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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1891.
SETII PERLEY'S TRIAL
Up for the Third Time in the United
States District Court,
IS A FAMOUS OLD PENSION CASE.
Tndge Emng Jfot Pleased With the Ac
quittal of Joseph Hogan.
COSTELLO GUILTY OP MANSLAUGHTER
In the United States District Court yes
terday Seth Todd Pcrley, a former pension
accnt at Erie, was placed on trial for the
alleged violation of the pension laws.
Pcrley has been tried twice before. Once
the jury disagreed. The second time he
was convicted and obtained a new trial.
Perley is represented by ex-Congressman
Brainard, of Erie, and Congressman "Will
iam A. Stone. United States District At
torney Lyon is conducting the prosecution,
with the aid of Assistant United States
District Attorney David Cameron, of
Tioga.
The case is an important one. Pcrley
and James C. Tllafce are accused of collect
ing a claim of Mrs. Sarah Shannon, amount
ing to SS39 33; that they set up this claim
after the lady was dead and appropriated
the money to themselves ins'ead of allow
ing it to revert back to the Government as
it should. The first witness was James II.
. ov, a clerk in the Third Auditor s oflice at
Washington, who identified the original
papers filed by the defendants in support of
. heir claim, Daniel McMahon, a notary at
Erio, was next called to identify the signa
tures to affidavits made by the defendants
before him to the papers filed in pursuit of
the claim. Over 80 witnesses have been
summoned and the case will not be con
cluded for several days.
Alex JIatcer, of Armstrong county,
pleaded guiltv to depositing improper mat
er in the mails.
R. JluSev, Fred Dobier and Mis? Eliza
beth Jloorely, defaulting witnesses in the
rase of Thomas Bowman charged with hav
ing countefeit ruonev in his possession,
which was before the Grand Jury yesterdav
were arrested on attachments. They all
had good excuses and were allowed to go.
The Grand Jurv yesterday returned the
following true bills: Alex Mateer, deposi
ting improper matter in the mails; TV. C
Jutte, J. H. Jovcr, "W. T. Fnucett, X. J.
Kcllar, J. It. Clark and A. Sennit, ob
btrncting the chancel of a navigable river.
The cases of George S. Martin and others,
charged with selling olemargarine not
marked as such, were continued until the
llav term of court.
JUDGE EWING SURPRISED
At the .Tnry rinding .Toseph Hocan Not
Gmlty of tho Kelt Robhery Jack Bor
den on Trial A gain Doings of tho
Criminal Conns.
In the Criminal Court yesterday the jury
in the case of Joseph Hogan, trial for bur
glary, for breaking into the house of Peter
Keil, at Shadyside, returned a verdict of
not guiltv, after having been out all night.
Judje Ewing expressed surprise at the
verdict. lie said he had no doubt as to
Uogan's guilt. He said he was a bad man
and in discharging him advised him to get
out of this city.
Jack Borden, Peter Dugan nnd Trank
Coyle are on trial before Judge Kennedy on
a charge of larceny. They are charged with
having snatched up some shoes in the store
of L. Miller, on Fifth avenue near Chest
nut street, September 11, and run ofl -with
them. Borden is the young man over whom
Mayor Gourley and C. L. Magee got into
a controversy Borden was convicted
last -week of burglarv. During the trial
yesterday, John Calfahan, a witness, tcsf
licd that he was with the party and the
shoes were taken b.' him and Bord.in. At
this point he was wrned by the Court that
he was not required to criminate himself
and he gave his testimony more conserva
tively. He had not been charged with
complicity in the offense. The case is still
on trial.
John Allen was convicted of malicious
mischief on information of Mary Cancrhey,
of the Thirtieth ward. She accujji him of
breaking her porch with a stone.
Mrs. B. M. Algeo, of Resecca street,
Allegheny, was tried for assauh andbsttery
on Nora Kreutzka-p, a neighbor She
was acquitted, and the costs were div'ded.
Andrew Leonard, of the Southside, was
convicted of assault and battery on J.
Worcester.
Eleven commission merchants entered
pleas of guiltv to charges of selling oleo
margarine. The cases have been accumulat
ing for some time, and were decided by a
lest case tried some time ago. Thdse who
entered pleas were H. F. Brageman, F.
Coleman, J. W. Greves, Charles Holmes,
M. McXulty, Hugh McKee, James Sinte,
John Gates, Bogcr Hartley, Thomas Ogden
and Walter Straw.
Jacob Siegel and George B. Kress are on
trial before Judge McClung on information
of Earnest Milke, of the Eleventh ward,
Allegheny. Milke alleges that over a year
ago the defendants agreed to put lightning
rods on his house for $15 and wait a year for
their money. He signed what he thought was
an agreement to pay the money, but when
the time arrived he found it was a judgment
note for 560 which they tried to collect
George B. Eidemiller was convicted of as
sault on information of Ella Chufner, resid
ing on the Brownsville road.
THROUGH TOB THIS WEEK.
The Supreme Court Winds Up Its List
With Seven Arguments.
The Supreme Court yesterday finished the
list for this week and adjourned until Mon
day when it will take up the cases for Alle
gheny county. The list is a large one and
will take at least four weeks to dispose of.
An argument was heard yesterday on the
appeal of W. F. Snyder from the Quarter
Sessions of Montgomery county, in the mat
ter of opening a road in Mcreland township.
An argument was heard in the case of H.
S. Heilman and others against the Lebanon
and Annville Street Railway 'Company, ap
pealed by the plaintiffs from Lebanon
county. The suit was lor an injunction to
restrain the defendants from laying their
tracks on the plaintiffs' land without secur
ing them from damages.
An argument was heard on the appeal of
the Northern Coal and Iron Company from
the Common Pleas of Lackawanna county,
8 suit to restrain the appellants from tak
ing property under condemnatory proceed
ings. The appeal of E. T. Taylor, executor,
from the Quarter Sessions of Washington
county was argued. The case was on ex
ceptions to the account of the executor of
J. W. Hendrix.
An argument was hpard in the case of C
Geiblc, Sr , vs J. and H. Smith, appealed
by the defendants from the Common Pleas
of Butler county. The case was an appeal
from judgment entered for costs.
An argument was heard in the case of P.
C Boyle vs J. B. Pruthman, appealed bv
the plaintiff from the Common Pleas of
Butler county. The case was an action
brought to recover the penalties for the al
leged violation of the law governing the
issue of oil certificates.
An argument was heard in the case of
Washington borough vs D. W. McGeorge,
appealed by the defendant from the Com
mon Pleas of Washington county. The
suit was to recover a vehicle license fee.
Wants ray for His Property.
Lawrence Woclfel yesterday entered suits
against the Robella Oil Company and the
Glenficld Xatural Gas Company for 51,000
damages each. He alleges that the defend
ants bored oil wells within 40 feet of his
house at Jack's Bun, and that the oil, mud,
etc., sprayed over his house from the wells
has considerably damaged it.
COSTELLO FOUND GUILTY.
Verdict of Involuntary Manslaughter
Found Against Him for the Murder of
Constantino Femora Tliree Men to
Stand Trial for tho Murder of Henry
Shample.
Bartley Costello was put on trial before
Judge Ewing yesterday on the charge of
murdering 17-year-old Constantine Pemora
at Stoops' Perry on July 27. District At
torney Burleigh and "William McElroy
prosecuted the case and Major E. A. Mon
tooth and H. P. Watson, Esq., represented
the defense.
Wright Bell, a resident of Stoops' Perry,
testified to being near the scene of the
drowning when it occurred. 1 Shortly before
he had seen the defendant with two other
men going toward the river. Some three or
four boys were in swimming and he heard
one of the men say, '-Let's duck that
Italian," meaning one of the boys who was
wading about in shallow water hardly up to
his knees. He passed on, but was walking
slowly with his wife, and in a very short
time afterward heard somebody say that an
Italian boy had been drowned.
A colored boy named William Boss, who
worked for the'last witness, had gone that
far with Mr. Bell and sat down on the
beach. He also heard one of the men say
"Let's duck the Italian." When these
men went into the water they did not go
down where the deep water "was, but went
into the shallow water and splashed the
Italian. One ot them later took the Italian,
Pemora, by the neck and forced him into
the deep water and ducked him. He held
him under until the witness heard some
one sav: Let him up or he 11 drown.
He did not see the boy come up after Cos
tello let him go, and in a minute or tw o
the defendaut. with one of the other men,
ran up the bank and up the road. Some
body had said: "The Italians will be down
here with guns when they hear this."
Levi Brown and a number of other boys
corroborated this testimony.
The defense opened by putting Patrick
Kiui, Michael Kane, Patrick McDonough,
Patrick O'Donnell, Joseph McDonongh and
some others on the stand to proe defend
ant's good character.
Costello was put on the stand and denied
having ever touched the Joy. He said he
was in swimming but did not know the boy
was drowned. He said Thomas Dixon and
Mike Shoughnessy were with him.
Major Montooth made a plea for the de
fendant in which he said the jury should
not accept the boy's testimony until Dixon
and Shoughnessy had been found. District
Attorney Burleigh asked for a conviction
in any grade.
The jury we.-e charged by Judge Ewing,
and at 7:15 last night retired. In 15 min
utes they returned witu a verdict of volun
tary manslaughter. The Judge's charge
was strong for conviction, though he im
pressed on the jury that there was suf
ficient doubt to prevent a first degree ver
dict. Costello had been lauchin? and chnttinsr
with a number of women acquaintances
while the jury was out. His brother, sit
ting near, seemed to be greatly affected by
the situation and kept constantly wiping
away the tears that stole down his cheeks.
"When the verdict was announced the pris
oner became very white, but made no other
sign, while his brother burst out crying. In
a moment Costello bade his brother and ac
quaintances goodby and was led oyiz to the
jail by Warden McAleese.
District Attorney Burleigh expressed sat
isfaction at the verdict, but Major Mon
tooth, counsel for the defense, said he
thought the verdict should not have been
stronger than the involuntary degree of
manslaughter. He will ask for a new trial.
Stewart Cherrv. Samuel Bathrauff and
Thomas Quinn will be placed on trial to-day
for tho murder of Henry Shample. The
murder occurred during a row between the
four men at McKeesport, during which
Shample was struck on the head with a club
and fatally injured.
To-Day's Trial Lists.
Common Pleas No. L 0Loary vs Palmer,
.Fidelity Title and Trust Company vs Curry,
Lawrence vs Ellis, Masonic Bank vs Morgan,
McKay vs Trainor, Johnston vs OttBros.,
Gribb vs Berger, Koch vs Marland et al,
Gray vs Mitchell, Bartberger vs Davis. Mc
QUston & Co. vs McClure: Ballinger & Co.
vs Henderson et al, Coleman va Nowvtivz.
Htll vs Hines
Common Pleas No. 2 Conwav vs Strat
ton, Anen vs Padden, lieinensnyder vs
Anshutz 4 Applcgate, same vs Ansliutz,
Otis Shcphard & Co. vs A. It. Speer & Co;
Arthurs s city of Pittsburg, Tannev et at
vs Tanney; McKelvcy vs Deuimler, Pennock
& Son vs Hippely & Hon", Messner vs lluck
enstein ctat, Kogerson etal vs Willey et al.
Criminal Court Commonwealthvs Stow art
Cherry, Samuel Rauthrauff, Thomas Quinn,
August Messner, M. Wittenselner, Fred
Bnrth, Jacob Fry, John Orr, A, E. Jones
ccmun ciuiieuvpiirr, iuex. Anderson, .Ma
tilda Wise, Harry Clark, William Lewellyn,
Sr, William Llewellyn, Jr., Harry Bradling,
Peter Karcber, John Lazcer, F. Alpert,
Jacob Deale, John Deal, Spedmore Cam,
John Saroff, Joseph Azar, Jainos Azar,
Clara Shout, Charles Auerwald, Sr.. Charles
Auorswald, Jr., William Kirklaud,
Henry Freyberger, Louis Adams, Owen
Keenan, T F. McCleary, Mike Frank, George
Cramer, Jr., Frank Bowers, George Lauer
baugh. Little Court Happenings.
The suit of F. O'Leary against Bobert
Palmer, an action on an account, is on trial
before Jndge Stowe.
In the ejectment suit of Thomas A. In
gram against Richard and Moses AVal sh, a
verdict was given for the plaintiff.
Vekdicts for the defendants were given in
the suits of Rosins. Dobla and Elizabeth
Appel against John Boldinger for damages
for slander.
Is tne suit of William n. Cain against C.
L Vomer, an action on partnership ac
counts, a verdict was given yesterday for
$1,570 85 for the plaintiff;
The case of Samuel Musgrave against
John Wenkle and A, A. Henier, a suit in
replevin to recover goods levied on for rent,
is on trial before Judge Magee.
Executions aggregating $2,002 SI were is-
snod yesterday against J. Lttyitz. Thov
were issued by Mrs. H. Rosenbloom for $300
and Jacob Benistein for $1,199 02 and $503 8i
Tnncaseof ex-Sheriff McCandless against
the Allegheny ana Bessemer Steel Company
to recover the pay of deputy sheriffs on
duty at the defendants' woiks during a
strike, is still on trial before Judge Slagle.
Thu suit of Louis Hilke against Allegheny
City, and the Ohio Connecting Railway Com
pany and the Pennsylvania Company for
damages for Injury to property caused by
the construction of the Ohio Connecting
Company's bridge, is on trial before Judge
White.
Sick headache, languor and melan
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n disordered stomach or costiveness, the
distressing effects of which Dr. Jayne's
Sanative Pills will speedily remove; bv
their beneficial action on the biliary or
gans they will also lessen the likelihood of
a return.
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THELEYMTOF TO-DAY
Scenes in and Aronnd Historically
Famous Places.
CHANGESWROUGHTBTEUROPEANS
Foreign Residents Havo Increased Kapidly
of Late Tears. ,
EETURNOFTHE HEBREWS TO PALESTINE
In the East there are, thank God, things
which never change. The fullness of light,
the perpetual, dramatic contrast of life and
death, the sweep of the great coast-lines
every league of which round the Levant is
historically famous the shape of the palm,
the shape of the camel, and the richness of
color on human limbs and faces, can never
be altered by any European aggressiveness.
Yon are sure of them every time you go
back to them, says a writer in the London
Spectator. But this summer, on returning to
the Levant after an absence of 11 years, my
anticipation of these certain joys was a good'
deal less than my anxiety to learn what
changes had happened among them. For
the last 11 vears have let loose upon the
Nearer East some of the greatest forces,
both of peace and war.
Egypt has been occupied by the British;
Jewish and German immigration into Syria
has steadily increased; Greeks and Latins
have pursued their uuholy traffic for the
sacred sites; the missions of Western Chris
tendom have persevered; their successes
with the younger generation of natives have
provoked the Eastern churches to a novel
activity, and stirred up a zeal for education
within Mahommedanism; and even the sit
still Turk has progress to bIiow in his own
queer fashion of keeping order among the
medley of civilizations so mysteriously com
mitted to his charge. He sits as still as ever,
but his stick reaches farther round him than
it used to do. A few notes of the effect of
these changes, at least on the surface of life,
ma,y interest your readers.
CEMETERIES OF THE DEAD.
With changes in the East, one takes for
granted a British graveyard. It is almost
always so, and by the Levant as impress
ively as anywhere else. Come to Egypt by
the way of the canal, and the first sign you
get of the immense revolution in the Valley
of the Nile is the little cemetery hard by
Tel-el-Kebir, where they laid our officers
and men who fell on that field. The walls
of the English church at Cairo, which, 11
years ago, I remember to Kave felt very
bare, are covered now with memorial mar
bles and brasses. Gordon's is, of course,
eminent among them, and more frequent
than all the crowned heads of Europe that
adorn the walls of the hotels and cafes are
prints of his clear English face.
These recent graves lead me to speak of
the older and far larger British tribute
which lies scattered all around the Levant
from Alexandria to Scutari, and which
seems to me far more striking than even the
stupendous Koman and Greek cemeteries on
the borders ot the Arabian desert. It lies
not only in the thronged militarv craves of
the cemeteries toward the Bay of Aboukir
and by the side of Florence Nightingale's
hospital on the Bosphorus, but, still more
pathetically, under solid tombstones with
English name and English ranks, which
you stumblj upon, crs'-.bling and defaced,
in the outskirts of so fanactically Moslem a
town as Acre, or in the Christian grave
yards of Cyprus. Some of the dates are as
tonishingly early in Larnaca, for instance,
1683, 1710, 1739 but most are about tho
beginning of this century, or mori recent
still.
BRITISH OCCUPATION" OF EGYPT.
To return to the British occupation of
Egypt. It was interesting to note that it
has not failed to impress the imaginations
of the tribes, settled and unsettled, of Syria.
In the Syrian cities, there is quite a brisk
trade done in European oleographs and
cheap colored prints; and none of these are
more popular among the natives, or further
spread through the land, than certain gorge
ous views of the battles of Tel-el-Kebir and
El-Teb. We found these illustrations of
British power the only works of art in
villages to the east of the Jordan; and I dis
covered that one of the stock arguments
which our dragoman and muleteers used
upon sceptical Bedouins in the same dis
tricts, was the beating Britain gave three
times over to the Arabs of the Soudan.
A cynic might say that, next to the in
crease of graves, the increase of grogshops
was the most notable effect of the British
occupation of Egypt; and at its center, in
Cairo, grogshops nave, indeed, very much
increased. But it would not be fair 'to im- .
pute them all to our soldiers. In some
parts of Egypt, and throughout Syria, I was
told that drinking and drunkenness have
very much increased, apart altogether from
Frankish example or encouragement. In
Palestine every year more arak, a strong
spirit distilled from rasins, is drunk, mainly
by Christians, but also by Mahommedans.
In Nazireth, with a population of 6,500,
there was only one drinkshop 11 years ago;
there are now 17. On my former journey,
I do not remember to h,.ve seen one drunk
native, but this time I saw many.
THE CAIRO OF THE PRESENT.
Cairo is much changed. The British occu
pation has enhanced rather than marred its
pieturesqueness. A further piquancy is
lent to the varied crowds by the presence
among them of the scarlet tunics of Her
Majesty's uniform with the names of Eng
lish shires upon them; shoulders marked
"Dorsetshire" and "Shropshire" jostling
with white-robed Moors from Tunis and the
"abbas" of Malays, come to stndy at the
great Mohammedan University of El- Azhar.
But otherwise Cairo has changed for the
worse, if the worse be the less picturesaue.
The vulgar Frank has become rampant. It is
not in tne Duuaings on tne outskirts su
burbs of villas and mansions of flats for
their gardens keep them Oriental.
But great Greek shops and French shops,
with Western haberdashery and ready-made
clothing, the prices marked large on glaring
cards, have broken out in the center ot the
citv and upon the venerable Mooskee itself.
This street, whose surface used to be watered
and trampled by feet of men and beasts into
a smooth, elastic, silent thoroughfare, is now
macadamized and noisy. There are many,
more tall chimneys. Cairo is fast losing the
two notes of an Eastern city, which Damas
cus still happily retains, smokelessness and
noiselessness. In consequence, too, of
straightcr house walls, wanting projections,
the cool shadows, shot by shafts of light,
are disappearing, giving way to glaring
places with arcades round them. But plunge
into the side bazaars and you will find to
vonr iov the srloom. the lnnr dnrlr viata..
?he gleams of color, the turbancd, white
robed, merchants cross-legged on their
tables, and the odors of spices.
OIL CANS SERVE MANY PURPOSES.
One commercial change is oddly obtrus
ive in Syria, and stares you in the face from
every village. Eleven years ago American
oil had displaced the native vegetable oils
and their feeble light. You found the
familiar petroleum-cask from Pennsylvania,
with its blue ends and black lettering, in the
Jordan valley and hundreds of miles up the
Nile. But to-dav the fellahin and the shop
men of the rural bazaars knock up their rude
shelves from wooden cases stamped "Batoura
Trading Company," and the square -tins in
which the oil is carried from the Caspian
are used by the shepherds of Judxa in place
of the goatskin buckets to water their
flocks. These tins serve innumerable pur
poses besides.
In the settlement of foreigners in Syria I
found a very evident increase. You tell a
foreigner in the Holy Land by his roof;
where a roof slopes and is of red tiles, there
lives a Frank. Now these red roofs have
broken out all over landscapes where, ten
years ago, I remember to have seen few or
none. Of course they patch the green
orange groves of Jaffa, and cluster in sub
urbs round Jerusalem. The suburbs of
Jerusalem are surprising; I t as quite un
prepared for the largeness of the southern,
where German and American Adventists
have settled. But away, too, in the rural
districts, the red roofs break the dirty white
flat surfaces of the villages, and lend,
whether to the bare limestone landscapes
of Judrea or to the green of Carmel, a
charming relief.
GERMAN AND HEBREW IMMIGRANTS.
The new immigrants to Palestine are
mostly Germans and Hebrews. I had no
means of judging the number of the Ger
man population, but their colonies-have ex
tended and decidedly improved. It is well
known that they belong for the most part to
that set of Adventists who believe that
Christ will take personal possession of the
Holy Land when it is prepared for Him by
His people. But unlike other Christians, who
strive to hasten their Lord's Kingdom by
the conversion of the natives, these in
dustrious and eminently pious Germans
confine themselves to cultivating the soil.
They do not believe in ordinary Christian
missions, and make no attempt to prosely
tise. '
The increase of Hebrews in Palestine is,
of course, very marked, and especially in
Jerusalem. Eleven years ago the whole
population of Jerusalem was not more than
25,000. Now it must be nearly 50,000, of
whom about 30,000 are Israelites. So that
if cities be determined by the majority of
their inhabitants, Jerusalem is at last again
a Hebrew city. The same proportion bears
in other towns. At least half of the 25,000
people in Safed are Hebrews, and in Tibe
rias they number 3,000 out of 4,000 but on
Hebron only some 500 out of 8,000. They
have 70 synagogues, and in Jerusalem sev
eral large hospitals and schools. Their ag
ricultural colonies, the Teal test of Hebrew
progress in Palestine, have increased in
number and in apparent efficiency. There
is a great red-rooted village on tne waters
of Merom, and "a few miles from it a large
estate given by Bothschild and cultivated
by Hebrews. Elsewhere, and especially
near Jaffa, new settlement! have been just
founded or are in process of building.
BEDOUINS IN THE POWER OF THE TURKS.
One of the most striking things in Pales
tine is the number of young men.from three
to eight years' standing, whom you meet
with on all sides of missionary work, but
chiefly upon the medical. This is the mis
sion w ork that tells: and after seeing it in
connection with the Church of Scotland
Mission in Smyrna, the Edinburgh Medical
Mission in Damascus and the Free Church
of Scotland Mission at Tiberias, I wonder
that any mission can afford to live without
it, and that those churches which have it
do not support it more generally. In a
doctorless land like Syria, five or bix medi
cal missionaries are certain to be over
worked. Scarcely one of them has a proper
hospital at his disposal, most of them are
without even trained nurses, and 60 cases,
some of them requiring serious operations,
often fall in a pingle dayto the lonely, un
furnished practitioner.
I must conclude these notes by a few re
marks on the political changes in Syria.
The most striking of all is the increased
governing power of the Turk. Everybody
bears witness to this. It is most evident to
the east of the Jordan, where, indeed, it
compares most favorably with the Turkish
Government in the neighborhood of Con
stantinople. In Turkey in Europe the Sul
tan cannot stop brigandage. East of the
Jordan he does. In the train by which we
traveled home from Constantinople a whole
company of infantry accompanied us as a
guard; but our little caravan marched 22
days from Damascus to Jerusalem through
the Hauran, Gilead and Moab, in perfect
safety, with only one soldier as an escort.
The change has haDnened durine the last
ten years. The Turk has gradually brought
tho Bedouin under his power.
CIRCASSIAN INFLUENCE IS STRONG.
The Circassian influence is strong in Con
stantinople, where most of the Pashas have
Circassian mothers, and it was this, coupled
with the motives of policy described above,
that secured their settlement in some of the
most fertile parts of Syria. The clever pol
icy and strong authority, which Beem so
admirable among the semi-savage races on
the desert border, are deplorable in the
Lebanon, where commerce and agriculture
have so flourished during the lost few years
and education progressed by leaps and
bounds. It is not a country, it is not a peo
ple to be in the hands of the Turks. But as
60 years ago, and as 20 vears ago, so now
there is no nationality and no public spirit
in the Lebanon. In that mountainous dis
trict, which the Turks have never really
conquered, and where the old Christian
blood has preserved its energy through cen
turies, there is no cohesion among the peo
ple. All are bitterly divided by religion or
by race. Nor is there any great family left,
like the princely clans ot"30 vears back; nor
is tnere any great individuality.
Ten years ago the Turks had destroyed
or scattered the leading families alike of
Druses, Christians and Moslems, and nowa
days there is no man in the Lebanon who is
known ten miles from home. Therefore, in
spite of the energy, which profitably culti
vates most barren districts of the mountain,
in spite of the commercial capacity which
distinguishes all Syrians, and in spito of the
fact that two out of every five young men
are as well educated as the average Euro
pean, they have no enthusiasm or hope for
themselves. It is not independence they
talk of, but possession by one of the great
European Powers. And from this sparsely
populated country the best of them are
steadily emigrating to America and Aus
tralia. IDE WORM'S FAIR.
Preparation for the Increased Travel Over
the Pennsylvania Lines.
The great volume of passenger traffic that
will flow toward Chicago during the sum
mer of 1893 has cast its shadow before on
the minds of the officers of the Pennsylva
nia Lines, who for several months have been
discussing plans for the increase of facilities.
The burden of the World's Fair traffic will
probably fall no heavier upon any railway
in the United States than upon these lines
between Pittsburg and Chicaso. but as the
amount of the traffic is a matter of specula
tion the proper increase in tracks, locomo
tives, coaches and Pullman cars is a matter
of much concern. To appreciate the gravity
of the situation one has only to endeavor to
estimate the number of people who will go
to the Fair from the cities of Pittsburg and
Allegheny. Out of the population of a
third of a million will one person of every
three go, one person of every four, five, six,
ten, twelve or fifteen? Wnen it is remem
bered that the total population includes the
old and young of both sexes, the rioh and
the poor, the estimate becomes the more
complicated. One third of the adult male
population alone would be over twenty
thousand, sufficient to fill forty trains often
coaches each. That which it is difficult to
do for the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny
has to be done with some reasonable ap
proximation by the officers of the Pennsyl
vania Lines for the cities, towns, hamlets
and farms of Indiana, Ohio. Pennsylvania:
for the industrial hives of New Jersey, New
York and New England. Account needs to
be taken of those who will come from the
South and from across the Atlantic Care
fully reasoned out estimates of the increased
traffic between Pittsburg and Chicago vary
in placing it from three times as great as
the ordinary traffic to fifteen times as great.
The Pennsylvania management has taken
time by the forelock in appointing commit
tees to consider this question and all others
connected with transportation to and from
Chicago. The committee on the enlargement
and remodeling of the Chicago passenger
station held its preliminary meeting in that
city the other day. ' The Columbian Passen
ger Committee has been organized for the
purpose of perfecting excursion ticket and
rate arrangements and the General Baggage
Agents have under consideration the meth
ods necessary to the safe and speedy hand
ling of the millions of trunks and valises
that will find their way lo the city by the
lake during the summer of 1893.
A general officer of the Pennsylvania
Company said the other day: "The Penn
sylvania Lines will not be overwhelmed, no
matter how many come. As many trains
will be run in as many sections as may be
necessary and we will be able to accommo
date every one."
B.&B.
See special 52 a pair lace
curtains Just
opened.
Boggs & Bum
THE FATAL SWITCH.
It Was Left Open, and Therefore Four
Lives Were Destroyed.
A DISASTER ON THE BURLINGTON.
Sleeping Passengers in a Pullman Car Are
Rudely Awakened.
AN INQUEST TO BE CONDUCTED TO-DAY.
Monmouth, Ili, Oct. 21. A frightful
disaster occurred on the Burlington road at
1 o'clock this morning. Four persons were
killed and 18 more or less injured. The
Omaha and Denver fast express, which left
Chicago last night, ran into an open switch
and the entire train was thrown from the
tracks.
Engineer A. A. Emery and George Court
ney, the traveling engineer of the road, who
had gone into the cab half an hour before,
were killed outright. A lady passenger
was found pinioned under the trucks of the
sleeper. She had evidently been hurled
through a window by the crash. Her body
was crushed into an unrecognizable mass.
Near her was a man lying dead under the
sleeper.
The train consisted of three sleepers, two
chair cars, one smoker, one baggage, one ex
press and two mail cars. The sleepers were
heavily loaded, as were also the chair cars.
AN OLD ENGINEER'S FATE.
Emery, the engineer, was one of the
oldest passenger engineers in the country,
and he had been on. this run for several
months. The train was speeding along at
the rate of 45 miles an hour when it struck
an open switch. The engine dashed along
on the spur track for a few yards, when it J
turned over on its side, burying Emery and
the traveling engineer of the road beneath
it Emery was found with his feet touching
the firebox. There was a deep wound in his
head and his body was terribly crushed.
After the engine left the tracks the
baggage car and the cars behind it ere also
hurled from the rails. Most of the passen
gers in the three sleepers had retired. The
first intimation they had of danger was when
the coaches crashed against each other.
Men, women and children were hurled from
their berths. The lights went out, leaving
the cars in total darkness. A terrific panic
ensued, and women screamed frantically for
help. It is said that none of the passengers
in the sleepers were killed, but many of
them were severely injured.
Fireman Nelson Anderson, of Galesburg,
was on the engine with Emery and Court
ney. When the crash came he was thrown
from the cab, and was seriously injured.
nOW FRANK a JOHNSON WAS KILLED.
The baggageman and express messengers
were thrown across their cars, but were only
slightly hurt The man found dead under
the debris was Frank S. Johnson, who, with
W. G. Hardy, of Abingdon, waB standing on
the steps of the smoking car. He attempted
to jump off, but was thrown under the
wheels and killed. Hardy jumped and es
caped injury.
The baggage car caught fire, but the
flames were promptly extinguished by Bag
gageman, John bore. Oscar Zimmerman
was pitched through a window of the smok
ing car, but was unhurt He hurried back
to stop two incoming trains.
The saddest casualty happened in the first
chair car, right back of the smoker. In one
sent in the middle of the car sat Mr. George
Allen, his wife and babe. Mrs. Allen was
next to the window, and as the car tipped
over her head was driven through the win
dow, and she was instantly killed. The
baby was hurled across the car and save a
cut on the head, was uninjured. Mr. Allen
received only bruises. He found his baby
first, then groped his way from the car for a
lantern, and on returning found his wife
dead.
The imprisoned passengers beat out the
windows of the car to effect their escape.
A large force of surgeons and railway of
ficials arrived from Galesburg and Burling
ton. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
" In addition to the people killed 18 were
injured, but the injuries of some were so
slight that they left on the next train.
Great surprise is expressed that the list of
tatalitles was not larger, following are
the names of the persons killed: Mrs.
George Allen, Lomoni, 111.; F. L. Johnson,
Avon, 111.; George Courteney, Galesburg.
111.; A. A. Emery, Galesburg, I1L The
most seriously injured are: Elizabeth J.
McDonald, South Melford, la, arm broken;
T. J. Kirby, Lennox, la., left arm mangled;
John Burnes, Forreston, 111., left arm torn
off; Gus Wiggers, Bock Island, 111., hip
hurt; Fireman Nels Anderson, Galesburg,
I1L, scalded, may recover; Frank Valders
hall, Chicago, cut abont.the head.
The Coroner visited the scene of the
wreck and will hold the inquest to-morrow.
F. C. Bice, superintendent of the Illinois
lines of the O. B. & Q., expressed the
opinion that the switch had been tampered
with. After the wreck the switch was
found half turned, with the pin hanging
down and the switch locked. A switch
engine had been working on the side track
during the afternoon' but subsequently
seven trains passed over the switch in
safety. Just a year ago the fast mail ran
off the same switch and several were in
jured. It is a standard split switch and was
regarded as perfectly safe. The news of
the accident created great excitement, and
hundreds are visiting the wreck.
The days of colds and Dr. Bull's Congh
Syrup are at hand. Price 25 cents a bottle.
Sll Excursion to Norfoltt, Va. Sll.
Last grand ezenrsion of the season to
Washington, D. C, Old Point Comfort and
Norfolk, Va. Only 511 round trip; tickets
good tor 10 days. During this excursion
the Atlantio Land Company of South Nor
folk, Va., will offer for sale a limited num
ber of choice lots. For tickets, plans, eta,
address Sloan & Co., 127 Pourth avenue,
Pittsburg, Pa.
BL.AISE.
Free Trains Every Day.
Get work, secure a home, make an invest
ment in the future great Monongahela Val
ley town. For tickets, maps, pric lists
and full particulars call at 129 Fourth
avenue.
The Blaine Land Lmpbovement Co.
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B. Se B.
Millinery ribbons latest ideas 23c, 33c,
40c, 50c, 60c yard. You save one-half the
price of ribbons for your fall hats aid bon
nets by buying your ribbons here.
Boggs & Bimx.
BEAI. ESTATE SAVINGS BASK, im
401 Bmithfleld Street, Cor. Fourth Avenue.
Capital, 5100,000. Surplus, 569,000.
Deposits of 51 and upward received and
interest allowed at 4 per cent. its
B.&B.
Lace curtains, 3 to 5 yards long, 36 to 75
inches wide. Seethe special 52 a pair cur
tains. Just opened. Boggs & Buhl.
2 Bargains In ladles' Jackets 3.
A black cheviot reefer at 58.
A black camel's hair reefer at 510.
Jos. Hokne & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
YOUB nicture free, and handsomely
framed, given awav during this week by
Hendricks & Co., "No. 68 Federal street,
Allegheny, with every dozen. 'Cabinets, 1.
Suffehers from catarrh can find relief
and a sure cure by using Piso's Remedy lor
Catarrh. All druggists. 50 cents. Th
NEW ADTKBTlSEaiENTa.
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THE PEOPLE'S STORE,
FIFTH AVE., PITTSBURG.
The right thing at the right time for
the rainy and muddy season.
1,500 PAIRS
LADIES' RUBBERS
AT 15c A PAIR.
These are not clumsy, heavy-weight
rubbers, but are fine quality, light
weight and perfectly water-proof
The price is 15c a pair.
f
LADIES' RUBBERS,
LADIES' OVERSHOES,
LADIES' GUMS,
LADIES' GOLOSHES,
ALL SIZES! ALL WIDTHS!
You'll Find Them in Shoe Department.
CAMPBELL & DICK,
81, 83, 85, 87 and 89 Fifth Ave., Pittsburg.
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PRICES TO THE LOWEST EBB.
Reasonable prices
order and finest eoods.
read our advertisements our plan for making goods to order is
clear enough.
The most liberal array of fine cloths apd styles you have ever
seen. Hardly possible for you to take time to see them all. You
know the usual fault of making-ta-measure. Prices steep as if the
tailor had a sheep-skin for his skill.
We're going to get the trade. We'll let neither uppish prices
nor indifferent work stand in our way.
HUE
COR. SIXTH ST.
Second Floor Entrance through th&store by elevator.
COOL
Are you about to invest in a Jacket, Sacque or Wrap? If
so, we are in a position to supply your wants at a great saving.
We say it, we mean it and we'll prove it beyond shadow of a
doubt to all comers. We have just closed a most fortunate
purchase of Real Fur Trimmed Garments, which we offer this
week at the astonishingly low figures noted below :
LOT 1512.45 Cheviot Jackets, real Mink, fall Shawl Collar, value fl8L75.
LOI 2 14.75 Fine Cheviot, real Mink trimmed Jackets, Mink Ornaments, value 22.00.
LOT 3515 Fine Jackets, real Mink, 5-inch Shawl Collar, value $22.50.
LOT 4519.75 Thirty-inch long, Brown French Beaver Jackets, very finest Mink Collar
and Trimmings, value S30.
LOT 5 7.45 Eeal Astrachan Trimmed Cheviot Jackets, full Shawl Collar, value $10.
LOT & $9.75 Heal Astrachan fine quality Cheviot Jackets, full Shawl Collar, value
513.50.
LOT 7511.75 Extra fine quality, extra long Cheviot Jackets, full Astraehan-Shawl
Collar, value 16.50.
LOT 8514,75 Misses' Colored Cheviot Jackets, with real Mink full Shawl Collar,
value 522.50.
Besides the foregoing, we offer some exquisite Long Capes
in Cheviot, Broadcloth, eta, and Newmarkets with Military
Capes at figures that will make quick sales. Our stock of
Plush Jackets and Sacques, Misses' Reefers, and Gretchens and
Cloaks for small children and infants, is very extensive. Excep
tionally good values are offered in this line.
UNDERWEAR I HOSIERY!
Our .lines of Underwear and Hosiery for Ladies and Gen
tlemen are complete. The best of goods at competition-defying
prices:
Ladies' Eibbed Woolen Underwear.
Ladies' and Children's Merino Under-
Ladles' and Children's Natural Wool
Underwear. ,..
Ladies' and Children's Scarlet Wool Un-
Gents'' White, Gray and Scarlet Underwear.
bei"ba7in
510-518 MARKET STREET.
STEAMERS AND EXCURSIONS;
TO ITALY, ETC.-FALL AND WINTER
touis by the new passenger steamer
service of the Norddeutscher Lloyd; direct
fast express route to tho Mediterranean. For
particulars apply to MAX .SCIIAMBEUG &
CO., 527 Smithfleld St., Pittsburg, Pa.
se3-82 TTS
ALLAN LINE
ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS.
Glasgow to Philadelphia,
VIA DEKKYand GALWAY. The most direct
route from Scotland and North and Middle of Ire-
UDd ACCOMMODATIONS UNSURPASSED.
Intermediate, $30. Steernfrc, SU.
CT4Tr 1 SEEVICE OF
. .Si. ( AIIAN IKVEJ
LINE J STEAMSHIPS.
MVIOIlKAXD GLASGOW.
tIs Londonderry, every Fortnight.
Oct. 15. State of California, 1 p. M.
Oct. 29, State or Nevada. 1 r. M.
Nov. 12. State of Nebraska, noon.
CABIN1' S35 and upward. Return, S53 and upward.
Steerage, 119.
Apply to J. J. McCOEJIICK. 639 Smlthneld street,
Pittsburg. oct3-D
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belong with the best tailoring to
We have all three. If vou have
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AND PENN AVE.
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QUERY !
.Boys' White, Gray and Scarlet Under
wear. All-wool Cashmere Hose, 19c, 25c, 35c.
English Cashmere Hose, 38c, 45c, 48c, 62c.
Misses' All-wool Hose, 25c to 65c
Fleecy-lined Ladies' Hose, 25c to 50c. '
High novelties in Parisian Lisle Hose at
figures that will be appreciated bv econom-
ical buyers.
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AMERICAN LINE, '
Sailing every Wednesday from Phfladel
phia and Liverpool. Passenger accommoda
tions for all classes unsurpassed. Tloketa
sold to and from Great Britain and Ireland,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc
PETER WRIGHT 4 SONS, ,
General agents, 305 Walnut st, Philadelphia.
Full information can he had of J. J. MC
CORMICK, Fourth avenue and Smithfleld et.
LOUIS JIOESEE, 616 Smithfleld street.
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"CTTHITE STAR LINE
W For Queenstown and Liverpool.
iioyai ana uuutu omira mu steamers.
Britannic. Oct. 23, 10 am
MalesUe. Nov. 4.7am
BrltannlcNov. 25,8:30am
Majestic, Dec 2. 5:30am
Germanic, Dec.9,ll:30 am
Teutonic, Dtcu. 5:30 am
Germanic Nov. 11.10 am
Teutonic, Nov. 13, 7 a m
From White Star dock, foot of West Tenth
street.
Second cahin on these steamers. Saloon
rates, $50 and upward. Second cabin $33 and
$10. Excursion tickets on favorable terms.
Steerage, from or to old country, $20.
White Star drafti payable on demand in
all the principal banks throushouc Great
Britain. Apply to JOHN J. McCORMICK,633
and 401 Smithfleld St., Plttsbunr. or H.HA1T
LAND KERSEr, General Agent, 29 Broad
way, New York. ool5-D
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