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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
PRACTICE VERSUS LAW.

The final decision of the New Orleans
Court against the Cotton Seed Oil Trust ap-
pears to have the usual result of equity pr o
ceedings against the trust, Of completely
overthrowing the trusts, according to the
decisions and of allowing their practices to-
go on undisturbed. The decision adjudges
the Cotton Seed Oil Trust guilty OF usurp-
ing, intru6ing into, and unlawfully holding
and exercising the franchises and privileges
of corporation, and excluding it forever
from the said franchises and privileges
within the State of Louisiana; but the
officers of the trust state that they do
not do any business in Louisiana anyhow.
All their business is done through the
American Cotton OIL Company of Louis
lana, which is a creature or branch of the
trust; and the trust will continue to carry
on its Louisiana traffic through the cor
poration, and claim thereby to respect the
decision of the Louisiana Court. The de-
cision of Judge Barrett in the case of a
corporation controlled by the Sugar Trust
might seem to have some bearing on that
case; but it does not bother the trust
people much. In both cases while the law
is plainly defed the operations Of the trust
60 on undisturbed. The deduction is plain,
that until the people are able to make great
masses of capital respect the laws, the
exactions of the trusts and the lawlessness
ofaggregated wealth will continue ruling
the markets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25

ascension occurred he commenced to buy
laces, silks and jewelry for his wife, and
clothes, cigars and wines for himself. He
paid for none of these things, but promised
to settle with the shopkeepers after the
ascension, from which he expected to reap
fortune, he said. The Viennese tradesmen
sold him all he wanted on credit, and tried
to sell him more.
Then Senior Jabw invited the Mayor and
City Council of Vienna to see the final re-
hearsal before the exhibition. The city dig
nitaries, after the wont of such exalted per-
sonages, accepted the invitation to free
show. Senior Jabw and his wife stepped
into the balloon, which was attached to the
ground by hundred-foot rope, and the bal
loon went up. When the balloon reached
the limit OF the rope, Senior Jabw cut the
rope. The balloon sailed away. The wind
carried it swiftly out of Austrian territory.
Then it was found by the tradesmen Of
Vienna that all the. valuable things bought
by the aeronaut had been shipped to parts
unknown days before the balloon went up.
Their profits and principal had gone up
into the clouds.
Swindlers in this country will be dis
gusted that they cannot appropriate Senior
Jabw's ingenious scheme. Frontiers are
not so handy in the United States as they
are in Europe. And, for that matter, there
are fewer credulous fools behind the coun-
ter in America than Vienna seems to be
blessed with.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
WIDEN THE STREETS!

The ordinance for the widening of Dia-
mond street passed one branch of Councils
yesterday, and its support by favorable re-
ports from the City Attorney and Board Of
Viewers make a good prospect that the
measure will soon become fixed fact.
This step is certainly wise one; and as
investors have been buying up property on
that street at marked advance on former
prices in order to get the benefit of the
widening, it does not seem that there will
be any good ground for claiming general
damages. Indeed, the study of the
downtown streets shows that property
generally could be much improved by fol-
lowing the measure about to be adopted
with regard to Diamond. First, Second,
Third and Fourth avenues, Market, Ferry
and Ross Streets if not Grant, could all be
doubled in availability, by adding ten feet
in width on both sides. As nineteen-twen-
tieths of the buildings on those streets will
have to be rebuilt before they come up to
modern requirements, ordinances setting
back the lines when new buildings are put
up ought to reduce damages to minimum.
It is to be hoped that the Diamond street
policy may be so successful as to expand
into general policy of widening all our
downtown streets to something more than
eighteenth century width.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
GOVERNOR HILLS INVENTION.

The reported discovery that Governor
Hill of New York had signed two bills
passed by the Legislature, and afterward
erased his signature bv chemicals, in order
that he might veto those measures, creates
a good deal of adverse comment in the press
of that State. This line of official action is
certainly novel one, and its use as a
method of permitting Governors to veto
bills which they have signed, or to sign
bills which they have vetoed is perhaps
questionable as a practice of legislation.
Nevertheless it must be admitted that as a
political practice, the Governors discovery
of the utility of chemicals for erasing sig
natures fills long-felt want for the advan-
tage of aspiring politicians.
The inconvenient and obnoxious habit,
which the signatures of political lights to
letters and documents have displayed, OF
turning up at inopportune junctures, has
become a feature of our political history.
The only remedy known heretofore for this
Vicious tendency of the sign manual has
been crystallized into the phrase: "Burn this
letter." but that remedy has been proved by
experience to be utterly incomplete, from
the fatal disposition which the letters have
developed of not getting burned. How
much more thorough the precaution would
be if the politician, instead of relying upon
the recipient of their inconvenient manu-
scripts to burn them, should adopt Cover
nor Hills method of applying chemicals
and erasing the signatures before the let
tiers are sent. Messrs. Blaine and Ingalls,,
on one side of the political house, have
been in positions to appreciate the value of
Governor Hills discovery, and there seems
to be little doubt that the Governors inven-
ton may have been quickened by the proof
of its necessity, in some of his written
communications touching that New York
aqueduct matter.
Perhaps the same end might be reached by
the adoption of vanishing ink which
would become illegible after a stated time
if there were any guarantee that the ink
would vanish soon enough; but the pre-
caution is much more complete to erase the
signature before it leaves the hands Of the
writer. That would make things almost as
safe as If the politician should never learn
to write.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
THE EPETRoLEuM FLURRY.

The oil market developed a sudden and
unexpected liveliness yesterday, jumping
up with unprecedented rapldity from the
previous level of the lower eighties to the
dollar line and falling back to about the
9O-cent level. The utter absence of any
cause for the rise in the statistics points to
the conclusion that the furry was one of the
manifestations of power that are periodically
made in that market, presumably for the
sake of inspiring good state of discipline
into the trade. Possibly, also, the resolu-
ton in favor of trading in futures had some
thing to do with it. When the price of oil
can jump 10 cents in less than half an hour,
the prospects of gambling on futures will be
almost as irresistible as those of unlimited
rouge ct nolre.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
NEW YoRK,s HUMIDITY.

The popular impression that the care
worn and nervous expression circumference
shown by the New Yorkers in the street and
on the elevated railroad trains is due to con-
stant and harassing plunges into the whirl
of speculations in Wall street, is repelled
with vigor and enthusiasm by the New
York Tribune. That journal asserts that it
is not speculation which worries the New
Workers, but the enduring and generally in
soluble doubt whether the weather requires
them to take out their umbrellas or not.
The troubles which arise by taking out the
umbrella when 1t does not rain and by leav-
ing the umbrella at home when it does rain
are. according to this authority, dragging
down tine New Workers "from higher and
nobler things"
This may be very true, and yet the rest of
the country may not perceive in the state
ment any reason for absolying Wall street
from the responsibility of it. What is it
that makes the umbrella and weather ques-
ton SO much more difficult In New York
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
ENCOURAGING FOR LITERATURE.

In response to q somewhat disrespectful
expression of encouragement over the report
that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is not
writing any books at present, which was
made by the New York World, the Albany
Journal takes up the cudgel in behalf of
Miss Cleveland, and expresses its utter dis
approval of such fippancy. The latter
journal declares shat Miss Cleveland is re-
lated to man who for long time occupied
positions of trust and honor is not fault"
and further AYERS that it is "both her privi-
lege and her right to earn her living with
the gen."
This is true as far as it goes; but there is
a little more to be said on the subject of
Miss Cleveland's literary fame. It is not
her fault if she was related to the President
of the United States; but when she uses
that relation, and the notoriety which at
taches to it, as a method of procuring the
sale of writings which before that had no
place in the market, the matter is a subject
Of public comment When the public in
spection Of those writings reveals the fact
that their chief literary quality is highly
ornate and involved style of setting forth
the philosophy of nothing, the matter be-
comes fair subject for the filings of fippant
sarcasm. These are the distinctive features
of Miss Cleveland's literary career, however
estimable and worthy she may have been in
private life; and such features are a fair
target for that portion of the press which
considers literary humbug worthy subject
of notice.
It certainly is encouraging that Miss
Cleveland is not trying to write any more
books. 1t shows her appreciation of the
fact that market can no longer be created
for literary platitudes on the strength of
political connections.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

Mr.. HENRY GEORGE il to visit Australia in
November next.
JUSTICE AND MRS. HORACE GRAY will re-
main at their Boston home until their depart
ure for Europe, early next month.
WHITTIER it is said, falls asleep in his chair
when visitors begin to praise his poetry. Earth
ly honors grow less valuable to him as the years
wane
ATM. Cernuschfs great fancy ball the other
evening. M. Zola appeared as friar. with his
handsome wife as a Norman peasant; NJ. Mum
kacsy was sixteenth-century German; M.
Daudet was lawyer; NJ. Petit q Zulu chief, and
Mime. Bernadeki had an Eiffel tower on her
head, yard high, set with diamonds.
ONE Of the most curious among all the curl.
Gus presents which the Emperor Of Germany
has recently received as products of his Afri.
can possessions is transparent walking-stick
made of rhinoceros skin. It appears that
"Reichscommissaer Hauptmann Wissmann"
sent large piece Of skin over to friend at
Hamburg, who gave it into the hands of clev.
er turner to be made into walking-sticks BY
means of some novel process the turner has
rendered the skin transparent and of a beauti-
full amber color, which has been done before,
but never without changing color in very
short time, while in the present case the yell
low is steady and unchanging.
SPEAKING of aids to oratory, Sir Morrell
Mackenzie has fling alike at Mr.. Gladstone's
egg and sherry and the Iron Chancellor's
brandy and seltzer. 1.-THE supposed miracu-
lous virtues OF the mysterious possets and
draughts on which some orators pin their faith
exist" he says, mainly in the imagination of
those who use them; at best they do nothing
more than lubrIcate the joints of the vocal ma.
chine so as to make it work more smoothly.
This is just as well done by means of glass OF
plain water. In France water sweetened with
sugar is the grand vocal elixir Of political ora
tors. As Mime. de Girardin said, somewhat
unkindly: Many things can be dispensed with
in the tribune. Talent, wit conviction, ideas,
even memory, can be dispensed with. but not
eau sucree.e Stimulants may give sort Of
Dutch courage to the orator, and may carry
him successfully through vocal effort in
which indisposition or nervousness might 9TH
erwise have caused him to fail, but the imme-
diate good which they do is dearly purchased
by the thickening and roughening of the bnu-
cous surface of the throat to which they ulti-
mately give RISE"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25

than elsewhere? The Boston man solves ii
without disturbing his superiority to the
rest of mankind, Philadelphia does no
allow either umbrellas or weather to upset
its placidity. But in New York the uncer-
tainties attending the precipitation of water
appear to be so great as to make life bur-
den. Can this peculiar condition of New York
life be ascribed to any other cause except
vast quantities of water which are per-
meated and suspended, as it were. through
out the atmosphere of Wall street?
The diffusion of water in Wall street GER
tainly justifes anxiety on the part of the
New Yorkers, but it may well be held to
solve the umbrella question. The New
Yorkers should always carry umbrellas,
both material and moral, as q precaution
against an impending water burst from the
humidity which surcharges the clouds Of
Wall street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25

A SOMEWHAT misplaced care for the fu-
ture of an erring young man was displayed
by the Ohio Democratic Committee the
other day in deciding not to expel Garrison
A. Gateson, the Secretary of the Democratic
Executive Committee, for sundry acts of
personal independence which were consid-
cred preiudicial to the ideas of Democratic
discipline. 1t was decided not to "blight
his life." 1t would be very sad to blight
the young mans life; but thorough care
against such catastrophe should have led
the committee to take action which would
permanently sever the young man from con-
nection with the machinery of Ohio politics
of the Democratic Doodle variety.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
Yale Glass Exercises.

NEW HAVEN, June A-The annual class
day exercises of the senior class of Yale oc.
CURED this afternoon and were attended by
1000 people. The class historians were Charles
II. Sheriff., of Washington; Howard w.
Vernon, Brooklyn, N. Y; Joseph g. Mcmahon,
Dayton, O.; Robert T. Platt, Milford. Conn.,;
Donald Mclean Barstow, Of Flushing, L. /.
After the histories were read the class Ivy was
planted near one Of the walls Of the new recita-
tion building, during which an ode was sung.
The ivy planted was slip taken from an ivy
which covers famous castle in France,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
ODD ITEMS FROM FOREIGN SHORES.

JEAN DE REsZKE, the tenor, has been suffer-
ing from blood poisoning for some time, IN
consequence Of a bite from fayorlte cat
THE petroleum pipe line in the Caucasus is
Just about to surmount the Suram Pass. It
will reach height Of $500 feet above the sea.
THUNDER storms have never been so fire.
quent In Paris as since the Eiffel tower has
been there, and 1t is becoming recognized as
the cause.
A CENSUS of horses Is being taken in Paris In
order to give the authorities some idea of the
animals available for military purposes should
need arise. At the last census Paris contained
9S Os0 horses and 38 mules.
THE Salvation Army and evangelists Of
other sorts who have concentrated in Paris to
take advantage of the crowds collected for the
exhibition have been joined by II Buddhist
BONES from Anam, on the same quest.
THE old rule that no divorced woman could
be presented at the English court has been re-
scinded. Any divorced woman with whom no
fault rested is admitted by special permission
from the Queen, after Her Majesty has satis-
fed herself that the applicant was free from
blame
RECENT experiments at the Ear Hospital In
London indicate that stammering is not nerv-
GUS defect only. In operations for deafness in
several cases the patients were cured of STAN.
mering also, and the result il the opinion that
stammering comes from some defect in the
hearing.
NEARLY sevcn-eighths of the population OF
Zanzibar are slaves. Some owners have 1,0O0
A negro boy costs about $40, a strong workman
about 500 or s12O. pretty young negress from
$50 to 500, Abysinnian women from $500 to $500.
while the women from Jeddah, in Arabia,
bring fancy prices. Surias for the hiring come
higher yet.
PRINCE DoLGoRoUKY, Governor Of Moscow,
has issu ed an edict which is intended to bring
suspected Nihllists under closer surveillance.
In future all houses In Moscow wherein lodg.
ings are let are to exhibit on the street door a
black plate bearing indications as to the num-
Der of apartments occupied, with the full
names and professions OF the dodgers.
A CAMEL coach Is to be tried in the Darling
River district New South Wales. The sultry
climate tries horses SO severely that the mana
ger of line of mail coaches thinks that a
team Of camels will answer far better. owing
to their capacity for enduring heat and
drought Much curiosity is felt as to the re-
suit of this novel venture in coaching, consid-
ering the hasty temper Of "the ship Of the
desert"
AT the annual meeting of the Epidemiolog-
ical Society the subject Of leprosy was consid-
cred, with tendency to the conclusion that It
is increasing. Mayor Pringie, who read
paper on the increase of leprosy In India, was
of the opinion that unless some stringent
means were taken it would spread to Great
Britain and all countries that deal with India.
The increase in that country was set at from
1000 to 1000 lepers every year; and 1t b said
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
WHISKY TIE TROUBLE.
Captain stouch's Report on an Indian o
hrenk-Maaflx Talk so Err.

Captain Stouch's Report ON an Indian Out
break-Mostly Talk So Far.
WASHINGTON, June A.-Captain Stouch.
Third Infantry has reported to the War De-
partment the following results of the investiga-
tions of Captain Hanney. Third Infantry. into
the recently reported Indian outbreak at the
Mile Laos reservation, Minnesota:
"The shooting Of the white man was the re-
suit of drunkenness. Three families who left
the neighborhood of the Indian camp were new
arrivals, Swedes, ana were frightened OF by
drunken Indians. They went about six miles
on. The Indians will deliver up the one who
did the shooting, Wadelai, as soon as the
Sheriff comes for him. He will not leave his
present whereabouts. The shooting took place
In the Mile Laos country. There seems to be
some apprehension on the part Of the whites
and some Ill will on the part Of the Indians,
mostly because Of the accidental killing of one
of their number last winter by white man,
and partly because they still think they have
some title to the land hereabouts but there is
no danger of an outbreak. When drunk they
may have made threats, but there is little in
them. The whisky and alcohol trade Is the
worst feature of the mattern
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
Inst Ysnr,. Record Beatsu.

CHICAGO, June A-The shipments of -four.
grain and provisions from Chicago to the At
lantic seaboard by the lines in the Central
Traffic Association last week aggregated 1929
tons. against 1905 for the week previous,
decrease Of 1853 tons, and against -12,2 for
the corresponding week last year, an increase
of 1888 tons. The Vanderbilt lines carried 1914
per cent of the business, the Pennsylvania
lines T.2 per cent, the Chicago and Grand
Trunk 227per cent, and the Baltimore and
0hio M
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
swINDLING IN THE AIR.

If gentleman possessing the rather un-
usual name of Jabw and claiming to be a
''great South American aeronaut" should
chance to register at one Of the best hotels
in this city, we advise tradesmen and others
to be very shy about giving him credit.
When last heard Of, SenOr Jabv, alias
Adolph Viewer, with his wife, were in a
balloon crossing the western frontier Of
Austria. For all we know he may be seek
ing landing on these shores.
He has left behind him in Vienna su-
perb reputation for swindling. Several
weeks ago he announced that he would
make descent from balloon under para
chute. and about week before the promised
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25

A STATISTICAL report of the New York
Board of Health gives an interesting indi-
cation of the effect of the New York law
Furnishing attempts at suicide. The num-
Der of suicides it is asserted has not in
creased in the eight years since 1881, al
though there has been decided growth of
population. This is held to support the
dea that the New Yorkers are illogically
but usefully restrained from the practice Of
killing themselves by the fear that they
may be put into the penitentiary for it
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25

THE statement that the defaulting book
keeper in the Marine National Bank had
been buying lottery tickets, is calculated
to create wonder why the young man did
not try the amusement of carrying the
banks money down to the Monongahela
river and throwing it off the bridge. That
would have been less tsouble as method
of getting rid of the funds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25

THE colleges of this country are shower
ing LII. DIS on the President with great
profusion. If the President was that sert
of man, he might use those initials with
dashes interspersed for the purpose of re-
pelling Office seekers That way of utilizing
them might be little proiane, but it would
be rather more available than any other use
of which they are capable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
A MYSTERIOUS SPEAK-EASY.
How Johnstown Tipplcrs Have Been Taking
Drinks In the Dark,
IFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENCE ]

IFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
JoHHsTowN, June A-Some of Colonel
Perchment's men discovered this afternoon
that 'speak-easy" was located in one of the
abandoned mines on the hillside. They fol-
lowed up a light that receded before going INTO
the mine, and found an arrangement by which
the money was fastened to a string and taken
in, and the liquor was passed without the faces
of the sellers being seen. The men were un-
armed and afraid to proceed further in the
darkness. They brought back with them sew
ersl barrels of whisky, partially emptied. The
Colonel sent out the squad with their guns to
capture the guilty persona
Captain Jim acts as police judge in the
Fourth ward. He dispenses justice summarily
and with dispatch. He compelled a colored
man, convicted of stealing chickens, to walk a
beat for four hours with the heads of the
chickens pinned on his back. The other
offenders he puts to work cleaning up around
the camp.