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ehoot if they wanted to. They forcibly
seized myself und wife nnd proceeded
to tie us up and gag us. I resisted
them as much as I could, but in tbe
struggle one of the masked men drew his
revolver and said ho would shoot me, and
then fired and wounded me on the left side
of the head by the shot from his revolver.
I grasped the revolver and attempted to
wrest it from him, but the other masked
men coming to his assistance, I was ovei
powered, "gagged and bound. Mv hands were
torn by the revolver in my effort to get it
Irom him.
"In this attack upon me all the men acted
in concert, and actively encouraged and
aided each other in the assault upon me,
and no one of the three attempted to inter
fere when the man attempted to shoot mo.
SAYS THE WOUND WAS SERIOUS.
"I bled a great deal from the shot wound
In my head, and my health was much im
paired and my life endangered. I have no
doubt but that the shot as flred with the
intent to murder me. I believed at the time
he flred he intended to do as he threatened,
and kill me. The men tied and gagged my
wife, and after I was shot, they threatened
to torture hertodiscover the place where the
money was. Fearing that they would carry
out the threat, and believing our lives in
danger, from their violence, 1 oflered to un
lock the safe and did so."
"The masked men robbed it,stealing $12,000
In Treasury notes and bills, current funds of
the United States. Also eight bonds of the
Brady's Bend Bridge Companv for $250 each,
numbers 13, 14 15, 1G, 101, 102, 103, 101. respec
tively, or the value of $250 each. Also four
bonds of the Allegheny Vallev Companv for
$1,000 each, numbers 2,712, 2.TS3, 2.7S1, 2.7S5, re
spectively, of the value of $1,000 each. Also
three bonds of the funded debt mortgage
bonds of the Alleghenv Valley Kailroad
Companv for $100 each, numbers 30.572
30.573, 30,574 respectively, or the value of $100
each, all of which was my property. The
total value of the cash and the valuable se
curities of which these masked men robbed
me on this occasion, amovntcd in value of
about $20,000 in current funds of the United
States. They also robbed my wife of a bag
of silver tnoney containing about $50, which
was in the sale, she being there present
tied and gagged by them, and unable to
prevent the robbery.
"None of the stolen property has yet been
recovered or found, except three of the
Allegheny Valley Kailroad bonds of the
vaiue oi $i,ww eacn, numbers y,K3, za, as,
stolen as above, and also all the Brady's
Bend bridge bonds, and the Allegheny Val
ley Kailroad bonds, funded debt mortgage
bonds, also otolen as above.
COULD XOT IDENTIFY THE PRISONERS.
"These bonds were some months afterward
traced to the possession of James W. Miller,
alias James Ryan, now the fugitive from
justice in Toronto, Canada.- As I am in
formed and believe. Jllller and the other
three men, named William Jackson, Will
iam Ilarrop and Jacob Ott. were after
the robbery arrested and all four indicted
and tried before the Court of Oyer and
Terminer in and for Clarion county,
nt the town of CInrion, in August, 1SS1.
for burglary committed in my house and
for the larceuv of all the above moneys and
bonds which belonged to me. I attended
the trial and testified against the four pris
oners on the 24th day of August, A. D. 1S81,
and they were all convicted of said bur
glary anil larceny on the 29th day of August,
IS?!, and each of them was sentenced to
seven years' imprisonment in the State pen
itentiary for the Western district of Penn
sylvania. "I could not at the time of the robbery
identify the four prisoners, owing to the
masks which concealed the upper part of
the faces and the end of their noses, but
from the general appearance of the said
prisoners, Miller, Ilarrop and Ott, and from
the voices, which I uir-tinctly heard at the
time of the robberv. and from the oppor
tunities I have had since to see and hear
them several times in the jail and iu the
court at their trial. I now believe they were
the men ho committed said burglary and
robbery and felonious assault upon me, and
there is no doubt in my own mind that they
are the masked men who robbed me and
shot me on that occasion.
"These men were only tried for burglary
and larceny of my money and bonds, and
have not yet been tried for shooting ine, nor
for robbing my wife Barbara ot her bag of
money on the s-ame occasion. I am informed
and believe that James W. Miller, alias
Byan, who was o convicted and sentenced,
and whom I identified as aforesaid to be one
of the marked men engaged in the robbery
and-tissault "with intent to murder me, es
caped from the aid penitentiary in Decem
ber last, and is now in custody in Toronto,
Canada, as a convict fugitive irom justice,
his
JORX X COSXORS.
mark.
"Sworn before me by the deponent, John
Connors, the elder, at Madison township, in
said county, this 20th dav of JanuarvA. V.,
lSe'i it. K. McGmxMr,
"Justice of the Peace lor said County."
THERE 'WERE THREE AFFIDAVITS.
"The above affidavit was the second one
secured by Warden Wright while I was held
lor extradition in Canada," said Mr. Miller,
"the first containing practically the same
statement had been found defective
according to Canadian law, and the
One here published was the result
of a consultation of Warden
Wright's Canadian lawyer, and the Judge
who tried the case, Mackenzie. John Con
nors. Sr had gone before the same Justice of
the Peace, u. R. McGregor, the dav previous,
on the 23th or January, A. D. lbS2, and had
sworn:"
Whereas, On the 9th day of January, A.
I).. lN-2, 1 had made an affidavit in reference
to the assault and robbery made on me on
the evening ot the 23m oay ol Marcn, A. !.,
1SSL and that he is now informed that said
afiidnvit or information had been miscon
strued as to set forth that I charge James
W. Miller with shooting me with intent to
kill, but in order to correct any such con
struction on that affidavit, I hereby make
this affidavit, and say that I did not intend
to charge such crimo on said Miller, nor did
I recognize or identity him or any others
vho committed said burglary, they all being
masked, ana lurtner saitn not.
His wife, Barbara Connors, appeared on
the; same dav and date before the same Jus
tice of the l'eace and swore that she was
present at the time of said robbery, and
that she did not recognize any of said
burglars, for the reason that they were all
masked.
STORY OF CONKOR.S' GRANDDAUGHTER.
The notes of testimony taken by Hon. J. T.
Moflatt, since member of Congress from
Clarion county, in the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner, 1SS1, where he acted as one of the
counsel for James W. Miller, which notes of
testimony are, duly certified to, and in pos
session of Tbe-Dispatch. Extracts from the
notes of the testimony taken by Mr. Moflatt
ts they fell from Connors' lips, the deponent
enys: "I cannot identify the nien:thevcaine
about 8 p. St.; their faces w ere all masked,
holes for their mouth and eyes: coats but
toned up; cannot tell whether they had hats
or caps."
State of Pennsylvania, Allegheny county,
City of Pittsburg, ss.
"Before me, the undersigned Notary Pub
lic, personally came Miss Florence Connors,
who, being duly sworn, says:
"I am a granddaughter of John Connors,
Sr., the man from whom the money and
bonds were stolen at the time of the Catfish
robbery.
I saw my grandfather and grandmothera
day or two after that robbery, and had a
long talk with both of them, and neither of
them made any complaints of being hurt or
injured. It was not true that my grand
mother was tortured in any way, neither
were Her feet burned or injured, nor was
any attempt made to burn her feet or injure
her in any other way.
"My grandfather told me at the time of my
visit, 'that when I was scuffling with the
first man who came into the house, the re
volver which that man had exploded, as he
thought, accidentally, and that the bullet
grazed his head and just took off the bare
skin, Tso that the blood seeped out. It was so
slight that it left no scar.'
COULD NOT RECOGNIZE MILLER.
"He also told mo that at the time of the
robbery that the men were all masked, and
that lie did not see their faces, and could
not identify any of them. He saw Mr. Miller
at, during and after the trial, and did not
recognize him as one of the participants in
the robbery.
t&" All of which is true and correct, to the
best of mv in formatiou, knowledge andbe
jef. Miss Flobexce Cosskb.
"Sworn to and subscribed before me, Au
gust 24, 1S9L Witness my hand and notarial
teal. Johx W. Hague,
"Notary Public."
A reporter of The Dispatch visited Mr. E.
A. Smith yesterday at La Belle Steel Works,
in Allegheny, and being questioned lis to
whether he did Identity the bills which
Miller took to the bank on the day
or the bond sale as being part of the
money that had been paid for the said
bonds, he replied that he did not want to
have anything to say about the matter, as
he did not wish to do Mr. Miller an injus
tice. The reporter intimated that truth can
do no one an injustice, and insisted that Mr.
Smith should say whether he did or did not
identify this money.
MR. SMITH'S TALK ANALYZED.
He claimed that he did; when asked to de
scribe how he identified it whether he
could give the .numbers of the bank on
which the bills belonged, or any other defi
nite information, he said: "I cannot; they
looked alike on the face." The reporter
then asked: "Could you identify two $1,000
bills ut a passing glance, several hours after
ward?" He replied: "I could." "How
could you do it?" "Just as I conld identity
the faces of two men; yours, for instance,
and another man's whom I had seen." The
reporter asked the question: "Could not
half a dozen bills look just the same to
you?" He replied: "It is possible they
could."
The extracts from the same note as taken
by J. T. Moffat on the day of the trial gives
Mr. E. A. Smith's testimony on the witness
stand, and the following is a verbatim copy
of his answers, as to whether he could or
could not identify the money, which Mr.
Miller changed or which was taken from his
person after his arrest, as any of the money
which had been paid tor the bonds:
"Am E. A. Smith; in business in the Fifth
National Bank, Pittsburg; am teller; made
check and paid it to South a few moments
later, $5,601 60; they were large bills, $1,000
each. In a short time Miller brought in a
bill of $1,000 to get it changed: I think two of
them. I said, laughingly, I thought I paid
out that same bill a few moment ago. 1 do
not know what renlv lie made; I do not
know that it was the same oill I had paid to
South; I saw other bills; I think I saw a $500
bill: saw the money taken from Miller; could
not recognize the money taken from him by
the detectives."
TICKING OUT WEAK rOIXTS.
This disposes of the statement made
yesterday by Teller Smith, of the Fifth Na
tional Bank, at the time the bonds were
sold, but he says that several of the $1,000 bills
for which Miller asked change in the bank
were the same as those given to South, the
broker, in exchange for a check or George I.
Whitney, and which were given by South to
Archie Montague.
There was another statement made yes tor
day, and it was claimed that it was a weak
point in Miller's story. In speaking of his
escape from the penitentiary, he says he
"escaped without he:p, and managed to
change his clothes and get away without
any aid." "It is well known and was clearly
proven at the time that an ex-convict named
Ames was Miller's confederate, and became
acquainted with Miller in the penitentiary
and learned his plans." The statement was
also made that there was a letter from Miller
telling Amos how to revive him in caso he
lost consciousness.
The reporter has gleamed the Information
from the police records, and from Rev. E.
It. Donehoo, who assisted Ames after his re
lease from the workhouse, where he was
sent on a plea of guilty to aiding Miller to
eseape. Ames was arrested on the night of
dinner s escape, in Dan uardner's saloon, on
Fifthavenucjin his possession were found the
Shins spoken of, and a lot of burglar's tools,
o was taken to the Central station, and the
true facts in the cae are, that at that time,
had it been proven beyond question that
Miller's escape from the penitentiary was
unaided and unassisted by any one, certain
officials connected with that institution,
would have stood in a very queer light as
regards the manner in which that institu
tion if managed.
DELAYED BY DOUBT,
D.tf. Oliver Says That Tin Plate Mak
ing Is Being Hindered by
but One Thing.
:FEAR OF MORE TARIFF TINKERING
Prevents American Manufacturers From
Turning Out Quantities
of Tin.
BENEFITS OF PEOTECTION TO LABOE.
How the Farmer lias a Share in It, Also, by Being
His Own Landlord.
MILLER MUST HAVE BEEN ASSISTED.
To prevent a reflection on their vigilance
and watchfulness, says Mr. Miller, it was
desirable to prove that he had
been assisted by guards on the inside, and
convicts recently discharged. Ames was
selecied to represent the recently discharged
convict; he denied most emphatically hav
ing liad anything to do wiih Miller's escape,
and made the statement, which certainly
looks reasonable, "Do you think if I assisted,
or was iu the city for the purpose of
assisting Miller to escape, this morn
ing, that 1 Would be here this evening?"
But fearing they might preler a charge of
having burglar's tools in his possession, he
made no effort to secure his release from
custody, and the man from whom this infor
mation was obtained believes that Major
Montooth was Ames' counsel at that time,
and that, when Warden Wright visited the
jail to interview Ames, Ames told him: 'If
you attempt to have me sent to prison for
aiding Miller to escape, I will make this
"ran too not to hold you.'
"The frauds which have been committed
in that penitentiary, and of which I am
cognizant, having made extracts from the
books of the penitentiary and conveyed
them outside the walls, and have them
safely in my possession, will be published to
the world and your reputation ruined. It is
a notorious fact that Ames was kept in the
jail and allowed unusual privileges, and
long after Miller was returned from Canada,
was coaxed to make a confession and plead
guilty to the charge of aiding Miller to
escape, on promise that he would only re
ceive a sentence of 00 days to the work
house. LOOKING FOR ANOTHER MAN.
"Afterward, when Ames was returned to
the penitentiary from Mcadville, Pa., under
another name, it is well known to several
men who were prisoners in the penitentiary
that Charlie Ames made Miller's acquaint
ance for the first time, and begged his
pardon for connecting himself in any way
with his escape, and said, in justification and
in explanation of his movements that morn
ing, tiiat he was there not for the purpose of
assisting Miller, but another man."
The additional statcmentis made that cer
tain police officials declared they have proof
that Miller went direct to the "little Lamb"
saloon on Virgin alley, where the robbery
was originally planned, and where the
thieves met, and there changed his clothes
and obtained money. 3Ir. Miller, being
asked last night regarding the truth of the
statement made above, most emphatically
denied both, and defies any police official or
anyone else to show any letter ever found
on A mes or any other men, such as described
above, or to bring forth any good, substan
tial proof that be ever was in the "Little
Lamb" saloon in his life.
it is well known to many prominent men
in the city that there were many queer
things occurred at the time of Miller's ar
rest very strange andunaccountable tilings
which have never been satisfactorily ex
plainedand the reporter tried to get Miller
to make a statement regarding some facts
which happened at the time in connection
with his arrest; he has absolutely refused to
do so unless attacked by the officials who
are the interested party.
SOME MISTAKES WERE MADE.
It is taken as a curious commentary on the
actions of men that John Connors, Sr., an old
man of 61, should make an affidavit one day in
which he declared Miller was not guilty of
felonious assault, and could not identify him
as one of the men who had robbed him, and
leads to many curious conjectures as to the
means used by which he was brought to
make an affidavit the following day, before
the same Justice of the Peace, charging Mil
ler with felonious assault, claiming that he
had identified him at the time of the rob
bery. Warden Wright, it is said, in an interview
the other day informed a gentleman that
while Miller was awaiting extradition in
Canada, about that time John Connors was
robbed by his own nephews, and that he
made the remark that the reason he did not
trv to have Miller indicted on the charge for
which he was extradited was that if his own
flesh and blood could not wait for their
share of his wealth for the little time ho yet
had to live, he was not going to prosecute a
stranger whom he was not sure had ever
participated in robbing him.
COULDN'T BE JIMMY EYATT.
Pittsburg and Chicago Police Agree Fully
Upon That Point.
Detective Sol Coulson yesterday declared
that Miller could not possibly have been the
notorious Jimmy Eyan. He said the men
w ere as unlike as could be. The Dispatch's
Chicago correspondent corroborates this, in
a telegram received last evening and read
ing as follows:
"I remember Jimmy Eyan," said Officer
Evans, of the rogues' gallery department of
the Chicago police lorce, this afternoon.
"The last time I saw him, I beliove, was in
'81, 'S2 or '83, when he was arrested by Officer
Arnstein, brought in on general principles,
as an ex-convict and general crook, perhaps
for the purpose of having him leave the city
with 24 hours. I have no photograph of
him, nor have we any description.
This department was not organized
then as it is now. All that I can say is that
he had a moustache and side whiskers, I
think, at the time of his arrest. He had
served a term at Jackson, Mich., but I never
heard of him having been in the peniten
tiary at Pittsburg. His real name, wo un
derstood, was Houlihan, and I think, but am
not certain, that he came from Peoria, or
somewhere down in the center of this State.
He was a safe-blower and a general burglar.
His brother, Tom Ityan, was a safe-blower
of more note. Tom was one of the most ex
pert men at that business in America. Tom
is still living, and was in Chi
cago about a month ago. Jim
my was shot and killed at Peoria,
in 1885, while committing a burglary, by
Officer Addelman, a German policeman, who
is still in Peoria, doing business as a private
detective or watchman. The Jimmy Byan
1 sDokc of may not bo the man The Pitts
nuRO DisrATCH is inquiring about, but I
think he is. At all events, he is the only
sale-blower we know of by that name." '
Officer Rohan, also of the Department of
Identification, said substantially the same
thing. Chiof McClaughry has received a
telegram from Pittsburg, inquiring about
Kyan's record, and has referredit to Rohan
for investigation, and he has handed to the
Chief a report to that effect.
ME. DONEHOO'S 0PINI0H.
He Does Not Believe Miller Guilty of the
Catfish Robbery.
A representative of The Dispatch nt the
ConftMMcd on Sixth JTaje.
Mr. David B. Oliver, General Manager of
the Oliver Iron and Steel Company, talked
entertaining!- yesterday to a Dispatch re
porter who asked him about the tin plate
industry in America. Said lie: "Make tin
plate here? Certainly we can. "Why not?
Tin plate consists of iron or steel sheets of
good quality and the requisite thickness,
properly scoured and cleaned and then
coated with tin. That is all there is of it.
"At present the bulk of the world'ssupply
of tin plate is made in England and "Wales.
The tin for coating comes mainly from the
Straits settlements in the Dutch East Indies;
formerly it was mined in AVales and Corn
wall, and is yet to a limited extent; but
the growth in the consumption of tin plate
of late years has been so great that the old
sources of supply are no longer adequate.
and now Banca and Malacca are the largest
producers of the pure tin. I have no doubt
that we have plenty of tin in this country,
which will be developed in due time, and
until then we can do as the Welshmen do,
buy the tin for coating. There are hundreds
of thousands of tons of iron and steel made
every year in Allegheny county alone of the
quality suitable for tin plate.
"Why, then, do not our manufacturers
begin to make it at once?"
THE M'KINLEY BILL VINDICATED.
"The McKinley bill passed about a month
before the last Congressional elections; by
false pretense and all kinds of gross misrep
resentations the ,voters were influenced
against it; there was no time to counteract
these efforts, and the verdict of the people
seemed to be against it, and since the cor
onation of Queen Victoria Englishmen have
not been so hilarious in their rejoicings as
when the result of that election reached
them. Since then the McKinley bill has
vindicated itself, and if it can only get over
the new Congress safely it will have come
to stay, but capital is timid and conserva
tive, and our manufacturers hesitate, owing
to this uncertainty. Once let it be realized
that the act will not be disturbed, and we
will very shortly make all the tin plate we
use. and possibly make it for export.
"The-United States are now the largest
consumers of tin plate in the world, taking,
1 believe, more of it than ail the rest com
bined, and I know of no good reason why we
should not make it for ourselves."
"But you cannot make it as cheap as the
imported article."
"Possibly not, at first. When we first Im
ported steel rails wo paid $160 a ton for them;
now we make them here and sell them for
$30 a ton. A few j-ears ago, when we im
ported wire nails, thoy sold at 10 cents a
pound; they are now made here and sell at
2 cents a pound. When we first began their
manufacture here we followed the Old
World methods: we made the wire rod from
a two-inch billet weighing about 28 pounds,
and the product ot a mill was about 16 tons
a turn.
SOME AMERICAN IMPROVEMENTS.
"We soon improved on that. We now make
the rod from a four-inch 'billet weighing 140
pounds, and we make over 125 tons in the
same time, and with about the same labor
we formerly did the 16 tons. Other im
provements in the manufacture have been
made and to-day you can buy wire nails here
as cheap as you can in England. I believe it
will be the same way with tin plate once
our people get their minds right down to it
and 'get the hang of it.' I have no idea we
will long continue to ioiiow the Uld world
antiquated methods."
"It is frequently said that the tariff pro
tects the manufacturer only, and does not
protect the workman."
"Yes. I see that statement sometimes
made.but it is made unadvisedly at least as
far as the iron industry is concerned. W hat
is known and classed in the iron trade as
bar iron is the base of the merchant iron
trado, because that class inoludes a greater
tonnage than perhaps all the rest of the
kinds and classes combined. Pig iron is the
material from which bar iron is made, and
the labor required to convert the pig into
bar consists of puddling, heating, rolling,
and then incidental labor, and is practically
of the same nature in this country and
England. The English Staffordshire manu
facturer can to-day buy his pig iron at i
5s ($10 90 of our money) per ton; he can sell
his product of merchant bar iron at 5 15$
($27 3) per ton; the difference between his
cost lor pig and his return for his bar
being $16 93 per ton. He pays for labor:
Puddliug.8 shillings per ton; rolling, heating
and other labor, 12 shillings per ton, making
a total forlaborof 20shillmgs ($4 84) per ton.
"The Pittsburg iron manutacturer will
pay to-day lor his pig iron $14 25 per ton; he
can sell his product 'lor $34 72 per ton; the
difference between his cost for pig and
his return for bar being $20 47 per ton. He
pays for labor: Puddling, $5 50 per ton;
rolling, heating and other labor, $8 25 per
ton; making a total for labor of $13 75 per
ton.
AMERICAN LABOR THE BEST PAID.
"The English manufacturer, therefore,
has a difference between his pig and bar of
$16 93 per ton, and he pays $4 84 for la
bor. The American manufacturer has a dif
ference between his pig and bar of $20 47 per
ton, and ho pays for his labor $13 75 per ton.
As I have said, tljo amount of labor and skill
requisite, and the conditions under which
they are exercised, are practically the samo
in both countries, but the American labor
gets for its share nearly three times more
than the English laborgcts and the English
is by no means the lowest foreign labor in
the iron trade, the Belgian and German be
ing much lower, and tbe English workmen
are now agitating actively for protection
against the importation of Continental iron
into England.
"These two amounts $4 84 for English and
$1S 75 for American labor for the same service
are very highly disproportionate. In all my
talks with opponents of our protective sys
tem, I have never yet obtained from them
anvthlng approaching a satisfactory expla
nation of how or in what way an American
manufacturer could make iron and pay the
present wages without the tariff. Free trade
college professors may theorize, but as a
practical man, I say it is utterly impossible
lor him to do so.
"Xo, the average wages of.iron workers
are not excessive; take puddling, lor in
stance: $5 50 per ton practically $5 50per day
for two skilled men and exceedingly labor
ious and severe labor continuously before a
furnace. American workmen aro voters,
and it is desirable, for this reason if for no
other, that they be well paid and enabled to
have comfortable homes and educate their
children."
"But do not the farmers have to pay this
excess?"
"Practically speaking, no; the excess is
so distributed and recompensed as not to be
discernible or felt anywhere.. Iron and steel
enter so largely into the construction and
maintenance of railways that you might -expect
to find Its effects there, but there is
no country in the world whore railway
freight charges are as low as here, or where
the farmer gets his products carried as
chenply to market; neither does it show in
the purchase of his farming machinery and
implements. The Western farmer can buy
all-steel reaping or mowing machines, laid
aown nt nis Darn in tne Aortnwest, lor less
heavy poor rates, ces3" and other taxes, that
would make an American farmer's hair
gray. The American farmer thus has a pro
tective tariff, as against his foreign competi
tor, of a most effective nature one above
and beyond the control of- Senate or Con
gress, and one that in the nature or things
will never fail him.
"Foreign capital comes here and finds
profitable investment; foreign workmen
and farmers of all sorts and conditions come
here from the Old World and rarely return
except as visitors or tourists; our country is
healthily growing in wealth and power; our
statesmen aro required to scheme to find the
most desirable wavs of disposing of a sur
plusthose of the Old World are obliged to
worry over an ever-recurring deficit; these
are for us most desirable economic condi
tions; they have existed with us for a long
time: as long as they continue we can well
afford to let the foreign free trade heathen
rage and a small minority of our own people
Imagine a vain thing."
MAY BE SETTLED.
No More Talk of That Promised Sensational
Suit Mr. Chambers' Statement Prepared
Some Standard Plate Glass Stock to Be
Sold To-Day.
No further steps were taken yesterday in
the contemplated suit against 'W.E.Schmertz
by Attorney Josiah Cohen. It is possible
that the matter will be settled now without
suit.
James A. Chambers was In consultation
the greater part of yesterday with his attor
ney, J. Scott Ferguson. A statement of his
affairs has been prepared and will be pre
sented to his creditors. A strong impres
sion prevails that he will be granted an ex
tension. A meoting of the directors of tbe Standard
Plate Glass Company will be held to-day, at
which a statement of the financial condition
of this concern will be made. Mr. Ferguson
was seen last night in regard to the general
trend of this statement. He said it would
probably place the company in a better
light than that in which it has been viewed
by many. Mr. Ferguson stated that he was
merely attorney for Mr. Chambers, and not
for the Standard Company, and had no
knowledge of the company's affairs further
than as they affected Mr. Chambers.
When asked if there had not been an im
mense amount sunk in the plant, and if the
total indebtedness would not be in the
neighborhood of half a million dollars, he
stated that he understood from Receiver D.
E. Wheeler that the indebtedness wonld
not exceed $300,000, taking all things into
consideration.
There will be sold to-day for the Farmers'
National Bank 100 shares of Standard Plate
Glass stock, which was given by Mr.Schmertz
as collateral.
GROWIIG UNEASINESS
Is Becoming More Manifest Among
the Vesuvius Mill Men.
HIGHER PBICES FOR PUDDLING
May Be Offered as an Inducement to Them
to Eesnme Operations.
h TIN IS BEING REDUCED IN DAKOTA
FfiESH FB0M OHIO.
Colonel Conger Thinks McKinley Will TYln
Mr. Crouse in Town.
Colonel A. L. Conger, of Akron, O., the
veteran Republican leader, came in from
Ohio last night and put up at tho Anderson.
The Colonel felt so tired after his journey
that he begged to be excused from an inter
view.
"What are McKinley's prospects?" was
asked.
"Very good," was the reply. '"He had a
capital meeting at Kiles, was very wtll re
ceived and I think has an excellent chance
of winning; there are no dissertions in any
quarter, and I expect a victory."
"As to Blaine's nomination for the Presi
dency, Colonel?"
"As to that I would rather not say. I shall
be here for a few days on business and must
ask you to defer an interview until some
other occasion."
"Has ex-Congressman Crouse's presence
here anything to do with tho political situa
tion?" "I did not know Mr. Crouse was here," re
plied Colonel Conger, as he walked to the
news-stand and selected a paper.
x.A.-ongi-essnian oeorge v. uronso, oi
Akron, arrived at tho Anderson about one
hour before Colonel Conger. He was In
town on Sunday, but left during the day,
returning last night. When approached
for information on Ohio political affairs the
ex-leglslator contonted himself with mono
syllabic replies. When Colonel Conger ar
rived Mr. Crouse was seated in the smoking
room chatting with friends. Neither seemed
to know of the other's presence in the hotel.
Colonel Conger, when he had drawn his
cigar into a glow, took his key and retired
to his room. Some of the loungers in the
lobby thought it odd that two gentlemen
from the same town and formerly political
allies in so strong a matter should, not meet.
Rumor has it that the present relations of
the ox-Congressman and the Congressman
maker are not cordial. ,
Uneasiness is being manifested among
the Vesuvius mill strikers at the length
ened difficulty. While the majority of the
puddlers have found employment in ad
jacent mills, the finishers are still lingering
in hopes of a settlement. Some of these
men are being pinched for money to keep
up building association dueB, etc, and many
ol them are reported as ready to take up
their old jobs, when some one has courage
enough to make the break. The firm has
repeatedly declared its willingness to pay
full scale rates, excepting to the crew on
the plate rolls, and the finishers knowing
this are between two minds whethor to
throw over the association and return, or
adhere to the ship and take the gifts tho
gods send them.
It was rumored yesterday that the
Vesuvius owners would offer $6 a ton for
puddling after September 1. The reason for
this is stated to be two-fold; the dtffloulty of
getting puddlers and the unpopularity of
the fuel used for boiling the iron. The firm
uses a gas made from slack and steam, a
system introduced last winter, and the pud
dlers claim that the work is much harder
than with coal or eras. Manv of the nuddlers
left tho mill last year for this cause. Colored
puddlers are to be had in plenty, but the
firm will not have them. The calculation of
the owners is that tbe reduction in the scale
for the plate mill will more than pay tho ad
tional half-dollar to the puddlers.
Tho puddling department of the mill was
closed down yesterday. Ho man could be
got to operate it.
The Amalgamated Association is Issuing
orders on two stores owned by association
men. The outside storekeepers are wroth at
this. They say that they gave the men
credit on tormer occasions, can do so again
and should not be discriminated against in
this manner. The loss to tho township dur
ing the last two months, since work closed,
is about $45,000.
President Wclhe had nothing to say yes
terday when asked for information regard
ing this matter.
PUZZLES THE CORONER.
The Death of Patrick Clcary Being Investi
gated by the Allegheny Police A
Wound on His Head Which Is Not Ac
counted For.
The death of Patrick Cleary, in the Alle
gheny General Hospital yesterday, is sur
rounded with mystery which the police are
endeavoring to solve. Cleary was employed
in Oliver Bros. mill. He came here about
three weeks ago from Scranton and went to
board at Mrs. Hughes' boarding house,
known as the "Last Chance," on "Wilkins
street, not far from the "Pork house mill."
Last Saturday night, as Detective Mc
Donough, who lives in the vicinity, was
returning from his supper, he was attracted
to the "Last Chance" by a crowd that had
gathered around, and there on the brick
porch, seated on a chair and held hv four
other men, wns Patrick Cleary, apparently
in violent convulsions. The detective at
once called the patrol wagon, in which
Cleary was taken to the Mayor's ofllce. Act
ing Superintendent Steele there ordered his
removal to tho hospital where he died.
Upon being notified of the case Coroner
McDowell ordered an autopsy, which was
held by Drs. Rose and Rogers, or the Hos
pital staff. They found that death had re
sulted from a fracture of the skull at the
base of the brain immediately behind and
close up to the right car. Tho Coroner con
sulted with acting Superintendent Steele,
who at once put his men to work on the
case. Detectives Komman and McDonough
went out, but up until a late hour last night
had not reported. The Coroner's inquest
will be delayed nntll the matter is fully in
vestigated. It is said Cleary has been drinking hard
for a week or more, and displayed signs of
insanity or dollrium tremens on Saturday,
and fell down stairs at his boarding house.
STRICT PARTY RULES
To Govern To-Day's Straightout Con
vention in Lafayette HaU.
WHAT WILL PROBABLY BE DONE.
Eleventh Ward Republicans Opposed to the
Committee's Action.
OTHER I0CAL POLITICAL POINTERS
ACCIDENTS TO CAB LINES.
WHEAT IN DAKOTA.
SHE SOON RETURNED.
money than tho English farmer in York
shire can his. Competent j udges assure me
that ours are at the same time lighter,
stronger and better adapted to the work.
AMEBICAJJS THEIE OW2T LANDLOKD3.
"Besides, and more than all this, the
American owns his farm in fee simple Is his
own landlord. More than 90 per cent of the
British farmers are tenants and pay rent for
their farms. The farmer of Ulster or York
shire or of the Lothians pays from 20 to 40
shillings per acre per year, according to the
quality of the land, etc., to the landed pro
prietor. You can buy outright a good farm
here for what will pay one vear's rent of a
farm over there. In addition, there are
A German Woman Starts for Europe, -hut
Comes Back for a Ticket.
Angelina Allard was a mnch distressed
woman last night. She may feel-better this"
morning, but it is problematical. Angelina
was a hired woman in nn East Liberty house,
and she was so industrious and saving that
she accumulated enough money to run a
bank book and a balance at her banker's.
When her employers moved away for the
summer Miss Allard became conscious of a
desire to revisit the Fatherland. Fifty-three
dollars of her savings procured her a steam
ship ticket and transportation from this city
to Bullendorf, Germany, through Moeser,
the Smithfield street agent.
Angelina departed on her journey at 1:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon, to take ship at
Philadelphia. Sho returned on tho mail,
and wandering into the hall of the Union
depot was evidently in such trouble that ono
of the officers undertook to assist her. To
him she explained that she had lost her
steamship ticket. The officer had her ex
amined by the matron to see If the paper
had not got into a crevice. It couldn't be
found. Sho was positive the agent had not
given it to her, but the ticket agent at the
depot had seen the duplicate on which he
had sold-her tho railroad ticket. Finally
Angelina retired within tho ladles' end of
the depot accommodations, and waited 1
uiHrtj xur juurciiiig, wiicn sne proposes to bee
Mr. Moeser.
VIEWERS GET DOWN TO WORK.
Long Testimony Kecorded on the Boggs
Avenue Improvement.
" The 'Board of Viewers for the Southside,
consisting of Messrs. Wenke, McWilUnmg
and Tatterson, held a meeting at the office
In City Hall yesterday, and took testimony
on the claims for damages by the grading of
Boggs avenue. Tho notes were taken in
shorthand and were very voluminous, and
the ovidence is almost a duplicate of that
taken by tho old board under the defunct
act of 1S37. The meeting was adlourned at 1
o'clock, and will be resumed to-day at 9 A. m.
Messrs. McCallin, Barr and Randall Mar
tin, constituting tbe Old City Board, held a
meeting at the office yesterday, and took
testimony on the damage by grade of Herron
avenue. They will finish up the view to-day
by going out on the ground and examining
the claims set up by tho property holders.
The Crop Away Above the Average No
Tin Being Reduced.
J. A. Paulhamus, of Aberdeen, S. D.,was at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel last night. He
says that tbe wheat crop in the Dakotas will
surpass the expectation of tho most san
guine. Experts who have been estimating
the yield for the railroad and mortgage com
panies place tho yield from these States at
from 90,000,000 to 110,000,000 bushels. Mr.
Paulhamus has traveled extensively over
the States recently and can speak from per
sonal knowledge of the prospects. He says
that counties which last year were barren
will this season yield 15 bushels to the acre:
the average run of the fields will be from 30
to 35 bushels per acre.
Mr. Paulhamus is interested in companies
pushing Irrigation by means of artesian
wells. These are being put down in large
numbers, and their beneficial results are
proven by the richness of the harvest. The
pressure on theso wells runs from 60 to 140
pounds to the inch. Put down in the towns
the wells yield an abundance of water for
every purpose. Many towns draw their fire
supply from these sources, dispensing with
engines. At Aberdeen Mr. Paulhamus saw
a jet of water from an artesian well thrown
175 feet into the air through a two-inch
nozzle.
Speaking of the mining operations, Mr.
Paulhamus says that while there is a great
deal of work being done in opening up
mines there is no tin being reduced. He says
the impression is general in the Dakotas
that the companies mining the properties
are not anxious to make tin. He says that
the bulk of the owners are English, and that
they will not make tin until they soo the
Americans want it. Mr. Paulhamus says
that the English owners will not make tin as
long as there is any donbt of the future of
the tinned plating industry in this country.
The mineral is in the hills in abundance,
ana Just as soon as it is required it can be
sent into the markets in hundreds of tons.
A Cable Road and a Dnqncsno Car Meet
"With Delaying Mishaps.
The East End cable of the Fifth avenue
line parted at the East Liberty station, at
7:45 o'clock last evening, leaving the cars
with their passengers standing along that
division. The cars between Oakland and
the city were kept running, as theso cables
are separate from those that run to tho East
End. A new cable was put on to-night, and
the road will be in operation this morning.
Last evening the brake on an inbound Du
quesne car broke on Forbes road near Craft
avenue. The car came down the steep grade
at this point at a high rate of speed, but it
had a clear track and was stopped at the
foot of the hill without any damage being
done. One passenger, a colored man, jumped
off. ne was rolled over and over but was
not hurt to any extent.
PICKED UP BY THE POLICE.
ACKNOWLEDGE THE COURTESIES.
The British Iron and Steel Institute'!
"Memorial to Prominent Pittsburgers.
The President andConncll of the British
Ironaud Steel Institute have sent a hand
somely engraved memorial of thanks to
James B. Scott, John H. RIcketson, Captain
,A. E. Hunt, aud other gentlemen who were
foremost in welcoming the visitors to Pitts
burg in October of last year.
Tho memorial is strongly appreciative of
tho services of these gentlemen to the vis
itors while here, and is inclosed in a neat
frame. The document bears the autographs
of tho President, Past Presidents and the
Council, including the names of Sir James
Vitson, Sir John G. N. Alleyn, E. P. Morten,
the Dukeof Devonshire, Sir Henry Bessemer,
Sir Lowthlan Bell, George J. Snelus, etc.
This unlookod-tor token of acknowledge
ment of their elTorts to entertain the foreign
guests is highly appreciated by the re
cipients. Tailors Take a Picnic
The Journeymen Tailors Union held its
first annual picnic at Alliquippa yesterday.
Various games were indulged in and an en
joyable day passed.
The proprietors of the spqak-easies raided
Sunday were fined $50 and costs yesterday
morning. All the visitors wcro fined $5 and
costs.
JohnStaub is accused by Joseph Martin
with assault and battery before Alderman
McGaroy.. The two men, it is said, drive a
beer wagon, and bad a dispute about collect
ing some money, which ended in a fight.
Aldebmaw Maddkit yesterday issued a war
rant for the arrest of Joseph Mooney, a car
penter, living in the Thirty-fifth ward, on
charges of assault and battery and deser
tion. The information was made by Moon
ey's wife.
Mas. Scsanxa Miller yesterday entered
an information before Alderman Beinhauer,
accusing her husband with assault. She al
leges that he went home drunk one night
last week and tried to kill her by throwing a
large butcher knife at her.
Jim Sax, tbe Chinaman in whose house at
Xo. 311 Grant street the patrons of a game
of fan-tan were arrested Sunday night, was
fined $25 and costs by Magistrate Gripp yes
terday morning. Key, the dealer was fined
$50 and costs, and tho others $5 and costs
each.
Miss Ella Pastobius, of tho Southside, yes
terday caused the arrest of Frank Lapp, on
a charge of larceny by bailee, which she pre
ferred before Alderman McGarey. She
alleges that a short time ago Lapp borrowed
a ring of hers, und afterward gave it to an
other girl.
Patrick Dolait, 19 years old, who resides
with his mother at 81 Tustin street, wns ar
rested by Officer Hildebreot for disorderly
conduct last night. Dolan was released from
Morganza only last week, and last night he
attacked his mother and beat her in a
shameful manner.
Peter Plautz, who is employed as a night
watchman at Morris' foundry, Twenty-third
and Liberty streets, was arrested last night
on a warrant issued by Alderman. Warner,
charging him with oruelly neglecting his
wife and one child. The information in the
case is made by Agent M. J. Dean, of the
Anti-Cruelty Society.
The "Straighout" Eepnblicans say they
will be out to-day in force, rain or s bine,
even if the country roads are bad. The
latter contingency they should look at from
another angle, however, as, if the weather
be too wet to haul into the barn, the granger
delegates will have all the more incentive
and come out, as there hasn't been rain
enongbtowct sod ground for plowing for
winter grain crops.
It Is promised that the Convention will be
one of tho cleanest political affairs that has
been held In tho county for many years, and
that it will be.run according to the rules of
the Republican County Committee. But
neither Judges McClemy and Porter nor
District Attorney Burleigh will bo allowed
to enter the lists.
The District Attorneyship aflalr is ex
pected by the Straightouts to bring strength
to their cause, as they think the Democratic
omission to nominate a candidate for this
office will arouse antagonism In the party,
and either force a third nomination or bring
strength to the Straightout cause.
The Convention will meet in Lafayette
Hall, at 10 o'clock a. m., and whether there
will be any conjuring power in the place
and name remains to be seen. Some
Straightouts dwell with emphasis on tho
fact that it is popularly supposed to have
been the incubator in which was hatched
the organization from which the Straight
outs are at present bolting.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
The Leading
Drygoods House.
Pittsburg, Fa
Monday, Aug. 21, lSJL
JOS. HOME & GOS
THEY WAKT EECOGmTIOir.
SHOT FH0M ABOVE,
Threatened to Shoot Her.
Henry Drexler, a coal miner living in
Mansfield borough, was committed to jail
yesterday by 'Squire McMillan on a charge
of carrying concealed weapons. The prose
cutor is Maggie Miller, with whom Drexler
boards, and who alleges that she upbraided
Drexler for his treatment of her crippled
daughter, when he produced a revolver and
threatened to shoot her.
SNAP SHOTS AT CITY NEWS.
A vert useful directory and calendar for
1S92 has just beenissuedby Charles J. Jaegle
of the Eeobacliter. ' '
The County Treasurer yesterday received
from the Auditor General a supply of tho
pamphlet laws ofl891 for distribution among
attorneys.
A new map of tho bituminous coal region
of which Pittsburg is tho metropolis, has
been issued by A. J. Lee, C. E. As an object
lesson of the natural advantages of this city
it is as conclusive as accurate.
A very unique prospectus has been issued
by the Western University. 1$ is for an ad
vanced or post-graduate course in astron
omy and astro-physics, under J. E. Keeler
the new director of the observatory, late
astronomer of Lick Observatory.
The Board of Directors of the Knox sub
district school, held a special meeting at tho
school building last evening and elected
Miss Margaret Welsh a teachorin the school
to fill tho vacancy created by tho resigna
tion of Miss Mary Mensinger, who taught in
room No. 2.
J. A. McCormick, who has been connected
with Haworth & Dewhurst as traveling
salesman for the past 12 years, has tendered
his resignation and has purchased the Ar
lington Hotel at Lima, O. The peoploof
Lima will find In Mr. JlcCormick an honest
upright and energetic citizen. '
Jacob Nan Accuses Charles Cupport of a
Serious Offense.
Jacob Nau yesterday caused the arrest of
Charles Cuppert, of St. Paul street, on a
charge of telonious assault and battery,
which has been preferred against him be
fore Alderman Beinhauer of tho Twenty
ninth ward. Last Tuesday Nau was driving
along Brownsville avenue, when ho sudden
ly heard a pistol shot Just above him on the
hillside. At the same time ho felt a sting
ing sensation In his arm near the shoulder,
and on examination found he had beenjshot.
The wound Died profusely, and thinking the
shooting was accidental he did not wait to
find out who fired, but went to a physician
and had the bullet taken out and the wound
dressed.
After this he went home, and on making
an investigation was told that three people
had seen Charles Cuppert point a revolver
at him, and after aiming very carefully,
fire it. As Nau and Cuppert have not been
on the best of terms lor two years past, he
at once concluded Cuppert was guilty of
snooting, uupperi, ne says, nau tureatened
his life several times. He says Cuppert two
years ago was caught by him administering
a sound thrashing to a little boy and he re
monstrated with him for so doing.
Cuppert was arrested by Constable Shert
zinger at his home yesterday, and when
taken to Alderman Ben Lauer's office de
nied all of Nau's allegations, and claims that
he was not near the place where the shot
was fired at that time. The ease will come
up for a hearing on Thursday.
The last Opportunity
Of the season to visit Atlantic City will be
afforded by the B. & O. B. B. Thursday,
August 27. Bate 510 for the round trip;
tickets good for 10 days, and good to stop
off returning at Washington City. Trains
leave at 8:15 A. m. and 9:20 p. M. Secure
your parlor and sleeping car accommoda
tions early.
Why not make your wants known through
the cent a word columns of The Dispatch?
It circulates everywhere.
Grande Polnte.
Have you heard of it? It contains the
finest building lots in the two cities. All
50 feet wide situated on the California
Avenue Electric Line. For plans etc, see
A. Z. Byers & Co., 93 Federal street, tusu
Eleventh Ward Republicans Opposed to
the Action of the Executive Committee.
At the regular meeting of the Eleventh
Ward Republican League Club, held last
night, the following resolution was adopted:
"Resolved, The members of this club, be
lieving that in the complete and thorough
organization of Republican clubs through
out the State, in a great measure, will de
pond tbe success of the Republican party in
future elections, and also believing that the
object of the organizers of the State league
was to consolidate or unify action among
party workers, and that it wonld be to the
best interests of the party in this State to
organize as many members of tbe party as
possible into clubs and admit each club to
representation in the State league, hereby
express our thorough condemnation of the
action of the Executive Committee in ex
cluding from the coming convention of the
State league of clubs at Scranton representa
tives from no wly formed clubs, believing the
committee's object to have been inconsist
ent with and contrary to that for which the
State league was organized.
"We therefore instruct delegates to use
their utmost efforts to obtain equal recog
nition and privileges for delegates from
newly organized clubs with those that any
other club in the league possesses."
KOBE CLTBS IN LINE.
Two New Republican Organizations Fat
on Foot ITesterday.
The Vickroy Republican Club, of this city,
was organized last night with 22 members.
It is the intention to uniform a marching
club. The following officers were elected:
President, John Crouch; Vice President,
James L. Williams; Secretary, Stephen Col
lins; delegates to Scranton convention, John
Crouch James L. Williams and Stephen Col
lins; alternates, John Eurich, Evan Jones
and William White. The delegates were in
structed to support Hon. John Dalzell.
Last night the' Diamond Republican Club
was organized with 48 members. The officers
elected were: Charles H. Roesslng, Presi
dent: John M. Dougherty, Vice President;
.Iamc3 H. Bigger, Secretary, and William J.
Dillon, Treasurer. W. A. Doak, W. II.
Wassell and Charles Reese were elected
delegates to the Scranton Convention. R.
AT. A. Simmons, William G. Whltlinger and
Samuel F. Boyd were elected alternates.
PMN AVETOE 8I0RBL
FOR
THE
AUTUMN.
We are daily receiving our
advance importations for
the fall season of choice
DRESS
GOODS
Of the best English, Ger-
and French
man
facrure.
manu
Beinhauer and His Boom.
Alderman Beinhauer's boom for Mayor
has been pushed a little farther. Last even
ing 12young Southside citizensmet at Pfeil's
hall. Twenty-ninth ward, and organized a
Beinhauer Glee Club. Michael Craig was
elected President of the club.
A NEW M. X. CHUBCH
To Be Dedicated To-Morrow at Homewood
Avenue and Tioga Street.
A new M. E. Church edifice Is in course of
construction at the corner of Homewood
avenue and Tioga street, and the coiner
stone will be laid to-morrow evening at 6:15
o'clock. Ceremonies appropriate to the oc
casion will be held, and addresses will be
made by Rev. J. F. Core, Rev. Dr. C. W.
Smith and Rev. Dr. J. W. Miles. The cere
monies will be conducted by Rev. E. S.
White, pastor of the church.
The work on the new building began July
1, nnd it is expected to have it finished by
January L The building is to be brick, with
stone trimmings, and of neat modern style.
It will be a very handsome strnoture. Its
seating capacity will be about 500.
As usual, our display will
be larger and more com
plete than that of any prev
ious season. To a first
view of the new fall styles
we this morning invite the
ladies of these cities and
vicinity.
Our mail order depart
ment sends samples (tec to
any address upon request.
A BAT'S ACCIDENTS.
B. & B.
Extraordinary Yes, more than that
Dress goods, suitings and plaids 25 and 50
cents to-day removed from the shelves and
sacrificed as above to let in the new fall
goods opened to-day. Boggs & Buhl.
Why not make your wants known through
the cent a word columns of The Dispatch?
It circulates everywhere.
Ladies and misses" gossamers, $1 and
upward.
Ladies' and misses' mackintoshes, 512, v18
and 522.
Men's mackintoshes, 10 and up.
Jos. Horne & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
BIBER & EASTON.
JOS. HORNE & CO.,
607-621'PENN AVENUE.
Bare Opportunity
To secure a bargain in a pretty summer
dress. All India silk, chalii and cotton
dresses at half price.
Ladies' Suit Pabloks,
tts Parcels & Jones, 29 Fifth avenue.
MIDSUMMER
PRICES.
50 Per Cent Reductions.
SPECIAL sale of Grenadines, Plain and
Mexican meshes, all-silk Grenadines,
narrow, medium and wide Satin Stripe
Grenadines. Exquisite designs in brocade
effects, spots, floral clusters and geometric
patterns, etc Can you use these? At
one-half former prices.
anil
WE ARE UNROLLING
Out of work? It costs but one cent a
word now to advertise for a situation in
The Dispatch.
Several Minor Ones but Nono of a Serious
Nature.
Yesterday's accident list was unusually
small. It follows:
Johsks John Johnks, 45 years old, who
lives at Frankstown, was struck by a train
on the Baltimore and Ohio road near his
home yesterday afternoon", and sustained
painful injuries. He attempted to cross the
tracks in Iront of tho train when the engine
struck him. Tho injured man was removed
to tho Homeopathic Hospital, where it was
found that his arm and legs were badly
bruised, but no bones were broken.
Judge John Judge, employed at the Lucy
Furnace, met with a very painful accident
Saturday night last by falling into a bed of
hot sand. lie was terribly burned about
the head and body.
Carey Frank Carey, a fireman on one
nf the engines at the Eliza Furnace, lost his
balance while riding on the tender yester
day morning and fell through the trestle, a"
distance of SO feet. His right shoulder was
dislocated and his back badly injured. He
was removed to his home at Frankstown.
Tor the Schenley Park Zoo.
Chief Bigelow yesterday received a pair of
genuine American bald eagles for the Schen
ley Park Zoo, William Friday being the
donor. The eagles are young, and were cap
tured by Mr. Friday at Snow Islands, Mich.
C. Baeuerlcin Brewing Company,
Bennetts, Pa., telephone 101S, brewers and
bottlers of standard lager and wiener export
beer. The trade and iamilies supplied.
tts
The People's Store Fifth Avenue.
School begins next week. Buy your
children's shoes here. "We have them from
75c up. Campbell & Dick.
Out of work? It costs but one cent a
word now to advertise for a situation in
The Dispatch.
BLACK SILK DRESS NETS
In extra widths.
In beautiful new designs.
In superior qualities.
"We offer yon YOUR CHOICE from a
very large assortment at 50c and 60c per
yard.
LADIES' extra fine Flannel Shirt "Waists,
"Star" make, reduced from H 00 to 2 00.
These are perfect in shape, and high grade
of material and workmanship.
EXTRA fine Cheviot Shirt "Waist for women,
reduced from $2 50 to 51 50.
Odds and Ends I
Boys' button shoes, all No. 5 and 54, at
SI, all higher priced goods, at Simen's, 78
Ohio street, Allegheny, Pa.
Bargains of all kinds are every day ad
vertised in the cent a word columns of The
Dispatch. It pays to read them.
Geakde PorNTE On California avenue,
examine it. For plans and particulars see
A Z. Byers & Co.. 93 Federal street sutu
"Why not make your wants known through
the cent a word columns of The Dispatch?
It circulates everywhere.
Mant ladies are martyrs to'snifcring. Their
best lielD is Pahkeb's Ginoeb Toxic.
Pabkeb's Haib Balsam is lifeto the hair.
After a sleepless night use Angostura
There aro now flvo eagles in the park collect Bitters to tone your system. All druggists.
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EXTRA grade blue and black Polka Dot
"Waists, reduced from SI 50 to SL
"STAB" Laundried "Waists
for women, in white and fancies,
reduced to $1 25.
SILK "WINDSOR TIES, including ring,
reduced from 30c to 18c.
LADIES' extra fine all-linen H. S. Hand
kerchiefs now at $1 50 per dozen.
LEATHER BELTS reduced to 15c. Metal
and Celluloid Belts reduced from ?1 75
to 75c.
BOYS' SIAR "WAISTS.
All $1 00, 51 25, 51 50, 51 75,
REDUCED TO 85c.
BIBER & EASTON
505 AND 507 MARKET ST.
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Some of the handsomest patterns in Milton,
Velvet, Azminster, Moquette, Body Brus
sels, Tapestry Brussels and Ingrain Carpets
ever seen west of New Tork. We take pleas
ure in displaying our stock, and ladies aro
especially invited to call and inspect the en
tire line. We can't be floored in Carpets by
any house.
EDWARD
GR0ETZINGER
627 and 629 Penn Avenue.
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THE Warm Air Furnace-
DAIv 1 LiS 1 1 WroughtSteel Banges.
Cinderella Banges and Stores.
Send for catalogue. Estimates furnished.
J. a BAKTLETT,
apl8-rr 803 Wood st.. PUtabuiy.
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