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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
BEYOND CITY LINES.

The City Engineer of the Northside is
quoted as saving, with regard to Colonel
Merrill's letter, that Allegheny City has no
mills along the Allegheny river which
would be aided by the proposed dam; that
its upper river port is occupied by railroad
tracks; and that Allegheny don't want the
dam, don't think"
This is such an exceedingly narrow view
that we hope that officials remarks have
been incorrectly reported. Itwould be ab-
solutely silly, if it were not evidently an
expression without thought, to take the
view that Allegheny City is not benefited
by Improvements, the direct benefits OF
which fall outside the city limits. The
shallowness of that idea may be perceived
by imagining the prosperity of the indus
trial community of these cities outside of
Allegheny to be wiped out. Everyone can
see that Allegheny's prosperity would be
wiped out with it.
1t will take very little reflection for the
Northside people to see that their city is
only political division of the single in
dustrial community at the junction of these
rivers. Whatever aids the industrial pros
perity of the community will aid Allegheny.
If anything hampers the work of our
mills and furnaces Allegheny must bear
share of the loss. 1t follows from the nee
essities of the case that if the new dam will
benefit the industrial interests of the whole
community, Allegheny will receive share
of it proportionate to her share of the popu-
lation of both cities.
1t is certainly to be hoped that in the dis
cussion of this matter we shall hear no such
shallow views as that Allegheny is not in
terested in having the river improved be-
cause she has no mills along its banks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
The President of the Sons of America Talks
Against Allen ORGANIZATIONS.


WASHINGTON, June 1s.-The Thirteenth
Annual National Camp of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America began its sessions in this city
this morning. About 75 delegates were in at
tendance, Illinois and Pennsylvania sending
the largest delegations
District President at Large A. c. Hawiey, on
behalf of the members, presented to President
George P. Smith, of Chicago. a handsome and
valuable Past Presidents jeweled badge.
The public portion of the exercises were
then concluded with the reading of
President Smiths annual address. The
concluding portion Of the address dwelt upon
the necessity of committing to Americans the
care and preservation Of American principles
and institutions. The control of the public
schools should be matter of deepest concern.
Naturalization laws he denounced as a delu-
sion, snare and fraud. By means of them,
in II States and Territories, he asserted, it is
possible to entirely overthrow the Con-
country. The following sentiments upon sub
lects now foremost in the public mind were
loudly applauded:
A few more Haymarket riots and Cronin mur-
ders, instigated by organized bodies Of foreigners
who have been permfttedSto become citizens Of
this free America, and who have shown their
to fer nsTe souDy for he
purpose of destroying innocent men and children.
when they failed to carry out their evil plans,
and there will not te in our Western country
to hang the miscreants.
l ask you is there room in this country tor so
ciet1es like the Clan-na-Gael, that are not in
harmony with and are injurious to American in
stitutions: that are dangerous to American or
der. disloyal to the American Government, de-
structive to American principles and repugnant
to American ideas, and disgusting to all Ameri-
cans who have any sense of Justice, any regard
ofhuman life? Or have we room for societies
whose officers contract with men to commit whole
sale murder and then betray their tools that they
themselves may have more money to spend for
their own personal benefits?
One-third of our entire population is of foreign
birth or parentage Alien flags and emblems float
from our public buildings emblazon our streets
and head professions of the people. We are
cursed with all kinds of foreign non-American
Issues. Vast un-American organizations are held
together by issues of foreign birth, for the pur-
pose of perpetuating foreign sentiments and cor
rupting the ideals Of our fathers. Anarchy and
the destruction of all law openly advocated,
and the right to enforce the discipline and prin-
ciples of some OF these orders claimed, by
cret conclaves, even to the extent of nghuman
life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE l9. 1889
AGAINST PROHIBITION.

The most salient lesson impressed by the
returns from the vote on the prohibition
amendment, is that, as The DISPATCH
said before the election, all the prior esti-
mates as to the result were the merest guess
work. The actual vote shows that the out
come was an unknown quantity. Some Sec
tions considered certain to vote for prohibi-
tion have gone against it and rice UerSd.
Some have surpassed all the expectations of
the Prohibitionists and others have fallen
short; while the stronghol1s of the opposi-
ton to the amendment, Philadelphia and
Allegheny counties, go more solidly against
the amendment than was expected even by
the prohibition figures.
The preponderance Of the vote against
the amendment in the large cities indicates
that 1t has been defeated by a decisive
majority. Further returns from the rural
districts may cut down the majority or may
increase it so that the statement of actual
figures would be futile. 1t is sufficient that
the present figures indicate that while the
prohibition element has made showing of
creGitable strength the verdict of the ma
jority of the people is against the absolute
prohibition of the liquor traffic.
With this verdict recorded, one or two
facts are worth setting down. The first is
the fact that the enforcement of the Brooks
law has done much to accomplish this by
convincing the public mind that the strict
enforcement of high license will not only
much diminish the evils of the liquor traffic
as compared with the time when anyone
could start a saloon, but will perhaps do
more in that way than could be done by
constitutional prohibition which might be
evaded and might-in the large cities-be
ignored altogether. 1t is not violent sup
position that enough people to turn the re-
suit, with the success of high license before
their eyes, either stayed away or voted, not
for free whisky, but for the practicable and
strict measure of regulation exemplifed by
the present law.
From this fact it should be plain to the
liquor interests that their interest is the
same as that of the public, in a strict en-
forcement of the license law. If they sup
pose that yesterdays vote means an unregu-
lated and unchecked liquor traffic they will
find out their mistake. Their best interests,
the stability and permanencs of their bust
ness, and their public reputation, all bind
them to the platform on which the result
reported elsewhere was secured, that of high
license under strict regulation.
Pennsylvania chooses high license instead
of prohibition; and the interest and credit
alike of the majority lie in the practical de-
monstration that the choice was wisely made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
he MEANS BUSINESS.
A Kentucky Man Ready to Shoot Any Tres.
passer He May Find.

nIOu the eCOurltr-JOuTnal.
Mr.. Milt Lefevers, of Straight Creek, Bell
county. KY, keeps the following card stand
ing in the Pineville Messenger. Colonel Colgan
is the authority for the statement that resi-
dents Of Straight Creek are universally law
abiding, quiet citizens, and one is forced to the
conclusion that Mr.. Lefevers Is a recent emil
grant from the Yellow Creek section, where
such sentiments and language have heretofore
been very common. A good plan to pursue in
the case of that bellicose gentleman would be
to put him under a heavy bond to keep the
peace, and in default put him in jail. kentucky
cannot afford to waste time on such people, and
they should be made to understand it quickly.
He says:
have notified and requested all men dealing
and trading In timbers not to buy any timber
from any person, directly or indirectly, the
farm of John b. Howard, deceased, and If any
person has now already bought or contracted for
any tim ber that farm, the best thing they
could do would be to get their money back. AS
my wife is one of the inheritors, 1 don't intend
for part of the heirs to have 1t all and part of them
none. and mean just what say The man that
haul that tim Der will have to get me out of the
way first If 1 have to die from a gaping wound
fro m the flash of a revolver, will have the honor
Of dying for my just rights, and for my little ones
who viii soon have to follow me to an unknown
world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.

Women have taken very conspicuous
part in the campaign which ended yester-
day. In fact, most of the credit for what
was accomplished by the Prohibition party
is due to the women. At the polls yester-
day in many parts of the city women were
to be found working for their party with
all the enthusiasm of the most spirited ward
worker. What their arguments and their
mere presence at the polls accomplished for
the cause of prohibition will never be
known exactly. but they must have had
considerable influence upon some of the
voters.
As far as the early reports of the election
show we are glad to notice that the women
were accorded full measure of fair play in
their self-appointed duties at the polls.
Not only were they unmolested and
shown every courtesy, but in some in
stances the men there in the interest of the
Anti-Prohibition party assisted them in
putting up posters and arranging tickets.
The men who remembered their bounden
duty to be courteous to women at all times
and in all places, did nothing more than
their duty. In times of political excite
ment, it is not always safe to depend
upon the best instincts of man keep
ing the upper hand all through the fray;
but yesterdays experience does not support
the argument that the presence of women in
politics would subject them to actual con-
tact with disorder and discourtesy.
The last hours Of stubborn, though SEEM
ingly hopeless, battle for prohibition happi-
ly have not been msrred by any scenes of
disorder, and the first appearance of women
as workers, if not voters, at the polls has
had favorable effect in every way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
A CAT THAT GOES FISHING.
She Works LeisureIy, but Captures Many
of the Funny Tribe.

From the ALBANY journal.
A very ordinary-looking and mild-mannered
cat is one of the inhabitants of Garry Benson's
swimming bath. She is the mother of promis-
ing family of three, and to the superficial OBJ
server appears no more, no less, than wellbe-
haved, sweet-tempered, motherly old tabby.
But as matter of fact, this cat is rather an
anomaly among cats. Whether she was born
that way or whether Garry's own amphibious
disposition is infectious is not stated. How
ever she may have come by the popularity,
this cat is an exceedingly good swimmer and
appears rather to like the water.
She sits on the edge of the "crib" at the
bath for hours watching the little minnows
which swim or are swept by the current in
through the latticed sides. When at length a
luckless fish does come within the range Of her
paw she reaches out like flash and with one
swift sweep of her fore paw she lands him on
the platform. where she devours her prey at
her leisure. Or, il the fish remains Just out Of
her reach, she will leap fairly into the water,
seize the prize with her teeth and swim to the
side again. where she scrambles up and shakes
herself after the fashion of dogs.
And, by the way, the largest dogs have no
terrors for her; she will fly at them with claws
extended, and 1t Is brave canine which dares
her fury after the first onslaught. Yet she is
as gentle as can be with her family or with
kindly-disposed human visitors, who never
would suppose. her to be the ferocious fisher.
man she is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
ANICE BELLEVUE CONCERT.

It Opens the Senson Very Pleasantly nnd
Auspiciously,
The summer concert season was opened last
night by the giving of the first of the Fleming
& Ghreist series at Bellevue, by those two in
defat1gable. entertainers. The orchestral
numbers were played by the Gernert Bros
orchestra, and gave every satisfaction.
The soloist was Miss Sadie E. Ritts, well
and favorably known throughout Western
Pennsylvania as an accomplished singer. Her
selections last evening were given in her usual
graceful and finished manner. Miss Ritts has
sung four seasons in this city. and with every
appearance in concert Is noted marked i'm
provement in her voice-always good-and the
favor in which she is held BY the public is only
Just appreciation of the well cultivated and
charming voice she fortunately possesses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
WELLINGTON BURT ON HIS TRUST.
He Explains Why the Salt Combination VIII
be Formed.

EAST SAGINAW, MICH, June 1S.-Welling-
ton r. Burt, who recently visited England for
the purpose of interesting capitalists of that
country in the salt union now in process of
formation in the United States. told a corre-
spondent to-day that the organization will be
known as the North American Salt Company,
Limited. He has little doubt that the project
will be rushed through speedily. When asked
as to the location of the main Offices of the COM
pany, Mr.. Burt said:
In the event of company being formed the
headquarters will be in New York, because the law
of this State. under which the company would be
incorporated, limits the amount of capital stock at
IS, 600, 900. portion of the capital will be fur
nished by England and a portion by New York.
The object Of the companyts to unity and systema-
tie the processes of the United States and Canada
by consolidating and operating the principal
works, and to do away with unim portant and
wasteful methods of manufacture and distribu-
tion, to the end that consumers may be furnished
with q superior article at reasonable price, and
manufacturers and dealers permanently receive
fair compensation for their services.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19

IT IS interesting to observe that the
Boston journal has discovered a very
good reason for believing In Senator
Chandler's integrity in conducting his SEN
atorial canvass. The Journal points out
that Senator Chandler is not likely to have
bought any votes, because his majority was
so large that it was not necessary for him to
do so. A practical politician like Chandler
may be trusted not to buy votes where he
does not need them. It is also worth while
to remember. by the way, that Chandler
pledges his word of honor that he did not
do so
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
REVERIES OF A PHILOSOPHER.

-FRosTs are generally dew before they come
THE pugilist is very fond of striking feat
ures.
WHEN a calico won't wash you can depend
upon it, it isn't certified check.
SOME men never like to be alone, because q
man you know is Judged by his company.
IT Is puzzling thing to know how men who
write stories on the sea can keep them SO dry.
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.
The ice men now begin
To rake the shekels in.
THE man who stands on his own dignity is
not the one to sit down on the dignity Of
others
THE man who lives on the wind must have
bis bill of air just the same as the guests of q
restaurant.
"SwEET are the uses Of perversity." SO
thinks the young wife who tries petulance as
remedy for fancied neglect.
MEN are usually willing to give their opin-
ions freely on any subject, but you mustn't .ex-
pect the photographer of rural scenery to give
you his views for nothing.
"YEs," said Mrs. Goeasy very pleasantly, ~
do take great deal of interest in baseball.
And why shouldn't II My husband and 1 con-
6tlGube d WuOf6 DdScDdll Icdul III OuIoelV6S. i
60 to balls and he gets on bats"
LOVES YOUNG DREAM.
Balmy June,
Silvery moon.
Half-past eight,
Garden gate.
Swing till ten,
Part they then?
In horn:
Swing till morn.
ADVICE TO MESSENGER BOYS.
"Under this stone
Lies Easy John,
HIS body's now at rest;
His only rhyme
Was take your time,
For quietness is best
As through this sinful world you 20,
Go slow, young man, go SLOW"
We do not, however, believe that the messen-
ger boys will take this advice. They will hurry,
hurry, when they are gwen message to de-
liver even II it kill them. f
-AH from the Boston Courier.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
EXAMINING COLORADO MINES.

The American Institute of Engineers to
Visit Famous Mining Camps.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
DENVER, June 1S.-The Colorado meeting of
the American Institute of Mining Engineers
was opened in this city to-day. and is expected
to continue II days. During that time great
deal Of business will be transacted of vast i'm
portance to the country at large and to the
State of Colorado in particular. 1t having
been resolved to devote this years meeting to a
study of Colorado Denver was selected, as q
matter Of course.
Trips will be made to various mining camps.
Arrangements have been made to show the
visitors the interior of some of the most famous
mines including those of the Enterprise Mining
Company. the Aspen Mining and Smelling
Company. the Aspen mine on Aspen Mountain,
the Big Four on Smuggler Mountain, the Mat
tie Gibson, the Smuggler the j. O. johnson
and the Park Regent. The coal mines in the
southern part of the State will not be over
looked.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
SOLDIERS BECOMING UNEASY.
The Boys of the Fourteenth Ready TO Go
Home If Relieved.

IRON A STAFF CORRESPONDENTS
JoHNsTowN, June 1S.-How long the Four
teenth Regiment is to remain is a subject of
animated discussion in the entire camp. The
soldiers do not shirk their duty, and all of
them, from the younger prlvates to Colonel
Parchment, are deserving all the praise be-
slowed upon them. Still there is feeling that
others ought to have turn at the work, which
has been very arduous. Apart from that, these
men have been long away from their business.
and it is hardly right to expect them to neglect
their obligations at home when others are able
to fill their places.
had a conversation with General Wiley to-
night upon that very subject and from his
opinion In regard to the matter. believe that
another regiment will be called out tomorrow
to relieve the Fourteenth.
"Inasmuch as the cilizens feel that the
soldiers ought to stay here little longer" said
he, ''and believe they will wish to have them
here at least another month, think the boys
from the Fourteenth Regiment ought to be re-
ieved. HEINRICHS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
BRIGHT BITS.

1t is getting so that weather prophst
can't even predicts storm Of findtgnation.-HasA-
tngton Critic.
The wife who can retain a sure hold upon
her husbands heart will never have occasion to
take grip on his hsir.-Tsrre Haute Express.
There is one thing that the invincibls
Western cyclone has never yet succeeded in lift
ing and that is 3 mortgage.-BurtiR0to Fres
Press.
A minister once excused himself from fill
ing one Of HIS regular appointments on the ground
that he had recently returned from his vacation
and felt weary.-Chrtstian Advocate.
Another Jibe Upon the Refreshment Room
Sandwich-The railway sandwich" says trav-
eler. 'is instance Of the impossibility Of max
ing both ends meat. ."-L L0ndon Globe.
Volts-At last they have discovered an
unhinching truthteller. Jsrs-That SO? We'd
better inform the Ananias Club. Volts-Yes, it's
afact. The photograph cannot tell lie.-Cir'-
ctnnati Commercial
Wiekwire-Say, Yabsley, how about the
report about town that your landlady refused TO
let you have your trunk when you changed your
lodging house last week? Yabsley-There was
nothing in it.-Tsrre Hdute ErpreSS
Visitor Cat dairy farm)-"Well, what
kind of a season have you had in the milk busi-
ness?'' Milkman-''O, poor poor-haven't had
such drouth in 20 years. why thefe was actuaily
one spell when we had to depend on the cows 70
supply our customers.
ArtIosa Innocence-Mother( gazing at her
AieSS .e'~ ...n,os1 W.. -" 80
oaushteI ,osa.,ya -f.y.a U-1
you seS ~ man. 49, Snoyx TnvseIs Ana NM 4,
my hair almost every night after Gus calls and to
- no can't inn gine hovv thew rot there = Ths
Epoch.
Bessie-You refused Mr.. de Temps? Why,
any other girl would jump at an offer from himl
Maud Dust graduated)-o, 1 know he is hand
some but never could marry such an ignorant
man. WHY. 1 asked him q few questions about
the differentiation in protoplasmic molecular
bIv.lve. and do won know ali he said was, 81
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
DR.. M'COSH HONORED.

A Fine Bas Relief of the Ex- President Pre-
scented TO Princeton.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
PRINCETON, N. J., June 1S.-The class of 70
presented the university with a fine bas relief
Of DR.. McCosh. by st. Gaudens, Its decennlal
reunion to-day. The venerable ex-President,
In responding to the demand for speech, said
he had hoped the old bond bearing his name
would perpetuate his memory, but the trustees
had filled 1t up to stop mosquitoes breeding
there.
He claimed admission to the class on the
ground that his are is 70.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19

The statement from Johnstown that the
Gautier Steel Works will be rebuilt on the
old site having secured permission to occupy
one or two streets, indicates that even calam-
tiles cannot change the appetite of corpora
tions for gobbling up streets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
Defended Her DAUGHTERS, Good Names.

Miss Libbie Brown told Mrs. Kortright, of
Brooklyn. that DR.. William F. Mass, a Brook
lyn druggist had spoken slightingly of the
Misses Kortright. Mrs. Kortright took her
husbands cane, went to DR.. Mass drug store,
and asked him what he meant by slandering
her daughters. He stammered out that Miss
Brown was a liar. Mrs. Kortright caught him
by the collar and whacked him over the back
with Mr.. Kortright's cane. He yelled and
struggled toward the door. She hung to his
collar and hit him again. Eventually he broke
away from her. She followed him half block,
through two stores and up an alley way. at the
end of which he escaped her by climbing over
a high board fence. She says she will give him
still another dose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
THE CHINESE MISSION IN DOUBT.

Admiral Shufelt Can't Make Up His Mind to
Accept 1t.
WASHINGTON, June 1S.-The Star this even
ing says: sit is understood that Secretary
Blaine offered the appointment to succeed Min
lister DENLY as Minister to China to Admiral
Shufeldt, retired. The Admiral, while not de-
clinng the mission, asked time to consider the
matter, hesitating on account of the loss of his
pay as a retired naval officer that would be in
volved in the acceptance. If he does not ac-
cept, and it is thought to be very doubtful, Mr..
Kasson, of Iowa, one of the Samoan Com
missioners, is spoken of for the mission.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19
THE LAST SPIKE DRIVEN.

A Connection Completed Between Two Inn
portant Railroad Systems.
w1NoNA, MISS, June 1s.-The last spike was
driven to-day in the Georgia Pacific Railroad,
one of the leased lines of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company thus making one
continuous rail line of !, lilo miles from Wash
ington. D. c., to Greenville, Miss, via Lynch.
burg, Danville, Charlotte. Atlanta, Admission,
Birmingham, Columbus, Miss, and West
Point.
The Georgia Pacific has secured the use of
the existing track of the Louisville, New Or
leans and Texas Railway, and thus secures q
connection with the Missouri Pacific system.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-19

The announcement that the Rubber Trust
is to be revived in Boston suggests the pro-
priety of change in its title. 1t should
alter one letter, call itself the Robber Trust,
and thus make its title descriptive of the
whole class.