v WEDDEQJiniLVE,
And Tlieu Tice Again Before
She Beached Fourteen
Years of Age.
BEAUTIFUL, BUT IGNOBAOT.
After a Lapse of Some Time She J
. Tried Matrimony Again, and
THEX WAS AKEESTED FOR BIGAMY.
Her Lawyer JTade an Eloquent Plea and the
Jury Disagreed.
ONE OP THE HUSBANDS STILL FAITHFUL
tsrr-ciAt. telegbax to the dispatch."
Xnw Yokk, June 3. Marriage at the age
of 12 years is an unusual thing. Still more
unusual is it for a girl to be married three
times before she attains the age of 14 years.
Such a case exists on Long Island. The
story u as told in the Court of Sessions at
Bivcrhead to-day on the trial of Kate Mott
Nugent for bigann. The tale was simply
told and every man in the court room felt a
keen sj nipathy for the unfortunate victim
of so many unnatural alliances.
"This "girl," said Counselor Wilmot
Smith, who defended Kate Mott Nugent,
"was born to misfortune She has a beauti
ful, sweet face, but her early training -was
neglected. She never knew the kindness of
a mothei's care and guidance. How little
she knew of the world or of the right and
"wroncr of social laws, may be inferred from
the fjet that she was married at 12 years of
agc.and was married a second time before she
was 14 years old. The third husband aban
doned her and sMd he wa never married to
her. She is a very ignorant girl and her
Ueautj Made Her a Target
for designing, cruel men. She married a
fourth time bicau-e she thought she had a
right to. Her husband was Olhcr W.
Petty, of Port Jefferconj the son of a rich
father. It was this marriage that led to her
arrest for bigamy."
Mrs. Petty was indicted as Kate Mott
Nugent. Her family name was Mott. She
came into the courtroom from the jail be
comingly attired in an old rose silk robe.
Her cheeks were rosy without resort to ar
tificial means. Her eyes are brown and her
features o ah She is'evcry bit as handsoin s
av licr counsels description painted Her.
She was not at all ncnous, but she was
moved to drop a tear w hen Mr. Smith nar
rated the i-tory of her checkered life.
She sjid she was 21 years old, and she did
not look a day older." Two of her former
liubands were" in the courtroom, and both
were under the influence of liquor. The
more drunken one interrupted the proceed
ings twice, and was taken in charge by
ilir Sheriff. Thcv sat for half an hour
at the accused woman's elbow, but she
took no notice of them.
Expects a Prompt Conviction.
In opening the ca'c to the jury, Dis
trict Attorney Beeve said it Tas a plain
case of biganiv, and lie would expect a
proinnt collection Lincoln Nuecnt
was the first w itnes. He resides at Bay
Shore. He could not Kiy that he was
married to the girl. If there was a
marriage, lie performed it himself. Ho
had no recollection of having been
married by the Kev. S. fields Palmer.
Mr. Keeve said it was plain that Nu
pent would not testify to the facts, and
h w ould take another way of -proving
"Ihe marriage. He called Sarah Mapes
to the stand. She resides in Patehogue.
She was a witness to the marriage of
Lincoln Nugent and Kate Mott, the ac
cused. The" ceremony was performed by
the Itev. Mr. Palmer at the Congrega
tional parsonage. The bride was not
more than 14 or 15 years, she thought.
The couple lived in the house of Nu
gent's father, "?nd," said the witness,
"Mrs. Nugent behaved like a little
lady." The other witness to the mar
riage was Mortemus Baylis. He said
Miss Mott was in short "clothes when
ihe was married to Nugent, and did not
appear to be over 13 or 14 years old.
The Itev. Mr. Palmer is not preaching in
Patehogue nou.
Oliver "V. Petty testified to meeting
Mrs Nugent in ratchogue and marrying
her ten dav: later. The ceremony" was
performed by Kev. John Q. Archdeacon,
rector of the Episcopal Church at St.
James. The Tiev Mr Archdeacon tes
tified to performing the cere monv. He
f
asked the bride the usual questions, and
she Eaid the .had never been married be
fore. The Only Witness Tor the Defense.
This was the case for tle prosecution.
Mrs. Nugent was the only witness for the
defense. She said she "uas born at Bay
Shore. She will be 22 years of age the 14th
of next November. Atl2year3 of age she
was married to George Gregory She was
compelled to marry him to eseape being
driven from home. She was married to
Frank Fox at the age of 13 rears, Fox got
a divorce from her. She had not lived with
either Gregory or Fox, and the latter got a
divorce from her because of her outh. She
was next married to Lincoln Nugent when
the was 14 years of age. She was abandoned
by Nusent, who claimed that he had not
been legally married toier. His ground
for saving so was that the law did not per
mit girls of her age to marry. A child was
born to her.
Before consenting to marry Mr. Petty,
who is but 20 j ears ot age, she consulted
counsel as to her right to marry and was
advised that neither of her marriages was
lecal and in law she had never been a wile.
She did not tell the Kev. Mr. Archdeacon
that she had never been married. He swore
her and when the question was asked, she
replied: "Idon't think I was c er married."
"You belie ed j ou hada right to marry?"
askfd Mr. Smith.
The District Attorney objected. Mr.
Smith said it went to the question of in
tent. If there was not the intention to
break the law no crime had been committed.
Judge Young said it was a prosecution for a
violation of the statute and sustained the
objection. As Mrs. Nugent stepped nimblv
down from the stand she exchanged a
smile with Mr. Petty. He was perfectly
willing, lie told a friend, to acknowledges
her as his wife and li e with her. The
jury could not agree and were dismissed.
The woman went back to jail.
HEGISTEATION OF V0TEES.
i
Secretary Harrity Says It Must Be Done
tinder the Hew Iy Enacted Ean.
rSl'F I tl. TEIXGItAil TO THE D1SPATCH.J
HAUKisuuitO, June 3. Secretary Harrity
lias addressed a communication to the
County Commissioners, in which he says:
In view of inquiries recently made of this
deportment, it is thought proper to state
that, as has already been indicated, the
registration of voters for this year should bo
made under the act of May 29, 1891, and not
under the act of January 30, Kit Tho latter
act did not autliorizcor Justify tlieasscs-ois
to hesm tlifir work until the first Mon
day ot June, and the former act (the
tone now in foicc) requires them to
hegln to i isit m person each and every
. dvtcllUj; house in their respecttte districts
,oa the Jurat Monday iii 3Ia and on tho lim
fe iMondavjn Dtemhcr in each j ear, or as soon
Wjtuereuftei as may bo possible and practl
i cable. '
It is clear that the registration for this
year must ho made under tho new law, and
as soon as may l poibl9 and practicable,
nnd the assessors heuld make their return
to the Coun .'ommiosioncrs of any county,
or tho assessors of any election district from
a strict complianco with all of the require
ments of the act.
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TIE DISPATCH NEW L
Conllntccd from first page.
attachments also for burning natural gas.
Then there is one 450 incandescent light
dvnamo and two 7f-horse power Eddy
electric motors for the stereotyping room.
There is one 300-horse power Stillman & Bricc
open heater and purifier connected with Epp
ing & Co.'s boiler feed pumps. There is also
an automatic paper elevator besides a
double elevator for carrying the forms from
the stereotyping room. The mechanical
stokers are a n onderful. labor-saving ma
chine. The boilers are in the rear part of
the basement, and the stokers are supplied
with coal from an overhead wrought irou
tank which receives the coal from Lcmmon
alley, and is conducted from the tank to the
stokers by means of wrought iron chutes.
The presses contain all the latest im-
Counting Boom JVho
provements made by the Hoe Company, and
when the third one is put in their capacity
will be sufficient for all purposes. It will
not be necessary to run them all at once, but
if one was to break down there would still
be power enough to get out the paper.
Tho Entire Plant Duplicated.
At this point it may be as well to speak
of the means The DisPATCn has at its dis
posal for printing the paper if an accident
should occur to single pieces of machinery.
Across Diamond street, inPower Hall, there
is a complete duplication of machinery and
type. There are two tubular boilers, 18 feet
long and five feet in diameter, with 56 four
Inch tubes, equipped with mechanical
stokers for the use of coak These boilers
arc connected with the new building by a
five-inch steam pipe, laid through a 12-inch
square conduit, across Diamond street and
under ground. In this conduit is also laid
an electric cable of sufficient capacity fo'r
all the incandescent light and power that
could be needed in the new building.
This is connected with the electric light
plant of the Power Hall Company, consist-
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ing of three 450-horse
power incandescent
light dynamos, two 80
horse power engines,
and one 45-horse power
engine, with all modern
improvemen t s. The
plant at Power Hall is
so arranged that steam
or electric power can
be had at a moment's
notice.
Then there is a com
plete set of type suf
ficient to print the
paper, in addition to
which there is a stereo
typing plant. It will
be seen that The Dis
patch is much better
equipped for an emer-
rtea (
; gency than are many
the United States.
A Most Solid Building.
As stated in the beginning of this article,
the newDisPATCHP.un.DiNG is as near fire
proof as it is possibl j to make any struct
ur The wall: ofth: superstructure are
built of all hard brick, 2G inches in thick
ness, and all the floors are constructed of
hea y steel rolled I beams, arched between
with fire-proof terra cotta, concreted on top
and either covered with tile flooring or
Swiss asphalt. The roof is constructed in
the same manner as the floors, and
is covered with vitrified tiles. All
the iron work, columns, girders,
flanges of the Z beams, etc., is
coered with fire-prorf terra cotta. The
building is heated throughout by steam and
artificially lentilated by means of two large
shafts, supplied each with coils of steam
pipe for rarifying the air.
The building was designed by James T.
Stceu, architect, of this city, who supervised
its entire construction. The general con
tractor was Alexander Gilleland, of Alle-
Mailing Room Xea
gheny, the sub contractors being as follows:
Excavations, George Egan; stone work,
John Sehreiner, Allegheny; brick work,
Messrs, McCandless & Kinzer, Allegheny;
iron work, Marshall Foundry Company;
terra cotta fire-proofn g, Pittsburg Terra
Cotta Lumber Company; plastering and
concrete work, A. H. Lauman; tile
work, Pittsburg Tiling Companv; mar
ble work, Young & Van feunden:
asphalt flooring, George L. Peabody;
steam heating, McGinnis, Smith & Co.;
plumbing and gas fitting. J. IC Becker;
boilers. International fStirline'i Boiler Co.:
shafting, Jones & Laughlins; belting, J. & I
xi. jnmips; engines, itussen ac uo; presses,
paper elevator, stereotyping machinery!
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etc.(B. Hoe & Co., New York; type, Col
lins Sp McLeester, Philadelphia.
Ground was brokdn for the structure a
year ago lastA.pril, and work was. steadily
pushed up to the time of completion. There
is nothing remaining now to be done to
make it one of the most completely
equipped newspaper offices in the country,
except to put in the third press, for which,
there is ample room in the basement.
THE IMPROVED PRESSES.
THEIR WONDERFUL WORK AND CLEV
ER MECHANISM DESCRIBED.
Hoe Co.'s latest Triumph Simplicity and
Perfection Combined No More Supple
ments nigh Speed and Splendid "Work
Assured.
The two new presses which Messrs. Hoe
Dispatch Building.
& Co. have built for TnE Dispatch are
probably the most wonderful machines in
the country. Their appearance, to some ob
servers, is a combination of wheels within
wheels, and rollers upon rollers, and bands
around bands; and yet they are the sim
plest affairs in the world, and when they get
to work rolling paper from large spools at
the speed of many miles an hour, printing
it, cutting it and folding it, everything
seems marvclously easy. Indeed, they are
essentially simple machines of wonderful
power and capacity, in which the pathway
of the huge sheet of paper, from its place op
the roll to its delivery from the folder, a
completed newspaper, is direct and contin
uous. In fact, the great power and capacity of
these machines is their simplicity of con
struction. "While the single machine ac
complishes its work with a considerable de
tail of complicated mechanism, such as the
switch, the collecting cylinder, a perfect
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Han of Kcw Dispatch Bidding.
network of tapes, etc., each one dispenses
with nearly all of these except the tapes,
which are reduced in nurqber and extent.
The machines, which are the largest of their
class in the world, and the largest of their
kind in the United State?, are certainly a
marvel of simplicity in comparison with the
best presses heretofore in use. Including
the folder, each is 17 feet long; 9 feet 3
inches in width, the folder standing 9 feet
10 inches high the press itself being com
paratively low. The weight of each combined
machine is about 20 tons, and the speed with
which they-will print and fold papers is al
together mar elous.
What the Machines Will Do.
Each will print and fold 90,000 two-page
supplements, or 48,000 four-page papers, or
24,000 eight-page papers in an nour. Each
will printl2-page papers and 24-page papers
with equal ease. They accomplish this
work with much less friction and liability
to stoppage from choking or clogging of the
printed sheets while passing through the
lolder than the older machines. While each
has double the capacity of former fast
presses, it is run at only the same rate
of speed. To produce the greater result,
therefore, each are double the size. The
cylinders are 75 inches in length, while
those on the other presses are only 3"
inches. It is known that, on the old presses,
the eight pages of stereotype plates of an
eight-page paper can be printed at one
time. On these new machines 16 pages, or
j the pages of two complete eight-page papers,
are prinieu, so max, ui every revuiuuoa
of th- cylinders, two complete papers are
produced, both producing tour. Another ad
vantage over all other presses possessed by
The Dispatch's new machines is in their
double delivery from the folder. By a
simple arrangement the, double sheets form
ing an eight-page paper are run together,
folded up accurately and delivered on either
side of the folder, which is in reality like
the press a duplex machine. That is, the
folder is a double or compound one, com
prising two distinct folders, each of which
is capable of handling alone the entire
product of the press when an eight
page paper is printed, but when a
four-page paper is printed the de
livery is from both sides. In printing
DUpatch Building.
an eight-page paper the folder on either
side, by a simple adjustment of the mechan
ism, can be made to do the work. This is
important in case the folder on cither side
should not work well or meet with an acci
dent, though, as a matter of fact, from its
extreme simplicity, this mechanism would
seem to be little liable to get out of order.
Onoof tho Great Improvements.
In thrf old presses the cutting of the
papeyis done on cylinders in the press
itself; 60 that after tne papers leave it they
aredetached, and in their journey along
thie tapes to the folding machine are liable
ft times to variation, which often results in
clogging the folder and interfering with its
operation, leading to the inevitable stop
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PITTSBURG DISPATCH;
page of the press in order to cleat jt, , In
The Dispatch's new machines the cutting
is all'done in the folder. First, the con
tinuous sheet is cut in two, either or both
sides being run on either side or on one
side, as the case may be, the papers being
cut apart by cylinders below after receiving
one fold, and then folded again and de
livered by the folder ready for delivery to
the carriers or newsboys.
The composition rollers used are over
7 feet in length, of 85 inches. They are,
however, handled with the greatest facility,
and, by the system of distribution pertain
ing to the printing machine, do their work
perfectly. Sixteen stereotype plates are
used on each press, making 32 plates in all.
The immense rolls of paper, each weighing
half a ton, are easily handled by means of a
crane, bo that to prepare the new machines
for action in reality takes no more labor or
attendance than presses of half th'e capacity,
while they produce double the result.
Tho accompanying cut of one of the new
machines gives the reader an accurate pict
ure of both. The sketch of the press room
shows the position of these wonderful
machines marvels of the mechanical art
and monnments to the growth of The
Dispatch and the city which has encour
aged and supported the enterprise leading
up to its present triumphs.
A Glance at tho Old.
In this connection a glance at the previous
history of printing press invention will
prove interesting. One of the curiosities
of the -Patent Office, Washington, is the
press upon which Benjamin Franklin
worked in 1725, two years after a disagree
ment witu ins Drotner resulted in nis ue
parture from Boston. He first went to
Philadelphia, and a year afterward ho was
promised the Government printing by Gov
ernor Keith, and was sent to Europe to buy
material; but finding hiinself deceived he
was compelled to work his way home, and
for 18 months he toiled as a journeyman
printer in London, using what was known
as the Kamage press a machine which is
now guarded by the nation with jealous
care, as one of the mOst interesting relics
of the great printer.
The first important American improve
ment in presses is said to have been that
made by George Clymer, of Philadelphia,
about 1817, consisting of the application of
the power by means of a compound lever;
but a dozen years later the "Washington
press of Samuel Kust had superseded it.
The Washington press, with a man to oper
ate the lever and a boy to apply the ink,
would turn off about 2,000 papers a day,and,
after a time, a self-inking apparatus was
devised which enabled a man to do the
work without the aid of a boy.
The first power press produced in America
was the invention of Daniel Treadwell, of
Boston. The American Tract Society
brought one to New York and used mules
to work it, while the American Bible
Society, which owned another of the ma
chines, applied steam power. The Adams
press, invented by Samuel Adams, of Bos
ton, in 1830, and afterward improved by
Isaac Adams, gave about 1,000 impressions
an hour.
Revolutionized Newspaper Work.
The idea of a "bcd-and-cvlinder" press
can be traced back to 1814, when one made
by Konig, a German mechanic, was put in
operation in the office of the London Times.
Cowpcr and Applegarth also devised presses,
which were used with more or less success
in that oflice until they were superseded by
the well-known type-revolving press, in
vented by Colonel ii. M Hoe in 1840. When
Richard M. Hoe accomplished this in his
lightning press, patented July 24, 1847, the
wliole art of printing was revolutionized.
The invention was a simple contrivance,
too, when once thought of, its essential
feature being the principle that columns
of ordinary parallel type can be securely
held on the surface of a rapidly re
volving cylinder by means of wedge
shaped column rules, with their thin
edges toward the axis of rotation, them
selves kept in place by projecting tongues
sliding in grooves cut in the cylinder, and
the whole form firmly locked or screwed
together in the usual way. With this re
volving type-cylinder and four to ten im
pression cylinders arranged around it, 10,000
to 20,000 impressions could be struck offin
an hour. No wonder the lords of the PrlVy
CounciL of England, in granting an ex
tension of the patent, characterized the in
vention as "the greatest step over made in
the printing art. ' The first sent to Europe
was for La Patrie, of Paris, in 1848. The
London Times, after experimenting with a
clumsy vertical rotary press, constructed by
Augustus Applegarth, which was a big
failure, ordered two Hoe ten-cylinder
presses in 1857. This press was supreme for
a quarter of a century; but, grand as was
this triumph of inventive genius, it is
already half-forgotten.
THE ELECTBIC LIGHTING.
A Compact Plant Which Will Produce
Plenty of tight.
The electric lighting plant in the new
quarters of The Dispatch was furnished
by the Western Electric Company. This
company, which is capitalized for f2,0OO.O0lB,
is one of the largest in the world, and has
offices and works all over Europe and this
country. The dynamo will supply
400 incandescent lights. It is the latest idea
in its line, and shows the strides made in
this direction nowadays. The company has
supplied the switchboards for the police and
fire departments, of this city and the Tele
phone Exchange.
BOTH WEEE SCALDED.
Mrs. DTnghcs Attacked nor Husband With
not Water and Got' the "W orst of It.
Kobert Hughes and his wife, Bridget, of
Second avenue, near Soho, had a drunken
quarrel yesterday afternoon, which resulted
in both being badly scalded. It appears
that Hughes, with a friend, brought
a ' keg of beer to the house. and
after they all had partaken freely, a dispute
arose between Hughes and his wife about
her scolding the children. This angered
Mrs. Hughes and she ran to the stove and
picked up a dish pan, which was filled with
scalding water. She made a dash at
Hughes. He caught the pan and turned
most of the hot water on her. The water
struck her on the lace and breast, badlv
scalding her. The skin was taken off
Hughes' face.
Officer Moan removed both to the Four
teenth ward station, 'where Mrs. Hughes'
burns were dressed, and afterward she was
taken home, where she now lies in a serious
condition. Hughes was locked up after his
bums were dressed.
Thett'ee keeping it up at a lively rate
Sailer & Co.'s workingman's sales every
Friday. Corner iSmithbeld and Diamond
streets. ?C suits go for S3 50 to-morrow
only.
. . .
Linoleums at prices not to be, found in
any other store in either city, at Welty's,
120 Federal street, 65, G7, oil-and 71 Park
way. ' tts
15. ill.
Surprise bargain sale, center counters, on
Friday. It will pay you to attend.
. Boqgs & Buhl.
Twenty thousand shades at a price, at
Welty'g, 120 Federal street, 63, 67, 69 and
71 Park way. KTS
Vie Dynamo.
SNF?f-,?i
THURSDAY, JUNE
BIITATM AMERICA.
France Will Not Allow Chilean War
Cruisers to Fit Out There.
TWO VESSELS QUIETLY SEIZED.
They Belong to Balmaceda and the Rebels
Prompted the Move.
FEARFUL STORMS THROUGHOUT EUROPE
CBY DUNLAr'S CABLE COMPANY.!
Paris, June 3. Acting', under the or
ders from the Minister of Justice, the
Procureur de la Kepubliquc at Toulon, ac
companied by the l'Juye de la Paix, pro
ceeded to the dockyards of the Societe des
Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterrannee
and took measures to insure the sequestra
tion of the ironclad, Captain Prat, and the
ruiser, Presidcnte Pinto, now building
there -for the Chilean Government.
This legal step was taken in pursuance of
the decision of the Court in the Assizes de
la Seine, obtained a few days ago at the in
stance of the Paris Committee of the Chilean
insurgents. The Prcsidente Pinto has
already received a portion of her crew in
the inlerest of the Balmaceda Government.
The Captain Prat is not yet ready, nor is
the third vessel, the Presidente Eraste.
COMING TO THE EESCTO.
Rankers Meet to Assist the Bank of England
on Financial Matters.
BT CABLE TO THE WSPTCn.l
. London, June 3. The markets generally
opened firm on the denial by the chairman
of the bankers that the question of assisting
an important financial house had been one
of their reasons for calling together the rep
resentatives of the various banking estab
lishments. It was emphatically announced
that the only reason for these meetings was
the desire to formulate some plan to assist
the Bank of England in preventing the dis
count rate from falling to figures that
would cause gold to flow from this country
to the Continent. Of course no denial
was or could be given to rumors that
some one was in difficulty; but the
above statement was considered satisfactory,
and was further borne out by the fact that
the bank had reduced its purchase price for
foreign gold coin to 70 shillings 0 pence per
ounce. The opinion was general in the
market that some compromise would prob
ably be reached between the Bank of Eng
land and the other banks.
Telegrams were received from Buenos
Avres, announcing that four banking es
tablishments closed their doors yesterday,
and that the run on the other banks had
assumed larger proportions. This was fol
lowed by a rumor of difficulties connected
with a London branch of a Bucno3 Ayres
house.
F0BEIGN WHEAT DAMAGED..
Europe Will Have to Depend on America
for Its Snpply This Tear.
BY DCNLAP'S CABLE COJtrAJJY.
Vienna, June 3. The statement made
by Chancellor Von Caprivi, in the Prussian
Diet, to the effect that harvest prospects
generally are satisfactory, are not borne out
by news received from the chief grain-producing
countries of Europe. In Southern
Kussia, rains in March and April have had
the effect of rotting winter wheat, while
constant droughts in the Northern district
of the Empire may seriously injure the crop.
Front Koumania the news is equally un
satisfactory, the harvest being absolutely
bad. Only one-third of a crop is expected,
and it is probable that foreign wheat will
have to be imported.. .In Austria and Hun
gary the" outlook is ''not favorable, and it is
not'likely that these countries will be able
to export this year any more than Kussia
and. Koumania.
Fortunately, to offset these discouraging
statements, the reports from all portions of
the United States indicate a splendid harvest,
which thus far have had the effect of keep
ing prices down. It is fcared,.however, that
if Europe is compelled to obtain her chief
supplies from America great disturbances of
the money markets will bo occasioned, as
gold, which is now being drawn at consider
able cost by tho Bank ot England from the
United States, will have to De sent back in
payment of grain.
DE L0BADT C0TJBT3 SAFETY.
Ho Writes That lie Is Afraid to Return and
Face His Accusers.
tBY DUKLAP'B CABLE COMPANY.
London, June 3. A letter bearing no
address, but signed by De Lobain and dated
May 20, has been received by the Honorable
Secretary of the East Belfast Independent
Conservative Association. The letter is in
reply to tho resolution calling upon De
Lobain to return and face his accusers, and
it says:
"1 do not feel as though the Lord points,
it out as being my path of duty to meet
these accusers and peril my life and liberty
by swearing in self-defense against the
crowd. Even to please my friends I cannot
in the lightpf God's guidance thus sacrifice
myself. In addition to this,,my physical
health is such that I couldn't come.
DAVITT IK P00E LTCK.
Hl Paper, the labor World, Suspends, and
Ho loses Quite Heavily.
BY DUXLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
London, June 3.-Michael Davitt, who
lecently sailed for California to spend some
time in that State on account of impaired
health, has been unsuccessful with his jour
nalistic venture, the Labor World. That cn
prisc caused him to lose heavily while jt
was under his personal supervision, and
since his departure from the country it has
gone from bad to worse.
The directors of the company met yester
day, and taking all facts into consideration,
ordered suspcnion of pulication.
A Damage Salt for 10,000.
BY BURLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
London, Jnne 3. Police Superintendent
OH er, of Coussett, has been served with a
writ claiming 10,000 damages on account
of theinjuries sustained by 20 men in the
recent police-baton charge on the occasion
of the Silksworth eviction. The case is set
down for the Queen's Bench, but the date
has not been fixed.
A light for Three Countries.
BY DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
London", June 3. Sir Iklward Watkin
has built a private chalet on the extreme
summit of Snowden, where he is arranging
what ho claims will be the most powerful
electric light in the world, which will be
visible over the greater part of Wales, Eng
land and even into Ireland.
Peter's Tence Fond Short 83,000,000.
IBY DCNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
Kome, June 3. The deficit in Peter's
Pence fund is now estimated at 10,000,000
francs or 52,000,000.
Woman Sufrrago Not Wanted.
BY DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY .
London, June 3. The Marquis of Lome
presided to-day over the third annual meet
ing of the Women's Liberal-TJnionistAsso-ciation.
In the afternoon the report of
counsel declaring that the suffrage was not
germane to the objects of the association,
was adopted. , ,
lifeless by His Mother's Deathbed.
BY DCNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY-.
Vienna, June 3. Baron ' Edmund,
Bevethy, belonging to a wealthy and aristo-.
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cratie family here, was found lifeless by his
mother's deathbed this morning. He had
shot himself through the heart, through
grief for his mother, who died during the
night
DEATH BY LIGHTNING.
A TERRIJBLE STOKM SWEEPS OVER
GER3IANX AND AUSTRIA. .
Ono tittle Boy Killed In His Mother's
Arms Schoolboys Killed, and Maimed
A Dynamite Factory Exploded by
lightning Three Men Blown to Atoms.
BT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.
Vienna, June 3. There seems to be an
epidemic of electrical and pluvial disturb
ance in Europe at the present time. Here
in Vienna a fearful thunder storm broke
over the city this afternoon, during which
vivid and terrific flashes of lightning struck
in various places and did great damage.
Twenty-six fires and many serious acci
dents have been reported, some of them ab
solutely heartrending. One poor little boy
was killed while sleeping in. his mother's
arms, and a group of laughing schoolboys
was struck by an awful Hash of lightning,
followed by "a roll of thunder, deep and
crashing as a thousand salvos of siege guns.
One of the boys was killed on the spot and
three crippled for life. Another terrible
clap, attended by a cloudburst, filled the
lower half of the city with a rushing flood,
which tore down more than half of the tele
graph and telephone wires in the district.
A dispatch from Berlin, savs: At noon
to-dav a fearful storm of thunder and light
ning broke over Cologne and caused an ex
plosion to take place in the Schlesbusch
dvnamite factory. Eight workmen were
blown in the air. Three of the unfortunate
men were torn into fragments, which were
scattered in every direction, and five others
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were badly injured. People a mile away
from the scene of "the explosion were
knocked down and much damage done to
the houses in the neiehborhood, thousands
of windows being smashed.
A terrific cloudburst fell upon the town
of Hochsper, Bavaria, and filled all the cel
lars with water. Some of the houses were
submerged up to the second story and all
railway traflic was interrupted. Equal
damage was done in the adjoining town of
Frankenstein.
BALFOUR LAUDS THE CHIMES ACT.
He Says It Is Abont to Be Suspended, Except
in a Few Refractory Places.
LONDON, June 3. DuringJhe. course-of
a speech delivered in this city to-day Mr.
Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said
that the conditions now prevailing in Ire
land showed the benefits which had accrued
to the country through the enforcement of
the crimes act. This act had so well ful
filled the object the Government had in
view when it was adopted by Parliament
that crime had decreased to such an extent
that it was now justifiable to suspend the
operation of the act everywhere in Ireland,
with the exception of a few places where
the ashes of the Plan of Campaign still
smoulder.
The Government, Mr. Balfour declared,
would shortly issue a proclamation sus-
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pending the act throughout the county ex
cept where it was deemed advisable to
enforce it for a time longer to better prevent
lawlessness. In -concludinc; his speech Mr.
Balfour made reference to other conditions
wliich prevail in Ireland, and said that that
country urgently needed imperial laws and
imperial credit.
A BIG STETEE rMMDTENT.
Twenty Thousand Shipbuilders on the Clydo
Threaten to Go Out.
TBY DCNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.!
Glascow, June 3. Another and most
important strike is imminent This time it
is.the shipwrights and other employes of
the shipbuilders on the Clyde, who have de
termined that if the masters should decide
uext Thursday to enforce the threatened
reduction of wages of 14 per cent they
will refuse to work. This will involve.the
striking of at least 20,000 men, all of whom
are steady workers and most of them highly
respectable and determined people.
To-day 500 miners struck at Marchill,
Glasgow, in consequence of a reduction in
wages of 12 per cent.
A SNUB E0B BISMAECK.
Students Refuse to Subscrlbo to a Silver Cup
Testimonial to Him.
BY DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.!
Beklin, Jnne 3. Tlie students of Bonn
University having refused to subscribe to a
silver cup for presentation to Prince Bis
marck, Prince Kcuss inquired the cause of
their refusal and the students declared that
they could not pay any honor to Bismarck
as long as he remained in opposition to the
Emperor.
W1U Price.
This is the year to wear fancy vests. We
have "the assortment, 47 Sixth St.
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PRIMARIES AND POLITICS.
Saturday Will Be a Busy Day'Amorig Re
publicans and Democrats A Strong
right In Prospect Over thoiElection of
Judges to No. 3. .
At the Bepublican primaries, on Saiurday
will occur the election of delegates td the
County Convention to be held on next
Tuesday in the Grand Opera House to
nominate candidates for Judge of the
Orphan's Court, Prothonotary, Jury Com
missioner and Director of the Poor, outside
of the two cities. Delegates to
the legislative district conventions to
elect delegates to the State Convention
to bo held at Harrisburg on the lOth'of
June to nominate a Treasurer and Auditor
General will also be selected, as well as a
member from each legislative district to
serve on the County Executive Committee
for the year.
There is no opposition to the renomina
tion of Judge J. X. Over, to the Orphans'
Court, John Bradley as Prothonotary and
Frank Patterson as Poor Director. Archibald
Berry, of the Eighth ward, will be unop
posed for nomination as one of the two
Jury Commissioners. The Republican Con
vention will not, according to its rules,
nominate any persons for the No. 3 judge
ships until the August convention unless it
may be deemed necesary.
At the Democratic primaries Thonlas
Muller, Councilman from the Thirtieth
ward, will receive the nomination for Jury
Commissioner, K. S. McCntcheon, of Shaler,
having withdrawn. There is understood to
be no opposition to the Bepublican nominees
for Judge of the Orphans' Court, and Pro
thonotary. There is much discussion among members
of the bar as to the political prospects of.
the three newly appointed Judges of Com
mon Pleas No. 3. It is generally accepted
now that the validity of the appointments
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is beyond question. The Judges remain in
office until January, and the election in
November will decide the matter as to who
shall hold the offices for the ensuing
ten years. Some interesting complications
are expected in the race for the positions,
for it is now understood that the present
holders will be opposed by at least two can
didates, William A. Sipe and Judge C. 8.
Fetterman. Judge Fetterman was seen
yesterdav.regarding his intentions and un-
Sualifiedly and unhesitatingly declared that
c was in the race for one of the seats in
No. 3.
A MISSING EMBEZZLES.
He Won His Reputation by Successfully
Prosecuting the Molllo Mngulres. .
r SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Hazleton, June 3. Edward A. Siewers,
a prominent lawyer and church member of
Mauch Chunk, has been missing since last
week. An examination of his affairs to-day
disclosed the startling fact that he was an
embezzler to the amount of $10,000, mostly
from parties who are employed on railroads
and former acquaintances. The startling
fact was also discovered that he forged his
mother's name to documents, securing
thereby Lehigh valley bonds amounting to
?9,000.
Siewers was a brilliant lawyer, and had
quite a large practice in that place. Dur-
Building (Make-up Section).
ing the famous Mollie Maguire trials he was
District Attorney and succeeded in convict
ing 10 of them and sending them to the'gal
lows. On the strength of this record he
was re-elected twice and was successful to
the end of Jiis term. He was agent for a
number of fire insurance companies apd
used money belonging to the companies
amounting to 51,001!. All the companies
will lose more or less, but the Northampton
is the principal sufferer, and its loss will
reach 5400.
Booming John W. Morrison.
The citizens of Bellevue intend holding a
meeting to-night in honor of John W. Mor
rison, Chief Clerk of the House of Repre
sentatives, to further his candidacy for the
State Treasurership. Mr. Morrison is quite
popular at his home.
Allegheny Political Trouble.
Chief Ehlers, of the Department of Pub
lic Works, Allegheny, 'has discharged
Samuel Longsdale, Michael Crehan and
Kirkpatrick, water-plug inspectors. Their
friends claim it was because they opposed
Mr. Ehlers' election -and demand revenge.
Charged With Being Disorderly.
Mr. and Mrs. Ludw'ig Oleneshauck are
charged with disorderly conduct by Thomas
Dreikasen. He stated that the two became
involved in a quarrel in front of his resi
dence and attracted a large crowd. They
will have a hearing before Alderman Bein
hauer this evening.
To Oo to the Picnic
The Homestead mills will shut down Sat
urday morning at 6 o'clock for the purpose
of allowing the men to attend the reunion
at Beaver, ihe arrangements for which have
all been completed. A big time is anticipated.
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FIGHTING THE TAXES.
A Number of Big Cases Come Up
Before the Supreme Court.
CLAIMS OP A BREWING COMPANY,
It Does Not Want to Ee DiscTimiiiateif
Against in Taxation.
THE PmSTLYANIA COMTAXTS PLEA
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TOTE DISPATCH.
HARBlSBtrac, June 3. The SnpremS
Court heard arguments to-day in a number
of important tax cases. One of these in
volves the right of the State to tax tho
capital stock of beer brewing companies,
while other manufacturing corporations are)
exempt front its payment. The Germania
Brewing Company, of Philadelphia, is re
sisting the settlement of the State against
It, because it believes that the provision in
the Constitution requiring taxes to be uni
form on the clas3 of snbjects has been
violated by treating the company differ
ently from other manufacturing corpora
tions. Samuel dustine Thompson, of Philadel
phia, took this view in the argument ha
made before the court to-day. He admitted
the right of the Legislature to exempt
manufacturing corporations from taxation,
but when it excepted from this class of cor
porations certain companies engaged in
manufacturing malt liquors, it transcended
its power. Attorney General Hensel said
he was not prepared to defend the propriety
of the act which exempted manufacturing
companies from taxation, while it exacted
tribute from other corporations; but if the
Legislature had the right to make this dis
tinction it had an equal right to say that
brewing companies, although engaged in
manufacturing, should be taxed.
Claims for Over 83,000,000.
Another interesting case argued was one
of a number which Kufus E. Shapley orig
inated during the term of Auditor General
Norris. The claims under these aggregated
over 3,000,000, including penalties and in
terest. Since then, the courts have decided
against the collection of penalties and inter
est. Notwithstanding these facts, nearly
1,000,000 has been awarded the Common
wealth on account of the settlements made;
against corporations at the instance of Mr.
Shapley.
The case heard to-day wa3 that of tha
Pennsylvania Company against the Com
monwealth. The company paid tax in 1872
and 1873 of about 8 per cent of its capital
stock, and since then it has not paid a dol
lar to the State, claiming that, as it had
paid no dividends,, it was not liable for tax
ation. In 1888 Mr. Shapley filed a claim
against the company for the State, amounting;
to nearly $1,200,000, which included penalties
and interest. Outside of penalties and in
terest the claim was 5630,19549. Thec6m
pany appealed from the settlement made
against it on account of the clause filed, and
the case was heard in the Dauphin county
court, which, through Judge MePherson,
decided that the company was not exempt
from tax on its capital tax under its charter,
and that if it was the taxing acts of 1874,
1877 and 1879, according to court decisions,
has repealed the exemption.
Both Sides Appealed the Case.
In addition, not allowing the State any
thing for penalties and interest, the court
cut down the amonnt of the claim by ap
portioning tho tax on the mileage basis as
to the company's equipment and leases.
The Commonwealth was awarded 5416,C00.
Both sides appealed, the companv because'
it believed that its charter was still in force,
and that therefore it was not taxable; anil
the State because the judgment rendered
was too smalt. Wayne MeVcagh and Ly
man.D. Gilbert rep'resented the PennsyTU
vanlar Company, and Attorney 'General
Hop'?ol and Mr. Shapley the Common
wealtlu The Boyer revenue bill, atlhough yet in
the hands of the Governor, was brought to
the attention of the Supreme Court in the
Brush Electric Light Company case to-day by
Lawyer Olmsted, of this city, who referred
to its preamble as showing the belief of the
State officers who drew it and of the Legis
islaturc which passed it that the jpresent
laws taxing capital stock of corporations are
unconstitutional. Under the act of 1879 cor
Dorations which par 6 per cent or more in
dividends are taxed 3 mttls on the part of
their capital, while those which pay less
than 6 per cent are taxed 3 mills on an ap
praisement of the actual value.
Too Much Discrimination.
This,- the counsel contended, was a dis
crimination between corporations of the
same class, and therefore not uniform as re
quired by the State constitution. Mr. Gil
bert and Wayne McVeagh both argued to
the same effect. The latter insisted that one
of the large trust companies of Philadelphia
pays under the present law only a little
over 1 mill on the actual value of its stock,
while other corporations of the same class
pay as high as 15 mills.
Should the old law be declared uncon
stitutional, the Boyer bill will have served
a double purpose, not only of increasing tho
rate, but affording a constitutional basis of
taxation, as all the counsel agreed that a
uniform taxation upon the appraised value
is constitutional.
The State case against the Central Trans
portation Company was argued, in which
the Commonwealth claims a tax of about
527.000 bftijaftoa of an alleged dividend
which yiejegrapany insists was only a re
duction of its capital stock. Two appeals
of the Philadelphia and Beading Bauroad
from a decision in which Judge Simonton
awarded' over 5200,000 in favor of the Com
monwealth were argued by Messrs. Lam
berton and Johnson on behalf of th com
pany. The State case against the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Bailroad was also
argued. ,
IXL-TBEATED HIS STEPSON.
Philip Zourenzo Charged With Locking Up
His Boy for a Week.
Philip Lourenzo, an Italian, was arrested
lost night on a warrant charging him with
cruelty to his 11-year-old stepson. 1 Agent
Dean is the prosecutor. Lourenzo lives at
2550 Penn avenue, wliere he keeps' a store.
It is alleged that he has kept nis stepson
locked up in a garret for more than a week,
and that ne has otherwise abused the little
fellow shamefully. He will have a hearing
before Magistrate McKenna.
Death of John Nolan.
Word came yesterday of the death of John
Nolan, who, with his brother, Michael; has
been traveling in the West with a theatrical
company. He died at Spokane Falls, W.T.,
of typhoid fever. The family resides on tho
hill above Twenty-eighth street, and the
body will be brought home.
Printers on the Way to Boston.
Oscar E. Adams, O. A. Williams, George
L. Happer, representing Typographical
TJnion No. 7, and John A. Warden, repre
senting Pressmen's TJnion No. 13, left for
Bosto.-v last night, where the thirty-ninth
annual session of the International Union,
will be held next week.
The Officer Ible to JMev
badly injured. Three ribs were bre- Md
he is sutfering from internal injorih9Bi3
recovery is doubtful "
He Says That Sims Is Not a Member.
Counselor W. M. Wagner, of John Gray
Council Jr. O. TJ. A. M, said last night that
James W. Sims, who shot himself on Tues
day, is not a iiitmber of that council, ay
stated, nor a number of the order at alL "
Officer Jacob Balti, wlm wag aMojuted by
a burglar on Locust street e&tw-&y
morning, was very low last dgMgiteeH
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