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

LOCAL CHRONOLOGY.
IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE TWO
CITIES AND NEARBY TOWNS.
A Record of General Prosperity and Pro-
sress Marred by Only Moderate Amount
of Misfortune and MIsdeed.
The years record for Pittsburg, Alle-
gheny, the county and nearby towns has
been one of general advancement and we'll
being, accentuated by many Improvements
and by many deeds of benefit to the public,
though disaster and crime have of course
had their place here as elsewhere in the
world. The longest existing and most
direful of the untoward things which have
had to be chronicled was the great coke
strike, but it is doubtful if the suffering
and loss. entailed even by this huge un-
toward circumstance added to the total of
all other evils will exceed the grand sum of
all those little benefits and benefciencies
that 60 to make up the happiness of the
masses. The latter are, as rule, the
things unseen and unheard which usually
cannot be set down in print.
JANUARY.
1.-Two hundred dissatisfied Huns attack
Edgar Thomson furnacemen at Brad
dock, and wound 40 OF them, four dam
gerously; five rioters arrested. Chair
man Speer, of Allegheny Police Commit
tee denounces the force rs ineffective.
Interest revived in French creek oil
fields. Jacob Dillon, of Etna borough,
killed himself accidentally while salut-
ing the New Year. Death in New York
of q victim of a Pittsburg tough, Jack
Fry.
2-Five hundred special deputy sherifs
sworn in for projection against rioters
at Braddock. Heavy rains put both
streams above their banks. The Annie
Roberts, owned in Pittsburg, exploded a
of the scioto, and killed five men. Sum
day pumping of oil wells defined as a
necessity by Judge Stowe.
3-Schenley Park was reported as location
of the Carnegie Library. The Americas
Club indorses the Lake Erie Canal prof.
Annual week of prayer opened in city
churches.
held to nullify an act of Assembly loses
the city 81, 600, 600 in paving cases.
6-Westinghouse employees vote to deposit
part of their wages.
7-Pittsburg's new street laws (of 1857 de-
clared local and unconditional by the
State Supreme Court. Strong movement
made toward having humanity taught in
the public schools. Mrs. Annie Knab-
losch, of Troy Hill, almost murdered in
her bed by George Ingle. Indictments for
murder found against Joseph Higgins, as
principal; John Molerka, Anthony Mol
erka, Levonus Letonus, John Andreilus
and John Atcheo as accessories, in the
murder Of Michael Guzowsky, October 4,
1890
s-The city left without power to grade,
pave and sewer new streets, according to
conclusion of officials, by Justice
Williams decision on unconstitutionality
of street laws: The Allegheny Bar Asso-
citation hold third annual banquet
at the Duauesne Hotel. Interest in
creasing in the proposed agreement be-
tween the labor organizations of Allie
gheny county ard the Retail Grocers'
Association. Louis Bogger, consul for
Denmark, Sweden and Norway, arrested
for interrupting the performance at the
Bijou. Sunday schools of the county
have 100, 900 members according to a spe-
cial census. The death rate of the city
figured at 2l46 per ], 600 per annum.
9-Curative legislation urged to secure to
the city power to collect paving as
sessments. A crusade on clubs begun as
the third move in the liquor war; all
southside clubs whose members pay for
liquor by the drink are liable to be
raided. Cures by faith reported. Great
strike at the Braddock wire mill ended
Numerous suits in ejectment filed
against the occupants of the Homewood
Cemetery property cause a sensation in
the East End.
0-The Mayors message advises Councils to
cut down expenses in order to meet a
probable loss by the street act decision.
In the preliminary hearing of the Brad
dock riot case 43 Hungarians appeared as
defendants, IS of whom were held to
court and three sent to Jail. Judge
Slagle decides that hereafter each ward
of Allegheny will be entitled to but one
representativ i'll the Select Branch of
Councils. Internal Revenue Collector
Warmcastle causes the arrest of nu-
merous violators of the oleomargarine
law. A dozen people are badly injured |
on ia in hx-a
car Jumping the track at high rate of |
speed and plunging down an embank- |
ment.
I-william Neely, after 40 years. absence
from his family in Pittsburg, returns |
from California rich and, becoming rec |
onciled, settles down to live with his |
family.
"A former Pittsburg girl, Dolly Mayo,
shot and killed in st. Louis by Gambler |
Frank Mitchell, who also kills himself. |
City officials lift the gloom by deciding |
that the Supreme Court decision OH the |
street laws does not mean ruin. Con- |
tracts awarded to New York architects |
for building the Clarke conservatories |
in Schenley Park. Four corporations |
bidding for traffic to Homestead.
s-The Verestchagin collection of paintings |
opened to the public at Carnegie Hall. |
Rev. j. r. Milligan' before the Reformed |
or Covenanters' Presbytery. City police
slick counterfeiter, who could not be |
induced to talk. T. G. Evans & Co.'s
warehouse partially burned, said to be
the work of an incendiary; loss $lS 900. |
East End Electric Company sells to the
Williamsburg Company all of its territory
east of the city line.
Fire causes heavy loss to A. J. Kaercher,
S. j. Mcknight, e. j. LinneSin and d.
Gregg, in Allegheny. In the Covenanter
Presbyterian Church trials Rev. Milligan
IS found guilty and Rev. McClurkin defies
the PresDytery and goes straight to the
Synod.
system of high tower electric
lights is approved by the Gas Committee.
A Braddock mill to make armor plates.
'-serious charges made against the man.
agement of the Riverside Penitentiary |
by a convict who testifies that William
j. McCabe died from lack of attention,
and that patients in the hospital are
starving.
of the Westinghouse Company
accept s65, 600 in preferred stock and
unanimous sen timent in favor ofleniency
is evinced. Leading citizens express
themselves strongly in favor of the city
and State making big representation of |
their Industries at the Worlds Fair.
Large number of temperance meetings
held in the two cities.
Three street bills prepared by Messrs.
Watson and Rogers and placed in the
hands of Senator Finn; one presented
which IL passed will provide curative
legislation for the whole State; another
for Pittsburg alone if this one fails. DR..
E. T. Painter, who went to Berlin to test
the Koch lymph cure, is reported much
improved and u complete recovery is an
ticipated.
six lunatics picked up in the two cities.
The Westinghouse Company propose to
issue 40 600 shares of preferred stock.
District Assembly g. e OF l.. held ita