ESBcSJagfffMSiaSMSsigA jlj PPKpaESK" ? -v W THE' PITTSBURG J)ISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1892. ' Dje BtWEtjj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY, Vol. 47. No. 17. Entered at Pittsburg rostofllce November, 1SS7, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 7S and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building: J-.ASTFP.N ADVERTISING OFFICK. ROOM 7B. TRIBUNE UriT.IUNG. NEW YORK, where rom r.lete files orTHE 1 HbPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home adertlsere and friends ofl HH DISPATCH, .while In New York, arc al5o made w elconic. THE D1SPA TCH is regularly mm'' at Jirentano-r, 5 Fntm .Square, -Vie York; and JT -4-e de P Opera. Paris, France, irltcre anyone ichn has liec.i disap pointed at a hotel news stand ran tMain tt. TRESIS OF THi; DISFATCH. TOSTAGE FREE 1.V THE UNITED STATES. TUII.Y OiSrATCH. One Year S O) Daily DisrATCH. Per Quarter 2 00 DtrLTDisrATCH, One Month 70 Daily-Dispatch. including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily- Dispatch, including bandar, Sm'ths. 2 50 Daily DisrTdi. Including Sunday, 1 m'tli. no gUNTJAi DlsPATcn, One Year 250 W etki-y' DisrATcn. One Year 1 2 The Daily Dispatch Is dclh crcd by carriers at 15 cents per week, or, including bunday Edition, at 10 cents per week. PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUAKY :4 TWELVE PAGES THL" G. A. E. MEETING. The meetinc of the Department En campment of the G. A. R. for the State of Pennsylvania in-this city to-day is another of those reunions which increase in inter est as the order advances in years. The liv ing membership grows gray and the death roll lengthens. Thirty-one years hare nearly elapsed since the first soldiers who form this order went to the front in the nation's time of need; twenty-seven since tbey laid down their arms with their he roic work nobly finished. Every meeting which recalls the deeds of that history making epoch is of great interest, not only to the participants in the struggle, but to the "whole people'who enjoy the benefits of their patriotism. The meetings of the Grand Army are surrounded with increased sentimentfrom a fact which every gathering makes" more sadly evident that age is steadily increas ing its inroads on the ranks of the veter ans. Many retain, notwithstanding their gray hairs, the hale, vigorous bodies which enabled them to bear the hardships of service in the field. But even in their case the flight of time is but too evident; while in the cases in which the feebleness of age is manifest, or the end of life has come, we have the warning that each meeting of the organ ization brings it nearer to the limits of duration imposed by the transitory nature of life. The members of the Grand Army may die, but their united deeds cannot No sentiment can be too exalted and no wel come too warm for their annual assem blages while they live. Pittsburg offers them the same enthusiastic hospitality that she extended to all the soldiers of the Union during that struggle. A DESIRABLE CHANGE. There is evidence of progress in the action of the Republicans of the Twenty fourth Congressional district in abolishing "the "antiquated conferee system and substi tuting a district convention. Under the new system the membership of the con vention will be apportioned to the Republi can vote, one delegate to each BOO votes. This is the plan recommended by the last State Convention to the various districts. The Republicans of "Washington, Beaver and Lawrence show their readiness to adopt an equitable system of representa tion as well as their appreciation of the scandals that arise under the old plan by putting the recommendation into effect No one will suppose that the substitu tion of a delegate convention for the con ferences will create an idyllic political condition. Practical politics will still find a way to address the interest rather than the unbiased judgment of people. But the system, which was devised ap parently for the almost incredible pur pose of producing deadlocks which could only be broken by deals and bar gains between the respective proprietors of the different bodies of conferees, is terminated for the Twenty-fourth dis trict at least There may be deadlocks and deals in the district convention, but the system will not be framed especially for the purpose of producing them. The fact that the representation in the con vention will be proportionate to the Re publican vote will also make the solution of a deadlock possible by other means than those of political commerce. It is to be hoped that other districts will follow the wise example of the Republi cans of the Twenty-fourth. If they do not, they will give support to the conclu sion that bargaining is so firmly rooted in their politics that they cannot get along without it. ENFORCE IT IMPARTIALLY. The Philadelphia Record has recently changed front from its former unswerving defence of constitutional rights as against corporate aggression. As champion of the anthracite deal it presents a somewhat singular explanation of its report that the Attorney General knew of that combina tion ten days in advance. It is that the Pennsylvania Railroad has recently ac quired a second through line from Pitts burg to Ilarrisburg by the purchase of the Allegheny Valley Railroad, and that it was this deal -which the Attorney General said that he knew of ten days before the date of its dispatch. The Record also in timates that this purchase of the Alle gheny Valley requires the attention of the State administration as much, if not more, than the anthracite combination. If either the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Reading or any other corporation has vio lated the Constitution of the State, the State administration should turn all its powers against the offender, and compel obedience to the law more completely than was done in the South Pcnn case. But there, are three obstacles to making the Allegheny Valley purchase an ex ample of such disciplinary proceed ings. First, the Pennsylvania Railroad controlled the Allegheny Valley long before the present Constitution; sec ond, the person who attempts to travel from Pittsburg toHarrisburg by that al leged "through line" will find himself woefully stranded after a day's ride; and, third, although it is a general presump tion that the recent proceedings left the' control of that road in the same hands as before, namely the Pennsylvania Railroad, the only actual knowledge of the matter is that it is in the hands of a" purchasing committee, whose principals are not speci fied. Nevertheless, as already said, if there is a violation of the Constitution' in this pro cedure, it should be the subject of action by the Attorney General. But that official S, 1846 must not permit even the appearance of partiality suggested by the report that he had been examining into the Valley trans action long before, and of his own motion, while he declined to take notice of the anthracite combination except on com plaint of some outside party. Tliis intimation that the administration can permit to one corporation what it denies to another requires prompt denial. It is not living up to the standard set by Governor Pattison's first administration to suppose that it makes any difference what corporation trespasses on the Constitution. The platform which gave the Governor's first term its strength before the people was that the Constitution was supremo over all corporations alike. The best refutation of such an imputation of partiality as is contained in the repre sentation of our cotemporary is to be given by piompt action in connection "with the Reading deal. It is gratifying to hope that this disproof is to be found in the latest report from Harrisburg that the At torney General will take such action. ALL HUMBUGS BUT ONE. The Industrial Conference in session at St. Louis, while ostensibly hesitating whether it shall take a-plunge .into the third party movement, really develops the qualities which have already brought that party to the stage of decadence. That is, the enthusiastic union of all the dissimilar elements, and the incorporation in one anomalous whole of all their incon gruous and impracticable ideas. It is not to be denied that a union of the agricultural and labor elements against the evils of legislation and admin istration which react unfavorably on both interests is feasible. But to make such a union effective it should confine its plat form to the reform of those evils without adopting the incongruous crazes of both sides. To join the sub-treasury scheme of the People's Party to the land tax ideas of the labor socialists, and to weight both down with the fiat money craze of fifteen years past, is simply to prepare for a break-down. With that unique union, the "addition to the whole of female suffrage, prohibition, and the unknown crazes of the Union Re form Association, the Central National ists, the National Anti-Monopolists, and the Alliance assemblies of the Industrial Association, whatever the latter may be, is really unimportant. It only increases the incongruity and superabundance of the irreconcilable elements by a compara tively slight Increment In one respect, however, the conference must be credited with stopping short of the climax of inconsistency. It is reported to be unable to swallow the Stanford humbug. DEMAGOGUEKT ON SILVER. The demagoguery of the Hill Democ racy on the silver question is revealed by the platform of the New York Conven tion, and the deliverances of Hill himself, w a uegree wiiicu surpassed me limits oi effrontery. The Albany gathering was used as the opportunity for putting out denunciations of the silver legislation of 1890 and for looking to "the permanent reduction of every American dollar by 30 per cent" It is true that this is an ulti mate danger of our present coinage laws, and by attacking that point of weakness, and repeating the clap-trap of the opposi tion to "the coinage of any silver dollar which is not of the intrinsic value of every other dollar," a distinct effort is made to catch the vote of the Eastern States. At the same time Senator Hill indulges in his old pratings of "free bi-metallic coinage from 1792 to 1873," thus holding out to the free silver men of the South and West the profession of support to their views. He deliberately repeats the per formance of his Elmira speech in joining the incongruous and irreconcilable utter ances which were then used to represent him in the East as opposed to the Bland style of free coinage and in the South as supporting it Everyone knows that the only way to establish a silver dollar of equal intrinsic value to the gold dollar is to increase the amount of silver in the dollar in propor tion to its present depreciation. The proposition to do this was voted down In the House Coinage Committee, and the Democratic branch of the national legis lature is now on the verge of passing a bill which, if enacted, will produce at a single blow the depreciation which the Hill convention denounces Republican policy for making possible in the distant future. Yet not a word of -disapproval is heard from the Hill ranks of the Bland bill, now the pivotal issue on the silver question. The reason of this silence is not hard to discern. Hill will want the votes of' the free silver coinage men as well as the votes of the East; and it is entirely con sistent with the Hill principles to pose at the same time as the representative of two opposed and irreconcilable ideas. It is expected that the Bar Association of New York will take action with regaid to Judge Maynard's behavior before appoint ment. The dignity of the association would gain bv such a movement, and it cannot fall to suffer if it ignore the matter. Uncle Jerry has taken to riding to and from the Capitol on a bicycle. Probably he found it more convenient for his sockless feet. Or it may be simply his recognition of the fact that. In the present state of affairs, a man must learn to control machines if he is to be a political success in that body which presents the intricacies of wheels within wheels. x If the outpourings of the many political leaders on Monday could be distilled to in sure the evaporation of their worthless parts, he result 'would be a crstallization of na tional principles and aspirations which ould enrry all before it. The proposition to nse English sparrows la 'lieu of pigeons for shooting ' matches promises to reduce the number of those ubiquitous nuisances. But the, birds should no more be called English than should American citizens of British ancestry. The misnomer might lead, to International diffi culties, in tho event 'of a wholesale slaughter. It is to be hoped that .the effects of the trip to Chicago will not last long enough to deprive Representatives of the ability to vote straight. It is too much though to expect that their inclinations will be un affected. Prop. Collin, of Cornell University, lecently wrote, a defensive sketch, of D. B. Hill. It is eminently appropriate that this should be supplemented by a lecture on "The Need of the Machine in Politics." The next event should be a detailed and accurate account of the sources trom which the said machine derives its motive power and lu bricants. There are few more striking illustrations of science's supremacy over nature than the provision of bine goggles for cattle. in snow covered districts. The next move will be to sunnly them with overcoats and snow- r shoes. The election of Mr. Voegtly as Mayor of Allegheny inaugurates a new era in Noithsido politics. It is the first time in years that this office has soughs' the man over there or anywhere else for that mat fj! ter and the result will be watched with. interest by the puollc In general and the practical politicians in particular. - The Reading deal must not be confounded with the attemptcdNew York train robbery. The difference in the size of the two events should prevent a. mistake of that kind, not withstanding their resemblance in audacity. It is to be hoped that, in his quotation from Newman's hymn. Hill put a strong em phasis on the "kindly" and. delivered the word "light" in a pianissimo tone. Tho light. he follows is the lurid loadstar of his own ambition, and it must he a genial beam to exercise so all-powerful an influence on his action. Cleveland's speech at Ann Arbor had two great advantages, lc contained sound advice to Americans of all parties, and it was especially addressed to the youth of the country, on whom its future will depend. Let us have every possible increase in trans-Atlantic travel compatible with safety and humanity. The public will see to the maintenance of the first condition, and it should De 'equally firm in its .-demand that the terrible conditions tinder which stokers now work should be ameliorated and not made worse. Returns from the police courts show that there are still many mistaken peoplo who are under tho impression that patriot ism should b6 associated with dronkennoss. The recent typhus incident has put the quarantine officials on their metals. They will 'have ample opportunity to show that they have profited by the lesson 'in exercis ing a stiict scrutiny on vessels from Brazil, as the approach of warmer weather will ronder yellow fever cases more numerous. - If this weather continues much longer it will go far toward indicating the vindication of the ground hog as the most successful weather prophet of the season. Naturally Senator Quay repudiates that assertion that "there will be a Qtiay delegation at Chicago." It is pleasant to learn that the astute Junior Senator has not lost his wits to the extent of indulging re marks which would hurt himself more than any one else. Secretary Fosteb sailed on the Spree for Europe, but he's not off on a spiee. It is observed In the New York papers that a monument to Columbus is to he com pleted in that city this year. Does this con vey an assurance that New York will com plete the Grant monument on the four hun dredth anniversary of Appomatox. FAYORITES OP FORTUNE. Henry M. Stanley has been lecturing through Now Zealand, and is about tore turn to England. The widow of ex-President Salomon, of Hayti, who died thp other day in Paris, left a daughter who is studying medicine. Jans Kajimeiihdt, of Copenhagen, has skated two miles on one foot. After a while we will hear of some American champion who skates on his ear. Comrade Howard, who has just joined the Grand Army Post at Goflstown, N. H , is 01 years of age. He was a private in the Fourth New Hampshire. Dr. Samuel Fellows, of Chicago, Presiding Bishop of the Keformcd Episcopal Church, expresses the belief that the chinch should not meddle in politics. Countess Telfener has left Paris for Rome with her husband after a short stay with hefsister," Mrs. Mackay, who remains in Paris for a fortnight at the Hotel Binda. It is rumored at the City of Mexico that either Senor Mariscal, who now holds the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, or Senor Zama cona will be appointed Minister to England. At the recent election for the new School Board in Cambridge Mrs. Carolyn P. Chase, who was elected, received 200 more votes than the most popular Alderman in her ward. Baby Ruth Cleveland has won another victory over Baby McKee. A valu able piece of real estate, near Santa Cruz, Cal., was offered to the most popular baby at the Catholic Ladies' Aid Society enter tainment in San Francisco. Miss Ruth now owns the lot, having received 1,206 votes to Baby McKee's 791. EHC0UHTKBED A BEAR. Bow a Lehigh Lumberman Met and Con quered an Obstinate Bruin. Scrajtton, Feb. 23. Peter Mallory, a Lehigh lumberman, met a bear face to face on Wednesday on a ledge of rocks between Trout creek and Gravel run, on the east side of the Lehigh river, in Tobyhanna township. Mallory was hurrying along with a log chain over his shoulders when he saw the bear waddling toward Jiim. On the lower side of the narrow path there was a precipice, and on the upper side a steep mass of locks. Turning out on either side was impossible, and, as there was not room enough in the path for Mallory and the bear to pass, Mallory shook his hat at the bear, imagining t hat the bear would face about and give him a chance. Instead of turning- around, the bear tramped for ward, glaring at Mallory. and paid no atten tion to the winging bat. Mallory hit the bear over the the head with an end of the heavy chain. "The bear winced and snarled under the blow, but he didn't turn, and the next in stant he rose up on bis haunches and made a lunge at Mallory, lust as Malloiy swung the chain around his head and brought it down on the bear's snout. That infuriated the bear still more, nud with a rush and a growl of rage he gave Mallory a cuff with his paw that sent him spinning over the precipice toward the frozen creek, 45 feet below. At the instant that the bear tumbled Mallory rrom tho path, one of the hooks of the log chain caught in a corner of the bear's mouth. Mallory clung to the chain for dear life, his weight pulled the bear from the path, and man and bear went rolling and tumbling down the rocks together. Mallory cneokecLhis speed on the upper side of a log near the brook, and the bear landed on. the lower side of the log. Mallory quickly fastened the chain around the log and had'the bear at his mercy. The log was so heavy that the bear couldn't move it, and while he was yanking and pawing at tho honk Mallory got hold of a big hemlock knot and a club. With the club he drove the knot into the bear's open mouth out of sight, and'then the bear began to struggle and flounce about, thrashing so violently tnat ne soon tore tne nooc loose ana rouea onto the ice in the creek. The ice gave way and the bear choked to death while he was making the water fly with his paws. HIBSCH TRUST IN GOOD SHAPE. Satisfactory Progress of the Colony of Immi grants at Cape May. "pHiLAnELr-HtA, Feb. 23 Special. At the annuar,meeting of the Baron Hirsch Trust last evening it washown that the affairs of the Organization were in excellent con dition. At the Hebrew colony, near Capo May, satisfactory progress has been made by the colonists. Eight hundred acres have been fully planted, and considerable work Is being done to the. remainder of the 5,000 acies bevefaty-flve houses have been con structed and work upon -a factory and a hotel i in nrogress. The educational work conducted by the trust ibows that 600 Hebrew children are being educated in New York City, in ad dition to" a nnmber in the normal training school, uuder the chaigo of the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York. i WASTE OF GAS MUST CEASE. Interested rartles Will Try to Get a Law Passed Against It In Ohio. Lima, O., Feb. 23. Special. Representa tives from all the natural gas towns beld an Important meeting here this afternoon in the parlor of the Lima Natural Gas Com pany. The meeting was for purpose of framing a bill which will be introduced in the Legislature, to prevent the waste of gas in the Ohio oil field. There are hundredsof wells where the gas is used for lighting the whole farm where the well is .located and the gas Is burned day and night continuously. This seriously interferes with the supply of fuel gas in a number of towns. Bas His Boom Under His Bat. ToledoBla.de. Mr. Isaac Fusey Gray seems to be carrying hls-TresIdeatal boom, all under his own bat. LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS. Important Decisions by the Inter-State Commerce Commission Aid in Several tVajs Proposed for the World's ."Fair .Drawback on Imported Tin and Salt. Washington, D. C, Feb. 23. Ihe Inter-State Commerce Commission to-day announced Its decision in two case?, in opinions by Commissioner Knapp. One is the case of William H. Harvey against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, Involving tho giving of free passes and free transportation, and the commis sion decides that the action of the de fendant In granting to the members of the City Councilor New Oilcans and the clerk of that body, on account of theirofflcial posi tion, free transportation as passengers over all or some, portion of its inter-State lines violates the act to regulate commerce and Is unlawful. The order of the commission is that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company forthwith cease and desist fiom granting free passes or otherwise lurnishing free transportation over its inter-State lines, except as provided in tho twenty-second section of the act. The other case I elates to butter less than a carload from Lincoln, Kan., to Denver, Col., and entitled "The Lincoln Creamery versus tho Union Pacific Railroad Company." The line between these points runs through sparsely popu lated country, iurnlsliing comparatively little bnsIno?s to the carrier. The decision is that the charge complained of is not show n to bo nm eisonable, nor does the evi dence furnish sufficient reaon for interfer ing with a rate established-by a number of roads and common to many communities. A proposition which, if adopted, will no doubt increase the attendance of militia organizations nt the World's Fair is put for ward in a bill intioduced in tho House to day by Representative Powers, of Vermont. It makes it lawful for any railroad or trans portation company in the United States to make special rates for the transportation of military organizations, with tneir equipages, to the fair, notwithstanding anything in the inter-State commerce act to the contrary. Delegate Smith, of Arizona, to-day re potted a bill trom the House Territories Committee to ratify an act of the Arizona Legislatme authorizing the issuo of bonds to the amount of $30,0CO to enable the Terri tory to be propeily represented at the World's Fair. The report accompanying the bill says Congressional anthoilty is necessary because of the law forbidding ter ritories to incur an indebtedness exceeding 4 per cent of the assessed valuation of the property within the Territory. The report savs Arizona's assessed valuation is only $30 00i,C03, but that its taxable value Is really $80,000,COO. A statement was laid before the House to-day from the Commissioner of Customs showing that $1,711,061 di an back was allowed by the Government on tin cans, etc., manu factured from imported tin plate and ex ported from October 1, 1890, to December 31, 1691. Another statement from the commis sioner shows that the amount of drawback allowed on Imported salt used In curing meats exported from October 1. 1890. to December 31, 1831, aggregated $92,20L Includ ed in a third statement was a table giving quantity and value of salt imported and withdrawn fiom warehouse for the purpose of curing fish, dntv an which was remitted under the act of October 1, 1890. The quan tity segregated 115,995,600 pounds; valued at $102,856. Acting Secretary Spaulding has instructed the Collector of Customs at Chi cago to admit free of duty a box addressed to Walker Fearn. Chief of the Department of Foreign Affairs World's Columbian Ex position, and containing "six splendid vol umes of architectural designs" presented to the exposition management by the Maha Jarah of Jeypoie. provided the articles ale intended for exhibition nt the exposition. Senator Mitchell to-day reported as an amendment to the postoffice appro priation bill making an appropriation of $200,000 to enable the Postmaster General to test in country districts the system of free delivery of mails. The Comptroller of the Currency has de clared a first dividend of 30 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Corry National Banic, of Corry, Pa., on claims amounting to $518,069. The Secretary of State has received the following telegram from Minister Ryan, at Mexico, in regard to the condition of affairs in that country: "Minister of foreign Af fairs of Mexico makes the following state ment. According to advices received by this (Mexican) Government the bands of Catarina Garza, organized solely In the State of Texas, have been completely dispersed, thanks to the efficient pursuit of same re cently set o"h foot in said State by United States forces. The Mexican railroad system, inclusive of lines crossing 'the Northern border, has ever enjoyed complete security, although upon two distinct occasions the bands referred to crossed over to the Mexi can side, on the first occasion remaining two days in constant movement, and on the sec ond occasion only a few hours. Duo to the pursuit kept up by the forces of this coun try, tho precautionary measures then insti tuted to prevent a fresh Incursion into Mex ico resulted in strengthening the sense of absolute safety and immunity from harm always enjoyed by Mexican railroads: such securitv continues unshaken and unaltered, and sufficiently well grounded is the hope that in the future no danger will menace the same." This telegram i intended to dispose of reports that traveling in Mexico is unsaie oecause oi tne uarza movement. The Senate Committee on Finance to-day ordered an adverse'report to be made upon Senator Coke's bill to amend the laws in re gaid to National banking ' associations. Only three members of the committee, Messrs. Vance, Harris and Voorhees, were favorably inclined toward the bill. It will be placed upon the calendar, in order to allow Senator Coke to make a speech upon the matter. The measure proposes to wipe out the National bank circulation, replacing it with treasury notes, and also nermits the banks to lend money upon real estate security, the interest not to exceed 8 per cent, in any case, and in the absence of stipulating, to be fixed at 6 per cent. There was some discussion in an informal way on the subject of taxation of State bapk circu lation, but no action was taken, and at the request of Senator Voorhees the subject went over for future consideration. The delegations which have been re cently urging and opposing before Senate and House Committees on Territories the bills for statehood and for local government for Utah concluded their argument this morning before the Senate committee. Judge C. W. Bennett, Chairman of the Ter ritorial Renublican Committee, onnosed the bill for local government and lavored the admission of the Territory as a State, on the ground that the people wanted statehood or nothing. John Henry Smith, of Salt Lake, also favored the statehood measure. The Oates naturalization bill was to-day finally acted upon by the .House Judiciary Committee. Mr. Oates has in the last two Congresses urged the adoption of a measure to make changes which it is generally ad mitted need to be made In existing law. The most radical 'of these are an abolition of "declaratiorf of intention," and a require ment thatTnaturalizntion proceedings shall take the form of a court trial in which five years' residence, ability to read the Consti tution, and absence of. certain moral dis qualifications to citizenship must be proved. The same committeo to-day authorized Mr. Oates to report favorably his bill to repeal the provision ot the revised statutes making loyalty during the late war a pre-requisite to securing a pension on the part of persons otherwise entitled to be pensioned. No backpay Is, however, to be received by persons affected by this act. The act is also not to apply to persons underthe disabilities of the Fourteenth amendment to the Fed eral Constitution. Chairman BRiCE,'of the Democratic National Committee, has received his first .contribution to tho campaign fund of 1S92. It came in the shape of a check lor $10, from an enthusiastic Iowa Democrat, who sent with it a letter overflowing with Democratic zeal and full of predictions of the triumph of bis party in -the approaching contest The Unkindest Cnt of All. "Washington Post. Ward McAllister's sweeping reduction of the 400 was the unkindest cut of all. It Depends on the Meter. Chicago Timee.1 The ability of the gas company to make, both, ends meet depends 6a the meter, FITFUL BOLTS OF FLAME. A Startling Meteor That Worked Dire Ke ult In Montana. Helena, Most., Feb. 23. A special from Hamilton, Missoula county.tclls of great ex citement caused by the falfof a meteor which drove itself 200 feet into the earth, but protrudes 100 reet in the air and is still sputtering and sizzling furiously, emitting sulphurous gases that impregnate the air for miles around. The Btartllng heavenly visitor arrived early in the morning, leav ing a luiid trail that lighted up the sky and stirred the dozing fowl betimes from the restful perch. But sad to relate the horrid monster wrought death, and worked havoc as it struck the earth. On the ranch of Henry Chambers, but a few miles from tho blooded horse lanch of Marcus Daly, the king tyrfman, it struck Chambers' cat tle shed in which some 40 head of cows and two Chinamen wore corralled, and so great was the circumference of the meteor that not an animal was left on earth, but with the two Celestials all are buried beneath that awful monument of heated meteoric, stone. ' The earth locked like a cradle for miles, buildings were shaken from 'their founda tions, the contents of pantries demolished, and sleeping inhabitants thrown from their beds. Great excitement exists all through the Bitter Root Valley, and hundreds of people are flocking to the scene which is one of terrifying aspect, and makes "stout hearts quail. Great globules of molten metal loll trom the sides of the hissing, sputtoricg monster and appalling, crashing sounds are heard as its limits contract from the effects of exposure to the cold air. Fit ful bolts of flame shoot high in the air from the summit, and a great stream or liquid lava has plowed its way from the base down the hillside and loses itself in tho basin of the extinct lake in which was recently found a petrified sea serpent 60 feet in length, and only a few milos distant from the great cave in the mountains in which were found the band of hibernating Indians, the last of the cliff dwellers. A HOVEL LAW SUIT Brought Against Corporations by a Man or Inventive ideas. Boston, Feb. 23. Special. A novel suit came up befoie Judge Mason in the fifth ses sion ot the Superior Court to-day. The plaintiff Is Nathaniel Hill, of Lowell, and the defendant is the Tremont and Suffolk Mills corporation. The suit is to recover $30,000 damages, and it is alleged that the defendant and all the other great mill cor porations of Lowell have entei ed into a con spiracy to deprive the plain tiff of his rights. Hill alleges "that he is the inventor of a plan or system of main driving for mills, the use of which dpes away with gears and toothed wheels; he also claims other advantages for his plan which are not readilv understood Dy one not well versed m mechanics. He says that in May, 1889, he made a contract with the defendant, by the terms of which the latter was to employ him for a term of years at $15 a day to obtain the use of his svstem. He further alleges that after being in the emnloy of the defendant until Sep tember, 1S89, the contract was broken by the latter. As an explanation for the breach of the contract the plaintiff sets forth that the defendant and the other mill companies of Lowell aie members of one corporation, the proprietors of locks and canals on the Mer rimack river, and that the contract was orig inally made as part of a conspiracy to obtain possession of the ideas of the plaintiff in order that allele mills might use them. The defendant denies the allegations of the plaintiff and says they are absurd, and that no such combination of mill owners exists. PE0P0SE A SOLDIEK'S HAHX. Colonel Greenland Favored for Appoint ment as Adjutant General. HcHTisoTOir, Pa., Feb. 23. Special. The surviving members of the 125th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, at this place have signed a petition to Governor Pattison .for the appointment of Colonel Walter W. Greenland, of Clarion, who was a member of the regiment, as Adjutant General of the State. Colonel Greenland is a native of Huntington, and is very popular among the members of the 125th. about 400 of whom are living in this county and Blair. He is remeaibered by them as a verv gal lant soldier who saved the flag of-his regi ment fiom falling into tho hands of the enemy at the battle of Antietam. The color bearer was shot and instantly .killed-and an other who picked the colors up had carried them but a lew yards when he fell badly wounded and was captured by the rebels. Greenland then seized them and bore them away amid, a storm of bullets and deliv ered them to the Captain of the color com pany. Colonel Higgins. who commanded the regiment, at once offered Greenland the Sositiou of Color Sergeant, which bonor he eclined, preferring to stay with his com pany. His old comrades are nnanimous in desiring his appointment by the Governor. TOO DEEP FOE A WELL. A Borer Strikes a Hole That Is'Hnndreds of Feet in Depth, Seattle, AVash., Feb. 23. A well digger at Slaughter, a village between here and Ta coroa, bas undertaken a difficult contract. He offered to dig a well and get a good sup ply of water for $20. At a depth of 30 feet he struck a large boulder: After he had cleared away the sand and gravel and lifted it up he found that it had covered a big crevice in a rock. ' i The hole was 4 leet 8 inches In length and 2 feet 8 inches In, width. He sounded with a 60-foot rope, but could not touch bottom. Then be dropped in a stone and noted the time. Exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds elapsed before he heard a dull splash hun dreds of feet below. The recent earthquake shock was felt quite severely at Slaughter, and it is thought that the cavern may bave been caused by it, or perhaps some previous disturbance at a time when Mount Rainier was an active volcano. FUSEBAL OF DR. SHEA To Take Place From St. Mary's Church, Elizabeth, on Friday. New York, Feb. 23. Special. The funeral of Dr. John Gilmary Shea, the Catholic historian and editor of the Catholic News, who died on Monday at his home, in Eliza beth, will take place on Friday morning. Bishop Wigger, of Newark, his lifelong friend, will celebrate a pontiflcrfl mass of re quiem in St. Mary's Church, Elizabeth, at 10:30 o'clock A. x. Cardinal Gibbons, ArchDishop Corrigan, Archbishop Ryan, or Philadelphia; Arch bishop Elder, oi Cincinnati: Bishop O'Farrell, of Trenton, and other prelates will partici pate in the services. A delegation of the Ct.tholic Club of this city, of which Dr. Shea was an honorary member, will attend the funeral. The interment will be in Newark. DIJLTHS BEEE AND ELSEWHEBI. C. A. Fjfle, Historian. C. A. Fyffe, the author and historian, died Monday. The cause of his death li directly attributed to the mental and physical depression from which he suffered as a consequence, of the false charge which was brought against hint about a year a(to, and the attempt at suicide which he made at that time. In the spring of last year Mr. Fyffe was charged with an odious crime, and , he was so overwhelmed with disgrace at the revolting accusation and the terrible position in which he was placed, that he cut bis throat ou April 17. He was brought to court In an ambulance and the trial had to be temporarily postponed, owing to his weak condition. In July the London grand juir, which had been Investigating the charge, declared that no bill should be found against him. Jonn Old, Composer. John Old, of Beading, England, whose death is announced, at the axe of 65. is best known as the author of the cantata "Heme, the Hunter." He was a native of Totncs, and studied under Moschcles, Thalberg and other eminent maestro!. In 1859 lie settled down In Readlntr. where he f. founded an academy of music. He was the com poser or "jnc sevenin aeai, " ana oranumber of popular part songs, pianoforte pieces, odes, etc Obituary Notes. Bisnor Oxendex. late Primate of the Anglican Church In Canada, died in Blarrlte Monday. Rt. Hox. Sib Hesby Cottok, D. C. L., P. C, late Lora Justice of Her Majesty's Court i of Ap peal, died In London yesterday. Rev. Asthoxt Schwartz, who has been a priest 61 yeardj died at hft home In Mlnenvllle, Pa., Monday of pneumonia. He came to this country 43 years ago, and for 21 years was pastor or the Church oi Our l.ady. George Wtatt Httnnxsoir, aged 88, one or theoldest and wealthiest citizens of Parkersburg, died Monday nlfrht. For years he bad been a prominent business man and owned half of the eastern portion of the city. HesrY Ferbasd. an actor in Henry Iryfiig's Lyceum Theater Company, London, Is deadC aged 43. He had visited this country on one of the lrv-lng-Terry tours. His death is the second In the ranks of Irylng's players within the past month. Ada West, an actress. Is dead, at the residence of her father, Jn Chicago. She was the wife of Sidney C. France, who Is starring in sensation dramas, and to wnom'she was married in 1883, Since that year she had traveled in bis company FLORAL ACCESSORIES Supplied to the Yonng Women Few and Far Between This Season Togs In Which Jenneis Miller Believes the Baby Should Be Dressea. This winter's particular impecuniosity of the usually impecunious young clnb man has almost killed the trade in bouquets. Jt is well known to be true that the young woman of the period has been defrauded largely of her opportunities by being scant ily or not at all supplied with the floral ac cessories whicli time-honorea custom and the poets delare belong to her toilette. It seems flowers cost more than ever. It also seems that young men are poorer, likewise more extravagant than ever- After spending money to satisfy their nineteenth century notions, they have mighty little left for flowers and nobody ever heard of a young man's tastes giving way be fore those, of a young woman. As an actual fact it is stated that at one of the subscription balls this winter there were only half a dozen bouquets car ried, and they were by no means elaborate. At some other dances'there were none to be seen. A florist, making a lightning calcula tion, says that Pittsburg's flower trade lost about $3,000 at the ball cited, as evidenced by six bouqnets to 75 or 100 heretofore. The praver of the florist (pr the coming winter is "Good Lord, from such a state of things again, deliver us!" Thev implore the im pecunious young man to besonomoie; or.if he must De so, to be so in another direction. That blessed Jenness Miller baby, with its already pronounced predilection for mama's dress reform notions, is likely to be the stellar attraction at Thursday's sym posium with its mater for an interesting background. Miss Jeuness Miller, it is said, will be introduced upon the stage of the Alvin Theater In the "toss" which Mrs. Jenuess Miller believes in all well regulated babies indugling in, the ralson d' etre for each garment accompanying its disclosure. The young heiress -Alls that unique posi tion, the beginning right possiblities, over which reformers have been raving ever since the days of these lads began. The baby is supposed to be physically perfect, because mama is as nearly so as one can be who isn't born according to the Miller philosophy. The babvt has the additional advantage of a rearing after this same philosophy; so that ir there ever was a young ladv who has lain among the roses and walked among the lilies, surely it 13 Miss Baby Jenuess Miller. That thereisaMonsieurDr. LePlongeon becomes very evident when ono enters the charmed home circle. Since Madam Le Plongeon does the greater part of the talk ing on the lecture platform, she good naturedly "effaces" herself at other times and allows the Doctor an opportunity to dis play his specialties. They are an extremely well bred and courteous pair in their everyday life, and though it is rather diffl. cult for the average man to keep up to the height of their technicalities, it is never theless always a matter for enjoyment. Be fore Dr. Le Plongeon met the lady who is now his wife, he was a quite earnest student in medicine, though he afterward forsook that Held for the more uncertain one of marriage and archaeology. The Doctor is a bookworm, and seizes an odd, old volume with the avidity which a hungry man does a beef steak and looks not unlike our childhood notions of genii with accommodating lamps and rings. His highly cultivated taste em braces a keen knowledge of paintings and a partfcular appreciation of those that are curious and interesting. The picture comes off victorious in everv case, and the Doctor Is invariably adding the final one to his col lection. Somewhere In Peru Dr. Plongeon brought to light literally, for they were buried, three pictures" which proved to be bv old Spanish masters. One of these, a Mnrillo, passed into the hands of a Brook lyn gentleman; the other two, a Murillo and a Del Castello, who was Mnrillo's master.are likely to go out of Dr. Le Plongeon's bands, it being said that One of our finest private collections will'shortlybe greatly enhanced Dy the addition of one, if not both, of the canvases. Mrs. Joseph U. Dilworth will be hostess at a small dinner on Thursday even ing at 6 o'clock. TEEMS OF WITHEES' WILL. He Wanted His Executors to Continue in , the Business He Followed. New Yobk, Feb. 23. Special. The will of David Dunham-Withers, the turfman, was filed for probate to-day. The will was signed October 21,1878. It directs that the estate shall bo divided into five equal shares and held in trust as follows: The income of one share to be paid semi-annually during her life to the use of the testator's sister, Elizabeth Mary Tudlow, of this city, the principal to be paid upon her death to her son. The Incomes or the other four shares to be paid respectively to these two sisters and two brothers for life, and after their death the principal to their lawful issue Euphanie D. Clasnn, wife of Augustus W. Clason, of this city; Virginia Paine, wife of William H. Paine; Alfred D. Withers and Reuben B. Withers. One clause of the will says: "I empower my executors to sjll all or any part of my property at public or private sale, but inas much as great loss and injury would result to my estate if my farms and plantations in the States of New Jersey and Mis sissippi should be sold by forced sale, it is my wish that my executors continue the said business, or if that cannot lawfully be done, then they may lease the said farms for such terms of years as to them may seem expedient during the continuance of the respective trusts, until the farms can be sold at favorable terms and said business woundup in such manner as will result in the greatest advantage to my estate." BIG BLOW UP TjJ WYOMING. Gases From a Coal Deposit Canse a Vol canic Disturbance. Chetesi, "Wto., Feb. 23. One-third of the total area of this State is underlaid with coal. In several districts deposits bave been on fire for years. There are cases where conditions have been volcanic on ac count of the generation of gases in the seams. One of these disturbances occurred on the Sweetwater cattle range, 250 miles west of Cheyenne, last week. More than 100 acres of surface was displaced, and the report was beard for 30 miles. Coal and dirt were thrown into the afr a great distance. The existence of this fire had been known for 12 years. . Practices the Gospel or Wealth. Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Carnegie not only preaches the gospel of wealth, but practices what he preaches. He has added $100,000 to the gift of $1,000,000 to the Pittsburg public library. DEBASED CDREINCT. Gold will sell at a premium if a free silver coinage act should become a law. Albany Journal. It will do no one any good to have two sliver dollars instead of one gold one if the one gold dollar will buy as much food and clothing as the two silver ones. St. Paul Globe. Mb. Blakd's free coinage bill is designed to inflate the currency, but its principal effect will be to Innate the Republican vote in New York and New England. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The fact tha t a free coinage bill is the first party measure which the Democrats bring before the House shows that the cranks are in the majority and will make silver the leading issue for next fall. Buffalo Express. The whole free silver argument is largely theoretical. The only tangible ractJs that the bill enables the silver men to take about 70-cents-worth of silver to .the United States mint and receive therefor what is to pass current among the people as 100 cents, giv ing a clear profit of nearly 43 per cent on the transaction. Trey Times. The purpose of the Republican party is to maintain the currency at an equality, so that the dollar shall be worth 100 cents. No bill departing from that standard can become law by.President Harrison's consent. It is on the President and the sound-money Re publicans of the Senate that the country relies for salvation from disastrous financial legislation. Ulica Herald. The silver kings, taking advantage of a so-called popular sentiment which is partly the result ot Ignorance, partly of reckless ness, have assumed to make the United States throw away the gold standard ana adopt a standard recognized in scarcely any part of the clvilized'world with which our country deals! It is madness "on the part of the dupes of the silver kings; it is greed run mad on the-part'of the kings themselves. Ohio Slate Journal, CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS; Peaches from the Cape of GoodH are now being sold in London. More butter per head is used in I land than In any other country. Theret use 13 pounds per head per annnm; in ( many eight pounds, Holland, six poui France four pounds, Italy one pound. In the Indus, Ganges and other stre: are numerous fish-eating" -crocodiles wt attain a length of more than 20 feet. Exc when near their nests and anxious to def their eggs they run away from hut beings. Trappers in the States of "Washing and Oregon report that the fur-bearing s mals are very numerous this winter, beaver esnecially. Lastweek a trapper n Blaine caught abeaver that weighed nea 100 pounds. There are two factories in Philadelp that use up in the season 100 horse hid week each to cover baseballs. They alnm tanned. One hide will furnish cov for ten dozen No. 1 balls and flve.toei dozen inferior ones. A Deer Isle, Me., man bas a curios in the shape of an egg which had oiy end a cap-like excrescence, which, be lifted, showed a full-sized cranberry" b between the cap of the shell and the in lining membrane of the egg. Mail advices from the Argentine ' public bring information of the discover: a vast bed of silver In the bottom of the 1 of San Bias, Argentine Republic The sil appears in the black metallic sand wh covers the bottom of the bay. The number of bacteria present in m depends chiefly upon the length of time t' the milk has been standing and upon temperature. Estimates made upon m under different conditions have shown fr 300,000,000 to 00,000,000 to the quart. The Gulf of Georgia is reported to almost choked with large schools of herri The Washington and British Colnmb fishermen are catching the fish by the'! with no tronble whatever, and are mat crood money by packing them for shlnnn East. Ostrich farming is one of the import! industries in South Africa, which, as j furnishes the bulk of the ostrich plumes the markets of the world. There are pro bly 200,000 domesticated ostriches in Cf Colony. Each bird i3 supposed to net owner $40 per annum. Since the fire at the Benedictine man terv It has been revealed that almost 30 1 cent of all the benedictine brewed is : sumedin Finland by abont 100,000 people, is the national drink. It is drank in tu biers, three or four young men not thinki anything of consuming a couple of bottle: It was the Chinese who invented 1 well-known plan of capturing ducks a other water fowl by waalng toward th with a basket over the head and draggl them under water before they knew wl had caught them by the legs. Theirs is 1 idea of employing cormorants to aid tbem fishing. If it were possible to rise above the mospbere which surrounds the earth, t sun would look like a sharply defined ball fire, while everything else would be wrapr in total darkness. There could be no din" ence of light without an atmosphere some similar medinm for the sun's rays act upon. The census of all India shows a popu tion of 237,200.1100. Of these 207,634,407 l Hindoos, 57,365,204 Mussulmans. ZiSi, Christians, 1,41 6.100 Jains. 1,907,836 Pik' 7,101,057 "Buddhists, 89.SS7 Parsees. 17,18a I brews, 9,402.083 forest tribes (animal w shipers). 289 atheists, agnostics, etc. Amo the Hindoos are included 3,401 Brahmas a 39,918 Aryas. The discovery of gold has been a gr thing for the Boni negroes on the Marc river in French Guiana. They were territ poor before the placer mines were disct ered In 1SS8. Since then they, have be getting rich in the transport service. Th carry all freight around the rapids to t placer diggings at the enormous charge 90 francs a barrel. A Montana man has invented a ran snow plow, to be used in scraping the sni off the ranges so that the cattle can get the grass. It is reported that the machi works very satisfactorily. Thousands cattle perish every year, and the nnmc this year has been more than usually. lar from starvation, on account of the de snows cutting off the food supply. ' Last October the schooner Jennie . Cheney, lime laden, sprang aleak in .Roc land. Me., harbor, and took fire. All effoi to smother the fire were unsuccessful, an after smouldering all winter at anchor, t vessed was towed the other day to the he of the bay and left to her doom. The flam have now burst through the decks, and night the flaming wreck presents a beautil spectacle. A natural curiosity has been found 1 two men named Burns and Morris, who we cutting a trail at Montborne, near SeattI Two roots, a cedar and a hemlock, h: grown together around one another at rig angles, so as to form a link. They we sawed off so as to form a cross and given Superintendent Corey, of the Oregon "It provement Company's mines, who inten to have them polished and preserve-them. It is understood by the Roman popnla that Beatrice Cenci is now in heaven. The bas been a legend that when she was ex cutcd she went to purgatory, and that si was to stay there so long as the Borgbe family, to whom the Pone distributed tl Cenci property, kept it with profit and e Joyment. The Borgheses are now almo ruined, and so it Is believed and reported i Rome that Beatrice's punishment is'ende The Tarratines, or Penobscot Indian who live on an Island in the river a doze miles above Bangor, are the most ingenioi of all basket makers, and no chemist hi produced brighter colors than those wil which the children of the forest adorn the wares. The baskets are made of thin stri orash and maple, the latter for rims Jin handles, and much of the work is Inte woven with fragrant sweet grass from tl salt marshes along the coast. New Mexico has a very wide range climate. The temperatures registered in tt Territory during January varied conside ably over 100. The hottest place during- tt month was La Luz, Dona Ana county, whei the thermometer registered 76 one day, an the mean temperature for the month wa 67.7. At Dnlce, Rio Arriba county, the me curyon one chilly January day crawle down tc 32 below zero, and its record-fc the month in that bracing spot was L6 bi low zero. KHTMELETS AND BHTNKLES. President of Gas Company Whal w that bright light In the north part of the city la. nbjht? Employe The aurora borealts. President (with haughty firmness) Have son aurora borealis meters put In at once. Chicat Tribune. The man who's too devoid of aim To make the least advance Is sure to oe the first to claim ' -' He never had a chance. -Jiidge. "Those Van Perkins girls are rathe knowing damsels." "Are they? I hadn't discovered it." "Ah? Won't they know you?" Earner's Bazar Mr. Dusenberry (quite inebriated) M: dear. I couldn't go down that toboggan slide. I would take my breath. t Mrs. Duesenberry-It wouldn't be a bad thing 1 lt'dld. Texas Sifting. "We know the weather fickle is, -. From bleak to balm it drlftetb. . - We know that from a glacial groove -c Totuawlnctendltahlfteth. But ah t howe'er It fickle be. t This is the substance of it ". In.Uils regard It nothing Is Unto the weather prophet. Boston Courfcr. Jake I hardly knew myself yesterday! Cora And some Super officious individual intro ducedyou? How unfortunate I ty Captain of Precinct How is ityoa.didttJ catch the thief. ' ., Patrolman-WeU, Cap.. Jest as I grabbed him slipped out of his coat, and dove Into an old bj) close by: an when I looked in, I found he had wi out th other end. . rraa Captaln-Klnd of a cylinder escapement folleoj watch that time. hejI-Puet. 5 i "When people go electioneering, T The rule Is, so they aay. ,atif That some must stand and do tbeeheerlng.a While others draw the pay.- -. i, j .Washington, em Miss Sears Do yon meanJto'teUrme3 you do not believe in ,the Bible? jgR Wool I don't bellere all of lti ;. &?. Miss Sears What part don't you. beuevajv Wool-The family record.-omMCJm xnthivk , vt-' " ,..&$. i. ,. ilC
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