wsm BSJjKJgMByBBftjyrffiwys THE , PITTSBURG 'DISPATCH WEDNESDAY -NOVEMBER 11, 1891. CAME OUT III COURT, England andthe United States Consent to leave to Arbitration. THE SEALEEIES DISPUTE. Yery Peculiar Manner in Which the 2ers Was Made Puhlic CONFIRMED BY THE OFFICIALS, But They Won't Give the Terms-or-lho Arbitrators' Barnes. ALL GIVEN AWAY BT SOLICITOR TAFT AVASncfGTOX, XoolO. The public was taken into the confidence of the diplomatic branch of the Government, this afternoon, in the continuation ot the hearing begun yesterday before the United States Supreme Court, in the case of the Canadian sealer, "V. P. Sayward, seized for illegal sealing in Bering Sea, and the first announcement made that the prolonged diplomatic cor respondence between Secretary Blaine and Lord Salisbury had resulted in an agree ment by which, with the consent of the Senate, the long pending dispute over the s-eal fisheries in Bering Sea will be definitely settled. Solicitor General Taft, who was address ing the court, made the first intimation that the correspondence between the two coun tries had reached the point of an agreement upon arbitration. He stopped at this point, and when Justice Gray desired some more explicit statement as to whether an agreement upon arbitration had been actu ally reached, the Solicitor General hesi tated to reply, and intimate, that perhaps he had revealed more than he (not being a Cabinet officer, and being authorized to speak only on legal questions) should have done. Thereupon, Attorney General Mil ler interposed and not onlr substantiated all that the Solicitor General had said, but went further, aud announced that the Gov ernment had effected an agreement. Important News Fit-fit Announced. This was practically the first announce ment made as to the progress of the Bering ea negotiations since tne last correspond ence was made public showing a difference of opinion between the two Governments as to the points of arbitration. It was sur prising that the news should first come out in an argument in court, aud the Attorney General was asked, after adjournment, if he could throw some light on the subject. "It is truo that an agreement upon arbi tration has been reached," he said. "Yes," he added, "the matter has been settled be tween the two governments; that i, sub ject to ratification bv the State." "What are the points of arbitration?" "I cannot say any more than I said in court. "Why don't you go to the State De partment? Yes, you can state as a fact that an agreement has been concluded." Solicitor General Taft was next seen, but would only confirm what the Attorney General had said. "In the last correspondence, yon know," he said, "there was simply a difference be tween the two governments as to the points of, arbitration. 'Well, the corre spondence, since then has resulted in n treaty, which now only needs to be ratified by the Senate." A Hew Way to Xearn Snch News. The repprter suggested that it was some thing unusual to hear the announcement of such important news in an argument in court. "But it's a fact," was the response, laughingly, but positively given. Secretary Blaine positively declined to make any statement touching the matter. The inference drawn from the develop ments to-day (including the statement made by the Attorney General to the representa tive of the Associated Press, as above given), is that the President will submit to the Senate an agreement in the nature of a treaty between the United States and Great Britain, by which the parties bind them selves to accept as final and conclusive the definition to be given by the arbitrators of the exact rights of the United States in Bering sea, as well as to pay any awards of damages sufiered by the nation that is de clared to have had the true contention. It is also presumed that arbitrators have been selected, but none of the officials seen would discuss the details of the agreement, doubt less for the reason that it has to be submitted to the Senate for ratificatian, and therefore comes under the executive session rules of the Senate which require secrecy to be ob served. The court room was well filled with lead ing members of the bar when the court opened this morning, and Solicitor General Taft resumed his argument. At its close, Mr. Choatc, in behalf of Great Britain, ad dressed the Court. MONEY MADE BY THE MINT. ENCOURAGING ANNUAL KEPOUT FfiOSI THE DIRECTOR. The Earnings Nearly Seven Times as Much as the Expenses Great Growth of the Work of the Establishment During tho Past Tear. "Washington, Nov. 10. Edward O. Leech, Director of the Mint, has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the operations of mints and assay offices for the last fiscal year. The value of cold de posited at the mints and assay offices during the year was 559,625,678, against 549,228,823. The deposits and purchases of silver aggre gated 71,849,063.92 standard ounces, of the coining value of $83,630,154, against 543, 563,135 in the preceding year, an increase of 540,065,019. The coinage executed at the mints was the largest in the history of the mint in this country, aggregating 119,547,877 pieces. The seignorage was 50,313,767. The total coinage of silver dollars under the act of 1878, from March 1, 1878, to the close of .uch coinage, has been 5378,166,793. The coinage of silver dollars under the act of July 14, 1890,to Xovember 1, 1891, has been 531,308,575, a total coinage of silver dollars since 1878 of 5409,475,308. The net seignor age on the coinage of silver during the 13 vears ended June 30, 1891, has aggregated 571.952,390 25. The total amount of silver purchased dur ing the fiscal year under the acts was 56, 878,325.08 standard ounces, costing 553,626, 925, an average of 51 04J per fine ounce. The recoinage into silver dollars o'f the trade dollar bullion stored at the mints at Philadelphia and New Orleans was com menced in June of the present year and the total number of silver dollars coined from trade dollar bullion to November 1, 1891, has been 53,260,100. It if expected tha't this coinage will be completed by the time Congress meets. The price of silver during the last fiscal yeer fluctuated from 50.964 to 51.21 per fine ounce, a fluctuation greater than in any previous year of which there is knowledge. The net loss of gold by export during the fiscal year was 567,946,768, while there was a gain of silver bv excess of imports over exports amounting to 52,745,365. The Director says it is gratifying to report that a return movement of gold is well under way which has aggregated since July 1 to November 1, 1891, 21,580,48. It is be lieved the movement will continue for some months. - The total earnings af the mints and assay offices, from all sources, were 57,650,529, and the total expenditures and losses of all kinds, 1 1,661,13a. The mines of the United States yielded during the last vear precious metals as fol lows: Gold, commercial value, 132,843,000; silver, commercial value, 557,225,000. The product of gold and silver in the world during the last calendar year was: Gold, 110,009,000, and silver, f 134,880,000 (com mercial value). The coinage: Gold, $149, 118,959; silver, $131,930,621. The director estimates the stock of metal lic monev in the United States on Novem ber 1, 1891, to have been 51,210,381,115. The value of the precious metals used in the industrial arts in the United States during the last year was approximately: Gold. 518,000,000; silver, 59,000,000; of which 510,700,000 gold and 55,140,000 silver was. new bullion. Tariff Act Anrament Postponed. Washington; Nov. 10. The United States Supreme Court has postponed until November 30 the argument in the three cases involving the constitutionality of the McKinley tariff act, and also the case in which the act which provides for the classi fication of worsteds is attacked on the ground that the Speaker had no right to count a quorum in passinghe bill. AN INHUMAN GEBMAN H.0T. liarou von Pilsach Xndeavored to Have the Apia Calaboote Blown Up. San Fkaxcisco, Nov. 10. Captain T.G. Cushman, who lately returned from Apia, Samoa, confirms the story regarding the at tempt to blow up the calaboose at Apia with giant powder, lie states that he is the person whom Baron von Pilsach wanted to engage for that purpose. Lieutenant Ullspar, who is private secretary to the Chief Justice, commander in chief of the native army and chief of police, called oa Captain Cushman and said that Baron von Pilsach wanted him to come ashore and bring a battery and a box of dynamite with which to blow" up the jail and five native chiefs held as prisoners. Cushman prompt ly refused. Ullspar then tried to parley with Cushman, and the latter sent him with a note to Consul Blacklock. The latter pro tested against the commission of such inhu manity. Baron von Pilsach gave as the motive for his project that he was afraid the five im prisoned chiefs would be rescued by natives of Monona, and he thought that the explo sion would strike terror into their hearts. As von Pilsach was bent on completing the project, Blacklock spread the news of the proposed action, and the foreigners all pro tested. The Baron was dissuaded from his project, aud in order to relieve himself of the odium, asserted that Consul Blacklock advised him to adopt that course. Then the colony turned to Blacklock, who explained his connection with the affair to the satis faction of all. FOB SAFETY APPLIANCES, Less Tliau One-Seventh or tlie Freight Carl Kiiuippcd With Automatic Couplers. New Yoek, Nov. 10. The committee ap pointed by the last National Convention of Bailroad Commissioners to secure Congress ional action looking to uniformity in safety appliances for railroad cars, met this morn lug in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, four of the members being present There was a large attendance of railroad men from various parts of the country. Edward A. ilosely, the Secretary of the committee, had addressed inquiries to all the railroad companies in the country for information concerning the kinds of automatio couplets and breaks used on freight cars, and re quested all railroads to send representatives to the hearing to-day. Chairman Crocker opened the proceed ings by reading the replies which the com mittee bad received from companies repre senting 12."),000 of the 130,000 or 160,000 miles of railroad in the United States. They fix the total number of freight cars in the United States at 978.1C1, of -which number only 129.S01 are shown to be equipped with automatic car couplers. Of this number 118,928 are fitted with the "master car builders'," or "vertical hook" style of couplers; other varieties, 13,279. Kxactlv 110,127 are equipped with train brakes, all but a few of which are of the "Westing house make. The remainder of the freight cars, a vast number are fitted with brakes oulv. USING WINNIE DAVIS' NAME. 3Iore Than One Besting letter Turns Up From Stoddard, the Bold Forger, Jersey Citv, Nov. 10. Two letters have been sent South from Jersey City recently, purporting to he written by Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis, begging for 51,000. One was sent to Dr. W. M. Morrow, of Nashville, Tenn., and the other to General Gordon, o Atlanta. There is little doubt that they were written by Stoddard, the forger, who lives in the Hudson county jail and who forged his way ont of the Tennessee mines byaletter to the Governor asking his pardon, purporting to be signed by the State's Attorney, and a petition pretending to be signed by a lot of the most prominent people of Tennessee. Superintendent of Police Smith received a letter from Dr. Morrow enclosing a copy of the note to him. He turned the case over to Chief Murphy, who wrote to Dr. Mor row for the original. A day or two later a friend of Miss Davis came from New York with the note to General Gordon. The General knew the address of Mrs. Davis and her daughter and knew that they would not need to write to him for money, so he sent them the letter to put them on their guard. The Microscopical Society Sleets. The Iron City Microscopical Society held its regular monthly meeting last night The feature of the evening was the reading of a paper by Prof. Breading Speer. of the Pittsburg High School, on "The Limit of Vision with the Microscope." Mr. Spec: showed, and proved by illustrations, that it was impossible to see objects which are closer together than the one-one-hundred-thousandth of an inch. The Divine Healers Organize. About 300 followers of Rev. John Dowie met in the Liberty Avenue Methodist Church last night and organized a temporary association of the National Divine Healers' Association. The following officers were elected: J-W. McFarland, vice President; George Garrison, Secretary, and W. C Cook, Treasurer. Mr. Dowie will come back to Pittsburgh in about two months, and the association will then be permanently organized. LOCAL BKEVTrrES. II. W. Koblers was appointed janitor of Allegheny City Hall yesterday by Chief Killers. The body of the woman found In the Monongahela liver Sunday morning has not yet been identified. The Board of Directors of the Pittsburg Exposition Society met yesterday afternoon In their rooms In the Hamilton building. A small freight wreck occurred at the East Liberty stockyards yesterdav. caused by two boys who placed an old tin boiler on tue tracK, derailing one car. which against the platform, slight. The damage ran was The Allegheny Property Committee met last nieht and approved the pay roll amount ing to $89 10, and bills in the sum of $33 15. It was recommended that the claim of $tai 43 ngainst the United States Government for postoffice rent be exonerated. Am infant boy, two weeks old, was left on tho doorstep of a boarding house near Third avenue and Liberty street about dusk' last nigh t by some unknown person. No marks whereby it could be identltied were found about it The little follow was taken to Central station. AN OUT-OF-TOWN SITE Completely Surrounded By Three Wards of Pittsburg. IEFT OUT IN THE COLD ENTIRELY The Annexed Districts Did Not Want the Fiye-Acre Dill.1. A PECULIAR SPOT ON THE SOUTHSIDE Up on the highest portion of the South side, surrounded by three wards of the city, is a small plot of ground not included in the municipal corporation. Just what township, borough or city it belongs to is a matter of question. One thing certain is that Pittsbure has no claim to it. This outcast spot isa small knoll rising above all the houses on the hill wards of the Southside. At its summit stands a big iron structure, like the turret of a war-ship, bid ding defiance to the surrounding city to take it. It looks as though it migbt conceal a great battery of cannons behind its black sides, to make good its resistance; but every resident of Jit. Washington knows better. It simply contains many thousand gallons 30-h WARIi. S2N?WAR0 WARD How the Ground it Surrounded. of water for the supply of the high wards about it. The water is pumped up from the Monohgahela river to this stand-pipe. Surrounded by Wards. The plot is triangular. The Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second wards push their borders close up to the base of the hill, but do not ascend. The space thus left has an area of about five acres,and is owned by the Monongahela "Water Company. Mo t city maps have it as part of the xnirry-secona ward, but it is not. The way this little piece of ground came to be left out of the city is peculiar. At one time it was a portion of Lower St. Clair township, the only portion of the county that can now lay any reasonable claim'to it. When the boroughs of Mt Washington and Allentown, which after ward became the Thirty-second and Thirty first wards respectively, were incorporated from Lower St Clair township, both drew their boundaries so as to avoid the useless little lump of ground, which it was thought some other district would take. But South Pittsburg, the only adjoining borough, did not want it either. " In 1872 when' the Southside boroughs were made part of the city of Pittsburg the old boundarv lines were adopted and the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second wards were formed about the mound. The mistake was not discovered until too late, and the spot is not a part of the city. The City Has No Claim. "Yes, it is true," said Chief Bigelow, of the Department of Public Works, yester day, when asked about the matter, "ihat little patch of ground, while surrounded on all sides by the city, is not a part of Pitts burg. It is owned by the Monongahela Water Company, and belongs to Lower St. Clair township,' if to any district in the county." Controller Morrow said: "One would sup pose that a niece of ground so situated would necessarily be part of the city, but it is not To make it bo would require a special vote of the people or an act of Legis lature, just like any other annexation." As the ground is of no value aside from the use it is now put to, there is little chance that it will ever be annexed to the city. It is not worth the trouble, being unfit for residence purposes. The owners would doubtless raise considerable objection to such a move, as they now escape the pay ment of city taxes and can only be assessed for county purposes. W.-C T. V. Branches May Consolidate. Mrs. HI C. Campbell went to Brooklyn last evening to attend ihe Non-Partisan W. C.T. U. Convention. She is a, day late. Mrs,Campbell said the partisan organiza tion is now meeting in Boston. She says if they will knock out the political features in their constitution the non-partisan branch would consolidate with them. The split in the Union occurred in Pittsburg several years ago. Mrs. Ellen Poster, of Iowa, is one of the leaders in the partisan society. She believes in making alliances with the political parties for the good of the temper ance cause. Mrs. Campbell is opposed to this plan of action. Now that Prohibition has received such a black eye in Iowa, it is believed it won't be long before the two dis cordant branches will unite. Have Heaun to Be Encouraged. Judge Campbell, of Uniontown, an ardent Prohibitionist, registered at the Mononga hela House last evening. He is greatly en couraged because the cold water people in creased their vote a third in Uniontown. He thinks the cause is growing, and the fact that the Prohibitionists in Iowa have 55 members of the Legislature offsets the elec tion of Boies, who represents the whisky ele ment. The judge says if Boies had kept his Prohibition promises his majority would have been near 20,003. He blames the Re publicans for not being sincere in putting a cold-water plank in their platform. Wants an Extension or Time. The New Castle works of J. P. Witherow and Company were started up yesterday under the receivership. Mr. Witherow was seen at the Monongahela House last even ing. He was in a cheerful mood, and said he had asked his creditors for, an extension of time. He says if he was given from seven to eight years lie could sauare up all his indebtedness. He thinks his creditors will be liberal and will grant the extension. The plant at New Castle is very valuable, and if a sale should be forced there are a number ot people who stand ready to buy it An Intoxicated Mother. Mary Burns, or Eeilly, wandered into Central station yesterday afternoon with a baby in her arms. She was intoxicated. Sergeant Gray locked her up. She has no home, and, it is said, carries her infant, a little girl 7 weeks old, about with her to stores and houses and begs money for buy ing milk for the child. She will be dis posed of to-day by Superintendent of Police Weir, and, in the meantime, the child will be taken care of at the new Boselia Found ling Asylum in Oakland, where it was taken last night by Matron Brennau. Flans for a Quarterly Convention. The regular meeting of the county W. C. T. U. was held yesterday in the Smithfield Street M. E. Church. Mrs. M. G. Smith, County Superintendent of Scientific Tem perance .Instruction, tendered her resigna tion, she being removed to Steubenville, O. Arrangements were made for the quarterly convention on the second Tuesday of De cember, and Mrs. A. P. Bryce, Correspond ing Secretary, was directed to invite Lady Henry Some'rset to address the mass meet ing then. - I l&Sk X 19 vX aca S acbes 31,T WANT AN0THEE TXACHEB. The Board of Control Befnses a Demand of the Colfax District Something rather unusual came up at the meeting of the Central Board of Education last night in the shape of a preamble and resolutions sent in by the local board of the Colfax sub-school district. The paper read: Whebeas, That portion of the Twenty-second ward containing the Colfax sub-school district is but sparsoly settled, and contains about 20 square miles; and Whereas, Our children arc obliged to walk from half a mile to two miles to school, over unpaved streets that are no better than bad country roads, and Whereas, It is Imperative that three school buildings be maintained for the ac commodation of the school population in the several sections of the ward; and Whereas, The Twenty-second ward has fewer Improvements and advantages from tho city and receives less roturn from It in proportion to tho amount of the tax paid than any other ward in the city, and Whereas, The Central Board allows us but six teachers, while seven are indispensible, therefore, ltesolved,That It is tho unanimous opinion of this board that the Central Board of Education should suspend the rules and grant us an additional teacher without de lay; and llesolved, That it Is our firm conviction that equity, circumstances and the welfaro of our schools, as well as the peace and good will of the community, demaud this special arrangement for our district. 'When the resolutions were read there was a doubt as to whether the Colfax board meant by its reference to the peace of tho community a hidden threat of war, but the paper was sent to the Committee on Teach ers and Salaries. This committee met after the board adjourned. The enrollment of the Colfax sub-district showed that it was entitled to four teachers, but the Central Board has given it six, as the district it very large. It was explained to the com mittee that in one school where the aver age attendance is 43 pupils there are three teachers and a principal. In another school with 41 pupils there is but one teacher. The assertion was made that it was "bullheadedness or favoritism" that prevented the local board from assigning the teachers differently, and that the dis trict had all the teachers it required. The committee took this view of the matter and there will be no addition to the Colfax force, peace or war. The other business trausactcd by the board was purely routine. GALVESTON IS HAPPY. The City Has Never Been Able to Strike Fresh Water Until Now. Galveston, Tex., Nov. 10. The matter of procuring a good and sufficient supply of fresh water for this city has agitated the people here for years. Not long ago the city entered into a contract for the sinking of an artesian well to the depth of 3,000 feet, agreeing to pay therefor 575,000. The well has almost reached the required depth and still there are no indications of fresh water. The present water supply is furnished by rain, every house and manufacturing estab lishment having large cisterns. The rail roads run long water trains into'the" city for their own use. The uncertainty ot theain supply and the often threatened water famines, especially during the summer months, have made tho solution of the water problem, one of the greatest interest. The South Galveston Land Company re cently began well boring experiments about ten miles from the city, and to-day the first well sunk proved successful, a stream of the purest water" gushing from it, which flowa at the rate of 50,000 gallons per day. The well is 800 feet deep and three inches in diameter. Examination of the underly ing strata shows that the geological forma tion penetrated by the well is identical with that at Houston and other places on on the mainland, where tho supply of water is obtained by wells. Other wells will be sunk at once. One peculiar featnre of the present well is that it is bored at the bank of a salt water lake. HELD BY THE ENEMY. How an Old Pole Was Fooled by His Prospective Bride. Stanislaus Klowinski and Julia Natousick, two Poles, were having an altercation on Carson street yesterday afternoon, near Eighteenth, which attracted quite a crowd. Constable Linder of Alderman McGarey's office finally induced them to accompany him to the Alderman's office, where an in terpreter was secured, and it was learned that Klowinski had sent to the old country for a wife, and Miss Natousick was the one sent him. At the reception given in her honor on Sunday night she became enamored of a young Pole from McKeesport, and re fused to keep the contract. Klowinski refused to give up her trunk, hence the argument Alderman McGarey finally induced the girl to return 559 of the money adyanced by Klowinski to pay her passage over, and he then gavo up the trunk, which was called for shortly after by the McKecsporter. Says McKlnley Will Be President W. W. Crubaugh, of Canton, returned to Washingtpn last evening. He is employed in the .Government Printing Office. Mr. Crubaugh had been in Ohio working for McKinley, and he was going back last even ing feeling very well satisfied with the re sult He states that Stark county was lost through Democratic trading on the local ticket The Bepublicans elected all the officers except Sheriff. Mr. Cru bnnph savs he traveled over the district with McKinley when the first ran for Congress. That was 14 years ago, and lie predicted then that some day the Major would be President He firmly believes that the Bepublicans will nominate him in 1892, and that he will sweep the country. He claims that McKinley will not accept second place with Blame. He adds that the Stark county delegates were the only ones in Ohio instructed for Blaine in 1884. Coraopolis left to Itself. Wells and cisterns are nearly all dry in Coraopolis and they have been having a dry time there generally of late, and the Pitts burg and Lake Erie Bailway Company pro poses to make the town still dryer by omit ting to stop two of its fast trains in the town. The people of the village believe this is retaliation on the part of the railway company to get even with the Borough Council in decreeing that the prolonged whistling of locomotives should cease. The proposition to make the villagers all travel on slow trains causes much indignation, but still they neglect to open subscription books for an electric railway company to run to the city via Neville Island. Dnll Traffic in the Sonthwest W. M. Clark, commercial agent of the Missouri Pacific road, returned from Brook lyn yesterday. He says traffic is good for points east of the Mississippi River, but in the ter-itory beyond, tha business is very dull. He can only attribute it to the gen eral depression in trade in the southwest. Mr. Clark sees nothing in the future to give him much encouragement The Missouri Paclfio offices, which have been located opposite the Union depot for the last 15 years, will be moved to the Lewis Block about December 1. , Stealing Money With an Iron Hook. .San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 10. Some time Friday night Paymaster Major C. C. Sniffin, U. S. A., was Tobbed at Port Clark of 53,300. The money was placed in one of the cells of the guard house in sacks. The building is of stone, with massive doors and I grated windows. As the doors were not tampered with the money must have been taken out by means of along pole with a hook at the end. Two discharged soldiers, who left Saturday, are suspected as the thieves. One of them, John J. Sullivan, was arrested here yesterday. Simen's display of men's fine slippers are very low in price, 50o to f 1 00. Have a look at them, 78 Ohio street, Allcghenv, Pa. FROM MATH TO LIFE. Wife Hopelessly Insane .Regains Her Reason in a Madhouse. HER SPOUSE HAD MARRIED AGAIN. She Sties Tor a Share in the Property and lie Asks for a Dirorce. NEWSY NOTES FROM NEAEBT TOWNS rRFECIAL TELIGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. FiNDLAr, Nov. 10. About four years ago George Holbrooke and his wife became permanent residents of Findlay. Mr. Hol brooke, in partnership with another me chanic, began contracting, and the firm has since done a large amount of work. All went well until a short time ago, when the the firm suddenly suspended operations. Some 15 or 20 years ago Mr. Holbrooke was married to a bright young lady of the Western Eeserve, with whom he lived happily for several years. Thirteen years ago, through a severe spell of sickness, the wife lost her reason, and becoming violent was placed in an asylum. The physicians, after several years' thorough treatment, pronounced her incurable, and after visit ing his insane wife Holbrooke decided it best to give her up as one dead, she being completely, and physicians stated, perma nently insane. Some time before coming to Findlay Mr. Holbrooke married again. He did not think it necessary to procure a divorce, not believing the law would re quire it A short time ago a strange event occurred in the asylum where the first Mrs. Hol brooke had been confined for over 13 years. That lady awoke one morning and quietly asked for her husband, expecting to take up the old life where she, had dropped it years ago, the interim being to her a perfect blank, and at first she could not believe that she had passed 13 years in an insane asylum. A relapse succeeded when the truth was finally told her. but physicians pulled her through, and lately she engaged attorneys to bring suit for her interest iu her hus band's property. If her grief was poignant that of her hus band and his second wife seemed no less so. He had all along acted in good faith, and it now seems his second wife must have been innocent of any knowledge of his former marriage, and to be thus confrontedby a woman from a madhouse with such substan tial claims to her husband, almost drove the second wife insane with grief. It is now said by Mr. Holbroke's friends that he will at once commence proceedings for divorce from his first wife, and try in every possible way to prevent her from tak ing any legal action which will tend to get him into tronble on account of his second marriage. The business of his prosperous firm, in view of the legal complications about to arise, is being wound up. Other facts equally strange are expected if the casea come to trial MIXED BEIIGION AND POLITICS Cause a Bitter and Complicated War In a Country School District Franklin, Nov. 10. 6p-ta. A re ligious war is threatened in Sugar Creek school district of this county that will like ly be made a political issue before the peo ple are through with it. Miss Alice Kane, a devoted Catholic, was recently engaged to teach a district school in that township. The directors require that the sessions be opened each day by the reading of a chapter from the Scriptures. Instead of doing this Miss Kane adopted the Catholic catechism, from which she read extracts each morning. Protestant scholars'rebelled and refused to take any part in the exercises. The Junior Order of American Mechanics heard of the matter and a committee at once called upon the board and demanded that the Protestant Bible be read in the school. A meeting was held, but Miss Kane firmly refused to read the Bible unless advised to do so by "her priest. The school is about equally divided in the fight Some, of the directors have political aspirations, while others are holding office at present, and the fight will be earned into the next political campaign, no matter what the board de cides. What a Single Gnat of Wind Did. Mansfield, O., Nov. 10. Special. A most peculiar accident happened in this city this afternoon. A steady rain fell all day, the monotony occasionally being broken by severe gusts of wind. About 5 o'clock this afternoon a cab drove up to the Yon Hof Hotel, and Frank Steckel, a resi dent commercial traveler, alighted. Just then a sudden gust of wind swept down the street The tab was blown sidewise and Steckel was blown into a large plate glass window in the front of the hotel, causing it to fall with a crash. John B. Fish, a Phil adelphia traveling man, standing near the window, sustained a bruised arm by falling glass. Steckel escaped uninjured except an insignificant cnt on one of his fingers. No other damage was done. McKeesport's New Turner Hall. McKEESroKT, Nov. 10. Special. The Turners, of this city, who have one of the strongest organizations in this part of the State, are making great preparations to ded icate their new 530,000 hall. It is 50x106 feet, three stories high and fronts on two streets. The ceremonies at the dedication will consist of prize-turning, singing, elo cution, etc., to he preceeded by a parade and to finish with a grand ball. The date for the event has not yet been set, but it will be celebrated about the holidays. Prof. Lohman, leader of the Pittsburg Frohsinn, is now teaching the corps of singers for the occasion. Bohbed of 820,000 In Diamonds. Dayton, Vov. 10. Twenty thousand dol lars' worth of diamonds and other jewels were stolen from a Dayton and Michigan passenger train at the depot here at noon, and the police are unable to find any clew to the thieves. Mr. Kerning, a traveling salesman for Herman & Keck, diamond dealers of Cincinnati, was on the train en 'route home. At the depot he left his grip sack in his seat while he left the bar to get lunch. In the gripsack were the diamonds, and when he returned the grip and dia monds were gone. Malignant Diphtheria at Stoneboro. Franklin, Nov. 10. Special Diph theria of a very malignant type has become epidemic in the mining town of Stoneboro, west of this city, and the physicians seem unable to master the disease. Fourteen deaths have occured there within the past few days and over 100 cases are reported in the village and vicinity. The schools have all been closed and religious services in the various churches discontinued. A Columbus Grove Suspect Indicted. Ottawa, O., Nov. 10. The grand jury this afternoon, after two weeks' examina tion, found an indictment for murder in the first degree against Van Loon, the second man arrested for the Columbus Grove bank robbery and murder. Robert, who was first arrested for the crime, has been re leased. Wilson College Students Bobbed. Carlisle, Nov. 10. Special. While the btudents of Wilson Female College, at Chambersburg, were attending chapel serv ices yesterday, a thief climbed up the fire escape, entered the dormitory of the girls and stole watches, money and jewelry amounting to 51,000 in value. Miss Gaddis Still Holds-the Fort CONNEI.WVIIAE, Nov. 10. jeriK.J Tha State Miners' Hospital still remains in this city, and Bliss Gaddis, its young super intendent, still presides over its destinies, notwithstanding the strong efforts to remove her. Among the coke miners, many of whom have been inmates, there seems to be a unanimous feeling of affectionate respect for her. The Catholic clergy and sisterhood of the Convent of the Immaculate Concep tion, and the medical staff of the' hospital, have all requested Miss Gaddis' re-tention. This has been done also by many of her former patients, who have testified to her kindly treatment of them. Many of the most prominent men of the county have also petitioned the Governor that she be re Fitzgerald's Desperate Fight for lire. Youngstown, Nov. 12, Special. At the openiug of the Circuit Court to-day the first case presented was the application of William E. Fitzgerald, sentenced to be hung Thursday of next week, for anew trial. The entire day was consumed. The principal ground on which it is claimed the verdict should be set aside, is that jurors were admitted to the jury box, who by their answers were disqualified, and that the Court erred in allowing them to sit It is expected the Court will pass upon the case to-morrow. Trl-State Brevities. MrriiDEitEn Fitzoekald Is very ill in the Col umbus Penitentiary. McKekspout roushs are making it warm for tho Salvation Army. The Low Pressure Company has raised the gas rates on Homestead 30 per cent The West Elizabeth Presbyterian Church has just celebrated its semi-centennial. Tuosias Kimball, who was imprisoned Jn the Canton jail for drunkenness Monday night, died in his cell beforo morning. Brakemak James Comstoce, of the Penn sylvania Railroad, was killed In attempting to switch a train at Younjrstowu yesterday. Casi'ER niEDK, an iron roller at Youngs town, has been awarded $9,000 by a Youngs town Jury for the loss of an arm. The Pitts burg and Lake Erie Railroad is the defend, ant. The suppressed testimony In the prison investigation shows that the escaped female countertelter, Mrs. Collins, or Cnlbertson, had a rather pleasant time in jail at Read ing. Joseph Hilda, a Syrian peddler, ot Wilkes barre. Is missing, and there are suspicions of foul play. Ills pncW was found by his son Monday on the Susquehanna river bank, near Plymouth. Miss Kate HcCetcheox, aged U years, of Ligonler township, Westmoreland county, committed suicide Monday by taking lauda num. She had been rather melancholy for some time. Clarence E. Packard, acoptractor of Caldwell, W. Va., has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $3,000 from II. P. Mc Keown. Ho is accused of purchasing? machinery worth $3 D00 from McKeown and not paying for It. Packard Alleges that be intended writing to McKeown an telling him that the machinery did not suit. Pat Hayes, Peter Kearns and James O'lirleu were arrested yesterday morning by Sheriff McCormick, of Fayette county, in Cool Spring hollow, for robbing and nearly killing Joel Bosenstein, a Hebrew peddler, of Uniontown Monday evening. When the robbery occurred the police gave out that the Cooleys were suspected, in order to put the guilty parties off their guard. The scheme worked, nnd. the men were easily trapped. Rosensteln recognizes them. They are all notorious characters. When Uobert Steinmetz, a Cleveland brass roller, reached his home ou the nighf of election day, he found it dark and deserted. His wife had eloped with one Schrader, taking along her 19-month-old baby and leaving her 6-year-old daughter with a friend. Steinmetz traced them to Bingham. N. Y., where Schlatter's parents live, and Mondav he found thorn there. Ho tried to shoot schrader, but was prevented by the policeman who was with him. Ho to-Mc his baby boy and" started back home, leaving the elopers together. , Hogs are .largely used to hunt for truffles in Prance. As soon as the animal takes the roots of the fungus Into Its mouth he is dealt a sharp blow across the nose and drops the truffle, when It Is bagged by the hunter. The beast then passess on to an other spot, where, hidden a teyr inches be low the surface of the ground, are more of i the epicurean dainties. Recently dogs have been trained to perform the duties in stinctive to the pig. JiJT LATIMER'S. This Fire and Explosion Have Made Some PEERLESS BARGAINS! $150,000 WORTH OF DRYGOODS and CARPETS HAVE BEEN SLIGHTLY TAINTED WITH SMOKE. ALL WILL BE SOLD AT A GREAT SACRIFICE ! The clouds of smoke that poured into our building have left our magnificent stock of Fall Goods with a Blight odor of smoke, and in consequence we have cut prices 50 per cent in many instances. Note the following SACRIFICE PRICES : 10,000 yards Cochran's well-known 10-wire Tapestry Carpets are now 65c d. Vcird 500 Ladies' and Misses' Jackets and Wraps cut to $1.25, $3, $5 and up. 800 pairs Blankets, were $15 and $18 perfect, but slightly smell of smoke are $6, $7 and $8. 1,500 pairs Children's Hosiery at 4c a pair. Choice 50c Dress Goods that smell of smoke are now 25c a yard. 12,000 yards Dress Goods at 3c a yard. 2,800 yards Dress Goods at 6 l-2c a yard. Besides hundreds of other equally choice bargains. To see the crowds of visitors that fill these stores It is not dimcnlt to understand that something out of the ordinary is going on. In the Carpet and Lace Curtain Departments many rare bargains are shown also. Good Curtains are offered as low as 50c a pair. The finest grades have met with about same reductions. If you want to make your money do double its usual work, don't fail to call. T M I ATIM CD 138 and 140 Federal- St., 45 and 46 1 1 III. LMIIIflLn, HOMES ASH YEN CBEKATED. A Terrible Dlsatter BesolU From a IJvery Stable Fire at Denver. DENVER, Nov. 10. The "Mansion Livery Stables at Eighteenth andLawreuce streets, were almost completely destroyed by fire between 3:30 and 4 o'clock this morning. Four men, possibly six, rooming in the' upper portion of the building, were suffo cated, and many horses met death in the same way. There were several narrow escapes, as a portion of the building over the stables is'occupied by roomers. Thirty-four horses were suffocated in the upper portion of the building. There is a skylight in the rar, and it was here that the fire was first discovered, but how- it originated no one knows. The frightened animals when unloosed rushed out a side door and ran around to the front, where they tried to get in again, but were kept out by the large crowd that had gathered. The building was a total wreck. The sta bles were owned by Smith &Sombart Loss, 520,000; insurance, 510,000. The names of the men who lost their lives are: Thomas Bower, 22 years of age, single, home in Peo ria, IlL; George Bichards, aged 26, single, home at Lincoln, Neb.; David Elmore, sin gle, residence unknown; Otto Helbin, con sumptive, home in St. Louis. It is thought that the remains of two more men are in the ruins. ESCAPED LIKE 7I1Z3IHH0NS. Four or the Notorious Kendall Vendetta Gang Break Jail in Kentucky. Lexington, Ky., Nov. 10. The four. Kendall boys escaped from Georgetown Jail this afternoon at 5 o'clock, by sawing out the bars of a window while the jailer was confined to his bed by sickness. The bloody tragedy at Georgetown, August 27, in which Milton H. Kendall and his four song, John, Bnrell, Dade and Kussell B., wers engaged on one side, and the Jarvis broth ers on the other, is well remembered. The difficulty occurred over a watermelon patch of the Kendalls which the Jarvis boys were charged with destroying. There was a fight and the parties were cited to appear before the County Judge. Both families came to town and the Ken dalls attacked the Jarvis boys, killing one and wounding another. During the fight old man Kendall, Milton H., Sr., shot at Burrel Jarvis aud accidentally killed A. J. Montgomery, a highly-respected merchant. Jumping over his body he pursued Burrel through the store and shot him. Another one of the Jarvis brothers, John, was shot and killed by Milton Kendall, Jr. The Kendalls finally surrendered and were placed in jail, where they have since re mained until to-day. The tour boys got out to-day, but the old man remains in jail. A Prominent Politician Sent Up. Bacine, Wis., Nov. 10. Dr. Charles X. Palmer, the Raymond physician who pleaded guilty to burglary, was sentenced to one year in the State penitentiary this morning. Dr. Palmer is about 40 years of age. He is a graduate of Bush Medical College, served as Preside ntal elector on the Republican ticket in 1888, and up to a few weeks ago was a member of the Board of Pension Examiners. He was detected breaking into a store in the village of Ray mond last August Extract of Rfafc ALL COoVcOOKS Zflie Tear Bound. Send to ARMOUR & CO., Chicago. for Cook Book showing use of ARMOUR'S EXTRACT in Soups and Sauces. 31 ailed free. , S. Diamond, Allegheny, Pa. ho7-mwt . TTTTi hrr IBT - fail I
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