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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

The morals of Tammany Hall appear to
make it necessary to draw the line at get
ting bogus divorces by collusion with cour:
officials and influential pollticians-when
the case gets into the newspapers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

The weather of the dog days, or what are
generally expected to be such, appears bound
to make up all its errstic tendencies in the
preceding part of 1889. People who COM
plain of such weather, as yesterday and the
day before, are meteorologically Unsuitable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
1T LOOKED LIKE A SNAP.
The Clever Scheme of Florida Company
Which Gave Town Lots Away.

WASHINGTON, August 12-Assistant Libra
rian Scudder, of the National Museum. has
discovered neat real estate operation in
Florida lands, which he describes as follows:
"A short time ago received by mail deed to
o lot in town in Florida from a railroad COM
pany there. with letter telling me that IL I
wanted to accept the property free could do
so by recording the deed. For that purpose L
sentSl 26 to the Recorder with the deed, and
now own the lot.
at looked like snap, but found out that
the company hired q clerk to record the deeds
and themselves received the fee. There are
about ten lots of the size Of the one they gave
me to an acre, so they received S12 so per acre
for the ground from the fees, and you could
81 rs an acre from the Government. am not
looking for snaps now. l want TO pay hard
cash and full price for whatever 1 get.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN MONTANA.
Quite a Eight Over the Subject In the Con
stitutional Convention.

HELENA, MONT, August l2.-In the conven.
tion to-day the Committee on Suffrage re.
ported recommending the proposition to sub
init woman suffrage as q separate proposition.
Kennedy moved to lay the report upon the
table. The motion was lost. and Warren moved
to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution
as separate proposition. The motion was lost
on q tie vote, and SO the question rests.
A proposition making the keeping of "black.
lists" . felony was referred to the Committee
on Labor. The capital question came up next
A motion to submit the location of the capital
in the year 1892 to vote of the people was
amended to read that the temporary CAPITAL
shall remain at Helena until such election
takes place. Thus Helena remains the capital
until the election of 1892
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
A FLY CAUSES DEATH.
An Insect Kills a Punxsutawney Horse and
Its Owner.

Its Owner.
PUNxsUTAwNEY, August l2-Moses Evich,
q junk dealer, had a team of horses, and he
thought great deal of them. He had been
engaged to haul load of furniture for man
who was moving from Brookville to this place
1t Is q hilly road and the horses needed careful
watching. While going down a steep hill
Moses saw large fly on the neck of one of the
horses. 1t annoyed the man asmuch as it did
the horse, and the little insect caused the death
of the animal and also of Moses.
Elvich. in leaning forward to brush away the
fly. fell to the ground and broke his neck.
The horses took fright, and running into the
fence, the one on which the fly was sitting
broke its leg and had to be killed Elvich
was picked up by his father-in-law, who was
following with another load Of household
goods.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
The President's Awful Pun.

From the Lewiston Journal.'
Secretary Blaine looked through the big
oval window of his dining-room this morning
aud saw that fog was hiding the view again.
"Ah, this is beastly weatherI' exclaimed the
Secretary to his guest.
"Barharborousr' replied the President
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
FOOD COMING EAST.

Shipments of Flour. Grain and Provisions In
Excess of Last Year.
CHICAGO, August 12-The eastbound ship
ments Of -four, grain and provisions by the
lines in the Central Traffic Association last
week aggregated q, 45s tons, against rs 964 for
the week previous decrease of 4,506 tons,
against 1878 for the corresponding week last
year, an increase Of 1880 tons. The Vanderbilt
lines carried 522 per cent of the whole business;
the Pennsylvania, l55: Chicago and Grand
Trunk, 26.4; the Baltimore and Ohio, so
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

THE New Yorkers whose sole idea of the
Exposition Of 1892 is an Eiffel tower 2, 900 feet
high, should stop long enough to perceive
that necessary antecedent is a subscription
fund some ten million dollars in altitude.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

PARIS advices report that Mrs. James
Brown-Potter's health has improved. This
is fortunate for Mrs. Potter, but the public
would have reason to rejoice if the same
thing could be said of her acting.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
A DAY In NEW YORK.
Evil Effects ofBrcakins n Pledge.

NEW YORK, August R-George- Tinney, q
colored waiter, last night broke the pledge,
which he signed two years ago, and got fighting
drunk. He began to beat his wife as soon as he
got home. At midnight she escaped out of q
window. and went to neighbor's house. At 2
o'clock this morning he carried all her clothes
and half of his furniture to the house in which
she was sleeping. piled them up on the door.
step, poured six gallons of kerosene over them.
and applied a match. A big bonfire, a panic
and fire alarm were the Immediate results.
No one was injured, and fremen quickly ex-
tinguished the flames After a 20-minutes'
struggle with two policemen, this morning
T1nney was disarmed of two razors and re-
volver. and was locked up.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.I
Mr. Gladstone gives the key to the matri-
monial bliss Of himself and his wife in these
words: Whenever my wife insists, submit;
whenever insist she submits" That Is easy
enough, but win the Gro. N. kindly state for
the benefit Of puzzled young couples what hap
pens when both sinsiStfs
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
Lot. of People Ju.r Like Him.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Chauncey N. Depew says he would give up
his private business to accept the Presidency
This is very high-minded in Chauncey; but we
are tempted to observe that we know Of whole
families in which similar sacrifice would be
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

SUITS to recover $50, ,oOO. 900 worth of land
on revolutionary titles are generally apt to
prove more imposing in the preface than re-
numerative in the conclusion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

NEW gas wells in the McKeesport dis
trict add emphasis to the assurance that
Pittsburg's unparalleled fuel is not going to
give out just at present.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
. ID. C. McCrncIxnn.
mrrc1AI rxLtenAn 10 run nrsp.

nPBcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.,
FRANKLIN, August I'D. @. McCrscken. one
OF the Oldest and most prominent citizens OF thiS
place. died very suddenly in his carriage this
AFTERNOON while conversing with friend.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
A PhIIanthropist's Troubles.

A short man with frowsy hair and short
beard, and wearing ministerial costume at
tracted great deal of attention in the Harlem
court this morning. He was the notorious
William 81. Ramscar, who Conducted the un-
sectarian home for children near Fleetwood
Park, until imprisoned some time ago for his
horrible treatment of his youthful charges
Recently he has been conducting a national
unsectarian home for old men" in the upper
part of the city. June 10 John Lefferts, white
haired, weak old man with small income, en-
gagged board and furnished room on the first
noor OF Ramscar's institution. He lived in it
two days and was then directed to sleep in the
attic. When he refused to move Ramscar
beat him with cane till he became uucon-
scious. In court Lefferts showed big bruises
and gasbes which Ramscar's cane had made
on his head, neck and back. Several police
men told how, when passing the old mems
home at night they had often heard Ramscar
beating his wards. Several of the old men in
hamscar's care testified that they had meat
schooner than once week. Ramscar was held
for trial. His old mems home viii be investi.
gated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

The South Carolina mob which tried to
get hold of Flemon has not yet succeeded in
getting out writ of extrsdition,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
A Newsboys, Riot.

A newsboYs' riot has been in progress on Park
row all day. The cause of the trouble was the
raising of the Wholesale price of the Evening
Sun and Ecentn0 World from cents to cents
for ten copies. The boys refused to pay the
new price and retired in body to Theater al
ley for consultation. An hour later some 500 Of
them marched out behind a red rag on a stick,
shouting, Boycott the Sun; boycott the
World" Only two newsboys on the row tried
to sell the boycotted papers. One of these,
after being chased all over City Hall Park, got
bad thrashing and his papers were torn up.
The other was escorted by a policeman through
the yelling mob Of boys to Broadway where he
took to his heels with some 200 dirty-faced
barefooted little imps after him, shouting
"Scab." The shouting and marching were kept
up till dark. The boys expect to continue the
boycott till the old rates shall have been re.
stored.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
Photosrupbic Piracy.

Two suits have Just been begun in the United
States Circuit Court against the Henry g.
Allen Company. of this city. asking that the
csmpany be enjoined from publishing the EN-
cyclopedia Britannica" The suits were brought
by the firms of Adam & Ghas Black Of Edin-
burgh. and Francis A Walker, of Boston, and
Charles scribners' Sons, of this place. The
Henry g. Allen Company publishes the "En-
Encyclopedia" from reproduction Of the
original ninth edition, taken BY the Gelatine
method. In the ninth edition is an article
which Mr.. Walker claims to have written and
copyrighted, called political Geography and
Statistics" and which is used In the encyclo-
pedia published in Edinburgh by permission
from the author.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
Murder Trial Before a Consul.

Peter Lynch, heavily ironed, was brought
into port by the steamship Charles Moraud
from Manzanilla, this morning, and: this after
noon was arraigned for murder before the
British Consul. While the Moraud was lying
at anchor in the harbor at Manzanilla, last
July Il. Alexander Hertz, the mate, quarreled
with Lynch, then q sailor, concerning ques-
ton o. discipline. The mate struck Lynch
Twice. Lynch then plunged q sheath knife
into the mates abdomen. Seven days later
the mate died of the wounds. As both men
Were British subjects. on a British ship, the
whole affair is within the exclusive jurisdiction
of the British Consul.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
He Could Not save Both.

John Roseau, prosperous mechanic and his
two young sons went out rowing on the North
riyeH The ebbing tide carried their boat
against pier. While trying to push it off Mr.
Hoseau tipped the boat so that it began to fill
with water He Immediately tossed his elder
Doy up on the dock. With the other boy in his
arms, he tried to climb up the piles under the
pier The boat went under before he could get
a foothold. He fell into the river, and his
child was swept from his arms and drowned.
He saved himself by swimming ashore, after
trying in vain to recover his boy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
Dropped Into Their Niehes,

ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE DIsPArcHI
WASHINGTON, August III. L. Worth was
appointed postmaster at lakewood, and Samuel
Mckinney at Sturgeon, Allegheny county, to.
dav
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
HE WILL BE GREATLY KISSED.
Major Lindsey Obliged to Leave Washing
ton and Return to waynesburs.

foH uHu Hket1fH 70 WHyuesuuf8s
rsPEcIAL TELEeRAM TO THE prspATcH.i
WASHINGTON. August l2-Major ]. B. LIND
sey, Of Waynesburg. who was appointed prop
erty clerk at the Interior Department soon
after Clevelano's Inauguration, was invited to
return to his native heath to-day.
There does not appear to have been any
charge against the Major except that of dis
agreeable politics. He has been quite figure
here. and will be greatly missed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
A Bucket Shop suspends.

Attachments were to-day filed in Philadel-
phia against ]. q. Allen & Co., of this city. The
attached firm were proprictors Of bucket
shop and had to suspend because of losses in
Cured in the recent rise In prices. The at
tachments are to protect Ed c. Holske q Co.
and J. B. Fleshman, of Philadelphia. Allen
originally came from Syracuse. A little more
than year ago he made 100000 in Boston,
and afterward joined the firm of Fisher Al
len, Of New York, which failed some months
ago. ~. @. Allen constitutes the whole con-
cern," said one of his employees this afternoon.
"He is sick at his home to-day. He is going out
of business on account Of the poor prospects in
the bucket shop business, but he is going to
pay all his debts here. Pm looking for Job my
self. The fact is. since Allen has been here,
about year, he has lost $4,000 or $4,000 It
has been bulllsh uphill market, and don't
believe any Of the bucket shop men have made
anything. The Western Union makes all the
money. Cost us $4,000 this year. The anti
bucket shop bill has had some effect, too. Ap-
parently it is q dead letter, and don't believe
1t amounts to row Of pins, but we thought
something was going to be done, and the public
were somewhat suspicious for WHILE"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
Pat Had to Fight.

Colonel John c. Calhoun, brother of Patrick.
or Pat" as he is Familiarity known in Wall
street, came to New York from Montreal to-day.
The Calhouns have offices at Is Wall street.
They are grandsons of the famous South Caro-
lima Senator. They have become very promi.
nent in Southern railroad ventures In the last
few years, and are particularly close in their
associations with Colonel Calvin 8. Br1ce, Gen.
eral Thomas, John 81. Ipman and other million
aires interested in Southern railroads Colonel
Calhoun is President Of the Southern Society.
He Is six feet six, and big proportionately. He
did not want to talk about the duel. He said
that now that his brother and Mr. Williamson
had adjusted their difficulty it would not do
for him to say anything. He spoke, however,
OF a coincidence. A few months ago his brother
was reading Of duel and, swinging around in
his chair, he said: "John, hope shall never
have to 60 upon the field of honor. do not
approve of that way of settling differences"
"And yet six months afterward he was Obliged
to do So" said Colonel Calhoun. Pat is a
manly fellow, and you must remember that the
sentiment about such matters is different in
the South. II Pat had not tax en- notice of this
affair he would have been thought a coward.
and his refusal might have injured him in
business way" A number of Southern rail-
road men in Wall street, friends of Pat
rick Calhoun, received . messages from
Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution. They said that MIR Calhoun's
ons shot slightly injured Mr.. Williamson in the
arm, and that Pat isa trump clear through"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13

THE cry of the Katydid has been heard in
the suburbs, This augurs frost within six
weeks
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-20
Tnp INTERNAL REYGNVE OFFICE.

Collector McGraw Ordered to Transfer 1t
to ParkerSburg.
Collector OF Internal Revenue John T,
McGraw, who was in the city yesterday
attending the Mont de Chantal com.
menCement exercises, received, while
here, q communication from the Treas.
ury Department at Washington, informs
ing him that after the 25th instant the
Internal Revenue headquarters for the
division OF West Virginia would be
located at P%arkerburg, that being the
home OF the new Collector, Hon. A. b.
White. Mr.. McGraw's term expires on
the Goth instant, and his headquarters,
by a suspension OF the law requiring the
Office OF the Collector TO be located
in a Government building, have
been at Grafton. The notice received
by him yesterday was to the effect that
the Department desired him to transfer
the office and the Government property
in his possession to Parkersbprg ON the
date mentioned. In a conversation with
an INTRLLIoENcER reporter last night
Collector McCiraw said! II do not
know what action / will take regarding
the communication. II does not seem
to be a peremptory order, and is courte-
ously worded. II would require me,
however, To remove the office and all
the Government property to q point
one hundred miles distant from
the present headquarters within five
days OF the time that my resignation
takes effect. This, it seems to me, Is
asking just a little too MUCH Of me, and
involves considerable unnecessary ex-
pense and Inconvenience, The office
could be as easily transferred to my sue
cessor at Grafton as at Parkersburg. !
see no advantage 10 be gained to him Tor
me to make the removal now. To re-
quire me 10 remove 1t, together with my
corps OF clerks, Is asking me to do what
properly devolves upon my successor.
Aside from this, the work Of making the
transfer will require more than the five
remaining days OF my term.
Why, It will take ten days to
transfer the Wheeling Office alone.
There are seventy thousand stamps on
inventory Of ali the property in my
possession must be taken and duly
.reCeipted for, SO, you see, 1t is no small
Job. OF course, l will not object to
doing anything that will be OF any I'D.
vantage To my successor, and desire
to extend To- him any courtesy In my
power, but l cannot see how the re.
quirement imposed upon me by the
Department will be OF particular advan.
tage 70 hin or d convenience to me-"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-20

Mrs. A. 4. sheriff and daughter Helen, Of CadlG
arc visiting relatives here.
Miss iObccca MlGhCnef, " LOydEvlllC, hRi
been Visiting tho family Of Mt. George Amber
HOI,
The Presbyterian picnic 10 have been held al
broadway TAFk yesterday was postponed Until
to-day on account Of tho weather.
Rev. ]. T.. DOCpkGn, pastor Of the German
Lutheran Church, IA taking n respite from hll
iAbOrS Al Columbus aud ClFCl0vlllO,
Tho funeral Of the late Mrs. August ltOLhef
muhd from the family residence on B0uih BeO
Ond Glteet, yesterday afternoon, was largely AZ
tended. sOrvlCcs were hefl IN The 0efinAfl
Lutheran Church, Rev, CHARLES Hottie, oi Ben
WOOD, Ofiol4ilng. The floral OiiGtlngA were MI,
inpFOus aud beautiful, The pail 6Gaten were
WemfS. Charles liHlllng, HeOfge bOfpOh, Fred
iNimO, phlilp Hcss, August kuCkutk and Al.
bert Llbhatlt The remains were laid 10 rest III
RlyOrviow Cemetery,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-20
Han nnrnn nj thn y. N. q. A.

Ben Hogan, the reformed prize fighter
and gambler, addressed n good audience
In the y. NJ. q. A. Hall last evening,
lie told tho story Of his life, OF his con-
version and Of his subsequent work.
IL WINS not the kind Of story generally
told by preachers or evangelist, because
they have not such q story OF personal
experience 10 tell. Mr.. Hogan relates u
"a an encouragement to men who feel
that they are fallen 80 low that there is
MOI hone for them In this world or the
next, His earncstness and eagerness to
turn men from tho error Of thcir, way
make d deep impression. lie exhibited
a Bible given 10 him by tho late Thur
low Weed, WHO knew him well when
lle was another kind Of man. This
Bible, ContAiningM Nj Weeds autograph,
he carries With him. After the meeting
two me- who had heard the address
asked Mr., Hogan what they should do.
GKneel down hero and lot us pray" he
roplled; and they prayed. Mr.. Hogan
leaves tlis morning Washington, DO.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-20
LOCAL BRRVITIRs,


tNSs
The b. l. o. pay car arrived here from
overthe Hempaeld division late yester-
day afternoon.
Tue charter Of the Metropolitan Slate
Company, Of this city, was yesterday
fled with Clerk Hook for record rs re-
quired by law,
THR Rtna mill will resume in full this
morning, The second turn on the No,
2 sheet mill was oil yesterday on &C.
count Of the breakage OF a screw box,
PosTNAsTER CowDRN yesterday ap.
pointed Conrad Wassman night clerk, TO
succeed Mr., Sims. The time for the
change has not, however, been yetiixed'
Two men who have been selling cheap
jewelry without q license, were locked
up yesterday, one by Officer Shorts and
the other by Officer Donley. A third.
travelling with them and selling spoons
eyaded the police.
THE Bridge Company is raising anC
improvinga part Of the street in Bridge
port that leads 10 the back river bridge
by filling 1t up with Stag, II makes quit
III Improvement hu AhE 10 ~ kSepI pub :
does not extend far enough to bench
the town any.
OFFICER SHORTS yesterday found thre
men from Bellaire amusing themselve
by breaking up the city's crock sewer
on Sixteenth street, Two Of them wer
arrested and fixed s. each blythe Mayol
They gave their names as Pat Mulkearn
and John Lavelle. They had SOL Il
money.
MEssRs, O. +. ScuARFER, formerly wit
10, Wclty 4 Co., and Fred Dreihors
formerly with John Reid, IT,, have pul
chased the Wholesale liquor store Of NJ
Reid, ut 1918 Main street, and will col
tinue the business. They are competer
and experienced men and will doubles
make q success Of 1t,
SIMON SEIFRRTH, OF Pittsburgh, hi
purchashed from John Ulrich, his Etn'
vile saloon and the large brick bulldin
, occupied us q store and town hall, Sc
ferth will remove his family there. NJ
UlriCh will go into the grocery bushes
at Burlington, 0, The price paid forth
saloon and building was $1,000,