iff AID TO SCIENCE.
Dr. E. A. Mundorf, of the Southside,
Makes Another Discovery.
ED COFFEY'S KKIFE TLATS A PART.
It is Possible to Detect an Old Blood Stain
on Iron or Steel.
BOME MEDICAL TEXT BOOKS LAID OUT
Dr. E. A. Mundorf, of the Southside, has
succeeded in making a discovery that is of
T&lue to science. Some months after Ed
Coffey committed suicide in the Allegheny
Conntr Jail, hy cutting his throat, Coroner's
Clerk Mark Donley presented Captain
Stewart, of the Third police district, with
the knife used by Coffey. Captain Stewart
was loth to believe that Mr. Donley was
playinj; a joke on him, although the Enife
answered the description of the one found in
Coffey's cell. There were a few stains on the
blade, and upon the suggestion of Inspector
McKelvy thf knife was placed in the hands
of Dr. Mundorf for an examination.
Text books on medical jurisprudence have
held for yeas that it was almost impossible
to detect old blood stains on iron and steel,
owing to their being chemically altered and
destroyed. The blood becomes so disorgan
ized that it is nearly impossible to net the
proper microscopic proofs. As blood de
posited on iron or steel will dry slowly and
become putrescent, the probability o? dis
covering the chemical elements is greatly
lessened.
ACTIOIT OF THE AIK.
"When a blood clot dries rapidly, whether
exposed to warm atmosphere or done for the
purpose in view, that of obtaining certain
crystals, the probability of finding those
crystals become greater. Usually when
blood clots come into the possession pf an
experimentor, thev are not only old and
mixed with foreign matter, but have
dried under conditions very uufarorable for
the detection of the needed crystals. Mr.
Coffey's knife, lor instance, simply preserved
as a relic, no thought was bestowed upon
the purpose of a future analysis. To prove
the presence of blood stains on it, it was
necessary to overcome these adverse con
ditions which interfered with a succesful
demonstration. Passing from band
to hand, in and ont of
pockets, exhibited as a relic, having been
associated with one of the darkest tragedies
in the annals of crime in Allegheny countv,
there would necessarily be a peculiar diffi
culty in the way of proving that the stains
on the blade were blood. The minnte por
tions of blood had to be transferred to per-
Under the Glass.
A Haemin crystal'. B Masses of disor
ganizing blood clot C Short hairs from Cof
fey's throat D Mass or united nsmin crys
tals. fectly pure slides, subjected to chemical re
actions, and the results further studied un
der the microscope, with 500 diameters ap
plied.
DS. MUJfDOBF'S ISTEBVIEW.
In speaking last night of the result of the
analysis and bis success in demonstrating
the possibility ot discovering whether
strains on iron or steel is blood or not. Dr.
Mundorf said:
"The possibility of detecting the nature
of old stains, supposed on circumstantial
grounds to be composed of blood, is of great
interest to scientists. There can be no ques
tion but that the methods now nsed by va
rious observers will insure gratifyingresults
when the conditions governing their appli
cation are at all favorable. As scientific
methods they have been too long and thor
oughly tested to set them aside as valueless.
There are instances on record where
these tests have been used by
various observers, in cases of extraordinary
difficulty, not only in a wav flatterinc to the
individuals who performed the tasks, but
also to prove the resources of this depart
ment of modern science in settling doubtful
points that involve the . salvation or de
struction of a human life. These methods
may employ the use of microscope and
photographic powers that rnn up to the
enormous extent of 10,000 diameters, as
when the question of the relative sizes of
blood cells from various ?nimals are to be
contrasted, in order to tell the blood of a
human from that ot the dog, the ox. the
sheep and the goat, the blood cells of which
diminish in size from man to thr goat in the
order mentioned.
ALMOST LIKE MAGIC.
"There is, indeed, something of the air of
magic hanging around the means occasion
ally employed, in these instances, to bring
the truth to light. And where the reaching
of that truth depends npou some impercepti
ble particle coming from them, and subject
to changes that go far to destroy its char
acteristic, shape and structure, as .or
instance, an old blood stain, the novelty of
the task increases.
"In the examination ot old blood stains,
the first poinUof inquiry is: From what ani
mal belonging to the great mamalian group
does the spot of dried blood come? The need
of care in deciding this point is evident when
we bear in mind that several domestic ani
mals have blood cells very similar in size
and appearance to those of man, and to dis
criminate among them istoaccomplishatask
that has not as yet satisfied the relentless de
mands ol scientific precision in all cases.
In blood discoiorations there is fortu
nately another mode of procednre which
may be made use of, whether the blood
stain be new or old, one that is the forma
tion by properly selected chemicals applied
to the suspected substance, of certtin typi
cal crystals that are thns constructed by
chemical reactions set up in the
coloring matter ot the blood. These
crystals are exceedingly minute and
are ki.own as haemin crystals,
and for their detection require the use of
the microscope. But if the blood stain
Happens to be old and deposited as a simple
speck of discoloration, in no wise resembling
blood, on the blade of a knife, the difficul
ties in the wayof the discharge of the task
are increased. It is a well known 'act that
blood deposited on iron and steel, will un
dergo changes that prevent the lormation of
even haemin crystals, and hence leaves the
worker little or no chance ot resolving the
speck into blood.
ONE OF THE TESTS.
"In order to solve a question as to a cer
tain point, discoiorations discernible on the
large blade of a dark handled penknife,
placed for that purpose in mv hands, with
the statement that it was the knife ot a sui
cide. "With great patience and care a very
minute quantity ordebris wasobtained from
the discoftred spots, transferred to perfectly
clean glass sides and submitted to the proper
chemical tests, heat and the microscope.
. .The first two experiments failed. The third
Wexperiment, submitted to some changes
meanwhile, succeeded, and it had the char
acteristic appearances of the coloring
matter of the blood with the haemin
crystals under my observation. This blood
contained in its midst three hairs cut short
off as by a razor, showing that the suicide
had pTObably been recently shaved. The
knife was placed in my hands for examination-
by Captain Stewart and Inspector Me-
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corner ol Smithfield street, now occupied by The Dispatch business office. The building will be of cut stone, entirely fireproof, and
fitted np with everv necessity and convenience for the publication of a newspaper of to-day. The pressrooms, in half-basement, will
occupy an area of over 4,500 square feet, and will be filled with the most improved presses and appurtenances. The first floor will be
used by The Dispatch for its counting room, business offices and mailing room. The second story will be given over to the editorial
and reportorialstaffor the paper, with large stereotyping rooms in the rear, and the entire third floor will be used as composing room.
In the construction of this building, compactness has been aimed at, and it is exnestcd that thereby much time that important factor
in newspaper woik will be saved, all the departments being so conveniently situated.
Kelvey, and tbey stated that it had been
used on himself by Coffey. The knife an
swered the description of the knife as first
seen by Dr. Joseph Dickson, who, with Dr.
Stewart, attended the dying man. But
whatever the source of the weapon
it is interesting to know that from
an old knife blade was obtained the physio
logical elements necessary to prove that the
faint dark discoiorations on it were in
realitv old blood stains, and whether this
knife blade severed the connecting threads
ot that singular criminal tragedy or not, it
still remains to be remembered mat tne
time is drawing near when the murderer
will find his most cunning schemes to
conceal the blood stains that bear witness
ot his guilt, fsil him utterly in the hour of
his need."
B0THIKG BCT TALK 50 FAB,
The Bit. Oliver and Suburban Railways Mot
Vet Comolidnled.
A report was erroneously circulated yes
terday that a conference was to take place
in the afternoon between the directors of the
Suburban Kapid Transit Kail way Company
and those -of the Mt. Oliver Incline Kail
way Company with a view to consolidation.
The former runs out the Brownsville road
to Carrick, and the latter connects the in
cline with Mt Oliver and Allentown.
When Mr. C. J. Schultz, President of the
Incline Railway Company, was seen by a
reporter, he said: "It is a false report. "We
have not been notified of any meeting, and
have not seen any of the Suburban peo
ple for a week."
Mr. Joseph Keeling, one of the heaviest
stockholders iu the company, then said:
"The suburban people have made several
propositions to us, but we have rejected
them. Finally we made a proposition to
them and of what we would do. They have
not notified us as vet, and even when they do
there might be some hitch in the agreement.
So far nothing at all bas been accom
plished." Mr. Schultz said that as far as
one 5-cent fare was concerned tbat had not
been considered and there was no grounds
for the report.
A STICK FOR BEN.
Colonel Snowden Presents the President
Willi n Historical Cane.
Seymour I. Kan, a young Republican
politician o'f the Quaker City, is stopping
at the Duquesne. He feels proud over the
tact that last Thursday he presented Presi
dent Harrison with a historical cane as a
gift from Colonel A. Louden Snowden, the
United States Minister to Greece. The cane
was made out of the oaken yolk that held
the bell on Independence Hall in 1776.
Colonel Snowden hadit neatly carved and
polished, and a beautiful gold head put on
it with an inscription giving a short history
of the stick.
Mr. Kau exhibits an' autograph letter
from the President, in which he acknowl
edges the receipt of the stick, and desires
him to thank Mr. Snowden for the gift It
is seldom that the President of the United
States' writes a personal letter, and Mr. Kau
values it highly.
Mr. Kau is one of the rising yonng poli
ticians of the Quaker City. He is a candi
date for the Legislature, and though only
24 years old, he expects to get there.
IK AMEU1CA ONCE'MORE.
Two Well-Known Piitsfeurcers to Arrlvo
Homfl From Europe This Morning.
Henry Laughlia, of Jones & Laughlins,
and Dr. T. M. T. McKennan, a well-known
Penn avenue physician, will arrive in Pitts
burg this morning from ' Europe. They
landed in New York yesterday. Both gen
tlemen have been in Europe since last sum
mer. Much of the time was spent in the South
of France. Then Mr. Laughlin went to
Paris and Dr. McKennan went to London
and took a special course in the study of
nervous diseases in one of the great hospitals
there. He studied there for three months.
Urling.
We carry the largest stock in either city.
Lewis block. Urlujg & Sox,
Leading Cash Tailors,
TTSu 47 Sixth ave.
Speciai. corset bargains this- week at
Kosenbaum & Co.'s, Market street.
Elmeb E. Miller, architect, Pcnu
building, Pittsburg, Pa.
Black Goods An elegant quality of
black nuns' veiling,with bemstiched border,
at 85c a yard. Hcgtjs & Hacke.
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Urllnf.
We carry the largest stock in either city.
Lewis block. TJkling & Sox,
Leading Cash Tailors,
XTSa 47 Sixth are.
THE
FUTURE HOME OF THE DISPATCH.
Establishment Now in Process of Construction on Diamond
The Work Being Rapidly Pushed.
Mill " - 'r'
MAD AS HOBNETS.
LOCAL. SHIPPERS OBJECT TO SOME
FREIGHT RATES.
A Meeting of Pittsburg Freight Agents to
bo Held To-Morrow Little Change in
Rates Expected Some Western Roads.
Quietly Cutting.
The Pittsburg Freight Agents' Com
mittee will meet to-morrow morning, to ar
range for the new lake and rail rates for
the upper ports. Navigation to St. Paul,
Duluth, Marquette and other points in the
upper iron and copper regions was resumed
a short time ago. The lakes are now free
from all vestige of ice.
It is believed by the agents that the rates
of last year will be restored; at least no rad
ical change one way or the other will be
made. The system of basing the rates has
been chanced, and this may make some dif
ference. Last year the official classification
was taken to Chicago, but beyond that city
the "Western classification was used. Not
long since the "Western lines adopted the
official classification, and it will prevail to
all the points' involved.
The new iron classification which goes
into effect April 17 is pleasing to some of
the manufacturers, but others don't like it.
A number of articles have been taken out of
the schedule and put into other classes,
giving them a higher rate. Some of these
articles are anchors, anvils, cabinets, pneu
matic iron, drums, flanges, flues, forgings,
hinges and water gates. Most of these
things are made in Pittsburg. Picks, also,
have been changed, and the change has pro
duced no end of grumbling.
The reasons given by railroad men for
these diversions are that the low iron classi
fication is intended to cover strictly heavy
material that is easily handled without fear
ol being broken. The above articles re
quire considerable care, and hence the
slight advance asked.
The nail men are also as mad as hornets.
It is only a small thing that worries them,
just six pounds, but it shows how annoying
the little things of life are. The local roads
are now charging for the keg, something
they never did beiore. The "Western roads
always did make this charge. The nails
alone weigh 100 pounds, and the keg was
included in the rale, but hereafter the trunk
lines will follow the Western roads, and de
mand the six pounds of flesh.
In general the freight business is brisk.
The commercial agents of the river roads
complain that navigation is taking much of
their traffic, but it has always been so.
Other agents say that the iron men are
holding back their shipments until the new
rates go into effect. There is a. prevailing
ooinidn that some of the Western roads are
quietly cutting rates. ' It is done of course
by verbal agreement, and nothing ever ap
pears in writing on which the Inter-State
Commerce Commission could act.
It is thought rather funny by some that
freight for Omaha should be taken by way
of Cairo, many miles ont of the rect line,
especially when the published rates are sup
posed to be higher.
JAMES C. THOMPSON,
iSf
Tremont Ranges and stoves, Mantels and
Tiles,
NO. 640 LIBERTY AVENUE, riTTSBURG
Mr. Thompson, who has been with Bis
sell & Co. lor the past 19 years, is now
located at 640 Liberty avenue.having bought
out the retail business ol Anshmz, Brad
bury & Co. He carries a full line oi Tre
mont stoves and ranges and all the repairs
of the Anshutz m ike. Also, Schlag's nat
ural gas stoves and furnaces, probably the
most economical appliances ot this kind that
has appeared in the market.
WOOD AND SLATE MANTELS, TILES.
This line of goods is a decided specialty.
A splendid exhibit of the latest styles of
wood mantels and tile is found on the second
floor in a very ample room devoted to this
line. The slate mantels are on the main
floor.
All the mantels have been selected with a
viewof.presentingtheniost advanced ideas in
architectural decoration. Parties building
will find it to their interest to consult Mr.
Thompson.
Misses M. Donnelly and McGarrell
(formerly with Jos. Home & Co.) have just
returned Irom New York, where they se
cured the services of a competent Eastern
trimmer. Opening of pattern hats and bon
nets Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of
this week.
Cabinet photos Si per dozen. Life-size
crayons cheaper than anywhere else. SON
NENBERG'S SOCIETY GALLERY, 38 Filth
ave., Pitts.; Branch Gallery, 52 Federal st,
Alleghenv.
Oar fcweet Bnbr Pet.
"Didn't she look cute when Mr. Aufrechj
took ber pictnre, and how perfect?" said a
fond mother yesterday, when she had baby's
picture taken at the Elite Gallery, 516 Mar-
ket street, Pittsburg.
HTTSBTTRd DISPATCH.
PHILADELPHIA FOR HASTIXGS.
The Delegation DIny Stand 22 for the
General, 17 Tor Delamater.
James Keilly, a Democrat and business
man of Philadelphia, passed through the
city last evening en route to Chicago. In
speaking of the political situation in the
Quaker City, he said: "Mayor Fitler would
like to stand in with Senator Quay
and support his man for Governor, but he
dare not do it. I have discovered lately
that Quay's popularity with the people is
very much on the wane, and Mayor Fitler
can't afford to :gnore their wishes. He as
pires to be a United States Senator, and has
no desire to ran counter with the voters.
"The attack of Lew Emory on Delamater
and the disposition shown to revolt in
Western Pennsylvania if the Meadville
man is nominated has set the Philadelphia
people to thinking. I firmly believe that
if Delamater is chosen tbat he will not be
elected." , .
A Republican politician from Philadel
phia reasons in a similar manner. There
are 39 delegates in the Quaker City, ol
which Mayor Fitler controls 10, Leeds 5 and
McManes 5. These delegates will go for
Hastings, giving him a majority in Phila
delphia. It is believed the delegation will
stand 22 for Hastings, 17 (or Delamater.
Major Moniooth is said to be even more
popular in the Quaker City than the Craw
ford Senator.
Recent Patents.
Higdon & Higdon, Patent Lawyers, 127
Fourth ave., Pittsburg, and LeDroit build
ing, opp. Patent Office, Washington, D. C,
report the following patents granted this
week: Pittsburg G. H. Everson, metalic
vehicle wheel; J. L. Ferson, velocipede; M.
V. Smith, gas furnace; George Westing
house, Jr., automatic brake mechanism; J.
Ingraham, label. Beaver Falls William
Meyers, curtain rack. Marietta S. D.
Stauffer, railway tie.
Pure Water.
The importance of having better and more
healthful water for drinking and cooking
purposes is attracting the attention of all
who live in the more thickly settled portions
of this country.
It is an established fact, which is now
recogni2ed and acknowledged by the well
informed people everywhere, that living
germs taken into the system most gener
ally through the medium of drinking water
are the causes of such diseases as Asiatic
cholera, cholera morbus, typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, etc.
Scientists, physicians and inventors have
for years combined to secure some means of
extracting these nnd kindred imparities
from water without changing its chemical
properties. L. Pasteur, the great savant,
with the assistance ot his associates, in his
laboratory in Paris, France, was the first
and only one to adopt a practical means to
accomplish this result, by inventing the
celebrated Pasteur germ-proof filter. This
invention has been iu practical use in
Europe for three or four years, and in this
country for more than two years. It has
Been subjected to the severest tests by
physicians, chemists and medical and scien
tific associations, and has, iu every case,
sustained its reputation of being a perfect
water filter.
It is the only filter that is sold on the
broad guarantee of furnishing water abso
lutely free from disease germs, and all or
ganic matter held in suspension.
Demmleb Brothers,
526 and 528 Smithfield st . Pittsburg,
AgentsJor the Pasteur Filters.
Honcefurnishing goods and the latest and
best novelties for the kitchen.
Special Lot of Cot-aem nt- 59c, Formerly
SI OO.
Sold to us by the C P. Manufacturer.
This is a splendid valine.- 'Full lines of C.
P., Dr. Warner's, Thompson's, Ball's and
K. & G. corsets; also Ferris waists. Prices
the lowest.
A. G. Campbell & Sons, 27 Fifth ave.
S100. Haines Bros. Piano. SIOO.
A Haines Bros, piano in good condition
for f 100. A Meyer piano, 5150. A parlor
organ ofhandsomeappearance and excellent
tone for 850. For a bargain go to the music
store of J. M. Hoffmann & Co., 537 Smith
field street. Agents for the celebrated
Sohmer and superb Colby pianos.
French and Scotch Ginghams An im
mense assortment newest designs and color
ings, regular 40c and 50c goods, at 30c a
yard. Huocs & Hacke.
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Lucerne awnings at Mamaux & Son's,
539 Penn ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
See the new stylei of Paris Exposition
awnings at Mamaux & Sou's, No. 539" Penn
ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
Rare Shrqbs.
We have just received Irom France all the
new, rare and valuable shrubs of their best
nurseries. The B. A.Elliott Co.,
4 Sixth stj Pittsburg.
SUNDAY, APBIL 13,
MR. STAYTON SCORES.
He Makes a Home Enn in the First
Inning, to Wyman's Goose Egg.
THE LATTEE'S PLEA A DEMDEEEE.
Judge Ewinjj, the Umpire, Orders the Mayor
to Answer by Saturday.
NO TROUBLE TO GET BALLOT BOXES
In the Court of Quarter Sessions yester
day, Judge Ewing on the bench, the matter
of the contested Mayoralty election in Alle
gheny was considered. Huehey and Ben
nett, Mayor Wyman's attorneys, filed his
answer to the contest of his election by L
B, Stayton. Mayor Wyman's counsel based
themselves on the claim that the act under
which the contest is made in unconstitu
tional, holding that the act of the General
Assembly to reduce the charter of Alle
gheny and the acts amendatory of March 31,
1870, gave exclusive jurisdiction to Alle
gheny Councils. They further held that the
act of May 19, 1874, on which the petition is
based and on which rests the power of the
Court, is inoperative; that it does not com
ply with the directions of section 17, article
8, of the Constitution, and is in direct con
flict with section 6 of the same article.
It was further represented that the elec
tion boxes, which the Court was asked to re
move from their present abiding place, are
in safe keeping in a cell in the Allegheny
City prison in plain view of the public, and
in a position where it would he impossible to
tamper with them unobserved; and lurther,
that the key of the cell is in possession of
the turnkey of the prison. Finally the re
spondent joins in the prayer of the contest
ant that the boxes shall be removed, as he,
the Mayor of the city, is in apparent, if not
real custody of the station, and is willing to
avoid even the appearance of evil.
THE AEGUSIENTS made.
W. J. Brennen, Esq., attorney for Mr.
Stayton, opened the ball by asking for the
return ot the rule, and the answer was
handed, to Judge Ewing, and Mr. Bennett
made an argument in its support. He held
that the constitution ot 1573 did not repeal
the special act of 1870, relating to contests,
so far as it applied to Allegheny. The act
of 1870 gave Allegheny City Councils ex
clusive jurisdiction over election contests
like the present. Article 6, section 3,
changed the jurisdiction to the courts, but
provided tbat the Legislature should by
subsequent acts designate in what
conrts suits should be brought,
and expressly specify how they
should be tried, etc. The Legislature had
passed an act describing what courts should
have jurisdiction, and provided a form for
bringing suit, but there stopped, the only
further stipulation being that the case
should be tried in conformity with general
law practice which Mr. Bennett held
amounted to nothing, merely a generaliza
tion and nullificatory of the entire act Un
til the act fulfilled all constitutional re
quirements, it was inoperative.
Judge Ewing's reception of the document
and argument was not particularly cheering
to the incumbent or his counsel. In fact,
he regarded it as a demurrer rather than a
plea of non-jurisdiction. Should anvone be
in the dark as to the definition of the term
demurrer, it may suffice to say that it is a
plea admitting the facts, but denying the
jurisdiction of the court or the sufficiency of
the measure proposed for redress in effect,
asking: "What are you going to do about
it?"
PLEA OF THE DEFENSE.
Mr. Bennett held that the old law was re
pealed and that the new one was inopera
tive until made complete in short, that
there could be no trial.
Mr. Brennen and Colonel J. W. Echols
unlimbered themselves to reply, but Judge
Ewing saved them the trouble, stating tbat
he was convinced tbat the law was valid.
and made an order dismissing the plea of
non-jurisdiction, and giving Mayor Wvman
until next Saturday to answer Mr. Stayton's
bill. The answer was expected yesterday,
bnt the special plea was filed instead.
The attorneys for the contestant rely im
plicitly on article 17, of section 8 of the
constitution, in pursuance of which the
Legislature passed an act classifying con
tests, and in one of the four they feel confi
dent they will find what they are seeking.
Kelative to the claim that some of the
boxes would be needed to hold special elec
tions in some wards of Allegheny, Mr.
Brennen said there were plenty of boxes in
the Court House that could be borrowed for
the occason, and that there need be no ex
pense entailed.
A Chnnce to Make Money.
Mr. Editor I bonght one of Griffith's
machines for plating with gold, silver or
nickel, and it works to perfection. No
sooner did people hear of it than I had more
spoons, knives, forks and jewelry than I
could plxte in a month. The first week I
cleared $31 30. the first month $167 85 and
I think by July 1 1 will have $1,000 cash
and give my larm considerable attention,
too. My daughter made $2740 in four
days. Any person can get one of these
machines by sending $3 to W. H. Griffith &
Co., Zancville, O., or can obtain circulars
by addressing them. Xou can learn to use
the machine in one hour. As this is my
first lucky streak, I give my experience,
hoping others may be benefited as much as
I have been. Yours truly,
M. O. Moeehead.
THOMPSON'S
New York Grocery.
More Boom More Bargains.
301b. pails jelly Call kinds) $1 25
30 lb. pails apple butter (choice) 1 35
3 lb, square cans asnaraus 18c
31b. cans Bartlett Pears 15c
1 lb. piep.ired cocoannt 15c
15 lbs. granulated sugar 100
16 lbs. clear white sugar 1 00
Choice sugar corn, per can 5c
Solid packed tomatoes, per can.-. 8c
Choice peas, per can .' 6c
Choice string beans, per can 6c
Choice strawberries, per can 6c
Choice apples, per can Cc
Choice table peaches, per can 12, 15c
Fine table peaches in heavy syrup... 18c
3 cans finest apricots 50c
1 can greengage plums 15c
Choice French peas, per can 10c
Extra fine French peas, per can 15c
6 lbs. sun dried peaches 25c
California peaches, per lb 10c
4 b-. evaporated apricots 25.J
5 lbs. Cali ornia raisins 25c
5 lbs. Carolina rice 25c
7 lbs. rolled oats 25c
8 lbs. large lump starch 25c
12 boxes bag blue 25c
15 lh!. pearl hominy 25j
7 quarts green peas 2oc
4 quarts navy beans 25c
1 sack choice amber flour 1 15
1 sack genuine amber flour. -..J. 1 25
1 sack White Swan (best tamily).... 1 30
1 sack fancy patent St. Louis 1 50
1 gallon pure maple syrup(warranted) 1 00
Sugar-cured hams, pcrlb. (large).... lOJe
1 gallon good Orleans molasses 38c
6 lbs. 20-cent tea 1 00
5 lbs. 25-cent tea 1 00
3 lbs 40-cent tea 1 00
4 bottles home-made ketchup. 25c
Goods delivered free to all parts of both
cities. To those living out of the city will
prepay freight on all orders of $10 and up
ward. Send lor catalogue.
M. K. Thompson,
301 Market St., corner Third ave.,
Wholesale and Ketail.
Arll.tlc Effecls '
In
Fine Flowers
and
Plant Decorations
.at
N. Patterson's,
Ho. 41 Sixth avenue,
Opposite Trinity.
1890.
A PE0F1TABLE SOEKOW.
West Bellevna Borough Bringing Forth
Fruits Meet for Repentance San and
Wind at Work, Also Needs of Good
Roads, nod Their Economy.
Some months ago -West Bellevue, or at
least a portion of its citizens, thought it
better to abandon a boundary road than
keep a sidewalk in repair, and a fence was
set so as to destroy the walk. This inter
fered with the comfort of a good many peo
ple contiguous, and a colored man carried
the matter into court. It was inspected
that N. W. Sharer, Esq., had headed a
party who had secured the African's en
trance into the woodpile. The borough was
disposed to fight the matter to the end, but
has found it environed with great pocket
peril.
Some time ago the sidewalk fell, and
three women came near being killed, and
one woman wants the borough to say what
it proposes to do to compensate her for a
broken leg.
It seems to have dawned on the borongh
council that, though it is rather late to lock
the door, it had better be locked late than
never, and though the ounce of preventive
has not been applied in time, a part of the
pound of cure may be saved by action now.
Accordingly, orders have been issued for the
repair of the walk, and workmen are hust
ling at a lively rate, and those who have
been complaining are felicitating themselves
that they may soon have a walk which they
can use without danger of leg or neck frac
ture. If it be admitted that the condition of the
highways in a country is, the gauge of its
civilization, Allegheny county does not
rank high, though it be intelligent and
wealthy. Pittsburg paid enough in damages
for accidents on Mt. Washington, before a
barrier was erected on Grandview avenue,
to have paid its cost a saore of times, and
some of the townships have paid enough in
this way to have built several miles of
macadamized road.
The sun and wind are at present the best
roadmakers to be fouud in this section. The
mud is drying so rapidly tbat iu a few weeks
the late misery will be forgotten, and like
the Arkansas man with his leaky roof,
many people will not awake to the need of
action until the fall rains set in, wheji, as
usual, the Supervisors will have spent their
appropriation on mud 'poultices, and the
granger will think "swear words" on Sun
day every time his buggy wheels go into a
chuck-hole on the way to the sanctuary.
Machinery for Plate Glass Plants.
Mr. A. J. Sweeney, of the firm of A. J.
Sweeney & Sons, made the following state
ment to a Dispatch correspondent to-day:
"Referring to a statement made in an
interview with Mr. Hartupee in The Dis
patch, of Friday morning, I would like to
say that the statement that there is but one
large firm in the country manufacturing
machinery for plate glass manufacturing,
namelv the one at St. Louis, is incorrect.
The firm of A. J. Sweeney & Son. in this
city, have built more machinery for plate
glass manufacturing than the St. Louis firm
has, and probably mor than anv other firm
in the country, having built the grinding
machinery and casting tables, etc., for the
Standard Plate Glass Works, at Butler,
Pa., for the -Howard Plate Glass Company,
at Cochran's station, Pa., and the grinding
tables for the Diamond Plate Glass Com
pany, al Kokomo, Ind.
"We have -ample facilities for the build
ing of the machinery of any kind which
would be needed iu the erection and opera
tion of plate glass manufacturing plants."
APRIL OPPORTUNITIES.
How is tlio Time to feecure a Pine Piano at
Hi fTinnnn's, 537 nmithfleld Street.
Now that you have become settled in your
new home it may be well to think of invest
ing in a new piano. This is the very best
time in all the year a time when your
house within is fresh and clean and cheery,
and out of doors every influence seems in
warm accord with happy spring time. The
celebrated Sohmer pianos, the superb Colby
and Hallet & Cumston pianos are pro
nounced by the highest musical critics to be
the finest now made; they are the instru
ments that give the greatest return for the
money invested. J.- M. Hoffmann & Co.,
537 Smithfield street, are the sole agents.
Their prices are the most reasonable in the
city.
New Parents.
O. D. Levis, Patent Lawyer, office 131
Fifth avenue, next Leader office, furnishes
Us with the following new patents issned
April 8, 1890: Harry Esteridge. Pittsburg,
balance pen; George H. Everson, Pittsburg,
"metalic vehicle wheel;" James L. Ferson,
Pittsburg, velocipede; Martin V. Smith,
gas furnace; George Westinghouse, Jr.,
Pittsburg, "fluid pressure automatic brake
mechanism;" Jesse Ingram, Pittsburg, two
bags of blue and a' fine lead pencil (trade
mark); William -Hopkins Howells, Bridge
port, O., apparatns lor reducing railway
rails. A patent guaranteed on all new in
ventions. Twenty years' practice. Office
open until 9 o'clock "every evening.
The Lnit"
Of the special excursions to Washington,
D. C, will be rnn by the Pennsylvania
Kailroad on April 24. Fare for the round
trip, including stop of! at Baltimore in
either direction, and tickets good for ten
days, will be sold at rate of $9 tor round
trip. A special train of Pullman parlor
cars and day coaches will leave Union sta
tion on above date at 8 a. M. Tickets will
also be sold for trains leaving at 7:15 and
8:10 P. M. Sleeping cars on night trains.
Seats in the parlor car or day train; berths
in the night train can now be secured on
application at the company's office, 110
Fifth avenue.
Two Rent Hosiery Barsjnlns.
Children's genuine French C. G. cotton
hose ribbed, stainless black, 48c, all sizes,
6 to 8J4; the regular price of this stocking
in Pittsburg is 75c !or 7 in, advance ot 5c
and 10c a size. Another one at 25c, all
sizes, which is sold everywhere lor 50c for
7 in, advance 5c a size. See them.
A. G. Campbell & Sons, 27 Fifth ave.
Ladies' Jackets A choice assortment
made especially for onr trade colored and
black all latest styles and fabrics, from $8
to S25. Hugus & Hacke.
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Stylish Salting.
The most fashionable goods at moderate
prices at Pitcairn's, 434 Wood st.
CHANGE IN MAKE-UP.
CLASSIFIED V
::: ADVERTISEMENTS
That heretofore appeared on
this page of THE DISPATCH
will be found, on the Eleventh
Page, in the Second Part of
this issue.
The Wants, For Sales, To
Lets, Business' Chances, Auc
tion Sales, etc., are placed
under their usual headings on
the Eleventh Page. Adver
tisements handed in too late
for Classification will be
found; on the Sixth Page.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
KEECH'S
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FURNITURE TRADE!
Has been large beyond all expectations this spring. Every
day shows a big increase in our sales, and this right in the"
face of the bitter complaints about poor business on the part
of many furniture dealers. Logic offers but one argument to
account for this state of affairs, and here it is in plain Anglo
Saxon: Our Superior Goods, Our; Matchless prices. We
will keep right on, too, to supply the Housekeepers of Pitts
burg with Furniture of all kinds at from 20 to 25 PER CENT
BELOW ALL COMPETITION.
pJlrlor suites,
Library Suites, Bed Room Suites, Dining Room
Suites, Folding Beds, Bed Lounges, Mattresses,
Bedding, Sofas and Divans, Cabinets, Secretaries,
Office Furniture, Odd Parlor Chairs, Center Tables,
Dining Room Chairs, Extension Tables, Book Cases,
Chiffoniers, Wardrobes, Hall Stands.
KEECH'S
CARPET BUSINESS
Has been unusually lively this spring. So large, indeed, have
been our sales that they would have left nothing but empty
shelves in every other house in our line in this city, but in
our immense stock the effect is hardly noticeable. There is
nothing old, nothing shopworn, nothing shoddy in our Carpet
Room, but everything looks as fresh as a daisy, as lovely as a
rose. This is the result of our quick sales and our consequent
ly continuously changing stocks. The same also may be
truthfully said about our Drapery Department. We have
BODY BRUSSELS,
Tapestry Brussels, Gobelins, Velvets, Moquettes,
Ingrains, Three-Plys, Rag Carpets, Mattings, Oil
Cloths, Linoleums, Mats and Rugs, Lace Curtains,
Plush Curtains, Chenile Curtains, Portieres, Window
Shades, Lambrequins, Curtain Poles.
We have calroads of them,and each single one is"guaran
teed to give entire satisfaction. Further, they all have the
latest cooling and ice saving appliances, which in itself is quite
a reason why you should buy from us. Other merchandise
to be found in our House Furnishing Goods Depart
ment are:
lee Cream Freezers,
Water Coolers, Tinware, Wooden Ware, Stoves,
Ranges, Queensware, Crockery, Lamps, Cutlery,
Silverware, Bric-a-Brac.
BABY CARRIAGES.
If a count of cur Baby Carriages was to be taken the re
sult would undoubtedly show that we show more than double
(probably treble) the number and variety displayed at any
other house in this city. But, what is still more important,
we show none but thoroughly reliable goods and name boti
torn prices.
IN OUR CLOAK DEPARTMENT
We now show a beautiful variety of Spring Wraps,
Spring Jackets, Spring Capes, while in our Clothing
Department we exhibit a handsome line of Men's
Spring Suits and Men's Spring Overcoats.
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TERMS
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You can pay cash or buy on credit, just as it suits you,
and in ei'her case you can rely on a big saving of money. This
is not said for effect,but is a straightforward business statement
that we are willing and anxious to prove,if you will call at our
store.
KEECH'S,
923 and 925
Biropen Saturdays till 10
Credit m
Penn Ave.,
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