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lABARON'S ROMANCE,
Kobleman Lagerfeli Charged With
Deserting a Virginia Belle to
"Whom He Was Engaged.
HIS TEN-TEAR RECORD IH AMERICA
It is Said He Left II is Affianced to Get His
Father's Consent to Wed, bat For
got to Come Back to Her.
BOGUS ISSUES COULD BE PREVENTED-
When Original Stock Certificates Are Stirjped and
recorded by a Eeglslrar.
There has been considerable said about
the iray Baron Lager.ret scooped the Pitts
burg banks by an issue, of 520.000 worth of
bogus stock of the Jefferson Iron Company,
but nobody has said anything about the
man's past history or the little romance
that was told to a representative of The
Dispatch by a well-known business man
yesterday. The Baton and his brother have
been heard of before, but in another section
of the country. The people living in the
vicinity of Shenandoah, Va., will not be
surprised when they hear of Baron
Frederick's stock escapade, and while dis
cussing it, many of them will pull out sun
dry bits of paper to which are attached the
florid autographs of Baron Carl Otto, Fred's
brother.
The two Lagerfelt brothers came to this
country from Sweden in 1880 and landed in
Xew York. Fred was a first-class account
ant, while Carl was a mining and metal
lurgical engineer. They had pood letters of
reference to business men in New York, and
had no trouble in securing positions with
the Shenandoah Iron Works at Shenandoah
Iron Works, Va. The town is a little place
about 20 miles from Luray Caverns, on the
Shenandoah Valley Bailroad There is
nothing there but a mill, furnaces and a
cluster of houses occupied by the employes
and owners of the works. Fred was ap
pointed assistant bookkeeper and Carl be
came engineer. The latter had charge of
rfl the furnace work, and made the analysis
of ores and the product of the furnace.
THE BAEON'S WOOING.
Society was dull in the place, and the two
young men from Sweden had no trouble
getting in the local 400. Tbey soon became
acquainted with the families of the owners
of the plant, and the head partner did not
object when Baron Fred began to pay re
spects to bis daughter.
The young girl fell in love with the titled
foreigner and it was the same old story of
plighted troth and a forgotten sweetheart.
As soon as Baron Fred found out every
thing he wanted to about the financial
standing of the girl's father, his dream of
love had not such a roseate hue. It is said
he found the girl would not get much money
from her father and determined to break off
the engagement. As time grew apace and
it was approaching that period when bride
grooms begin to wonder where the honey
moon should be spent. Baron Fred proposed
to his sweetheart that he take a trip home
to inform his parents of the match he had
made. lie said that a marriage of
the nobility, even with one of the
select 400, would never be forgiven
in his country if the parents of the being
of noble birth were not consulted. He also
stated that if the marriage ocenrred without
the consent of his father he would be cut,
out of his possession's, and the estates that
would fall to him at his father's death
would go to his brother.
Of course the bride to be was sorry he had
to go, but hoped her lover would obtain his
parents' consent to the marriage, and he
started off.
HE 2SXVEE EETDBKEH.
History does not record that he ever came
back, and the next place he was heard from
was in Steubenville, O., He had remained
in Swedeu several years, and from his con
duct afterward it is supposed he failed to
obtain the consent of his father to wed.
"When he appeared again in this country he
went to Steubenville, where he obtained a
position as book-keeper with the Jefferson
Iron Company.
After the day's work of scraping figures
with an ink eraser was over he managed to
scrape an acquaintance with Hiss Mary,
daughter of C. B. Doty, the principal
stockholder in the company. This time the
figures showed up big for his prospective
iather-in-law, and in a short time the Baron
asked ilary to share his small salary. She
consented and tbey were married. After
that everything was smooth sailing and the
Baron tooK his father-in-law's place in the
business. It is said Baron Lagerfelt was
always in dread of his Virginia love story
being Dublished, and at the time of his ap
pointment as Vice Swedish Consul lived in
mortal fear af the affair being made known.
"WhJe Fred was making rapid progress,
bis brother Carl was not far behind him on
the ladder to fame. He thought he had dis
covered a valuable copper mine iu the hills
not far from Shenandoah Iron Works, and
tried to get capitalists interested in it. He
made seteral trips to 2few York and talked
up the idea of forming a company for work
ing the mine, but the people he talked with
were just the least bit "leery." He then
tried to do something himself, and went to
people in the town who had money and
asEed them to endorse his notes. They did
so iu the desire to help him along, and they
still hold the notes as mementoes of what
might have been. The aggregate amount of
money represented by the paper is several
thousand dollars, and Carl soon left the lo
cality. TWO DASHING SOLDIERS.
Both tr?a often talked of being in the
Jkey saw several years" of post service. Both
are highly educated and speak several lan
guages. Carl is a member of the American
Society of Engineers.
It would, no doubt, be interesting to many
people to know how Baron Lagerfelt could
swindle the banks the 'cay he is charged
with doing, and to get at an intelligent idea
01" bow it was done and bow a repetition
could be prevented a reporter called on Mr.
.William A. Carr and asked him to explain
the issue of false certificates. He said:
"The easy manner in which certificates
can be overissued by the officer in charge
uib set many Moc&noiuers 10 wincing wnai
are the best methods of protecting their in
terests and their officers. In corporations
with large capital and great activity in the
shares, it is almost impossible for officers
of the corporation to keep a close
watch upon the issue of cer
tificates to see that for every certificate
issued an equal number of shares have been
surrendered tor cancellation. Officials have
to sicn certificates in blank, leavintr them
to be filled up by others, upon whom prob
ably there is no cbecc, and who, if tbey
should abuse the confidence reposed in
them, are not financially responsible for
such breach of trust
COMPLETING A CERTIFICATE.
"This is where a Registrar proves useful.
LBefore the certificates are complete it re
quires the signature of one of the officers
of the trust company on it to make it a com-
plete and negotiable one, and his
(signature is sot affixed until be
shu examined the surrendered shares
and sees that everything is correct
The recent action of the Board of Directors
of the Stock Exchange in refusing to list
the stocks of corporations (except banks
and insurance companies) unless they were
registered, was deemed necessary in order
to present to the public nothing but first
class securities, and from which every stock
holders reaps the benefit All stocks traded
in on the New York Stock Exchange have
both a regular and transfer agent to guard
against fraudulent issues."
Baroness Lagerfelt stated yesterday that
she did not know anything abont her hus
band's whereabouts. She thinks he is iu
Europe. She has beard nothing from him
since the receipt of a letter dated New York,
supposed to be sent the day before be saiied
tor Sweden.
TO BRING HIM BACK.
BANK
OFFICIALS TALK OF
AFTER THE BARON.
SENDING
Superintendent O'Mara Acrers to Imnd BIm
tn Thli CUT irTlier Will Pay an Officer's
Expeniee What tbe Trip Would
Coat.
The banks caught by the Lagerfelt bogus
stock certificates will make an effort to
bring the Baron back to this country and
make him stand trial in court for forgery.
It is barely possible that an officer may be
sent to Sweden to bring him back, and a
number of detectives are itching to take the
trip. If anybody is sent it will be Assist
ant Superintendent O'Mara, who has known
the Baron for years, and who conld bring
him back if anybodv could.
Several of the bank officials called on As
sistant Superintendent O'Mara yesterday
and conferred with him in regard to send
ing after the Baron. They stated they had
called on Thomas M. Marshall, who looked
up the case and found that tbe man could be
Drought back under the laws without any
trouble. Mr. Marshall says the extradition
treaty allows a prisoner "to be taken from
one country to another for forgery and the
Baron's stock transaction comes under this
head.
The trip from this city to where the Baron
lives in Sweden can be made in abont IS
days. It would cost about $110 to make
the trip each way. Superintendent
O'Mara, when asked yesterday if he
could bring tbe man back, replied that he
could bring him from anywhere if the
banks would bear the expenses of the trip.
Tbe officials said they would be only too
glad to do so in the hope of getting back the
-money they had been swindled out of. If
the Baron is bronght back bis father-in-law
.would probably put up the money to save
his son-in-law from disgrace. Why the
Baron didn't go to his father-in-law in the
first place is a mystery to his friends.
The bank officials will confer with their
attorneys to-day and decide what to do. If
they agree to send a detective after the man,
the officer will be started at once.
EMPTY is THE DOG HOUSE.
A Canine That Senrcd n Trio of Xiadiea and
Then Died.
There was sorrow and tears in the house of
Rev. Mr. McMillan, of Allegheny, last
night, over the unfortunate ending of a
pet dog. The sorrow and tears were con
fined to the children, who bitterly bemoaned
the fate of their pet The dog, it appears,
had a fit of some kind, and affer chasing
through the streets finally found rest uuder
a bureau in a room of a Liberty street house.
There were at least three ladies and half a
dozen children in the bouse at tbe time,
and they immediately proceeded to become
terrified. First, they locked the dog up in
the room; then they locked themselves in
another room and shouted lustily for help,
as there was a mad dog in the house.
Officer Snyder aud Acting Lieutenant
Mclmery went to the rescue, and after con
siderable strategy succeeded in corraling
the alleged desperate animal. Officer Sny
der then took tbe dog out and shot it, just as
Mr. McMillan hove in view with his little
daughter, who was weeping bitterly for her
little doggy.
THE AHIHAL NIPPED HIM.
Ex-Mardr2nTcCa!lin' Hone the Cause of a
Flsbt Between Two Men.
Hostler Carter was bringing a trotting
horse belonging to ex-Mayor McCallin in
from Horaewood Park yesterday afternoon,
when he stopped at Oakland and entered a
store for a few minutes. John Haggerty, a
trip-gripman on the Fifth -avenue traction
line, came along, and commenced to fool
with the horse. The animal gave him a nip
on the shoulder when, in anger, it is
claimed, he commenced to kick it Carter
came out and fell on Haggerty. and a fight
resulted. Officer Chisholm took both men
to the Fourteenth ward station. Haggerty,'
who gave his name as Hogan. left a deposit
for his appearance at the hearing this morn
ing, and Carter was allowed to go and take
the horse home.
THE HATCHET BURLED.
An Alderman's Sail Endi in a DIan
nnd
Wife Being Reconciled.
A Idernian Ayres last night plaved the
' of peacemaker with good effect The
case brought before him was that of Mrs.
Barbara Beatty charged with disorderly
conduct by William Gang. Mrs. Beatty
and her husband have not lived together for
some time and it was while he and she were
at Gang's house that the disturbance took
place.
Alderman Ayres told Mr. and Mrs.
Beatty that the best way to fix the matter up
was to again join bands and declare "quits."
This tbe pair decided to do and Beatty
signed an affidavit to refrain from the use
of intoxicants as long as his wife refrained
from unjustly accusing him of wrongdoing.
BOUGHT 49 BOOKS.
An Addition to the Jail Library From tho
Contribution! of YUltora.
The prison messeneers in the county jail
yesterday jmrchased, through. Warden Ber
lin, 49 new books for the jail library, the
money being received by contributions from
visitors. A box has been placed in the cor
ridor where visitors pass, and the object of
the contribution painted on the outside. A
sufficient amount to buy 49 books at re
duced rates was the result J. B. Mc
Hnight filled the orders with a very good
class of literature, and the jail library now
numbers about 300 volumes.
Killed by a Train at Bearer.
James Moreland, aged 23 years, was struck
by a traih at Beaver, Wednesday evening,
and instantly killed. The remains were
brought to the borne of his parents, 195
Washington avenue. last night The funeral
will be from there at 2 p. il to-day.
WHAT PEOPLE 4KB DOING.
Some Who TtbtcI. Some Who Do Not, and
Other Who Talk.
C. L. Magee returned to the city yes
terday, sun-burned and with a rough-night- to
night voice. He said he did not know anything
about tbe traction deal, andthe only thing he
caught while,away was a cold.
Major Joseph F. Denniston, Depart
ment Commander ot tbe O. A. IL. retnrned
j esterday from the reunion at Union town. It
was a big affair, and many Fittsbnrgers were
present
George Bolton, Vice President of the
Allegheny Bessemer Steel Company, returned
yesterday from tbe seashore.
Clarence Burleigh, Assistant City Solic
itor, returned yesterday from bis three
weeks' trip to tbe seashore.
M. E. Vallunt, agent of tbe American
Express Company in this city, returned yester
day from Chicago.
Charles M. Thorpe, tbe Diamond street
attorney, and wife, arrived home yesterday
from Chautauqua.
WARDS OF THE STATE
Meeting of the Poor Law Commis
'sion to Take Measure for the
RELIEF OP STRANDED STRANGERS, t
What the Department of Charities Has
Been Doing Lately. '
A LAW THAT COVEES THE WHOLE CASE
At a meeting of the Poor Lair Commission
of tbe State, to be held some time next
month, a recommendation jtrill be made to
amend the laws to cover such cases as spoken
of by Mayor Gourley in yesterday's issue of
The Dispatch. The iesident member of
the commission is ex-Secretary K. D. Mc
Gonuigle, of tbe Allegheny Poor Board,
who stated yesterday .that" the commission
has been considering the matter for some
time. In this event t would not be neces
sary to establish a fund to assist poor people
not residents of the city. Mayor Gourley
claims that strantrers are turned away by
Department of Cnarities, and tbey either be
come a burden on the Police Department or
subsist on the charity of tbe public by
begging. MrMcGonnigle has had mote
experience indealing with the poor than
any man in the city, and he was asked yes
terday for his opinion on Mayor Gourley's
scheme. , .
"I received a letter this morning from
Lewis Pngh, Chairman of the Commission,"
Mr. McGonniglesaid, "in which he spoke of
the necessity of holding a meeting in Sep
tember. One of our members is in Europe
investigating the poor laws of the old
country and he will be back in a couple of
weeks. As soon as he returns, we will come
together and adopt recommendations for
amendments to the present poor laws.
CABING FOB STEAKGEKS. ,
"We will take up the matter of caring for
strangers not having a residence in the
district in which they apply and have had
this matter under consideration for some
time.
"In Hew Vork State, they have what is
called the 'State pauper law.' An ap
propriation is made annually, and expended
by the Board of Chanties, to assist strangers
who the District Poor Boards 'do not want
to care for. For instance, if a man applies
at Albany, and has walked from Buffalo or
some other city, he is assisted and the ex
penses paid ant of the State fnnd. We have
a woman being cared for by the police
authorities, who is here looking for her
husband. If we had a State pauper law
she could be assisted and it would not cost
the city a cent
''Pittsburg has to take care of a large
floating class on account of it being a manu
facturing town. Tne dependents, you will
find, always drift to the centers of popula
tion, and Allegheny county has more poor
people to take of than an agricultural
county like Lancaster or Chester. The way
tbe present Jaws are interpreted, when a
stranger applies for relief he or' she is
buffeted about from pillar to post, with no
place to go to. If they apply to the De
partment of Charities they are told accord
ing to reports that they have no legal settle
ment in this district and nothing can be
done for them. Then they go out on the
streets and beg from people who have
already paid taxes to support them. At tbe
next session of the Degislature something
will be done to amend the present laws, and
such cases as Mayor Gourley complains of
will be remedied."
II COTEES ALL CASES.
From another source it was learned that
the present laws cover all cases of appli
cants for charity, no matter whether thev
belong to the city or not In view of this
fact there is no necessity for such a fund as
the one Mayor Gourley suggests. The
gentleman who called the attention of the
reporter to the fad, buDted around and
secured a coDy 'of thegeneral poor laws of
Pennsylvania. Section 1 of "an act relating
to the support and employment of the poor"
approved June 13, 1836, covers this point
There is no repealing law passed since then,
and the original laws has been backed up
by a decision of the Supreme Court The
first section says : "That it shall be the duty
of the overseers of every district, from time
to time, to provide as hereinafter directed,
for every poor person within the district,
having a settlement therein', who shall ap
ply to them for relief."
Section 5 says: "It shall be the duty of
the overseers ot every district to furnish re
lief to every poor person wjthin tbe district,
not having a settlement therein, who shall
apply to them for the relief, until such per
son can be removed to the place of his set
tlement" WHAT HAS BEES' DONE.
As will be seen by the last section, the
laws explicitly state that every person must
be helped, whether they reside here or not
The police records show scores of cases
where people have been turned away from
the Department ot Charities because they
were strangers.
Chief Elliott said yesterday that within
the last 90 days the Department of Charities
had issued 232 railroad passes exclusive of
yesterday's list These tickets were for New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati,
Cleveland and othir cities. The holders in
cluded discharged convicts from the peni
tentiary, who brought letters from warden
or chaplain, unfortunates gathered into the
police stations, and all others who were
deemed worthy. The denial of assistance
to able bodied women, unencumbered, who
are traveling about the country in search of
runaway husbands, he says is the exception
not the rule.
HIDDEN IN A CAVE.
An Organized Gang; of Men Bobbins tbe
Lake Erie Again.
Henry Brown, Louis Johnston and Will
iam Musgrove were held for trial at court
yesterday, on a charge of larceny, by Alder
man Donovan. The men are residents of
Chartiers, and it is alleged they are mem
bers of an organized gang who have been
robbing freight cars on the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Bailroad at Chartiers.
The officials say they have evidence that
the gang has a cave somewhere in the hills
near Chartiers in which they have stored a
large quantity of stolen goods', but the police
are not able to locate tbe rendezvous. Mus
grove gave bail, and tbe other men were
committed to jail.
LOOKING AETEB FABMEBS.
Candidate Hustling; nt tbo West Deer
Townblp 9Ini Sleeting.
The Farmers' Alliance of West Deer,
East Deer, Hampton, BIchland, Indiana
and Fawn townships, held a mass meeting
in West Deer township yesterday.
James S. Young was there to loot: after
ft he Sbira's end of tbe fight in the Twenty
third Congressional district Colonel Stone
was there also to take care of his own inter
ests, and be was backed by Secretary Gra
ham, of the Pleasant Valley Bailroad Com
pany. Tbe affairs out there were so inter
esting that none of tbe gentlemen had re
turned at II o'clock last nieht. '
BHE BLAMES HEB PATHEE,
Another Girl Taken From n Disorderly
House by tbe Police.
Mary Dietrich, aged 17 years, was taken
from a house on Second avenue last night
by Aasistant Superintendent O'Mara. She
lives with her parents on California avenue,
Allegheny, and tells a horrible story abont
her father.
An information was made against the lat
ter by Superintendent Dean, of the Anti
Cruelty Society. He is a stonemason and
will be arretted.
RELICS OFJHE FLOOD.
SELLING OFF THE FLOTSAM AND
SAM OF JOHNSTOWN.
JET.
Small Prices Paid for the Goods Utile
Fentlment Shown A Bereaved Girl's
Quest Building n Monument to tbe Un
known Dead With tbe Proceeds.
While memory may have been busy with
some of the audience at the auction of
Johnstown flood relics at Henry's auction
rooms yesterday, the crowd as a whole was
not sentimental. The sale was held nnder
tbe direction of the Citizens' Committee,
and the proceeds fell considerably short of
$1,000. Intrinsically most of the stuff was
ot small value, and the only inducement
offered to purchasers to bid was the an
nouncement that the proceeds were
to be devoted to the erection of
a monument to the unknown dead.
There were 295 lots of flood relics sold
yesterday, and prices eenerally were in
significant, some of them even far below the
intrinsic value ot tbe articles ottered. A
silver ring cold for 5 cents, and a gold ring,
with set, hung a considerable time before it
was knocked down for 40 cents. A silver
watch went at 1 20, a gold watcb for $7 and
another for $3, and a watch and charm for
51. These watches were bought by a woman
who had speculation in her eves. A plain
gold ring, with the initials ot the unknown
owner, "D. -C," only brought 25 cents.
Plated dessert spoons sold at 10 cents apiece,
and torks 15 Lents each, the latter
going at near their value. A corroded
revolver, which would not likelya
.kill anyone except the handler, was
secured bv some boys at $1 13. A black
cashmere shawl with a stain on it and a
small hole in it went for $2, and other
articles of clothing brought even less rel
ative prices. A silver-plated jewel case
went for 70 cents.
There wasn't much pathos visible, but a
young girl stirred the feelings of those who
witnessed her. She was watching in hope
to see a gold watch put up, the property of
a sister who had been lost in the flood and
whose body had not been identified. The
watch was not in the collection, had it been
a goodly sum it would have brought, unless
sentiment had let it go to the stricken sister
without competition.
KEBE OH THE SITUATION.
He Thinks the Democrats Have n Better
Cbance Thna Tbey Had in '82.
Congressman James Kerr, Chairman of
the Democratic State Committee, is in the
city stopping at the Duquesne. He ex
pects to return to Washington to-day. Mr.
Kerr was on his way back to the capital,
having attended the funeral of Congress
man Watson. He spent yesterday in com
pany with W. J. Brennan, a member of the
State Committee, conferring with local
Democratic leaders. Last evening he
visited tbe rooms of the County Democracy
and Bandall Clubs and shook hands with a
number of tbe members. Mr. Kerr is a
young man, but he is level headed, and it is
quite evident from his talk that he is not a
rainbow chaser.
He said: "We realize that we have a big
Republican majority to overcome in the
State, but I think our chances of winning
are better than they were in 1882. What we
desire to do is to poll the Democratic vote,
to get the people out We are organizing
the party all over the State, and in this way
we hope to accomplish our purpose, the
election of Pattison. I remember iu 1888
there were 1,200 Democrats in Clearfield
county alone who staved at home and didn't
vote, because thev thought Ahe fieht was
hopeless. It is surprising bow many Demo
crats there are in the State who have done
the same thing. I believe there are enough,
if they will only vote, to elect Pattison. I
am making no predictions about majorities,
but we are at work, and it won't be our
faults if we lose. I am anxious to convince
Democratic voters that if thev cast their
ballots the chances are they will win."
THE NUMBER OF HOSES.
Exact Population of tbe Cities and Towns of
Allegheny County.
The official statement of the population of
Allegheny county was given out by the
census bureau yesterday. The exact figures
are 551,856, which is an increase of 195,987,
or 55.07 percent
In thejist Pittsburg stands first with a
population of 238,473, an increase of 82,084.
Next comes Allegheny, which hag 104,967
people within her corporate limits. This is
an increase of 26,285. McKeesport has in
creased ber population 12,499 in the past
ten years, and now has a population of 20,
711. The population of Braddock is 8,533,
or an increase of 3,228. Sharpsburg now
has 4,897 population, having gained 1.431 in
the last decade. Etna follows with 3,441 in
habitants, an increase or 1,107. Sewickley
has only gained 721 people, and now has
2,774 inhabitants.
FOB BELAHATEE'S BECEPTIOff.
The Cnmpalsn Committee Will Hare Charge
of His movements.
A meeting was held yesterday afternoon
at Bepublican headquarters to arrange for
the reception to Senator Delamater, who
will be in the city from the 10th to the 15th
of September. It was decided that the Be
publican clubs will have charge ot the Sen
ator and will arrange the receptions to him
at MeKeesport, Braddock, Mansfield, Se
wickley and other points.
On Saturday the 13th, Senator Delamater
will be in charge of the Campaign Commit
tee who will arrage a grand mass meeting at
the Opera House, to be addressed by 'Mr.
Delamater, Speaker Beed and other noted
leaders.
THE GIELS SENT HOME.
Nellie Jones and Her Partner Promise
Merer to Come Bnck.
Nellie Jones and Jessie White, the Mc
Keesport girls who were taken away from
No. 36 Second avenue Wednesday night,
were sent back home yesterday. Jessie
White also gave a fictitious name. Both
girls were penitent,-and were glad to prom
ise never to be seen in Pittsburg again.
Bose Miller and Kitty Wilson, the two
17-year-old Cleveland girls, were also sent
back to Cleveland. A communication from
their parents stated that the girls had run
away from home without cause, and that
they would likely get a warming when they
retnrned.
TO SEE GABBAGE BUSHING.
Captain Crosby Gray to Start on His Tonr of
Inspection.
Captain Crosby Gray,. Chief Clerk in the
Department of Public Safety, leaves this
morning for Minneapolis, to investigate the
manner of disposing of garbage and re
fuse. S. S. Kilvington, Health Commissioner
of Minneapolis, Chairman of tbe Committee
of the American Public Health Associa
tion, will accompany Mr. Gray on a tour of
several ot tne leading cities: The resnlt
will be reported to the next meeting of the
association. ,
ANOTHER ASSISTANT APPOINTED.
District Attorney Iivon Now Ha Two of
Tbem In His Office.
United States District Attorney Lyon
yesterday announced to Judge Acheson the
appointment of David Cameron, Esq., of
Tioga county, as an assistant to the United
States Attorney for this district
He presented Mr. Cameron's oath of office,
which was ordered filed. The work of the
office has been so heavy for the past year or
more than another assistant was needed.
After considerable work District Attorney
Lyon has succeeded in getting permission
to appoint another.
CnilTUCinCRC " J1" insetting
OUU I nOILUno n in to-moiTOU?
BouthtiSe edition of TBE DISPATCH.
MUST'BESPECT LAWS.
11 "
Foreign Evil-Doers Cannot Cheat Jus
tice by False Swearing.
AN APPLICATION OF THE STATUTES
Which Has Bronght Abont a Marked Abate
ment of Lawless Acts.
A EEF0EJIATI0N ON THE S0DTHSIDE
The tactics adopted by Inspector Mc
Kelvey, of the Southside police district, in
handling the cases of Poles, Hungarians
and others of tbe foreign element charged
with violation of city or State laws, has re
sulted in a reform being made in the
Criminal Court's code of ethics. The
chance in the manner of prosecution and
obtaining a convicting verdict has brought
to light a new- construction of the law. The
first trial of the new mode of procedure was
made some months ago, but little was pub
licly said or printed regarding it at the
time. It is only now that the effect of the
change is noticeable in the abatement of
lawlessness and disregard of police authority
and tbe courts among a certain element of
the foreign population on the Southside.
The Police Department has bad no end of
trouble in trying to convict Poles and
Hungarians. They seemed to have no
regard or fear of the law, or of being made
to suffer for their acts. City, county and
State laws were violated ruthlessly. There
has been no difficulty iu apprehending the
evil-doers; the same can be said of
subpoenaing witnesses there was no trouble
on that score. But for all these facts, it
was nearly impossible to have the grand
jnry return a true bill or obtain conviction
in the courts. Particularly was this fact
found to be the case in prosecutions for viola
tion of the liquor laws.
lAMEUTABLY IOKOBAHT.
The police would arrest their man, gather
up any. number of witnesses who were
known to be in possession "of information.
The prisoner and tho witness would betaken
before the grand jury and the case would
be squelched "for want of evidence." The
same was the case if the prisoner came be
fore the court
The trouble has been that when the wit
nesses were called on they would deny any
knowledge of the case. They knew nothing
and all swore alike. Though the police of
ficials were confident that tbe witnesses were
perjuring themselves, nothing could be done
in tbe matter.
Inspector McKelvey became tired of mak
ing arrrests and working for conviction
withoufany effect, and at last decided that
something must be done. He accordingly
planned to make a test case of Josepn
Christwiski, or "Joe Christ," as be is com
monly called, a Pole, who operated a speak
easy and disorderly place near Southside
Diamond. The Inspector snbpoonaed ten
witnesses, but when placed on the stand
they denied having ever bought any liquor
in the place. Tbey had drank in the house
time and again, but never paid for
it or knew anything further about
it The case 'was carried to the
grand jnry and the Inspector took a num
ber of the police officers over to tbe grand
jury room to try and secure a true bill. The
police testified to the large number of
eighths of beer carried into the house regu
larly and to the disorderly character of the
place, but still, owing to the non-committal
evidence of the Poles, it was declared that
there was not sustaining evidence.
JUDGE WHITE'S EULINO.
The Inspector made a plea for a common
sense view of the case, and explained that it
was contrary to reason to suppose that seven
or eight kegs of beer were sold to one man
regularly each day. drank by others and not
paid for. At last the case went to conrt and
tbe same tactics were repeated. When
Judge White heard the case through he
charged the jury, siying that there was no
donbt in his mind but that each of the
Polish, .witnesses bad perjured them
selves and that the jnry should
render a verdict of guilty without leaving
the box. He further said that in cases of
robbery, though the act was not seen cir
cumstantial evidence was sufficient to con
vict. It was the same in this case. If the
foreigners could not be made to swear
agaiust each other, tbe community should
not suffer from their acts becanse of this,
and it was but a vindication of the rights of
tbe people and the law that they should be
convicted, where the police have proper
proof. The jury brought in a verdict of
gnilty and the Inspector had won bis point
After this case, it ban been comparatively
easy to dispose of Hungarian and Polish
cases, and these foreigners have come to
know that a bold transgression of tbe law
means a sojonrn behind the bars, whether
their countrymen fail to swear against them
or not This latter knowledge has caused
them to be more cautious in their actions
and have more fear of the law. The police
are now treated with the utmost respect, and
the Southside is comparatively free -from
lawlessness on the part of the Poles and
Hungarians. Once in awhile some of the
new importations seek to have a good time
in their own way, which is often not com
patible with civilized ideas of the fitness of
things, but tbey are so quickly sat down on
that tbey do not repeat the acts, and their
brethren take a lesson from the outcome of
their evil-doings.
ALMOST DEADLY WOBX
Men Nearly Overcome by Ammonia Fumes nt
an Ice Plant.
About 11 o'clock yesterday morning an
accident happened at the works of the
Arctic Ice Company, at Sturgeon street and
South avenue, Allegheny, which came near
causing the death of five men. The acci
dent was caused by one of the men who was
working at tbe pipe through which the am
monia supply is sent The workman ' in
some manner displaced the nut on the pipe
and there was an instant discharge of 21,000
pounds of ammonia.
The dense fumes of the ammonia soon
prevaded the entire building, overcoming
five men who were at work in an upstairs
room. These men were rescned, however,
by ladders being placed against the build-
ing, thus enabling the rescuers to take them
out The men revived soon after getting out
into the open air, and were able to go to
work in about an hour. The damage done
by 'the loss of the ammonia foots op at
aoout f500.
MAKING THE CONTRACT.
Tbe Tbomaon-Honsion Will Bnlld tbe Citi
zens' Lines Sharpsbarg Branch.
Norman McCarthy, of New York, a
representative of the Thomson-Houston
Electric Company, is at tbe Anderson. He
came to complete the details of the contract
with the Citizens' line to build the electric
road irom the Butler 'street power-house to
Sharpsburg. This branch was projected
some time ago and is intended to be a ieeder
of the cable road.
LOCAL ITEMS. LIMITED.
Incident or a Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Beadlnc.
Mbs. James Kelly, of No. 3938 Woolslayer
alley, Lawrencovillo, is in distress over the ab
sence of ber 14-year-old son John. He had
been working in Carnegie's Twenty-ninth street
mill, but was discharged, and left home on the
18th Inst with a boy named Teery, who has
since returned.
Tub Board of Viewers held a meeting yes
terday on the final assessment for tbe board
walk on Williams street, Southside. It will cost
S3K cents per foot
Thk Coroner's verdict In the case of Jeremiah
Gilchrist who died suddenly at &U0 Penn ave
nue, Wednesday, was death from heart disease.
About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon sparks
from a cnpola set flro to a roof at Twenty-ninth
street mill. No great damage was done.
A bapis package express conmany expects
to start up in Pittsburg within a few days, and
will do business on a large scale.
SHOULD BE MADE SUFFER.
n Inhuman Faiber Horsewhips His Naked
Children It Was Almost Too Bad to be
Believed An Information Blade Against
I be Man.
General Agent O'Brien, of the Humane
Society, ran across a brute esterday who
should be made suffer as his helpless chil
dren suffered. " The Agent went to Federal
station on the. Pittsburg, Youghiogheny and
Chartiers road, about 20 miles from the city,
and investigated a complaint against David
Thompson, a driver at'the Sanford mines.
He found the little girl in a miserably
filthy shanty that Thompson calls home.
The little boy is in the West Penn Hospital,
where he was taken last Saturday for, treat
ment for injuries received by falling through
a coal tipple, a distance of 40 feet It
was learned that after the death jf
his wife Thompson compelled the two little
children to act as housekeepers. One day
last winter the little boy, in his haste to pre
pare a meal for his lather, ponred oil into
the fire, the result being an explosion, by
which tbe child was seriously burned. Af
ter that event a housekeeper was secured,
but the little ones, suffered so much from
neelect that he became a source of extreme
annoyance to the respectable portion of the
place,' from whom ha ould steal something
to eat iu his desperation.
The children received no attention except
when tbe father was displeased with tbem,
when be would nog them without mercy.
On the !Ub Inst. Thompson came home
drunk and proceeded to give them an un
usually Bevere beating. He took out the
heavy whip that did service in driving
mnles, and swinging it through the air in a
way that terrified the poor children, he
ordered them to strip off their clothing.
Priehtened almost out of their senses, the
trembling babes drew off the ragged and
nlthy garments that covered them. When
both were perfectly nude Thompson stood
them side by side, and began to cut their
tender flesh with the heavy whip. As his
blows descended upon their quivering
bodies, the shrill cries of the terrified chil
dren reached the ears of persons nearby.
The neighbors went to the house, aud seeing
tbe shrieking, helpless children crouching
beneath the blows of the unnatural father
interfered, and informed bim that such con
duct was a little too bad. even for him, and
that it would not be well for him even to re
peat it i
Agent O'Brien removed the little girl
from her miserable home to a respectable
family, who will care for until her guar
dianship is determined upon. An informa
tion was made before Justice McMillan,
charging Thompson with cruelty.
S0BBY THEY COMPLAINED.
Two Hebrews Asked for Police Prdtectlon
and Got Ir.
Aaron Mogersky and Joseph Tolstin, the
proprietors of a bath room in the rear of
No. 31 Hazel street, were arrested and
lodged in the Eleventh ward station last
evening, on a charge of disorderly conduct
A few days ago thp merf went to Inspector
McAleese, and complained of the conduct
of a lot of boys, who congregated abont and
annoyed them.
Officer Tobin was stationed near the place,
but the first duty be was called upon to per
form was to arrest the men themselves.
They got into a dispute about their lease of
the premises, and finally coming to blows,
created considerable excitement.
SHOVING THE 0.UEEB.
A German Arrested for Passing; Counterfeit
Coin In Allegheny,
A man was arrested at the Northside
Hotel On Federal street, for passing counter
feit money. At the lockup he first gave
his name as John Henry, but afterward
changed it to Simon Fritz. He had passed
several bog us half-dollars there before and
when he tried it again last night an officer
was called.
When Piitz was searched $129 in bills
and $21 68 in change were found on his
person. He also had several boxes of car
pet tacks and a lot of collar buttons.
JUST ONE THOUSAND.
To-Dny nnd To -Morrow We Offer 1,000
Men's Fine Salts to the Public at 88 a
Snlt Here'a a Iilst of Them.
300 men's cassimere all-wool suits.
275 men's fancy cheviot suits.
225 men's diagonals, sacks and cutaways.
200 men's corkscrew and worsted suits.
You'll say they are the most wonderful
suits lor $8 that were ever shown in this city.
If you have no experience in clothing at all
and know ever so little abont it, you can tell
at a glance that these garments were made
to sell for a great deal more money than $8.
Bnt that's the price buys one to-day and
to-morrow.
P. C. C. C, Pittsbtjbo Combination
Clothing Company, cor. Grant and
Diamond streets, opp. tbe Court House.
WE ABE READY.
Just Home From New York.
Mr. William Lyons, of the popular bat
firm of J. G. Bennett & Co., has jnst re
turned from an extended trip in the East
During his stay there he bas selected some
very delicate styles of fall hats, and the firm
have them'uow ready for sale. The most
popular styles Mr. Lyons brought with him
are the Youman. Stetson, and Silverman.
These styles are simply beautilul, and ad
mitted by those who have seen them to be
the bandsomest styles of headgear yet ex
hibited in this city.
J. G. Bennett & Co.,
Corner Wood st and fifth ave.
P. S. The bell has rung, lay off the old
straw hat
Exposition Notes.
Mattings, linoleums, oil cloths and car
pets made and laid on shortest possible no
tice. Muslins, sateens aud silk draperies in
stock and put up at short notice.
Hoppek BEOS. & Co., 307 Wood street.
MWTSSU
ECHOLS, MM1TJRKAY 8c CO.
123 Sandusky Street, Allesbeny.
Upright pianos, 875, $150, $200, $250, $290.
Organs and melodeous, $20, $50, $70, $80,
$90. Call and examine our instruments be
fore buying.
Exposition Notes.
Mattings, linoleums, oil cloths and car
pets made and laid on shortest possible
notice. Muslins, sateens and silk draperies
in stock: and put up at snort notice.
Hopper Bros. & Co., 307 Wood street
JIWFSSU
Cbrap Wall Pnpnr.
Fifty choice styles of gold paper marked
down irom 25c, 35c and 50c to tsyie to close
out. Won't last long at this price.
Arthur, Schondelmyee & Co.,
MWF 68 and 70 Ohio st, Allegheny.
Exposition Notes.
Mattings, linoleums, oil cloths and -carpets
made and laid on shortest possible no
tice. Muslins, sateens and silk draperies in
stock and put up at short notice.
Hopper Bbos. & Co., 307 Wood street
MWFSSU
The Steubenville (O.) Female Semi
nary will open September 17. Por cata
logue apply to Dr. Beid.
Exposition Notes.
Mattings, linoleums, oil cloths and car
pets made and laid on shortest possible
notice. Muslins, sateens and silk draperies
in stock and put up at short notice.
Hopper Bros. & Co., 307 Wood street
MWPSSU
Tbe Carry University Office
Is open from 8 A. il. to 8 p. m. daily for tbe
registration of students. d
Ice.
Canada ice for sale. Address
B. Hopson, Mayville, N. T,
PAT TJP-YOIJE BILLS.
Grocers Take Strong Action to En
force Payment of Accounts,
BUYERS TO S1GS AN AGREEMENT.
A Teat Case to bs Hade of the Eecent
Arrests for Obstruction.
AS OPINION THAT TDEt WERE ILLEGAL
The Betail Grocers' Association of Pitts
burg met last night at its ball on Smith
field street The attendance was larger
than nsual.
The reports of the agents employed by tbe
association to collect bad debts were highly
encouraging. The reports showed a total
collection for the two weeks of $355 63.
Some of the bills collected were of 10 and
12 years' standing and had long since been
given up as totally bad. At the last meet
ing the amount was over $700.
The Committee on Uniform Pass Books
reported that the books had been ordered,
and would be ready lor distribution by the
next meeting night'The new pass books con
tain an agreement which every person who
desires credit at the store of a member of the
association must sign. If he does not sign
it, or it after signing, he disregards it, he
cannot again do business anywhere in the
city on anything but a cash basis.
TOOK LEGAL ADVICE.
The committee havinir the repent nlinii
in charge reported a net profit of $443 25 so
far, and there area number of districts still
to hear from.
Mr. Friday, of the committee nnnointed
to consult legal authority in regard to the
wholesale arrest of grocers who bad left their
wagons standing on Liberty street a few
weeks ago, stated that he had seen Attorney
Morton Hunter, and had ' been advised to
obtain transcripts of the cases from
Police Magistrate McKenna and make a
test case. This it had been decided to do.
Mr. Friday saur Magistrate McKenna sev
eral times, and was told to po to the Central
station. He went there during the after
noon, and had made arrangements to get
tbe transcripts this morning. A case will
then be selected and given to Attorney
Hunter to pnsb.
XEST CASE TO BE BROUGHT.
The report was enthusiastically received.
The grocers of the -city are very sore over
the treatment they received from the Depart
ment of Public Safety. Many of the most
prominent members of the association were
among those arrested and fined. They don't
propose to risk a repetition of the raid. A
plentiful supply of money to carry
the test case through tbe courts has
been subscribed, and there is more- to back:
it The Liberty street commission men are
as much interested in tbe matter as are the
Hugus & Hacke.
CLOSING WEEK
-OF OUE-
Summer Clearing Sale.
EXAMINE THE
Unparalleled Bargains of "Woolen and Wash
Dress Fabrics on Center Counters,
Market St Entrance.
100 Combination Dress Patterns, J5 each; just
one third the actnal value.
All-wool French Challis, choice designs at
25c a yard; were 60c.
American Ginghams, Totla,Xa NordJ. eta,
were 12c and 18c, now 8c and 10c a yard.
Scotch and French Zephyr Ginghams, the
,very best makes, now 20c a yard.
Ail remnants and dress lengths that have ac
cumulated during the season, placed on these
counters at less than half regular prices.
Also, a superb line of New Fall Dress Goods
now open.
Latest Colorings and Novelties in Broad
cloths, English Saltings. Plaids,Stripes, Serges,
Cheviots. Diagonals, etc., etc
Cor. Fifth Ava & Market St
au2Jorwrsu
InpritiEB in tfie Liver.
When the Liver is crowded or clotted
with a mass of impurities, its action be
comes slow and difficult. Plenrisy,
Headache, Pain in Side, Tired Feeling
and General Weakness ensues, result
ing, if unchecked, in
BROKEN DOWN SY8TEMS.
When jou have these symptoms, try a
tew doses of the genuine
DR. C. McLANE'S
Celebrated Liver Pills.
Price, 23 cents. Sold by all drugslsts,
and prepared only by Fleming Bros.,
PittsbnrR, Pa. Beware of counterfeit
made in UU Louis.
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OUR NEW STORES
ARE OPEN.
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And our counters filled
Notice some of them.
with bargains.
35cBoseatl2c
18o Towels at 10c.
25c, 20c, 18c Dress Goods at 8c.
Wo Ties for Men at 25c.
BOc Men's Underwear at 25c
?20 French Egbes at f5.'
COMEIANDSEE OUR
BARGAINS.
This week we cut the prices to make room
for Fall Goods.
C. WEIBBER,
435 MAKKET ST. 437
grocers themselves, and they are rirepared to
go down into their pockets and test thai-.
legality of the arrests to the finish!
Attorney Hunter has thoroughly investi
gated tne law in tbe matter and has,declared
that there was neither law nor ordinance to
justify the action of the department He is
satisfied that a test case wUl prove his asser
tion, and to that end will enter suit to-day
against the Department of Public Safety
for false arrest and to recover the fine and
costs paid. The case will be pushed vi"or
ously, and If it is successful 20 or 25 other
suits will be brought at once. '
THE HARVEST XCUBSI0ff&
Western Passenger 31 eo Hard at Work la
Pltlsbnrz Territory.
John B. Pott, of William sport, Travel
ing Passenger Agent of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St Paul road, has been hust
ling for several days in Pittsburg on
the harvest excursions. He says there is
a good demand for round trip tickets to
Minnesota and North and South Dakota.
PrrrSBUBG. Friday, August 29, 1890. .
JDS. HDRNE I CD. '3 .'
PENN AVE. STORES.'
A DAY .
.Devoted to bargains.
No one place better than another;
to concentrate the crowd to-day
I the center of the Store is given UD
1. ,. , . . . 5.
to a display or Dargams that will
make a busy Friday for us.
Dress Goods:
Table near the Dress Goods aisle
fairly groaning under a load .of re
duced fine Dress Goods, all styles,
at the popular price 50c a yard.
Plaids, Stripes, Plains, Side Bor
ders, etc., that were $1, $1 25, $1 50,
$ 1 75 and $2 all reduced now to
50c a yard.
Also, a lot of $2 Side Borders,
very stylish, reduced to Si a yard,
and a lot of handsome stripea
marked from 3 down to $1 a yard.
These prices will effect a quick
relief to this groaning table.
Ladies' Fancy Shirts
Table near the Cloak and Suit
Department entrance.
London Shirts
All at 50c,
Reduced from 1 to 3.
I11 White:
Plain Pique, ,
Embroidered Pique,
And Percale,
Standing and Roll Collars.
Also:
Flannel
from $2.
Shirts
i
at $ i reduced
Cheviot Shirts at $1 reduced
from J5i 50.
- Satine Shirts at
from $2 50. .
$i reduced
Silk Shirts at
$i so reduced
from $2 so.
Gingham Waists
at $i so re-
duced from $2 50.
Another large table devoted to
bargains in Ladies' and Children's
Underwear.
Fine Cambric Corset Covers at 50c (re
duced from fl 50).
Fine Cambric Dressing Sacqnes, trimmed
with Val. lace, at 82 (reduced from 53 75).
Odd lots of Dressing Sacques
At $2 reduced from S3 25.
At 3 reduced from $1 50.
Atfl 50-reduced Irom $3.
Cambric Gowns at $1 from $1 50.
Knitted Underwear.
Children's:
1 lot Children's Cotton Bibbed Vests, 35a
and 50c (reduced from 75c and 90c).
1 lot Children's Cotton Bibbed Vests at
25c (rednced from 35c-60e).
1 lot Children's Plain Gauze Vests and
Pantalettes at 25c
1 lot Plain Fine Gauze Vests, 75c
Ladies:
1 lot Ladies' Plain Gauze Vests, in largfl
sizes, 50c (reduced from 81).
1 lot Plain Gauza Vests, 35c (rednced
from 50c). s
1 lot Ladies' Bibbed Lisle Vests, without
sleeves, 50c (reduced from $1).
1 lot Ladies' Black Lisle Vests, 25c (re
duced from 50c).
A table for those 50c Flanneletta
Skirts. Selling lots of them.
See window 7 for those $1 Black
Silk Stockings. 50 dozen pairs in
the department New stock. Wont
derful value.
JDS. HDRNE R CD.,
609-621 PENN AVENUE.
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NEW GOODS.
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Our buyer has just retnrned trom t
Eorope. In a lew days our first car- ,?
load of goods will arrive. Will showj..
the grandest stoctot Statuary, Bronzes, &&
Fine China, CloUts and Bric-a-Brac ever &Jfe
bronght to tbe city. jfe
E. P. ROBERTS & SONS, ,
Fifth Ave." and Market St.
au2O30-irwr ,
Crane Elevator Co'
Pittsburg Office, Lewis Building.
REVERSING ENGINES. '
HYDRAULIC AND STEAM
PASSENGER AND FREIGHT 1,
ELEVATORS
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