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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
o RUSSET SHOE.

russet SHOE the best of shoes,
Your services I'm forced to lose;
The summers gone, the fall is here,
And damp and dirty weather's near
Dame Fashion says may not choose.
To let you 90 gives me the blues,
When remember fondly who's
Brown hand 1t was re-tied you, dear
russet shoe.
He was so slow; lest he might bruise
My foot, he said. Was it a ruse
To keep me on the moonlit pier
Till courage might control his fear
That should quick his suit refuse,
Orusset shoe?
So
THERE isn't prettier song under the sur
than Home, Sweet Home" but there ART
times which, as De Wolf Hopper in "Clover'
sings, "t'were better not to dwell on" wheI
home does not seem so sweet.
HOME BALLAD.
When you're sick and sorry of worldly things,
When figures alright, or writing pals,
When pride and desire have got them wings,
Home is a heaven within four walls.
But when 1t is home that sharply calls
On the lover to see his lass no more,
The chain Of affection chafes and gals,
And home, sweet home is an awful bore.
When cheerily high the dinner bell rings,
And childish voices are heard in the halls,
When slippers the wife Of your bosom brings
Then home is heaven within four walls.
But whenever the butcher calls and calls,
And duns by the dozen beset your door,
The vision of happiness falnts and falls,
And home, sweet home Is an awful bore.
When drear and deserted are shores and springs,
When the crowds return as the red leaf falls,
Unto some OF their hearts a sweet voice sings
That home is a heaven within four walls.
But the end of the holidays some appalls,
And the man who serves in a drygoods store
Meath the stare of his late love humbly crawls-
All home, sweet home is an awful bore.
ENVoI.
Whenever man tires OF earthly brawls
Then home is a heave within four walls.
But the days may come, as I've said before,
When home. swee home is an awful bore.
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

The importation of foreign glassworkers
has resulted in an excessive supply OF labor,
and good many Englishmen and Belgians
are in the city, it is said, without work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
Pitfsburg Boycotfed.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
To continue the history of Brownsville where
'Jacksonian" left OF in the Sunday edidon Of
The DISPATCH. the merchants of the town
have boycotted Pittsburg for holding an Ex-
position and drawing away our trade. The
only Improvements maue to Brownsville during
the last ten years have been three new houses.
BROWNSVILLE
BROWNSVILLE September l9.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
Uuprofe..Ionni Behavior.

From the Indianapolis Journal
Those Chicago footpads who had the temer-
ity to hold up "Old Hutch" will probably be
expelled from the craft for attempting to tam
ter with zone of the profesh."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
Six Children at a Birth,

SALT LAKE CITY, September l9.-Mrs
Hiram Smell. of Malad. Idaho, has given birth
to sixtets, three boys and three girls. Thew
weigh eight pounds altogether. Ali are bricSt
and hearty and promise to live.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

"MoTHER" HOLIDAY, Of Wheeling. who is
now 81 years old, attended the soldiers reunion
at Martins Ferry Tuesday, and while there
had her pocket picked by some soulless thief.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
A 2OO-POUND FISH CAUGHT.
A Monster Sturgeon Lnssocd and Landed by


n 1HbsUCu
Connections Boys.
ANsoNIA, CONN, September 19.-Two boys,
Richard Shortelle and Edward Fogarty, found
a 2OO-pound sturgeon in a shallow pool in
Naugatuck river, just below Ansonia. this
morning. They slipped rope over its tail, and
and pulled the fish out on the bank. A local
fish dealer bought it at once.
This is the third sturgeon caught here in
several years. The fish come up the Housatonic
river. and are stranded by the receding tides.
Bass and salmon weighing from 25 to so pounds
are frequently caught in the same way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

THERE is a large want of small houses in
and about Pittsburg. The enterprise Of our
capitalists ought to supply the want easily.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
HORSE MEDICINE FOR WHISKY.

A Whole Family Made Crazy by n Mistake
About Drinks.
MEMPHIS, September 19.-Joe Bullock, a col.
oIed farmer living near this city, with two
members of his family and a boarder, has gone
crazy from drinking a bottle of horse medi-
cine' left at their house by a neighbor, and
which they thought was whisky.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

MOROCCO seems to be an anomalous slab
of savagery upon the margin of civilization.
Spain would do service to the world BY
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

teaching its barbarous neighbor sharp
lesson. Probably Spain will too, as her
subjects have been grossly illtreated in
Morocco.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
A RexnInr Hustler.

From the New York Commercial Advertiser.I
Go to the cyclone, thou sluggard; consider
his ways and be wise. When he has business TO
attend to, he attends to it. and lets everything
else drop.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.

IN order to remove some oil stains from the
bottom of his wagon Pottstown expressman
applied match. His stable had narrow
escape from destruction
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

AT one of the Meadville churches on Sunday
last. the minister said: "The regular prayer
meeting will be held Wednesday evening. II
you are not in attendance will take it for grant
ed that you are at the circus"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

PIoUs MYERS, of York, was seized BY three
traEps, who carried him to q lot, took his
clothing, placed their own rags on him and sent
him home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
A Substitute for RlddIeberrer.
From the Philadelphia Times.l

HudutIUnId
There is no Riddleberger in the Senate any
more. but if John l. Sullivan is elected to the
House that body will have pretty good sub
stitute for the bibulous Virginian.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

A FULLY developed child weighing exactly
one pound was born TO Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Wills, who live near New Philadelphia. o. 1t
could easily be hid in a quart measure with
short clothes on.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
small Profit in Prophecy.

From the Baltimore Americana
A true poet may be seer, but he seldom is
fnancier. II he were, there might be more
signs Of profit about his works.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
A SNAKE IN THE CUPBOARD.

A Lancaster Man Mistakes it for n Strap
and Gets Bitten.
LANCASTER, September 19.-William Cham
bers, of Coleraine township, was yesterday
cleaning out an old cupboard and picked up
what he supposed was a strap. 1t proved to be
o snake Is inches long. When he took hold of
the snake 1t seized him by the finger and held
to it until he shook it of.
Chambers hurried to a doctors office, q
couple of miles distant, and had his injury at
tended to. His arm and hand are badly
swollen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

A BEAR with thumb Is announced ~ .
Wilkesbarre curiosity. The thumb formerly
belonged to Jack Van Buskirk, and the bear
bit 1t of.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20
Referee in a Love Match.

Last winter a curious thing happened. One
man, after two months acquaintance with .
lady, reported to the club that he felt symp-
toms of love. and had reason to believe that the
lady was not Indifferent to him. He repeated
conversations, told of her actions toward him,
and the club, sitting solemnly on the case, de-
cided that it looked like love on both sides, and
appointed one man to look into the matter.
None of the six knew the lady After three
weeks inquiry, the investigator startled the
club one night by confessing that he himself
was in love with the lady. One of the married
men had to be put on the case, and he had
hard work to get at the facts-the lady was so
engaging in her manners and SO adroit in her
actions toward the two men. Such fine, good
breeding and brotherly feeling prevailed in the
club that the rivals never luarreled. 1t was a
square race, and the first lover won and got q
mighty fine woman, for she was rated A ! by
the second investigator. She was beautiful,
accomplished and well of. The defeated man
can now meet her without o tremor, the train
ing of the club is SO salutary,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

A BALD eagle blown by the high winds from
the mountains has been shot in Lancaster
county.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

Among the new fall shades is the ante
lope. It ought to be . fast color, but Ananias
himself would hesitate to warrant il not to run.-
Baltimore american.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-20

A PHILADELPHIA street lady made some
hairdye from newspaper recipe and her hair
turned . bright blue after she had applied the
liquid.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
NOT INDORSED HERE.
The Action of the MT. Pleasant Jr. O. q. A,
m. Verified on the southside-Nobody

The Action of the MT. Pleasant Jr. O. o. A.
M. Verified on tho southside-Nebody
UphoIds IL, However.
A telegram arrived in this city yesterday
from Mt. Pleasant stating that the men,
bers OF the Jr. o. q. A. M. of that place,
intended to arm themselves with Winches-
ter rifles and defend the coke region from
being pillaged by the Hungarians. In
quiries were made among some Of the mem
bers of the Southside councils of the order
last night and the report was substantiated.
A gentleman who is member of Smoky
City Council said in regard to the matter:
"Our council received a notice from
Mount Pleasant few DAYS ago, and we
were apprised of the fact that they intended
to arm themselves to prevent the Hun
garians from doing anything rash. We
were also asked to indorse any action they
might take. We then discussed the ques-
tion very thoroughly, and the result was
that resolution was passed not to encour-
age the members Of Mt. Pleasant Council by
our Endorsement. The prevailing opinion
in our council seemed to be that the men
had no right to supply themselves with
arms. Anyhow nobody thought that they
should take the law in theiro own hands and
arm themselves against these men,"
A number OF other prominent men of the
order were spoken to on the subject, and the
general opinion was that the men in Mount
Pleasant Council were acting as individuals
in the matter, but that their sentiment did
not emanate from the order Of the Jr. o. u.
A M.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
Trouble. Never Come s.nslx,

How true was this the case with Mr. Thos
McKernan, of Johnstown. During the
food he and his wife lost all their worldly
possessions. but both made miraculous
escapes, though separated for two days, each
thinking the other dead. As soon as the
steel mill started he again took his place,
where he was hit in the eye by splash of
melted metal, part of which remained In
the eve five days. The burn was so serious
it had been determined upon to remove the
eve, but after further consideration it was
thought best to consult DR.. Sadler, the
oculist of this city, who has succeeded in
saving the ball in "a presentable condition,
though with but little sight. Mr. McKer-
nan is brother-in-law of the Rev. e. w.
Troutwine, who did such noble service in
rescuing those caught in the jam and fire at
the bridge in Johnstown the night Of the
food.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
AN INDUSTRIAL TRIUMPH.

American Piate GInss Men Have Driven
Out Foreign Makers-Great Improve.
ments Mnde at the Standard.
The Standard Plate Glass Company at
Butler has just completed some improve
ments in their plant which amount to $780,
900. By the LIST of September the firm will
have iorce of 500 men employed. and the
capacity of the works will be 100 900 feet of
plate glass per month, an increase of 40 per
cent.
The company has just finished a new
eight-inch gas main, which is five miles
long. A new warehouse has been erected.
whose dimensions are 175x75 feet. A new
20-pot furnace has been built, and a ma
chine for crushing and washing sand has
been added to the machinery, as we'll as two
large boilers.
A gentleman who is very familiar with
the plate glass trade of this country said
yesterday that the American manufacturers
of plate glass now have the American mar
ket entirely to themselves: Said he:
''The great strides made in this industry
in the United States resulting in the pro-
duction of plate glass as good as the French
and English, and a reduction in prices in
proportion has caused one importer after
another to quit the business The last ex-
elusive importer Of plate glass was the New
York agency of the London and Manchester
Plate Glass Company. They were estab-
lished in this countis for IA years, but a
few days ago they were ordered to close up
and sell their stock"
''The tariff on plate glass is about $50 per
cent. This. as we'll as the great advance
ments which have been made in the plate
glass business of this country during the
last few years, has been the reason of effec-
lively driving all importers of plate glass
out of the American market.
'There are now six plants in the country,
the one at Creighton being the largest in the
world, and several others are contemplated"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
BIGAMY AND PERJURY.

A Baseball Player Has Both Charges Pre-.
ferred Against Him He Says He Lett
His First Wife With Her Consent.
The Southside has furnished another sem
sation in the shape of charge of bigamy
and perjury against William Smink, a
well-known baseball player of the Our
Boys club. Mrs. Clara Smink, nee vier-
heller. brought the charges against him
yesterday.
In her story the woman alleges that
Smink married her in 1886, and that the
Rev. e. j. Deckman, Of the German Bap-
tist Church of the Southside, performed the
ceremony. Shortly afterward, however,
they separated, and Mrs. Smink went to
live with her mother. On July 18, 1889,
Mrs. Smink alleges that her husband mar
ried Mary Sacher. well-known girl of the
Twenty-seventh ward. The woman says
that her husband swore on that day before
the marriage license clerk that he was
single man, and that he has since lived
with his second wife
When the warrant was issued Smink was
not in town, but he was playing ball In
jamestown, N. Y. Yesterday he returned,
and he was at once arrested. His wife, who
was present when the constable called,
tainted tV0se when she heard the charges
read. Smink gave 81 500 bail for a hearing
before Alderman McGeary on next Wednes-
day.
He said last night that he had left his
first wife with her own consent, and that he
had not thought il. necessary to obtain q
divorce from her on that account.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
Cauterx xer.n. the Knife.

The West Penn Hospital has added to its
surgical outfit q wonderfully perfect cleo
trical apparatus for throat and nasal treat
ment and the removal of tumors by cauteri-
zation. A delicate but strong wire loop is
made hot by passing a continuous electric
current through it, and the tumor or OBJ
struction is really burned off This process
prevents hemorrhage and the wound heals
more easily than after the old-fashioned
kniie operations. The expert operator who
brought the apparatus from New York, ex-
hibited its workings to an audience of
prominent city physicians who were much
pleased with it. The gentleman also made
tests with the marvellous Holtz Induction
Machine, which is adapted for treatment of
paralysis and spinal troubles. This machine
generates SO powerful q current that book
placed between the poles is penetrated By
an electric spark, which is a veritsble fash
Of lightning. A patient who was subjected
to this current in a modified degree had his
hair stand on end, but was in no wise
harmed.
The Dispatch reporter inspected these
machines at 909 Penn ave. and learned that
another exhibition of their capabilities will
soon be made before the medical fraternity,
who are greatly interested in the matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
A LIGHT STRIKE.
Tho Electric Company Succeeds In Oper-
ating Its Lamps.

Tho Electric Company Succeeds In Oper.
ating Its Lamps.
The strike Of the outside employees of the
electric light company seems to be failure.
The company succeeded in setting nearly all
its carbons yesterday, although the strikers
earnestly labored all day long to induce the
new men to quit. One new man, who was
working at the corner of Grant street and
Sixth avenue. shortly after noon yesterday
was persuaded, after long discussion, to de-
scend from his ladder and give up his tools.
His place was soon filled. Last evening the
cities were we'll lighted. Up to 1890 o'clock
the police had reported only ten lights out
in Pittsburg. At o'clock no lights were
burning on Penn avenue from Twenty
eighth to Thirty third street, and lamps
were out at Penn avenue and Eighth, Lib
erty and Evans alley. On Diamond square,
and under the Ft. Wayne Railroad bridge
on the river front. These were looked after
by the company as soon as reported.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
BARGAINS. BARGAINS, BARGAINS.
Al 91 and 93 Fifth Avenue.

If you contemplate getting piano or or
gan, 60 to s. Hamilton's for a genuine bar
gain. In the first place, he has every facil-
ity for carrying q large stock, and does
carry the most complete variety Of pianos
and organs to be found in any house in the
United States. If you want good piano
at low price, he has them; if you want one
of the very best in material. workmanship
and performance, he has them, and a num-
Der of each style, so that you can choose
which pleases you best. The price Of pianos
ranges from S175 mp, and for organs at s45
and up. At his salesroom is the only place
in the city; that you can buy the great and
well-known Estey organs, which after once
heard can never be forgotten, and the cele-
brated Decker Bros, Knabe and Fischer
pianos. 1t is safe TO say that there are more
of these pianos sold in and about the city
than all the others combined. He rushes
them out on easy payments and small
profits, knowing from the past that this ac-
commodsting and satisfactory way Of plac-
ing them in the hands of many is sappreci-
ated, which his steadily and increasing busi-
ness proves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
THEY WERE SECRETIvE,

Democrats Met on the Dead Quiet, and Re.
porters Were Barred-where the Con-
vention Will be Held.
1t was announced that special commit
tee of the Democratic County Committee
would be held last night at W. j. Brennan's 8
Office for the purpose of devising plan to
be submitted to the County Committee,
whereby the membership of the county con-
vention may be reduced from 500 to 200 and
the County Committee in the same proper
tion.
Some of the committee met among them
Messrs. McKenna and Huckestein. When
a reporter approached the portals of the Of
fee he heard an animated discussion in
progress, and might possibly have heard
something interesting had it not been that
his foot struck chair and made slight
noise. This brought w. j. Brennan TO the
door with precipitancy that indicated that
he might have been shot from o catapult
He demanded to know what was wanted,
and in almost the same breath added: "You
can't get in nor get anything from as; not
at least until the meeting is over"
Subsequently Alderman McKenna was
seen, and he stated that the committee had
not attended to the extent desired, and that
nothing had been agreed upon.
SudlTmdu w dISOu HdS lsSuCu
naming where the various conventions will
meet next Tuesday to elect delegates. They
are as follows:
The County Convention, to nominate candi-
dates for District Attorney and Coroner, and
Chairman OF the Democratic County Commit
tee, will meet in Old City Hall, at 10 o'clock
next Tuesday morning.
The First Legislative District Convention
will meet in Lutz's Hall, Allegheny, on Tues
day morning at 7;3o o'clock John Huckestein
will preside. The delegates to the State Con-
vention will be elected
The Second Legislative District Convention
will meet in Select Council chamber, Alle-
gheny City, at the same time, to elect two dele
gates. c. M. King will preside.
The Third Legislative District Convention
VIII meet at the same time in Select Council
chamber Pittsburg. to elect two State dele
gates. John Madden will preside
The Fourth Legislative District Convention
will meet in the Ralston Schcolhouse at the
same time to elect two State delegates. b.
McKenna will be Chairman.
The Fifth Legislative District Convention
will meet in Common Council chamber. Pitts
burg. at the same time to elect six delegates to
the Democratic State Convention. Th0mas
Mullen will preside.
The Sixth District Convention will meet in
Salisbury Hall, Southside. at 10 o'clock Tues
day morning. to elect three State delegates.
Dr.. Hal R. O'ConDor will preside.
The Seventh District Convention will meet in
in Select Council chamber. Pittsburg. at 10
O'Clock Tuesday morning to elect three dele
gates w. j. Brennan will preside.
The Eighth District Convention will meet in
Common Council chamber, Pittsburg, at 10
O'Clock Tuesday morning, to elect three dele
gates to the State Convention. DR.. 7. r. White
will preside.