raMTnr T? v THE ' PITTSBURG- DISFATCH, SATURDAY. , -.OCTOBER 11; 1S90. aaasKa RUSHING TH en Every Steel Highway Entering Pitts burg Taxed to Its Utmost to Carry Its Passengers. THE PKOSPEEITI OP THE CITT Helping 111 the Railroads as Well as Hotels to Declare Host Substantial Dividends. ALL THE STORES 1KB CROWDED DAILY, Aid OJserrisg Hea Are Positive itii Net Spumedie, tat t Stetdy Thiig. "This is the busiest city in America to day." said Passenger Agent E. D. Smith, of the Baltimore and Ohio yesterday, as he stood gazing out of the office windows, at the great throng of people ceaselessly mov ing up and down Fifth avenue. "I have been selling tickets in this city for 20 years," he contined, "and I never saw anything like it "Why, it is almost an im possibility for us to handle our passenger traffic On Thursday we had an excursion booked for the Cumberland district, and as it was a lone run we sent but six cars. When the train arrived the people were standing up from end to end of the coaches, and many were unable to get aboard at all. Our agent at Somerset telegraphed that same day for us to send ten coaches next week, which we will have to do. ThU is sot an exception, but the rule with us. The volume of passenger business is about as great as it was during the summer months, and there is no immediate prospect of its falling off. X.ONG STATS AIAVATS DESIRABLE. "Another thing about it is that it is of a more substantial character than ever before. Last year all excursion tirkets were limited to three days. This year they are good lor five, and patrons complain some at that. They come here with money to spend, and they spend it. You will see outgoing trains full of peorile who are fairly smothered with bundles and packages. What the hotels do with all of them is more than I can find out. In fact, I know positively that they are all taxed to their utmost ca pacity every minute of the time. All the business houses are overrun with customers from morning until night, and they have trouble in getting their goods delivered here for sale. "But our business is sot confined to ex cursions, by any means. The city is full of commercial men all the time, and they report business as splendid in all branches. Only yesterday one of our patrons stopped in here, and he took time to show me his samples. He is selling a line of silk and other draperies, which cost from $3 to $12 a yard. He told me he was working up a tremendous trade in Pittsburg, which shows that there is plenty of money for things outside of the necessaries oflife." "How is the freight business of the road?" GEEAT SIIOETAGE OF CARS. "All we want now is cars with which to handle the shipments. A coke operator along our line said to me only yesterday: 'Mr. Sn'ith, I could use SO cars a day, if I could get them. I have orders months ahead, and my only trouble is in delivering the goods. Yes, sir, business was never better in Pittsburg. Go into the office of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., and they will tell you that they have orders enough booked ahead to keep them going for a year or 18 months. Go to the office of the Cambria Iron Company and they will tell you the tame, and so it goes all along the line. "When we moved into this building, ten years ago, Pittsburg then was as a country village almost as compared to the Pittsburg of to-day. Now Fifth avenue is as busy a thoroughfare as Broadway, Hew York. Even within five years the city has undergone a complete transformation, and I cannot see a dark cloud in her future pathway. .Railroad men, as a rule, can size up the signs of the times about as well as any class of people. Let money become a little close, and we feel it as soon as anyone. Business men cease rushing in calling Sor tickets to New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago and other points; the pleasure seekers abandon their contemplated trips, and the people stop running from place to place visiting lriends, while the freight business under goes a certain falling off." ALL THE ROADS SITUATED ALIKE. Colonel Tom Watt, District Passenger Agent of the Pennsvlvania Rrailroad, was seen at his office during the afternoon. He said: "The greatest trouble we experience is in getting cars in which to haul the peo ple. It beats everything, this tremend ous rush of trade. And it is not spasmodic, either, but a steady thing. Wednesday night I came over from Altoona on the limited, and we had 110 passengers aboard. The conductor, one of the oldest men on the road, told me this was about the common run, these days. "As for our excursion business, it is simply tremendous, with Pittsburg as the objective point. The volume of passenger business is about as great as it was during the summer, while the freight business is immense. "How do I account for it? I will tell you. Pittsburg is booming more than any city of her size on the continent to-day. She has assumed the position of a distributing point between the East and West, for points North and South of us. Business was never better, money is plenty, and people like our methods ot doing business. ROADS OVEBKTJX WITH BUSINESS. So far as I can learn every road entering this city is completely overrun with busi ness, and the prosnects for a continuance of the same are splendid, for we have the ele ments here that make trade. I believe more monev has been spent in Pittsburg this year in legitimate trade, than during any similar period you can meotion." An official in District Passenger Moody's office, of the Fort Wayne road, reported the same general rush of business, and said their lines were taxed to the utmost for means of transportation. He cited as an instance, one night when a political meeting was held at Beaver Falls. The party ordered bix coaches to haul them to Sewickiey, where a second meeting was to be held, but the road could not have furnished them, had they been paid S1.000 apiece. He said that while tney were rarely ever knocked clear out, as in this instance, still it kept them hustling all the time to accommodate the public. At all of the hotels sleeping quarters are at a premium, whle the down-town stores are jammed with people during business hours, and the thoroughfares long after. Taking it all in all, it looks as if the gen tlemen quoted above have ample grounds on which to base their glowing estimates of the city's present prosperity. EMPRESS EUGENIE and her English home w ill be described in to-motrow"i DIS PATCH. The article is from the facile pen of Colonel Frank A. Burr. False Alarm Turned In. Some person who has a key that unlocks the signal boxes along the line of the Pitts burg Traction Company, turned in a signal to run the middle cable slow yesterday and caused considerable delay in consequence. WAIVING EXAMINATIONS, The High School Faculty Wants to Admit All Pupils Whoso Public School Average is SO Per Cent-The Committee Laid the Matter Over. A movement is on foot to partially change the method of admitting pupils to the High School. The faculty wants to waive the examinations of pupils whose average stand ing in the ward schools is above 80 per cent, and in tuch cases take the pupils without subjecting them to the trials and tribula tions of the preliminary and final examina tions. The matter came up before the meet ing of the High School Committee of the Board of Education last night, but no action was taken on it. At the meeting a communication was re ceived from the High School faculty recom mending an addition to the rules governing the promotion of pupils in the High School. They desired that scholars whose average in a study is 80 per cent or more each month during the term, shall be excused from ex amination in that study and in these cases the average percentage in recitation to con stitute the standing for examination. Dr. McKelvey and Sheriff McCandless opposed the change on the ground that it was an entering wedge to no examination at all. Sheriff McCandless stated that exami nations were for the purpose of ascertaining how much a pupil had absorbed and re tained, and wonld beerronous to discontinue them. The matter was laid over for one month. The report of the High school for the month of September showed an enrollment of 832 pupils, an increase of 108 over the same mouth of last year. The average at tendance was 805. An election of two new teachers for the High School was held. Mr. E. L. Elliott was elected assistant teacher of sciences and Miss Annie Gnttendorf was chosen as an assistant teacher in the commercial de partment. FLYOTI SAYS HE IS INNOCENT. Bothwell's Slayer Holds His Nerve, but the Evidence Against Him is Strong. William Flynn, the huckster arrested for the murder of John Bothwell on Thursday night, is still an inmate of the Allegheny locknp. Flynn still persists in his state ment that he did not do the cntting. The prisoner did not know that Bothwell was dead until yesterday afternoon, when he heard someone talking about it. This did not seem to move him any. Last night Flynn pnt in his time by lying on the floor of his cell, and gave as a reason for so doing that he lay there just because he wanted to. He partook of no food yesterday, stating that be did not feel hungry. Detective Glenn, who has been at work on the case, stated last night that his chain of evidence is about complete. J.he omcer has found a boy who alleges that he saw Flynn open the knife and strike Bothwell a blow, after which the latter fell. The coat and vest of the deceased had also been secured and they show half a dozen cuts, two in the back, one under the sleeve and the rest in front. Detective Glenn has also discovered the place where Flynn bought the slouch hat. his stiff hat being lost during the fight, while making bis flight to this side of the river. The stiff hat is also in the possession of the police authorities. The inquest in the case will be opened at 10 o'clock this morning in the Coroner's office. EXTENDING THE TESMnTAL. On Sunday Fennsy IOcal Trains Will Begin to Hon to Mosside. The new line ot the Pennsylvania road between Walls station and Mosside is about ready, and the accommodation trains will begin to run to the latter place on Sunday. The present main track, which is full of sharp curves between the two places, will be kept for freight and east bound through passenger trains. The change is made on account of tbe new yards and shops which are about three-quarters of a mile northeast of Wall., and will eventually remove the center or the town In that direction, where the new depot will be located. This is only to be taken as an indication of the suburban growth of Pittsburg. All the accommodation trains will herearter run to Mosside as the terminal point, about two miles beyond Walls. No change will be made in the schedules, but Wall must give way to the advance made. TO-MORROWS Big 20-Page DISPATCH will hold 160 Columns. It Is the largest and be&t newspaper in Pennsylvania. LAEGE CE0WDS OF VISITORS. Showing of the Registry Book at the Car negie Library Building. The Carnegie Library building catches a great many of the visitors who come to this city, and there is onj continual throng of them present. A glance over the register shows that it is a majority of the people from the smaller cities ot this and adjoining States that visit the building. On Thursday there were 210 registered, and yesterday there were nearly as many. As hardly one third of the visitors register, one ca"n im agine the coming and going at all hours of the day. Those on duty in the building are kept constantly on the watcb. Many small articles are found and returned to the owners when they call. The reading rooms are 'growing more popular daily, and are always well filled with young men. Robert Pyeatte, of Alle gheny, has presented the library with a set of six volumes of Malte-Brun's geography. Librarian Stevenson has received an invita tion to become a member oi a proposed State Library Association. A CBIPPLE FOB LIFE. Secretaryplyers, of the, Hostetter Company, Cannot be Cured. The many friends of Milton Meyers, Sec retary and Treasurer of the Hostetter Bitters Company, of this city, and a resident of Allegheny, will be pained to hear that he will be a cripple for life. He was afflicted five years ago with a hip ailment aud went to New York about 10 days ago for treat ment. He went to bed Tuesday night last In the Westminister Hotel, but in the morning was unable to rise. Physicians say he must remain crippled. He will return home in a couple of days. BACK FB0M THE ENCAMPMENT. Two Plttsburgers Elected to Office by the Union Veteran Legion. The Pittsburg delegation to the annual encampment ot the Union Veteran Legion, at Ft. Wayne, returned yesterday. Dr. Seip waslmade Surgeon of the Legion, and Colonel Danks Chaplain in Chief. General Pearson, after making a speech at tbe camp fire, was presented with a beautiful badge of the order. The next meeting will be held at Beading. The citizens ot Ft. Wayne treated the J veterans handsomely, and they came back feeling well pleased. A JILTED CHINAMAN Wants the Humane Society to Aid Him in His Distress. Lee You wants the Humane Society to aid him. He loved Sadie Thompson, a 17-year-old Caucasian, but she jilted him for Charlie Gong, and now, he say-, she insists upon informing his countrymen that she is his girl. Lee has made several appeals to tbe police before this, bnt they could not do nnything for him, and it is probable that the Humane Society will be unable to stanch the wounds in his bleeding heart. - . Diamonds. What for? Why, for holiday presents. Well, where can I buy them? Why at Gallinger's, 1106 and 1200 Penn ave. P. S. A full line of musical instruments. HUNTEESSES OF MEN. Deserted Women Who Keep the Pitts burg Police Bureau Busy LOOKING FOR LOST. HUSBANDS. Soma of the Causes Which Lead to Breaks in Family Circles. APPEALING TO THE TRESS FOB HELP Inspector McAleese is making vigorous efforts to locate Walter E. Platts, a painter, who deserted his wife and two children at Altoona about six weeks ago. The case is a peculiar one. Mrs. Platts, who is in the city looking for her husband, is a young and rather pretty woman, and has with her two lovely children. Her married hie, she said, had always been happy, her husband did not drink, and she has not the 'faintest idea of the reason which caused him to leave. There is hardly a day that tbe Police Bureau of this city is not called upon to locate a missing husband or wife. In the latter eyent tbe work is not so bad, as the woman is usually accompanied by a man, and it is easier to identify a couple of this character than to find a man traveling alone. Where a hnsband starts out to seek fresh fields and pastures new, it is an easy matter for him to shave off his mustache, trim his beard and change his name, and then, un less he is a person of marked physical peculiarities, he can walk past every police officer in the city without fear of detection. WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES. Why so many men break away from, home ties is something Inspector McAleese does not pretend to understand. He realizes the fact that outsiders do not always appreciate the troubles in a household. He recognizes the great truth uttered by a historical gen tleman, who, when asked why he desired a divorce from his beautiful wife, lifted up his foot, and pointing to his shoe, said, "That is a handsome boot, is it not; but who can tell where it pinches?" The Inspector is somewhat of a philosopher he does not attempt to answer the query, but simply en deavors to keep the atoresaid pair of Boots together. As a matter of course, liquor, which has largely supplanted gold as the root of all evil, is at tbe bottom ot most of these cases of domestic infelicity, although other mat ters occasionally enter in, ditterences in religion being well up in front, and some times politics cause a divided household. On one occasion a dispute as to whether or not a new plow was necessary for a (arm led the larmer to endeavor to lose his sorrow and identity in the great gas metropolis, while lailure to secure a sewing machine of a particular pattern sent one wile out into tbe worid. The Inspector believes she was very glad when she was sent home again with her husband. A PECULTAB BUDGET OP LETTERS. Inspector McAleese receives any number of letters from husbands and wives who are searching for their mates. Some of the let ters cover nearly a quir.i of paper, and con tain a biographical sketch of the writer and of the missing husband, with a detailed ac count of the circumstances which did or might have been caused the breaking away of the absent one. The Inspector of Police keeps all these missives, and tbey are regu larly docketed aud filed. In a few years the coming author of the American novel will find in the department's archives enough harrowing situations to keep his heroes and heroines in the worst kind or trouble. Some women place great confidence in tbe impersonal power of tbe press, and send their plaints to the newspapers. The Dispatch receives many of them. One of them is as follows, and may be of interest to the Alle gheny City police: To tbe Editor of The DIspatcb: I have taken your nanerfor five rears steadv. and now I wish that yon would please do me a favor. 1 have got a good man, and he works In Olivers' lower mill. Woods' Rnn. Of latehe has taken to playing poker, and goes to a bouse in Olivers' brick row. He spends most of bis money there, and I can get no good from bin). I do not want to get the house pulled because I am a neighbor, and do not desire trouble, but if they do not stop I will have to. because many a pav it makes me and my children short. I wish yon wonld oblige me by mentioning this in your paper. Yours respectfully, from a true and faithful wife, Constant Readme. CHANCE FOB A GOOD GUESSEtt. Another lady mourns the absence of her husband, and desires that he be returned to her by any one who may run across him and recognize him from her description. She will not give bis name as she does not want to hurt his feelings by undue publicity. The specifications set forth that the gen tleman is 46 years old, 5 feet 5 inches in height, weighe'd 130 ponnds when last seen, and has a smashed finger. His nose is scarred, but the lady does not remember oa which side. A small mustache and goatee, Mick eves and hair complete the picture of this unknown small gentleman with dark complexion. As the writer fails to give her address, the finder ot the recreant husband must use his ingenuity in locating her, or else advertise, "Found, an estray husband. Possession given on proving property and paying charges." GOTHAM GOSSIP in the most acceptable stjle from the pens of Charles T.Murray and Clara Belle are features of THE DISPATCH every Sunday. A TABAHTOXA FROM THE HILLS. One of the Venomous Tilings Found in a Bunch of Bananas in the Market. A broad-shouldered, contented-looking man sauntered into Quincy Bobison's cigar store last evening and threw an object upon the show case that looked at a distance something like a cross between a huge spider and a small turtle. The clerk drew back as he asked with a slight tinge of fright in his voice: "What in blazes is th.it?" "Tarantula," said the man. "Tara what?" asked the clerk. "Tarantula," again replied the man. "Got him down at Sheridan's stand in the market in a bunch of bananas. Came very near biting a woman. Tbe j ig 'ad been up been up with her if he had. Fizen1 as 20 rattlesnakes, but I killed .him," saying which be picked the deadly thing up be tween his thumb and finger and tairly gloated over the capture. It was 'a tarant ula, sure enough, and the man told such a straight story that everyone believed it. After parading the specimen for some time the man started away, as be said, to place tbe prize among a collection of reptiles and insects that he is making up. TREATED BY AN HEBB D0CT0B. The Cases on Coroner McDowell's Docket Yesterday, Giovanne De Ciosi, an Italian, was struck and killed on the Lake Erie road at Shonse town yesterday. Smith Grant died at the West Penn 'Hos pital yesterday, after an illness or three weeks, it is said the result of treatment by an herb doctor. A verdict of accidental death was ren dered bv the Coroner's jury in the case of John W. Flaherty,- killed at the Eliza furnaces. HBJ CONDITION CBmCAL. Mike O'Toole, Who Was Assaulted by Mc Keesport Hungarians, May Not Becover. Mike O'Toole, who was dangerously beaten during a row with some Hungarians in a McKeesport speak-easy about two weeks ago, and who has sinee been lying at the Mercy Hospital, was reported last night to be in a critical condition. O'Toole's skull was fractured during the row, and this is liable to cause his death. GOD'S ETERNAL DECREE. SUBJECT OF YESTERDAY'S WORK THE REVISIONISTS. OF The Committee Now Slaking Some Progress In Constructing the New Confession of Faith Three Members to Go Home To Day, and Two to Arrive. The Presbyterian General Assembly Com mittee on the Bevision of the Confession of Faith has at last gotten down where it can see some progress. Yesterday after working on tbe sixth chapter awhile and fixing the fourth section to' its liking, it recalled the third chapter. The original reading of the section of tbe sixth chapter, the. revision of which was adopted, yesterday is: "From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled and made oppo site to all good and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions." Chapter 111, relating to uoas eternal decree, was then taken up and discussed during the alternoon, and as it still re mained a vexed question an evening session was held on account of some of the members of the committee having prepared to leave for their several homes to-day. In the even ing the discussion was continued, and after the entire committee had given views on the question it was referred to a sub-committee of six to properly arrange and report as soon as possible. That renort may be ready to day, and may not be finished before Mon day. The general idea is said to be for a modification of this chapter. The third and fourth sections are the most important, and are as follows: By a decree of God for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predesti nated unto everlasting life, and others fore ordained to everlasting death. These angels andmen, thuspredestlnatedand foreordained, are particularly and unchange ably designed, and their nnmber is so certain and detinue that it cannot either be increased or diminished. Bev. Dr. Boberts. the chairman, said last evening that he thought by Monday the committee will have gained some headway and will doubtless then have something ready for the public They will make noth ing public until it is adopted and ready to be reported to the General Assembly. Telegrams were received from Bev. Dr. Booth and Mr. Stratton, the members of the committee from New York and New Jersev, stating that tbey will arrive in tbe city to day. Three will leavethis morning: Bev. Dr. Patton, Eev. Dr. Leftwich and Mr. Junkin. The committee will in all prob ability adjourn on Tuesday next, to meet again in Washington in February. Members of the committee occupy the leading pulpits ot the city to-morrow. Bev, Dr. Boberts will preach in the Bellfield Presbyterian Church in the morning, and Kev. Dr. Harry Johnson in tbe Third Church, but the others have not all been as signed to pulpits. Manager Johnson, of the Pittsburg Expo sition, extended the committee an invitation to attend that exhibition, and while they will be unable to attend in a body the major ity will probably make a visit there to-day dr Monday. HAS A HOBBOB OF DD7HTHEBIA. Superintendent Baker Makes Some Timely Suggestions About the Dread Disease. Superintendent Baker, of the Bureau of Health, said yesterday that the city was remarkably free from dangerous diseases at the present time. Diphtheria had prevailed in some parts of the city, but up to date it had not gained much of a foothold in any district, and he did not think that it would. While the conversation was going on, a gentleman who was listening remarked that he knew of an instance on the hill where a child had died of the disease and where the body was kept in the house for two days and then given a public burial. More than this six little children of the neighborhood were selected and acted as pall bearers. He cited another case where a child had died from a most virulent attack of diphtheria, and during its illness mothers or several children were running In and out of the house at nearly all hours of tbe day. Superintendent Baker had no reason to doubt the veracity of. these statements, as he knew the gentleman very well, but he ex pressed the greatest astonishment at such actions. "Why," said he, "that is simply outrageous. I have a perfect horror of diphtheria. It is one of the most treacher ous diseases I know of. I would much prefer smallpox, fevers, or almost any thing else in my family. Persons dying from diphtheria should be buried as quickly and as quietly as possible, and above all things persons should not go near such patients unless it is a matter ot neces sity. The press of the city should impress these (acts upon the minds of the people, and any efforts in that direction will meet with my most hearty approval." A WEEK'S BEADING will be secured by all who get to-morrow's 80-Page DIS PATCH. The best writers contribute to its columns. . VICTIM OF AN ASSATJLT. A Man With Delirium Tremens Boughly Used and His Condition Serious. Luke Flannigan, a young man, was brought to the Mercy Hospital on Thursday last by his mother. He was suffering from delirium tremens at the time. His mother stated that he had been knocked down and abused last Saturday in a saloon. Shortly after his reception at the hospital, erysipelas set in and since then he has been in an unconscious and delirious state. His condition is considered as very serious. He Has Almost Recovered. Charles Burns, tbe colored man who was shot by Charles Brown last week, has al most completely recovered, and will be dis charged from the Mercy Hospital in a few days. WHAT PEOPLE AKE DOING. Some Who Travel, Some Who Do Not, and Others Who Talk. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. BIcbard S. Waring, of Oakland, will be glad to learn of tbelr arrival In Pittsburg for a weeks' visit. Tbey are tbegnestsof Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marsh, Fifth avenue and Halket street, Oakland, where Mrs. Waring will see her lriends In the afternoon of each day of next week. George B. Blanchard, Chairman of the Central Traffic Association, was a passenger on tbe limited last evening, going to Chicago. Mr. Blanchard states tbat tbe railway business is booming everywhere. Elder Jaiel TJrmitt, a Mormon mission ary, was an eastbound passenger yesterday. He claims Mormonism is increasing, and the faith now has 1,000,000 members to support It. Samuel F. Barr, of Bar Harbor, arrived in the city last evening: He will try to have the hearing! In his suit against the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company resumed. J. A. S. Beed.General Traveling Agent of the Union Pacific road, was in tbe city yes terday. He called un Thomas S. Spear, tbe local traveling agent Major Alexander McDowell.the Sharon candidate for Congress, was in tbe city for a sbort time yesterday morning. JohuM".Oakley and family have arrived in New York from Europe. LOCAL ITEMb. LIMITED. Incidents of a Day in Two Cities Condensed for Beady Beading. The Board of Viewers held a meeting yes terday to receive claims for damages for tbe grading of Alder; Bailroad, Broad and Twenty second streets and Garden alley. lint few claims were presented anu they were for small amounts. Tee Coroner was notified last nigbt of tbe sndden death of Henry Bowyer, colored, aged 7 weeks, rear No. 818 Mam street, Seventeenth ward. Convulsions were the Immediate cause of deatb. DUIUSO tbe "past year the Department of Public Works has repaved over 40 streets, and has many other improvements under way. A heettng of the Committee on Wooden Buildings, of Allegheny, was called for last night, bnt no quorum was present FLEEING FROM FIRE. Twenty-fveWorkins Girls Are Forced to Climb Down a Fire Escape. A STUBBORN DOWN-TOWN BLAZE Keeps the Department Busy for flours, and Several lien Are Hurt. THEEE CHIEFS COMB 1N10 CONFLICT Twenty-five girls tearing down the fire escape on the front of No. 967 Liberty street about 5 o'clock last evening, startled the pedestrians hurrying along to the Union depot, and when a dark volume of smoke began to pour out of the building, many suburban residents deliberately missed their trains. Not a girl fainted, but made their way in good order to the sidewalk and safety. An alarm was sent in from box 32, and as soon as Chief Evans arrived he turned in another1 alarm, calling out two more dis tricts. The building is a four-story briek, owned by Mrs. Mary Sweitzer and occupied by D. J. Bex, a paper box manufacturer, and Dean & Niebaum, flour merchants. The fire was a stubborn one and hard to fight, and was not finallyextinguished until nearly midnight, causing a complete cessa tion of traffic along Liberty street. The origin of tbe fire is unknown. It started in the cellar, which was almost solidly 'packed with cardboard, and the smoke arising from the burning material was so strong as to overpower a number of firemen, and prevent them from approach ing close enough to do effective work. THE FLOORS FAM, IN. For two hours tbe fire burned in the cellar, and then tbe flames burst through to the first floor, burning the supports of the second floor and causing both floors to fall into the cellar. Then the cellar was flooded with water and the flumes finally subdued. James McAleese, a brother of the Police Inspector, was overcome by the fumes from burning paper, and had to be taken home about 7 o'clock. John Ashmore, of No. 5 company, was struck in the breast with a hose nozzle while up on a ladder and was knocked to the ground. He was so badly hurt by the force of the blow tbat he had to be taken to the Homeopathic Hospital. Chief Evans was struck on the jugular by aladder which some of the men were moving and was knocked senseless. He was carried into a neighboring house and resuscitated with difficulty alter a half hour's work, after which he was taken home. The accident was tbe result of tbe dense smoke in tbe alley in rear of the burn ing building. A CONFLICT OF ATJTHOBITY. Chief Evans and his assistants, Coates and Steele, had quite an altercation during the fire, resulting from a conflict ot author ity, but it was quietly smoothed over after some very bitter words'had been passed. The loss will reach about $8,000. Bex & Co. had $3,000 worth of cardboard stored In the cellar, where the fire originated and which burned so slowly and steadily that it was almost impossible to extinguish it. They are fully insured. Dean & Neibaum estimate their loss at $4,500. They had two carloads ot flour and a large quantity of feed on the first floor, which was totally de stroyed, but fully insured. The loss to the building will not exceed $400 or $500; also insured. Mr. Harry Hcrzberger furnished hot lunch and coffee to the firemen, which was greatly appreciated by them in their wet and cold condition. About 9:30 a slight blaze started in J. Zimmerman's tobacco store, corner of Eleventh and Liberty streets. It was ex tinguished with a.Babcock. A YOUNG MAN IN TBOTJBLE. He Is Arrested on Complaint of His Step brother and locked Up. T. M. Lamb, sou of Dr. B. F. Lamb, of Oakland, was arrested last night on a seri ous charge preferred by his stepbrother, Ed ward House, and the brother of the young lady in the case, to whom Lamb says he is engaged to be married. Dr. Lamb, the father of the prisoner, is married to Mrs. John A. House, who was a widow, and is the mother of Miss Winnie House, the girl in the case, who is about 16 years of age. The Lamb fjmilv, with the exception of the son, reside at No. 276 Oakland avenne. The son, who is about 20 years ot age, has not been at home for some time, and recent ly returned from a visit to Baltimore. He was arrested in Oakland by Officer Eagen. He expressed surprise at his arrest, and said he did not understand the matter, and that he was engaged to be married to the girl. Last evening be seut a messenger to bis father, who, upon hearing of his son's arrest, was also surprised. He said he knew nothing of the affair, and at once started out to learn something of it. House, who made the information, could not be seen. Lamb Is locked up for a hearing. UP TO THEIR EYES IN WOBK. Secretaries of the Independents Busy Han dling the List of Recruits. The Secretary ot the Independent Bepub lican organization and his assistants in the Bissell block, Smitbfield street, were again up to their eyes in work yesterday answer ing correspondence. They reported that an influential old-line Republican bad brought in a list of 300 well-known Bepublicans who had positively pledged themselves to vote for Pattison. Later in the day another equally influential Bepublican brought in another list ot 100 names, and the secretary said tbat another of 200 was expected to day. That the movement is causing anxiety in some quarters is evidenced by tbe fact of several old liners, who run with the machine first, last and all the time, have called at intervals during the past two days for the purpose of taking soundings. SCENES on lake Tlticaca is the subject of Fannie B. Ward's popular South American letter for To-Morrow's big DISPATCH. BOBEBT NORTON BEAD. A Former Pittsburger Yields Up His life in Chicago. Division Passenger Agent E. D. Smith, of the Baltimore and Ohio road, was noti fied yesterday ot the death of his brolher-in-law, Bobert S. Norton, in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and E. M. Norton, a brother, left for Chicago, last evening to at tend the funeral. He will be buried in Logansport, Ind. Mr. Norton was a former Pittsburger, and was well known here. He was in the job printing business. He died of consumption, and his death has been anticipated for some time. CUT UP IN A BOW. Dlco Chldo and His Companions Couldn't " Get Along Without a Fight Dico Chido, an It lian who formerly re sided on Tunnel street, was brought to the Mercy Hospital, yesterday, from Grants ville, Md., suffering from several painlul cuts on his body. Chido was working on the lines of the Pennsylvania Gas Company. On Monday night last he got into a row with some of bis companions, during whioh be received tbe cuts. The men who did the cutting were ar rested in Maryland, and Chido shipped to this city for treatment. The cuts are not considered dangerous. Dr. B. M. Hanna. Eye, ear, nose and throat diseases exclusively. Office, 720 Penn street, Pittsburg, Pa. s&sa MISHAPS0F A DAY. A LITTLE BOY HORRIBLY MANGLED BY A CABLE CAR. A Brakeman Crushed to Death on the Pan handle Another Has a Hand Smashed Several Injured by Falls and Runaways Other Accidents. John Lagalsky, an 8-year-old Polish boy, was killed by a Citizens' Traction car going over him yesterday. His sknll was crushed, neck broken, both arms and a leg broken, and he was frightfully mangled. The boy had been hanging on an apole wagon, when the driver discovered him and aimed a blow at him. To escape the lash he ran across the street car track and was caught by the car. The gripman was placed under arrest. The boy is the son of a mill worker in Carnegie's Twenty ninth street mill. Alex H. Irwin, "of 293 Beaver avenue, Allegheny, fell on Tuesday and fractured his leg. James Karowitz, who lives on Butler street, near Fifty-fourth street, fell from the roof ol his house, 33 feet, yesterday after noon, while engaged in repairing the chim ney. Karowitz received a slight fracture of the skull and bad his right arm broken in two places. He is a married man about 40 years of age. ' William Dovey, a brakeman on the Penn sylvania Bailroad, had his right hand crushed last evening while coupling cars at Twenty-eighth street Yesterday afternoon one of the Hungarians employed at work on California avenue," Allegheny, was injured by a tree falling on him. The man was in the act of chopping it down. He was seriously hurt about tbe back and head. He was removed to the Allegheny General Hospital. S. C. Bamberger, aged 40 years, of Mans field, employed as a watchman at Sheridan station, on the Panhandle Bailroad, was caught between two cars and crushed to death at Sheridan yesterday afternoon. He leaves a wife and two children. The Coroner will hold an inquest this morning. Michael Conroy, a muck roller, employed at the Keystone Iron Works, near So"ho, was seriously hurt at the mill early yester day morning. He was running a lump of hot metal from the furnace to the squeezers when the pulley attached to the guide rail broke. The heavy iron trolly fell on Con roy, breaking his right leg at the hip and knee. He was removed to his home up Four-Mile run. Willie Garlick, a 6-year-old son of W. H. Garlick, was thrown out of a wagon by the horse shying on Wylie avenue. He received an ugly gash in the head. Charles Johnson, an employe of Shoen herger's mill, Sixteenth street, had his right foot crushed yesterday by an ingot A WEEK'S BEADING will be secured by all who get to-morrow's 20-Page DIS PATCH. The best writers contribute to its columns. visrroBS to THE PITTSBURG SIMON EXPO- Can Make S50 Clear. Last year it cost us upward of $2,000 to exhibit at the opening Exposition. We have been Kept so- terribly busy this sum mer, however, in selling our cianos and organs and banjos and mandolins and guitars and brass horns and sheet music, that we actually found no time to get up an exhibit lor this year's show. However, we propose to give our customers the benefit of this great saving, so that any one who will buy a piano or organ, or any other instru ment, during the continuance of the fair will get the benefit of an extra reduction in price of goods of 5 and 10 per cent Visitors to the show can therefore make some $50 by calling on H. Kleber & Bro.'s Music Store, 606 Wood street, and buying one of their instruments. They are the sole agents for the famous Steinway, Conover, Gabler, Opera and Emerson pianos, also for the wonderful Vocalion church organs, and the mouse-and-dnst-proof Earhuff parlor or gans. Anything in tbe music line which you cannot get at Klebers' is not worth having. Don't fail to call at Kiebers',then, 606 Wood street, three doors above Fifth avenue,.Pittsburg, Pa. NATURAL GAS CUT GLASS. Every Visiting Metallurgist Should visit the new art rooms of Hardy & Hayes and see some of the wonderful prod ucts of our natural gas in cut glass. Tbe purest crystal made in the world, the largest collection, the greatest number of patterns, and the most beautiful goods in this line can be seen three doors below City Hall, or diagonally opposite Hotel Duquesne, at Hardy & Hayes', Jewelers. Silversmiths and Art Dealers, 629 Smithfield street. New building. Boys' Suits. Our boys' suits at $2 99 can't be equaled elsewhere for $5 00. Eighteen new styles at tbe old bargain price of $2 90. An ele gant present with each boy's suit sale. P. C. C. C, Pittsburo Combination CLOiniNG Company, cor. Grant and Diamond sts., opp. tbe Court House. BOO French Woven Corsets at 65 Cts. Worth every cent of $1 25. White and drab. Jos. Hobne & Co.'s, Penn Avenue Stores. Blankets The largest assortment in the city: all grades and colors;! prices the very lowest Hughs & Hacks. XTSSU Overcoat Headquarters Are right at the P. C. C. C, rorner Grant and Diamond streets, where you can buy the best $10 overcoat in America. P. C. C. C, Pittsburg Combination Clothing Company, cor. Grant and Diamond streets, opp. the Court House. FASHION'S for the Fair in Shirley Dare's Inimitable style will please every lady reader of the mammoth issue of THE DISPATCH to-morrow morning. Bath Robes. Once a luxury. Now a necessity. Large and complete assortment at lowest prices. Jos. Horne& Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. Jackets I- Jackets I An -immense assortment of new goods just opened. Stylish goods $3, $4, $5, $6. $7 60, $8 75, $9 75 and np. Genu ine seal plush, $7 50, $8 75, $9 75, $12, etc. Tbe best variety and lowest prices ever named. Examine at Bosenbaom & Co.'s WFS The Best Value In America are those fine overcoats at $10 sold by tbe P. C. C. C. Any weight or sh.ide you want Onr$10 overcoats can't be equaled elsewhere for double the money. We mean this every7 word of it-call and see. P. C. C. C, Pittsburg Combination Clothing Company, cor. Grant and Diamond sts., opp. tbe Court House. SCENES In the Diamond Square of Pitts burg, with clever illustrations, will be a feature of THE DISPATCH to-morrow morning. A Big Sale of Ribbons. Five thousand yards at a sacrifice. Buy them quickly. Keep them for Xmas fancy work. All shades except cream and black. Jos. Hobne & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. Men's silk and wool mixed underwear. James H. Aiken & Co., 100 Filth ave. Housekeeping Linens A superior assortment of table linens, napkins, towels etc., at prices of special interest TTSSU HUQUB Ss HACKE. After a sleepless night use Angostura Bltterstotoneupyoursystem. All druggists. . TTSSU Men's fine neckwear. James H. Aiken St Co., 100 Fifth aye. WILL OPEN ON WEDNESDAY. Superintendent Jacobs of the Blind School to Arrive To-Day or Monday The Books Have Been Ordered and Everything Beady Many Subscriptions Are Paid In. Mr. H. B. Jacobs, late of the! Indiana State Blind School, expects to reach Pitts burg to-day or Monday, with his wife, to take charge of the Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind in this city. Mr. Jacobs visited the American Publishing Company in Louisville, early this week, and ordered $200 worth of books for the school, and the first lot was received by the Secretary, Percy F. Smith, on Friday. The books will be paid for trom the quota of the new school obtained from the national fund for literature for blind schools. Tbe school will be opened on next Wednesday. In response to the circulars sent out by the board, a large number of subscribers have sent in their subscriptions, which, together with the amounts already in the hands of Treasurer Dean, show tbe following; Miss Jane Holmes 510,000 Thompson Bell estate, through Mrs. M.J. Marshall 10,000 William E. Scbmertz 100 J. D. Scully 10 J. E. Schwartz. 250 William W. McKelvv 60 George 3. Logan 25 Joseph Home. 500 A. Garri-on 500 J. W. Jschoonmaker- 500 W. K. Gillespie 25 Shaul &Bonk 5 G. 8. Shwab k Bro. 25 Matilda W.Denny 250 C. R. Dilworth. 100 3. R. Dilworth 100 J. Porterneld 100 Dr. J. A. Lippincott 250 R.K. Wilson 100 Wolf, Lane fcCo 100 Charles Lockhart 500 T. H. Given '. 25 H. K. Porter. 500 H. Holosbip 500 L. Irwin 15 Alex Bradiey 250 S. S. Marvin 100 R. Miller. Jr. 100 Charles Paine 100 W. D. Wood 250 M. H. Danzlger 250 A. Kirapatrlck & Co 25 AM. Brown 250 Henry Phipps 500 C. A. Rumsey 50 A. jh. Juarsball 500 Total $56,955 Other subscribers who have been addressed have not responded yet.but the expectations for a very magnificent donation from the people having the Hit in hand are very good. MANUFACTURERS HAVE ADVANCED CARPETS -AND- CURTAINB FKOJI io to 20 Per Cent There is no longer a doubt about Carpets and Curtains advancing in price. The man ufacturers Tiave already put the figures up. We purchased a much larger stock for the Fall trade than we would have done had the advance in prices not been threatened, and will dispose of the entire line at the prices made at the opening of the season. Hotel keepers and others who contemplate refurnishing 'j. .:,, u i. TT11 uuiuj" iiic pi cyclic j. ail vi coming Winter will save money by getting in on this importation the next lot will sell from io to 25 per cent higher. t 1 EDWARD GROETZIHGER, 627 and 629 Penn Avenue. CfDealers will take notice that we are selling goods cheaper than they can be bought in the Eastern market. BIBER & EASTON. JACKETS! JACKETB! WRAPB ! WRAPS ! A FEW OF MANY- ATTRACTIONS: AT$ 7C( Diagonal Chevron Jacket, 0- with astrachan rolling col lar and edze. These are in navy and black, with front loops. The shape is per fect, and is one of our rapid sellers. 7- Extra grade Cheviot O1- Jacket, tailor-made, with vest front, smoke pearl buttons, etc. This Is a very attractive garment, would he good value at 510. AT$ AT a 0 rt A plain, stylish Jacket, r-l p O UU bound throughout, double breasted, with rolling col lar. A T ff t t A very attractive Reefer f J. 1 1 OO Jacket, with embroidered fronts and collar, cord and tassel, etc; made trom heavy Scotch Cheviot. This garment has warmth without weight. AT tm -.- Gray and Tan Diagonal .rt.1 plO OO Jackets, made from double-faced goods, with handsome plaid backs, cut double-breasted, with large smoke pearl buttons. ATTO (-if, A very stylish Jacket, " p 1 y-J made from extra grade Scotch Cheviot, tailor made, wide satin-facing, satin sleeve lining, etc AT S.iA rr A Tery sW'sh longgar- n. j. piu ju ment. embracing soma new and novel features as to treatment of back and fronts. In Children's Jackets and Wraps our variety Is almost endless, from tbe warm, cheap, school garment to the latest and fluest novelties brought out this season. BIBER I EABTDN, 505 and 507 MARKET STREET. f ccll-nasa NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. PlTTSBUBO, Saturday, October U, 1SSO, JDS. HDRNE I C!I.'B PENN AVE. STORES. Ladies Umbrellas Up from 51 25 and an Oxidized Handlt Ulona toilte Umbrella, well worth Its price. In Natural Handles, at ?1 50, $2 50. Windsor Silk Umbrellas, 'with Natural Wood Handles, Ebony Handles, Oxidized Handles, Plated Handles, $3 to $12. A new lot of English Umbrellas with novel handles, natural wood and natural with silver deposit, in entirely new effects, atfS. Among the woods are Orange, Wechsel, Pomento, Boxwood, i Snakewood, ' Accasia, Cocoanut, ' The special points to keep in mind are the great variety of styles, the guarantee of re liable quality and tbe more than usually low prices on all our Umbrellas. SPECIALS In Ladies Gloves: S-button length Suede Monsquetaire at 95c an extremely low price but only one color, Tan 6 good shades oi" Tan. 4-buttou Eeal French Fine Kid Gloves at $1 a pair a special value, every pair war ranted. 8-button length Suede Monsquetaire, with a departure in the way of embroidery. Price,'"'' 51 25 a pair. 5-hook Fowler Suede, 51 35. Beady with full lines of Fabric Gloves: Cashmere, 25c to 51 per pair. Fleece-lined Silk, 75c, 51, 51 25 per pair. Unusual values in Indies', Hisses' and Children's Hosiery, in Wool and Cashmere, in all weights for fall and winter wear. Specials: Ladies' Black Cashmere, 50c. Misses' Bibbed Cashmere, 50c (See window display.) Misses' All-Wool, 22c. Ladies' All-Wool, 25c MEN'S FURNISHINGS. (Department open until 9 o'clock Saturday evenings.) A representative display in the window of Men's White Shirts all the styles of our celebrated Star Laundned Shirts, 51, 51 25, 51 50 and 51 75. Full Dress Shirts, orien front and back, plain and hand-embroidered bosoms, 51 50 to 53 each. Daily growth of business in our Sper'al Order Department. Orders taken for shirts made to measure. The best workmanship, the quickest time, the lowest prices. All tbe correct things of the season in Neckwear, either foreign or home fashions. Largest assortment we have ever shown in fine English Neckwear from 75c to 52 50 each, in 4-in-hands, Teckj, Puffs, etc Men's and B vs' Underwear in all the best makes, a, weights, all grades the lowest prices and best values to be found in any Underwear stock in tbe State Unusually complete stock of Men's and Boys' Halt Hose. Men's Mackintoshes. Umbrellas special values. JDS. HDRNE I CD., 609-621 PENN AVENUE. ocU BANK STATEMENTS. T) EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE JK. GERMAN NATIONAL BANK, at Pitts burg, in tbe State of Pennsylvania, at the closs of bnsiness October 2, 1890: . RESOURCES. Loans and discounts 2,160,359 57 Overdrafts, seenred and unsecured. 5,037 OS U. S. bonds to seenre circulation.... 80,000 00 Stocks,securities,judgments,claims, etc 12,577 SO Due from approved reserve agents . 293.863 47 Duo from other national banks 67.629 45 Dne from Stato hanks and bankers. 19,401 39 Banking house, furniture and fix tures 205,118 97 Current exDenses and taxes paid.... 22,330 OS Checks and other cash iteui 1,817 88 Excbanges for Clearing Houe 155.833 34 Bills of otber banks 12,000 00 Fractional paper cur rency, nickels and cents. 1,478 53 Specie 50.000 00 Legal tender notes 207.00000 CS.209 75 Redemption fnnd with U. S. Treas urer (5 per cent of circulation)... 2,250 00 Dne from U. S.Treasurer other than 5 percent redemption fund. 4,500 00 3.273.282 21 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid u $ 250.000 00 Surplus fund 460,000 00 Undivided profits 43.584 63' National bank notes outstanding... 45,000 OO Dividends unpaid 462 00 Individual deposits sub ject to check $1,960,640 54 Demand certificates of deposit 71,576 75 Due to other national banks 106,604 08 Due to State banks and hankers 330,414 22 2.469,235 58 83,273,283 21 State of Pennsvlvania, County of Allegheny.ss.: ' I. C. Van Bureo, Jr., Cashier of ibe above named bank, do solemnl v swear that tbe above btatement Is true, to tbe best of my knowledge and belief. C. VAN BUREN. Jk., Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8tb day of October, 189a WM. F. BOBB. Notary Pablle, Correct Attest: E. a. MYEKS. JOS.VOGEL, SB- H. H. NIEMANN. OC9-40 Directors. ' t
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