vote of thanks to its Chairman.
Pittsburg Councils give the Carnegie
Library Commission the Schenley Park
entrance site. The Columbia Iron and
Steel Company makes an assignment.
The funerals OF the dead cokers are
attended by thousands, but there is no
disorder. Two more victims of the dep
uties bullets died. Mass meeting OF Cit
izens approve a curative act to reim-
Durse the city for street improvements.
The Pennsylvania Construction Com
pany's plant seized by tie Sheriff. Sam
nel Brown buys out c. S. Holmes, of the
Monongahela House. Members of the
Trades Council object to the Carnegie
Library location.
Strikers TO be eyicted from the houses
owned by the Frick company unless they
soon return to work. The soldiers of the
N. G.. regiments on duty are kept under
very strict orders Men imported from
England for the coke works discovered
at Mt. Pleasant. Chicago Socialists pro-
test against the hanging of the Huns
found guilty of murder at the Braddock
riots. Many horses in the city have in
fluenza. Fifty burials in city cemeteries,
the majority being la grippe victims.
Funeral of Allegheny's Anarchist, Joseph
FTicke; Herr Most, of New York, deliv-
cred the address. Robert Watchorn
makes sworn statements in reply to
charles affecting his character and
truthfulness concerning the employment
of foreigners in the coke regions, and
says many were hired in Castle Garden,
and some claim they were approached
in Liverpool. Four persons burned to
death in a midnight fire at Rochester,
Pa.
Claims Of victory made both by coke
operators and strikers. Work peacefully
resumed but not enough men on hand TO
fully operate the ovens. The question
of payment of damages in streetimprove-
ments taken away from Councils by the
Legislature and vested in the viewers
and courts. Citizens in meeting propose
oh in, i-I,, "a
pay tribute to Mayor Gourley's honesty.
John Gunsaulus murdered on the West |
Liberty road after leaving the home of
his sweetheart Allegheny becomes q
city of the second class. Mayor Wymau |
and the new chiefs sworn in. The Fitz- |
simmonseS, the Ciarks and Cora Wyatt |
are held to court for the murder of De- |
tective Gilkinson. Discovered that nine |
lives instead Of four were lost in the |
Rochester fire.
Less than so men secured by the coke |
operators to resume work. Loar and his /
deputies to be arrested on murder /
charges. Mr.. Carnegie is pleased with /
Councils grant of the park site for the
library. Eleven Hungarians badly /
burned by natural gas explosion at
Braddock, and several not expected to /
live. La grippe has literally gone to the
dogs.
Nine of the musicians who accompanied |
the striking cokers to Morewood are
among those arrested for riot Miners /
SuCCc6u III IOrCln2 C1G elRnC-nOuT Jay
question before the Interstate Confer
ence of miners and operators, and are
backed by the Federation of Labor. The
death rate in the city decreasing. Evil
dence accurnulating against Holmes An
derson, arrested for the murder of John
Gunsaulus. The three Hungarians con-
victed of killing Michael Quinn at Brad
dock are sentenced to be hanged, and
there is q very affecting scene in court.
Loar and his deputies are under
arrest on a charge of murder in the
affair of the Morewood cokers. The tes-
timony OF strikers at the inquest indi-
Gates undue haste by the deputies in
firing the fatal shots. Carnegie Library
Commission decides upon an immediate
plan of action, and accepts the park site.
Allegheny's new Common Council opens
fire on the street bills.
of the great fire OF lS45.
Humored that new independent oil re-
finery will be built on the Ohio near
Pittsburg. The militia is sent home from
the scene of the cokers' strike. Capt.
Loar and his men released on s., 900 bail.
Strikers decide to continue the contest |
to the end. A small raid at Whitney's
works. Tarentum has a contest over
liquor licensing, and so far the repealers
are ahead. William, or "BulP' White |
hangs himself in a Central station cell.
Peter Tierney, shot by James Roney,
April ], dies from his wound and Roney
is arrested for murder.
No change OF situation In the coke
region. Allegheny will not be affected
by the proposed street improvement act.
Great changes promised in the Ale
gheny police force. Colonel T. P. Rob-
erts favors the building OF the ship canal
by private enterprise.
The past winter attended by more desti-
tuition in Pittsburg than amy for many |
years. Two city boys who experiment.
with can of giant powder are injured
for life.
II otaI mum Der OF liquor licenses sranted
in Pittsburg 3s1 (an increase of ~; Allie
gheny, l20; McKeesport, "a. Notices of
eviction and actual starvation are driv-
ing the cokers back to work. The man
who decoyed Eva Bloch from home and
whose desertion led to her suicide in this
city to be followed by Russian police.
The East Liberty stock yards are
scourged by fire and a hundred head of
cattle perish. Councils are asked to
remedy defect in the appropriation Or
dinance. More circumstantial evidence
against Anderson, charged with the Gun
saulus murder.
Small but angry moDs composed mostly
OF women attack coke workers at Trotter.
President GomperS, of the Federation of
Labor, addresses u city mass meeting in
Presbytery urges the General Pres ]
byterian Assembly to inquire into
the fitness of Rev. DIR. Briggs. The
carpenters lay out fiual plans for the
eight-hour struggle. Ladies' Institute on
Scientific Temperance Instruction holds
its fifth meeting Mt Snithfield Street NJ
Z. Church. decisions OF the License
Court excite much comment, but are gen.
orally approved. ]
Too much whipping and too little SUBJ
stantiai food given at Morganza, Is the
gist of the Legislative special agents ]
report. Coke operators are alarmed by
the report that all the militia will soon
be Withdrawn. The city death rate for
one week the highest ever known and
twice as large rs the annual death rate,
for which the grip is chiefly RESPONSE | .
Bile. Deaths for the week number IA.
Panic in the coke region over the report
that troops will be withdrawn; operators
q hot protest. The sheriff and | 3
his deputies making evictions at the