Pittsburg dispatch. (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, January 01, 1890, SECOND PART, Page 10, Image 10
gr eTp Ya?V t "i 'f& ' '". , -Wiz 10 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 189Q. Ti! -w; $ . End. Pr. J. B. Morrison suicides. Messrs. Chambers & McKee. tbe class men, form a coke company. Remaining bodies taken from the wrecked Willey building. 13 Tom Barry makes a bitter speech and scores Powderly. Coke workers demand uniform wages. Opinion of George Sbiras, Jr., on Allegheny's charter dilemma. IS Ax makers desert the K. of I. forming a, branch of Barry's Brotherhood. SeTeral sermons preached on the Wood street dis aster. 1411. C. Frick becomes a partner of Carnegie In the iron business. Striking coal miners weaken. Flaws discovered in the marriage license law. 15 $15,000 subscribed for the Exposition at a pucL'c meeting. Rev. Joseph Krauskopf lectures on "The Messiah and the Jews." Abases of the jury system discussed by judges. Annual report of the Manufac turers' Natural Gas Company. 16 Powderly arrives and undoes the work done by Tom Barry in three hours. W. T. Lewis replies to serious charges. An old tax de cision unearthed. 17 $25,000 subscribed to the Exposition fund. D A. 3, K. of L., nledges fidelity to Powderly. Inspector McAleese's bribery charges. The man who bnnkoed John Lemon out of $10,000 captured in Canada. Report of Pres ident Campbell, of the Window Glass Workers' Association.' Celebrated Irish will case settled. IS The legal fraternity discuss reforms in present jury system. Close of interesting annual meeting of D. A. 3, K. of L. West inghouse applies for a patent on a multiple main conductor. Joseph Fleming found guilty of selling liquor illegally. 19 The Coroner's jury in the Wood street dis aster fixes the blame. Huckensteln & Co. and Building Inspector Frank charged with negligence. Railroad companies inaugu rate a war on ticket scalpers. Adam ma ter's bead chopped off by Thomas Hallo- wen at a uorK s run Doaraing -uouse. SO Dr. Hostetter!s interests in the P.4L.E R. R. sold to the Vanderbilts. Rev. Boyd Vincent preaches bis farewell sermon. Building Inspector Frank orders the re moval of aangerons structures. Another split among the colored people on Avery's will. O. F. Scalfe takes issue with F. M. Magee on street railways. 21 The grand jury specter rises again. Coal miners decide to resent a reduction in wages. British-Americans organize. The new agreement of the South Penn road signed. 22 Nearly (10,000 raised at an Exposition mass meeting. A concealed check for $-10,000 discovered in the defunct F. t M. Bank. An English manufacturer says $1,000,000 has been sent to the United States to de feat the Senate tariff bill. Lively Demo cratic caucus. 23 Annual reports of Pennsylvania Company. A. A. Stevens predicts success for the pro hibition amendment. The Camelries re ceive a big steel rail order. Joseph Dim mer put on trial for the murder of Officer Miller. 24 Frederick Turner, of the E, otL, rules hat every local can be represented in the big labor convention. Pittsburg stoves shipped to Germany. 25 Arrangements made for erection of two abattoirs in Allegheny. Francis Murphy declares against prohibition. City Solicitor Elpbinstone's opinion on Allegheny's new charter. The birthday of Bobbie Burns celebrated. 26 Death of a gipsy belle in the West End. The municipal tax lien declared to be a ne cessity. The Denny estate appeals from the decision of the Board of Assessors. 27 Master Workman Rea elves the member ship of the K. of L. Murderer Dimmey re fused to attend services in the jaiL Homeo paths oppose the proposed State Board of Licensers and Examiners. 2S Trouble among K. of L. iron molders. Mill- age for the year nxed at iz mills, lernnc gnu powder Invented by a Southside chem ist. 23 War among theW. C. T. TJ. leaders. Sec ond annual dinner of the Pittsburg Press Club a great success. A large order for yokes lost by Oliver Bros. fc Phillips be cause the K, of L. refused to do piece work. 80 The Standard Oil Company gobbles the Amazon Oil Company. John Costello pro poses to lease K. of L. coal property for 20 vears. The miners form a branch of the If ational Progressive Union with a mem bership of 3.0U0 in this section. Thousands of people attend the dog show at the Grand Central Rink. SI Surprise caused by the unloading of South Penn stock. Cokers give three days' notice of a strike. Annual reunion ot the Rensse laer Polytechnic Institute. Annual gather ing of the Women's Christian Association. FEBRUARY. 1 Mrs. W. C. Erskine sues the Knights of M. 0. for illegal ejection. Cashier Sorg. of the M. & M declares his innocence. Amalga mated Association suspends the Vesuvius lodge for admitting non-unionists. Alumni of the Rensselaer Institute visit Pittsburg's industries. Chief trans asks greater fa cilities for the Fire Department. 2 Charged that Dr. Mabarneke, of the pen, aided convicts to escape and accepted bribes. New cable route out Wylie avenue pro jected. Inspector McAleese and Assistant Superintendent Roger O'Mara charged by Dr. H. B. Orr with disorderly conduct. 3 Pen investigation ripens and Maharneke says be can compromise other people. J oil v social of the B. P. O. E. Probable strike o'f wire drawers at Braddock. James Yates badly hurt by a Penn avenue car; may not live. 4 Formal opening or" official Mabarneke trial. Job pressmen's strike declared off. Alle gheny Councils wrangle over the new charters. H. C. Frick denies his cokers have teen reduced. 5 Dr. Mabarneke suspended till full investi gation made. Claimed Wcstingboube and Edison must consolidate. Decided the Expo, will be ready and open September L ILii-e in freight rates out of Pittsburg. Allegheny delighted at being made a legal third-class city. Inspector McAleese and Roger O'Mara fined $50 for disorderly con duct. 6 Coldest day of the year. Banquet of vet eran Masons. Slight reduction for coal miners. 8 $100,000 English cash invested in Allegheny City bonds. H. C. Frick signs the cokers' scale. Coal Exchange members protest against convict labor. Bonds closing in on Mabarneke. Elks' benefit a big financial success. 9 Ex-Jndge Fetterman booming the Austra lian ballot. Bessemer steel burned for the Haworth gun failure. 10 TheBtate refuses penitentiary appropria tion until satisfied everything is right. Ex tensive cloak robbery at Boggs 4 Buhl's. 11 Andrew Carnegie says Southern iron can not compete witn us. ueiie jjoyd, the rebel spy, lectures. Representative Stewart calls the Riverside investigation a faftce. Drug gists meet to repeal the Blue Laws. Mayor McCallin charges the city chiefs with prod igality. 12 One hundred bogus butter sellers caught up. Pittsburg to have a school of sciences. Allegheny brewers organize to fight prohi bition. Monthly meetiDg of the W. C. T. TJ. 13 Howl about gas shortage. President Gom- fers issues call for mass meetings on elght lour Question, the first to be held here February 22. 14 Senator Gobin arraigns the pen. Two million dollar Sewer Trust formed. Camp fire of Post 128, G. A. It. Encampment 15 Ex-President Hayes addresses pnblic schoolchildren. Failure of Grand Lake Coal Company for $250,000. Constitutional Amendment Committee raise $5,000. 16 Belva Lockwood will talk prohibition. John C. Smith, doorkeeper of Criminal Court, stricken with heart paralysis. Big Westinghouse works projected at Wil merding. Preparations for grand parade on Washington's birthday. 17 Gripmen threaten to tie up if wages are not advanced. Bank expert says F. & if. de positors will lose all. Immense prohibition mass meeting at Bijou. IB Pittsburg butterine Belters organize to fight the LiO. Local builders want an amal gamation with the national association. 19 Local municipal elections result in universal Republican victories. K. of L. celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary. Exposition subscriptions to date (200,000. NewMasonic hail for East End projected. 20 Legislative committee in- town. Peniten tiary Board rattled. J. H. Dewees, Osceola Coal Company, missing. Wholesale grocers say the business tax is burdensome. Har rison refuses a banquet at the Americas Club. Slatterh's lawyer tells the Pardon Board Coffey killed Meyer. Marriage of Miss Miller and Dr. Benham. 21 Dr. Maharneke fired from the pen. Found guilty of swearing only. McClure and Frey vogle, gamblers, pardoned. National Sec retary Dillon, of the A. F. G. W. TJ., mar ried to Miss May Woolgar. 22 Mr. De Beck aged 68, receives fatal injuries on the Penn traction. Jimmy Doran es capes from jail. Prominent men sit down on the idea of branding criminals. Prepa rations to farm a coal pool. 20,000 people parade in memory of Washington. 23 Inventor Reese experimenting with a cast steel gun. Trades Council reports in favor of high license. Father Canevln ignores the amendment question. Crowds prepar ing to descend upon Washington. 24 The German military against prohibition. Fruitless talk about securing young man agers for the Exposition. 25 Central Turner Hall enjoys its annual grand ball. Meeting of the A. O. U. W. conven tion. Chief Brown hits back at Mayor Mc Callin. Disappearance of the Murdock bunko testimony. 26 Pennsylvania railroad shops and round, houses to be taken from the city to Walls. Big cas gusher struck near Economy. A -physician claim hospitals are run by cliques. Booth & Flinn quarrymen strike. Liquor men barred from the A. O. U. W. 27 Puddlersat the Republic Iron Works strike because one was discharged. Ida Patterson elopes with a fireman. Controller Morrow goes to Harrisburg to boom his street bill. Natl company formed to use the new quick process. 25 Governor Foraker, In an interview, compli ments iiarnson, out gives xourmanBDiasc .Trouble at the Republic Iron Works settled.- .-,1 Mrs.- Smith dies of injuries sustained at a natural gas explosion in Tarentum, Homer Swaney and Hattle A. Linn married. MARCH. 1 Elaborate spread by the Welsh In honor ot St. David. Policy houses raided. LiO. sue Aldermen Shaffer and Cassldy f or al leged money due. 2 Pennsylvania boys in blue en route to Washington. Mass meeting of corporations oppose the 8-mill tax. J7H. Johnston, of St. Louis, appointed General Manager of the Exposition. Monongahela House leased to Eastern hotel men. 3 The Standard Company said to be refining excellent Lima olL The two Murpbys speak to immense houses on prohibition. 4 R. G. Gross, on his death bed, confesses to the murder of John Carter, at Clark's railL Four million bushels ot coal sent down the nver. Death of James DeBeck, the grip victim; v. 5 Pittsburg society torn up over Virginia Knox's Montercole revelations; she applies for a divorce. The faith cure catches on here. Annual reception of the Societa Italians. Captain and Mark Wishart ar rested for disorderly conduct. Emma Bingler, singer, and William Wolf, mar ried. 6 George Shorts and Mollis Sarver elope. Allegheny death rate runs alarmingly hizh. Eight million bushels of coal go down with 13 feet of water. Rotten building and loan associations exposed. 7 Westmghouse's rival, Edison, loses his Canadian patent. Liquor men f uliy organ ized to light prohibition. Pitcher Ed Morris arrested for gambling. W, D. Moore joins the prohibition ranks. 8 Wishart fined for giving Martin a black .eye. Chairman Weiss says liquor men have organized only for protection. Police In spector Stevens discharged. 9 New electric road will go up Squirrel Hill. Convention of the Catholic Total Absti nence Union. Bodies being removed from Troy Hill Cemetery to make room for houses. Joseph Dimmev granted a new trial. 10 Alderman Cassldy charged by Penny, of Murdoch bunko fame, "with false arrest. Big Union Temperance meeting at the Opera House. The Edgar Thomson breaks the world's record, Costello sides with Powderly against Barry. 11 Mills robbed of tons of brass by hoys. Eleven counterfeiters sentenced by Judge Acheson. Fire dealers arrested for selling adulterated milk. 12 Banquet of Pittsburg Undertakers' Asso ciation. Producers and dealers form a milk ", trust. Wells Fargo purchase the P. k W. express business. 13 Incendiaries burn the Red Lion Hotel stables. First electric piano played here. Unknown body of a man found in Chartiers 14 Senator Colquitt speaks at Prohibition meeting. Count Montercole visits Pitts burg. Saloomsts raising big campaign fund. Miss Annie Dickens and J. M. Shields mar ried. Jewish Feast of Purim celebrated. Numerous liquor remonstrances filed. 15 Carnegie will not join the Chicago mill syndicate. Count Montercoleleaves quietly. Sixty-eight remonstrances against liquor licenses filed. IS Welsh Presbyterian Church dedicated. Numerous small suburban robberies alarm the people. v 17 William Ragan dies of injuries received at a gas explosion. Father Sheedy asks the license court to cut down licenses. IS License Court opens with Judge White on the bench alone, 100 cases heard. White very severe. Meeting of the State Session of the Roval Arcanum. River navigation opened. Wages voluntarily advanced in the Edgar Thomson. 19 Charges in Harrisburg of misappropriation ot western Penitentiary lunas. uniei Brown asks License Court to prohibit sa loons in the Owl district. Frank Aldrlch, alleged bunko man. brought from Canada. Edward Downing, of Allegheny, tried to add his name to list of suicides. 20 Superb banquet of the Royal Arcanum. Allegbenians start for Oklahoma. 21 Viewers find masonry defective at Lock No. 7. John Rowell, of the Amalgamated Association, in for burglary, released from the pen. 22 The License Court becomes even more severe; Judge White declares be will cut licenses away down. W. J, Florence and wife dined by Nobles ot the Mystic Shrine. 23 Veterans rejoicn over the passage of a law giving them special preference. 24 Train held up by tramps on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad. German working men ask Judge White to be lenient. First speak-easy raid. James Heron, of Alle gheny, mysteriously disappears. Street railroads to be run by electricity. 25 Flint glass workers sav prohibition will hurt their business. Coal mines closing down. Charles Vockrodt a painter, dies after a week of suffering from burns. Re publican Executive Committee endorses Ford foi the postoffice. 26 Ft. Pitt Foundry burned, loss 100,000. Hen ry Warner, Superintendent of the work house, says he nas a contempt for the K. ot L. The city rapiaiy lighted with arc lamps. AVife of John Thuring said to have plotted his life for his insurance. New B.& O. depot about finished. 27 License Court finishes with Pittsburg and tackles Allegheny. Rev. Scully's church disrupted. Cashier Voigbt indicted. '' 28 Close of Allegheny Select and Common f'nnnfiile Hfoivopc' A c:ofi a tlrtYi uHtl hnv. cott prohibitionists. Randall Club mu- 29 Effort to bribe Allegheny Councilmen fails. Standard Oil Company burs Crafton oil field. Felix R. Brnnot stricken with par alysis. 30 Carnegie Library formally presented to Braddock. The Chambers, mansion de stroyed by fire in East End. 31 Carnegie still fighting the Pennsvlvania Railroad. Spiritualists celebrate the dis covery ot the modern faith. Youthful burglars working Fourth avenue. Minis ters preach against liquor. APRIL. 1 Allegheny roads to be made electric. James Hunter elected Chairman of Alle gheny Council. Moving day. Roughen and catchers in mills demand 50 per cent advance. Opening of the ball season. 2 Carnegie still claims Pennsylvania freight discrimination. Mrs. Amelia Ulmer, ot Beltzboover. suicides. Banquet of the Phi-Delta-Theta at the Monongahela House. 3 President Roberts ignores Carnegie. Ma sonic Hall opened by the Masons. 4 Carnegie reiterates charges of discrimina tion against P. R. R. Co. Pittsburg insti tutions receive their appropriations. W. T.Lewis, anti-Powderly, suspended from K. of L. for 30 years. Glenwood Park Hotel burned. The Scaife Lock buiif'ing, Water street, destroyed. 5 Representative Wherry supports Carnegie against the P. R. R. . 6 Jones 4 Laughlins' Steel Works turnout 2,350 tons in one week, breakingtbe record. New athletic club in the East End. Fifty thousand dollars expended on Monongahela House improvements. 7 Hubbard's ax factory burned; (500,000 loss. George Harper dies after living one week with bullet in his brain. Annie Lorenz, Allegheny, suicides. Window Glass Work ers favor protection. 8 Meeting of Socialists. 9 Movement to change moving day. Monon gahela fire escape deaths declared acci dental. 10 Tilt between Harry Darlington and Judge White. Sensation at Sam Small's lecture caused by a saloonkeeper Interfering. Randall Club musicale. Senator Rutan seriously ill. U Archbishop Ryan writes against prohibi tion. Electric road projected for Castle Shannon. New Allegheny Councils meet 12 City cable railways need pay no taxes. 13 Penitentiary management exonerated. Colored people torm the Assembly of the Iron Ring. Chapel of Webster Avenue Convent dedicated. The Milk Trurt a failure. 14 Twenty-six glass blowers reach Jeannette. B. &0. employes object to the Relief Asso ciation. Feast of the Passover celebrated by the Hebrews. Palm Sunday observed. 15 Favorable coal rise in the river. Five hun dred men strike at Duquesne. Citizens favor widening Diamond street. 16 Ford plate glass works sold for $1,500,000 to Pittsburg Plato Glass Company. Marriage of Miss Alice Jones to W. W. WUlock. 17 Express on the P.4L.E wrecked, many hurt. Young Men's Tariff Club reception. William Draper on tri-1 for the Tom's Run murder. Beautiful tributes by the G. A. R. to Sydney Omobundro. 18 Quarterly meeting of D. A. 3, K. ot L. 19 Window glass workers refuse to aceept President Campbell's resignatiin. Com memorative union services in St. Andrew's Church. M. L. Malone succeeds Patter son, i 20 Trades Assembly condemns Duquesne Iron and Steel Company. Cartwright wins the great pedestrian match. Father Cosgrove condemns dancing. 21 Easier Sunday generally observed. Judge White grants but 93 licenses in the city. Milk Producers' Union join the K. of L. Zi Opening of the gay season. 23 Refused saloon keepers protest. Randall Club reception. British-Americans cele brate the memory of St. George. 24 Fight between two East End hired men; Charles Wilson fatally in jured by Andrew Heiser. Elaborate grocers' banquet. St. Paul's Cathedral tea party. Miss Stella Herbst and R. M. Taylor married at Se wicklev. 25 Rev. J. K. Milhurn, Grace Lutheran Church, requested to resign. Lizzie 8leetz and O. H. Groetzinger married. 25-Odd Fellows celebrate their seventieth American anniversary. Daisy Hutchinson declared sane. The new Government build ing a trifle out ot plumb. Thomas Hol loway on trial for murder of Slater. 27 Third annual Ajnerieus Club banquet Holloway accepts verdict of murder in see ond degree. Elaborate arrangements for the Washlncton Centennial. 28 Glass tanks pronounced successful;, Firet Universalis! Church organized in Pitts burg; Rev. W. G. Williams, pastor. 29 John Sheaffer, employe of P. R.R., sui cides while walking with, a' young lady. George Kennan, Siberian' explorer, lec tures, i 80 Second day of the Washington celebration. Robert R. Singer and Miss Harriet Graff married. Last day of the old saloon busi ness. Five thnusana miners threaten to quit work. Encampment No. 1, U. V. L. MAY. 1 More English glass blowers arrived at Jeannette. Corner stone of Cumberland, Presbyterian Church laid. J. D. Sbott,of Columbus, O., robbed of $2,700. 2 Foreign brewers cut prices under Pittsburg beer. Faith cure belief growing. A Beth any Home. Opening of GUmofe Jubilee Concerts. Mayor McCallin opposed to grade crossing bilL Miss Mitchell charges Michael Gibbens with abduction. 3 Little Maggie Burke prosecuted for steal ing 12.000. 4 Judge White sustained by the Bar Associa tion. Central Trades Council to inquire Into the Jeannette affair. 6 Speak-easles raided. 6 Judge White comes back at Mr. Sbiras. H. W. Oliver elected President or the Pitts-bun- and Western. Umberirer's murderers captured by a Pittsburg detective. 7 Machinery hall contract let for SISO.OuO. West Penn Hospital gets $50,000 appropria tion. 8 Bogus $5 blUs in circulation. Milk Trust bursts. 9 Judge White refuses all rehearing-. Pitts burg newspaper men on a jaunt. Romantic opera, "Lion of Pern," produced at Grand Opera House by the authors. Dr. E. A. Wood and Leonard Wales, with the Boston Ideals. 10 Pennsylvania Railroad promises to rectify discriminations. Warmcastle appointed Collector of Internal Revenue. John Bru bacb, of Allegheny, suicides; despondency. U Homestead steel workers ask for 30 per cent advance. Ex-Congressman Barr enters suit against the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company charging directors with fraud. Forty deputy sheriffs guard the Duquesne Steel Works against the strikers. First outdoor meeting of Prohibitionists in favor of the amendment. Annual meeting of pattern maters. ,, 12 Ford answers Barrs charges against Pitts burg Plate Glass Company. Boston Ideals skin to evade the L. and O. St. James' Catholic Church, Wilkinsburg, dedicated. Semi-centennial of German Methodism. 13-City Councils object to Judge White's strin gent license rulings. Superintendent Starr on trial for manslaughter. 14 Miners' strike ends with a 73 cent com promise. P. R. R. employes object to company officers in their relief association. 15 Centr.il Trades Council pushing Jeannette investigation. Center avenue pond threat ens neighbors. Mozart Club annual mu sicale. 16 Germans combine to fight the amendment. One thousand five hundred tube workers quit the National Tnbe Works. Strike of the Solar Iron Works employes. H. J. Cook, Allegheny, arrested in London, Ont,, for robbing Fortersville bank. 17 National Tube Works concedes demands and resumes. Alumni of Princeton and Allegheny College bold annual feasts. Pro ducers' Association gain control of 6,000,000 barrels of oil and go in the market. . 18 Municipal elections result in home rule victories. Judge Stowe dismisses license appeal. 19 Laborers denounce Carnegie's sliding scale. 20 Railroads reduce rates on iron ore. Jean nette window glass tank a great success. Marriage of Jennie B. Kennedy to Joseph Borland, Philadelphia, in the East End. 21 Grand opening of the May Festival. Edison-Westinghouse fight opens in court. 22 Archbishop Ryan here to settle the Ursu line difficulty. Home for Young Women. Allegheny, opened. 23 ArchbishoD Rvan visits' churches and schools. John Carter placed on trial for murder. 24 Representatives of L. A. 800 and Trades Council agree upon public investigation re garding the Jeannette case. Edlson-West-mgbouse case submitted to the court. 25 Ugly charges made against Homeopathic Hospital physicians. Diamond street Ordi nance recommended to Councils by Survey Committee. Carter murder case submitted to jury. Close of Mar Festival. 26 Controversy over charges made against the Homeopathic Hospital. Pennsylvania State Board of Health meets at Hotel An derson. 27 Erastus Wimac addresses the Chamber of Commerce. Carnegie employes given ten aays to sign the scale. Governor Beaver vetoes appropriations for Catholic hospitals. Councils refuse to investigate charges -against the heads of departments. 23 Exposition mass meeting at Old City Hall. 29 Iron workers' proposal rejected by manu facturers. Mobile asks Carnegie to build steel works on the Gulf. John L. Sullivan visits Pittsburg. 30 Opening of St. Mark's Guild House. Bazaar held for the benefit of Bloomfleld -Library Association. General observance of Mem orial Day. Ascension Day observed by the Catholics. Anniversary of Home for Agea Women at Wilkinsburg. 31 Committee of freight agents cut rates on iron and steel. JUNE." I General suspension of business caused by 'the flood. Funds started by different news- Jiapers for the relief of Johnstown. Meet ng of Connty Committee. Fight over the rules between Quay and Magee. 2 Chamber of Commerce take charge of all Johnstown, subscriptions. Government building management's progress declared satisfactory at postoffice headquarters. Chamber of Commerce.receives $50,000 from New York. 3 Amalgamated committee complete their work'on sliding scales. Chamber ot Com merce sends $35,000 in cash and an unlim ited supply of provisions to Johnstown. Battery B ordered away from Johnstown by General Hastings. Veterans meet in Pitts bunr to aid the sufferers. 4 Many of survivors brought to Pittsburg tor shelter.' Amertcus Club leaves for Johns town with a Afresh supply of provisions. Local fiscal losses will amount to $500,000. Western Union wires taxed to their utmost. All the hospitals filled. Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Amalgamated Associa tion donates $2,000 to the flood sufferers. Marriage of Miss Hattle Clark and Henry Mulholland. James B. Scott, of Pittsburg, appointed dictator. Marriage of Miss Anna Graham to Dr. Walker Beam. Wed ding ot George B. Gordon, Esq., of this city, to Miss Mary Boorum, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 5 Members of South Fork Fishing Club de fend the dam. All contributions received for Conemaugh sufferers to be deposited in city banks. Pennsylvania Railroad loses $1,000,000 by the flood. 6 Three thousand six hundred coffins sent to Johnstown. Ladles (5001 of Pittsburg and Allegheny labor at the bedsides ot the suf fering survivors. Eighty thousand dollars cash received by Treasurer Thompson. President Campbell replies to his assail ants In the Jeannette glassblower's case. State Board of Health establish an office in Pittsburg. Relief fund increases to 360.001 so far. Scarcity of laborers in the streets. No workmen available. Garden City sends 110,000 to Chamber of Commerce Commit tee. Annual outing of the Almagated As sociation at Rock Point. 10 South Fork Fishing Club dissolves. 11 Pittsburg river water all right. Marriage of D. T. Watson and Miss Margaret Wal ker. 12 The gathering of the Lutheran Synod, Southsiders'demand rapid transit. 13 Secret and social lodges turn in to aid Johnstown sufferers. 14 Brotherhood of Local Engineers asked to join the Amalgamated Association. 15 Pittsburg Relief Committee disbands. Banquet to John Jarrett. New directory shows an increase of 16,653. 16 Kate Fields opposed to prohibition. Law yers' picnic. Lizzie Coates, aged 15, drowned In the Allegheny. 17 iron Workers' scale completed. Duncan Ross in town. 18 Liquor men celebrate their victory. Amal gamated Association takes In laborers. 19 Rush for flood pictures. Fbipps offers Allegheny a conservatory. 20 Prohibitionists fall to agree on a permanent organization. 21 Walter Lvon appointed District Attorney. William Weihe elected President of the Amalgamated. Graduating exercises at St. Paul's. 22 Harrv Flann, bookkeeper in the Marine Bank, jailed for embezzling $35,000. Meet ing of the Sovereigns of Industry. Un known man leaps from the Sixth street bridge and drowns. Meeting of the Na tional Plumbers' Association. Voighr, the bank wrecker, sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. 23 Sensational developments in the Flann case., Lawyers say South Fork Club is not liable. 24 Fifth avenue Masonic Temple dedicated. Diamond alley ordinance passes Common Council. 25 Plumbers' Convention meet. Charles H. Harrow. V. S. N., marries Mss H. R. Ham ilton, Allegheny. Contract let for Alle gheny's Conservatory. Brace Bros, awarded $400 damages for the famous boycott. 26 Opening of the new Frohslnn quarters on Penn avenue. 25 The-Supreme Court reverses Judge White; good citizens may proenre license. Excite ment over the announcement. The Pro ducers' Association sold to the Standard. 29 Firms rapidly signing the Amalgamated Scale. President Gompers talks on eight hours. Six thousand people attend the Slassworkers' picnic, ottlers expect their licenses. The Dora Steplin mystery deepening. Arch Street MTE. Church dedicated. JULY. i Defendants In the Brace Bros, boycott file exceptions to the -master's finding. -Agent TCX'AUlUbW-ir'AUl BHUUibSUUinUVf Beaver in town. Building-Inspector Frank retires. Diamond alley ordinance passed. 2 Immense eight-hour mass meeting. Anni versary of Little Round Top. Night school examination finished. 3 Wholesalers and retailers receive their li censes. ' 4 immense picnic in Wilkinsburg. The city depopulated. 6 Dlstriot Attorney Lyon .to investigate the Jeannette case. Picnic of the County De mocracy. New bridge projected over the Allegheny. Test .of an electric motor in vented by Plttsburgers. 6 Arrest of Johnston, the insane V. B. A. de serter. 7 G. A. R. will distribute its own funds. Three boys drowned in the Monongahela. Colored camp-meeting at Wilkinsburg. Major Armes thanks Plttsburgers for the medal sent for pulling Beaver's nose. 8 Window Glass Convention in Pittsburg. Flint Glass Convention inBellalre. John Yeldell, colored minister, arretted for a. Southern murder. 9 Typhoid fever raging in Allegheny. Sav eralvcases of sunstroke. Thermometer 93. Drummers' excursion down the river. Ed S. Giles and Rose E. Unnlevy married. 10 Non-union men reach Homestead. Great excitement. Annual meeting of the alumni of St Vincent's. H H. C. Frick purchases Leisenrings big plants. Rioting at Homestead and several men hurt President Campbell's window glass report causes a sensation. TheTrav- elers' Club in trouble, a collector skips. 12 Return of the Pilgrims to the Holy Land. Wishart arrests the Sundav slot machines. Silver anniversary of Rev. W. H. McMillan and wife. Pittsburg Relief fund reaches $SO0.U00. 13 Peace at Homestead,a compromise effectedt Squirrel HlU street contract let The Cour requested to amend retail licenses, but re fuse. The Spiritualistic Church chartered. The St James Hotel robbed of $1,600. Two hundred thousand Exposition bonds will be issued. 14 South Carolina officers after Yeldell. Work commenced at Walls for the P.R. R. shops. 15 Third annual reunion of the Elks. Intense excitement over the Yeldell affair. Formal openlngottheMcKeesportandBellevernon Railroad. 16 Smallpox cases in the pest house. 17 Yeldell makes a bitter fight in court Rush for vaccination quills. Westinghouse sues companies using the alternating current IS Eighteenth Regiment leaves for Rippey came Uniontown. Iron advancing. 19 Sellers McKee purchased the Birmingham line. 20 John Jarrett and Russell Harrison act like two farmers in London. Judge Slagle rules oleomargarine must go. English syn dicate bid for Pittsburg breweries. Typhoid raging in Allegheny. 3 udge Ewing declines liquor reheanngs. 21 The usual Sunday drowning. Armv pay station to be opened here. Charles Scott shot by James Lehr in camp near Con. fluence. 22 Diamond streetveto killed. 23 Murderer Lehr a lunatic. Pittsburg Ladies' Committee suspend sewing for Johnstown. Miss Dina Israel and Mr. Levy Katten mar ried. 24 Girl's gymnasium added to a female col lege. New cable laid on Fifth avenue. Slate roofers receive a charter. 25 John Daly, aged 63, dies on Homeopathic operating table. Valley campmeetlng opened. 28 Green bottle blowers ask the green glass men to aid them in the East Plasterers object to incapable boys and go on a strike. Murray Vemer, of the Citizens' Traction, presonted with a silver set by 400 em ployes. 27 All spaces taken at the Exposition. Four thousand people attend the picnic of St Paul's Church. John Snyder, of Johns town, suicides. 28 The South Fork Club sued for $50,000 for a drummers life. Episcopal Bishop White bead Dreaches in a Presbvterian nnlnlt. 29 Pennsylvania Railroad puts on 5,000 new cars. Italian riot in Fallowfield township; two killed and several wounded. Banquet to Superintendent Patton, of the B. & O. Allegheny typhoid increasing. Successful collection for YeldelL 30 Yeldell mnst be returned to South Carolina. Ten thousand cokers object to a cut in wages. Newell's road bouse sold. 81 James Walton & Ca's miners strike for more wages. AUGUST. 1 Horace B. Phillips suffers a mental relapse in rnuaaeipma. Jiiiixir tests iali. H3e wickley Athletic Club tournament Flemon taken South. One-fourth of the cokers out 2 Contractor Jones sues the Fifth Avenue Traction for $30,000 alleged dne him. 3 Druggist Kae-cher fights the L.&0. Nine thousand ovens idle. 4 Clerk Franklin, of the Albemarle, skips with tlie-guests' money. Eugene Roll hawse elopes with Miss Wolff and marries her. Strike at the Carrie Furnace. 5 Bender, Bander and Stoner arrested for blackmailing speak-easies. Twelve thou sand ovens now idle. Armed Hungarians shed blood at Jimtown. Catholic Total Abstinence members from the East in Pittsburg. Miss Bertha Watt and Frank W. Morrow married. 6 Inspector Whitehouse pulls more conspir acy detectives. 7 Randall fete enjoyed by 8,000. Frank Rich mond burled from his wagon and killed by a cable car. 8 Coke strikers win. Allegheny Councils de- clde to pave with asphalt Tarentum camp opens. Duquesne Greys and Battery B leave for Mt Gretna. 9 Explosion of the SO-inch main of the Mon ongahela Gas Company on the Southside; John Connors and Miller killed, and 12 In jured. Treasury Department said to be un willing to prosecute in the Jeannette case. 10 Allegheny wants a Government building. Flint glass houses resume at midnipht. 1150 Chinamen arrested in an opium joint 12 Bander, Doyle, Bender. Kelly, Stoner, Brocket Dougherty, Gallagher and Nagle on trial for conspiracy. 13 Christian Endeavor picnic on the river. More non-union trouble at tne Exposition. 14 Brown reorganizes the Are department Alderman uallen arrested for conspiracy. Eight thousand people at butchers' picnic at Ross' Grove. 15 Labor men censure the Government for not appointing a factory inspector. Albert Menjou and Miss Nora Joyce married. 16 The Smitbfleld street bridge viaduct tocost $200,000. Three Carrie Furnace strikers re manded to court Work resumed on the Weldin building. 17 Ninth street bridge to be torn down and an iron one erected for the electric road. 18 Window glass workers refuse to join the Labor Trust 19 Flinn sued by contractor McKnight for balance due on Johnstown contract Mi croscopical Society on ajaunt to Buffalo. Big re-union of the carpenters and joiners atAIiqulppa. 20 Carbon setters strike leaves the city In darkness. Boiler in Gangwisch's brewery explodes, Andrew Snyder killed, three wounded. 21 Wm. Lee shoots John T. Natcher con tractor. Miller refinery still burning. 22 Chamber of. Commerce prefers Washington for the World's Fair. Wholesale sales men excurt np the Monongahela. River men will dredge the harbor. Rev. Maas re fuses to bury John Hoof man with the Jr. O. U. A. M. badge on his breast 23 William McCreery asked General Beaver to return that Johnstown loan of $125,000. The First Cumberland Presbyterian Church ue serts to the Congtegatlonal denomination. The Great Western Band joins the K. of L. John Natcher dead. 24 Trades Council condemns the Great West ern Band. Coke advanced 25 cents. Will iam Williams, of the Southside patrol, ac cused of robbing prisoners. 25 Reopening of the Butler Street M. E. unurcn; tne usners, opposed to green bands, strike. 26 Sixteenth annual meeting of the Daughters of Liberty. Colored Odd Fellows picnic at Aliqulppa. Gathering of the County Teachers' Institute: 600 present Anti Cruelty Society takes up the Law and Order's child spy case. 27 Ellen Weiser, McKeesport suicides by drowning. Italian testa at Silver Lake, Hibernians parade and picnic. 28 Dixmont annex finish. Alderman Porter charged with extortion. Pittsburg and Allegheny diocese made one. J. R. John ston chosen for State Treasurer on the Prohibition ticket 29 J. D. Weeks appointed on the census. Spiritualists hold a picnic at Belleme. 80 Allegbenians object to the rebuilding of the Miller refinery. Funeral of William Thaw. 81 Westinghouse secures the contract to light Allegheny. John Lewis and William Fagan, two more victims of the steel acci dent, die. 8EPTEMBER. 1 Eighty-seven musicians dropped from the KVofL. 2 Rev. Hammond, Baptist minister, resigns rather than give up smoking. William - Thaw gives hundreds of thousands to edu cation, religion and charity. 3 A window factory starts up, breaking the lockout 4 Exposition formally opened. Small coke groducers organizing against the Frick ompany. John Brenneman fleeced out of $450 by a green goods man. 6 A labor movement to boycott Chinese. Wm. A. Smith shoots his wife while sleep ing; jealousy. Crowds growing at the Expo sition. Select Knights plcnio at Silver Lake; 3,000 people attend. 6 Tramp's badly injure two brakemen at Wall station. Thos. Drennlng, white, Ella Mc Cullougb. colored, married. 7 F. S. Tarbell sues the Pittsbure Railroad, for $50,000 for bis wife ana three children lost on the day express. 8 Sonthsiders raising money, for a park. PitUbure visited bv Dlaruo of flies. Cor. .v ner stone of the Catholic-. Church at Char- WVHi huu VI wuvy A uoutB,;, . ; 9 Governor Beaver writes McCreery he does not intend to return that $125,000. 10 Frank Hill, J-A. Bobbs and May Sullivan arrested; a full expose follows. 11 Council No. 124, Jr. O. U. A. M.. celebrates its tenth anniversary yith a banquet. 13 Gaudaur wins over Teemer: crookedness was charged. An 8-month-old child of Mlnhanl ffomner diss of ossification. 14 Second week of the successful. Exposition. Judge White acknowledges his license mis takesAn Italian stabs his brother over a S,me of cards, iss Kate Smith, crazed by religious ex citement sent to Dixmont 17 W. J. Armstrong, a Pittsburger, escapes from a New Jersey asylum. 17 Homeopathic Convention opened. Twentv. five per cent paid the depositors of the F. & M. Bank. Scotch night at the Exposition. 18 Forty-eight old firemen dropped as incom petents. May Sullivan's startlingexposures; an aeienuants nem lor court. jr. ureeiy and Miss C. McCandless, daughter of Judge McCandless, married in Butler. 21 Trades Council asks President Marvin to re sign from the presidency of the Exposition Society; he refuses. 22 Enterprise Hardware Company's works de stroyed, Allegheny. Corner stone laid for the Southside Polish Church. 23 Dynamite scare in Allentown exploded. La bor leaders object to Marvin on account ot his non-union factory. Ada May Blakely and Alfred J. Whltaker married. 24 Second Annual Convention ot the League ot Republican Clubs. 25 United Glass Company attempts to gobble Pittsburg concerns. Catherine Stoney and Dr. Harry Phillips married. Cptaln W. R. Jones and five workmen enveloped in flames at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works; An drew Kalloney died Instantly. 26 Twelfth ward hill sliding. Houses ont of plumb. 27 westinghouse electric building damaged $40,000 by fire. 28 Black Diamond Furnace breaks all records. Window glass manufacturers signing the workers' scale. 29 Braddock mourns over the death of W. R. Jones. More G. W. musicians expelled from the union. The McCleary Rod and Gun Club raided. SO Collector Warmcastle appoints 60 new men. Federated union meeting of railroad fire men, brakemen and switchmen. OCTOBEB. 1 Annual session of the National Board of Steam Navigation; A. C. Cheney, presi dent; General Negley, chairman of the Executive Committee. Forty thousand old sniuiers in line to Conor urana Army Day. Fifth anniversary of tho Randall Clnb. 2 A. B.Day and Miss Catherine Speer elope. Tin plate again manufactured in Pittsburg. Miss Louise Farley and H. 8. Kellog mar ried. 3 Exposition attendance breaks the. record. Miss Millie Wood and Louis Speer married. Harriet Hayes and E. E Stewart married. Captain Lew Brown and Miss Lizzie Peebles married. 4 Marvin quarreling with the Trades Council. Whltecaps on the Southside. 6 Westinghouse appeals from Justice Brad ley's decision; non-suiting his case against Edison. 6 A handsomely dressed babe strangled and thrown into the river. 7 Fire at the Oliver Iron and Steel Company, Southside, loss $80,000. Annual Convention of the Catholic Total Abstainence Union, Rer. Father Conevin, President Machine moulders demand an increase ot 10 per cent supreme Court Judges don silk jrobes. 8 Hebrew Society started with a membership of 500, who long to return to Jerusalem. Mrs. Joljn Dalzell gives a reception. Ed ward Shaw and Miss Belle Miller married. 9 Alarming shortage of gas. Gathering of the Pittsburg Conference of the M. E. Church. Trial of Rev. Danks. George E. Goddard and Miss Maud Scott married. Aldermanlo secrets exposed in court defendants scored by Judge White. 10 English Lutherans assemble. Rev. J. A. Helss in the chair. Opening of the Mc Keesport and Bellevernon Railroad cele brated. Miss Nettie Card and Daniel A. Moore married. U- -Andrew Carnegie renews his magnificent library offer to Pittsburg. Colonel Dank guilty. Fred AUendorf, the embezzler, cap- tureu in uniariu. 12 Onera House musicians withdraw from the union. Ten million bushels of coal in Pitts burg harbor. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zug. 13 A dozen speak-easies raided. 15 Convention of American Boiler Makers at the Anderson. 16 Dimmey convicted of murder In the second Jegree. 17 Patrol wagon collides with a runaway, killing a horse and injuring Foreman Mc .A.I1 d re W9a 18 Plttsburgers rather favor Chicago for the World's Fair. Police pull dime museums. 19 Dimmey gets 12 years. Exposition winds up in a blaze of glory. 20 Bold robbery on tho Southside. A. glass worker almost murdered on the street 21 Glass strike at the O'Hara works. The Americus Club will help Foraker. 22 Troy Hill Cemetery to be sold for building sites. Lively testimony in the Bauder gang trial. 23 Handsome addition to the West Penn Hos pital. New Hnmane Society started. Machine molders winning their strike. 24 The Canal Commission meets; the project indorsed. Prohibitionists open the cam paign at Lafayette HalL Bobbs breaks down and admits his guilt in the May Sulli van case. Bauder gang found guilty. 25 Southsiders demand safety gates. 26 Districts 149 and 143. glasswprkers, consoli date. Bobbs gets nve years, Harrington three years. 27 People object to the removal of bodies from the Troy Hill Cemetery. 23 New incline plane projected up Mt Oliver. Balloting for a new President of L. A. 300. 29 Mt Oliver electric road ready to start J. B. vandergriit and Miss Diana Montague mar ried. Miss Annie Renshaw and Rev. H. Stiles married. 30 Inventor Rlcketts wants $2,000,000 damages from Westinghouse for allezed lnfrinee- ment of patent Carnegie t Co. build eight open-hearth furnaces at Homestead. Thos. Garrison, near Mansfield, dies of Injuries he received in a drunken row. 31 Jos. Fricke organizing the Anarchists. Belle Tomer and Will McCutcheon married. Halloween celebrated by the boys. NOVEMBER. 1 Knights of St George organize a Johns town lodge. Remains ot Captain Jones placed in a bronze casket 2 Mrs. Bchenley gives 300 acres for a Pitts- burg park. Spiritualist Slade gives a won derful seance. Miss Paulson's body found. Lee found guilty of murder in the second degree. 3 Tanners organize. Coroner McDowell the victim ot a smoothbore ticket 4 Property around Schenley Park increases In value 250 per cent Window glass prices increase generally. Supreme Court decides in favor of Druggist Fleming. 5 Dick Johnston and Coroner McDowell elected. Pan-American delegationed. The Nun of Kenmare in the city. Sewickley ladies present the Dalzell Republican Club with a banner. 6 Anarchists issue a lurid circular. 7 Pan-Americans received at the Exposi tion. Miss Katfl Drexel becomes a nun. 8 Departure of the Pan-Americans. Pitts burg Library Association meet to prevent tbe sale of their building. 9 Mass meeting of Anarchists in honor ot the Chicago leaders. Lee gets 12 years for tbe murder of Natcher. 10 Baron Lindenauer deserts his wife. Miss Drexel purchases property to enlarge Mercy Convent. U Turbulent scenes at the Nun of Kenmare's lecture. 12 Library Hall Association try to raise $50,- vw. uaiien,oianeese anu uougniy on tnai lor v conspiracy. The Western and 'Atlantic Pipe Line gobble. 13 Homer McGaw fired from tbe K. of L., charged with slander. Warmcastle to run for Mayor. Artificial eggs on the market 14 Martin Joyce claims he has found a silver mine near ConnellsviUe. Claims for dam ages filing against the widening of Diamond alley. 15 Superb organ for Masonic Hall. 16 Beck's run schindery raises a howl. Ma neesc, Callen and Doughty convicted. Pridoy defeats McClelland. 17 St 'Martin's German Catholic Church, West End, dedicated. 18 W. H. Smith on trial for murder. 19 Palatial Chapel of Free Masons' Hall dedi cated. Alderman Cassldy renovates tbe Fist ward. , 20 Pittsburg Driving Park dissolved. Annual Catholic tea oarty a great success. Miss Catherine McCandless and John G. Jen nings married, Butler, Pa. Rev. L N. Hays resigns. 21 Failure of tbe Lawreace Bank drags down the Vulcan Iron Works. Great excitement in Lawrenceville. Dr. McGlycn lectures in Braddock .to a large house. H. L Gourley distressingly injured. Miss Elnora Gcck enheimer and Arthur Einstein married. 22 District Attorney Lyon sues Chambers & McKee, James Campbell and William Slicker for violation of tbe contract labor law. The will of J. H. Shoenberger gives $1,000,000 to Pittsburg churches. Arrest of Wood, the alleged ballot box forger. Law rence Hank liabilities estimated at about $500,000. Smith found guilty ot murdering his wife; first degree. 24 German mass meeting favors eight hours. George Stewart found dead in the Woods' Run sewer. Maj. Johnston of the Exposition returns from Paris with some valuable pointers. 25 Cashier Hoerr returns and denies crooked ness. W. M. McKelvey chosen assignee. Elopement ot Essie Momhall and Joseph E. Schwab. Council takes steps for a river patrol. 26 Non partisan W. C. T. 17. arrange for a State convention. Catholic priests pleased at Baptist ministers praise in Baltimore. Carrie P-Lysleand W. G. Stewart married. Hiss Fannie Bird and Hon. Henry Dor ranee, ui uaiuuiBig. Bn. 27 I. K.' Verner. of Pittsburg, gets into trouble Witt Banker Walworth and his beautiful -wife. He Is sued for J20.000. anle,1iS,e,r:!larKed ltb embezzlement, gives J2.000 bail. Sliss Nellie Wood and .Mr. Thomas M. McKee married. Bills filed to test the 3 mills tax. 28 Thanksgiving celebrated. Immense labor demonstration. Armstrong monument dedicated. Hearing of President Young and Cashier Hoerr fixed for Wednesday. 29 Lawrence Bank depositors want a receiver; Scarcity ot gas in portions of the city. Bander and Doyle three years to the work house. Dougherty two years, Nagle one year, Bender six months. SO-J. M. Kelly resigns from the Trades Coun cil. Musical row between Rosa Schaar sebmidt and the great Levy ends in favor of Madam Linde. Callahan's snit against Powderly enda in smoke. Lawrence de positors protest in Harrisburg against As signee McKelvy. James L. Orr convicted. DECEMBER. 1 Thirteen colored Baptists immersed In the freezing river. John Czerny suicides in Allegheny after complaining of not getting a pension. Musical union committee to fight tbe theatres. 11th anniversary of so ciety for Improvement of tbe poor held in St. Peter's P. E. church. 2 Auditor-General McCamant grants Law rence depositors petition for a receiver. Concluding session of the Allegheny County Presbyterian ministers. Armstrong memo rial association meets and dissolves. 3 Black Diamond Co. to erect works at Brad dock. Lawrence depositors fight bitterly in court for a receivership. Elder W. G. Johnston creates: excitement at the Pitts burg Presbytery by opposing a revision of the creed. 6 Wrapping paper companies form a trust Lawrence bank may pay out The Monongahela House gutted by a mysterious fire; insurance $195,000. loss about $100,000. Mrs. Cusick investigating the St Ursuline. Barrel factory at the workhouse closed. Randall Club election F. J. Weixel. Presi dent Gen. Hastings talks to the Young Men's Tariff Club. 6 Speculators buying Lawrence Bank claims at 50 cents on the dollar. McGaw rein stated by his old assembly; a quarrel as to its legality. General Alger In his tour of inspection cordially received by tbe G. A. R. Brewers expend $L225.000 in improve ments. Local window glass combination assured. Monongahela House fire; loss now put at $60,000. 7 Blshnp Phelan becomes the local bead of the church owing to the death of Bishop Tuigg. Fifth Avenue Market, House leased for 50 years by Eighteenth Regiment anu uattery a. smitn sentencecr to do banged for wife murder. Eighteen-year-old Joe McDonald, Allegheny, suicides. 8 Insane man's freaks frightens Zion congre gation. Moorhead W. C. T. U. meetings disturbed bv mob of bovs. 9 Southside Medical Society after quacks. Miners' organizations unite. 10 Harrison passes through. 12 Pennsylvania Railroad purchasing South side property. Pittsburg postoffice business increases 50 per cent in 15 years. Long & Co.'s property sold at Sheriff's sale. Phila delphia Gas Company sells to the Westing house Airbrake Company, their magnifi cent building for $600,000. Miss. Margaret McKee and K. Mitchell married. Owners of the Willey building sued for 840,000 for injuries. 13 Popular concerts projected in the Exposi tion buildings. Carnegie's boom for Cleve land considered only a compliment here. National Bank will succeed the defunct Lawrence. Expulsion of J. M. Kelly from the Trades Council. 1 Fort Wayne to lay another double track between Allegheny and Conway. There will be a total of 15,000 arrests by the end of the year. 15 Hibernians disagree and march in three sections instead of one. Old scores re vived between American and Erin boards. St Agnes' Church, Soho, dedicated. 16 Carbon setters of Allegheny Light Com pany strike on account of non-union men being employed. Assignee McKelvy re signs. Superb furnishing of the new Duquesne Club. 17 Postmaster McKean's commission awaiting him. Joseph Dietz falls down an elevator and Is killed. P. R. R. buying Oak alley property. Fidelity Trust Company chosen assignee of Lawrence bank. 18 All hospitals to be enlarged. Favorable comment upon McKean's appointment Meeting to consider change in moving day. McKean surely postmaster, and will be banqueted. 19 James Campbell, President of L. A. 800, has a private bearing at the Treasury. Rev. H. B. Grose offered Presidency of South Da kota College. Randall club will boom Governor Campbell's inauguration. Scboen berger's mill to start after two years' idle ness. J. C. Doty and Miss Maggie Shaw married. 20 Attorney General Miller says some mistake Is possible in the tiresome Jeannette case. W. B. Cbaffey. operator, suicides in Alle gheny; financial troubles. Warehouse men's Assembly surrenders its charter. 21 P. B, R. still tackling Oak alley property. Oakland wants a branch postoffice. Des perate fight between Cookey Roberts and Officer John Roach. 22 Soroelocal complications may ensue because of that A.JF.'of L. resolution. 23 Mrs. Paul'Rudert brutal! v shot by masked murderer in Tarentum. The town wild, but the assassin escapes! Westinghouse says the adverse airbrake decision will not Injure him. Row in Allegheny Councils as to who will manage the Carnegie Free Library. Great interest in the 72-hour walking match for $1,000 in prizes. 24 Dr. Charles Ashbnrner, geologist and scientist, East End, died, aged 35. Patrick Masterson found dead in a well. Tarentum's cold-blooded murderer still ac large. 25 Monongahela House lease purchased by the proprietors from lessees for $26,000. Christ mas purchases in numbers and value and church observances the greatest ever known. 26 Fire at the Casino Museum, slight damage and a dreadful panic prevented by the ac tors. Effort to put workhouse prisoners on the county roads. Some local merchants throw cold water on the ship canal. 27 Pottery combine perfected. Perkins' de tectives engaged on tbe Tarentum murder. 28 Alleged that young children are employed in Pittsburg mills. A Pittsburger working on a model ship that will fairly fly over tbe ocean. Testimony all In in the Porter con. spiracy case. Hegelman wins the foot race. 29 Gripmen on the Fifth avenue traction dis charged as members of unions. Chicago gripmen on hand. Ice' becomes scarce. Diphtheria patients recover and less alarm is felt Saw Mill dam mnst go. 31 The Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sixth avenue and Smitbfleld, to come down and a bnsiness block will occupy its place. Alder man Porter and ran? found cuiltr as in dicted. Preparations to celebrate New Year's Day in churches and hospitals and on the street Traction company running smoothly. BECORD OF HORROES. MINOR ACCIDENTS SWEPT AWAY IN THE ONE AVALANCHE OF WOE That Overwhelmed Johnstown-Figures of Avrfol DestrnclfoD, Now Historical, Almost Beyond Belief Tbe Casualties That Mnr tbe Year's Pages. From the tamest crime to the most appalling accident, all seems to be forgotten when the dreadful Johnstown disaster is thought of. Tbe year closed is historical in more ways than one, Dut it is nnaying in view of the 10,000 dead at Johnstown. JANDAUY. 1 The 7-year-old child of Hugh Dykes, of New York, dies from the effect of whisky administered bj its father while intoxi- 2 Smallpox breaks out In tbe Onondago County Penitentiary, New York. 3 Fourteen passengers in a train blockaded by snow near Petersburg, Ga., frozen to death. 4 More cases of smallpox develop In the Onondago penitentiary. 5 Three men are killed by dropping 600 feet into a mine at West Leisenring by tbe breaking of a rope. , , , , 6 The Pans C, Brown sinks in the Mississippi and eight lives are lost A boiler explosion in Charleston. W. Va.: six men killed. 7 Dr. J. H. Nyer, an old dentist of Hazleton, and his wife kill themselves. 8 Mrs. Marcaretta Schneider brutally mur dered In Baltimore. , , , 9 A cyclone strikes a Reading silk mill and the building falls, entombing 200 persons, most of wbom were girls. Two stacks of tbe Sunbury nail mill blown down and two men are killed and a number injured. 10 Thirty bodies taken from tbe wrecked silk mill at Reading. H Dr. O. C. Meyer, of Stevens' Point, Whv shot dead by his father-in-law. 12 A series of murders in England. Patrick McConnell hurled downstairs and fatally injured byMr. Hogan, for kissing his wife. Bov. Benjamin Rains, of Hartzel, Ala,, brutally murdered. II Wreck near Akron, O.; 8 killed and 12 In. jured mostly by Ore. 15 R. A. Bain, politican, suicides, Erie, Pa.; dissipation. 160. M. Everett, New Castle, sleeps with a bowl ot ether near his head and never awakens. General J. R. McConnell, shot by Hon. James McManes, Kansas, jeal ously. 18 Wreck on the Nypano, near Kent, O,; one killed, several, including three trampev injured. 19 Tram near FJmwooa, Mich, jarejg the track kilUoe lientonant-QovsraerJ- A. McDonald m4 two etfeea.'; Twoajii HeH well cub Adam Slater's throat at 29 Mrs. Minnie Hall and four childrenHcTe-J mated in Missouri. James Howell arrest lor tbe crime. 21- -Ex-Senator Charles Brooks, a prominent .nepuDiican oi .Boston, oiowsont nis Drains; nnanciai troubles. Hurricane os New 1 gland and several barges sink wither loss of life. . 22 F. W. BldweU, prominent Chicagoanl c his throat 25 Superstitious Hungarians bury a bab aiive near i-ottstown. 27 Christian StochaL his wife, son and grand daughter shot in bed by a 19-year-old-' ac Siaintance.' on. John M. Clayton assassinated ii Arkansas. FEBRUARY. 1 Explosion of boiler of steamer TwoBrothera.?' Engineer Wilson and Fireman Cochrane 4 decapitated. 3 Cyclone on Irish coast: many flshmg smacks'' swamped. Train crashes through bridge at Brussels; 20 killed and 50 Injured. Otto Keyser, Philadelphia, kills a wife, a young'' lady and self. 4 High winds in Omaha destroy buildings,-' killing fire people. Epidemic of minor ac-' cidenta and mnrriers. . i 5 One man killed and many injured In New York street car riot 6 George E. Frazer, son of Juifge Frazer, of HA flnrmM aralia TnA X1rtn and T.A Hamilton, of Greenville. Pa. 13 Prominent West Virginians arrested for incendiarism and double murder. Terrible' results of recent earthnnntcn in rTntn. Rfra Losses In San Jose $2,000,000. r - 4-quiciae or Mrs. Clara Nossie. MillralB. 16 Three hundred people killed and iOOO in jured by earthquakes at Costa Rica. JosenhV Beheneeleke, of Iowa, 19 years old. kills three persons and then suicides in a family quarrel. 17 Fearful triple murder and suicide in Tecumseb. Mich.; family exterminated. Bayard objects to standing army. 18 Cyclone in Georgia destroys property and injures many people. Gas explosion in' Hartford hotel; SO people burned in ruins. 20 Two Minnesota children devoured by wolves. 22 Mrs. Mary Donahoo, of Pittsburg, leaped from an Erie train, and received fatal in juries. 24 Women horribly abused and injured by In diana White Caps. Train near Williams'' port leaves the track; 15 injured. Conductor Dale fatally. Jennie Lang; of the South side, probably fatally burned while at play. 25 Explosion in Wilkesbarre squib factory;, ten girls killed, many injured. Mrs. rn McCauley, of Chicago, suffocates her two children and suicides; probably insane. 27 Awful case of hydrophobia in Ohio. Eight' killed and 40 Injured by broken bridge near " 8t George, Ontario. 23 J. a Close, a Washington (Pa.) glass blower suicides; poverty. Adam Arnold, city, suicides for love of a girt Nellie Mc Gibbon, aged 2, killed by cable car at Soho. MARCH. 1 A family of nine perish In a swamp near! Chattanooga. - 2 Mike Quinlan, a 12-year-old boy, delib; craieir juiuaugMier in .new iorK. 6 J.D.Wrede stuck in quicksand and smothers to death in Charleston, S. C. Street duel j (n Ta-.a wttnlt. In th rl..!.. KTlJL ' .U Alaa A.dU.W .U M..VO UBA.Ua. .1iUO children poisoned by a crazy Kentucky fiend. 7 German drug clerk mvsterlouslv butchered with a hatchet Mitchell Peebles and en.' tire family, of Kentucky, killed for their money. 10 Fire wealthy French tourists massacred by reds in the National Park. Body of Jacob Sorg. Allegheny, found in the river, bound band and foot 11 A son of General William Cullom murdered by Tennessee mountaineers. Two killed and 11 injured by boiler explosion in Cleve land rolling mill. 12 Masked burglars horribly torture old man Tilly, ot McClellandtown, and secure his money. 13 Adam TanlT, Erie, kills wife and self; jeal ousy. 14 West Point Boiler tyorks, .Twenty-thlrd street explode, killing 4 men and wounding 12. Six miners entombed at MtCarmel. 15 Barkey, the Wooster hydrophobia victim, recovered. Five Mt. Carmel miners saved, one lost 16 Two men fatally injured by gas explosion near Greensburg. 17 Twelve Havtian prisoners butchered. John - Weir falls from steamer Sam Miller and i.-' rick. , 19 Four railroaders killed in a Canadiancol lislon. 20 Mrs. Lnebkechner, of New York, poisons three children because she is too poor to , keep them. 22 "Diver" Bill mysteriously shot on the , Southside. 23 Budd Lee murdered by Charles Allen in "Yellow Row." 24 Two women killed by dynamite in Indiana. Feuds and bloodshed in Kentucky. ' 25 Thomas Wood decoys and murders his step mother in Charleston, W. Va. A Youngs town, O., mother caught by a train, but saved her babe first 26--W. H. Harvey, of Guelph, Ont, becomes insane ana murders his wife ana two - daughters. 28 Steamer runs down a sloop: two men drowned. John Maeder, of Allegheny, cuts .' his throat and falls into tbe river. 29 Train on Wabash and Western crashes t through a bridge; two killed and many.. 30 Two French steamers collide; 18 lives lost Dispatches from Samoa report 90 sailors lost with the men-of-war. APRIL. 1 Five gallon murdered bv natives of the Moosley Island. Baltimore and Ohio' bridge burned; tram crashes through and two trainmen killed. S Mrs. Minnie Plesick reads of a suicide and 4 Peter Deitz, Oakland, kills his boy and cats.?! his own throat ?' 7 A captain, wife, two children and one sea-, V man lost in sight or shore at muaoeipnia. Killing of BfllMoran, Wec Vireinia, con firmed. Bridget Kelly roasted to death at Stanbenvilla. Emuemie of suicides. 14 Many bodies cast np bv tbe waves at Samoa.", Dr. ueorge ii. uues, new xorz. suicio.es. 16 Three Jamaicans murdered in Mobile for, their monev. 18 Sidney Walters, formerly of Pittsburg, sui-" cides in Chicago. ,. 19 A child falls from the dome of the Ohio capitoL 20 Frank Hancock kills four of hh children and then hangs himself, in New York; jeal ousy. 21 A family of six killed In North Carolina for $700. J 23 Hungarian murder in Scranton. 24 Pretty Emma Raph burned alive in Syra-, cuse. Ten murders in Oklahoma. An 8-year- old boy, of Canton, deliberately murders aV o-year-oiu cousin. y Z Awensy persons kuieu ui uruu num. accident near Ontario, Canada. SO Jacob Wildersmith, coal merchant Alia-. gheny, hangs himself. MAY. 5 Engineer killed in Dakota collision: his J sweetheart aiea witn gnei. suuora. un wiped out by a cyclone; 25 killed, 160'- wnnnded. 1 7 jvilliam Hopkins has his heart torn ont inj a Southside mill. ';S 8 Railroad accident in.'Kalamazoo, Mich..kiUsJ six street car passengers. MM U William McNail, wife and three children Killed oy a wind storm at uiugeway. rt. x:; five victims ot tne storm in Allegheny. -x 14 Steamer Alaska wrecked: 30 men mlsslne 15 Mexican desperados kill a railroader atToS peka and rob tbe express car. TS 16 Two trains collide on tbe Pittsbnrt,Vlr7! gtnia and Charlestonelghtr tden injured, one fatally. f 1"V? 17 Three prominent citizens of Arkansas shot' in a race war. -- r . 19 Leader ot tbe Kansas riots, Neelv, riddled with bullets. 22 Dr. Cronln'sbody found ina Chicago sewer. Steamers Cynthia and Polynesia collide; elirht lost 23 Rot. C. E. Clark's home, at Norfolk, W. , Va,, burned: five members of his family? i perish. 24 Wreckers throw a passenger train fromaV, iiigu emoaxu&ui6u& near ouuiTau,-uu.,,uw neonle ininred. - 26-Rev. ttG. Schorr, of St Paul's Episcopal! Church. Baltimore, blows his brains oat; despondency. jis 28 Clements and Chase counties. Kan-sweptj by cyclone; several people killed. M.J.H Lyon shoots D. L. Morlev in cold blood at? Columbia, a C. A Nev York woman lief rie&rf In h (inma fnr a. week because herh son is too drunk to notify the undertaker.-;; s enrsstian Yoder. in Somerset tourr, leuiaj tale of terrible punishment inflicted upon him br masked robbers. Steamer Arma-5 nla tnat- nr Halluu Island: eleht neooloS drnwrmrl Mrs. Weiman. of ilirv street.? Southside, shoots herelr. Frank Riffertjyfi a night watchman, murdered in New YorsJ for 80 cents. Member of NewYom Thlr tffon miib commits suicide. .'? SO Building blown down at Danville, Vs.: six! men killed. Johnstown destroyed, 6,000 people pensn; bouiq fort asm ourstas sweeping u uB.uta ,. i JUNE. 1 First delegation ot Pittsburg newspaper! men reacucu- juuiuwwq; nunurBuajox.B bodies recovered from tbe receding waters- dreadful tales of suffering all alone thai Conemaneh. Devastations wrought by the flood in Western Pennsylvania. n 2 Woman arrested in Brooklyn for. maVl practice and murder in city hospltaK.'l Three"-thousand coffins ordered tojohns-j tewBjworxot MesuzyiBg the dead befMl 'J V ' V" '!l 3B 3& r 5 -i yj , 7. TOKl -.