iiMyiSihinliPfi E'fr 1 J Twmfgw?; Tl-V-i THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH PAGES 9 TO 12. TOO LITTLE SPACE Allowed for Road-Bed on the Country Highways of ' This State. REPAIRS HARD TO MAKE, The Harrow Track Beins Speedily Worn and Cat to Pieces. A FALSE SYSTEM OF ECOKOMT Which it is Proposed to Remedy by Legis lative Enactment. FARMERS' TIEWS ON THE TAX QUESTION The country roads in "Western Pennsylva nia are too narrow as a general thing. A few counties would allow no roads to be made within their boundaries originally of less than 40 feet in width, Crawford county for example. But 32 leet seems to be about the average width in the counties surround ing Pittsburg. It is next to impossible to keep a narrow road in good condition. Traffic is all restricted to one track, and that keeps it cut up. Nor is there the opportu nity for repairing that there would be on a wide highway. And on these narrow high ways at various points through Washing ton, Allegheny and Butler counties the re cent road expedition sent ont by The Dis patch found pipe lines for either oil or gas. The pipes were laid along the gutters, thus abutting off the only drain the poorly kept up thoroughfares possessed. The water had no escape ana no wonder in rainy seasons it laid in the middle of the road creating deep mud puddles. STATELT OLD AVENUES. The old-time turnpikes in Western Penn sylvania are all wide, and have a stately ap pearance about them-for that reason. The Philadelphia and Pittsburg pike at no place is less than 40 feet in width. The State road, which passes from Ohio to New York, through Crawlord and Warren counties in Pennsylvania, is GO fett wide and much of it shaded with trees set out at regular intervals. The national road, built'by the United States, and pass ing through Somerset, Fayette and Wash ington counties of this State, is 80 feet wide, but with macadam road covering only the middle, 30 feet. The pike from Belletonte to Waterlord, through Clearfield, Clarion, Yenango. Crawford and Erie counties, con necting Eastern Pennsylvania with Lake Erie, was 40 leet wide. The width of all these roads has had much to do with their easy preservation. Iu France four classes of roads are pre scribed as iollows: First 66 feet wide, of which 22 feet in the middle are paved or stoned. Second, 2 feet wide, of which 20 feet are stoned. Third, 33 leet wide, of which 16 feet in the middle are stoned, and fourth, a width of 26 feet, of which 16 feet in the middle are stoned. Telford's Holy head road, which runs through a hilly couctrr. is 32 feet wide between the fences on fiat ground, 28 feet on side cuttings not exceeding 3 :eet deep, and 22 leet along steep and precipitous ground. The Roman military roads were narrow, being only 12 feet wide on the straight portions and 16 ieet upon curves. A. -WISE MOVE. Several months ago the Western Pennsyl vania Engineers' Society adopted the lorm of a new road law to submit to the next Legislature. It contains this wise clause: Section 13 The width of all highways shall cot be less than 50 feet, and of roads not less than 40 feet: provided, bowever, that all exist ing roads and highways which have been estab lished of greater widths than herein provided under the provisions of previous statutes, or which hare been constructed by incorporated companies, and have passed to public control by lapse or surrender of charter, shall be main tained at the widths so first established. 'Wide roads are sometimes finished with a stone road-covering in the middle only, of just sufficient width for the vehicles to pass each other upon it, while the sides are maintained as dirt roads, lor light and fast travel during the season when the soil is comparatively dry and firm. The objection to this method is, that during the wet season the road covering is injured by the large quantity of mud conveyed to it from the sides. Opinions differ ns to whether that portion of the carriage way to be furnished and maintained as a dirt road, should be at the sides or in the middle. Heavy loads are apt to seek the sides, in older that the driver may walk upon the foot path, which favors stoning the wings rather the middle. ABOUT EOAD MACHINES. It is a significant sign of the times that farmers are turniug their attention to road building machines. In buying them lor present use upon dirt roads, township authorities lose sight of perhaps one of the most valuable results. These machines are a comparatively new thing. It is reason able to think that if constantly used for five, six or seven years they will give permanent shape to the dirt roads. This should be un derstood bv the reader t" mean that after a machine is run over a highway the road is higher in the middle and tapers'out to either side, leaving a well-drained roadbed from which the water drains into the gutters, which are perfectly formed. Be ore making a macadamized road, this grading would have to be done anyway. Thereore, If it is done by the road building machine, year after year, for six or seven seasons, when the time arrives to macad amize the roadway this part of the work will be found to be al ready solidly done. Where it was done by hand and plow, carelessly heretofore, it could not be packed down solidly. There fore, every winter would plow up the road as usual, bnt with the machine there were both uniformity and solidity, THE WORK LASTING LONGEB. .Machines used fromspring to spring will certainly, in the course of time, make a well graded roadbed considerably down beneath the surface, and therefore have it eventu ally prepared for the macadam. About half the counties of Western Pennsylvania now have these road building machines. In the counties where they have not yet been bought township authorities should regard the matter as important. Ouly a small levy of money tax is required to pay lor them, and with one a farmer can work ont bis taxes far quicker and with fewer men than he could by scood and nlow. Usually, where you find people opposed to macadamizing "road ways, they will say that it costs so much to break the stone. It is strange that hut few farmers have thought ol any other method of breaking stone ex cept by the hand. They will figure out,and rather truthfully, too, that to hire men to do this work can only be done on wages of a tl CO per day, which would make the stone cost about 60 cents per perch. Now, if a township bought a stone crusher, paving lor it about $600 to 51,000, it would break from 60 to 100 perches of stone per dav, equal to 10 to 15 cents per perch. An au thority on road building, Prof. Shayler, es timates that good roads can be constructed with a crusher to cost not more than $3,000 per.mile. I found no county in Western Pennsylvania where a crusher is in use. ,,, DIFFEBENX KINDS OP STONE. jilt it the opinion of many farmers that the State Commission should have a thorough i scientific and chemical examination made of the various stones and rock found in fields find forests. Many persons believe that there are to be found in Pennsylvania other stone almost as hard as limestone which, if it could be used, woula reduce the cost of macadamizing very much in counties where limestone is not found. The investi gation made by The Dispatch broucht out the weight of evidence against sand stone, and anything else than limestone. Still there are many rocks and boulders which people believe to be proof against the weather and weight, which could be sub jected to tests that would settle the ques tion at once. Certainly if a sntstitute could be found for limestone in those counties where the material is scarce, the serious question of cost could very materially be lessened. It is a point worth while consid ering. The farmers of Western Pennsylvania are about equally divided on the question of abolishing the system of working out road taxes. Probably half of them are willing that it should be abolished. To the disin terested mind there can be no donbt that to do away with the system would greatly im prove the condition of roads. Boad taxes in Allegheny county annually amount to about to $140,000, and it is estimated that in the whole State the tax this levy of tax aggregates $4,000,000 annually. The great bulk of this is worked out. Certainly if that could be converted into money there would not be half so much of a puzzle about where the monev is to come from for the re building of the roads. HOW- MACADAM KOADS ABE MADE. Macadam roads are constructed with suc cessive layers of broken stone. It the best quality of stone cannot be procured for the whole of the road covering, care should be taken to select the hardest and toughest stone for the upper, or preferably for the two upper layers, having an aggregate thickness of about 6 inches. The stone should be broken into fragments, as nearly cubical in form as possible, the largest of which should not exceed 2J inches in longest diagonal dimensions. For inspect ing the broken stone an iron ring 2 inches in diameter may be used with advantage. If the material be very tough and hard, like most of the basalticand trap rocks and the sienitic granites, or if the traffic upon the road be light and its amount not large, the stone may be broken smaller without danger of their crushing to easily or too rapidly. The smaller the fragments the less will be the volume of voids in the road covering liable to become filled with water and mud, and the sooner will the surface become hard and smooth when opened to traffic, or while being compacted with rollers. THE TELFOED BOAD. In Macadam's matured practice upon the Bath and Bristol roads, England, he did not allow any stone above three ounces in weight (equal, with the material he had, to cubes of lyi to 2 inches in their longest diagonal length) to be used. He caused splinters and their spalls to be excluded as far as possible, and laid considerable stress upon uniformity of bize and perfect clean liness or freedom from dust, sand or earthy matter. Another road, named after Thomas Tel ford, by whom it was first constructed in Great Britain, is madewith layers of broken stone resting upon a sub-pavement of stone blocks. Telford's specifications for a road way 30 feet wide were as follows: Upon a level bed prepared for the road, materials a bottom course or layer of stones is to be set by band in the lorm of a claxe, hrni pavement. The stones set in the middle of the road are to be 7 inabes in depth; at 9 feet from center, 5 inches; at 12 from the center, 4 inches, and at 15 feet, 3 inches. They are to be set on their Droadest edges and LENGTHWISE ACBOSS THE EOAD,, and the breadth of the upper edge is not to exceed 4 inches in any case. All the irreg ularities of the upper part of the said pave ment are to be broken off" by the hammer, and all the interstices are to be filled with stone chips firmly wedged or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished there will be a convexity of 4 inches in the breadth of 15 feet from center. The middle 18 feet of pavement is to be coated with hard stones to the depth of 6 inches, 4 of these 6 inches are to be first put on and worked in by carriages and horses, care being taken to rake in the ruts until the surface becomes firm and consolidated, alter which the remaining 2 inches are to be put on. The whole of this stone is to be broken into pieces as nearly cubical as pos sible, so that the largest piece, in its longest dimensions, may pass through a ring 2 inches inside diameter. The paved spaces oni each side of the 18 middle feet are to be coated with broken stones, or well-cleaned strong gravel, up to the lootpath or other boundary of the road, so as to make the whole convexity of the road 6 inches irom the center of the sides of it. The whole ot the materials are to be covered with a binding of 1 inches in depth of good .gravel, free from clay or earth. L. E. Stofiel. HE. KEIFEB FOB CONGRESS. Talk About Returning the Ex-Speaker From the Tenth Ohio District. rSFKCIAX. TXLEGBAU TO TIIK CISPATCItl Spbingfield, O., June 6. Ex-Speaker Keifer has just returned from Washington, where for the first time in five years he at tended sessions of the House and Senate. The General availed himself for the first time of the honor accorded to ex Speakers of the House, of admission to the privileges of the floor of the Senate by virtue of a right, strictly speaking, only en joyed at the present time by himself and ex Senator Kobert C. Winthrop, Secretary Blaine, Representative N. P. Banks ami Senator Carlisle having admission by virtue of their present offices. General Keifer said: "The passage of a silver bill is regarded as a certainty. As to the McComas bill, while convinced of its constitutionality, I am prepared to give no opinion as to the probability of its passage." Although the General denies beimr an active candidate the politicians here are almost certain that he'wilf not refuse the Congressional nomination from the Tenth Ohio district, if offered him. He is the only man of national reputation Iu the district, and his friends will no doubt try to send him to Congress. He does not wish to go into an active fight for nomina tion, as he recognizes that-.another defeat would seal iis political fate lorever. The General is a close student of national politics, and it is certain that he is ambi tious to enter the political arena. Since his retirement from public lite has devoted him self closely to the practice of law, and is the attorney of several large corporations from which he enjoys a large income. His friends are understood to be working in a quiet way for his return to Congress. INFOBMATION ABOUT SCALMNfi Sought by the Chairman of the Inter- Slate Commission. CHICAGO, June 6. Judge Cooler, Chair man of the Inter-State Commerce Commis sion, has addressed a circular letter to the general passenger agents of the Western roads, calling their attention to the large and prosperous business that is being done in the sale of tickets for passenger trans portation by persons who are not in the em ploy of any railroad company. Mr. Cooley alludes to the ticket scalpers and asks for an expression of views as to their traffic, particularly the effects, causes, and; if needed, possible remedies. At the Age ot 100 Years. Westfobt, Conn., June 6. Huldah Rockwell died of pneumonia yesterday, aged 100 years and 9 months. She has 41 descendant living. Her mother lived to the age of 103. IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA. RETURN OF MR. CARROLLFROM HISWON DERFUL HUNTING TRIP. He Penetrated Wild. Which No Other White Man Had Ever Before Visited A Large Amount of Game Killed, Which Included lrphnnts,Rblnoceti and Hippopotami. New York, June 6. Mr. Boyal Phelps Carroll, who returned on the steanler Ma jestic on Thursday from a hunting trip in Central Africa, told a reporter last Light some of the racy incidents of his experience in an unexplored country. He penetrated wilds which no white man had ever before visited, and shot game where the sound or the rifle had never before been heard. It was a country which Stanley has said could not be safely penetrated with less than 1,000 rifles, and which is ruled by the only giant race of Africa. Mr. Carroll went prepared for the worst that could happen. He carried a powerful armament for him self, and had 20 men at his back, all na tives cf the east coast, all marksmen, and all were armed with Snyder rifles and endless rounds of ammunition. Mr. Carroll expected to have as compan ions Messrs. Carey and Chanler, but through sickness he was compelled to make the trip alone. On January 9 Mr. Carroll began'his march into the African wilds. He came out on March 9, alter just two months in the wilderness. His return was hastened some what by the formation of an abcess on his leg, which prevented his shooting much on foot, which was the real object of his trip. He killed a large amount of game. Here is a list: Seven elephants, 1 lion, 18 rhinoceri, hippopotami, 50 zebras, 24 wildebeeste, 1 lesser koodo, o elands, 3 hartebeeste, 8 granto gazelles, 12 Impala gazelles, 10 buffalos, 1 steinbuck, 12 giraffes, 5 wart hogs, 1 hyena, 1 tiger cat, 2 bush bucks, 3 reedbucks, and 1 Kirkii gazelle. He brought all the ivory back with him, and is having the heads of some of his other prizes mounted in London. The caravan followed the trail left by Mr. Chanler.who had preceded them, as far as Ta veta, under Mount Kilmanjaro, where Mr. Chanter's camp was found with the Ameri can flag still flying over it. Then they entered the Masai country, following for 70 miles the route of the explorer Thompson, and then struck into the unbroken wilder ness, which no white man had ever before trod. He remained two days near Mount Meru, where he did most of his hunting. He had provided himself with great quanti ties of beads, iron wire, and sheeting for trading purposes. The Masai malre arrow heads of the iron wire, which is practically the legal tender of the country. Mr. Carroll took with him five Winches ter rifles, a heavy American rifle, and a number of English express rifles. The chief of these were a 12-bore rifle carrying bullets weighing 10 or 12 to the pound, a 45-caliber rifle and a 50-caliber rifle. The American heavy rifle proved to be worse than useless, and he had to fall back wholly upon the English rifles for big game. "Hunting elephants on foot in Central Africa," said Mr. Carroll, "is quite ft differ ent matter from hunting them from horse back in the open country of South Africa. Central Africa is a tangled thicket, and it requires heavy weapons to bring down the gret game. Elephants escape in the jungles alter a few shots from the lighter weapons used in the open country south, where they can be followed any distance. Mr. Carroll lost the great majority of his elephants because of his light weapons. He put nearly 100 shots in one before bringing him down. Two others be killed on the first shot. The ivory of one of his elephants weighed 70 pounds, and that of another 74 pounds. TO CONSIDER PLAITS. The North Hirer Bridge Commission Has Been Duly Organized. rerxciAi. tkusgkjlm to the DitrjLTcn.l New Tokk, June 6. The commission appointed to consider plans for building a bridge across the North river met at noon to-day and organized by electing Andrew H. Green President, Charles M. Vail Treas urer and Charles H. Swan Secretary. The act creating the commission says that it is for the purpose of "constructing and maintaining a permanent bridge for passen ger and other traffic over the watersjbetween New York City and the State ot New Jer sey, together with all necessary connections, appurtenances and approaches thereto, and stations." Messrs. Green, Straus and Tail were ap pointed a committee, with authority to em ploy counsel, competent engineers and other necessary assistants, to hire an office and procure the necessary books for the commis sion. President Green said, in the course of a long address: The lack of adequate and convenient termi nal facilities is rapidly driving away from tbls Fort the immense continental traffic in grain, f our anticipation wltb respect to this bridge is realized, the convenience for handling grain and freight must inevitably follow its con struction if tbey are executed on a scale com mensurate with pressing needs. Were we to imagine for a moment that the space occupied by the waters of the North river were land and that all the millions of comers to this city were dropped where they are now and compelled to make their way to the city, the absurdity or the arrangement would at once be apparent. There has grown up and settled In New Jersey, within a radial distance of 25 miles from our city hall, a population equal to that of Brooklyn, whose relations to this me tropolis are ot the most intimate character and whose business daily brings an immense quota from their ranks. THKIK CONFIDENCE MISPLACED. BelntlTen nnd Friends I.oio $80,000 In- traded to a Yonnc Lnwrrr. Bridgeport, Conn., June 6. A case of embezzlement, which occurred several months ago, by which several prominent residents of Trumbull and surround ing towns lost large amounts of money has just come to light. The alleged embezzler is Bollin Beers, son of Legrand D. Beers, a young lawyer of much promise, doing business iu Bridgeport. Some months ago Mr. Beers vis ited his borne and secured a large amount of money from his brother and sister, two wealthy neighbors, Miles and Elliott Beardsley, Rev. C. G. Adams, proprietor of the Church fiecord, in Wood port,' and others, representing that he would invest it in mortgages in Brooklyn paying large dividends. It is expected that his embezzlements will reach nearly $80,000. Elliott and Miles Beardsley, it is said, were victimized to the extent of 515,000, and the others in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. It is thought Beers has goue to Canada. . DAMAGE BY A DEAD DOS. A Newport Woman Urine a Novel Salt Against an Offlcrr. Cincinnati, June 6. Officer Dan Mo rau, of Newport, was made defendant in a peculiar suit yesterday. Mary A. New house, of that city, the plaintiff, claims that on the 6th of last February, while she was confined in her bedroom, a large dog took reluge in her room. It was ollowed by the officer, who, against her protest, shot the animal, and dragged it out of the bouse. In so doing the carpet of her room was all stained up, and the dead dog allowed to lie In front of her only door of ingress or egress for several hours. These things caused a miscarriage and subsequent illness which has proved permanent. The suit is for $200 damages. . Grateful Aontlierners. Mayor Gourley yesterday received a let ter from Thomas T. Wright, founder of the Scotch-Irish Association, thanking the citi zens of Pittsburg for their hospitality to the Southern delegates to the Scotch-Irish Congress. Pip?TSBTraG, SATURDAY, JUNE T, 1890. JUST $25 A PLATE. A Banquet That Will Eclipse Any thing Erer Given in This City. HOW PITTSBURG WILL ENTERTAIN. Tio Days' Meeting of the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine. F0EAKBE AND OTHER NOTABLES COMING The Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America will meet in this city June 23 and 24. The convention will be attended by about 1,000 ot the higher order of Masons, and the most prominent feature of the affair will be a banquet cost ing $25 a plate. Among the notable dele gates from a distance will be ex-Governor John B. Foraker, of Ohio. The convention will, without doubt, be the event in secret society circles of the year. The delegates from a distance will arrive in this city Sunday, the 22d instant, and as many as can be accommodated will find quarters at the Monongahela House, where the sessions will be held. On. Monday, forenoon and afternoon, the.buslness meet ing ot the Imperial Council will be held in the new hall, which has been beautifully furnished, and extra touches will be put on for the reception of the distinguished guests. In the evening the banquet will be held. It will be tendered by the subscribing mem bers of Syria Temple of this city, and will be given to the Imperial Council and repre sentatives of different councils all over the United States and Canada. BANQUET AND RECEPTION. Plates will be laid for between 250 and 300 people. All the Temples in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Cin cinnati. Cbicaco. Cleveland. Boston. In dianapolis and dozens of other cities will be renresented in addition to their regular del egates. Preceding the banquet.at 8 o'clock, will be a reception. On the following day, Tuesday, an ex cursion will be given to the visiting nobles and their ladies. The boat will go up the river to different points of interest, and will leave this city about 10 o'clock. The party will return about 4 in the afternoon and the majority ot the delegates will leave in the evening for their homes. A great many of the Pittsburg members are delegates to the State Convention, and they will have to get home early to leave for Harrisburg on the evening trains. Money or pains will not be spared to make the banquet the finest ever given in this city. George B. Orlady, District At torney, of Huntingdon county, will be toast master. Our own Colonel 'Thomas J. Hud son, of the postoffice, will be the assistant toast master, and will no doubt fill the position or honor creditably. "Tom" is the illustrious Potentate of Syria Temple, and is one of the best members in the'organiza tion. Among those who will be present and will likely respond to toasts are: ex-Governor Eoraker, of Ohio; William B. Melish, ot Cincinnati; Samuel Briggs, of Cleveland; John T. Brush, of Indianapolis; Frank L. Hastings, of Kansas City, and other prom inent city and county officials irom different parts of the country. WORKING FOB A SUCCESS. The different committees are working hard to make the affair a success. The chairmen are as follows: On reception, H., D. W. English; arrangements, A. B. Wig ley; finance, Benjamin Darlington; music, W. S. Brown. The order is-a social organization, and only Free Masons are elegible to member ship. The latter must attain a certain number of degrees in Masonry before they can be elegible to membership in the Mys tic Shrine. The order is divided into local and national organizations. The former are called temples, and the latter is known as the council. There are about 700 members in the local organization. A SUICIDE AT NIAGABA. A Woman's Outer Clothing; Found on tho Brink of the Fall. Niaoaea Falls, June 6. Shortly be fore 6 o'clock this morning John Fagen, of liuttalo, discovered a woman's cloak, hat, shawl and handkerchief lying on the river bank in the Prospect Park, about 500 feet above the brink of the American fall, and turned them over to Superintendent Welch. At about 10 o'clock they were identified as belonging to Mrs. John Beagan, who resides at 15 Pros pect street, this city, who is missing, and who has undoubtedly committed suicide by going over the American Falls. She was about 40 years old, and strongly addicted to the use ot intoxicants. Her husband is a shoe maker. He says that as he was leaving home last evening his'wife bade him "Good by." As this was unusual ie queried her as to her reasons for so doing, ana she told him be would not see her again. Neverthe less, Beagan went uptown, and when he re turned home at 9:30 o'clock he found his wife there. He spent the night on a couch, and when he got up this morning his wire was missing. A tew hours later he identified the garments found as belonging to her. A bottle was found in her room half full of laudanum. This leads to the suspicion that she took a portion of thedrug before she leaped into the river, as their home is only about two blocks from where her clothes were found. She has made other attempts on her life. EXCITEMENT AT A FUNERAL. A Cry of Fire Causes People to Jump From Church Windows. Lancaster, Pa., June 6. A woman in the United Brethren Church, at Mount Joy, shouted "Fire!" when the building was crowded with the sorrowing friends of the late John J. Hossler, who died suddenly at Roanoke, Va., Sunday. Her alarm was caused by a loud cracking noise and the jinking of the church floor. In a moment there was a panic and every body rushed for. the doors. There were benches in the aisles to accommodate the large crowd, and the aisles being blocked, the excitement was intense. The preacher in charge and Key. J. Y. Mitchell, of this city, did all in their power to allay the fears of those in the church, but there appeared to be but one object in view, and that was to get out of the building as ouicklv as possible. Those who were distant from the door ran to the windows and jumped out. Mrs. Peterman, living on West Leman street.this city, was one ot these, and she was injured in falling. Several others were bruised in the rush. Mrs. Hossler, the widow, was in an almost dazed condition during the ex citement. She made no effort to leave the building. Sbe thought when the uproar was made that some one had discovered her husband was not dead. It was afterward lound that the floor sank four inches, but was still strong. THE LATEST STATEMENT Concerning the Filibustering; movement In Lower California. San Dieoo, Cal., June 6. The latest statement with regard to the filibustering scheme is that advices have been received to the effect that the Mexican Government had reqneited the Government of the TJnited States to send a regiment of soldiers to San Diego to prevent any probable or possible conspiracy to capture Lower California from being carried out. FORCED INTO MARRIAGE. STARTLING STORY TOLD BY A TWICE DIVORCED WOMAN. Sbe Says Her Husband's Thread Indaced Iter lo Wed Him n Few Weeks after tbe First Legal Separation Tbe Man Stfb posed to be In Pittsburg. Cincinnati, June 6. Frightened into a marriage. A woman forced to again marry the man from whom she was divorced. This was tbe remarkable story in brief of Marian M. Davis as told to Judge Bates in the Divorce Court yesterday morning. It was remarkable in that it is not often that a woman is forced to marry a man for whom she has no regard. And that, too, a (evr weeks after she had procured a divorce from him because of his misdeeds. Mrs. Davis' maiden name was Procior. In 1878 she married Joseph E. Davis. They lived together a few years, but he was a failure as a husband. He did not provide for her, and, besides, was too fond of the society of other women. In the summer of 1836 she procured a divorce irom him. "Six weeks afterward," said she to Judge Bates, "he sent me word that he was com ing to see me. I refused to allow him to come, and threatened to have him arrested if he came. He said he would come any way, and did so. I ordered him away. He went, but returned in a few days. "He came to the house about 9 o'clock at night and surprised me, as I was not expect ing him. He got me in a room alone and demanded that I should marry him again. I remsed. Then he-drew a large knife and said: 'If we can't live together we will die together.' I screamed for help andneigbbors came in and rescued me from him. He told others that he would cut me into pieces if I did not marry' him. I was frightened so much that wheu he returned in a few days with a marriage license and again demanded that I marry him or he would give the newspapers cause fur printing a sensation I consented to and did marry him again. Two weeks afterward he drew his wages and disap peared. He went to live with a woman with whom he had been living as his wile. I had to earn my own living dnring the two weeks we lived together. I have been in tbe laundry business and worked in a shoo fac tory. The last I heard of him he was in Pittsburg. That was two years ago." Judge Bates granted her a divorce. Mrs. Bates is a small woman, and appears to be timid and backward in her nature. A MATTER OP FOUR INCHES. Dnqnesne School Board Members Clnloi to be Squatter Sovereigns Quite a Speck of War Contractors Who Stood Firm bv Tbelr Work. The Duquesne School Directors and the Pennsylvania Storage Company have locked horns. The contractors who have the building of the storage warehouse at the corner of First avenue and Liberty street had set a gang ot men to work, and the directors were notified that men tear ing down the two-story brick building on the line of the Duquesne school property. Three members of tbe board, Thomas Mur ray, Joseph Eice and M. J. McMahon, con vened and made a hasty trip to the corner, where they found several men at work cutting away the brick wall. Tbey ordered the work to cease, but were laughed at, and the men cut away at the house. It is old and weak, and it would not require very much urging for it to fall apart, so the three school directors concluded that if they were going to save the building they must do something at once. Another demand was made on the con tractors, who once more declined to call the men .off, and further said that they were only seeking to find room for '"the storage company's new build ing. Tbe company, about four months ago, bought the ground adjoining tbe Duquesne school property, and on hay ing their property surveyed discovered that tbe house on the school site encroached four inches upon their lot. The storage company had no doubt that it would be restored to them, and, so it is stated by the School Directors, did not even notify the latter that their buildings overreached, nor did they notify them that they would begin to tear down the overreaching structure. After a few minutes' parley, during which the workmen kept hammering and chipping away, the directors hastened to the office of Alderman. Donahue, where a charge of malicious mischief was entered against the contractors and a force ot constables was asked lor. Soon half a dozen constables were on the spot and tbe work stopped. The omcers told them what they were instructed to do, and although contractors wanted the wall cut away, not a man would go back to work while the officers stood by. The offi ceos held possession of the place until the afternoon, when, as there appeared no fur ther indications of trouble, they withdrew. In the meantime the School Board had gone into court and asked for an injuuetion re straining the contractors from removing the wall. They insist that as the house has stood there for more than 40 years they are entitled to the four inches of ground claimed by the storage company. SCIENTISTS AND BUTTER. Tbo Flavor In the Article Said to bo Duo to Dactcrln. Several Danish chemists and analysts have been endeavoring to find out the origin of flavor in butter, which according to some is held to be caused by bacteria whether the flavor be that of turnips, oily, fishy, bitter or tallowy. Prof. Storch has found large numbers of bacteria of a par ticular variety in oily butters, though he was not able to produce oily butters by the introduction of these bacteria into cream. In other cases he found bacteria which did not differ materially from the normal acid-producing bacteria, which when pres ent in large quantities in cream produced butter with a tallowy flavor. Similar re sults were obtained by Prof. Jensen; while Prof. Fjard found that butter from a farm where turnips were not used for the cows had a turnipy flavor, and it is believed by the investigators that this flavor is derived from the presence of a certain kind of bac teria. A BUDDENSIEK BUILDING. . San Francisco's New and Costly City Hall Very Foorlr Constrneted. San Feancisco, June 6. Mayor Pond yesterday made an investigation into the soundness of the walls of the northwest wing of the new City Hall, with the result that in a number of places where the walls were supposed to be of solid brick, they were found at an average depth of 18 inches to be filled with sand, mortar, broken brick and rubbish, the cross beams a triangular mass of iron, intended to support a 13-ton girder, and other light girders. The condition was found to be the same, the filling taking the place or solid ma sonry. Further investigation has been or dered. THE BLUE HAN OF BELVTDEEE. Death of a Singular Unman Freak In a New Jersey Town. Belvideke, N. J., June 6. Henry Melick, a rich old farmer, of Harmony, known all over this section ns "The Bine Man," died suddenly at his homeyesterday, aged 70 years. When a young man he was practically drowning by falling in the Delaware river while fishing, but was resuscitated after hours of hard work. His skin ever alter- Wajj had a dark lne cast bis ntire hody suddenly undergoing this transformation. Physicians were unable to account ior the phenomenon. - - ' A NEW SOUND COT. Snelton, a Thriving Washington Town Only Two Tears of Age, LOCATED IN A FAVORED REGION. The Eiches and Beauty of Lofty, Majestic Old lit. Baker, ONE OF THE K0RTHEEN W0HDEBS COnnESPONDIUCX OT THI DISPATCH.! Shelton, Wash., May 30. More than 30 years ago a young man from the East, by name David Snelton, emigrated to that wild Western country which is now called Wash ington, and located a donation claim of 610 acres, one of the western arms of Pnget Sound. This claim was 25 miles north of the spot called Olympia. In this bleak, bnt picturesque, corner of the world, Mr. Shel ton lived alone with his family, no neighbor within many miles of him, until the year 1883. Strange to say, he lived contentedly and prospered. His three stalwart boys grew up into fine, healthy men and aided their father in agriculture and stock raising. This sort of life must have been especially suited to tbe tasks of the Shelton family, for they were perfectly happy in their isolation, that is, as human happiness goes. I wonder what the poet Cowper would have thought ot their seclusion, for he as sures us that nothing is livelier than to "peep through the loophole of retreat." But then we know that Cooper was a little ultra in some of his ideas. A TWO-YEAR-OLD TOWN. In 1883, some other people wandering about like stray sheep, from the house of Is rael, struck this locality. Other people see ing them come, sheeplike, concluded to fol low. In a very few months many more came, until in less than a year, the inhabi tants of the spot had accumulated, like spec tators around a fire. Two years ago the town was platted, named in honor of its en terprising settler, David Shelton, and now is one of the prettiest little Western cities of 4.500 inhabitants in existence. The city covers an area a mile and a half long and about three-quarters wide, within which the assessed value of property is about $80,000. Nature has implanted in every human soul an innate love for the beautiful. The harmony of color, form and sound ha. power to attract and charm even tbe savage. The majesty of scenery surrounding the town ot Shelton has had much to do with its growth. The great Northwest challenges the world and with reason, for a rivalry in scenic wonder, most successfully. From the Court House in Shelton rises a panorama well nigh unequalled. Afar looms Mount Baker, A TITAN IN STBENGTH and power. "Seen from this eminence, more than a hundred miles away, the jagged out lines of his imperial rotundity are tempered with delicacy and veiled with vaporous charm. Who looking at this montanic won der, wrapped in the gossamer ot the cloud, could fancy that on a near approach, when atmospheric conditions are favorable, the mountain and its surroundings would pre sent a scene'of desolation, ot fierce upheaval and titanic fissure, and that he would see upon its breast the scars ot frequent and seismic convulsion? Mount Baker deserves consideration as something more than the fountain head of fertilizing snd treffic-centering streams. It is the central point around which unfold, like even opening scrolls, magnificent and indescribable panoramas, in which all that is overpowering in earth, wave and sky is met and becomes transfigured. Here the atmosphere with a subtile skill no artist can hope to imitate, lays bare its mighty power and inspired by tbe ardent sun, throws with transcendent touch, here, a purple-tinged shadow; there, a gold-real beam; now sprays the mountain's brow with liquid fire and then lays a dash of violet upon its shoulder. A GBAND MOUNTAIN. In order to appreciate Mount Baker you must see it from the town of Shelton or some place equally distant. Too near at hand it cannot fail to lose its charm. It grows common place, coarse, and like the enchanting future, loses all graciousness when it becomes to-day. Seen from the place from which I write, the mountain be comes idealized and the high light flung on crag and flanking bnttress brings into broad relief the whole majestic picture. Mount Hater is indeed one ol the wonders of the Northwest, and its overpowering charm will fully justify tbe praise which may seem overwrougbt to him who has not gazed and paid due reverence. But grand as is Mount Baker In scenic power, vivid and versatile as it appears in the crespuscular light of morn in the full born splendor of noon and the shadowy close of day it is chiefly for its usefulness to Northern Washington that it should be considered. We are taught that usefulness ranks higher than beauty doubtless then, prosaism should take precedence over poetry, and we should view Mount Baker with eyes that see no charm in 'metric measure. A FAVORED EEGION. From tho mountain's unfailing reservoir flow the innumerable rivers, which at length find their outlet in that broad inland sea known as Fuget Sound. These spark ling aud erratic streams which thread the country in erery direction, diversify and make verdant the glad Northwest. Upon the basalts and granites and metamorphio strata or the region are brought to bear the cosmic forces of frost, hail and rain. In nature's laboratory, for centuries, have secret forces been at "work and now the streams bear downward through tbe plaint, tbe silt, which is the result of their mechanism. This silt is tbe fertilizer, powerful, ezhaustles9, which is brought to bench, table and tide land, becoming the servant to man's requirements and luxury. Mount Baker, must, of necessity, when viewed simply from a material standpoint, be accounted a factor most valuable in the success and financial growth of the vast region, which comes within the circle of its influence. As this is an age in which physical ad vantages are strongly appreciated, we can not help yielding to Mount Baker the hom age which is its just right, as a powerful aid in the promotion of the well being of the residents of Washington. sit. bakeb's tbaditions. What Mount Hood is to Portland and Mount Tacoma to the Southern cities of the Puget Sound country, Mount Baker is to tbe town of Shelton and neighboring cities. Hood and Bainier, Jefferson, Adams, Shasta and the Three Sisters are mountains, which, each and all have some grand legend concerning them, created in the minds of the red men of the Occident, but Mount Baker, wrapped in its garb of eternal snows, mignt wen typny the .mountain of Silence. For it, was reserved the Tumor of becoming the Pantheon of the wildwood to the untu tored children of the forest. A whole book on ethnology lies written on the face of this monarch ot the wood. Familiar races long dwelt in its weird vicinage and rounded out their errant lives under tbe bows of the 'gigantic trees that skirt its borders. Many claim that Mount Baker is the most unique and wonderiul of all the peaks of the vast mountain chain which stretches irom the Arctic to the Ant artic regions, through North and South America. ITS' DISCOVERY. Monnt Baker was discovered April, 1792, by Lieutenant Baker, who accompanied Captain Van Couyer oa his voyage of dis covery. It was ou the afternoon of the 30th when Lieutenant Baker first saw its tower-. ing peak, and we have his authority that the first glimpse of tbe lofty mountain was most overpowering and majestic Captain Van Couver tells us that at its base rested a small Indian village, looking diminutive, indeed, beneath the beetling cliffs that lifted their thunder-scarred and lightning cleft domes into the etherial blue. On the same voyage Captain Van Con ver discovered a "long, sandy ridge, behind which was seen a well protected bay," close to it, nestled a range of cliffs, the Cascade Mountains of to-day. This sandy point is now known as New Dungeness. It was discovered the day previous to the discovery of Mount Baker. But now to return to the town of Shelton, of which I began to write. As I before inti mated, it is as pretty a place as one would care to see. I really believe that if Noah's dove had rested here the sole of his foot,he would have changed his mind about floating back to the ark with a bay leaf.' Shelton is sitnated upon Big Skookum Bay. This bay has most flattering prospects as A BUSINES3 CENTER. The leading industry of tbe town is na turally enough lumbering. Here a saw mill, cutting more than 25,000 feet of fir and spruce, is in continual operation. The finest quality ot cedar grows along the Big Skooknm, and to it constant access is had. There is now in process of construction a gigantic mill, also a sash and door factory. At Shelton the Satsok Bailway Company has its initial point, and a logging road, ex tending nearly 20 miles westward into the timber belt, has been built. Four steam boat docks have been constructed along the water front, where the water depth is at low tide, more than 10 feet and 6 feet from shore, over 100 feet in depth. Steamer traffic annually increases in im portance. The southwestern portion of Puget Sound has been out of tbe line of travel, and its capabilities have conse quently remained undeveloped. But it is tbe railroads that make or mar a town. They are rapidly encroaching upon Shelton from all directions. Years past those TWO OBEAT FACTORS in Western growth, capital and enterprise, have been diverted to other localities of the Pnget Sound district; but tbe citizens of Shelton claim that this fact, hitherto so derogotary to growth, is now Shelton's strongest recommendation. Foresight and industry have duly inaugurated the era of development. A magnificent school system is now under 'way. Costly hotels and churches dot the once barren waste. Tbe work of progress that the citizens have un dertaken must of necessity reach toward completion. A wealth of iron ore, eight miles from the city, has lately been discovered. Dur ing the next few years it is confidently anticipated that many more rich develop ments will be made. The pretty little town of Shelton is a credit to the grandly en dowed region known as Pnget Sound. H. M. Spalding. THE EAEIH IS DBYING VP. Cartons Shrlnknue of tbe Lakes, Seas nnd Rivers ot the World. To the inundated residents of the States of the lower Mississippi Valley, says the St. Louis Republic, it will, no doubt, seem like rankest folly to attempt to prove that our. water supply is becoming less and less year by year. There is, however, evidence that the amount of water on the surface of tbe earth has been steadily diminishing for many thousand of years. No one donbts that there was a time when the Caspian Sea communicated with the Black Sea, and when the Mediterranean covered the greater part of the Desert of Sahara. In fact, geologists tell us that at one time tbe whole of the earth's surface was covered by water many fathoms in depth. All rivers and small streams are visibly smaller than they were 23 years ago. Coun try brooks in which men now living were accustomed to fish and bathe in their boy hood have, in many cases, totally disap peared in consequence of the failure of springs and rains which once fed them. The level of the great lakes is falling year by year. There are many piers on tbe shores of lakeside cities which vessels once Approached with ease, but which now reach the water's edge. Harbor surveyors will tell you that all har bors are shallower than they were even a decade ago. This is not dne to the gradual deposit of earth brought down by rivers, as some may suppose, nor to the refuse Irom city sewers. The harbor ot Toronto has almost ceased to be of use, despite the fact that it has been dredged out to the perma nent bottom rock. All the dredging that can be done in New York harbor has failed to permanently deepen it. The growing shallowness of the Hudson river is noticeable, and, like the outlet to Lake Chaniplain, which was once navigated by Indian canoes at .all seasons, the upper Hudson is now almost bare of water during the summer. The Des Moines river, in Iowa, once navigated to the mouth of the Itaccoon Fork, the present site of the city of Des Moines, will now hardly float a fisher man's rowboat; the steamboat has not plowed its bosom for over a quarter of a cen tury. In all parts of the world there is the same decrease in the waters of rivers and lakes. If this state of affairs continues until the year 2000000 A. D. the water question will be of more interest than that of prohibition. A TREE TEAT SMOKES. Puffs From Its Limbs That Resemble tho Curls From a Cigarette. Newton, a vigorous mountain town west of Charlotte, N. C, has a curiosity that beats by a large majority the rain tree which gained such notoriety in Charlotte in 1886. It is a smoking tree, and baffles all ef forts at explanation. It is a white mulberry tree, and stands on the sidewalk in front of the residence of Levi Yoder. It was brought from Illinois a year or two ago, and it is now about 12 feet high, with a busby top and many lateral branches. Last Sunday one of tbe family noticed a TinfTnf omnta nMAoan IvAm tna nr ha lirviKa and by watching it closely puffs identical in appearance to cigarette smoke were seen starting every now and then irom all over the tree, sometimes from tbe leaves, some times from the bloom, sometimes from the bark ol the limbos or trunk of the tree. The puffs are at irregular intervals; sometimes two or three at once from various parts of the tree, and sometimes they are several seconds or a half minute apart. Since Tuesday, when the curiosity first became generally known, large crowds can be seen there at any time in the day, and many make explanations of the phenom enon, which, perhaps, are plausible enough to their authors, but which carry very little conviction to tbe minds of others. A CHICAGOAN BHOOTS HIS WIFE And Then 'Attempts to Put Oat His Own Light. Chicago, June 6. At 9 o'clock this morning an old man named John Lally shot his wife In the right cheek, the bullet pass ing out under the ear. He then shot him seif in tbe head. Lally's family say he is insane. It is thought that both' Lally and his wife will recover. - i Will Not Tunnel tbe English Chnunel. London, June 6. In the House of Commons to-day the bill for the construc tion of a tunnel under the English chauuel from England to France was rejected by a vote of 234 to 153. Will Investigate Alleged Outrages. Constantinople, June 6. The Porte will send a commission to Albania to inquire into tbe outrages which are alleged. to bays been committed upon Christiana there." TBADE FAIRLY BKISE. Pittsburers Volume About Equal to the Corresponding Season of '89. LARGER CLEARINGS AT NEW YORK Make the Grand Total for 37 Cities the Largest on Eecord. BUSINESS FAILURES MUCH EEDUCED ISriCUU. TXLIOKAM TO THX DISPXTCH.1 Newt Yobk, June 6. Special telegrams to Bradstreet's indicate only a fairly active general trade movement. Prices of cotton and leather have advanced East and West, which tends to produce higher quotations for cotton fabrics and boots and shoes, for which demand is good. At Philadelphia there is a fair jobbing demand for stock re newals, and crude iron is a little firmer. At Pittsburg it is reported the volume of the spring trade will about equal that of '89. Business has been stimulated at St. Louis by excellent weather, while at Memphis it is only fairly active and at Cincinnati moderate. There is an improved demand at New Orleans, but the total volume of orders from the interior is less than was expected. The like is reported from Kansas City, and at Omaha trade is not brisk, notwithstanding higher prices tor farm products stimulated trade during the spring. At Chicago, however, there appears to have been an active and very general demand for staples butat St. Paul "relatively less activity is reported, though trade there has been of large volume. ACTIVE SPECULATION HEALTH PUL. Active speculation in Wall street, New York, has enlarged clearings at that city, and the grand total for 37 cities is the larg est on record. New York's May total ex ceeds that of April by 30 per cent, and May, 1889, by nearly 23 per cent. The gam at all cities is 22.4 per cent over April last, and 19.5 per cent over May last year. At cities other than New York the gain over April is 10 per cent, and over May last year 13.6 per cent. The total clearings at 37 cities aggregated 55,778,150,448. For the five months the clearings at 37 cities aggre gated 524,553.108,698, a gain over last year of 9.5 per cent, which, in turn, gained 14 per cent over the five months of 1888. Stock speculation at New York has re turned to a bullish basis, trust stocks being the feature. Available stocks of wheat de clined very slowly during May, owing to heavy shipments of wheat by farmers, stim ulated by high prices. This, with a large increase in the quantity afloat lor Europe, serves to increase stocks in sight in Europe, America and afloat about 2,000,000 bushels, as compared with May 1. DECLINE FOLLOWED BY EXCESS. During January and February these stocks declined 10,000,000 bushels per month. The decreases were smaller in tbe two following months, while in May stocks pjled up in exces3 of consumptive demands something quite unusual at this season. Exports ol wneat (and of flour as wheat), both coasts, equal 2.324,610 bushels this week, against 1,778,994 bushels in the like week a year ago and 1,692,986 bushels last week. Total shipments July 1, 89, to date equal 100,502,544 bushels against 81,861,433 bushels in a like portion ot 1888-9. Southern pig-iron makers report a sudden improvement in the demand. The entire iron trade is gaining in activity and in stances ot shadings of prices are becoming rarer. Production and consumption are pretty evenly balanced and a more hopeful feeling prevails. Dry goods are in moderate sale at Eastern markets. Cotton goods are generally very strong and advances are reported of from c to lc on leading classes of goods. Print cloths alone show weakness and are nearly l-16c lower on slow demand. Jobbers re port trade rather slow as is usual at this sea son. Woolens are in restricted movement and short time is reported in many eassi mere, hosiery and flannel mills. WOOL QUIET BUT FIBM. One of the largest auction sales of Ameri can silk handkerchiefs was made this-week at full prices. Wool is quiet and un changed. Beceipts of new wool are large, hut not sufficiently so to influence prices. It aw cotton is 5-lGc lower. Crop accounts are improving. Business failures reported to Bradttreet's number 175 in the United States this week against 140 last week and 201 this week last year. Canada bad 27 this week against 12 last week. Tbe total number of failures in the' United States January 1 to date is 4,943 against 5,245 in a like portion of 1889. WAE ON BEER BOTTLERS. Jersey Women Attack Them Wltb Broom and Scalding; Water. Bbidoeton, N. J., June 6. War has been declared against the beer bottlers, who have their establishments just outside of the city limits, by the women in the Second ward of Bridgcton. About a dozen have organized themselves into a band of cru saders and threaten to use brooms and scald ing water ou the first man who brings any beer to their respective houses. They claim since the city has had no li cense, that tbe beer brought into their houses has made their husbands worse than when licensed places were in vogue, and they have sworn vengeance upon the men who deliver beer to their houses. One un suspecting bottler met with a warm recep tion when he went to deliver some of his goods to a Grove street residence. Two heavy weights of the lamily seeing him ap proach started for him with brooms. Not wishing to have,auj trouble he dropped his case of beer and as with wings flew to his wagon and was off in the twinkling of an eye. Tbe women say there is no fooling to be done about tbe matter, and they mean just what they say. They have given all beer men notice it they insist on delivering their orders tbey will do so at the risk of the broom brigade. There are likely to be some rich developments, as the beer deliverers say they are not to be cowed down by a lot ot women, and that tbe beer will be deliv ered whenever ordered by husbands. AN rNDIAN EOW THEEATENED. A New Agent Driven OO" and Troops Art) Held In Bendlness. Milwaukee, June 6. Great excitement prevails in and abont the Keshena Indian reservation owing'to the attitude of the Indians there. They have driven off Indian Agent Kelsey, who telegraphed to tv asningion mat trouDle was impending. He received a telegram from the Secretary of War saying that troops would be sent at once if it was considered necessary, after all conciliatory measures had failed. The res ervation is occupied by 1,500 Menominee and Oneida Indians, who are well armed with rifles. The trouble originated over the removal of Agent Jennings, who was appointed by President Cleveland. Jennings turned over his office to his successor on May 31, after great efforts had been made by a traction of the Indians to have him retained. When it was 'ound that he had really surrendered his office they were very much incensed and began to make threats, which culminated in a display of force before the new agent and the Government suspected their intentions. Ou the receipt of the news yes terday of the passage of Senator Awyer's bill tor the sale of their land the trouble broke out afresh. So serious was the aspect of affairs that Agent Kelsey hastily left the reservation for fear of serious trouble. The last reports Irom the reservation were to the effect that the situation was very critical. . 1 i i V 2 4 1 i u- .J?
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