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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
WHERE WAITING MAY PAY.

A reasonsb lie view of the further growth
of Pittsburg may dispense altogether with
the need OF law TO sell the old university
and other vacated county buildings on Dia-
mond street, by making clear that the wiser
policy is to keep them. Insufficient enlarge
ment has, heretofore, been the rule. OF
course, the splendid edifce which now
adorns the hill looks big, after the narrow
quarters of the past; but it is fairly pre-
sumable from the present rate of growth
hereabout that before ten years the business
of the courts and of the numerous executive
offices will fill and overflow every available
inch of space there. When, at the planning
of the new building, someone proposed to
have the Jail share the Court House lot,
Judge Ewing, with excellent foresight. pre-
dicted that in few years the latter would
be none too large, occupying the whole
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

GROVER CLEVELAND has been elected a life
member Of the Manhattan Club.
THE highest peak in New Guinea is to be
named after William E. Gladstone.
SENATOR and Mrs. Stanford and Justice
and Mrs. Field Will presently set out for
Alaska.
THE women leaders throughout the country
feel pleased over the statement of Dr. Chaille.
the noted statistician, to the effect that the
average life of woman is longer than that of
man.
FRANK WILLING LEACH, Senator Quay's
private secretary, has returned to Washington
and to hard work. He went away for few
days rest, and he returns to find that noun
tam of letters has accumulated during his ab-
sence.
SECRETARY NOBLE is said to be working
harder than any of his Cabinet colleagues. He
has had one good rest since he went into Office.
and that was involuntary. One night last week
he went to bed at o'clock in the evening
completely exhausted, and did not awaken un-
til noon the next day.
h. scHERMERHoRN, of New York sum-
mer resident there, has purchased large lot
in Island Cemetery, Newport containing about
5000 square feet upon which he will place
handsome monument of appropriate allegori-
cal design. 1u6 lOb anu costing
$1,000 will then be given in trust as soldiers
and sailors burial lot
OF the great ''trinity of the Anti-Corn Laws
League" Villiers Golden and Bright, only
the first and oldest now survives. Of the three.
Bright was always the most composed and me-
thodical. When Golden was anxious and spec
ulative, and Villiers sometimes fretful and i'm
patient, Bright, the youngest of the three, and
the boldest and calmest character of them all,
was In council the man of soundest Judgment
1T is not generally known that Maggie Mitch
ell, recently divorced from her husband Mr..
Paddock, was married once before her last al
lance. On the 9th of September, 1852 she
married William Virgil Wallace at or near the
city of Washington. Her mother and brother
were incensed at the union andmade a prisoner
of Maggie almost immediately after the cere-
mony. She was never permitted to see him
again, and seven years after she was married
to Mr. Paddock. Her first marriage is said to
hava been pure love affair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
WORKING HARD TO SAVE LIFE.
The Friends of the Condemned Bald Knob
bers Labor In Earnest.

The Friends of the Condemned Bald Knob
bers Labor in Earnest.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
OZARK, Mo-, April 12-A last and earnest
effort is being made to save the Bald Knobbers
from the gallows. This final movement to urge
the Government to commute the death SEN
tence against the three condemned men to
prison for life is the most extensive effort in the
direction of executive clemency that has yet
been made, and contemplates united plea
from representative men from Christian,
Douglas, Stone, Taney and Greene counties,
who are to call on Governor Francis about the
18th. The two Walkers still face their apparent
doom with wonderful nerve, though the in
stinctive love of life is very manifest in every
expression of the Knobber chief and SON
There lis no need of breaking down." said
young Walker to-day. '1f the worst comes,
will try to stand it, but don't want to hang"
Dave Walker still smiles sarcastically IN talk
ing about his situation, and even tried to jest
this morning when one of his fellow prisoners,
Jim Miles, spoke of getting out of Jail on
bond next week,
''Yes," remarked the Knobber chief, with q
grim smile, there will be thinning out here
soon, suppose"
John Matthews showed ghastly face through
deeper gloom each day. He spends most of his
time now reading the Bible, and often prays
aloud. In all of these petitions to heaven the
prisoner reasserts his innocence Of the crime
for which he is sentenced to hang. Every
evening Matthews sings one or more of his
favorite hymns, and the strong. though plain
tive voice of the prisoner can be heard across
the public square from the jail.
The families of the condemned Knobbers are
beginning to visit their helpless friends more
frequently, and the sadness of these meetings
is too intense for description. The hopeless
ness and privations of the past two years have
told most painfully on the Knobber women
and children, made widows and orphans by the
Edensgreen raid, and human misery couldn't
be more touchingly personif1ed than in the
aspect of these poor people, as they gather
around the Ozark jail. The two are sentenced
to hang April 19 ESQ
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
A ROBBER CHIEFTAIN's CAVE.
Discovery of Den Lately Inhabited by a
Notorious Outlaw,

Notorious Outlaw.
HILLS BoRo, o., April 1.-THE most intense
excitement exists in Paint township over the
discovery yesterday of a cave-a veritable rob-
bers' hiding place-with all the evidence that
it had but recently been occupied. That region
is the widest in Southern Ohio, abounding in
caves and caverns and rocky fastnesses where
the suns rays never penetrate. There it was
that Nc Kinney, the daring robber chief, found
a hiding place when 'hounded by the minions
OF the law" Dozens Of caves have been point
ed out to visitors as the Mckinney cave, and
during the time that he was at large, after his
daring escape from the jail here, officers and
detectives visited and explored every known
hole in the ground for miles around the Rocky
Fork region, hoping to locate or find some
clew to Little Reddy from Texas" the name
he was known by on the Cheyenne stage route.
The den accidentally discovered yesterday is
on, land belonging to Captain ID. NJ. Barrett,
Superintendent of the Boys Industrial Home
at Lancaster. The entrance is large enough to
admit a man on his hands and knees, but en-
larged within few feet of the mouth of the
hallway feet wide and feet high. This
has length of perhaps 20 feet opening into a
chamber about 80 feet by 20, and or 10 in
height. In this chamber hasty examination
disclosed a luxurious bed of hemlock and other
evidences of recent occupation. The entrance
is obscured by the heavy underground, and the
conformation of the cliff is such that persons
living near by had never known OF its exist
ence, although well-worn path was easily dis
cernlble leading to the cavern.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
LITTLE PLEAsANTRIEs.

A man who carries a bald spot on his
head for Is years up 40 days Of that time in
caressing it. and his work is all in vain.-Detroit
Free Press.
Lent in the West.-Eastern Girl-Do
Western society people allow themselves any
amusements in LentI
Western Girl-No; nothing but poker-PhiL1-
deLphtG Record.
A Little Boys Idea.-''Mamma," said
Freddy, whose duty 1t was to run great many
errands, 'T wish was only as big as a dollar.''
''Why do you wish that my sonP''
'tBecause then could put myself in my pocket
and ride myself around. '-DrGks's Magazine.
Her Great tch.-Mother-MarE. why
don't you try to make Charlie Greed fall N love
with you? He's the best catch of the season.
Daughter dnnocenty)-Because,m mamma. dear
1 don't want the catch. I'm engaged to the nrst
baseman. and he is too lovely for any use.- Wash-
fngtoa Critic.
Sizing Them Up.-Mrs. Gadd-That new
family next door to you must be purity well on;
they've got pianer.
Mrs. Gabb-Huh! They don't own it. It's
rented.
GLOW dye know?"
"By the way they bang on k"-PhiIadsIphta
Record.
The Right Place.-Sick Man-Is this the
West End Sanitarum?
New Girl (mystihed)- is DR. Blanks house.
yes, but doesn't he take sick people to nurse
sometimes?'' ll
''ohl Maybe he does. There's two or three
skeletons in the back office. PhftGdeLphiG
Record.
Caught. 1t at the Show.-Mrs. Lugsby-
Old Mr.. Grumsby, the doctor says, Is suffering
from elephantiasis.
Mrs. Bagsby-Caught 1t ut the show, suppose
Hereafter no boy of mine shall go to see the eie-
phant without having been vaccinated. 1ou
can't tell exactly what the elephants fetch over
here in their trunks.-Drdks'S Magazine.
A Modern Temperance Lesson.-Onee
upon Time very Good and Pious Person saw
bioulous Man coming out Of Saloon IN seate OF
Mild and Melancholy Intoxication
"Oh, my Friend - cried the Pious Person, VI
am very Sorry to see you coming out OF such
Place.
els that so?,' replied the Bibulous Nan in .
Thick and fearful Voice. "Well, VIII go right
Back Again. And he did so, leaving the Pious
Person standing on the sidewalk In Great Amaze
Burlington Free Press.
ONE CREED.
He knows full well who history reads,
when man by faith was guided,
The various religious creeds
The human race DIVIDED
Now Pagan, Christian, lsraelite,
IIliterate man and scholar,
All in one common creed unite
The worship Of the dollar.
FLOWER IN sPRTre.
The rooster is budding flower,
highly colored thing,
About the garden, IN the fields
The crow cuss Of the spring.
-Wasainston CT
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

JUDGE WALLACE seems to entertain q
little doubt on the Western Union Tele-
graph COmpany's claim. that it owns the
streets of New York. That large-sized cor
poration will have to submit, for certain
time, at least. to the old-fashioned theory
that the ownership of streets and highways
is vested in the people. Perhaps, after the
corporations have been at work while
longer at controlling nominations for the
bench, they may be able to change that
theory; but the time is not ripe for it yet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
Has to Pay for Bad Plumbing.

The Circuit Court to-day directed James
Armstrong, principal Of the school on Columbia
Heights, to pay the Misses Ely $50. The
Misses Ely taught in Mr.. Armstrong; school
while the plumbing there was in bad condition.
They, as well as several pupils, were taken i'll
of typhoid fever and the school was closed
subsequently the Misses Ely sued Mr.. Arm
strong for damages, on the ground that he had
been criminally negligent. Eight days were
taken up with the trial, and good deal of evil
deuce was taken as to the nature Of typhoid
fever germs and how defective plumbing might
contaminate the atmosphere Of residence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

THE intimations that Mr.. Bates puSlica-
ton of an article in the Century, on the Sa-
moanquestion, might create difficulty as to
his acceptance as one of the commissioners
to the Berlin conference, are reduced TO zero
by the statement from Berlin that he will
be received there just as his other col
leagues. Bismarck does not seem disposed
to lay much stress on the persona grGta
theory; but he will probably make up for
that by sticking to that other classic saying:
Non persondn, sed rem.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

Mr.. F. B. GowEN is quoted as question
ing Mr.. Carnegie's motives and alluding to
his past record. This may be pertinent or
otherwise; but considering the source
whence it comes it is rather amusing. If
every one who has been mixed up with dis
ordinations and railroad combinations, is
to be ruled out of court, where will Mr..
Gowen stand?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

THE advantages of Washington as an
educational center form the subject of edi-
torial comment by the esteemed Star, of
that city. They are very great no doubt,
consisting largely of the force with
which they impress on the mind of visitors
the great lesson conveyed in that old pro-
verb against putting your trust in princes
and practical politicians.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

square, for the work to be done. His opinion
is being borne oAt BE prophesies again in
a similar vein about the vacated premises.
We think he is again correct.
It would be awkward for the county now
to sell the vacated premises only to buy them
back, or adjacent property, at great ad-
vance of values before 190O-which is now
but eleven years Off As business runs, and
as the signs of the Pittsburg of the near next
century fashion themselves on the sky, judi
cious rental does look a better policy than
hastf sale.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
On Trial for killing His Playmate.

Ten-year-old Willie Lutz was arraigned in
the Harlem Police Court to-day, for causing
the death of 5year.old Tobias Hipper, of 1914
Second averPe. by stufhng his mouth with re-
fuse and otherwise injuring him. He denied
harming Hpper intentionally. and said the
latter got hurt by falling down some steps.
Coroner Levy found. the head badly bruised,
and there is little doubt that the child died
from the i'll treatment he received at the hands
of his playmares. The police attribute his
death more to rough play than to malicious
iniury
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
A SONG OF THE LILAC.

Above the wall that's broken.
And from the coppice thinned,
80 sacred and so sweet,
The lilac in the wind!
And every night the May wind blows
The lilac blooms apart,
The memory Of his first love
Is shaken on his heart.
A tear was long its gravestone,
A hush was all around:
Oh how they wake 1t now,
The fragrance and the soundl
And every night the May wind blows
The lilac blooms apart
The memory Of his first love
Is shaken on-his heart.
-Loutse I7logeR Quincy in Hdrper's Weekly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

Mr.. JAY GoULD's remark, that New
York is good enough for him, was supposed
to bear on the reports that he was going to
change his place of residence; but it is given
broader and more telling significance by
the recent claims made on his behalf for a
complete ownership of that city by his ele-
vated railroad and telegraph lines.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

MAYOR GRANTS appointment of Richard
Croker as City Chamberlain, was evidently
inpired by the chivalrous determination to
make President Harrison's appointment of
Van Cott as postmaster appear like re-
formatorY and non-partisan measure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

IT is satisfactory to observe that Mr..
Medill. Of the Chicago Tribune, has come
to the conclusion that leading editors must
preserve their independence, and that they
cannot do so if they accept Office. This is
obviously correct ground; but it is instruct
i've to observe how it is impressed upon the
mind of an editor who has swung the cudgel
in his day, by the fact that the Senate has
jumped on Halstead
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

QuITE sensation has been raised in the
Eastern press over the report that gas COM
pany somewhere has admitted that its me-
ters are inaccurate and is voluntarily re-
funding to its customers the overcharges
Proof may kewanted ofthisremsrkableoc occur
renee; but there seems to be an indefinite
feeling in New York, that it is an unwarrant-
able surrender ofthe vested rights ofthe cor
norations
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
METROPOLITAN SMALL TALK.
Barnum IN Business tor Some Time.

NEW YORK BUREAU sPEcIALs.1
NEW YORK, April 12-P. T. Barnurn, the
great Snowman, is very much annoyed at the
reports published in New Y York newspaper
to-day, that he intended to retire from the show
business. "Why, 1 am actually growing young
again" he said to DISPATCH reporter, 'snd l
hope and expect to die in the harness. NY
ambition has never been greater nor my plans
for the future brighter than at this present
moment. Why, 1 have just signed q contract
with Mr.. Bailey for the next 30 years. and we
intend to give the American public show
that will make their eyes stick out" The great
Snowman said he was feeling well. and he cer-
tainly did not look like man ready to retire
from active life, as he spoke in an animated
way about his plans for the future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
MoANs IN MALL1sTERvrLLE.

Ward McAllister is to be only floor man.
ager of the New York Centennial Ball No
wonder he weeps, He thinks that Mr.. Fish
and the rest Of the Entertainment Commit
tee will weep later on, after the ball shall
have proved dire failure. He will have
to concentrate his immense mind upon the
control OF the ten thousand dancers. To keep
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
Not Afraid of saurians.

From the Baltimore Americana
The placing of the alligator brought from
Florida, by Mrs. Mckee, in front of the White
House to keep away the crowds will hardly
have an effect upon the Southern visitors. 1t
will make them feel more at home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
A Complain. Against Discrimination.

The special Treasury agents at the Custom
House completed to-day an investigation of
the methods of importing steel wire. The
manufacturers of steel wire complain that
while on all their importations they have paid
cents per pound, many importers Of steel
wire hattened into steel strips for use in corsets
have paid only As per cent ad valorem, or N
cents a mound
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
suferer. Arc Numerous.

From the Chicago Herald.l
Somebody in tine White House has a head
ache and Immediately the cry goes up that a
new executive mansion must be built. There
is more sickness in the families of men who
fail to reach the White House than there is
among the occupants of that structure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

IT might be taken as bearing an instruct
i've significance for the recalcitrant SEN
ators, that Immediately after his first
skirmish with them, the President takes
into consideration the project of locating
his headquarters in the War Department.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
A Cow Cnmmit. suinide.

CAMDEN, N. j., April l2.-An obstreperous
COW, driven by James Johns, ,colored, of Moores-
town, became SO tangled in the rope by which
she was led that she strangled almost to death,
and her throat was cut as an act of mercy. AS
Johns was leaning over her she gave lurch,
and one of her horns struck him in the right
eye, gouging it out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
The Friendship of the Press.

From the Altoona Tribune.1
Mr.. Carnegie's recent savage onslaught on
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has won
him the admiration of a number of editors who
but few months ago were denouncing him in
the severest language.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
Previous Truining Necessary.

From the Kansas City Star.1
1t is fact worthy of note that all the women
elected to municipal offices in Kansas this
spring wear MRS" in front of their names. 1t
seems to require a matrimonial experience to
develop the governing instinct in women.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
children Poisoned By Par.nrp..

ST. JOSEPH, MINI, April 12-Four children
of Joseph Mirdam. German farmer living in
this township, found some wild parsnips which
had been ploughed up, and all ate of them.
They soon became violently sick. Three of the
children, q boy years old and two girls, and
years. died in terrible agony. Another, a
girl years old, is still living and may recover.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
His Modest Ambition.

From the Philadelphia Press.i
The report that Jay Gould was about to take
up his residence in London is emphatically de-
MED. Mr.. Gould doesn't want the earth. The
Western Hemisphere is enough for him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
Tbi. sbou,d ston the Exodus.

From the Springfield Republic.1
The wild rush of people to Cincinnati should
cease. There is no 2-cent beer there. That is
to say-there is beer there worth only cents a
glass, but it sells for s.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
An Unnrnftnhle Cron.

From the Philadelphia Times.J
The Oklahoma boomers are carrying more
pistols than plows into the new territory. This
looks as though they intended to raise more
Cain than corn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

PAsTEUR's first failure is in his scheme
to kill off the rabbits of Australia by the
chicken cholera. The Dummies decline
to take either their medicine or their cpl
demic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

THE sanitary question that is rising to
importance at the national capital is
whether that slight indisposition Of the Presi-
dent was to be charged to sewer gas or Office
seekers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
Waller G. sterling.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DlsPArc

TsPECIAL IhLhGHAM TO THE DIbFAICH.!
WILKEsBARRE, April 12.-Walter G. Sterling
sfather'' of the Wilkesbarre banking system
died this evening. BE was very wealthy and was
state, having been identified with railroads and
monied institutions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
Absolutely Unprecedented.

From the Detroit Free Press.J
A man worth 100000 died in Chicago last
week, and up to date only one wife has come
forward with her claim to the property. The
incident is looked upon as singular, to say the
least
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
nIr.. Iohn.nn n1cInrrre.

Mrs. johnson Mcintyre, the wife Of the we'll
known Allegheny contractor, died yesterday at
her home, No. 245 North avenue, after few
chitis. She was 81 wears Of age and was promi
nent member of the Fifth U. 2. Church. The
funeral will take place this afternoon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13
Sure Of a Good Job. Anyhow.

From the Alta California.]
Descriptions of the gigantic stature of the
new minister from England suggest inc dime
museum possibilities, provided Sir Julian fail
as diplomat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-13

If natural gas wells get to increasing
their pressure so as to burst pipes and blow
out the casing, times are likely to become
pretty lively in the vicinity of Pittsburg.