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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 189L
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WONDERFUL
FIND
The Head ot a Hideous Prehistoric
Eeptile or Fish Unearthed in
Allegheny, Yesterday.
A MAN AT HIS "WIFE'S MERCY.
The Duqnesne Traction Company Making
Arrangements to Compete With Its
Eivals in Speed.
TWO BROTHERS SHOOT AT EACH OTHER.
The Hangings 0f a pay m the Twin Cities at the
Head of the Ohio.
A wonderful find was made yesterday
morninc; in Allegheny. In the -window of
Harris" drug store, on Federal street, near
the Fort "Wayne depot, there was exhibited
all day a thing that caused thousands of
persons to halt and gaze in amazement, and
many an old lusher to recoil in horror and
wonder if he really "had "em" this time for
wire.
The object of interest was the head of a
monstrous prehistoric reptile or fish. It
was found by Mr. Harris and some work
men who were making excavations in the
cellar Itcncath the store.
The store stands directly over the bed of
the old canal. It is on record in geologic
and antiquarian circles that many curious
and valuable finds were made in the con
struction of this canal, and that region of
lower Allegheny, near Monument Hill, has
always been full of interest to the student
with a taste for delving into the past.
AX 1VTEKESTIKG STCDV.
A party of geologists and scientists last
year made a close stndv of the different out
troppiugs of strata on the side of Monu
ment Hill and an examination of the dif
ferent material pased through in boring
the deep wells in the parks, and found it
one of the most interesting fields of re
search in the country, having discovered
many traces of cxtict animals beloneingto
remote periods, mainly to the Jlesozoic age.
Bat nothing so well preserved in form as
this discovered yesterday was unearthed by
them.
The workmen, in digging a foundation for
a soda-water-charging apparatus, struck a
large rock some feet below the floor of the
cellar, which is about on a level with the
bottom of the old canal, and after, with
great difficulty, removing the stone, they
lound another beneath it, but falling away
from it at an angle, forming a crevice be
tween the end of the stone they had taken
up and the one beneath. When the light
fell upon the spot thus uncovered the men
were terribly frightened at sight of the
grinning head which the' beheld. It was
taken upstairs and placed in the show -window,
where it was viewed vesterdav even-
me by hundreds of people.
A DlsrATi'll reporter, attracted bv the
large crowd in front of the store last night,
went in to investigate. He found Mr. Har
ris, who is an enthusiastic antiquarian and
student of natural history, poring over a lot
of musty tomes in search of a pedigree for
his latest pet.
IIIDKOUh HELIC Or A BVGOXE AGE.
It is difficult to describe this hideous
relic of a bygoi.e age, without resorting to
the language of the sea-serpent fakir, but
all -who have seen it declare it is the most
fearfully ugly thing they have eer wit
hcmm1. Mr. Harris says it undoubtedlv
helonzs to the order Ichtlivopterygia, which
existed in the time of the Licasic lonuation,
and disappeared long before the Cretaceous
period. The head, which is the only part
preserved, is petrified. It is about 2
leet long and 12 inches across the
top. The mouth, which is open, is
something like that of an alligator, and is
filled witli immense fangs. The eyes are
Mtnatcd far down on the sides of the head,
arc of an oral form and have a sinster glare
in tiicm.
iJr. Frank Hanna, an authority in mat
ters of this kind, savs this is protiablv the
finest -peeimeu of iciithyosaurian remains in
the world.
Several local scientists were gathered last
night and deoided to apprise Dr. Marsh, of
Sw York, and other Eastern celebrities in
this line of research of the discovery, and
lhcy expect they will come here at once to
inspect the prize.
ORDERING LIGHTER CABS.
The Dnqursne Traction Company About to
Change Iti nulling Stock.
The Dnquesne Traction Company has de
cided to place new cars on its system. So it
was repoited lat night, but too late to ena
Ue any of the directors or officials to be
teen for particulars. The statement comes
from a very reliable quarter, and is given
with a positive assurance of the fact.
It is stated tltat tlie company is about
ready to Mgn a contract for 'he new vehicles.
Within the last 10 days the agents of the
Irurk and carriage builders have been in
town on this business. The new cars will
lie much lighter than those now in use, and
will run on a single instead of a double
truck, as now. They will be, in conse
quence, smaller: it is said about the size of
the I'lcnant Valley cars. What motor
will I used ha- not been stated, but it is
hclieved a more modem machine than
that used on the existing ears will bo tried.
The expense of the chanie will not be so
heavy as would appear. JL'urchascrs for the
present cars hae been found, 'but their
names have been -withheld. The reasons
for this change are gien to be for the pur
pose ot making quicker time between
terminal points The company expected to
obtain increased patronage, still maintain
ing the existing fare, by beating rival
roads in point of time, and" this it hopes to
do by plaeinjron cars of lighter build and
increased power.
MADE MATTERS LIVELY.
A Demented Allcglicniaii Terrorirc the
Upper Nortlislde Tor Onite a While.
Henry Lang, a demented Ceraian 40 years
old, lias arrested by Officer IJergatresser last
night and plaeed in the Allegheny lockup.
The policeman Kid heard complaints of the
man's actions during the day, he having ter
rificd the women and children of Upper
Allegheny by chasing them with clubs and
threatening to murder them.
After a lengthy search Lang was found
lying between two lovs on a raft in the
Allegheny river at llcrr's Islaud. The
prisoner v.a ui'able to gic any account of
himself, aud no one could tell where he
came from.
LOST HIS REPEATER.
What a Man Got for l'allins Asleep In a
Pittsburg Saloon.
John Duffy, ol Wheeling, William Smith,
of iiteubenvil'.e. and W. S. Cox, of Third
avenue, were arrested by Detective Shore
last evening aud taken to the Central sta
tion, charged as suspicious characters.
It is claimed they robbed a man whom
they tound sleeping in McCurry's saloon at
4 o'clock jesterday morninc. "They took
from him, it is claimed, a gold watch and a
small sum of money.
House Cleaning at City Hall.
The work of repairing and renovating the
Council chambers, which has been so badly
needed for so long, is now well under way,
and by the time of the regular sessions of
September they will be in 'good condition.
All the old furniture is being overhauled,
varnished and reupholstered, and will look
nearly as good as new. A force of men is
engaged in covering the floors with the same
kind of linoleum that is in use at the Court
House.
COULDN'T COME TO TERMS.
A Church Sleeting Ends In an Uproar and
No Decision.
A lively meeting of the congregation of
the Ebenczer Baptist Church, colored, was
held last night at the church, corner of Mil
ler and Colwell streets. The meeting lasted
to a late hour, and ended in disorder. The
object of the meeting was to discuss the
propriety of pushing the suit over the title
to the church property, which has been
taken to the Supreme Conrt. The suit is
between the two. factions of the congrega
tion, which split recently and formed two
churches, both of widen, now want the
church property. i
The party which met last night was the
one led by .Rev. Mr. Pryor. He preached
at the meetinc. He and about 23 of his fol
lowers wanted to continue the suit, while a
large number favored discontinuing it. The
argument grew warm and the members be
came excited. Mr. Pryor took the floor,
and, despite opposition,' retained it. The
excitement increased and a clamor arose.
Everybody talked, men and women jumped
upon chairs, and finally, after a long and
heated discussion, in which everyone
took part, the meeting ended in an uproar,
without accomplishing anvthing.
At its conclusion little knots were formed
on corners and the situation discussed pro
and con. Kev. Mr. Prvor's opponents
charged him with the trouble and said they
would ak for his resignation, while his
friends upheld him as strenuously. An
other meeting will beheld shortly to settle
the matter.
POKOtf IN HER POCKET.
Sirs. Itlan Charged With Wanting to Kill
Her Husband's Children.
Joseph Rian and his wife, Christina Bian,
were arrested yesterday afternoon, on Pride
street, by Officer Bailey, and taken to the
Eleventh ward police station. At the time
of the arrest Mrs. Itian had a cobblestone
in her hand and was about to throw it at
her husband. This was brought about by
domestic trouble relative to his children
and step-children, Eian having had several
children by a former marriage.
At the station Riah stated that he ac
cused his wife of trying to poison the step
children Mrs. Rian was searched by the
police and a pocketbook containing some
paris green was found. The police believe
that she is slightly demented. They held
her, however, for an investigation. Kian
was released on a forfeit for his appearance
this morning.
AT EOS WIFE'S MERCY.
A Sonthsider Who Has to Do as His Bet
ter Hair Orders.
Yesterday Michael Heyden appeared be
fore Alderman Hartman and made an in
formation against his wife, Julia, for assault
and battery, alleging that she had struck
him on the head with a wash basin
because the money he brought home was not
as much as she thought he had earned dur
ing the week. A warrant was issued for
her arrest, and the hearing arranged for to
day. ileyden's wife is very large and he is very
small. East night sliie marched him into
'Squire Hartman's office and compelled him
to withdraw the suit. She paid $1 costs and
marched him back home at the point of her
strong arm, threatening to give him another
dollar's worth after she gothiin there.
A DUEL WITH REVOLVERS.
Two Brothers Hxchango Shots Over a Fam
ily Falling Ont.
Barney Martin and his brother, residents
of the hillside above the old Second avenue
car stables, got into a dispute last night
over their sister, who recently came from
the old country. They had been drinking,
it was stated, and adjourned to the ground
back of the stables to fight it out. . Re
volvers were drawn and several shots fired,
but no one was wounded.
The shots caused a message to be sent to
the Fourteenth ward police statiop, "and the
patrol wagon and several officers were sent
to the scene. When they arrived the broth
ers had escaped. The officers investigated
the matter and learned that no one had
been injured, and the wagon returned.
A POLICEMAN IN TROUBLE.
Under Arrest for an Assault and Battery
on Old Man Beatty.
Joseph II. Smith, a colored officer, was
arrested and gave bail yesterday for a hear
ing Monday, before Alderman Richards, to
answer a charge of assault and battery, pre.
ferrcd by John F. Beatty, an old man who
lives on Kirkpatrick street.
The prosecutor alleged that he was talk
ing with some men near his home, and that
the officer, who was not then on duty,
shoved him so hard that he fell and was
Injured.
Snap Shots at Local Events.
As execution was issued yesterday by L.
C. McCormtck against John C. Strump for
S30S CO.
Two freight cars jumped tlio track at Lee
tonia station. Fort Wayne road, yestordar
morning, delaj-in? the traffic for two hours.
Mrs. Eliz. McKee, a former well-known
resident of Allegheny, died yesterday at j
Dixmont, where she has been for the past
two years. j
corpse, wrapped in a gingham apron, was
found floating in the Monongahela river, and
is now at the morgue.
' TnE House of William H. Cline, 453 Beaver
avenue, Allegheny, wascnteredby aburglar
Friday morning. Tlie robber was frightened
aw ay iy a servant, whoso room he had in
vaded. TnE County Commissioner and Controller
yesterday awarded the contest for prinfng
21G volumes of the State reports, digests,
tc, lor the Supreme Court, to Frederick G.
Kay for$l,4T0L
The Allegheny Department of Charities
will take charge of a demented woman liv
ing on Madiaon avenue, -who has been mak
ing a nuisance of herself ana annoying the
neighbors for somo time.
Mrs. Taul I) Ann, of Spring Garden avenne,
Allegheny, complained to the Humane So
ciety yesterday that her daughters were
making life a burden to her. The neighbors
eniditwas the other way and claim Mrs.
Darr is slightly demented. The society de
clined to take action.
OVERCOME BY OASES.
Two Men Meet an Awful Death While at
Work.
Leonard Weaver, of School street, and
William Sinister, of Madison avenue, Alle
gheny, were drowned last night atiout 11
o'clock in a cesspool in the rear of B. AVciss
residence at Thirty-ninth and Butler streets.
They were in the employ of the AVyman
Excavation Company. The bodies were
taken to the morgue.
The men were accompanied by Henry
Meyers and Paul Swerbach. Weaver went
into the well, which was an unusually deep
one, to clean away some rubbish that ob
structed operations. He became overcome
with gas, with which the well was full. He
cried for help, and Shuster went to his res
cue. Both men met an awful fate. Before
aid could be obtained both men were dead.
Captain Brophy was summoned, bnt it was
too late. Both men were married.
Dr. B. M. Hanita. Eye, ear, nose and
throat diseases exclusively. Office, 720
Penn street, Pittsburg, Pa. ssu
TAKING THEIR TIME.
Amalgamated Officials Not in a Hurry
to Move Against the
IMPORTATION OP TIN WORKERS.
Immigrant Officials Are Now Watching Mr.
Niedringhaus.
OFFICIAL CHANGES IN FLINT SCALES
The controversy over the importation of
Welsh tin plate workers continues. .The
publication in yesterday's DISPATCH that
Mr. 2s iedringhaus had sent men to Europe
presumably to look for men, aroused the ire
of a score of tin plate workers in this
vicinity, many of whom flocked around the
Amalgamated headquarters to see if some
thing could not be done to stop it.
The Amalgamated officials, however, are
proceeding slowly. They have plenty of
facts now to prove the position they have
taken and feel that they have given Mr.
Kiedringhaus sufficient assurance that he
can be furnished with all the competent
workers he needs, unless he desires to wil
fully violate the law and bring foreign peo
ple here for the sake of economy.
It is proposed now to let Mr. Niedring
haus alone until he brings the foreign work
men here. They will be intercepted and
held while proceedings will be instituted
against him, not by the Amalgamated offi
cials, but by the immigrant inspectors, who
have now become interested in the matter.
EVTDKNCE TllEPAEED FOR TJSE.
The facts gathered by the Amalgamated
Association will be used against Kiedring
haus as evidence that the manufacture of
tin is not a new industry in this country,
nor is it necessary to import men to do the
work he has to do"
The labor people who are opposing the
importation feel that they now have the de
partment on their side, and claim that they
will have the matter stopped if they are
compelled to appeal to Mcltinlev himself.
They say McKinley could not afford to al
low Mr. Xiedringhaus to import these
workmen after the part they induced the
working people to take in securing tne
passage of the McKinley bilLy-The contro
versy is getting decidedly interesting and
there is no telling where it will end.
John Wattson Evans, a gentleman from
the tin districts of Wales, but now residing
in the Southside, gives freely his sentiments
concerning Mr. Kiedringhaus and the
Welsh. He says: "To me, an old, ex
perienced hand in all the branches of tin
manufacturing, and well acquainted with
all the principal tin workers of Wales, Mr.
Niedringhaus' views and plans regarding
the importation of Welsh workers are
laughable, and even absurd. If the gentle
man intends employing 600 people in all to
work his tin plate manufactory, and will
import only CO from England and Wales,
the natural inference is that he will employ
oiO unskilled individuals in conjunction
with the Ci skilled ftreigner to run his
plant. Probably he thinks that a few hun
dred Italian or Hungarian navvies will suf
fice to make up the number, for, indeed, it
seems to me, by the manner in which the
magnates and monopolists of this country
btiy and import this foreign element, they
think it is equal to any responsible and
skilled employment.
WIIEKE THE EMPLOYEE MAY HE VTT.OKG.
"Or Mr. Kiedringhaus may intend to fill
the deficiency by iron workers from differ
ent iron rolling mills. But if he does, even
with this last mentioned idea, he is laboring
under a great error. With such a force he
cannot turn his rolls and put tin on the
bank. Making iron and making tin are two
entirely different processes, and few are the
iron workers who can be of any use in the
manufacturing of tin. There are numerous
branches in the tin mill that require a
man's closest attention and undivided labor
for from 10 to 30 years before he can be a
proncicnt workman. Auu l venture to say
that in the employment of 600 men in a tin
plant over three-fourths of them must be
practical, skilled hands? indeed, scores of
them having been at such labor since they
were small boys.
"In this connection I would say that Mr.
Kiedringhaus and Mr. William Williams,
proprietor of the prominent Wooster Tin
Works of Swansea, S. W., differ very much
in their opinions. The other day, while the
latter was lamenting the effects of the Mc
Kinley bill upon the Welsh tin plate in
terest, and predicting a general future
gloom, he said he was afraid he would have
to remove his plant to the United States.
'But' said he, 'if I do, I will take all my
hands with me, as I cannot make tin in
America with the labor that is there.' '
HUNDKEDS OF TIXWOHKERS HERE.
"Of course, Mr. Williams, living in
Wales, was ignorant of the vast number of
tinworkcrs that are in this country em
ployed at other duties, and for that reason
can be easily excused for his error. But
Mr. Kiedringhaus is one of our prominent
politicians and tin magnates, and ought to
know more about our iron and tinworkers.
If it will require him to employ about 450
practical tinworkcrs at his plant, it is a
well-known fact that lie has no need to send
lor them from across the ocean. There are
more than enough here already, and as good
furnacemen, doublers, bchindmen and roll
ers as ever handled tools.
"I am at a loss to know why Mr. Kied
ringhaus wants to import 60 workmen from
Wales while there are hundreds here that
would like to be employed by him and led
away from other avocations. "The general
impression is that an idea prevails that the
emigrants from abroad would hastily jump
at new positions in this country lor a
meager compensation; in other words, that
they could easier be transposed into 'black
sheep' than the tinworkers that are citizens
of this country and familiar with our prices
of labor. But if any tin magnate
indulges in such an idea he would
soon abandon it after trying
his experiment upon the Welsh workers.
While the Welsh take pride in being loyal
and law-abiding citizens, they are the first
to stand for the rights of labor, and never
vicld to the schemes and tyranny of monopo
lists. While I would be glad to see all my
country people ehjoyipg the blessings of
this my noble adopted country, I hope no
tin workers from South Wales will be in
duced here by Mr. Kiedringhaus, until he
finds employment for those that are here
now."
AN EXPERT OK THE SUBJECT.
A prominent tin plate manufacturer who
has become interested in the present contro
versy said yesterday: "Under the head
line 'Labor in Tin Mills,' in the American
jranwfaciurcr of the 7th, the.-e sentences
occur: 'It is amusing to one w ho has ever
investigated the possibility of securing
skilled tin house workers in this country to
notice with what unanimity each man of
the latter class claims to be the onlyone in
the United States who thoroughly under-,
stands the manipulation of tin plate in all
its branches, and to see how little some
really knotv outside of the particular work
they did in Wales, even if they know that.'
"As an example of the perfect correct
ness of the foregoing, and with the blunder
ing, slipshod statements made by parties
whoprofess a knowledge of everything con
nected with .the production of tin plate,
what is required and whom and what we
have here with us necessary to enable us to
run the business, is the following raorceau
by Mr. A T. Kollins, as published to-day.
He is quoted as saying that 'he could pick
up enough men to run a dozen tin plate
plants by tlie Moorewood process, which is
the latest patent.' j
PATEiTTS THAT HAVE EXPIRED.
"Why, the 'Morewooa' patents, and
described the latest patent,' nave all years
ago expired, and lots of old tin and wash
men are here who worked at them, as well
as at the anterior method of hand-dipping
the plates and detaching the listing, after
ward superseded by Morewood's patents of
rolls working in the grease-finishing pot
age, and we have a man here who assisted
the late Mr. Morewood to perfect his inven
tions. However, as the hand-dipping
method disappeared before the Morewood
improved process, which consists of folir or
live- separate pots in range and called a
"set," so the Morewood is being
rapidly ousted by single pot processes
wherin all is performed in one pot instead
of five, viz: Eluxing, tinning and finishing
off through rolls working in grease and of a
saving ofmatcrials and labor. I do not ex
pect that we have tinmen here whoare famil
iar with these single jobs from actual ex
perience at them, but those old
hands here, may, with a little prac
tice, get on to the "wori? satisfactorily.
However, let me say this: That anybody
adopting the single pot so generally nsed
now in the Welsh works (some indeed
using it exclusively), and known as the
Taylor and Struve pot can have a man sent
out with the pot or pots for fixing them in
place, and at the cost of the patentees, so
that there shall be no possibility of any in
fraction of labor laws, and which man will
start the pot to work and instruct the tin
man how to operate it."
YOU. LIST OF CHANGES.
An Official Resume of Alterations in the
Flint Scales.
The following official resume of the flint
glass conferences has been furnished for
publication. The main points have already
been published in The Dispatch:
Mold makers: The working hours have
been reduced .from S3 to 55 hours per week;
is equivalent to a substantial incrcaso in
wages.
Pressed ware and iron mold list: Tho basis
for a turn's work will bo now 4 hours. This
is a compromise on 4 hours, tho workers'
demands, and o liours, what tho manufact
urers insisted upon.
Chimney blowers: The chimney scale as
agreed upon in tho conference last June was
ratified. Tho only change is that tho sum
mer shutdown shall bo for eight weeks
instead of six weeks, as heretofore.
Prescription scale: This scale is practi
cally the same as last year, with the excep
tion of the addition ot" new bottles to the
list, nnd a cash settlement every two weeks.
The summer stop has been extended from
seven weeks to two months.
Paste mold scale: This list contains. somo
minor changes from last year's, in tho way
of a substantial increase in the wages paid
on a numbor of articles.
The electric bulb scale is the same as the
one in vogue last year.
"WILL RESUME NEXT WEEK.
Amalgamated Scale Signed at TJnlontown
and "Work Will Proceed.
The prospects are now that the 'works of
the Columbia Iron and Steel Company at
Uniontown will be pufin operation next
week E. M. Butz was in the city on
Wednesday holding a conference with
President Wcihe, of the Amalgamated As
sociation. On Thursday Mr. Weihe went
to Uniontown,
The scale had not been signed and there
were a few questions to be settled before the
firm would attach its signature. Mr.
Weihe returned last night and stated that
the scale had been arranged satisfactorily.
nnd that everything pointed to a resumption
ot work at Uniontown about N ednesday.
This will be good news to the people of
Uniontown. It has been closed down for
six months owing to the embarrassments of
the construction company.
LIKE THE NOMINATION.
Hon l W. Hall Indorsed as a Delegate to
the Constitutional Convention.
Manufacturers of this city are well
pleased with the nomination of Hon. L. W.
Hall, of Harrisburg, by the Republican
convention of Dauphin county, as a candi
date for one of the delegates at large to the
Constitutional Convention, to be held on
August 19. Said a well-known iron man
yesterday:
"The able efforts of Mr. Hall in defeating
the employers' liability act and the direct
tax bill at the last session of the Legislature
is gratefully remembered bv those in whose
behalf he appeared, as well as all who were
opposed to the measures in question, and.
the appointment ol jur. Hall as one ot the
delegates to the Constitutional Convention
would cause general satisfaction, as his legal
abilitv especially fits him for a position of
the kind.5"
A VOTE TO BE TAKEN TO-DAY.
Joint Meeting of Amalgamated Lodges In
Sharpsburg.
A joint meeting of the two lodges at
Sharpsburg will be held this afternoon for
the purpose of voting on the continuance of
the strike at the Vesuvius milL It is
thought the men will vote to return to work.
The puddlers and the majority of the men
in the finishing mills are thought to be de
sirous of returning to work, and the people
of the town Eare growing anxious to have
the matter settled.
Carriage Workers Adjonrn.
The carriage makers adjourned yesterday
after completing their constitution and de
ciding to meet in Columbus, O., next Au
gust. Officers were elected, and Charles
Kramer, of this city, carried off the presi
dency. The national headquarters will
therefore be here for a year at least.
. Industrial Notes.
Chief Elliott is looking for a heating ap
paratus for the City Home.
It is said the carpenters' strike caused a
falling off of 50 per cent in tho window glass
trade.
A judgment was entered yesterday against
tho Electric Mining Machine Company for
$1,504 50 by the Pittsburg National Bank of
Commerce.
The Cnarleroi Plate Glass Company has
Issued a handsomely illustrated descriptive
brochure of the $1,500,000 plate glass factory
at Charlcroi and ot the town.
It is currently reported that tho Cam
bria Iron Works are contemplating tho
rebuilding of the wire works at Johnstown,
which was destroyed by the flood. It is
stated that plans have been completed for a
wire-drawing mill 400x50 feet, and that the
works will bo built at once at a cost of
$1,000,000.
A NEW STORY Next Sunday THE DIS
PATCn begins publication of an American
Serial Story, from tho gifted pen of Miss
Emma V. Sheridan, the actress and author
ess. Tho stage furnishes tho plot. Bead the
opening chapters.
MOKE DALZELL DELEGATES.
The Noblestown Clnb Instructs for the Eocal
Congressman.
The Koblestojvn Bepublican Club was or
ganized last night with 100 members. The
following officers were elected: John W.
Hoffman, President; Harry Kelso, Vice
President; Charles Wallace, Secretary.
Harry Kelso, Charles AVallace and John
McB. liobb were elected delegates to the
Scranton Convention, and were instructed
for Dalzcll.
An Echo of a Dairy Failure.
Cochran Fleming, for use of the Dollar
Savings Bank, assignee, yesterday issued a
writ to the Sheriff to sell property on a
mortgage against Fredericka Mcintosh, ad
ministratrix of Kenneth Mcintosh. The
mortgage is for 541,406 7C, and is on the
farm at Sewickley leased by the Sewicklcy
Dairy Company.
Death ofHarry McElroy.
Harry M. MoElroy, of the Pittsburg Gas
Company, died at his home 5614 Walnut
street yesterday at 9:30 p. m. He was 24
years of age and was very popular and
highly respected by a large circle of friends
and acquaintances. The funeral will occur
to-morrow.
Kenyon Military Academy.
We haTe received the catalogue of this
remarkably successful institution at Gam
bier, O., for its sixty-seventh year. It is
elegantly illustrated and tells what every
boy preparing for college or business wants
to 'know. s
FMJIT AT ANY PRICE.
Startling Statements With Regard to
the Disposition of
DECAYED AND 0VEE-EIPE PRODUCE
A Baker Who Bought Botting- Apples to
Manufacture Into Pies. ,
STUFF SOLD THAT IS UNFIT FOR FOOD
Rapidly decaying fruit, because of the
hot weather, and carelessness in its disposi
tion, is a matter for consideration in con
nection with the mortality record which is
startlingly touched upon in interviews with
dealers. Fruit reported by the dealers as
unsalable, or condemned by the health au
thorities yet is sold to a certain class of
vendors or householders, and, 'it is said, is
sometimes made up into pies.
A carload of bananas, 200 bunches, for 550,
equal to 25 cents per bunch such a sale
was made yesterday. Thomas McGowan,
the Liberty street commission merchant,
who made this statement, said that the
bananas were all right at the time, but were
fully ripe and owing to the hot weather
would have to be disposed of at once, or
they would become unfit for food in a very
short time.
This fact was mentioned later to another
business man of Liberty street in the vicin
ity of the commission stores, and who is in
terested in sanitary matters. In speaking
of the Allegheny poisoning case, published
in The Dispatch. Friday, and the danger
of eating food in a bad state of preserva
tion, he said:
OVKK-RIPE FBUIT FOR SALE.
"In view of the superabundance of fruit of
all kinds, and of the extremely hot weather,
it behooves the proper authorities to keep a
close watch on the disposition of over-ripe
and decayed fruit and vegetables. Within
the last few days I have noticed a large
amount of stuff utterly unfit for food being
disposed of at fruit stands and by
hucksters and street vendors. The
ridiculously low prices at which they
offer this stuff, which costs them
little or nothing, insures them a lively
patronage, and among the very class in
which the death rate is already very high.
Now look at those boys," he continued,
pointing to a mob of urchins who had struck
a bonanza in the shape of a lot of melons in
a very mushy condition that had been
thrown into an alleyway, "that is enough
to kill anything but a boy."
In an extended tour among the commission
men and produce dealers, quite a variety of
opinions were elicited in regard to the 'dis
position made of decaying fruit. A few
dealers declared that the bulk of it was
condemned by the Vegetable Inspector and
dumped into the river or taken to the
garbage furnace. Others stated that they
were very rarely visited by the Inspector,
and that large quantities of over ripe fruit
and vegetables were sold and consumed
every day.
too good to be destroyed.
Mr. Myers, of Myers & Tate, said: "There
certainly is a lot of fruit sold that is not
quite up to the mark, but which at the samo
time is too good to be destroyed. This is
sold to small dealers and street venders at
greatly reduced rates. They pick out the
worst and most badly decayed portions of
the lot and sell the rest at a good profit. Of
course, they may sell it as it is, without as
sorting it, but we know nothing of that."
Mr. IJea, of Bea & Co., said that there
was plenty of over ripe fruit sold that would
come under the head of damaged or over
ripe, but he did not think it a matter of any
importance, as people would not eat fruit or
vegetables when so badly decayed as to be
injurious.
Many were of the opinion that it was a
blessing for the poor that all produce was
, not condemned when a little off color, as
they were thus enabled to buy a great deal
of fairly good'stuff at very low prices. Mr.
Schmit, of Koenig & Schmit, thought that
this was the case. He said that when a
large shipment was received that was in
very bad order they notified the inspector
to officially condemn it. Then they had the
documents to show their shipper if he was
disposed to remonstrate.
"Sometimes, though," he continued,
"while the bulk of a shipment may be
slightly damaged, there is a considerable
portion of it that is fairly good. In a case of
this kind the lot is often" taken offour hands
by dealers at a price sufficiently low to
allow them a fair profit on tlie deal even
after they have thrown away half or quarter
of their purchase as too badly damaged to
sell."
A WASTE OP EATIXG MATERIAL
Many others when questioned stated that
they had no hesitancy in selling fruit that
had passed its prime, claiming that it was a
criminal waste of food to destroy large quan
tities ot stun wnen people were willing and
anxious to buy it. At one place it was
stated that no fruit was sold that was not
up to the requirements of the Health Bu
reau. Even while this statement was being
made a man was seen negotiating for a
barrel of apples which were absolutely
rotten. The hargain was closed at a price
which would just about pay for the barrel,
and the apples were placed in a wagon by
the purchaser, who from the appearance of
his clothes was supposed to be a'baker.
This was found to be the case. When asked
if lie intended to make apple pies out of his
purchase, he denied it was so. It was as
certained later that that was exactly what
he did with those apples and many more
in the same stage of decay. The process of
manufacture of these pies was witnessed by
the reporter. The girl in the bake shop
stated, however, that thev were called
"dried apple pies" and sold to boarding
housekeepers in Allegheny.
At another Liberty street store 12 large
baskets of peaches were set aside to be
hauled away. Every one of the peaches was
at least half rotten. A man came along and
offered $1 50 for the lot. He got them.
LITTLE TRUIT BEING CONDEMNED.
A call was made at the office of Vegetable
Inspector Kilgore, but he was not in.
Chief Clerk McKelvey, of the Bureau of
Health, said that he understood from Cap
tain Kilgore that there was less fruit and
vegetables being condemned this year than
last. This statement, coupled with the
fact that ten times as much produce
of this kind is being received as during last
year, would tend to corroborate the statement
that an immense amount of stuff totally unfit
for food was being offered for sale, and
bought, and consumed in the two cities.
Earlier in the season many carloads of
Georgia watermelons were condemned be
cause they were left in the railroad cars and
vards, the freight on them being in excess
of the value of the melons, at unprecedent
edly low prices. But once the goods get to
the commission houses they are rapidly dis
posed of.
Several physcians were interviewed
yesterday on tliis subject. The consensus of
opinion was that while not so injurious to
health, or fraught with so much danger to
life as were animal poisons, such as were
found sometimes in canned meats and fish,
still much sickness could be traced directly
to decayed and over-ripe fruit and vege
tables. HE TOLD THE TBUTH.
Tne Turtle Creek Eccentricity Proves to Bo
a Much-Wanted Forger.
John Hervey, the self-confessed Turtle
Creek forger, who gave himself up to In
spector McAleese Thursday evening, had
no trouble in ifinding prosecutors at his
hearing yesterday morning.
It was shown that he had forged two
checks for 50, using the name of H. C.
Cossell, the attorney of this city, and one
check for 5100, to which a signature of
John Mcintosh was attached. Magistrate
Gripp bound the young man over to court
in the sum of 2,000, in default of which he
was sent to jail to await trial.
A GRASS WIDOW'S DECREE.
It's Absence rrovents an Interesting Mar
riage Ceremony An Alliance Newspaper
Collector Conies to Pittsburg to Wed,
but Is Disappointed.
Alliance, O., always to be relied upon for
an ornamental romance, has taken the
trouble to furnish Pittsburg with a good
story. On Thursday Harry S. Linscotta
collector for the Alliance Baity Leader, came
to this city bringing with him Hulda B.
Morrell, a gushing young grass widow, and
there was matrimony in his eye.
Late in the evening Harry, following the
example of a man whose fame has been
sung, dressed in his best suit of clothes and
hired a fine carriage with a liveried driver
on the box. He then drove to his hotel for
Hulda, and the twain were soon whirling
toward the residence of Registrar S. P.
Connor, on Atlantic avenue, East End.
Arriving at the home of Mr. Connor Harry
explained that he wanted a marriage license
for himself nnd a lady whom he had left in
the carriage. They were from Alliance, O.,
he said, and wanted to get married that
night.
He could give no special reason why they
had not been married in Alliance nor why
they desired to get married that night, but
he said they would be very much disap
pointed if they did not get the license im
mediately. At the request of Mr. Conner
the lady was brought into the house and
proved to be a handsome, well-dressed
young woman. They were both very
nervous, but answered the formula of ques
tions. The young man was 24 years of age
and the age of the bride was the same.
When asked if she had ever been married
before the lady hesitated and asked if she
must answer that. When she was told yes
she said she had been married before, but
had been divorced. The divorce had been
granted last July.
She did not have a copy of the divorce
decree, and Mr. Conner said that he could
not issue the license without it. The in
variable rule is if one of the parties has
been divorced to require a certified copy of
the decree. This is principally becausethe
Jaw of Pennsylvania provides that where
infidelity has been the cause of divorce the
defendant and co-respondent cannot marry
each other.
When Mr. Conner said he could not grant
the license without the decree the couple
pleaded hard and the lady found solace in
tears. It was of no avail, however. In
answer to their questions Mr. Conner told
them that the only way to get married with
out the paper would be to go to New Jersey,
where there was no license law and but few
questions were asked. They finally took
their departure, much disappointed, and
without announcing their intention-
reft the Baby Behind Her.
Coroner McDowell will seek to ascertain
the paternity of a colored infant whose body
is lying at the morgue. A colored girl
named Louisa Palmer, of Washington, is its
mother. The girl went to the city farm in
February and left it with her child on July
16. She succeeded in inducing Sirs. Will
iams, of Bobert street, to adopt it and then
disappeared. An effort will be made to find
her.
IATE INVENTIONS.
Street Ballway Traffic Will Be Benefited;
Also, a New Mower and Beaper for
Which Mncli Is Claimed.
One has onlyto observe the present meth
ods of throwing a switch on a street railway
track to appreciate a recent invention of
Captain M. A. Cutter, President of the
Canton Malleable Iron and Manufacturing
Company, Canton, O. This invention not
only enables the motorman or gripman to
throw a switch without leaving his car, bnt
he can accomplish this while the car is go
ing at any rate of speed and without any
inconvenience to himself. The fact that
this invention is combined with sim
plicity and inexpensiveness is sufficient
proof that it will soon he brought into gen
eral use. Another invention of Mr. Cut
ter is for the equipment of an electric car
with one motor where by necessity two have
been required as this reduces the cost of
construction about 50 per cent, the value of
it can be readily seen. The touch of a
lever swings the car around upon its wheels
when it can be propelled in the opposite
direction. In connection with-this may be
mentioned a third invention of merit which
Mr. Cutter has recently patented. It con
sists of a brake to hold -the car
while being reversed. The state
ment was made by experts that the
ordinary brake would be incapable of doing
this, as the reversing of the car requires
the application of the electric power. They
claimed that as the entire running gear of
the car would be reversed the brake would
likewise be reversed and so could not per
form its work. This latter contrivance,
however, sets all doubts at rest in this di
rection. Each of the inventions mentioned
above may be applied to single truck cars,
propelled by any force, and will doubtless
be a great benefit to street railway traffic.
In addition to these inventions of Captain
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vernier, nu nun jjuiuimseu an rjgnis
for the United States and all for
eign countries of another remarkable
invention known as the "Nations
mower." This is a mowing machine con
structed upon novel ideas, and it is claimed
will supercede all others. The superiority
which the "Nation's mower" has over other
machines can best be judged by a compari
son. Old style machines now in use weigh
about 800 pounds. The "Nation's mower"
weighs but 200 pounds. The former is
drawn by two horses. The latter by one.
Then, again, the old style mowers have a
great amount of cog-wheel gearing pos
sessing two wheels which have a diameter
of 24 to 36 inches, and having but three
inches of traction power while the
"Nation's mower" has no cog-wheels,
its largest driving wheels measuring but
eight inches in diameter, yet .the machine
has 14 inches of traction power. The cost of
construction is also much cheaper. A
"Nation" can be built for 815, about one
half the cost of the old kind. The malleable
iron of which these machines are made ren
ders them less liable to breakage, and when
not being operated they can be hauled on a
single runner, which is controlled by alever,
thus greatly lessening wear and tear.
The above are but a few of the many rea
sons wny it is Delieved tne "JNation will
take the lead. This was demonstrated by a
test in West Virginia recently, when it
competed most favorably with others, doing
more work, with far less exertion. The
above description will also apply
to Mr. Cutter's new reaper
and binder, for as much dif
ference is said to exist between it and other
reapers and binders as is found between the
two mowers. An examination will fully
demonstrate this fact. The immense de
mand which will exist for these machines
will be better understood, when it is stated
that the sales for the year of 1890 of our
New York manufacturer of the old machine
reached the enormous figure of 55,500,000.
Captain Cutter has three machines on exhi
bition at his office, No. 190 Robinson street,
Allegheny. A large- stock company, to be
known as the Nation's Mower and Reaper
Manufacturing Company, is being formed
to handle the inventions on a large scale.
To Beautiful EHwood
And return for 25c to-morrow, by special
train on Pittsburg and Western, 10:30 A.
M., city time. One thousand persons took
advantnge of this rate to our special sales
yesterday, and nil were more than de
lighted with the trip. Tickets at our office
or at depot one-half regular fare by P. &
L. E. E. R- Black & Baikd,
95 Fourth avenue.
B.&B.
Hosiery! Extraordinary bargains for you
to-day. Fancy stitching block boot, colored
top, 25c, 50c and 75c. Boggs & BonL.
Summer Suits and Waists
All reduced to close the line. We 'never
carry goods, so this means a bargain for you.
John P. Kit able Co., 35 Fifth avenue.
If your complaint is want of appetite, try
Angostura Bitters before meals. ttssu
SNAPS FOR JURYMEN.
Nothing Uncommon for Thfem to
Brace lawyers for loans.
THEY GENEEALLI MAKE A STAKE.
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Only One of the Evils Attendant Upon the
Present Jury System.
NOT A FAULT OF THE JUDGES, EITHEE
Aknot of prominent lawyers yesterday
discussed the arrest of T. C. Ebling, who
was charged with borrowing money on the
strength of being a juryman. The query
propounded as to "what difference it made
whether he was a juryman or not" is
easily answered by lawyers who have had
extensive practice in the courts, and the
question renewed the agitation, in a meas
ure, relative to the possibility of getting a
better class of jurors. Not that there are
none fit drawn, but if is well known that
ope crooked man can upset or greatly hin
der the work of the other 11.
It is agreed by all who have given the
matter conscientious study that the selec
tions will never be better while made under
the present system. Even the judges have
been known to put into the wheel the names
of some as tough citizens as can be found in
the county, or there was some crookedness
elsewhere, and an inspection of the lists for
years past will 'show it.
now mistakes abe made.
The explanation is simple. A judge can
not know all of the 100,000 voters in the
county, all supposed to be eligible, and
must depend to some extent on the repre
sentatives of people who may possibly
have axes to grind, and when it is known
that multitudes of men will work for
months for a political aspirant merely for
the chance to sit two' weeks in each year as
juror, and the use they are to politicians is
understood, it is not strange that a consid
erable percentage of ring-streaked, striped,
speckled and grizzled characters names
finds its way into the jury selection.
Now, ont of this class come the borrow
ers. Finding that a lawyer is engaged in a
case on which they are drawn they fre
quently strike him for a small loan during
its progress, thinking that he will not dare
refuse, lest it peril his case, and it is said
that in times past an occasional lawyer was
not averse to securing the service of a juror
in this way. One attorney says that it is
very seldom that he is not approached for a
trifle by some juror in a case where he, the
lawyer, succeeded in getting a verdict for
his client. As the sum is ordinarily a dol
lar or two it.is frequently given, partly to
secure the fellow's good will and also to get
rid of him.
It seems.strange, in view of this state of
affairs, that honest and intelligent business
men get into law suits. The idea of having
a man whom you would not trust with your
pocketbook and 510 sit in judgment on your
case, where thousands may be involved,
when your opponent is unscrupulous in
duces many people to submit to imposition
rather than go to law unless the case is one
where crookedness would not avail.
THE REGULAR JTJRTMAN.
There is a class of "regulars" so well
known to lawyeis of several years' experi
ence that it is a marvel that they are ever
allowed to sit on a case, borne ot them not
content with one term a year frequently
turn up the second time and at least one
case is known where a man was drawn to
serve some 12 years ago but having more
profitable employment at the time sold his
term of service to a bummer for 55 and the
latter ran the daily risk of detection for
two weeks by answering to the name of the
man who had been selected.
Not all honest men are fit for jurors, but
the administration of the law is largely a
travesty under the system of selection, aijd
the late John It. McCune refused to trust
any whom he knew to have been sued for'a
just debt. The Woerishoffers, of New
York, also made it a rule to refuse to deal
in the hands of a municipal corporation
that had ever either defaulted or attempted
to do so, no matter whether it were solvent.
Like McCune, they did not want to do
business where there was anyprobability of
a law suit, but as suits at law cannot always
be avoided, it would seem to be wisdom for
honest people, from selfish reasons if for
no other, to combine for the purification of
the jury system.
One-Twelfth Sells One Dozen
"With the stag's head shirt; this a rule that
never fails; it's easy to prove it.
Jos. Hoene & Co.,
C07-621 Penn avenue.
Corset-Bargains ! Corset Bargains t
Fine French woven corsets, sizes 26 to 30,
at 50c, formerly 51 and 51 25; also other
broken lines at half price, at Bosenbaum &
Co.'s.
The new town unrivaled, Blainel
BIBER &-EAST0N
AUGUST REDUCTIONS!
CLOAK ROOMS!
JACKETS, BLAZERS, REEFERS
Reduced to about
One-half Former Prices.
$S Garment for $4.
$6 Garment for 3.
Children's Garments and Dresses
included in this Clearance Sale.
LADIES' WAISTS.
All at closing-out August prices. Boys'
Star Waists and Flannel Waists also marked
down very low.
Wash Suits and Wrappers, neatly made,
in fine- Ginghams, etc., at August prices.
They must go.
HOUSEKEEPING BARGAINS.
The best White Quilts, in extra large
sizes, at reduced prices, 51, SI 25, 51 37
and 1 50.
See our extra heavy large Crochet Quilts
now offered at 51.
Tlie best Bleached and Cream Table
Damask ever offered at 50c, with Napkins
to match.
5-4, C-i, 10-4, 12-4, 14-4, KM Table Cloths,
with Napkins to match, in hemstitched,
drawn work, edges and fringes, at bargain
prices during our August sale.
The best All-Einen Napkin at SI ever
offered. Special August sale of Linens.
Stamped Linen, in Tidies, Splashers,
Scarfs, etc, hemstitched and fringed, in all
sizes, at low prices.
BIBER & EAST0N,
505 AND 507 MARKET ST.
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Th e Lead Inn Pittsburg, Pa,
Dry Goods House. Saturday, Aug. 15, 1331.
JOS. H0E1 & CO.'S
PENN AVENUE ST0RE3L
LADIES' .
and
CHILDREN'S
HOSIERY.
An unusually large stock, offering
very unusual bargains this -week.
Extraordinary values in Un
bleached Cotton Stockings, plain or
fancy drop stitch, at 25c, 35c and
50c a pair.
Also in Unbleached Lisle, with
white soles, we offer usual 85c quality
at 65c a pair.
Extra values in out sizes Un
bleached Lisle (8j's to 10's) at
50c and 75c a pair.
A special lot of Unbleached
Ground Cotton Stockings, with black
and colored-fancy stripes, 25c a pair;
regular 35c quality.
Extra values in Fast Black Lisle
Thread Stockings at 50c, 65c, 75c
and $1 a pair.
Fast Black Silk Stockings, the best
goods made, 75c, $ 1, $ 1.50 and $z
a pair.
Besides these we call attention to
the very unusual prices offering in
FAST BLACK
COTTON STOCKINGS.
Our 65c Black Cotton Stockings
now are our regular 85c quality.
Our 50c Fast Black Cotton Stock
ings now have been our regular 65c
quality.
Our 35c Fast Black Cotton Stock
ings now (3 pairs for i) have been
our regular 50c quality.
Our 25 c Fast Black Cotton Stock
ings have always been and are now
the best 25 c fast black cotton stock
ings in the market.
' ON COUNTER TO-DAY.
A large lot of "Counter Bargains"
plain, colored and fancy stock
ings. 1 Cottons now 50c a pair.
gi.25 Lisles now 65c a pair. ,
1.75 Lisles now 90c a pair.
We place on sale this week an ad
vance shipment of Boys' and Misses'
early fall weight French Ingrain
Black Stockings, in two lots, both ex
tra value 25c to 60c a pair, accord
ing to size (6 to 10); and 60c to goc
a pair, according to size (6 to 10).
JOS. HORNE & CO.,
607-621-PENN-AVENUE.
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The Largest and Most.Complete .
STOCK
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CARPETS
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CURTAINS
- Ever Brought to Pittsburg
-IS NOW-
ON EXHIBITION
AT
EDWARD
GROETZINGER'S,
627 and 629 Penn Avenue.
Parties expecting to buy carpet3
this fall should make their purchases
now. We will store the goods free
of charge until you want them laid.
Large stock of Lace, Chenille
and Linen Velour Curtains of our
own direct importation.
Hotel keepers and other large buy
ers invited to examine goods while
stock is full.
All goods jobbed at lowest Eastern
prices.
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THE Warm Air Furnace
BARTLETTronsht Steel Banges.
Cinderella Ranges and Staves.
Send for catalogue. Estimates tarnished,
J. C. BAKTXETT,
pl8-TT Zta Wood st PUtsbury. .
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