JW- THE PITTSBTJBG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY. JTJtfE 29, 1S93. AH HALF NOT YET TOLD, An Expert Says the Pinhook Field Guarantees Gas for Years to Come. NEWER! IS THE BUSINESS The District Gives Evidence of Great Staving Qualities. AHOTHER BIG WELL BROUGHT Us Business Wen Hopeful and Speak of Bene fits in the Future. LEiSING GROUND IN THE TEKEITORI That the new Pinhook gas field may sur pass all the other fields which have hereto fore been worked, was illustrated yester day by the great strike on the Equitable Company's land at Xilltown, jusi one mile southeast of the development on the Leopold farm. This, the Kidd well, makes the field now open two miles in length, extending from the Hess farm to Milltown. "When the tools were withdrawn yesterday the well practically continued to drill itself, the force of the gas throwing out the sand. Experts claim that it is the strongest well struck in any gas region for the past five years. It will be several days before the pressure of the well can be taken, and it is believed that from the immense rock pressure in all the region of the Pinhook range there should not for years be a. shortage of gas for Pittsburg consumers. The Woodside well is due to-day. The big holders of this territory are the Philadelphia Company, which has 1,700 acres; the Equitable, 350 acres; the Peo ple's, 700 acres; the Carnegies, 1,000 acres, and the Kensington Improvement Com pany 4,000 acres. The southern end of the field near "Wilkinsburg, where the pioneer work was done and where the lighter passers were struck, is owned by John M. Patterson and Say & Liggett. This makes five large producing wells in this field. The Story Told By nn Expert. That the reports from the Pinhook dis trict have not been exaggerated, the fol lowing letter will bear witness. It was written by an expert to his em-ploje1-, and for the present his name is withheld, but it will appear in The Dis Patch shortly. He is now making an ex amination of the field, and the letter is the result of his observations so far. The ex pert is a reliable man who has tnade correct predictions in other districts. Here is what he says, and it is given as it was written: Are m acquainted with the repoiterfor TEhDiTATcn who lias written the articles in vesturd.iy's and to-day's issues of that paper concerning the recent jras strikes on the Pinliook anti-clinal back of Veronal If so, I wish you would do me the favor to say to Inm tliat the half hath not been told him as to the probabilities of the future outcome of tlio pas areas carried on the back and slopes if he Pinbook uplift. In neither ot the aittcles rofened to was any mention made whatever of the great Crooked creek gas district on the same Pinbook axis, 10 miles noitheat of Bagdad on the Allegheny Valley road along the KIskiminetas river. Gsk round in th Finn Mind. In the sketch In Sunday's Issue the fifth sand of tho Pinhook folding was con founded with the Venango first sand which is the Murraysville sand. Tho gas areas now opened on the above mentioned anticlinal arc in the firth sand, the one south of the Kis kiminetas, on Plum and Sandy creeks, the other, north of the Kiskiminetas, on "Ciooked Cieek," in Armstrong? county, the two fields belli? about 18 to 20 miles apart. The stratum from which both these fields arc cettin? their supplies is unique In the lutoi y of the gas traines. It has been tab u'nted as tho filth sand, and lies 1,600 feet below the ferriferous limestone on Crooked Cieok. The sand may bo tho lowest member ot the Venango group, or the top member of the Warren group, or it may be nn intermediate stray not belong ing to cither. At any rate it persists for 20 miles that we know of, and the two largest gas field in the State aie getting their snnplies from the same stratum and on the same rock folding, f-n that the Pinhook axis is distinctly a fifth sand axis. The veils belonging Jo tho Pittsburg Plato Glas Company on Crooked cieekhave an enoimousrock piesuie and great volume aell. As the latter depends on the por oity of the sand rock, it is only a question of a gravel bed, and the volume or minute preBSuie will exceed that of any gas fields ever discovered. Just think of a rock pressure ff 1,500 pounds, or greater even than that. Probabilities ofa Great Field. The fact that tne wells in Armstrong county, on Crooked creek, on the Pinhook anticlinal, are producing from this newly dfscovered fifth sand, and the wells back or Verona in Allegheny county, aie also proaucing irom tne samo sand and on the same anticlinal, raises a very high degree of probability that the whole stretch of territory lying between these two deposits, a distance or say 20 miles, may bo underlaid with this unique sand stratum. At Crooked creek the sand is 50 trot thick, and increases in thickness to tne southwest along the tiend of the uplift. That with the high rock preslure is the guarantee for great staying qualities in the fields opened at the two points named. From what we already know of the staying natuie or the gas supply from the two fields, we are Justified in assuming that we aie entering upon a new atid long-lived era in the natural gas business. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company and the Eastern Oil Company, a Jluttiilo syndicate, are developing the Crooked cieek field, and the stretch of the anticlinal lving between Ciooked creek and thcKiskiminetan is all underlease and will hn le eloped in due time. Now, let your reporter-fiend of The Dis patch look over this hastily written letter, and cull out whatever he may deem worthy of a place in the columns of his raper. I wouldn't have written anything about it, but 1 felt that only hair or the facts had been srlven to the public, and tint they arc entitled to any lacts that give us reason to hope for a continuation of natural gas as a luel in the future. Cutting Drnrn n Big Gas BIII. Little reference has been made to the big well struck bv the Pittsburir Plate Rlasn Company about eight miles from Ford City two months ago. Since that time up until two weeks ago, when another enormous gasser was brought in, the single nuji aujjpiicu mc town ana the plate glass factory with fuel The town is quite large, and there was gas to spare. One can get a good idea of the strength of the well Jrom the fact that Major Beale, ol Leechburg, before the gas was struck shipped daily to Ford City from 200 to 400 tons of coal, but since then he hasn',t sold a pound in the town Neither the people nor the company had any use for coal, This well is in the Pinhook district J. K. Beatty, of Murraysville, the field man for the Philadelphia company, was seen at the St. James last evening. He was in a facetious humor, and wanted to know how much of a rake off The DisnATcri man received for writing up the field. He said, however, that every statement made in this paper about the pressure, etc., was correct, "but he added cautiously, a rock pressure of 900 pounds in a well is not an indication that it will be a very pro ductive field. I should say that the Pinhook district promises to be fair and good terri tory. The Equitable well brought in to-day is a half mile from the edge of the district, and shows that the field is even broader than we suspected." Think It Good Enough to Buy. Mr. Beatty admitted that the Philadel phia company had already secured from 1,800 to 2,009 acres in the Pinhook country, and they are after more. He knows his business, and as the price of leases is going up dally, the Philadelphia people have no desire to boost the territory too strongly. In reply to a question "as to what effect the new gai supply, it as producfive as re ported, would have on the development of the city, Mayor Gonrley said: "I can think of nothing that would be such a universal benefit to this city a supply of natural gas auch as we enjoyed a few years ago. I hope the news from Pinhook may prove to be under estimated. Just think of the growth of this city during the past 10 years and think of the city more than doubled again, more beautiful, with more handsoma dwellings, more manufactories, more prosperity. That would be the result in another ten vears, it we can believe what we have beard from Pinhook. Given plenty oC nat ural gas, no smoke, and an Erie ship canal, nothing could stop this city from becoming the foremost in the country." Chief Bigelow said: "I can hardly be lieve such good news. If this new gas field is as large and the supply as bountiful as we are led to believe, Pittsburg's growth will oontinue with increased vigor, and no one will more gladly welcome it thanL The saving to the city should be consid erable because we would be entitled to re duced rates tor the gas we use. But we have reason to especially desire plenty of gas for the next year at least, because it will assist us greatly at the water works. Eatural gas is the best fuel in the world for producing heat It is the greatest steam maker in the world. Xatnral Gas as a Steam Froduoer. "With gas you can get twice as much steam from a set of boilers that all the coal you can use would produce. Any man of experience with boilers will agree with that statement Now our-boiler capacity at the Brilliant pumping station is. sufficient to keep the water supply if we have plenty of gas and no serious break downs. But we could not begin to keep up the supply with the present boilers if we were forced back to coal now; a shortage of water and a great inconvenience to our people generally would result In a year improvementnow being made to in crease our boiler capacity will have been finished and we can return to coal if neces sary but until that time I hope the Lord will give up plenty of natural gas." Dr. C Evans, of Select Council and member of the Oliver Iron and Steel Com pany, said: "If all the reports from the new" gas field 'prove true it will prove a grand benefit to Pittsburg in many ways. If the companies make it an inducement for manufacturers to return to the use of gas, every one will gladly accept the opportunity. If the wells already found are as large as re ported the companies have more gas than tbey can dispose of to domestic consumers, who are practically their only patrons now, and unless they can store the supply it would be big money in their pockets to give the gas to manufacturing plants at low rates. At least they could do this un til cool weather comes in November, when the domestic demand will be greater. All the iron, steel and glassworks still have their pipe lines and the cost of altering their furnaces would be so small that they would have no hesitation in returning to gas at reasonable rates if only for a few months. 2ot Mnch Hope for Domestic Consumers. "I don't anticipate the erection of any new plants as the result of a new find of gas. There would be an increased pros perity to the city as a matter of course, but manufacturers would be more slow and con servative about going into extensive addi tions to their works than they were when gas first came to us eight or nine years ago. And I don't think the gas company would rednce their rates to domestic consumers, no matter how great may be the supply, unless competition comes in, which is not probable. In such a business prices may go up out tney never come down. An ex-producer writes to The Dis patch stating that the dry holes drilled by the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, of which mention was made yesterday, "were upon the Pinhook anticlinal, the "district from which so much is now expected, and expresses the opinion that the field will not be extraordinarily productive. CALM BEFORE A STORM. Dr. Fayes Says That Peace In Europe Most Soon Be Broken or Iho Armies Most Be Disbanded Countries Bankrupted By Tar Preparations. " 'Distrust sleeping waters was the cry in France in 1870," said Dr. Charles Fayes, the French scholar, yesterday. "The coun try was never so quiet as just before the Franco-Prussian "War. One morning the people awoke and were startled by the call 'to horse, to horse.' The battles had already commenced. I take it that the present calm in Europe is only the pre cursor of a storm. Either the nations must fight or disarm. It is bocoming more apparent every day that they can't support the large standing armies much longer. The drain is terrible, and the peo ple are very restive. Italy is bankrupt, ruined by its constant preparations for war. Austria is not much better off, and Germany is shaky. France is in better condition than any country on the globe. At the beginning of the year statistics showed that there was $48 for every citizen in the country, and the United States came next with a per capita of 538. This problem of the standing army in Europe must be settled in the next few years. 1 see no signs in any quarter where a nation is willing to lay down its arms. If warshould comeit would be awful, but America would be benefited. It must be one or the other very soon peace or bloodshed. "I think, also, that the time is not far off when Mexico and Canada will be an nexed to the United States. It is the nat ural sequence to progress. Mexico, I be lieve, will Be the first to come under the stars and stripes, and Canada will soon fol low. The animosity to Americans in Mex ico has died out,. and the business instincts of the people will teach them that their future is with the Yankees." Jn Honor or Ex-Senator Itntaii. The Bar Association met yesterday to take action upon the death of ex-Senator James S. Bntan, Judge ,Ewing presiding, the Vice Presidents being Judges Acheson Slagle and McClung, and Messrs. Marshall) F. M. Magee and W. A. Dunsha. A com mittee consisting of J. M. Rodgers, Johns McCleave, C. C. Dickey and J. M. Cook was appointed to draw up suitable resolu tions. The minute presented spoke ot Mr Kutan's ability as a leeislator. annlitl,.! I and as a lawyer. Addresses were made bv Judge JSwing, J. M. Swertngton, W. B. Kodgers, Thomas M. Marshall and D. F. Patterson. Checks 'Were Sold tor IJeor. Inspector McKelvey made information yesterday against John Artzbergcr, Peter Thomas, Henry Ituss and M. Friend, man agers of a ball of the Bavarian Beneficial Society, held in St George's "Hall, on Six teenth street, Monday night Checks were sold cntitliug the holder to beer, and illegal liquor selling is alleged. The men will be heard by Alderman Gripp to-day. Afraid of John Swrku. John Sweka, in default of $1,000 bail was committed to jail by Alderman "Warner yesterday to await a hearing Thursday on a Charge of surety of the peace made by John Koshovitcli. There has been hard feelings between them for some time. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant has made various attempts on his life, at one time shooting at him. Oirvx AWHiKos Entirely new and fast in colors and exquisite in designs, at Mamaux ft Son's, 639 l'enn avenue. Tel. 1972. wsu WRAPPED IN MYSTERY Strange Suicide of Young and Prettj Annie McEachran, Who TOOK ROUGH ON EATS AND DIED. Her Last Words Were to Her Fireman Lover, JJennis Martin. K0 CAUSE ASSIGKED FOR HER ACT Pretty Annie McEachran, a dark-eyed maid of 17 years, committed suicide yester day at the house of her maiden aunt, Miss MaryM. McEachran, of 4427 Penn avenue. Just what caused the young girl to com mit self-murder it is difficult to say. Ac cording to her aunt, with whom she lived, Annie loved a young man named Denniit Martin, and bis coldness was the direct cause of the rash deed. On the other hand young Martin asserts that he is in no way responsible for the girl's death, and hints that life was made so unpleasant for Annie that she became desperate. The case is at present shrouded in mys tery. The girl died with her lips sealed, and her friends either cannot or will not make her story public The facts, as far as known, are these: Annie has lived with her aunt for a number of vears. Until two weeks ago she was as gay and light-hearted as a young girl should be. She assisted her aunt, who is a dressmaker, and spent the best part of her leisure hours with Dennis Martin, whom she first met some 14 months ago. Tired oi Life and Wanted to Die. Two weeks ago, so the aunt says, Annie suddenly became moody and out of sorts, but refused to offer any explanation for the change. Mr. Martin continued to call, and as late as Saturday afternoon he and Annie went out for a long walk. At an early hour yesterday morning the girl was up and about She greeted her aunt pleasantly and appeared to be in fairly good spirits. Shortly after 8 o'clock she retired to an inner room and returning a few moments later shocked her aunt by saying: "Auntie, I am tired of life; I've taken'poison; let me die." As she spoke, she staggered, and before her aunt could realize the truth, she fell face downward on the floor of the shop. The aunt called iu the neighbors and with their aid, laid the uphappy girl on a lounge in the little room in the rear of the shop. She sent for Dr. McKibben who responded immediately. After he had examined Annie, the man of medicine said: "She has taken rough on rats, I think, and she cannot live the day out Send for a priest" By hard work the doctor roused the girl, who, in disjointed sentences confessed that she had bought and swallowed an ounce of the poison and that she was anxious to die. Sent for Her Fireman Lover. Someone went for Father Tobin, of St. Mary's Church, and he came. This was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Annie asked the priest to bring Dennis Martin to her. Father Tobin sent a messenger to en gine house No. 6, which is just around the corner on Forty-fifth street, and in ten minutes Mar tin was at Annie's bedside. The young couple conversed in whispers for a lew moments, and when he raised his head Martin's eyes were wet and the girl was breathing heavily. Then the priest ad ministered the last rites of the church and went awav. So did Martin. Thauks to the doctor's skill the girl lingered for hours, but midway between the hours of 9 and 10 in the evening she gave up the hopeless struggle and died. The last words she uttered were these: "I'm going; poor, poor Dennis. The dead girl's aunt was in an unhappy frame of mind last night She sat in the rear "of her little shop surrounded by a group of solemn-faced neighbors. In the rear room her dead niece lay on a cot partly covered with a sheet "I don't want to say anything," Bhe said, in response to the usual queries. "Annie loved Dennis Martin, and he and she have been keeping company for over 12 months." Fireman Martin Tells His Story. Dennis Martin is a man of 25 or there abouts with a dark, stubby moustache and a soft voice. He is a fireman and has been a member of Company No. 6 for over a year. Martin was lound at the Empire house late last night "When told of An nie's death, he said: "Yes, I have been vis iting the girl for about a year, but I have always treated her right, and she exonerated me this afternoon before Father Tobin. She said that I was in no way responsible. She told me something else, but I swore to her that I wouldn't make it known and I won't I don't think she was happily situated. I went to Chief Coates this afternoon and told him all about it You had better talk to him." "William Coates, the Assistant Chief of the Fire Department, corroborated Martin, and said: "Dennis is a fine young man and a splendid fireman. I believe his story. If I doubted it I should have suspended him at once. I am sure no one regrets this affair more than he." Annie's mother died several years ago, but her father is living and is an'inmateof the Soldiers' Home at Dayton. Ohio. Coroner Herron was notified and has charge of the case. FOURTH OF JULY FUKD. Nearly 83,000 Have Been Subscribed for the Jollification. The Fourth of July fund is still growing steadily, and has now reached the comfort able sum of H, 078 60. "With the contribu tions expected from the street railways and the same steady flow of money that has characterized the past week, there will be just enough to carry out the programme as originally decided on by the-Mayor. Judge Succop has a small amount of money voluntarily sent him by the patriots of the Southside, but he wants to increase it, and will to-day call on some of his friends to give what they can, anything from SI up. His book will be kept open at his office during this and next werfk. There was $102 tent in yesterday. John Bradley gave 10,., John Bickel $10, H. J. King f 10, Grocers' Supply Company, Limited, $10, Baxter & Henton $10, Hugh Flinn $5, Bobert Ostermaier $5, F. C Dorrington $2, George "W. Miller 55, H. McOutcheon $5, Cash $2, M. Eosenthal $5, Cash, O. S. McL, $2. James M. McKee f 1, Wm. E. Ford, ?20. To Whom Does the Child Belong? The parents of the child who was so brave ly rescued irom death by fireman Bruce Cunningham, of engine 614, of the Balti timore and Ohio, on Monday evening, have not yet been located. The little tot crawled up the .stairway to the Hungarian quarters and there its identity seems to have been lost One theory advanced is that someone placed the chtfd upon the track that it might be killed. The idea of most people who live in the vicinity is that the child belongs to one of the Hungarian families on the hill and that it wandered away from home. Fireman Cunningham received many congratulations yesterday upon .his daring deed. Indies' Kton Suits $10 and upward in all-wool navy blue serge and other novelties in outing suits. Ladies' blazer suits at $7 SO and up to finest. Jos. Hornk & Co.'s Penn Avenue Stores. The Pennsylvania Ballroad Finds it pays to use the best Tbey use Walker's family Soap to wash their cars. I MW Neapolitan Awkihbs, warranted sun fast, t iuunu a ooa's, oavjreua avoauc wstt-J A SINGULAR RUNAWAY. Mary Janowtkv, a Southside Girl, Goes to Florida Her Infatuation (or Sisters ot Charity She Was School Teacher at "Wexford, Pa. John Janowsky, one of the most promi nent and well-to-do Polish residents of the city, called at police headquarters yester day to solicit their co-operation in the cap ture of his 19-year-old daughter, a school teacher, who ran away last Friday to Flor ida under peculiar circumstances. The young girl has been teaching school at "Wex ford, Pa. According to her father's de scription she is a beautiful and accomplished young lady. He la a saloonkeeper on Car son, near Thirteenth street, Southside. She usually came home on Friday evening to spend Saturday and Sunday with her parents, bnt she did not appear last Friday nor on the day following. .Supposing she was ill and that she would write explaining her absence, the parents waited until yester day morning, but no letter came. ilr. Janowsky went to "Wexford yester day morning and was surprised to learn that his daughter had left her boarding house there last Friday night, stating that she was going to Florida and would not come back, and bidding her "Wexford acquaint ances goodby. He at once returned to Pittsburg, and, going to police headquarters, requested that a telegram be sent to have the girl arrested as a runaway. As she had committed no offense, and as she was old enough to take care of herself, the police officials refused, to interfere. Janowsky next called on the Mayor, who, of course, could do nothing, but advised the anxious father to telegraph the authorities at San Antonio, Florida, where it is supposed the girl has gone, to ascertain if she is there, and, if so, to send her home. At San Antonio there are four Sisters of Charity who were formerly teachers in St Joseph's parochial In this city when Miss Janowski attended. She became greatly at tached to her preceptresses and mourned their departure three years ago for the San Antonio convent as if they had been her sisters. Ever since she ha's talked'of going to them, but as she was in delicate health, and as two of her nun friends had died irom the unhealthy Florida climate, her parents persistently retusea ner per mission. This, and the desire to become a nun, her father says, is the secret of her running away, and his desire for her return is prompted purely by affection. He indig nantly disclaims any suggestion that she has gone away with a man, saying she has always avoided men and cared nothing for their society. A telegram was sent to the authorities 'at San Antonio last night, but at a late hour no reply bad been recoived. Mr. Janowski says that if the authorities there refuse to send her he will go after his daughter himself. HELPED ON THEIR JOUBNEY. Appeals to the Department of Charities Which Were Not Unheeded. '"As the geese fly,' so it seems to us do the halt and the lame and poverty-stricken jcome here for help at this season of the year," remarked Chief Elliot, of the De partment of Charities, yesterday. This was brought out by the fact that eight persons had applied to him for relief during the day, all being bound East or North, and they were all assisted on their way. Eleven others, whose cases did not seem to demand the interference of the department, .were re fused assistance. Among those helped to ward their journey's end was liebecca Sharp, who came from Illinois and wanted to reach Camden, K. J., where her father had died on Monday, and Kate Kuhn, a variety actress, who wished to reaeh her friends in the East, as the com pany with which she had been playing was stranded in an Ohio town; a woman and her three children who wanted to reach Bell wood, just beyond Altoona, where her folks live. Her husband had died out "West Joseph Ponelly, his wife and four small children were furnished with transportation to Younstown. They were in a terrible con riitinn one child helncr barefooted and an other sick. PoHy "said? they had. como from" Buffalo, and were en route to Cincinnati. An old woman was lound at the Union depot In a pitiful condition. She was un able to walk, and was taken to the office of the department, where she was given a pass to Buffalo. She was over 70 years old. A FBENCH VIEW OF TABIW. Takes Silk Manufacturars a Lone Time to Lean Ihelr Trade. Charles Dien, a French silk merchant, put up at the Duqnesne yesterday. He said frankly that the McKinloy bill had not injured his business, for the duty had not been changed. It is 50 per cent However, he thought the tariff was all wrong from a French standpoint, and he pointed out what he believes are a number of inequalities. "The tariff," said he, "benefits the rich more than the poor. The wealthy Ameri cans go to Paris and return with trunks ladened with clothes on which they pay no duty. Your society belle comes back with 20 gowns that she has bought At French prices, and they are passed in the Custom House. But let the poor dressmaker go to Paris and buy several gowns for the style to be used in her business. "When she lands in New York she must pay the duty, while her more fortunate sister escapes this burden. S "Yes, some silk is made in this country, hut the manufacturers are not verv success ful. For that matter real, genuine silk is only made in one place in France and that is Lyons. There the best effects in dyeing, etc.,"are obtained. Ittook the French 400 years to learn how to make silk and it will take the Americans that long. They are learning slowly." A MIDNIGHT EXPLOSION. Residents in the Vicinity of Brown's Hill Awakened From Their Sleep. Shortly after midnight the people resid ing in the vicinity of Brown's Tenth street mill were awakened from their sleep by a loud rumbling noise followed by a sharp explosion. For a moment or two considera ble excitement prevailed among the people and many heads were thrust from open win dows to learn more of the circumstance. The explosion was of sufficient force to rattle the glass in the window frames of the houses iu the immediate locality, and to alarm a policeman who was patrolling a near Dy Deat. An investigation loiiowea, when it was learned that the drum attached to one of the many boilers in the establish ment had been blown from its position with out causing any great damage, however, or injuring any one. ' . Left Bis Clothes on the Klver Bank. Yesterday shortly before noon James Kinney, conductor on way-train No. 1, of the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Hallway, found a snlt of clothes and the en tire outfit of a man's furnishings lying on the bank of the Monbngahela river near Coohran station. Detective Wheatly took charge of the clothes and notified the Cor oner, as it is supposed the owner was drowned while bathing. The hat was bought in McKeesport 8:50 P.M. SATURDAYS Is the latest moment at which small advertisements will be received at the ALLEGHENY BRANCH DFFJGE For inaction in tho SUNDAY DISPATCH.. On woek days the Affloa will remain open until r, x. ai usual.' JUNIOR MECHANICS. Over Five Thousand Delegates Join in the Annual Councils. RAPID EXTENSION OP THE 0RDEB. More Than Half a Million Dollars in the ". Tarions Treasuries. GRAND CELEBRATION IN NEW JERSEY SPECIAL TELEOEAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 , Atlantic City, IT. J., June 2L The twenty-fourth annual session of the National Council of Jr. O. TJ: A. M. opened here to- uay, ana transacted more Business man was ever done in the first day of any session for years, considering that much of the day was taken up in participating in the largest and most imposing parade ever held by the order outside of Pittsburg. In the morning Mayor Wright, in behalf of the city, and Rev. "W. A. Dennis, representing the State Council of New Jersey, welcomed the dele gates with speeches which were listened to by the delegates and hundreds of members of the order. National Councilor John B. Boblitz responded. The National Council then went into executive session and began Its work. The report of the national officers were first read. That of National Secretary Deemer showed that at the beginning of tne present year there were a total of 1,260 councils and i07,494 members, but these figures have been greatly increased since January. The receipts of subordinate councils for the past year were $747,453 21. The order paid in benefits $284,381 70, and there is in the treasury of the subordinate councils over a half million dollars. Extension or the Order in Other States. There were 24 councils organized last year in States where there were no State coun cils. The order has been extended into four new States, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina and Iowa, and the prospects are that Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Cali fornia will soon be in line. The National Secretary is very outspoken in his praise of the work done by National Organizers Ogle and Collins and recommends that the experiment be continued on the national legislative plan, as published exclusively in The Dispatch last Sunday. Mr. Deemer u.ln doubt as to its practica bility. He thinks there may perhaps be an inclination to pay too much attention to the work of organization and not enough to in culcating the principles and objects of the order, but he suggests that it would be wise to relieve the State and National officers of any additional work to their present duties. He recommends, in a rather unique manner, that all subordinate councils be made the judge of their own membership as regards age and initiation fees, but suggests that councils do not make too great, a distinction between young men, 16 to 20, saying that there are men of 16 and boys of 40. Age does not always make a man. The reports of the other national officers are largely statistical and are much the same as that of Mr. Deemer. The trouble in the State Council of Illinois over the deposition of the old board of officers has been referred to the Committee on the State of the Order and a lively fight is ex pected to-morrow. Petition for a School Exhibit The following communication was re ceived from James A. 'Hamilton, Secretary Of Washington Camp No. 7, Patriot Sons of America, of Englewood, 111., and re ferred to a committee to report a plan to carry ont the suggestion: At the reirular meetina of "Washington Camp No. 7 Patriot Order Song of America, State ot Illinois, was brought to the notice of the camp the great good tuat might be ac complished by an exblbit of our free school educational system at the World's Colum biiin Exposition to be held in Chicago in 1893. By resolution, our Secretary was au thorized to commnnlcate with the National Secretaries of all patriotic societies and as certain If they will assist us in urging the Government to take action and make the exhibit. Knowing that our system Is the basis or our rree ana inaependentr government, we should take pride in showing it to our foreign friends. The progress made by this system demonstrates tbat the system reigns supreme as compared with any other schools which may be exhibited. The Gov ernment has evidently overlooked this feature, and It is eminently fitting that the American societies should Join hands in this movement. In view of this movement. In view or tho subject as above stated, you are urgently memorialized to take such action at will consummate and develop successlully the movement Five Thousand Men Parade. The National Council has under consider ation a plan proposed by Henry Baldwin, the custodian of American history in this city, to have established at the national capital a library in which shall be located all the works on American history, together with statistical works of all kinds referring to America and its development, and a bu reau of information to which anyone may have access and secure information on any American topic with all the literature bearing thereon. A parade was held this afternoon in which no less than 5,000 Juniors participated. The entire Sixth Regiment of the National Guards of New Jersey acted as escort to the Uniformed Rank of Pittsburg and Pennsyl vania, Fully 5,000 men were in line and nearly t.11 the councils in New Jersey were represented. Washington Council No. 1, of Germantown, the first organized, 39 years sgo, was out and carried the flags used at tne institution ol tne council. The city was gaily decorated and the demonstration was the finest seen here in years. Cheer after cheer followed Pitts burg's delegation, 800 strong, as they passed Congress Hall, their headquarters. A ban quet was held to-night at which Stephen Collins, John Eme'ge, Prof. Pashanor and E. Lindsay Greer, of Pittsburg, spoke. ALAS, FOB ELLEN HESSIAN. The Poor Girt Tried to Light a Fire With Oil, and Was Horribly Burned. Miss Ellen Hessian, 28 years old, resid ing at No. 92 Brownsville avenue, South side, was terribly burned last evening by an explosion of oil. She was using the oil to start a fire, and she will likely die. She was keeping house for her brother, Owen Hessian. They occupied the rear part of the house. Last evening about 6 o'clock she began preparing supper. She supposed all the fire was out of the stove, and, procuring a lamp, unscrewed the burner and poured the oil in the stove. An explosion followed almost instantlv, and the girl was enveloped in flames. She was alone, and rushing into the yard screamed at the top of ner voice. JJavia Jiartin, a neighbor, threw a bucket of water on the burning woman, and soon after the flames were ex tinguished. The Homeopathic Hospital ambulance removed her to that institution, where, at a late hour, she was conscious,; out uornoiy uurueu. xue House caugns fire, and a serious conflagration was averted 'only by hard work on the part of the neigh bors. A TEST JBWELL SPEAK-EASY Closed by Inspector McLaughlin, Who Arrests the Proprietress. Inspector McLaughlin, of the Second police district, yesterday afternoon arrested Mary Creigher and locked her up in the Nineteenth ward station on a charge of keeping a disorderly house. The prisoner is alleged to be the keeper of the very gilt edged speak-easy of the East End.' The house is located at the corner of Kirkwood and St, Clair streets, was handsomely fur nished and was patronized by some of the best known people in the East End. Patrick Boss was arrested last night for running ah alleged speak-easy on Corntt Street, "Fourteenth ward. He was looked I tip in the Fottrteentn"ward station. - ALLEGHENY'S TRAGEDY. Coroner McDowell Begins an lnqnest Upon the Two Bodies Xhe Murderer Dis missed Because He Was Dishonest A -Brother's Defense of His Sister's Name. The inquest on the bodies of Hattie But tress and Emil West, the victims of the Al legheny murder and suicide, was bejun yes terday. Charles Buttress, the brother of the dead girl, testified that his sister was -20 years old, and that when West first came to Pitts burg he took meals at the Buttress home. Miss Lena Huntzinger said she was in the store when West came in, and that he said to Hattie: "I want to see you. " "Well," said he, "some one must hear me. You know you are my wife, and I want to know why you left me." The murdered girl looked at him and smiled, and said: "Yon must have been drinking." "Yon know I don'.t drink Well, we will end this just here," answered West The girl turned her back to him, when he took hold of liir and pulled a revolver out of his pocket. The witness then f said she ran from the room, and just as she reached the door she heard a shot and a scream. Then she heard three more shots. Mr. Goldberg said that he had etnoloved West as a hairdresser, but dismissed him because he was dishonest He said West annoyed Battie with his attentions. The inquest was then adjourned. Charles Buttress, the brother of the dead girl, yesterday sent-the following letter to The DiapATcn: Owing to the wild rumors and the fake re- Jiorts appearing in the newspapers regard ng the circumstances surrounding the death of my sister, Miss Addle, principally owing to the letter found on the person or her vile slayer, I desire to give the facts or the sad affair as they are. My sister was In the em ploy or Dr, Goldberg as ladles' hairdresser when the man. West, came to work at the same place. It was a part of his work to In struct the young ladles In hairdresstng. From the time he commenced work there he seemed to give Addle more instruction than he did the others, which was all the atten tion he paid her. In his letter he states that he has often escorted her home from Goldberg's, which Is not the case. The few times he came with her another lady was one or the party, and ray sister, when not aceompanled by a lady friend, did not per mit nim to oo me with her. Alter West was dismissed by Dr. Goldoecg he started a small lialrdressing establishment on Beaver ave nue, Allegheny. Some three months later Addle accepted a position frnrn West to take charge or his parlors on Beaver avenue. West at the same time takinsr a position at Mrs. Landers, firth avenue, Pittsburg, and as her hours at West's parlors were tho same as he was obliged to work in Pittsburg they were seldom together. The parlors not being a financial sneoess. West left the olty nearly a year ago, and his whereabouts were unknown to my sister and to all of us for that length or time nntil the tragedy oc curred. The letter written by him was the invention or one who desires to carry bis revenge beyond even death, on acconnt or his offer or marriage being refnsed. This explanation is to those who were unac quainted with my sister. Those who knew her need no explanation of the foul letter. POKES WAS PLAYED THESE. - Two Alleghenlans Charged With Running a Gambling Home. J. A. Mercer and Frank Kohler had a hearing yesterday afternoon before Magis trate Gripp, on a charge ot running a poker game at Beaver and Island avenues, Alle gheny. They were arrested on Monday night by Detectives Baltzhoover and Murphy while a game was in progress, and all the tables and chips were in the Magis trate's office. After Detective Beltzhoover had told how th'e capture had been made, Joseph Starline was called for the prose cution. Mr. Starline was not a willing witness, bnt after mnch good-natured coaxing on the part of the magistrate he acknowledged that he was in the poker room Monday night, and that he had bought chips from both Kohler and Mercer. "What did those chips represent," in quired the magistrate. "They really had no value to me," re sponded Starline. "Yon mean that they represent no value to you because you lost them." "Yes, that's about the size of it," re sponded Starline. It was developed that a man. named Corrigan was the proprietor of the poker room, but as he bad not been captured the hearing was postponed until Friday after noon next. AIT OLD LEASE QOZSTIOrTED. Mr. Newel !s Title to Bis Fifth Avenue Property in Dispute. The snit of Philip Le Goullon and wife, John D. McCork and wile, and George W. Teed and wife and Bobert Anderson, in ejectment against John Newell for the property occupied by Newell's restaurant on Fifth avenue, possesses some interesting features. The plaintiffs claim title under William Anderson, deceased, and claim a perpetual lease of the property was made in 1816 by Koger Patterson to William Ander son, which never became void. Francis Deary and wife conveyed the property to Patterson, who made the lease to Anderson. Patterson later made a deed of the property to Alexander McCabe, and here is where all the trouble comes, for the plaintiffs claim that Patterson could not nullify the deed to Anderson. The bill recites the various transfers made by McCabe and his heirs nntil the property reached J. Heron Foster. from whose estate Mr. Newell purchased the property. Joseph Hays, attorney for the plaintiffs said that the statqte of limita tion would be one of the features of the fight, but he expected to meet that success lully. ENGINEERS TALE .AND QUIT: " A Discussion on the styles of Ball Joints TJsed on Ballroads. The regular meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Engineers' Society was held last night in the parlors of the Academy of Science. Captain A. E. Hunt presided. Mr. W. L. Scaife read a paper on rail joints of railroads. The paper was descrip tive of the various styles of rail joints in use on different railways, and of the differ ent sizes and material of the angle irons used at the joints. When the paper was finished M. J. Becker, of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Bailway Company, made a few remarks on the sub- iect. He stated that the old trouble caused iy the breaking of rail joints has been al most done away with by the use of im provements, and better and stronger angle irons and fish plates. Information on the topic was also volunteered by a nnmber of others. The meeting was the last one for the sum mer, and the society adjourned until Sep tember. TESTING THE JUG TRADE, Police Enter Suits Against Dralers Who Sell In small Qauntltlc. The Police Department have been consid ering the legality lately of the sale of liquor in jugs, and are Inclined to think the Brooks law prohibiting the sale by whole salers of less than 12 pints at a time U being violated by the dealer who sells 12 pints in as many different packages. For trie purpose of testing this point In spector McKelvey made informations yes terday against Bobert Liddell, ot 2."01 l'enn avenue, and Yetta Browarsky, ot 350 Fifth avenue. The charge is one ol illegal liquor selling, the specific allegation being the vio lation of the clause reierrcd to. Both de fendants were notified ol the suits and a hearing was. set for to-day before Alderman Gripp. Ballroad Accounts Muddled. President Stevenson, of the Kansas City Ft Smith and Southern Bailway, passed through the city yesterday bound for Kan sas City with an expert accountant. Mr. Stevenson intended to inspect the road and examine the books. Mr. Stevenson de clined to make a statement, but it is claimed th'e books are muddled." IN THE TABERNACLE. Bishop Phelan Is Notified That Father Mollinger'sWillLT FOUND IN ST. ANTHONY'S SHRINE. The Sacred Eellcs, Invaluable let Yaltte lesa, in Danger. MAT PALL INTO SHOWMEN'S 5 HANDS Bishop Phelan heard last night from what he considers authentic sources that the will of Father Mollinger had been found in the tabernacle of the unconsecrated chapel on Troy Hill. The peculiar hiding place of the valuable document is the probable cause why it was not found before, and Bishop Phelan was not disposed to doubt the veracity of the report. To a DISPATCH man, the right reverend prelate said he consideied his in formants persons upon whom he could rely, and inasmuch as the report had been given to him by four different gentlemen he was in clined to think the gjave trouble that would be apt to ensue upon the relatives taking possession of the sacred relics would be pre vented. "Grave questions have arisen over the matter of these relics," continued the Bishop, "and we have been considerably agitated about them. The relics possessed by Father Mollinger are utterly valueless to the church in a monetary sense, as it is positively against the laws, ethics and rnles of the church to either buy or sell any sacred relic, emblem or token. Money Never Paid for Sacred Belies. "The laws of the church are most strict upon that score and the penalty for anyone connected with the Roman Catholic Church obtaining anything of the kind by the pay-, ment of money is very severe. A favor may be given for the relic, but monetary considerations are strictly prohibited." "How about the reports to the effect that the relics left by Father Mollinger are valued at 515,000?" "Such statements are erroneous," replied the Bishop. "Father Mollinger assured me, and I have no cause to doubt,, that he had secured the relics gratuitously. Had jt been otherwise I should have been obliged, as his Bishop, to call him to ac count and the probabilities are that he would have been summoned to appear at the Vatican, in Borne, to answer to the Pope for his transgression. There has never been an instance in the history of the church of a Telic of sacredness being ob tained by the expenditure of money. The laws are too strict and always have been." "What, then, is to prevent some show man, lecturer or other worldling purchasing these relics from the relatives of the late priest-physician, providing the will does not give them to the church?. Fears That Vandals Slight Obtain Them. "That is the grave question I previously alluded to. The only way in which the church could obtain them would be by the inheritors giving them to the church, and if the inheritors are disposed to be mer cenary the probabilities are that the church would lose them for a time, while they were being publicly exhibited by some one whose only object would be to make money out of them." , "Now that the will has been found, as you believe, do you think this trouble will arise?" "Not unless the will is contested and broken, because I received assurances many times from Father Mollinger that he would give both the chapel and the relics to the Church, and at the time of his death the matter of deeding the property over to the Church was pending. I am confident that Father Mollinger intended to bestow the ohapel and relics to the Church, and unless the will is broken I believe we shall get them as Church property." The finding of the will in the tabernacle ofa church is a remarkable feature. The tabernacle in consecrated churches is the most sacred part of the entire edifice. It is in; the tabernacle that the Eucharist is con tinually kept. The Church Had Not Been Consecrated. Before consecration the church and all within are considered material, but the act of consecration spiritualizes it, but owing to the fact that the chapel had not been consecrated Bishop Phelan was not disposed to consider the net of hiding the will in the tabernacle an act of sacrilege. He could not understand how the will could have been placed where it was reported to have been found. "I am confident that Father Mollinger did not place it there," said he, "as he told me the will was in the possession of his at torney, and since the unfortunate demise of Father Mollinger the attorney said he knew nothing of it." Mr. Gregor Meyer, was yesterday appointed administrator of the estate and filed bond in the sum of ?150,000. The court ruled that the estate should be distributed under the intestate laws of Pennsylvania, among the relatives of the deceased in Holland. Mr. Meyer was seen late last night and said he had not yet heard ot the will being found. STSEETS TO BE GBADED AND PAYED. The Committee on Publio Works Slakes Many Recommendations. The Committee on Publio Works met yesterday and affirmatively recommended ordinances for the grading, paving and curbing of Bates street, Lotus alley, Vir ginia avenue, Trent street, York alley, Greenfield street, Taylor street, Brady street; fixing the width of the sidewalk on Castle man street; construction of a board walk on Kearcher street; opening Bobinson street, Jet alley, Smith street, Chislett street; for the construction of a sewer on Lyric street, Shingiss street, Bebecca street, Clawson street, Dithridge street, Bayard street, Herron avenue, Smith street, Hays street, St. Clair street, Turrett street, Tooley street, Kosciusko street, O Hara street, Ermine alley, Holden street, Mor gan street, Donegal alley, Kent alley and Vespuclus street An ordinance for the completion of the pavins of Pacific avenue with vitrified brick was referred to the City Attorney and Chief Bigelow, as the work was stopped by legal process some time ago. Sullivan Kejcains Bis Senses. James Sullivan, who, it was supposed, had been foully dealt with, and has been in a serious condition for some days at the Southside Hospital, regained consciousness last evening. He claims that he was not struck by a train, but it has been learned that he was hit at Six-Mile Ferry. He asks to see a Mrs. Bichard Sullivan, who he savs works at the Seventh t Avenue Hotel. It'is thought he will recover. In Memorlam. Omcs oy . j Si J WrarrEnir PrciN'A Ubick Exchange. Pittsbueo. June 21. 189i Wottiijih Wo learn witli sorrow of the sudden death or our esteemed brother, Will iam 3Ilninger, or tho firm of ilinsinger Brothers & Co. Besolved, That in hl3 deatb we have lost a valued- ahd esteemed member or our Ex change Kesoired, That the members of tho West ern Pennsylvania llrick Exchange extend to his sorrowing family their most heartfelt sympathy in tneir Dereavemenc EDWI3 McGkaw, 1 XAvren Wittmeb, J. Committee. J. P. Gbimzs. ) DIED. KENNEDY At New Brighton, Pa., on Monday afternoon, June 20, Fbxtj, son of George F. and Ella B. Kennedy, aged 11 .years. ' Funerai tWxninHSAT ATrxBxqos) June -it, 'at o'olock- ' ON FIRE WITH ECZEMA Terrible Suflerin;; or s Utile Baby. Seven Doctors and Two Hospitals Fail. Cured by Cutlcura. Biy baby boy. S months old, broke out with eczema. The Itching and burning was Intente; the eczema spread to his limbs, breast, face and head, until he was nearlj- covered; bis tortorlnc agonies were pitiable to behold; he had no peace and bnt little rest mn or day. He was under treat ment at different times at two hospital, and by seven doctors In this city without the least benefit; every prescription or the doctors was ralthfally tried, but he) irrew worse an the tlnie. For months 1 expended about (3 per weex foi medicines, and was erv tlrely dlscooratced. IpuT" chased CPTICPBA. CCTI- cmj:soi.ve:st and followed their directions to tne let- ter. Beller was Immediate, his sufferings were eased, ana rest and sleep permitteu. lie sieaoiiy Improved and In nine weeks was entirely enred, ana has now at clear a skin and Is as fair a bov as anr mother conld wish to see. I recommend every mother to use It for every Baby Humor. MRS. SI. FERGUSON. 83 Brookllne St., Boston, Cuticura Remedies The greatest skin cures, blood puriaera, and humor remedies or modern times, instantly rellevt the most agonizing forms or eczema and psorlaslsf and speedily, permanently, economically, and in falllbly cure eVery speclesortorturing. disfiguring. Itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply diseases and homors of the skin, scalp and blood, with loss or hair, from infancy to age, whether simple, scrofulous, or hereditary, when all other methods and best physicians fall. Fold everywhere. Price. CUTicUKA.SOc: Cnncrj ba Soap. 25c; Coticuba Hesolvmt, i. 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Every woman who has ever cooked a meal, knows thai lard is disagreeable in use and unhealthy in its effects. Cottolene is a most satis factory substitute clean, delicate and far more eco nomical. At your grocers N. K. FAIRBANKS CO., CHICAGO. PITTSBURGH ASENTSI , F. SELLERS & CO. AT JJfB THE NEXT MORNING I FfEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER. My doctor says It acts gently on tlie stornaeli, Mrer end kidneys and is a pleasant laxative. This drlnlc Is made from herbs, aid la prepared far me u easily 1 as tea. Itlscalled j LAKE'S MEDICINE All drniTtfsts cell Hat 3& and $1X0 per packaffa.) Buy ne to-riar- Ino' KomUr Medicine ijiotw up norma cnca'.cy ianucrtorancMUi hub ww Jilffll t iMflW'Flilll III I I f 435 aitffw W f ncce&sarj. 1 1 ( . - " "-'" "" "' - - .
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