The Duquesne Times, April 25, 1889 Pencilings and Purloinings. A new son: Mr. F. Miller: tobie. There is only one brick building in Duquesne. Now is the time to build fences and make gardens. Miss Jeanette Pennman paid a visit to McKeesport on Monday of this week. The meeting to organize an Order of Solons has been postponed until Thursday of this week. Prof. Frank Rogers, of the Duquesne Cornet Band, is one of the happiest men in Duquesne. A boy. Mrs. W. J. Sharpless and Mrs. Mills, of McKeesport, were visitors this week, at Mr. Fred Gerdts, this place. Mr. Jacob Hunker, of Connellsville, formerly of this place, paid a visit to his sister, here, Mrs. Thomas Best. Mr. Max Rudert spent Sunday last in Homestead, the guest of Mr. David Fisher, the popular music dealer. Mr. Thos. Cain, the insurance agent has opened out an office in the same room with Chas. B. Payne, the attorney. Mr. C. Goldstrohm is going to erect a three story frame building next to Robson & Pfleghardts store on Railroad street. The Duquesne brass band are succeeding very well in raising money for their instruments, which they expect to have in the course of about two weeks. Mr. J. Jelley, A. F. Link, C. Leader and F. Shiedle have completed their contracts for brick laying at the Howard glass works, and express themselves highly pleased with the firm. It seems that the Duquesne boys have not sufficient get up in them to organize a base ball club. An amateur club of Homestead sent them a challenge to which no attention was paid. Many Duquesne residents secured a piece of the first glass manufactured at the Howard glass works, and will lay it away as a relic. The glass is clear and smooth and is pronounced of fine quality. The only license granted in Duquesne is that obtained by Chas. E. Downey, who also had license last year. The monopoly he controls will enable him to start a bank in a very short time. Mr. D. S. Malone, who has been mail agent on the P. V. & C. trains for some eight or ten years, is to be removed and a Monongahela City man named Yohe will be appointed in his place. Mrs. B. Goldstrohm has let the contract to the Yohe Bros. for the erection of a fine three story mansard, with hall, store room and dwelling, to be built on her lot on Railroad street, adjacent to Robson & Pfleghardts grocery.   Prof. Basil Brennan, of Pittsburgh, has organized a class in music in this place. The professor is well known in Pittsburgh and neighboring towns as a popular and successful teacher. He proposes to visit his class twice a week - Mondays and Thursdays. Mr. S. B. Orr, who lately sold out his grocery store is now engaged fitting up a brick yard on the hill. He expects to be in working order in the course of six weeks. There is at present quite a demand for brick in Duquesne, and Mr. Orr's venture will doubtless be a success. The new post master, Howard I. Black, expects to take charge of the office on or about May 1st. He has already taken possession of the building he will occupy, and put out his sign as a real estate and insurance agent, which business he will conduct in connection with the post office. Visitors are not allowed to enter the Howard glass works though many present themselves. It is said the firm have certain new processes in the manufacture of plate glass which they are not anxious to have made common property. The workmen are from France and Belgium and are supposed to be entirely familiar with their trade. When the strikers learned that the Sheriff had a paper to serve on them, prohibiting them from congregating about the steel works premises in numbers, they quietly went to him and accepted service, and he so highly appreciated their action that he set up the beer for them. Had the men not consented to accept service the sheriff would have had to scour the neighborhood after them. He received millage and a fee of fifty cents for each paper and he is today a hundred dollars or so better off than he was. [skipped paragraph on how to plant trees] A Sad Death On Sunday, April 21, 1889, Florence S. Conrad, a two-year-old daughter of Mr. John P. Conrad, died. The little girl had been sick for about eight days with scarletina angenosia, commonly known as scarlet fever. Mr. Conrad has only recently taken charge of the Duquesne Pharmacy, but on account of the illness of his children had deferred moving his family, who remained in the city with his wife's parents. Another child is also very sick, but the doctors have hopes of her recovery. The burial took place in the South Side cemetery. The many friends and acquaintances of Mr. Conrad and his estimable wife feel a deep sympathy for them in their affliction. An Accident The first accident that has occurred at the Howard glass works, happened on Monday of this week, a man named Henry Lucas, while engaged with the cranes that lift the huge pots, one of the pickers fell off and broke his leg. He was taken to his home in Duquesne and medical aid summoned.