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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
TRI-STATE TRlFLES.

APEcULIAR charge was made in the Police
| Court at Williamsport the other day. William
| H. Taylor, colored boy, was arrested for the
| larceny OF locomotive. The iron horse was
standing on a Northern Central side track, and
during the temporary absence of the engineer
the urchin entered the cab and opened the
| throttle Tho engine started and a train hand
| barely succeeded in jumping aboard and stop
ping it in time to avoid collision. The boy
was jailed.
SOME Columbia residents amused themselves
| at pronunciation bee few nights ago.
FOUR hundred dollars for charity was netted
| by baseball game at Harrisburg between re-
porters and policemen. A girl was umpire.
SrRArroN WISE, of West Chester came
down stairs early on Friday morning to find a
drunken man asleep in his parlor.
NINE ears Of corn grew in bunch on sim
| gle stalk on the farm of John Wambaugh near
York.
Two little Reading girls were walking along
the street. when a 100-pound column fell over
between them.
! AN Ohio town was thrown into fever OF ex-
| citement by the appearance, evening after
| evening, of ghostly figures and strange lights
The mystery was made plain the other evening
by the discovery that small boys, wrapped in
sheets and carrying pumpkin lanterns, were
responsible for the scare.
A HANDSOME young girl in West Virginia
town owns and drives q horse that has q 2:SO
record,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
Swimming on Afiidnvits.

From the New ! ork Grapnlc.l
1t is now time for crank to get few affi-
davits and declare that he swan up Niagara
Falls. The falls have been done, by affidavits
in every other way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
LEFT HIS MONEY TO OLD MAIDS.
Relatives of the Deceased, However, VIII
Try to Break the Will.

ANGOLA, IND, September 1O.-L. B. Eaton,
an eccentric recluse living near Fremont
Steuben county, died last spring, leaving an
estate worth fully $4,000. BY the terms of his
will his entire property was to be evenly di.
vided among the 'Dld maids" of Steuben
county.
Heirs of the old gentlemen are at present
attempting to set aside the will in the Steuben
Circuit Court, and the outcome of the case is
exciting considerable speculation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11

A HANDSOME young girl in West Virginia
town owns and drives horse that has a 2:SO
record,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
A Very I.ItiIe Satisfies.

From the New York World.i
There will be no extra session Of Congress.
Thanks, gentlemen. The regulation thing is
quite enough.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
story of nm Australian.

Jacob Wilson, a Brooklyn real estate dealer
of considerable wealth, was greatly troubled
years ago by the wild pranks and general
worthlessness of his only son, Jacob Wilson,
Jr. To get rid of the dissipated young follow,
Wilson. Sr., encouraged him to marry saloon
keepers daughter. On the wedding day Will
son. ST., gave to his daughter-in-law $4,000 as
compensation for her prospective efforts to
care for his son. and to his son 81 500 annual in
come, with which to support the family. In
1885 old Mr.. Wilson died. His daughter-in-law
at once got divorce from her husband, and
had him packed off to Australia. Then she in
some way got hold of the $4,000 willed to her
former husband by his father. Wilson, who
has Just returned from Australia, says she
secured the money by fraud, and has engaged
a lawyer to bring suit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
Cerfninly.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Is National Bank currency legal tender. g.
PETRoLIA, Pa, September 10.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
NEWS OF THE METROPOLIS.
Pranks Of Loose Elscsvieisy.


NEW YORK, September 10.-At o'clock this
morning the wind blew down the electric light
apparatus over the furniture store Of William
Fritschke, in Grand street. The broken electric
wire fell upon the tin roof of the store. In .
minute the runaway current had charged the
tin roof and scudded around the block. and was
playing all sorts of pranks- 1t ran down the
eayespipe and into Mrs. skelly's fruit stand
Mrs Skelly, who had been asleep against the pipe
fell over her wares in her efforts to get away.
James Hunt, in helping her to her feet, steadied
himself ty grasping an awning rail on
the front Of the building. He tried to let go
of the rail and Mrs. Skelly tried to let 60 of
him, but both stuck fast. Their cries brought
two policemen, who got them loose. The row
in the street brought Mrs. Fritschke to the
window. She began to open her shutters. In
a second she was stuck fast and screaming.
Her little boy caught her loose hand and stuck
to it, kicking and crying. Mrs. Fritschke
eventually got loose and got all her children
from the electrified fat into the street.
In the meantime the cutters and wet
street became SO charged with cleo
tricity that the people attracted by
the racket danced some lively jlgs
A cast iron spout in No. $40 spouted white and
blue fire, and blue fire played in sporadic way
all over the block. A shoestore three doors
below the furniture store was set on fire. The
fire department was summoned with great
difficulty, as the loose electricity had got the
fire alarm out of order. The flames were ex-
tinguished after about $4,000 damage had been
done, and inemen oorraled the wire which had
been electrifying the whole block.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11

Miss SUSAN D. ANTHONY has written
to the Mayor of New York asking that q
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
Not Money Enough In 1t for Them.

From the Cincinnati En1uirer.1
How the public countenance would light up
with gladness if one of those Niagara hackmen
should try to 60 over the falls.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
Three Di,tipeul.hed RepubIIcan..

General Russell A. Alger, Murat Halstead
and John M. Langston, the famous colored
orator Of Virginia, passed to-day In the city.
General Alger received the most calls. About
every half hour throughout the day some big
Republican went TO the Fifth Avenue Hotel to
talk politics with him and congratulate him
upon his election to the commandership Of the
G. A. r. General Alger had great deal
to say to reporters about the G. A. R,
and how he loved it, but refused to talk
straightout politics. Muyat Halstead
thought Foraker would be elected and
was sure that some able Republican would sue
eeed Senator Payne. Who that able Republican
would probably be, he was too modest to say.
Mr.. Langston gave his opinion of the Virginia
situation at length to every one who questioned
him. He gave out that he disliked Malone, but
would support him because Quay wished It, He
figured out a probable majority of 20, 600 for the
straight Republican ticket Mr.. Langston will
begin stumping Ohio shortly in the interest OF
Governor Foraker.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11

SOME Columbia residents amused themselves
at a pronunciation bee few nights ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11

by baseball game at Harrisburg between re-
porters and policemen. A girl was umpire.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11

STRATToN WISE, of West Chester. came
down stairs early on Friday morning to find
drunken man asleep in his Darlor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11

NINE ears Of corn grew in bunch on sim
gle stalk on the farm of John Wambaugh near
York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
Two nruIatto Girls Quarrel.

Several months ago Millie Hamilton and
Gussie Hall, mulattoes, quarrelled about their
common lover at a ball. MiIlie got him. As
she left the hall with him, Gussie caught her
by the back hair, and cut deep cash in her
cheek with a razor. The girl was dis6gured for
life by the wound, and she swore she would
have revenge. Late last night she called the
Hall girl into her room, shut and locked the
door, and prepared to carve her with razor.
The Hall girl snatched up the lighted lamp
and felled her opponent to the floor with it.
TIE lamp broke. and the blazing oil set fire to
the Hamilton girls clothes She was half
roasted before a policeman. summoned by her
screams extinguished the flames. She was
taken to hospital, where she Is dying.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
Mrs. Kelly Has Triplets.

Mrs. James Kelly, of Jersey City, has just
borne triplets, boy and two girls. Together
the babies weigh 2l pounds. They are healthy
and physically perfect. Mrs. Kelly is S6 years
old She married Mr. Kelly Is years ago, and
had nine children before the arrival Of the
triplets. Kelly, until recently, worked in q
sngar house on Essex street, but is now out of
work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11

Two little Reading girls were walking along
the street, when a 1O0pound column fell over
between them.
The Press., 1889-05-16

loyalty, not only in the opposition party, but among those who had hitherto been firm adherents of the government, was
 mainly based upon the idea that the present British rulers had allowed them selves to be frightened by mines and torpedoes, artfully placed and exploded. Therefore the syndicate intended to set right the public mind upon this subject. The note concluded by earnestly urging the designation, without loss of time, of place of operations.
 This answer was received in London in the evening, and all night it was the subject of earnest and anxious deibera- ton in the government office. It was at last ldecided, amid great opposition, that the syndicate's alternative must be. accepted, for 1t would be the height of folly to allow the repeller to lombard any port she should choose. When this conclusion had been reached, the work of selecting a place for the proposed demonstration of the American syndicate occupied but little time. The task was not difficult. Nowhere In Great Britain was there fortified spot of 50 little im- portance as Caerdaff, on the west coast of Wales.
The Press., 1889-05-16

Quoddy Head, Me-, boasts of being the easternmost point of the United States. This is the only spot in New England that is an extreme point of the compass as far as our country is concerned. The west ernmost point is the Alton islands. Point Barrows is the northernmost and Key West the most southern. Taking these points as the basis for work, it is found that the geographical center of the United States is about 27O miles west of San Fran cisco, in the Pacific ocean.
The Press., 1889-05-16
Died |.

Monson, 3d, Harriet, v, widow of Anson Walker. Springfield, 18th, Mrs. D. D. Kibbe, 61, widow of Orrin R. K1bbe of Somers. East Longmeadew, 11th, Mary E., ss, daughter of Sylvester Crane.
 Union, 5th, Gurdon Chaffee, 52 Andover, 14th, Gurley Phelps, s5 years, 10 monGhs. Ashford, 14th, Abigail c. Peck. S6. Union, 2d, Sarah E., 60, wife of Herman Corbn
 Servant of God, well done,
 Rest from thy loved employ;
 The battles fought, the victory won,
 Enter thy Masters ioY.
The Press., 1889-05-16

When dogs kill sheep they generally re- turn in 8 night or two to regale themselves on the carcass, and they can then be caught. Make pen of small, straight rails around the dead animal, ten to four teen rails high, drawing in each successive rail so the aperture at the top will be about five feet across. Dogs can easily as- cend, and will then jump down to the car cass, and it will be impossible for them to get out if the interstices are not wide enough for them to crawl through.
The Press., 1889-05-16

w. D. KINSMAN.
 SPECIAL
 ANNOUNCEMENT. All who visit our store this season will find ample evidence of our determination to keep-as in the past-the Largest, Most Elegant and Best Selected Stock of Trimmings, Laces, Ribbons,
 HOSIERY,
 Gloves and Novelties, To be found in the Conn. Valley. We mention few leaders
 KID GLOVES.
 Our Importations have opened splendid y. For an Extra Bargain we offer 5-But- ton, Scollop Top, narrow embroidery, for 50 cents; better Glove than is sold in many places for 75 cents.
 Button Suede, $1.OO q pair. 8 Baton Suede Mousquetaire, 100 pair. 8 Button Suede Mousquetaire, 1.5O a pair. GENUINE FOSTER LACED KID GLOVES. Our stock of these all new-not an old pair to show.
 Ladies' and Misses Silk Taffata and Pure Silk Gloves 25 cents to $1 pair all from the best makers. In fit, color, quality and value they cannot be excelled.
 COTTON HOSIERY.
 Fast Black for Ladies, Misses, Men and Boys. There is no use wasting words here The Royal, Stainless Pure Dye and Smith < Angell are positively the two best Fast Black Cotton Stockings on the market. Price 25 cents to 75 cents per pair.
 CORSETs CORSETS! We have always prided ourselves in this department, but have never before been able to place beforesour patrons so great g variety of elegantly fitting Corsets at such reasonable prices as we are now doing. EVERY POPULAR MAKE is to be found in our stock.
 HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES. Latest Novelties in Choice Hem-Stitched Flouncings with edges to match, at our usual popular prices. A superb line of Black Chantilly Flouncings. Customers will find very desirable patterns among these goods. Prices always right.
 PARASOLS! PARASOLS!
 SUN UMBRELLAS, GLORIA & WINDSOR RAIN UMBRELLAS. Look at our Special Bargains at only S2 each.
 DRESS TRIMMINGS.
 Persian Bands in endless variety of rich combinations. Black Crochet and Fine Jet Gimps. Fringesfo Wraps. Lowest Prices, Latest Novelties and complete stock always found in this department.
 We are the acknowledged Headquarters. for Fancy Goods and Novelties.
 V. ]. KINSMAN, Springfield. Mass.
The Press., 1889-05-16

The Chicago Inter-Ocean sees another evidence of industrial progress in the south, in the story southern paper tells of a mouse which fell into pan of milk in a Texas dairy and kept up such lively swimming that he had churned it into but ter, and was enabled to leap out and re- gain his freedom.
The Press., 1889-05-16

The form of sentence of murderer Ken nuler of Buffalo was ''that within the week commencing Monday, June 24th, 1880, within the walls of Auburn state prison, you suffer the death punishment by being executed. by electricity, and that you be removed to be .kert in confinement in Au- burn state prison until that time."
The Press., 1889-05-16

We have number of delinquent subscribers on our list and wishing to straighten all such accounts ear- nestly desire that each of them call or communi cate with us at once. We shall feel obliged to take uniform course with all who do not do so.
The Press., 1889-05-16
CREDIT
IF YOU BUY of ME YOU MUST 1 SPEAK 0UICKg

~ A A SPEAK QUICK! 1 large s-Year Old New Milch Cow, with Calf. Kind, gentle, good milker; will sell cheap.
 fine blood Morgan Mare, 13 years. Kind, true, good mother, spavin, not much lame, must be sold.
 Ducks Eggs for matching, White Pekin, 6Oc. dozen.
 Heavy Harness, in. saddle, 1a in. trace, collar and names.
 good, strong, durable Buggy, good value, but no style. Cheap.
 Center Table and Chairs to match. New, neat, stylish, very low.
 Incubator, Brooder, Parlor Stove, another second hand Sewing Machine-good one. New Machines, Repairs, Needles, Oil, Etc. C. P. HoDcs0N, Ag't,
 THE SINGER MFG co.
The Press., 1889-05-16

JAMES MCLAUGHLIN dE SON, PUBLISHERS. per year. $1 25 when paid strictly in advance.
The Press., 1889-05-16

Gov. HILL of New York has met public ex- pectation in his veto of the Saxton ballot re- form bill
The Press., 1889-05-16
MarFieds

Married
 Wilmington, 18th, by Rev. Wilson R. Terry, Joseph z. Rider and Leona G. Lombard, both of Wilmington. Wimantic 11th, by Rev. w. c. Norris, George H. Chamberlain and Ella L. White, both of Gureyville. Mashapaug April 29th, by Major G. Smith, justice, William Watson of Union and Martha Morse of Southbridge.
The Press., 1889-05-16

OST-On May 14th, between Somers and l Orcuttyille, pocket book containing about SIP. The finder will be suitably rewarded by returning to w. A. DIMOCK, SQmers, or to this office.
The Press., 1889-05-16

We are the Largest House in our Line in New England, and carry the biggest stock, supply the greatest variety of goods to our customers.
 The large business we do enables us to buy in large quantities direct from the manufacturers for cash at the lowest prices, and as we are satisfied with small profit
 ON
 Our immense business, we often are able to retail goods as low to our customers as some dealers are able to buy them from the iobbers. Our large business and small ex penses also enable us to sell our goods on
 CREDIT as Low as other dealers do for Cash.
 We simply mention this matter to show our customers that they are trading at headquarters and with the Leadidg House, and that we do the business without much newspaper advertising. ae. .. We desire to increase the list of our cus- toners for this year for i
The Press., 1889-05-16

THE prohibitionists of Pennsylvania have state responsible if the prohibitory constitu
 tional amendment is defeated. Such an at tempt to bully voters will not help the amend ment, but rather looks as If the prohibitionists desired it's defeat in order to make capita against the republicans. If the amendment is carried in any state it will not be by any such method as that ..
The Press., 1889-05-16

DROPOSALS.- LS.-The committee on school l house grounds Will receive proposals for the erection of a wall on High-st., Stafford Springs, Conn. Also for the cutting and laying of a curb along the line of school house lot on said street. Plans and specifications may be obtained from AL varado Howard at the Savings Bank of Stanord Springs.
 All proposals will be opened Saturday, May 2bth, p. and the committee reserve the right to re ect any or all proposals received. Proposals may be addressed to s.The Committee on School House Grounds ALVARADO HOWARD,l
 GEO. 0. PARKESS, Committee.
 CHAS. G. ELLIS,
 Stafford Springs, Conn.,, May 10th, 1889.
The Press., 1889-05-16

NTANTED-Girl for General Housework. w M. c. MOORE, Stafford Springs LNOR SALE-1 Second Hand Carriage, 1 II new Spindle Buggy, Second Hand Harness, all in good condition. 16mSw M. G. MOORE. ESOR SALE CHEAP-One 2d-hand 2-seat- I ed Surrey Carriage, single seat Wagon, good Harness. Inquire at Stafford Springs House Livery Stable.
 EOR SALE CHEAP-English Pug Dog. Imported dam. Performs several tricks. Also Shoe Makers Bench and Tools, much below value.
 A. NEWELL.
The Press., 1889-05-16

The annual report of the managers of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, just issued contains many items of inter- est. President Gone refers with regret to the loss which the institution has sustained by the death of Rev. Dr. William Thomp- son, who for twenty years oficiated as chaplain, and the removal of Dr. Page, the
 first assistant physician, to Danvers Mass. i, to be superintendent of the hospital in that place. Superintendent H. P. Stearns reports thirty-sev recoveries during the year, or Al per cent. of the admissions. The managers have bought lot of land to the south, which has long been needed. One improvement which has proved es- pecially valuable is the erection of cot tages for female patients who require spec ial treatment. These are all filled and the managers are desirous of securing enough funds to build similar ones for male pa- tients. The superintendent's report shows the following statistics: The admissions during the year have been, ofmales, AZ of females, A; total, 89. The discharges have been, of males, 52; of females, 39 :; total, 91. The deaths during the same period have been, of males, 10; of fe- males. 6; total, 16. The whole number under treatment during the year has been, of males, 125; of females, 109; total, 234. The number in the Retreat on the 31st of March, 1889, is, of males, 72; of females, 70; total, 142. The whole number of pa tients admitted since the opening of the Retreat, April l, 1924, is 8,960.
The Press., 1889-05-16

ONLY one of Connecticut's ten judges Loomis-being now resident of eastern Con- necticut, the suggestion of the names of Hall of Willimantic and Bill of Rockville for va cancies ought to have fullest consideration from Gov. Bulkeiey, and it isn't so much a matter as to where they live, as that they are the right type of men. Look to the east, MT. Governor please
The Press., 1889-05-16

New Haven News It is no less bribery to exchange vote for or against the t'par- allel," in return for vote on any other measure, than it would be to accept sum of money. In either case the vote is given for consideration, regardless of his sworn duty to judge each subject on its merits. In such bargaining the company which can promise most or deliver most will win, and injustice may be done. But, in the case in point, one company may be just as liberal in relation to grade crossings as the other, in which event that side issue will drop out. Nevertheless there will be plenty of other occasions for trading, particularly in body which has, in effect, advertised the fact of it's willingness to trade. There in lies the lobbyists opportunity.
The Press., 1889-05-16

II HAVE 100 M feet logs (whole length) in l my mill pond, and would like to quote prlce on any kind sf native lumber. E.W. BROOKS.
The Press., 1889-05-16

The famous Myra Clark Gaines will case, which has been in the federal courts for ffty-five years, and which has been de- cided, in whole or in part, many times, and as often appealed, was decided last Monday as finality, in the supreme court. It has been before that tribunal five times. Its final decision, reversing some others, loads upon New Orleans a sum to pay amounting to millions. Thus Mrs. Gaines wins her case, though she has not lived to enjoy the triumph. The story involves romance enough for the making of strong novel. Daniel Clark, the re- puted father of the handsome, vivacious and persistent little woman was the wealthiest young merchant of Louisiana in those days. Myra's mother, pretty French creole, was married (perhaps) pri- as well as other points, was contested. The real estate involved is in the business part of the city.
 Manchester people are aroused over the new charter of the water company. There being no borough organization and no fire district, the company is authorized by it to contract with the school district and has done so, the district voting to pay $1, ,OOO a year for twenty years for forty hydrants. Residents of the school district who are not benefited by the pipes, and those who do not favor water company, hold that it is not the part of school district to make any such contract and object to be- ing taxed for hydrants that do them no good. They have petitioned the legislat- ure to reopen the subject of the charter just granted and to amend it by taking out the words s'or school' where it reads fire or school district.
The Press., 1889-05-16

Furniture, Carpets, &c., &c.,, and, according to our plan, the more we have the Cheaper each can pur- chase. It is Cooperative and Mutual, and Our System has Many Advantages And benefits to our customers.
 Please call and investigate our plan, ex- anime our stock and prices, secure our terms,
 OPEN AN ACCOUNT With us, and have no further trouble about getting your supplies on Credit as you need them, and trade with a good, straight, square house with a well-defned policy, that will admit of NO MISREPRESENTATION, That guarantee satisfaction, fair dealing, polite salesmen, courteous treatment, the Finest Stock, the largest Variety, the
 LOWEST PRICES, And the easiest terms.
The Press., 1889-05-16
HORSE, Carriage and Harness for sale. A Good Driver and good Walker.
 E. L. BURR, Stafford Springs.

GAVE YOUR CURRANTS.- Apply Helle- o bore to the bushes. For sae by L. W. CRANE. Also Paris Green for potatoes.
The Press., 1889-05-16
WALKING SKIRTS

Made from Wamsutta cotton, with cluster of twenty tucks, at Soc. would be cheap at $1. Walking Skirts with Cambric ruf1e, ten tucks on skirt at 59c., usually sold for 9Oc. Walk ing Skirts with wide Hamburg founce and cluster of tucks on skirt at $1, sold last season o% d1 Sn fa