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WALLER'S APPEAL UP.
Arguments in Supreme Court on the
Controversy Over
THE STATE SUPERINTENDENCE.
rostmaster
Tinnefroclc Not
Misusing Mails.
Guilty of
SNAP SHOTS AT AFFAIRS OF TnE COURT
TJic Supreme Court vcstcrday took up the
cclerrattd appeal of IX .T. Waller, Jr., from
tlic Conimou Picas of Dauphin countr. For
tin' Commonwealth Attorney General "W.
1. Hen-el and Deputy Attorney General
Mranahan appeared, and for the defendant
snd appellaut ex-Secretary of State Stone,
ex-Attorney General ICirkpatrick and
Robert Snodcras.
The question involved in the ca'C is the
length of the term of 'Waller as Superin
tendent of Public Instruction for the State
uf Pennsj hania. On May 13, 1SS9, Governor
Kaver appointed 11 K. Higbee State Super
intendent of Instruction for the term of four
rears from April 1, 1889. Higbee died in
December, 18h0, and Governor Beaver, on
February 14, 1S00, appointed "Waller to fill
the aeancy. At the next session of the
Senate Governor Beaver nominated
Waller for the term of four years
Irom March 1. 1800. On January 20,
1S!)1. the Senate confirmed the ap
pointment. On January 20, however,
Governor Pattison was inaugurated and
took hold. He gave no commission to "Wal
ler, but in May, 1891, nominated Z. X.
Snjdcr to the "position. The Senate re
jected the nomination, but after the ad
journment of the Senate Governor Pattison
issued a commission to Snyder until the
next session of the Senate in 1893. In con
sequence of this the Attorney General in
J line, lfll, had a writ of quo warranto
issued by the Common Pleas Court, calling
on "Waller to show by what warrant he held
the office of State Superintendent.
CLAIMS A COMPLETE TUXE.
"Waller maintained that the commission
cieu him hv Governor Ueaver was soodfor
either the unexpired term of Dr. Higbee or
a full term of lour years, neither of which
had yet expired. Also, if that was not a
complete title his nomination to and con
firmation by the Senate vested him with a
complete title to the office.
The lower court held that "Waller could
mly be nominated by the Governor until
the end of the next session of the Senate,
and that his nomination to and confirmation
liy the Senate vested no title without a sub-t-rquent
commission to be issued bv the
Governor- Also, that though Snvder was
not legally qualified to take the office, "Wal
ler was not entitled to hold the office under
the principles of common law.
From these rulings au appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court and argued at length
yesterday.
The Supreme Court commenced the fourth
w eek of its present session yeterdav. The
cases from Allegheny county, the last
county on the list for the "Western district,
were taken up. At the opening of court
there were IUj cases on the list, but in a
thort time thev ere greatly reduced. Fifty
nine cases were non-prossed and two were
discontinued. Of the cases non-prossed 41
were appeals from the Quarter Sessions by
applicants who had been refused liquor
licenses. The non-prosses were entered
en the motion of the attorneys for the ap
plicants. They stated that the amendment
to the wholesale liquor license act passed
subsequent to the appeals had left them
without standing in court, as it covered the
question ou which the appeals were taken,
the right of the Court to ask what questions
it pleased.
The other cases non-prossed were: Mc-Ad-inis
vs MeAdains; Forsaith -s Appel;
Williams vs Clark: Khepper s Murray;
McJunkin vs Equitable Gas Company, two
cases; McMahonvs same, two cases; Kraus is
Ivreps; appeal of "W. S. Johnston, et al;
Ormiston vs Carothers; Guthrie, trustee, s
McCune; same vs Ludwick; appeal of T. It.
Pittock, executor, McGraw vs Robinson;
Sehuetz, Eenzziehausen & Co. vs Klein;
wiftvs Griffin, rtal; McKcUey -s Mc
Keh ey, et al.
The cases discontinued were: Campbell
s llecham, et al: Black & Co vs Brown.
SEVERAL CASES AKGUEU.
An argument was heard in the case of
Martha C Luca, administratrix of W. F.
Caldwell vs Mechanics Lodge, No. 9, I. O.
). F., appealed by the defendants fiom
Common Please No. 1, of Alleghenv county.
The case was an action to reco er sick bene
fits. An argument was heard in the case of the
Briar Hill Coal and Iron Company vs the
the Atlas "Works, appealed by the plaintiff
from the Common Plea Xa 1, of Alle
gheny county. The case is a controversy
over the distribution among creditors of the
funds arising from the sale of the assets of
the Atlas "Works, Limited.
The case of S. "W. Ewing and J. D. Linn
s the township of North Versailles was ar
gued. It was appealed bv the defendant from
Common Pleas No. L The case is for dam
ages for the killing of cattle by a train, the
township being held liable because there 1b
no fence dividing the township road and
railroad truck.
Justice Clark handed down an opinion lu
the case of Charles C. Duffield vs Louis
Kosenswig, Common Pleas of "Warren
county, reersing the lower court. In the
opinion Justice Clark said: "In this case
the defendant drilled tnree wells within the
protected territory and the gas which oper
Htcd the plaintiffs flowing well was thereby
allowed to escape. The extent of the in
jury inflicted on the plaintiff in the very
nature of the case is not apportionable from
time to time, and we are of the opinion
that the entire damage must be assessed in
this action. Plaintiff's title is a leasehold,
and the proper measure of damage for
nhich the defendant is liable is the differ
ence in the value of the leasehold until the
expiration ot the term free from the ob
struction which the defendant's lease has
put upon it, less the value as put upon it
by these obstructions."
MAJTr CASES SETTLED.
Justice Clark also handed down the fol
lowing decisions:
Commonwealth or Pennsylvania, appel
lant, vs the N Y., L. E. & VT. E. K. Co., irom
the Court of Dauphin County; judgment af
firmed. The New Holland Tnrnpiko Company vs
the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company,
appellant, from C. P. or Lawrence county;
judgment reversed and judgment entered.
upon vno case stated lor tne defendant.
half of George T. McConnclI, Charles Both,
B. Stadlcman and A. H. Collins, filed a
petition in Common Pleas No. 1, for a writ
of mandamus against thecitv of Pittsburg
and E. M. Bigelow, Chief of the Depart
ment of Public "Works. In the petition it
is stated that the Citizens Traction Com
pany has been keeping horses on the street
at its power house, on Pcnn avenue,
near Thirty-third street. The horses
are used "to pull cable cars over the
vault where a change of cables is
made, when there is not sufficient mo
mentum to send the car over. The animals
are allowed to remain on the street all the
time. It is assorted that the horses blockade
the street, impede travel and arc a nuisance.
The petitioners are all business men in the
vicinity, having teams, and claim to have
been much annoyed. They notified the city
officials of the alleged nuisance, but no steps
have been taken to abate it. Thev now ask
for a writ of mandamus to compel the city
and Chief Bigelow to have tne nuisance
abcted.
THE ORIGIN OF OIL.
FIKNEFEOCK HOT GUILTY.
Squeezed Out of the Prehistoric Ani
mals and Vegetation
BY THE CONVULSIONS OP NATURE.
Uncovered Petrified Forests Furnish a Clew
to the Mystery.
PLANTS Of A MILLION TEARS AGO
matter. They were met at the door by two
of the burglars, with drawn revolvers who"
instructed them to return to work, which
they did. The safe contained 51,200, all of
which was taken. The telephone lines
into the city had been cut, and the police
were not notified until an hour after the
burglars had escaped.
GROWING IN KANSAS.
Acquittal or the Postmaster Charged "With
Openlnc the Mails.
In the United States District Court
yesterday, E. L Finnefrock, postmaster at
Piney, Clarion county, was tried on the
charge of opening a letter. During the
trial it developed that Postmaster "Finne
frock had been concerned in some trouble
with residents in that neighborhood. It re
sulted in complaints to the Postoffice De
partment that letters were being opened in
that office. Postoffice Inspector McCalmont
finallv placed a decoy letter, loosely sealed,
in tne mail. It was afterward found
in Finnefrock's office with the seal
broken. A charge was then made
against Finnefrock and he was indicted. It
was not asserted that anything was taken from
lttert. The charge was that they were
opened to ascertain their contents. The
opening of letters was stoutly denied at the
trial, and the only evidence was as to the
decoy letter sent "by the inspector. The
iurv returned a verdict of not truiltv. "When
it was announced there was loud applause
from a number of Finnefrock's friends, who
were present, and Judge Beed was com
pelled to call them to order.
P. M. Richards, a law student of Brook
ville, Pa., pleaded guilty to a charge of
the postoffice in a scheme to defraud. He
was accused of sending out circulars wanting
agents to send him 1 for samples. He re
ceived many dollars, but no samples were
ever sent. Bichards is a former school
teacher, a law student and the son-in-law of
the presiding elder of the M. E. Church for
the district in which he lives. He told the
court he had been hut recently married and
had wanted to increase his income
a little. He had seen an advertise
ment in an Eastern paper, inserted
by a Boston firm, for general agents.
He had replied and received a circular,
stating that the firm wanted agents all over
the country They would pay to a general
agent 53 for every agent secured, the agents
being required "to send 51 for samples.
Bichards got the agents and sent on their
dollars, but received nothing. For adver
tising, printing, etc., he claimed to "be out
about 15 on the whole transaction.
At the" conclusion of Kichard's story
Jndge Beed fined him $10 and sent him six
months to jail.
CBIMIHAL C0TJBT "W0EK.
A Number of Small Cases Disposed of in
That Urnncli.
In Criminal Court yesterday Louis Adams
was tried and acquitted of the larceny of
five game chickens from Alexander "Wal
lace, of Stowe township.
Thomas F. McCleary was found not guilty
of the charge of false pretense preferred by
Campbell ICimberland.
F. Alpert wa3 convicted of a charge of
false pretense, preferred bv a "Wvlie avenne
second-hand dealer, and was sent to jail for
48 hours.
Owen Keenau was tried for assiult and
battery in striking his wife, Mary Keenau,
on the head with a poker at their home on
Bavine street. The defendant was found
guilty aud sent to the workhouse for SO
davs.
J. H. Sponsler, a lightninerod aeent. was
tried and convicted of embezzling his em
ployer, G. It. Kress, out of f.". Sponsler
was sent to the workhouse for SO days. The
parties belong in the citv.
Harry Bosenkrantz was found not guilty
of a charge of malicious mischief brought by
George M. Huff. The parties reside on
Spring street, Twenty-seventh ward, and
the alleged malicious mischief consisted of
damaging a pair of steps.
"William Lewellyn, Sr.,"WilliamLewellvn,
Jr., Harry Beadley and Peter Kircher were
acquitted of a charge of riot preferred by
George Jones. The parties live near Mans
field, Pa., aud the alleged riot consisted in
the tearing down of a fence of the prosecutor.
Jacob Daele, John Daele, Spendant
Carue, John Sarefl'and Joseph Azar are on
trial on a charge of assault and battery
brought by Sulem John. The parties are
all Assyrians and live in Basin alley.
Nancy Lowe is on trial for felonious as
sault and battery on Jerry Naville in cutting
him on the hand with a knife. The parties
reside near Homestead.
rwniTTEV ron the msPATcn.
"What was the origin of theoil that exists
in the earth in such vast quantities? This
is the question that the thoughtful observer
asks himself as he surveys a score or more
of immense wells at McDonald, out of
which in the aggregate fully 90,000 barrels
of oil are discharged daily. Think of it a
vast river of petroleum rushing out of the
earth. Truly this question is one that is
sufficient to set us to thinking. How are
we to account for this oleaginous wonder
that comes up from 1,000 feet or more
below the level of the hills? How easy for
some to put the question off with the re
mark that it is not for us to answer that it
is one of the mysteries of the world that
God did not intend that man should ever
understand. But the thinker is not to be
satisfied with any such evasion of a question
the nature ot which demands an expla
nation. Down deep in the earth he knows that
there is a vast deposit of oil. Call it lake
or river or what you will, it is there, and,
judging from the amount that rushes up
throuch a six-inch casing ill a second of
time, one is inclined to think that it is very
tired of imprisonment and has long been
wanting to get out.
CONSIDERED BY IHE SCIENTISTS.
The scientific man, ever ready to wrestle
with any vexatious problem, is'the only in
dividual that undertakes to give us any
light on the subject. He admits that it is a
profound subject in every sense of the
word, and wishes that he ha'd some kind of
a subterranean telescope that would enable
him to study the rocks from whence this
great volume of petroleum comes as the as
tronomers studv the stars. The distance
that intervenes, shuts out an investigation
as completely as if the source of the oil was
far beyond the North Pole.
But the drill and the sand pump that go
down into the earth, what do they reveal?
Look at the S3nd and pebbles that are
brought unjust before the oil is struck, and
what do they indicate? Solid rock. Yes,
rocks such as are exposed in railway cuts
and quarries, and which in such places are
found to be devoid of oil as any other thing,
unless it be a few fossil plants or shells.
These surface rocks are not to be com
pared to those oil producing sand rocks, for
we are positive that the latter ure as full of
oil as a sponge thrown into a river is of
water. They are indeed so full of petroleum
that it acts as a barrier against a tremendous
pressure of natural gas, and it is this press
ure that lifts asolid column of oil six inches
in diameter and 1,700 feet or more in height,
together with thousands of pounds of steel
tools, out of the casing with apparently no
ellort.
FREEZING OUT VOTERS.
A Mexican Government Official Tells 'How
the Politicians Handle Elections in that
Country Going to Europe to Inspect the
Hospitals.
According to Dr. L. M. de Gesi, a repre
sentative of the Mexican Government, who
was at the Seventh Avenue Hotel yesterday,
the leaders of politics in that country could
give cards and spades to the worst Southern
bulldozer and still win at a game of freezing
out voters.
'We have a free ballot," he said, "but in
reality none but the more intelligent are
allowed to vote. The people are not far
enough advanced to use the ballot intelli
gently, and if they select their own officials
there would be a constant turmoil."
"When asked how things were managed to
keep apart of the people from voting Mr.
de Gesi replied that the Government picks
the men desired to be elected, then word is
sent to representatives at different polling
places, and the election is put through
finally before the masses find it out. "In the
United States," he continued, "you make a
big excitement over the election and try to
get every voter out, hut in our country the
less noise made the less trouble we have in
keeping the ignorant from voting. There
are two parties, the Liberals and the Con
servatives. The latter is the party of the
priesthood and has little power. The Liber
als would like to overthrow the Bepublic,
but the Conservatives have them under hand
now, and with the railroads we now have,
affording means to convey troops rapidly,
there is little chance for a revolution.
Garcia's attempt to create trouble with -a
handful of soldiers has raised little excite
ment. He is a fugitive now, but I think he
will soon be caught."
Mr. de Gesi is o l ds way to Europe to
visit the hospitals an medical institutions,
in order to gain information for his
Government In Mexico, he stated,
that all hospitals and sanitary work are con
ducted by Government physicians. Com
pulsory vacation is a requirement, and in
cases of epidemics rigid rules are laid down
to govern the action of the people. In the
town of Tracatecas, in which M. de Gesi
lives, he said the Government will soon
build a hospital that will cost 5300,000. He
came to Pittsburg from Kansas City, where
he attended a meeting of the State" Medical
Society, and will start to New York to-day.
He is accompanied by J. L. Paeneus, a
voung gentleman from one of the best fami
lies in Mexico, who is going lo New York
to study civil engineering.
Sunflower State Bepublicans Promise
a Glorious Victory,
EVEN IP IT IS BUT AN OFF YEAR.
NETV ADVEKTISEJIKNTS.
THE ORIGINAL
MER'HLAIlg
Encouraging reports Coining in Daily as
to Desertions Prom
THE BANKS OP THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE
MABBIAGE FIVE YEAE8 A SECEEX.
In X.ocnicr'g Favor.
Some misunderstanding has arisen over
the decision of Judge "White regarding the
judgment of "William Loeffler vs W. E.
Schmertz. Some Eastern creditors eon
tested Mr. Loetiler's judgment of 100,000,
and asked the Court for a rule for an issue
to test the validity of the judgment. The
Court refused the rule, and stated in the de
cision that there is no averment of any
fraudulent act on the part of the plaintiff
Loeffler and no evidence to justify such an
inference, while, on the other hand, Loeffler
clearly sets forth his liability by reason of
indorsement and otherwise.
Commonwealth, npnellant, vs N. Y L. E.
A t . UIi.Il. Co., C P. or Dauphin county;
judgment alllrmed.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, appel
lant, vs X. P. & O. It. K. Co., C P. of Dauphin
county; judgment affirmed.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs Tioga
Kailroad Company, C. P., Dauphin county.
Judgment affirmed.
Henderson, Hull & Co. vs Philadelphia
and Readme Railroad Company, appellants,
C. P. Xa 3, Philadelphia. Judgment ro-
ersed.
Pennsylvania Company for -Insurance of
Lives, etc, trustees under the will ol Thomas
Mnlth, deceased. Appeal from O. C. or Phila
delphia. Decree alhnucd.
ppeaIof the Philadelphia Finance Com
pany from O. C, Philadelphia. Decree re
versed and record remitted in order that
the account maybe restated and a. decree
entered in accordance with this opinion, the
appellee to pay costs of the appeal.
Appeal of the Heal Estate Trust Company
from the O. C, Philadelphia. Decree af
firmed. Bernard Gallagher vs M. S. Kemerar.t
Co., appellants, a P.,Luzerne county. Judg
ment reversed.
William TV. Wrigley, executor, vs Grace
M. Cotfman, executor, etc, C P. No. 3, Phila
delphia. Judgment reversed.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.vs Teller
i;rother,appeliants, a P.,Lancaster county.
Judgment reversed.
Charles C Duffleld, appellant vs Louis
itosenweig, U. r. ot Warren county, in-
tquuy. ouagment reversed.
Grand Jury Returns.
The grand jury was reconvened yesterday
to dispose of cases accumulated in the jail.
Before the body went into session Judge
Ewing instructed them that under no cir
cumstances, unless by special order of
Court, would they take up anything but
jail cases, of which there are about 00 to be
passed upon. The first day's work was as
tollons: True bills Lindsey Black, Alice
Brown, John Garvey, Geoige Kane,
William Wiley and William Weaver, lar
ceny and receiving stolon goods; Liquor
Hughes and Jerry Haggerty, larceny from
the person and receiving stolen goods;
George Edmonds, entering a building to
commit a felony and receiving stolen goods;
w. ojiauoicr, oiuuc&xiciuvni; xraniijan-
auowsKl,
azirravated assault
James Dalzell, cruelty to
and battervi
animals- Cpnnn
Cook, felonious assault and battcrr? Jnsnnh
Angert, serious charge The ignored bills
were: Andrew Decker, liary Gageby, im
morality; John Boberts, aggravated assault
and battery.
Horses mocking the Street.
Attorney B. P. Lewis yesterday, in be-
To-Day's Trial Listi.
Common Pleas No. 1 Slullamaier vs
Stnbbner, Marshall et al vs Kutledge, Clen
denen vs Soles, Bowman vs Pittsburg &
Western Railroad Company, Iron and Glass
Dollar Savings Bank vs Brosi, same vs Mil
ler, Lippincottvs Leader Publishing Com
panv, Cnrrigau vs McGrew, O'Donuell vs
Allison, Stevenson vs Osburne et al, Hadley
vs Sowther, Morrow sWeflnget al, Will
iams vs Booker et nl, Aufrooht vs Mack et a),
Adanutz vs Cochran.
Criminal Court Commonwealth, vs Mike
Frank, William Lee, James McCord, John
Dallas. Thomas Taylor, Henry Freyberger,
F. Trasha, F. Jerkman, H. D. bachs, Robert
A Troy, S. Zackiod, M. Geffen, Joseph Gold
man, Henry Lehman, A. D. Fenton, M. E.
Thomas, Alice Brown, Ouon Dolan, John
Kallahcr.
IS OF VEGETABLE ASD MINERAL ORIGIN.
To be plain, and to avoid bewildering
technicalities, we will state that so far as
chemistry has been able to ascertain the oil
appears to be of animal and vegetable
origin. There are exceptions to this finding
of chemistry, of course, and theories that
deal with the spontaneous generation of
petroleum from other sources are common
and some of them are very plausible, but
we believe that we are justified in asserting
that the majority ot scientists are ot tne
opinion that this petroleum had its origin
in the abundaut founa and flora of pre
historic geological ages.
In connection with this statement allow
me to say that this word prehistoric is not
a fit term to use in referring to the fauna
and flora of the Devonian age. In speak
of some old ruins that may be seen on the
earth's surface, such as the walls of Casa
Grande on the Gila desert, or the ruins of
Yucatan, we may with propriety use the
word, but in speaking of remote geological
tees it has no bearing whatever and is out
of place. Are we then to understand that
mis uli was pruuueeu iruiu tne remains oi
ancient animal and vegetable life. Is it
possible to conceive of the necessary mate
rials in such enormous quantities as would
justify such a belief?
In the vast deposits of the upper and
lower silnrian formations there are more
than 10,000 feet of limestone made entirely
of moluscs. These immense beds of lime
stone are of vast extent and everywhere
they are amazingly fossiliferous. Take
400000 square miles of limestone 10,000 feet
in thickness and entirely made up of the re
mains of animal life; add to this a similar
extent of Devonian formations crowded with
the remains of fishes, moluscs and crusta
ceans, and then add to that 8,000 feet or
more of carboniferous rocks packed with
the abundant remains of a tropical vegeta
tion, and what have you got?
It is easy to conceive ot an ocean of oil
coming from all these things, providing they
were wen squeezed nee appics in some im
mense cider press and the juices preserved.
And what better evidence of a pressure suf
ficient to accomplish this is wanted than
that which is obtained by studying the
gigantic upheavals and inward lateral
crushing convulsions that are suggested by
the Appalachian and Bocky Mountain
ranges.
THE JUICF.S WERE SQUEEZED OUT.
Here then, were the materials and there
were the forces sufficient to account for this
immense deposit of oil that has been re
leased by artificial perforation of the rocks
at McDonald and other places.
To come a little nearer home in an effort
to show the enormous quantity of vegetable
matter that must have Deen buried by in
undation and subsequent elevations of the
surface of the earth, let us go to Mansfield,
nine miles from Pittsburg on the Pan
Handle, where, in cutting down an immense
hill, the workmen have discovered a vast
and wonderful deposit of fossil plants.
There, packed in the solid blue and black
shales, are the abundant remains of the
vegetation of the carboniferous age. Per
fect casts of beautiful aborescent terns and
calamitcs, rushes of gigantic length, and
curiously carved trunks of the lepidoden
dron and sigiloria are all heaped and pent
in one inseparable mass. Even the un
learned Italian laborers arc amazed at the
sight. On every block of Bhale are a thou
sand perfect casts of plants and a hundred
different varieties. Tnereare enough speci
mens here to stock a million cabinets. A
roadbed for the third track of the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Bail
road is being graded with the remains of
one of the forests of the ancient world.
Look where you will, go where you will in
the vicinity of this cut, and everywhere
you tread upon the perfect cast of plants
that grew in some old carboniferous lagoon
perhaps 10,000,000 years ago.
Here, then, was the origin of our great
deposits of coal, and it may, in conjunction
with the other fossils above mentioned,
have helped to produce this great deposit
of golden oil which is just now the wonder
of the world. T. 'E. Malone.
rufclicly Announced After All Troubles
Have Been Smoothed Over.
New York, Oct. 20. The papers yester
day printed a wedding notice which an
nounced that in 18S6 Eugene Van Schaick
had become the husband of Miss Sarah How
land Pyne. Eugene Van Schaick comes of
an old rich Knickerbocker family. Mrs.
Van Schaick does not. That and the lady's
youth made it seem best five years ago to
keep the secret. Miss Pyne was the
daughter of JamesTValterPyno, of Kewark.
"When they met Mr. Van Schaick was 2G
years old. There was trouble in the Van
Schaick household. The match was not ex
actly liked over in Jersey.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Buddon, friends of
the bride, were let into the secret. The lit
tle company went over to AVilliamshurg
and called up Bev. Mr. Strodach to perform
the ceremony. After registering the Cere
mony he forgot all about it. Mr. Van.
Schaick and his bride parted company that
evening, one going to her Jersey home and
the latter returning to school. Time rolled
on, and Mr. Pyne died. Mr. Van Schaick
took his father, Henry Van Schaick, into
his confidence. Troubles weie smoothed
overall around, and Mr. and Mrs. Van
Schaick began married life by taking apart
ments at the Gerlach some time ago. It was
apparent that a regular public announce
ment would straighten matters out. and it
was made yesterday.
FBEAK OF A CBAZY M&N.
He Trie to Take Possession or a Keservoir
and Knn It.
"Wiiite Plains, N. Y., Oct, 20. Spe
cial.' To-day "William Gle'nning, a resi
dent of Kensico, went into the lodge house
at the Kensico reservoir, and pointing a
pistol at John Daly and Samuel Lawrence,
public works employes, told them to get
out, as the city was in need of more water
and he would control the reservoir gates.
Daly and Lawrence tried to argue with
Glenning, but he persisted in running
things his own way. Superintendent Lord
appeared en the scene, and was taken in
the range of Glenning's shining pistol bar
rel. "When the supposed maniac turned
his head Lawrence knocked the revolver
spinning across the room. The man was
secured and finally released, when he dis
appeared and soon after returned with a
shotgun, threatening to kill Lawrence and
Daly if they did not give him back his re
volver. Superintendent Lord had taken the re
volver and started for his residence, nnd the
only thing for the men to do was to effect an
escape, which they did while Glenning was
at the back of the gatehouse. Glenningdis
appeared shortly after. He has thrown the
employes of the Public "Works Department
at .aensico in a nigii state ot excitement,
and it is said that he has become suddenly
insane. A posse and officers started out to
night to effect the maniac's capture, fearing
that he may kill someone.
Little Cases in Court.
Ixthosnit of W. A. Diamond against the
Safe Deposit Company, administrator of
Edward Evans, a suit on a mechanic's Hen
a verdict was given yesterday Tor the de
fendant. Chaklj-s Riibel yesterday entered suit
against Irvin Bedpath for J2.OC0 damages for
slander. Riibel states that Redpath called
him a thief in the hearing of others, on Sta
tion' street, injuring his character.
Is tl e suit of Ellen M. Dickinson against
the Grand Ledge of tho A. O. U. W., an ao-1
tion on an insurance poucy, a verdict was
given yesterday for $2,407 for the plaintiff.
A BAH) OK A CAB BABN.
Church. Money and Vestments Stolen.
Dayton, Oct. 2G. Archbishop Elder, of
Cincinnati, administered the sacrament of
confirmation to large classes in the Catholic
chnrches here to-day. "While solemn high
mass was being celebrated in Emanuel
Church, thieves got into Bey. Father
Charles Hahne's residence across the street
and stole a purse of church money and por
tions of the priest's gold-lined vestments.
' Prudently break up your cold by the
timely use of Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, an
old remedy for sore lungs and throats, and
a certain curative for coughs.
Pres-
Barglars Blow Open the Safe in the
ence of Several Employes.
Omaha, Oct. 2C Four masked men en
tered the office of the Ames avenue barn of
the Omaha Street Bailway Company at 1
o'clock this morning, and, at the point of
revolvers, compelled Superintendent Beals
and two assistants to throw up their hands.
The burglars then proceeded to blow
open the safe. They drilled a hole and
filled it with giant powder.
"When the explosion occurred the safe
door was blown 20 feet, and the car cleauers
and others employed in the barn proper
rushed up to tne office to see what was the
Getting New Machinery.
The demand for Marvin's fine bread has
become so great that Mr. Marvin has been
compelled to enlarge his already immense
plant. A new engine and boiler and a com
plete set of bread-making machinery are
now being placed in the factory on Liberty
street, and its capacity will soon be largely
increased. It is estimated that not more
than half as many familicsare baking bread
now as were doing so ten years aco. House
wivesare finding out that Marvin'3 not
only is as good and sweet and pure as they
can make themselves, hut that it actually is
cheaper. All first-class grocers sell Mar
vin's bread. " twtsu
BLAINE.
Free Trains Every Day.
Get work, secure a home, make an invest
ment in the future great Monongahcla Val
ley town. Foj tickets, maps, pric lists
and full particulars call at 129 .Fourth
avenue.
The Blaine Land Improvement Co.
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Keceptlon Gowns.
Exclusive styles in evening and afternoon
gowns. Parcels & Jones,
tts 29 Fifth ave.
Ladies, get your gloves dyed or cleaned
at Linnekin's, 638 Penn avenue, Pittsburg,
and 174 Federal street, Allegheny. tub
rSPECIAI. TKLIOKAM TO THE DISPATCH-.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 20. On November
3 will end one of the most hotly contested
off year campaigns ever witnessed in
Kansas. It is characterized by the vigor
and force which the Bepublican party is
giving it in every county in the State. In
1888 Kansas gave Harrison and Morton 82,
000 majority, and the Republicans are this
year preparing to record another victory in
1892 which will again place the Sunflower
State among the Bepublican strongholds of
the Union.
"With the exception of nine district judges,
the campaign is purely local, confined to
the election of county officers, but the Be
publican State Central Committee has head-
quarters in Topeka, and is daily sending
out a score of speakers into every nook and
corner of the State. The demand is so great
that the committee could use 100 more good
speakers if it had them. The Bepublicans
of Kansas never were so greatly aroused as
at present They feel that it is a question
of supreme importance that they should
carry many of the county elections, and
thus say to theEatt and to the entirS na
tion that the party of John Brown, of Jim
Lane, and the men who sacrificed all to
make Kansas free, is once more out of the
clutches of the secret, oath-bound political
organization foisted upon the farmers of
Kansas by Polk and his Southern co
workers. CHEERING reports receited daily.
Cheering reports are daily received at the
Bepublican headquarters from the interior
of the State. One man writes: "It is clear
that the Alliance vote will show a falling
off next month, particularly in the old
soldier contingent. Our old soldiers are
tired of learning patriotism from men who,
since their failure to destroy the Union,
have been busily engaged in corrupting the
suffrage in the South. They are weary of
an organization that opposes their old party
in the North, but stands in with the same
old Democratic party on the other side of
Mason and Dixon's line."
This is but one of many such expression1!.
The fact is that all over the State Bepub
licans are in the field, aggressive, united
aud in earnest in the effort to wipe out
calamity this fall. Badical, clear-cut Be
publicanism, with the old-fashioned back
bone in it, is the keynote.
As tne spirit ot .republicanism has re
vived, the ardor of the Alliance or People's
party has perceptibly cooled. Interest in
the Alliance gatherings has died out, and
now it is a rare thing to get up an Alliance
meeting and have over 200 people present.
Senator Peffer is the chief advocate ot the
People's party in Kansas. Jerry Simpson
plays the role of clown, but Peffer en
deavors to convince the people that the Gov
ernment should issue all the fiat money they,
want A few days ago the Senator was dis
cussing this question when a bvstander re
marked;
A TOSEK 10JC senator peffer.
"Senator, if the Government can make
money by printing paper, what is the use of
collecting taxes? "Why not take the shorter,
easier and cheaper wav of printing the
money to pay the running expenses of the
Government and not bother the people for
taxes'"
"That," says the Senator, "is just what we
are coming to."
The gentleman remarked that this re
minded nim of au incident that occurred in
Kansas in the fall of I860, after the fearful
drouth and grasshopper visitation had de
stroyed every vestige of the crops. The
people had met to talk over the situation,
and if possible devise ways and means to get
through the winter without starving. After
several had 'spoken, one fellow got up and
said his family was all right, as he had a
cow. "But," says one, "you have no feed,
and what will the cow do without feed?"
"The cow is all right," said the sanguine
chap. "She don't need any feed; she milks
herself 1"
It is estimated that three-fourths of the
great army of railroad men in Kansas voted
the Alliance ticket last fall, but this year
it is safe to say that two-thirds of them will
vote the Bepublican ticket. A determined
effort has been made to organize them into
the Citizens' Alliance, but with little suc
cess. The action of the Alliance legislature
last winter has opened their eyes, and they
will not vote witn the People's party this
year. C. C. Crouse, a railroad engineer of
prominence and character in the State, has
taken the stump and is traveling night and
day, urging nis lellow laoorers to Keep out
of the toils of the Peffer and Simpson class
of reformers. He points out reasons why
no railroad man can consistently support
the People's party. In reviewing the acts
ot the last legislature of this state in a re
cent speech, he said:
THE ALLIANCE AGAINST UNIONISM.
"The Alliance People's party eut the sal
aries of the laboring people wherever they
got an opportunity. They struck at organ
ized labor, and put themselves on record as
in favor of 'scabSj' when they voted down
the resolution in the Alliance People's
party house, which read that 'none but
union printers be employed by the State
printer.' They showed their friendship for
the farm laborer, when they excluded him
from the weekly pay bill and the tcn-hour-
a-daybill. The Alliance can work their
farm hands as many hours as they please
and pay them when they thresh their" oats,
but the railroads must not work their men
only so long, or the employe is subject to a
fineofSlOO and to removal from his posi
tion for the same offense. "
The splendid showing made by the farm
ers of Kansas in paying ofT mortgages re
futes the slander repeated by Peffer aud
others that Kansas fanners are hopelessly
bankrupt. A summary of the reports re
ceived under the seal of 59 registers of
deeds, covering a period of four and one
half months, gives farm mortgages recorded
$5,821,650, and released 57,814,245, an excess
ot mortgages released amounting to 52,022,
595, or 25 per cnt of the total amount
released.
DEMOCRATS ALSO HARD AT WORK.
The leading Democrats of Kansas are
also active in their efforts to pull every ex
Democrat out of the Alliance party. They
regaru mis organization as a common
enemy and a menace to the prosperity of
the State. Becently a meeting of the State
Central Committee was held here, which
passed resolutions giving the Alliance
movement a quasi indorsement. The fol
lowing day the Kansat Democrat, the leading
organ of the State, said editorially:
"In the light of what occurred in this
city yesterday the Kansas Democrat to-day
unfurls the flag of straight Democracy. "Wo
believe that the Democratic platform is
good enough and broad enough forall good
men to btaud upon; we are sick and tired of
prostituting Democratic principles and the
Democratic party. We tay to ex-Democrats
in the People's party, if it suits you,
stay there, but don't pretend to be People's
party men and Democrats too. You have a
right to your convictions, but you have no
right under heaven to sit in the Democratic
Council Chamber and seek to turn over the
Democratic vote in a body to the People's
party in the respective locality in which
you live. You must either vote for straight
Democrats or do the decent thing and
get out."
Deserving Confidence.
There Is no article which o richly deserves the
entire confidence of tho community as Brown's
Bronchial Troches. Those suffering from Asth
matic and Bronchial diseases, coughs and colds,
should try them. Price 25 cents. ttssa
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We are busy people indeed, but just as surely
as business increases we add to our facilities for
waiting on customers. Come when you may,
courteous clerks are always ready to take care of you.
RIBBON DEPARTMENT. -
Such bargains as we announce in Ribbons just
now aren't to be had every day. Note these offerings:
6-inch All-Silk Watered Ribbons, suitable for
fancy work, at 29c; never sold below 75c
No. 16 (2 inches wide), pure Silk, Satin and
Gros Grain Ribbon, choicest shades, always selling
at 25c, now only 5c.
No. 22 (3 inches wide), finest quality pure
Silk, Satin Edge, Gros Grain, most desirable shades,
at 23c. It's well worth 35c.
No. 16, heavy pure Silk Gros Grain, in drab and tan shades, at 5c.
This beats all for a bargain.
No. 22 the same quality and shades, at 18c; really worth 30c and 40c
per yard.
The above are special bargains, and well worthy your attention.
We have the largest and most perfectly equipped Ribbon Department
in the two cities. You'll say so when you see it.
HATS AND BONNETS.
Almost unnecessary for us to say anything about Millinery. The people
have long recognized us as leaders, and our .reputation in this respect none
will dare gainsay. We are busy selling all shapes and colors in Hats, Bon
nets and trimmings; particularly busy in the Trimmed Hat Department.
Opera Hats and Bonnets in great variety.
In our Cloak Rooms we are very busy, all owing to the
fact that our prices have captured everybody who appre
ciates the value of a dollar. Jackets, plain and trimmed;
Cloth and Fur Capes; Newmarkets, with detachable capes;
Misses' Reefers, Gretchens, etc; Plush Jackets and Sacques all in immense
variety and at competition-defying figures. Don't fail to see our-new line
of Muffs and Boas, Wrappers and Tea Gowns.
UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY.
Be prepared for cold weather. Our assortment of Underwear and
Hosiery will prove
CLOAK
ROOMS.
a pleasing revelation to
prices will put callers in a humor for buying.
visitors. What is more, our
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Reasonableprices belong'writh the bestitailoring to
order and finest goods. We have all three. If you have
read our advertisements our planfor making goods-toorder is
clear enough.
The most liberal array of fine cloths andstyles you haveever
seen. Hardly possible for you to take time to -see them all. You
know the usual fault of making-to-measure. Prices steep-asif 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.
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Are you contemplating the purchase of ANY
ARTICLE OF FURNITURE asinglopiece,
a room full, a house full ?
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Wouldn't it be just as well to see the new things
among our entirely new stock, and to get practi
cal evidence of our methods in building a great
trade upon the foundation of
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HOPPER BROS. & CO.,
PIONEERS OF LOW PRICES.
307 WOOD STREET, PITTSBURG.
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If 'HrHP 5k PATENT SHEET IHOK ANNEALING
jjl 'Bb With an increased capacity and hydranlio
H VT A f T A f f r k A machinery, we are prepared to famish all
WK InIJS .ArlK iA W work in onr line cheaper and better than by
Q 1 .!. .v-a-r-.l HVr JH tho old methods. Bepairln? and general
9&TS &aQ machine work. Twenty-ninth street and
Tfrtn, 1 CdjflElBM Alltghony Valley Railroad. felO-g7-TT
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