Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-16
GOOD IN EVERY WAY.
Yesterdays 2O-PaEe Dispatch Eewsy and
Interesting Number.

Interesting Number.
Yesterdays mammoth triple number of TIL
DISPATCH was bright newsy and entertaining
Besides full record of important events in al
parts of the world, it contained many pagel
filed with original contributions from the pen!
of famous authors. Every purchaser got MANI
times the worth of his money.
The epidemic of influenza is rapidly spread
ing in Europe. Physicians are unable to tell the
cause. It attacks royalty as well as the com
mon herd, and no country appears entirely ex
empt The English gas stokers have been de
feated in their strike. Balfour is accused Of
contemplating matrimony The prospective
bride is Scotch girl and the daughter of a
Gladstonian. The German Government has
refused to accept :the bill exempting theolog.
ical students from military duty. The activity
of the Socialists is causing much political dis
cussion.
Franklin B. Gowen, ex-President Of the
Reading Railroad, committed suicide at a
| Washington hotel. The Cronin jury had
reached no verdict up to a late hour Saturday
night. Kilrain has been adjudged by Missis-
sippi jury not guilty ofprize fighting, but guilty
of assault and battery He was fined 500. and
sentenced to two months in jail, but the case
was appealed and bail given. The Federation
of Labor provided for assessing its members
cents week 10 prepare for a strike on the
eight-hour question. 1t adopted an address,
asking that the X. of l. discontinue and re-
woke the charters of all trades assemblies and
districts within their order, pledging itself in
turn to urge its members to become
members of mixed assemblies of the K OF L.
No trace has yet been discovered Of the miss
ing Philadelphia banker, ]. G. Ditman. The
Sor1f1 y froOT
vote, repealed the civil rights law of that State.
The latest phases of the contest for the Re
publican Gubernatorial nomination in Penn
sylvania were set forth in a Philadelphia tele-
gram. Official investigation of the public in
stitutions in Utah discloses the fact there has
been systematic misappropristion OF funds
by penitentiary officials and Others An edict
of the Para Government taxing the dealers in
rubber has caused a great advance In the price
of that commodity.
Local labor leaders and employers discussed
the contract labor law, and suggested methods
for enforcing it. The great coal deal has not
yet been conslmmated. Carnegie, Phipps q
Co. have received an order from the Govern
ment for SS0, 600 worth of steel plate. ]. M.
Kelly was expelled from the Trades Council
The Fort Wayne Railroad is to lay another
double track between Allegheny and Conway.
1t is estimated that the work will cost $3O0, ,0O0
Al Johnson's inside history Of the Brother
hood, Pringle's review and the sporting news
in full occupied the sixth page.
III.
Hon. Henry Hall related his experiences in
the "tough'' districts of London in well writ
ten and interesting article in the second part
"a World on Wheels" by Frank jerks, con-
tanned humorous account of the boundless
possibilities and remarkable uses of an in
vention contemplated by an ingenious Pitts
burger. Thorne Branch pIeasingly sketched
the ways of the shoplifter and the female klep-
tomaniac Allan Boyd Jardine gave a PEN
portrait of the fallen monarch. Dom Pedro.
Frank Carpenter contributes interesting gossip
concerning the new Senators and other great
men at the Capital. Brennan depicted scenes on
the Pittsburg streets and bridges. ''The Col
legian's Sweetheart" by Wong Hatska Foo
and Albert Dayton, was a charming novelette,.
A fairy story by Heinrichs, the continuation of
Joshua" and articles by Belva A. Lockwood,
Clara Belle, Ablo Bates Rev. George Hodges.
George Goldie, James e. Purdy. Searight,
Jessie FothergiIl Bumbalo, Young, Bessie
Bramble and Others were also included in the
large assortment of excellent reading matter
in the second and third parts