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Per Quarter -" Daily Dispatch. Ono Month J Daily D:PTcn. Including Snrdav, lyear.. 10 i Daily D'srATCU, Including s-nndar. 3 m'ths. ' 50 Daily IHsrATcn. Including Sunday. 1 m'th.. SO Sunday Dispatch. One Year. 'SO Vj-kkly Dispatch. One Year 1 -a Til" D mly DisrATCn Is delivered by carriers at :r cent per week. or. Including Sunday Edition, at M cfnl'i'erwett. "piTTsIlIIKO. THHKS1HY FLUB-fATlY 4 TWELVE PAGES NO AN.VUCI1T HERE The wreckinc of a car on the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester road liy dyna mite early yesterday morning inflicts a worse shock on the cause of the strikers than on the car. It does so, because the public abhorrence of so cowardly and murderous an act cannot fail to react upon the sympathy which is given to men who are maintaininz an orderly and law abiding course of conduct We are far from intimating and in fact do not believe that this offense against society was committed by the striking employes of the street railway company or with their knowledge. They have in their own persons showed too much intelligence and respect for the laws to resort to the means of anarchy and as sassination. But they owe it to them selves and society to dissociate their cause from the attempt at secret murder com mitted in its behalf, not only by publicly disavowing it, but by joining hands with the rest of the community in discovering and punishing the combination of fool and villain who placed that explosive on the track. One thing is to be made very clear The cause of labor is not to be aided by importing the methods of assassination and murder into disputes that can be rightly settled only by reason and law. A LOSS TO sriJGICAE SCIENCE. Few men achieed fame so rapidly as did Sir Morell Mackenzie, whose sudden death is announced this morning, but he accomplished his celebrity by his worth, his hard work and skill having well paved the way for the public recognition which he received. In many respects he was one of the most typical men of the day: the amount of work he. accomplished was as remarkable as the high qualities which characterized it, and no man was a more notable example of the feverish rush which makes the busy life of the Nine teenth Century. He was, too, a personifi cation of the tendency to specialize which has influenced the profession of medicine even more than the other walks of life. Although Dr. Mackenzie will always be best known to the world by his treatment of the late Emperor Frederick, he had. under his care many other patients of prominence, and a vast number of un known people will cherish a grateful memory of Mm from the relief which they obtained at his hands. He was the victim of more persecution from professional jealousy than any other man of the age, and the vituperations of the German doc tors at one time threatened to excite an international feeling. The hospital in Golden Square, London, for the treatment of special diseases of the throat largely owed its success to his efforts and will form a lasting monument. The nature of Dr. Mackenzie's work made its success depend in a large degree on painstaking research and attention to de tails. He inaugurated a most important movement in surgical science, and he will be seriously missed, notwithstanding the number of able men who are following in "bis footsteps. THEORIES OF BOILKR. EXPLOSION'S. The comments of The Dispatch the other day about the survival of the low Yiater theory of boiler explosions, as illus trated by editorial comments of the New York Telegram, evoke a good humored reply from that journal. It recognizes that "a low stage of water is not a neces sary cause of explosions," although it in timates that the Munhalfarm experi ments which furnished the first practical disproof of that theory were not impor tant enough to be well known. The Telegram cites the telegraphic re port of a locomotive boiler explosion on which the comments were based and which we admit were not before us when we criticized its editorial deductions. It says: The telegraph report stated, on the au thority of other practical railroad men, that this engineer and fireman, finding their en gine nearly ont of water.undertook to make a run or several miles to the nearest water station to replenish the supply. As they neared Oxmoor, Ala., the boilei exploded with the results as described. Here, at least, would seem to be a case wberojtbe cause of explosion was not open to question. It was "a condition, not a theory," brother. Even supposing that the verification of the statements of the telegraphic report w ere beyond dispute, the facts stated leave some room for discussion. Indeed, the one thing that is "not open to question" on this presentation of the case is that the explosion does not bear out the old low water theory. That theory never held that the mere fact of letting the water get low in the boiler would cause an explosion if other factors did not intervene. The logic of the theory was that when the water became low the boiler became over heated, and that turning fresh water in under those conditions generated steam so rapidly as to produce explosion. The essential condition of a fresh supply of water, as the old theory regarded it, is utterly lacking in this statement of the case. The immense importance of the subject warrants frequent reminders of the fact that the old theory was disproved at the Munhall farm experiments nearly a score of years ago, by turning water into an empty red-hot boiler without explosion. As to the late case, we should like a de tailed view of the testimony as to the con dition of the boiler discovered by two men, both of whom were killed by the ex plosion, when they were several miles away from the nearest water station. But lie facts as stated give more support to Colonel Lawson's theory that explosions are caused by the sudden removal of pres sure from superheated water than they do to the old theory that explosions begin by letting the water get low In the boilers. CUnit-STONE CKITTCIS3L The business of life insurance has spread so enormously, and so many of our citizens of all classes are concerned in the solvency of the great companies, that scrutiny of results is of the highest importance. But in exercising the vigilance which assures safety it is well there should be common intelligence and justice. The need for this is well shown by the card of President Beers, of the New "Pork Life, which was yesterday extensively published through the country in reply to criticisms which, if allowed to go unchallenged, might have caused much uneasiness. It had been- alleged that certain details of the management of the New York Life were wrong and injudicious and resulted in large losses. The criticisms touched chiefly on certain investments of the com pany in real estate and transactions of the company with its agents. Mr. Beers' answer in yesterday's Dispatch must have struck the reader as conclusive. He points to assets of over $120,000,000 agaiust liabilities of barely $100,000,000, leaving a surplus of between $14,000,000 and 515, 000,00'J. This is verified by an official ex amination of the New York State Exam iner, conducted thr ugh a period of six months and covering every detail. The best answer m fact the only anwer to criticisms of business methods, whether in life insurance or other business, is to show the results. These are con clusive. President Beers further clinches his position by. pointing to the fact that when lie took hold of the company 29 years ago the surplus was only $200,000. It is now nearly $15,000,000. He admits that he is not infallible; that in the course of his long administration there have doubtless been errors; but a man who can point to such growth and success for his company can very well afford to make such admissions. It is only the humility of confident pride in enormous success. The criticisms leveled against the New York Life had reached the dimensions of an international scandal; had led to a libel suit; and had caused anxiety probably to the many thousands of policy holders in that and other companies. As a matter of general public interest therefore, it is gratifying to note that its President's card, based upon the official verification of the company's affairs, reduces the fault-finding to insignificant proportions. The whole mitter is simply the old and familiar story of an immense and profitable business built up by its projectors on safe founda tions, when somebody comes along to crit icise the details and tell how much better things could ha've been done. That sort of criticism is a plenteous ar ticle in the business world. It represents the outside and curb-stone talent, and usually, as in this case, does not pan out on investigation of all the facts. POtlTIC.lE PANDERING. Some evil-disposed person he must be an offensive and un-American Mugwump, according to the classification of th(t spoils started in New York the other day a report that President Harrison had writ ten to Mr. Thomas C. Piatt to the follow ing effect: "My brief experience at Wash ington has led me to utter the wish, with an emphasis I do not often use, that I might be forever relieved of any connec tion with the distribution of public patron age. I covet for myself the free and un purchased support of my fellow-citizens." The story also adds that inquiry of Mr. Piatt elicited a denial that he had received any such communication from the Presi dent Furthermore, Piatt did not believe that the President ever used such lan guage, but that if he did, it was for the purpose of "pandering to the better ele ment" In this Piatt combines truth and error. Mr. Harrison did not address that language to Mr. Piatt, and it is not understood that he is distributing such sentiments at pres ent But he is the author of the language beyond question. It was addressed to the people of the United States at a time when Mr. Harrison did not have any patronage and was desirous of receiving votes from the hated Mugwumps. But Piatt's error as to the fact is to be pardoned in view ot his happy description of the motive for such language. Pander ing to the better element is a phrase worthy of a permanent place in political literature. It is important not only for its direct meaning but in its implication. We are invited to contemplate the political genius which temporarily "panders to the better element" as a relief from the regu lar occupation of pandering to the worse elemen . It is also forcibly borne in upon our mind that the practice of the former kind of pandering is the one thing that the spoils politician of Mr. Piatt's type does not believe in, their sole reliance be ing in the latter. SKIAI MILK 4S CRCtJL There is a commingled sadness and sen sation in art and social circles in New York. Certain painting3 which enjoyed tremendous fame as examples of European masters wero seized as they hung on the walls of the leaders of the 400, because the inexpert government detectives consid ered the fact of their not having paid duty to be proof positive that they had been smuggled. Here were the famous foreign paintings, said the detectives, and theTe were the books of the Custom House shorting no duty paid; hence the de duction of a criminal evasion of the tariff laws of the United States. The result shows the necessity, before banking too heavily on the correctness of your logic, of being absolutely certain that your premises are true. Thethree paint ings, alleged to be worth $6,000, were car ried away to theCustom House, where they fell under the inspection ot an ex pert, who promptly pronounced them to be copies worth about 570. 'Whether the copies were of foreign or home manufact ure does not seem to have been the subject of investigation. Probably this was be cause the officials rightly thought, that if the millionaire proprietors had been smug gling cheap copies from abroad, they were sufficiently punished by the publication of the fact " The other moral of this interesting little drama qf real life is somewhat familiar. That all is not gold which glitters, and that "skim-milk masquerades as cream," has been declared by great satirists in varied form. The fact is so self-evident in this case that we need not farther pur sue the harrowing exhibit of basis of New York reputations as wealthy patrons of high art PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN. It is reassuring to law-abiding citizens that the last two attempts to extort money by kidnaping children and holding them for ransom have been defeated. Never theless, the fact that there are criminals of such despicable and desperate character as to attempt snch things, coupled with, the famous Boss case, in which the robbed parents have never seen their, son again, is a grave warninoof the forces of crime against which the people must contend if their little ones are to be safe. It is useless to attempt to find words to fitly characterize the villainy capable of carrying off little children and then ex torting a ransom by threatening torture and death if the parents do not surrender their wealth to rescue their little ones. But the fact that such villains exist makes the need of guarding society agahist them very emphatic. When the law fails to suppress crimes against prop erty thero is a grave impeach ment of the efficacy of the social organ ization. But when criminals direct their attacks upon Innocent children, the time has cqme for every element of society to unite in the work of making the protection more efficient and the punishment of such cowardly criminals so certain that they will be wiped out. The attempted crimes in this line show that there is about an equal need of more efficient protection as between city and country. If the people have to organize at their own expense to make their chil dren safe in their homes, they will be likely to ask the political classes whatthey pay taxes for. Tnn troubles between the Socialists and the police at Chelsea, England, are duo sim ply to the effort of the former to uphold tho right of public open air meeting. In a large measure tho dispute arises from tho fact that the London mil Ice, instead of be ing under the city authorities, are dliectly controlled by the Home Office of tho nation al administration. There is a growing move ment for the transferrenco of tho police management to the city, which is likely to culminate befoio long in tho necessary legislation. Alleghent officials have hitherto suf fered so little from the many occasions on which they have been "blown up" that citi zens across the river need feel no alarm from the possibility of further gas ex plosions. WnEN a delegation of New York busi ness men visited Governor Flower to urgo an appropriation of $300,000 for-tho repre sentation of New York at tho World's Fair, tho Executive of the State intennpted their presentation of the subject by tho emphatic but illogical exclamation: "Rats, rats!" This seoms to afford an urgent caso for the employment of the New tork fita's offlco cat. Let that able animal be sent to Albany to eat up the Gubernatorial rats. A serious epidemic of diphtheria is re ported from Greeusburg. No doubt there w ill be a serious Investigation of tho sanitary arrangements of the place when sufficient deaths have occurred to warrant snch ac tion. A WRETERin the Boston Journal announces his discovery of a cabman who was remark ably well readi Among other feats ne had read Herbert Spencer and then wrltton his own ideas of the philosophy. Of course, if tho story came from any other city in the world wo should be inclined to doubt it. but in the Hub of the Univcise all things are possible in literary directions, and a cabman lias as much opportunity and inclination to read as most citizens. The men who get drowned while in a state of inebriation generally show their aversion for water by choosing a place lor their death where there Is as little of the obnoxious fluid as will accomplish their end. The ability of the House of Representa tives to do nothing for two months, is closely emulated by the Senate's record In passing sundry building grabs and wrestling with the Weil and La Abra claims At the present rate of procedure Congress will soon reach tho point of having to declarj itself in permanent session in order to accomplish the regulation amount of results in the line of doing nothing at all. ' It should be understood that the prison ers who give trouble to the Boston author ities on Deer Island ara exclusively a stag party. History repeats itself, and Allegheny has revived the battle of Hastings. The Norman Conquest was begun at the last battlo of that name in England and made a considerable change in the history of the Island. Whatever the result of the present battle It cannot but bo of benefit to Alle gheny. Ventilation is always healthy. , All things come to those who wait, but the average man cannot afford to wait, and does his best to hurry on a few of the things he wants. It is to be hoped that the perpetrators of the nitro-glyccrine explosion on Beaver ave nue will be discovered and brought to Jns tlce. Criminals who do not hesitate to im peril lives in such a dastardly manner are of the most dangeious class, and no punish ment which the law can inflict is too severe for such a menace to public safety. MrLLVALE borough is determined to main tain its rights at all costs, but the only trouble is as to Just what those rights arer Eepp.esentatives Hoae and Morse, of Massachusetts, profess to be very Jealous of one anothcrand occupy the nation's time in making trivial criticisms of unimportant actions. An unbiased reader of the reports Is inclined to believe that the two gentle men have enteied Into a partnership for reciprocal advertising purposes. Owing to the new tariff the French are experiencing great difficulty in returning to their mutton. A notable contrast to Fitzsimmons' fatal letter-writing proclivities is afforded by tho case of tho brothers Mulligan, who had not heard of one another for forty years and eacn believed his brother dead. Lack of ability or inclination to communicate with friends is generally moro productive of evil than is literary loquacity. The strikers' cause will suffei more seri ously than anything else from tho dynamite explosion. Kembekley, South Africa, is to hold its first International exhibition in September. As much importance is attached to patron age from America as from England, and we should do well to display ourselves. Of course, by so doiug wo shall not commit ourselves to a recognition of the division of Africa by European powers. Hot Springs is a carious place from which to hear of.two men frozen to death in a blizzard. THE Waterburys in New York State will take great care or their Ward in the future. The boy was recovered without the pay ment of tho ransom demanded, and it would be a good plan to devote some of the money to a reward for the arrest of tho kidnapers. We hear nothing of a revulsion of feeling In favor of Egan in this country. The French tariff1 is meeting with much opposition. This is to be regretted since every increase in the friction of European machinery increases the danger of that spark which alone Is necessary to sot the whole continent in a blaze. The wealth of the new silver mines at Crcede is almost incredible. A Now Parcels Post Convention. WASncjoTOJr, D. C., Feb. 3. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister, and Post master General Wannamaker to-day signed a parcels post convention between the United States and British Guiana. The con vention will go into effect April L. 1891 Tho Latest a Rice Mill Trcut. New Qbleass, Feb. 3. Tho Elce Mill Trust has been formed. The deal between the syndicate ana mill owners was consummated this mominir. and the trust w ill be In onera- tiuu -w so uours. THE CHINESE ATROCITIES. Eye Witnesses Accounts of the Late Out rages by Rebels Heathen Priests and n IHoqd-Drlnfcinc; Amazon Led the Cruel Hands Awral Punishment Meted Out to Prisoners. San Francisco, Feb. 3. Special Eye witnesses of the suppression of tho recent revolt in Manchurea, China, have reached Shanghai, and tho steamer China brought letteis giving vivid pictures of horrors snch Las have not been known since the Mahdl capture at Khartoum. Last spring the bandits who roam tho country just outside tho Groat Wall of China lolned forces and entei ed upon a regular campaign of plunder. They wore armed with Winchester rifles, and being mainly composed of proscribed Chineso criminals, thoy fought desperately and defeated all local troops sent against them. Some of the large bands wero led by a Buddhist priest. One of the most famous of these priestly marauders, Han Chan Chung, was lately killed in an enmgement with Viceroy Li's tioops at Mo Wo linn, about 200 miles northeast of Jehol, was for many years enshrined in a Mongolian temple as the living Buddha. It was he In company with another member of the church militant who led the attack on the large city of Clio Yang when it was captured in November. On that occasion, which was the most im portant incident in the rebellion, the rebels mustered a force of some 3,000 men, 20 or 30 ordinary bands Joining together for tno occasion. i Horrible Atrocities Reported. A Shanghai correspondent says there is no doubt that horriblo ati-ocitles were per petrated by these desperadoes, who showed unusual daring and ferocity. I have been told by eye witnesses of the massacre of almost entire villages, the burning alive of children, the brutal trcatmont of women, the carrying off of everything from the '.ouses of tho wretched people, and I do not think any story of this kind could bo consid ered an exaggeration. In a large Manchu villagq in tho Jehol dis ti let 500 marauders swooped down In the night, captured all whom thoy did not kill ontright, carried off all the women and then put 60 men in a large stone house, securely fastening tho doors, aftor which the flonds set tho building on fire, while the terrified children and the few women who escaped into the surrounding hills could hear the sbiieks of fathers, husband3 and brothers as they were being burned alive. This was the village called Kntulan, In the Johol prefect ure. But it is only one of a dozen such inci dents. Christians Most Cruelly Treated. It should not be forgotten that, though tho rebels are not particular whether they raid anddestroy Christian or heathen vil lages so long as they set plunder, they gen erally indulge in peculiar and revolting deviltry when their wretched victims are known to be friends of the religion of "for eign devils," and they have gone great dis tances to wreak" their vengeance upon pro fessors of the Western faith. At a place called Talljow, which has been Christian for two centuries, they massacred nine Chinese Sisters of Mercy and burned the orphanage with 60 little inmates. Such amusements as piercing the bodies of vic tims with heated bayonets and spears, goug ing out eyes, disemboweling or burying alive can be heard of wherever theo descendants of AIHla's Inhuman hordes have passed. One band Is said to be led by a huge amazon, who rides astride like a man. and is reputed to drink blood to maintain her courage. Li Hung Chang takes credit for promptly suppressing the revolt, but it was really the extreme cold which settled the rebellion. The robbers could not endure campaigning in winter weather, and they retired to the fastnesses in the hills. Their power Is broken, however, and spring will not &eo them on the warpath again. Cruel Funishment Meted Out. The imperial troops showed na mercy to the conquered rebels Many prisoners wero taken, but the punishment meted out to the rebels was of the most revolting character and the executipns, wero conducted on, a wholesale 'scale. Men were beheaded in hundreds, and the entire trunks of trees were utilized as blocks, along which tho pris oners were ranged in lines and their execu tioners simply moned off their heads when a signal was given. Generally in China the condemned are arranged in small knots kneeling before the executioners, but here the wretched miscreants were too numerous for the usual rules to be observed, and they wero seized by the queue by soldiers from the other side of the improvised blocks and their headsjopped off. They were not even tied, and the headless trunks fell against the block or tumbled backward or to one side, as their weight inclined when the fatal sword severed the neck. The heads were bung in long rows on poles as a warning to others, and in a very short time the intense cold froze the bodies stiff, but not before the camp followers and ghouls had stripped them of nil clothing. A CHINAMAN'S QUAHIjABY. As He Is Not Allowed to Return to Either China or Canada He fetsys In Jail. Faeoo, N. D., Feb. 3. Lee Yum, tho China man who was found illegally in this coun try four months ago, was arrested at Grand Folks, but was discharged by Commissioner Carroll. He was rearrested and brought be fpro Commissioner Spalding at Fargo, who ordered him sent to China. Jndge Thomas hasieversed this and ordered him sent to Canada. In order to cross the Canadian line $50 must be paid the Canadian Government by somebody. The Drisonor has no money and the Marshal will not pay out of his own Foeket. Tne prisoner will be put In Jail at erabino and may stay there an indefinite period. He has already been In jail here for four months. Senator Powell n Sick Man. Washikotow, D. C, Feb. 3. When return ing to his room at Wbrmley's Hotel last night, having been called downt stairs to see a gentleman. Senator Powell fell In tho passageway at the head of the stairs where he was lounu oy tne rtotei cierir. lie was carried to his room and a physician im mediately summoned who pronounced it a case of hemorrhage of tho stomach. He has since improved slightly and is resting easily, but Is very ill and weak. FAVORITES OP FORTUNE. The Princess of Wales has gone to Osborne House, Isle of Wight, to p.vy a quiet visit to tho Queen. Senator Mtliit, of Lancastcr,-Pa., has been a member of tho State legislature for twenty years continuously. Mr. William D. Ho wells composes all of his stories on the typewriter, and is ablo to work tho machine very rapidly. The Czarina has recovered from the at tack of influenza from which she has been suffering for some tlmo past. Eobekt G. Evans has been appointed special United States Attorney to assist in tho prosecution of land grant railroad suits in Minnesota. v The widely known prima donna, Etelka Gerster, was recently the recipient of an in vitation from Prince Bismark to visit his villa at Friedrichsruhc. It was an odd coincidence that Cardinals Manning and Simconi wero elevated to their highest rank in the Church tho samo day and died on tho same day. The President has recognized Kiccardo Motta, as Consul of Italy at New Orleans for the States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama ana Florida. Judge Botkin, the Kansas jurist, whose life has been threatened, is a dead shot and holds court with his rifle within easy reach. He 13 said to unerringly pick a 10-cent piece off a fence at 100 yards. The King of Siam has conferred the Order of tho White Elephant upon Mr. Frederick N. Verney, the English Secretary of the Siamese Legation. No woman has yet icceived the Order of the White Elephant. Spubgeonv like Grant, loved a good cigar, and be smoked almost' as many of them as the.General did. The greatpreaoher was a man of carious physique, fie was short and fator of "portly' hahiti" as the doctors say euphemistically. , '' MAJ0B OVEEMAN AEEAIQNED. Accused, Among Other Thlnrs, of Maklnr His Coachman a Public Officer. Clbvelattd, Feb. 3. The court martial ot Major L. C. Overman began here to-day. In the afternoon tho court began business in earnest. Major Overman was arraigned and .the specifications were read to him. They charged him with misappropriating to his own use on various occasions certain sums of money. The first charge summed up was for embezzlement and violation of the articles of war. The second charge also contained several specif cations and accused tho Major ofmaking f.ilse vouchers and cer tifying them to be just, thus defrauding the Government of different sums ot money. In effect, ho was said to havo bought all orts of household goods for his own uso and to have charzed them to the Government as supplies of various sorts, the vouchers sent on being fraudulent in each case. Among other thing, he is accusod of having placed hi" private coachman on the pay roll of the department. The total sum alleged tojiavebcon embez zled is about $300 in small amounts, though itii claimed bv those who wero active In bringing the charges that the real de ficiency is much greater. Major Overman declined to plead to the arraignment until his counsel had been beard. Judge Sanders' then introduced n motion that some of the specifications be quashed, which will bo de cided to-morrow. Major Ovprman's counsel are making a hard flght for him, interposing objections on every technicality, and the trial promises to bo long and hotly con tested. DAEING OF A DIVJ5K. He Kin Undertake a Task In Which Four Men Hnve Perished. Bcldth, Minx., Fob. 3. M.F. Chalk, tho celebrated diver of this place, has gone to Alpena, where he will undertake to find the wreck of the Pewabic and raise it. The ves sel went down 25 years ago in 120 feet of water. Four attempts have been made to raise tho vessel, in each of which the diver lost his lire. Of all the four only one lived to reach the surface The pressure of tho .icy water was so enormous that life was . squeezed out. Diver Chalk has a contract with several wealthy Michigan men, who pay him $1,000 for the attempt, guaranteehis life insurance in caso ho dies, pay all ex penses of experiments, ctc.v and in case they arc ab'e to bring up the wreck they agree to divide the cargo equallv. The Pewabic Is loaded with 530 tons of nig copper, valued at $105,000, as well as $3,0(.0 worth of imperlsbarjle 'treight. The divor has had a helmet made that will stand 453 pounds pressure to tho inch, and besides the usual rubber diess will weara wrought iron vest and special steel device over his arm and leg Joints to do away with some of the water pressure. He is confident of success, and expects to follow it by locating and raising several sunken silver and copper cavors in other parts of the lakes that are of greater value, but are in deeper water. A SUB-MARIKE MINE. Successful Test of a Coast Defender That Will Destroy Ships. Newport, Feb.3. Special For some time past Lieutenant Marshall, attached to the torpedo station, has been engaged In a very close studj- of torpedo construction and har bor defense. His latest Invention is a sub marine mine. In shape it is like a coffin, and is made of sheet iron. Its total weight is 4S0 pounds. It contains a charge of gnn cotton equivalent to 102 pounds of dry gun cotton. The mine is so constructed that it may be fired from a battery on shore or by contact, at will. Yesterday's test was from tho wharf of the torpedo station, and was for buoyancy and immersion, and the result showed a capa bility to stand the weight of 80 pounds, which could be added either in explosives or construction power. The mine was exploded by electricity from shore, and was in every respect a most perfect success. MINE STOCKHOLDERS SPLIT. Two Directors Will Manage the Affairs of the Magna Charts Company. Cleveland, Feb. 3. Special. At the meet ing of the Magna Charta Mining Company for the election of five directors to-day the session became so turbulent that it was nec essary to call in the police. There has been tiouble In the concern for some time grow ing out of a quarrel over the management. A faction headed by E. J. Farmer, the Pres ident, held a meeting behind closed doors and elected temporary officers. The other faction did the same. Then the excited men came together and Bedlam was not in it with the scene that lesulted. .Finally each faction elected five directors and the meet ing adjourned with the Farmer adherents still in possession of the books. The anti Farmer men claim tho mine's affairs have been grossly mismanaged. WANTED 81,500,000 OF JAY GOULD. A Crank Who Had a Plan to Build a Big City In How Jersey, New York, Fob. 3. A crank with three satchels visited the Western Union building to-day and tried to see Jay Gonld. He de claied ho had a great plan to unfold, and he wanted $1,500,000 cash, and he wanted it for his plan. His appearance and his manner agitated the people whom he met, and it was feared he might have dynamite in one of his satchels. He was finally told that Mr. Gould had gone away and could not be seen for a week, and he went away mournfully, after de fining his plan to be the building of a new city at Center Grove, N. J. He gave his name as Ephraim Pine and his residence as Millville, N. J. AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY. A Medical Society Committee Reports Why It Should Be Abolfshed. ALBAirr, Feb. 3. The principal business of interest in proceedings of the State Medical Society to-day was a report fiom a special committee, of which Dr. A. J. Jacobs, of New York, Is Chairman, on the abolition or non-abolition of the death penalty. The report takes the ground in favor of abolishing tho death penalty, principally tor the leasou that it mav be enforced on soma criminal who through a perversion of Judg ment and will, or from physical congener ousness or hereditary causes are totally irre sponsible for their acts. Tho report was oidered pnblished and action deferred on it for one year. REED AND THOSE RULES. Wirr didn't Mr. Reed advise the Demo cratic majority to consult a clairvoyant? Washington Post. Ei-Speakek Reed's plea for the perpetnae tion of the Reed idea of a quorum is quit too funny for anything. He must have his little joke. Boston Herald. Mb. Reed's vigorous defense of the rules of the last Congress is considered by many a very proper and natural display of paternal affection. Washington Star. Thomas B. Reed is heartily welcome to nU of the comfort he can get out of the adoption of the rule of the Fifty-first by the Fifty second Congress. Savannah News. Tom Eeed doesn't believe in filibustering, but ho purposes to do it just to show his Democratic friends tho necessity of having rules to prevent it Buffalo Express. Keed can conceive of nothing but the rulo of tho majority, to the utter exclusion of tho minority, in legislating for the people, who send to Consrress tho minority as well as tho majority. Homsburg Patriot. It is Mr. Koed's turn this year and he is taking It, to bo sure. How he did pitch Into the new Democratic rulo yesterday. Mr. Reed stands on tho rockof majority rnleand majority responsibility, and ho is a clever and eloquent debator who can tolo him away. Boston Globe. WATEE THAT IS MAGNETIC. It Attracts Iron and Other Metals In an Unexplained Manner. Alvena, Mich., Feb. 3. There Is' great ex citement heie over a well that has just been drllled'for water. When the drill reached & depth of 1,078 feet a most remarkable and extraordinary thing took place. A strong flow of water camo gushing upward and nearly deluged tho drilleis. Upon an exam ination of their pumping machinery it was found that the water- had a magnetic in fluence upon the pump and drill. small pieces of Iron would bo drawn' against tno pump mm considerable lorce. The people have flocked to the vicinity in largo numbers and they are carrying the "magnetic'' water away in pails apd Jugs to cure their various diseases rheumatism, etc. So far no one has been able to solve the phenomena: Tho drillers announce -that they will continue to work with tbo hopes f ll&b u innsu" it iimwg aowureu, FASTIDIOUS GENTRY With Eight Fingers Disturb the Serenity of the City Society Men The Attraction or Swa'low-Talls Troves Too Much for Them Diminutive Chatter. Among the numerous friends of The Dispatch are to be numbered many men who'e unfortunate condition modern soci ety dismisses with the single word bach elor. We are grieved to relate that their unprotcctedness is being taken advantage of. It is a sad truth that there exists in so ciety an clement which is less thoughtful to a bachelor's back than his face. One's pen thrills with indignation sd it relates the story of how this prcdatorv element, when the bachelor Is in'pursuit of his daily law ful toil, enters his bed chamber, whether by chimney, transom, window or door, tho chronicles of thethleves do not re vcnl, and carries away what is too often his sole existing evening dress. From tho nature of the theft3it is consid ered and thU must bo some satisfaction to tho gentlemen robbed, who, by the way, livo in the vicinity of Pcnn avenue, down townthat they are committed by persons that havo had tho advantages of moving in polite society, and therein been tanght to know all the merits belonzing to Swallow tailed coats and low-cut vests. If they do not. and it is simply a high-born taste, for which there is no accounting either by fntherdom or motherdom, they are im plored not to forget for the sake of tho lortner owners of the garments that even ing dress must not be worn beforo C o'clock in the evening, and that positively they must not appear in the street in that garb, without tho protection of a mackintosh. In justice to the light Angered gentleman or gentlemen, it should be stated that one committing a robbery of this nature last night on Penn avenue showed a faint glimmer of an ex istent honesty. Ho lert behind him an exchance in his mind being no robbery a short office coat. He did not even attempt to take with him the grease with which it was plentifully weighed down. All of which goes to prove that he or they has nice dis tinctions of honesty when ho gots oppor tunity to display them. Finally let the girls of the leap i ear period llso to the oc casion, protect their men friends and their men friends' smart wardrobes by marrying thorn. The engagement of Mr. Carl Wilhelm, of the Commercial Gazittc, to Miss Jane L Mason, daughter of Frederick Mason, Esq., of Shadyside, previously announced In this department, will culminate in a wedding at Calvary Episcopal Church on March 10. Mr. Wilhelm is a clever young man in his chosen profession, possessing the taste of a man of letters, besides ovinclng a literary ability, as will be remembered by those who read his Interesting history of Allegheny county. A short time ago bo was a member of tho staff of tho New York Sun, but agreeable to tho wishes of his fiancee and herrelatives, he gave up metropolitan ambitions and re turned to Pittsburg, and in a short timo now will be rewarded with the hand of his betrothed. The good wishes of Mr. Wilhelm's friends are cordially extended. Social Chatter. Mrs. Wttts R. Sewell will give a leap year dance on March 1 similar to that given on last Friday evening by Mrs. Henry Oliver and Mrs. Ilea. Some timo ago there was talk of the irrev erently dubbed mortar-board and gown being adopted by the young ladies of the .Pennsylvania College, but the rumor has been rebutted entirely. It is not likely that the innovation will bo permitted, so long as a preparatory department exists at the college. Ma. ato Mrs. J. T. Weybeecht, of Alliance, O., have Issued invitations for the wedding to-night of their daughter. Miss Jennie Naomi, to 3Ir. John Martin Vitzthum. Tho ceremony will be celebrated at Mr. Wey brecht's house, 148 Linden avenne, at 8 o'clock. Invitations were received in town last week. The Columbus Literary Association will give its third reception on Thursday even ing, February 18, in Odd Felloes' Hall, Southside. The music will bo supplied bv Guenther's orchestra. The Committee on Management is: Messrs. P. J. Kepling, Charles F. Lang. F. V. McMulIen, William Crooke, T. F. J. Keating, William J. O'Don nell, A. W. Kunzelman. Success lias not attended the East End Women's Exchange with as much perti nacity as was expected. Miss Hate Edna Neglev is lllandtlieExcliange is temporarily closed with a prospect that it may continue in a closed condition for a much longer period. There has never been any doubt re garding the condition of the employment bureau, where demand always exceeded supply, and Miss Negley intends to continue the work with the same perseverance which has marked her connection hitherto. It was hardly to be expected that Pittsburg could support two Exchanges. One successful charity with agental flavor about it Is as much as any city can look to maintain. CAEBIED OFF BY SQUIBRELS. A Will That Conveyed Property Valned at About S7u,000. New LosrxKf, Feb. 3. The finding of tho will of Abram Mosherby two hunters in Dark Hollow, near Hamburg, while trying to get at a nest of gray squirrels in the trunk of a hollow tree, has averted a lawsuit. Tha hunters found among the leaves and pieces of bark of which the nest was composed somescraDsof paper with writing on them, several handkerchiefs, bit3 of ribbon, and many bits of twine. The pieces of paper proved to be the holographic wlU of Abram Mosher, a farmer living near Dark Hollow, who died in the early part of last summer. Mosher, through inheritance and thrift, was worth at the time of his death more than $73,000. A young man named Georgo Apple beo operated his farm and cared for him. Applebeo attended to the wants of Mosher faithfully until he died. A few days beforo the old man passed away he told Applebee that ho had made a will In which ho had given him his entire estate. When Applebeo went to look for the will It was gone. He searched every nook and cranny, but could get no trace of it. As soon as Mos'ierwas dead, children or a second cousin laid claim to the estate. Applebce told the story of tho will and refnsed to va cate the farm. He was finally ejected and tha cousins took possession. There were persons who had heard Mosher say that he intended to givo his property to Applebee, and on the strength of their testimony Applebeo was preparing to make a flght, when the will was found. CHICAGO DEM0CBAT3 HUSTLING. They Find It Necessary to Build a TVlgwam for the National Convention. Chicago, Feb. 3. The local committee of Democrats to provide for the coming Na tional Convention has at last abandoned all hope of securjng the intor-Stato Exposition building In which to hold the convention. The use of tho building would delay the con struction of the new Art Institutp building, which mnst bo built on tho Exposition build insrsite fiefnre the World's Fair opens. Tho committee has decided to build a wig wam capable of seating 15 000 people. A committee was appointed to clect a site. It's probable that that portion of the Lake Front north of Battery D may be decided upon. The wigwam will cost nt least $27,000. Prefer Irrigation to Hnmmaklng. FoBMAif, N. D., Feb.3. A number of promi nent citizens of Sargent county have recent ly received communications from the Inter State Rain Company of Goodland, Kan., offering to sell the right to no tne rain producer in this part of North Dakota. Thoy promise to demonstrate'their ability to produce rain by actual tests in this local ity. This is the same company which re cently completed a deal with several South Dakota counties. They will secure very littlo enconraeoincnt from this section, farmers preferring to put their oash into irrigation. . The Whisky "Trust Lease Question. CniCAOO, Fob. 3. Tho directors of tha Whisky Trust adjourned to-night. Almost all of the final session was devoted to the matter of leases. President Greenhut's idea was that the leased properties bo purchased outright. This would necessitate the ex penditure of nearly $4,000,00 and tho di rectors conld not unite upon tho question. It is not in their power, however, to author ize any such purchase. Mr. Greenhut merely hoped that the directory wonld unani mously recommend this action to the an nual meeting to be held at Peoria in April. The leases expire May L I Free Transportation for Russian Relief, New Yoeky Feb.3. The TrunkLIne Execu tive Committee met this afternoon concern ing the question of free transportation of flonr and corn donated for tbo relief ot the starvlne thousands in Russia bv the millers of the West and Northwest to the Atlantic seaboard. It was decided to give free trans- Donation to a reasonable CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Missouri has a grass widow 14-yeari old. Boston has now a licensed female under- taker. The theaters in London regularly em ploy over 12,009 people. A Kio Grande engineer recently sho a wildcat near New Castle, Col., from the cab of his engine. The smallest known insect, the Kerato mas Putnamii, a parasite of the ichneumon, Is about one-ninetieth of an inch in length. A bill has been introduced in the Vir ginia House of Delegates to tax dogs at their true value, the tax thus derived to go to the .State school fund. How important to Chile are its nitrate beds is shown by last year's output, which aggresated L0OO.00O tons,, representing a value of $30,000,000. ' Last week Charles A. Dean, of Boston, caught in Florida the largest tarpon ever taken with rod and reel. It weighed 196X pounds, and was over seven feet In length. Should a man in China be unfortunate enongh' to save the life of another from drowning he is saddled with the expense of supporting the saved one for the remainder of that person's life Paper quilts are said to be coming into extensive use abroad for the poorer classes. They are composed of sheets or white paper sewed together and perforated aU over at a distance of an Inch or two apart. The toys that have been used by the royal children of France wero sold at auc tion in Paris the other day. A little doll less than 12 inches hizb, dressed in armor of the time of Louis XIII., sold for 615 francs. A superb new bridge has been con structed in Rome, over the picturesque Tiber, and it is considered one of the finest modern works in the city. It has been chrls ofYtal MarSherlta y tnelr majesties A giant tree, 200 years old, was cut at Rochester, N. H., last week. In the presence of Governor Tuttle. It was five feet through at the butt, and six choppers were kept hard at work for two hoars before the tree fell. A Luther, Mich., man has made a dis covery that should send his name resound ing down fame's corridors. In order to keeD his pumpxfrom freezing he hangs a lighted LfJ"i .aronnl "' ana tneQ coders the whole thing with a barrel. Last year Persia was the only country which appeared in the shipping list3 of tha world as owning but one vessel, and this .aJi stl11 occnPies solitary place, the ISTi T7a,Hteam? I of m tons-having weath ered all the accidents of the year. At a meeting of the Essex County Council, the Lunatic Asylum Committee re ported that the late Superintendent of the asylum had Informed them that the chief canse of lnnacv there was the marriage of cousins and tho next principle cause was The British JInseum originated with a grant by 'Parliament in 1753 of 20,003 to tha daughter or Sir Hans Sloane. in payment for his fine library and vast collection of the productions or nature and art. To this col lection were added the Cottonian, Harlelan and other collections. A TJtica, N". Y., church has placed in its Sunday school room what Is known as a Sunday school thermometer. It Is a novel device for registering the attendance of tho Sunday school every Sunday as announced -by the secretary. It runs from zero to 560, and changes every Sunday. A notable decrease in the number of deaths from hydrophobia is observed by the Registrar General of London. The dcatb3 from this disease had been 30 In 1869, and had ?ra5ed 2 annuallyin three years, 1SS7-183S-18d9: but there were only eight In lSMand ""' luiiu in any year since 1S63. There are said to be 200 women in New York who go to Europe twice a year to buy their dresses. Tho number of men who cross the water for their new wardrobe Is much greater, as many men tako the onpor tunlty or running over to the othersidefor rest, recreation and business all combined. A knowledge of the physiology of tha hnman larynx has made it possiole to sup ply artificial voloes to people who have been deprived of the one nature gave thenr. and a number of cases exist where the cavity has been opened and a larynx mado of sult abla material with rubber membranes has been Inserted and become practically useful In speech. An itinerant balloonist made an as cension in California last week. It wa3 suc cessful alj but the financial part, for when the bat was passed and the contribution counted he had $3, out of which to pay a hotel bill forhlmseir and lady accompani ment, pav off those who bad assisted in fill ing the balloon and compensate himself for the risk he took. Ten years ago the ice scenery of the New Zealand Alps was almost unknown even to the colonists. Bnt In 1SS2 the Rev. W. S. Green, with two flrst-class guides, ex plored the slacier region benetth the high est peak Aorangi, or Mount Cook and ar rived, after a long, difficult ind dangerous climb, on the summit or that mountain Since then the "Britain of the South" has become proud of possessing the "playground of Australasia." The monkeys of India have a game like the English boys' cock of the dunghill or king of the castle, but instead of pushing each other from the top of a knoll or dust heap, the castle Is a pendant branch of a tree. The game is to keep a place on. tho bough, which swings with their weight as with a cluster oi iruit, wniie tne players strncgle to dislodge one another, each, as ho drops, running round and climbing np again to begin anew. From the big timber region in Clatsop connty comes a novel notion of cutting off a section of a big tree the length of an ordi nary railroad car, and then with an adza ann other proper tools, cut the door in the end, the windows at the sides, and make a regnlarsure enongh car for folks to ride in, ont of one solid section cut from a tree. That wonld be a great object lesson, and would give the Eastern people a correct and vivid idea of the kind of trees on the coast. Profs. Waldron and McArdle, of the North Dakota Agricultural College, are col lecting grasses for a State exhibit at the World's Fair. Among the specimens se cured along the shores of Devil's Lake was a species of slough grass which had attained the unprecedented length of 25 feet. Tha samples were ko long that they wound them up in colls. They also found what seems to be a new variety of wheat growing wild on the prairies this season, very much higher than the cultivated kind. J0KELETS FB0SI JUDGE. Mrs. Dnttou Have you had any experi ence as butler? Applicant Oh. yes: I have been engaged for What! Is not this Alicia? Mrs. Datton Why, Count! "I suppose you are familiar with Pope's Essay on Man ?' " said Miss Bos tone. "I can't say I am." replied Miss Gotham. "I did read his last encyclical on the labor question, though. It was a daisy." She says she hates me ardently, Bnt I grieve not: In sooth, Mr soul Is full of gladsome glee. Because I know Penelope Doesn't always ten tha truth. Cora What! yon going to marry Fred Hippie? Madge Yes. Cora Why. not long ago yon said you would not marry him If he were the last man In the world. Madge-Well. I've kept my word. He Isn't, Waggles Why did you get your hair cat so short In the middle of winter? - Henpect I didn't wish my wife to Hare the grip. Long-term Jim (as a female form enters and approaches a large dark object la the earner of the room) Heavens! she's going to pla (Faints.) Short-term Dan (after rcvlTlng Ms pal)-SM don't move. Lengthy. She's only looking, at the corpse. , Long-term Jim (with a sigh of rclieO-OB, it's a corpse, is It? I thought It was a piano. "That man is a freak.". "Why co?" ; "Has S3, 000 a year and Hres in Brooklyn." To those who have felt misfortune's sting It must seem rather funny: , Ha One never really wants a thing i :n Unless he has no money. j Young Wife Why, George, aren't yon going to cat your pudding? Young Husband Is this made from Mrs. Tcmb stone's recipe? , JSA Young wife Yes, dear George.,,; toffr-cl- Toung Husband Then, my dear.Tl cianot touch It. 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