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SIX MILL OIS SHORT
The State Legislature Is Going
to Have Trouble Making
Both Ends Meet.
A PROBLEM FOR PATTISON.
Something Like Eighteen Millions la
Bills for Him to Pare.
WHERE THE MOSEY ALL GOES TO.
A Curious Story Back of the Effort to Ee
peal the Bequest Lav.
ATTEXDIXGTHE FOXEEALOF SHEEMAS
rSTECIAt TCTXPBAX TO THI DISrATCd
Haeeisbueg, Feb. 14. Including the
51,000,000 demanded for the improvement of
highways in this State for the next two
years bills have been introduced in the
Senate and Honse for appropriations ag
gregating nearly $9,000,000. This amount
does not include any items that Are re
quired to be incorporated in the general ap
propriation bill.
The estimated receipt for the next two
years are placed at 512,000,000. This sum
may be increased 1,000,000 if cases
settled against corporations for taxes should
result favorably to the Commonwealth. There
will be required for common, normal and
soldiers' orphan schools about $4,500,000;
ibr the National Gaurd (including amount
required to supply deficiency), 5540,000; for
the maintenance of the indigent insane at
the varions State hospitals, 800,000; for the
payment of judicial salaries, $1,100,000; for
public printing and binding, $500,000; for
the payment of members and other legisla
tive expenses. $575,000, making a total of
$3,115,000. Department and other items
will run the current expenses up to $10,600,
000. The Total of Expenditures.
Of the amounts embraced i J this summing
up bills have been introduced, inrludin ; the
amounts of 400,000, payable to William H.
Keiuble tor his loan to Governor Beaver;
$174,000 to the Erie Soldiers' Home; about
S300.000 to normal schools; $246,000 to sol
diers' orphans schools, and $500,000 for pay
ment of salaries of State institutions. Out
aide of these items the requested appropria
tions run up to about $7,400,000. Adding
these amounts to those absolutely required
and a grand total of $18,000,000 is reached.
It will be seen that it all appropriations
were passed the expenditures the next two
Tears would exceed the revenues between
5,000,000 and $6,000,000.
The Committee on Appropriations will
doubtless make a material reduction of this
aggregate, and if it should not bring the ap
propriations within the anticipated receipts,
the Governor, who has some experience in
this business, will see that the revenues and
proposed expenditures are as nearly equal
ized as possible.
Bills for Flood Destruction.
Among the bills which propose relieving
the State of some of its surplus money is the
one providing for the reimbursement of
counties lor the destruction of bridges by
the great flood of 1889. Under the Consti
tution counties must build theirown bridges,
aua the payment of the cost of tbem by the
State would, according to the opinion of the
Auditor General, be a clear infraction of the
Constitution. It is estimated the proposed I
scheme wonld reduce the amount in the pub
lic exchequer about $500,000.
A recent decision of Judge McPherson,
of Lebanon County Court, if affirmed by the
Supreme Court, will bilk the State treas
ury considerably. The provision in the
general revenue law, exempting manu
facturing corporations from the payment of
a capital stock tax saves these companies
about $400,000 a year, but the decision of
Jude McPherson will reduce this amount
materially, as he holds that only corporations
organized exclusively for manufacturing
purposes are entitled to the exemption
allowed in the law. Heretofore they have
been relieved of the capital stock tax with
out regard to other business they might
.have prosecuted.
Cost or the State's Insane.
Some of the men who are fighting to
abolish the Committee on Lunacy blame it
ior overcrowding the insane hospitals of the
State and thus adding largely to the ex
penses of the Commonwealth. The State
expends annually $400,000 'or tbe main
tenance of indigent insane at these hospitals
while the counties pav about $300,000 a year.
Every patient of this kind costs the State $2
and the county $1 75 a week. The number
reaches -nearly 4,000, and the tendency is
toward a gradual increase.
It is maintained that many of these un
fortunate people could be accommodated at
the county alms houses at an average cost of
$1 25 a week, n the amount of work they
could do were taken into consideration.
THE TAX UPON FOBEIGNEES.
Action of the Judiciary Committee Against
Its Passage.
rsrXCIAl. TELEGBAM TO IKI DISPATCH. J
Haeeisbueg, Feb. 14. The prompt in
dorsement by the Judiciary Committee of
Senator Meek's bill requiring naturalized
foreigners to pay a tax of $3 a year toward
the poor fund in the district in which they
are employed, has given him a strong hope
that it will receive the favorable con
sideration of the Legislature. This
bill is now on the Senate calendar,
and it will be pushed to a final passage as
rapidly as the rules of that body will per
mit. One of its main purposes is to raise a
fund to pay the expenses put on districts by
illiterate and semi-civilized representatives
of foreign countries who have located in
them. Many of th-se people, through
lack or loss of employment, have to
be supported at the 'expense of the
district in which they are working, entail
ing a great burden on the taxpaying peo
ple, while nothing is contributed to the
local treasuries by the obnoxious residents.
Instead of spending their money in these
communities they send it to the country
from which they emigrated. Through one
postofSce in Center county they last year
lorwarded to their native homes over 520.
O0O. In additiou to the burdens they im
pose on'localities in which they have a hab
itation, they are of a very quarrelsome dis
position. Several murders have been com
mitted by them in Center county, which has
put the county to a large expense.
Senator Meek's bill proposes that they
shall contribute something to meet the ex
penses traceable to them. The employers of
tbe objectionable laborers are required
monthly to deduct 25 cents from their wages
for the use of the poor fund of the interested
district. The payments are required to
be made so frequently to cover removals
from one township to another, so that tbe ope
to which they have changed their residence
last receives its proportionate share of the
taxes.
3IT BHEEKAITS MEM0EY.
Adjutant General McClelland
S'W Order to flio r.m
Issues as
.SPECIAL TXXIORAMTOTHS DUrATCBVl
Haeeisbueg, Feb. 14. By direction of
Governor Pattison an order was issued by
Adjutant General McClelland this after
noon, refeiring to the brilliant military
record of General William Tecumseh Sher
man, concluding thus:
Always in tbe advance in military Ideas.
Toorenient and action, his "march to the Ssa"
fl tlngty crowned his matchless military career.
fc " - -.SVtftuSi -
Such honors as can be rendered by
regiment and companies on the day of burial
will be observed. Officers will wear the usual
badge of mourning torSO dayafrom the date of
this order.
. THE LAW OF BEQUESTS.
CUBIOTJS ETOEY BACK OF EEPBXSEHTA
TIVE TALBOT'S BILL.
It Was Originally Framed to Strike a Be
llcious Sect, but It Hit Others A Quaker
School and an EpUoopallan Church, Suf
fered From It.
rSFXCIJLL TXXZOBASt TO thi jiefatch.i
Hareisbdeg, Feb. 14. Most of the bills
introduced iu the Legislature have a local
inspiration. One of these, read in place by
Representative Talbot, of Chester, had its
origin in the unsatisfactory working of a
law passtd in '1855. Eli K. Price, the dis
tinguished lawyer, was then a Senator, and
in order to put a stop to the alleged in
fluence of Catholio priests in controlling be
quests iu the interest of institutions of that
church while members of that faith were ap
proaching dissolution, he drafted a bill
rendering illegal bequests made within the
month prior Jo the death of the person, mak
ing it.
Mr. Price was a member of the Society
of Friends, and the first victim of the act
was tbe school at Kewton, in which he was
greatly interested. Bichard Bailey left to
the school, for the purpose of purchasing a
telescope, $25,000, but tbe money could not
be applied to the desired purpose because
the will directing the appropriation of tbe
money was made within the interdicted
period. It is said that a Catholic priest
twitted the author of the law Interfering
with the execution of the bequest by stating
that he had prepared it to catch tbe Cath
olics, but that the Friends were the first to
feel its bad effect.
Subsequently a member of the Presby
terian Church authorized enough money to
be paid out of his estate to finish the un
completed steeple of an Episcopal Church,
but it, too, could not be applied to the in
tended object because of the prohibitive
law, which has become so objectionable on
account of its unsatisfactory results that
representative Talbot, iu response to a
strong sentiment prevailing among his con
stituents, has introduced a bill in the Bouse
repealing the obnoxious legislation.
KEEPER OF THE ABSEHAL.
Colonel 0Xell Appointed, to the Late Cap
tain 3Ialoneyi Place.
rsrcciAX. txixobam to thjj dispatch.!
HABBlSBtTBO, Feb. 14. Christopher T.
O'Keli, of Allentown, Lieutenant Colonel
of the Seventh Regiment, National Guar J,
has been appointed keeper of State arsenal
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Captain Thomas F. Maloney.
frill Attend Admiral Porter' ; Fan i.al.
tSrSCI.ll. TXXXQ&UC TO THE DIBf -TC8.1
Habbisbubq, Feb. 14. Governor Patti
son and his Military Cabinet, Adjutant
General McClelland, General 'Snowden,
Chambers McKibben, Inspector General;
Thomas J. Hudson, Chief of Artillery, and
other officers of the National Guard, will
attend the funeral of Admiral Porter at
'Washington next Tuesday. "Governor Patti
son will be one of the pallbearers, a
Do ton Eat?
The old saying is money talks. "Well, I'll
give you a pointer, the following prices will
talk. Talk? Tes, more thsn that. They
will make you jolly, laugh and grow fat.
Business is business, and quantity makes
all the difference in the world in buying
goods. T have bought right and I am going
to give you all a benefit. . .
All orders often ($10) dollars and upward
I will give you the benefit of the following:
LOOK AT THESE PRICES:
Every article bought in my store not
proving satisfactory can be returned, and I
will cheerfully refund your money. All
goods guaranteed No. 1. Send for Febru
ary price list. Order now or you will miss
these bargains:
1 can blackberries.. ? 5
lean string beans 6
1 can peas ...... G
lean "solid packed tomatoes 6
lean pumpKin 7
1 can genuine sugar corn 7
lean best Lima beans 8
1 gallon New Orleans molasses........ 30
3 cans red salmon 25
8 Bs white clover honey 1 00
15 lbs California dried grapes... 1 00
7 lbs choice evaporated apples. 1 00
12 Bs sun dried apples .....1 00
4 lbs chewing tobacco..... 1 00
1 gallon glass oil can, tin-covered 20
33 &s Butler co. buckwheat 100
3 lbs evaporated raspberries 1 00
4 tts "Weyman's tobacco 1 00
5 lbs tea (in all varieties) 1 00
7 lbs roasted coffee (fresh ground) 1 00
50 bars good family soap 1 00
Large family scales 1 95
10-tb kit mackerel 1 00
'9 cans fresh mackerel................. 1 00
1 sack family Amber flour 1 15
1 sack high grade Minnesota flour.... 145
1 bbl high grade Minnesota flour 6 05
30 bars (5 cents size) soap. ,1 00
15 Sis boneless codfish................ 1 00
New codfish, per tt)(whole).... .......
Sugar cured shoulder, per lb .7
4 Bis dried corn 25
1 clothes horse (4 wings; 6 feet) ....... 85
6-foot step ladder, complete 98
7 Bis dessicated cocoanut 1 00
5 Bis evaporated peaches.... 1 00
1 package Johnny cate flour... , 7
Delivered to all parts of two cities. To
parties living outside of the city will prepay
freight on all orders of $10 and upward.
Send for price list.
James J. 'Weldon,
No. 201 Market street,
Corner Second avenue, Pittsburg.
Special remnant and clearance sale of
drygoods and carpets, beginning to-morrow
and continuing the balance of week, at J.
H. Kunkel & Bro.'s, 1347 and 1349 Penn
avenue. Bead the startling prices we have
made in another column. Two squares east
of Union depot
nave Ton Rented Tour House?
XI not advertise it in The Dispatch.
Mondays and Thursdays are special rent
list, days.
AT a third and a half real value are those
shirts Gusky's will offer all this week. A
thousand dozen in all. But don't watt tilt
Friday, for they willne apt to move quickly.
GtJSKr'S,
You will have to get a move on if you
want to participate in the immense values
we are going to offefin men's shirts all this
week. See particulars of the four large lots
in this paper. Gusirr's.
Ibo:t Citt beer is uniformly excellent.
None but tbe perfect article is allowed to
leave that brewery. Ask for it at your
dealers.
Business Men
"Will find just what they want for lunch or
dinner at Bayley's Cafe, Nos. 405 and 407
Smithfield st.
Hundreds of Pretty Novelties
In fine chinaware and art pottery and vases,
including the most celebrated goods in the
world, now displayed at away below jewelry
store prices in Kaufmanns' china depart
mentbasement. Works of Art Nothing less.
That's what the choice selection of royal
Worcester vases and bric-a-brac, now dis
played in Kaufmans' China department,
consists of. These goods represent the
quaintest, oddest and most artistie shapes
ever displayed In Pittsburg, and remember
this important fact: The prices are from one
third to one-half less than the' exorbitant
jewelry store figures. KaufmannS'
China Department Basement.
DEATH" CLAIMS HIM.
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IContlnved from first page.
have just been advised. His patriotic,
faithful and valuable services to his coun
try will ever be gratefully remembered."
SPEECHES OF EULOGY.
QEHEEAl HAWLET3 GLOWING W0BD3
OF PBAISB FOB THE DEAD.
A Significant Passage From Banyan's Pil
trims' Progress Bead Senator Morgan
Speaks for the South in a Patriotic
Strain Lessons From the Event.
Washington, Feb. 14. In 'the Senate
this afternoon, when -General Sherman's
death was made known, Mr. Hawley offered
appropriate resolutions and said among
other things:
The history of our country is rich in soldiers
who have set examples of simple soldierly
obedience to the civil law and self-abnegation.
Washington, Grant, Sheridan and Sherman
lead the list, bherman was tbe last of the
illustrious trio who were, by universal consent,,
tbe foremost figures in tbe armies of
the Union in tbe late war. In
tbe precious traditions to pass into
one history for tbe admiration of tbe old and
tbe instruction of the young was their friend
ship, their most harmonious co-operation, with
out a shadow of ambition or pride. When
General Grant was called to Washington to
take command of tbe armies of the Union, his
reat heart did not forget tbe men who stood
yhim.
Here Mr. Hawley read the letter from
Graut to Sherman, expressing thanks to him
and McPherson as the men, above all others,
to whom he owed hts success; and Sher
man's -letter in reply, saying that General
Grant did himself injustice and them too
much honor. Mr. Hawley closed his re
marks (his voice frequently giving way from
grief and emotion) by reading the following
passages from Bunyaa's "Pilgrims' Prog
ress:" After this it was noised about that Mr.
vallant-for-Truth was taken with a summons.
When he understood it, he called for his friends
and told tbem of it. Then said he, "I am going
to my father's; and though with great difficulty
I got hither, yet now I do not repent of all tbe
trouble I have been at to arrive wbere I am.
My sword I given to him tbat shall
succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my
courage and skill to him that can
get tbem. My marks and scars I carry
with me to be a witness for me tbat I have
fought His battles, wbo will now be a rewarder.
when the day tbat he must go hence was come,
mahy accompanied him io tbe riverside, into
which, as he went, he said: "Death, where is
thv stingr" And. as be went down deeper, he
said: "Grave, wbere is thy victory?" So he
Eassed over, and all the trumpets sounded for
un on the other side.
Mr, Morgan reviewed the history ot the
Civil "War. and said:
The power rested with the victors at the close
of tbe conflict, but not all tbe honors of the
desperate warfare. Indeed, tbe survivors are
now winning honors, enriched with justice and
magnanimity, though less worthy than those
won on the battlefields, in their labors to re
store tbe country to Its former feeling of
fraternal regard and unity of sentiment
and action, and to promote its welfare. The
fidelity ot tbe great General who has Just de
parted in the ripeness of age. and with a his
tory marked by devotion to his flag, was the
true and simple faith of an American to his
convictions of duty. We differed with him
and contested campaigns and battlefields with
him: but we welcome the history of tbe great
soldier as tbe proud Inheritance of our country.
When a line so narrow divides us from these
high courts In which our actions are to be
judged by their motives, and when so many
millions now living and Increasing millions to
follow are to be affected by tbe wisdom of our
enactments, we will do well to give up
tbls day to reflection upon our
duties and (in sympathy with this
great country) to dedicate tbe day
to his memory. In such a retrospect we shall
find an admonition tbat an American Senate
should meet on this side of 'the fatal line of
death as tbe American generals meet on the
other side to render justice to each other and
to make our beloved country as happy, com
paratively, as we should wish the great beyond
to be, to those great spirits.
Speeches eulogistic of the dead General
were also made by Senators Manderson,
Davis and others, and the resolutions were
then adopted.
SOME CABINET VIEWS.
SECEETABY NOBLE'S FEELIKG TRIBUTE
XO HIS DEAD JTBIEHD.
Kindly Words From Secretary Blalner Post
master General Wanamaker and Attor
ney General Miller All Highly Praise
the Sterling Qualities of the Old General.
Washington, Feb. 14. All the mem
bers of the Cabinet, who would speak on the
subject of General Sherman, were inter
viewed. Secretary Noble said:
tfeel great personal grief at the loss of Gen
eral bherman, my friend for many years. I
was born in Lancaster, where he was. I served
under him In the war, and had been-bonored
by bis friendship and personal intercourse,
both in St. Louis, New York and Washington.
Be was as tender and kind in private life as he
was great and successful in war. His love
for his comrade-in-arms was like tbat
ot a. father of bis children. His love embraced
all our people. Among tbe first events in my
official life here was a visit from General Sher
man, voluntarily made. In behalf of General
Joseph Johnson, for whom he spoke In the high
est terms. He was as grand a patriot as ever
lived, and I believe thatans services, speeches,
and example, will have a bappy influence
upon onr country through all its history.
Postmaster General Wanamaker said:
He was made of pure gold. No man that I
ever knew combined In such a degree the
courage of a lion, the loving gentleness of a
woman, and the simplicity of a child. The
sunset of his career has been as gorgeous and
beautiful as the glory of his great campaigns.
Said Attorney General Miller:
In General Sherman's death the world has
lost the first of iu military men. At least there
is no one surviving at all comparable to bim,
unless it be tbe great German Marshal, Von
Moltke. One thing especially struck me in tbe
great centennial review in New York. There he
stood by tbe side ot tbe President. No matter
what else might be claiming his attention, did be
ever fall to take off bis bat and salute the flagT
He might let men pass without recognition,
but never the flag.
Secretary Blaine said he could remember
General Sherman personally from the time
he graduated from; West Point, CO years
ago, when he was himself a schoolboy of 10
years. ' "
For more than SO years, by reason of 'family
connections, I bad known him very intimately.
Of his many and great qualities on his public
side, I do not care to speak. General Sher
man's military history Is part, and
a large part of the proudest annals
of tbe nation. He did not grow
less in tbe Intimacy of private life and
by tbe fireside in bis own borne. He had
the kindest of hearts and tbe most chlvalrio
devotion to those he loved. He was one of
the warmest friends to those for whom he pro-"
fessed friendship. He was frank, just and
magnanimous.
This Month Only
Wewill make with every dozen of our. best
cabinet photos an 8x10 handsomely colored
photo, with elegant frame, also cabinet
photos at $1 per dozen. Life size crayon
portraits 53 CO. Lies' Galleet,
Shsu 10 and 12 Sixth street.
Watch To-Morrowa Bent lists.
The best lists published, describing desir
able houses and properties to let. Mondays
and Thursdays are special days.
Hundreds of Pretty Novelties
In fine chinaware and art pottery and vases,
including the most celebrated goods in the
world, now displayed at away below jewelry
store prices in Kaufmanns' china departments-basement.
Bargains "
In suitings, trouserings and overcoatings at
Pitcairn's, 434,-Wood street.
J. G. Bennett Co,
? Leading
Hatters and Furriers,
Corner Wood street
and Fifth avenue.
THE PEDTSBtTRG'' "DISPATCH. SUNDAY, ffEBRTTABrY IS,
SAFETY OF MINERS.
That Was the Question Considered
by the Columbus Meeting.
LEGISLATION THE MINERS WANT.
The General and Defense Fnndjlre Merged
Jnto One Hereafter.
PEOSILYANIA STE1KBES INDORSED
rSTXCMT. TXLXOKAM TO TUB DIsrXTCB.l
Columbus. Feb. 14. The National Con
vention of Miners has adjourned to Monday'
with the prospect that it will require tne
greater part of next week to complete the
work. The scale question, which is oue
of the most important, was referred
back to the Scale Committee with
instrnetions to investigate the conditions in
the several districts, and it is expected they
will be ready to report by Monday. There
are rumors of a sensation brewing in the K.
ofL., in which Hayes, Cavanaugh and
others are interested, but none of the par
ticulars have been learned.
The defense fund occupied the attention
of the convention nearly all day. Some
were in favor of abolishing the national
fund and creating district funds. Others
were in favor of a tax for a defense fund to
bedevided between the national and district
organizations, while there was a less radical
sentiment in favor of a national fund, giv
ing districts a voice in its disposition.
The General and Defense Funds.
The drift of the discussloa was decidedly
against a national fund, and it looked as if
this vital feature of the organization was
about to be knocked out.
President Kae, in his annual address, rec
ommends that the general fund and defense
fund be consolidated, and that 80 per cent of
the monthly per capita tax be set aside for
defense purposes. This recommendation
was adopted on the suggestion of John P.
Jones, the per capita tax being fixed at 20
cents a month. An amendment was adopted
providing that where any dispute arises the
District President shall report to the Na
tional Executive Board, and if they neglect
or refuse to give a decision within ten days the
District President shall have full power to
order a strike; and the strikers being enti
tled to receive aid from the defense fund,
the National Executive Board shall not call
off a strikejuaugurated under this section
unless by the consent of the district officers
and the men on strike. This solution of the
difficulty was satisfactory to all the dele
gates. It leaves the delense fund practi
cally as it was last year, and gives the dis
tricts rights which they did not have.
The Irwin Strike Is Indorsed.
The Committee on Grievances presented a
report indorsing the action of the national
officers concerning the strike at Irwin, Pa,,
and recommending that the incoming Ex
ecutive Board receive deserving attention.
The committee recommended that the West
moreland and Pennsylvania Gas Coal Com
panies, at whose mines the strike has been
on since last May, be forced to comply with
the national scale of prices. President Kae
said the two companies had lost several mil
lion dollars by the strike and were becom
ing very sick of it. He had information,
from a Pennsylvania operator that if a vig
orous effort was made to force the payment
of scale rates May 1, tbe companies would
concede them. The recommendation of the
committee was adopted.
The Committee on District and Boundaries
reported as follows:'
District J, anthracite region ot Pennsyl
vania: 2, counties of Jefferson, Clearfield. Cen
ter. Indiana. Cambria. Blair, Huntingdon and
Bedford; a Low Grade, Pennsylvania: i, Coke
regions, Pennsylvania; 6, Pittsburg dis
trict: 6, Ohio; U. Indiana and Southwest
Kentucky; 12. Illinois; 14 Iowa; 14,
Missouri and Kansas; 13, Colorado. Washings
4?,n ?n,d TeE!tor,e,s; ,16- Maryland; 17, West
Virginia: 18. Virginia; 19. Tennessee and East.
em and Southeastern Kentucky; 20, Alabama
and Georgia: 21, Texas, Arkansas, Indian Ter
rltory and Mexico.
Disasters and Safety Appliances.
The report was accepted and the matter
of consolidating District 11 with District 2
or 3 was referred to tbe Executive Board.
The Committeeon Mine Disasters and Safe
ty Appliances recommended that tbe Legis
lature of each State be urged to enact a law
providing at each mine a local board of ex
aminers, to consist of two practical miners
working at the mine and tbe mine boss or
other representative of the company, the
appointment of miners on tbls board to be
long to the majority ot miners at the works.
Thcduty ot the board is to be tbe examin
ing of miners as to their efficiency in the
knowledge cf safety lamps and how to use
them, especially in time of danger.
Other laws recommended are, that
there be created a State Board
of Examiners in each district where at pres
ent none exists, whose duty shall be to ex
amine applicants for mine and fire bosses
from the various districts to which the
board belongs; the Examining Board to con
sist of one representative of the operators,
the District Mine Inspector and one miner,
the National Executive Board of the
United Mine Workers of America to rec
ommend the miner named to the Governor
of the State for appointment
Other Legislation .Recommended.
The report also urged that all operators of
mines be compelled to place the Shaw appa
ratus in every mine generating gas until the
coming of a more perfect machine.
In support of this the committee say it is
their opinion that, had this machine been
in use in the Mammoth mines, such a terri
ble catastrophe as that which shocked the
entire world a few weeks ago wonld not
have occurred. The committee further re
ported: We recommend a law compelling all' compa
nies to place a competent person at tbe top and
bottom of each mine while miners are ascend
ing or descending. We recommend a law mak
ing it obligatory on all companies
to keep at their works, always in
readiness, an ambulance wagon and other con
veyances for carrying injured miners to their
homes; tbat no person be employed iu any
mine where safety lamps are used without a
certificate stating his efficiency in the knowl
edge of safety lamps and bow to use them in
times of danger.
TEXAS IS FOE HILL
The Ex-President Has No Chance la the
Lone Star State Now.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 14. Interviews
were had to-day with members of the Legis
lature on Cleveland's silver letter ahH'thelr
choice for President, The letter lias
demoralized and scattered Cleveland's
'supporters, and with one accord they agreed
that the ex-President had committed polit
ical hari-kari. They are now for Hill or a
Western man. Hill's friends are enthusi
astic, and declare the stalwart Democrat
must and will be tbe nominee,
A reporter in the House sends interviews
with as many members as he could reach,
with the following result: For Cleveland,
16; for Hill, 26; Cleveland first,
Hill second choice, 2; for Palmer or
some Western man, 19. State Treasurer
Wartham, Commissioner of Agriculture
Foster, Speaker Milnerand, Superintendent
of Education Pritchard, are all for Hill.
Other State officers are for Cleveland and a
Western man, with Hill as second choice if
Cleveland Is out of the wee. Texas will be
iorHUL
BESULT OP B2ICZ"S TBIP.
A Close Traffic Alliance and a Combination
of Some Proportions.
Chicago, Feb. 14. A rumor is published
that, as a result of Calvin Si Brlce's trip
over the Louisville, New Albany and Chi
cago road, a" close traffic alliance has
been formed between it and the Richmond
Terminal lines. In connection with tbls,
it Is said, Brice has bought the unsold mort
gage bonds of the road amounting to $1,876,
000, for which he paid 91,600,000; that tbls
sum is to bvused in improving the physical
condition of the road, and that it is to be
d as tbe Chicago l!nforiheEaatTen.
nessee, Virginia and Georgia via New
Albany, and of the Queen and Crescf nt via
Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
FIRE IN THE. MAILS.
A DAHGEBOUS BLAZE XS NEW Y0BKB
P03T0FFICE BuTLDIHG.
It Starts In the Basement and Destroys
Many Sacks Full of Newspapers-Uvely
Times Among the Distributing Clerks
A Newsboy Is Burned.
1TP1C1JLL TXLXOBA11 TO THX PtSFJLTCS.1
New Yoek, Feb. 14. The general post
office buildicg caught fire to-night, and
hundreds of bags of newspapers were burnt
up and thousands of letters will be delayed
in reaching their destination. A few min
utes after 10 o'clock every electric
light in the building was snddenly
extinguished, leaving every floor in
total darkness. Following this came the
smell of smoke, and the 300 employeajwho
were at work distributing the mails stam
peded out of the building. Hardly had the
last ten men reached the rear entrance at
Mail street when a puff of smoke came up
from the engine room and enveloped tbe
rear of the building.
Two newsboys were sleeping on the"grated
bottom of the ventilator on the Mail street
sidewalk when the firs broke out. and one
I was so badly burned that he was taken to
Chambers Street hospital in a dying condi
tion. Streams of smoke came puffing up
through tbe ventilators on Mall street like
the smoke from a steam engine. Smoke
filled the distributing room, -where fully
-300,000 letters were being made ready to be
sent out.
The mall from the European steamship
Celtic had just been brought in and was be
ing distributed when theelectrio lights went
out. The Western mall had nearly all been
sent out before 9 o'clock and the Southern
mail followed it'shortly afterward. Tbe
employes were nearly all busy getting ready
for the biggest Western mail that goes out
during the day. It usually comprises
from 800 to 1,500 sacks, and is in readiness
to be sent out at from 1 to 4 o'clock in the
morning. As soon as the firemen arrived
Superintendent Hall, with the aid of a num
ber of volunteers, entered the building and
began rescuing the mails, while tbe firemen
drowned out the fire among the newspaper
mail in the basement. No first-olass mail
was destroyed. The only damage to mail
was to newspapers and third-class matter,
and the extent of that cannot be determined
until to-morrow morning.
BEPUBLICAK8 AT PDZBBE 8THX HOPE.
Independents May Come Over, Palmer Ob
jects to the Trade, and Moody Qnlts.
Pieebe, S. D., Feb. 14. Stirling's
followers have received assur
ance from several Independents
that they will support a Republican whose
name has already been mentioned, but
which, for prudential reasons, is withheld.
Conservative Republicans believe victory'is
yet possible. A telegram has been received
here from a member of the Illinois Senate
that Palmer refnsed to countenance tbe pro
posed Senatorial deal between the South
Dakota and Illinois fusionists.
Senator Moody abandons the Senatorial
contest, and leaves the field to the score of
other asDlrants. He believes the Repub
licans will yet succeed, although the Chances
are not encouraging.
OLD S0LDIEB3 AND B00MEBS,
They Hold a Monster Meeting and Ask Con
gress to Open Cherokee Land.
Aekansab Citt, Kajt., Feb, 14. In
answer to a call issued by the Southwestern
Soldiers' Association fully 1,000 old soldiers
and five times as many citizens gathered
here tp-day to urge Congress to open the
Cherokee strip acd other Indian lands at
once to settlement
Resolutions were adopted calling upon
Congress to act at once and giye the people
homes and to treat the whites as well as the
reds.
To Bepeal the Tariff Laws.
Washington, Feb. 14. In the House
to-day, Representative Dickinson, of Ken
tucky, introduced for reference a bill to re
peal the McEinley tariff act, and to re-enact
all laws repealed by that act.
The Last Opportunity to Visit the National
Capital
At a very reduced rate is offered by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company March 6.
On that date a special train of this com
pany's finest coaches and Pullman parlor
cars will leave Union station at 8 A. M.,
running through to Washington, D. 0.,
without obange. The rate for this, the last
of the season, will be $9 for the round trip,
tickets good ten days, with stop-off privil
eges at Baltimore in either direction.
Tickets at this rate will be honored on trains
leaving Union station at 420 P. M., 7:15
p. ii. and 8:10 p. m , on the above date.
Seats in the parlor car on day train, and
berths in sleeping cars on night trains can
now be secured on application at the ticket
office, 110 Fifth avenue, this city. A
corresponding low rate will be made from
UEast Liberty, Braddock, Irwin, Union-
town, (Jonneiisviiie, ttreensburg, Latrobe,
and stations east thereof.
SI 00 Until May 1-93 CO.
12 cabinet photos, or one life-size crayon
for f 3 60 at Aufrecht's Elite Gallery, 616
Market street, Pittsburg. Use elevator.
The Henry P. Miller Piano,
The favorite with musicians, and a piano
that has gained great fame on account ot its
wonderful musical tone, quality of tone and
unsurpassed durability in, the homes of
music lovers. An elegant assortment of
these celebrated instruments at W. C.
Whitehill's Music Parlor, 153 Third avenue.
Some of the most intelligent artists in this
country and Europe, who are familiar with
Mr. Dabbs work, claim tbat he has the
rare gift of seeing when a person is most
natural and tbe talent to secure in 4 photo
graph a likeness that is unequaled.
Supplies for the Army.
The contract for supplying baking pow
der to the United States Army, bids for
which were recently opened in New York,
has been awarded to the Cleveland Baking
Powder Company. Before the award was
made the different baking powders offered
were submitted to a thorough analysis, with
the sanction of Commissary General Du
Barry, so that the result is a high tribute to
the merit of the Cleveland Baking Powder.
Me. M. C. Bybnes, merchant tailor, 05
Fifth avenue, went East lsst night. 'His
staple goods having been nearly all bought
already, this visit is for the purpose of
seeing the latest novelties and fancy touches
which distinguish the elegante from, the
wearer of ready-made garments.
Thornton Bros.
Silk drapery nets, 46 Inches, 49c; 6 to 7
yards for full suit. The Cash Sxobe.
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
To Let lists
Are a valuable assistance to home seekers.
Fullest and best published. It pays to con
sult them.
"" HaVe Yon Bented Your House?
If noi advertise it in THE DISPATCH.
Mondays and Thursdays are special rent
list days.
Por Thirty-Six Cent. '
' Just think of itl Fine American Percale
shirts, detached cuffs, two collars, worth fl
each, at our great sale all this week at
Gusky's. v
1391
W THE Tons AGAIN.
Count di Montercole Gets Oat a Fresh
Batch of Circulars
ABD HEROICALLY SCATTERS THEM
All He Wants This Time Is to Return to
Single Blessedness.
EH LANGUISHES IN A PHI SON CELL
rsrxciii. 'TXLXOKAM TO TSS DISPATCH, r
Philadelphia, Feb. 14. For the
third time during his brief but notorious
career Count dl Montercole has been ar
rested for distributing scurrilous circulars
concerning his wife, who was Miss Virginia
Knox, of Pittsburg, and he now lies in a
cell in tbe City Hall to await farther pun
ishment for his offense.
The Count was first sentenced to a fine of
$20, which be could not pay. He was then
held in $500, and on repeating the offense
by distributing circular of a viler char
acter, he was, on May 21 last, sentenced to
imprisonment for six months. He
emerged from Moyamensing on November
21 in his usual penniless coudition, afldtook
refuge iu an obscure lodging at 757 South
Eighth street and lived upon his charitable
compatriots. He made advances through his
lawyer, Mr. Keely, to his wife's family and
they advised him to go to Italy. He refused
unless his wife gave him a divorce, which
he Bald he could not get because of his pen
niless condition.
His wife took no further notice of him,
and, tired of inactivity, the adventurous
Italian began his old tricks. He composed
another circular and he got a printer to
strike off 700 for $1 65. The document was
as follows:
He Tired of Inactivity,
Amebic an Gentlemen I am distributing
a third circular to inrorm all the honest peoole
of my sad position caused by ills3 Virginia
Knox (once my wife.) Remember that last
year I was committed to prison for seven
months and a half for .dlatribating
to the public a second circnlar. I,
being ignorant of the American law, got
deceived by a lawyer who advised
tnato answer guilty at the interrogation. Then
I heard with great surprise that 1 would be
condemned without the appearance of tbe
grand jnry, which I desired to have as my
judge, so as to give light to tbe true situation
of me matter. Curing my time In prison I
have suffered persecution, been surrounded
bydtteqtives and treated in the most barbar
ous manner.
He Pleads for Divorce.
As I have served my unjust punishment, I
again ask Virginia Knox to give me the liberty
which she toot away from me. But she re
fused to be divorced lrom a man that28 months
has accused of being brutal and unjust.
From insufficiency of money 1 cannot
show my rights. Finally I notified
Miss Knox tbat I was ready to give her
the divorce, allowing her to accuse me of suoh
acts as never took place. Her desire Is to com
pel me to return to ISnrope and to deprive me
of any kind of occupation; to pnt me in such
condition as not to remain In this country. I
have very much to say bat finish far this time.
1 inform Miss Knox that I may die, but will not
remain her husband. You, Virginia Knox,
take off tbe title of Countess. Your place is
the cafe chantant.
CONTE Dl MONTEKCOLE.
He Acts Like a Martyr.
Armed with these the Count to-day went
around the Continental, the Girard and
Green's, and he freely gave away his ex
traordinary composition. At last he was
espied by Beserve Officer Delhauer, at 550
p. II., who recognized him and at once ar
rested him. In bis cell in the city hall to
night the Count said, to a reporter:
"I am glad; I am happy. The Knox
family will now get me a divorce. I hate
that woman. She loves me still and will
not divorce me Now sue will have to
come to court again, and I will expose her;
She is a bad, wicked woman. I make my
living by acting as waiter, and I want to go
back to Italy a free man."
The Count would say no more and turned
down on the benclnto sleep with the exulta
tion of a Christian martyr.
MISPLACED COHFJCDZSCE.
Why Bank Teller Bitter, of Evansvllie, Is a
Heavy Defaulter.
Evaksville, Feb. 14. The principal
cause of tbedefalcation of Charles H. Bit
ter, the paying teller of the First National
Bank, is no doubt the mismanagement of
his music house and branches by Oliver
Wiggins, the manager.
The business was done with recklessness
and lack of business system. Bitter seemed
to have placed implicit confidence in Wig
gins, which tbe latter's antecedents did not
justify. Wiggins is extensively known, all
oyer country.
TiTSATffiKS TN A EEVOLT.
Clever Plans Which Two Boys Had Lata to
Make an Escape.
Harry Leo, a 10-year-old boy wandered
into the Twenty-eighth ward police station
last night and asked for lodging. He said
that he, in company with Tommy Burcb,
aged 11 years, bad been an inmate of St.
Paul's Orphan Asylum, on Tannehill
street, and ran away from tbat place yester
day morning. He says that Bnrcb, had organ
ized what he called a club, with the inten
tion of starting a war at the asylum, and
while the trouble would be taking place
they were to escape.
Yesterday was tbe time set to make the
break. All the boys, with the exception of
Leo and Burch had changed their minds.
They concluded to go anyhow, and made
their escape through a hole under a fence
around the institution. Leo said that
Burch had promised to get him work.
He failed to do this, so the two boys parted
as bad friends, Burch going to Woods' Bun
and Leo going to the Southside. Leo wants
to go back to the home and says he is satis
fied to stay there. He was given lodging
for the night. The asylum people have
been notified of the matter.
HOT5ES0TA LEGISLATION.
A BUI Against Excessive Ballroad Profits
and for Liquor Damages. '
St. Paul, Feb. 14. Among the bills in
trodueed in the House this morning was
one by Mr. Maguire, providing against tbe
excessive profits by railroads, after allow
ing them fair interest and' actual expenses,
and requiring tbem to show such to be tbe
fact
Mr. Thompson introduced a bill allowing
the recovery of damages where they have
been caused by tbe sale of Intoxicating
liquors. When the House met in the after
noon a resolution was adopted for tbe ap
pointment ot a joint committee to send an
appropriate expression of sympathy to the
families of Admiral Porter and General
Sherman.
ONE PAIS OF 1KCQBEIQIBLE&'
A Couple of Southside Girls Who Left Home
Suddenly for Ohio.
Mrs. Catherine Steplein yesterday made
an information before Alderman Hartman,
or the Twenty-seventh ward, charging her.
13-year-old daughter, Katie, with incor
rigibility. Katie Steplein, in company with
Annie McGaire, also 13 years old,"left home
suddenly on last Wednesday night, aud
went to Fremont, O., where she was picked
up by the police.
Constable Schertzlnger will go to Fre
mont to-morrow1 for the girl. Mrs. McGuire,
the mother of Annie, has as yet not taken
any steps toward having her daughter
brought back, '
Not Cured oLIasanity.
Patrick Sherlock, a young -man whose
home is on Beaver avenue, Allegheny, was
looked tip last night because of Insanity. A
month ago he was sent to tbe City Home to
be treated, but was discharged apparently I
cured.i He will be returned to the City
Home.
1
SCORING PRIVATE BANKS.
TESTIMONY YESTEBDAT BEFORE THE
, SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
Financiers 'Who Favor State Supervision
and Examination The .Majority Favor
Making the Governor the Appointing
Power Ideas as to Trust Companies.
rsrXCtAt. TILIOKAM T THX DISPATCH.!
Philadelphia, Feb. 14. President
Craig D. Bitchle, of the Btal Estate Title
Insurance and Trust Company, was the first
witness be'ore the joint committee of the
Senate and House of Representatives to in
quire into banks and banking this morning.
In answer to a question by Senator Packer,
Acting Chairman, Mr. Bltcbiesaid: "lam
of the opinion that State banks should be
brought under State supervision. As to
trust companies I do not think it necessary."
He explained the reasons for this by saying
tbat banking was only a small part of their
business. It .was not necessary to have
their operations inquired into.
General Fisher, trust officer of the Ger
man American Trust Company, stated tbat
in bis opinion tbe proposed supervision
wonld prove beneficial both to the banks
and the public. It would not be necessary
to inspect private loans. In regard to the
appointment he thought it should be by the
Governor. The Clearing House was com
posed of National banks, and might not be
fair in recommending appointments. Asked
if be favored a reserve fund, he said: "If
on deposits, yes; but if on a fixed sum, no."
The trust companies should not be required
to have as large a fund as the banks.
Benjamin Miller, President of the Phila
delphia Mortgage Trust Company, said the
only sensible plan was by examiners, but in
his opinion this would not entirely remedy
the present evils. The National bank ex
aminers did not succeed in preventing the
failures of those banks. Private banks
should be examined, but not private bank
ers. He favored a law forbidding the use
of the word bank by private bankers, as he
thought it misleading.
Samuel B. Huey, of the Security Trust
Company, favored the appointment of ex
aminers for State banks and similar institu
tions. He did not believe in paternal gov
ernment and thought the State had nothing
to do with private bankers unless they
called their houses banks. He favored a
law forbidding the use of this title by
private bankers. Regarding the reserve
lund, he said that the State banks should be
put on tbe same Nbasis as tbe ational banks
in this respect. J. Rommel, Jr., of the
Mechanics' National Bank, gave it as his
opinion that bank-examiners should be ap
pointed with fixed salaries and a long
tenure. Others expressed similar views.
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.
R. W. Patterson, managing editor of
the Chicago Tribune, and James W. Scott;
publisher ot the .Herald, passed through tbe
city yesterday on the way home from New
York, where they attended tbe American
Newspapei Publishers' Association. Mr. Scott
said there was no difference of opinion be
tween the World's Fair managers. He claims
the lair will be a great snecess.
J. H. Smythe, of Minneapolis, is in the
city looking for the heirs of James Coyne. In
1S72 he took up a square In tbe town under the
homestead act. He rented the ground and dis
appeared, tbe tenants now claiming it in fee
simple. The land has become valuable, and
suit to recover It will soon be brought.
Dr. Z. X. Snyder, principal of the In
diana State Normal School and recently ap
pointed State Superintendent ot Public In
struction by Governor Pattison, was in the
city yesterday. Tbe doctor is one of the most
popular lecturers before teachers' institutes in
the State.
A theater party from Wheeling regis
tered at tbe Duqaesns yesterday afternoon.
They were Mrs. L. S. Delaplalne and daughter,
Mrs. J. W. Grubb and Mamie Grnbb, Mrs. John
F. Sweeney and Thomas B. Sweeney.
O. B. Gregory.i City Passenger Agent
of the Baltimore and Ohio road, will accom
pany the Crystal Slipper Company In their
special train to Philadelphia.
Signal Engineer W. M. Grafton, of the
Pennsylvania Company, went to Leetonia yes
terday and approved an Interlocking crossing
with the rlypano road.
Mrs. Samnel Morrison, of Franklin
street, Wilklnsburg, has left for Indianapolis
where she was called suddenly. She will be
gone several weeks.
E. C. Sarley, the Southern representa
tive of J. P. Wltherow i Co., and George Col
lister, of Cleveland, are stopping at the Monon
gabela Honse.
Mrs. H. D. Buckley, of Baltimore, ar
rived at the Doqaesne last evening. Her hus
band Is Purchasing Agent ot the Baltimore
and Ohio road.
Dr. George A. and A. S. Edwards, of
Syracuse, brothers of Manager Edwards, of
wanamaker s Brown, are at the Anderson.
Walter F. Staufier, of Scottdale, and
James P. Sayer, of Washington, are among
the guests at the Seventh A venue Hotel.
Miss Mary Hamilton, of Danziger&
Ca's. leaves for the principal Eastern cities to
night to attend the millinery opening.
W. H. Merrill, oi San Jose, is at the
Monongahela House. He is here to secure
machinery for a new smelting plant.
George DeWolf, ofDanxiger& Cos.,
leaves to-night on a business trip through the
commercial parts of the East.
J. W. Miller went to Philadelphia last
evening.
If Little Babies
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LIQUOR ISTHE MINE.
The Finding of the Coroner's Jury iq
the Mammoth Disaster.
NO ONE 15 PARTICULAR BLAMED
But a Protest Against tin Employment ef
Drinking Men Put In.
SAFETI LAJJPS DEMANDED BI LAW
rsrXCIAt. TZLXOKAH TO THX DISPATCH. 1
GEEEifSBtrfio, Feb. 14. The Coroner's
jury in the Mammoth mine explosion this
morning heard the arguments of the H. 0.
Prick Company and the miners. ' The
arguments were opened by John
Kan, a member of the National Execu
tive Board, who insisted that the H. a
Prick Company were responsible the dis
aster. He insisted that Mr. Snaitb, the fire
boss, was doing the work of two men. He
also said that Snaltb's habits were such as to
have caused tbe company to discharge hiia,
but Instead of that they were indifferent.
Mr. Moorhead, the attorney for the com
pany, was the next speaker. He showed
conclusively that the company had used
every precaution to prevent accidents, and
that they were exceedingly careful about
the. ventilation. Each man, he said, as
was testified, had double the amount ot
cubic feet of fresh air required by the act of
Assembly. He showed that Mr. Snalta
was not overburdened with work, but, in
fact, had less to do than the other boss in
tbe slope.
Employment of Bosses Purely Optional.
Mr. Moorhead claimed that tbe law did
not require the company to provide fire
bosses in mines tbat were believed to be free
from gas, and tbe Mammoth mine, as was
proven by most all the witnesses, was one
of the safest in the Ccnnelisville region.
In the evening the jury rendered the fol
lowing verdict:
It is our opinion that the cause of tbe Mam
moth mine explosion, occurring on tbe 27th
day of January. 1S9L at or about 9 o'clock A.
jr., .whereby -107 persons lost their lives, whose
bodies we examined on tne 23th day of Janu
ary,, was caused by an accumula.
tlon of carbnretted hydrogen gas In
the lower levels or dip of the said Mammoth
mine. Whether said gas accumulated prior to
or after the examination of Fire Boss William
Snaitb, we are unable to say, the only evidence
being tbe certificate which was signed by the
said William Snalth on the morning of the ex
plosion, stating the condition of tbe mine to be
fair, iso other evidenceexists tosnow tbe con
dition at the time, or that any gas had existed
in tbe mine at any time to any considerable
amount prior to the explosion, although tfitre
had been one explosion several years before
that haa slightly injured one man.
Protest and Recommendation.
We found all machinery about said mine to
be in good condition and In working order.
The fan and the power to propel It were amply
sufficient to forcel air to any part of the mine.
While we find that the H..C. FrickCoke Com
pany has not been guilty of any neglect In pro
viding for the comfort and care of their under
ground employes and miners, we do protest
against the employment of fire bosses and pit
Dosses who are addicted to the use of malt and
splrttous liquors, either when employed or off
duty.
we also believe that there should be an
amendment to tbe mining laws against the
working of mines under water level with any
flame or open light, and to compel tbe lighting
of the same by electricity or saletv lamps. We
recommend that no person be permitted to en
tar any mine now operated In this State, or
bereatter opened, except those whose names or
number shall be kept In a boos: or registry at
the entrance of the mines.
SMALL SCRAPS OP LOCAL HEW3.
Joseph Hobauoh, 40 years old. a resldsns
of Lawrenceville, died suddenly yesterday
afternoon at the borne .of bis sister, Mrs.
Henkie, Federal street. Allegheny. Uobaugh
has been a sufferer from consumption for a
long time, and yesterday he was seized with a
hemorrhage, and before a physician coula be
summoned expired. An inquest will beheld
to-morrow.
The boay of Mrs. Mollis Moore, who died at
tbe Alleebeny General Hospital on Friday
from Injuries inflicted by herself, was taken to
her parents' home in Sprlngfleld, Erie county
wbere she will be burled to-day. The sorrow
ing husband and children accompanied the re
mains. The rear wheels of a wagon, driven by Jacob
Scboefleld. hung over the edge of tbe Allen
town incline yesterday, as the car began Its
ascent of tbe hilL Tbe wagon was all but slip,
ping off when a number of men caught hold of
it and held It until tbe top was reacued.
An alarm was sent from box 74 at 11:35 las;
night for a flrei'n the house of Henry Ed
munds, corner of Robinson and Craig streets.
Allegheny. Caused by a lamp exploding, which
set tire to the carpet. It was extinguished with
a Babcock.
JAME3 H. AVheeet will preside at the tem
perance meeting in tbe "Little Jim" Church,
Allegheny, this evening. Tbe speakers will in
clude Gilbert M. McMasters, and Mrs. Mary
Stuckrath will lead in gospel songs.
The report of Controller Morrow on the
school millage for this year. shows tbat inmost
of the wards there has been a slight decrease
in tbe levy, except in wards where new build
ings have just been erected.
JonN W. Roberts, a paper banger, 71 year
old, and who lived on Forty.third street.
droppped dead while at work yesterday. Heart
disease was the supposed cause. An inquest
will be held to-morrow.
A MALE infant was found yesterday on the
porch of Jim Beamer's residence at Fifth ave
nue and Neville street. It was christened
"Gamble Weir" and sent to tbe Poor Farm.
A VAX0A3LE horse owned by James Houser.
a liveryman of Miilrale, had two of its feet
badly cut by sbving and throwing bis feet under
a cable car on Penn avenue yesterday.
A man entered Xlewman's jewelry store.
Penn avenue and Twenty-seventh street, last
night and stole a revolver. The police wars
notified.
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