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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-21
A SAnsInie Mar.

Would use Kemps Bslssm for the throat
and lungs. II is curing more cases of
Coughs. Colds. Asthma, Bronchitis.
Group and all Throat and Lung Trobles
than any other medicine. The proprieS
tor has authorized any druggist to give
you sample bottle free to convince yoa
of the merit os this great remedy. Large
bottles so cents and 81.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-21

A Franklin. Pa, woman means busi>
ness. She advertises in paper that If
anyone attempts TO break into her house.
his brains. BIZ he has any, will be blown
ont.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-21

Mrs. Nancy Frost, who resides near
Marietta, Ohio, is one hundred and five
years old and has lived in Ohio since the
first settlement was established at :the
mouth of the Muskingum.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
CHAT WITH CITIZENS.
Detective O'Mara Approves Strongly
Of Capital Punishment
THE WATER WORKS AHEAD $4,000
Selling Beer is an Easy, Paying Business
in Birmingham.
EXPERIENCE WITH AsPARROW VENDOR

Assistant Superintendent O'Mara said
last night regarding the sentence of death
pronounced by Judge White against the
colored man who shot his wife in bed on
Fulton street:
II do not suppose he will ever be exc
cuted, as the Judge has plainly indicated
his course of action. If the law could try
murderers proven to have committed the
crime quickly and execute them quickly
when it had been proven that the murder
was deliberate one, as Is the custom in
other countries, I think that it would dimin-
ish the crime.
1.-THE delays obtained from one court to
another, and the trouble in getting people
convicted on the plainest evidence show
that the system is faulty and the position
held by a man who is in favor of capital
punishment is the best preventative of that
class of criminal work. I know that the
abolition of capital punishment in Michigan
did not decrease the murders, and when on
the Humphreys execution in Sandwich,
Canada, just opposite Detroit, for shooting
man who owed him some money, large
crowd focked over from Michigan to hear of
the smallest details, it shows that life for
life was rarity in the State Of Michigan,
although jackson is now laden down with
men in the murderers' cells"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
MUST PAT FULL FARE.

No Excursion Rates Will be Sold by the
ROads at HOLIDAY Time.
The soft weather Of the last few weeks has
hurt the general holiday trade of the various
railroads. Excursion rates on the trunk
lines will not be offered, and those expecting
q reduced fare, such as is In force during the
holidays, will be disappointed. A promi-
nent railroad official, when seen by a DIS
PATCH reporter, said, with many chuckles:
"The local traffic and the travel to near
points is such as to bring joy to the heart of
the railroad man, but the regular hegira to
distant points is by no means up to the
standard. This is caused by the soft weather
of the last few weeks, but we do not care so
long as the local trade keeps up. These
people who go to the various winter resorts
are the very people who can stand the price.
Local trade is the thing just now, and il is
to the local trade that all passenger agents
are catering, so to speak. The passenger
departments of all the roads are making
money Just now, and 1 want TO see things
continue"
Holiday excursion tickets over the vari-
Gus roads have been sold for q number of
years, and, outside of the reason given above,
the railroad men are not aware of anything
that could cause q change.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
PRIVILEGES FOR THE P. A. M.
Allegheny Councils Committee Hold a
Special Meeting.

Allegheny Councils Committee Hold n
Special Meeting.
There was special meeting of the Allie
gheny Committee on Street Railways last
night, for the purpose of considering the or
dinance granting the Pittsburg, Allegheny
and Manchester Traction Company the
right to use electricity or cable power on any
passenger railway now owned or operated
by the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Man
chester Railway Company, OF the Pittsburg
Union Passenger Railway Company.
The original ordinance referred to the
committee was thrown aside and an entirely
new one substituted for it. This latter was
taken up in sections and considered, and
after several amendments were added to it,
it was finally passed as whole. Instead of
the words "other devices and mechanical
fixtures" the words "cable or electricity"
were substituted. This was done for fear an
elevated road would be built, or that steam
power might be used. The rail must
be of a pattern approved by the city
engineer and the committee, and the COM
pany Is required to lay block stone one
foot on either side of the rails. The rate of
fare must not exceed cents between 8
o'clock A. N. and midnight and the work
must be begun by July 1, 1890, and COM
pleted IN one year thereafter, the whole
work to be approved by the City Engineer.
The privileges of the company must be
the same as those of the P. A. b NJ. and the
Union Line Companies, as provided in
existing ordinances relating to those COM
nanieq
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
n1u.Ical Christina. Gifts.

A more acceptable Xmas gift than good
musical instrument cannot be obtained.
The headquarters for the best makes of
guitars, mandolins, zithers, violins, flutes,
cornets, banjos and all other musical in
struments is the store of H. Kleber & Bro,
No. 5O6 Wood street, the Oldest and most re-
liable music house in Western Pennsyl-
wanna. Beside the celebrated Washburn
guitars, mandolins and zithers, Klebers
keep in stock the antique oak guitars, sold
at $8. and the beautiful Arion mahogany
guitars, sold at So These instruments are
warranted true in tone and not to split. A
large lot Of banjos, flutes and mandolins at
81 and upward; also, large assortment Of
instruments suitable for children, such as
xylophones, metallophones, ocarinaS, blow
accordions, toy pianos and violins and mu-
settes. Everything sold at the lowest prices
Store open every evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
cARLISLE,S HEAVY HAND
Falls for $50 and Costs on nIeged Liquor
Sellers.

Falls for $50 and Costs on nIeEed Liquor
Sellers.
Eleven cases of Sunday selling were dis
posed of by Alderman Carlisle yesterday
forenoon. Captain A. Wishart, of the Law
and Order League, was the prosecutor. and
the testimony was given by five detectives,
Ed P. Hesser and a brother, Lindler,
Groehn and Cummings For selling liquor
on Sunday the following persons were fined
each $50 and costs:
Emanuel q Antilles, druggists, at No 2S
Fourth avenue, John sRoebber. proprietor of
the Western Hotel, corner of Robinson and
Sandusky streets Allegheny; Mrs. Mary Ann
McMullen, Superior street, Woods run;
Charles Cooper, a blind man, No. 81 Sandusky
street, Allegheny; frankie Steel, No. 13 Rose
alley Allegheny; Michael Kern, No. 96 Pike
street; Mrs. Mary Connolly, Decatur street, and
Mrs. Jane Plaf, Sedgwick street. Southside.
For selling candy on Sunday, John Tin
telnot, of No. 1345 Penn avenue, was fined
$25 and costs. For selling general groceries,
Godfrey Weber, of No. 267 Wylie avenue,
was fined $25 and costs. He was let down
easily because he was poor, and because one
of the hill Aldermen interposed for him.
Mrs. E. Hutchinson, of No. 139 Center
avenue, was fined $50 and costs for selling
tobies on the first day of the week. The
first two heard gave notice of appeal. In
the cases of the poorer defendants, they
were given leave to pay their fines by in
stallment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
DIDN'T WANT sPARROWS.
Controller Morrow Drew the Line on the
English Nuisance.


English Nuisance.
Controller Morrow doesn't like an En-
glish sparrow any better than he does a
member of the Owl gang, and was rather
surprised when . youngster. carrying a
Flobert rifle longer than himself and bag
apparently well filled, entered his Office
yesterday. At first the Controller thought
it was one of the E. S. Morrow Band of
Hope who had backslidden, but the first
words disabused him of the torturing
thought
"Say, mister, are you the Controller"
Mr.. Morrow acknowledged the corn, and
was startled by the boy opening his game
bag and showing it filled with recently de-
ceased English sparrows, which, as Coroner
Mcdowell would put it, had come to their
death by gunshot wounds at the hands of
persons unknown, and, looking up at the
Controller, continued:
'Them is wuf cent piece, amt they,
mister?"
The Controller demurred to collecting Or
astrological specimens or instigating a war
of determination against supposed foreign
ers, not knowing but that they might have
taken out their papers. He said that though
several bills had been introduced against
the English sparrows, they continued to in
troduce bills in their own favor with regu-
larity and dispatch, and the American worm
has not yet commenced to turn in this vi
cinity. The boy closed up his bag, gazed
with an expression of lofty contempt upon
the official and fairly shrieked:
"Wot're ye givin' me; yer amt got as
much go in yer as dago peddler. I'll sell
'em to some other feller."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
OUsTlEG THE OUSTERs.

A Lively FIGht in the Ebenezer Baptist
Church-CIoSs Watch on the Contribu-
tion Box.
The name Ebenezer is q quite common
one for church. Itmeans 8 stone of help.
1t is often said also in backwoods religio-
comic parlance that when man is very
mad che has his Ebenezer up" Ebenezer
is the name of the church of colored Bap-
fists who own lot and building in which
they worship, at the corner Of Colwell and
Milton streets, and, in the rural sense of the
term. it would seem that large portion of
the congregation has had its Ebenezer up
for the last three years. In 1886 portion
of the congregation, composed of some 20
communicates, was excluded from fellowship
on the charge of 'unchristian conduct"
This portion of the congregation, after re-
naming ouiescent for three years, has
finally decided to assert its rights, or at
least supposed rights, and has brought the
matter to an issue by employing William
B. Broe and James W. Prescott, Esqs., to
procure a charter for them which will give
them, if they succeed, the right to worship
in the building. Among the excluded are
Messrs, Isaac Morton, Alexander Barbour,
Johnston and Isham Carter. Among
those to file exceptions to the granting Of
the charter are trustees, Messrs. Lee, Down.
ing and Burrell. They have employed
James S. Young, Esq, to represent them,
and Albert h. Clark. Esq, is the commits
sioner appointed to take testimony.
No meeting has been held, but the case
promises to grow interesting before it. The
rules, discipline or laws of the church, whats
ever they may be called. are, of course, OF
prime importance in the settlement of the
Church and the expression. 'unchristian
conduct" will probably be given very
wide signifcation according to the different
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
BROWNE NOT PLEASED.

He Says the Water Receipts Are $40, 900
Ahead of Expenditures.
Superintendent George h. Browne, of the
Water Bureau, feels somewhat eggrieved at
his bureau being placed over $182, 900 be-
hind in the figures given the other day on
the success of the best watered stock in
Pittsburg. He said yesterday: "Now,
while some of the works you charged against
us no doubt added to the expense, still there
is less doubt that those expenses should, in
their results, be added to the value of the
plant, which in any stock company would
be credited. Most of the Improvements
made were effected at the rate of
$50 per ton of pipe when iron was very high,
when four months later the same pipe could
have been contracted for at $40 per ton.
That was something that could be very
comfortably be regarded as q mistaken time
for awarding contracts, or something that
should be taken into consideration. There is
another thing that should be credited, and
that is the fact that all the public institu-
tions such as the municipal buildings public
schools, etc., have their water service free,
which in the hands of a private or stock
company would net a very pleasant addition
to the annual receipts.
81 can still be confident that the receipts
of my bureau are $4,000 ahead of actual
expenditures. There is no company in the
world which would charge up an increase OF
stock to expenses, the returns from the stock
being certain result within year. There
is no fnancier in this country who would
not take our water works at $4,000, 900 to
S. 0O0, 900, and be glad to pay dividend of
per cent on the investment. I still believe
the per cent interest on the water loan is
too high, and persist in saying that the
improvements should not be charged as ex-
penses without being credited as stock.
Controller Morrow was talked to on the
question, but refused to say anything further
on the matter at present.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
portion of the building by capaoiOus stair
THE STYLE NOT CHOSEN.

THE STYLE NOT CHOSEN.
Captain W. II. Davis states that it has
not yet been decided whether the building
will be Of brick, with stone facings, or all
stone. The estimate of $50, 900 is on brick,
with stone facings, but it will be all stone,
if sufficient money is forthcoming. The
city is at present and has been losing money
on the Fifth Avenue Market House, but
under the lease it gets a contingent rental
of 5000 to 5000 year. The building
will be insured in the name of the city, and
it Is arranged 80 that the State can never
secure possession. The city will have the
right to the use Of the hall on all great
occasions when the heart of the community
is stirred; such, for instance, as was the case
at the time of the Johnstown disaster, and
the people generally will have the satisfac-
ton of knowing that they have q hall
enough for any emergency.
WORK TO COMMENCE IN SPRING.
As theseason for building is past work will
not be commenced before spring, but the
military organizations named expect to oc-
cupy the buildings before year from date.
Money for the work is already largely
promised, and the promoters have no appre-
tensions of being unable to carry the project
to a successful conclusion. Mr.. Davis
states that at first there was some objection
urged by surrounding property holders, but
they were withdrawn as soon as they saw
the plan, and learned the character of the
building to be erected, and came to the con-
clusion that it would enhance the value of
adjacent property.
The trustees are G. L. Magee, A. f. Keat-
ing, Colonel Chambers McKibbin, Colonel
Norman M. Smith, Captain A. E. Hunt.
Lieutenant George Sheppard and Captain
w. II. Davis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
BOOKING BEER TRADE.
Cutting Down the Saloons Has Helped the
Brewers Business.

Cutting Down the Saloons Has Helped the
Brewers Business.
A report has been circulated that the
wholesale liquor dealers are in hard luck
this year, owing to the large trade the brew
ers are conducting among consumers by
selling beer in small casks. Heretofore
the wholesalers have thrived by selling beer
in bottles, but the consumers are now buy
ing beer in kegs and bottling it themselves.
1t is said they can get 16 quart bottles of
beer for 81, whereas they formerly paid 81 20
for 12 bottles.
Mr.. Sam Wainwright was interviewed
yesterday by DISPATCH man. He said:
'T am certain that the wholesalers are doing
a much larger trade in beer this year than
they have for many years past. Though
the brewer sells his beer on wagons in small
packets it has not injured the wholesaler
When we had the city filled with saloons
the trade was more widely distributed.
After the court reduced the licenses to
minimum it naturally threw the selling
trade to few, the wholesaler more than
any other man in the business got the ben
eft of the reduction in licenses. Many peo-
pie prefer to buy the beer in bottles rather
than in kegs and bottling it themselves. If
we had larger number of saloons, the re-
suit would be the brewers trade would be
confined to more limited channels.
"There has been boom in the beer trade
during the past year. Every brewer has felt
the benefit of the change in increased busi-
ness. Every brewing establishment in this
section has sold more beer than it did last
year."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
SELLING BEER IN ALABAMA.
A Saloon Man Says it is Done Much Easier
Than in PIttsburg.

"A SulOOu nAau SayB IL Is OOuO MUCH EASIER
Than in Pittsburg.
Andrew Shorn and August Rhue, two
old residents of Lawrenceville, returned yes
terday from Birmingham, Ala. where they
migrated after Judge White knocked their
licenses sky high. Mr.. Shorn stated yes
terday that they went South, where the
feeling against liquor was not so strong as it
is in Pittsburg.
Gas soon as we got to Birmingham, said
Mr.. Shorn, i've obtained an excellent house
to sell liquor. After getting the house we
went to the revenue Office with a
legal document signed by u men,
paid 1886 for the license and
got it. Any man can get a
license down there if he has the Doodle.
Having been engaged in the saloon business
in both cities, and closely observed the
statistics of crime, it can safely be said that
Pittsburg, in proportion to population, has
a blacker record than Birmingham. Here
you have few licensed houses where liquor
can be sold legally, but you have the city
filled with illegal liquor shops, with all the
evil and crime which is the natural outcome
of having them in your midst
Georgia, Alabama, indeed all the South
ern States, are not stepped in drunkenness
and crime in the same ratio as our Eastern
States.
This fact should not be ignored when the
next'License Court sits. A more equitable
distribution of licenses should be given to
Pittsburg, and more beneficial result will
be felt The authorities can control the
saloons and keep them in such shape that
they will not conflict with the law"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
A FIFTY YEAR LEASE.
Fifth Avenue Market House Captured
by the Militia.
s5O,OOO FOR THR IMPROVEMENTS.
A Hall to Contain at Least an Audience 4
5000.
18TH RECT. AND BATTERY B At WORI

The fact that the Eighteenth Regiment
and Battery B have secured lease of the
Fifth Avenue Market House, corner Fifth
avenue and Miltenberger street. has been
known for some time, but few people realize
that the proposed alterations in the build
ing will give the city hall for use on
special occasions capable of meeting any
exigeAcy.
The building will be practically
rebuilt at an expense of $4,000,
and the lease will run for
30 years. At the corner of Fifth avenue
and Miltenberger street the building will be
three stories in height. 1t will be used for
company rooms. headquarters, etc. At the
east end will be building of the same
height for the use of the battery. The
drill room will be 116x1S2 feet, with gal
lery running all around, and viii seat COM
fortably between 5000 and 5000 people. In
the basement will be kitchens, rifle range,
gymnasium and the lavatory, and the base
ment will communicate with all the upper
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
H. KIeber q Bro. Don'r Handle Goods.

Unlike their rivals on Fifth avenue and
elsewhere, the Messrs. Kleber 8 Bro. do not
handle pianos and organs-they only sell
them. The instruments sold by the KIeber
Bros. are not made to be handled by the
uncouth fists of ignorant music dealers, but
they are intended to be played upon by per-
sons desiring to become good performers and
to get the greatest amount of sweet music for
the smallest amount of money, and this is
just the difference between the instruments
offered by Kleber & Bro. and their rivals,
who constantly work the handle. So if
you want Christmas piano for use Of
your wife and children, to be used with
their fingers and to make them good play
ers, you should buy them at Kleber &
Bro. 8, 506 Wood street. Persons desir-
ing to handle them with their fists
will hardly find them at Klebers' store The
holiday stock of this grand old firm is some
floors filled with the choicest pianos and
organs ever made in America or in Europe
will be found at Klebers' at the lowest pos
sible prices and on the easiest time pay
ments, and warranted for eight long years.
The Klebers don't handle their goods or
allow others to handle them until they are
secondhand; their goods are all fresh and
unhandled by anybody until they are sold.
Call at Kleber & Bros, 506 Wood street,
and examine their splendid Steinway, Con-
over, Opera and Gabler pianos and their
elegant Burdett and Earhuf mouse-and-
dust-proof organs, and learn their astonish-
ingly low prices and easy terms, and, our
word for it, you won't feel like buying any
where else than at Kleber Bros.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
CONTRACT AWARDED.
Sloan & McIIwayne Get the job to Im-
prove GrandvIew Aveuue.

Sloan & McIIwayne Get the job to Inn
prove Grandview AVeBue.
Messrs. McCallin, Bigelow and j. o.
Brown were present at the meeting of the
Department of Awards yesterday forenoon,
and the leading subject for consideration
was the contract for improving Grandview
avenue in the Thirty-second and Thirty
fifth wards. Chief Bigelow, of the Depart
ment of Public Works, stated that II. G..
Howard was the lowest bidder but his bond
was irregular and that according to law
they would be compelled to throw it out.
Mr.. Bigelow stated that he was sorry, but
that no exceptions could be made. He then
moved that the contract be awarded to Sloan
& McIlwayne. Their bid was $75, ,072 80.
The other bids were as follows: Martin
Joyce, $77, 961.30; H. G.. Howard, $74, ,474 Sc;
Mccormick & Moran, $78, ,063.20. The
avenue is to be paved With irregular block.
Both the ordinance and petition call for ir-
regular block, but number of the citizens
would like to have an asphalt, and Chief
Bigelow says he thinks it should be asphalt,
but he has to live up to the ordinance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08
AVAILABLE Remedy for Colds.

From Lewis, Iowa, independents
"We have advertised great many differ
ent patent medicines, but have never taken
the pains to editorially puff one. We
are going to do so now for the first time.
Chamberlain & Co., Des MONIES, Iowa,
manufacture cough remedy which is abso-
lutely the best thing we have ever seen.
We have usedit in our family for the past
year, ,:and consider it indispensable. Its eff
fects are almost instantaneous and there is no
use talking, it is dead shot on a cough or
cold. We don't say this for pay, but be-
cause we consider Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, the best made, and we want the
people to know it and use it" For sale at 80
cents per bottle by E. G.. Stuckey,
Seventeenth and Twenty-fourth SITS. Penn
ave., and cor. Wylie ave. and Fulton ST.; /;
by Markell Bros. cor. Penn and Frankston
aves; by Theo E. Ihrig, S610 Fifth ave.;
and BY Carl Hartwig, Butler st. Pittsburg,
and in Allegheny City by E. E. Heck, 72
and 1914 Federal ST.; and Thos. r. Nor
ris, cor. Hanover and Preble aves.; Fred b.
Eggers, 172 Ohio ST.; F. II. Eggers, Ohio
and Chestnut SITS. TTSu