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BOUWJFJATII,
Another and Fresh Supply of
Natural Gas Surely Held
in Reserve for
PITTSBURG AND VICINITY
After the Product of the Present Wells
Shall Have Vanished.
2EW FIELDS TO BE DEVELOPED
In Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and South
ern Illinois.
THE EESEAECHES OF A GEOLOGIST
t
Harrv C. Freeman, a Geologist who ha"i
made natural gas a special study, says th
supply is practically inexhaustible. Ne
wells will take the place of those wide
jrive out. Much territory is stm to De aw
Teloped. J
rSPECUU. TELEGEAJI TO TH3 DISPATCH. 1
Chicago, July 4. Among the msfny
bright professional men who hare been drawn
to Chicago by the superior opportunities
which the city offers, is Mr. Henry C. Free
man, a civil and mining engineer and geol
ogist, whose home is in Southern. Illinois.
Mr. Freeman is an enthusiast In his profes
sion, and is as much a student as a man of
business.
"When the war opened he went into the
army as an engineer under Grant and Fre
mont, and was afterward attached to the
Thirteenth Army Corps, with which he did
excellent work as a military engineer under
Grant before Vicksburg. He is well-known
as a member of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, is a member of the staff
of the Illinois Geological Survey and has
been one of the lecturers in the New York
Academy of Sciences.
HIS SPECIAL STUDY.
During the last few years Mr. Freeman
has directed special attention to the study
of geology with reference to the production
of natural gas. In the co'urse of a conver
sation on that subject this evening he was
asked by the Chicago correspondent of The
Dispatch what he thought of the natural
gas fields of Pennsylvania.
"The most remarkable thing about the
Pennsylvania field is its immensity," said
he. "Like the petroleum of that region it
has its origin in the Devonian slates, and,
though it must be regarded as having limi
tations, yet there is an almost inexhausti
ble supply. The rate of draft on any giv
en m& of it determines the rapidity of
e.'Sstion, and, if the draft is gauged to
within a reasonable amount of the supply,
there is no reason why a long period
oi years should not elapse belore
a liberal commercial supply is
exhausted. This is due to the large
area of the bituminous slates and
and their ereat thickness, a large portion of
the thickness of which is Vitaminized, and
to the large area which assists in supporting,
by its flow, the local point from which the
gas is drawn.
ANOTHER SUPPLY IK RESERVE.
"But even though the present supply of
natural gas in the Pennsylvania region
should be exhausted there is another supply
to be drawn upon. The analogy drawn from
a study of the gas fields in Western Ohio
and west of that State indicates that Penn
sylvania has another source of supply, but
lying at great depths, in the Trenton lime
stone." "Is there any means of determining how
long the present supply in Pennsylvania
will last?"
"There is nothing that can be considered
definite. But the history of two very well
known instances shows what a gas field
may do where the draft on it is not exces
sive. The town of Fredonia, N. T has
been lighted by natural gas for about 40
years, with no serious diminution in the
supply, and a salt well on the Great Ka
nawha river, in "West Virginia, produced a
supply for 25 years, gradually lessening its
flow, but no action was taken to keep up its
flow by torpedoing it Those are the
only instances I know of giving indications
of longevity. In each instance the draft on
the sources of supply was very moderate and
it would seem that the duration of natural
gas is in a manner proportioned to the rate
at which the sources of supply is drawn
upon. In both of these instances the source
of supply was in the Devonian slates. The
well on the Great Kanawha was on a pro
longation of the axis prodncing petroleum
in the Little Kanawha region."
2JO FIGURES CAN BE GITEN.
"Do you think the present supply in
Pittsburg is limited to any such period as
25 or 40 years?"
"I conld not say because I have no data
from which to form an estimate. I do not
even know the r:e at which the pressure is
lessening at existing wells there. That
might be some little guide. Those wells
usually start with an excessively high pres
sure, which alter a short time is reduced to
what may be termed a normal pressure, at
which they continue for a long time without
increase and without any great decrease.
Now, if the pressure ot the wells were noted
every few months, the rate of decrease in
the normal pressure during a long period of
time might furnish data from which a rude
estimate might be made."
"What about the second source of supply
in Western Pennsylvania, of which you
spoke a moment ago?"
"If the Trenton limestone and the inter
vening strata between that and the De
vonian are conformable, as is presumably
the case, then the same wells could be con
tinued in depth to reach strata containing
gas from the Trenton."
"How much deeper would they have to
0?"
"I cannot tell at what depth the Trenton
limestone is to be found in Western Penn
sylvania. I do not know whether that has
cTer been determiiie-iby the Pennsylvania
Survey or not The only way they could
deteraale,it, besides by boring," is to go long
duiMnwand measure the outerons and th
ysleto Aclination. In that way they
could approximate to
"What is the character of the supply to
be derived from that source?"
"It would be like that of Western Ohio
and Indiana, and would, in some cases,
probably be accompanied with a supply of
oil. The Western Ohio and Indiana fields
derive their supply from the Trenton lime
stone wholly."
HOW OAS FIELDS ABE FORMED.
Mr. Freeman explained that Trenton
limestone was a stratum of rock formed in
the lower Silurian age, upon which were
superimposed numerous strata formed In
the Upper Silurian age and others formed
in the Devonian age, among which was the
stratun, he termed the Devonian slates, and
from which the Pittsburg natural gas is ob
tained. Thus the Trenton limestone was
formed ages before the Devonian slates. It
lies deep below the surface in Western
Pennsylvania andsEastern Ohio, but is com
paratively near the surface at Lima, O., and
Indiana and crops out in Illinois. From
it all the Western wells draw
their supply, including the few which
splutter away in Southern Illinois, not far
from St, Louis. He also explained the geo--ogical
pec uliarities necessary to the forma
tion of a natural gas field. There must be,
first of all, a stratum producing the natural
gas, which, in Pennsylvania, is the Devo
nian slates, and in Ohio, Indiana and Il
linois is the Trenton limestone. Above it
must be one or more strata porous enough
or sufficiently fractured to absorb and hold
the gas escaping from the gas-producing
stratum, and above that mnst be a
hard, close stratum, clay for instance, which
keeps the gas from escaping through the in
tervening strata to the open air. In the
typical gas field there is a ridge or wrinkle
or fold, which in the language of the geolo
gist, is termed an anticlinal axis, extending
TnBOUGH ALL THESE STBATA,
by which cracks or fissures arc made in the
porous strata holding the gas. The axis is
sometimes ten miles or more in width and
may extend in a more or less straight line
for several hundred miles. The gas naturally
accumulates at the highest point oi the
stratum, to which it is held, and is thus
found distributed along the axis at its high
est point and the typical gas well is struck
when the highest point of the axis is pierced
by the drill. He said that there is every
reason to believe that in Western Pennsyl
vania, about Pittsburc, there is a correspond
ing wrinkle or axis in the Trenton limestone
to that in the Devonian slates, along which
the Pittsburg gas wells are located, and that,
consequently, a fresh supply of gas or gas
ind oil may be struck in any one of the suc
cessful wells ot to-day if the drill goes deep
enough.
GAS FIELDS YET TO BE STRUCK.
He was asked if, in his opinion, there
were other gas fields yet to be struck. "I
think there are," was his reply. "The pro
longation southward of what is known as
the Cincinnati axis should give, in some
parts of Kentucky and Tennessee, one or
more gas fields. Then the Indiana gas field
is a prolongation of the Ohio oil field, but
on another axis. It might be inferred that
there should be another gas field in North
Illinois, but that is not the case. Through
out Northern Illinois' there are a few iso
lated areas which furnish gas in small
quantities from the Trenton, but
nothing in commercial quantities. This
?s due to the factlhat the great a jial eh. f- I f ,ual ,Ior.ea ,l ?Te TVW i
.: e .. fr., i..:- s. . f .v. ' filled instantly with water, and the entire
tion of the Trenton brings it, too near the
surface for the gas to' be retained In
Western Indiana on a prolongation of the
great Illinois axis is an area of territory
which will produce gas from the Trenton
limestone in liberal commercial quantities.
That is a distinct field from the Indiana gas
field at present operated. Then in Southern
Illinois there are two axial lines which will
no doubt produce gas in large commercial
Quantities.
DRAPING THE STATUABT.
Some Clothes for the Worka of Art la
the
Deiroit Mani-uni.
rSPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE PISPATCH.1
DETROIT, July 4. The Detroit Museum
of Art has some very clever plaster casts of
noted statuary, including Venus, the Dying
Gladiator and others of the nude type. The
only trouble with these casts is that they
represent the human form as made by the
Creator, without dress or robes. Some old
maids and other prudes addressed a letter to
the directors last week asking that the nude
statues be so drtped that they need not blush
every time they glanced at the casts.
The art students strenuously objected, but
the prudes, backed up by two ministers,
have carried the day. To-day the directors
made public their order to the caretaker,
that he cover the offending statues with
clothes. The entire city is laughing at the
directors, and it is probable that public
opinion will make them abrogate their fig
leaf order.
WENT WITH A WHISTLER.
A Now Tork Forger Arrested In Denver In
Company With a Freak.
New York, July 4. Inspector Byrnes
to-day received a dispatch from Denver,
Col., announcing the arrest in that city of
Benjamin S. Bennett, wanted in this citv
for forgery. Bennett was formerly the
book-keeper and confidential clerk of
William K. Hammond, a manufacturer of
bricks, at 624 West Thirtieth street. The
amount ot his forgeries is about Sfl nnn
During the latter part of May he was given
a vacation by his employer and three Havs
alter his departure the forgeries were dis
covered. When Bennett left he was accompanied
by Hattie Stedfield, a dime museum
whistler. He was traced to St. Louis, then
to New Orleans, and finally caught at
Denver. He has a wife and two children
here.
A FREAK OF IJGHTNING.
A Child In lis Mother's Arni Killed Without
Ii jurlnglhe Holder.
rSrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO TUB DISrATCB.l
Columbia, S. C, July 4. A remarka
ble ireak of lightning was recorded near,
Martins Point, in Berkley county, to-day.
A negro woman was sitting in her house
with a 2-year-old in her lap. Her husband
was standing on the opposite side of the
room. A thunder storm was in progress
and a stroke of lightning descended upon
the bouse.
The child in its mother's arms was in
stantly killed, its father severely, perhaps
fatally shocked, and the mother was not in-'
jured or even shocked by the, stroke. The
same bolt of lightning killed a workman in
a field near by.
LEGAL POLYGAMY.
A Family
Noted for the Plenitude of Its
DiTorces.
rEPECIAL TELEGEAH TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Indianapolis, July 4. The oltenest
divorced woman lives in this city. She has
been divorced eight times, twice from the
same man, and is now livinc with her ninth
husband She is 37 years old, and comes of
a family noted for its divorces.
Her mother has had six divorces, and is
livinc with her seventh husband. An nnnle
and two aunts have each been married five
times. They are still young, J
AGONIZING ACCIDENT.
Four Members of a Boating Party of
Eight Drowned at McKeesport
BEFOEE THE EYES OF HUNDREDS.
Two Women Saved While Their Husbands
and Children Perish.
A YOUTH'S HEEOIC WORK OP RESCUE.
The Other Fatalities Which Marred the Enjoyment of
the Holiday.
John Thompson and wife, Bichard Smith
and wife, and the four children of the two
families went rowing in an old boat at Mc
Keesport The frail concern went to pieces
and four of the party were drowned before
assistance could reach them.
rBPKCIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DIM? ATCH. '
McKeesport, July 4. The day was not
allowed to pass here without an accident of
a most distressing nature. Four persons of
a boating party of twice that number sank
beneath the waters of the Youghiogheny
river never to rise in life again under circum
stances that were particularly agonizing.
John Thompson, aged about 40, and his 14-year-old
girl Bessie, with Bichard Smith,
aged about 30 years, and the 2-year-
old girl, named Alice, of the latter,
were all drowned just opposite the foot of
Eleventh avenue. The wives of the unfor
tunate men and an infant daughter of Mr.
Smith escaped. They were only saved
through the courage of 18-year-old" Bobert
Smith, who held with one hand to his
mother and clung to an old boat with the
other, while she held her infant above the
water that it might not strangle.
A TERRIBLE SITUATION.
At the same time Mrs. Thompson held to
the other side of the boat, and in this posi
tion they remained until Allen, a 13-year-old
son ef Mrs. Smith, rowed out into the
middle of the stream in a skiff and saved
them. It was a very sad ending of a pleas
ant river party.
The two families resided in Brick alley,
this city, near the river, and, after seeing the
parade, they concluded to row across the
river and spend a pleasant afternoon under
the trees on the onposite side. They pro
vided a lunch and were well equipped for a
family party in every way. They then en
tered the boat, which was very old, with a
rotten end. The entire party consisted of
Bichard Smith, wife and three children, and
John Thompson and wife and 14-year-old
girl.
PBESERVED THE BABY.
As Mrs. Smith fell out of the boat she
tightened her grasp on her babe, and, as she
was about to sink, brave young Bobert, who
sat unharmed in the boat, leaped into the
water and managed to drag his mother to
the boat, to which she clung with one hand,
while struggling to hold her child's face
above the water, and, aided by her boy, she
managed to keep up until her little son
Allen, who had seen the whole affair,
reached her in a skiff, and carried the four
agonized survivors to the shore. The re
mains of the two fathers, with the two
daughters, were recovered half an hour
after. They were all together.
When the boat reached the middle of the
river, the heavy weight on the weak end of
party, with the exception of Bobert, the
18-year old boy, who was rowing, were pre
cipitated into the river. The two lathers
sank at once and were not seen again. Mrs.
Thompson succeeded in grasping the edee
of the boat, while Bessie Thompson and
Alice Smith sank close by where the men
went down. They both came up three times
before drowning, and .had anyone been at
hand they could have been saved. They
were helpless, however, and their agonized
mothers saw them go down forever, utterly
powerless to move a hand to save them.
The fright, strangling and horror of being
called upon by their daughters, whom they
could not save, has told fearfully upon the
poor women, who are so ill they may not re
cover. The unlortunates were too lar out in
the stream forothers to assist them, and hun
dreds of unwilling eyes saw them drown be
fore a hand could be extended. The Coro
ner was notified of the sad affair at once.
Both men were of English descent and were
employed at the Tube Works here.
AN UNFORTUNATE EXPERIMENT.
A Young Sinn of Inquiring Mind Has na Arm
Blown OK
1SPECTAL TELEGKAK TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Steubenville, July 4. While the
young son of George Fickles, a prominent
contractor, was experimenting with some
explosives to-dav, a terrible explosion oc
curred. The young man's right arm was
blown off below the elbow, and he otherwise
suffered severely. He had always been of
an inquiring turn of mind, and was contin
ually experimenting with powders of some
kind. He hid found a powerlul explosive,
and was pounding it with a hammer to test
it when it went off. The powder was a
queer mixture of several ingredients, but it
seems that he had put in too much dynamite
to stand the pressure of a hammer, and the
accident resulted.
Great sorrow is felt here over the affair, as
the young man was a favorite with the peo
ple. He is a nephew of the late David
Fickles, formerly of the Chronicle Herald,
of Pittsburg.
ONE UTILE FIRECRACKER
Conses a Serious Fire in Which One Life Is
Lost and Koar Injured.
East Saginaw, Mich., July 4. The
Kinney Hotel, a two-story brick on Wash
ington avenue, was set on fire this afternoon
by the ienitingof a firecracker in a bedroom.
The house was in flames almost immediate
ly, and James Benham was burned to death.
He was a native of Canada, aged 28, and
unmarried. John Miller was terribly burned
about the face, neck and head; Thomas
Lynch was badly burned on the left hand;
William Eeagan was badly burned on the
hand and arm; Archie Kinney, the proprie
tor, was badly burned on the head, neck
and arms. Loss 55,000; partially insured.
CANITON EXPLODES.
An Oil City Yonng Man Instnntlr Killed
While Celebrating the 4ih.
Oilx City, July 4. Sylvester Young, a
man aged 20, and the only son of a widow,
was instantly killed this morning at fi
o'clocfc. He was celebrating, and the 60
pound cannon he was firing exploded with
fatal results.
Hit by a Sky Rocket.
Cincinnati, July 4. John McMullen,
while passing through an alley last night,
was struck on the head by a sky rocket, the
stick penetrating his brain. He was taken
to the hospital and the stick removed and
he now lies in a very critical condition.
Fell From a Skiff nnd Drowned.
Cincinnati, July 4. Miss Annie
Turner, of Walnut Hills, while attempting
to step from a skiff into the United States
snag boat, last night, fell into the river and
,was drowned,
recovered.
The body has not yet been
STORjU jjn LAKE MICHIGAN.
TERRIBLlf EXPERIENCES REPORTED BY
LAKE NAVIGATORS.
Vessels Turned Over Passenger Steamers
Compelled to Seek Harbor Several
Lives Lost Great Dnpiage Dons to
Vessels In Chicago Bnrbor.
Chicago, July 4. Lake Michigan was
stirred from surface to bottom last night
and to-day by a gale that wrecked shipping
and threw on its beam-ends the programme
of aquatic sports arranged by Chicagoans
for the glorious Fourth. Vesselmen whose
lives have been spent on the great lakes,
unite in pronouncing it the severest storm
for this season of the year, within the
memory of the oldest The vessels that had
braved the threatening indications during
the evening and put out to sea were bela
boring outside of the breakwater trying to
make port. Sdtne were successful; others,
less fortunate, tried to save themselves by
dropping anchor. One vessel, the schooner
Gladiator, turned over, and her commander,
Captain Loroton, was lost.
About midnight the steamer City of
Chicago, with 1,000 passengers aboard, lay
on her beam ends outside the breakwater
trying to gain shelter. She left Chicago a
few hours before for Grand Haven, loaded
down with passengers. She was 25 miles
on her course when her captain was obliged
o put her about and run for Chicago.
After a terrific experience in the heavy sea,
rolling and plunging and at times shipping
some water, she finally reached her dock
without accident.
The schooner Gladiator, however, did not"
fare so well. She was loaded to the rails
with wool and she labored terribly in the
trough of the sea, seven miles off Gross
Point. Soon she sprang a leak and took
water rapidly. A portion of her deck load
went by the board, and her waterlogged
condition was eased for the while. But the
leak enlarged and she was caught by a wave
and turned keel up. Captain Loroton and
his crew were carried by the waves some
distance from the schooner. The Captain
was unable to reach the craft again and was
drowned. The crew caught the wreckage
and managed to float until the life-saving
crew, stationed at Evanston, came to their
assistance.
The schooner Naiad was caught in the blow
some miles out to sea, and, after a hard
struggle, reached the water just outside the
breakwater, where a number ol vessels were
anchored. The Naiad was in a bad way
and suffering greatly from her encounter
with the wind and waves. She had lost a
man, Harry Berkley, and her forward rig
ging was carried away. She dropped an
chor, but the soft bottom refused it a place,
and the vessel drifted with a crash against
the schooners Surprise and White Cloud.
These vessels had barely resisted the force
of the sea, and when they struck the Naiad
they pulled their anchors and the flotilla
drifted out to sea.
Signals of distress were displayed by the
Naiad, and Captain St. Peters and his crew,
of the lile-saving station, put out to her as
sistance. Before they could reach her, how
ever, a tug had steamed out and, throwing
the Naiad a line, soon had her in tow. The
collision cost the White Cloud her jibboom,
fore-topmast and cathead, .and the Surprise
was but little less fortunate. The Naiad
was damaged forward. v
The propeller Wissahickon and a number
of other staunch vessels were also among
the list more or less damaged by the storm.
FELL FROM HIS HORSE.
Probably Fatal Accident at McKeesport
Daring tho Parade.
rf FECIAL TSLEPBAM TO TUB P1SPATCH.1
McKepspoet, July 4. Jons M. Kin
kaid, a well-known young man of this city,
who was one of the aids and a color bearer
in the First division of the parade, received
injuries from a horse which, it is feared,
will cause his death. While waiting on the
main street, with other aids, until it was
time for them to join the parade, his horse
became frighteued, unseated him and lell
on him.
After the horse got up, Kinkaid also rose
to his feet, but after walking a few steps he
tell insensible, and has been so since. He
is hurt internally, and it is feared he will
not recover. He is a young and very popu
lar member of the Junior Order United
American Mechanics.
POISONEDJCE CREAM.
TWENTY PERSONS CAUGHT AT A PHILA.
DELPHIA PICNIC.
AH of Them Are Taken to a Ilonpltal nnd
It is Feared That Some or Them May
Die Tho Sudden Attack Which Put an
End to n Merry Pleasure Pnriy.
fSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
Philadelphia, July 4. Twenty people
were poisoned to-day in Fairmount Park by
eating ice cream. They had taken it out
with them from the city in big coolers. The
party included about 30 people, all
young girls and young men living
in one neighborhood. They started
early in the morning in an open wagon
to a picnic in the woods near Ridseland, in
the east park. Among their refreshments
were two large cans ot ice cream which came
from the establishment of Edward Mulford.
The cream was ol two flavors, packed sep
arately, ten quarts of vanilla ice cream be
ing placed in a twelve-quart can and five
quarts of chocolate cream in a five
quart can. The cream, together with the other
refreshments, were placed under the shade
of a large tree, where they remained until
dinner time. The party spent the mornins
in frollicking in the woods, and about 12
o'clock came back to their camping ground
for dinner. All ate plentifully of the ham
sandwiches, lemonade and other edibles
and a ter the meal opened the ice cream can.
Immediately upon tasting the chocolate
cream several of the party noticed the pecu
liar flavor of the cream. Eva Sassman
remarked the first to her friend
Bessie Campbell, and Mr. and
Mrs. Hocks, who were of the' party,
made similar comments. Nothing further
was thought of the matter. Shortly after
ward young Bendernagle commenced to
feel ill, but ascribed it to the heat and vio
lent exercise he had had in the morning.
In the course of the morning the rest oi the'
party began to feel sick, and ascribed it to
the same cause.
Ail partooii rreely of the cream in the
course of the afternoon and at supper.
About 8 o'clock the partv started out on
their way home. Scarcely had they left
the park when all of the party became vio
lently ill and gave instructions to the driver
to go at once to the German hospital.
Prompt treatment was applied, but it is
feared that some of the party may die.
MARRIED IN THE CLOUDS.
A Massachusetts Couple Wedded In a
Balloon Yesterday.
Lowell, Mass., July 4. Prof. J. K.
Allen made a balloon ascension from the
fair grounds this afternoon at 4 o'clock,
taking with him Charles G. Stowell and
Miss Lottie E. Anderson, who were married
in the presence of upward of 10,000 people
by Rev. W. W. Downs, of Boston.
The balloon sailed away in a northerly
direction and the landing has not yet been
reported.
Waited Until After the Fourth.
An" alarm from box 156 shortly after one
o'clock this morning and cansed by a fire
in M. H. Mohler's confectionery store at
No. 2718 Sarah street, Southside. The
oriein of the fire was from shooting crackers
and before the flames were subdued a loss of
$1,000 had been entailed. The damage was
principally to his stock of roods, whioh
y nue aiuijt insured
BELIEF OF BEA7ER.
The Governor is Sure That Delamater
Will Be His Successor.
PATTISON A P0WEE PERSONALLY,
Sat the Bepnhlican Banks Will Present an
Unbroken Front
BEALLY NO DISSENSION IN THE PAETI.
The State Execntite's Tery Rosy View of the Political
Situation. -' -
Governor Beaver,.
New York yesterday. xela-
matsr is an exception , - .udidate,
who will he.easil'jfci jm . Pattison, ac
cording to his one-jtffc'opponent, is a nice
man, too, but cannot overcome the heavy
Bepublican majority.
rtPECIAL TELEOEAM TO THE DISPATCH.
( New Yobk, July 4. Governor Braver,
of Pennsylvania, was in town to-day. A
reporter saw him in the parlor of the Astor
House, and asked him his opinion of the
nomination of ex-Governor Pattison by the
.Democrats to head their ticket in the next
election. Governor Beaver smiled as he re
plied: Governor Pattison is an able man, and
"Ilight as far as personal integrity goes,
anf'l guess he stands well politically, but
ours is a Republican State and I do not see
hoie can be elected. Mr. Delamater,
the, Bepublican candidate, is an ex
ceedingly brilliant and capable man. He is
the soul ot honor and possesses executive
ability and business experience that will
make him the right man for the place. The
whole ticket is strong and clean and I see
no reason why it should not be elected by a
handsome majority. Of course it would be
presumptuous to predict now what the cam
paign will be, but I see no cause to be
alarmed about the result."
"How about the talk here that the rank
and file of the Bepublican party are dissat
isfied with the nomination of Mr. Dela
mater?" "That is something that we know nothing'
about at home. When we get outside of our
State we hear talk of disaffection, and the
further we go the more talfc we hear. The
entire ticket is a good one and there is noth
ing to prevent its receiving the full vote."
PLUCKY BEPTOLICAira.
Considering the Idea of Nominating a TIckot
In South Carolina.
rSPXCIAX. TELEORAU TO TBI DISPATCff.1
Columbia, S. C, July 4. The present
indications are that for the first time in ten
years a Bepublican State ticket will be in
the field in a short time. It ts stated that
Colonel Ellery A. Brayton, Chairman of
the State Bepublican Executive Com
mittee, will soon announce himself
as a candidate for Governor. It was
expected that Brayton would run for
Congress from the Seventh district, but for
the past month he has been watching the
campaign in this State between the two
'tiijs of the Democratic party with inteuso
interest, and he has probably decided that
this is the proper time to make a dash for
the Stale Government. It ii very certain
that if eithe the Tillman party or its op
ponents, the straight-out Democrats, are
successful in getting the nomination they
will not be supported at the polls by hun
dreds, perhaps. thousands, of the other side.
Again Capt. Tillman is endorsed now by
the colored alliances and almost all of -the
white Independents. Greenbackers and re
cently converted Democrats from the Bepub
lican ranks are rallying to his standard, and
while they may assist in splitting the Demo
crats it is very probable that later on, if the
Republicans nave a ticket in the field, they
will give that party their votes. The out
look is more promising for the Republicans
than it has been for many years.
AH0THEB BUCKEYE TICKET.
The Union Labor Parly Makes a Fall List
ot Nominations.
SPECIAL TEL1GBAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Columbus, July 4. The State Conven
tion of the Union Labor party was held to
day. E. M. Davis, of Cincinnati, was
elected Permanent Chairman, and Charles
Davis, of Knox county, Permanent Secre
tary. H. F. Hickson, ot Kansas, an
officer of the Farmers' Alliance, ad
dressed the convention. The Commit
tee on Resolutions presented a re
port reaffirming the principles of the Uninn
Labor party adopted at Cincinnati in 1888,
and declarations of principles of relorm
subsequently adopted.
The following ticket was selected: Sec
retary; of State, Ezekiel T. Curtis,
Farmington, Trumbull county; Judge of
Supreme Court, William Baker, Newark;
Clerk Supreme Court, Joseph W. Leavitt,
Columbus; and Board of Public Works,
Eli Riub, Wood county. A number of
members of the Executive Committee were
selected. John Seitz, of Tiffin, was chosen
Chairman of the committee, and Albert E.
Bauer, of Cincinnati, Secretary and Treas
urer. The convention adjourned to meet
July 4, 1891, at Newark.
KISNEB ON THE PLATFORM.
The Ex-Chairman frura the Ballot Reform
i'lnnk Is Weak and Insnfficleat.
Sckanton, July 4. Ex-Chairman Kis
ner to-day declared the ballot reform plank
of the Democratic platform insufficient
and weak in its construction. He, said it
did not go far enough on the question. He
declares the marked ballot provision in the
Constitution must be taken out, and will be
taken out before an honest vote will be re
corded, no matter what the politicians say.
Mr. Kisuer savs the partv should keep up
the agitation until the leaders who wiped
out much of the plank are made to realize
what is best for the Pennsylvania Democ
racy. gTT.T.m by A CRAZY HUSBAND.
no Stabs His Wife With the Scissors and
Says She Suicided.
rarECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
New York, July 4. For something over
a year past Martin Loppy and bis wife,
middle-aged Canadians, have lived ,in two
rooms on the top floor of a tenement house
on Chrystie street. Mrs. Loppy was a tailor
ess, and supported her husband, who
was half crazy. A man who went into tne
apartments this afternoon found Mrs. Loppy
stabbed to death on the floor of the living
room and Loppy sitting complacently by.
There is little doubt that Xoppy killed his
wife, buthe says she killed herself. Splashes
of blood were found ou Loppy's clothes.
There were two big cuts on the right side of
bis head.
Loppy, who was quite drunk, persisted
that his wife had killed hersel with a pair
of scissors. She had three stab wounds on
the left arm. The wound that killed her
was a deep stab in the left breast. There
were blood splashes around the room, but an
evident uort had been made to clean
themnp.
THROUGH THE RAPIDS.
A FOOLHARDY ATTEMPT MADE TO SHOOT
THE WHIRLPOOL RAPIDS.
A Michigan Crank, With Luck on His Side,
Successfully Swims a Portion of tho
Rapids Many Narrow Escapes He Re
ceives Slight Injuries.
Niagaba. Falls, July 4. Samuel
Smith, the Lewiston (N. Y.) boatman, who
was to go through the whirlpool rapids in a
rowboat with John L. Soules, of North
Muskegon, Mich., flunked and would not
undertake the foolhardy feat. Soules, not
to disappoint the large crowds that had con
gregated along the banks of both sides of
the river and on the suspension bridee, an
nounced that he would go through alone.
The boat which he had concealed up the
river and intended to eo as far as possible in,
some one had cut from its moorings and let
go through the rapids during the nignt.
Not daunted by this, be made astart to
swim the rapids with only his swimming
suit on, consisting of a woolen shirt and
trunks and a cork vest. At the sound of
three shots from a rifle fired by his manager,
William Leary, of Suspension Bridge,
Soules at 3:18 P. M. entered the water about
75 leet on the Falls side of the cantilever
bridge on the Canadian side. At 320 he
was seen coming around the abutments of
the cantilever bridge. The force of the
volume of water forcing itself through the
gorge causes an up current along the shore,
nnd is known as the "Canadian Current."
Soules struggled hard against the breakers
that seemed to want to wash him on the
large rocks that line the shore all the way
down the river. When he escaped from the
grasp of the current he treaded the water
all the way down to the railway suspension
bridge.
He raised his hands once or twice above
his head, waving them to the spectators,
who seemed to be paralyzed at the nerve of
the man who was tempting Providence.
When the swift current caught hold of
Soules it swept him under the bridge like a
flash. Below the railway suspension bridge
there are two large rocks. At times one of
these is covered with water when large break
ers dash over it, while the other towers
far above all breakers. The current carried
Soules up airainst the first rock and the
spectators gave vent to a simultaneous yell
of horror, expecting to see the swimmer's
brains dashed out. But luckily just as he
came in contact with the rock, a large
breaker C3ught him up and he scraped over
the obstruction. On he went with the
current until the second rock was reached
when most of the spectators covered their
faces so they would not see the foolhardy man
killed, but luck favored him again. The
current swung him' around to the side of
the rock, and be put out his hands and
shoved himself clear of the rock. Then a
large breaker caused him to turn a somer
sault, submerged him for a few seconds and
then kept him stationary in the eddy. The
spectators yelled out. "He's killed,"
but in a few seconds lie was seen to swim
out of the eddy and he went past the Grand
Trunk pump house, sometimes submerged
and sometimes swimming. When near the
Whirlpool Rapids Incline Railway a large
wave washed him into a large eddy near
the shore and with the assistance of several
spectators he scrambled out on the rocks.
When be was brought up on the steps
leading to the Incline Railway he was
greatly exhausted. He had a deep hole in
his left knee, near the knee cap, and a cut
on his left foot. The first thing he said
when he got out of the water was that his
knee hurt him so much that he thought he
would get ashore when the opportunity
presented itself. He received the injuries
when he was dashed against the
last roek. His jmasaser asked hiai
how he was and he replied "I am
all rieht, and asked if he would continue
his trip through the whirlpool, as he did not
wish to disappoint the spectators that were
stationed there watchingibr him. Leary said:
"No, not with that leg," which was bleed
ing profusely. After receiving some stimu
lants, Soules attempted to walk up the steps
to the incline railway cars, but was unable
to lean on his injured leg. He was assisted
to a car, and upon reaching the top of the
incline, he was driven across to Leary's es
tablishment at Suspension bridge.
It is fortuuate for Soules that he was
washed ashore, for had he gone through to
the whirlpool he surely would have been
killed. The place where he got out is about
100 feet above the spot where Webb is sup
posed to have been killed. Soules was never
over 30 feet from shore during his trip
through the rapids. He says he will go
through again when his knee is all right.
BOGUS COMMISSION MEN.
St. Louis Sharps Work a Scheme
tho Western Grangers.
Upon
tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
St. Louis, July 4. Two shrewd swin
dlers, giving the names of C. A. Post and
Joseph Foster, were arrested to-day for de
frauding several hundred farmers of
Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. They
did a "commission" business on the
levee. They had printed a number of
attractive business circulars, in which it
was stated that the house had been estab
lished since 1S80. Prospective customers
were referred to the Continental Bank,
St Louis; Weiss and Novel Com
pany, aioux (Jity; israastreet s .mercan
tile Agency ana all express companies in
St. Louis. The bait was in the form of a
scale of prices ranging from 10 to 25 per
cent higher than paid by reputable com
mission houses. Remittances by draft on
the day of the arrival of produce were as
sured. A small trial shipment was asked.
These circulars were sent broadcast among
the shippers of Missouri, Illinois and Ar
kaneas. In many instances a small ship
ment was first made by the shipper, who
would promptly receive a draft. Thus
encouraged, he would send in every
thing marketable that he could pick up
in his vicinity, the extra price being an in
centive for extra energy. That would be
the last he would hear from his consignment.
There is a great stock of complaints at po
lice headquarters, and the pair are believed
to be $5,000 ahead on the scheme.
NOT EXACTLY A PARADISE.
Woes of Americans Who Were Induced to
Go to Central America.
tSFECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
New Orleans, July 4. The steamship
Professor Morse arrived from Central
America to-day with 262 passengers after
ten days' detention at quarantine on ac
count of the illness of 163 of her pas
sengers. The passengers were taken from
the steamship Oteri at Mitta. Four
ol them died at quarantine, and a commit
tee of experts visited the vessel to-day to
determine whether the disease from which
the passengers were suffering was contagious
or not. The sick passengers were found to be
suffering from malarial and bilious fever
and dysentery, and the ship was allowed to
land. The p'assengers are Americans, who
went to Central America in April last to
work on banana plantations in Sacete
in Honduras. Most of them were unaccli
mated and suffered severely from the diseases
of the country,
They say, also, that they were very harshly
treated, that their food was bad and insuffi
cient, and their quarters -without flooring or
roof; that no beds were provided, and that
after working three months many ot
them found themselves in debt to
their employers. Ten of the party
died from disability. Many ot the men
taken from the vessel to-day were in very
bad condition; so wasted and weak that
they bad to be carried ashore. Thev
were very indignant against the owner of the
plantation on which they worked and the
employment office which sent them to Cen
tral America,
CELEBRAft-MM OLDEN DATS.
Schenley Park CrowdecKf
Earnest, Enthusiastic Patriots.
A GRAED FOURTH OF
Independence Day Objerved in a Befitting; Manner K Season of Unalloyed Happiness-
11 nsic, Eloquence, Sports, Fireworks and General Jollity Twenty Thousand Per"
sons Kept Away by the Eain Not an Arrest or Accident Mars the Pleasure of tha
Day Panther Hollow Kings With Patriotic Speeches The Eesult of Mayor Gour
ley's Hearty Adoption of a Dispatch Sngsestion The Practice Not to he Allowed to
Die Oat A Large Contribution for Next Tear's Celebration.
A TtTrTTnAT r..l-
on a new form in
)j honor of the ceiebra-
t tinn of an old-fash
ioned Fourth of July.
In the cool shade of
leafy bowers, on the
smiling green lawns
and the verdure-clad
slopes of Schenley
Park 30,000 persons
wooed her yesterday.
She was no longer
the stern-yisaged
woman of the Revo
lution, or the still
darker days of '61-'65,
calling for volunteers
to throw themselves
into the forefront of
battle, but a sweet,
winsome maiden, lavish with wondrous
smiles that stirred the sluggish blood of
men and made them dream of deeds of
daring, while one elance from her sparkling
eyes was sufficient to console wives, mothers
and maiden for the sacrifice of their loved
ones upon the altar of liberty.
A. GBAND SUCCESS.
It was a grand success. The old-time In-
SCENE NEAB THE MAYOR'S HEADQUARTERS.
dependence Day suggested by The Dis
patch two weeks since and so heartily con
curred in and so ably engineered by Mayor
Gourley, has more than met the most san
guine expectations. Everybody was there
and in most cases he brought his wife and
little ones. Every profession, every trade,
every business pursuit was represented.
There were officials from both cities, county
officers, clergymen, lawyers, physicians,
merchants, manufacturers and mechanics,
all in gala attire. The man with millions
rubbed shoulders with the day laborer as
they stood together on the broad platform ot
love of country.
The crowds commenced pouring into the
park at 9 o'clock in the morning. Long
before that time the streets of both cities
were crowded with family parties, dressed
in their best and laden with picnic baskets,
bent on reaching the park at the earliest
opportunity. As the sun rose higher in the
heavens the crowds thickened, and the cur
rents of humanity flowed faster and faster
toward their common destination.
HOW THET GOT THERE.
Every method of transportation was taxed
to the utmost. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad ran train after train to the park
and every car was crowded. The Second
avenue electric line carried thousands, but
the greatest number was borne by the Fifth
avenue tractidh line. The company bad
every car out, and ran them singty and in
trains but very few minutes apart, and yet
the demand for transportation was greater
than the supply.
The man who owned or could borrow or
hire a vehicle and drive out to the park was
an aristocrat for a day. Everything that
travels on wheels was there, from the gaily
decorated barouche, its horses resplendent in
glittering harness, to the old peddler's
wagon, wiin lis wneezmg uag. nuuurcu.
of persons who were not afraid ot a long
walk, refused to be packed like sardines in
a street car, and leisurely strolled out to the
park.
At noon the rnsh reached its height, and
the people began pouring into the park, not
by hundreds, out oy tnousanus. All o ciocic
estimates of the number of people present
varied from 30,000 to 40,000, and the former
estimate is considered to be a very conserva
tive one.
ELEGANT AND ORDEELT.
A remarkable eature about the crowd
was its orderliness. There were, to be sure,
one or two men iu the park whose appear
ance denoted undue familiarity with the
cup that cheers,fbuttbey were only notice
able from their rarity. Several gentlemen
went to the park expecting to find the rough
element in control, but were agreeably dis
appointed, and at once went to their homes
and brought their families out. Another
striking feature was the exemplification of
Pittsburg's prosperity as shown by the in
variably ueat and generally elegant attire
worn by those present.
And how they did enjoy themselves! The
people had gone out to the park with the in
tention of having a good time; not the good
time ot modern days thrt necessitates first
getting highly and artificially hilarious, bnt
the simple, old-fashioned good time, which
is not necessarily followed by a headache.
A PATRIOTIC PICNIC,
It Was a gigantic Picnic of catriota. In
eyery leafy nook were little family groups
-
ver Thirty Thousand
JULY DEMONSTRATION
surrounding huge baskets, in which consid
erable interest was taken, especially by tbo
younger members of the parties, who had
apparently acquired an appetite that
nothing in the shape of pie and cake could
satiate. Some of these picnic parties started
in early. One group had its Dasket open at
9:30 A. si., and commenced a light lunch,
which was still in progress at 2 p, it.
Other parties carried hammocks to the
park and contentedly swung in them while
they listened to the eloquence of the oratora
and the patriotic airs rendered by the band.
The boys and girls allowed no opportunity
for pleasure to escape them. They ran mad
races through the grass, climbed the steep
sides of Panther Hollow, played Copen
hagen, joined in the singing, ate peanuts,
pie and ice cream, drank ice water and pic
turesquely colored lemonade, watched tha
sports and fireworks, and were generally
everywhere at once. They were out for fun,
and to most of them the first old-fashioned
Fourth of July in Pittsburg will be a red
letter day indeed.
THE HOME OF ELOQUENCE,
The speech-making was a success. Tha
orators were of the best, and of home-made
Eroductiou at that, for Allegheny county
as many eloquent men within her borders.
The only disappointment was the failure of
Major K A. Montootb to be present. While
the audience was continually changing, like
the scenes in a kaleidoscope, at no time
were there less than 6,000 persons around
the speakers' stand, and at times there wera
10,000. It is seldom that an orator gets an
opportunity to impress his thoughts upon
such' a mass of his fellow-citizens, and the
speakers seemed to appreciate this tact.
The Japanese fireworks achieved great
popularity, especially a bomb which emit
ting a weird, shrill whistle that could be
heard for miles. The sports, however, were
somewhat marred by the rain, which com
menced falling about 2 o'clock, and fell
heavilyfor nearly an hour. Nevertheless,
all the important events came off, and were
well contested and full ot interest. The
ardor of the youngsters who contested in the
boys' sports was not to he dampened by
rain, and they carried one the programme
to the letter.
A LITTLE TOO DAMP.
The afternoon rain spoiled to a large ex
tent what was otherwise a most enjoyable
day. As soon as the storm brthe every
body sought shelter. Some took refuge be
neath trees, but the heavy rainfall soon pen
etrated their leafy tents, and they were
driven out. Many'broke for the old farm
house which bad been turned into head
quarters for Mayor Gourley and the press,
and others filled the big barn across the
road. These places, however, could not af
ford shelter for a tithe of the thousands in
the park, and an exodus was at once inaug
urated by the many who dislike setting wet.
As they poured out of the park they were
met by almost as many persons who cared
nothing for the elements, but were bound to
celebrate Independence Day in a properly
patriotic manner. After a time the rain
ceased, and those who stayed congratulated
themselves upon their confidence in the
weather clerk's discrimination. At dark
people were still flocking to the park.
Tne lack of shelter from sudden showers
gave birth to the suggestion that in time to
come several large sheds be built at different
parts of the park to which people might
flock and stay under cover until the storm
was over.
PERFECT ARRANGEMENTS.
The day's arrangements were perfection.
Chief of Public Works Bigelow, attended
by his faithful lieutenant, Park Superin
tendent James McKnigbt, were early on the
ground, putting the finishing touches to the
decorations, speakers' stands and rings and
traces, and seeing that everything was in
readiness for the visitors. Chief Brown, of
the Department of Public Safety, was on
hand, together with a large force of police,
under the command of "Inspector White
house. Mr. Morris Mead had telephones
located at different points in the park and a
patrol wagon was located near the speakers'
stand.
Mayor Gourley, to whose energy and ad
ministrative ability the success of the affair
is due. was everywhere. He acted as chair
man of the meeting in Panthers' Hollow,
kept the bands up to the mark, and took a
general supervision of all that was going.
He looked happy and proud, and he had an
undoubted risht to feel that way when he
saw the greatest gathering that Pittsburg
ever knew.
READT TOR MORE.
Not a single accident or arrest occurred at
the park. Not even a child strayed away
from iu parents. The day was totally de
void of any unpleasant incident, except the
shower in the aiternoon.
Mayor Gourley sa'd last night: "There
would have been 50,000 people at the park
ifithadnot been for the rain. That was
theonlV thing that marred a perfect day.
Just to' think of it 30,000 people on tha,
nwitlHl an4 tinf 0 nVdot VIA mm t saIJi. fc
This is the first old-fashioned Fourth ia '
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