Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-08
A GREAT SUNDAY PAPER.
The Leading Features Of the sixteen-P Page
Dispatch of Yesterday.


Dispatch of Yesterday.
| The SUNDAY DISPATCH contained an
amount of excellent news matter and literature
that would once have proven an astonishment
to the public, which, however. has become so
accustomed to the superiority of this gem Of
Sunday journals that it would now be surprised
by anything but the highest quality. The cable
dispatches gave racy and interesting account
of the dolngs of the Persian Shah in London,
OF his diamonds and of his reasons for now ab-
staining from eating in public or at banquets
given in his honor. The great gold-feld OF
Johannesburg. in South Africa, is also described
by gentleman familiar with it. From Johns
town comes the news of the fixing of the re-
sponsibility for the great fatality by the Cam
bria county Coroner's jury on the South Fork
Fishing Club. A bloody riot, growing out of
strike oflaborers at Duluth, is described, and a
telegram from Reading tells that discomfort
has been caused among the workingmen there
by an order issued by President Corbin that
none who will not renounce all connection with
labor organizations shall be employed
at the Reading Iron Works. Carter town.
ship, in Huntingdon county, is very
much excited by a romantic tale of buried
treasure. Washington dispatches tell of the
threatened resignation of Assistant Secretary
Bacheller, of the Treasury, and of wives as
their husbands private secretaries. Long
Branch furnishes the sensational incident of
wife horsewhipping her husband in public
street. In addition to this there are host of
minor incidents and happenings interestingly
told.
The coming fight between Sullivan and Kill
rain is the great topic that excites the sporting
world and, in fact. everybody. including those
who have no love for brutal exhibitions of that
kind, and persistently and consistently con-
denim them. All that skilled investigators
could learn of the preparations for the pugi-
l1stic encounter and the possibility OF Interrupt
tion are told in the special dispatches from
New Orleans. The reception the New Orleans
people are giving the fstic gladiators, the bet
ting on the outcome. the talk and the gossip
and all the happenings of interest are well told.
On pages and IA general sporting events are
fully reported. Pringle's Weekly Review COW
ers the whole field in the usual inter
esting style of the writer, while the
manner in which the home nine gave game
to the New York Giants is described scientiti-
cally. The other games of the day are also
accurately reported. with interesting gossip
from Washington and Cleveland. The coming
of White and Rowe, the manner in which
Huntress won the Washington Park race at
Chicago and interesting news and gossip round
out complete and remarkable journal of
athletic sports.
The columns of THE SUNDAY DISPATCH de-
voted to news of purely local character tell
how a reporter viewed Saturdays ball game
through a telescope. Scenes and incidents as
thus viewed are reproduced in excellent Illus
trations. The new "drop-a-coin-in-the-slot
machine is described, with the manner in
which it furnishes drinks. and the reporter who
found it tells how the redoubtable milk
Shake Martin hopes by the use of the inven-
tion to defeat Captain Wishart. The work of
an italian with his homemade stiletto is told
by writer who, in the same connection de-
scribes Splane Court and its hghting foreign
residents. Senator Goblin, who is in the
citv, tells something of the plans of the Soldiers
Orphans School Commission. Another writer
tells of the proper time to battle. and the trial
of Frank Aldrieh, charged with bunkoing, oc-
cupies another's pen. The Allegheny bribery
charges, the verdict of the Coroner's jury in
the case of the boy killed by whisky and the
story Of the search for bodies of those drowned
in the Connoquenessing are only few of the
things that crowd these columns with matter
of absorbing interest.
In the second part of the paper Frank j..
Carpenter describes some interesting phases of
life in Egypt The picturesque features of
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"Kamera." In 1.-THE Music World" the growth
of the Mozart Club, of this city, is the leading
feature. while matters of almost equal interest
are told more. briefly. Comic Opera of Old''
and his own experiences of the shifts. expedi-
ents and hard work are told about by w. II.
Crane. Blakely Halls letter on the servants
of England's nobility lets in light on peculiar
class. Ernest Heinrich's fairy tale entitled
'.Froth for the Fool" will prove interesting to
both big and little. Clara Bellies description
of women in railroad accidents, and of English
railway travel, Bill Nye's interview with a
hotel bell boy, and the habits and haunts of a
woodcock are other fine features. Maurice
Thompson's story "In Loves Hands," is an
exquisite romance of the days when the French
| and the Spaniards fought each other in what
are now our Southern States. Among many
other entertaining features are those excellent
writings. designed, however, more for instruc-
tion than entertainment, The Difficult Task, !"
from the pen of Rev. George Hodges; Every
day Science" and SUNDAY Thoughts on Morals
and Manners" Peregrine Quill has an inter
esting column on a variety of popular games.
Among the illustrations is a reduced copy of
Millet's famous picture. ''The Angelus," which
was sold in France last week for $500 francs.
or about $4,000. Space fails to tell Of all the
rest.