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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
THE EXECUTION OF CRIMINALS.
Doctors Could Provide Simple Method of
Poisoning to be Given in Sleep.


Poisoning to be Given in Sleep.
From the Electrical Engineer,
The Electrical Engineer does not share the
feeling expressed by some electricians that the
employment of the electric current in capital
punishment would disgrace or stigmatize their
vocation. We take the liberty. however to
point out the following paragraph from the
report of the commission:
"Your commissioners are firmly convinced
that II the criminal could be put to death In a
certain and eficacious manner the purpose Of
the law would be achieved equally well as If
the terrors of death were enhanced by the in
Fiction of prolonged physical torture before
the end was finally accomplished Various
suggestions have been made as to the means
of accomplishing such a result. One has been
the injection of violent and sudden poison,
such as prussic acid, by means of the hypoder-
mic needle. into the body of the condemned,
which is open to the very serious objection
that the use Of the instrument is so associated
with the practice of medicine and as a legiti-
mate means of aleviatfng human suffering
that 1t is hardly deemed advisable to urge its
application, for the purpose of legal execu-
the medical profession"
We are not told when and how the medical
profession was polled on the question, but the
above paragraph clearly implies that the sug-
gestion Of poison was satisfactory but for the
feelings of the doctors.
1t has always seemed to us that the question
of simpler and more humane executions could
be best met by physicians. There Is no doubt
that they could provide q simple method of
poisoning. which could be applied with no ex-
pectant attention on the part of the condemned
-unawares, say in sleep IL desirable. as we
think it is-and which would be nearer certain
to inf1ict no conscious physical suffering than
any other means hitherto suggested.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
tected, will find Arkansas . good State to
stay away from.

WHEN we find the London edition of the
New York Herald presenting the argument
that it was very wrong for the Englishmen
to object to voting money for the support OF
the Queens descendants to the third genera
tion, because Americans have to spend con-
siderable money in eIecting theirrepresenta-
tive rulers, it may be taken as an example of
how a certain class of New York opinion,
when transplanted to England, comes to the
conclusion that money spent by the Ameri-
cans in governing themselves is money
thrown away,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
as y On THr coR7aF .TfoEs.

at = )E TEE CoR7GEa lions
--e lsisicl OF Judge T.-ler.sr ot
- i.i.t.!r "a. ir refusing = third rial in
.I. r-s- the 1svv I.!.v nad recovered
large damages from the traction company
for the loss of limb on its road, is a some
what significant warning to the corpora
tions that their mainstay of getting heavy
damages cut down by the Courts as exces-
sive. can very easily be overtaxed to the
point of entirely giving away. In this
case, the jury first gave the plaintiff a ver-
dict of SIS, 900, and the Court exercised the
rather arbitrary power of cutting it down to
$4,000. Not content with this, the COM
pany obtained a new trial. and upon that
trial the jury increased the damages to
SO, 900. An application for another trial
having been made, Judge Finletter refused
it, with some rather pertinent remarks upon
the arbitrary discretion exercised by Courts
in cutting down the awards made by juries.
Indeed, he tended very strongly to the view
that a Court has no such authority, and
that the verdict of the jury should stand
unless based upon some erroneous construc-
tion of the law.
This is a novel but not wholly unsatisfac-
tory departure from the practice of Courts of
cutting down whatever verdicts may seem
to be rather severe, regardless of the fact
that if a verdict should happen to give
inadequate damages, or should refuse dam
ages altogether in a case where they are
plainly justified, no Court has ever taken
the trouble to set aside such a verdict The
ruling has still to undergo the review of the
Supreme Court, where it may receive the
reverse of favorable consideration; but if it
stands it will require the adoption on the
part of corporations of very decided meas
ures to prevent accidents which may bring
them into the courts as defendants in suits
for damages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
PITTsBURG, THURSDAY. JULY IL. 1889.
NOT LIKELY TO RETIRE.

Senator Donald Cameron, upon his return
from Europe, takes occasion to state that
the report of his withdrawal from politics
was unauthorized by him. The report
harmed no one, however, as all who are ac-
quairted with the Cameron principles were
quite well aware that it is not in accordance
with them to give anything up that can be
held to.
We have had something of a superabun-
dance of that sort of reports OF late years, and
the public has naturally come to estimate
them at their true value. After the inde-
pendent upheaval of 1882 the public was
gravely informed that machine politics in
Pennsylvania were thing of the past and
that the machine was dead. Nevertheless
the machine has, upon several occasions,
proved its vitality. Prior to Senator Cam
eron's last election some remarks were heard
about his lack of desire to remain in the
Senate, but after the Legislature which was
to choose Senator was chosen, Senator
Cameron's reelection found no obstacles,
either in his own unwillingness or in the OBJ
jections of the legislators. D,
II is safe to r-eSi~- y r,f r. Nr-.r-H
-r % - tac ;. -s-stip VIA o.. H#.
q. .l;t .-.r g.. si.I a5le.. So .-s family
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
Gone TO See EiGePs Tower.
SUIT FOR A CORPSE,
Horace Bond Receivers His Fathers Body
From an Undertaken Who Held II.

aOfuc6 DOuu hccoFers FatnefB DOoy
From an Undertaken Who Held IL.
A son suing for possession of his fathers
corpse was the unusual lawsuit heard In Nash
vile to-day, says a special to the Louisville
Courser-JournaL Saturday Stephen Bond. an
aged negro. died suddenly in North Nashville,
and Theodore Kramer, Deputy Coroner and
undertaken, was notified. After the inquest
was concluded no one appeared to claim the
remains, and Mr.. Kramer took them to his
establishment, embalmed them and prepared
them for burial.
Yesterday Horace Bond went to Kramer's
and identified the body as that of his father.
Later in the day Bond went to Priest & Dough-
ertys and arranged with that firm to bury his
fathers body. Priest & Dougherty sent to
Kramer for the remains but Kramer refused
to give them up until charge of s5 for en-
balming was paid. Horace Bond claimed that
he did not authorize this expense, but Kramer
contended that at the time he embalmed the
body it had not been identified, and this service
was performed TO preserve IL until friends
could identify it. Bond got out a replevin writ,
and to-day Justice Everett said that he knew
of no law that gave an undertaken lien on the
body of a dead man for burial expenses. He
said if the de ad man had any estate he could
collect it out of this, and if the son had
promised to pay the amount Mr.. Kramer could
recover it by judgment The son or nearest
relative of the deceased was entitled to the
possession of the body. however, and could di-
rect the funeral without hindrance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
TENEMENT HOUSES AND MORALITY,

The inquiries of organized charity in vari-
Gus cities seem to leave no doubt that the
tenement houses, which form such a blot
upon the fame OF the majority of the largest
cities, are leading causes of intemperance,
and the even worse vices which flourish in
their midst. The experiences of Miss Oetavia
Hill and her coadjutors in reforming the
tenements of London prove that the i'm
provement OF their dwellings has frequently
effected marked reform in the characterand
habits of the inhabitants. This evidence is
corroborated by the report of the Associated
Charities of Boston, which declares that ''the
foul condition of many of the dwellings of
our poorest people is the potent cause of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

BIsMARoK's disposition to suppress
Switzerland because the little republic per-
sists in its traditional policy of affording q
sanctuary for political refugees, even in
cluding the Socialists, is peculiarly Bis
MARKHAM. Nevertheless, the Iron Chan
cellor should remember the fact that what
feudal tyrants were unable to do in the way
of expressing free nation, absolutist states
men are likely to find an unduly large job
in the nineteenth century.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

IT should be suggested to Prof. John L.
Sullivan, that because he has been success
full in vanquishing his late antagonist. it is
not wise for him to resume his old and long
unsuccessful attempt to conquer the cham
pion that has beaten him SO many times,
namely, Mr.. John Barleycorn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
4 COLLEGE GRADUATE,

College days are over now,
I'm at last a graduate, or
30 they tell me; anyhow
1 am done with Alma Mater.
Lessons were an awful bore;
- Wonder how In all creation
] survived 'em, what is more,
How passed examinationi
Wonder what 1 learned9 Why lotsl
All the books Of whist and euchre;
How to desiccate Jack pots,
How to spend no end of lucre.
Then learned to pull an oar,
Though / never took to training.
Voted 1t a beastly bore;
Billiards proved more entertaining.
Baseball for time l played,
Though my blistered hands grow sorer;
scored all the runs we made,
When was appointed scorer.
Football was too awful rude,
Such game can't survive. A
Suit In tattersi I'm no dude;
Neither am . Godiva.
Lessons found very dry,
Yet 1 studied 'em, at random:
Learned 'em, too. yet Somehow
Couldn't ever understand 'em.
Modern languages all flow
From my lips 1ike-well like nectar;
As for the dead ones, well, you know
No one gossips with specter.
Like the other graduates
Ireceived this. my diploma.
nit means all Webster states,
surmise it's misnoner.
It's all Greek, or some such sfuf,
So hardly think In need 1t;
Still wish knew enough,
Now I've got the thing, to read It.
-Nsso York Sua.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.

In Philadelphia the clam-juice fad has faded.
A GREAT many people down in Ohio used
strawberries as a dentIfrice. 1t is said to be
elegant for the teeth, as the sand takes of the
tartar.
AREGULAR customer in Philadelphia res
taurant pours rnayonnaise dressing over his
boiled cabbage. which he eats for lunch every
day.
A DEAF and dumb life insurance agent
down in West Virginia is running all the other
agents out of the country. Men know a good
thing when they see it.
SOMEBODY put lighted fre-cracker in a
letter box In Allentown, Pa, on the rth.
1t was found by the postman on his rounds, but
luckily the fuse was imperfect and 1t failed to
explode.
MAN down In Markham, W. Va, nearly
died of thirst the other day. He will drink
nothing but rain water, and, as they had a dry
spell, his supply gave out. He could not be
persuaded to drink anything for a week, but
his neighbors got tired of his foolishness and
held him down and poured water down his
throat He was pretty far gone, but is getting
along nicely now.
AN infirmary for dumb animals covering 100
acres was recently opened at Bustleton, Pa
The patients will be principally horses and dogs.
The vicinity of Stroudsburg, Pa, is one of
the most honest sections in the country. In
proof of it, George Rheinfels has an umbrella
he has carried for over 40 years.
THE only cross-eyed COW in the country is
owned by George Williams, of Comley, o.
WHILE Pete Woodall was lying in the grass
back of his home in Kunzville, o., in drunken
stupor, rooster picked quite a large hole in
his cheek. The doctors fear he will die of
bloud poisoning.
AFAMILY in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania
was poisoned BY eating fish which had been
ignorantly rolled in cornmeal that had been
mixed with rat poison. All will recover.
ONE Of the inmates of Altoona, Pa, Jail night
before last proved to be a musical genius. He
took of his shoes and, with one of them in
each hand, proceeded to render "Call Me Back
Again" with the latest variations, on the iron
bars of his cell.
THE family Of W. F. strouse, of shamokin,
Pa, have odd luck in birthdays. His wife was
born on Christmas, his second daughter on st.
Valentines Day, his third on the Fourth of
July and his only son on Thanksgiving Day.
G. A BELL. a dime museum manager in
Wilkesbarre. was washing two rattIesnakes in
bathtub the other day, having been assured
that they were fangless, when one of them bit
him on the hand. A doctor cut the bitten part
away.
AxAS who lives nsar Lima. O.. wears his
long beard in plaits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

HERBERT SPENCER says that it costs the
English railways $3.50, 900 year ''to protect
their interests in Parliament" That is
nothing in this country. 1t should not re-
quire a great effort of the memory to re-
member that single lineof subsidized rail-
way in this country reported an expendi-
ture of about the same amount for the same
purpose-when it was after some legislation
for its benefit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

THERE is conflict of authority between
the Treasury Department and the Navy De-
partment as to the number of stars in the
flag. The Navy thinks we have AZ stars
now, and the Treasury is Of the opinion
that we must wait until next year for them.
There is no need of quarreling over the
matter, but common sense would seem to
indicate that the stars cannot rise until the
States come into the Union.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
CLIPPED BITS OF WIT.


A good resolution is fine starting point,
Truth.
What glorious world this would be if
people hved up to the epitaphs on their tomb
stones!-HutchinsoR sKds.) Nelos.
IN A NUTSHELL.
Luck seeks success. fails and regrets it.
Pluck fails, but tries again and gets it.
philadelphia Press.
CHASTITY REASON.
A skull unearthed appears to grin
To such horrible extent
Because 1t sees what virtues you
Have graved upon Its monument.
philadelphia Prese.
Likely to Remain at Home.-Ella, where
will you pass the summer Are you going into
the country?
Bella-I don't know, I'm sure. Papa said
something about his going into insolvency. and,
If be says suppose we shall have to go there.
Boston Herald.
Mr. Popinjay-My dear. have invited
Mr.. Forinland, the distinguished explorer. to tea
tomorrow. Mrs. Popinjay-Whatever put it into
your head to do that9 Mr.. Popinjay-I want to
see II he can fnd that collar button Host last Nom
day.-BurIfn0ton FREE Press.
Turn About Fair rPlay.-A-So he kicked
you, did he?
B-Yes. he did that very thing.
''And you didn't kick him back?''
'sNo, indeed. III had then 1t would have been
his turn again.-Teras SVftings.
Squibley-I am writing a book about
the transforming actor. Don't you think that
s.Before the Footlights'' would be good name
for it2 Makeshift (who has been there)-''Before
the Headlghts'' would be more appropriate, In
seems to me.-Ldaorence american.
AFRAID.
The ragman dreamed
A garment seemed
This statement to have made;
''Oi when I'm new
/ don't drea1 you.
But when I'm old I'm frayed. ,,
philadelphia Frsss.
JUVENILE JOY.
The urchin now released from school sits ON
the wharf all day,
And with bended pin and worm brings out the
He catches ..nippies'' by the score, enjoys the
summer air,
And catches something from his pa when home he
doth repair.
Alasl how often in the life of every little bov.
The bitter lesson he must learn. that sorrow waits
onJoyl -bostoR Courier.
DIFFICULTY ABOUT WITNESSES.
''Mr. Smith," said the electric light man.
ager to his foreman, 'swe want some men to test,
fy TO the absolute harmlessness OF the electric
light current as used by us. You might send Rob-
erts--f'
Foreman-He was killed while fixing s wire la,.
night. sir.
'Well, Jackson will do then.-
''He accidentally grounded . wrong wire last
week. and is scarcely expected to live sir,,
such awkwardnessi Send Williams,
Sorry, SIR, but ne was paralyzed while fixing
an electric lamp on Thursday.-
.'Really? It's most annoying. Employ some new
men at once and send them to testify to the COM
mittee before they have time 70 ret tbemselves
killed. n-ha1 YORK Herald
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

THE suit over the property of the Oneida
Community has q strong resemblance in
many points to the questions that have beer
raised as to the ultimate disposition of the
wealth of the Economics. But the form of
acquisition is so different in the two cases
that the strongest point of resemblance is
the proof which both communities show of
what united effort and abstinence from the
common dissipations of life can effect in the
creation of wealth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER RoosE-
WELT is quoted as saying that "there is no
inspiration in beer" This would be likely
to create the impi assion that all Mr.. Roose-
velt's studies of the motive power Of New
York politics had been futile, if be did not
insert the saving clause that there is inspira-
ton in whisky.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

AN English writer is out with story en-
titled 81 Mark the King" The name war
rants the warning that in some parts of this
glorious country if he tries to play the king
after marking it, he is likely to get himself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

The experience of Missouri man who
was bitten by mad dog, and despite 13 ap-
plications of famous maidstone died of hy-
drophobia last week. will strengthen the
popular conviction that the only sure pre-
ventive of hydrophobia is to avoid the
society of mad dogs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

THE Hon. Edward J. Phelps, late Min
lister to England, has expressed the opinion
that this country has no settled foreign
policy. Mr.. Phelps does not seem to have
paid sufficient attention to the fact that the
settled foreign policy of the last admins
tration was to do nothing that foreign
nations could object to, except to make
good deal Of bluster in the last year, for the
sake of campaign purposes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

A MAN has been discovered in Virginia
who expresses the belief that General
Malone will be the next President of the
United States. He must be one of the
millennial prophets, having figured out
that the millennium of the spoilsmen is
coming
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

ITALIANS who murderously assault their
superintendent with pickaxes and other tools
intended for peaceful use, may not prove as
cheap labor in the long run as they were al
legged to be in the index
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

BETWEEN artesian wells in the parks and
the extension of its water system up the
river, Allegheny City may hope
for pure water and a corresponding relief
from fevers some time in the future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
DEATHS OF A DAY.
nrl.. Kate Agne. winkeL.

Miss Kate Agnes Winkel, daughter OF Mr.. Hem
ry winkel, Of the Union Planning Mil Company,
died yesterday at her home, No. 21o0 sidney street.
southside. Miss Winkel was an active worker In
the sunday school of the German Lutheran Church
on South Eighteenth street. The funeral services
will be held on Friday afternoon at , O'Clock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
. Printer Ger. nIarrIed

E. ]. Murray, formerly compositor Of THE
DISPATCH. and Miss Lydia Brindley, young
lady Of Wheatlaud, Mercer county, were mar
ried yesterday by Rev. Father Gallagher, of st.
Mary's Catholic Church, at New Castle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
This Settles IL.

From the Chicago News.
That stupendous institution, the North
American hustle. has practically become ex-
tinct in Chicago. This great advance in civili-
cation is matter for sincere rejoicing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
ChicaRo,s New ludusfry.

From the Detroit Free Press.1
Chicago's recent annexation has given promi-
nence to new industry within the city limits
the raising of hay.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

He Can't Trniu sullivan's Mouth.
From the Chicago Tribune.I
Muldoon has done marvels in his training Of
Sullivan, but he will be powerless to hold his
mouth in check now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
Tryiug Wea,ber for Tbem,

From the New York Tribune.I
This is trying weather for the people who
keep their doors and windows hermetically
closed in order to give the impression that they
are out of town.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
She Escaped by Death.

In a Brooklyn police court this morning
Julia Clarkson, 40 years old, was sentenced to
20 days in jail for vagrancy. As she turned
from the desk she said: II am glad it is so
long," and dropped dead on tbs floor. Court
proceedings were suspended till the body was
removed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
And Yet He Didn't Win.

From the Detroit Free Press.l
Kilrain was born one month before Sullivan
and has had just SO much more opportunity to
train,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
METROPOLITAN DRlFf.
Dudley. Blocks Of Five.
rxEw YORK BUREAU srEcIALs.I

NEW YORK. July 10-The general term OF
the Supreme Court, In an opinion by Justice
Daniels and concurred in by Presiding Justice
Van Brunt and Justice Brady. has affirmed the
decision made by Justice Patterson some time
ago, denying motion to vacate an order for
the examination of Colonel w. w. Dudley as
witness before trial in his suit for libel against
the World. Colonel Dudley, it now appears.
will eventually be obliged to explain what he
meant by getting the Indiana ''foaters" into
''blocks of fve"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
MIR. Brice Never Heard of II.

Calvin s. Brice, Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, was asked to-day what he
had to say in reply to the charges made by
General H. ". Boynton in the Conmercfdt
Gazette, of Cincinnati, rejecting severely on
Mr.. Brice among Others. They are to the
effect that the late administration took sides
with Hippolyte, the Haytian insurgent COM
mander. and protected blockade runners carry
ing contraband goods and troops between in
surgent ports in the interest OF firms in New
York and Boston, because Democrats OF
high position, such as MIR. Calvin 8. Brice,
Chairman of the National Committee, were in
terested in their ventures.
"Never heard of it," said Mr.. Brice.
DO you mean that there is no truth in the
charges?" was asked.
Never heard of it, said Mr.. Brice again
Never knew Of anybody that was interested
In it."
Then there is no truth in the chargesr'
mo truth in the charges"
And that is all Mr.. Brice would say.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.

POSTAGE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
DAILY DISPATCH, One Year. 90
DAILY DISPATCH, Per Quarter. 90
DAILY DISPATCH One Month ................ 70
DAILY DIsPArcH. including Sunday year 10 90
DAILY DISPATCH. including Sunday, 3m'ths. 80
DAILY DISPATCH, including sunday month 20
SUNDAY DISPATCH, One Year ................. SO
WEEKLY DISPATCH, One Year ................ 25
THE DAILY DISPATCH is delivered by carriers at
is cents per week, including Sunday edition, at
20 cents per week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-11

A DEAF and dumb life insurance agent
down in West Virginia is running all the other
agents out of the country. Men know a good
thing when they see 1t.