f W M r. v'' ' i7wT Jr'T ' ' w -- ,- - v THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH SUNDAY,- JUNE 10,-- 3892. W9KSKr!SSS' LIFE 01 HOT DAY. Sunshine and Shadow Al ternately Lighten and Darken a Great City. JOYASD SOEBOW MINGLE. rieasnre-Seekers Picnic in Pictur esque Suburban Shades. HEAT CLAIMS SEVERAL "VICTIMS. rathen Find Death Lurking in the Cool Waters of the River. SniilEE TEATEL BEGINNING EAELT It is a strange record of contrasts, is the chronicling of yesterday's happenings. A record of smiles and tears, of jqts and sor rows, of holidays for pleasure and of holi days for weepine, a record that recites the causes for mirth and the causes for sadness, it tells of gaiety and it tells of death. It was a memorable day for all yesterday, and the local histories are supplied with another pace. Merriment reigns in this strange old Tale, and the daily touches of pathos but add gems of truth to the diadem. Nature was jovous yesterday and reveled in the strange caprices of the atmosphere as the clouds battled with the sunlight and shadowed the earth one moment and battled it in brightness the next And in jolly ac cord with the pleasures of the flowers, the trees and the birds were man and woman kind in and about the city. The parks, the streets and the lawns, the woods, the lakes and the retreats were decked with a sweltering, though laughing, throng, bevy or couple. The breeze was pleasant and just kind enough to make a hurried little rush now and then as some poor perspiring individual who was too ponderous to enjoy the warmth was upon the point of boning his head and embracing the gloom of suffocation. ricnic Al atlir for City Folks. There were picnics where the city man enjoyed the day in the woods by carrying water numerous hot, dusty furlongs and swinging hammocks and brushing off un kind mosquitoes and bluebottle flies, and engaging in countless other little diversions that go to make a man wish he had been born a little gazelle-eyed calf which would never be called upon to go picnicking and where the enchanting temale ruins her dainty tennis suit and her usually pacific temper by failing into brooklets and spilling skimmed milk into her lap and having some delirious small brother drip un ripe jelly into her golden tresses and all that sort of thing. Then there were boating parties where the gay, frivolous boys wore blisters on their hands, and yachting caps that gave the sun a chance to get in some fine tanning work upon their head. And tennis games when the boys became hr and dusty and the girls became dusty and hot. They came from all stations in life from the clerks who were enjoying the beginning of the half holiday season to the youths and maidens who don't have to wort and couldn't if they did. It would be hard to tell which predominated, as in the l&rksome summer months all tbronghts run in the self-same grooves and the mind of man runneth to charming females and shady nooks, and the mind of maidens to shady nooks and charming males. Knights of Fytblaa H. a Good Time. The Knights of Pythias from "Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio had a nice, large time at Beaver Falls in getting hot, shaking hands with each other and dis cussing maltese crosses, symbols and jolly gambols and other entertaining things. There were several thousand of these and theirs, and the day was pronounced worth remembering, at least until the stiffness of joints was forgotten. Five hundred odd, merry cavorting xouugsters from St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Sunday school put themselves ana tneir great ensuring cuaperons in a peck or so ot trouble down at Idlewild and ate the contents of many large hampers of picnic aainues. The railroads had a good time, too. That Is, the managers did, from a financial standpoint, a lor the actual trainmen it was different, for all of the trains were crowded. A crowd of politicians and others started lor Chicaco. Another crowd, not quite so large, started for Aliquippa to attend the Carleton Club picnic. Another series edged of! towards New 'Wilmington, where divers youthful beings ranted over valedict ories and salutatories, and orations and wonderful esays and all of that kind of business that goes to give a graduate a large eminence over their Jkuifortunate brethren and sisters who have not, or will graduate. Another little batch of humanity drifted down to Sbehola Glen where the Knights of the Golden Eagle ruralized. Some more to Grove Station to enjov the day with the Iron City -Council N'o. 171, Jr. O. TJ. A 3L of the South side. Girins the Little Ones Fresh Air. The fresh air work tinder the auspices of the Society for the Improvement of the Poor will be taken up to-morrow much earlier than usual, and the little children hail with delight the pleasant prospect of visiting the country. On Monday 40 chil dren will be sent to Oakmont, where the place of Mr J. B. D. Mead will be at their disposal for two weeks. These children then return and another set will take their place and turn, so alternating until Septem ber. The trains bore besides the excursionist aud picnicker many persons of prominence who are hastening Old Time a trifle by fleeing to the seashores and mountains ere the commencement day season is fairly over. The heat is a powerful factor and leisure bows its head and journeys. And tne snades : The river, whose yawning, insatiable gulf has cut off the life of 28 beings since the month of June came in with her smiles and her roses, beginning with a boy who was cramped while bathing, and ending with the painful tragedy of Friday, when Hie merry little ones were carried anay to Charybdis' boat in one brief mo ment, yesterday gave up another victim. A bodv, that ot one of the children who were doomed near Neville Island, was re covered aud removed to the home of the gneing parents. A Victim of Snmmrr Bathing. Yesterday afternoon Edward Hitler, 12 years old, was drowned in the Allegheny river at the loot ot Seventeenth street The boy was 111 bathing with a cumber of com panions, and getting beond his depth was drowned before assistance could reach him. The body was recoiered a short time later End taken to the home of his parents, at 1339 Penn avenue. Not alone did death claim its victims by the water, for in the dense, clo'se spots lives went out from the very intensity of the Bun's rirs- Andrew Benedict, a steel worker Braddock, died from the effects of EunstrokA Stephen Schurin, a workman at Byers' Jpills, snocumbed to the eflect of the heat aK his home on McKean street The Coronenwas notified lat nihtofthe death of Fred Grant, a man in the employ of V. J. Brown at Mansfield. He went to a shed on the place to draw a can of oil from a gasoline tank and some time later was found dead on the floor. suffocated by Heat and Gas. It is presumed he became suffocated together with the heat and the fumes of the oil. He was 30 years of age, a single man and lived with his family at Mansfield. The prostrations of the day were: Peter Phillips, an employe at Totteu's milk over come by the heat and removed to the "West Penn Hospital, where he is reported as re covering; an unknown laborer, stricken down at Torrens station on the Pennsyl vania Railroad and broucht to the "West Penn Hospital, with but little chance for re covery; Torreuce Lamb, overcome on Sedg wick street, Allegheny and removed to his home on "Warner street; a man named Thompon, prostrated on Madison avenue, Allegheny, and taken to his home on Hem lock street; a colored men named Schwartz, employed at McGraw's brick yard in the Sixteenth ward, was overcome by the heat yesterday afternoon, but got medical at tention in time to prevent any serious out come. NEW JERSEY FOR GROVER Bat the Delegation T 111 Tote for Gorman on the Second Ballot Not Confident ot Cleveland's Sncoess Considerable Talk of Park Horses. The New Jersey delegation to Chicago travels in style. The Jerseyites were on the limited last evening, and there was the constant rattle of chips and the clink of seltzer glasses in the smoking car. A Jerseyman never drinks anything stronger than water, even if the State is noted for its apple jack. In the party were Senators Johnson Cornish, "W. J. Thompson, George H. Barker and T. J. Prickett, all delegates, J. M. Pitcock, Millard F. Koss, Judge H. "V. Paul, of Camden; Senator Maloney and Joseph Yeates. Senator Barrett, a Michi gan delegate, United States Senator Ran. som, of North Carolina, and Delegate Richardson, of Mississippi, were also on the train. Governor Abbett will pass through the city some time to-day. The Tammany Hall braves and the King's county shouters'for Hill reached Pittsburg about 3 o'clock this morning. Thev numbered about 4.000, and occupied 11 sections. The New Jersey fellows will vote for Cleveland, but if he is not nominated on the first ballot they will break for Gorman. Some of them thought that Cleveland occu pies the same position that Blaine did at Minneapolis, aud they expect him to be de feated. The Jerser men declared they would never support Hill. Thev accuse him of knifing Cleveland in New York in 1838. The general opinion was that if an Eastern man is nominated that the "Vice Pres'dency will go to Gray or Boies. Shou'd Boies by chance anchor in first place, then Russell, of Massachusetts, would be his running mate. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, and Richardson, of Mississippi, were outspoken apainst Cleveland, ana will vote lor Hill. The Senator said he admirrd Hill's democ racy, and Richardson believes Grover can't carry New York. The Democratic party is badly cut up in North Carolina by the Farmers' Alliance. The Senator is not alarmed like some Democrats and he ha? no fears that the solid South will be broken up this year. There are some sanguine Repub licans who think the Democrats will lose the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama next November. Senator Barrett, of Michigan, is a Cleveland man, and feels sure Grover will be nominated on the first ballot "W. J. Brennan started for Chicago also on the limited. He couldn't overcome his penchant to be mysterious, and he said he didn't known who he wonld vote for. Un der the unit rnle, tne Pennsylvania delega tion will cast its ballot as Harrity dic tates. TOOK AS OUNCE OF LA.UDAHTH. A Sharpuburg Man Arrested for Drunken- near, but "Win Dying From Tolnon. At Sharpsburg last evening Officer "Wal lace found George Setenbach .tying on the sidewalk at the corner of Sixth and Main street, apparently drunk. There are no patrol wagons in Sharpsburg, and, as the man could not be aroused, the officer pro cured a wheelbarrow and conveyed him to the lockup. An hour later it was learned that Setenbach's condition was the result of his having taken an ounce of laudanum with suicidal intent A physician was at once set to work to counteract the effects of the drug, but at a late hour last night stated that the patient could not recover. Setenbach is a laborer, 39 years of age, and, i is said, was jealous of an Italian on Eighth street A little more than a month ago Setenbach went up to the Italian's house, broke up the furniture and raised such a commotion that he was arrested and sent 30 days to the workhouse for disorderly conduct It is believed that his attempt on his life was caused by his wife's actions. GOT HIS MONEY BACK. An Old Soldier Withdraws Charge or lar ceny Aealnst Three Men. John, alias "Boots" itfcLaughlin, Kirk Powers and John Crane were given a hear ing before Alderman McKenna yesterday afternoon on a charge of larceny. They had inveigled an old soldier, John Rupp, to bet (45 on a sure thing that of being able to buy a carload ot potatoes for a certain am'ount Rupp put up the money with one of the defendants, when all three of them ran away. He complained to the police, who arrested them and toik them before Alderman McKenna for a hearing. The men explained they were only prac ticing a joke on the old man, and the latter relented and withdrew the suit on getting back his money. Willie Mortimer Wants His Parents. "Willie Mortimer, a fi-year-old boy, is at the Seventeenth ward station awaiting a claimant Yesterday afternoon "Willie jumped on the rear step of an ice wagon to steal a ride, and, being tired, fell asleep. All went well until the driver turned a corner, when the boy rolled off the step. Took a Ihonsand and Skipped. Mrs. Nunamaker, formerly of Pittsburg, and now of St Louis, wrote to the police there yesterday asking them to arrest her husband for the larceny of $1,000. She said he had relatives here and had deserted and robbed her two weeks ago. 8T0BTZS OF CIIY LIFE BRIEFLY TOLD. Nonew cases of smallpox were reported yesterday, and no fatalities are expected among those who are sick. Escarpment No. 1, Union Veteran Legion, will attend the funeral of their late com rade, Anton Wolf, this afternoon. Alderxax James McPike and his wife celebrated last night the twenty-filth anni versary of their wedding at their home, 4118 Penn avenue. A iCEETixo of the Public Works Commit tee is called for next Tuesday afternoon to clear up business before the summer ad journment of Councils. Two other calls fulled to secure a quorum. Paor. T. C. IIlaisdili, A M., will lecture in Bingham Street M. E. Church to-morrow evening before the Epworth Ictguc,hig sub ject beimr "Whatlbaw at Epnorth." 3o admission fee will be charged. On and after Monday next dog licenses will be issued only at Xo. 1 police station, for the reason that so few are taken out that it does not pay to keep a man at each station house to attend to applicants. While Ernest Bitner, Thomas Bollltyand Jacob Rorrlson -n ent out on the Allegheny in a skiff on Friday evening. The two latter for a Joke threw the former into the river. When they saw lie was likely to drown thev rescued him. Matob Kexkedt, of Allegheny, says that a proposition will be submitted to a vote of the taxpayers to issne $300,000 in bonds for street improvements, and that the Interest thereon wonld not bo such a bnrden as the e?cn'l(-nre p rm1r t fe-T .rt. WHEALS AND LAMPS. A Gorgeous Night Parade of Bicycle Eiders in the East End. UNIQUE AND TAKING SPECTACLE Lone Lines of Men and Women on Wheels Cheered by the Populace. THE WORK OF THE PITTSBURG CTCLERS "With their way lighted by the glare of countless rockets and rotnau candles more than a thousand bicyclists mounted on wheels of all sorts and conditions glided through the quiet streets of the aristocratic East End last night amid the cheers of moist, but delighted populace. The managers of the affair claimed that it was the largest and most successful noc turnal parade of cyclists that the town had ever witnessed, and it is but fair to state the managerial gentlemen did not exaggerate. Pittsburg has never before been treated to such a gorgeous spectacle. It was a veritable torchlight procession on wheels, and even the most cynical spectator, ac knowledged that it was worth a day's journey to see. In front of every wheel gleamed a red lamp while from each cross bar hung multi-colored lanterns; the slender wheels were decked with gay flags and bunting. As these beautifully decorated machines made their way over the smooth asphalt, a body guard of men and boys burned colored A. Touch of Florid Decoration. fire and set off rockets. A large and hard working brass band with the aid of the cheering crowd contributed a mighty volume of harmonious sounds, while a group of energetic police men kept the way clear for the advancing column. These were the component parts of the unique spectacle which the East End gazed at in amazement An ETer-Chtnglnt; Picture of Light. It was an ever-changing picture of light, color and action from the moment the pro- cession left the intersection of Ellsworth and Center avenues, where the line formed, until the weary wheelmen dismounted some two hours later. At the start the cyclists moved six abreast, but when the line turned into Fifth avenue from Morewood street the cyclers by a pretty and cleverly executed movement formed in single column and maintained this order Searing a Lamp on Either Sand. to the finish. As the line glided down the avenue it looked like a narrow path of ever changing, undulating and never ending light iirst came tne ifourteentn Regi ment Band seated in a flag-decked chariot drawn by four plumed and prancing horses. In the rear ot the musicians was a tall, slim man in black knickerbockers and a white sweater. He was mounted on a light racing wheel, and his breast was fairly covered with silken badges and gold medals. This lonely rider was C H. Fetticord, of the East End Gyms, and the "Captain of the run." Behind Fetticord was the grand marshal of the night, Mr. J. F. Culberson, surrounded, bv his aids, Messrs. E. E. Kehew, C F. Close, Ira Smith, John F. Beady, F. S. Cnrmack and W. H. Lafferty. Following the marshal and his aides was a magnificent "Worth tandem, elaborately adorned with flags, lanterns and shaded bv a huge Japanese umbrella. The riders, Miss Annie Lewis and V. H. Laflerty, managed the machine very cleverly, and received any amount of 'applause from the spec tators. The East End Gyms in Line. Just behind the tandem came the East End Gyms. This crack club turned out 60 men under the command of Lieut E. E. Ke hew. Then came some 900 cyclists each wear ing on his or her breast a badge of scarlet satin on which was graven in golden letters this inscription: Pittsburg Cycle Com pany's Lantern Parade, June 18, 1892, Souvenir." The parade formed at the East Bud recep tion rooms of the Pittsburg Cycle Company, corner Ellsworth and Center avenues, which, bv the wav, was formally opened to the cycling pubfio last night The bugle call to "mount" was sounded at 8:30 T. M. and a moment later the parade started over the following route: Center, to Morewood, to Fifth, to Bulket, to Forbes, to Oakland, to Amber son, to Fo , Frvi'h Xe Rn-M, j to Hiland, to'Stanton, to South Negley, to JMum, to uenter to jsuswortn, wnere it dis missed. Directly after the parade the wheelmen and their friends were treated to a "mid night lunch" by the Pittsburg Cycle Com pany, under whose auspices the parade was given. Mr. Harry D. Squires managed their part of the programme. A number of residences fronting on the route of the parade were illuminated. During the parade Duffy Adams, aged '8' years, fell from his bicycle on Negley ave nue. His right foot was caught between the spokes ot the wheel, and in falling the ankle bone was broken. He was removed to his home on Broad street Charles Mc Cook fell from his wheel on South High land and was slightly injured. BOUND TO GO TO COURT. Controller Morrow on the mayor's Ap- . provnl or Contracts Special Council Meeting Probable City Officials Again Invited to Tl.lt the Neeld Farm. It is more than probable that a special meeting of Councils will be held next week. The next regular meeting is the last one prior to the summer vacation, but Chief Bigeloir has a large number of contracts and ordinances upon which Councils must take final action to enable him tp proceed with the summer improvements, and it will require two session to pass them through both branches. Then Chief Elliot wants action taken on his ordinance for the Surchase of the Neeld farm, and Chief rown wants a start made with his under ground wire ordinance. All these points considered, it is safe to predict an extra session of the city legislature. The Charities Committee will pay another visit to the Neeld farm on Wednesday. They have extended an invitation to the Mayor, Controller, Councils and all citizens interested in the subject to accompany tnem in an Inspection ot the place. The party will eo down on a train leaving Union station at 9:35 Wednesday morning. A meeting of the Finance Committee is billed to take place early in the present week, when the communication sent to Councils by the Controller in reference to the Mayor's right to approve all city con tracts will come up tor consideration, as well as the proposed tax on street railways. It is generally understood that City Attorney Moreland will present to the committee an opinion conflicting with that of the Controller on the contract (Ques tion and holding that the approval of councils is all that is required. The Con troller will ndt be satisfied with that, how over, but said yesterday that unless"" his point was conceded he would carry the matter to the Supreme Court "It is a question which should be decided definitely, clearly aud at once," said he yes terday. "If the finance Committee accepts as final what I understand to be the city at torney's opinion, I will take immediate steps to test the point in court. I am satis fied the Mayor is legally required to ap prove all contracts. It has been fortunate tor the city's improvements that all the .contracts heretofore let have met with his approval, though not pre sented for it Had he chosen to act prc emptorily he' could have checked any con tract from going into effect until this ques tion is decided. I hope that an amicable arrangement can be made for taking a couple of contracts to court for a decision, but if it can't be done amicably it must be otherwise, for to court it's bound to go." LIVELY SCBAF OK SECOND AVENUE A Woman Attempts to Rescue Her Son From the roller. A lively street fight occurred last night at the corner of Second avenue and Grant street. Patrick Beagan and Joseph Little differed upon some question and got into a row. They had hardly begun their blows when separated by Inspector McKelvy and and Detective Demmek A large crowd had collected by this time and after the officers turned t the j prisoners Over to policemen Murphy and Sullivan to send them to the station, the Inspector and detective left the scene. Bridget Beagan, mother of one of the prisoners, attempted to rescue her son, aided by Steven Welsh. The crowd cheered them on and a mob of some 200 pcniile collected about the patrol hor. Officer Sullivan was kicked and knocked down and his shirt was nearly torn ofC The Inspector and detective rushed tack to the place and were reinforced by Lieuten ant Wagzoner and Officer Conner and soon quelled the disturbance, but the four prime movers in it were sent to the Central Station. During the melee a stranger who was helping the police was robDedofa pocketbook and ?6 CAN'T GET ENOUGH WATEE. Elevators TTse Too Much and the Domestic Supply Is Cnt Short. For some time past there has been a num ber of complaints from residents of Alpine avenue and Carroll street, Allegheny, on acconnt of a scarcity of water along those thoroughfares. Several citizens have appealed to Chief Ehlcrs, and he informed them that if they were willing lo take the chances of pipes bursting he would try to give them connection from the hill main to their streets. Tnis proposition was favorably ac cepted by the citizens but it cannot be put into force immediately as the expense of making the connections will be probably $500. Henry Lowe, ot the Water Committee, accounted for the scarcity of water on the ground that there -n as too large a drain on the main supplying Alpine avenue and Carroll street, by reason of the number of elevators and other machinery worked by hvdraulic pressure. The complaints will be discussed at the next meeting of the Allegheny "Water Com mittee, to be held some time during the present week. THBZE M0BE BODIES FOUND. ' Success of the Searchers for Victims of the Neville Island Disaster. The search for the bodies of the three Fittoek children and Ada Bichardson, who were drowned at Neville Island Friday, was kept up yesterday. The searchers succeeded in recovering the remains of Bufol Fittoek, aged 9 years. Soon after the body of Edna Richardson was found. She was the little girl from McKee's Bocks that had been visiting on the island. Yesterday afternoon thev succeeded in bringing np the'bodv of Ada Pittock, aged 14. This is the third of the Fittoek chil dren recovered, and the body of Mnegie Pit tock, aged 12 vears, is still in the river. The bodies are laid out at the Fittoek home. The parents are still prostrated, and it is doubtfnl as to whether Mrs. Fittoek will re cover. He Broke the Bogey "d They Broke Him. AndrewFinches, a United States Army recruit, entered against Samuel Street and Charles Devlin last night for assault and battery. He alleges that before going to Columbus barracks he hired a horse and buggy from the defendants to take' a drive, and while out the vehicle was broken. He claims he offered to pay the damage but. the two men jumped on him and beat him shamefully. The hearing will be before Alderman King of the Sonthside on Mon day. Baseball for Flood sufferers. To-morrow afternoon the yonnger mem bers of the Concordia Club will play a game of ball at Exposition Park with the Young Men's Hebrew Association. The Concordia battery will be Floersbeim and Kleeand the Y. M. H. A. battery Hollinder and Kaufman. The proceeds are for the flood sufferers. Dr. B.' M. Ha ha. eye, hrnat diseases exclusively. ttro. 1. f'l'Mbnrjj I'a ear, nose and Office, 720 Penn ABATING THE SMOKE. The Chamber of Commerce Confer ring With City Officials. NEED FOE IMMEDIATE ACTION. Magnificent Buildings Peing Earned by Black Clouds. IRON MEN ARE HOT WH0LLT TO BLAME ' Colonel T. P. Roberts, of the Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee, to which was recently referred the task of reporting on ways aud means for the prevention, con sumption or suppression of smoke, called on Chief Bigelow yesterday for a short con ference on that grimy subject Mr. Boberts said the committee had pre pared a report, with numeruos suggestions and recommendations, but they wished to have an understanding with the city officials so thai they will be able to state intelligently what the city can and wiil do in the matter. As the next meeting of the chamber will be the last be fore the summer vacation. Colonel Boberts desires to have the report submitted at that time so ' that no time will be lost Chief Bigelow was not in position to state what could be done by the city but promised to give the matter earnest consideration at once that the report may go in as Colonel Boberts desires. After the conference the latter said some very interesting things in connection with the smoke nuisance. Urgent Need for Immediate Action. "There is urgent necessity for immediate action by the authorities of this city to abate the smoke nuisance," -said Colonel Boberts. "It is mining many of the hand some buildings that natural gas caused to be erected here, and is doing thousands of dollars of damage in the stores, offices and dwellings. I refer particularly to the busi ness portion of the city, where the smoke is the greatest nuisance and where it does the most damage. "Our committee has gathered some facts from St Louis and Chicago which show the entire feasibility and economy of smoke pre vention. At St Louis the business part of the city has been wonderfully benefited- by the regulations enforced. The coal they use there is a very dirty kind, and1 before the smoke preventive s were used there was a continual falling of soot and grime as we have here. "We know the movement is practicable from the results attained there. Soon Be Sinking Iron Without Smoke. "It is not our intention to ask for inter ference with the manufacturers' interests in this matter. "William MetcalPs statement that iron cannot be made without smoke when coal is used will be respected until we find that iron can be made n ithout smoke and with economy. I think it only a ques tion of a short time until this will be ac complished, but the smoke from the iron works, situated, as they generally are, In the outlying districts, is not the cause of the most trouble. It is the bake shops, candy factories, coffee roasters and varions other establishments in the business section thatshouid first be compelled to protectthem selves and their neighbors by the adoption of smoke-preventing devices. -T know of an office building on one or the best corners in the oity that would be the best building of the kind in the city were it not for the smoke that pours into the windows from two candy factories and a coffee roaster nearby, no matter which way the wind blows. Occupants of the building lose money as well as sutler great annovanee.but can get no redress, simplr because their neighbors are not compelled to do what is right and what they should do. . Perhaps the Gas 11 111 Not flay Oat. . "Speaking of natural gas," continued the Colonel, Vownces of some .of 'our new build ings will be confronted n ith as serious con dition when tfrey are compelled to return to coal, i It was thought for a few years that the gas suriplv was unlimited, would last for all time, and some of our architects, act ing on that principle, built houses with chimneys calculated only 'for gas. The smoke tume unronsumed parts ot a natural gas fire, will pass eutirely through a verv small aperture, but w'ith coal it is different. Coal smoke is bulky, re quires a much stronger draft and larger circulating space than gas, and in some of the firte, large buildings 'erected within the past three or "four yenrs the expense for altering them for coal will be great and en tail great inconvenience, irhere it can be done at alL Persons building now should bear this in mind. It will cost little more, if any, to be on the safe side." USED AN OIL CAN. Ella Morrow Darned to Death While Try. Inc to Light the Kitchen Fire. Ella Morrow, the 13-year-bld daughter of Stewart Morrow, a painter, who resides at 62 Ann street, Allegheny, was burned to death yesterday afternoon at her home. Her mother was severely burned, but will recover. Shortly after 4 o'clock the girl went to the kitchen to start a fire to prepare supper. In the stove was 'considerable wood, and from all indications there were no sparks. To facilitate the matter she secured a can containing two gallons of oil and returned to the stove, when she began to pour the oil on. An explosion immedi ately occurred, as there were under?" the wood a few live coals and" the fire communicated to the can. The oil, thrown over her, soon ignited, and her dress caught fire. The child screamed aud ran to the street in front of her home. Her mother who was in the yard followed her, and tried to smother the fire. This seemed futile and in a few moments all of the clothing was burned from the child's body, and even her shoes were almost burned off. She was taken to the Allegheny General Hospital where, despite every attention, she died shortly after. Her mother was taken to the same hospital.. Her face and arms were severely burned. The Coroner was notified. Thrown In Front of an Elrctrlc Car. Patrick Lyon and 'Patrick McDonough got into an altercation at the foot of the Castle Shannon Railroad, and in the melee McDpnough was knocked in front of a Birmingham electric car and seriously in jured about the body. He was removed to his home on Brownsville avenue and' Lyon was locked up in the Mr. "Washington po lice station to await the result of McDon ough's injuries. Iiownnsteen-Hahn Noptlnls. Ernest Lowensteen, night nurse at th Southside Hospital, will be united in wed lock to-day to Miss Maggie Hahn, of Wur tenburg, Germany. The ceremony will take place in the house of a friend, Mr. W. Kosenthal, of 1110 Frederick street. South side, after which the happy couple will make their residence on Brownsville ave nue. A Political Fight Ends In Blood. Thomas Burke and "Fatty" Beddon got into a war of words over political matters in a saloon and then they adjourned to the river hank and fought it out. On the way back' another fight ensued, in which Beddon was cut in the hand and stabbed in the thigh. Officer Edward Carney arrested both the men. Beddon was afterward dis charged. Looking for a Iot Child. The' 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Cora "Wallace, of No. 109. "Wylie avenue, mys teriously disappeared from the home of her mother about 2 o'oloek yesterday afternoon, has not yet been found, The poltoe are CRUSHED BY CABLE CARS. A Little Boy Ran Down on Penn Avense and Almost Instant'y Killed While An other Ha His Knee Fractured Other Accidents of tne Day. John Kosiba, a 4-year-old Polish boy, was killed by an East End cable car on Penn avenue, near Twenty-eighth street, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The little fel low attempted to cross the street directly in front of the car when he was run down and almost ground to pieces. There was a very large crowd collected on the corner of Twenty-eighth street at the' time, and there was considerable excitement One Pole, who was about half drunk, ran out in front of the car, and yelled excitedly, "Now kill me." The gripman of the car, J. C. Gardner, was not arrested. The other accidents yesterday are ap pended. Fox Mrs. James For, of Thirty-eighth street, while applvingamatchtothekltchen stove yesterday, the gas exploded, and she was badly burned about the face aud arms. She will recover. Hiltt While Mr. George Ellberts, of the East End. was driving a pony along Larimer avenue last Thursilay the animal took fright and two children were run over. One by the name of Ililty -was badly hurt, while the other escaped with slight injuries. Galvik Eugene Galvin, son of Galvin, the ball player, who fell into a vat of boiling salt water on Friday, died at an early hour this morning. Faus AJioy named Faus. whose parents reside on Fortv-second street, while steal ing a rido on a Butler street cable car yes terday afternoon, fell from the car and fractured his skull. The lad was removed to his home and medical aid summoned. Ostroskt John Ostroskv. a Pole. M vears old. wns very badly, if not latallv, burned at the Pittsburg Steel Casting Works, Twenty flfth and Smallman streets, yesterday after noon, while dropping the bottom out of a cupola when a lot of molten metal leli on him. Snoles John Snoles, a Russian Pole, died at the West Penn Hospital yesterday morn ing at 7 o'clock. He was taken there on tho 9th inst., suffering from burns about his leg9 and body produced by a lot of hot iron falling on him at the Lockhart Steel and Iron Works at McKee's Bocks. Edwards B. O. Edwards, employed in Jones & Laughlln's mill, had bis foot crushed yesterday afternoon by a piece of iron falling on it MUST PE0VE HIS BIOBT. Captain Dennlston Discovers a Mao Hid ing In the Bear of a Jewelry Store. Some drunken individual kicked in the door of a little office in Scrip alley last night The office was in the rear ot Shaf fer's jewelry store at the corner of Fifth avenue and Scrip alley, and is separated from it only by a wooden partition. Captain Denniston was bracing np the broken door about 11 o'clock last night when he noticed a man sneak into the place and look around. The fellow got down be hind a desk and then Captain Denniston arrested him as a suspicious character. The man said his name was Michael O'Day and that he worked in the office. Be was locked up until his story can be investigated. GILLELAHD MAT FULL THROUGH. His Fhyslclan Still Hopes for the Allegheny Postmaster's Recovery. Postmaster Gilleland, of Allegheny, was in a critical condition last night, but it was expected that he would live through the night, and hopes were expressed by Dr. Gilliford that a turn for the better would occur this morning. Found Marching In the Streets. Special Officer James Olenn picked up a young woman at the corner of Sixth ave nue and Smithfield street yesterday after noon, and sent her to Central station, she being evidently demented. .Dr. Moyer ex amined her and found her to be so, and ordered her taken to Mercy Hospital for attention, but the hospital at present is overcrowded, and she was returned to the station, where she was placed in the care of the matron. She gave her age as 26 years, her name as Annie Brown "West, and her' home as "West Newton. Her case will be investigated at that place. rot a Ballet Into His Head. John Miller, a switchman employed at the Pennsylvania yards, and who lives at Fifty-third street, sent a bullet into head Friday afternoon with suicidal tempt, and is not expected to recover. 366 his at- ADDRKSA Delivered by Mlsi Hellle Sheridan. JUKI 10, AT BU8IKXS3 KEIt'S JCBILEE, OBrHIUS HALL, E. X. MUSIC. In the words of ancient Orpheus: "Muslo has charms to soothe the savage To burst a rock and split a cabbage.'' Speaking of music, who does not Involun tarily think of the bouse of H. Kleber & Bro.T Some 50 years ago Mr. Henry Eleber founded the present firm, and at the same time taught the piano and singing to the then fashionable young ladies of Pittsburg many of whom are now grandmothers and whose children and grandchildren bear a grateful lemembrnnce of the man who taught them all they know of music As a natural consequence they prefer to buy their pianos and organs at Kleber & Bro.'s, In whose judgment and honesty they place implicit confidence, and they wonld just as leave think of having their teeth fixed by a blacksmith instead of a dentist than to go to any otlier house for their music. The Messrs. Kleber are the exclusive agents for tho glori ous Stein way pianos,the magnificent Conover 'pianos and the popular Opera pianos, also ror the wonderful Vocalion church organs, trhich at $S5() give you more and better music than any $3,000 old style pipe organ and, again, forthenewly Invented piano-organ, which combines the advantages or the piano and the organ all in one instrument and at the small cost of $150. Here also you can buy the choicest guitars, mandolins, banjos, and the best brass band instruments, as well as the latest and best sheet music, in short, everything muolcal from a five cent Jews harp to a $2,000 piano or organ. The only-thing you cannot get at Kleber's is a Chinese fiddle or music for the heathen Chinee. But it is con fidently asserted that if Kleber's music were Introdnced'into heathen China the arduous labor of ourpoormissionaries would thereby be immensely lightened and rendered har monious. Great Bargain In an Upright Flano. A very fine upright piano, ebonized case, fine tone and good action; nsed only a shore time by party who leaves on Mnnduy for Washington Territory. The piano I left with ns for Bale; price, $225; worth $350. i'or particular call at Hxxricks Music Co., Limited, 101 and 103 Fifth avenne. T CHICAGO AND RETURN 87, Via r.L.r,R. K., Cleveland and Lake Shore Railroad, on June 17, 18. 19, 20. Great Anctlon Sale or Flno Bnildlng Lots At Craiton. Tuesday and Wedncday. Easy payments, as you like them. Free K: It. tickets hihI Information at Edmundson A Perrlne's Furnitmennd Carpet Stores, G35 and 637 Smithfield street. Sailer's Dissolution Sale I Men's all-wool suits, regnlarly worth $1. $15 and $16. going for) 75 this week, at Sai ler's, corner Smithfield and Diamond streets. JIornuuxQ millinery our specialty. Lowest S rices, promptest uoik at O'Reilly's, 407 arket street., Special reductions this week. Silk Waist.! Silk VFnlsLt A grand assortment of newest xtyles with labots ut $2 85, $3 95, $ 95 and $5 75 Ht Bosen bauni It C'o.'s. Bnoras kills roaches, bodbugs and all in, sects instanter. 25 cents. Italia Awhihos, perfectly fast colors, at Mamanx A Son's, 8J9 Fenn avenue. wan Fuora rednred one-half en ladies' hate at O'I.ti. -. , IT "11 b"t. HUNTING FOR HEIRS, A Pittsbnrg Man in the Shadow of a Million Dollars. THE SPEINGER ESTATE REVIVED. Titles to Xearlr All the Property in Wil-, mington Clouded. ON'E HUNDRED TEAR LEiSES EXPIEE Vigorous search is being made over "West ern Pennsylvania. Ohio and Indiana for the heirs lo the Springer estate in "Wilmington, Del, valued at over 5100,000,000. The estate was famous in legal circles 15 or 20 years ago. In 1870 the land at "Wilmington, Del., was valued at f 80.000.000. The matter was stirred up. then but for some reason it was dropped. The basis of this immense fortune was laid a century and a half ago by a bachelor named Springer, who came to this country from Sweden. He had some money and bought immense tracts of land on the present site of Wilmington, Delaware. He afterward leased this ground to a land improvement company for a term of 100 years. At the end of that time the land and buildings were to revert to his family and their heirs. Soon after that he leased 600 acres adjoining the city on the same conditions, and all of it is now covered by the city of "Wilmington. Uuntlnc Heirs for Millions. These leases have expired, and a search is being made for the heirs. An item to this effect was published several weeks ago in The Dispatch, and yesterday it was learned that S. E. Pearson, a foreman for the Keystone Bridge Company was one of the heirs. Mr. Pearson was visited at his home at Turtle Creek, and declared he was one of the heirs, but he had lost track of the estate. He remembered of hearing his mother speak of it 15 years ago, when he was a boy. His mother died soon after, and he did not know what had become of the estate. He will employ an attorney to look up his claim. He said: "Springer, the old bachelor who founded the estate, was accompanied to this country by several brothers, from one of which my mother descended. The grandchild of one of the original family went out to Indiana and settled in Crawford county in that State. My mother, Hannah Springer, was born there and afterward married Clayhourn Austin Pearson, my father, and settled in Hazelton, Gibson county, Indiana. ""When I was a very little boy I remem ber of hearing my mother talk of the estate. In 1870 she was corresponding with an at torney named Springer in St Louis, who was pushing the case. Worth 880,000,000 Twenty Tears Aro. "He declared then that the estate was worth $80,000,000 and that there was a large sum of money in a bank in Stock holm, Sweden, on which interest has been compounding for over a century. The lawvertold my mother then that her share of the estate would amount to $416,000. I suppose now it is worth in the neighbor hood of $1,000,000. It was stated then that the leases which had been given for 100 years had run out 40 years ago. "boon alter that my mother died, and I being too small then to understand the case, lost sight of it until'I heard there was a search for heirs. There are eight in our family and two have since died, but leave families who will get their share. I pro pose to go to work on the case and if there is any of the estate coming to me I am go ing to try to get it There is no doubt about the tact that the estate is there, and I will have no trouble proving that I am one ot the heirs. I have an idea that Congress man Springer, of Illinois, is one ot the heirs." . X hat n Crowd t The popularity of the Cash Store la pho- nomenal. If we bad advertised gold dollars lor 50c the crowd could not have been larger than the past week. The great rush was tor tho black heutiettas we are selling at cut prices to reduce stock. Over 2,000 yards were sold Tuesday. Monday we expect to eelipso any former sale in black dress goods. See tne values we are offering that excite such a crowd of buyers. No sucli values elsewhere. Thokntom Bros., Federal street.AUegbeny. Everyone's Attention Is called to the men's snlts we offer on Hon dav at $5 90 and $8 90, worth triple these prices. You can buy a good business suit worth $15 for $5 90, or a neat light-colored suit for dross wear at td 90, worth $20. See samples of them In our big sliow windows. P. U. C. C. Clothiers, Cor. Grant and Diamond streets. Thornton Bros., Allegheny. 200 doz. gents' flannelette shirts 2io at the Ca'ih Store, what yon pay 50c for eitewhere. HUGUS&HACKE SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS -IN OUR- Upholstery Department. LACE CURTAINS. Look at These Great Bargains : 60 pair Nottingham Curtains, $1 per pair; real worth 1.50. 150 pair Nottingham Curtains, $1.75 per pair; real worth jz.50. 90 pair Nottingham Curtains, 2.50 per pair; real worth 3.50. 50 pair Jrish Point Curtains, $4.50 per pair; real worth $6. 50 pair Irish Point Curtains, 5-5 Per Pa'r real worth $&. 75 pair Irish Point Curtains, $6 per pair; real worth $9.50. Odd lots of Lace Curtains, i, 2 and 3 pairs of a kind, which we mark to close at half regular PRICES. Portieres, regular $6 and $j qualities, at $4. 75 a pair. 32-inch wide Drapery Silks, usual 75c and $1 goods, reduced to 50c a yard. A large assortment of English Cretonnes, handsome designs and colorings, 35c a yard. Nottingham Lace Bedspreads, worth from $3 to $5, to close quickly a choice at 1.50 each. The largest line and best values of Brass and Iron Bedsteads ever shown in this city. Mattresses and Bedding of all kinds in stock and made to order. Cor. Fifth-Ave. and Market St. jel9-Kwn FINE STATIONERY, ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. W. V. DERMITT i CO., USIXTUATlUtVX. nir.fl-. I irxtr ADT-EirnsEMEfTs. MARSHELL, THE CASH GROCER, WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. One of our able Senators, while im parting wisdom to his fellow Senatori and the Congressional Record, re marked that trusts were a necessity of the present business age. And their main object was to lessen the cost of production, so goods could be sold cheaper. We believed this when we read it. We believe everything a Senator says. Then we thought of the "Cracker Trust" which controls the prices of Pennsylvania, the other Middle and the Western States. Our heart yearned in pity as w thought of those -dear men struggling to reduce the price of crackers. ,. To show you how successful they are, we give you our price in one col umn and their WHOLESALE PRICE in the other: Trust Price. 7o Soda Crackers. Water Crackers, 6o per B... uvster urHCKer.i, ) Butter Crackers,"! Lemon Crack'rs. 1 Wine Crackers, l-TcperB.. I 8s Ginger Snaps, Ginjrer Cakes, J Extra Soda Crackers (In 1-ft box), 10c Fine Assorted Cakes (per ft), 10c -Oatmeal Crackers (In 1-ft box), 10O...J vaniiia viiers,z E3 'joe... Nicnac. 3 Bis 25c Cream Crackers, per Si 15c, Parallel columns are great con vinces, and we think these columns mean a whole lot It is hardly worth while for us to say we don't buy our crackers from the trust. But we guarantee our crackers strictly first-class. We get them from the factory fresh every day. Our sales amount to hundreds of barrels per week, and you could not get an old cracker in our store if you tried. If you are going fishing don't for get our SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO FISHING CLUBS. Come and see us or send us a list of what you want and let us give yoa a bid. We have the best facilities in tho State for packing goods for shipment, and we know our prices will suit you. MARSHELL, Corner Ohio and Sandusky Streets, ALLEGHENY. 34 and 25 Diamond Square, PITTSBURG. Jen CARPETS! -GREAT CLEARING SALE! The accumulation of a season's bmlness broken lots, single pieces and patterns we do not intend duplicating of Azminstera, "Wiltons, "Velvets, Body and Tapestry Brus sels and Extra Super Ingrains AT REMNANT PRICES. MATTING! Oar new importations of China sn4 Japanese Straw jfattint: now complete I 600 Bolls at $5 per roll. 100 Rolls "White Matting at $5. 800 Bolls Jointless at 57 to $9. 200 Bolls Pagodas at $10. 100 Bolls Damask at $12 to 113. These prices are all for full rolls of 19 yards. LARGE LINE LACE CURTAINS At 75c to $5 a Pair. "We are making Bennantg In every grade of Carpets daily, and will continue to sell them at the low prices which have moved so many remnants this season. E. GR0ETZINGER, 627 AND 629 PENN AVE." JelS-TTSsn BIBER & EAST0N. India Silks -AT- STILL LOWER PRICES. An Importer's sacrifice of entire balance of his STOCK OF INDIA SILKS. Many of them are among thechoices colorings and designs. AT 37Kc We offer the bargain of the sea son. These were just bought on an offer, and would be excellent value at 50c. The lot is large, and we wish a QUICK SALE. Come early and get choice. INDIA SILKS At 50c and 75c In high designs. grade quality and richest BIBER & EAST0N, 108 AJTD. SOT 1C1BKBT 811 ioia.i urn ti -.
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