Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-13
TIRES0ME TAX SUITS.
Commissioner Beal Begins Taking
Testimony To-Morrow.
WILL KEEPIT UP FOR THIRTY DAYS
Full Reports to Ps Made in 25o Triennial
Assessment Cases.
LIST OF THOSE WHO MAKE THE APPEALS

| Judges of the Common Pleas Court last
Thursday, j. w. Beal, who was appointed
commissioner to take testimony in the
city tax suits, has ordered the first meeting
| for tomorrow morning. Only 80 days are
allowed in which the testimony must all be
taken and the report returned to the court.
In order to accomplish this 1t will be neces'
ssry to have meetings nearly every day, and
1t is moIe than probable there will be
numerous night sessions.
Since the new charter went into effect
there have been very few night meetings in
City Hall, and the evening sessions of the
Commissioners Court being a novelty, will
probably draw large audiences.
The meetings are to be held in the recep-
tian room on the second floor of City Hall
except when Councils are in session. There
are 250 cases on the list and about 35 attor-
neys will appear for the appellants. w. C.
Moreland and his assistant, T. D. Carna-
han, will represent the city and Johns
McCleave the Board of Assessors.
A Big Job for the Examiner.
An immense amount of work will be re-
ouired on each case. Witnesses on both
sides will be examined and full report
prepared for the court. In the appeals on
classification it is expected the testimony
will be voluminous, both sides supporting
their claim that each piece of property is
built up or rural and showing why they so
decide. On the valuation appeals tho testi-
mony will be to show prices on property
sold within a recent period in the neigh
e kl-k l.
made
The appeals on classification are:
Fourteenth ward-Annie Dawson, Fret
NJ. and Jasper NJ. Porter, w. G. Wilmot and
Addie Morrison.
Nineteenth ward-Annie E. Evans, Isabel
c. Sergeant, W. B., Catherine r. and Henry
II. Negley T. A, r. B., A. W. and j. r. Mel
lon, A. j. Davis, Eliza Evans
Twentieth ward-T. D. Messler, W. B. Neg
1so Worth, 'o Mary .'e G. Brnce ea John % r. V" Baum
Charles B. Baum, J. N Baum, NJ A. Wood,
ward. Kate J. Shields; Isabel c. Sergeant
Hna E9hn M Kssn hs wcm u mscRsos hsnhas =
W. Cunningham, W. T. Farley Henry Il.
Negley, Edward Groetzinger. Melissa P.
Mckee, J. l. Gloninger, D. P. Black, Annie
Mary II. Todd, Edward D. Godfrey, a. J.
Kelly, Sallie II. Edwards, Elizabeth B. Hays,
Henry Rea Jr., John F. Scott, III. l. Baird,
Twenty-frst ward-Elizabeth Allen, E. J.
Allen, Alden Walker, A. W. Mellon, Marga-
ret j. Norris, Julius Voetter, D. 2. Black,
George W. Alexander.
John Bindley, Elizabeth Allen, George e.
PEBBLES, Joseph Loughrey, Joseph c. Laugh
rey, Margaret Loughrey, Mary Ferguson, F.
LeMoyne, Mary A. Howe, Charles Donnelly.
Object to the Valuations.
The appeals on valuations are as fol-
lows:
Second ward-w. ]. Mellon and Kaufr-
Third ward-Paul Hacke, Murdochs,
George E. Shaw, Liggett estate, Hitchcock
estate.
Fifth ward-James Quinn.
Eighth ward-Joseph L. Bell, NJ. A. Wood
ward.
Tenth ward-Kate Barr.
Twelfth ward-John Heron.
Thirteenth ward-Reineman, r. B. Petty,
John w. Heron, Louisa j. Heron, Mary L.
Schenley, w. A. Heron.
Seventeenth ward-A. W. Mellon.
g Eighteenth wardooHenry Forsythe. N. P.
Nineteenth wsrd-C. B. Seeley, W. F. Ham,
ilton, F. NJ. Magee, Thomas S. Bigelow, W.
J: gilmore. Mellon Bros T. A. Mellon, K B.
Mellon, ]. II. Mellon, A. J. Davis.
Twentieth war1-M. A. Wood ward, D. C.
Negley, Amos Gabel, Sarah A. Werner, Iig-
gett Hitchcock, Harriet Station. James NC
MnErsA May "A: G s,a adS;dI MdoCallam C. E. Jones' W. R.
George w. Reed, J. R. Mellon, j Hamett, G.
w. Mellon, r. B. Mellon, W. S. Spahr et:al.
Julius Voetter, f. NJ. Ferguson, Mrs. McIn-
Jennie Gillespie, Edith Black, Henry
Laughlin, Zelia E. Beale, ct al, d. w. c. Bid.
we'll, Nancy Ferguson, Annie Abbott, C. NJ.
Edwards.
Twenty-flrsr ward-A. W. Mellon, Mar
yaret j. Morris, Mary B. Murtland, Julius
Voetter, Mary Gloninger.-
Twenty-second ward-James Lyon, Nancy
q
Isaac Mills & Co., John b. Heron, J. M.
Shields, D. D. Bruce, Joseph C. Laughrey, Mar
saret c. Laughery, Ellen NJ. Watson, John |
\. A. Murdoch, Mary A. Ferguson, Alex. |
Murdock, J. B. & A. Murdock, David B. |
Murdock, F. LeMoyne. J. ]. Ricketts,, John |
Nusgrave, Bridget Douglass, James f. Scott. |