f c :'2 rLIKE TIC. MOROSINI, A Gripman's, Wife the Daughter of Wealthy Cincinnati Parents, GIVES HER HUBBY THE QUIET SLIP. She Believed Her Poverty-stricken Master Didn't Lore Her. AN EXCITING MARRIAGE IN EENTUCKI A tall, slim young man, a gripman on the East End division of the Penn avenue traction line, was at the Union depot last night, the very picture of distress. His fair bride of two years had flown during the night, leaving him nothing but a simple little note, and the distracted young man was wild to know whither she had taken her course. He furnished the officers at the t depot with a description of his wife, but they had not seen her. He refused to give his name, but, in pathetic language, he told E his tale. It was the old story of a wealthy Cincin nati girl marrying a man beneath her in station, and, in the end, after a struggle for existence, losing heart and leaving her Jowly lover to Jive in single blessedness. HIS B03IANCE IN THE BOUGH. The following is his tale of woe: "We p have been married for two years. I came to Pittsburg from Cincinnati about six weeks f ago, in search of work, and, when I got my present position, my wife followed me a few weeks later. We boarded in the East End, and when I arose this morning I discovered that my wife was gone. On a $S table she had left a note saying that she j didn't believe I loved her any more, and j this was her reason for leaving me so sur- reptitiously. I don't believe she has eloped k with anyone. j "My wife is the daughter of one of the j 'wealthiest paint manufacturers in Cincin nati. I was a street car driver there, and C the girl rode on my carlo school. We $ didn't even as much as speak to each other ' for four or five years, though I knew very well who she was. Finally we struck tin an acquaintance, loved and were , 5IABBIED IX EEXTUCKT J. "Two hours after the knot was tied her i angry father, with two depntyff sheris, arrived on the scene, too late to prevent the marriage. Furious with rage, Tie threat ened to kill me, and he disowned his daugh ter os the spot. He has not spoken a word to her since. "We continued to live happily in Cin cinnati for two years. I worked at my old occupation until I lost my job. I then r came to Pittsburg, and here I am trying to track my wife, who has deserted me. I ' fdon't know why she left me. She says in '" 'her note that she thought my love for her was waning; but that is not 30." And the unfortunate young fellow began j -wringing his hands, and it was quite evi dent that he still adored her. He declined to give the name of the girl's rich father. DYSPEPSIA PRODUCERS. The Fickle Men Meet and Contract for Mil lions of Cacumbcrs No Trust or Fool In Tbis Cnsc. The Pickle Manufacturers' Association met in the city yesterday to compare notes and regulate their contracts for the coming .year. There are about 40 firms in the asso ciation and they were all represented. Mr. Fred. Loeble, of Philadelphia, presided. Mr. Williams, a heavy dealer of Detroit, In explaining the object of the meeting, said: "We didn't meet to-dar to advance prices or even discuss prices. Our object is to feel the market and see how many pickles the people of the country will con sume this year. Usually we salt three times as many cucumbers as are eaten, and they become a dead loss on our hands. Then the grangers get an idea there is monev in the business, and they want more than their share. Last year our firm contracted for 30,000,000 cucumbers, and other large con cerns bonght them np in like proportions. We are anxious to regulate the amount from year to year so that the market will not be overstocked. "There is little money made in the busi ness. The smaller manufacturers are re sponsible for the poor prices. They buy in lots on borrowed money, and in order to raise funds to help them out of emergencies, they are forced to sell at low prices. There are pickles sold in Chicago for $1 SO per barrel less than, they cost to put up. Our price is $4 50, not 3 00, and we cannot be induced to sell for less." Mr. Williams could not say how many pickles were sold last year, and te was un willing to divulge the amount contracted for this year, but the number will reach the millions. Woe betide humanity and the poor stomachs that will suffer. HIS HOPEFUL Y1EW. Captain Steel Says Our Nary and Merchant Marine Are Improving;. Captain Steel, of Cramp & Sons, the ship builders, returned to Philadelphia last evening. "Do you know," said he, "that the agita tion over Samoa helps ship building? The present administration will not be outdone by Mr. Cleveland, and we expect the navy will be greatly strengthened by the addition of new ships. The appropriations for seven sew vessels have already been made, and the builders have been asked to bid. "The merchant marine is also picking up As soon as capitalists saw that Congress was in favor of subsidies Boach received an order for five vessels, and Cramp is now building four merchant ships for Ameri cans. It is an outrage that the Government can compel American steamers to carry the mails at their own price when they are'will ing to pay foreigners well for doing the same service. A few more war scares will waken np the people and Congress. The time is not far off when our merchant ma rine and navy will compare favorably with the vessels of anv country on earth." THE LATEST WRINKLE. Jndce Cooler Sots It Is Now Illegal to Fay Commissions. General Passenger Agent A- E. Clark, of the Lake Erie, arrived from Chicago, yes terday, where he had attended a meeting of passenger men. The new inter-State law was received during the session. The agents didn't have time to discuss it extensively, but the majority admitted that it is a clincher. "It is just about as safe to cut rales under this law as to steal a horse," said Mr.Clark. "If a man can get the animal without being caught he won't get into trouble. Judge Coolev decides that, under the present amendment, it is illegal for any road to pay commissions." GOT. COLQUITT AND COL. MOORE Are Announced1 to Address the Temperance Meeting" To-Nlgbt. A grand mass meeting, under the auspices of the Allegheny County Constitutional Temperance Amendment Executive Com mittee, will be held in Old City Hall this evening, commencing at 7:30 o'clock. Ex Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, and Colonel William D. Moore will be the principal speakers. The admission will be free, and all are welcome. NOTES AND NOTIONS. Many Matters of Mnch and Little Moment Tersely Treated. The hotels are filling up. , The gay spring drummer is In town. A hisxosieb Black whltewasbers. Good thing to keep A stiff upper Up. Bishop Vincent went to Cincinnati last night. W. E. Schmektz went to New York last night. Hugo Blanc, the noted chemist, left for Harrisburg last night. It seems the only thing those alleged train robbers stole was a ride. No. 2523 Carson street has been officially con demned, and must come down. J. L. McDowell., the Sharon banker, was at the Seventh Avenue yesterday. Crossing sweepers could earn many an hon est penny from the thankful pedestrian. Mes. B. Riddle, poor and a widow, was helped to Altoonaby the authorities yester day. Lottie McDonald is held in $500 bail for court on a charge of keeping a disorderly house. "Fare Miss," said the polite conductor, and then wondered why the girl blushed so furi ously. Congressman Oscar L. Jackson, of New Castle, took breakfast at the Monongahela yes terday. "Lucky McKeown" has struck a big well with the usual ensuing paralysis in the Oil Ex change. SUPEBrjTTENDENT PATTON, Of the B.iO, says the new depot will be finished when the flowers bloom in the spring. The city tax mill is In operation, and money Is being received from all wards but six, and books from these will be ready to-day. Fbimabt scholars, varying in age from 6 to lLare preparing to send samples of their work work to the Fans Exposition. Stockholders of the Central Traction do not think it significant that the contractors are to break ground, Monday, April L A new Council ot the Daughters of Liberty will be organized in Allegheny, and in all prob ability the Sons of Liberty will follow. Farewell Skidmore will have a hearing to-day charged with kissing Laura Shepard, of Allegheny. He says he only kissed her fare well. Mrs. Ferdinand L. Adams, a daughter of Mr. G. B. Perkins, the detective acent, ar rived in this city yesterday on a visit front In dianapolis. The griD on one of the Butler street cars broke yesterday moraine in front of the Fenn avenue power house and delayed travel again for two hours. The wife of E. Conners, who was sentenced to two years imprisonment in the penitentiary yesterday, fainted and went Into hysterics in the court room. The true homeliness of Pittsburg streets is now fully exposed, and the contrast ot muddy, dirty, filthy roads with the handsome buildings is something startling. Fob February the reports of the Meat and Milk Inspector show merchandise valued at JS92 50, besides 105 head of hogs and 3 head of cattle, were condemned. A delightful period of uncertainty will now intervene, during which a man insists upon taking off his spring underclothing and his wife insists that he shan't. Revival meetings at the Mt Washington Presbyterian Church are still very successful. The Rev. E S. Farrand is assisted by Chess Birch, the musical evangelist. Young Abe Cohen will have a hearinc to day, charged with striking Mrs. Lewis, of Tun nel street. Abe boards with her, and will ex plain the alleged salt and batter. In a suit for attorney's fees, the jury found for the defendant. The supposition is that after the attorney was through with him, the defendant was the only thing they could find. Ex-Senator Bruce, the colored member from Mississippi, says Harrison is a nice man, and will be a friend to the colored people. The Senator delivered a lecture in Canton yester day. The virtue of a well-orfranized, strenuous kickhas been shown by those aristocratic East Enders who carried unsightly electric light poles to the other side of the street, where the company allowed them to remain. The collector for the police and firemen's gymnasium who was thought by T. P. Hersh berger, of the West End, to be acting without authority proves to be all right, and any money given him goes to the,proper person. Popular Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Florence will be tendered a. testimonial Friday night by a theater party of members of the Mystic Shrine, and a banquet will follow at the Da ouesne. Billy was the founder of this order in America. Rev. A. H. Norcross, D. D., President of the Pittsburg Female College, left Tuesday night for Florida and Be Funlak Springs, where he is to lecture and preach during the session of the Southern Chautauqua, now in session at that place. President Weihe went to Washington last night, presumably to boom Martin as Com missioner of Labor. This item, with a change of names and purposes, appears simultaneously in every paper in the country, and the focus of all is the new President; Harbt Walthoweb, a boy aged 15 years, living near McKeesport, went to the Allegheny General Hospital yesterday to be treated for what be supposed was a sprained ankle. The doctors discovered that gangrene had set in, and amputated his foot. Frank Neal is to be tried on the charge of stealing a billy-goat, a sort of kid-naping affair evidently, though Neal expects to show testimony in rebuttal. A value of $1 25 is placed on the William goat, and everyDody is wondering what the $1 represents. The 0 scents are easily explained. There were 313 deaths in the city in Febru ary, just 12 more than dunng the same time last year, and exactly the number in 18S5. It is strange that in the Bureau of Health resort, a gruesome array ot93 figures indicating deaths, diseases, etc, the mystic and imagined lucky No. 7 is only mentioned three times. CHEMISTRY TO THE RESCUE. Hngo Blanc Will Have His Inning for Oleo margarine To-Day. Dr. Hugo Blanc, the chemist, went to Harrisburg last night in the interest of some measure, about which he declined to speak. The doctor stated that he was in structed not to say anything before he ar rived at Harrisburg, and he was sorry he could not give the reporter the information wanted. It is believed that the chemist has been hired by the oleomargarine people to de fend their bilL In all probability he has examined chemically a number of varieties of bogus butter, and his report is expected to have considerable influence on the granger committee that threatens the meas ure with quiet strangulation in the dark ness of a committee room. AT DOUBLE THE AVERAGE. The Present Grand Jnry a Genuine Record Breaker for Business. The present grand jury is astonishing the moderns by the way it is turning ont busi ness, averaging, so far, 26 cases a day, in stead of 12, as has been the rule for some years past. Some people have hazarded the malicious ' suggestion that possibly Judge Collier's ac tion some weeks ago had something to do with the present celerity. A NEW CHURCH. The Congregation That Sold to the Dnqnesne Club to Build. The contract for a new church structure was let yesterday by the Cumberland Pres byterian Church to Contractor Trimble. The edifice will be built on the corner of Wylie avenue and Congress street This congregation is the one that sold its building and lot on Sixth avenue to the Dnqnesne Club. THE FIRST BOAT BACE. A Qnlck and Saccessfnl Trip to the South With Cheap Coal. The Joseph Walton arrived from below yesterday with 14 barges. This is the first boat to get back since the rise. All the other boats are doing well, and some of them are already homeward bound. The river here yesterday had fallen to 6J feet. &wyFw?$ THE'- PITTSBTTEQ- MUSHROOM YS LABOR, A Yery Interesting Conflict of Views on Flint Glass-Dullness. FINDLAY, OHIO.BEGINS TO SQUEAL, Alleging That Wages Are Ruinous, and There Must be a Battle. PITTSBURG SATS IT ISS'T ALL WAGES That there is misrepresentation in behalf of the mushroom flint glass factories of Ohio and Indiana, or else on the part of the old and heretofore reliably conservative glass producers of Pittsburg, has become painfully evident; for the two are diametric ally opposed in their statements of the causes that have led to the present flint glass stagnation and the impending shut-down. Fittsburgers say the trouble is that the mushroomers aforesaid, with their free fuel and cheap plants, cut the rates below living figures for honest pay-as-yon-go investors, forced rninons competition, got it, and then, when they themselves were over-stocked and couldn't sell at any price, laid the trouble to other causes. The following telegram, from The Dis patch correspondent at Findlay, O., will show how true the charge of "laying it to other causes" is: Manufacturers of window glass In the natu ral gas regions of Ohio and Indiana are con fronted by a most alarming situation, on ac count of the demoralization of prices. Never, in the history of the trade, have affairs so con spired to place mauf acturers "between the devil and the deep sea," so to speak, as at present, and the future offers nothing of promise. Quotations have long since lost all semblance to uniformity, and schedules have been thrown away. Every manufacturer is playing a lone hand, but there's nothing in the pot for the winner. There Is not an establishment In these sec tions but what is running at a dead loss, were they compelled to at once market their prod ucts, and the prospect of a better range of prices is so discouraging that a general shut down may be expected within a few weeks not longer than a month at the furthest. The Dispatch correspondent to-day made a tour of the glasshouses of this city and talked with the managers of the Findlay Window Glass Company, the Ohio Window Glass Com pany, the Buckeye Window Company and Hirsh, Ely & Co. on the present situation, and secured their opinions regarding what the fut ure was likely to bring to the trade. All were of the opinion that affairs could hardly be worse than at present, and all agreed that it was a wonderfully sanguine man who derived any encouragement from what the future promised. I RUNNING AT A LOSS. Mr. U. G. Baker, Secretary of the Findlay Window Glass Company, voiced the general sentiment when he said: "The factories of tbis city, as well as those in the Indiana gas region, are all running at a loss, and just as soon as we get stock enough to fill our old contracts we will put out our fires and close our doors. We cannot, under our agreements with our workmen, reduce wages, and a general shut down is the only thing left for us to do. A number of houses in the Western district have already thrown up the sponge, notably the factory at Maumee, O.. the one at Dun kirk, Ind., one factory at North Marlon, Ind.. and several more will quit this week. Out of 1,200 pots in the Western district 250 are al ready idle, and before a month not less than 800 will be growing cold." "What is your remedy for the trouble? ' was .asked. To this Mr. Baker replied: "A general re duction of wages. Foreign manufacturers have reduced wages 20 per cent, and we must do likewise if we expect to continue in the business. Of course, I Know this move on the part of manufacturers, will bring on a great strike, but it must come, sooner or later, and we had just as well meet it this year as 12 months hence. When it does begin it will be a battle royal. No labor organization in this country is better equioped for a long and ter rible fight than the Glass Workers' Associa tion, and the result of such a contest cannot now be predicted, but the manufacturers, naturally expect in the end to win, although this is not at all assured. It does not matter which organization succeeds, the whole con test will be demoralizing to every trade inter est in America. The struggle cannot be de layed much longer. There is no falling off in the importation of foreign glass, and no re duction in the output of the operating factories of this country, and A REDUCTION OF WAGES must follow, or a shut-down, either of which will be disastrous not only to labor, but to capital as well, and the situation is full of gloom, through which 1 cannot see a single ray of light Mr. Cratty, Secretary ot the Ohio Window Glass Company, talked much in the same strain as also did the officers of the other companies, all of whom are getting things in shape for the storm, which they expect to be upon them soon. Advices from the Indiana natural gas region are of a like character, and it is the opinion of all the manufacturers that within a month every window glass house m Ohio and Indiana will be closed down, thus throwing thousands of workers out of employment at a season of the year when they are not prepared for such a condition of affairs. As one "manufacturer remarked: "It is a condition, not a theory, that confronts us, and we have no alternative." The report that the flint glass trade is un usually dull, and that a number of factories must close down, was confirmed yesterday by President Smith, of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union. In speaking of the condition of trade he said: "I cannot understand the dullness. The only line that is in good shape is the chimney branch. The North Wheeling factory closed for a few days, but has started again; but may close soon. The Elson works at Martin's Ferry will likely close down in a few days." This dullness has been heretofore alluded to in print quite often of late. It is not de nied. But the caure of it, as Mr. Jenkin Jones and others nave stated, is attributable to the mushroomers out West.f Several of the glass workers on the Sonthside, who are engaged in the flint and table ware trade, put the same coloring as Messrs. Jones and Smith upon the condition of the business in Findlay, O. Those who were asked about the matter had this opinion on the subject: "If the glasshouses in Ohio are going to shut down or burst, it is not to be wondered at, When some of the small towns out West went through the country begging people to come to them and start manufact uring plants there were quite a number only too anxious to avail themselves of the op portunity. A good many glasshouses sprang up in consequence, and quite a number are run by people who do not know anything about the business. hotv things changed. "Of course, while they got land, gas and even bricks to build theirplants for nothing. they found it very easy to manufacture glass and compete with the rest of the firms in the country. . , "But it seems that things have changed. The Town Councils of those places are now coming forward and asking for payment of what they gave at " first, and on that account a t good many manufacturers find themselves in a very bad position. They-are now working on a basis similar to that of the older manu facturers here in Pittsburg, and, of course, inasmuch as they have not the same pres tige and custom in the trade,, they find that they cannot compete with the older manu facturers any longer. "That is the reason they begin 'to howl at labor. Their complaint of the wages being toohigh is utterly unfounded. Wages are no higher now than they were two or three years ago. And as for their plea that the importation of foreign glass is doing a great deal of harm, that is all boshl America is ahead ot the whole world in the manufacture of cheap tableware and flint glass goods, and the foreigners cannot touch THE STRIKE IS OFF, And the Carpenters Will Go to Work on the Exposition Bnlldlngs Again. The carpenters strike at the Exposition building is ended, and work will be re- r-T , .! i -amw v n '' f Sin . ! Ml iQISPATCH;' , J2 7 - iv v sumed in a few day. It will be remem bered the carpenters employed on the build ing quit work some time ago because some frames and sash manufactured by D. B. Speer & Co. were used. The firm, it is said, refusedto employ at their mill mem bers of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Last night a meeting of local Union No. 211, of the brotherhood, was held at tbeir hall, at the corner of Park way and Federal street, Allegheny, at which the non-nnion men at 8peer & Co.'s mill were initiated. This practically killed- the strike, and it will be declared off to-day. Work on the building will likely be resnmed in a tew days. THE! DID NOT ADVANCE. The Prices of Western Cat Nail Association Remain as Usanl. The Western Cut Nail Association met at Wheeling yesterday, with all the mills represented. The expected advance in the selling price of nails was not made, the con dition of the market not warranting it. About half the nail machines in the West are now idle. tabor Notes. The coke trade is not in very good shape, and the shipments are' lighter than usual. Most of the works are closed down two days of each week. The Executive Board of D. A. 3, K. of L.. will meet next Monday evening, but Master Workman Ross says that nothing but routine business is on the programme. A member of the Builders' Exchange said yesterday that he believed $200,000 could easily be raised for the purpose of putting up a build ing. The Building Committee will present a report at the next meeting of the exchange. Master Wobxstan Rosa, of D. A, 8, K. of L, was last night presented with a fine gold watch chain by his many friends. The presenta tion speech was made by Mr. Charles T. Dawson, at K. of L. Hall, and Mr. Ross re sponded. WHERE THE REPORT BEGAN. Tfae.Connt dl Montcrcole's Literary Contri bution Offered In New York. The discussion of the nflairs of the Count di Montercole is growing rather wearisome, but it would appear that the Count himself, is not only responsible for it, but not un willing for a consideration to keep on. The following is from the New York World of Tuesday, and is probably the origin and ex planation of the statements in some of the Pittsburg papers yesterday that the Count wanted to isell his story. It will also be noticed the 'World states that the Count was to start for home yesterday: City Editor World: Mandato a mezzo Ulorno nn vestro rappresentate che parla Jfrancese O Itallano. CONTE DI H0"TEItC0LE. This telegram flashed into the World .office yesterday morning, smoking hot from the wires. In response a reporter was at once sent to interview the noble scion of the green baize and revolving-wheel family (as the name sug gests), and after seeking unsuccessfully in vari ous resorts of Spaghetti and Cbiantl at last un earthed him at the Hotel Brunswick. ' Instead of finding a floe, handsome, dashing looking man, with long, wavy mustachios in fact, one who even might by a large Btretch of the imagination be supposed capable of win ning a fair daughter of the Smoky City the re porter was almost taken aghast by meeting a plain, awarthy-complexloned Individual, re sembling more a scantily-fed tonsorial artist than a nobleman of sunny Italy. He had not even the redeeming trait of being mannerly. He stated at the outset that his business had to do solely with the proprietor of the World; that "he had a story" a "story" he wished to dispose of for a certain monetary consideration a "story" that dated "dele premier moment que j'ai rencontre ma femme" (this with falter ing voice). Upon being assured he could not see the proprietor of the World, he then most modestly requested that one of the chief editors be immediately dispatched to him to buy bis '"story." He was most sanguine that over 100,000 copies of his famous history since be first methiswife could bo sold in asiugleday in New York; another 100,000 copies in Paris and almost a like number In London. The Count (erfeit) made the harrowing announcement as the World reporter was leaving that he would turn his back upon America and the rest of her fair daughters to-morrow morning. A FIREBUG ON SIXTH STREETS A Livery Stnblo Destroyed Last Night and n Man Arrested for" It. The livery stables of Alex Montgomery, on Sixth street, were almost entirely de stroyed by fire last night, and a former em ploye of the place, William McFarland, was: locked up on the charge of having fired the stables. It was after 11 o'clock when the stable men, who were asleep in the building, awoke, from thenoise of the crackling flames and smoke. They immediately jumped up and let the 40 horses out of the building. The harness and carriages were also pulled out. , In the meantime two alarms had been sent in and the engine companies attempted to put out the fire. Bnt on account ot the large amouut of hay it was very difficult. The damage to Mr. Montgomery's property amounts to $2,500 and the building which belongs to the Shields estate was damaged to the extent of 53,000. All is covered by insurance. McFarland was accused of having set the place afire, because he was seen to come out of the building immediately after the fire started. It is thought that he did it out of revenge, Mr. Montgomery having dis charged him some time ago. HUSTLING CHILL Ho Would Like to be the Next Pension Agent lor This District. Colonel Chill Hazzard went to Lancaster last night to present some flags to an organ ization of Grand Army men there. The Colonel is an avowed candidate to be Pension Agent for this district, and he says that if strong Grand Army indorsements will secure the office, he is the man that will get it While in the East he will do some quiet work in Philadelphia to help his candidacv. Colonel Hazzard stated that while coming down the river he saw a great many boats towing empties to the upper pools. Empty barges, he says, always means business, and he thinks the operators propose to make up for time lost In everv month for the past 13 there has been a coaiboat stage, but un fortunately the coal men were not preptred for the water. OLD MEXICAN PAINTINGS. The Two Rare Relics Which James A. Mc Cormlck Purchased. Mr. James A. McCormick, while pros pecting for gold and tin ore in Mexico some time ago, came across three oil paintings of the date of 1721, and, on getting them home and having them cleaned wassnrprised and of course gratified to find them to be quite valuable. They were found in a Mexican second-hand store, and seem by some means to have been forgotten among some rubbish. They represent the flight into Egypt, the virgins' and the angels salutation to Mary, the mother of Christ. Mr. McCormick has placed them on exhi bition at Gillespie's. They were found in the ruins of a wrecked and plundered abbey, the vandals who destroyed it having no taste for art, or being unable to take their plunder with them. HOME FOR THE BLIND. Negotiations for tho Purchase of a Valuable Property. It is reported that the directors of the new Institution lor the Education of the Blind are negotiating for the purchase of the hand some residence of Godfrey & Clark, the paper manufacturers. It is situated at the corner of Penn and Gross avenues, East End. The property originally belonged to William Smith, the pipe founder. The directors of the new institute are said to regard the building and grounds in every way fitted for the new home for blind children. ,THUBSpA;YMAgOH.14 "jr--f-vyi--Hw-'raH ELECTKICAL MELODY. Piano Keys Connected by Wire With a Curious Bit of Mechanism, WHICH PLAYS MOZART WITH EASE. It Registers and Reproduces the Extempor aneous Gems of Musicians. AN0TELTIIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Electricity has produced another wonder. It is a pianist As usual with these subtle inventions, the new musician is invisible, and the piano will have the appearance of playing itself. Spiritualistic mediums need not apply, because there is nothing super natural about it D. J. Cable,' the well known electrician, of 77 Fourth avenue, made the piece of hidden mechanism him self. It is for his own piano, and although duplicates could be manufactured for at tachments to any piano, he will not put it into the market. The work has occupied him in his spare moments for months, and he has just completed it this week. He made it just for amusement, but has now cer tainly got a novelty which for beauty and genius cannot be -surpassed in this country. THE ELECTRICAL PIANIST. The "mechanical pianist" is a brass cyl inder, very much resembling that in a music box. It is operated by clockwork. This roller is punched full of irregular lit tle holes, into which are 'fastened metal pegs. Thus a tqne appears on each of the small cylinders. Wires connect this instru ment with the piano. Under each piano key is a small magnet, the armature of which is fastened to the bottom of the piano key. The cylinder is set in motion. As the little pegs touch a series of springs in sulated like the teeth of a music-box's roller, they one after another complete a circuit, an electrical current flashes across to the piano and the magnet connected with that certain spring pulls down the arma ture quick and sharply, and down comes theniano key with it, producing the sound as naturally as though struck by a player of delicate touch. Mr. Cable's first roller will have upon it "Home, Sweet Home," with some lovely variations. After that he wants to have another with a schottish composed by John Bobb, Esq., which music critics say is a masterly work. The cylinder and wires may all be hidden, either in the piano or down in the coal cellar. How is snch delicate work as perforating the solid brass roller with tiny holes ac complished? By a very simple method, also the original idea of Mr. Cable. Often in extemporaneous playing a pianist pro duces a bewitching chord, or in moments of inspiration forms, by a combination of the keys, music which would be rare for its beauty if it could be remembered and played again. A VEBY SIMPLE METHOD. To register a man's extemporaneous play ing Mr. Cable has invented an attachment for the brass cylinder described above. Be side the cylinder he has a row of very small magnets. The armatures in front of these are engraved with the letter or sign of sharp or flat note. Then a piece of white paper is rolled around the cylinder. It is set in motion, and the extemporaneous player be gins his operation of the piano keys. As a magnet and armature rests beneath every key, each note that he strikes sends a cur rent of electricity across the wires to the cylinder, and the corresponding magnet there draws down the armature with the en graved and inked letter, striking it upon the paper. The paper is ruled, and as the speed at which the roller is revolving is known, the letters appearing upon different lines indicates the exact number of seconds between each note struck by the player. Needle points placed in the armatures over the cylinder will strike the brass if the paper is removed, and thus indicate where the hole and peg should be placed. By this method all you have to do to mark the brass roller for its preparation to play "Home, Sweet Home" by electricity, is to sit down at the piano and play the piece as you usually would. A few days later the roller would be finished and would play the piano for you exactly as you had done for it. POSSIBILITIES OP THE INVENTION. The possibilities of such an invention are wonderful. If Mr. Cable would consent to allow the mechanism to be manufactured the tuneful cylinders could be sold whole sale for attachment to any piano. There are many households where the "upright" or "grand" is merely a pie.ee of ornamental furniture for the parlor. Nobodyin the family can play on it. Visitors gd away saying: j "Hum! Mrs. J only bought that piano for show. She's got nobody with brains enough to play on it Shoddy!" With wires- connecting her piano with one ot these cylinders Mrs. J might have her revenge upon that visitor! next time she calls by excusing herself (long enough to direct Biddy to go down to the cellar and wind up tythe electric piano player." If put upon the market the invention might also do away with bull dogs and burglar alarms. A tiny spring attached to each door and window could be so connected with wires as to set the clockwork of the musical cylinders going . the moment either door or window was opened after a certain hour. That would instantly send a flood of mftlody through the house, and the burglar, hear ing the piano playing, would jump 10 the conclusion that Myrtle was still sittins up entertaining her Alonzo, and hencfe he would sneak away, leaving the family plate unmolested. T CAN SUCH THINGS BE? A Greek Shows Up the Panama Canal Scheme In an Unsavory Light. I C. M. Demetrius, a Greek who hasbeen traveling through South America, v -as at the Union station last night bound east. He visited the scene ot the Panama "anal, and he says he is thoroughly convinced that it is one of the biggest frauds ever per petrated on a people. j He claims he found there enough nails" to build a road across the' United States, and stationery, pens, ink, etc., to supply a city like New York for six months. H i says everything was conducted on the most ex travagant scale. The contractors bled the stockholders, and they were favored by the directors. He believes the canal will never be built, and the people living in the! coun try admit that the scheme is impracti cable. HISTORICAL SOCIETY T0-DA A Meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Body to Hear Papers Bead. The regular meeting of the Historical So ciety of Western Pennsylvania will (take place in the society's rooms in the Court House this afternoon at 2 o'clock. A varied and instructive programme of inter esting papers and important business will make it agreeable for those who want to hear of the past of our history and) the present of those who are interesting them selves in collecting it The members of the Society and tineir friends are earnestly requested to be present OUT OP POLITICS. Ex-Depnty Attorney General Gilbert Thlfaks Danpbln Is Anti-Prohibition. Lyman D. Gilbert, of Harrisburg, De ty Attorney General under Governor HoVt. was in the city yesterday. He is now obt of politics, and devoting all his time to tlie law. Mr. Gilbert is inclined to believe th Dauphin will vote anti-prohibition. I says there are a ereat many liquor dealer 2 .1... MH 2.L. l... -rrJi S- iu. uic vvuuii nitu tuts ui ixieaas. 1889.7" " '-T - WAS HE MURDERED? The Discovery of nn Unrecognizable Body A Chain of Circumstances Qalto Sus picions A Mystery. Coroner McDowell last night brought to the city the decomposed, discolored and un recognizable corpse of a man that had evi dently lain two months in the mud and ice of Chartiers creek at Laurel station on the Pittsburg, Chartiers and Youghio gheny Bailroad. Tattoos of the, initials "B. M." and a banner shield on the left arm marked the body, which was 5J feet in stature and had evidently weighed about 165 pounds, though whether originally black or white, was a question. Yery plaiu clothing, a blue and white striped cheviot shirt, and, in one of the pockets, a prescription with the address, Washington, Pa., as the only remaining words, 'are all that remain to aid identity. The Coroner said last night that, about two months ago,' two colored men at Mans field had a quarrel, immediately after which one of the men disappeared and has not been seen since. The other, man was then arrested, charged with having thrown the missing man into the creek; but, as the body was not recovered and nothing proved the murder, that charge was withdrawn., The missing man had a wile at'Washing ton, Pa., where he had formerly lived, and the Coroner believes that, taking all the facts into consideration, the, body found yesterday. was thatof the missing man. An investigation will be made to-day. THE CHILDREN'S PETITION. One of the Most Impressive Remonstrances Against License. South Versailles township presents to the Judges of the comiug 'License. Court a peti tion that is probably the prettiest and most pathetic in expression of all such documents heretofore presented to the local courts. It is signed exclusively by 57 children of the township, and says: We, the undersigned children, petition our Honorable Judges, and earnestly pray them not to grant licenses to any applicants for tne said South Versailles township, for our Bakes. "Foroursakes!" Could there be a more charmingly childlike expression written in right at that point no matter if a parental hand did pen the petition? "And a little child shall lead them" may not have been true alone of that sacred occasion about which the words were first spoken, by Him "who spake as never man spake." To-morrow will be the last day allowed for the tiling of remonstrances against ap plicants for liquor licenses. But few re monstrances have been filed so far, but it is probable that a number will be presented to-day and to-morrow. Eight were filed yesterday. The remonstrances not alluded to above were against J. A. Carline, No. 73 Forty third street, 69 signatures; J. M. Steiger wald, 75 Forty-third street, 69 signatures; Lonis Lautner. Nos. 148 and 150 West End avenue, Allegheny, 21 signatures; Charles Downey, Fred Hoberman, Patrick Howard and Morris & King, all of Dnqnesne, Mifflin township. Each was signed with 93 names. NOT TRAIN ROBBERS Who Attacked Clenry, the Brnkemnn, Bat Professional Train Bams. Begarding the attack upon Michael Cleary, a Lake Erie railroad brakeman, which occurred on Tuesday night on a train near Coraopolis, Mr. Charles Dietrich, the trainmaster, gave the following statement last evening: "Those eight men are professional train 'bums,' who rob the employes of trains, gen erally around their pay days. They did not mean to rob the train, because everything was found intact, aDd they had attacked Cleary on top of tne train. "I positively deny that our road has been systematically robbed of freight lately; in fact, I can say that there has been less steal ing done lately than ever before. "These men knew that the brakemen had been paid that day, and for that reason they went for Cleary to get his little stipend. I saw him to-day? and he is fairly on his way to recovery,, while the eight young fools who attacked him are in jail awaiting Monday's hearing. UNNEIGHE0RLY NEIGHBORS. Electric Light Poles Create Trouble In Aris tocratic Bast End. The aristocratic East Enders living on Windmill street were scandalized one morn ing when the East End Electric Company strung their crooked unsightly poles along their sidewalks on the west side of the street preparatory to planting them. The next morning the company was par alyzed to see the poles had been removed to the east side of the street and a gentle, sub dued but firm kick was made by the east siders. The company was appealed to, and decided to settle the difficulty by allowing the poles to remain on the east side, but they will be tall, stately, and shapely, and more of an ornament than a cause for com plaint. THAT PATRICIDAL ASSAULT. Yonng McCoy Jailed in Dcfnnlt of 8300 His Father's Critical Case. Peter McCoy, Jr., had a hearing before Alderman Bichards, yesterday afternoon, on a charge of assault and battery preferred by his father, whom he assaulted at his home at the corner of Washington street and Poplar alley, last Monday evening be cause he would not give him money. The old gentleman had to be brought to the Alderman's office in a carriage, and is in a very critical condition. The son was com mitted to jail in default of $500 bail for court TO INYEST1GATE IT. The Station Agent Said to Have Caused Mallally's Death. Constable Clishum, of Chartiers, will in vestigate the death of John Mallally, who was injured on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Bailroad at that place, on Tuesday. He will also inquire into the accusation to the effect that Station Agent Hamilton had been responsible for the accident, by push ing Mallally against the train. Hamilton hears a good reputation and is a property holder at Cliartiers. He is, not under arrest. The Coroner will continue the inquest this morning. HIT WITH A CLUB. A Railroader Knocked Down on Twenty eighth Street Last Night. O. H. Clark, an employe at the round house of the Pennsylvania Bailroad, was knocked down on Twenty-eighth street about 9 o'clock last night He had just quit work and was on his way to his home at No. 4807 Cypress street when attacked. He was knocked down with a club, and his assailant went through his pockets while he lay unconscious on the pavement. The man, who he thinks was Hugh Doyle, did not secure anything for his trouble. Their Unnnlmons Call. . The congregation of the Point Breeze Presbyterian Church met last evening and unanimously extended a call to Bev. Dewitt N. Benham, of Kittanning, to be their pas tor. Still More New French Cbnllis. The very handsomest styles in imported and only 50 cents a yard over 150 pieces to choose from here. JOS. HOENE & CO.'S Penn Avenue Stores. B. fcB. We Jiave placed on sale to-day Brooks' machine spool cotton for the accommodation of patrons who wish it for the automatic sewing machines, Boggs & Bubx. 'OTfTTTlPElW? """ will'test rr. Bestanraat Keepers Accept the Advlcn of Their Attorney In Regard to Using Oleo Adalterntlon of Vinegar in Pittsburg. The restaurateurs met yesterday after noon, but just what they did seems to be enveloped in somewhat of a fog. President Dimlingsaid: "We did nothing, except talk and listen, to our attorney, J. s. Fer guson. He assured us we would be all right if we,wished to use 'oleo,' and that it is only the sellers of it who can be punished. It gives customers better satisfaction than dpes butter, and since it has been in use, bakers have been able to get better and cheaper real butter for their use. I am not using oleo now, but am convinced that I can if 1 want to do so." This view would seem to be based on the ground that furnishing butter to boarders is not selling it Although the Supreme Court has de clared the law of 1887 constitutional, it seems there is likely to be considerably more litigation. For instance, S. ,A. Johnston. Esq.. savs it is class legislation. and it is held by some that this phase of it was not ruled upon by the Supreme Court It is held that the law was passed for the benefit of farmers alone. Mr. Johnston said he hadn't any doubt that the average Legislature felt competent to amend the Ten Commandments, but he held the law as it read could only be construed to mean that Pennsylvania farmers were to be pro tected and that the bill to keep Western dressed beef out of the State wasof the same character. He held that neither could be based on the ground of preserving either the health or saving the money of the con sumer as oleomargarine, in Mr. Johnston's estimation, not only averages better in cleanliness, quality and healthfulness than cow butter, but is cheaper and fills a greatly felt want among poor people. Ex-County Commissioner Beckert de nounced the oleo suppression law as an out rage on poor people, and said the Legis lature would be much better employed were it to set about to break up the adulter ation of vinegar, or rather counterfeiting of it. He said thatall the oleo consumed in the United States did not contain as much mat ter injurious to health as the sulphuric acid contained in one barrel of bogus cider Vin egar and that the case of 724 per cent sulphate of lime in a consignment of alleged cream-tartar afforded more pertinent matter for legislative safeguards than all the anti oleo laws that conld be passed. T. C. Lazear, Esq., said he thought it would be claimed that farmers "were only incidentally benefited by the law in ques tion, and that it would be held that all classes were, so that the act could not be construed to be class legislation. Henry Meyer and J. M. Caldwell, Esqs., considered the law as unjust and in reality class legislation, but did not express any decided opinion on the question as to whether the Supreme Court would view it in that light, if that question were specifi cally raised. The restaurant keepers, under the advice of the attorney, decided to make a test case of the first of the pending suits against them when tried and take an appeal. Angostura Bitters, the world-renowned South American appetizer, cures dyspepsia, etc NEW THINGS On Wood Street. See the window at Bennett & Co.'s hat store filled with American, English and French traveling and office bats, the finest in the world. Special inducements this week. J. G. Bennett & Co., Hatters, Corner Wood street and Fifth avenue. A Big Cut. We have made a big cut this week in prices in suits for boys and children. If you want boys' clothing at half price, come this week to the Hub. Bemember every thing must be sold and now is yonr chance for big bargains in clothing for men and boys. Call at the Boston Clothing House, 439 Smithfield street Wall Paper. As this is our first season in this line, our stock is entirely new and fresh, and our prices are below anything you have ever known. All grades from 5c a bolt to finest gold. Select your paper now. Abthub, Schondelmtee & Co., tts 68 and 70 Ohio st, Allegheny. Paris Bobe Patterns, 8S5 to 820. The handsomest we have shown in the delicate spring colorings, silk and metal embroidered. Jos, Horne & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. Gents' Flannel Shirts, New goods, 50c to $3, at Bosenbaum & Co.'s. Ths KEAL ESTATE SAYINGS BANK, LL1I., 401 Smithfield Street, cor. Fourth Avenne. Capital, $100,000. Surplus, 538,000. Deposits of $1 and upward received and interest allowed at i per cent tts . B-OsB. Brooks' celebrated spool cotton on sale. Nos. 50 to 160 in white. Nos. 60 to 100 in black. BOGGS & BUHL. Mothers, Bring the Children. Before it is too late, to the Elite Gallery, 516 Market street, Pittsburg. Use elevator. Cabinets, SI per doz. Spring Millinery Goods. All the new shapes in hats and bonnets, and new ribbons and flowers in greatest va riety at Bosenbaum & Co.'s. Ths BIBER & EASTON. NEW IMPORTATIONS NOW OPEN. French Novelty Robes. Very stylish, com plete without other trimming. Take an early choice, $10, J12 50, J15. S18, J20 and $25 a pattern. Spring Wool Fabrics. Special attention in vited to our 50c range of wide all-wool goods. Diversity of styles in rays, stripes, checks, blocks and solid colors. Spring Cashmeres in all the late shades. Quality L, 36-inch, 37Kc Quality 2, 36-inch, 60c Quality 3,38-Inch. 65c Silk stock complete with the best attainable values. March prices will save you money. Never such qualities in Cashmere finish Gros Grain Silks as are now offering. Gros Grain at $1, $1 25. $1 60 and $2. Armure Silks at $1, $1 25, $1 60 and $2. Satin Luxors, $1 25, $1 60, $1 75 and $2. Double Twill Surahs, 75c, 90c and th Drap de Bole, Brocade and other fancy weaves on the same close scale of prices. Cotton Dress Goods will meet your wants In a large lipe of novelty and staple materials in Ginghams. Satlnes and Etoilo du Nords, Chambrugs and Cretonnes. SPRING MANTLES. JACKETS and LONG WRAPS Now open in Suit Room. BIBER ajASTDN, 605 AND 607 MARKET ST. mh5-TXSSU " " ,. ,r jXl jy MifaWp THE POLICY DEALERS. Several ofThemTestiry Is IfceCasss A galas James Forse as Writer. The cases of James Forse, charged by In spector McAleese with writing and dealing in policy, was heard by Magistrate Mc Kenna yesterday afternoon. John G. Bryant, Esq., appeared for the defense and Clarence Burleigh, Esq., represented the prosecution. The case may be thus sum marized: Charles Decker, of the Southside, testified (after being warned by Mr. Bryant that he would be himself liable to prosecution If ho criminated himself, and assured by Magistrate: McKenna that this wasn't true In a gamblinir case)that he knew the defendant, and he (Decker) had been writing policy f or anumber of years. Becently he dealt with Valentine Quckert, from whom he cot his drawings ana money. He always met Quckert in a house on East street Allegheny. . , , John Karnvof25 Wilson street, had played policyf or two years. He always met Quckert at 63 East street Allegheny. On cross-examma- "uu ujr our. Bryant, narns saia: -a jtnow a under arrest but 1 expect no favors, and par ticularly from you." Nicholas Bender, of Forty-fourth street, h4 dealt with Quckert at 63 East street. Alia eheny. When Forse was arrested he sent ft mesnage by Gnckert to the witness. The message was produced and Identified; but, as It was a cipher message, the contents were not made known. JohnCaranangh was sworn and said he had dealt with Lai Ri Cardo, an Italian, on LacoclC street, Allegheny. Valentine Guckert by advice of Major Mon tooth, his attorney, declined to savwbetberhe had dealt in or written policy, on the ground of self-incrimination. Lai Rl Oardo testified that he dealt in policy for about a month and used to meet James Forse at the Allegheny Market House. He got his money and drawings from Oliver Forse. The case was adjourned untU Monday at 2 o'clock. USED TO COLD WATER. The Enthusiasm of Prohibition Not Damp" eaed by the Tote. The failure of the prohibition amendment to receive the necessary two-thirds vote in New Hampshire, Tuesday, did not dampen the more-or-Iess ardent spirits of the- Pro hibitionists in this city. The liquor men. though, were very jubilant yesterday, and any number of them could be found with a copy of The Dispatch in their hands reading the result in the Granite State to their patrons. JOB. HDRNE t CD.'B PENN AVENUE STORES. SPRING NOVELTIES. SPRING NOVELTIES. SPRING NOVELTIES d In our Cloak Room, this week, latest whims in imported Wraps, Mantles and Jackets, Including many exclusive styles. Misses'. Children's and Infants' Out fits, the largest assortment we have ever shown, medium to finest qualities. More Paris Robe Dress Patterns the finest and most elegant we have ever Imported. KID GLOVES. Spring shades, in both Suede and Kid Gloves, Jouvin, Alexandre and other best makes. Elegant novelties In Beaded ind Metal Galloons now ready; fine black Crochet Trimmings; striking noveltief In the large Directoire Buttons. HOSIERY. - First of our spring importations "cable dye" fast black, fancy striped Cotton and Lysis Hose; black, and - colors in fine quality pure Sffk Hosiery. r OUR NEW MILLINERY Show room and 100 Pattern Spring Bonnets and Hats this week. JDS. HDRNE 1 CD.IBI -PENN AVENUE STORES v 1 && i! ,.'(V gfa trX AsVii. .i-l wffigHI H
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