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FORTY-FIFTH YEAIL
MQHTEI1CQLJ IN JAIL
The Now Notorious Italian
Count Passes the Night
IN A NARROW PRISON CELL.
fie
Was Arrested for Distributing
Slanderous Circulars
MAKING AN ATTACK ON HIS WIPE
On All of the Principal Thoroughfares ef
Philadelphia.
ANXIOUS FOE D1T0ECE AKD
ALIMOXI
Count di .Montercoli was arrested in Phil
adelphia last evening, and will be arraigned
before a magistrate to-day. His offense con
sisted in distributing libelous circulars at
tacking his wife, nee Miss Virginia Knox,
upon the leading streets. He was unable to
secure bail and passed the night in a cell.
JSrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Philadelphia, March 24. Count di
Montercoli, the Italian who married Miss
Virginia Knox, of Pittsburg, was arrested
at Broad and Chestnut streets this afternoon
shortly after 4 o'clock for distributing libel
ous circulars on the public streets. He was
immediately given a hearing by Magistrate
Clements, at Juniper and Filbert streets,
and was committed to jail in default ot $400
bail for a further hearing to-morrow at 10
o'clock.
Count di Monticoli, whose familiar figure
enveloped in a cape coat has been one of the
daily sights along Chestnut street, which
thoroughfare he strode with a foreign air,
invariably twirling his mustache, met Miss
Knox in the latter part of 18S7 while visit
ing Pittsburg. He claimed to be the pos
sessor of vast estates in Italy. The mar
riage took place on October 10, 18SS.
A VEET BEIEr HOXEYHOOX.
Soon after the ceremony the newly made
Countess, accompanied by her foreign
spouse, started for a tour in sunny Italy.
The honeymoon was decidedly brief. Upon
their arrival in Paris, after visiting Italy,
the Count distinguished himself by brutally
whipping his wife in a leading hotel where
they were stopping. Her screams attracted
the inmates of the hotel, who sent for the
police.
Upon their arrival they were compelled
to break into the room and seenre the brutal
wife beater, who W3S placed under arrest.
"While her husband was under arrest,
Conntess di Montercoli cabled the account
of her brutal treatment at the hands of her
husband to her relatives in this country, and
shortlr afterward sailed for America. Upon
her arrival she came to this city, and for
some time stopped at the Lafayette Hotel.
A. USELESS APPEAL.
When Count ci Montercoli was liberated
in Paris and found that his wife had re
turned to America, he cabled the Italian
Consul in this city to call on the police and
have her detained until he came (or her.
The Consul, who knew of the bad reputation
of the Count, called on the Superintendent
of Police Lamon and warned him of the dis
reputable Count and advised him not to
assist in the recovery of the Countess.
Some time later Count di Montercoli
called upon Superintendent Lamon and ap
pealed to him to assist him in recovering
his wife, who was still stopping in this city.
He was, however, politely shown from the
office. He was much depressed because the
police would not compel his wife to support
him. Since that time the Count has been
supported, it is said, by the Italian colony
in a small room in the poor neighborhood of
Seventh and liainbridge, but has been daily
seen on Chestnut street
AXYTHIXG EATIIER TnAS WORK.
He never attempted to do any work and,
it is said, frequently demanded alimony
from his wife, the refusal of which prompted
him to defame her character. This morning,
armed with a large bundle of circulars and
accompanied by a poorly clad Italian lad,
the Count took a stand an Broad street near
the Hotel Bellcvue and began the distribu
tion of a circular addressed to Americans,
in which he assails the character of the
woman, to whom he says his present sad
condition is due, and whom he had the mis
fortune to marry October 10, 18S8. The cir
cular conclndcs as follows:
This woman, whose former name was Vir
ginia Knox, born in Pittsburg, Pa., did not act
honestly In tier marrU.ce, for she left roo two
months after date and now refuses a divorce to
be granted to me. The rest I will tell personally
in.tbe Court. Respectfully,
COUST DI MONTEBCOLL"
Until the noon the Count, dressed in his
cape coat, distributed these circulars on the
west side of Broad street, while his assist
ant followed his example on the east side
and each passing pedestrian was given a
circular.
ALL POSSIBLE PUBLICITY.
In the afternoon, when the crowds began
to throng Chestnut street, Count di Mon
tercoli took his assistant to that thorough
fare and directing him how to distribute the
circulars gave him the entire bundle. He
then sent the boy down Chestnut street, he
himself keeping alongside of him, but not
doing any of the distributing.
Xbepair walked up and down from Fif
teenth to Eighth and Chestnut street until
4 o'clock, thrusting the circular in the face
of every pedestrian on the street and soon
the sidewalks and gutters were tilled with
the printed paper. Shortly after 4 o'clock
tbe Count and his assistant reached Broad
and Chestnut, where the boy was ordered to
stop and give out the circulars.
Reserve Officer Cozens, who had been
watching the actions ot the Count, saw the
boy rush up to the people and push the cir
culars in their hands, and soon a number
who read the circnlar gathered about and
waited for developments. Officer Cozens,
who knew it was a breach of peace to dis
tribute the circulars, approached the boy
and placed him nnder arrest. The lad, as
coon as he realized his position, began cry
ing and said he was told to do it by the
Count,
THE COU2TX TTXDEE.AEEEST.
"Where is the Count?" asked the officer.
"Here he is," cried the boy, pointing to
di Montercoli, who approached as the officer
arrested the boy.
"Did you have those circulars printed and
order this boy to distribute them?" asked
the officer.
"Yes, I did," replied the Count,
"Then come along with me," said the
officer, and he placed the Italian nobleman
under arrest. He was taken to Magistrate
Clement's office and given a hearing and
held in bail for a further hearing. When
he was taken to the Central station, in Citv
Hall, he vehemently denounced the actions
of the police and became very indignant
when he was searched.
Xothing was found upon him but a few
circulars, and he was locked in the first cell
on the north corridor, which he paced up
and down for some time. He became tran
quil about 8 o'clock and lay down on the
oaken bench and soon Tell asleep.
THE KNOX LAWYER'S STORY.
Miss Knox is now with her uncle, Mr.
Bausman, at the old family homestead in
Virginia. A near relative said last night
that she had as yet been unable to get a
divorce from the Count Francis Rawle, of
this city, is counsel for the family. He said
to-night:
This is the old story of the marriage of a young,
innocent girl to an unknown foreigner, claim
ing to be a man of title, bnt without any possi
ble right to the title he claimed and without
any means. Within a few weeks after the mar
riage he maltreated his wife, who soon after
ward left him. She attenmted to obtain a di
vorce In Italy, but was unable to do so, as abso
lute divorce is unknown to the Italian law.
She came to her own country and will apply for
a divorco as soon as the law will allow. The
law of Pennsylvania requires a residence of a
year nn the part of the seeker after a divorce.
I bad notice to-day that the so-called Count
wanted a divorce, and replied that I should be
only too glad to satisfy his desire: but the cir
cular is new and mortifying and astounding to
FLACK IMPEACHED.
Governor Hill Instructs the Attorney Gen.
ernl to Proceed Against lbs Con
victed hhcrifT of New York
Talk of a New Trial.
New York, March 24. Colonel E. K.
Judson, Military Secretary to Governer
Hill, acting under orders from the Gover
nor, came to this city from Albany to-day,
called on Sheriff Flack in the Sheriff's
office and served him with papers notifying
him that charges had been preferred against
him by Attorney General Tabor. He was
also served with a notice from the Governor
requiring him to show cause why he should
not be removed from the office of Sheriff.
Judge Barrett this morning called up the
case of Sheriff Flack and his co-defendants,
convicted of conspiracy. Ex-Judge Russell
uromptly arose and asked for an adjourn
ment, so as to give the defendant's counsel
time to prepare motions for a new trial.
Counsel said he desired to prepare affida
vits concerning the presence of a reporter in
the jury room on Saturday sight and its
bearing on the case.
Judge Barrett interrupted counsel to say
that he had already decided not to proceed
to judgment to-day. In view of the fact
that each of the three defendants stood on a
different basis, and of the gravity of the
position in which their conviction placed
two of the defendants, one occupying a high
official station and the other being hereto
fore an honorable member of the bar, to
gether with facts laid before court since the
adjournment, he was not prepared to pro
nounce judgment He therefore postponed
sentence until 10:30 next Friday morning.
MAQEE WILL SEE H'MANKS.
KUncr Does Not Know When the State Con
vcntlon Will Meet.
fEFECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISF ATCH. 1
Philadelphia, March 24. Elliott P.
Kisner, Chairman of the Democratic State
Committee, arrived in this city to-night.
Chairman Kisner was very reticent regard
ing the recent conference of Democratic
leaders, casually remarking that in his
opinion the State Chairman was named for
the purpose of assisting to elect the party
candidates after they have been named, and
not to interfere with the work of the nomi
nating convention in the matter of the se
lection of its candidates. Mr. Kisner conld
not say just when the Executive Committee
of the'State Committee will be called tor the
purpose of fixing the date for the holding of
the State Convention, but intimated that it
would be at an early day.
C. L. Magee, of Pittsburg, was in this
city to-day in company with James A. Mc
Devitl, of Lancaster, who was defeated by
Senator Quay for the Republican nomina
tion for State Treasurer in 1885. Messrs. Ma
gee and McDevitt during the day journeyed
down to the money centers of the city, "but
did not call upon any of the local Republi
can leaders who frequent that section, al
though it is rumored that before leaving for
the West Mr. Magee will have a talk with
James McManes.
DEATH IN THE PCLPIT.
Wtillo Preaching on the Uncertainty of Life
Ilia Own Ends.
tSrECUL TELEOBAU TO THE DISPATCH.!
Carmi, III., March 24. The Rev. R. J.
Shinn, a Congregational minister, at Morris
City, 111., fell dead last night. The minis
ters of the Congregational churches of
Southern Illinois have been holding a busi
ness meeting at the Rev. Mr. Shinn's
church for the past week. At the close of
a sermon by one of the visiting brethren
on the uncertainty of life Mr. Shinn made
a few remarks from the pulpit, in which he
said that life was but a span, and that at
any moment we might be on the brink ot
the grave.
He leaned his head on the pulpit as if in
prayer, and fell down dead. He frequently
expressed to his family a desire that when
his time came he might leave the world from
the pulpit
WILL SAVE 5100,000 A YEAR.
Tbo Difference Between the Orphan Com
million and the Syndlcnte.
rSFECIAI. TELEGBJLX TO THE DIKPATCn.l
Harrisburg, March 24. The Soldiers
Orphan Commission, at a meeting in this
city to-day, made an estimate of the amount
saved to the State since it assnmed the
supervision of the several schools in tbe
State, which shows a very gratifying condi
tion of affairs. In nine months about $145,
000 been expended, while the old system the
last year of its operation cost the State nearly
5300,000.
The commission thinks a saving will be
made the first vear of its administration, as
compared with that of the syndicate and
others, of about $100,000. The commission
ordered the annual examinations to begin
on the 6th of June at Loysyille, Perry
county.
NO PK00P OP NEGLIGENCE.
The Contract Larttir Inspector at Castlo
Garden to be Exonerated,
New York, March 24. Special Treas
ury Agent Whitehead of the Custom House,
who has been investigating the charges
made against the Contract Labor Inspector,
at Castle Garden, completed his cxamina-
to-day, and forwarded his report to the
Treasury at Washington.
It is said that the report of Mr. White
head declares that there is not sufficient
proof to sustain the charge of negligence
against the inspector.
RELIEF FOE IRELAND.
Balfour Introduces a Measure for the
Purchase of Land in Erin.
EVERY FARMER TO OWN HIS FARM.
Fisheries to be Developed and Industries
Fostered.
GLADSTONE THANKS THE SECRETARY
For His Pains in Preparing the Bill, Which rasses
First Eeadiny.
A rather remarkable measure, somewhat
complicated in detail, has been prepared by
Secretary Balfour for the relief of Ireland.
It is expected to enable every farmer to own
the land he tills, and to foster industries and
banish poverty.
London, March 24. In the House of
Commons to-night Mr. Balfour, Chief Sec
retary for Ireland, introduced a bill for the
purchase of land in Ireland and for the im
provement of the poorer and more con
gested districts. The bill also provides for
the establishment of nn Irish Land Depart
ment Mr. Balfour said he believed that every
party agreed as to the necessity for increas
ing the number of occupying owners in Ire
land. Some on both sides viewed with dis
favor any policy that excluded the landlord
class from rural social life. With these he
greatly sympathized, knowing how in Great
Britain the landlords contiibuted to the
well-being of others. Fortunately it was
easier to increase the number of occupying
owners in Ireland than in England, because
the price of land was lower, and the tenant
possessed tenants' rights irrespective ot the
landlord.
COMPLICATED ISSUES INVOLVED.
Still, a measure dealing with land pre
sented complicated issues. In proposing
the formation ot a Land Department the
complex nature of the question presented
itself. There were now no fewer "than five
bodies for the valuation and sale of land,
namely: "The Land Estates Court, the
boards of commissioners appointed under
the acts of 1881 and 1885, the Commissioners
of Valuation and the Board of Works. The
bill proposes the amalgamation ot these into
one body. Regarding the question, "Ought
the land purchase bill be compulsory," the
Government answered no. Compulsion
should be used most sparingly, but when
justified by necessity it should be applied.
Compulsion could not be one sided. If
they compelled landlords to sell they must
force tenants to buy. The cogent reason
against compulsion was that they could not
make the bill compulsory without applying
it to the whole of Ireland. The Govern
ment saw no possibility of immediate con
summation of such an enormous tranaction
as the compulsory transfer of the whole
land of Ireland from the existing owners to
the existing occupiers.
Ought they to throw any risk upon the
British taxpayers? The Government again
answered no. Such a course was practically
impossible. Even British credit could not
be used for carrying out the proposals if a
risk to British taxpayers was involved.
Still British credit under perfectly secure
conditions must be used. Unless that was
done neither would the landlord have as
surance that he would receive for the land
anything belter than waste paper, nor would
the tenant receive assistance or inducement
to buy.
ETCOUHAOIif Q LANDLORD AND TENANT.
In dealing with the question of advances
to tenants to enable them to purchase, the
Government had decided against advancing
more than a 20 years' rental, meaning the
rent from which had been deducted the
local rates, which are now paid by the land
lord, but which, alter the purchase, must
be paid by the tenant As illustrative of
the working of the scheme, Mr. Balfour
instanced a holding, the gross rent of which
is 107 and the net rent 100 yearly, upon
which one year is due.
The bill, he said, encouraged the land
lord and the tenant to bargain as to the
price of the holding, and if they failed to
agree, referred the question of the price to
the Land Department, the officials ot which,
putting aside the year's arrears, must sat
isfy themselves of tbe bona fides of the
transaction and that the security is ade
quate, and must see that not more than 20
years' purchase is advanced.
The department might next issue a vest
ing order making the tenant the owner of
the holding, all arrears of debts to land
lords being wiped out, the dead rents abol
ished and the tenant put in possession free
of obligation, except the payment of 4 per
cent yearly upon the money advanced. This
4 per cent, he called the normal annuity,
but during the first five years the bill re
quired the tenant to pay 80 per cent of the
net annual rent. In the case supposed this
would amount to 84, of which the Govern
ment proposed to retain 12 as the tenants
insurance fund to meet seasons of special
distress. The land department might draw
upon this fund if the tenant fell into arrears.
So far the bill was the Ashbourne act
improved. In addition to the provisions of
the Ashbourneact, the bill required security
for purchases. They might take as security
local or general taxation, or the fund con
triouted to the exchequer. He proposed to
take as security the contributions of the
British exchequer to local Irish purposes,
and as a corollralery to make the local
country authorities responsible for default.
The bill would thus establish a guarantee
fund consisting of two portions, cash and
contingent The cash portion would consist
of 40,000 yearly, which Ireland never had
received, but ought to receive as a set-off
against England and Scotland's getting the
advantage of licensing duties.
PENALTY FOR INTERFERENCE.
Next there would be the probate duty, the
grant assigned for the future heing esti
mated at 200,000 yearly, and next would
be i per cent on annuities, payable by the
tenant The contingent portion would con
sist of Government contributions to poor
law, education and similar purposes. The
total advance thus guaranteed fund was not
to exceed the value of the two portions,
which, at 4 per cent, it was calculated
would amount to 33,900,000.
In the event of local purposes being in
terfered with through the operation of the
bill, it would be the duty of the grand jury
to levy an equivalent compulsory rate upon
the locality where such interference oc
curred. All this did not form the only se
curity given under tbe guaranteed fund.
In addition the Treasury would hold a land
lord s huh and tbe tenant s insurance.
Before the contingency fund was ap
proached in time of distress the landlord
portion would be taken with the accumula
ted reserves. The experience of 20 years
showed that less than 2 per cent of the an
nual installments in Ireland remained un
paid. Under the new scheme 6 per cent
would have to remain unpaid before any
security would be touched, excepting the i
per cent reserved from the tenants' annui
ties. After further elaborate financial detail
showing how the Imperial Exchequer was
secured against default, Mr. Balfour said it
was impossible, unless there were a repeti
tion of the calamity of the famine; that the,
guarantees affecting the poor law and edu
cational grants would ever be approached.
BUILDING LABORERS' DWELLINGS.
He next explained that it was designed to
use the i per ccut from the tenants annual
4 per cent as a local fund for the erection of
laborers dwellings. The tenants 4 per cent
extended Yr 49 years. In xegara to con-,
PITTSBURG, TUESDAY,
gested districts where a congested area
covered 25 per cent of any county it would
be constituted a separate county for the pur
poses of tbe act
A board consisting of the Chief Secretary
for Ireland, a delegate from the Land De
partment and a delegate from the Fishery
Board, who would be the official members,
and five others would be selected to control
congested districts, A grant of a million
and a half from the Irish Church surplus
would be devoted to relieving congestion,
assisting the development of the fisheries
and otherwise fostering industries and
ameliorating the condition of the poorest
districts.
NO RISK TO THE TAXPAYER.
Mr. Balfour, in concluding, defended the
scheme as without any conceivable risks to
the imperial taxpayer, while the 33,000,000
advanced under the bill, with the 10,000,
000 of the Ashbourne act, would establish a
perpetual fund, from which future purchases
of ten months might be made.
Mr. Gladstone, in a brief speech, said
that the rcheme was certainly very compli
cated, and that thanks were due Mr. Bal
four for the obvious pains he had taken in
its preparation. It was premature, he
added, to discuss the involved proposals of
the bill, which required close scrutiny.
The bill passed the first reading.
A REAL SHAM BATTLE.
Ball Carlrlges Used Instead of the TJsnnl
Iilnnk Ones.
rsrnciAL telegram to the sispatcu.i
Holtoke, Mass., March 24. At East
Hampton there was a sham battle, but in
stead of having empty cartridges many of
the guns were loaded with ball. Fortu
nately only one victim fell, Frank Snyder.
The scene in which Snyder received the
bullet in his neck depicted a
charge of the Confederates on the
Unionists, the latter repelling the charge by
volley after volley of musketry. His con
dition now is comfortable, though serious.
An investigation showed that one out of
every three cartridges used was loaded witn
a ball, and it was owing to the fact that the
order "shoot over their heads," had been
given just before the charge was made that
some were not killed. The strange part of
the affair is that it was known that ball
cartridges were on the stage and but little
effort was made to remove them.
In the scene where the spy is shot, which
comes half an hour previous to the charge,
the man detailed to shoot fired his rifle in
the air. The ball passed through a wall,
struck auothw wall and rebounding fell on
the stage and was picked up. The fact was
sufficient warning for the managers to heed.
Just before the Union troops rushed on the
stage their commander examined the am
munition and found a ball in every third
gun. The commander of the Confederate
forces was not warned. The ball that
wounded Snyder cut through the visor of
the cap of the man who stood next to him.
The walls were riddled with bullets.
A COLORED BOY'S VENGEANCE.
Ho Loads a Pipe With Gunpowder and Gives
it to Ills Enemy.
rBFECIAL TELEQBAM TO THE DISPATCIt.l
Louisville, March 24. Some time ago
Jones, a colored boy and a jockey for Trainer
Henry Owsley at the race track, stole 530
from John Merrill, a well-known shoer of
race horses. Owsley liked the boy, whom
he had taught, and he prevailed on Merrill
not to prosecute him it the money was re
stored. The latter consented with the under
standing that Jones was to be soundly
thrashed. John Allen, a rubber, caught
him and held him while the punishment
was administered. When he was released
he told Allen that he would get even with
him.
This afternoon Jones, seeing Allen ap
proach, drew a pipe from his pocket and
handed it to him, saying : "Light that
while I spin my top." The latter complied,
and in a moment an explosion occurred.
The pipe was lull of powder, and one of
Allen's eyes was totally destroyed, while the
sight of the other was practically ruined.
"I wish it had killed yon," cried the jockey,
Physicians think the shock to Allen's
nervous system is so great that he will die.-
BORNE TO THE TOMB.
Impresslvo Ceremonies nt tbe Obsequies of
Blnjor General George Crook.
rErECIAI. TBLEGBAM TO THE DISPATCIM
Cumberland, Md., March 24. The
funeral of the late Major General George
Crook took place this afternoon at Oakland.
When the funeral train came to a standstill
at Oakland, it was met by G. A. R. Post
No. 35, which acted as a guard of honor.
When the remains were taken from the
train, they were placed on a temporary
catafalque, and an opportunity was given to
view the remains, of whicn fullv 1,000
persons availed themselves, after which the
remains were placed in the hearse, and the
funeral procession slowly wended its wav to
the quaint old cemetery, known as the Odd
Fellows' Cemetery, on Quality Hill.
The impressive Presbyterian service at
the grave was conducted by Rev. J. E.
Moffatt, of Cumberland, assisted by Rev.
Bolton, of Palestine, W. Va.
SHOT DEAD ON HIS OWN CAR.
A St. Louis Man Murders a Conductor
Because of Jcnlousy.
St. Louis, Match 24. There was a sen
sational murder on a Washington avenue
street car this afternoon. Cecil En
glish, an ex - driver on the
line, boarded the rear platform
of a car containing three passengers, all
ladles, and placing a revolver against the
head of the conductor, Thomas E. Fitz
gerald, fired three times. The victim
dropped dead on the platform with his head
hanging over the top step.
The murderer then coolly took the reins,
after compelling the driver to jump off, and
drove the car, with its ghastly load, to the
stables. Here he called attention to what
he had done and walked away. He was cap
tured half an hour later. The murderer
claims Fitzgerald was too intimate with his
wife.
M'EEESPORT MUST HURRY
If an Appropriation for the Youghloglieny
River Is Expected.
rFROH A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. J
Washington, March 24. The McKees
port delegation, which is to argue before the
River and Harbor Committee of the House
in favor of the improvement of the Youghio
ghecy river by a system of locks and dams,
is expected to arrive here on Thursday. The
committee have made arrangements for hear
ing them, but are fast completing the gen
eral appropriation bill for internal improve
ments, and the McKeespbrt people will
have to hurry if they desire to have their
wishes attended to during this session of
Congress.
An Actor Jumped From the Window.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.!
Omaha, Neb., March 24. The Midway
Hotel, at Kearney, burned about 8 o'clock
this morning and one of the guests, Henry
Doming, a theatrical man, lost his life by
jumping from a fourth-story window. The
total loss is estimated at 5160,000; fully in
sured. Lincoln Will Soon Como to America.
UT DCNLAr'S CABLE COMPANY.
LONDON, March 24. Minister Lincoln
will make no presentations to the Queen
this season on account of his son's death.
His health is failing and he will probably
take leave of absence and pay a yisit to
emeries
A,
MARCH 25, 1890."
STRIKES BOTH WATS.
Sherman's Trust Bill Hits the K. of
L. and the Farmers' Alliance
JUST THE SAME AS STANDARD OIL
An Attack Upon the Author of the Measure
in the Senate.
BLAINE IS IN THE BEST OP HEALTH.
A Tote os the Eepnblfean Tariff Bill Not Expected
Before Jane 1.
The anti-trust bill came up in the Senate
yesterday. During the debate it was de
veloped that it would operate against the
Knights ot Labor and similar organizations
just the same as combinations of capital.
Senators Hoar and Vest attacked both the
bill and the author in vigorous language.
Washington, March 24. In the Sen
ate to-day the bill to declare unlawful trusts
and combinations in restraint ot trade and
production was taken up, and Mr. Turpie
discussed the constitutional points involved.
He was very far from saying, with the Sen
ator from New York (Mr. Hiscock), that
the objections to the bill were fundamental
and that its scope lay beyond the power of
Congress. On the contrary, he believed that
Congress had the same power to regulate
inter-State commerce that the States had to
regulate commerce within their own lines.
Mr. Teller said he was inclined to vote
for the bill, although he was not sanguine
of its accomplishing the purpose. He
doubted very much whether any benefit
would derive from it. Unless the
States took hold of the question and
suppressed those trusts by limiting the
amount of capital that can be aggregated in
any corporation, the trouble would con
tinue. IT APPLIES TO ALL.
The bill, he said, would apply to the
Farmers Alliance and the National
Farmers' League, which were organized
with the avowed purpose of increasing the
prices of farm produce a thing which
may be regarded as most desirable and as
absolutely essential to the prosperity of the
country. Was it possible, he asked, that
the bill would put it in the power of some
people to force the abandonment of those
organizations? Did anybody believe that
those organizations were inimical and hos
tile to the public welfare?
On the contrary, did not everybody know
that, unless the prices of farm products in
this country could be increased, a great
many of the farmers would soon be in bank
ruptcy and turned out of their homes? He
was extremely anxious to take hold of and
control those great trusts and combinations
of capital that were disturbing the com
merce of the country. He did not want,
however, to go to the extent of interfering
with organizations which, he thought, were
absolutely justified by the remarkable con
dition of things in the country.
THE KNIGHTS ALSO IN IT.
Mr. George referred to the Knights of
.Labor as another organization tnat would
come within the scope of the bill, because
the object of that order was to increase
their wages, and consequently to increase
tbe cost of production.
Mr. Teller admitted that the Knights of
'Labor and all the trades unions of the coun
try were practically included in the bill,
and suggested to the committee which re
ported it whether it could not be so worded
as to confine it to trusts that were offensive
to good morals.
Senator Sherman opposed Reagan's
amendment, and pleaded for tbe passage of
the bill just in its present form. Mr. Stewart
said the bill was unconstitutional. If it
were constitutional it wonld permit the
prosecution of farmers of Iowa or Kansas
who combined to hold their corn until prices
were better.
NO ADEQUATE REMEDY.
Mr. Hoar criticised the bill in some of its
legal aspects, and claimed that it failed to
aflord any adequate remedy. He did not be-'
heve that every time the price ot wheat went
down, every time that there was a bad year
in agriculture, or that that the manufactur
ers were pinched or that the mines were un
Erofitable, it was good policy for Congress to
old out to the people quack medicines or
pretended cures.
Mr. Sherman replied to Mr. Hoar, and
said that if the duty on cotton cloths or
woolen cloths was a little too low to protect
the manufacturers of Massachusetts, not a
month or a day would be allowed to pass be
fore he (Mr. Hoar) would demand a remedy
in the way of raising the duty. Here was a
remedy for a greater wrong than any that re
sult from a low tariff. Combinations had
been made involving a capital of $8,100,000,
000, and some State courts had been endeav
oring to wrestle with them.
SHERMAN GROWS ELOQUENT.
Was there no remedy, he asked, for the
evils of such combinations? If the remedy
proposed by the bill was a sham and auack
medicine, where was his (Mr. Hoar's) genu
ine remedy? A remedy would never come,
he said, from the class of men engaged iu
such monopolies. He had seen the gradual
growth of combinations and knew that their
power was becoming greater and greater
and stronger and stronger. And if Congress
was impotent to deal with that evil, if it
could not prescribe anything but quack
medicine, it would prove itself utterly un
fitted to perform its duties. The farmers'
associations throughout the country could
not see the source ot the evil; but they de
manded a remedy, and their demand had to
be heard. The power of Congress was the
only power that could deal with those cor
porations. Congress was the only power
that could regulate the interests of com
merce. It was the only power that could
bring all the parties to a combination before
a court, by proceedings not as criminal but
'of a civil character.
Mr. Hoar replied to Mr. Sherman, and
intimated that some other doctor ought to be
called in to consider the case or some other
remedy besides court-plaster should be pre
scribed for it.
AN ATTACK ON THE AUTHOR.
Mr. Vest aimed his remarks at Mr. Sher
man, denying that there was anything in
that Senator that gave him the right to as
sume tbat he had discovered the only rem
edy and the only road to success against
combinations. He (Mr. Vest) objected to
the bill because, in his judgment, it would
leak, but as a lawyer he believed that
the Supreme Court would not entertaiu
it for a moment; because it destroyed all his
ideas of the limitations of the Constitution;
because it was against the letter and spirit
of tbe judiciary act of 1789; and it was
"Sound and fury, signifying nothing." For
the Senator from Ohio to assume that that
he alone had fonnd the remedy for the evil
was, to say the least, transcending the
limits of parliamentary modesty.
Mr. Hiscock spoke against the bill as not
promising and any relief. Mr. Teller did
not believe, either, that the bill would
aflord any relief against tbe evil. His real
objection to it was that it was delusive. He
thought that it would be well to remit tbe
bill to the Judiciary Committee. " The hill
went over till to-morrow without action.
To Settle the Fair FIsht To-Day.
WASHiNGTON.March 24. In tbe House,
Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the Commit
tee on Rules, reported a resolution making
the World's Fair bill a special order for to
morrow morning, immediately after the.
reading of the journal, the previous ques
tion to be considered as ordered at 4 o'clock.
The resolution was adopted.
BLAINE IS VIGOROUS.
All Reports to the Contrary Notwithstand
ing, lie is in the Best of Health Ue
is Reported to Resrct His
Course In 18SS.
f FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.!
Washington, March 24. One of the
closest friends of Secretary James G. Blaine
has in the world, who has been with the
Secretary much of late, said to-day to the
correspondent of The Dispatch:
If the public wanted any other proof than his
own word in regard to tbo excellent condition
of his health, Mr. Blaino has furnished the
proof in the wonderful manner in which he has
borne tbo crushing blows he has received of
late, in the loss within a brief period of a
brother, a son and a daughter. Had he
been in a weak condition physically, the death
of his son Walker, to say nothing of the
others would nigh have killed Mm, but, instead
of being prostrated, ho was, within two days,
at bis office, working like a steam eneine.
looking over letters and dictating answers rap
idly to his typewriter. His pallid countenance
is with him no evidence of poor health. He
has had this pallor from a boy. Within a few
days I have seen an article In a New York pa
per speaking of Mr. Blaine's feeble condition.
On the very morning it appeared I took a long
walk with the Secretary, and tor a feeble man
he is the most vigorous pedestrian I ever tried
to cope with. He has a strong, swinging gait,
and would tire out almost anybody but an ath
lete. It was not his poor health which led him to
refuse to permit tbe use of bis name in tbe
Chicago convention. He simply would not ap
pear in the role of a determined, chronic
seeker for tbe place. Had he been at home he
wonld have understood tbe situation better,
and would undoubtedty have met the popular
demand for bis nomination with hearty acqui
escence. If he had been at home, or if be had
permitted his friends on the ground to have
ued their judgment, he would to-day have
been President of tbe United States, and a very
different President from the one who cot into
the place on account of the geographical loca
tion of his residence.
IN PAV0E OP THE KAILWAIS.
A Supreme Court Decision Against the Stnte
ot Minnesota.
Washington, March 24. The Supreme
Court of the United States, to-day rendered
an opinion in the case of the Minneapolis
Eastern Railway Company vs. the Railroad
and Warehouse Commission of Minneasota,
and the case of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railway Company vs. the same.
These are what are known as "granger
cases." The decision of tbe Supreme Court
of Minnesota was against the railroads, and
the case comes here on appeal. This court
reverses that judgment, though there was a
strong minority in favor of the State. The
ground taken by the Court is tbat, as the
decision of the commission was final, and as
there was no provision for a judical deter
mination of the reasonableness of the rates
fixed, it amounted to taking the property of
the company witbout due process of law,
and was therefore unconstitutional.
Justice Blatchford delivered the opinion
of the court, and Justice Bradley delivered
a dissenting opinion in behalf of himself,
Justice Gray and Justice Lamar. Justice
Miller concurred in the conclusion reached
by the court.but did not fully approve of the
opinion rendered.
SMITTEN WITH THE B0HTH.
VIco President Morton Has a High Opinion
of Ics Progress.
.'SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Washington, March 24. Vice Presi
dent Morton has been interviewed and has
some very pleasant things to say about his
recent Southern trip. To a reporter Mr.
Morton said:
I think that the wonderf nl and rapid recovery
of the South from tbe devastation of the war
is most amazing, and must strongly impress
everyone who knows what the South experi
enced and realizes what It is to-day. I am
frank to say that I do not believe a traveler go
ing through the South, if unawara of the
struggle of 25 years ago, would notice any
signs resulting from that struggle. Of course
this recovery is not equal at all points. Some
cities are more backward than others, and yet I
believe tbat all cities are feeling tbe general
prosperity which is now the bappy condition of
the Bonth. I speak only for tbe cities. I did
not go into the country. In the cities, however,
tbe Southern man has his mind on tbe f ntnre
rather than tbe past. Certainly among the
business men, so far as I could see. Democrats
and Republicans were on excellent terms.
WANT A NATIONAL CHARTER,
An Electrical Company With
1 Number of
Pittsburg; Members.
7KOM A STAPT COBBZSPOHDKTT.I
Washington, March 24. Congressman
Maish to-day introduced in the House a bill
to incorporate tbe Columbia Electric Com
pany. The following gentlemen are named
as incorporators: James S. Humbird, P.
Foley, Gilbert T. Rafferty, James Atwell
and George T. Oliver, of Pittsburg; Caleb
H. Jackson, E. T. Piatt and Paul W. Cra
ratb, of New York, and John W. Thompson,
Lewis Clephane, Fred W. Joyce, Green B.
Raum, Thomas J. Luttrell, C. C. Lancaster
and T. E. Roessle, of the District qt Colum
bia. The object of the company is to supply
electricity for lighting, telephoning and
motive power or other purposes in the dis
trict. The capital stock of the corporation is to
be?250,000, of which 25 per cent in cash is
to be paid in within 60 days after the pass
age of the act. The stock can be increased
at the will of the stockholders to the limit
of?5,000,000.
GETTING CLOSE TO CONGRESS.
The Farmers' Alllnnco Has Opened Head
quarters at tbe Capital.
fSPECIAL TELEOBAM TO TnE DISPATCIM
Washington, March 24. The Farmers'
Alliance, which is creating such consterna
tion among the statesmen and politicians,
has established headquarters in Washing
ton, where the work of educating Congress
as to desired legislation will be carried on.
The president, Mr. Polk, is on hand,
actively pressing upon Congress the merits
of the new sub-treasury plan for relieving
the condition of tbe agriculturists of the
country.
Mr. Folk says that this plan is the
product of the best minds of tbe alliance,
and it will probably be enacted into a law
at this Congress or during the next one.
The alliance is making its influence felt
very strongly with Congressmen, and poli
ticians of both parties are considerably wor
ried by its aggressiveness.
IN THE DISTANT FUTURE.
A Tote on tbo Tariff Bill Not Expected Until
June 1.
Washington, March 24. A member of
the majority of tbe Committee on Ways and
Meaus said to-day that the tariff bill will
not be reported to the full committee until
Friday, to the House till the 10th or 15th of
April,' and that a vote upon it will not be
reached until about the 1st of June.
THE RATE DOUBLED.
Business In the Pension Bureau Proceeding
With a Rush.
Washington, March 24. A statement
prepared at tbe Pension Office shows that
4,250 pension certificates were issued during
the week ending March 22, 1830. The 'is
sues for the four weeks ended on that date
aggregated 15,615 as against 8,012 for the
corresponding four weeks in 1889,
fin,
. ,
THE. SOFT IMPEDIMENT ADMITTED.
&?, -Unusual
Lawrenceyille CanomeTvliat Surprises the
License Com " 'lges.
MEN AND WOMEN WHO CONFESS
Some of Them Promise to Reform If the Cause Is Removed Others Who Grew Weary
Wailing to Get Licenses The Judges Criticise Ibo Backing of bome Applicants
Landlords, Real Estate Men and Brewers Not Looked on With Special Marks o
Approval A Soldier Whose Confession Caused Ono of the Judges to Express Hit
Sorrow Lawyers on Both Sides of Samo of tho Applicants.
A. Y. Lee, the civil engineer, has been
employed by Judge Ewing to draught a
map of every ward in the two cities, show
ing the location of the saloons of applicants
for license. The contract calls lor a detailed
map of each ward, the same to be furnished
daily, if necessary. The work will occupy
Mr. Lee's full time for a month at least.
Yesterday the engineer spent the whole
day in the Seventeenth ward. He had pro
vided himself with an official list of license
applications, and he went from one to the
other of the houses mentioned in the appli
cations. On tbe street map of the ward
which he had already drawn, he dotted
down each saloon at the exact spot on the
exact street it occupies. The street lines are
in India ink. A saloon is represented by a
small square in red ink.
This Seventeenth ward map will be placed,
in Judge Ewing's hands when court opens
this morning. Mr. Lee will then proceed to
personally visit the saloons in the ward next
in order. In this way be expects to keep one
day ahead of the court. Witn the Seven
teenth ward map lying before them the
Judges may see at a glance it the Brooks
law is violated by tbe proximity of appli
cants. For instance, one square in the
Seventeenth ward that between Forty
seventh and Forty-eighth streets according
to Mr. Lee's map, shows three
saloons providing all licenses applied for
would be granted. Now, there is but one
saloon in that block. On Butler street in
the square between Fortieth and Forty-first
there would also be this grouping. The
probabilities are that the Court will allow
only one saloon in each of these blocks, and
a map alone will help the judges to acquire
this kind of information.
Besides the separate map furnished the
Court for every ward, duplicates will be
made up into book form by Mr. Lee, with
blank leaves between each ward, on which
the Judges may enter their comments when
they come to sum up their work finally.
This book will be very critically examined
by the Judges just before they grant the
license?, because it will prevent the repeti
tion of last year's trouble in the granting of
tbe licenses, viz, a grouping of saloons.
Mr. Lee finds tbe sites of proposed saloons
occupied by all sorts of stores. He says
that there will be a very material reduction
in the volume of grocery, furniture and res
taurant business if all licenses were granted.
Splotched with red ink, Mr. Lee'a maps
look like bloody battlefields.
The License Court was rather more inter
esting than usual yesterday. The greater
part of the day was spent in Lawrenceyille,
the paradise ot speak-easier. Nearly half
of the applicants were on the list of speak
easies furnished by Chief Brown, and the
Court must have been somewhat surprised
by the large number who confessed, during
the past year, to having sold intoxicants.
BEEE FOR BOARDERS.
ONE OF THE MANY LICENSE COURT
DEVELOPMENTS.
Keepers of Boarding Houses Who Accom
modate Their Customers With Drinks
The Court Expresses Sorrow for a
Soldier Who Kept n Speak-Eoy.
The Judges were in their seats promptly
at 9:30 o'clock. They looked fresh and
rested by their two days' vacation. They
were too prompt for James Madden, the
saloon keeper on Second avenue, near
Brady street. When his name was called,
the first of all. he did not respond. He was
passed and tbe Court called Mrs. Caroline
Mayer, No. 3802 Forbes avenue. Two years
ago she applied as Mrs. Caroline Kurtz,
having since been married. She said tbat
she keeps a restaurant, but tbat it does not
pay much more than enough to meet the
taxes. Being anxious to get some more
rapid way of making money, she has ap
plied also for a wholesale license. She was
positive tbat she had not been keeping a
speak-easy.
Edward Moran asked leave to sell liquor
at No. 714 Fifth avenue, Soho. The house
is now a dwelling. It contains 11 rooms,
but is very small. For six years Mr. Moran
drove a delivery wagon for Thomas Murray, tbe
"pop" man. During the past three years he
has been taking orders and delivering beer for
a wholesale dealer on tbe Sonthside. iHe con
fidently told the Court that he found a good
many new customers for tbe house, one or more
nearly every day.
Patrick Murray, of No. 7o3 Forbes street, is a
middle aged gentleman, with a bnsby. sandy
mustache and sidewbiskers. To the qnestion:
Whatdo you propose to keep if you get a re
tail licenser" he replied, "Keep a saloon."
A CRUCIAL test.
"Why do you want a wholesale licenser'
"Then I conld sell it in bu ckets and bottles.'
"Which kind would you prefer?"
"Retail, Tour Honor. I could sell to more
people."
"Who is there about that neighborhood that
buys in buckets?"
"Men from tbe mills, Your Honor."
"What do you do?"
"I haven't done much for two years, Your
Honor."
'Did you apply in 18S8?"
"No, sir. I hadn't my citizen's paners."
"Who applied for tho place then?"
"Charley O'Brien."
"He bad his papers?"
"Yes, sir."
"When were yon naturalized?"
"October, ISSi"
"How long did you keep a saloon r
"Three years: from 18So to 1S87."
"Call tho next."
Felix McKnlght. the redoubtable leader of
the Hibernian Bines, who keeps a saloon at
No. 998 Second avenue, passed the brief ordeal
without making a break.
Richard R. Pltmkett, No. 104 Tnstin street,
says tbat be intends to keep a bote and
restaurant if the court wills. His bouse is
now occupied by Mrs. Harris's notion store.
Until four years ago Wallace kept a saloon in
tbe place. The property is owned by Mrs.
Catherine Howley. Judge Ewing thought that
tbe building was too small to allow proper room
for the hotel office, dining room, etc., after cat
ting oat a good sized bar.
QUITE A LEADING QUESTION.
Mr. Plunkett Is single. Jndge Ewing asked:
"Have you a landlady in sight?" "Well, it
might be," said the blushing applicant. Both
judges 9mlled, while Judge Ewing said: "We'll
not press that any farther."
Thomas Purdon is a little, weasen-faced
man, with a big overcoat and a rich brogne.
He wants to keep at No. 822 Fifth avenue,
which, he said, is "on the tip o' the bill as you
go round the corner."
"Well, what have you been keeping there?"
"Well, I keep a retail house."
"How long?'r
"Thirteen years, Your Honor. This last year
I had no license."
"You keep nothing but a retail house?"
"Oh, Your Honor, if any ono would come In
I'd serve them."
"Does any one comein?"
"Well, not often. Your Honor."
Any Imputation that Mr. Pardon has kept a
speak-easy was spurned with disdain.
Michael Rogers stepped up on a cratch. He
bids for the corner of Second avenue and Can
ton street. He said be would serve meals if
any one called for them.
"Then, of course." said the President Judge,
"your dining room will be in front, where it is
convenient?"
"Ob, no, Tour Honor; my barroom will he I
THREE JENTS
THAT THEY CONDUCT SPEAK-EASIES.
in front," said the applicant, with evident
haste.
Ernest F. Rusch is licensed at No. 3716 Forbes
avenue. He is a yonng man, and owns hii
bouse. He serves cold luncbes, nsmg two or
three bams a week, and a cheese. He said that
his bar trade bad increased very little in two
years. He inherits his trade fiom his father,
who kept a tavern for years. Judge Ewing
said: "It is reported that you sell to many men
who are drinking too hard."
now out op woke.
August Saalbacb. No. 4SJ Forbes avenue. Is a
long-haired, red-headed man, whose speech
was so guttural that tho Judges were greatly
worried to understand him. He kept a saloon
two years ago, but "he has'nt done anything
since."
Philip Sweeney, No. 896 Second avenue, is a
little and young man, with black eyes and a
yellow mustache, who wants to add liquors to
tbe attractions of his poolroom and billiard
room. He wishes to run an opposition to his
fellow countryman. Felix McKnlght.
Samuel Whitehouse, No.-6S7 Fifth avenue, is
an elderly man, with thin, gray hair, a very
brown face, yellow mustache and gray goatee.
He wore a brand-new, ready-made suit of dark
checked gray. He was born and raised in tho
Second ward, and has lived 23 years in tbo
Fourteenth ward. His work has been in tho
rolling mills, and recently he has been digginpj
cellars for James McKmght. Mr. Whitehouse
said tbat he never drank wblskv, but took a
glass of beer when he felt like" it. He bad
made it a rale never to drink beer after supper.
Judge Ewing said that he could not recall a
house in tbat vicinity good for anything except
to be burned down. Mr. Whitehouse has three
grown sons, one of whom is Henry Whitehouse,
Inspector of the Second police district.
Tbe Fifteenth ward has at present only four
licensed houses. The first man called in tho
Fifteenth ward was Frank Bopp. No. 3133
Butler street. For l'J years he kept the Farmers'
Hotel, in tbe East End, but tbe Brooks law cue
short his career as a bomface. Judge Ewins
said: "During the lime that you sold liquor
there was hardly a provision of tho law that
yon did not violate."
A LAWYER ON EACH SIDE.
Anton Bucbell, at the corner of Charlotte
and Thirty-fifth streets, appeared with a lawyer
on either side of him. W. J. Brennen on the left
and C. C. Dickey on the right. For six years
Bnchell kept a restaurant and a saloon in ths
Fourth ward of Allegheny, and since then,
for five years, has worked as a blacksmith
Attorney Dickey opposed tbe application, and
asked if the house was not a speak-easy. Mr.
Bucbell said be had heard so, but be wouldn't
get possession until April X. Mr. Dickey wanted
to see Bncbell's lease from Mrs. Catharino
Hovtley, bat it was not at hand. The applicant
said that be had it at bome. Bnchell said that
few strangers or travelers passed his corner,
but be expected to have as customers the mill
men in that neighborhood. Mr. Dickey repre
sented William Clark's Son & CT., who do not
want their workmen to set drunk.
Frank Bob), No. 3231 Penn avenue, at present
keeps a restaurant. He was a saloonkeeper for
seven years, until May I, lSt-9. He claimed that
during 18&S be fed twice as many people as in
lbSJ. "You got through by a na'rrow shave ia
'83," said Jadsci Swing; "and only because tho
applicants generally were a rough set."
Claude J. Burg, No. 31ul Penn avenue, dis
played a plot of b Urge building. He keeps a
hotel and restaurant, and somewhat surprised
the Court by saying tbat he "contemplated"
putting bis bar in a side building which he now
uses as a carriage shed. He claimed to have a
pretty large patronage at bis dining table. Dur
ing five months of 1S69 be sold and collected for
tbo Bruenings, beer dealers. He took an order,
he sjid, whenever he saw an opportunity to
make a customer for his employers. During;
1SSS he allowed his boarders to keep beer in hia
cellar, and at the marriaze of his sister-in-law
had seven kegs delivered at onco at tbe house.
Consequently he was refused a license one year
ago.
LOOKING for east work.
Edward Baro. Wo. 3401 Smallman street, ap
plies for a house which is owned by his chil
dren. Tbe place contained a saloon, kept by Al
bert Gamier, until May 1, ISiD. Mr. Baro has
been a plasterer, but says he cannot stand the
work any longer. He contemplates tho employ
ment of Barney Rcngers as a barkeeper, but
Barney will have to look elsewhere for employ
ment. "Gamier has been keening a speak-easy la
your house." said Judge Ewing.
"He left there last July."
"Who has had tbe place since ?"
"Well, the man is in tho workhouse. Your
Honor.'1
"Who i he ?"
"John Knorr."
"It will take at least a year to purify your
place," said tbe Court. T
Before the next applicant was called. At
torney C. C. Dickey stated to tbe court that
Alderman David Doughty had been summoned
to appear as a witness against John House, one
of tbe applicants for tbe Fifteenth ward, to
Srove that House bad sold liquor illegally.
oughty had refused to appear, and Mr.
Dickey asked for an attachment. An attach
ment was issued.
L. W. Ebert, Ho. 3103 Butler street, was asked
by Judge Ewing: "Were you interested, di
rectly or indirectly, in anything that took place
at Ross' Grove during tho last year?"
GOT BEER FOR THEM.
"Some friends came to me. and told me that
they wanted somo beer up there. I got it lor
them."
"How did you send it up?"
"In a market wagon."
"How often did this occur?"
"Four or five times last summer."
"How much at a time?"
"Four or five kegs."
"Was it retailed in tbe grove?"
"No, sir; it was taken to a house where I
have been living there, about GOO yards from tho
grove."
"Did you retail it out?"
"No. sir; I had nothing to do with it."
"Who dealt it out?"
"Weil, mv father-in-law wa there," said the
witness, with a rather melancholy smile.
"For what picnics was this beer?"
"The grocers, once for a private picnic, and
twico for the County Democracy."
"Do you mean to to tell me," inquired Judge
Ewintr, "that the County Democracy arinks
beer?"
"It'3 changed aronnd now," said Judge
Ewing. 'The Democrats drink beer and the
Republicans whisky."
WADE A MISTAKE.
"If you intended apply for a license, Mr.
Ebert," said Judge Ewing, "jou should have
left that picnic beer alone."
James B. Faber asks to add a bar to hia
boarding house, at No. 188 Thirty-fourth
street.
Albin Farley, a carpenters' foreman In tho
Black Diamond Steel Works, says that a wound
in bis leg. received in battle, gives him so
much pain that he wants to quit bossiDg car
penters and boss a saloon at No. 3627 Butler
street. He flatly acknowledged tbat he had
kept a speak-easy. He said: "I'm too good a
citizen to go back on my word. I fit in the war
for four years, and I won't swear false. I bad
rented the house with the expectation of
getting a license, but I didn't get It. The rent
was too much for me to stand, and Isold
beer."
"I think more of you for telling the truth,"
said Juage Magee.
Tobias Finkbeiner, No. 3C0O Smallman, asks
for a license for the first time. Judge Ewing
told him that the reputation of bis house wag
bad.
George Gruber applies for No. 3322 Smallman
street. He was a saloon keeper in the good old
times, and, except in 1883, had dispensed spirits
on a beer license. He acknowledged that he
drank "a little" beer now and then.
William Grosse, No. 3333 Penn avenue, al
leged tbat he had a lodging house, bat when ho
was asked how recently he bad kept anybody
ovprnicht.be said: "Three years ago." At.
torney Wiedmann, who appeared for Mr.
Grosse, furnished as much merriment as ths
applicant. The apnlicant trembled on bis cans
and the persperation stood out all over bis
face.
After Mr. Wiedmann had made a fervid ap
peal for his aged friend, whose place be said be
visited often. Judge Ewmg said: "Don't you
think Mr. Grosse ought to pay S500 for the past
year?" The attorney aptly replied: "He is will- .
tng to do so, Your Honor."
Mrs. Philipena Hammerly, a recent widow.
Judged by her raiment, applies for No. 3617
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