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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-30

A rosrortIcx in Fulton county. Pa, bear
the brief and unrcmansic name Of ''sia"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-30
The Nicaragua Canal.

The next report submitted was upon the
prompt construction of the Nicaragua Canal as
a means of national defense and commercial de-
velopment The report declares that IL would
be a anational cr,ma q, ,.rr,it onv Euronaan
-o,r.- ~ n,..a, PENNY s ,.IS,as
P"e, W oo'ain suon ao'anIase a. snAe Which
would be derived by the United States from
the construction of this canal. Its Importance
as a naval station and means of uuick
massage from tho .os.orn 20 the west
ern coast OF America, as wen as IT'S
,conmerclal aoVantages, Is pointed out neso-
ranoms we're supmitIea requesting tne Saase
sep, cson'aivss n OonRress 70 alu IN tne oon
ssr;sat; oi the Nlcatagua OanaI Dy any propel
reSsion- ,S.a Iengthy 1eport was ais3 suo ;ss
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-30
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.

POSTAGE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
DAILY DISPATCH, One Year. 90
DAILY DISPATCH, Per Quarter. 90
DAILY DIsP ATCH One Month ................. 70
DAILY DISPATCH. including Sunday, year. 10 90
ISAILY DISPATCH. including Sunday, Smiths. 50
DAILY DISPATCH, including Sunday, month 90
SUNDAY DISPATCH, One Year ................ . 50
WEEKLY DISPATCH, One Year ....s........... i Is
THE DAILY DISPATCH is delivered by carriers at
l5cents per week. or including Sunday edition. at
2ocents per week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-30
They WIN Spend the Money.

All the aldermen and most of the other off,
cials 6t Brooklyn have decided to start South
next Saturday to help the Brooklyn veterans
celebrate the city's Gettysburg Day" and
spend the city's 800 appropriation for that
purpose. More than 1000 persons will partici-
pate in the excursion. The big party will re-
main in Harrisburg Sunday afternoon and
night, and will proceed to Gettysburg on Mon
day morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-30
Belgian Glass Blower. Didn'r Coms.

The steamship Rhynland, from Antwerp,
came into port to-day without the 100 Belgian
glass blowers, who were thought to have sailed
on her to work for firm near Pittsburg. At
quarantine United States officials searched the
boat high and low, but without success. The
only two glass blowers found had certificates
of citizenship. Arthur F. Searle. who came
over one month ago under contract to work in
Seguln, Tex, and was sent back, turned up
again in the steerage Of the Rhynland. He
said he was under no contract this time, and
showed a railroad ticket and plenty of money.
Nevertheless, he was detained as a suspect.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-30

The Secretary of the Worlds Fair organiza-
ton received to-day this letter. dated at Saranac
Inn:
1 acknowledge receipt Of notice Of my appoint
ment as Q member of the Committee on Permanent
Organization for the International Exposition Of
1882. shall be very glad to cooperate as mem
Der Of such committee with other citizens OF New
York to make the exposition grand success.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
WARNING ELECTRICIANS.


PITTsBURG, Pa, May 19.-Justice Brad
ley. of the United States Supreme Court
and Judges McKennan and Acheson will
tomorrow morning begin the hearing of
the Cass Consolidated Electric-light Com
pany VS.. the McKeesport Light Company,
q patent infringement case. The case
In reality is WESTINGHOUSE VS.. Edi-
son. Several years ago Mr.; Westinghouse
purchased the Sawyer carbon burner, the
little loop that furnishes the light in incan-
descent burners Mr.. Sawyer's patent gives
him the right to use, exclusively, all fbrous
vegetable matters as carbons. For several
years Mr.. Edison employed paper as car
bon, and now is using bamboo. and it is TO
prevent this infringement that the suit
is brought. The Westinghouse people
will set up the general allegation of
infringement, and back it up by the sub
mission of several thousand pages of testi-
mony, expert and general to show that in
the use of either paper or bamboo, Mr.. Edl-
son transgresscd their rights and franchises
under the Sawyer patent. On the other hand.
the Edison people will set up two claims,
first, that the patent is too comprehensive
and exclusive, covering. as it does. the
whole vegetable kingdom, and excluding
the patent. In the second place, they will
set up the general allegation of fraud in
the manner of obtaining the patent. They
have al so fortified themselves with a mass
of testimony, technical, expert and all
around, fully as great, if not greater, than
that gathered by the WESTINGHOUSE attor-
neyS. This will occupy every day of this
week, and 1t is not improbable that the
case may run far into next week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Minor Notes.

Convicts at the Prison South numbered
65S last week.
Loeb Oppenheimer, of Lafayette, died
there last week; aged eighty-six.
Mrs. Woods, who was badly burned, near
Seymour recently. died last Friday from
the result of her injuries.
Fort Wayne gets thirty-eight miles of
eight-inch natural gas main laid from the
Blackford field for $4,000.
John Whiteman, a young farmer of
Spencer county, wounded himself fatally
while playing with a revolver last Friday.
The catalogue of Hanover College for
1SSS-S9. shows an attendance of one hum
satisfactory outlook for the school.
Clark county grand jury men propose to
indict people who treat new married folks,
in that county, to a charivari with pam
pounding and bell-ringing accompani-
ments.
Capt. John Field, of Jacksonville, took
Oft his clothes to wade while fishing, and
the garments were chewed up by calves in
Guiding $50 in paper money and 81 in sill
Yer.
Creditors of the Prison South are waiting
anx1ously for the completion of the State
loan by Treasurer Lemcke. About $4,000
of the prisons indebtedness is held by JEFF
fersonviile parties.
Greencastle's Council elected the follow
ing Republican officers; City attorney,
Thomas Moore; chief of fire department.
Fred Weik; city engineer, Arthur Throop;
street commissioner, Joseph NJ. Donnohue.
Among the STRENGTHENING gang working
on the streets of Jacksonville is large me-
gro woman. who is said to make the dust fly
as dexterously as her white companions
She Is q widow. and has several small chill
dren to support.
An incendiary fire near Charleston, last
week. destroyed q barn and contents val
haInn N
and one near Plymouth burned barn and
contents belonging to Senator Reeves,
valued at $4,000.
At Covington, on Saturday last, a verdict
of guilty was reached in the case of Fossett,
who was charged with the attempted muir
der of his wife. The sentenceis seven years
at hard labor in the penitentiary. The plea
of insanity was urged to no avail
Prof. William j. Williams delivered the
baccalauerate sermon last evening to the
which numbers fifteen. The Presbyterian
Church was used for the occasion, and a
large crowd listened to the sermon.
Sunday. the 10th of next month, has been
fixed upon as the day for the laying of the
cornerstone of the new $4,000 Catholic
church in Upton. Invitations have been
sent out, and prominent priests from differ
ent parts of the State will be in attendance.
The vestry of st. Paurs Protestant Epis-
copal Church, at New Albany, has elected
the following lay delegates to the general
convention of the church, to be held at In
dianapolis: DR.. f. Rowland. J. H. Stotsen-
berg. III. .. Cannon and Judge George A.
Bicknell; alternates, DIR. w. +. Morrill,, w.
w. Tuley. George +. Drury and d. c. AK
line.
The Harmony schools of Union county
held their graduating exercises in a grove
near Liberty last Saturday. The class was
composed of five graduates: Adella Snyder.
Clarence Brandenberg. Edith Buckley,
Louis Harrell Mary Scott. The class ad-
dress and the delivery of the diplomas were
given by Rev. c. c. Edwards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
APPEALS TO MRS. HARRISON.
0mce-seekers Ask Her to DO Many Thing,

omce-Seekers Ask Her to DO Many Things
to Forward Their Interests.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, May 19.-Mrs. Harrison's
mail contains, every day, appeals from Of
fice-seekers to use her influence with her
husband in favor of the writer's. Some of
the correspondents request Mrs. Harrison
to remind the President that their applica-
tions remain unanswered; they have heard
nothing about them, and fear the President
has inadvertently neglected to act upon
them. They beg Mrs. Harrison to look
around the Office for the letters or petit
tons. and put them where General Harri-
son will be sure to see them. Some of the
letters are from women. One of them recent
tly wrote that she was a widow with three
girl children" Her husband was killed
in the war, fighting on the Southern side,
the details of poor widows struggle to
maintain and bring up in the fear of the
Lord, those three girl children. She
wanted postoffice paying only $500 year.
and yet lit would be a god-send to me-"
One man wrote recently eight big letter
pages to Mrs. Harrison, because he feared
that three previous epistles of the same
length addressed to your respected hus-
band had failed to meet his eye.D The let
ter breathed the most devoted piety, truest
Republicanism, and the most pronounced
prohibition sentiments, and ended up with
a request for an Office of some kind that
would make life little easier for q man
with only one leg.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20

The Civil Service Commission Anxious to Put
the Census Bureau Under It's Rules.
cnacfa1 tn fha Indian JouruaI

The Civfl-Service Commission Anxious to Put
the Census Bureau Under Its Rules.
Special 90 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. May 19.-There is a proba-
bility that the Civil-service Commission
will this week consider the question of
whether or not the civll-service rules shall
be extended to the clerical force of the
Census Bureau. Attorney-gen Miller
has decided that under the law the Secre-
tary of the Interior has the right to make
appointments in this bureau without re-
questing a certified list of elegibles from
the commission, but there is disposition
on the part of the civil-service reformers to
demand that this bureau shall be placed on
a par with the other departments. 1t is
argued on the other hand, that there are
hundreds of excellent clerks who have had
experience in compiling the returns from
previous censuses, who would be invalua-
bic at the present time, and that their
chances for securing places through the
Civil-service Commission would be exceed
ingly slim, because of the great number of
young Een anxious to get into the federal
service, who are fresher from college, and
more able to answer the questions pro-
pouuded
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Damage by Wind and Water.

TIFFIN. o., May ia disastrous wind
and hail-stOrm swept over part of this
county yesterday, doing thousands of dol
lars damage to buildings and fences.
Freight cars were blown from the track at
New Riegel. Crops were badly cut by the
hail.
OIL CRY, Pa, May ia heavy rain
storm, accompanied by thunder and light
ming. passed over this place at 1:SO this
morning. A tank full of oil on a farm near
here was struck by lightning and destroyed.
At Housewife the Methodist Church was
struck by lightning. and burned. Loss,
$4,000.
KANSAS CITY, May 1.-two large mains
in the aqueduct of the National Water
works Company which convey water from
the Missouri river at QuindarO, Kan. to
Kansas City were washed away at 8 O'Clock
this morning, as a result of the recent
heavy rains. The pecuniary damage is
pend on the Kaw river for water for two
weeks or more.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
A NEEDED REFORM.
The Construction of New Buildings to BE
Intrusted Only to Practical Men.

The Construction of New Buildings to Be
Intrusted Only to Practical Men.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. May 10. Supervising
Architect windrim is determined to adopt
a new policy. at least so far as lies In MS
power. in the appointment of superintend-
ents of public buildings to be erected IN
various sections of the country. MI.
windrim said to your correspondent, In
conversing on this subject:
at want to put in men who are practical
architects or builders, rather than pOliti-
clans, in every instance. The interest OF
the government can be served best when
we divorce politics from business. In my
own private business my superintendent
represents me, and am responsible for any
of his shortcomings to the men who en-
ploy me. The government employs su-
Peri n to see that the contractor
the specifications. If, therefore, the super
intendent neglects his duty, the govern
ment Is responsible to the people for the
negligence. have found that, in
the past, men have been employed as su-
perintendents who had no idea of the
first principles of building, and IN one case
which came to my attention not long ago
found that as result of the employment
inches between the floor of the hall and the
floor of a room entering into the hall in one
of our public buildings"
Mr.. Windrim's idea that there should be
more business ability and less politics in
appointments TO these places will meet
with the cordial approval of everyone who
desires to see government structures built
upon business principles. 1t must be adj
mitted in this connection that within the
last twenty years a great deal of Odium has
been removed from government contract
ors- Back in the old days before the war
the government contractor was regarded
as a legaliZed scOundrel whose sole object
for the paw he received. Within the last
two decades, however, government build
ings have shown marked improvement in
the matter of construction, and Mr.. Wind
rim proposes, during his term of Office, to
make the strides in the forward direction
still more marked and the buildings still
more substantial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20

were to be dismissed soon after the election
land was elected: III. III. Martin, Frank
Evans. one arm: Charles Ebert. same; }. =
j.. Creighton. crippled; l.. b; Parker,
George DAVIS, j. b. Pearce, j. Hood, l.
Fix, j. Pickell, II. b. Parmenter, ". W.
NJ. Schriner and IL. b. Fernald
How many more lists of this character
were nrepared in other departments can
not be ascertained. but it is safe to say that
half of the ex-Union soulders would have
been without their positions in the federal
service if Mr.. Cleveland had been re-
elected. and not as much time as has already
elapsed since the election would nave
passed before these changes would have
heeu broupht about
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Losses bv Fire.

~>~N>s~~>~f~A~S ~S~~~~>~'
BROOKLYN, May 19.-The grand-stand and
ticket-office at the Washing ton Park base
ball grounds were burned at O'Clock this
morning. Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 19-The Ex-
celsiOr fiOur-mill, at Clay City, burned this
morning. Loss, $4,000; no Insurance, 1t
is thought to have been the work of an in
cendiary.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nav 19.-An incen-
diary fire this morning in East Jackson
vile destroyed seven buildings, the
Ladies' Guild hall and the chapel of st.
Andrews p. E. Church and five dwellings.
Loss. $4,000.
TRENTON, N. j., May 19.-The Trenton
hOrse-car stables were partially destroyed
by fire to-day. John Hanly, driver,
who was sleeping in the stable, was so bad
ly burned that his life is despaired of. The
horses were all saved, bat twenty seven
cars were burned. Toss $4,000.
NEW ORLEANS, May i9.--Eire broke out
at noon to-day in tie bakery of Henry
HOehn, No. Al Josephine street, near
TchoupitOulas. TIE firespre ad down jose
phine, destroying seven double tenement
houses on Josephine. enc live on Rousseau
street. Loss estimated at $4,000; fully in
Sured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
BOYLE SEEKING REDRESS
He Presents a Grievance to the Members
of the Baseball Brotherhood,
Asking that Fine of 800 Be Returned to Him
by the Club-Result of the Association
Games Yesterday-The City League.

NEW YORK, May Is. - The Baseball
Brotherhood held its annual spring meet
ing at the Fifth-avenue Hotel to-day. The
delegates to the meeting were Ward and
Keefe. representing the New York club;
Brouthers, of Boston; HanlOn, of Pitts
burg; Healy. of Washington; Myers. Of
Indianapolis; Pfeffer, of Chicago; Sanders,
of Philadelphia, and Twitchell, of Cleve-
land. Players Ewing, Welch, Brown,
Wood, Glasscock, Carroll, Beckley and
Staley were also present The session
lasted from 11:9O till 7:3O p NJ. but little act
ual work was done outside of routine bus
mess. The election of officers is done by
chapters. Ward will be reelected presi-
dent and Keefe secretary and treasurer.
The only contest is over the vice-presi-
dency, for which both Brouthers and Myers
are candidates. Finance. grievance and
urer Keefe reported that the financial de-
partment Of the organization was in fine
condition. All the Cleveland players have
become members of the brotherhood.
Boyle, the Indianapolis pitcher. was the
only Ss to scent H
by his club last year, alleging that the club
not only refused to pay. him his salary
while he was sick, but that he was fined
500 for being sick. The brotherhood pro-
pose to have that fine returned to the play
or.
Those who have predicted sensational
features and strike will be disappointed.
The players discussed the classification
rule question, but no definite action was
agreed upon. The players are opposed to
the rule, but there is not much chance of
ordering a strike when the Objectionable
feature can be removed in less boisterous
but more sensible manner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Two Street Murders.

NEWARK, N. j., May 19-James DAILY,
by Gustav Willringhaus. DAILY had as
sisted a saloon-keeper to eject Willring-
haus from a saloon. The two men after
ward met on the street when Willringhaus
abdomen, causing death within two hours.
The police found the murderer hiding in a
sewer.
NEW YORK. May 19-Charles Wilson shot
and instantly killed his wife. Louise. aged
nineteen years, tonight, on the boulevard
at Eighty-frst street. near which corner
the couple lived. Wilson escaped
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Steamship Arrivals.

LONDON, May 19-The La Gascogne, from
New York. arrived at Havre to-day.
QUEENSTOWN. May 19-Arrived: Lord
Give, from Philadelphia for Liverpool.
New YORK May 19-Hon. Erskine M.
Phelps and wife, Hon. Lambert Tree and
wife, and p. ID. Armour and wife were
among the passengers who arrived in the
Etruria to-day. = - E..,,s
NEW YORK, May 19-Arrived: Etruria,
from Liverpool; Richmond Hill and Cana
da, from London; La Champagne. from
Havre; Chester. from Rotterdam; Augusta
Victoria, Marsala and Suevia, from Ham,
burg; City of Chicago, from Liverpool All
incoming steamers renort dense fog out
side. ''U
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Jail Delivery at Franklin.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

FRANKLIN. May 19.-Last night, about IL
o'clock, the inmates of the Jail here made
their escape into the jail-yard by saving
a number of iron bars in two, and then, by
by the aid of some unknown outsiders, who
provided ropes, they were enabled to scale
the walls. The three who escaped were:
of one year for robbery; Reuben Jackson,
confined for assault and battery, and ]. ID.
Mathews, for intoxication. Jackson w as re-
arrested at his home, in this city, this
are still the hunt of Frady and
Mathews.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20

NEW YORK, May 19.-The following reso-
buttons have been passed by the national
executive council of the Clan-na-Gael,
which has been in session here for several
days.
Whereas. we have read. with horror and indig-
nation. OF the reported murder of Dr. p. IL. Gro
nin OF Chicago. ILL.,, worthy and respected
member OF this organization and a man OF ma
ti0nal reputation;
Resolved. That we sincerely trust that this sad
report may turn out 10 he unfounded; but IL, I'M
fortunately, IL proves true. we urge members OF
this organization To do all in their power to bring
his murderers TO Justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Sunday i'm Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, May 19-Probably more than
half of the saloons i'm this city did not open
at all to-day. Others, seeing no arrests were
About o'clock in the evening. by orders
of attorneys for the Law and Order League,
five saloons in the central part of the city
were entered by police, and their proprie-
tors were arrested. These will furnish
sufficient number of test cases to show
what can be done by the police court in
securing convictions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Ten More of the Alaskan,s Crew Saved.
Another Fast Trip.

New YORK, May 1S.-The Hamburg Amer
lean lines new twin screw steamship Au-
gusta Victoria arrived at her Hoboken
dock this morning, after a remarkably fast
trip of eight days and one hour from Ham,
burg. Her time from Fastnet to New York
four hours was lost on account of heated
journals, the actual running time being
five days twenty-five hours thirty minutes.
She made Ala knots on the 10Th inst. She
has L., 500 horsepower, and her machinery
is all In duplicate. 1t was the fastest trip
ever made across the Atlantic Ivy any
steamer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-05-20
Short In His AccnunfA.

KANSAS City, May 19.-AlbertF F.. Schwab,
aged thirty-two years, and local manager
for the Green Tree Brewing Company. of
st. Louis, has absconded, leaving n
shortage in his accounts of about
5000. He has been behind fer some
time, and a month ago turned over a house
ard lot valued at 5000, but he was too
deeply involved, and last Friday he disap-
peared, leaving a young wife. His asso-
Citations with women are supposed to have
caused the trouble