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1 ' ABOUT EXHIBITION GAMES.
A. Forfeit Up for an Unknown to Run
McClelland,
AT FAT.RELL MAI GET A BATTLE
;' ' .Manager Hanlon, of the local Brotherhood
, 'club, returned to the city -yesterday. He
j " desire to have Ad Gnmbert as a pitcher for
'fats team. A forfeit is np for an unknown
1 4 run K. C. McClelland. Delaney also
grants to mn him. A member of the Cali-
1 ' Jornia Athletic Clntf will try to secure a bat-
StleforPatFarrelL
An effort will be madp, probably to-day,
sto try and secure Ad Gnmbert as one of the
'.pitcher, for the Brotherhood clnb of this
Ity. Manager Hanlon was questioned on
this matter yesterday and he plainly inti
mated that he intended to hare a talk with
.Gnmbert as soon as possible. "I cannot say
much regarding the matter jnst now," said
Manager Hanlon, "but X am convinced
that if Gnmbert will consent to play with
us Chicago will do ns a favor by giving him
'permission to do so."
Doubtless a pitcher of Gumbert's ability
"would be a tower ol strength to the new clnb
and It is not unreasonable to tar that, judging
from present indications, the new club will
seed Guiabert as much as an; other club in the
j&ew leajrue.
ADVICE TO GTJHBEBT.
It would also seem reasonable to expect that
If Gnmbert has made np his mind to be of the
.Brotherhood, come weal or come woe, Pitts
burg will be as pleasant for him as will Chi
cago. It seems certain that if Hanlon's expec
tations are fulfilled, there will be a good team
here, and Gnmbert would make many friends
by remaining here, that is, providing he means
to sign a Brotherhood contract.
Manager Hanlon looked in first-class condi
tion when be arrived in the city yesterday from
the East. He Was full of hope and confidence
regarding the new .League's prospects. But,"
Mid he, who in the world sent out that report
about my wanting to sell my stock which I own
lnthePittshurgclnb? The report was just as
Xalseasitwas malicious, and the party who
put it In circulation must certainly be of a very
unprincipled nature. Why, 2 never dreamed
of disposing of my stock. I have Invested
42,000 in the club, and It will remain there. I
am certain that it won't be lost, and I am just
u certain that we will bare a winning team
hero.
A DIG AT THE LEAGUE.
' "If the National Ijeague supporters have had
anything to do with the sending out of this re
port about me and other reports concerning
several Brotherhood players, lam sorry that
they bare stooped so low. The aim of all this
Xaliifying is to influence those players who are
on the fence, or at least who are wavering. We
don't resort to the circulation of false report"."
Begirding Ms team Manager Hanlon said:
"I expect to have an excellent catcher signed
within the next 24 hours. He is a good one,
and I want him because I want to have Fields,
Carroll and ViEner plajring in every came be
cause of their bitting power. Ob, yes, I expect
to get Carroll, and be will play first base. I
will bear definitely about Marr and Orr in a
few days. Visner is a good fielder and hitter,
and the reason he did not show up well with
the Brooklyns was because he got little or no
show there. I also expect to sign a young pitcher
' of the Atlantic Leagn . He is a good one,
and Urn-class judges teb me he is superior to
BtlrLett. I have signed Shortstop Corcoran, of
w Haven, and be is reported to me as one of
the most promising youngster in the baseball
business. Altogether 1 think our team will be
a treat ono and its patrons will have no reason
to -complain."
ABOUT EXHIBITION GAMES.
Begarding the playing of exhibition games
Manager Hanlon said: "We hare not dis
cussed that matter yet, but it will be dealt with
at our next meeting. Of course clubs con
trolled by the national agreement may try and
boycott us, but we will still play exhibition
tmes. Xbe college teams will play with us,
cren though the National League may ask
them not to do so. I don't
know what the American Association
will do, but if the worst comes to the worst, we
can play among ourselves. There is little or no
money in exhibition games anyhow, and the
Players' League owns the championship of the
world. This being so no two clubs outside of
our league can play for that title."
Mr. Hanlon went on to say be read a telegram
Xrom Hank O'Day Wednesday evening, iu
which the latter emphatically denied that be
had signed a National League contract, O'Dav
aid: "I have signed a Brotherhood contract
id received $400 and I mean to stay. A Hanpv
New Year." The telegram was sent to Hick
EngeL Mr. Hanlon met the other officials of
the new clnb yesterday afternoon and they held
an Informal meeting. The application for a
charter, the details of which -appeared exclu
sively in this paper, and other matters of minor
Importance were talked over.
AFIER THE CHICAGO CATCHER.
Pfeffer Trying to Induce Bennett to Sign a
Brotherhood Contract.
Kaksas Cirr, January Z Fred tffeffer, the
Chicago Brotherhood leader, was in town
to-day. He was returning from Williamsburg,
San. where be had been to see Charlie Ben
sett, the Chicago catcher, and Induce him to
Sign a contract He did not succeed, but be
ttd that be bad assurances that Bennett
woula join the "Rebels" before the season
opened.
Pfefferwas enthusiastic over the Brother
hood's prospects. The new organization had
lost but a few men, he said, and injunction
wonld be brought against all who had signed
contracts and deserted to prevent them from
playing with any other organization of ball
players.
Conway Is Willing-.
President Nimickand Secretary Scandrett
each received a letter from Fete Conway, the
pitcher, yesterday. In his letter to Mr. Niuilck,
Conway says, that if be cannot get his release
lie Is willing to sign for next season, to play
with the old League clnb. He says bis arm is
Setting all right again.
The Statement Repealed.
Daring a conversation yesterday Managr
Hanlon stated very plainly that law would be
xnsorted to in the case of Beckley. This at least
verifies the statement published in the pit:,
despite the ill-humored denials of any inten
tions of prosecution existing.
The Browns' New Catcher.
St. Louis, January 2. James J.Adams, of
the Colorado State League, a catcher with a
fielding average of .973 and a batting average
of .102. has been signed for the St. Louis Brown
Stocking Baseball Club.
A MAX FOE JTCLELULND.
An Unknown Ready to Rnn Him m Race t
Three Milts.
It now seems certain that E. C McClelland
will be on the track again shortly for a good
sised stake. The challenge issued in his behalf
yesterday in The Dispatch has bees ac
cepted, and in accepting it a well-known local
sporting man left the following statement, ac
companied by $25, at this office last evening:
"Isee that E. a McClellana and bis friends
are very eager tor another race. He is a good
runner, no doubt, but I will match an unknown
to rnn him three miles within six weeks after
signing articles for ?500 a side. I am aware
that McClelland and bis backers mean business
and so do I: therefore, I have a forfeit of $25 as
an earnest of my intention. It the money is
covered a date of meeting can be fixed by
those covering It, so that the two parties can
meet and sign articles as soon as possible."
As staled above, the forfeit of S33 was re
ceived by the sporting editor of this paper.
There are many conjectures as to who the un
known is, but it would be somewhat unsafe to
name any particular person at present. It may
be Guerrero; It may be Splcer or one of three
or f onr others.
It might not be out of place to suggest that a
sweepstake race be made between the un
known and the Pbillipsburg coal digger and
McClelland. A race of this kind for 500 a cor
Ber would be an interesting one. A good party
M behind McClelland, and be could be backed
to win in a very spirited way. At any rate, the
winner nf the sweepstake would capture a con
siderable amount of money.
A STK0XG CASE.
O'Connor Explains the DlSerenee Between
Matches mnd Reg-nttns.
Following is the letter in which O'Connor
fully explains the present aquatic situation:
TORONTO. Oct., December SO, 18S9.
Sib In confirmation of my telegram of
Thursday last 1 beg to say, that, while I am
willing to take part in any regatta at which the
prizes off ered are sufficiently large to warrant
the labor and expense of training, I must most
positively decline to acknowledge that any
championship can be considered at stake in
such regatta, I won the championship of
America In a match race, and I will never risk
it in a contest where my defeat wonld be the
foremost aim of every other contestant; As
for the championship of the world being de
cided in such a war. the idea is preposterous.
Can any sane man imagine the Australians
would be willing to come here, row in still
waters for the first time in their lives, take
part in a scramble In which every home sculler
would conspire to beat him, and then acknowl
edge that they had forfeited all claim to the
title?
I cannot imagine that even Teemer in his
wildest moments can believe such a thing, and
I am sure your enterprising townsman, Mr. H.
Thayer, does not. The objections to potting
the professional single sculling championship
at stake in a regatta are o many that to me it
hardly appears worth while to go over tbem.
Look at the possibilities of intentional fouls,
and probably the ultimate docision of an in
competent or inexperienced referee, or of a
man ho did not see what went on and gave his
verdict on the hearsav evidence of witnesses
who might be all opposed to the best oarsman.
Can anvthin" be more unsatisfactory than the
disposition of sunreme honors in a race where
such possibilities exist?
Previous to meeting Beach. Hanlan's only de
feats were in regattas, but nobody claimed
that he forfeited championship honors In snch
contests. In fact, it would have been ridicu
lous to assert that by his victory on Kempen
feldt Uav, in 1S79. J. H. Rilev won the title, or
that Wallace Ross did the same by his success
a year later on the Seetonk. In both places
Hanlan was caught off. although at Provi
dence he was considered a certainty. The
trouble appears to have been, however, that
in settinc himself down to beat the English
man, Robert Watson Boyd, he strained him
self, with the result that an inferior sculler
won. A sprinter could carry me along for a
space, then another man come up and do the
same, the final result being that I. the ac
knowledged champion of America, might be
defeated. Hanlan easily defeated his con
querors in regattas when tbey came against
him in match races, and I might do the same;
but why should I be called upon to risk my
title any more than he was in such contests.
As I have said bef ore,I fear no man who sits in
a boat, but I am determined to have something
to say in the disposition of a title that I have
earned by bard work and great expense, and no
other man has a right to call upon me to put
the championship at stake in a race in which a
number ot scullers compete, some of whom can
have no possible pretention to the highest
honors, and only row in the hope that good lnck
and not their abilitv may do something for
them. I have a forfeit up with the Toronto
.Empire with a challenge open to the world, ana
if auy American thinks he can beat me all he
has to do is to cover it and he will be accom
modated. It however, Thyer of Boston and
Calkins of Seattle wish to make a race in which
the championship shall be decided, they can
have tneir wish gratified by adding a purse to
the main stake which I and my rival shall pnt
up. ana, if it is liberal enongh. I will promise
to row at any place either of tbem may name.
More than that I will not consent to. Yours,
eux, WlXLIAM O'COHNOB.
ITHUGH'S CHALLEliGE.
He Wants to Fight Anybody for the Bantam
Cbnmplonshlp.
New York, January 2. Mr. John Kelly, of
Thirty-first street and Sixth avenne, yesterday
posted S100 with Richard K. Fox, to match
Frank McHugh, of Cincinnati, O., against the
bantam champion of the torld, Cal McCarthy,
or George Dixon, the colored boy from Boston,
at 114 pounds, give or take one pound. The
contest to be for a stake of $1,000 a side, the
new Police Gazette bantam championship belt,
now being manufactured, and a purse, of which
the winner may take all or a division, as may
be agreed upon. Appended is a formal chal
lenge over McHugh's signature:
lbave challenged Cal McCarthy or George
Dixon to meet me in a finish fight, with skin
gloves, for 31,000 a side and a purse of suitable
proportions, and my backer. Mr. John Kelly,
has posted SlOO forfeit with Richard K. Fox. I
have been anxious to meet McCarthy for over
a year, and he has ignored my several chal
lenges. He holds tho championship, bnt I
claim he is not entitled to it. Since 1883 1 hare
fought 47 battles, and of this cumber I bare
won 37, the remainder having been declared
draws. McCarthys record. I think, will not
look well oompared with mine. If McCarthy
desires I will meet him in public, with f onr or
five-ounce gloves, for a division of the net gate
receipts, or winner take all, for that matter. I
much prefer meeting him with skin gloves,
however, and I don't want any part of the
purse which may be subscribed nnless I win.
Asa matter of fact, I will meet him any way be
likes, with ten men a side in private, or any
other way. Now. if McCarthy really wants to
fight. I will meet him at the Police Gazette
office at anv time be may name to sign articles.
In case McCarthy may decline to meet me, the
same provisions may govern a match with
George Dixon. I hare come East to get on a
match, and now that my money is up, let some
of these alleged bantam-weight champions
come to the front. Fbaxk McHUQH.
AERAKGIKG A BIG SHOOT.
A McKcesport Tournament at Bine Rocks
for Protesslonnla and Amateurs.
President Ferd Reiner and Q. A McClnre,
captain of the McEeesport Gun Club, are ar
ranging for a big prize tournament shoot tor
professionals and amateurs to take place In ten
days on the McEeesport range. All members
of the McEeesport club will be entered, and
those of the Herron Hill clnb, of which Mc
Clnre is a member, will take part. Richardson
and Shaner are entered.
There will be 12 or more contests, and the
prizes will be worth shooting for. Blue rocks
will be nved. It is proposed to make the tourna
ment the best that has taken place outside of
Pittsburg this season.
New Orleans Races.
NEW Orleans, January Z This was the
fifteenth day ot the winter meeting. The day
was partly cloudy and warm. There was a
good attendance. The track was lumpy.
.First race, selling, six furlongs, four starters
Probus 84, 3 to 1: Lady Blackburn 101, fS: Ken
llworih 109, tlOi Dubme 112, f! to 10. Duhme took
the lead when the drum tapped, and at the half
pole was five lengths In front and came' In a win
ner by half a length, Probus second, three lengths
ahead of Kenllworth. third; Lady Blackburn
& ailed up lime. 1-.11H- Duhme was entered to
t sold for foOO, and was run np to (DOS and bought
by his owner. As the purse won wa.8 only 100,
the owner of Duhme's net loss was $305.
becond race, selling, one and one-sixth miles,
elttht starters-Hollywood 83, $15 to 1: Joe Pier
son 95, JO: Vivian w, (3; Van Kenssaeler 99. S3;
Nlckle Plate 89, S2; Florine 100. 8; Mary Norton
101. (30: Antonio 102. (6. When the flag feU
fickle Plate and Van Kenssaeler were on cren
terms, bnt at the half it was A Ickle Plate, Florine,
Vivian, Van Kenssaeler. Joe i'lerson. Hollvwood,
Antonio and Mary Norton. This order was kept
up to stretch. N lckle Plate reached the winning
post three lengths ahead of tlorlne. seeond, head
in front of Antonio, third. Time. 1:12U.
Thlid race, selling, Ave f arlongs N lne start
ers: Boot Jack 82, 2 to 1: Fremont 99, 20: Little
Bess 99, 10: Bonnie. Annie 100, 13: Colonel Gore
107, 6 to 5: Peanut 105, 8- buperlor 103, 20: Vattclle
106, 10: Colonel Cox JOS, 4. At the start Peanut
was In front, but "before reselling the half pole
fave way to Colonel Gore who led to the Un
til, winning easily by three lengths, Little
Hess second, half length ahead of Vatelle third.
Time;l:03M. On the turn Boot Jack's Jockey fell
off bnt wasn't hurt. ,
Fourth race, free handicap, seven furlongs
Eight starters: Metal 107. 2tol: McMutryl(7. S;
Balance 105. S; Buckler 110. 6; Bertha 100, 4: Be
lieve 95, 7; Prltchett 9S. 8; Neva C 90, 5. Believe
cut out the running from the start and led to the
bead of the stretch. Bertha second, Neva C third.
After a hard drive from the eighth pole Bertha
won by a nose, N eva C second a length ahead of
Buckler third. Time, 1:31.
Gnttenburg Races.
rtTSCIJU. TILEOEXM TO TDK DISPATCH.!
NkwYobk. January 2. To-day's races at
Guttenburg resulted as follows:
t First race, five furlongs Hardship first, Macao
second, Gold Vase filly third. Time. 1:05. Betting
Hardship 3 to 2 and 4 to 6, Macao 20 to 1 and 8 to
L Gold Vase filly 8 to 1 and i to 1.
becond race, six furlongs Nlta first. Dr. Jekyll
second. He third. Time, 1:17K. Bettlng-MUi 15
to I and 5 to L Dr. Jekyll 4 to 1 and 7t o 5. He 2 to 1
and 4 to 8.
Third race, one mlle-Carrle G first, Vigilant
second, Bunsbine third. Time, l:40j. Belting:
Carrie G 6 to I and 2 to 1, Vigilant i to 1 and 8 to
5, Sunshine 15 to land 8 to 1.
Fourth race, six furlongs Lemon first, Pom
mery Sec second. Sherwood third. Time, liltjf.
Betting: Lemon 8 to Sand 3 to 5, Pommery Sec 7
to 5 and 1 to 2. bherwood 15 to 1 and 4 to I.
Fifth race, one mile and a furlong Wynwooi
first. Bordellso second. Hamlet third. Time.
liSHi. Bettlug:Wynwood2toland4to5, Borde
lle 10 to I and4 to I, Hamlet 3 to 1 and even
Sixth race King William first. Lotion second,
Cupid third, 'lime. l:3o;i. Betting: King Will
iam 6 to 6, Lotion and Cupid 8 to 1 each.
Wilton Sold for a Big Price.
Lexington. Kt January 2. The great
trotting sire. Wilton, by George Wilkes, dam
Allie by Rysdyck's Hambletonian, jointly
owned heretofore by W. C. France and Bower
man Bros was sold yesterday to the latter.
THE
The price is private, but said to be the largest
for which a stallion has ever been sold in
America.
A SHOW FOB FABEELTi.
Albert C Fry Will Try to Seenre Him a
Battle'.
Then are encouraging signs of Pat Farrell
securing a match to fight some prominent mid-
-die weight at the California Athletic Clnb, San
Francisco. Albert U. Fry, a memoer ot tnas
clnb, is in this city, and last evening he met
Farrell and John Quinn. The latter was ex
pressing himself as follows when Mr. Fry was
passing:
"The California Clnb is rnn on principles of
favoritism. The directors chooso their men
and they won't give either Farrell or Fogarty a
show." , .
Mr. Fry stopped and remarked: -Beg yonr
pardon, gentlemen, but I'm a member of the
club yon are speaking of; at least I think yon
mean the California Athletio Club, and I'm
from Ban Francisco."
He was told that the clnb he named was the
one in question, and Mr. Quinn continued: "I
have written President Fulda, and I have re
ceived no satisfactory answer. Now why can't
a purse be offered for Fogarty and young
Mitchell, and let the winner of the battle fight
the winner of the Dempsey-Mc'Jarthy contest?
Fogarty will go there and pay his own ex
penses, and will bet $1,000 that he defeats aoy
of tbem. Farrell will also go under the same
conditions. When olTcrs of this kind are made
in good faith I can't for the life of me see why
they are not accepted."
After considerable talk, Mr. Fry, who Is
stopping at the Duquesne, gave Farrell the ad
dress ot W. R, Vice, Secretary of the club, and
also the address of Edward Fay, a director, and
remarked: "Now yon write these gentlemen
and use my name. Tell them you have met me
and I'll write them myself this evening on iho
matter. I feel sure that they will exert them
1 rt and trv to raise a pood nurse for tou."
V Talking of the club Mr. Frv said that the
stockholders make good profits. . When a big
battle is on hand new members are charged S17
each and this entitles them to f nil member
ship. When the purses are extraordinary each
member is assessed accordingly. The dnes are
50 cents per month.
To-Doj' Card at Clifton,
rsreciax nuaam to tux orsrxTcs.i
New Toek, January 2. The following are
the entries for Clifton to-morrow:
First race, six and a half furlongs Miracle 117,
Poeatello 120, Marsh Kedon, Peril. Avery, ingle
wood 111, Seatlck Monte Cristo 103. Gounod,
Clarion, Kin Arthur, Groomsman, Klng-E, U al
ius Dan, Pegasus 105.
becond race, six furlongs Sylla, Leander H2,
Gcorg' E, KIpton 119, Samaria, Kemembrancc,
Katie H 114, Sanford lit TeddyFoley, Kanta 109.
Australlnd. Pall Mall 104, Blonden. Tappahan
noekBJ, NavllisKi. -
Third race, one and one-sixteenth miles Man
hattan 108, Uedligbt 100. Tenafly, Lafitte, Barris
ter, Baymond 99 each. Persuader, bpeclalty. Ice
berg 91 each.
fourth race, one mile Now or Never 121, Jug
gler 119, Grlmaldl 118, Firefly 11L Purxle 107, Swflt
106, Miss Cody 105, Van 102, Mabel Glenn 88, Gram
ercy 94, Fannie H 92.
Fifth race, one and one-half miles Jim Murphy
145, Charlie Bnssell 145, Hemlock, Linguist 140
each, banrord 135,
Sixth race, seven and one-hair furlongs-St.
John, Fordham, Freedom, Bralt, Calera 125 each.
All Want the Receipts.
A well-known local chicken fighter during a
conversation yesterday said: "The receipt
business is killing chicken.figbting hereabouts.
Every man who has a pit wants the mains to
take place in his pit so that be will get the 50
cents per man admission ntoney. As a result
if one party gets np a main tne others keep all
their friends away and the consequence is none
of tbem can get up a good main. Sometimes
there are 300 or 400 persons at a main and at a
half dollar per head that 19 a good sum besides
the returns from refreshments."
Detnney Wants McClelland.
The following explains itself: Sib: Seeing
a notice from McClelland to run any one in the
world from three to ten miles and preferringno
one in particular, I would like to know where
be or Lis representative can beseem I hare
beaten Miller twice on his merits, and stand
willing to meet any one in America at the dis
tance. Hoping to hear from him, I remain
Thomas F. Delanet.
The Money Was Up.
Regarding the Mlller-McClelland ten-mile
race at Philadelphia, George D. Normac, the
pedestrian, who resides in that city, can yes
terday: "It is foolish for anybody to say there
was no stake money up in the Miller-McClel-land
race because I know for certain that it
was np, and I also know that the talent all
thought that McClelland was a sure winner."
Tho Chess Champions.
Havana, January L In the first contest be
gun yesterday Tebigorin commenced to play
with Staunton's opening. The game lasted for
five hours, -and 45 moves were made. Tchigorin
was the victor, Gansberg resigning.
Gastrlgh Will Pitch for Columbus.
Cincinnati, January 2. Gastrigh has
signed here as pitcher for the Columbus club
during the coming season.
Sporting Motes.
These Is a letter at this office for Charley
Moore, the. ball player.
It is safe to say that McClelland's backers
will accommodate Delaney.
McClelland ran a few miles on the London
Theater track yesterday. He Is running well.
It is not unlikely that eitherSplcer orPriddy
Is the unknown whom it Is proposed to match
against McClelland.
Doiiinick McCaffbet will start for San
Francisco in two weeks to arrange If possible a
match with Joe McAuliffe or George La
Blanche. He has engagements in many of the
cities en route, and expects to reach California
with several thousand dollars in his pockets.
The Guttenburg track officials have opened a
couple of 2-year-old stakes as follows: The
George Washington stakes, three furlongs, to
be run on Washington's Birthday, and the
Shamrock stakes, half a mile, to be run on St.
Patrick's Day. There will be $1,-000 added money
in each race.
CHAtiPAQNE Chabt.et, bay col t, 3, by Prince
Charley, dam Triangle, died Tuesday night at
the home of his owner, M. Walker, of lockjaw,
caused by some internal trouble. Champagne
Charley was a good 2-year-old, winning in that
form $12,620. Last season, owing to bad manage
ment, he won only 2,110.
The stakes for the spring meeting of the
Memphis Jockey Club have 'been announced.
They are eight in number, representing J7.300
in added mooey. The meeting begins April 12
and continues 11 days, closing on the 23d. There
are now over 100 horses at the track, and as
many more are expected to arrive immediately.
The total value of stakes won in 1SS9 in En
gland was 142,152 lis: in Scotland. 10,653 194.
and in Ireland, 14.718 13s 6d. In 1S71 the
amount won in states was: In England, 308,
95S 19s; in Scotland, 8.316, and in Ireland, 11,
876. In 1S84 tbe -amounts were: In England,
381,857 17s; in Scotland, 7,916 4s, and in Ire
laud, 10,147 9s 2d.
Instead ot being used for stud purposes the
great racer, Ormonde, has been put into active
training at Buenos Ayres, and will be taken
through a racing campaign. His turf career in
his new home will be watched with interest, but
English critics do not think he will run up to
the form of tbe days wbeu nothing in England
could extend hlin.
A HOUSEHOLD POISONED.
Disappointed Love is Supposed to Have
Caused the Crime.
Joliet, III., January 2. A tragedy
which promises to develop some sensational
features occurred yesterday at the farm ot
John Dall, a German living near the village
of Alokena, in this county. Ball was a
single man, living with his mother, Mrs.
Amelia Da. 70 years old. Connected with
tbe household were a hired man named
Schuffller and a girl named Mina Schenek.
On .New Year's Day the girl prepared din
ner, and when the coffee was served and
tasted, each member of the family noticed
that it had a strong, bitter taste. 'The stuff
was thrown away and a new lot made. This
was also had, but not enough so to prevent
the family lrom partaking freely of it. Boon
after dinner they all became alarmingly
Aick and had to go to bed. The hired man
and girl at once drank a quantity of fresh
milk. This caused vomiting and saved
their lives.
Mrs. Dall died after a few hours of ex
cruciating pain, and last evening John Dall
breathed his last
The physician called could not determine
the character of the poison. A while
powder was noticed in the first pot of coffee.
John Shafer, a former employe of Dall, and
a rival suitor for tbe band of the servant
maid, was at once suspected as the guilty
Serson. When the Sheriff arrested him at
lokena this afternoon he tried to commit
soicide with a razor.
A Cincinnati Politician Insane.
Cincinnati, January 2. Mr. George B.
Topp, late member of the Board of Public
Works of this city, was to-day removed to
Longview Asylum, having' been declared
hopelessly insane.
PITTSBTJKG - DISPATCH,
THE GRIP S MIGHTY,
Bur if is Also Magnanimous, and
Will Spare Our Precious Lives.
HOW IT HAS BBEN EXAGGERATED.
Dr. Surady Says There is Ho Danger, and
Prescribes Remedies.
NOT 1 SLNGLK DEATH IN ALL AMEE1CA.
It Attack! Everybody, tfowerei-, and Tbey Have It Bad
In Cnicajo.
Dr. Shrady, in the .Jfedtcal .Record, iden
tifies the American grip as a mild type of
its European parent. He declares that no
deaths have resulted from its ravages in this
country, and prophesies that it will pass
away without doing further injury. He
describes its symptoms, and the best means
of effecting a complete cure. v
New Toek, January 2. Dr. George F.
Shrady, editor of the Medical Btcord, has
prepared an article upon the epidemic of
influenza, which will, appear in this week's
issue of that journal. "There is now no
doubt,' says the doctor, "that influenza, or
what is popularly known as 'The Grip,' has
become epidemic in this city, and is scat
tered broadcast over tiie country. It is also
evident that its general characteristics cor
respond with those noted in connection with
the prevailing type of the malady in Russia,
Germany and France. Fortunately, it is of
such a mild type that, save for its invasion
of large districts, and for tbe large number
of persons attacked, it would scarcely be
noticed in the category of ailments con
nected with the usual ones which occur
dnring winter months, associated with'rapid
and varied changes of temperature and
humidity..
EXTBEME, BUX NOT DAHGEEOUS.
"The type of the present epidemic par
takes more of the febrile and nervons vari
ety than that of the purely catarrhal. The
increased temperature in the beginning of
the attack, with the severe pains in the
head, back and lower extremities, are the
leading phenomena which are noted in the
large majority of cases.
"Only in a comparatively few instances
are the coryzal symptoms the leading feat
ures of the seizure. The latter is perhaps a
fortunate circumstance, in view of the gen
erally accepted opinion concerning the
greatly exaggerated danger of bronchitis and
pneumonia as necessary complications.
"The prostration is oftentimes extreme,
but by no means' dangerous, and readily
yields to the usual remedies." The period of
illness is comparatively brief, and rarely is
the ordinarily robust patient confined to his
room more than 'two or' three days, very
many, indeed, keeping up and about from
tbe beginning to tbe end of the sickness.
SOT A SINGLE FATAL CASE HEBE.
"The reports of the fatality of the disease,
as might have' been expected, have been
very much exaggerated. Particularly does
this remark apply to the alarming reports
of the recent death rate in Paris. In point
of lact, there is no disease with such a wide
prevalence which has snch a comparatively
low mortality. In this, country, at least,
there is yet to be reported tbe nrst case of
death which can be laid to a pure and
simple attack of the disease. Even the
serious complications are to few as scarcely
'to merit recognition alongside of those
which are constantly occurring with the
usual diseases of the season.
The after affects of the epidemic will
doubtless be marked by feelings of prostra
tion, more or less continued, and a lowering
of the health tone. The previously robust
will quickly rally, while the feeble will re
quire stimulants and tonics for variable
periods. The oontagiousness of the malady
has not declared itself, thus corresponding
as noticed in previous epidemics. The
treatment has been in accordance with indi
cations and has necessarily varied.
HOW HE WOULD TEE AT IT.
"The remedies which have found most
favor are laxatives, anodynes, antiphyret
icsand tonics, with stimulating expector
ants. For ihe headache, antipyrine and
the bromides have held their reputation;
calomel and salines, as the laxatives, have
many advocates, while qninine in tonic
doses, especially in the latter stages, has the
confidence of the majority.
"From present indications, and from past
history, the epidemic is likely soon to pass
over, a few more days settling tbe question
of immunity from attack.
"With this epidemic, as with all others of
its kind, the feeble and old have been the
first to succumb and the slowest to recover,
although all classes of cases have quite gen
erally suffered. There is no better protec
tion against an attack than the mainten
ance of good health by avoidingover-fatigue,
undne exposure, and of insufficient food and
sleep; but even these conditions are not abso
lute as safeguards, as no onefiving in an in
vaded district can have his saiety guar
anteed. In all probability there will'be very
few indeed who, after the epidemic shall
hpve passed away, will claim a full im
munity from any of its influences, or who
will not be somewhat worse for an entirely
unsought experience."
ALL CHICAGO SNEEZING.
They Want tho World's Fair and Get the
Grip Instead.
rsrxctAL TZMcanax to iu cispatcili
ChicAoo, January 2. There are prob
ably not less than 20,000 cases of influenza
in the city at the present time and the num
ber is constantly increasing. There are
200,000 who imagine that they hare the dis
ease or are about to come down with it.
Last night 32 conductors and brakemen on
the Milwaukee and Wisconsin divisions of
the Chicago and Northwestern Bailroad were
laid off on account of severe colds and influ
enza. The Superintendent of the Galena
division, of the same road reports that about
half of the office force, including Chief Train
Dispatcher Beagan, are suffering from influ
enza, or severe colds.
It is reported that 67 employes of the First
National Bank are suffering from influenza
and unable to attend to their work. Assist
ant Postmaster Hubbard, Judge Prindiville,
Commissioner Phil Hsyne and Deputy Mar
shal Mark A. Foote are down with the dis
ease. Mr. Foote is dangerously ill.
INFLUENZA NEAR HOME.
A Hundred Cases at Greensbnrff and Half
as Many at Latrobe.
tSrSCTAL TXLEQBAX TO TUX DISPATCH.1
Gbeensbubo, January 2. There are
over 100 cases of influenza reported in this
neighborhood, some of them rather serious.
A good many of the afflicted are confined to
their beds. Atliatrobe there are probably
CO cases, and from nearly every town in the
county comes the report that the disease is
prevalent.
Dr. Crawford, of this place, had a very
severe attack, being confined to his bed for
several days.
A VICTIM AT SC0TTDALE.
Hnrver Jones, a Clerk, Dies From an Attack
of Influenza
rsFECUX TELEORAH to TUX DISPATCH. 1
Scottdale, January 2. Mr. Harvey
Jones, a clerk in the Union Supply Com
pany's store, died this afternoon from an at-
tact oi inuuenza. jluu is iuo mat
case of the malady in this section.
fatal
Anonc the DllMourl Victims.
JBFFKB30K Cnnr, Mo,, January 2.
There are 28 cases of influenza here. Xabor
Commissioner Merriw'eather and Governor
FRIDAY, JANTTARY 3,
Francis private Secretary, Mi A. Fanning,
are among the victims.
PLATING HAT00 IN WASHINGTON.
The Influenza Treating Democrat suid Re
publican Alike. i
IJ-BOM A STAJT COBBESrOirniT.
Washington, January 2. Whether it
be the grip, the influenza or a bad cold, the
epidemic now racing here as well as else
where is playing havoc with the work in
some of the Government offices, and it is
rapidly increasing the number of its victims,
if not the severity of its attacks, Many of
the bureaus of the departments can hardly
do bnsiness on account of the number of
sneezing absentees. Two of the District
Commissioners and abont half the employes
of the municipal government are incapaci
tated. Newspaper Bow furnishes several
distinguished patients, and, as near as can
be discovered, about one-third of tbe mem
bers of Congress who are in the city are in
close quarters nursing their noses and their
aching muscles.
Apparently the epidemic is impartial,
politically, in its selection of victims, and
there is little danger that the Democrats
will outnumber the Eepublicans next Mon
day, though it is qnite likely the Bepubli
rans will be unable to muster a quorum. If
the disease increases at its present rate for
another week or two, it is possible that Con
gress will be forced to suspend, and that
the work of the departments will fall far
behind.
FEIGETFDL MORTALITY AT PARIS.
The Death Knte Abnormal and the Epidemic
' Increaalns Elsewhere.
Pabis, January 2. The mortality is still
abnormally great. On Tuesday there were
389 deaths and on Wednesday 334. The re
opening of the schools already closed is
postponed and others are about to close.
At Vienna the epidemic fails somewhat
as to the nnmber of victims, but it is more
virulent. In Prague and Dresdenut is in
creasing. The Plume Spread In London.
London, January 2. Influenza has in
vaded the London shops, and, more than half.
of the men and women employed there are
prostrated.
THAT UNCONSCIOUS CITIZEN. .
Tbe Dion Thought to nave Been Shocked
Tackled aa Uninsulated Ker.
An unconscious man was found by the
police yesterday morning lying in Burgess
alley, near Ohio street. Officers McClure
and Bichenlaub carried him to theCentral
police station, where he was examined by
Dr. Woodburn, the City Physician. The
man was limp and apparently almost life
less. A remark made by the doctor that the
fellow looked as if he had received a severe
shock of electricity, caused some little ex
citement and speculation. It was found, on
examination, that there are no electric wires
in Burgess alley from which the man could
have received a shock. The patrol wagon
conveyed the senseless body to the Allegheny
General Hospital, .where an examination
was made by Drs. Keck and Hnselton.
They could not detect any odor of liquor on
the man's breath, and were, therefore, some
what puzzled by the case. They suspected,
however, that alcohol was somewhat to
blame for the man's condition.
He lay in a comatose condition all day
long. About dark he began to roll abont,
and at 9 o'clock he became conscious. He
wrote his name as Joseph Yon Moos, and
said that he lived at No. 9 Bobmsbn street,
Allegheny. He is a German, 26 years old,
and has been employed in a dairy near tbe
city. He admitted that he had taken two
or three glasses of beer on New Year's Day,
but would not acknowledge any more than
that. When Dr. Hnselton was asked if it
were possible that the man bad received an
electric shock, he replied, "All the elec
tricity he got he probably got out of a
glass."
TARIFF CLDB OFFICERS CHOSEN.
A Thoroughly Harmonious Meeting of the
Republican Hustlers.
The Yonng Men's Bepublican Tariff Club
last night had the most pleasant and profit
able session of the year. There were 15 new
members elected and 10 proposed.
The contest on the board of directors was
the only one of interest, as the same ele
ments came in direct opposition which will
make the Americas Club election a very in
teresting feature of to-morrow night. The
following were the officers elected;
President Thomas M. McFarland; First Vice
President,!! eber McDowell; Second Vice Pres
ident, Thomas W. Baker: Recording Secretary,
H. Grant Miller; Financial Secretary, George
Treusch; Corresponding Secretary. Thomas E.
Perry; Treasurer, J. K. Gelssenheimer: Direc
tors, C. L. Magee, Gamble Wier, William B.
Klrker. Morris W. Mead, John Doyle, E. N.
Randolph-Willlam C. McKlnley, Thomas G.
McClure, H. P. Ford and George W. Miller. ,
ARODNDKJITY HALL.
What Chief of Department and Officials
, Are Doing;.
Beeobe the Finance Committee met there
was an informal chat in tbe City Attorney's
office yesterday, In which W. A. Magee said
be was an advocate for an increased millage
last year, bnt was overruled. He had noticed
one thing, however, that where asphalt pave
ment was used, tbe saloons had their beer kegs
dumped in front jnst as it tbe macadamized
system was In operation. The beer leaked from
the kegs, and the effect was regarded as won
derful, tbe pavement rotting away from the ef
fects of the beer. The qnestion of what effect
beer would have on a man's stomach, when
it wonld eat away a pavement, was
fully digested by tbe committee, and it was
finally resolved that the saloon keepers who
had places of business facing upon asphalt
pavements should be given the opportunity of
paying for tbe damage resulting. The question
of an extra millage was discussed, and finally
the arrangements were made imposing an ex
tra tax udoo the saloon keepers In qnestion.
When tbe regular meeting commenced a reso
lution for damages to Thomas Kirby, whose
little son was injured by the falling of one of
the city's castings which was lying on the
street, having been referred to the City Attor
ney, he advised that the matter be compro
mised by tbe city paying $125 damages.
The committee affirmatively recommended
the resolution for that amount. Mr.
Duncan's ordinance, relating to tbe lay
ing of water mains and providing for
the advancement of tbe cost ot the same by
parties who desire a water supply, and refund
ing the amounts so advanced when 10 per cent,
of it is derived by tbe city in water rents, was
referred to the City Attorney and the Chief of
the Department of Public Works. An ordi
nance authorizing a compromise on tax liens of
Pyle & Brown, tbey to pay the face ot the Hens
and to be exonerated from costs, was affirma
tively recommended. An ordinance fixing the
salary of the Clerk bf the Bureau of Property
(the market iclerk), was referred to the Chief
of the Department of Public Works.
E. M. Bioelow, Chief of the Department of
Public Works, yesterday moraine filed a bill In
equity in Common Pleas Court No. 2 asking for
a preliminary injunction on the Pittsburg In
cline Company restraining the company from
proceeding with the work. The bill recites that
the company, contrary to the agreoment made
at tbe time of tbe passage of an ordinance
grantlnz tbem tbe right of way, failed to pre
sent their plans and specifications for tbe ap
proval of the Chief of the Public Works De
partment, although be specially notified them
to do so. and without permission from him tbey
began to constrnct their incline bridge over
Frederick street at an average height of only
eight feet, the height in one place over the
street not being over five and a half
feet, whereas it shonld be not
less than 14 feet. Judge Ewing
granted tbe Injunction and set to-morrow
morning for hearing the arguments in the case.
When the company's officials heard of tbe in
junction tbey sought Mr. Bieelow and held a
conference with him yesterday afternoon at bis
office. The conference was conducted very
amicably and resulted In an appointment be
tween the parties to go over the ground this
morning. 4Ir. Bigelow will take the City Enei
neer, the Street -Cordmitslonerof tbeSoutbside
district, and a couple of Southside Conncilmen
with him. He said he had no doubt that
the matter will be satisfactorily settled at the
meeting.
Peemits for 12 buildings were issued by In
spector of Buildings yesterday. Tbe permits
were mainly for small structures and additions.
The most important were: To A. JLWatklns for
two frame two-story dwellines on Bond street,
Nineteenth ward, to cost 51,800 each; to Vail &
McDermott, f ox an iron-clad office building,
100, and iron-clad melting shop, SlStton Spen
cer street. Fifteenth ward: to Carl Uetzmaier,
frame twd-story dwelling on Climax street,
Thirty-first ward, to Cust 51,200,
1890.
A VERY BAD MASTER
Electricity, When Not Under toll
Control, Proves a Nuisance.
AN EDJS0N DYNAMO KILLS ITSELF,
Causing a Fire In New lork That Results
in a Loss of $200,000.
TROUBLE WITH WIRES IN ST. LOUIS.
The Telephone and Police Systems of the City ten
dered Useless.
Cleetric wires are causing much trouble
in different parts of the country. In New
York yesterday trouble on a circuit of the
Edison Company caused a dynamo to com
mit suicide and burn up the original light
ing station. In'St. Louis the telephone and
police systems of the city have been ren
dered useless' by the wires of an electric
light company.
rsrXCIAI. TXXXOBAK TO THE CISrATCS.1
New Tore, January 2. The first incan
descent electric lighting station ever estab
lished was burned out this . morning by a
fire that did $200,000 worth of damage at the
southwest corner of Pearl and Pulton streets
and blocked travel in that quarter of the
city for several hours. The electric light
building, in which the fire started, was the
original station of the Edison Company. It
was still used to supply 18,000 incandescent
lamps in the part of the city below Spruce
street. It contained eight old-fashioned
"Jumbo" dynamos, with the boilers and
engines necessary to run them.
The fire started in the dynamo room, un
doubtedly from sparks from one of the ma
chines. When, through a' break in the wire
or for any other reason-there is a sudden re
duction in the amount of electricity that a
dynamo is required to supply, the effect
upon the dynamo resembles the pffect of the
sudden flying off of the belt from the main
driving wheel of a powerful engine. The
tendency is for the machinery to tear itself
to pieces.
SUICIDAL PKOPENSITIES.
In a dynamo the sndden decrease in the
outflow of the current, and the consequent
increase in speed, unless the power pro
pelling is instantly reduced to correspond it,
causes the dynamo to commit suicide by
"burning out," as it is called. The inten
sity of the current destroys the brashes and
other heat-sensitive parts of the machinery.
A shower of sparks fly in every direction
when this occurs. The bnilding on Pearl
street was only an old warehouse with mod
ern floors, and these in the course of years
had become soaked with oil from the ma
chinery. There had been trouble with the wires on
one of the circuits during the night, and it
is supposed that this led to the burning out
of a dynamo, the sparks from which set fire
to the oily floor.
OTHER TROUBLE IN ST. LOUIS.
A special from St. Lonis says: The tele
phone service of St Louis is to-day just
about knocked out The cause of the
trouble is the beginning of the operation of
the Missouri Electric Lieht Company's
plant, which illuminates the alleys of the
city. It was first manifested Tuesday even
ing, and this morning, early, when the
electric lights were turned out It wis not
then, however, a comparison to the trouble
to-day.
About 11 o'clock this morning it began
anew, and by noon the Bell Telephone Com
pany had 1,000 wires utterly useless, and
abont 90 per cent of its service was very
seriously impaired. The fire alarm tele
graph was in working order, but the tele
phone and police system of the city was
crippled almost to uselessness. The quei
tion then was what to do about it, as there
could possibly be no remedy as long as ex
isting conditions remain.
A DESPOKDENT YIEVV.
General Manager George F. Durant, of
the Bell company, when seen, took a de
spondent view of the situation, and said the
only real remedy wonld be a metallic cir
cuit for each subscriber, and this would in
volve an underground circuit- "We have,"
said he, "done everything in our power, so
far. We have had all the men out we could
get, and worked through the rain of Wednes
day night and to-day. The only other step,"
he said, "may be to enjoin the lighting
company from operating its plant They
are doing everything they can to help us
solve the problem, and we do not want to be
forced to use harsh measures against them,
but I would not be surprised if it would
come to that."
TWO DISTINCT COMPANIES.
East End Electric Co. Officials Make
Statements Upon tbe Strike.
G. P. Shane, Secretary-Treasurer, and
James A. Hoover, Superintendent, of the
East End Electric Light Company, called
at the power house of the company late last
evening and assured the employes that re
ports to the contrary notwithstanding, the
East End Electric Light Company was sep
arate from the Allegheny County Light
Company.
This assurance was given with a view of
reassuring the East End employes who were
under the impression that a general strike
had been ordered. Yesterday two committees
of the strikers were at the power honse
urging the men to quit A committee was
appointed to ascertain the legality of, the
order to strike. This committee, Messrs.
McAleer and Cunningham, called on Secre
tary Thomas, of the Electrical Union, who
instructed them to go to work until further
notice.
Messrs. Shane and Hoover state that they
will make affidavit that the East End Elec
tric Company is distinct from the Alle
gheny County Electric Company.
THROWN FROM TUB CARS.
A 14-Year-Old Boy Tries lo Leave a Train
nnd Mecta Death.
' George Kelly, the 14-year-old son of a
man who is employed at tbe Pittsburg
Forge and Iron Works, was killed yesterday
evening at Neville station, on the Pitts
burg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Eailway.
He climbed upon a west-bound passenger
train at Woods' Bun, thinking that it was
an accommodation tram, and would stop at
Neville. The train did not stop there, but
went by at a high rate of speed. Young
Kelly jumped off. He was hurled headlong
and almost instantly killed. His parents
live in Pork House row, near the works
where the father is employed.
HIS MAN ESCAPED HIM.
A Bnctille Constable Locates a Criminal and
Then Gets Left.
Jesse Sweed, a colored detective from
Newcomerstown, O., arrived yesterday for
a man wanted at Zanesville, O., for arson.
Sweed entered a poolroom on Grant street,
and there found Harry Johnson, for whom
he had a warrant for burglary committed at
Quaker City, O., last July. Sweed was
just on his way to Central station with him,
when a friend of the prisoner enabled him
to escape, and he took a west-b6und train.
Movements of tbe Blg,SteamshIps.
Steamship. Arrived at From
Furnessis... New York Glasgow.
Lahn Southampton ....Mew xorlc.
Lord Cllre, Philadelphia...,, Liverpool.
Circassian Liverpool Baltimore.
MordUnd New fork .
LONDON, January 2. The British steamship
Persian Monarch, from New York, December l
stranded at Woolwich Tuesday evening after
striking a coal-laden barge, and breaking idrift
and damaging the brig Dorothy.
r - " if iirxor subsibjs.
Dfore ZdLrge Deal In Real Estate Coaspleted
la the Baslnesa Center.
Beal estate dealers are generally sanguine
in tbe belief that this year will equal last
in their line of operation. Never before
were taere so many gigantio real estate
deals on foot in this city as at the present,
and Mr. C. Beringer says the only cloud he
sees on the horizon is the tendency of some
holders of property to grow wild in their
estimates of value.
He thinks some of them may find them
selves stranded, as they almost invariably
take another reef in their belts when made
a good offer, and put up their prices still
higher.
An important deal was consummated yes
terday. Black & Baird sold for the heirs of
the late Ormsby Phillips, Nos. 120 and 122
on Third avenue, running through to Sec
ond avenue, 30x160 feet, with buildings, to
Mr. E. M. Ferguson, of the M. Ss M. Na
tional Bank. They also sold the property
adjoining, 30x80 feet, to the same purchaser
for 522,600. They refused to give the name
of the seller of the second piece mentioned.
It was stated that the intentionof tbe pur
chaser was to tear the buildings down and
replace them by a substantial business
structure, but Messrs. Black & Baird
did not incline to this view in their report
of the transaction, professing to believe that
he had merely bought it with an eye single
to an investment, but as Mr. Yoder has
been asked the price of his property, and so
have several others in the immediate vicin
ity, it appears probable that some large
project may be on foot Skelton's livery
stable property near was lately purchased by
the same party, and it is reported that Mr.
McDonald, the caramel manufacturer, has
been notified that his lease will not be ex
tended. The present prospect is that there
will be a large amount of new building this
year, and that some fine structures will be
torn down to make room for greater ones,
structures that since the last censns was
taken have been regarded with pride by our
citizens.
INSURANCE HEN KICK.
They Do Mot Indorse Chief Brown's Anti
Bell Ringing- Order.
It appears that Chief Brown's proposition
to have the tower bell cease to announce
fires does not meet with general approval
among insurance men. Said one of them
yesterday :
"We have a right to know of fires' when
they occur, for it very frequently happens
that we can save property or snggest some
means of saving it, and we are fully as
much interested as those who own the prop
erty, sometimes more sd. When the Mo
nongahela House was on fire Major
G. W. Hammer went down and found that
hose had been laid through the drugstore.
He had a line of insurance on the drugs,
and found that the hose connection was de
fective, and that when the full force of water
pressure would come the store would be
.deluged, and, as the goods might as well be
'burned as wet, he got a piece of oil cloth
and wranried the ioint. thus savin e hun-
J dreds oi dollars. Very frequently firemen,
in their ncrry, cut holes in valuaDle carpets,
when a few second's work would remove the
carpet, and insurance men want to be pres
ent to attend to such cases and for many
other valid reasons that might be cited."
'
EMPLOYMENT OP CHILD-LABOR.'
Mr. W. S. McKlnney Makes a Statement
Abont the Northilde Concern. ,
The publication in The Dispatch of
last Saturday that complaint had been made
to the Humane Society against a Northside
manufacturinz company, chargine them
with the employment of cbildren under 12
years of age, caused Mr. William S. Mc
Kinney, the senior member of the McKin
ney Manufacturing Company, to visit Agent
O'Brien. Mr. McKlnney denied emphatic
ally the charges made. Tbe autbor of the
charges referred to in The Dispatch was
Mr. Ernest M. Hirsch, who had been in the
employ of the company until last Thurs
day. Mr. McKinney declared that he did not
employ any child under 11 years of age, and
he invited Agent O'Brien to visit tbe works
in Allegheny and make a full investigation.
Mr. O'Brien said he would not give any
further attention to the case, since he had
learned that a State Factory Inspector had
been appointed. The matter would be left
to that official.
ALLEGHENY COMMITTEES.
They Send Up Their Cries for Appropria
tions for the Coming Year.
There were three committee meetings in
Allegheny last night Here is "what they
did:
The Printing Committee met, approved bills
to the amount of 81,130 28, passed a resolntion
that the Controller advertise lor bids for the
city's job printing and stationery supply for
the year, and that tbey wanted an appropria
tion of 05,000 for the coming year.
The Gas Committee met and approved $3,531
worth ot bUls. They will aslc for J35.000 as an ap
propriation. The Committee on Streets and Sewers want
an appropriation of 85,000 this J ear, which
Is 15,000 more than last year.
lhe contract for grading, pavfng and curb
ing State street was let to McNaugber fc Co.,
for $20,950; for TInsburv street to L. Sloan for
13,861 80, and for Stanb's lane to the same party
for 6,109 10. They were the lowest bidders.
A HUMAN CATAPULT.
How Mrs. Harris Floored Mr. Breton With
a Smoothing- Iron.
Samuel Breton, who lives on Wylie ave
nue, made an information before Alderman
Beilly yesterday afternoon, charging Mrs.
Agnes Harris with aggravated assault and
battery. 'It is alleged bv Breton that Mrs.
Harris threw a smoothing iron at him,
which struck him on the back ol tbe head,
knocking him down. She was arrested and
gave $500 bail for a hearing on Saturday.
His Skull Fractured.
A. K. Menzer, employed at the Stanton
avenue brickyards, had his skull fractured
yesterday morning by falling from a ladder
upon a pile of bncks. He was taken to his
home on Carnegie avenue, where Dr. Gar
diner attended hrm.
ROGERS' ROYAL
NERVINE
Cures NERVOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, GEN
ERAL DEBILITY, NEURALGIA, SLEEPLESS
NESS, HEADACHE, EXHAUSTION, 4c.
It GIVES NEWLIFE and Strength
when the body is tired and weak from over
work. Sold by druggists. Price $1 00.
Prepared only by BOGEBS' BOYAL
BEMEDIES CO., 4lEssex st, Boston,Mass.
nooSeji-l1
MEN'S FURNISHINGS.
This the most Complete Depart
ment In this City.
0
Manufacturing Clothiers.Tailors, Hat
ters and Men's Furnishers.,
954 AND 956 LIBERTY ST,1.
' sxja COIUNX2XI. 4
p.- jf
THEWEATHEB.
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For rresfernPenTt
tylvafixia and West
Virginia, coldfair
weather, with north
erly winds during
Ij&$:tj
Friday, with a cold wave.
PrrTSBTrao, January 2, im
The United States Slnal Bervlco omcerla
this city furnishes the following:
Time. Ther, Ther.
IiOOjl K..M..M..R Maximum temp.. 68
BiOO K.....-.......68 Minimum wmp.. 44
1:00. .............. Kanje -. -
J-OOr. X SO Mean temo... ....... &J
sajr. x Freelpltatlon OS
troor.'u
Blver at 6:30 r. ju 5.3 feet, s change o( 0.1 In 24
hours.
River Telegrami.
TSI1CIAI. TXI.XOJUMS TO THS SIgrATCBVt
Wabrss River 3 3-10 feet and rising.
Weather cloudy and mild. ,
HoBOAxrows River S feet and stationary.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer 60 at 4 P. at
Bsovtsstiixx River S feet and stationary.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer 62 at 6 P. M.
Jndigestion
IS not only a distressing complaint, of
itself, but, by causing the blood to
become depraved and the system en
feebled, la the parent of innumerable
maladies. That Ayes Sarsaparilla
Is the best cure for Indigestion, even
when complicated with Liver Complaint,
is proved by the following testimony
from Mrs. Joseph Lake, of Brockwa
Centre, Mich.:
"Liver complaint and Indigestion
made my life a burden and came near .
ending my existence. For more than
four years I suffered untold agony", was
reduced almost to a skeleton, and hardly 1
had strength to drag myself abont All 1
kinds of food distressed me. and only
the most delicate could be digested at
all- Within the time mentioned several
physicians treated me without giving re
.ueL Nothing that I took seemed to do
any permanent good until I commenced
the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which
has produced wonderful results. Soon
after commencing to take the Sarsapa
rilla I could see an improvement in my
condition. My appetite began to return
and with it came the ability to digest
all the food taken, my strength im
proved each day, and after a few
months of faithful attention to your
directions, I found myself a ,well.
woman, able to attend to all household
duties. The medicine has given me a
new lease of life."
Ayer's Sarsaparilla,.
PEIPAKIB BT
D'. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass,
Price 91; six bottles. Worth 95 a bottle.
PEARS' SOAP
Is the MOST ELEGANT-
TOILET SOAP
rrr thdej woniiD.
Of all Draggiftf, but beware of imitation.
If yoii have a
COLD or COUGH,
acute or leading to
CONSUMPTION,
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
OF 1PUKE COD LITTB OIL
AND HYPOPHOSPHITBS
OF ZJMB JSD SODA
ZS BVJJbm OTJOEVEJ POK. IT.
This preparation contains the stlmnla- (
ting properties OI mo tiypopnaspntia
and fine Soncegian voa Xtrer uw. Vita ,
bv Dhvslclons all the world over. It Is at
i rmlatable as milk. Three times as efflca- I
, ClOuS SS ulBlu tuu Jjivet yu A A?Ac.b i
' Emulsion, better than allothers made. For
.
I all tonus OI Wasting-uueases, jjronenuiM,
consmrPTiom
Scrofula, and as a Flesh Producer I
there is nothing liio 800TT8 EMULSION.
i It Is sold by an Druggists. Let no one by I
profuse explanation or Impudent entreaty
I indue you to accept a substitute.
OC2-2S-MWF8VL
AH ARTICLE
-or-
MERIT .
Always commends itself, and a living proof
of this fact is always found in the steady and
increasing sales oi our "'
PURE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD
EXPOBT
WHISKY.
AND OUE ''j
y
PURE CALIFORNIA Wi!
The Genuine Products of the Grain .
and Grape.
Eight-Year-Old Export Whiaky
13 put up in lull quarts at 81, or six
for 85.
California Wines, including fine old
ni.. t- --J 01 . :- (nil
wait, 4. wife mu ouuiv, pufc U " (V
quarts. Claret, 75c, or 6 per dozen. All J-
or $5 per dozen.
Eepresentative medical men prescriba
onr Old Export Whisky tnd California.
Wines every day. "f
Since the lata decision of tho Supreme Court '
WE CAN NOW SEND GOODS 0. O. D..1S
before, bnt no goods will be shipped to minors h v
or persons of known Intemperate habits. Sena
tor complete price list, mailed free to any ad
dress. All mail orders promptly attended to.
Jna. Fleming I Bray f
DRUGQ-SiS, J
412'MarkGt Street, ,
030
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