r&m f 19--Xhe National Mining Congress at Denver Is attended by 559 delegates representing SI States and Territories. Frank & Almy, the murderer it Christie arden Hanover, X. H., was sentenced to be hanged, President Harrison and party returned to Washington from their duct shooting trip to Benjies.Md. Saks Bros.' clothing house at Birmingham. Als.,dam Rgod by Are to tho extont or $00,0D0. Six or seveu -stores, the postoffice and tho hotel at Edgerton. Mo., were destroyed by firo at a loss or $53,000. The Staff canning factory at Kansas, III., burned; loss, $10,000. Three children killed or wolves ten miles from St. Paul. Minn. An old man and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. William Xipsh, killed near Allen town. Pa., bv William Keck to secure a unnll amoiint of money. Tho coal miners' strike in as discussed In the French Chamber of Deputies, and an ar bitration commission was appointed. The Kio Grande do Sul Junta aiscaras the flag or the Brazilian Republic. All Chile's" charges are denied by Admiral Brown, who arrives In San Francisco. 20-The Farmers' Convention at Indianapolis ended its work without taking any radi cal steps. The Southern Manufacturers' Association met in Augusta, Ga.; Presi dent Hickman in his address of welcome urged the importance of reciprocity "na the stepping stono to the outlet for all" manufactured products. Tho seven teenth annual convention of the Kail way Passenger and Freight Conductors' Mutual Beneiit Association opened in Chicago. The concluding sessions of the Episcopal Church Congress were held in Washington. The boiler of a sawmill at Mentoga. Tenn.. exploded, killing two young sons of the proprietor, T. P. Bat tens. All Federal prisoners in the Ar kansas Penitential at Little Kock have been lpmovcd to Columbus, O. An Italian banker of Philadelphia decamps with $50,000 deposits. The General in command of tho insurgent forces in Rio . Grande do Sul threatens to march on Rio Janeiro: tho Junta wauls Fonseca to re sign. Admiral Montt has been unani mously elected President of Chile. The Russian Government will lend th Central Famine Committer 50,000,000 roubles. 21 Yale defeated Harvard in the football 5amo at Springfield, Mass., by 10 to 0. our men were buried alive and Brook lyn was threatened with a water famine, by the caving in of a big water conduit. A number of Presbyterian ministers and elder made formal complaint to the Synod of New York of the decisi on of the Presbytery In the Briggs ca-e. Kennedy it Mitchell, proprietors of the Missoula (Mont.) Hotel.failedwith liabili ties $120,000. About 500 more of the Indiana miners struck, making the total number 4,009. A Xew York company proposes building a big non-union steel making plant. A ukase, prohibiting the export of wheat troiu Russia, was issued by the Czar. Relations between France and Madagascar reached a point where rup turc seems unavoidable. All is quiet in Brazil except in Rio Grande do Sul. 22 Two scow s, ha ving IS men on them, are believed to have been lost in Lake Mich igan. The schooner George C. Finney, grain laden, was lost with all on board on Lake Eric. W. H. Shepherd, a promi nent contractor of Wiikesbarre, who mysteriously disappeared last January, turns up, ana is served with warrants in criminal and civil actions foralienlating the affection ot Mayor Sutton's wife. Large firo in Middleburg, Vt A man killed himself by leaping from the Brooklyn Bridge into the river. Presi dent Da Fonseca has appointed Febru ary 23 as tho date for holding the Brazil ian elections, and has summoned Con gress to meet on May 3. The Queen Re cent of Spain has approved the new Ministry. IS A tornado did much damage in Wash insrton. D.C.; one man was killed, several persons were injured, many buildings wire damaged; total loss, $250,000. A Ftorm did a cood deal of damage in Maryland and Virginia. Four lives were lct'bvthe burnincof ahotelin James rown."X. Y. The De Soto Oil Mills, of Memphis, Tenn., burned; loss, SfiO.OOO. Funeral of W. J. Florence in Xew York. In Brooklyn a male nurse assaults and shoots the wife of the man ho is attend ing, and tnen takes poison. President Da Fonseca, of Brazil, resigned his office In conseanence of a revolution which " roke out in Rio Janeiro. The French striking miners aits becoming riotous. The Con servative conference opened in Birming ham. Mr. Warmuth, the German Im perial Commissioner, makes favorable reference regarding the World's Fair. -1 A committee of the American Federa tion of Labor, headed by Samuel Goni j"er, or Xew York. had an interview "with the President on tho labor question. The DaPont Brothers' owdcr mills at Enmneytown, Pa., destroyed by explo sion and James Wade was killed. The building of the Xorth Star Boot and Shoe Comrinnv, at Minneapolis, burned at loss of $550,000. Two buildings in Brooklyn were destroyed oy fire at loss of $100,0;0. The Queen Hotel, at Beycrlv. Mass.. was destroyed by lire at loss of $90,000. Eight buildings in II ion, X. Y., including the Public Library, Masonic Hall, and sever al stores burned, loss over $60,000. A tor nado does much damage in Mississippi. The Conservative Conference in Bir-mingha-n voied against Home Rule. The ArchbUbop ot Aix was convicted of the charge of sending an objectionable letter to ths French Minister. A Halle. Ger man', Hartman (Socialist) wins a seat in thejReichstag from the National Liceral party. The resignation of Da Fonseca ends' the insurrection in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 25 Twelve workmen killed byalandslid near Tacoma, Wash. The First Xational Bank of Wilmington, X. C, failed. G. Caasard i Co., provision and pork deal ers in Baltimore, made an assignment. The work of the Thomson-Houston Car bon Company and the McLean Spike Works, in Fremont, O., burned; los $370, J0. Plant or the Dallas, Tex., Dressed Beef and Packing Comnanv destroyed by Sre: loss SCOO 000. The Tremont House at Marshalltowu, la., was damaged by fire to the extent ot $75,000. An old "man murdered bv his children in Illinois to prevent his marrying a widow, and another shot by bisstepdaughter because he did marry. The new President of Brazil issued a manifesto in which Con gress was summoned to reassemble De cember IS. The French Government sent a friendly note to tho Pope. The International Emigration Conference opened in Paris. 26 Thanksgiving Dav generally observed. The football match between Y'ale and Princeton, Xew York City, won by Yale: f-core, 19 to 0. The Xew "York Municipal Council of the Irish Xational League adopted a resolution declaring that no further support, moral or financial, will be given the moveineut in Ireland until a halt is called in the war or factions. Eight business blocks and the Congrega tional Chnrch at St. Albans, Vt., burned;, loss, $100 0OD. Chicago has a corner on corn and tho price .roes high. The law oftiee:s of the British Crown have de cided that the Xewfoundland bait act is unconstitutional. 31r. Balfour was in stalled rectoAof the University of Glas gow. Francens importing coat. 27 Dr. Mctt fcmith. or the Cabinet or tho Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, has negotiated a new treaty with the United States which provides for absolute free trade in tho proaucts of both countries. Tho firm, of Tleld, Lindley. Wiechers & Co., bankers and brokers, "of Xew York City, made an assignment to Charles W Gould, owing to the tact that tho senior member of the firm, Edward M. Field, (on of Cyrus Field, is suffering from men tal disarrangement; liabilities $1,000,000. General Armstrong, president ol the Hampton Institute, at Hampton, Va., "was stricken with paralysis. The Uni versity and Collece Association of tho Middle States and Maryland began its third annual session at Ithaca, X". Y. Chancellor von Capri i, in the Reichstag, lenied that ho intended resigning. The French Government will prosecute the cditnr of Ftiiaro for raising a subscription to pav the Archbishop ot Aix's fine. 28 Serious collision on the Lake Shore rail road a, Toledo: several persons killed and a score of more injured. The Xew Yoik Stock Exchange prohibited from being good delivery $1,731,000 in stocks ueiuiigmg io mo union racinc Railroad Companj. thought to have been rehv potneeutcd by Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co. A p:iscnger train on the South Carolina Railroad deliberately wrecked SO miles nortb r Charleston; four pas sengers seriously injured and tho fire man killed. A fire at the plant of the Joy & Seliger Plush and Xovelty Goods Company, in Newaric, X. J., canscd dam age estimated at $75,000. The Tennessee jjosru oi i risou inspectors ordered the return to Coal Creek and Bricevillo of tho convicts who were released from those places. Murdersandsuicides were numerous. The exposition at Augusta, Ga., closed. A St ubcnvillo man at tempts to kidnap his oi child. The Corry Bank sold out. Theiuneral ofLord Lytton took place in the English Church in Paris, 3Ir. Jialtour. at Edinburg. dis cussed the Irish question. S3 Wrecc of a brig ith 270 people on board reported nt san Francisco The jubilee of Archbishop Kenrick began in St. Louis. An attempt was made toassas binate the Kcv. Dr. John Hall, Xew York, bv a crazy roan who fired three shots at him from a revolver. A block of build ings at Lynn, Mas., destroyed by fire; losx$'0 009. First Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ga., bnrned: loss J40.0C0. Ele vator owned by the "Soo" road, at Esca naba, Mieh., was destroyed by lire, to gether witli.150.000 bushels of grain, 10,000 liarrel of floor and 0,000 tons of coal in tho docks adjoining. Tho Cherokee Council has completed its negotiations tor tho sale of the public strip with the United States Cherokee Commission; price $8,700,000, or $1 40 an acre. Two shock of carthqnakc felt at SeatUe.Wa.iU. Imperial troopB in China numbering 4.000. doieated by rebel forces. Secretary or the Interior Noble's annual vepoit pub lished. SO Archbishop Kenrlck's fiftieth anniver sary as a bishop was celebrated in St. Louis with great demonstration. Orders of arrest wero granted ror the members of the firm or Field, Lindley, Wiechers A C"., Xew York. A span of a bridge on the Gieat Xorthem Railway extension at Kalispcll, Mont., fell, killing live men and injuring ten. Fire destroyed six business blocks at Winnebago, III. A large portion or the business part of Tracy, Minn., was burned. A lire oc curred at the Are Light and Power Com pany, in Chicaso, causing a loss oi $150,00. The "car sheds of the Union street Railway Company, of St. Joseph, Mo., were burned, with 35 electric motor cars; loss, .$70,000. The Presbyterian Church at Galesburg, 111., burned; loss, $35,000. President Conrad. Secretary Horner and eight employes of the Louisi ana Stato Lottery Company appeared berore a United States Commissioner at Xew Orleans, upon the charge or vio lating the Anti-Lottcrv Postal Law, and gave bail of $1,000 each, to appearat the next term ot the United States Court in San Antonio. Several thousand Imperial troops have been sent to prevent the ,Chinec rebels, who are marching on Pekin, from passing the Great Wall. DECEMBER. 1 Window glass makers of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana form a permanent or ganization, with C. J. McKee and William Loffleer n3 the Pennsylvania members o! the Executive Committee. Andrew Carnegie responds to the toast, The Scotch American." at the Xew York banquet or the St Andrew's So ciety. Six daring train robbers held up and'iobbed an express car near St. Louis of $75,000. Francisco Hernandez, who robbed the paymaster ot the Eleventh Battalion ol the Mexican army in Chi huahua, Mexico, anil killed a policeman in escaping, has been captured at El Paso, Texas, extradited, and will bo shot George F. Barr, or Springfield, Mass., shot and killed his wile and him self. The Grand Hotel at Lcadville, Col., w as burned to the ground. Tho pottery works or A. II. Hcwes it Co., Xorth Cam bride, Mass., were burned; loss, $45,000. Hasting & Dimenfs rolling mill at Owotoiinn, was burned; loss, $10,000. The Brazilian Minister ol Foreign Affairs iays there 13 no disorder In RloGranuo do Sul. The Italian budget for 1SU2 will show a surplus of a.OOO.COO Hie. 2 Tho Cooper-Hewitt iron works are se cured by a big British-American syndi cate with $5,UW,000. Edward Field now charged with deliberate robbery of his partners. Tho armored cfuiscr Xew York launched in Philadelphia. United States Treasurer E. U. Xebekor publishes his annual report. Three persons killed at Cumberland, Md., by a coal oil can ex plosion. Dynamite works at Nyack-on-the-Hudson explode, killing live men. 'Jjind Bill" Allen, who died in tho poor house, is buried from the State House at Columbus. Trado returns of Cauada speak well Jor the MeKinley act. In London, Earl Russell, the delendant in tho unsavory divorce case, is hissed, leered and hustled by the mob. Farnell "ltes and McCartbyiteii in collision at Limerick. 3 The President will not order a Federal investigation of the Bardsley defalcation and no further revelations are probable. Minneapolis begins a Russian relief movement by contributing a shipload of flour. Commodore Folger, Chier or the Bureau or Ordnance, United States Xavv, makes his report to the Secretary of the Xavy showing good woik for the year. Three men killed and elitht seri ously injured in a wreck on tho Philadel phia and Beading Railroad at Penning ton, X. J. The London mob again eager to hustle Earl Russell, and tho aristoc racy disgusted with him. Several vic tories repoted over Chinese rebels. 4 An unknown lunatic, who demands $1,. 200,000. explodes a bomb in tho offico of Russell SJgeinXew York, killing him self and another man, slightly Injuring Sage and wounding half a dozen others and shattering the walls of tho building; a panic caused. Falling walls in St. Paul crush many workmen. A dozen brick laden barges sink in the Hudson, drown ing a score of men. A collision of trains on tho Xew England Railroad at East Thompson, Conn., to which fire adds deadly work, kills seven men and in jures more. Tho Cumberland Valley swept by a cyclone; houses and churches destroyed. Earl Russell wins in the London divorce sui' France said to be acting for Russia in seeking to commit other powers against China. 5 Russell Sage nearly recovered from shock and slight wounds. Timothy Byrnes, prominent politician at Minne apolis, indicted forlorgery. Cotton mill fire atDcs Moines causes S150,0j0. Ex Governor Beaver's iron and nail mill at Bellefonte temporarily .closed down. Secretary Proctor leaves the War De partment. Emperor William's despotic speech to tho recruits at Potsdam still rousing German ire. The Czar has ap pointed a central taruino relief commit tee. Welsh tin plate workers incensed by the proposed shutdown. British manutacturcr3 complain because the lloyal Commission charges for space at the World's Fair. 6 Various speculations as to the identity of Sage's would-be assassin, whose head at the morgue remains unrecognized. Arrests of supposed accessories. A queer crank who tried to extort money from a Irieud by written threats, is caged in Xew York. A "music publishing com pany burned out in Philadelphia; loss, $200,000. Dom Pedro's Ceatli meets with no official recognition in Brazil. Some or the Chinese rebels and bad characters generally are beheaded by the Emperor's orders. A firo damp explosion at St. Etienne, France, kills 80 miners. 7 Loppy, tho brutal wife, murderer exe cuted by electricity at Sing Sing Prison. A gas explosion in a steel plant near Baltimore kills four men and causes great damage. Ex-Governor Beaver the largest creditor of the suspended Belle fonte Iron Works, and will pay all debts. Lady Henry Somerset speaks before Sorosis, Xew York, on woman's work lor reiorm. xraae improving; nearly 100 new enterprises started in one week. Many shipwrecks on the English chan nel: 21 men of one crew drowned. 8 Many SteubenvIUo people down with typhoid caused by the polluted Ohio. Steel rail manufacturers assembled in Xew York have total orders on hand for 600,000 tons, or triple the demand or last year. A crank who demanded $1,000,000 In Alton, 111., kicked out doors. D. IL Parker commits suicide in Cairo, III. The Philadelphia Produce Xational Bank closes, paying all liabilities. The Tilden will case settled. Sawtelle con fesses that lie killed his brother, but in Maine, where is no capital punishment. Chile claims to have just provocation for her enmity to tho United States. Autumn crops in Russia are damaged and will prolong distress. A crisis approaching in the Brazilian State of Rio Janeiro; in surgents arming for attack on the Gov ernment. Tho Chinese rebel leader cap tured. 9 The President's message given to Con gress. Secretary Foster's report pre sented. Twelve deaths by fire in Louis ville. Boston excited over faith cures at the Triduum held in the Roxbury Mis sion Church. Americans. Poles and Huns engago in a race war at Shenandoah with fatal result. Talton Hall, a desper ado who claims to have killed 9a men, arrested at Memphis. It transpires that the Chilean House of Representatives wanted to recall her legation from tho United States, but the .Government de leated the scheme. In tho London di vorce sensation Marius, husband of Miss St. John, admits the charges and makes counter-charges. 10 Kit Carson's son kills his wire's father and mother and flees from a Sheriff's posse in Colorado. Ground" broken for the Pan-American Ballroad at Victoria, Tex- The trial of Dr. Graves for the poisoning of Mrs. Barnaby at Denver rej veals enough arsenic in the bottle of whlskv ho sent her to kill scores of peo ple. French Republicans make a party combination against Clericals. Von Caprivi declares Germany independent of the United States in the matter of trade. A battle fought in the State of Rio Janeiro and tho Government taking stens to -m-event an uprising iu the citv. 11 Strikers oombard with dynamite a mine at Biazll, ImL, which had locked them out, and compel a shutdown. Mrs. Chas. Bliss, or East Maihe, X. Y., dies lroni fright in a wagon while her horses run aw.iv. The Xew York bombiter identi fied as Henry L.XorcriSS, of Boston, who was not supposed to be a crank or crazy. Chicago to ask for $5,000,000 more for tho World's Fair. England's rural confer ence is a gathering of Radicals dis playing much hostility to land owners and the clergy. Royalty asks lor another dowry. Chileans, and the American colony, too, reported indignant against President Ilarrison's message. Tne ec clesiastical controversy causes a great disturbance in the French Chamber of Deputies. 12 Identification of Xorcross as the dead bombiter who sought to kill Russell Sage, is made positive. Boodlers go free in San Francisco because there is no legal grand Jury. Count Montercole, the former husband or Virginia Knox, de clared insane in Philadelphia. Senator Wallace's property reconveyed to him by the assignees ot the estate and he will pay all debts. Gas struck nt Salt Lake, burns up buildings, but there is general rejoicing over the And. E. D. Fuhford, of Ta.1i- Uanon vtna thft lflTA nftvl BtlfiAtintr championship. The German Reichstag I practically passes the treaties of com- J merce, each State retaining duties while making concessions- and establishing reciprocity rather than a zollverein. Xatlvcs of the Pamir backedby Russians give battle to the British. Representa tives orall the world except Brazil show respect for Dom Pedro, whose remains arrived in Llbon.', Commander Schley keeps his men on board ship at Yalpa l also. 13 Many cases or grip reported in Xew York. Goneral lndianntion aroused in Chicatro against Gal-field Park cambllng Xorcross, the dead bombiter, left a letter, but his mother refnses to re veal its contents. Davitt falls n victim to blackthorns in u riot at Waterford City, Ireland. Chile's Minister of For eign Affairs savs President Harrison and Secretary Tracy have been grossly mis informed and that Egnn sent a purposely aggressive note to the Chilean Govern ment. 1 Xorcross was entirely alone in his crime, and it meant monev-aetting success nr suicide. Edward M." Field is arrested in nu asylum near Xew York. Methodit ministers of New York and vicinity pro pose billini-d -rnmnq tn offset saloons'. Prof. Briggs' case to be fought over in the Presbyterian Svnod. The first col ored priest or the Roman Catholic church in this connti-v. Rev. Charles IS. Uncles, to bo ordained in Baltimore. The American Federation or Labor convenes at Birmingham, Ala.,and"is welcomed by Governor Jones. A whole family abso lutely butchered by unknown persons in Florida. Premier Mortel, ot Ontario, combats the idea that tho Liberals iavor annexation. Russia calls a war council to make a new disposition of her forces. 15 The Erioship canal survey bill intro duced in Congress bv Senator Quay. Young Field, tlio fallen" and alleged crazy nnancier, is indicted andplacedin Lud low street jail, bail being put at$50,000. Simon Cameron's trustees to be sued by an Englishwoman, wire of his grandson, for part of the estate. Mrs. Xorcross, mother of the dead bombiter, never thought that ho was crazv.but knew that ho hated the rich. Tho Alliance schemes to raise farm mortgages without the middlemen's aid through a $1,000,000 co-operative association incorporated in Kansas. Reciprocity negotiations con cluded with tho British West Indies. Count Tolstoi earnestly working in tho interests of tho starving Russian masses. The Pope fears for his liberty and directs an allocution against the enemies of the gard tho Pope's advice for reconciliation with tne Republic. 1C The President sent to the Senate these vuutuii m lijuy. rreilLil uisiiujjb wom- nominations: To be United states cir cuit Judges, William L. Putnam, of Maine, ior the First Judicial Circuit; Xathaniel Shipman, Connecticut, for the Second; Georgo M. Dallas, Pennsylvania, Third: Xathan Goff, West Virginia, Fourth; William H. Taft, Ohio, Sixth; William a. Woods, Indiana, Seventh; Warren Trnitt, Oregon, United States District Judge ror Alaska. Four persons wcro killed and a large number were in jured in a collision on tho Pittsburg and F-t. Wayne Railway. Mail Agent S. C. Burnett, of Richmond; Fireman Lyons, or Ilinton, and Brakeman H. Mays, or Clifton Forge, were killed, and five other trainmen were seriously injured by ncci dents on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail road. The Missionri Rivar Improvement Congress met In Kansas City. The mill and plant or the Patterson Sanitary Com pany, at Riverside, X. J., was destroyed uy lire, los $60,000. Eleven business S laces at Vermillion. O.. were destroyed y fire, loss $25,000. The Quebec Cabinet was dismissed from offico bs Lieutenant Governor Angers. The steamer Prince Soltykoff was capsized and sunk off Brest: there was only one survivor. 17 The Drexel Institute or Art. Science and Industry was dedicated in Philadelphia; Chauncev M. Deoew delivered tho ad dress. Tho poet, Whlttier, celebrated his 84th birthday. The terms of con solidation of the baseball associations wcie agreed upon in Indianapolis. Tho . Xational Prohibition Committee selected St Louis, June 23 and 30 next, as the place and date for holding their national convention. Resolutions were passed by tho American Federation of Labor, in session in Birmingham, Ala., in favor of the re-establishment of a republican Jormof government in the District of Columbia: Governmental control of the telegraphp, and protesting against the action or the'Chicago police in breaking up a public meeting; a protest was adopted against tho employment of non union men on public buildings, and the Government Was censured for failing ta enforce the eight-hour law. Twenty-six persons were injured, three of them per haps fatally, by an accident on the Southern Kansas Railroad. TheGlendale Woolen Mill, In Burrillvillo, R.I., burned at a loss of $S5.000. The clothing store of M. Morris & Co., In La Crosse, Wis., burned: loss, $40,000. The factory of the now Monitor Works, at Aurora, III., burned at a loss of $33,000. Habbemau's tin factory, near Laurel Hill, X. Y., was damaged by fire to tho extent of $7500. Chilean newspapers are bitter against Egan. The French. Senate passed the tariff bill. IS Samuel Gompers was re-elected Presi dent of the American Federation or La bor by tho Birmingham Convention. Troops were ordered to go Trom Devor to Crested Bntte to prevent conflicts be tween miners and strikers. A man who had been ten davs out of an insane asylum killed a friend in Brooklyn, shot two others and then commited suicide. Dr. Thomas A. Gordon, one of the lead ing physicians of St. Louis, shot and fatally wounded John F. Stegge, a wholesale merchant Cincinnati citizens riotous because they feared they hadn't time to pay their taxes. Tho Reichstag adopted the commercial treaties with Austria-Hungary. Italy and Belgium; Emperor William has made Chancellor von Caprivi a Count for his success with the treaties. A new Parnellte paper made its appearance in Dublin. 19 The convention of the American Federa tion of Labor held at Birmingham, Ala., adjourned. A settlement was made in the controversy between the Adams Ex press Company and its former President, John Hoev. A fire started in tho Ander son building, Croton Landing, X. Y., and spread to tho adjoining buildings, north And south; loss, $50 000. The Hotel Welleslev nt Xeedham, Mass., was de stroyed 'by fire last night, involvinz a loss of $50,003. An uprising in Pernam buco, Brazil, resulted in the killing and -wounding of 60 persons. An uprising in iCspirito Santo, Bahia, was reported, the Vice Governor being deposed from office. Great excitement prevailed In Guate mala, from the arming of Don Lorenzo Montulfar'8 followers against the Barillas Government. 20 Xews was received in Muskogee, 1. T., tliat the Cherokee Council and the United States Commission had agreed upon tho sale and purchase or the Chero kee Strip ror the consideration or nearly $9,000,000. Southern Fayette county ter rorized by the Cooley gang. Two thou sand men thrown out or work by the cavlng-in of a big shaft of the Kingston Coal Company near Wilkesbarre. Xego tiations aro in progress in Paris for a treaty of commerce between .France and the United States. It is reported from Rome that diplomatic relations will soon be fully restored between Italy and the United States. Insurgents have sur - rounded the capital ot Espirito Santo, Brazil; a skirmish between Federal troops and the Xational Guard occurred in i;io uranue uo aui. 21 Funeral services were held over the body of Senator Plumb in the Senate Chamber in Washington. Tho Xew York State Commissioners of the World's Fair gave a dinner ntDelmonico's. At the annual dinner or the Brooklyn Xew England Society speeches wore made by ex-President Cleveland, Judge Pratt and General Horace Porter. Thomas IL Allen & Co., cotton factors, or Memphis, Tenn.,failed: liabilities, $5U,0C0; assets, two-thirds or that amount The private banks at Waynesboro, Gordonsville, Warrenton and Newmarket, Va controlled by Shir ley & Bosenberger, suspended. Nearly all of the Eastern half of the town o"t Truckee, California, was destroyed by fire yesterday; loss, $50,000. Two indict ments were returned by tho grand Jury in Xew York City against Edward M. Field, charging larceny in first degree. A mob or masked men entered tho Jail ut De Witt, Arkansas, nnd shot to death J. A. Smith.Hoyt Gregory and Moso Hender son, confined thero charged with tho murder or Mrs. J. A. Smith. The Russian Charged'Affaires at Washington says that the population or 12 provinces in Russia, representing over 20,000,000 peo ple, is actually starving, A thousand native Christians wre massacred by the rebels during the recent troubles in Xortheru China. French Chamber or Deputies passed the bill to prolong cer tain treaties for a year. 22 The greed and cruelty of Russian officers and tho famine is killing off Russian Feasants. The customs officials in New ork seize bushels of valuable Christmas resents. Dalzell tho guest of the Xew ugland Club; he makes a heartily ap plauded aftcr-dinnerspeech. Boston po lice feed and bare for a bogus Russian Count. J. G. Blaine IIL cannot spend Christmas with his mother. 25 Pope Leo makes a significant speech over, the treatment by the Italian Govern ment of the French pilgrims. Patrick Egan's nephew arrested on a serious ebarge at Spokane Falls. The rebels tinder Garza fight with Mexican troops on the United States border. The Stand ard Oil Company gets a knock-out in Xew Yorlc Uruguay sends troops to protect its borders owing to Brazilian trouble. 24 J. George Roth, who tried to kill Rev. ,' Dr. John Hall in Xew York, declared a lunatic and sent to an asylum. Judge Mellon, of Pittsburg, wins iu tho Kansas Citv snit of Councilman A. FIFoleV to obtain' $50,000. An Iowa firm aticused of. making a fraudulent assignment. Grip again invades Now York, killing taany. 25 The war scare growing less dally. A negligent flagman on the Xew York Cen tral road canses 11 people to lose their lives in a wreck at bastings, X. Y.l Mex ican troops sack three monasteries. The Bob Sims gang wiped out near Mobile. Sawtelle, the murderer, dying before the aay oi execution. 2S Dr. Graves being tried for'the murdeAof jurs. lsarnaDy in Denver, xne uranu Duke Serglus to be exiled by the Cza will m-obablvbo sent to a New Yor asylnm. Chilean Minister Montt gives n dinner to Secretary Blaine.- Y'onng Field asrnin trvine to starve himself. 27 A panic in an English theater causes many to be trampled to death. Many in dications that the Chilean war cloud will blow over. Italv to be paid indemnity bv the United "Stntes. Two thousand rebels in China killed during a battle; DO leaders captured and beheaded. 28 The new Brooks law such a bunrling in strument that the object in view proba bly defeated. Many notable Polanders arrested because of an alleged plot to kill the Czar. Sawtelle, the mnrderer, dead; he defeats the gallows. Popo Leo deposes Mons. Folchi, custodian of the apostolic exchequer. A Sharon girl dies at tho Philadelphia hospital from tho effects of an nnlawfnl operation. vf. 29 Xo convicts will be returned to the Brice ville mines. An 18-vear-old burglar in Philadelphia kills an officer and tries to kill another. Dr. Hcber Xowton, of Xew York, very ill. Owing to the illness of Mrs. Blnlno tho Secretary cannot speak at the dinner or the Boston Merchants.' Association. ' 31 The "physical lorce" party resume opor ations in Ireland by blowing up the room in Dublin Castle directly beneath room used bv tho Privy Council. Agents or tho United States Government watch eVerv movement or Chile. Gideon W. Marsh, of the Keystone Xational Bank, said to have been in Elkton, Md. Tho Hollidavsburg Iron Works sold to A. S. Landls ior $25,900. LOCAL CHRONOLOGY. IMPORTANT EVENTS IX CITIES AND NEARBY THE TWO TOWNS. A Record or General Prosperity and Pro. gress Marred by Only Moderate Amount of Misfortune and Misdeed. The year's record for Pittsburg, Alle gheny, the county and nearby towns has been one of general advancement and well 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 he 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 beuchts and bcnenciencics that go to make up the happiness of the masses. The latter are, as a rnle, the things nnseen and unheard which usually cannot be set down in print. JANUARY. 1 Two hundred dissatisfied Huns attack Edgar Thomson furnacemon at Brad dock, and wound 40 of them, four dan gerously; five rioters arrested. Chair man Speer, of Allegheny Police Commit tee denounces the force as 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 a victim of a Pittsburg tough, Jack Fry. 2 Five hundred special deputy sheriffs sworn in for protection aialnst rioters at Bmddock. Heavy rains put both streams above their banks. The Annie Roberts, owned in Pittsburg, exploded a boiler.owing to flood.opposite the mouth of the Scioto, and killed five men. Sun day pumping of oil wells defined as a necessity by Judge Stowe. 3 Schenley Park wasieported as location of the Carnegie Librarj. The Americus Club indorses the Lake Eric Canal proj ect. 4 Annual week of prayer opened In city churches. 5 A decision of tho State Supreme Court held to nullify an act of Assembly loses the city $2,000,000 in paving cases. 6 Westinghouse employes vote to deposit ?artoi tneir wages, ittsburg's new street laws (of 18S7) de clared local and unconditional by the State Supreme Court. Strong movement made toward having humanity taught iu the public schools. Mrs. Annie Knab losch, of Troy Hill, almost murdered in her bed by Georgo Ingle. Indictments for murder found against Joseph Higgins, as principal: John Molerka, Anthony Mol erka, LevonusLetonus, John Andrcilus ana JounAtcneo as accessories, m tne murder of Michael Guzowsky, October 4, 1890. 8 The city left without power to grade, pave and sewer now streets, according to conclusion of officials, by Justice Williams' decision on unconstitutionality of street laws. The Allegheny Bar Asso ciation hold third annual banquet at the Duquesno Hotel. Interest in creasing in tho proposed agreement be tween th& labor organizations of Alle gheny county nn"d tho Retail Grocers' Association. Louis Bogger, consul lor Denmark, Sweden and Norway, arrested for interrupting the performance at the Bijou. Sunday schools of the county have 100,000 members according to a spe cial census. The death rate or the city figured at 21.46 per 1,000 per annum. 9 Curative legislation ursed 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 bv- 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 tho East End. 10 The Mayor's 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, 18 .of whom woro hold to court and three sent to lail. Judnu Slagle decides that hereafter each ward of Allegheny will be entitled to but one representative in tho Select Branch of Councils. Internal Revenue Collector AVarmcastle causes the arrest of nu merous violators of the oleomargarine law. A dozen people are badly injured ' on the Second Avenue Electric line by a car Jumping the track at a high rate of speed and plunging down an embank ment. 11 William Neely, after 40 years' nbsence from his family in Pittsburg, returns from California rich and, becoming rec onciled, settles down to live with his family. 12 A lormer 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 on 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. 13 TheVerestchagin collection or paintings openea totnepuoiic at uarncglo Hall. Rev. J. B. Milligan' before the Reformed or Covenanters' Presbytery. City police arrest John W. Clarke with manvaiiases, a slick counterfeiter, who could not be induced to talk. T. G. Evans ft Co.'s warehouse partially burned, said to bo the work of an incendiary; "loss $18,000. 1 East End Electric Company sells to the Wilkinsburg Company all of its territory east of the city line. 14 Fire causes heavv loss to A. J. Kaercber, S. J. McKnlght, E. J, Llnnekin and D. Gregg,-in Allegheny. In the Covenanter Presbyterian Church trials Roy. Milligan Is round guilty and Rev. McClurkin defies the PresDytery and goes straight to tho Svnod. 15 Allegheny's system orhlgh towerelectrio lights is approved by tho Gas Committee A Braddock mill to make armor plates. 16 Serious charges made against the man agement or the Riverside Penitentiary by a convict, who testifies that William J. McCabe died from lack or attention, and that patients in tho hospital aro starving. 17 Credltorsof the Westingbouso Company accept $55,000 in preferred stooV and a nnanimous sentiment in favoroflniency Is evinced. Leading citizens express themselves strongly in favor or the city , and State making a big representation of their industries at tho World's Fair. 18 Large number of temperance meetings held In the two cities. 19 Three street bills prepared by Messrs. Watson and Rogers and placed in tho hands of Senator Flinn; one presented which lr passed will provide curative legislation for the whole State; another for Pittsbnrg alone if this one falls. 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. 2Ct Six lunatics picked up In the two cities. The Westinghouse Company propose to Issue 40.000 shares of preferred stock. 21 District Assembly 8, E. of-L., held its J annual election and chose' J. L. Evans Master Workman. 22 All Allegheny school teachers receive nn increase of salarv. Four suits are brought before the Supreme Court to tet each section of iho street laws of J887 and 1889. 23 William J. Faulk or Laurel Creek, be coming insane through religion, mur ders his wire nnd attempts to kill his children nnd others. Gold brick man, Charles Arkes, arrested in Allegheny. Independent oil producers rapidly join local assemblies. 24 Now steel plant to be built at Glenwood in which to -operate new Adams open hearth process. 25 Oil producers say that the EUlingsby bill is the measure they need and urge its passage. 20 Tho Snnreme Court makes a decision on w the status or Allegheny as a second class l c vi ij , re versing tno accisiou oi tne Alle gheny Common Pleas. James AVilliams meets bis brothnr Pmnlf. whn lind linen 1 absent 30 years and was sunnoed dead. -J A horror without equal even" in the I tragic history or mining in Western I Pennsylvania occurs at the Friek Coni- pany's Mammoth mines, and more than I 100 miners are killed by lire damp. First J session or tho International Conference I of Press Clubs opened in the Common 1 Council chamber by Mayor Gourley. 23-One hundred nnd "seven bodies recov- tereu lroni tne Jlanimoth mine, and more 'believed to remain In the shaft. Three tonrths of the bodies" receive bnrial in one long trench. Indian chiefs pass through the city on their way from Pine Ridge to Washington. Fire causes aloss of $00,000 in Jones, Cavitt & Co.'s shops. :9 Mine inspectors unable or unwilling to explain the causes of the Mammoth mine disaster. One of its effects the abolish ment of torches and making the use or safety lamps imperative. United Mine Workers take a positive stand Tor the craft, and urge a unirbrm wage scale. Fourth annual banqnot ol the Pittsburg Press Club, at the Duquesne Hotel, at tended by a largo number or visiting delegates to the League or Press Clubs. 0 Prices on all kinds or iron touch almost the lowest point on record, and tho local situation' presents many serious condi tions. 11 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- . pany secures control or the Pittshurg nnd Western Railroad. The Legislative Investizating Committee arrive at 31am moth and begin -work. An explosion of gas causes the wreck of William Seller's honse on Cassatt street: loss $3,500. A Homestead jewelry store entered in day light and $4,000 of watches and diamonds taken. FEBEUAKT. 1 A now tax system, advanced in the Xes bitt bill, proposed for Allegheny county. 2 The Legislative Investigating Commit tee reports that the explosion which Killed 107 men in the Mammoth Mine was not the first one, and that carelessness prevailed at the mine. George Roesch (alias Busch), formerly of Allegheny, ar rested as an accessory in the murder of Philip Stadtler in Cincinnati, makes a partial confession,- implicating Henry Krieger as principal. Pittsburg's rail road tonnago shown to be greater than almost any two cities in the country a total of 18,000,000, or 1,050 carloads per day. Judge Slagle hand3 down an opinio'n in tho street improvement suits, showing that the new city charter is unshaken, but that the street laws of 1837and 1SS9 are unconstitutional. 8 Mahoning and Shcnango valleys iron men ask for a cut of one-third on east and west transportation rates. Tho Al legheny Board of Control takes affirma tive action on the teachers' salary ques tion and they are to have an increase. 4 The city to receive a boom from the donble tracking of the Junction road nnd the running of the Baltimore and Ohio main line through tho municipal limits. 6 Two nephews and a niece Inaugurate c::al proceedings to break the will of John H. Shoenberger, which set apart largo bequests for city charities nnd churches. Big boom promised in build ing Southside street car lines. 6 Contract for 6,000 tons or armor plates given by tho Navy Department to Car negie, Phlpps & Co. Pittsburg wanufac turers express a strong approval of the Brazilian reciprocity treaty, and predict R. great increase in exports. 7 The Bar Association recommends the creation or a new court Strike in the coke regions begun. Applications ror liquor licences 1.925, against I960 in pro ceeding year. Chinese new year opens. Labor unions indorse the park memorial scheme. 8 The Chineso or tho city celebrate their Xew Year's Day. The Adams process guarantees tho saving or$i per ton in making steel. Pig iron producers still stand Arm in their determination to maintain the shut down. 9 The Poor Farm deal set hack in Councils by a point or order on tho ground that tuo piurai lecommenaation oi too ic- ?artmcntor Awards is no report at all. ho city's Thirteenth ward will havo no representation on tho Central Bhard of Education becanso of a dogged deadlock in the district board permitting no one to bo elected. Thirteen thousand men lay down their tools and inaugurate a strike in the coke regions. The only solution or the pig iron trouble in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys lies with the railroads, whioh must concede lower carrying rates. 10 Largo orders for American tin coming into Laufman & Co., or Apollo. U Testimonial to JPittsburir prosperity by Census Superintendent Porter. Armed detectives are guarding the men at work in tho coke regions. A new trial asked for tho Huns, Rusnok, Sobal and Todt, convicted of murder iu the first degree (Braddock riot case.) 12 Coke strikers aro preparing to force out the men who are at work. Two thousand more are idle. Miss Katherine Drexel, the millionairess of Philadelphia, takes tho black veil at Mercy Convent. 13 Pittsburg is shown to have spent $10,000, 000 ou new buildings in a year. Protests against placing the Carnegie Library in Schenley Park come from the Sonthside. George Duvall, who killed Jarvis B." Griffin in Philadelphia May, 1887, arrives at the Central station, this citv, having been arrested in Memphis. The citv seeks relief from the Supremo Court's decisions upon the street cases. The coke strike as one or its effects enhances the price- or iron aud other Pittsburg products. 14 Allegheny Bessemer steel plant nt Du quesne adopt a new steel billet; Attor ney Aehesnn appointed executor of John McKeown's estate and gives bond for $3,00J,O00. Coroner's jury in the Mam moth mine disaster render their verdict. A law suit begun 50 years .ago in Pitts burg is revived. Jones & McLaughlin introduce a new furnace which mav revolutionize iron puddling. Riot of Hungarian coke workers near Latrobe. 15 The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Braddock closo down, making idle 4.C00 men. Eighty-sixth anniversary of tho founding or tne Uarmonttes' Societv cele brated with prayer and roasting. Police Inspector John A McAleese makes his annual report. Eulogy on General Sher man by Dr. Townsend, or the Unitarian Church. IS Four men imprisoned In a burning mine nt Scottdale. Validity of the law nnder which Pittsburg's Police Departmeni op erates is questioned by Judge Slagle's decision. Burglars bind and gag a whole family at Monongahcla City and ransack the honse. 17 Tho two cities puffer a heavy flood, the greatest since 1SS4, many houses being underwater, much property destroyed and travel by tho bridges cut off; two big explosions in the flooded district of Allegheny wreck Tour houses and injure 11 persons. Two Pittsburgors, wife and granddaughter of G. F. McCleane, per ish by the wrecking or the steamer Sfier- jocicac Cincinnati, stocicnomers ot tne Castle Shannon Railroad " demand an In vestigation. IS The flood receding and great damage done, but a load or suspense lifted. Downtown business men suffer from loss or trade, and many mills aro shut down in both cities. The oil region suffers heavily. 19 Damago donehy tho floods in both cities, computed $500,OCO Police arrest negroes implicated in the attack upon Guiney undHines. 20 Allegheny's Financo Committee ad vances the tax levy over fi mills. Flood sufferers In Allegheny need more help. The carpenters enter a solid protest against the eight-hour demands. Smith Beal confesses shooting Daniel Guiaey. The Sherman funeral train viewed Uy thousands on its way through tho city. Western Penitentiary Inspectors issne their annual report, and ask the Legisla ture for nn appropriation to finish tho south wing. SI Rev. William Robertson addresses the Central Trades. Council on tho chief end of government A boy burned to death in a coke oven at McDonald. 22 Tho Vice President of a Grant stret He brew congregation whips a man iu tho synagoguo and the tumult is quelled by the police. 23 Celebration of Washington's birthday deferred from Sunday to this date a great success in both citios, the street parade being a fine demonstration. A monu ment to Washington unveiled in Alle gheny .by the Jr. O. U. A. M. Allegheny City tax. fixed nt. 15 mills. The coke strikers endeavor to cpmpel the Ralney men to join their forces and there was an exciting time in Dawson. 24 A portion of the rained walls of the Ex celsior building in Allegheny lall, killing Park Romack. 25 George N. dial rant, trustee, Issues an execution for $140,716 azalnst the Pine Ban Gas Company. Attorney W. -J.J Howard presents to the Supreme Court an elaborate argument against the' con stitutionality of the street acts. 26 Two strikers shot and. wounded tit the Braddock wire mill byi non-union men who took the places of those who went out. Workincmen to ask the traction companies for 3-cent fares. James Ver nerLong, of Allegheny, appointed Con sul to Florence. 27 Allegheny's comnrltteo of fifty declares its wishes at a Councllmeeting and some or them are adopted without much dis cussion. A Joint committee or the As sembly, charged with investigating- the business methods or State nndprivhte banks, commence work in the city. Mo nongahcla oporators aro cut out or trado by Kanawha coal. Annunl banquet of "Washington and Jefferson College alumni banquet at the Duqnesne. 28 The March calendar was the smallest in years for the Criminal Court: Annie Travis under treatment with Kocli lymph at Jlercy Hospital. Carnegio Li brary in Allegheny open for book appli cants registration. .Jnmes Ward was ar rested for murder on his release front the penitentiary. Three representative of tho Granite Stato Association sent to prison. John B. Copcland, of Parnassus, while insane, shoots his wife. Fighfr at Ieechbnrg and Apollo ovor local option laws. Joint Legislativo Committee on Supervision or Banks completes Its work. MARCH. 1 Mass meeting ot Hebrews held in the city to organize lor aiding Russian rerugces. Russian refugees. Allegheny agog over the disoharge or Prof. Milton Jones from the principal ship of the Seventh ward schools. French glass blowers flock into the citv to ob tain higher wanes. Charles Weakley, of Miambunr. commits suicide. 2 Virginia Knox divorced in Philadelphia Irom Count Montercole. Eat End Gym nastic Clnb takes the Athletic ball park. Chief Bigelow explains thatmarkets will not have tho wharves. Welshmen hold a banquet in honor or St. David. 3 Robert Wilson, or Jefferson township, sues for a share of his father's ostate. A Fayetto county doctor arrested for at tempt to bribe the court. An economical and cautious spirit prevades the Alle gheny Select Council. Emma Abbott's V1U 111 a 9J,UUU U1C9S kUlJICU lJ UOilKB MM u, Pittsburg crematory. A sensation pro duced in the coke region by the arret of nil the labor leaders at instance or W. J. Eainev, on charges or conspiracy, par ticipating ih riot and committing us sanlt and battery upon him aud others. 4 Cremation will no longer be carried on in secret ir Chicr Brown can prevent it, as it may removo evidence of crime. The railway through Shousetown and Clinton to be completed. Alex. Lee convicted of assault on a 9-year-old colored girl, gets 15 years in the penitentiary. E Another Silsby fire engine purchased by Allegheny. Burglars get into a Freepoi-t bank and crack private boxes, but fail to reach the bank's cash. Attempt to blow np and rob the California postoffice sev eral days ago just discovered. 6 The Duquesne National Bank cashes a cuectt raisea irom $-jo to fj.ouo, due tuo matter was settled quietly. William Jacobs, of the Southside, develops re markable hypnotic power. The Randall Club lavors the Allegheny wharf im provement. Eva Blooh, a pretty Polish girl, friendless and deserted by tier Rns sian lover, commits suicide at the Union station. 7 Minors at Mt. Pleasant denounce Opera tor Rainey. Central Trades Council pro tests against the treatment of coke strik ers. John Blondon arrested for the mur der of Patrick Burns in Upper St. Clair towiahin. nenry Wentzhoff assanlted and robbed on the Forty-third street bridge, 8 Harvey'Bankerd, aged 14, shot while tak ing a revolver from Frank Smith on Al len avenue, and the latter exonerated by tho Coroner's Jury. Ancient enmity for Russians excited among the Poles by Eva Bloch's suicide and they raise funds to purstie her recreant lover to the ends of tho earth. Christian Hoffarth, tho mis sing heir or a Pittsburg lortune, located in Cleveland. 9 The Carnegie Library location is dis cussed nt length in Councils. Allegheny's nowly elected heads of departments are: John R. Murphy, Department of Public Safety; Barton Grubbs, Department of Charities; Edward Armstrong, Depart ment of Public Works, and William Stevenson, of the Department of Li brary. 10 Tho Union Switch and Signal Company deposes George Westinghouse, Jr., from the Presidency, and doesn't even leave him on the Board of Directors. Some of the smaller coke operators are starting their ovens. Poles protest against the death sentence- of the Braddock rioters, convicted of killing M. Qulnn. U Firo sweeps away over $500,000 worth of property nt Diamond and Wood streets. A natural gas explosion iu the Weldin block, just before midnight, starts a fire which soon ruins that and the Gci-mania Bank building across Diamond street, while numerous other houses are threatened by railing sparks. A mania for sucide prevails, six persons having sought destruction in as many days, Tillio Lang, .the latest, discarding bridal robes for a cup of poison. George West inghouse to enter protest against the Union Switch and Signal Company's election. 12 One or tho hoard of the Union Switch and Signal Company to resign to allow tho election of a Westinghouse man. Allegheny's appropriation bill falls to pass the Common Council. The Oil Well Supply Company purchases two big mills at Soho. Pittsburg underwriters averse to insuring lofty buildings. 13 A delegation ot the Jr. O. V. A. M. asks Mayor Gonrley to prohibit the Irish flag from appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. A T. Rowand gives up the Pres idency oi tne union owitcn ana signal Company to E. H. Goodman and Wost inghouse representation. The two cities struck by the hardest March storm for years. Great damage done by a hurri cane in Westmoreland county and many people injured. Chief Brown advocates the purchase ofa water tower for fight ing downtown fires. 14 Two labor leaders charg-d with assault and battery at the Rainey works are ac quitted. Alleged conspirators against the Nicelevs acaultted. President Eliot addresses the Harvard Club. A South sider is getting enred by Koch lymph in Philadelphia. Manufacturers protest against the passage of the employers liabilities act by the Legislature. Em ployes or tho Howard Glass Works, Du quesne. locked out because they organ ized. Chief Brown wants a fireboat. 15 Pittsburg Italians Irate over the New Orleans killing. Billiard experts arrive in the city to take part In the tourna ment . 16 The Supreme Court sustains the ruling of Judge Slagle, bv declaring the street acts ot US7 and 1S9 illegal and uncon stitutional, and Justice Williams points the way to better improvements by cura tive legislation. Only 9 of the 36 living argonauts of Pittsburgaiirt vicinity meet at the annual reunion. An English syn dicate alleged to be gobbling Westing house interests. Local billiard tourna ment opens. Five persons of the Kup permnn family are fatally burned at a tenement house fire out Penn avenue. Thi License Court becins its hearing. 17 Supreme Court decision gives a death blow to the Department of Awards and Law. Rev. W. J. Holland, of the Belle field Presbyterian Church, Is given the refusal of the Chancellorship of Western University. 18 Citv officials place the street Improve ment matter in the hands or legal au thorities. Allegheny's millage increased to 13. A thousand cokers locked out by Armstrong Bros. & Co. 19 City officials once more show their belief in tho efficacy or curative legislation, and claim they will collect money on all nnpald street assessments for two years DacK. xiie net increase oi finance com mittee's advised appropriations is $70,490. Annexation petitions are industriously circulated in Allegheny. 20 Pittsburg appropriations passed with scarcely any change. Two thousand Italians assemble in mass meeting and protest against New Orleans methods. S. T. Harvey commits suicide and others make attempts. La grippe has taken a hard hold on Pittsburg and vicinity, par ticularly the East End. Four hundred liquor license applications heard the first week or court The Shaw test in dorsed at the meeting or Westorn Penn sylvania Central Mining Institute. 21 Detective D.H. Gilkinson shot and killed at McKeesport by Fred C. Fitzsimmous. The joint committee or Pittsburg and Allegheny Councils considers new street park and wharr bills. Pittsburg and Western Railroad bonds to be issued to amount or $2,000,000 and used ror better ments. Closing exorcises or the Y. M. C. A industrial school. Quarter centennial or tho G. A. R. to bo celebrated. Mc Laughlin wins the Stato billiard cham pionship. Elmer Collins completes his 30 days' rast. 22 Fitzsimmons, the murderer of Detective Gilkinson captured at Homestead, and threats or lynching are made, but he is safely caged. La grippe fills the hos pitals. N. P..Tobin, of Franklin robbed nnd killed and his house fired to conceal the crime. 23 Lively tilts in both branches of City Councils. Dozens or deaths due to la irrlnne. Sunnortcrs of the curative Ic3is- latlve measures In the interests or Pitts- burg "proceed very "quietly, but opposi tion appears, a aeucic aiscoveroa in Al legheny's finances. Southside Market House burned. 24 All the expected curative legislation is to be put in operation in open court Great crowds attend the funeral of murdered - Detective QUUnson, PhyllcUns-thinJcJ the worst of -la grippe is oyer. 5Elreman, years' standing in finding trace of his . - -, smu au , wo u..,,,,., j w rather nnd a fortune nt Seattle. City At torney Carnahan starts on a trip tnrbmrh, tho State to secure aid for the street bills. victim of la srrlnno. John Ruffner. & mlts suicide. 26 Detective P. J. Murphy, Fitzsimmon second victim, mav die. 27 Excitement of local drngglsts over the nciion oi tne -National v noiesaio urug elsts Association in forming a trust. Fitzsimmons is now charged with the Umberger murder. Coke operators threaten to call out the militia to pre vent further interference of strikers. 23 Tbo coke strikers say they can hold out a year. Mrs. Mary McCandless. of Pittsburg, a member of the World's Fair Women's Executive Committee. Thomas S. Smithson sues his wire's parents and sister for conspiracy in depriving him of his daughters. Victims of la grippe in one week, 17. Nine Italian frnlt venders arrested for blocking the sidewalks At the Fort Wayne Railroad shops 200 men laid off. 29 The carpenters to be directed in their eight-hour strike by President Gompers. Easter Day comes with spring weather. A mob" ot loafers interferes with tho funeral or Chinaman Jen Sue. 30 President Gompers comes toPittsburg to direct the carpenters in their strike. Coke strikers itte again riotous, bnt Gov ernor Pattison re ruses to call out the militia. Strikers at Morewood tear up the tracks and manv leaders are arrested. 31 Coke strikers at Mt. Pleasant burn Captain J. A. Loar, of tho militia, in effigy. Allegheny's Conncils make awards of bond". Tho nnmber of Italians in Pittsburg estimated at 10,000. APRIL. 1 More than the usual nnmber of removals In the citv. Labor leaders at Scottdale are greatly enconraged bv tho aid they have received from the Executive Coun cil or the Federation or Labor. Hundreds of coke strikers led by a band are march ing to Morewood; the militia is waiting to receive them, nnd a panic prevails over tho prospect ora battle. 2 Ten cokers are killed and 40 wounded at tho Frick Coke Works, Morewood, by Sheriff Clawson's deputies. Thousands or strikers ponr into Mt. Pleasant; many depntiesaro 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 gronnd at midnight by Governor Pattison's orders. The Eighteenth Regi ment leaves Tittsburg ror tne scene or the fray on a special train. Ravages of la grippe decreasing. 3 The inquest upon the dead cokers tends to prove that there wnsnot strongprovo cation for the shootine. Great excite ment prevails at Morewood ana through out the Conncllsville region. Governor Pattison believes good order has been restored and that there is little danger or further hostility. 3ev. Father Lam .bing or Pittsburg addresses both parties to the conflict. Conservative labor leaders prevent demonstrations. Coke oporators will fiot offer higher wages. Frick scores labor leaders. Hnndreds or Italians arrive daily in Pittsburg. Alle-, gheny's Common Council refuses to ac cord u vote or thanks to its Chairman. Pittsburg Councils give the Carnegie Library Commission the Schenley Park entrance site. The Columbia Iron and Steel Compnny makes an assignment 4 The funerals of the dead cokers are attended bv thousands, but there is nn disorder, tfwomoro victims of the dep uties' bullets died. Mass meeting of cit izens approve a curative act to reim burse the city for street improvements. The Pennsylvania Construction Com pany's plant seized bv t'-e Sheriff. Sam uel Brown buys out C. S. Holmes, of tho Monongahela Honse. Members of the Trades' Council object to the Carnegie Library location. 5 Strikers to bo evicted 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 tbe Huns found gnllty of murder at the Braddock riots. Many horses in the citv have In fluenza. Firty burials in city cemeteries, the majority being la grippe victims. Funeral of Allegheny's Anarchist, Joseph Fricke;Herr Most, of New York, deliv ered the address. Robert Watchorn makos sworn statements in reply to charts affecting his character and truthfulness concerning the employment of foreigners in tbe coke regions, and says many wero hired in Castle Garden, and. some claim they wero approached in Liverpool. Four persons burned to death in a midnight lire at Rochester, Pa. 6 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 street improve ments taken away from Councils by the Legislature and vested in the viewers and courts. Citizens in meeting propose many changes in local legislation and pay tribute to Mayor Gourley's honesty. John Gunsaulus murdered on the West Liberty road after leaving the home or his sweetheart. Allegheny becomes a city or the second class. Mayor Wyman and the new chiefs sworn in. The Fitz- simmonses, tho Clarks and Cora Wvatt are held to court for the murder of De tective Gilkinson. Discovered that nine lives instead of four were lost in the Rochester fire. 7 Less than 60 men secured by the coke operators to resume work. Loar and hU deputies to be arrested on murder charges. Mr. Carnegie is pleased with Councils' grant of the park site for the library. Eleven Hungarians badly nurnea Dy a natural gas explosion at Braddock, and several not expected to live. La grippe has literally gone to the dogs. 8 Nine of the musicians who accompanied tho striking cokers to Morewood are among those arrested for riot. Miners succeed in forcing the eight-hour day question before tbo Intcr-Stntc Confer ence of miners and operators, and are backed by the Federation of Labor. The death rate in tho city decreasing. Evi dence accumulating against Holmes An derson, arre3ted for the murder of John Gunsaulus. The three Hungarians con victed of killing Michael Quinn at Brad dock are sentenced to be banged, and there is a very affecting scene in court 9 Captain Loar and bis deputies are under arrest on a cnarge or muraer in too affair or the Morewood cokers. The tes timony of strikers at tho inquest indi cates undue haste by the deputies in firing the ratal shots. Carnegie Library Commission decides upon an immediate plan or action, and accepts the park site. Allegheny's new Common Council opens lire on the street bills. 10 Anniversary or the great Are or 1S45. Humored that a 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. Cant. Loar and bis men released on $3,000 bail. Strikers decide to continue tbe contest -to the end. A small raid at Whitney's works. Tarentum has a contest over liquor licensing, and so fur the repealers are ahead. William, or "Bull" Whlto hangs himself in a Central station cell. Peter Tierney, shot by James Roney, April 1, dies from his 'wound and Roney is arrested for murder. 11 Xo change of situation inr the coke region. Allegheny will not be affected by the proposed street improvement act Great changes promised in tbe Alle gheny police force. Colonel T. P. Rob erta favors the building of the ship canal bv private enterprise. 12 The past winter attended by more desti tution in Pittsburg than any for many years. Two city boys who experiment with u can of giant powder are injured ror me. 13 Total numDer of liquor licenses granted in Pittsburg 331 (an increase of 71); Alle gheny, 120; McKeesport, 27. Notices of eviction and actual starvation aro driv ing the cokers back to work. The man who decoyed Eva Bloch from home and whoso 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 a defect in the appropriation or dinance. More circumstantial evidence against Anderson, cliarged with the Gun saulus murder. 14 Small but angry moDs composed mostly of women attack coke workers ut Trotter. President Gompers, of the Federation of Labor, addresses n city mas3 meeting in favor of tue eight-hour day. Allegheny Presbytery urges the General Pres byterian Assembly to Inquire into the fitness of Rev. Dr. Briggs. Tho carpenters lay out final plans for the eight-hour struggle. Ladies'lnstituteon Scientific Temperance Instruction holds its fifth meeting at Smithfluld Street M. E. Church. Decisions of the License Court excito much comment, butare gen erally approved. 15 Toomnch whipping and too little sub stantial food gtveu at Morganza, is the gist of the Legislative special agent's report. Coke operators are alarmed by the report that all the militia will xooti be wltndrawn. The olty death rate for one week the highest over knowri and twico as large as the annual death rate, for which the grip is chiefly responsi ble. Deaths for the week nnmber 244. IS Panio in the coke region over tbe report that troops will be withdrawn: operators entering a hot protest Tho Sheriff and his deputies making evictions at the Trotter works are attacked by a fierce moh, Henry Warner, Superintendent of .-iVi the workhonse. resigns, ta take a'Pltee with the plate glass company. Superin tendent Ouav and the managers or Mor- ganza deny that inmates are , badlyi licmcu. 1UO IUV,9Wt UIIUUG19 uw grant the cigbt-hour day. Pittsburg;, i m saloon keepers' bonds approved and, S licenses ready. Pittsburgers are mucli pleased with Blaine's attitude npon the Xew Orleans Iviiehinff. 17 Cokers quit work when the protection - oi tne military is wiinarawn ana ma r strikers are greatly encouraged. Wash ington county's soldiers, the Tenth Regiment, N. G., reach home. Thousands -, of laboring men in the East End Hearing starvation for lack of work: as a result -of the street decision. The deserter of Eva Blocb, who committed snlcide in -. the Union Station, is in a Polish Jail awaiting triaL Carriage bnilders win, . their nine-hour strike. Phenomenal warmth, 803t5 p. it. Tho Philadelphia.; and npMdfnr- Railroad to et Into PittS-'-' linif. rwr ftlirt rnmnlptlnn nf n. hratinh. h 18 Strike at the Braddock iron mill l still on. Property or the Pennsylvania Con struction Company is sold by the sheriff.. ; ine I'lttsuurguureau ior curses siareeu.: -. Fiftv citv streets left incomplete bv tbe . ' slaughter of the improvement laws, -i,' e-neriu .AicuormicK. ui xayeite county, appeals to tbe Governor for milltarv to aid him in keeping order. Miss Sarah. Rutan, M. D., addresses the Central Trades' Council. 19 Trouble reared when evictions begin at Morewood, and troops In readiness to do police duty. A crowd of 600 strikers with a band is marching to Jimtown. Polish Catholic priests urging the men to remain at their homes. Strikers hold ing big meetings atLeisenring. Exten sive raid on speak-easies in both cities. i iierruonann Jiost comes vuuuutaaui , to the coke region and it is feared will ? provoke violence by Incendiary talk. jsj Women turn ont to oppose evictions at ,;j 1h and tho military li called out. The "A non-Denominational Colored Ministers' Council of Human Rights of tbe two cities and vicinity protest against the discrimination of real estate agents and other business men. The effort of patent medicine men to form a trust falls be-ft cause the statutes aro against it A -A Washington, Pa., iamily and numerous 1 guests poisoned in a mysterious manner;",; and with nearly fatal results. Forbes? street entrance to Schenley Parkxdefl- nlteiy settled npon as the library loca tion. 21 AhofdeofPinkertonsare on guard In. the coke region and about the on: trouble is caused by tbe women. Hen Most in hldinz. The Frick company se cures 500 mluers from Punxsutawney. . Body of Alex C. May berry, supposed to' have been murdered, is lound in the Mo nongahela by the "Boy Detective," Vic tor Kaufmann. 22 Opening pf the baseball season witn 6,500 people present; Chicago 7, Pittsburg 8. Two women nnd several deputies are seriously injured in a cokers' riot as Adelaide, sheriff McCormick slightly wounded by a bullet A nearly fatal quarrel between an aged couple, and tho accidental killing or a little girl by an Italian's cart, excito TeraperancevUle. Tho Iron City Boor Paint Company's plant is blown up by benzine, A Wild- wood oil well started at l.SOO barrels per -day. 23 In the coko region a Slav woman puts a bullet in Sheriff McCormick. An incip ent riot over evictions: Socialist speak ers fan the flame. The Union Veteran Legion holds the first of a series of meet-' Ings to discuss the various bodies of the late war. An Italian is clubbed to death by colored Policeman Matthew Bell, who is arrested. 24 Evictions continue in the coke region and though pistols are drawn no actual bloodshed follows. Socialists indulge in hot talk. A band of Hungarians armed with bombs is seeking Coke King Frick. A Senatorial committee investigates Morganza's financial and sanitary condi tions. Appropriations ior tne nospiiais of the two cities are largely reduced by the Assembly. Allegheny police Tesouei " a white girl of shattered mind Irom a negro's hovel. A freight on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie crashes into a construc tion train near Homestead, killing one and wounding several men. 25 Property at the Point, near the new post office and in the East End makes a big rise. Youthful car robbers arrested at McKeesport. Corpse of a man with throat cut washed ashore at Ohio Pvle, -' Pa. Resnlt of the coke strike dependent -2 ' solely on staving power. Officer Bltne-c-' assaulted in Allegheny, is dying. W. B. 1S Johnson, bookkeeper of the Duquesne yB Theater, disappears. Allegheny authori-- s. 2 ties making war on the shanty boats. -" !$ Nearly 1.00J deaths In Pittsburg since--' the grip's advent. T 26 Rev. Father Lambing counsels mfcmbew or his church on strike to go to vaprk a the coke ovens and in the mines. 1 27 Xo miners' strike ror the eight-hor d to be ordered. The Americus celelrr General Grant's birthday with a baifq A Southside builder grants his can, ters the eight-hour day. n Allegheny's Zfi total fire loss for the year ending April 1 'K was $l,283,m The boroughs have 77 -'St drinking places, an Increase of 17 over r && last year. The cokers' strike now breaks -sSI the record or the region In length. "J 23 Competitors or Carnegie propose a boy- - ST cott, and a big meeting is to be held in Xew York to carry out their ideas. '. - Miners' officials postpone the eight-hour - ,' strike and turn their attention to sup- '" ' porting tbo cokers. The Ford City al-" . a, fegod labor law violation is investigated iz bv Immigrant Commissioner Lay ton, Jj but no direct contract with, the im- - ; ported workmen is round to exist Two city dealers arrested for selling cigar ettes to boys. S3 All the wholesale and retail lia nor dealers of Allegheny under police sur- - veulance. Generally portnrpea conai- tion or Duuoers, arcniteet3 ana con- ' tractors of both cities over the coming -strike. Coke operators rejoice over the' " accession of a large number of work- ;t men. 10 The union carpenters organize, then strike for the eight-hour day. MAY. 1 Allegheny City Councils pass resolutions of condolence In memory or the late X1il-nw4 iHnatvnnir I 'h far nf tHfk Ta. partment of Public' Works. The flrst: i? evictions were maue to-uay on iiungar ian striking miners at the H. C Frick Standard mine, Mount Pleasant. 2 Prominent Pittsburg citizens claim that ono of the new cruisers should be named after this city. 8 The National Convention of Machinists, opened by Mayor Gourley. Sixty men; were sent to Leisenring to work on the ovens in place of striking cokers. 4 The Bnilders' Exchange stops work on thoAlvin Theater despite the promise to continue regardless of the strike. A man named Mohan was shot nnd killed bv a PInkerton detective, at .Leisenring Mine Xo. 1. In the striking coke resion. 5 The Arbuckle building, Christ MT-E. Chnrch and the Pittsburg Female Col lege destroyed by firo together with a number or other buildings; the loss was over $700,000; 40 young women students rescued by brave firemen. Union car penters return to work at nine hours, this being tbe first break in the strike. 6 The striking coke miners will resist any attempt of tbe H. C. Frick Company to evict them from their houses. 7 Pittsburg will regularly hear the New York Orchestra at Carnegie Mnsie Hall. , Tho Bijou Theater used by the congrega tion of Christ Church. Louden Martin must answer for Nicholas Spellman's . death says the Coroner's Jury. Many of tho coke strikers starving but perjever- . ing in the strike. 8 Master builders decide to allow their moTi tnyatnrn tn xrftrlr. 9 Eastern capitalists assume liabilities of ";1 tvestingnonse t-iecino company, car penters strike not near settlement 10 James Stewart, in a fit of jealousy, sets Are to his wife, causing injuries from. which she died. H Tbo Board of Underwriters address Councils on the frequency or fires. James" 1 li Stewart held lor tne muraer or his wire. 12 The Hizh School faculty were declared incompetent and discharged by the Cen-"". tral Board, ine jiay festival opened. 13 Three steamers, Twilight, Eagle- and' George Roberts, burned to the water's edge. 14 Three Allegheny young- men locked up for robbing a peddlar. Carpenters and contractors accused of conspiracy hy Duuaers. 15 An unknown man visits Pittsburg, kid- . naps five little boys and disappears with. luu cuiiureu. jiijtsj&iii cuuuvi .iiivcsbi- gating Committee sustains the faculty. Captain Loar nnd deputies at Scottdale indicted by tbe grand Jury for murder ing strikimr cokers.- 16 Covenanters denounce the judges for . granting licenses. .Master builders anx-. ions to again get their men at work. 17 Seven men arrested at McKeesport on." the charge of murdering Henry Sebam-, ; pie at a picnic, jiany persons com mitted to Jail for trifling offenses. Strangers in the city grumble over th enforcement or the Duo laws. 18 Master Workman Wise secures financial aid for his men. scores or Pittsburgers poisoned by smoked sturgeon. X ' 13 Mayor Gourley wants anew chief for the Olio UQIMi vuiciu, aim v,iut:i iJWWII ugrecS C5 wiiu mm. iiiu unties iuko up tnecnagei- agninst the smoke nuisance. Mrs. Sophia .' . , . .... . ... .. .,. .... .-,r. --. .AppiU SlttttVS IKJ UCU, UlUr 1KLD7 QM pencil uy uer relatives. -, 20 Tin plate manufacturers onranlze in. this citv. The carpenters' strike receive new lire and flgor and will be fought energetically. - 21 The Junction road engines watched' by the Ladies' Protective Association. and,' found to burn soft coal. Sharpsbnnc carpenters join In the move for shatter m iiJ. ,: -4fx, lifiilrHiifwIrw ii mi m linn i in mi n h in i im I i iii -i t ..; :