t BUBIGJHE WIRES, A Conference to Be Held With the Mayor to Con sider the Snhject. PLAMING A1ST OKDINAtfCE That Will Insure the Placine: of Electric Wires Underground WITHIN THE NEXT TWO TEARS. Chief Broirn Fays the Companies llust Perform the Workor STErS WILL BE WEEN TO FORCE THEM A conference of the representatives of the electric light, telegraph and telephone companies of the city, affected by the proposed ordinance to put wires under ground in the business part of the city, will be held at Mayor Gourley's office to-morrow morning, at which there will be present the Mayor, Chiefs Bigelow and Brown, and Superintendent Morris Mead, of the Bureau of Electricity. The object of the conference will be the preparation of an ordinance that will suit all parties but which will insure the placing of all wires underground within two years from the loth of last November, from Grant street to the Point bridge. The Mayor and Public Safety Chief dis cussed the question yesterday, the Mayor having mastered the contents of a type vritten communication on the subject sub mitted by the Chief on Monday, and they agreed on the general outlines of the ordi nance they expect the electric light and telegraph people to agree to. A Chance to Miow Graclonsneas. It will be a case where the parties affected will be placed in a position to which they must gracefully agree or submit and take their gruel as best they can. There is 110 doubt that lhe officials mean business. Chief Brown in talking of the proposed ordinance last night said: The main points of the two ordinances presented last year "rill be embraced in one this time, and I know the temper of Conn ctls is to pass it when It comes before them. We will endeavor to please the companies and don't desire to be arbitrary, but they n ill not aain be allowed to dilly-dally as they did last year until it is too late in the year to begin work. We will allow two years in which tbc placing of wires undor giound must be accomplished. That is a certain portion of the work mnst bo per formed berore the 15th of Xovember and the balance must be dono in the next year be tween Apt il 15 and Xovember IS. that being the pcnod in nhich the streets can be opened for the purpose. Will Tollow Sew York's Example. "When that time has expired we will do as they did in Xeir Yolk City, cut down their poles, lemove all the wires we find over head and make tho compinies pay for it. lhe expei iencc of the XewTork officials was that, alter allowing three years to do the woik, the time expired and little or nothing had been done. Iho mistake niado was in not requiring part of the work performed each year, and wo don't intend to make any such mistake. Onr position will be, "peace lully it we can, lorcibly if wo must," and if the l-epiesentatives of the interested com panies won't agree to the reasonable regula tions we intend to submit, wo will have the ordinance passed and then compel thoin to obey it. There is no doubt of me citys power in tills matter, xne united States supreme Court only yesterday sus tained thejtfty of .New York in a mnndatnus suit biouglU"U the Xcw York Electric Com pany to compel tho officials to allow them to construct a lino through the city's streets. The officials declined because tno company had failed to comply with the city regulations governing such matters, and although the company had received lull authority from the State Legislature, they were blocked by the municipal law. One Company Took a Hint. Although the underground wire ordi nance that died in committee last year did not compel them to, the officials of the big telephone company of this city took the hint conveyed by its presentation in Council and at once began the work of putting their wires beneath the streets. Already they have half completed the work on" their main line, which runs along Cherry alley. Liberty street, and is to run from Liberty Ftreet along the length of Market street On other streets branch lines will be laid, but they will be small and comparatively inexpen sive. The system being adopted is a terra cotta conduit formed of pieces about a foot in length and 5 inches square, in the center of which is a horizontal bore from 1 to 3 inches in diameter, according to the size of the cable to pass through it The main lines on the streets above mentioned consist of 49 of these conduits built up like masonry and the ends cemented together to form a continuous line. Manholes will be placed at intervals to give access to the conduits and allow re pairs or the insertion of new cables. Each cable consists of 130 strands, each represent ing from one to three telephons subscribers, thus making 5,370 wires on the main line on Liberty street The Cherrv alley line has 2,000 wires and the Market s'treet line 1,300. Liberty street is now torn up for the laying of the main, and the telephone company ex pects to complete the main to "Water street within a few months. A Question of Economy. Superintendent Metzgar, of the Tele phone Company, says his company is ready to comply ith the regulations lai 5 down in the ordinance under consideration last year. He says underground wires are better for the companies, give as good service as over head wiies, and, while they cost much more at first, are the cheapest iu the end. One reason for the inaction of the Public Safety Committee on the ordinance last year was the pressure brought to bear by the Allegheny County Electric Light Company. T!iey were aoout to remove their plant from Garrison alley to Twelfth street, and ar gued that the expense ot making connec tions, running main wires to the seat of their power, eta, would be doubled if the ordi nance was passed, because it required the work to be completed during the open season of theyearendingXovemberlOlast The ob jections raised by other companies inter ested all contributed to the delay, but the Allegheny County Light Company will have plenty of time for their removal under the new ordinance, and the other points objected to will either be made agreeable or rejected entirely. The ordinance will probably reach the Public Safety Commit tee on Friday or Saturday of this week. Knshing Tor Dog Licenses. There has been a rush the nast thri io- for dog licenses, and owners of net twi11 havc besieged the license clerks at all the station houses. A exeat manv neonl faon'tseem to understand that they can get , -i:;tr:r7 :v"TruilA" "lc i u iii, wwa .v scuinu Biauon ceis most ot tne Hicenses on Monday was 5521, at the rate of isl per doc. of -wliiM, sons - -n , 'h'ti :.. "" vr; ". " ."'""" '"" xesieraay s receipts at Central were 5191, ' Death or Mrs. llaoj. Mrs. Sarah Jane Huey died vesterdav at JBflle Bridge. Pa. where her husband, Will tiam Huey, Esq.. has been in the. f ,.. ijness for many years. She was an old resi fde nt of Minersville where she was born in 1822. raraK LICENSE COURT CLOSED. Ed Morris and Fred Golmer Both 'Win Oat Easily Three More Irinklnr Places for Allecbeny No More Petitions Will Be Beard. License Court -wound up yesterday for good and on its last ware Ed Morris, the ball player, and Fred Golmer, the veteran saloon keeper of Allegheny, found success. There was also one other license granted in Allegheny, which brings the list up to 124 saloons, an increase of two over last year. Decisions were handed down in all the pending cases, and it was announced that no more petitions for rehearings would be received and the License Court wasdone. At the opening of the License Court it was anticipated that the business would be dis posed of in short order and that about half the time taken by the previous court! would snffice. In view of this Criminal Court was, at first, onlv adjourned tor three weeks, but it was given a second adjournment Con trary to expectations, however, the work has stretched over two months, all bnt two weeks, though License Court was not in ses sion all the time. The decisions handed down yesterday dis posed of all pending cases. A number of decisions were handed down in the forenoon and in the afternoon Morris, LTnn, Barck hoff and Keinhart were decided. The list of the granted is as follows: Fred W. Golmer, Xo. 57 Ohio st, Allegheny, retail. H. J. Meyer, Xo. 101 Madison avenue, Alle gheny, retail. . . Edward Morris, Xo. 9 Robinson street, Alle gheny, retail. Hugh Lynn. Ktna borough, retail. Lawrence Barckhofl, Frankstown avenue, Twenty-first ward, wholesale. Charles E. Keinhart, Xo. 3 West Carson street, browcr's license, as representative of the Windlsch-Muulhauser Brewing Com pany. The refnsed were: Albert E. James. Dn quesne; C. H. Corrigan, Xo. 463 Beaver avenue. Allegheny; Patrick Gorman and Patrick J. Connelly, McKeesport: Justice Hass, Duquesne: Charles Ochsonshirt, Alle ghonv: Jacob Walters, Braddock; Abner Kos,"Duquesne; James McGifney, Jefferson township: Kicbard Owens, Jefferson town ship: Tntrick J. Suiythe, Twenty-eighth ward, Pittsburg. THEIR OWN MUTUAL BENEFIT. Lewis W. Johnson and William H. Spencer Attested In Washington Charged With Embezzlement They Ban the Pruden tial Society In Philadelphia and the Panels Disappeared. WASHINGTON', May 3. Lewis "V. John son, Supreme Treasurer of the American Mutual Aid Society, and "William H. Spen cer were arrested to-night by Detective Donaghv, of Philadelphia, and Deputy Marshall Joyce and Detective McDevitt. of this city. They were locked up charged with embezzling $28,000. Johnson and Spencer were connected with the Pruden tial Mutual Benefit Society, whose offices were at Ka 1307 Arch street, Philadelphia. The society was organized in December, 1800. Business was carried on for a year, when the demands of members became so pressing that the concern was placed in a receiver's hands. The alleged society had in time collected sums aggregating "from 522,000 to $28,000. The receiver found the assets to be $450. A bill in equity was filed by the subscribers and Johnson and Spencer left Philadelphia and were not heard of until a few weeks ago, when they bobbed np here. The scheme as worked in Philadelphia was to promise to ray to the holder of a maturing certificate $100 at the expiration of a year. The certifi cate was issued on payment of an initiation fee of ?5, 50 cents a week for 36 weeks and $1 a week for the remaining 1C weeks of the year. Johnson, since his arrival here, has started an alleged beneficial society entitled the American Mutual Aid Society with objects apparently the sane as those of the Phila delphia concern. In the circular they men tion the names of prominent tradesmen in the city, who subscribed to the scheme. Spencer was apparently not in this, and at the time of his arrest was conducting a photograph gallery in a tent. The men will be arraigned before the Chief Justice of the District to-morrow, and then taken to Phila delphia by Detective Donaghy. TBIED TO HELP HEE M0THEB, A Little Tot Fatally Uurned While Pouring Oil on a Fire. Jennie Maxwell, 8 years of age, was fatally burned at her parents' home, Shaf fer and Flora streets, at G o'clock last even ing. There was nobody but the child at home at the time, and, thinking to help her mother in her work in preparing supper, the child began kindling a fire in the kitchen stove. She placed a lot of wood in the stove and poured some oil from a lamp on the pile. There were hot coals in the stove and the fluid exploded. The child's clothes caught fire and she screamed in such a way as to attract the neighbors. Almost all her clothinc was burned off and her body was badly roasted. A physician was hastily procured, but he gave but little hope for the child's recovery, and last night she was expected to die be fore morning. Her parents are heartbroken over the accident. Mrs. Maxwell had been gone from the house to a grocery store but a few minutes before. An alarm of fire was sent in from box 382 on account of the flames, but the services of the department were not needed, as the house did not catch. GREAT QEAFI ON STBEET CABS. rickpockets Do a Boshing Business Early In the Evenings. A gentleman who declined to give his name was relieved of his pocketbook while on his way home on a Fifth avenue car yes terday about 6 o'clock. Cars at that hour are usually crowded to their entire capacity and no better opportunity for picking pockets could present itself. The first stop was made two or three blocks from the Court House to permit a lady to alight, and about this time the thieves got in their work, which, hoivever.was poorly rewarded, as the purse contained but little change. The employes of both the Fifth avenue and Duquesne roads have frequent com plaints from passengers about losing their pocketbooks, and it seems that the thieves work exclusively on these roads. TO-DAY'S BIG CONVENTIONS. Republicans or Illinois nnd Democrats of Michigan Ready for W ork. CnicAGO, May 3. A dispatoh from Springfield says delegates are already ar riving for to-morrow's State Republican Convention. Governor Fifcr is still in the lead for the governorship and other situa tions are practically unchanged. A Muskegon, Mich., special says every thing is in readiness for the Democratic Convention in that State to-morrow, and the leaders are already at the scene of the con flict. Don M. Dickinson and Edward Byan are slated for delegates at large. Brazil No Longer Attracts Emigrants. WARSAW, May a Out of 38,000 Polish emigrants who went to Brazil, 1,500 are re corded as having returned. It is estimated that 18,200 Poles died in Brazil from the yellow fever. The manv bad reports from Brazil have diverted the" stream ot emigra tion to the United States, and this has been increased by the recent bad harvests in Poland. A Crmft Avenue PIre. An alarm was sent in from box 88, located at Fifth and Craft ave nues, about 3:30 o'clock this morning. By the time the engines arrived tho building was ablaze, and a telephone me'ssage said it would be a total loss. Beading's Possessions Extending. From Chicago comes th rennrt tni h Philadelphia and Eeading hard coal combi nation has secured the Lackawanna and Le high Valley boats and all the property of the companies. CTCET PZTTSBirEG -. FIGHTING FOR SEATS Consumes the Best Fart of Another Pay at the M. E. Conference. CLERICAL JUMPERS OP CLAIMS. Some Changes of Constitution and Disci pline Recommended. TICKLING THE TEMPERANCE TOPICS Omaha, May 3. To-day's session of the Methodist General Conferenoe was called to order by Bishop Merrill. A new dis pute at once arose over the seating of dele gates. Some seats that had been set aside for the lay delegates who wished to be seated apart from the ministers, had been taken by ministerial delegates, and a heated discussion arose over the question ot com pelling the ministers to vacate. Bev. Mr. Hamilton, of Boston, and his delegation were the ones who had taken the coveted seats, which were in the rear of the ministers' section. The Bostoni&ns appar ently did not suppose that they were trespassing on the lay territory. One hun dred and ten lay delegates expressed a de sire to be seated separately from the minis ters. When the hour arrived appointed for hearing the quadrennial address of Bishop Foster, the seating question was still a long way from being settled, and it was decided to postpone the address until 10 A. St. to morrow. The entire forenoon was taken up with the question of seating, and it was not then satisfactorily adjusted. Changes of DIsclpIino Recommended. The afternoon session of the conference was devoted to the hearing of tho report of the Committee on Constitution appointed four years ago, and tho preliminary work of appointing committees. Bishop Fost presided, and Bishop Merrill called up the report of the committee. The report was read by Dr. T. B. Neeley, of Philadelphia. After giving a brief review of the various meetings of the committee, Dr. Neeley pre sented the changes and recommendations suggested in the report. Among other things suggested, was a change in the ar rangement of the discipline. Material change was recommended in the rules or in the wording ot the discipline, but the com mittee thought the book could be arranged to much better advantage. The report also suggested that the date for opening the General Conference be fixed on the hrst Wednesday in May every loer years, instead of the first day of May. It also recommends that the ministerial and lay delegates vote together in the General Conference on all questions except those intended to make a change in the organic law of the church. At present the ministerial delegation vote first and the lay delegates lollow. This plan has become quite unpopular among the lay delegates, and the recommendation of the committee on this point will prob ably meet with approval. Limits to the Annual Conferences. The report also recommends that no an nual conference be organized with less than 30 traveling ministers, and the concurrent vote of three-fourths of the delegates of all the annual conferences shall be sufficient to authorize the General Conference to make changes in the organic law of the Church. Colonel John Bay, a-member of the com mittee, submitted a minority report, differ ing in some respects from the majority re port upon a few points. The reports were ordered printed and will be taken np as a special order next Tuesday at 10 o'clock. In addition to the usual standing com mittees, the conference decided to have several special committees appointed. A committee consisting of one from each annual conference was appointed on tem perance and the overthrow of the liquor traffic, and a committee of equal size was appointed on the Epworth League. The discussion on these two subjects indicated that the conference is very deeply inter ested in both, and radical action is anticipated. Many of the delegates declare that the temperance cause was one of the most important matters to be considered by 1 tne conierence, ana tne iipworth League had become one ot the vital arms of the church and should be fittingly recognized by the conference. A special committee was also appointed to consider the Order of Deaconesses. The conference accepted the invitation of the citizens of Lincoln and the President of the Nebraska Wesleyan University to visit Lincoln May 7. A great mass meeting was held to-night in the interest of the ahurch extension work. Bishop Foss presided. PENNSYLVANIA EPISCOPALIANS. The Bishop's Address Covers a Wide Range of Church Topics. Philadelphia, May- S. The one hun dred and eighth convention of the Protes. tant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania was opened by Bishop Whit aker to-day. On motion of Bev. Dr. Harris, canon 6 was suspended, and the proposed amendment submitted by the commission to revise the constitution and canons was substituted in order to facilitate business. The Bishop's annual address reviewed the past and anticipations for the future. He outlined the many enterprises began in the diocese for the good of the church and the completion ot work that had been begun in the year ending May, 189L Special refer ence was made to the work of the misssons, especially in Italy. Then the claims of the Bishop's fund were urged, Bishop Whitaker saying the fund is to him what the cpmmunionals are to the rectors. The special subject of the establishment of a diocesan house was referred to. WOEK OF PITTSBTTEG PEESBYTEEY. Fonr Touns; Ministers, Who Have Re ceived Calls, Are Ordained. The Pittsburg Presbytery yesterday was mainly devoted to the examination and ordination of four ministers. Bev. Mr. Mc Cartney, who has been called to Edgewood; Rev. Sir. Gallagher to Oakmont; Bev. Mr. Boemer to Fairview, and Bev. C. L. Chal fant, who goes to Cleveland, O. The Moderator, Key. Mr. Lewis, of Canons burg, presided, and Eev. Samuel A. Hunter, D. D., of Wei Hsien, China, preached the sermon. Bev. W. J. Holland, Chancellor of the Western University, delivered the charge to Bev. Mr. Chalfant. The minutes of the different sessions were examined and approved, after which the Presbytery adjourned. Toegtly Again a Candidate for Mayor. Ex-Mayor Voegtly yesterday announced his candidacy for Mayor for the full term which commences next April. The prim aries will have to be held the early part of January. Major John Krepps has also an nounced himself. He expects the backing ot the old soldiers and the reformers. Mr. Voegtly is also mentioned for Chief of the Department of Public Safety. Gourley to Address tho Colored Brethren The General Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church will open at 10:30 o'clock to morrow morning. There will be present delegates from 32 States of the Union, as well as from Canada, Africa, Hawaii, the West Indies and other foreign colonies. Mayor Gourley has accepted an invitation to deliver an address of welcome to the dele gates. Cheered by the Printers. WASuntoTOJr, May 1 Columbia Typo graphical Union dedioated its new building last night, the finest ever erected byn, single chapter of a labor organization. Hon. Amos J. Cummlngs made an address. President Harrison was present and was loudly cheered. DISPATCH, - WEDNESDAY?- MAY 4,; 1892.'- SENATOR QUAY'S BILL It Creates Widespread Interest Among ' Local Politicians and Prompts George Shlras, Jr., to Talk on the Subject Quay's Single-Mlndedness Questioned. The proposed amendment to the Biver and Harbor bill, proposing that the Gov ernment buy out the Monongahela Navi gation Company, introduced in the United States Senate on Monday by Senator Quay has created somewhat of a stir in Pitts burg, not only among the stockholders of the Navigation Company but among the politicians also. The Quay people are de lighted with the Senator's efforts to secure the support of the river people in his cam paign for re-election to the Senate while Congressman Dalzell's followers in Pitts burg look upon Senator Quay's move as an eflort to injure Mr. Dalzell in his own dis trict, and, by making him unpopular at home, hurt him politically in the State. Senator Quay's amendment to the rlrer and harbor bill provides that: Tho Secretary of War is hereby authorized to entor upon, tako oharge of and oporate, subject to tho provisions of an act approved 2, S, I and S, of tho Monongahela Navigation Company. Immediately upon taking? pos session of said locks and dams, tho Secre tary of War is authorized to instituto and carry to completion proceedings for the condemnation of said locks and dams and their appurtenances. The amendment provides the manner in which condemnation proceedings are to be conducted, and continues: Provided, that in estimating the sum to be paid by tho United States, tho iranohise ot said corporation to collect toll shall not be considered or estimated. George Shiras, Jr., attorney for the Monongahela Navigation Company, who is being urged by friends for the vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court, re fused to say yesterday whether or not in his judgment Senator Quay was prompted by political motives, but said: I do not know what motives prompted Senator Quay in introducing his bill yester day. 1 do know, however, that the Monon gahela Navigation Company is chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania. The State and the peoplo took tho stook of the com- Sany. Tno stook for ft time paid but little, ooently, however, it has paid handsomely. The looks and pools constructed by this company doveloped tlie coal trado of the Pittsburg district and it enabled the coal men to take from this district to the West ern markets thu coal that naturally he longed to tl e industries and enterprises of this section. Theso locks and pools not only enabled the ooal men to get their prod uct awav to a valuable market in the West and South, but It also enabled them to in crease the price of ooal to their home con sumers by keeping their stock low at home. When Congressman Stone, of Allegheny, recently introduced into Congress a bill similar to that of Senator Quay's the Bouse refused to consider it, for the reason, then thoroughly exDlalned, that the Supreme Court of the United States would soon pass upon a case exactly similar. The Monongahela Navigation Company recognizes the authority of the General Gov ernment to take their property on their own conditions, but the company claims that the Government should pay for the property taken in tho wayot locks and pools, but should also pay for the money making power of tho pioperty. The stock of the naviga tion company is held by rloh and poor peo ple alike. It is oonsidered good stock, and it would be injustice for the General Gov ernment to take that stock away without some recompense other than the market value of the locks and structui es. I really don't know what Senator Quay moans by his bill, especially in the face of tho action of tho House in refusing to con sider Just such a in eas mo until the United States Suprpme Court had passed upon tho question it raises. Attorney General Millor, after consulting with all parties concerned in such a dispute, has had the case now pending advanced on the calendar of the United States Supreme Court, and it will be considered likely in October, a year earlier than it would otherwise have been heard. ANN ELIZA SORROWFUL. The Second Bnsband or the Nineteenth Wlfo or Prophet Brlgham Causes Bis Spouse Trouble He Transfers His Prop erly and Disappears She Feels Better. Grand Rapids, May 3. Specfa?. Ann Eliza, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, a few years ago popular in the lec ture field, and now the wife ol M. B. Den ning, a wealthy Manistee lumber man nnd member of the last State Legislature.-is unhappy in her family relations. The exact nature and extent of the trouble does not appear, but last week Denning adver tised in the Manistee papers warning the local merchants not to give credit to his wife, as he would not be responsible for any debts of her contracting. A few days later he transferred his prop erty to George M. Burr, cashier of the Manistee National Bank, and then left town, declaring he would never return. Mrs. Denning had some property in her own name, the result of her ten years' labor in the lecture field, but otherwise without means of support, Mrs. Denning is a sweet-faced little woman of middle age, and in conversation and manner is bright, animated, earnest, and interesting. She is very reserved in speaking of her family troubles, but says that for nine years she has been laboring under a burden of shamo and sorrow which would have crushed her but for her abiding faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and right. The conduct of her husband for these years had been such that no self respecting woman could endure or countenance it, and when, last February, she returned from a visit in New York State, she refused to longer sustain the relations of wife to him. This angered him, and he offered her induce ments to leave him and Manistee, but she would not listen to these overtures. When he found her determined to remain here, he disposed of his property and departed for other regions. She adds she is greatly relieved by his absence and glad that he "is gone, so long as it seemed impossible lor him to live such a life as respectability required. EEIATIVJiS WILL BUBY HIM. A Son-ln-Law Claims the Remains of the Anarchist Ttho Suicided. The son-in-law of Joseph Spellmeyer, Lawrence Murphy, called at the morgue yesterday and made arrangements to get possession of the body of the suicide. He said Spellmeyer was crazy for the past ten years and that his family of wife and five children, who reside at Manor station,' re fused to live with him. At one time he had been confined imthe Westmoreland county insane ward of the almshouse, and when liberated from there had wandered away from home. He drank almost constantly and had been a great an noyance to the family. The latter, however, desire to give him a Christian burial and his remains will be moved to Manor to-day. Bavo Xou Noticed Them? If not make a noto of thlsi The "To Let Booms" nnd "Wanted Boarders" cent a word advertising columns of tho Daily and Sunday DESPATCH contain tho most de sirable honses at moderate rates and In the best locations. Captain Dnke Goes Insane. George A Duke, a steamboat captain, was removed from Mercy Hospital last night to Central police station. He had been confined in the hospital but a few days. Yesterday he became insane and un manageable. He is 32 years of age and lives In Homestead. His friends will be notified to-day to have him removed to an asylum for proper care. WnaverHHd Bis Share of Bard Luck. Boster Weaver, a 15-year-old boy, em ployed in Painter's West End mill, had his arm caught in the machinery in the mill yesterday and broken. This is the second time he has had his arm broken in the past year. Before, he fell out of a hayloft and broke both arms and fractured his skull. He lives next door to No. 8 patrol station in the West End, . . . THE BUSINESS WORLD. May Day In America Followed oy Many Strikes and Lockouts. REPORTS FROM BAST AND WEST. The Pennsj to Move Grain Trains Without Change of Engines. PIEES, FAILURES AND RAILWAY tfEWB The advent of May has witnessed many industrial disturbances throughout the country. That is the date on which the wage scales in many tradea are revised, and the consequent disagreements between em ployer and employed have resulted in a number of strikes. In most cases the length of the working day has been a greator bone of contention than the amount of wages; Press dispatches from Chicago say work on the Manufacturers' building at the World's Fair grounds was brought almost to a standstill Monday by 100 out of 12S ironworkers going on striko for 33 instead of 30 cents an hour. The trouble Is not yet adjusted and the men aro still out. The ironworkers on tho Administration build ing were more successful. They went out for the same demands, and returned to work within four hours, tho contractors granting the advance. In the same city there is a strong probability that the trouble between the master painters and journeymen will be shortly settled. So far 75 of the most prom inent firms have signed the agreement for an eight-hour day and a minimum price of 32)4 cents an hour, the compact to last until April 1, 1893. Upheavals In Now York and New England. Boston reports several strikes. More than half the journeymen plumbers who asked for $4 per day Monday have had their re quest granted, and it is expected tho others will be successful in a day or two. At a meeting of the Holler Manufacturers' Asso ciation it was voted to refuse the demands of the Boilermakers' Union for a nine-hour day, and it was further decided that should the men vote to striko the employers would combine and lock out every union man. On May Id the clothing pressmen of Bos ton, New York, Philadelphia, Chioago, Balti more and other large cities will demand an advance In the wasres and a reduction in their hours of labor from ten to nine hours per day. In New York the men will demand an advance of over 2 per cent. The Boston pressmen will ask for a 15 por cent increase, and in other cities tho advance demanded will range from 15 to 25 per cent. At Cleveland eight hundred members of the Coal Handlers' Union struck lor higher wages on the docks. They demand 11 cents per ton, an increase in some cases of 2 cents. There is no trouble, for the busy coal season has not bezuu. The strikers say thoy will not allow other men to take their places. Prom Several Western Points. All the lumber shovers on the Cbequame gon Bay, in Wisconsin, struck Monday for an advance of 10 cents per hour. They be gan last week at 40 cents per hour, but Mon day l ofusod to go to work unless the incseaso was allowed. After consultation among the lumbermen they decided to accede to the demand of tho men, and the men resumed work. At Saginaw, Mich., the Bricklayers' Union ordered a strike to-day. All the members quit work and building operations are at a standstill in the city. The men have been receiving $3 50a day and demand an advance of $L At Wilkesbarre, in this State, the unions connected with the American Pedeiation of Labor wert out on strike yesterday. Five hundred men are out, including carpenteis, biicklayers, stonemasons and plasterers. THROUGH GRAIN TRAINS. The Penusy Tries a Now Kxperiment In Lone; Distance Freight. Philadelpeia, May 3. The Pennsylvania llailroad Company has Just mado an experi mental movement of a through train of 40 cars loaded with grain from Chicago to the East without change of engine or break in the train, which is a novel departure. Under tho old plan grain has been hauled to tho East in freight cars attached to trains which carried other kinds of freight. Thisarrange ment involved a great delay in the yards at terminal points, tho frequent shifting of cais and an enormous amount of handling. In order to obviate these difficulties the Pennsylvania Company determined to Instituto a complete service cf thronjrh sraln trains. The first train of this character left Chi cazo Saturday morning at 10 o'clock and ar rived in this city this evenins. The train is composed of 40 cars, each londecl to its max imum, contalninc 60,000 pounds of corn. The weight of tho crain alono is nearly 1,200 tons, or nearly 50,000 bushels. The weight of tho entire train, including locomotive and caboose, is 4,000.000 pounds. No attempt at making fast time Is contemplated in this movement, but the fact that the train goes through solid without stopping, even for tho usual ohange of engines, saves a great many houis. Thu thrnnxh grain train is equipped with all tho modora appliances, including airbrakes. This is the first freight train movement of this kind ever inaugurated in this country. A SCHEME TO INJURE TBADE. One Lockport, New York, Coal Dealer Could Jiot Supply Bis Customers. Lockpobt, May 3. Special. One of tho greatest sensations of the day was the in dictment at Lockport to-day by the grand Jury of four prominent coal dealers charging them with conspiracy to injure trade and commerce nnd to prevent the exercise of trade and calling. Tho men are members of what is known as the Lockport Coal Ex change, President, Carson J. Sheldon: Vice Pi esident, Edward S. Brown; Charles J. Fer lin and Sheldon N. Cook. The complainant is another coal dealer, Edward B. Jelley. When the Lockport Ex change was formed Jelley refused to be come a member, and he soon found he could do no business, and his supply of coal was cut off. Ho offered the wholesale dealers cash for coal, but he was invariably lefused. Some told him tbey could not supply him because he was not a member of "the Ex change. Jelley charges the exchange and its members with conspiring to ruin his businoss. The gentlemen were arraigned and pleaded not guilty. HAVEMETEE WON'T TALK. Protests -of Wholesalers Is What Caused the Sugar Trnst Prosecution. New Yoiik, May 3. President Havemeyer, of the American Sugar Refining Company, had nothing to saj In answer to tho loport that United States District Attorney Ingham has commenced suit in the United States courts, at Philadelphia, to dissolve the trust. He claimed he had heard nothing of It. It is said tho action is tho resnlt of the protest of tho wholesale grocers or this city, who have appealed to the Federal authorities for rcliet, as they can make no profit in handling Bugar. A dispatch from Philadelphia says: Tho United States Circuit Conrt dirocted tho United States Maishal to serve summons on tho parties named in tho bill in equity auainst the sugar combination living out side the limit-, of tho Judicial Circuit. This action Is taken under anew law authorizing the court of one ciicuit to issue subpoenas and processes in the territory comprising other J urisdictions. The Ifetv Transatlantic Line. Philadelphia, May 3. A representative of the International Navigation Company said to-day that as soon as the bill permitting tho American registration of tho steamships City of Paris and City of New York should become a law, tho company would take steps to build the new vessels provided for by the bill. It is understood the contracts will be awarded as soon as possible, and that no ex pense will be spared in tho construction of tho new ships. BUSINESS BREVITIES. McKeespobt barbers aro organizing a pro tective association. The Stove rounders' National Defense Association-is in session in Chicago. The Cotton Oil Trust declared a dividend yesterday of 3 por cent on proferrcd stock. The Biscuit Trust has cut prices on 15 Im portant articles of the sweet goods class. Chops In Northern California look well. Farther south they are damaged by lack of rain. The British and American Debenture Company has been organized at Chicago with j6 1000,000 capital. Vmrrvsa of cotton has been delayed on aooount of Incessant rains in the hill lands and high water on the Mississippi. The Bristol Silver and Copper Mining Company at Bristol," Conn., made its first shipment of copper to New York yesterday. A Chicago rumor says the Westinghouse Company and the big foreign firm of Siemans & Halske have combined to op- Sose the Edison-Thomson-Houston deal, oorge Westinghouse, however, denies the report. Patent Comjiissioek Sntoitos, at Wash ington, issued a patent for the Edison tele phone, assigned to the Western Union Tele graph Company. The Bell telephone patent expires In May, 1893, and the patent issued will run for 17 years. jToreioh bankers who shipped large amounts of gold In the last two weeks do not expect any gold to go out this week, on ac count of an advance of 1 centime In ex change between London and Paris and a de ollne of cent In sight sterling lates In Now York. BAILWAY INTERESTS. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway, in Upper Michigan, is fighting the State tax law. The rato on sixth-class freight from Chica go to tho seaboard will be reduced to 20 cents per 100 pounds. The earnings of the Canadian Paciflo Hall way for the week ending April 30, were $433, 000; for the same period last year, $472,000; in crease $11,000. Thx estimated cross earnings of the Chica. go, Bock Island and r.-ciflc Railroad in April are $1,S3B,42I, an Increase over the same month last year of $63,606. The Atchison, during the past nine months, has earned $8,316,310 (net), un increase of $1,35(5,622. This does not include miscellaneous earnings, reckoned at $1,000, 000 a year. It Is reported at Jacksonville, Fla., that B. B. Plant, of New York, President of the Plant system of railways and Bteamshlps, ha purchased the Florida Central and Penin sular Railway for $7,500,000. Humobed in Denver that Mr. Cable, Presi dent of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa cific, will soon resign his office and be suc ceeded by President Trursdale, of the Min neapolis and St. Paul. This report is denied In Chicago. The Florida Southern Railroad, which has been in the hands of a receiver since March, 1S90, and was sold under mortgage fore closure in March, 1892, has been lormally transferred from the hands of the receiver into the hands or the purchasers. District Judoe Sloax, of Arizona, has de cided that the Tucson and Globe Narrow Gauge Railroad bonds were illezal, on the grounds that tho organic act creating the Territorial Government of Arizona pro hibits the Legislature from granting special privileges or franchises. Efforts are being mado to bring about a meeting ot tho general managers of the roads in the Chicago and Ohio River Traffic Association to put a stop to the demoraliza tion in passenger rates. It Is probable an early meeting will be arranged, nnd that it will result in a full restoration of rates, as well as the adoption of a new association agreement. THE FIRE RECORD. Norfolk, Va. McCulloch & Grandy's cot ton warehouse. Loss, $75,000: insurance, $50,000. Oshkosb, Wis. Pain & Co.'s sash and door storage house. Lo?s. $75,100, insured. Origin thought to be incendiary. Beaver avenue The alarm from box 25, Allegheny, at 6 o'clock last evening, was caused by a slight fire at A Holly's blaok smith shop, 103 Beavor avenue. 'Tne loss was $50. Hillshoro, Tex. An incendiary fire caused $50,0001099. The principal losers are O. L. Lyons & Son, Dr. N. B. Kennedy, Arse lirea vfs, J. A. Lawler and J. M. Walker. Insur ance small. Paris, Tenn. The hotel at the Louisville and Nashville depot, the depot itself, freight house, round house and water tank. A great deal of freight was consumed, as well as valuable records. Sandy Lake, Fa. Following are the losses by the fire Monday: L. P. Foster, barn, hay, praln. Implements, etc, $700, insurance. $200; J. L. Cross, barn and fixtures, $000, no insur ance; T. S. Bailey, barn nnd contents, $600, insurance, $200. The origin is a mystery. Pottsville Fire wa discovered In work ings of the York Farm colliery Monday night. The timberings of ono of the air ways caught file. The colliery Is troubled Kicatly with gas, and had the flio advanced toward the inner workings no doubt a terrible acci dent would havo resulted. Altera hard fight the fire was extinguished. BH0ET oIOBIES OF CITY LIFE. The Public Lighting Committee of Alle gheny was to meet last night, but failed to get a quorum. The one hundredth Carnegie organ recital will take place on the 7th Inst, at 2 r. m. at Music Hall, Allegheny. These was but one caso of diphtheria re ported at the Bureau of Health yesterday and two cases of scarlatina. Tc-KianT Colonel R. G. IngersoII will de liver his lecture on "Shakespeare." This is the genial Colonel's first appearance in Pitts burg for some years. The question of prosecuting tho persons engaged In fox-chasing was brought before the meeting of the Humane Society yester day but no action was taken. Jonrr Moras, a,workman in the Black Dia mond Woiks, had nis right leg broken yes terday by falling under the wheels ol an iron wagon. Dr. Clarke attended him. Jonn HAKiLTOif, employod in Wightman & Co.'s glass bouse, West End, had an artery in his arm cut yesterday by a piece of glass and lost a great deal of blood, but will re cover. A valuable horse belonging to Michael McCaull, of the West End Coal and Coke Works, ran the shaft of a wazon into Us side yesterday. Injuring it so badly that it had to be shot. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad will shortly begin the erection of a station in Coraopolis at Chestnut street to replace the one recently destroyed by fire ;at Montour Junction, and for the purpose of combin ing Montour and Coraopolis in one. The annual election of tho Southslde Gas Company resulted in George Trautman, Martin Malonoy, George W. Elklns, John S. Dickson, Jos. G. Walter. William H. Alldred, Remsen V. Messier, Robert B. Biown and Samuel T. Bodlno being chosen directors. A house attached to a wagon belonging to A. Gibson, of Western avenue, Allegheny, ran away in the West End yesterday after noon and broke the wagon and tore the har ness in pieces. Tho wagon was loaded with groceries, which were strewn over tho street. A school ontertalnment was given last evening, in tho new Turner Hall, Thirteenth street, by the Twenty-eighth ward school, about 1,000 persons being present. Tho pro gram consisted of sinking, recitations, vocal nnd inbtrumeutal music, drills and calis thenics. Friesds of W. J. Brenncn, of Mt. Wash ington, called on Superintendent of Police O'ilara last night and had him send a tele gram to SIarysville,0.,whero a young man by that name is lying with a crushed leg. Bren nen has been missing and it is thought -the injured man is the one being searched for. Two hundred plasterers belonging to the local union went on strike yesterday on ac count of the bosses requiring them to work ten mlnntes overtime each day to make up for the eight-hour day on Saturday. A com mittee from the plasterers' union will pioh ably confer with the bosses In a day or no. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report sszggm ABSOLUTELY PURE 9 A BUSTED SYNDICATE. Mr. O'Connor Has Yery Hard Luck in the Oklahoma Territory. " SURRENDERED TO A REVOLVER. Held a Claim for Fonr Hours, tut Decided He Didn't Want it. NEW YERSIOS OP THE HOMESTEAD EACH A Britisher with a consuming desire for a sight of his native heath and a handshake from a fellow countrymam, registered at the Hotel Anderson yesterday and wrote his name of "W. O'Connor and wile, Eng land" in an excessively aristocratio style. Mr. O'Connor has spent several months in America, and is sorry he did, if one is to judge from the objurgations ho piled upon Johnathan's head, beginning with the genus reporter and ending with a rather wide sweep of the entire race of Americans. Hr. O'Connor has been disappointed. He has been disappointed in America and Ameri cans. He expected to find cities populated with cowboys and the plains inundated with Indians. Somehow or other his ex pectations were not realized, and he is a disappointed man. There were other disappointments, too. The last of these was, as Mrs. Parting ton says, the most unkindest cut of all. It was experienced in the recent land rush In the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma. Mr. O'Connor had spent a few months preceding the opening of the land upon a ranch in 2Tew Mexico, and had heard of many persons securing valuable tracts of land gratuitously from the great and generous Government. Syndicates Didn't Go In Oklahoma. Desirous of being "in it," and with bright visions ot becoming a real estate dealer with vast tracts of land under his control, Mr. O'Connor wrote home, and by the aid of the great American mail system formed a syndicate with a moderate capital to indulge in the land craze. While rang ing in the AVest the Britisher paid but little attention to the laborious thought of legal questions and had an idea that the only thing necessary to locate a great claim was to be on hand at the proper time and Bettle. Accordingly he prepared an outfit and with a nicely painted wagon took his position in the line of landscekers. "I did not mix-with the people about me," said he, with a strong accent, as he re counted the tale last night, "as I did not think I needed information of any kind, and the people certainly were very much on the bum, as you Americans say. When the word was given I drove across the line that had been staked off and proceeded to locate a number ot claims. But something was the matter. The people became very abusive." Driven From Ills Homestead. "They assaulted me with uncouth and uncomplimentary epithets, and said I had no right to any claims at all, let alone a number of them. I found my self driven from one spot to an other and finally when I had become dis gusted with the entire system of freedom I lound myself the legal possessor ot a small strip of damp and soggy ground, about the poorest spot in the United States. I held it for just four hours. Everybody who failed to get a plot of ground tried to oust me Irom my possession, and at last I sur rendered it to a very enterprising West erner, 'with a true British sarcasm in his tones,' who carried two most dangerous looking revolvers. I went back to New Mexico nnd, insisting upon Mrs. O'Connor's hurrying, started back for home. I am going to England nnd I greatly iear America will never see me again," and with a patronizing glance the disappointed Mr. O'Connor hurried up to the hotel desk and ordered an inoffensive bellboy to carry a bottle of English "licquers" into his room. An Early Morning- Unrgiary. At an early hour yesterday morning the office of Thomas S. O'JTcil & Sons, Penn avenue, was broken into and the contents of the cash drawer of the safe, $150, was taken. The combination of the safe was knocked of and a slender iron bar inserted nnd forced through until the lock was broken, and by another bar the whole side was pushed out until the boles slipped from their keepers. Driven Out LIk" So Many Bats. The rain last night had a depressing effect on the comfort of that class of people who rest on board piles and street cor ners over night. Up until 9 o'clock there was not an arrest in either of the Penn ave nue wards. Half an hour after it began to rain there were a dozen men in the Twelfth and Seventeenth ward station houses charged with vagrancy. Itobert Llpdsay Is Favored Again. National Chairman Clarkson, of the Na tional Republican Committee, has named Eobert Lindsay, ex-Secretary of the State League of Republican Clubs, as First As sistant Sergeant at Arms ot the National Republican Convention, which meets in Minneapolis next month. This is one of the first of Chairman Clarkson's appoint ments. A SLUGGISH STREAM. It Gets Foal and Poisonous Unless It la Kept Constantly Flowing. At this season of the year people feel more or less weak, run down, weaned and de pressed. It has been commonly supposed that It is dne to impurities of the blood, an. that only by purifying the blood can goo health be secured. Is this true? Let us see The blood gets impure because it is slug gish. How does a stream get impure, with green scum ami poisons on the top? Simply because' It doesn't run. A running stream is not impure, but a stagnant or sluggish stream always is. ir, therefore, you would keep your blood pure, keep It moving, keep it throbbing. The moment it begins to be slngRish, It will begin to be impure, and voa will feel the effects in tirod, weak feelings, depressed emotions, and a thousand and ono troubles which always follow. Tho proper way to keep the blood stirrinz Is by the uso of a pure stimulant, in moderation. Stimulate it gently, and it will keep in con .stant, healthy motion, and good health will follow. There is but ono way in which this can be done, and that is by the use of the purest and best stimulant yon can nnd, preferably whiskey, and there is but one ab shlutoly pure, medicinal whiskey known to the world, and this is Daffy's Pare Malt. Scientists admit this, the doctors all confirm it. It is more renernlly used to-day than any other whiskey hich the world has ever seen, and it is popular only through its merit. Do not let any druircist or grocer-deceive you by saying they bavo some thing "Justus gooa," "something they can recommend," etc When any dealer says this he has an interested motlvo, which usually Is to sell you something cheap and inferior, on which he can make more money. Do not be so deceived. w !aaiiAi' iwfffcsvi B&kind I , I iifiiiirtHhfsf xtj&mft r :umimmmlHi.j.Mi n rmiw
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