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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
shepard,s Hor.e Laugh.

From the Nashville Americana
Elliott F. Shepard belongs to the class of
war.horses which smelleth the battle from very
far of and saith amid the trumps 'he haw."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
The Fa.hIonnhIe Frecl.le.

From the PhiIadeIphh Fress.i
Freckles of large size and old-gold hue are
the proper thing this year, The old-fashioned
tan aed sunburn are no longer popular.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24

The amount of politics TO the square inch
that are being developed in Ohio can only
be explained by the delusion Of numerous
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
Rapid Reduction In acquisitions.

Although there have been new stations and
sub-stations added, as for instance, Grubtown,
Moxham, Minersville and Rosedale, the above
table shows reduction Of about $500 people
over the number stated In the last report as
subsisted. I attach hereto statement OF the
gross stock of provisions on hand in the post
and district commissaries, reported at close Of
business on Saturday, June q
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
j. l. SPANGLER, Lieutenant Colonel,
Assistant Commissary General.
Stock on Hand.
Bread, 81 crates; fish, l3 barrels; salt. IS bar
rels; ham, barrels; crackers, At barrels; sugar,
barrels; r1ce barrels; stoves, ITO; mattresses,
20; oil, 8 barrels; vinegar, IA barrels; -four, IS
barrels; -four, l carload; corn meal. ABS sacks;
crockery, 2 hogsheads; coffee, also pounds;
cheese, II cratesi corned beef, cases; soap. II
cases; soap, half carload; pepper, cases;
canned goods, 81 cases; candles, cases; lard, 5
packages; potatoes. overstocked.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
HELPED 500 PERSONS,
Good Work Accomplished by the ChiIdren's
Aid Society.

IFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
JoHNsTowN, June 29-Mrs. James O. Biddle,
President, and Miss Hinckley Secretary, of the
PENNSYLVANIA Children's Aid Society, left for
Philadelphia last night. In the future the
ladies in Cambria county will conduct the
work.
The society has helped about 500 women and
children in various ways and sent about 100
children to the seashore. ISRAEL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
A Suggestion for the Future.

That being DONE say, merely as sugges-
tion to those who will dispose of the cash con.
tributed by the people for the benefit of the
people, that in my opinion the distribution Of
relief In the form of provisions, ETC., could be
organized into board who could determine,
by Investigation, all the remaining cases of ac-
tual need, recommend them to the persons in
charge, who should issue to them orders on the
different merchants for such q weekly amount
as each case seems to deserve or require and
pay the merchants from the fund named. This
seems to be the natural course to pursue in
closing up the distribution of relief. can
carry out my part this week. In many cases
the subsistence cards of the different districts
have been called in. SO that the number In
force to-day and the number Of people subsisted
thereon Is as follows:
Morrellsville, 54 cards; persons subsisted,
1904; Cambria, 500 cards; persons fed, 2,46l;
Prospect Hill, 4S2 cards; persons kept. S06S;
Woodville, 179 cards; persons fed, 86l; East
Conemaugh, 22S cards; persons fed, 324; Frank
lin, cards, 155; persons fed 667; Minersvile, 300
cards; people fed. 1,425; Rosedale, 80 cards;
persons kept. 4o7; Johnstown, 1,500 cards; peo-
pie fed, 4,340; Kernville, $50 cards. persons fed.
3,969; Conemaugh, 654 cards; people kept, 4,50O;
total, 5,2O2 cards; people kept. 25,2l6.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.

POSTAGE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
DAILY DISPATCH, One Year. 90
DAILY DISPATCH Per Quarter. ............... 200
DAILY DISPATCH, One Month ................. 70
DAILY DISPATCH. including Sunday, year. 10 90
DAILY DISPATCH. including Sunday, Sm't 2 SO
DAILY DISPATCH, including Sunday, month 90
SUNDAY DISPATCH, One Year ................ 9 so
WEEKLY DISPATCH, One Year ............... Is
THE DAILY DISPATCH is delivered by carriers at
Is cents per week. or including Sunday edition, at
20 cents per week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
Report Of the Surgeon General.


Brigadier General ID. H. Hastings:
After careful personal inspection of the
whole devastated surface of Johnstown, have
the honor to report that have been unable to
discover anything likely to produce serious
epidemic, other than the tents and surround
ings of the<workmen. The refuse straw that
has been used, and now accumulated in the
vicinity Of their tents, is calculated to produce
an epidemic of measles. This opinion is based
upon my knowledge of an epidemic of measles
that prevailed during the early part of the war,
36 900 cases of which were reported in the Army
of the Potomac, ana scientific investigation
demonstrated that 1t was caused by
parasitic vegetable growth upon decom-
posing straw. This opinion has been
confirmed by innumerable sporadic cases
that have occurred since the war. and the opin-
ion of a prospective epidemic is based upon
that knowledge. My suggestion to you is that
you have burned, without delay, this superfu-
Gus straw; to have the tents Of the workmen
raised every day, and the straw now in use ex-
posed to the action of the sun. Besides this
see nothing except some defective drainage, all
of which can be turned into open sewers, and
the places from which there is no exit for the
water can be filed with a few cart loads Of
sand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
Rather Unfair Competition.


All these business men regard the operation
OF my department with alarm, and Justly so, for
they cannot be able to dispose of their goods
when so formidable competitor is furnishing
the same supplies gratis. I have received from
the Cambria Iron Company a long list of their
employees who have received their pay during
the past week, and hope to receive such list
from other companies. which will inform me
what number of people are now fully able to
supply themselves with necessaries.
In view of the above facts, the policy of the
department will be to drop, as speedily as def
mite information can be obtained, all persons
who are now regularly employed, receiving or
having received pay. and who are able to pro-
cure goods at some Of the stores mentioned; to
cut off these people from our care, except so
far as to provide them with furniture, bed
ding etc., to the extent Of my facilities and
their evident needs. My quartermasters and
all in charge of stations of distribution will be
instructed to accomplish this end at the earli-
est moment and l believe one-third OF the sub
sisted can be dropped by Wednesday and an
other third by Saturday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
Good Words for the Adjutnnt General.

Permit me to commend you, not only for the
wonderful administrative ability displayed in
your action here, but for your correct concep-
ton of the sanitary and hygienic conditions of
this devastated surface. ! have been unable
to find any cause from which any epidemic
other than that of measles can be engendered,
excepting that of malaria, which is the result
of decaying vegetable matter, over which your
careful scrutiny has no control desire to say in
this connection, that Assistant Surgeon Eos.
ter. of the Fourteenth Regiment has correct
conception of the duties imposed upon him,
and has performed them, in my opinion, most
faithfully. What / desire for him is that he
shall have more authority than he has. An in
stance of this occurred this morning in my
presence, in which he gave directions for cor
recting q serious objection. The party appealed
to ignored 1t and questioned his authority. Do
me the personal favor Of giving him all the IA
cilites he requires, as / am satisfied he will
correct for you in few days all the objection
able conditions that now exist
An Eruption Caused by Ham.
The specific eruption that is prevailing
among the workmen Is Of q character of urti-
caria. From careful observation of DR.. Fos-
ter he attributes It to the use Of fresh sugar
cured hams. In some of the companies Of the
Fourteenth Regiment where the disease does
not prevail the hams have not been used. and
the men have been subsisted on fresh meat. A
severe form of erythena on the forearms also
exists, which is the result of exposure to the
sun of persons who have been working In the
water. Very respectfully,
I. r REED, Surgeon General.
ISRAEL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24
BECOMING INDEPENDENT.

Lieutenant spangler's Report Shows an
ENCOURAGING stnfe of Affhirs ar Johns-
town The People VIII Soon be Able to
Again Earn Their Own Living and Pro-
euro II.
rFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
JoHNsTowN, June 23-The following is self
explanatory:
CoMMIssARY DEPARTMENT,
YOUNGSTOWN. Pa. June ~
Brigadier General ID. H. Hastings, Adjutant Gem
eral Of Pennsylvania:
GENERAL-I have the honor to make the
following report: There has been great fall
ing of in the amount of contributions for relief
received at the post commissartes during the
week Just closed, although these, with the ad-
dition OF supplies purchased, have enabled me
to make satisfactory distribution of provisions
and clothing, SO that no complaint of want or
scarcity has come to my knowledge, except IN
few special articles. These are mainly shoes,
bedding, stoves and household furniture. No
one has complained Of lack of food.
anticipated the decrease in voluntary con-
tributions, and have purchased or had pur-
chased, TO keep up the supply of necessaries,
$500 pounds of butter to be furnished daily,
1900 loaves of bread daily, and, in addition,
forwarded from the -four contributed from
Minneapolis. have already distributed three
ears of fresh meat and expect carload for
distribution tomorrow, which Is the last Or
dered. have also purchased what was avail
able for our use from the stock of Stewart &
Co., In Johnstown. consisting Of canned goods
wood and willow ware and soap. These have
been delivered to the different commissaries
and are now In process of distribution.
-
Important Change In the Situation.
In addition TO the above another and most
important change appeared in the situation
during the last week. From the general and
special reports just received in my department.
am satisfied that the great majority Of men
in the region who are willing to work are regu-
larly employed. The railroad company and
the Cambria Iron Company have made large
pays during the week. furnishing thousands of
OF men with the means to supply necessaries to
their families, and have knowledge of at least
is general stores and three bakeries at which
they are able to buy the goods. The business
places are all well distributed, as follows: At
Johnstown, the Cambria Iron Company's store
and three bakeries, which can furnish 1000
pounds OF bread daily; at East Conemaugh four
general stores and one meat market; at Nor.
rellville seven stores are in operation, being
the same number at that point as before the
flood. At Franklin one store is running-there
were five previous to the disaster. At Cam
bria City there are three general stores in
operation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-24

THE din of locusts is SO loud In parts Of
Center county that farmers in the fields can
hardly hear the dinner horn.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

LoNDoE, Jan. dispatches from
Auckland, regarding the affairs at Samoa
island state that German naval officers
have been notified to search all vessels in
Samoan waters for cODtraband articles.
The Germans have suppressed the Sa-
moan Times. a paper published
III the English language at ApiG
A British subject who visited
Mataafa was arrested, but was released
in compliance with "A demand OF the Brit
ish consul. The police of Apia have beer.
placed under German control and the
is at the mercy Of the latter. Six
thousand Of Mataata followers have en-
trcnched themselves strongly and are
ready 10 give battle To the Germans
When the steamer Eichmond arrived al
Apia she was boarded and searched by
Germans.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

WEST UNION, w. Va, Jan. 31.-John
True, a rheumatic old man past 60 years
OF age, has been confined in the county
jail here for two years for the killing %
q man named George Milton. Yesterday
Tom Pitts was arrested for assault and bat
terry end placed behind the bars. Last
night the jailer went down town for his
mail and neglected 10 secur the door.
At Pitts suggestion and persuasion, it 10
believed, the old man decided to make q
dash for liberty. The night was bitter
cold and a terrible snow storm W as raging.
With a straw hat for his head and carpet
slippers for his feet, and otherwise Il.
clad, True and his companion swung the
heavy door and plunged out into the
darkness. Late al night the old mans
body was found frozen stiff in a snow
drift. Pitts has not bsen captured.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 3i.-The grand Jury
did not return any indictments yesterday,
but will probably DO so tomorrow and be
discharged. Late last night five Repub-
licans Of more or less prominence were
brought in by deputy msrshals and the
peculiar methods practiced at the last
election are coming out with Zach arrest.
Albert and James Woods were ar
rested in Upton county. They
are farmers, and the charge against
them is bribery. Frank Taylor and
Elmer Hesten Of Greene county, intimi-
dated a Democrat and got an Indictment
for their trouble. According to the in
dic,ment, the Democrat was made drunk
and kept away from the polls, thereby
losing his vote. Samuel Ensminger Of
Hendricks county swore IN the vote of "a
man that had recently been released from
jail AT Danville. knowing that he was not
a legal voter. Both the false swearer and
The voter were indicted, and E%nsminger
was arrested TODAY.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

New York, Feb. IA general air Of
quietness prevails about the stables Of the
Horse Car company on the East Side this
morning. The first car over the Sixth
Avenue line left The stables at 8 o'clock
with only two policemen or it. BY
10 o'clock thirty cars were making
regular trips on schedule time and *
periencing no trouble. Inspector Stems
arrived at the Broadway stables at $50
with 200 policemen. Promptly at 8
o'clock the first car left the stables and
other cars followed 10 TO 10 minutes
apart. About 2J0 new hands have been
employed, SO far. The full force re-
quircd is 1, 100 and new hands are being
taken on rapidly.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
no IL the Writer.

LONDON, Feb. 1.-The Contemporary
Reviews article, The Bismarck by
nasty" has created a tremendous sensa-
ton. The papers arc printing coplous
extracts from it with profuse comment,
and the curiosity everywhere eviDced to
learn the name OF the writer is intense.
by many persons the authorship ie
ascribed to Sir Robert Morier, while sew
eral other men. more or less associated
with the Morier and Geifcken Incidents,
are included in the list of suspects" The
Globe asserts lhat the article bears abund-
ant evidence that the writer is in a posi-
ton to obtain information not accessible
to the public al large, or even TO the dip.
lOmatic world.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

|, Oh. yes. | know" she replied. Il
have heard Of such movements before
out they amount 10 nothing; il is but @
farce. wish the people could only know
my experience, and If there is any virtue.
any ply, any sense of decency left they
would go and burn down these vile dens
anu root them out az they would a nest
Oh vlpers. They tell of the suffering IN
the rebel prisons, Why, they were light.
as compared with the suffering of The.
victims of the Wisconsin prison pens. Ii
makes me shudder to think of it," and
the Door creature covered her face with
her hand.
IF there is a God" she cried vehe-
mently, what is he thinking of to allow
such wrongs to 30 oni"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
Does woman Love the Male Crimi-
uair

Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Yet lovely,
patient woman has her faults.
One Of her most foolish blemishes is a
mawkish scntimentality toward criminals,
You have but TO watch the Trial of some
brutal murderer or notorious forger TO
find that his lady smypathizers keep his
cell blooming with bouquets, and render
his prison life enduTable by various deli
cate attentions. ! can recall a number
Of these instances during the past year.
J do not think this is attributable TO wo-
mans tender heart or sympathetic nature
SO much as to her sentimentallsm; else
she would be more merciful toward some
erring sister who needs her sympathy.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
An American Greeting to the Pope

Tavener, in Boston Post; | heard a
good story about the pope the other day.
Among those who had the privilege of
being received by him some time ago was
a young man, or boy, from the United
States not a member of the Catholic
church. When his holiness extended his
hand, according to the custom, in order
that i, might be kissed, our young Demo
crat, mistaking the p'pal intention,
grasped the prolf,rcd hand in his own
and impiously wiggled it. The holy
father took this indignity with perfect
good nature, and, rightly suspeciing with
whom he had to deal, bent down and
whispered n the ear Of the unwilling
offender, "AmericanoI"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
News ElEOm AaYti.

NEW YORK, Jan. 3i.-The steamship
Orange Nassau, which left Port an Prince
January %, arrived here today. Her
captain says Legitime is spending all the
money he can squeeze out Of his black.
subjects in a final effort TO overthrow
iIippoiyte. Just before the Orange Mas
sau sailed Legitime's gunboht, the Belize,
seized and Impressed some 800 men who
were lettering around the wharyes af
Port au Prince. These men vii! be sent
to ST. Marks TO help fight Hippoly liz.
Legitime purposes 70 crush the rebels al
st. Mark within a few days by simulia-
neOus attacks hY land and sen.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
The Government MAY COIIapse,

VIENNA, Jan. 30-The Reichstrath'
opened today and with it q critical period
for Count Won Taffe and his ministry
The polish members. supported by ~
number OF the governments supporters,
have decided TO insist upon legislative re-
forms referring to the army and imperial
taxation. These the government will op-
pose, and as public sentiment through
the country is very bitter the downfall o.
the government may be looked for before
The session is over.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
Becoming High Toned.

Mr.. Weslend docking over the paper
Sullivan and Kilrain have, it seems
really agreed to fight
Mrs. Westend (haughtily)-The idea OF
your mentioning such characters in my
presence!
They have agreed to fight for $50,
600"
Twenty thousand Dear me. ! haC
no idea pugilism was so respectable"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

New YORK, Feb. 2-The express war,
which had brought rates in many case e,
below the actual cost of transportation,
is ended. An agreement was signed
eral companies. BY it the rates existing
on all competitive business previous 10
May !, 1888, are re%-established.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
Popularity OfPie.

New York Sun: The popularity o
pie" said the head waiter at a crack up
town restaurant, lis growing wonder
fully. People who think il is not fash
ionable 10 eat pie are not provincial
Some o. the most distinguished club me
in town, who come here frequently, ca
apple pie for dessert, along with a small
jug of cream and a pot Of sugar"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

In Carroll county, New Hampshire, a con
siderable number Of forest men, tired of wait
ing for enow, have been hauling timber CT
wheels.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-27
A False Alarm.

A rumor was in circulation early this
morning that the south wall Of Reilly Bros
4 Raub's hardware store, at Nos. 40 and
~ North Queen street, was tottering and
about To fall, owing TO the excavation made
for s.ie new Trust company building, on
the south side. Quite an alarm was cre-
ated. The chief of police and mayor were
asked 10 take prompt action, and the con-
tractor for the new building was hurriedly
summoned. II was found to he n false
alarm, and was due only to the fact that
the wall in question leaned slightly to the
north. Mr.. John Adam Burger the build
or, assured all interested that no accident
could happen, because he was not digging
as far down as the bottom foundation OF
the hardware building. II was only n
scare, but caused quite splutter ofexcite-
ment for the time being.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-27
CRETE puLvER's DEATH.
a Popular Circus Man. Who Is Wei
Known Here, Dies.

A Popular Circus Man, Who Is Well
Known Here, Dies.
Crete Pulver, very popular circus man,
died yesterday ut his home in Rochester,
n. r., aged II years. Deceased had been
IN the show business for 10 years. For
years he was with Cooper Il Bailey's $ circus
- an agent, and when that show was united
with Barnum's he continued with the big
show. He started In the business as bill
poster, but rose very rapidly. For num-
Der OF years he has been connected with
the advertising department, having charge
OF one OF the advance ears He was here
ahead OF the show this season. During the
winter he Travelled with hall shows and for
two seasons past has been managing Peek
q fursman's "Daniel Boone" company
VI all the showmen who visit Lancaster
none had more friends here than Mr. Pull
yer. He was akind-helrted, good natured
man, and was held In the highest regard
by everyone who knew him. He WAS
known as one of the best men in his line in
the country, and Mcssrs. Barnum 4 Bailey
lose one of their favortes In his death. He
leaves wife In Rochester and many
friends all over the country to mourn his
lOss
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-27

"ATER RENT-AN ABATEMENT OF S
w per cent. will be allowed on water rents
paid on or before June I, 1889. Office hours:
500 q. m. TO 1900 m, and Loo to 800 y. m daily
On Monday and Saturday the Office will be
open In the evening from 100 to 500 p. m.
j. II. RATHFON,
myI-2tdR City Treasurer
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-27
Arrested For False pret.p.,.

John Is. Iandis, of Lincoln, Ephrata
township, was arrested this morning and
committed to Jail by Alderman Halbach,
To answer a charge of false pretense
preferred by W. y. sprcchcr, Son Il
Go. Some time ago Lands represented
himself TO he a partner in the firm of Moh-
Ter a Lands, and purchased from the pros
ecutor hill of goods amounting to up
wards of Si00. After the goods were shipped
it was ascertained that the representations
made by Lands were false and the COM
plant for false pretense was instituted.
lands expects his father-in-law To come
TO his rescue and settle the case against
him