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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
THEIR MONEY GONE.
Sad Circumstances of a Former
Bankers Family and Relatives.
THEY ARE RECITED IN U. s. COURT.
Residents Of Tennessee Object to PrObating
q Will Here.
GENERAL NEWS OF TIE COURTS

Judge Acheson, of the United States Dis
trict Court, yesterday granted the petition
Of the sureties of Boyd c. Caldwell for the
remission of the penalties of the recognize
ances for bail forfeited by Caldwell.
Caldwell was cashier of the City National
Bank of Williamsport, Pa. He defaulted
and was arrested on the charge of embezzle-
ment. He gave bail for his appearance in
the United States Court. His case was not
brought up at the term for which he gave
bail and at the next term Caldwell did not
appear. Suit was then entered against his
sureties to recover penalties for for
feited bail. The judgments given against
them were: Maria, Anna E. and Thomas
II. Caldwell, S12, 500; Thomas NJ Rathmell,
$1,000; james Rathrock. 50, 500, and George
W. LEM, s., ,0O0 A petition was fled ask
ing for remission of the penalties. In the
petition it was stated that the stockholders
and depositors had received full satisfaction
of all claims against Boyd G. Caldwell, and
that his bond as cashier had been fully sat
is6ed. 1t was also stated that Maria Cald-
well, his mother, is widow aged 80 years;
Anna E. Caldwell, his sister, is totally blind
and helpless; Thomas H. Caldwell, his
brother, is dependent upon daily labor for
the support of himself and family, and that
Boyd G. Caldwell himself cannot live long,
as he is in the last stage of consumption.
Judge Aeheson granted the petition, and
ordered new trials in the cases against the
sureties, so that verdicts may be given for
than
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
RAN AWAY WITH THE COAcHMAN.
A Young Colored HOstler Infatuates q
Whire Girl Only Is Years Old.

A Young CoIored HostIer Infatuates a
White Girl Only is Years Old.
ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
NEW YORK, May 28.-John c. Barry, a
young colored man of $50 West Fifty-second
street, was remanded in the Harlem court
to-day, on charge Of abducting Mamie
Knott, white girl aged 15 years. Barry
wasemployed as coachman for Mr.. Weise,
of105O Tenth avenue, and Mamie tended q
child in the same family. Barry left there
some weeks ago, and went to work in Con-
nor's livery stables at Tenth avenue and
Ninety-ninth street. On Wednesday last
Mamie left Mr.. Weise's house, and Captain
Berghold found the girl visiting Barry to-
day, in the stable where Barry is employed.
Barry has brother who is married to a
white woman, and Mamie says she has lived
with her at 15O West Fifty-second street
since Wednesday. Barry says that Mamie
did all the courting and asked him to marry
her, but that he told her he would not
marry her unless her mother agreed to it.
Mamie told Justice Murray that she had
changed her mind and did not want to
marry Barry. She was sent to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
Whisky KilIs

How often are we yet to be told that whis-
ky kills? Arsenic kills, opium kills, and
SO do hundreds of other good remedies kill
if abused instead of used. But ask the
question "Will whisky cure?" "Yes" is
the positive reply of the most eminent ply
sicians Of all the land. Disease steals into
your system like sneak thief into your
house, and often by the neglecting bad
cold we end our days in lingering and wish
ing for health, when, indeed, one bottle of
pure whisky or brandy would have cured
the cold. Such goods may be scarce but
they can be found at Max Klein's, 50 Fed
eral street, Allegheny. His "Silver Age"
is the only whisky indorsed by physicians.
You can get the pure Guckenheimer,
Finch or Gibson Rye at S1.00 per quart or
six quarts for $500. Send for price list and
catalogue. MwF
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
NEW GREEN GOODS SCHEME
A Hoboken Mans Method of Avoiding Pun
ishment for Swindling-He Won'r
Fool With the POstofice De-
pnrrmeut = Afraid of
Uncle Sam.
ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE DrsPATcB.l


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DTsPATcHI
NEW YORK, May 28.-Assistant District
Attorney William II. DAILY, of Hoboken,
received letter from NJ. L. Jenkins, man
ager Of the Mississippi State Prison, to-day,
inclosing two circulars which had been sent
him from Hoboken. Both were written on
a typewriter. One was an Invitation to
come to Hoboken and buy ''green goods. %
or else to send money by express and re-
ceive lot Of goods by the next express. 1t
was signed John Fox, 1922 Grand street,
Hoboken. The second was something new
in the green goods line. 1t was written on
o sheet Of note paper, headed as follows:
Founded 1850; capital stock 100000
HORACE WALTERS & Sons, Bankers, !
72 Arch street. Brooklyn.
Special attention to collection atspecial rates
and remittances promptly made. Refer to
National Bank of Commerce. Boston; First
National Bank, Portland; Bank of North
America, Philadelphia; National Union Bank,
Fall River.
DEAR SIR-The gentleman whose name we
inclose on slip has requested US to write you
concerning his reliability. We take pleasure
IN indorsing him as a responsible man and
guarantee any transaction you may have with
him. HORACE WALTERS & Sons.
.. The name and address inclosed was John
Fox, 1922 Grand street, Hoboken." There
is no such number in Grand street. The
first number instructed the recipient to
transact all business by telegraph or ex-
press, as no attention would be paid to
anything coming by mail. When tele-
gram is received by Mr.. Fox at 1922 Grand
street it is left at the Office, because it can
not be delivered. Mr.. Fox calls or sends
for it. In that way the swindlers avoided
the law against using the mail for fraudu-
lent purposes, and that law is the only one
under which they can be punished as green
goods men. There is no Arch street in
Brooklyn and no such firm as Horace Wal
ters & Sons in that city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
A SORROWFUL SIGHT.
The Corpse of Widow Lies I'm q House
Nearly n Week, While Her Son IL Too
Drunk TO Notify the Author-
tiles Of His Mothers
ESPECIAL rzIzexAn TO THE DrsrArcH.-


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.I
NEW YORK, May 28.-Since last Satur-
day the people in the tenement house at 319
East Sixtieth street have been complaining
of the unsanitary condition of the apart
ments occupied by Mrs. Bridget Hanrahan
and her fs-year-old son, John, on the
first floor, at the right of the door. John
Hanrahan has been drunk for a month. and
was seen coming in and out of the rooms as
usual to-day. When spoken to he was ap-
parently too drunk to give any explanation.
Mrs. Hanrahan had not been seen for a long
time.
This afternoon Janitor Dussick and
Policeman Collins broke open the door Of
the room. John Hanrahan lay drunk upon
a sofa in the front room. His mother was
dead in the back room. Apparently she
had been dead nearly a week. The
son was arrested, and the Coroner,
the morgue and the Board OF Health were
notified. Mrs. Hanrahan's body was soon
removed to the morgue. The son was In q
condition approaching collapse. He was
unable to give any account of his mothers
death, and seemed to have entirely lost his
senses. Captain Gunner sent him to Belle
vue Hospital.
Mrs. Hanrahan was a widow, so years old.
She had passed nearly all her life as a
household servant, and was reputed to have
saved money. Mrs. Ellen Driscoll, of 402
East Seventy-second street, saw her alive in
her room week ago. Mrs. Hanrahan was
then in bed and complained of having a
sick headache. At tBellevue, the son revived
enough to tell the doctors that he had not
worked at his trade since October, and that
for q month he had not eaten anything, but
had lived entirely on beer. He avoided
any reference to his mother, though he said
he knew she was dead on Monday night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
MY EEL, SAID THE SNAKE.
But Blow From an Oar Just Then Killed
the Water Snake.

New YORK Sum-
A water snake surprised rowing party
on Lake Carasaljo yesterday. The snake,
a large female, was comforting itself into a
hundred shapes when first seen, and was so
busily engaged that it permitted the boat to
come within less than an ordinary oars
length. The snake had captured an eel and
was making tremendous effort to swallow
it, while the eel was resisting with all its
slippery tactics and vibratory strength.
After protracted struggle the snake was
able to get about two and half inches of
the eel down when it paused, as if to rest
before renewing the swallowing process.
The snakes mouth was tightly closedov
and beyond the eels head, and the eel
seemed to be weakening under the smother
ing clasp of its enemy. Such air as there
was in the vicinity of the eers gills was being
exhausted by the snake, and the eel was in
a very tight place. The situation excited
the compassion of one of the occupants of
the boat to such an extent that he could not
resist the impulse to bring one Of the oars
down upon the snake with such murderous
effect as to simultaneously dispatch the
reptile and put an end to very interesting
study of reptilia.. The naturalist of the
party brought the snake and eel into the
boat, the latter being still held, but not so
tightly as before, in the mouth of the snake.
The eel was released and measured, its
length being 15 inches The snake
measured 81 inches in length and 6Z
inches in circumference at the largest part
Of the body. The eel, showing signs Of re-
suscitation, was laid in the water and soon
began feebly to wriggle about, and doubt
less fully recovered. The snake was one of
the largest, if not the largest, of its kind ever
found in this vicinity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
MOURNING OVER THE WRONG CORPSE.
Young scrnntonian Surprises His Friends
Who Had Assembled TO Bury Him.

Young Scrnntonian Surprises His Friends
Who Had Assembled to Bury Him.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
SCRANTON, May 2S.-On April 21 james
White, of this city, disappeared from home.
He was unwell when he left here, and his
mother supposed he had gone to Philadel-
phia for treatment at hospital. On Satur-
day evening Mrs. White received tele-
gram from the experimenting physician of
Cleveland hospital, stating that james
White had died there on Friday evening.
She Immediately ordered the remains
shipped to her, and made deposit of $50
with the United States Express Company to
defray the e1pressage. At 2 o'clock this
morning body consigned to her arrived at
the Delaware, Lackawanns and Western
depot, and she had it taken to her
house. On opening the coffin it
was found that the corpse, which
was arrayed for burial, was not that of her
son, but the body of man about 40 years
of age. Her missing son was % years old.
The body was promptly returned to the
depot, where the coffin was opened. From
so to 70 men were present at the time and q
majority of them recognized the remains of
a former Scrantonian, but they couldn't
positively identify the body.
While people were assembling at the
White residence this afternoon to attend
the funeral of young White, that gentle
man arrived in town on New York train
and went direct to his mothers house. A
notice of his death telegraphed to New
York Sunday paper caused his sudden re-
turn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29

A bill in equity was filed yesterday BY
Mrs. Margaret Dallmeyer, exeeutrix Of
Henry Dallmeyer, Jr, against Henry Dali
meyer. The plaintiff is the widow OF Henry
Dallmeyer, Jr. She states that he and his
father were in partnership in the wholesale
tobacco business. Her husband died in
1887, and in his will gave his father the
option to purchase his interest in the busi-
ness, which was valued at $4,000. Mrs.
Dallmeyer claims that her father-in-law has
run the business ever since, but has never
purchased his sons share, nor has be settled
with her, and he refuses to render an ac-
count. She asks that an account be taken
of the business OF the firm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
JAMES g. BLAINE, JR-,
NJ. N. BLAINE.

An oak extension table that was carried
in afterward had the same legend in lead
pencil. Other household effects were after
wards carried in from the truck. They
all bore yellow tags with the name "Blaine"
on them.
Auctioneer Silo would not affirm or deny
that the furniture had belonged to young
Blaine. but from another source it was
learned that it was the furniture that young
Blaine had got upon the installment plan to
furnish the fat on Fifty-third street in
which he lived with his wife, Marie Nevins
Blaine, before he left her 1t was sent
rupture, and it is to be sold at suction and
is advertised thus:
NNHE entire household furniture of q young
i couple who have deemed it wise to decline
housekeeping.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
LUMINOUS NUMBERS WANTED.
A Fortune and the Gratitude Of His Fellow
Men Await the Inventor.

wen await tue knVentOrs
New York Times.1
Anyone who has been forced to search for
house number after dark will appreciate
the words Of Western newspaper man who
is at present visiting this city. "A fortune
and the gratitude fhisfellow men, said he,
"await that person who shall discover some
practical method Of applying phosphorus
to the manufacture of luminous street num-
bers. Comparatively few of the houses of
this or any other large cities have the street
numbers so placed as to take advantage of
the light from the hall gas jet, and there
aremany houses and buildings where no light
is kept burning during the evening. Many
Of the numbers are on the outside doors, and
as it seems to be the rule to leave them open,
the number is lost to view from the side
walk. Then, if man happens to be in
search of particular number after the re-
gulation bedtime, his chances for prowling
around for an hour or more, not to mention
incidental annoying experiences, are excel
lent. At such times how much unnecessary
profanity might be prevented by some SIM
pie illuminative device. 1t seems strange
that some inventive genius don't turn his
mind to this subject"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
CAUGHT AT LAST.
The Chicago Customs Fraud 10 Finally In
the Toiis-He Was Known ms "Willie
Tascott" Among the Oficinls-
Long Chase.

a AouH Ouases
CHICAGO, May 2S.-The man who has
been giving the Chicago customs officials a
vast amount of trouble for months and vic
tlmizing numerous housewives, including
the daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, of the
United States Supreme Court, was finally
arrested to-day. The fellow was known to
the treasury officials as their willie Tas-
to elude the most vigilant detectives,
although he was heard from every
day. When arrested he gave the name OF
Morris Fleckenger, and stoutly maintained
his innocence. The treasury officials were
not sure they had the right man until
Policeman Hanley came and identified him
as a man who had served one year in the
Maryland penitentiary under the name of
James Lee, and term in the Milwaukee
Jail under the name of John Cartright
A score of devices were tried to capture
the "Willie Tascott, but none proved sue
cessful. Finally Treasury Agent james
McHale informed the railroad detectives at
the various depots to look out for him, for
he usually went to the suburbs to perpetrate
his swindles. He was recognized from the
description by the officers at the Rock
Island depot today, and was sent to the
Government building. Mrs. Goldsmith,
one of his many victims, was sent for I'M
mediately. She identified Fleckenger as
the man who swindled her, and warrant
was promptly sworn out His handwriting
was also identified by Mrs. Goldsmith.
Fleckenger laid the plan for his swindling
operations while he was an employe of the
Custom House in New York. He was dis
charged some years ago, and at once began
swindling the people Of Baltimore, for
which he served one year in the peniten-
tiary. He then came West, and began his
crooked work in Chicago, and has been
highly successful for about nine months. In
that time he has swindled about 100 persons
out of amounts ranging from S. to S15. His
plan was to 60 to a residence and say that a
package had been just received from Europe
on which the duties must be paid, and, if
paid at once, about $40 would be saved, as
the goods would not then have to go through
the Appraisers hands. He always ap-
preached the women of the house, and they
rarely failed to fall into the trap.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
SGHORR's SUICIDE.
The Woman That He Loved Calls Him
Coward-Hls Rash Deed ssill the
Lending Topic Of Conversation
at Baltimore.


BALTIMoRE, May 2S.-On the street, In
the clubs, everywhere, the one topic of con-
versation has been the cause of Rev. Henry
Greenfield Schorr' Sunday morning suicide,
as published in an out-ottown paper, to
which he had sent both his correspondence
and that of the woman he loved,
as we'll as her name. Schorr evl-
IDENTIFY was peculiar man, taking his
meals at an expensive hotel and having
comfortable rooms at the st. Paul's parish
house. A favorite with the fashionable
congregation of st. Paul's, where he was
assistant rector, he constantly refused to
talk about his parents, who lived In an
humble way in an obscure part OF town.
Having borrowed their savings he was
ashamed of them. He gave many false
reasons for his periodical gloom. First.
friend had committed suicide because he
had urged the payment OF debt; then
mythical sister was seriously i'll in Brook
lyn, etc. Schorr was buried to-day.
A reporter called this evening at the lux
urious home of Mrs. Margaret M. Smith, at
No. 1919 North Charles street, the woman
whom Schorr says ruined his life. Her ap-
pearance betrayed the fact that she has suf-
fered great deal recently. She is tall and
slender and has very dark expressive eyes
and black hair. She looked to be about 40
years of age.
"The letters as published were true, she
said, "but Mr.. Schorr's action in sending
the love letters was the act of a coward, and
was done because 1 would never marry him.
At the time I wrote them really did care
for him, but told him could not marry
him. was a woman much older than Mr..
Schorr-in fact, he was boy to me. l
knew nothing of his family, and he would
never tell me anything about them. His
continued attentions won my regard and
did learn to love him, but always told him
could never marry him. 1 think he was
crazy, and his act in sending my letters and
picture to newspaper was the act Of cow
ard. The last paragraph in the newspaper
is absolutely false, and was written In
spirit of revenge"
She referred to this rambling letter:
SATURDAY, May 25, 1889.
1t is nearly Sunday morning I am desper-
ate man, because Mrs. Margaret Smith has de-
ceived me. She became engaged to me. and
when objected to certain of her actions with
other men, she was mad and said she was in
dependent of me. She is miserable,
deceptive woman. She treated the Rev.
Mr.. Pond of Philadelphia, in the
same way. Indeed, claiming that she loved
me, she persuaded me to write the letter Of re-
lection to him. He considered himself as her
engaged lover for i've years, and yet in all that
time she has been gay woman. She Will talk
about the untruth 1 told of Mr.. j. 81. Flagler
Of her, in the presence of G. w. Benedict. but
she made me promise would lie to Mr.. Bene-
dict about Mr.. Flagler's relations to me, so she
could get Benedict in her power Il expect).
Like fool did. s.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
PUT IT IN WATER.
How to Detect the AduIterated Sugar Ex-
posed Last Week.

How to Detect the Adulterafed Sugar Ex.
posed Last Week.
Notwithstanding the fact that last week
The DISPATCH warned the consumers and
produce dealers, wholesale and retail, that
extensive adulteration of yellow sugar was
being practiced in the East, some small con-
signments have been received here. In Or
der to further warn all against it, a mer-
chant suggests that adulterated sugar
can generally be decided by this very SIM
pie test:
In tumbler half filed with water put a
tablespoonful Of the mixed sugar. The pure
cane sugar will go into solution much
quicker than the grape quality, leaving the
latter in the form of white sediment on
the bottom of the glass, after the cane sugar
has been dissolved. If the grape has been
ground very fine it. of course, increases the
difficulty of detection, but if in coarse
state, as is very often the case, it can easily
be discovered,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
ONLY A FROSTY SNAP
Can Kill Expectations for n Good Straw
berry Crop This Season.

OAu Nil EXpectutlOns lOr 0oOo StFaWs
berry Crop This Season.
There has not been such favorable sea-
son for cherries and strawberries around this
partof the country for many years as the
present one, and from all present indica-
tions the crop of fruit will be unusually
abundant, unless something unexpected
should occur within the next few weeks.
Alexander Murdoch, who is practical
gardener and an authority on fruit growing,
stated yesterday afternoon in reply to some
inquiries made regarding the prospective
strawberry crop:
81 believe strawberries are going 10 be
very abundant and cheap this year for many
reasons. This season has so far been un-
usually favorable. There has not been an
extended drought like last year, which
made the quality somewhat inferior, and we
have not had too much rain to spoil the
crop. The blossoms are just now out in
abundance, and when our home growth
will reach the market, strawberries and
cherries will be very cheap.
"There is only one thing to harm the
crop, ard that is frost. 1t has been chilly
enough for the last few days to create fears
for frosty snap, but think it is about
over and the fruit saved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
A UNCONVENTIONAL BATTLE.
Colored Baptists and Methodists In South
Carolina Fighting FierceIy.

CarOuna tlgntlng t1ercelys
ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
CHARLESTON, S. c., May 28.-The war
between the colored Baptists and Meth
odists, which was inaugurated at Greenville
last month at the meeting of the State Bap-
tist Convention, is growing hot and fierce.
The Baptist preachers on that occasion
were invited to preach in the Meth
odist church. They preached so effect
ually and doctrinally that a good many
Methodist brethren were converted to the
Baptist faith, and this provoked the ire of
the Methodist preachers, who denounced
their Baptist brethren in round terms. The
Baptist brethren then issued manifesto, in
which they claimed the denunciation was
evoked because the Methodist preachers saw
their congregations slipping away from
them and going over to the Baptist fold.
To-day the Methodist brethren issued an
other manifesto, in which the Baptist
brethren are denounced as falsiiers and
liars. The Baptist brethren, in reply,
threaten to 60 up to Greenville and estab-
lish a Baptist following there, which will
entirely depopulate the Methodist churches
and leave their pastors without congrega-
tions. The fight is gradually extending
over the whole State, and both sides are pre-
pairing for an active and war-to-the-knife
campaign.