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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
WOULD ABOLISH MINISTER'S.
McAdoo is Opposed to Sending Representa-
tives to Foreign Courts.

McAdoo is Opposed to Sending Representa-
tives to Foreign Courts.
WASHINGTON, D. c., January II. Dur
ing the discussion of the diplomatic and
consular bill in the House to-day, Mr.. Nc
Adoo, of New Jersey, said that he could
not allow the bill to pass without emphasiz-
ing what he considered to be the popular
demand for abolishing the United States
Ministers abroad. One of the great
countries of Europe was unrepresented by a
Minister in this country.
The British Government had refrained
from sending Minister to Washington, for
the purpose of resenting what is considered
to be an insult. Ninety-nIne per cent of
our people did not know nor care whether
England sent Minister or not; and the
interests of the United States would not
suffer if it did not send a Minister to Eng
land or any where else. 1t was a most ab-
surd thing to his mind that the United
States should send Ministers to royal courts
They came in at the tail Of the bespangled,
befeathered, bedizened diplomats of the
world. The system was absolutely untitled
to the character Of free country.
Mr.. McCreary, Of Kentucky, was not
prepared to say that the diplomatic service
should be abolished. The United States had
had many distinguished men to represe mt it
abroad who had reflected much credit upon
the country.
The bill was passed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13

his air of melancholy and hope long de-
ferred-"Alas! how is it with him that he
does not bend his eyes on vacancy and with
the incorporeal air hold discourse?" Listen
to its ramblings:
"TenlyearS ago to-day was young, san
guine and strong, and with light heart
drove this rotted pick deep into the earth,
and, surrounded by an adpiring throng,
tore from mother earth the first spadeful
for
THE CELLAR AND FOUNDATIONS
of the new postofice; and deep again I
drove the shining tool, thus" And
he whirled the az on high;
but, alas! he had forgotten,
and pick and handle parted, and his trem-
bling, palsied old hands fell by his side,
and he groaned aloud as he realized that be
should never live to see the beautiful towers
and battlements finished, and that letter
for him, in that particular postofice, would
never, never come. And the burden of his
great woe could no longer be borne, and he
weekly drew his scant frame up the totter.
ing ladders to the second story, where he
would never be discovered, and lay down
quietly and died, with his dismantled pick
at his head.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
A YOUTHFUL SUICIDE.
Jefferson Davis, 12-Year-Old Lad, Takes
Rough on Rats to See What II Tastes
Iike-Na NIafixa fnr the Acf.

Jefferson Davis, a 12.Ycar-Old Lad, Takes
Rough on Rats to See What II Tastes
Iike-No Motive for the Act.
A very mysterious suicide occurred in
Allegheny yesterday. A 12-year-old boy
took dose Of rough on rats, and in few
hours was corpse. No motive
can be assigned for the act.
The boy Jefferson Davis lived on Spring
street extension in the Twelfth ward, ALLIE
gheny, and for the past four weeks has
worked for Wood & Herman, Real Estate
Agents, at 445 Smithfield street. He
was at work yesterday as usual, and
about O'Clock went out to a drugstore
and bought box of rough on rats. He
took some of the poison and went back to
the office. In little while he became ill
and told one of his employers that he had
taken something that made him feel sick
They made him wash his face and rinse his
mouth out and then. thinking he ould be
better at home, gave him his weeks wages
and started him off.
The lad went home and gave his money to
his mother, but did not tell her why he had
returned so early. An aunt, Mrs. Henry
Bender, lives across the street and he went
10 her house, where he played for
an hour or so. Then he went home
and complained of feeling sick. Mrs.
Kennedy accused him of having been smok-
ing. but he denied this not, however, tell
ing what he had taken. He grew worse,
and at 2 o'clock, an hour after he showed
symptoms of illness, DR.. Robinson was
called in. By that time the poison was
working and the lads life could not be
saved, and he died at 2:30.
Just before he died he told his mother
that he had taken the poison and that he had
done so to see what the taste was like No
other motive could be learned by his father,
who investigated the matter last night and
learned the story as given above.
Coroner Mcdowell was notified last night
that a death had occurred on Spring street,
but neither name nor number was given and
he had nothing for guide in an investiga-
tion. He will take up the case to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
AN OHIO HUSBAND.

The Long Array of Charges Preferred in a
Divorce Suit.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIspATcH.j
AKRON, o., January 12.-Caroliue B.
Dissinger, wife of Hiram Dissinger, q
prominent Canal Fulton physician, we'll
known in Northern Ohio, brought suit for
divorce in this city to-day. Akron now being
her residence. She alleges neglect, cruelty
and unfaithfulness. She says that when
she lay i'll last summer her husband re-
fused at first to attend her, and that when
he did prescribe for her he administered, in
tentionally or carelessly, q deadly poison,
from which she would have died but for
timely efforts of other physicians who were
called in.
She involves well-known young woman.
Mrs. Lambright, in the charges, which are
highly sensational.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
Faith, and One Workman.

Down on the ground at quite distance
from the situation, for safety, perhaps, a
man PAGES moodily about. He is the boss;
but whom and what he bosses is not known.
A good-natured colored man comes to
meet him and says, with an air of cheerful
certainty:
'Boss. kin hab 10 b."
NO" sternly, with glance upward irto
the blue air, where the beautiful tower and
cornice of the first office are not. "We-we
can finish it ourselves"
Sublime faith
Around on Third avenue, over the main
entrance (where nobody enters) the sloppy
form OF Mercury, disguised as a female,
still hangs In weary sort of way to the
stone telegraph wires, while frightened
cherub is still crawling up the pole with
an apparent haste that savors of dogs be-
hind. He appears to remain in the same
place, however, and the chances are that he
will reach the top of the hole-when the
building is finished.
FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.
The men were not asked about the ma
terial for the building, for the question is
unnecessary, as the answer is on file in this
Office ready for occasional emergencies:
"a boatload of stone is on its way from
Blue Hill quarries, Maine; but the boat,
unfortunately, grounded in fog. We ex-
pect it here on -
A little figuring, however, shows when
the building will be finished. 1t has taken
10 years from the foundation to the second
story, and. by the same ratio as 14x2. the
dazzling result is reached that the top of
the eight-story tower will be ready to gaze
down upon a new Pittsburg and new
generation in 1910; and then that new
generation, if it have any sense about it,
will go around inquiring why postoffice
was completed when there is no use for
postofice, because the electric tubes and
wires will long ago have surplanted the
slow mailing system. 1t will be turned into
museum, and the busts OF the architects,
contractors and officials will be exhibited
there as horrible examples of a forgotten
issue called "faith;" and the caricatures on
the walls will be accepted as bona fde
photos of queer people that used to live in
town called Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
WE ARE NOT TO BLAME.
sewaIl Says That the Germans are in Fault
at Samoa,

Sewall Says That the Germans are in Fault
at Samoa.
WAsHINGToN, January 12.-The Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations continued
to-day their examination Of Consul-General
Sewall, of Samoa, concerning the condition
of affairs in the islands of that group. 1t
was continued on the lines laid down yes
terdav. but went more largely into the rela-
tions Of the several governments interested
in the maintenance o. an orderly condition
OF affairs on the islands, and therefore was
more confidential in its nature.
The substance of Mr.. Sewall's statement,
which reviewed in great detail the events of
the past few years, and the present unfortu-
nate situation there, is that it is due not to
any action on the part of the representatives
of the United States, but to the fermentation
by interested foreigners of native dissen-
sions, and to the desire exhibited in
marked degree by those in charge of local
German interests to obtain personal and
commercial advantages and political su-
premacy.
Mr.. Sewall has been requested to remain
over and appear before the committee again
to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
WILL VISIT MRS. FRIEND.
President Cotterill Goes to Canada to
GET the Secret of Refining sugar
He Denies That He Ever
Deserted His Wife

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
NEW YORK, January 12.-President
William H. Cotterill, of the Electric Sugar
Refining Company, left the offices in Wall
street to-day, saying that he would go to
Ann Arbor tonight again. His mission
this time, he said, was to get the Widow
Friends secret of manipulating refined
sugar into super-refned He was reminded
that he had said that Mrs. Friend and Mr.
Howard had left the jurisdiction of the
United States.
Word came in Just then from Inspector
B yrnes that Mrs. Friend and Mr.. Howard
were at Windsor, Canada. Mr.. Cotterill
said he would go to Windsor. Mr.. Cotter-
i'll said he didn't mind the report that Mrs.
Friend, through her attorney at Ann
Arbor, had brought suit for S20, 900 az ainst
him and Nelson Sutherland, the local
Sheriff, who attached her property at
Milan.
Before leaving Mr.. Cotterill decided not
to make public statement of the company's
affairs at present. He did make statement
concerning the report published in 1876 that
he had disappeared from New York, leaving
his wife and family destitute, and decamp-
ing with $40, 1000, OF which So, 600 was owed
to Major Patterson. He says that the re-
port is altogether entirely untrue. He
never owed Major Patterson any money.
NJ ajor Paderson's mother Mrs Ward) had
invested $1,000 in mining venture through
Cotterill after Cotterill had warned her of
the risks, and, in common with others, lost
her money" Mr.. Cotterill says that he had
no money to decamp with, and being with
out means, determined to return to England
with his family. 1t is true that the steam.
ship fares of his wife and children were paid
by others, but they all lived together in
England and afterward in Canada.
Mrs. CotterIll sat beside her husband
when he handed out the statement, and
handed out one signed by herself in SUBJ
sanitation of the statement that her hus-
band did not desert her. Mr.. Cotterill Wis
tied the refinery in Hamilton avenue be.
fore he went West
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13

after political news and there are three or
four times as many politicians and other
men living here who are continu-
ally picking up. gossip about the
visiting statesmen, which they are fairly
hungry to give to the newspaper men on the
chance of getting themselves mentioned as
"close friends of the President-elect, or in
somesuch fashion. There are some even
among General Harrison's most intimate
associates who adopt this means of gain ing
publicity.
1t has sometimes happened that informa-
ton given to o newspaperman at General
Harrison's house, merely for personal
guidance and not to be published, has
within few hours again been obtained by
the same man without any restriction
as to its use, from personal friends
of the family who had learned it through
their confidential relations there If Gen
eral Harrison could secure from his ordi-
nary friends the same discretion that is
sometimes exacted from newspapermen,t there
would even fewer state secrets leak out than
now become public.
APPRECIATED BY THE GENERAL.
Whether General Harrison understands
fully the debt which he owes to the news
paper men for soaring away the Office seek
ers is doubtful, but even so the newspaper
men have nothing to complain of at his hands,
so far as personal courtesy is concerned.
Although he adheres rigidly to his policy
of silence as to the state matters there's
probably not public man in the country
to whom the newspaper representative have
freer access. Generally he will see them
personally at any reasonable time,
and if he is engaged, Private Secre-
tary Halford is always sent to give
any information not within the prescribed
limits. The fact that there is so little that
is not within the prescribed limits makes
the visits of the newspaper men at the Har-
rison house almost as infrequent as those OF
statesmen in search of office
One significant thing which may indicate
that General Harrison has at least some idea
of the value of the newspapers as deterrents
to Office seekers is the readiness with which
he gives information as to the names and
other matters connected with his callers.
He seems anxious that no newspaper man
should fail to secure this information every
day. At the same time he is particularly
discreet in not mentioning, even indirectly,
the object of the visit, if it had anything to
do with politics or offices.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
A PLEA FOR UTAH.
Franklin 8. Richards Asks for Her Admis.
sion to Statehood.


sion to Statehood.
WASHINGTON, January 12.-The House
Committee on Territories DEVOTED its session
this morning to hearing argument upon the
claims of Utah for admission as State of
the Union. The element seeking the ad-
mission of the Territory was represented bT
Delegate Cain, Franklin S. Richards and
j. M. Wilson. In opposition were arraytd
Judge Baskins, Governor West, Mr.. Ferry
and Judge Mcbride.
Mr.. Richards opened the argument in an
address in which he briefly told of the set
tlement Of Utah and the hardships and
sufferings undergone by the pioneers in that
country. He spoke of the growth of the
Territory in material resources and manu-
factures, and pointed to large proportion of
people in the Territory who owned their own
homes as compared with other sections of
the country. He defended the patriotism
of the inhabitants, citing the efforts of their
ancestors in war. Touching the charges
that have been made relative 70 the practice
of polygamy,he he declares that since the pas
sage of the act of 1882 there had been only
ten convictions for new plural marriages,
all of the 500 other convictions that have
been had have resulted in cases where the
marriage had been contracted before the
enactment of the law.
Mr.. Richards also attacked the Governor
of the Territory, accusing him of misrepre-
senting the position and intentions of the
Mormon inhabitants of Utah, and of per-
verting facts generally in the interest of the
Gentiles. He characterized as absurd what
he called the dime novel stories of Mormon
atrocities, and asserted that there was no
danger to be apprehended by the GENTLE
property holders of Utah in the admission
of the Territory as State. Property would
be protected under the State Constitution
as it had been under the Constitution of the
Territory.
In conclusion he set out in detail the
claims of the Territory to admission, and
appealed to the committee in the name of
patriotism, justice and honor not to be in
fuenced by the plants of few enthusiasts
to long keep her loyal people in politi-
cal serfdom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
THE ST0NER-LUSK SUIT.
Testimony Taken to Show That the Parties
Were Man and Wife.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPATcH.l
HARRISBURG, January 12.-The auditors
and lawyers concerned in the case of Jennie
E. Stoner (or Mrs. Lusk), who claims one
third of the undistributed estate of the late
A. P. Lusk, an old man, of this city to
whom she made affidavit she was married,
returned this evening from Philadelphia,
where several witnesses were examined to
show that Lusk had recognized the woman
as his wife.
A boarding house keeper testified that he
had introduced the female to her as his wife.
A waiter in hotel gave almost similar
testimony. An alleged marriage ring, con-
tanning the inscription "a. P. L. to j. E.
So was produced in evidence. Further
testimony will be taken In this city on the
2Sth inst. The claimants lawyers say the
amatory epistles read at the recent hearing
in this city are but a sample of many others
that will be produced at the proper time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
BREAKING UP A FAIR.
Strangers at Brnddock Tried to Run the
Town Last Night.

Strangers at Brnddock Tried to Run the
Town Last Night.
A bitter and desperate row occurred at
the fair being held at St. Thomas Catholic
Church, Braddock, last night. Some Will
kinsburg parties caused a rumpus inside,
when one of their number, Edward McGin-
mis-, was elected. He drew a revolver and
opened fire on the crowd. Several shots
were exchanged before he was placed under
arrest. Cut and bleeding, he fought desper-
ately, and it took the combined efforts Of
several officers before he was landed in the
lookup. An information for felonious shoot
ing was preferred against him.
Several people wxe badly injured in the
row, and Mr.. Joseph Kennedy had very
narrow escape, as McGinnis' pistol was
pointed at his head when discharged.
Another row occurred at Halls saloon on
Verona street, between some Turtle Creek
men and the proprietors of the saloon.
Several of the former were badly used up
with beer glasses; no arrests were made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
BOUND FOR HAYTI.
The Steamer Mercedes Leaves for the Al
legged Purpose of Assisting Hyppoliic
Mysterious Departure In the
Nisht-A Yankee Capt.
ain Scares

Gunboat.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
NEW YORK, January 12.-At 2:30 o'clock
yesterday morning the Mercedes, the re-
named fishing steamer from Boston, weighed
anchor and cleared for southern waters. The
Dominican Consul, Mr.. Julia, who claims
to be her purchaser. says she is bound for
Samana, on the eastern coast of Santo
Domingo. The Haytian Minister, Mr..
Preston, says she is bound for Cape Haytien.
where she will at once go into the service Of
Hyppolite, the leader of the North. An
effort was to have been made yesterday to
prevent her sailing, but Captain Terry, her
commander, escaped any interference by
the sudden departure in the night. Just
before she sailed, four sailors from New
York were put on board of her drunk.
1t was reported yesterday that Captain
Joseph Sherwood, lately of the Peruvian
navy and former commander of one of the
steamers of the Alexandra line to South
America, would command the Madrid when
she leaves for Haytian waters.
1t appears that when the Saginaw was at
Manzanilla bay, near Monte Cristi, on
December %, reward of $4,000 was
oneieu " hIPpoiyte .of INC capture VI
Legitime's gunboat the Toussaint L'Ouver-
ture. Captain Holmes, of the Saginaw,
said he couldn't conscientiously capture the
Toussaint, but he added that he could
readily blow her mp for the money, as he
had spar 40 feet long attacked to his bow
below the water line, TO which was fastened
dynamite torpedo, which he could run
against the Toussaint and blow her to
atoms.
OF course Captain Holmes only told this
story in fun, but it got to the ears of the
Captain of the Toussaint which was lying
alongside watching the Saginaw, and that
same night he got up steam and fled pre-
cipitately from the harbor. He never
stopped till he reached Port-au-Prince, and
told Legitime of his terrible danger and
narrow escape. 1t is said that he was pro-
NOTED.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13

place, not even workmen.
Yesterday afternoon there was ''ghastly,
grim, ungainly, gaunt and ominous" look
about the place; its walls were musty and
its cellars damp, and the ghostly rigging
and the ghostly crew fitting about the
spidery rafters made the silent old quarters
look like an anchored ship of the Ancient
Mariner. Away off in the darkest, most ST.
lent corner, sitting on top of the debris of
years, was the veritable mariner himself
with struggling locks, and hands on knees;
but instead of the Alabatross by his side,
there lies rusted, rotted pick, the
handle eaten away from the iron
by the mould of ages. And
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
HE WAS GROUND TO PIECES.

The Frightful Fate of an Allegheny Valley
Brakeman Last Night.
John Sanders, aged %, employed as a
brakeman on the Allegheny Valley Rail-
road, was knocked off his train at Forty
third street, last night at II 40, and instant
ly killed. The train broke into two sections
and threw Sanders off the rear end of the
car. Thirty.fve cars passed over his body
and literally ground it to pieces.
His remains were taken to Leslie's under
taking rooms. Sanders had only been en-
ployed on the road for two days. He lived
at Kittanning, and was single. The Coro-
ner will hold an inquest tomorrow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
THE WEATHER.

River ..sr. NJ, 81 fs.s fan Of Ls feet in ne !
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
1T WAS NOT MURDER.
A Man Kills Two Officers and Yet Is Ac.
Quilted,

CLEVELAND, January 12.-At Ashland
to-day, Elias Chesrown was acquitted of the
charge of murder. The trial began on De-
cember 3. Chesrown killed constable and
his deputy, who were trying to serve writ
of habeas corpus issued by the Probate
Court, which called for Chesrown's father.
who had been placed in Elias charge by a
former decision of the Court.
The service of the writ had once been en-
Joined by the Common Pleas Court. The
murder grew out of a quarrel between the
five Chesrown brothers over the possession
of the iather, and the case was involved in a
legal tangle that puzzled nearly all of the
lawyers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
Y. Nj. II. A. Lecture Course.

The first of the lecture series, to be given
by the Y. M. H. A. of Allegheny, will take
place at the Eighth Street Temple on Tues
day evening next. The Rev. DR.. Kraus-
kopf, of Philadelphia, will be the lecturer,
and his subject will be ''The Messiah and
the Jews" DR.. Krauskopf is not stranger
in Pittsburg, as he lectured here year ago
with great success; and considering the
nature of the subject, together with the ex-
cellent arrangements which have been made,
nothing short of success need be expected
this time
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
ALL BADLY TORN UP.
The Arrival of So Many Special Treas
ury Agents in New York City
ALARMS ALL THE DEPARTMENTS.
Lots of Heads to Fall Under the Merciless
Official Guillotine.
NONE KNOW WHEN THEY HAVE TO go
Secretary Fairchild to Personally Attend to tn
Cleaning Out.

The earthquake which has struck the Port
Appraisers office in New York causes every
one in the service at that point to tremble.
Their agitation is mostly based on facts
which are creeping out. A number of them
will have to walk the plank, and it is this
certainty rather than the uncertainty that
maintains the excitement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
A Stepfafher's Trouble.

Detective Murphy, of Allegheny. last
night arrested Anthony Eggert, residing at
No. 46 Voegtley street, and locked him up
in the underground passage known as the
Allegheny town jail. Mr.. Eggert was ar
rested upon warrant on a serious charge
preferred by his stepdaughter. The girl il
Is years of age.