H V', e '? tv THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. TUESDAY,- FEBRUARY 4. 1890. TROUBLE IN CAMPS The Democratic Convention "Won't he a Bed of Eoses. NEW DELEGATES CHOSEN. The County Democracy Feels Itself Slighted by Democrats. MEETINGS HELD IN THE WAEDS. The Republican headquarters on Smith" field street yesterday presented a more ani mated appearance than has been noticed for years. The fact that no division in the party existed was proven by the attendance of both Quay and llagee men, showing that a unanimous wish to place Gonrley in the Mayoralty chair existed. The work was rnn in the most systematic manner, and the people who visited headquarters were aston ished at the celerity with which questions were answered and the explanations made that no split existed in the Republican party as regards the city fight. The local contests in the varions wards are narrowed down to the fact that on Saturday evening next all are willing to agree to the decisions of the primaries, and a fight will be made only for the Republican nominees. . The Democratic Convention to be held to morrow night is rather regarded by the faithful to be lacking in harmony. In the first place exception is taken to the fact that the primaries -Here controlled by the Lar-kin-O'Leary faction and that the same peo ple propose to run the convention. The prizes in view were quietly talked ot in Democratic headquarters yesterday, the first being that Jndge Bailey intended to make the mayoralty a stepping stone to cover the stream of votes which flowed be tween the majority which Judge Slagle received and the vote in the city, so as to resume his seat upon the Bench. THET HATE SOME GRIEVANCES. Then there is action in the CountyJDemoc racy, a few members of which think the organization has not been treated properly by the Democratic office-holders. It was urged that Mr. Larkin, after he took the position of Postmaster, rather ignored the County Democracy, and affiliated with the Randall Club, while Richard Johnston, the District Attorney, who was elected by County Democracy votes, attended the Ran dall Club banquet after election. Xn;s is one ot the subjects which will come up to-morrow night in the convention, and will probablv be discussed with a good deal of vehemence. The campaign on the Democratic side will be, it is said, conduct ed by ex-Postmaster Larkin, in charge of the literary bureau; Tim O'Leary, Jr., wno is supposed to be slated for the Judceship in the event of Judge Bailey's success, and John Jiles, who is not at present at liberty to take office unless he resigns his present position as Jury Commissioner for an ap pointment as Clerk to either the Mayor or the docket clerkship. The feeling is rather intense on the subject, and may possibly produce some fraction to-morrow night. Pat Foley yesterday, wben asked about the prospects'of T. O'Leary, Jr., for police magistrate, said: "Well, if a man got drunk and was pulled in the patrol wagon, wouldn't he be as good a man to appear before as anvbody else?" The question was unanswerable, and Mr- Foley, in answer to the statement made that some colored delegates would not be enthusiastically received in the Democratic convention that one of the Vice Presidents of the Pennsylvania Democratic Clnb League was Mr. Howard, of Harris burg. He added that he did not think Mr. Howard wonld be present at the convention on Wednesday night OPPOSITION IS THE FODEXH In the Fourth ward there is some opposi tion to John L. Wilson in the shape of three TlpmnirAt?i flnnntipnta fnr fnmmnn P-zinnnil and when John J. King, John Gibbons and Joseph Jackson, the Democratic candidates, settle wbich one of them shall take the field, some idea may be formed of the results. Robert H. Lindsay yesterday received a letter from W. J. Wilson. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Re publican League, in which Mr. Wilson said that as a former Pennsylvania citizen from New Castle, Lawrence county, he would guarantee a right regal reception to every man from the Keystone State, in Nashville, Term., on March 4. He added that be had kept track of the contest in Pittsburg, and knowing Mr. Gonrley Tell, he cordially indorsed the candidacy One of the peculiar phases of politics is the tact that Mr. Van Braahm of Second district of the Sixth ward, Mr. Jenkin's precinct, says that it will be carried for Gonrley by a good majority. The Mayoralty canvass in Allegheny, al though not quite so closely looked after as that of Pittsburg, is still less one-sided The friends of J. G. Wyman are confident of his success, but William Bad er's sup porters claim that he will slaughter his op ponent, which as a butcher would appear to be very appropriate, it he can. Yesterday Mr. Bader said his canvass showed that he would carry the Fourth ward (his own); the Third, Eighth, Twellth, Seventh, Tenth, Thirteenth and Fifth wards. This, if car ried out, will give him 8 out of the 13 wards, while he concedes the Second ward to Wy man. Mr. Cruikshank also is doing some lively hustling. A DEMOCRATIC MEETING. Mr. Patrick Foley ball Into tbe Conduct of the City Government. At the meeting of the Grover Cleveland Democratic Society of Allegheny County, held at their hall on Forty-ninth steeet last night, Messrs. W. J. Brennen and Patrick Foley made brief addresses. The former confined his remarks chiefly to the "rascally and unparliamentary ruling" of Speaker Reed in the Lower House of Congres, and denounced it in very strong language, wind ing up on the homestretch with the regret that time did not permit his going into de tails as to the "dishonesty and generally un principled management which characterized the city government in many departments at this time." Patrick Foley then responded to a call, and though very hurried, as he claimed, found time to make a very vigorous speech, which was loudly applauded. Said Mr. Foley: "It is time that we were asserting ourselves in this community. It is time we should put a stop to the methods daily used by the Republicans in our midst It is an outrage that a lew detectives and such men should be allowed to canvass the citv and say to the saloon keepers, "Vote for Gonrley and you will get your license re newed; vote against him and you will not' Gourley is a nngster. I have known it for a long time. I knewitwhen I served in the Councils with him. We want no such men in position. We want a man of character and brain, and we find one in Judge Bailey. We can elect him on the 18th of February, and it is our duty to work incessantly to secure that end." On motion, a vote of thanks was tendered the speaker. A letter of thanks was re ceived from Henri Watterson accepting the honorary membership conferred upon him at the last meeting. KERB IND0ESED. The Sixteenth nnd Twentieth Ward Demo crat Mnnd br Their Man. C. F. Bihlmau presided over a joint meet ing of Sixteenth and Twentieth ward Demo crat in Liederkranz Hall, Bloomfield, last night About 200 people were present Speeches were made by Conrad Ruppel, Benjamin Ruppel, Christopher Davis and others. It being stated that the fire dele- gates to the Mayoralty Convention from the Sixteenth ward and four of the six from the Twentieth ward had been elected as Kerr delegates, it was moved that these delegates and two more to be appointed, representing the Twentieth ward, be instructed to vote for Thomas R. Kerr in convention to-morrow. The motion was unanimously carried, alter which the meeting adjourned. DEMOCRATS IN HARMONY. A Good Meeting In the Seventeenth Ward Held I.mt Night. A well attended "Democratic primary meeting was held last night in the Fortieth street school house, Seventeenth ward, Cap tain Reyt presiding, Michael Connahan, Secretary. The following nominations were unani mously made: Alderman, S. J. Cox; Com mon Council, F. Bruggeman, A. D. Cherry and William McNultv; School Directors, S. L. Bellman and J. G. Fox. 1 THE LICENSE QUESTION. Chief Drown Sara lie In Willing to Fnr- nlsh Information Abont Applicant! If the Conrt Desires It It l Now Jndgea White nnd Ewlng Wbo Will Preside. One of the principal topics of conversa tion on the streets yesterday was the coming session of the License Court, andwhat the outcome would be. The general impression was that the number of licenses would be materially increased, but as to how many of the present licensees would againjreceive a $00 chromo, permitting them to continue selling inspiration to the public, there was nothing but speculation. Chief Brown, of the Department of Pub lic Safety, was asked whether he had had any intimation that the police records would be the criterion which would determine the persons who would be licensed, and said he had no official assurance to that effect. He was ready, however, when called upon, to produce the police records, not alone relat ing to the present license holders, but also to those who formerly Held them, and would probably make fresh applications. Some time ago Judge Swing called upon Chief Brown, and in speaking ot the license 'question, said he was in Philadelphia last year during the hearing of the license ap plicants, and was astonished to see, after the conclusion of each case, the Judge call aside the chief of police and consult with him upon the applicant's record. The deci sions rendered were generally governed by tbe reputation given the applicant trom the officials. This would possibly indicate that the same course would be pursued in Pitts burg, as the records of the police bureau are probably more complete and minute than those of any city in the country. There were also reports yesterday current that the License Conrt would consist of Judges Swing and White, instead of Swing and Magee, as before supposed. It is well known that Judge Msgee does not wish to sit in the License Court, and that Jndge White has had about as much of it as he desires, so the conclusion drawn by the County Court officials is that Judge Ewing alone will preside. THE! WILL REORGANIZE. An Attempt Will be Made to Revive tbe Central Traffic Anoclation. Charles O. Scull, General Passenger Agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was a passenger on the Pennsylvania lim ited last night, on his way to Chicago, to attend a meeting of the Central Traffic As sociation. He said he was riding on the Pennsylvania Railroad to see how it went and said the line was a good one between ) nor the pipe line officials had rotten any Baltimore and Pittsburg, but the Baltimore thing by telegraph, possibly indicating that and Ohio was better. I mud induction had been too much for the The meeting in Chicago is to be held to reorganize the passeneer department of the association which disrupted sometime ago. The cause of the dissolution was on account of the plan of organization, which caused some lines to take no interest whatever in the association. Notwithstanding; the break the rates were maintained and the roads got along better than if they had an association. Representatives of the Pennsylvania lines will also attend the meeting. O'MAKA WAS DECEIVED. He Took PUT on a Poor Woman, bnt She Declined tho Job of a Servnnl. A woman named Margaret Whittaker called at Central station yesterday. She told such a hard-luck story of how her hus band, though wealthy, had turned her out and how she had been living as a domestic with a lamily at Crafton, but they had mis treated her. Assistant Superintendent O'Mara heard the woman's tale of woe and offered her a place at his house as a domestic. She ac cepted the offer with enthusiastic thanks and was ta"ken to Mr. O'Mara's house by an officer. As soon as the officer left tbe house Mrs. Whittaker suddenly remembered that she had some business to attend to, and picking up her valise, she left the house without ceremony. An hour later she was picked np on Grant street very drunk The only article that her valise contained was a quart bottle with about a tablespoonful of whisky in it WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING. Soma Wbo Travel, Some Who Do Not, and Others Wbo Talk. H. Sellers McKee left last evening for lien York, on business connected with bis street railways. Ex-Mayor Dempsey, of Bradford, and Captain J. R. Johnston, of Cleveland, are at the Seventh Avenue. Dr. H. H. Clark, of Lawrenceville.who has been quite ill with tbe grip for a fortnight, is ont acain. Tbe Doctor bad a very severe siege of it E. P. Wilson, General Passenger Agent Chicago and Northwestern Road at Chicago, who has been in tbe city for a few days, left last evening for Columbus. A. A. Hulings, representing the Grant County Standard Metal and Land Mining Com pany, has just returned from a trip over the company's interests in Mexico, and reports business very good in all directions. Dr. J. W. Spronll, by unanimous con sent and request of his congregation, will start about tbe 19th of this month for an extended trip through Europe and Asia. Ike trio is da signed to benefit bis bealtb, which has been very poor for some time past. He will not re turn before September and will visit the for eign mission post of the church while over there. Judge Harry White, of Indiana, was in the city last night on his way to Beaver, where he will bold court to-day. He could not say whether or not he would crant any liquor li censes in Indiana county this year. He said tbey bad no licensed bouses in the county for the past four rears, and as the law had worked successfully, there was no reason for a change. Concerning the political outlook he would not say whether Delamater would get tbe Indiana delegates or not. W. H. Andrews, of Titusfille, Chair man of the State Republican Committee, ar rived in tho city last night on his way to Phila delphia. He was called npon by United States District Attorney Walter Lyon and other Quay leaders. He said Crawford county w onfd, of course, go for Delamater, as that was the tatter's home. In regard to Hastings he said be was not allowed to express as opinion as to his chances. He said tbe gallant Adjutant General was an excellent man, but whether he would be nominated or not he could not say. Bill Nye billiard ball head, soft hat, spectacles and angular frame was a passenger on tbe Eastern express last night on his way home from the West, where he cancelled all his engagements with James Whltcomb Riley, and dissolved partnership with that worthy gentle man. While at the Union station he kept him self secluded in this car, and only appeared on the platform for a few moments. He said he was going home to rest, and would start out again on the lecture platform as tbe only at traction in "the oreat anrretratlon." HrL Iterated what he said a week ago about Riley's intemperate habits, and said he could not stand tbe loss of sleep occasioned by his partner's meandering. He said he was now engaged in cultivating a chin whisker and an acquaintance with a partner who would be a follower of Francis Murphy. SLOUGH OF DESPOND, Even Rumors of a Big Oil Strike Were Drowned in Mud Yesterday. OIL WAS FOUND IN ARBUCKLE NO. 3 Bat the Capacity of the Well Has Not let Been Ascertained. THE SCHMID ON U0KT00E 18 GREAST "The mud, the mud, the disgusting mud," is the refrain of all who are forced to go through the country, and all opponents of the improvement of country roads should not only have their noses rubbed in them, but should be drowned in them. The nation is losing millions of dollars a week on cost ot carriage. They are bad enough everywhere, but in the oil districts of this county they are next to impassable. In tbe Chartiers field yesterday an operator was noticed try ing to get to the Arbuckle farm, and he found it necessary to stop a powerful horse every quarter of a mile on level road and let him -recover his breath. He was in a buggy, but another party drove a spirited horse to the top of his ability with nothing attached but a light road cart weighing not more than 100 pounds, and was -an hour and 20 minutes going five miles, and the horse was flecked with loam. A team of four large horses in fine condition was sweating and plunging to get through the mud with n ton for a load, but COO pounds to the horse. It cost $9 to haul this ton ten miles while tbe railway freight for tbe same distance would have been but SI 40, and even the difference between'7 and 45 cents a ton did not pay the owner oi the horses for their de moralization. A HOTVIi AGAINST THE MUD. The roads have been in a fluid state so long that the rough rocks the supervisors put in them have sunk to the bottom, and tbey are as rough as corduroy road. In some sections the mud is now of that con sistency that when a horse lifts hisfoot its withdrawal is followed by an explosion like that of a 22-caliber gun, and yet coming the Farmers' Institute only proposes to devote a v4- f An a a f aw AAn'et HifritnfrflAn nrthAeiiniAAt partotoneafternoon'sdiscussionofthesubject a subject of far more imparlance than those of tbe care of farm machinery, fruit crowinc. commercial fertilizers, ideal coun try homes, silos, creameries, farmers' bovs, education of farmers' daughters, relation of science to agriculture, home adornment, growing wheat and corn, care and manage ment ot stock, birds ot Pennsylvania, the almanac and its signs, profits of poul try and the necessity ot raising good horses, all combined, for what benefit are all these if bad roads make ita physical impossibility to have them? " There was much anxiety to know some thing regarding oil well development south of the Ohio river yesterday, but It seemed as though the telegraph wires were so clogged with mud that news could not be had. It was represented that OIL HAD BEEN STEUCK on the Schmid farm on Montour run, but Mr. Schmid said he hadn't heard from it, and that the operators, Messrs. Dorrington & Swing, had promised to telegraph him in the event of a strike. He said he'd like to hear of the strike, bnt the mud was so ap palling that he couldn't think of driving five miles to see about it, J. E. McKelvey, Esq., said he had been told of a strike of a 1,000-barrel well some where between here and Coraopolis, but knew nothing more, and neither Joe Craig electric fluid. Mr. Stewart, the man who bores the wells in the Arbuckle farm, was laboring through the slough in the afternoon. He said that No. 3 was due in the sand, and he was trv ing to get out to see what she was doing. It was supposed that she might be the big well rumored, but no intelligence could be had. ANOTHER AKBUCEXE STRIKE. Mr, Jamison had gone out also to see, and at a late hour last night he returned from the farm, and reported that oil had been gotten in Arbuckle No. 3, but the size of the strike had not been determined. It is reported that though the Imperial Coal Company failed to get oil in its well at the coke ovens on Montour run, that a good gas well had been struck, which is toler able consolation under the circumstances, as even a gas well is a good thing in these days of short supply. There is a worse than limberger cheese smell in the vicinity of the Knopf farm well, and some oil floating on the creek in the vicinity, but the drillers were as dumb as oysters when asked for dcwb concerning it, answering that indications threatened rain. Nitro-glycerine was put into this well the other day, but it is said that it re fused to explode. NEW GLENW00D SCHOOL. The Population Hna Increased so Much That Another Building la Needed. Plans have been prepared for the erection of a new two-story school house at Glen wood, Twenty-third ward, to cost in the neighborhood of $20,000. The population of this ward has grown so rapidly since the district was annexed to the city that five school buildings have been required. The one proposed now will be the sixth. The main builaing at Hazelwood, and the sub district schools at Laughlin & Brown's sta tions, Glenwood and Squirrel Hill are all crowded. Since the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shops have been located at Glen wood, the school population has grown al most beyond measurement . ' The new building will be erected on Sec ond avenue on the site of the present temp orary frame structure. It will be built of brick with stone trimmings. It will be fitted up with the Snead-Wills system of heating and a sanitary arrangement simi lar to the one in the Allegheny Fifth Ward and High School buildings. On the first floor will be four rooms and the principal's office, and on the second there will be the same number, with wardrobes, room for teachers and directors' office. In the base ment will be arrangements, playrooms for the children and a room to be used as a polling place on election occasions. The building will be 85x76 feet in dimen sions. T. D. Evans, the architect, has pre pared the plans for the building, which will be one of the neatest in the city when completed. H. E. Weimer. President of board, is in charge of the work, and expects to have the building ready ior the opening of the next term. HE FOUND A BABI. Officer Coplson Prepared For a Drnnken Ulan nnd Gcta a Surprise. About 7 o'clock last night a telephone message was received at Central station to the effect that a drunken man was lying in the vestibule of Charles Meyer's residence. No. 400 Penn avenue. Sergeant Gray dispatched Detective Conl son at once, but instead of an intoxicated male, the officer was surprised to find a di minutive female baby. The child is about five weeks old. It hag light hair, dark eyes and its clothing is of very good quality. When found it was wrapped up in a brown shawl and sleeping quietly. Printers' Ink is the title of a little jour nal issued by Geo. P. Eowell & Co., of New York, in the interests of advertisers. Mill ions of dollars are annually spent in adver tising, and much of the money fails of achieving theend for which it was expended, owing .to the choice ot poor mediums and other reasons. Printers' Ink gives all sorts of useful and intelligible instruction as to how to make every dollar spent in advertis ing tell. All business men should subscribe. Its subscription price is $z a year. s BLESSED THE THROATS. An Ancient Custom Observed In the Trinity Cntbollc Church Mothers Took Their Children There The Origin or the Re ligions Rite Waa to Ward offDlieane. The quaint ceremony of blessing the throats of the members of Trinity Catholio Church, Fulton street and Center avenue, was performed yesterday morning. Large numbers of the faithtul flocked to the church to participate in the services. Children of all ages were there some borne on the arms of careworn mothers, others held by young women, in whose eyes glowed the light of joy over their first born. Sturdy boys and girls, in knickerbockers and pinafores; old men and women, who with bIow and uncer tain steps had tottered to the church, participated in the rites. This enstom of blessing throats had a pe culiar origin. Some 1,400 years ago, in Asia Minor, a small boy, while at his meal. choked on a fishbone, which lodged in his throat. Everything was done to relieve the A lad. All remedies failed. As he was grow ing black in the face, and his respirations became weaker, a woman ran for the good Bishop Blasiun, wbose residence was hard by, to administer the sacraments of the Church to the dying boy. The Bishop came, crossed his hands over the throat of the child and uttered a short prayer. Hardly had the last words been uttered when the obstruction was dislodged, and the boy was restored. In the course of time the Bishop, full of years, died. The people long remembered the incident of the fishbone. When troubled with affections of tbe throat it was their custom to invoke the intercession of the Bishop for their speedy delivery. The custom has long been practiced among the Germans and other Suropean nations, but it is somewhat of a novelty here. Many strange stories of the efficacy of the cere mony are related. Some two years ago the city of Cleveland was visited with an epidemic of diphtheria. Many children died. Hundreds of Catho lics flocked to the churches with their little ones for the purpose of having their throats blessed. It is said that with few exceptions those children who had been carried to tbe priests escaped the ravages of the dread disease. WHAT'S IN THE WIND? Second Avenne Property Sold for What la Called a Terr Large Price. People unbuttoned their eyes to their full extent yesterday at the price paid for prop erty on Second avenue $872 a foot front for a short lot This doesn't look like a large price to some when tbey reflect that prop erty within two squares will bring from two to three times that figure, bnt dealers in real estate consider it steep, owing to vari ous causes. The property in question was No. 125. It was sold by the Sate Deposit Company, ad ministrator of the estate of Anna Kenna, deceased. The lot is 20x80 feet, and carries a three-story honse, encumbered by a three year lease running from April 1, at $1,000 a year. It was sold at Orphans' Court sale, and purchased by J. E. McKelvey, Esq., for $17,440. Most dealers who attended the sale with purchasing intent had fixed the limit at about $13,000. There was one individual who persisted in bidding, bnt Mr. McKel vey 's purse eventually proved too long for him. Just why Mr. McKelvey was so per sistent was a puzzle to some people which he declined to solve for general satisfaction, but one broker states bis belief that the pur chase was tor Mr. McKelvey's brother and Mr. Ferguson, who have lately been collar ing nearly all the property in that neigh borhood. It has been thought for some time that some mammoth project was on foot there, and Mr. McKelvey's persistence yesterday gives color to rumors that have been rife, as the present rental is but a small return on the price paid, considerably less than 6 per cent when taxes, insurance and repairs are deducted. PREPARING FOR THE TEST. Engine No. 2 Glvea Great Satlafactlon In a Preliminary Trial. A test of No. 2 engine, the one which is to take part in the forthcoming test, was made yesterday afternoon on the Monongahela wharf. Tbe different nozzles which are to be used in the test were tried and streams of great volume were thrown. The stream from the 1-inch nozzle was if anything tbe best. Two streams were thrown from the engine from 1-inch nozzles covering over 200 feet on the level; one stream through a 1-incb, covered with a single stream, went" 250 feet and with a 1-inch covered 280 feet. The steam pressure averaged about 110 pounds. A peculiar fact about the bnild of the two engines has been lost sight of, and that is the steam area. The Silsby engine has a boiler 40 inches in diameter, and the Amoskeag's is but 33 inches, the weight so much caviled against being in the running gear ot the latter which is built strongly enough to meet the guarantee of the com pany. WANTED TO MARRI HER. A Young German Startles the Officers at tbe Central Station. A well-built, honest-looking young Ger man walked into the Central station yes terday and asked for the girl who was ar rested early Sunday morning. He startled the officers present by saying he wished to marry her. His name was Eugene Miller and he lived on the hill. He had Seen the girl on the street on Saturday,found outwho she was and afterward got acquainted with her. The young man was very much crest fallen when he learned that the girl had been taken away, but accepted Matron Brennen's proposition to return in a week. I and by that time the marriage may be ar ranged. WILSON STOPPED THEM. A Halt Called on the Planting of Electric Light Poles. Last night about 11 o'clock several work men in the employ of the Pleasant Valley Electric Kail way dug a hole on Federal street, Allegheny, in front of the Carnegie Library. Police Captain Wilson stopped the exca vation, as the Superintendent could not show a permit for opening the street. The authority for the work was said to have been obtained from Mr. J. B. Scott LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED. Incidents of a Dny In Two Cities Condensed for Ueady Beading. A NEW parochial school is being built for St Stephen's Catholic Church in Hazelwood. Six cases of diphtheria and one case of scar letina were reported at tbe Health Bureau yes- leraay. Tbk semi-monthly report of the Society for the Improvement of tbe Poor shows a lot of good done in caring for the needy. The International Sunday School Congress, it has been decided, will be held In May next at Machinery Hall, Exposition building. The Board of Viewers yesterday held a final meeting on the grading and paving of Moultrie street from Forbes avenuo to Fifth avenue. The City Hall employes will receive thel monthly salary to-day, the firemen to- morrow and the police and employes of the Street and Water Departments Friday. Jonx Blotton is in jail awaiting a hearing to-morrow evening before Alherman McOary, charged with assault and battiry, by his wife They live at tbe head of Sduth Eighteenth street I The Rebecca Street and pleasant Valley Railroads are now taxed to thtlr utmost to ac commodate tbe large number of passengers which patronize these lines, he trouble islex pseted to be obviated on the hitter line when tbe electrio can hare been (running a little IVUgCf. THE 'ff.CT.Ua DEFENSE Frances Wil lard's Sub-Committee Throws Some Very Hot Shot. CHARGES OP AGGRESSION MADE. Some Discourteous Acts Admitted, Coercion Denied. Bat A PERSONAL W0KD FROM MRS. LATHE0F The second bombshell prepared by the sub-committee of the National Executive Committee of the W. C. T. IT., has been fired. It is a continnation of the review of "Truth in the Case," prepared under in struction of tne Executive Committee. It continues to criticise Mrs. Foster and to ex tol MissWillard. "Any member of the National Executive Committee through the years ot this 'non-partisan' struggle can testify to the patience of waiting, the charity of judgment, and the clinging to old-time "confidence shown by Frances E. Willard," says the circular, and "Mrs. Foster owes a debt of fealty the world can never under stand, and she has struck her blow at her friend from tbe sacred center of years of trust and comradeship." Mrs. Foster is said to be holding her old place on the National Executive Committee of the W. C. T. IT., yet "she has not hesi tated to use the knowledge and position gained by her official relation to strike the organization she should defend. From this vantage ground she has gone to a nation wide press unfriendly to the W. C. T. TJ. to speak against it and its work." The following compliment is paid to Mrs. Swift, a woman who has possibly done more for the National W. C. T. TJ. than any other woman outside of Miss Willard, Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Lathrop: Mrs. Swift knows from personal experience that inside the furry clove of "non-partisanship" is the iron grip of Republican partyism; she knows the roots that crew this plant of disunion in her own State, and since tho 18th of June, 1SS9. she must see with the rest of the world that "non-partisanship" as represented in "Truth in the Case" is a delusion. An apology is made to the effect that the national union has not claimed that it has always come to the wisest decision under stress ot the discussions thrust upon its an nual conventions since 1884. Not always, perhaps, have individuals had the clearest insight when proposing measures to meet the cross-fire of a minority whose chief busi ness has been to parade the "Iowa position" as against the position of the remainder of the United States quite as well represented. ADMISSIONS MADE. The admission is made that words too earnest to be counted as "the highest cour tesy" have been uttered in the heat of de bate, but the final actions always came in in equity to all. The present "attitude of political opinion in tbe national union "was inevitable for many reasons more prolound than 'diplomacy of expressions. L It was from the beginning an organization of uncompromising Prohibitionists. The total abstinence principles of tbe white-ribbon host were not one wbit stronger than their devotion to the "legal extinction" of tbe liquor traffic 2. They saw from the first that "the traffic must finally be suppressed by the ballot" and that "prohibition is the true legislative remedy for tho evils of intemperance;" and these were avowed as fixed principles, and without refer ence to their relation to parties or conditions possible in the future. 3. The legal work upon which of necessity tftey soon entered, and in which Mrs. Foster led, taught them the close relation between party friendship and whisky success, or whisky friendship and party suc cess, and so the partisan side of the question could not be ignored. In all arguments the attitude of Iowa's representatives in the National Union are charged with being too pretentious for mod esty. Kansas was the real leader for con stitutional prohibition. Iowa was politi cally tricked out of a splendid triumph, and has "but a statute to-day between the saloon and its homes, while even that trembles in the balances, with a Democracy which openly declares for the traffic, and a Repub licanism that trembles like a coward in its presence. The Republicans in Maine sub-mitted-the question, and the forces rallied to the non-partisan contest. The W. C. T. U. declared fealty to the Republican party so long as it remained faithtul to prohibi tion." The circular closes by some personal state ments from Mrs. Mary T.Lathrop, who, as stated before, is the recognized law-giver of the National Union. She corrects some statements alleged to have been made re garding her by Mrs. Wilson, of Illinois. She denies ever having said that "the W. C. T. U. is a political organization," saying that her statement was that "the W. U. T. U. is political. A DIAOEAM WANTED. She fails, however, to give a diagram showins the difference. She closes bv sav- u-.it-j . i .C" f;i ? " .:: It" "r ZSrS? license parties. We are speaking for the downfall of wrong and the victory for truth, and are not seeking honor that comes from men." The current number of the W. C. T. U. organ, the Union Signal, contains a three column editorial on "Our Friends the Se ceders," beginning with the statement that "the humanness of saints is always finding fresh, illustration as history unrolls." It lays particular stress on the term "seceders," evidently regarding the non-partisan faction with as much gravity as aid the nation the Southern States when they Ielt the Union. Tbe "secession" is not regarded as surpris ing nor disastrous. It reiterates the state ment so often made that the "seceding sis ters, whether purposely or not, have organized a movement in iiuui oulu cto w ait DFUiuaiiii mm liicsc : the interest of the dominant party of the hour, and are really partisans of the most decided character." The Union Sig nal is a little late with its suggestions for unions to become incorporated, "that no property held in its name may be alienated by the seceders." Pennsylvania has already secured the charters, and will make an effort to profit by it The W. C. T. U. has no apologies to make for its positions. CAPTAIN M'lSTIKE INJURED. Two Cable Car Aceldenia at the Smlthfleld Street Crossing. Two accidents within a few minutes oc curred at the corner of Smitbfield street and Fifth avenue yesterday. About 1:40 o'clock Captain Mclntyre, a well-known riverman, started to cross the street He did not notice cable car No. 35 coming at full speed up Fifth avenue. The end ot the car struck him and knocked him down. The pilot hit him and rolled him over several times. The gripman finally got the car stopped and Captain Mclntrye was picked up. He was very much bruised but no bones were broken. s A few minutes afterward a cable car coniinz down Fifth avenue ran into a Smithfield street car. The passengers in the latter made a wild exit to get out both doors. The shrieks of the women could be heard half a block, although none of them were hurt There pre two officers and a boy stationed at this corner, but despite their efforts, the speed of the cars is daily the cause of accidents. HE TOUCHED ,TUE WIEE. A Bold Boy Shocked and Falls 15 Feet From a Pole. A lad about 12 years of age climbed an electrio pole on the Pleasant Valley line about 9 o'clock last night On reaching the top he grasped a wire, and was, it is supposed, thrown by the shock to the ground. He fell a distance of 15 feet and ran off. Darned, Perhaps Fatally. An Italian, aged about 30 years, was badly burned by a splash of molten metal at Carnegie's Thirty-third street mill last night He was removed to West Penn Hos pital. His injuries may prove fatal. The name is unknown, THE BUILDERS EXCHAKGE. Delegates to tbe Si. Paul Convention Be turn No Demand for Eight Hoars Ex pected to be Binds br Workmen What Delegate Hamilton Snya on Thla Sub ject. The Builders Exchange held their regular meeting yesterday in the Renshaw building. The delegates from the St Paul convention arrived home in the morning, and a number of them were present No report was made by them on account of the short time elaps ing between their arrival and the meeting hour, which prevented them from prepar ing it intime. Mr. Thomas J. King, Secre tary of the Washington Exchange, and Mr. Thomas, of the same city, dropped into the meeting on their way home. The former made a speech which pleased the meeting. Mr. T. J. Hamilton, of the firm of Mur phy & Hamilton, Fifth avenue, was chair man of the Pittsburg delegation. When seen yesterday he said: "The action of the convention in reference to paying by the hour had no connection with the present agitation for eight hours. A committee was sent out to consider the question of a uniform number of working hours, but when it made its report, it was found that the system of working and the number of hours were so varied in different places that tne committee s recommendations were not adopted. We found that some cities were working nine hours and other places ten, and in Kansas City we fonnd that the Bricklayers bad two unions there, one of which worked nine and the other ten. The only one of the trades which are working eight hours are the stonecutters. It was therefore hard to harmonize tbe differences in 'the working time; some wanted tbe ten-hour system adopted and others wanted the nine-hour day, so we concluded that it was best to leave every exchange to regulate its own time. The committee's recommendation in favor of eight hours was snowed under by a vote of 111 to 3, and there were 119 delegates present I don't think there will be any de mand made by the workmen for eight hours and full pay." The convention adjourned to meet next year in New York City, on February 13. The Pittsburg delegates will make their re ports to the local exchange at its next regular meeting, which will be the first Monday in March. TO DISCUSS THE NEW SCALE. A Strike Threatened, na No Agreement la Likely to be Reached. The coke operators and miners met in Scottdale yesterday to disenss the new scale, but what action was taken is not known, nor can the outcome be anticipated. The present price for mining 100 bushels is 95 cents, but the new scale calls for $1 30. The operators say that 5 cents per hundred is a big advance, but have intimated that they would be willing to pay that price. The miners on the other hand are now wil ling to compromise on $1 15, but as there is no likelihood of this price being granted a strike seems imminent Many ot those sup posed to know say that a strike will in all probability occur. The new scale also provides for an eight hour working day, but as they work by the piece it will not increase the cost of produc tion any. The conference will likely have a lengthy session. Many Coal Men Oat of Town. A number of coal men were out of town yesterday, among them being Captain O'Neil, John A. Wood and W. P. De Ar mitt Mr. O'Neil went to New Orleans on business. A KUM0R RUN DOWN. The Sixth Street Bridge Company Still Has the Right to Collect Toll. It having been stated that the charter of tbe Sixth Street Bridge Company had ex pired, and that for this reason the company could no longer enforce the payment of tolls, a Dispatch reporter yesterday called upon Mr. John Harper, President of the company, seeking information upon the subject generally. Mr. Harper said I : "There is no truth in the statement. On the contrary our regular rates are 2 cents for foot passengers, but of our own volition we reduced it to 1 cent. The bridge was first built upon a charter granted by tbe State in 1816, and the document in question provided ior the building of a bridge from Pittsburg across the Allegheny river to Allegheny county. There was no Alle gheny City at that time, and any point of location could have been chosen. In 1860 the old bridge was torn down and supple mented by the present structure, which cost about $300,000. The stock is owned by per sons in several States, with comparatively a small home representation. There are 10,- 000 shares, valued at $87 CO per share. Tbe charter provides that the cities of Pittsburg cnarier provide and Allegheny can buy ana .ajiegneny can ouy tne bridge at any time, and make it a free bridtre at the will i of the Councils, the two corporations, of course, paying its full value. The Pitts burg and Manchester Street Railway Com pany, who are now paying us $5,000 per annnm rental, made overtures not long since looking to remodeling the bridge for the use of their proposed cable or electric line, but as there was no distinct business propo sition made we took no official action in the matter. Were it deemed, either in this in stance or under any other circumstances which might arise, expedient or necessary as a pnblic measure that any progressive corporation should own and control the bridge I should favor its transfer to them on an equitable basis, and I believe the ma jority of our directors would also. The stock is paying 15 per cent per annum." Mr. Harper has been a stockholder in the company for 60 years, and its President for nearly a half century. Coming From tho East. Word was received in the city yesterday that about 200 prominent members of the Jr. O. U. A. M., of Philadelphia and other Eastern points, will arrive over the Balti more ana Ohio on the morning or' the 22d, and will form a batallion to participate in the parade in this city. Cashmere Ombre, the new wash fabric "Cashmebe Ombbe." It looks like silk. Jos. Hobne & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. Cashmebe Ombre, the new wash fabric. Entire satisfaction can come only when the best is used. In making beer the Iron City Brewing Company employ the choicest ingredients and their patrons are always pleased. All dealers keep their celebrated Iron City, Pittsburg and Pilsner brands. "Cashmeee Ombbe." It looks like silk. Jos. Hokne & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. Cashmebe Ombbe, the new wash fabric. Cabinet photos $1 per dozen, prompt de livery. Crayons, etc, at low prices. Lies' Galleey, Txsu 10 and 12 Sixth st Cashmebe Ombbe, the new wash fabric. Call To-Day And ask to see our big line of $8 men's suits. They are cheviots, cassimeres, worsteds and piques, excellently made and trimmed and really first-class suits, which should sell for $15 to $18. We shall sell 300 to-day at $8 a suit They're cut in sacks and cutaways. P. C. C. C, cor. Grant and Diamond sts., opp. the new Court House. Cashmebe Ombbe, the new wash fabric Laddis take Angostura Bitters generally when they feel low spirited. It brightens them up. Cashmebe Ombbe, the new wash fabric I PAIING THEIR DONATION. The B. fc O. K. R. Glvea a Cbrck to the Ex position lor $1,449 16. The Western Exposition Society, yester day received from the passenger department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad a check and voucher for $1,449 16. This is the com pany's 'donation of a part of the receipts from the sale of excursion tickets during the Exposition season. The society expected to get 10 per cent of the receipts from all rail road companies, but from present indica tions they will be disappointed. The Allegheny Valley road also sent a check to Manager Johnston for $535 31. This represents 10 per cent of their Exposition excursion sales. Nothing has yet been heard from the other roads. It was expected that the Pennsylvania Railroad would come in with a check for $2,000, but whether they will do it or not remains to be seen. The society counted on getting between $3,000 and $3,500 altogether. The gift of the Baltimore and Ohio Com pany will be greatly appreciated by the Board of Managers ot the Exposition. The officials of the company made a rate of about i and 1 cent per mile. At this low rate they claimed they made no money, but stuck to their agreement to pay over 10 per cent of the receipts to tbe society. Tfaor Gave Bait Thomas McKlnsey, a resident of Belle vue, appeared before Alderman McMasters yesterday, and entered suit against David Mercer, also a resident of Bellevue, for knowingly marrying a married woman. The prosecutor alleges that the defendant alien ated his wife's,ISarahMcKidsey's, affections, and with full knowledge of the fact that she was a married woman, married her. An in formation was also lodged against Sarah McKinsey. The defendants were arrested, and gave bail for a hearing. Another Washington Excursion. Division Passenger Agent E. D. Smith, of the Baltimore and Ohio road, had such great success with his winter excursion to Washington last week, that he is arranging for another one. He will run a special train Thursday February 20, and already has a number of applications for parlor car space. P. k K. - AT -:- THE -:- FRONT -Arfi- NOW READT FOR THE SEASON OF 1890. CARPETS, WALL PAPERS, CURTAINS. The Best Makes! The Most Popular FatternsI The Newest Designs! The Most Effective Colorings! -AKD- THE CORRECT PRICES. A visit of inspection solicited. Goods (elected N OW made up and stored, un til you are ready for tbem. PL1SEY I KERR, 118 AN D 118 FEDERAL STREET, ALLEGHENY, PA, fe4-77-TTS B. & E. FEBRUARYBARGAINS. OUR ANNUAL INVENTORY HAS AGAIN BROUGHT TO THE SURFACE BARGAINS FOR YOU. Many broken lines Ends and Odd pieces are found in each department, wbich must go without regard to cost or actual value. KH) GLOVES Reduced to 25c per pair, only in sizes 6 ft, 7, 7X. 7, 8. KID GLOVES In fl grade reduced to 60c. only In sizes Ri, 6, At 75c, special value in 5-hooK and 4-button Kid Gloves. At Jl 50. reduced from ti, entire line of sizes in best grade Suede Mousqaetaire Gloves, ia black and f nil line colors. Special prices on Hutchinson, Pierce 4 Co. Star Waists. Lots marKed from JI 40 to U. Lots marked from f 1 down to 75c BIBER &EASTON, Sos and 507 MARKET STREET. n. a 3,550 yards extra grade and width SCOTCH GINGHAMS In choice new goods just received and on sale AT S5c A YARD. New Sateens, Seersuckers, Ginghams, and other choice wash fabrics just received and on sale at 12c fe2-TTSSU NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. The oldest Mutual Life Insurance Company in the United States. In strength, security, economical and con servative management fair dealings and lib erality to policy bolder cheapness simplicity and desirability of policy contract, it stands second to none. No form ot tontine or forfeitable policy issued. No estimates of enormous returns al lowed by this company to be made by Its agents. It is tbe policy that is tbe contract, and not hypothetical. Impossible calculations or esti mates. E. H. DERMITT, Manager fnr Western Pennsylvania and West burg, Pa. tei4-xss FLEEING TO FLORIDA. A Number or People Going to Enjoy the Sonthera Climate. A large number of Pittsburgers are going to Florida. Some are on pleasure bent, while others are going to escape the epi demic now raging in this city. Among those who will leave to-day are Charles Hook the wine merchant of Lawrencevills and wife. They are eoing to visit their daughters Mamie and Ella, who are now. at Orlando. They will be accompanied to South, Carolina by Mrs. Havis and son, of Law renceville, who are going to Aiken. Apartyofeight underlhecharge of George A. Heyl, of Penn avenue, will leave on the Jacksonville special train on the 19 tb. J. W. Stoner and uncle, of Greensburg, left for the warm clime yesterday. A Good Showlar. The annnal meeting of the stockholders of the Hidalgo Mining Company was held at the comny's office, 95 Filth avenue, yesterday. Secretary Hill's report showed' that the production of bullion for the last year was 173,621 75. The old board of directors were elected. JDS. HDRNE i CD.'S PENN AVE. STORES. Ptttsbubo, Tuesday, February i, 1S8CL LACE CURTANS TO-DAY. Some very attractive value In Xew Curtains. LOT 1. NOTTINGHAMS (From 3 to 30 pair lots.) 7 different patterns at J2 a pair. 8 different patterns at $3 a pair. 3 different patterns at & 75 a pair. 5 different patterns at H 50. 0 different patterns at (5 a pair. LOTX Special lot extraordinary values. In 3 to 20 pair Jots, 3 and 4 yards lone; new pattern Nottinghams, at H f i BO, to, 15 M and W a pair. , t LOT 3. Nottinghams. special values, spedaUj attractive patterns At S3 50 a pair, worth U 50. At M B0 a pair, worth tS 00. At to 00 a pair, worth f7 00. LOT 4. Fine Irish Point Curtains, new pat terns, and excellent goods. Hot at $9 00. 2 lots at 19 75. 1 lot at f 10 00. Hot at $12 00. A special lot of Brussels effect Laco Curtains at U 60. Geneva Point Curtains, beautiful goods, the nearest approach to the real Brussels ever produced, clean, sheer net, with patterns exact copies of the real. At 19 00, f ally worth S1Z a pair. At 12 SO, fully worth 515 a pair. These offerings in Cnrtains will start sharp buying in the Curtain Rooms. JDS. HDRNE CD:, 600-621 PENN AVE. P. a CASHMERE OMBRE, the new French Wash Dress Goods, open to-day. Shown nowhere else. Looks like silk. f4 Cressoii Springs later Co,, LiiM SPRINGS CRE8SON, PA, i MAIN LINE PENNA. R.R This Company has pcrcbased tbe exclusive) right to sell the water ot the famous springs at -Cresson. Pa, and are ready to take orders by mail or telephone for the dellrerv of this water ' to private residences, banks, offices, hotels and, ; restaurants. The delivery will bo made In cases containing 13 gallons (8 two gallon glass bottle . In each case) at f LOO per case. Parties desir ing to use this water will please send In their orders at once, that we may arrange to serve them promptly, and when ordering please rive correct names and address. CRESSON SPRINGS WAfER CO., Limited. 10 and 13 Sixth St, Plttaburr-Talmhnn- f SHAW BROS.. 1011 Telephone JDAviDSHAWCOiaes. jali-Tt-TXf fcf &$&&& .z.,?Miii&zd&mrkh f v k&fi n
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