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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, - EKEDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 189i; .
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HIS GENIUS HIS OWN.
Such Is the Claim of a Former Em
ploye of an Iron Firm, Who
INVENTED A VALUABLE MACHINE.
A Counterfeit Held Fire Tears Gets a Man
Jnto TronUe.
WHAT THE COCETS ACTED OX YESTERDAY
A 6uit of more than ordinary interest is
in progress in the United States Circuit
Court and will be concluded to-day. The
plaintiffs are John T. HasLin, John 1L
Dalzell, AV. J. Crawford and Francis T.
Bates, the latter of Philadelphia. The de
fendants are Dilworth, Porter & Co.,
Limited. The suit is for damages for the
alleged unlawful use of a patent rollinR
mill. J. A. WakcBeld and "W. L. Pierce
are counsel for plaintiffs and James A. Kay
and D. F. Patterson for the defense.
Haskin indented an open housing for a
rolling mill while in the employ of Dil
worth, Porter & Co., and when he refused
to assign the patent to them they dismissed
him from their service. Defendants hold
that when they employed Haskin they also
employed all his inventive ability, and that
in consequence they rightfully own the
patent. This Haskin denies, and the court
mast settle the controversy, which involves
about ?150,000.
Judge I'ccd yesterday handed down an
opinion granting a rule for attachment in
contempt on John Fulton in the suit of
the Johnson Steel Kail Company vs the
Xorth Branch Street Company. The rule
is the outgrowth of a patent infringement
between the two companies. At the hear
ing before the commissioner, Fulton ap
neared n-. a lines-, but refused to produce
certain papers and drawings, claimingthat
he would be divulging valuable business
secret. The rule provides that when tho
drawings are produced the witness will be
dUcharced.
A verdict was rendered in the case of the
T'nited States against the Tittsburg, Ft.
"Wayne and Chicago Railway Companv and
the Pennsylvania Companyj lessee, being a
dispute on a boundary line along the com
pany's tracks near Davis Island dam. The
jurv found for the plaintiff for the portion
of the land south of the line and for the dc
tendants for the portion north.
The case of Captain S. S. Brown vs
Francis M. Lechner, an action on a note for
$5,000, was finished, a verdict being ren
dered for 53.5S8 OS for the plaintifi.
A verdict tor 10,722 90 was rendered for
the plaintiff in the action of the American
Exchange Xational Bank, of Xew York, vs
Holmes, Lafferty & Co.
TIME DID NOT AVAIL.
A Saloon Keeper in Trouble Over tlio Pas
sage or a Counterfeit.
"Cnited States Deputy Marshal Barring
yesterday brought from Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
"William Zirnhelt on a writ of habeas cor
pus, issued by Judge Eecd, of the United
States District Court Zirnhelt is a saloon
keeper in "Wilkesbarre, and was arrested
there on a charge of attempting to pass a
"raised" bill. His relatives claimed that
he is insane, and asked for a writ of habeas
corpus to bring him into court for a hear
ing. The case is an - odd one. Five
j ears ago a ?10 bill, raised to 550,
was passed on Zirnhelt He made nn in
formation against the man he supposed
Psed it on him, and he was arrested by
Deputy Marshal Barring. A case could
not be made against the prisoner and he
was discharged. In the meanwhile, how
e er, Barring had put a little mark on the
edge of the bill. Zirnhelt retained it for
the years, but recently, it is charged,
tried to pass it An information was
made against him and he was ar
rested by Barring. The note was at
once recognized by Barring, his little mark
still showing. Zirnbelt's family obtained an
attorney who appeared in court and asked
for the writ of habeas corpus, alleging that
he is insane, and therefore not responsible.
Zirnhelt was brought here vesterday and
placed in jail, Judce Beed fixing next
AVednesdav for a hearing.
ECOTT'S K0IHEK EEEAKS DOWN
M hen It Is Announced That He Mast Go to
the Reformatory.
A scene occurred in Criminal Court yes
terday afternoon. James Scott, indicted
for the killing of John Haduka at "Wall
station on May 5, was to have been tried.
The case was postponed in the morning
until afternoon owing to the fact that Mr.
Marshall, young Scott's jKljinscl, was en
gaged in the Common Plek JCourt In the
afternoon he announced to the court that his
client would plead guilty to involuntary
manslauchter. Scott was sentenced to the
Huntingdon Reformatory. His mother,
who had expected her son to be released,
broke dovn completely and had to be as
bisted from the court room.
The jury in the assault and battery case
against Officers Thomas Paisley aud Boss
Borison rendered a verdict of not guilty
nd placed the costs on the prosecutor, S.
L. Orr.
Bridget Hanna. of Homestead, pleaded
guilty to three charges of selling liquor
without license.
Charles F. Goldstrohm, of Webster, Pa.,
-was convicted of aEf-aultand battery on
John X. Perkins, June 19.
John and Augusta Kahn, charged with
malicious mischief in injuring the house
of James Hamilton, of Mil vale, w ere ac
quitted and the costs divided.
William Long was acquitted of a charge
of receiving stolen goods from George
Gamble, August 26, on Grant street
DIV0HCE SUITS IN C0UBT.
Two Tiled Yesterday and as Many More
Granted.
Attorney J. H. Porte yesterday filed the
divorce suit of Mary Gregory, by her next
friend J. H. Jacobs, against Jack&on
Gregory. They were married March G, 1891,
She charges him with cruel treatment and
infidtiity.
Attorneys Bobb & Fitzimuions filed the
divorce suit of Charles Zeller, Jr. against
Catherine Zeller. They were married
September 27, 18S7. lie claims that she
treated him so cruelly that he had to leave
her August 7. 1888.
"V. A Blakely, commisfioner, filed the
testimony taken in the dhorce case of Tred
Chester against Florence Chester. They
were married May 5, 1890, and lived in
Hazelwood. CheEter alleged that he came
home from work, found his wife drunk and
learned that 'he had been unfaithful. Other
witnesses testified to her acting badly and
going to improper places. The couple
separated June 23, 18)0.
Divorces were granted In the cases of
Marr Schmitt against Joseph Schmitt, and
Pauline R. Mocher against Charles Mocher.
Desertion was the allegation.
To-Day Trial Lists.
Criminal Court Commonwealth vs Mi.
A Cain (3), Dave Fohard, Enoch Jones,
William Klrkland, Patrick Conwell and
I'.lchard Jeffreys.
Common Pleas No. 1 Kinsey ts Saner,
Watson vs McTyre et al, Larimer vs Metier,
Hawk ts Anderson et aL Meek vs Llddell,
Davidson va Pittsburg Natural Gas Com
pany, Kaine vs Bridgwater Gas Company,
Kuepple vs Bauman et al, Dicky, Jr. vs
Forcie, Safe Deposit Company vs Hamilton,
tafe Deposit Companv vs Gillespie.
Common Pleas No. 2 Quitch vs Pittsburg
Incline Plane Company et al. Trute vs Penn--lvanift
National Bank. Coon vs White,
litwton vs Gumbert 4 Huey, Murch vs Moor-head-McLeane
& Co., Chilton vs Central
Traction Company. Schools vs Central Trac-
"" rv,rmim. Hnet-Pnatgln vm LTp ct ll..
Maxwell vs Pleasant Valley Electric Kail
way Company, Hany vs Thomas.
Getting Ready for Business.
A short session of Common Pleas Court
No. 3 was held yesterday to fix cases for
jury trials to commence next Monday. The
regular list, the first one of the new court,
was called. It has 134 cases on it, which
will give the court plenty of work for a
start. It was expected that the appoint
ment of crier and tipstaves would De an
nounced, but thev were not Thcreare
four tipstaves and one crier to appoint
They will likely be named Saturday.
S Ui Troperty Will Be Injnred.
A bill in equity was filed yesterday by
John A. Shaw against A. M. Evan. Shaw
alleges that he bought a lot on Fifth street,
McKeesport, from Ryan, intending to erect
a residence on it Rvan agreed not to erect
a stable on the adjoining lot He has since
commenced to build a liverr and sale stable
next to Shaw. It is claimed it will injure
the Dronertv of Shaw, and an ininnction is
'asked for to restrain Ryan from putting up I
iuc aiauie.
Utile Gems of Justice.
The ejectment suit of John Kammercr
against S. E. Hanna, is on trial before Judge
Collier.
The suit of F. M. MoKelvey against IT. B.
Demmler. an action on notes, is on trial be
fore Jndge Masee.
The suit of Huckestcin & Co. against Kelly
& Jones, an action on a contract is still on
trial borore Judge Stowo.
Thi suit or vr. J. Dunn against TV. H. Stur
geon and Jane Rea an action in ejectment,
is on trial before Jurlse White.
Ir the suit or Sidney Fuller against G eorge
Morris to recover a hill for lumber, a ver
dict was given for $H2 23 for tho plaintiff.
Ix t$e suit of Henry Beiss against J. B.
Huff, an action on a contract for laving a
pavement, a verdict was given yesterday for
$95 to for the plaintiff.
Fkakk Gerapx, convicted of murder in the
first decree for the killing of his step child,
was granted a new trial by the Supreme
Court and will bo put on trial again Monday.
Is tho case of Sarah A. Hadley against
"William Louthor. an notion for slander,
a verdict for $250 was rendered for the
plaintiff.
The report of the Dnqnesne Traction Com
pany to tho Secretary of Internal Affairs for
its first two months' operations shows 403,801
passengers carried, and $20,129 85 taken in
fares.
Jons Morrow filed a petition jesterday
asking for an inquest In lunacy on his
brother, James L. Morrow. Ho alleges that
tho brother is insane and incapable of tak
ing care of his business. F. B. Stone was np-
pointca commissioner.
OVERCOMING A PREJUDICE.
Increased Demand for Cottonseed Oil It It
Now Taking the Tlace of Lard What
the Change Will Mean to Fork
Growers.
Realizing that all flesh is grass, and there
fore there is a relation more or less distant
between them and the hog, Americans are
justly jealous of the American-reared ani
mal of foreign countries, and they arc de
termined that he shall be given a clean bill
of health under penalty of retaliation, but
the bar on the animals' behalf against cot
tonseed oil languishes to an extent sufficient
to arouse the suspicion that Chicago lard
industries have ended it by going into part
nership with the oil manufacturers and
make lard productions more profitable.
sut it Deems to loot as tnougn tne masic
under which oil is sold as lard will before a
great while be thrown off and the oil come
into general use for pastry-making despite
the people's prejudice and the solemn warn
ing of a Pennsylvania legislator who de
nounced it as a deobstruent when fighting
for the passage of the anti-oleomargarine
law. People appear to be content to pay
54 or So a gallon for it as salad oil, but ob
ject to it at one-tenth of that
price as shortening, and yet at
the same time censure it unknow
ingly for the latter purpose. Cottonseed oil
is gradually but steadily working its way
into favor, not only elsewhere, but in Pitts
burg, though outside of the Italian quarter
beefsteak is not fried in it Those who use
it in cooking find that the evil effect of the
consumption of hog lard does not follow
that of oil, and it is especially nice for the
manufacture of xoughnuts, as it does not
impregnate the dough to the same extent
that lard does. People who have tried it
say that it is just the thing in which to fry
Saratoga chips, and some who a few years
ago bought a gallon as an experiment now
buy it by the barrel.
The cotton crop appears to be late this
Tear, at least the new oil has not yet gotten
Into the Northern market, though Mr. Car
roll states that it is on the way, shipments
having been made from Texas a week or
ten days since. As cotton was once king,
even when the growers thought not of get
ting a revenue out of the seed, and as peo
ple are ruled mainly through their stomachs
there is a promise that the plant will again
within a few j ears be enthroned. In that
event one may expect cither an improve
ment in the quality of pork or a decrease
in the quantity grown. At present the hog
is the great corn crib ot the country, but he
will not be to so great an extent if people
cease consuming his fat This state of
affairs emphasizes the importance of culti
vating an appetite for the grain in Furopc so
that if America cannot supply the Old World
with pork she may induce consumption in
the shape of corn. This must be done or
the Hebrews and Mohammedans should be
persuaded to give over their aversion to
pork.
The Alton Declares War.
Kansas Cut, Nov. 12. The Chicago
and Alton Railroad has made a through rate
of $15 from Kansas City to Cincinnati over
the Alton, and the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroads. For some months the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad has been offering the
rate to the estern railroads, DUt the asso
ciation lines have not dared to accept it
Tins cut will, in all likelihood, inaugurate
a retaliatory policy from the Indianapolis
lines, aud result in a lively rate tiar.
Exliatut Steam Heating
By the "WilliameBVacuumSystem," -without
back pressure upon the engine. Guar
anteed advantages Saving power, and 23
per cent and over of coal compared with the
Eressure system, removal of cracking or
ammering in pipes, increasing efficiency of
the heating system. Send for new descriptive
catalogue to Warren "Webster & Co., 491
X. Third street, Philadelphia,
Patentees and Mirs. of Webster Vacuum
Feed "Water Heater and Purifier,
sivrsu
FREE TRAINS TO-MORROW
To and From the New Town or Blaine.
Get tickets, maps, price lists of lots and
full particulars at 129 Fourth ave.
The Blaise Land Impuovement Co.
MTUWThrSU
The Soap Exposition.
Ladies are respectfully invitid to call
during the week at John A. Renshaw &
Co.'s store, Liberty avenue and Kiuth
street, and taste the celebrated Franco
American Food Co.'s French Soups, which
will be exhibited, warmed and served to
visitors.
Did Ton Get One
Of the fine frames given with every dozen
of cabinets at Hendricks & Co.'s,68 Federal
street, Allegheny? See them every dav
this week. Cabinets 51 00.
Gentlemen's Fashionable Furnishings.
Finest and largest stocks and lowest
prices. Best imported and domestic makes
of underwear and neckwear. All grades.
Jos. Hoenk & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
He made his wife smile when he brought
home a fine Crayon Portrait of himclf from
Javens Elite Photo Parlors, 510 Market st
OT
HINTS FOR THE HOME.
How the Sewing Room Should Be Ar
ranged and Furnished.
NEW IDEAS IN LAUNDRY BAGS
And Other Handy Keceptacles "(hat Set Off
Apartments,
A WHITE DINNER AXD BUN BONDAGE
T is well to have made
np your mind as to how
you will choose to make
up your clothes, before
the lady of scissors and
measuring tape, steps'
inside your door. When
her time means your
money, it is a pity to
waste it, in waiting to
decide betwixt the respective claims of
bodice or polonaise. See to it that all such
things are abundantly supplied; also that
yonr sewing room is not so cumbared that
there is no room to work. Pnt into it a
light oblong deal-topped table, high enough
for comfortable tearing and cutting. It
ought to have one shallow drawer for pat
terns. Under the drawers have two light
shelves that will be simply ideal places for
stowing away boxes, bundles and unfinished
work. .
Have also a lap-board or folding-lap
table, a neat flannel-covered press-board
and tiny gas or oil stove, to supply hot
irons. You need also two pin cushions
one large, one small and at least a dozen
papers of pins, large and small, not forget
ting several sizes of safety-pins, which are
the "sovereienest thinirs on earth" for
catching and fixing the unstudied grace of
accidental effects in draping. Provide also
a couple of emery cushions and of measur
ing tapes, half a dozen cheap light thimbles,
and at least three pair of good sharp scis
sors. One pair should be long, keen-bladed
shears, and there should be button-hole scis
sors besides, as well as a keen, small pen
knife for ripping a seam that has been
wrongly sewed.
A sewing room of all places demonstrates
the total depravity of inanimate things.
They lose themselves and persistently re
fuse to be found in the most heart-breaking
fashion. The time saved by such provision
in a single week's sewing will be worth
double the cost of all the things here set
down.
Of course you will have several reels of
silk and twist, and plenty of fresh new
linings for made-over garment". Choose
lightish silesia, soft but firm, and close
woven. A stiff stuff is fatal to the style of
whatever goes over it
Handsome stuffs, either silk or wool, or
the two together, may go to the dyer and.
come back better than new. Mixtures con
taining cotton and poor stuffs generally
never pay for either the trouble or expense
of dyeing.
uniy tne very nnest velvet admits of re
dying. Yon may help the looks of any sort
though by laying its face downward upon a
clean paper and whipping it smartly, then
brushing off the dust from the right side.
To take out wrinkles from large bits, damp
the wrong side slightly, put a weight
in each corner and hang smooth face up
ward till dry.
Lastly provide for your sewing-woman a
light comfortable sewing-chair, a rocker
also, and low footstool, and basket for clip
pings. Remember, too, that she is human
and fallable, that most likely her horizon
is narrow, her ideals not too high. If vou
encourage her to gossip with you about "her
last place, revealing the secrets
of its prison-house, for your delec
tation, what else can you expect
than that your own cherished skeleton shall
be served up, with sauce piquant, to the
next customer?
SOMETHING HEW IK BAGS.
Beantifol Reoeptacles for the Laundry
Housework and tho Like.
There is a new laundry bag, made of
stout, gray linen, in an oblong shape, which,
in place of being drawn together at the
top, is'supplied with rings and a straight,
brass rod. The opening is a perpen
dicular slit, cut from the top,
half way down to the center.
As new as this laundry bag is, the
The Kew Laundry Sat;.
screen bag, given below, seems to be
divided like an apartment house, , into
small sections for a great many' dif
ferent occupants. To make one have
tnrec trames made of
Wine? mrw
each with
mahogany colored plantation
Tlie Screen Sag Done.
cloth, on which you have embroidered some
glorious black-eyed Susans. Then to the
lowest part of each panel fasten bags of
mahogany-colored silk and graduate the
height as the picture shows. Lastly, back
each panel with some simple inexpensive
material and join them on to the
others with bras screw hinges. The
work-bag is also new. It is made of some
Work Sag With Pockets.
handsome brocaded silk, a strip of which is
fitted with pockets, then gathered and sown
fast atone edge to a circular bottom and,
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drawn in at the top with appropriate rib
bons. First neatly cover the circular disk,
then prepare your strip of brocade as the
MlMsiSa.'
Detail cf Work Sag.
section given in the diagram shows. Each
pocket is made of soft India silk; fulled at
the bottom and made fast to the inner side
of the strip at three sides, with the top
finished with a heading through which tho
elastic is run. .
A WHITE DIHHEB.
Tne Unique Banquet Given In Honor of a
Bride's Home-Coming-.
It was a white dinner and given in honor
of the bride's home-coming. The "snowy
tablecloth of exquisite fineness was a mass
of delicate hemstitching and silken tracery.
The long white satin scarf was exceedingly
ornate with its heavily embroidered and
fringed ends, and its center piece ot mirrors,
ferns and white lillies, representiug a minia
ture lake, upon whose smooth bosom peace
fully reposed two majestic white swans.
j.ne laoie service oi purest wnue uuiiu,
most delicately frosted silver and finest
Venetian glassware, together with the snowy
flowers, gleamed in the incandescent lights
above like the moon-silvered crystals of a
winter's night.
The menu, prepared by a celebrated
French chef, was as nearly white as the
incorrigibility of certain colors could be
made to submit to gastronomic ingenuity.
The menu cards were fairly dreams of white
and silver, and might have been designed
for the memorable night when Lucullus
dined with Lucullus.
The bride wore the ravishing vesture of
her bridal a Parisian development of rich
ivory satin with foamy cascades of rare old
lace and garniture of almost priceless pearls.
In deference to the artistic idea of the din
ner, the young ladies were gowned in white
and the elder in silver grays and pale lav
enders. The color line was only drawn at the
clawhammers of the gentlemen and the com
plexions of the ebony-faced waitersl Seho
boih (Jo..) Herald.
Bans and Bondage.
It has been reserved for Mrs. Fawcett,
says the Lady'i Pictorial, to boldly attack
that seemingly harmless confection as the
most deadly enemy to female freedom the
bun. The bun, she insinuates, is synony
mous with slavery, the tea-pot is the stumb
ling block to emancipation. It is idle, so
she declares, for women to dream of free
dom while buns and tea hold sway, and
practically impossible for them to attain
the superior pedestal occupied by man
while thev are content to consume slabs of
plumb cake and drink Bohea out of "thick
china bowls" at midday. "What a terrible
picture this presents to the imaginative
.mind pining to be freed from the
shackles wherein woman is now bound?
Fancy paints the "oppressed" female lured
by the potent fumes of the baneful teapot
into the fatal recesses of the confectioner's
den. Once inside she falls a ready victim
to the insidious bun, and as she eats her
energy departs. Then the deadly bowl is
quaffed, and an apathy akin to that of the
lotus eater comes upon her, while the fet
ters tighten. She may, it is true, make a
feeble astempt to shake them off; she may
upraise her voice to cry aloud for "rights,
she may even struggle on to platforms and
declare her determination to be free, but it
is all in vain. The bun and the tea have
done their work. Her chest is
Weighed upon with heaviness
And utterly consumed with sharp distress.
CALIFORNIA,
The Country of Delightful Winters.
California is the most attractive and de
lightful section of the United States, if not
of the world, and its many beautiful resorts
will be crowded w ith the best families ot
the Fast during the entire winter. It offera
to the investor the (best open opportunity
for safe and large returns from its fruit
lands. It offers the kindest climate in the
world to the feeble and debilitated; and it is
reached in the most comfortable manner
over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Iiailroad. Pullman vestibule sleeping cars
leave Chicago by this line every day in the
year and go without change or "transfer
through to San Francisco, Los Angeles and
San Dieeo. This is a feature not offered by
any other line. "Write to Charles T. Apple
by, Traveling Passenger Agent, Room 303,
Bank of Commerce Building, Pittsburg, Pa.,
if you desire any further information as to
the country and the accommodations for
reaching it
The Midst of a Great Sale.
Search the town from end to end and
you'd fail anywhere to find such an en
thusiastic crowd of good natured people as
throng the stores of the P. C. C. Cs, corner
Grant and Diamond streets. We are in the
midst of the greatest sale of suits and over
coats ever offered to the public. Persuasion
is utterly out of the question. Thousands
of people come in with the crowds who
simply "look" to see what's going on, and
buy because the prices are so irresistibly
low. Don't wait The sale lasts but a few
days more; only about 200,000 worth lett
of the great purchase ot over 5500,000 of
clothing that we bought at a bargain, and
must turn it into cash. -The superior
quality and excellence of the goods offered
tell their own tale, and the low prices sell
the goods. Here are a few of them:
AVe offer suits made of imported
suitings in French thibets, Hudders
field cheviots, Clays, worsteds, Hocka
nums. Globes, etc., made in every
detail better than any goods ever offered for
$30, at $15, either in sacks or cutaways.
Come and see them. If the are not better
after bought and compared with other gar
ments that cost more elsewhere, return
them and we'll cheerfully return the money.
"We have added to-day 200 men's genuine
imported Carr's melton and English Kersey
overcoats, in black, blue, brown and olive
shades, that are made as fine as the best
skilled journeymen tailors can produce
them, thoroughly lined with cutter's silk.
sold always at $15 to $00. AVe offer them
to-day at 18 and 20. Ave offer men's busi
ness suits in all the correct styles in sacks
or frocks, made of the best cassimcres,
cheviots, homespuns, all new effects, at fl'J,
that are considered cheap in other houses at
J20 aud ?25. AVe offer hundreds of over
coats superbly made in meltons, kerseys,
thibets, fine silk and woolen linings, perfect
fitters, at 15, that sell everywhere at 25
and 30, and we leave it to your good taste
whether ours are better made or not
Men's business and drcs suits at 10 that
if bought regularly would cost us 15 aud
18. Men's worsted and cassimere pants,
generally sold at 7 and 8, iu handsome
stripes and checks, we are selling at 3 75.
Boys' and children's suits aud overcoats
equally as cheap. Space does not allow us
to mention more than a few prices. 400
suits for bovs, ages 4 to 14, worth 3 50, we
sell at 1 49. Boys' overcoats, worth 3 50,
go at 2, aud hundreds of other bargains in
men's and boys' dress suits and overcoats of
every description. Bemember, there are
but a few days left and the early ones get
first pick. You'll never get a better chance
to make a "good front" in the way ot good
clothes for so little money. For we want
the cash, and low prices must bring it.
Thundering big values iumen's furnishings.
Come and see. You'll believe your own eyes.
P. C C C, Pittsburg Combination
Clothing Company, corner Grant and
Diamond streets.
The Farmers' Deposit National Hank
Invite the public to call and examine their
new safe deposit vaults. Information con
cerning the renting of, hoxes and deposit of
valuables cheerfully gi en. atw1
Novelties in Moufflon Jacket
jODened.to-daiat Eosenbaum & Co.'s.
COMMITTEES AT WAE.
Allegheny Auditors and Financiers
Draw Their Swords.
WHITEWASH 8AID TO BE IN STOCK.
A Compromise That, It Is Feared, Will Be a
Precedent.
CHAIRMAN WJSRTHlIIIER EXPLAINS
There is war between the Allegheny
Auditing and' Finance committees. The
heated debate in the latter committee
meeting last Tuesday night between Dr.
Gilliford and Arthur Kennedy was simply
the forerunner of the lively times that will
follow. Mr. Kennedy and other members
of the Finance Committee are looked upon
by the reformers as champions of Mayor
AVyman, and whatever steps they take
are watched with suspicion. Politics
is said to be the potent factor,
aud every move which Kennedy
makes for the protection of the accused
officials is heralded by the other side as a
bid for support in the coming mayorality
canvass. To this Kennedy makes a vigor
ous denial. Ho declares he is not a candi
date for any office and that he only wants
fair play.
The reformers claim he will be a candi
date, however, and to prove that he and the
majority, of the Finance-Committee intend
to cover up as much as possible the facts
laid bare by the. Auditing Comtaittoe, tho
statement is made that a discrepancy of
14,850 discovered by the auditors in the
settlement of weigh scale funds was com
promised by the Finance Committee 'for
4,500. The'money is due from the Herr's
Island and AYoods' Bun stock yards.
Didn't Pay for the Privilege.
The manner in which the debt was in
curred was explained yesterday by Mr.
Henricks, whoa was Chairman of the sub
committee which, in 1886, made an agree
ment with the stock yard companies where
by they were to pay 2,400 per year for the
privilege of weighing their own cattle. Pre
vious to that time, while the stock yards
were on Buens Vista street, all cattle sold
in the city were weighed on the Second
ward scales at 9 cents per head. The reve
nue derived therefrom amounted to about
2,400 per year in addition to paying the
salary of the weigh master. AVhen the
stock yards were Btarted at Herr's
Island and Woods ' Kun in order to avoid
driving cattle to the center of the city, an
agreement was made whereby 2,400 was to
paid annually for the privilege of weighing
their own cattle. The contract was signed
by Mr. Greenwalt for the AVoods' Kun
yards and Mr. Callcry for the yards at
Herr's Island. No money was ever paid,
however, and the bill, with interest, now
amounts to 14,850. Mr. Greenwalt, Mr.
Henricks said, was recently sued for his
share, and judgment was secured. A com
promise was afterward made by the Finance
Committee whereby he was to pay 1,000
and the Herr's Island yards $3,600. The
former has paid his sbl-e, but the latter
bill is still, hanging fire.
From thiB and the combing down which
Dr. Gilliford got in the Finance Committee
the reformers have formed the conclusion
that the city watchdogs are disposed to let the
discoveries of the auditors slide quietly by.
The work of the auditors ends when a re
port is nftde to Councils, and it is then for
the Finaqce Committee to make collections.
Secret of the Committee War.
There is little objection to the settlement
of the bills against the stock yard com
panies, but the reformers are afraid it will
be a precedent which will be used to let
down Mayor AVyman when their claims
against him are ready for collection. It is.
asserted that they will be about 25,000.
Whatever other proceedings are taken will
emanate in the Citizens' Eeform Associa
tion, but deficiencies, if any, will be col
lected by the Finance Committee, which is
already charged with having a coat of
whitewash in stock for the accused officials.
The claim has been made by Mr.
Wertheimer, of tho Finance Committee,
that the compromise with the stockyard
companies was made previous to the time
the Auditing Committee reported. This
Mr. Henricks denies, and says that steps
were not taken by the Finance Committee
until September 8, while the Auditing
Committee reported August 4. Mr. Wert
heimer also gives as an explanation for
the settlement that the money could not be
collected, and that a compromise wasmade
as a good business move.
NOT MAKING BIG F0BTTJNE&
A Saloon Is Not Always
Gold Mine In
Pittsburg.
"Business is nothing like it was before
the passage of the Brooks law," said a
Smithfield street saloon keeper yesterday.
"In my case the day-time trade is as good
as ever, but ohl what a difference in the
evening! Before the Brooks law went into
effect men could play cards in the saloons,
and shake dice or play pool for the drinks;
they can't do any of those things now, and
as a consequence a great many ot them seek
their evening's amusement elsewhere.
Doubtless the counter attractions of the
theaters carry off lots of men who wonld
have been our customers in the old days.
There was a day not so very long ago when
the saloon was about all the field for enter
tainment open to the bulk of Pittsburg's
population. The increase in the number of
theaters, together with the restrictions of
the Brooks law, have made a large hole in
the profits ot most of the downtown saloon
keepers. The saloons near the theaters are
Hie only ones that do a. big business between
8 o'clock and 11 in the evening After the
theaters are out the business is better dis
tributed, but about the time the bartenders
are beginning to hustle, boom 1 goes the
City Hall clock, midnight, the day s ended,
doo'rs must be closed. The idea that all a
man need do to make a fortune in
the retail liquor business is to
get a licensef a location on a
principal street downtown, some beer and
whisky and a bartender to sling it over the
bar, is pretty well exploded. After a few
more saloonkeepers have failed those who
are left may make a good living, but not
much more, if a half-dozen popular or pecu
liar bars be excepted. I don't deny that
the latter exceptions are making their
owners wealthy but they can be counted
on one hand almost.
THE TAHIFF TOO HIGH.
A riate Glais Man Sajt the Protection
Ratei Are Exorbitant on His Article.".
H. Cleveland, a member of one of the
largest plate glass firms in New York, is at
the Duquesne. He is a relative of the ex
President Major McKinley's election in
Ohio was not anticipated by him, and he
was not pleased with the result. "There is
too much protection on plate glass
brought from France and Belgium."
said he. "The duy is about
173 per cent. "We cannot compete
with foreign plate glass, as to quality and
finish of imported goods. Of course the
American fnanufacturers claim that their
article is just as good, but I have been in
the business for many years, and I differ
with them. The French workmen take
more pains in finishing their goods, which
the home labor overlooks. Even it you
buy a pair of boots in Prance they will
have a finer finish than ours. This holds
good in the case of plate glass and mir
rors." 3Ir. Cleveland is attending to private
business, but will stay over Saturday to
take in the unveiling of a statue erected to
J. It. Ford at Ford City.
HOKSFOKD'S ACID PHOSPHATE
l.Kfi"-"rr Mnnt-I oiuUliynlcai Exhaustion. J
new advertisements.
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If a Texas cowboy should happen to steer this .way and see
our elegant stock of superior clothing, he Avould doubtless be in
clined to change his costume. Our line of splendid Men's Suits
at $8, $io, $12, $15 to 25; Overcoats at $10, $12, $15 to $40,
and the large assortment of warm Avoolen Suits for Boys at $5,
$6, $7, $8 to $20; Overcoats at $5, $6, $7 to $20; Children's
at $2, $4, $5, $6 to $12; Overcoats at $4, $5, $6 to $12 which
we are displaying are enough to attract the attention of anyone,
be he a Texan or a Hottentot We carry the stock from which
all may choose, and Ave offer bargains that none Avill refuse.
SUITS TO Oil
REMEMBER!
That every purchase of $5 made in our
Boys' Department will entitle the pur
chaser to one of those Ideal Dime Sav
ings Bank or the Musical Bell Toy, and
Ave are still giving aAvay the best Dinner
Bucket in the Avorld to all purchasers in
Men's Department ::: ::: :::
IisnIr 1
UNION CLOTHING HOUSE,
COR. FIFTH AVE. AND WOOD ST.
6knd(a!(3xoa
is far cheaper and much better than tea or coffee.
Try it once. All reliable grocers sell it. rui
PECIALTIES THIS VEEK:
Chamber Suites $18, worth $30.
Plush Seat Rockers $3.50, worth $5.50.
Fine Upholstered Hassocks 50c, worth $1.25.
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The choicest selection of Onyx Tables and Stands ever shown in this city at
prices less than half asked by other dealers. AVbether you buy for cash or
credit Keech can sell you at a saving: of 25 per cent. Get your estimates for
Housefurnishing Goods from
KEECH,
CASH
823, 925, 927 PENN
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OPEN
IRON AND STEEL BUILDINGS,
ROOF TRUSSES, COLUMNS Al GIRDERS.
PITTSBURG BRIDGE COMPANY, Thirty-Eighth St.
7 noll-47-D
STEAMERS AND EXCTJB3ION3".
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For Queenstnwn and Liverpool.
Royal and United States Mall steamers.
Teutonic Nov. 18. 7amTcutonlc,Dec.lS.5.30am
Britannic, Jov.23.8:' am Britannic, Dec. 3, 11 am
'Majestic. Dec. 2. 5.80am "Majestic. Dec. 30. 3 pm
Germanic. Pec.O.lliMamlGericanlc Jan. 8.
From White Star dock, root ot West Tenth St.,
New York.
Second cabin on these steamers aloon rates,
o0 and upward. Second cabin & and f 1. .Excur
sion tlckeU ou favorable terms. Steerage, fron&or
to old tountrr. 3.
White Star draft pajable on demand in all the
principal banks throughout nreat Britain. Apply
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THE MERCANTILE AGENCY
R. G. Dun & Co.,
Westinghouse Bnildintr, corner Penn Ave.
nnd Ninth St., Pittsburg, Pa.
This establishment supplies all necessary
information as to the standing, responsibil
ity, etc., dfhoglness men thioughont North
America. It is the oldest and by far the
most complete and cxtensivo sjstem ever
organized for tho accommodation of Bank
ing and Mercantile intercstsand the General
Promotion and Protection of Trade.
Debts Collected and Legal Business at
tended to throughout the North American,
Continent. r
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LOSING
ONE'S
HAT!
Is, of course, a misfortune, but
one Avhich can be easily repaired
if the loser Avill call at our Hat
Department We have all sorts, '
sizes and at prices that none
can duplicate. Drop in when
bare-headed and try one of our
elegant Derbys at $1.50, 1.90,
$2, $2.50, $2.90 to $5.
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DISEASES OF WOMEN.
Some of the symptoms from which many
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and back or the nock, extending down the
spine, pain aenwa mo
small or the back,
dragline weight and
pain'across the abdo
men, a tired, weary
feeling, dark circle
under the eyes, cold
hands and Icet, palpi
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and despondency.
The physicians of
the Catarrh and Dys
pepsia Institute have
for years made a spe
cialty of this class ot
idlseascs. Their medi
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curative and so pre
pared that the patient can use ice treatment
herseir at her home, ir you cannot call,
write for their question sheet. An educated
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CONSULTATION FREK. Office hours, 10
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