LIwLIIISLiilLIMBtiLIIIIIIMPjilssaMillMiLllllltlLIIMillllllllli 3slKnRS9SM9H9SS9MHHEi 1EE PITTSBTJIia DISPATCH " SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 3892. FIFTY FEET THICK, That Is the Proven Thickness of the Fifth Sand in the Pinhook Field. IT MEANS GAS FOE TEAKS. This Kicli Sand Covers an Area of Over 25 Miles in Length. BIG PRESSURE OP THE KIDD WELL Humors of Another Big Find That Frovo to Be Only Gossip. IT WAS ONLY A FOURTH SAND GAS3EE The statements of The Dispatch as to the richness of the new Pinhook gas field are being borne out each day by natural gas experts and by the work of the drill. A. AY. 3IcCullougb,gas expertfor the Royal Gas Company, says the trnth of the great Pinhook field has hardly been stated and declares that it insures gas for years to Pittsburjj and the towns along the Alle gheny Valley. He says the drill has already proven that the fifth sand, which is the great producer of the Pinhook district, is 50 feet thick and covers an area of 32,000 square miles. This practically assures an abundant supply of the natural fuel for years to come. "While The Dispatch only claimed a length of 20 miles for the Pmhook field he puts its length at 25 miles for the one district and declares there is a go od gas field for 100 miles on the Pin hook anticlinal. Tbe Dlscovrrer of the McDonald Field. A. AY". JlcCullough, the expert who makes these statements, is the man who discovered the great McDonald oil field, and he had tapped the great Pinhook district be fore even the Hcrr well was drilled. He discovered gas in the fifth sand in Butler county several years ago. He was then working for A. H. Iiogan. The odor of the oil was so -strong that he believed there was oil close to the gas. Folloving the 40 line he finally decided that the oil nnt lie at McDonald. His employers had such faith in McCtfllough's judgment that they at once began to de velop the field. For six: months they had poor results but they persevered aud found the greatest-oil field of history. The Kidd well of the Equitable Company struck in the Pinhook field "Wednesday, caused a death yesterday when an attempt was made to shut it in and test it. On the first one-half minute it showed 210 ponnds picssure and its minute test was 315 pounds. YTl.en they went to take the rock pressure the gate valve bursted and "William Scott Anderson was killed and Patrick Tuche was seriou-ly injured. rirnty of Gas Tor Tears to Come. Yesterday The Dispatch received two lctteri from A. "W. McCullough on the Pin hook field. Neither Mr. McCullongh nor his company" own a foot of territory in the Pinhook field, so his statements are based purely on his observations and knowledge of the field. In a letter oi a semi-private nature he said: I ask -you to bear with ma while I group tosetlier some or the tacts that 1 have gath ered from long experience and observation in tbe ea and oil business. I might say en paant that I locite'd tbe well on Crooked creet, in Armstrong county, for the Pitts burg riate Glass Company that led to the discovery of tbe so-called fifth sand, months before tbe dulling of tbe II ess well, on Plum creek, In Allegheny county. Tbe great lock pressure Tf thatsand was a much or a revelation to me as tbe dis covery of tho sand itself. 1 pre dicted at the time, as my let ters to various persons will attest, tint the greatest gas Held eer opened would be brought in outh of Crooked creek. Tbe enormous rock pressure gave assurance or wonderful volume as soon as a pebble not oi gravel bod would be found In that hitherto unknown land stratum. Volume depends upon two things porosity of rock and the m-iximum gas pressure of that rock. Given in any gas Kind stratum a gravel bed and wo have instantaneous rock pressure tbo full volume as quickly as tbe gate can Te closed. o that 1 exactly what has happened both on Crooked creek and on Plum creek tbo termini of a gas district 21 miles long and the Lord only knows how wide, for Its width has not yet been deter mined bv the drill, the only thing that will determine both the persistence and tbo productiveness of that unique gas land icscr oir. I hii o no patience with the attempts to miminize the value of the disooverv of this deep sand deposit. "When the Speeebly sand was accidentally added to the list of pas-producing strata, by tbo drill of a tender foot operator piercing it, those who should have been Interested In the find were in clined to belittle tbe result; and scribblers wrote It down. But its record as a gas producer lias passed into history. Much in the same way lias there been an'attempt to tilk down, nud write dovrn, and cover up the facts concerning this new sand that is furnishing the largest wells in the State, both at Crooked creek and Plum creek. 1'iom Hill ton n, on llum creek. In Alle gheny county, to Walker's Mills to the northeast on Crooked creek in Armstrong county, along the crest of tho Finbook axis as tho crow flics it is 21 miles. The phenomenal ells at each terminus are pro ducing from identically the same sand and that a sand heretofore unrecorded in the stratigraphical column of rocks. Stooped Too Soon and railed. These people, who have been swift to write about tbe "failures" along that anticlinal, seem to be ignorant of tbe lact that such failures are tbe result of stopping the drill in stratum hundreds of feet above where this great fifth "5and is found. Xo man can foretell the future output of that fifth sand gas area In cuDic feet; but its persistence as evidenced by Its presence at two points 21 miles apart with no wells In tervening that have been drilled to its hor izon to prove that it does not extend the whole distance between; and its great thick ness, as already known on Crooked cieek, supplemented by Its enormous rock press tire are sufficient to warrant the prophecy and expectation of its fulfillment that a long-lived supply will be tbe result. Mr. McCullough's other letter, which was intended for publication, is as follows: The Pinhook anticlinal that has been brought into such prominence by the recent gas strikes at Plum creek in Allegheny county, and at Crooked creek in Armstrong county, is, longitudinally, one of the greatest of the rock waves that rolled back from the Allegheny Mountains at the time of their upheaval. starting to tho southwest below Amity, in "Washington cou iity.it takes Its course nortb, 40 east, until it reaches Mingo creek in the southern part of Nottingham township. At this point the strata resisting tbe uplifting force, remain "in situ," and tbe undulation shifts westward liko a plow thrown from tho furrow by an obstruction in its war. About five miles farther northwest tho fold ing starts in again in Peters township, and takes its original course across Southern .Allegheny county until it reaches the Mon ouguhela river below Braddock. From this point it sbilts westward again, iroin Its general bearing a distance of two miles starting anew at Homestead, and continuing its course, passing under Wil kinsburg, and thence on its northward way without further deviation untilit reaches the Kiskimlnetas river, above Bagdad station, on tbe West Penn Railroad. At this point the wave deflects, and the bearing changes to north 57 east, until it reaches Walker's Mills, on Crooked creek, in Armstrong county. Tbcnco northward, it is more or les.8 broken as it pastes out of Armstrong county, and finally loses its force and ales away in Jefferson county. Kortb of the Kiskimlnetas, different sec tions of the same strata crumpling take different names, such as "Bagdad, ' "Green dale," etc, but tbey are each and all parts or tbe great Pinhook axis. Its length is not less than 100 miles its anticlinal character leing pronounced the greater part of the dlstanco not so great in force, perhaps, as tho fourth and filth axes the Murraysrille and Brady's Bendrolls between and parallel to which it stretches for a lonj dlst-ince. It Extends through Five Counties. Considering the fact that this rook-wave traverses and lifts up portions of five coun ties in its course, it seems a misnomer to call the new gas field great as it is and is destined to be the "Pinhook field." That carries with it the idea, that the field is co extensive with tho an&linal that bears the newly found gas aredon its arched back and sloping sides. Tho fnct is there is but a limited portion of tho Pinhook nplift that carries this great firth sand gas deposit. From Plum creeic on tho southwest, in Alle gheny countv. to Walker's Mills on the northeast, oir:ooked creek in Armstrong countv, the distance along tbe backbone of ilio Pinhook is 21 miles. It is safe to assume th.it gas will lie lound in the fifth sand, along tbe trend of that anticlinal, for a dis tance of four miles southwest of Plumcrook. from that point to Crooked creek is 23 miles. Allowing two miles for the Width of the belt would give us 32,000 squat o miles of gas-rock from which to draw future supplies. This Is assuming that the transverse sec tion ofthe Pinhook axis, between the two gre.it gas fields now produolng from the so- callod fifth sand (I believe it should be tab ulated as the sixth sand), is underlaid for the whole distance br this recently discov ered sand stratum. We do not know that such is the fact; neither do we know that such Is not tbe fact. Time and the drill of the Indefatigable gas hunter will alone de termine the presence or tbe absence of tbe fifth sand nt intermediate points between the southern and northern termini of what now looks to be one continuous gas district. Tbe staying qualities of tbis and of all gas deposits depend upon three things, viz.; first, the persistence of tho gas-producing stratum and the area that it covers; second, its thickness; third, its character as to por osity. Capacity or n sand for holding gas can be determined when its extent, thick ness and character are known. Sot, what do we know of this deep sand on Crooked, creek and Plum creek? First We know that it is one and the same sand. How do we know it? We know it by careful instrumental and barometric lovelings, from one field to the other, basing our calculations upon well records kept with caro in both fields. Second We also know it by the rock pressure itself. The maximum pressuro of breadth of the stratum confining it. Hence, knowing beyond question that the sand is the same in both fields, wo assume its per sistence from one to tho other. What do we know about its thickness T On Crooked creek It has been drilled into upwnrd of 50 feet in a well on tbe edge of the deposit where the volume was not so great as to prevent drilling with the indi cations of a greater thickness to the soutli w est. All tbe Properties of a Great field. What do we know of tho character of the sand, its quality as to fineness or coarseness? Weunswer, it Is conglomeratic; pure,coarso sand and pebble. If we had not seen the sand, the volume of gas itself is the evi dence of the coarse granulations of which the stratum is composed. Here then we have evidence of the three-fold properties of that gas-producing sand, viz: persistence over an extensive area, unusual thickness for a lower sand and its open porous char acter, tnus making a capacious gas reser voir. Upon this ovidence we base the opinion tuat there is stored away in the rock-girt confines of that sand a supply of gas for many years to come for the twin cities at the mouth of the Allegheny and for tho numerous towns along its banks. A. W. McCuxlocoh. It was stated yesterday that a new gas field of immense proportions had been dis covered near Mt. N ebo by tbe Philadelphia Company. The minor was that the Phila delphia Company had struck a well on the "Wright farm back of Mt. Kebo that was as good as any of the Pinhook wells, and. that opened np'a uew gas territory five miles in length. A month or more ago the Philadelphia Company had bought two wells near Mt Kebo. The well on the "Wright farm was said to have been three miles away from any other well, and that this opened up a new field. It was considered a rich find, as it lay within half a mile of one of the Philadelphia Company's mains, and was only eight miles from Pittsburg. A Dispatch man was at once sent to the field. The new well is on the Robert C. "Wright farm, is within sight of a half dozen derricks, some of which cover dry holes. It is only a mile and a quarter from the Mt. Xebo oil wells. "While the oil is found in the third sand there at the "Wright well not a trace ot tne tmra sand was found. The gas was struck last Saturday at a depth of 2,000 feet It was closed in and when tested yesterday it showed a minute pres sure of 150 pounds "and a rock pressure of 500 pounds though it is claimed it will run 600. The sand is a heavy close one with no particularly good indications. There is an absence of loose pebbles, although some are found imbedded in the sand-like rock. History has never shown the fourth sand as a good sand producer. Veir Poor Promises of Richness. The Philadelphia Company does not even own the well. According tojhe statements of Robert C "Wright the well is owned by Kiskadden, Crawford and others. Thev have a lease on 40 acres of the "Wright farm. There are 35 acres of his tract un leased. The other farms in the neighbor hood are leased by a man named Darling ton. Yesterday some Philadelphia Com pany men visited the well. "Within a mile from this well are two wells oa the liobert B, "Wright farm that are dry. There are a dozen other wells in the neighborhood, some of which are dry and some that were brought in several years ago, and are worn out The only claim Mr. "Wright makes is that there is a strip half a mile wide running from Mt Nebo to the "Wildwood oil field that has never been drilled over. His strip, however, must follow the zigzag course of a rail fence to escape the numerous derricks that are only useful for the shadows they ' cast over theproposed new Perrysville field. One of the wells on this belt is the John Homann, which has only a minute pressure of 40 pounds. John Sammels, the well-known oil well contractor, has drilled all over the Mt Nebo field. In speaking of the territory last even ing he said: "It is one of the most spotted regions in the Southwest A couple of years ago wells were drilled there which had a gas pressure as liigh as 200 pounds a minute, but tbey failed to hold up. Next to these wells others were drilled, in which neither gas nor oil was found. The sand is apparently broken up into narrow streaks ot productive and bar ren sand, and no one is sure of a well." IK SCHENLEY'S "WILDS, United Workmen Spend a Few Happy Hoars In the Park. Center Avenue Lodge No. 124, A. O. TJ. W., with their wives, daughters, sweet hearts and friends to the number of 200, spent the day in the wilds of Schenley Park and had a generally good time. The young people tramped up and down the hills and vales, took advantage ot the 'numerous swings to get sunburned and dizzy; the mammas sat together on shaded settees and chatted, while the papas and big brothers played baseball, smoked, talked shop, lodge and baseball. A handsome portrait of Thomas "W. Mc Murray and wife was presented to the former by the lodge for the many years of faithful office holding. The presentation speech was made by C. W. Shann on in a few well-chosen and complimentary words. The day was a merry one and" all en joyed it BTEEEIS TO BE GBADED. A Number of Contracts Jjet for Improving Several Thoroughfares. Chief Bigelow yesterday awarded con tracts for 23 small lateral sewers in various parts of the city, and for several paving and graving jobs. The grading and paving with block stone of Thirty-sixth street was given to Booth & Flinn at $2 65 a square yard. The same firm trot the iob of asnhaltin? Cal- lowhill street at 52 50 a vard. K. Bracken' received the contract ot paving Dresden alley with irregular block at 51 20 a yard. The grading of Whitman street went to William Glew, and the Kent alley grading to H. C Howard. The Standard Scale Com- tany was awarded the contract for erecting ve sets of new weigh scales in various parts of the city. Bids were opened for tbe construction of an iron fire proof vault in the city clerk's office, but it was not awarded. A FATAL FLOW OF GAS. Tears One Man to Pieces and Blows Another Fully Thirty Feet. FIRST ACCIDENT IN THE PINHOOK. ' ! Three Suicides in Allegheny Within Twenty-Four Hours. HANI VIOLENT DEATHS IN ONE DAT The first fatal accident in the new Pin hook natural gas field occurred yesterday. Scott Anderson, of this city, a driller for the Equitable Gas Company, who has been in the business for seven years and is well known among oil and gas men in three States, was literally torn to pieces by the terrific force of the gas from a new well on the Kidd farm, at Milltown, two miles east of Verona. Patrick Tnhe, the foreman on the well, was seriously, if not fatally, in jured at the same time. The well is one which had been blowing oil since it was stfcck on Wednesday, the pressure being sd great that no attempt to even take a gauge of it had been made until yesterday. In the morning a gate valve had been put in place, to which the gauge was attached at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and quite a crowd interested in the new well gathered to sec the pressure taken. Killed by the Flow or Gas. At about 3 o'clock the valve was grad ually closed, but pebbles and sand thrown np by the gas clogged the gate so that it could not be closed entirely. After it had been screwed up as tight as possible for a half minute the gauge showed 210 pounds pressure. At one minute it showed 315 poundr. In another minute it showed COO pounds, but there it stopped. The crowd left at once, supposing thatwas the pressure limit, leaving only Anderson and Tune at the welt About a half hour later an explosion was heard, and a number of persons rau to the scene, J. T. Hovey being the first to arrive. Anderson was found lying 125 feet from the derrick unconscious, his lees and arms broken, a great hole torn in his side and his face and breast filled with sand that had been blown into the flesh. The force of the gas had torn the shoes from his feet, the sole of one shoe being ripped from the upper, and his watch was broken to pieces, bits of it being found all over the field. Anderson died in a few moments alter the explosion. Very Slight Hope for Life. Tube was found 30 feet from the well. One ot his legs is broken, his sight is gone, the sand having been blown into his eye balls, and he is internally injured. He is at the "West Penn Hospital and may die. Tube is from Sardis, O. Tuhe says the gauge had stopped regis tering after reaching 500 pounds, but the sound made by the gas escaping from the narrow aperture between the gate and the valve seat convinced them that the pressure was growing, and they were just about to open the valve w hen the accumulated pres sure broke the three-quarter-inch gate of the valve and tore it to pieces. The wx-inch gas pipe, 12 feet long, to which the valve had been attached, was hurled 30 feet away. After the accident the well was got under control, the casing was anchored and at midnight the sound ot escaping gas was heard at Verona,two miles away. The remains of Anderson were brought to the city last night, and the Coroner will in vestigate the case to-day. It the accident had occurred while the crowd was about the well the loss of life would have been great THREE SUICIDES IN A DAY. The Body of a Dependent German Found In the Klver Henry Tanker Throws Him. self Under a Train An Unknown Italtan Hangs Himself, An unknown man, evidently a' German, about 35 years of age, suicided by drowning in the Monongahela river at the footof South Third street Thursday night, but the dead man was not discovered until yester day morning. The man had been loitering around the Castle Shannon Coal Works all day Thursday, aud, in conversation with tbe teamsters at the works, said he was very sick. When the men quit work in the evening he was still there, but later be was seen going down South Tnird street toward the river. His body was found on South First street at 10 o'clock yesterday morn ing. It was taken to Ward's undertaking rooms, but no one recognizes it The de ceased wore shabby clothes, had sandy hair and mustache and weigned .about 140 pounds. Henry Yunker adopted a horrible method for committing suicide yesterday morning. As a shifting engine wigs passing Thirty eighth street on the Allegheny Valley Bail road with a train of empty passenger coaches Yunker threw himself under the wheels of a car in the middle ot tne train. ine- wneeis ot one car had passed over him, mangling his body in a horrible manner before the train was brought to a standstill. Domestic troubles led to the suicide. Yunker was a butcher, lived on the upper floor of No. 1142 Penn avenue, and was the father of 13 children, 7 of whom are living. For some months he had been quarreling with his fam ily, abusing his children and has recently had a number of suits entered against him. Agent O'Brien, .of the Hu mane Society, got after him last week aud entered a suit before Alderman Donovan, charging Yunker withabusingandneglecting his children. Yunker failed to appearat the hearing Thursday evening and yesterday morning a constable started in search of him. It was claimed he suicided to avoid arrest, but a letter found on tbe body shows the act was premeditated. The letter' ac cuses P.othlein. the butcher who occupies the first floor of the house 1142 Penn ave nue, with being the cause of the suicide's troubles, and charges his son and daughter with having deceived him and stolen his goods. The inquest will be held to-day. Some children . playing around an old abandoned dwelling at Bridgeville yester day morning were startled by finding, on the upper floor of the building, the ghastly corpse of a man hanging suspended by a rope from a cross beam. The authorities were notified, but no one could identify the body. The man was evidently an Italian, about 38 vears of age, and had not been hanging long. 'Squire McMillen, ot Mans field, was authorized by the Coroner to in vestigate the case, and an inquest will be neld to-day. g DEATH ENDED A DBTJHK, Bridget O'Brien's Demise Causes the De tention ot Her Companions. Bridget O'Brien was found dead in bed after a night of debauch yesterday morning at Xo. 399 Beaver avenue, Allegheny, under circumstances which indicate mur der. William Evans, her brother-in-law, and Luke Gallagher, rfho had been drink ing and carousing in the house the pre vious night, were arrested, but subsequently released. . Mrs. O'Brien has been making her home with Evans since she left her husband a 'year ago. The hous.6 is a two-room affair, squalid and filthy to an extreme. Evans, Gallagher and the woman in the house had been on a spree Tuesday night and a fight took place during which it was supposed Mrs. O'Brien had been killed. The Coroner had a post mortem held and it was found that death had resulted from valvular disease of the heart and there were no marks of violence whatever. Evans and Gallagher were thereupon released. Died From Excessive Alcoholism. George C Lang, a former saloonkeeper at 19 Concord street, Allegheny, died at the Allegheny General Hospital yesterday of excessive alcoholism. Lang had been re fused a license ever since the Brook's law went into efiect and had been drinking hard for long time. He had cuts on his head and a fractured rib which, it has been found, were received by a tall while, he was drunk. JUMPED FK0M A SKIFF. Little John BCrookston Is Drowned While Ills Companion Is Saved. The drowning of little John B. Crooks ton, at Verona, has caused general sorrow in that borough. The little fellow is the only son of John Crookston, the leading business man of the town, and was 10 years old. With Wallace Itaadolph he went down to vthe river on Thursdav evening and jumped into a skiff moored along the shore. The rope broke and the skiff began to drift away, frightening the boys, who jumped into the water. A ferryman a short distance below rano their assistance and saved the Ran dolph boy, but before he reached tbe other he had drowned. Although he had only been in the water about six minutes the little fellow was dead when taken out The Coroner's jury found a verdict of accidental drowning yesterday. Got Beyond His Depth. Allen McFeeters, a 14-years-old boy, was drowned at the foot of Fifth street, Mc Kecsport, while in swimming yesterday morning. The little fellow was unable to swim, and getting into deep water sank from sight and was drowned before his com panions missed him. The body was recov ered last evening about 100 yards below. An iuquest will be held to-day. BOTH SIDES SATISFIED. The Taking of Testimony In the Maryland Central Cann Concluded in Pittsburg Over 81,000,000 Loaned by Local Banks on Tarlons Stocks as CoIlater.il. The last of the testimony wanted from Pittsburg in the Maryland Central case was taken up yesterday, and the commission was closed. Nothing remains now but to report the evidence to the Baltimore courts. O. P. Scaife and A. Groetzinger, Presi dent of the German National Bank, were the only witnesses examined. Mr. Scaife said he was in Europe at the time the Ter minal Company scheme was hatched and he didn't know anything about It Marvin S. Scaife, his brother, is now in Paris, where he has been for over a year. John Henry Miller said yesterday that Marvin Scaife hadn't lost any money in the deal, on the contrary he had made some. At the conclusion of the hearing Mr. Schoyer said he had no objections to telling the bankers what his object was in getting their testimony. He wanted to know what had become of the assets of the various companies He added that he would prob ably hold everybody concerned, bankers and all, before he got through. The bank ers, when they found the reporters were ex cluded, testified very freely and told in de tail just what had been lost The testimony shows that it will be difficult to trace the money. It was developed that over 51,000, 000 were taken out of Pittsburg. The money was loaned on the stocks of the companies as collateral. There were 18,000 shares of Penn Anthracite stock, and it was loaded down with bonds amrunting to 52,000,000, in addition to the mortgage for the purchase money, a legitimate debt Mr. Schoyer, for the plaintiff, holds that the money should have been invested for the benefit of the company. The Penn An thracite stock was the one used chiefly for collateral. Mr. Schoyeriis satisfied " with the evidence, and will go to Baltimore next to take testtmony there. During the hearing M. H. Houseman kept ud a constant fire of objections. He said afterward that the case could easily be settled as the other suits, had been, but Gustave Lindenthal is in the background, and he wants too much. Mr. Lindenthal put in a claim of 58.000 for salary and 51,000 for a number of shares of stock that he held. Mr. Houseman said as the Baltimore peo ple had been guided by Mr. Lindenthal they thought it was rubbing it in, and they refused to pay. Headded that if the al legations in Mrs. Du" Puy's bill could be proved, the Baltimore crowd would have to stand the loss. He thinks up to date there isn't a particle of evidence to support the allegations in tbe bill. TBAIHLOAD OF GRAIN DRILLS. About 1,000 to Bs Shipped From Spring field to Kansas City mid Missouri. Next week 40 carloads of grain drills will be shipped to Kansas City from Spring field. The special train will be in charge of W. M. Clark, the local commercial agent of the Missouri Pacific road. Mr. Clark said yesterday there would be 1,600 drills, and if they were placed in a row, one touch ing the other, would extend five miles. The weight will be more than 1,500,000 pounds, and the cost of the shipment about 5100,000, The freight charges w ill reach 59,000. The drills will be distributed in Kansas and Western Missouri. . Mr. Clak says it is remarkable how soon the farmers can recover from losses. In these two States the floods nearly ruined their crops, but they are not discouraged. Most of these drills are sold already, and will be used to plant the fall wheat TOUGH 05 TALBOT. His Girl Goes Back on Him, and He Charges Her With larceny br Bailee. John Talbot entered suit before Alder man Warner yesterday charging Miss Irene Mathews with larceny by bailee. Talbot and the girl were engaged to be married next Wednesday, and he had been saving his money to buy her wedding dress and pay for a trip. He had accumulated 5250, and Miss Mathews was the banker. About a month ago she met Howard Crooley, a passenger brakeman on the P. B, E., at a ball, and the pair was smitten. They had arranged to elope to Oil City, when Talbot had the girl arrested. They had already bought the tickets. Talbot and Crooley almost came to blows in tbe Alder man's office. GILDED A 8ILVEB .WATCH, flow a Slick Stranger Hoodwinked Several Pawnbrokers. Quite a number of the pawnbrokers of this city were victimized yesterday by a slick stranger, who managed to work them for small sums of money. His scheme was to go into the shopss and pawn what ap peared to be a very handsome gold watch tor 520. Shortly alter, when the broker came to examine the watch, he found it to be a very cheap silver time piece, worth abont 510, which had been very neatly gilded. The police are looking for him. Electric Club Mnsicale. The Pittsburg Electric Club had an en joyable evening last night at their rooms, 802 Penn avenue. The occasion was a social mnsicale. A fine programme was arranged and well carried out. H. P. Eckerwasthe pianist. Louis Doeblin played Ernst's elegy for the violin, and was followed by Joseph C. Breil, who sang several tenor solos. An imitation of the oration, "Brutus and Cassius," was given by Pro A. A. Mallow. Homer Moore sang a song and Charles W.Fleming played a mandolin solo. A Mother's Testimony Causes Her to Faint Mrs. Martin Hotzer fainted in the Alle gheny Mayor's office yesterday while giv ing her testimony against Ered Hershey, who is charged with assaulting her 14-year-old daughter. Bestoratives revived the lady. Hershey was held in 51,000 bail for court. Dr. B. M. Haitita. Bye, hroat diseases exclusively, ttroet, Pittsburg, Pa. ear, nose and Office, 720 Penn asu FOR MR. CLEVELAND. The County Democracy Batifies The Nominations Made at Chicago. HILL'S NAME LOUDLY CHEERED. Mr. Masse, of Delaware, Bays Harrison Has a Clear Track NOT A CANDIDATE FOR BEADLEI'S SEAT. Six hundred moist but happy advocates of tariff reform met in the old University building last night and ratified the nomina tion of Grover Cleveland. It was a hot night too hot, in fact, tde the nerve-straining task of inaugurating a political campaign, but the County Democracy had resolved to do tbe job in workmanlike style, and it did. At first the crowd sweltered in silence, and there was a sad lack of enthusiasm, but after the orators had warmed to their work and a vagrant breeze had drifted through an open window and partly cooled the torrid at mosphere, there was a decided change for the better, and before the gathering was dismissed the cheering for Cleveland and the party leaders was simply deafening. The meeting was called for 8 o'clock, but it was long after the appointed hour when W. J. Brennen, the Chairman of the County Democratic Association, under whose auspices the meeting was held, called the audience to order, and Thomas J. Kee nan, Sr.,-was made Chairman. Mr. Keenan Urges Harmony. 'Icame to hear, not to talk," said Mr. Keenan, "but I am willing to do anything for the cause." Then, after he had praised the candidates and the platform, and urged his hearers to bury all differences and work for the ticket, he announced that he awaited the pleasure of the meeting. These gentlemen were chosen Vice Presi dents and invited to the platform: Messrs. W. A. Slpe, C. A. O'Brien, John Marron, James Atwell, John Leech, Bernard Call, William Wall, P. A. Killgallon, J. W. Moore and J. W. Mowry. When all these preliminaries had been arranged, Mr. W. A. Sipe was introduced as "a true soldier of the Democracy, "and in tne course oi his remarks said: liofore tbe Chicasro Convention I was a hard worker for David Hill. I admired the man who had made New York a Democratic State, hut w hen the convention assembled I saw that the one name tower ing hish above every other name and the one that stirred tbe hearts of the people was that of Grover Cloveland. He is tho logical and natural candidate of the party. Eight years azo he was the standard beaiorwho, altera quarter of a century of Bopublican plunder and rapine, led tne De mocracy to a great and Morions victory. Four years ago, rather than forego his con victions of tariff reform, this same man, uioveiana, at tne risK or personal defeat, made known hi views to the people. Tho Only Issue la Tariff Beform. As the representatives of the 28,000 Demo crats of Allegheny county, let us Join with thev 7,000,000 Democrats of the country in ratifying tne nomination of Cleveland and Stevenson. This is not the time to disenss tho issues of the campaign. There is really but one issne, and that is tariff reform. We must lay aside all personal differences and present a solid front to the foe. We must organize, for without organization we can do nothing. We do not evpoct to win the electoral vote of Pennsylvania for Cleve land, but we do expect and will keep Con. gress. You all know that the Republicans have already attempted to pass their in famous force hill and kindred acts of class legislation. They will do it again, and our only safeguard is to retain our hold on Con gress. Mr. Sipe's speech was well received, but Hill's name aroused a deal more enthusiasm than that of Cleveland. John Marron was introduced as the "man with the big hat" He said among other things that he was a political freebooter, and that he had been called a Mugwump so ften that he was proud of it "To my mind 'Cleveland is the most singular character in American nolitics since Lincoln. He was at first a 'political accident,' but he had out grown his party, is now their leader, and a worthy one he is. C. A. Sullivan predicted ,the political death of Harrison. The Irish Are True Democrats. William Wall's speech created a mild sensation. By way of preface he remarked that it had been said that the South expects the Irish of New York to elect Harrison. He could say that the Irish have always been true to the Democratic party, and if it wasn't for the Irish there would be no Democratic party. He concluded with a eulogy of Cleveland. D. F. Patterson next voiced his approval of the ticket They were there, he said, to say the convention did well no matter who may have been the choice of individuals he forehand. The choice had been made and it was now the dnty of every Democrat to gird on his armor and do his best W. J. Brennen said he had not been for Cleveland's nomination, but he was for him now. He praised both Cleveland and Stevenson as good Democrats. After the speech-making the crowd cheered Cleveland, whose portrait done in black and white, adorned the south wall of the hall. NOT A JUDICIAL CANDIDATE. George W. Slassey, of Delaware, Says He Is Not After Bradley's Place Harrison a Bright and Shining Political LIEht Can Beat Cleveland. George W. Massey, the World's Fair Commissioner for Delaware, was a passen ger on the limited last evening bound for Chicago. He was one of Harrison's strong est leaders on the floor of the convention at Minneapolis, and shortly after the nomina tion was made it was announced that he had been tendered Bradley's place on the United States Supreme bench. Mr. Massey said the report was a canard, and added that he was not a candidate for the position. He understood his name had been used, but that was all he knew about it. He thought Delaware was too small a State and he was too small a man to be pot on the Supreme Bench. . George Shiras, Jr., of Pittsburg, is a can didate, but tnere are many who believe that Massey will be the man. The Delaware lawyer did some great work for the Presi dent, and it is believed a place on the Su preme bench will be his reward. "Harrison," said Mr. Massey, "is a brainier man than the people suppose. He is the bright and shining light of the age in politics. His nomination was the wisest that could have been made. I have always been "for Blaine, aud at Cin cinnati in 1876 Delaware voted tor Blaine once oftener than Maine. In 1884 I s'ood by him through thick and thin when the politicians from Pennsylvania who wanted Blaine this time voted solidly against him. They thwarted the wishes of the people in tne State. This year a new condition confronted us, and fair play demanded the renomination of Harrison. Blaine virtually invited him to be a candidate. I know it is claimed that tbe President's friends forced him to write the letter of declination, but I have seen no evidence to prove it. Har rison will be re-elected with a big ma jority." Mr. Massey referred with pride to the manner in which the Harrison delegates held together. He said Depew and he were put down in the list of officeholders, be cause tbty are World's Fair Commissioners, but he remarked that he was out of pocket 51,500 annually, and anybody could have his job that wanted it Bandall Club Will Ratify To-Nlgbt. , The Bandall Club will arrive home at 7 o'clock this evening oyer the Pittsburg and Western Bailroad and will be met at tho. station and escorted to the clubhouse by the stay-at-homes. A ratification.meeting will be held later and addresses will be made by prominent speakers, who will accompany the club from Chicago. TATE'S VIEW OF THE TICKET. Harrlty and Hensel Carried Out Governor Paulson's Instructions. A few straggling shouters and delegates from Chicago passed through the city last evening going home. The body of the Democrats struck the city during the day. The Pennsylvania road handled eiht sec tions up till 2 o'clock, and there were three sections in the evening. The crowds cleaned out the restaurant in the Union depot, and they surged into the St James Hotel and the eating saloons near by. junong me .Democrats at the depot last evening were H. D. Tate, -private secretary for Governor Pattison; John M. Reynolds and.G. M. Harry, delegates from Bedford; S. L. Mestrezat, of Unipntown; Dr. E. A. Sharpneck, Greene county, and James F. Brown, secretary of the Central Committee; Paul Reagan and James Bav, District of Columbia. Mr. Tate said that Harrity and Hensel had carried out Governor Pattison's instructions strictly. His name was not mentioned in the convention, and he was for Cleveland first, last and all the time. The Governor is delighted with Grover's nomination. Mr. Tate thinks that Stevenson will greatly strengthen the ticket, as he will be popular with the radical Democrats who are opposed to Cleveland's policy of retain ing Bepublicans in office under the civil service. A HOESE 8TTJJIBLES. Frederick J. Kurlz Badly Injured While Biding. Several serious accidents occurred yes terday, among them the following: Kuktz Frederick J. Kurtz, an employe of the East End Laundry, was riding a horse on Forbes street yesterday afternoon and the animal tripped and fell. Kurtz fell un der the horse and his arm was broken, be sides being injured internally. He lives at S8i2 Forbes street, wnere he was taken. TitESHWATtE Robert Tresh water, a boy employed at William Lansendorfer's plan ing mill, Sarah street, Allegheny, had four fingers of his right hand cut off by a fly-saw yesterday afternoon. He was taken to tho Allegheny General Hospital. His home is at No. 26 Harland street. iicSwEEY Allen McSweeny, tho lt-year-oldson of Captain McSweeny, of Braddock, was drowned j esterday morning while bath ing in the Monongahela river. His body was recovered within halfan honr. Henicessy Michael Hcnnessy was struck by a Birmingham car yesterday and danger ously injured. He was removed to the Southsldo Hospital. IAST LAY FOE PAYING TAXES. Water, Business and Mercantile Become Delinquent After Jane 30. ' Next Thursday will be the last day when city water and business taxes and the State Mercantile tax can be paid without having 5 per cent added, the collection of these revenues going delinquent after June SO. At the. City Treasurer's office the pay ment of the water and business taxes have been slow. The receipts up to yesterday morning were 5160,117 86 from water, and 522,705 32 from business tax. This is less than is usually collected at this time, and unless there is a rush during the early part of the coming week the Delinquent Tax Collector will have a big list of 1892 taxes to draw his 5 per cent commission from. The city collects as her share of the State Mercantile tax about 550,000, but thus far only about 515,000 has been received. Fought With a Broken ieg. Morris Sullivan, employed by Thomas Atchesoo, the contractor, while unloading railroad ,ties from a car in the Allegheny Valley Bailroad yard at Twenty-sixth street yesterday, was hit on the foot by a heavy tie and his leg broken. He accused a Pole of doing it, and, hoppirig around on one foot to where the Pole was, he hit him a terrific blow. He followed it up with others, and the fellow only escaped a severe beating by running. New Bridge at Boston. On Monday morning Messrs. Harrold & Lynch, who have secured the contract for the erection of a foot and wagon bridge across the Yough river at Boston, will begin the dredging and stone work for the abut ments and piers. The King Bridge Com pany, of Cleveland, O., will do the iron and steel work. THE iATEST BY WIKE FROM The Scene of the Late Convention. I nave purchased 300 medium grade. 100 nish zrade. and 150 bovs and cills wheels nf standard make at closing ont sale. Adver tise them at one-half to two-thirds of regular price. IIabey D. Squires, Chicago, Juue H. To Pittsburg Cycle Co. Why Some Women Grow Old. A woman expends more vital energy In baking one batch of bread than she can re gain by careful nursing in four or five days. In other words, every baking of bread short ens her life just so much. Does it pajT Why should women bo old and caroworn before middle life? Marvin's fine bread is just as good and pure and sweet as the best housewife can make. It's just as cheap and it saves all the worry and bother and work of baking. Why not use itT You can get it from yourgrocer fresh every day. Try it during the hot weather and sat isfy yourself. mtIis Whitman's Saddles are the best. A large stock and complete line for ladles and men nt Pitts burg Harness Emporium, 42S and 423 Wood street. Yonng Men Starting out in life who desire to create an absolute estate pacing large dividends should send their asce, name and address for an illustration of what a saying of $20 to $10.) a year will do, to H. B. Moeser, Manager, 031 Wood street, Pittsburg, Pa. wsau Saddles. Two dollars and fifty cents to $25. Call and see them at Pittsburg Harness Emporium, 426 and 4JS Wood street. Iieadixo specialties In men's white and fancy vests. James H. Aikkx & Co., 110 Fifth ave. A spkcial lot of ladles' saddles at $3 each for tbe next ten days. Brand new goods. See tnem at Pittsburg Harness Emporium, 42S and 428 Wood street. Electrocutioii sometimes fails. Bugino nevei fails to kill roaches, bcdbug, etc., in stantly. 25 cents at all dealers. Sweat Pads Beduced from $1 00 to 73c per piirat burg Harness Emporium, 42S and4J8 street. Pitts Wood Shall In size, great in results; De Witt's Little EarlyBisers. Best pill for constipation best for sick headache and sour stoinacu. X.enther Team Kets $2 00 nnd upward at Pittsburg Harness Em porium, 426 and 428 Wood street. WALL PAPER. See our line of 10c, 15c aud 25c Wall Paper with borders to match. J. KERWIN MILLER & CO., 543SmitMeldSt.,Rtt3burg, Pa. Je4-s FINE STATIONERY, ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. W. V. DERM ITT & CO., J9 SIXTH AVENUE. apS-TTMU ROW AMONG: NURSES. Three Males and Females Suspended at the West Fenn Hospital. MUCH OPPOSITION TO MES. JILES. She Plays Detective and rinds a Couple in a Locking Chair. WAITING FOE SUPT. COWAN TO BETUEN A Kilkenny fight is in progress at the West Penn Hospital among the nurses and physicians. Superintendent Cowan is not at home, but when he returns the trouble will be settled. Wednesday etvening Assistant Superin tendent Woodward suspended three male and three female nurses until Monday, when they will be given a hearing. The trouble originated some months ago, when Mrs. Davis, head nurse in the female department, left, and Mrs. Jiles, an outsider, was ap pointed. A number of the old nurses were provoked, and censured Superintendent Cowan for his action, and openly showed their hostility to the new head nurse. Sev eral serious collisions occurred between the nurses and the head nurse, and it is alleged the latter made the remark that she would have a new set of nurses inside of a year. A Fuss Abont a Funeral. A month ago Harry Jennings, a nurse at the hospital, died. A subscription was started among the employes to raise money enough to pay his funeral expenses. About 5106 was collected, Mrs. Jiles contributing 51 00. When it came to making out a list oftho.se who should attend the funeral, Mrs. Jiles1 refused to allow any of her girls to go, saying they did not know tne deceased, and were not acquainted with any of the male nurses. " About a week afterward Mrs. Jiles re ceived a note thanking her for the ''loan" of the dollar, but they found they did not need it and so would return it to her. The dollar w&y inclosed, and no name were signed to tne letter. Mrs. Jiles took the letter to Superintendent Cowan and a thorough investigation failed to reveal th e anthor or authors of the note. Six Xnrgea Are Suspended. In the past week or two she has heard rumors about the night nurses in the female wards, and the night nurses in the male wards down stairs. Accordingly she ex ercised especial vigilance, and Wednesday morning abont 3 o'clock she found three nurses from her ward together with three male nurses from the wards down stairs, on the south porch. One couple was at one end ot tne porch, another couple was at the other end, and the third couple occupied a rocking chair in the center of the porch. She reported the matter to As sistant Superintendent Woodward, who called the culprits up and suspended them until next Monday. The reason is that Superintendent Cowan is away on his vaca tion, and although be left positive orders that anybody behaving in a refractory manner should be discharged on the spot, it was thonght best to wait and let him settla the matter. The nurses under suspension have all been at the hospital for a long time. The authorities positively refused to divulge the names. , W03IEVS srmll talk by Margaret Welch in THE DISPATCn to-morrow. Fob the best dental operations of all kinds go to Dr. Templeton, 4'6 Penn avonue. CARPETS! GREAT CLEARING SALE! The accumulation ot a season's business broken lots, single pieces and patterns we do not intend duplicating of Axminsters, Wiltons, Velvet', Body andiTapestry Brus sels and Extra Super Ingrains AT REMNANT PRICES. . MATTING! Our new importations of China and Japanese Straw Matting now complete : 500 Bolls at 55 per roll. 100 Bolls White Matting at 55. 300 Bolls Jointless at 57 to 59. 200 Bolls Pagodas at 510. 100 Bolls Damask at 512 to 515. These prices are all for full rolls of 40 yards. , LARGE LINE LACE CURTAINS At 75c to $5 a Pair. We are making Bemnants 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. GROETZINGER, 627 AND 629 PENN AVE, jel9-TTSsa BIBER & EAST0N. Continuance of Our Sale India "Silks -AND- Organdie Lawns. Have just made large accession to these stocks at greatly reduced figures. Ve call attention to our Offering of India Silka At 37jc, worth 50c. At 75c, worth $1. These embrace light and dark effects, in richest colorings and new est designs. ORGANDIE LAWNS AT 25c, The perfection of summer dress fabric in exquisite printings. BIBER & EAST0N, MS XSD 507 MAEKKT SH je23-TTssa 2JIW APTgBTISKMKXTa. The Leading Dry Goods House. Plttsburj, Pa Saturday, June 23, 1S JOS. DIE & C0S PMN AVENUE STORES. Saturday, Men's Day! FURNISHINGS FOR SUMMER TIME. The largest and finest assortments of goods, right up to date in fashions, at the lowest prices it is possible to make. Whatever is new you will find here. If a new shape or shade in Neckwear, or a new -"wrinkle" in suspenders, or a new style in Fancy Shirts, or a new shape in Collars has appeared in the market, men know to go to the Penn Avenue Stores to get it. Everything that is new up to the present will be found here to-day. UNDERWEAR: French and English Balbriggan Underwear at 50c per garment starts the values your way. These goods would be more than ordinary value at 75c. But a low-priced Gauze Shirt that sells price 25 c it's wonderfully good for the money. The popular Pepperel Jean Drawers, made plain, are 50c and 75 c; with the elastic seams and ankles the price is Si. Nainsook Shirts and Drawers are new. They're wonderfully cool. Price 75c. But this great department excels especially in the fine Undent ear not found in any store in these cities. Prices only what we have to make them Always fair. Best French, German and English manufacturers are represented, and everything re liable and desirable made in America. HALF-HOSE: At the popular price of 25 c the best values ever before offered in fast blacks, plain colored and fancy striped. And at 35c a pair, or 3 pairs for $1, genuine bargains in Fast Blacks and "Modes." NEGLIGEE SHIRTS: More new styles to-day in those popular $1 Zephyr Shirts equal value never seen before in a J5i shirt. New Patterns in Zephyr Madras Negligee Shirts, with the new Natick collars and laundered cuffs prices $2, 2.50 and 3. Flannel Negligees, all new patterns tand styles, in dark colors, fancy stripes and checks, $1.50 and $2. Silk Negligees, new patterns, new colorings, mostly neat stripes, all more than ordinary values prices $4, $5 and $5.50 each. SUMMER COATS AND TENNIS SUITS: At marked-down prices. Both are our own importation, the best makes and styles, but they must go quickly. So to-day Tennis Suits worth 15 to $20 are 10, and Summer Coats from $ 2 to $10 are marked down one- r fourth. NECKWEAR: A display without rival it's so pro nounced by those who look around before they buy. The makes we carry unquestionably lead the world for styles. Wash Neckwear 35c and Upward. Silk Neckwear 25c and Upward. Fresh arrivals of F. C. & F. Wash Neckwear this morning. WHITE SHIRTS: You'll find none to rival our Si "Stag's Head" for the price. Men who wear them once wear them al ways they pronounce the Stag's Head perfect in shape and work, and they wear best. The Stag's Head Shirts come laundered or unlaun dered. Si (6) cost $5.50. 1 2 cost j5n. We have all of the "Star" Shirts, plain and fancy, open or plain bosoms. Prices $1 upward. J0S.H0RNE&C0., 609-621 PENN iTENUK J I -i. -. Ji m? J.fcaiJLd!&ei3Si2; hj tBi-;i.f.JbfcJSfiiyj':'K5ryp'f3M
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