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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

ZONE of the sharpest and most un-
scrupulous bosses" in Boston thinks that
his party will not have much chance to
carry that town under the new Australian
election system. where there is 'no ballot
distribution, where nobody can hustle any.
body up to the polls, where every man
votes according to his conscience, behind a
desk where nobody can see him. All Of
which is so much in the nature of boom
for the Australian ballot system that we
may be permitted to express a polite in
credulity as to whether any sharp and un-
scrupulous boss ever permitted himself to
be betrayed into stating it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
SUNDAY, AUGUST
A SENSITIVE JUROR SUICIDES.
LAWYERS Remark Troubles Him So Much
That He shoots HIMSELF


McCoNNELLsvLLE, O.. August 3.-James
Benjamin was well disposed and well-to-do
farmer, who lived about i've miles west of this
place, near Pennsville. On the 10th Of July he
was juror in sheep case trial in the neigh
borhood, involving about SIS. The jury rem
dered verdict for the plaidtitf, but the Justice
allowed new trial on the ground that certain
jurymen. Of whom Benjamin was one, were not
competent to serve. The defendants lawyer
had subsequently made the remark that some
OF the 1urymen had perjured themselves and
were Mt candidates for the penitentiary. This
remark, coupled with the granting of the new
triai, which BENJAMIN considered a reflection on
his integrity, so preyed on his mind that it was
his ali-absorbing topic of conversation.
he prooded over it day and night until his
mind became unbalanced and he thought him
sell cons nstantly pursued by officers. This morn
ing before daylight he arose, unknown to his
wife, took his shotgun from the accustomed
place, went to the wood-shed, and shot himself
through the forehead, completely Draining
himself He was about So years old, in com
fortaole circumstances, and leaves wife and
seven children. The event has made pro-
found impression throughout the neighbor-
hood.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
Edison Goes Abroad IncoR.

Thomas A. Edison. the inventor, and his
wife sailed TOR Havre to-day, on the steamship
La Bourgogne. They were accompanied by
Bishop Littlejohn and his wife, of Brooklyn.
Mr.. Edison will remain abroad three months.
He will pass several weeks at the Paris Expo
sition, in which he has about 100000 worth of
electrical apparatus He will also visit Berlin,
Vienna, Geneva and Amsterdam. He will not
visit England, he says. because he does not like
the English. The object OF Mr.. Edison's trip
is to benefit his health, which has been injured
by his almost constant labor in the Orange
laboratory. To avoid publicity he registered
in the name of Samuel Insult, his private sec
retary, at the offices of the steamship COM
pany.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
A MO0NSHiNER'S WORD is GOOD.
Two Agree to Surrender Freedom and Keep
the Promise.

Two Agree to Surrender Freedom and Keep
the Promise.
MEMPHIS, August Sat the April term of
the United States Court, ]. B. Sanders and J.
w. Wood, of Hardin county, were convicted of
Illicit distilling and sentenced to 30 days i'm
prisonment They represented to the Court
that the sole dependence of their families was
the little crop they had at home, and begged
leave to return and work it out of the grass,
promising to return and take their medicine at
whatever time might be set. The Court re-
leased them on their own recognizance, nam
ing August l, as the day for their return. To-
day before noon the two men reported to the
United States Marshal and went cheerfully to
Jail.
why didn't you keep your freedom when
you had it?" one Of them was asked.
The mountaineer looked at the uuestioner
steadily for moment and replied: "How
could we? Didn't we give our word as we'd
come back? That settled H."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
SUING FOR A SHIPS VALUE.
Heavy Damages Claimed by Cleveland md
Detroit Vessel Owners.

DETROIT, August a-Suit for damages to
the amount of Sl76,79l 45 was begun in the
United States District Court here yesterday by
Harvey III. Brown, Fayette Brown and c. ].
Sheffield, of Cleveland, and E. NJ. Peck. of De-
troit owners of the steamship c. J. Sheffield
against Cleveland company owning the
steamship North Star, which sunk the Shelf
held on the route between South Chicago and
Two Harbors, MINI.
There was heavy fog at the time Of the ac-
cident, but Captain Christopher G. Allen, of
the Sheffield. claims that the whistle was blown
regularly: He was signalled by the North Star,
Captain William Thorn, which seemed to be
passing on the port side. Either through the
blowing of wrong signals or the misinterpreta-
ton of signals collision resulted The Shelf
field was sunk in 600 feet of water. The North
Star was not damaged. The complainants as
sert that the collision was the result of negli-
gence, urskilfulness and carelessness on the
part Of persons navigating the North Star.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
"HUNDREDs of papers all over the coun.

HUNDREDS of papers all over the coun-
try are now taking grounds in favor of the
New York Exposition of 1892" says the es-
teemed New York Sun. True; and the
support of outside papers will be strength
ened by the way in which New York has
suppressed the member of the Inauguration
Centennial Committee, who tried to run
things in the inception of the Worlds Fair
project. If New York will squelch its
Four Hundred, its politicians and its real
estate spectators. the country will be with
it, all the while.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
A CANAL In A BAD WAY,
Tho Chesapeake and Ohio NearIy Ruined
r Politics the Cause.

BALTIMORE, August 3-The fate of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal now seems inev-
liable. The efforts of the present management
to float 100000 repair bonds have thus far
been Intellectual. and unless measures are soon
taken to repair the canal it must 60 into the
hands of receiver. The directors held a meet
ing to-day, but nothing was done.
Capitalists who are willing to put their money
into a scheme to repair and operate the canal
refuse to have anything to do with 1t unless the
management retires and it is taken entirely
out of politics. Meanwhile hundreds of families
at Williamsport and other points along the
canal who made their living by the waterway
are destitute.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
WALLACE IS WILLING.
He Will Accept the Democratic Nomination
for Governor.

for Governor.
HUNTINGTON, August 3.-Ex-Senator II. j.
McAteer. of alexandria, recently had q talk
with ex-senator Wallace on Democratic poll
tics and the attitude of the latter towards the
Democratic nomination for Governor. During
the conversation Mr.. Wallace expressed q
willingness to make the fight if he should be
the party choice. McAteer told him frankly
that ir would be folly for any man to accept the
nomination unless harmony existed. the spirit
of faction was buried and the old Randall and
Wallace feud forgotten. To this Wallace fully
and cheerfully assented. and said that the diff
ferences between himself and Mr.. Randall had
been greatly exaggerated by the Republican
press. Senator McAteer believes that Wallace
is the most available man who could be nomi-
mated, and that his ability as a lawyer and a
statesman and his public record would tell in
the contest.
His interests in our State" said Mr. Nc
Ateer, ''are SO varied that they reach almost
every class of people. The coal mines in which
he is interested give employment to over a
thousand men, and no strikes occur in his reg
ion unless they are forced from other sections.
The Republicans will, of course, select their
best man, and know of no one more worthy on
our side than William A. Wallace"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
TO ROSCOE CONKLING.
Monument In Forest Hill Cemetery-The
Design by His Wife.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. !,


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
UTICA. August ga monument has been
erected in the Forest Hill Cemetery, in this
city. to the memory of Roscoe Conkling. 1t
stands in the Conkling family plot, few yards
north Of the monument of Horatio Seymour.
The monument has two unpolisbed bases, q
polished die, with four graceful columns, and
a massive pyramidal cup, cut in the rough. On
the front die is the inscription: Roscoe Conk-
ling, born October 80, 1929. Died April 18,
1885," On the reverse side is the name: "Ros-
coe Conkling."
The base is 8 feet l inch In length, feet
inch in width and foot inches high. The
second base is feet IL inches long. feet IL
inches wide and foot inches high. The die
is feet inches long. 8 feet inches wide and
foot 10 inches high. The cap is feet inches
in length, feet inches in width and feet 8
inches high. Over all, the height of the monu-
ument is feet inches, the width feet inch
and the length 8 feet 1 inch. The material
throughout Is Quincy granite, and the design
was worked out in the yards of HUGHES q
Evans in this city. The design was selected
by Mrs. Conkling.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

IT is to be hoped that the announcement
that Sullivan's friends have any amount Of
money ready to put up for his benefit in his
trial, affords a more accurate estimate of
the ideas of the pugilistic circle with re-
gard to the administration of justice than it
does with regard to the purity of the
Southern courts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

AS General Benjamin F. Butler is
cruising in Canadian waters, an esteemed
cotemporary proposes that Canada can re-
taliate for the Behring Sea seizure by cap
turing General Butler. If the Dominion
should get our Ben Butler on its hands, it
would be severely punished for all the un-
kind things it has done toward the United
States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
"Either Judge Cooley or Judge Gresham,
as successor to the late Stanley Matthews,
would be highly satisfactory to the coun-
try" The statement is undoubtedly cor
rect, but Judge Gresham had the misfor-
tune to be an opposing candidate to the
present President, and Judge Cccley is
more than suspected Of being hated Mug
wump. All of which combine to fix the
public eye upon Partner Miller as the COM
ing man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
THE rumors of political deals which have

THE rumors of political deals which have
been clouding the atmosphere for the past
few days will now have to give way to the
equally reliable stories about the number of
fish the junior Senator will catch on his
yachting trip. Whether the fishing excur-
sion in Allegheny politics or that in East
ern waters will be most successful remains
for the future to disclose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

AS the only thing which can galvanize
life into the corpse of Boulangism is the
action Of the French Government itself, it
is to be hoped that the Republic will hence
forward have the discretion to leave the
doughty General in the hole which he has
dug for himself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
The Risk the President Runs.

From the Chicago News.l
If the President doesn't stop his foolhardy
habit of putting to sea in Government vessels
there is likely to be an Indiana statesman found
drowned one of these days. Perhaps he has
learned wisdom of late, however, for his trip to
Bar Harbor will be made partly by rail and
partly by q passenger boat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
Put II Up at Auction.

From the Cleveland Plaindealer.j
A good way to settle the location of the
1892 worlds fair will be for Congress to re-
ceive bids. The city which shall come the
nearest to guaranteeing the expenses without
asking for Federal appropriation ought to be
designated. If the strife should become so
spirited that bonus would be offered SO
much the better.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
COULDN'T REMEMBER MARRYING,
But n Young Lady Claims the Man ns Her
Husband.

HUDSON, N. Y, August S.-Eugene Elser, of
this place, and Miss Nora L. Roberts, of Pitts
field, Mass, visited New Lebanon last Sunday,
and the young lady says that they were married
by the Rev. Mr.. Hills at his church. She was
so confident that the ceremony was legal that
she had a notice of the marriage inserted in
Pittsfield paper.
The reading of this notice, Mr.. Elser says,
was his first intimation that he was Miss Rob-
erts' husband. He said, however, that he might
be married to the young woman before long.
He also admitted that he went away with Miss
Roberts last Sunday, but failed to recall the
fact that they were married.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
A GIRLS HAIR STOLEN,
A Re marknble Case of Highway Robbery
In DAYLIGHT i'm Pottsyille.

PoTrsvILLE. August 3-This morning Clara
Roeder. of SchuylkIll Haven, an employe Of
Thompson's Stocking Factory. became too i'll
to work and was excused ats o'clock While
on her way home, walking through the alley
between Spring Garden and st. Peters streets,
she was seized by two Italians. She at once
called for help but the rascals cut her hair off
and fed.
They were pursued, but were not captured at
last account. They had evidently been lying
in wait for her for the purpose of stealing her
hair which reached below her waist and was of
a beautiful golden color.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

1t would certainly be good policy for the
Pittsburg railroads to give Pittsburg coal as
good chance in freights as Hooking Val
ley coal gets. Nothing is ever lost by feed
ing, instead of killing. the interests which
furnish traffic and profits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

the obligations assumed by its authorized
representatives.
So long as the pending strike involves
a violation of the fundamental principle
of labor organization, the participants in
it can hardly command the sympathy or
support of the public.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

The complaints of the people who cannot
get all the space they want for exhibits in
the Exposition, constitute strong sermon on
the wisdom of being early with your appli-
cations for space and liberal in subscriptions
to the fund for making the building ade-
quate to all demands.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

SOUTH DAKOTA Is now reported to have
already contracted debt which exceeds the
constitutional limits proposed for the State
debt. The new State seems to be rivaling
the acts of an exceedingly fresh poker
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
A Problem for a Jury.

From the Detroit Free Press.l
Only three members of jury recently i'm
paneled at Anderson, 8. c.. knew the name Of
the Governor of the State. 1t would take a
wise jury in West Virginia to turn out as
many men equally well informed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
PRETTYBAD RUNS AWAY
After a Quarrel With an Indian Playmate
Named Prettyaood.

WABASH, Ind. August 3-Oscar Prettybad,
q muscular young Sioux Indian. who is being
educated by the Government at Whites In
dian Manual Labor Institute, near this city,
ran away from the institution last night, and
started for his Western home. He was cap
tured at Peru to-day and returned. Prettybad
had a quarrel with Moses Toobold another
Indian lad, which led to his hasty departure.
Prettybad is one of the best behaved Indian
lads in the institute
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
Chicago smertness.

From the Toledo Blade.1
An enterprising Chicago thief has just
stolen a coalyard. The proverbial redhot
stove would not be safe IN Chicago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

THE reported Ballet Girl Trust in En-
gland is capable of being regarded with a
good deal of toleration when we reflect that
the first purpose and object of the trust is to
restrict the supply.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
One Cause of the Trouble.

From the Washington Post.l
We want it to be distinctly understood that
we are not one of those real mean old things
that believe woman is at the bottom of every
earthly tronble, but we must admit that the
demand for sealskin saeeues has had more or
less to do with the disturbance about Behring's
Sea
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

The record of private divorce rail-
roaded through the Legislature of Delaware
goes to show that there are pettier qualities
in Delaware than its smallness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
Two Kinds of Texas Weather.

From the San Antonio Express.l
One hundred and eight in the shade at
Dallas; ten degrees above freezing point at
San Antonio. Texas is a big State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
Vagnries of Young Luuntic.
Crnzed sy Cigarette smoking.

Made insane by smoking cigarettes" was
the verdict of Police Justice Duffy, this morn
ing. in the case OF Max Casserly % years old
The young prisoner was found wandering
along the Bowery early this morning. He was
unable to tell even his own name. His brother
explained in court that excessive cigarette
smoking had caused this loss of memory. He
said that Max became mentally incapable Of
doing his work as a bookkeeper. six months
ago, when he was smoking two packages of
cigarettes day. Since then he had gradually
increased his quota to three packages. He
was committed for medical examination.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
A Quiet Campaign.

FTOm the AItOOnd IlmeS.I
The candidates of all the parties seem pros
trated SO by the hot wave that they cannot
make enough noise to indicate their where
baouts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

THE Dora Steplein case bids fair to de-
velop into a revised and feminine edition of
the Charlie Ross mystery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
Reciprocity In Vessel-Scizing.

From the Detroit Free Press.l
The Canadians now know how it is them
selves when fellows vessel is seized on
charge of violating the law. Perhaps they
thought they had monopoly Of that business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
NEW YORK NEWS NOTES.
More Trouble on Account of the Eight.
NEW YORK RuREAu sPECIALsI

NEW YORK BUREAU Specialist
NEW YORK. August a-Edward J. Burgess,
prize fighter. and his wife slept at police head
quarters last night because they stole $1,000
worth of diamonds from Mrs. Burgess sister.
Mrs. Louise HURT, last January. Burgess and
his wife were penniless last winter. when Mrs.
Hurtt began to shelter and feed them. They
remained with her long enough to get all the
clothes they needed. and then ran off West one
night with all her jewelry Mrs. Hurtt told the
police. The first information about the abb
sconding couple came from Richburg. Miss.
where Burgess had attended the Sullivan-kil-
rain fight. The next news was that he was
training himself near Detroit, under contract
to fight He and his wife were arrested there
and brought to New York. There is a sad ro-
nance and much misery for two fsmilies at the
bottom of the trouble that has eliminated in
the prize fighters arrest. The sisters, Nettie
and Louise, were daughters of the Rev. Frank
Wegg. a respected clergyman of Yonkers.
Nettie married the prize fighter. Louise Frank
ID. HURT, the millionaire. of the Ponds Extract
Company. Mr.. Hurtt took ner to Europe on
an extended wedding tour. She came back
with him q wreck, victim of the opium habit.
After years Of vain remonstrauce and patient
suffering he began divorce proceedings last
year, and they separated, Mr.. Hurtt allowing
her princely income.
A Novel Civil Service Reform Move.
Herbert Welsh. Of the Indian Rights Asso-
citation, is asking prominent men throughout
the country to contribute $1,000 to a very
curious object. Mr.. Welsh is q rabid Civil
Service retormer. and he wishes every clergy
man in the United States to preach about Civil
Service reform next Thanksgiving Day. There
fore, he purposes to send documents on Civil
Service reform and instructions to preach
about them to every one of about 10000 min
listers in the United States. He is laising the
$1,000 to pay the expenses of printing and mail
ing. His plan has already received the moral
and material support of Rev. Drs. Howard
Crosby, James McCosh, Francis L. Patton,
George p. Fisher. Robert Collyer, H. B.
Whipple, Phillips Brooks. Morgan Dix, Lyman
Abbott, II. L. Wayland W. E. McLaren, Henry
Van Dyke and r. s. Macarthur; also by George
William Curtis, Carl Schurz, Richard II. Dana,
Charles ]. Bonaparte, Lucius B. Swift and
Wayne Macveagh.
vagnries of n Young Lunntic.
Frank Russell, q years old, is about the
crazest man who has turned up here for sew
eral years. A policeman found him acting
strangely in Central Park last night. Russell
said that he was a celebrated journalist who
was gong to marry Mary Anderson, and that
he had gone to the park to select a team of
camels which he proposed to hitch to a car
rage for the purpose of driving the fair Mary
to Boston on their wedding tour. In court this
morning he said he would give the Judge the
entire turnout on his return from the trip. He
was committed for examination.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

P0sTAGE-AH persons who mail Che
Sunday issue of The Dispatch to friends
should bear in mind the fact thnt the post
age thereon is Two (2) Cents. All double
and triple number copies of The Dispatch
require n 2-cent stamp to insure prompt
delivery.
nInnCnI-nC ,r1,rn.,, LIZ q 1oon
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
Wandering and Not Sane.

George Guggenheim, the Assistant Superin-
tendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, of IA Broadway, Williamsburg. who
disappeared from his home, SS8 Marion street,
Brooklyn. last Saturday morning. was found by
his son on Friday night wandering near his
home. He looked wretched. and at first
did not recognize his son. A ply
sician who examined him said his mind
was affected. aud that he had symptoms
of typhoid fever. In q disconnected way Gug-
genheim said tnat he had been to Reading and
to Philadelphia. His clothing was damp and
dirty. His pockets were cut and all the valua-
bles he was known to have in his possession
were gone. The waistcoat pocket IN which he
carried his watch was torn out This evening
Mrs Guggenheim said: my husband tells me
that he remembers starting from the
Office to come home after some ac-
counts which he had forgotten; that it
began to rain, and he went into a store and
bought q felt hat. The next thing he rencm-
bers was getting on a train in Philadelphia, and
the next wss finaing himself in Reading Occa-
sionally, he says he would have lucid spells,
and then would start for home. losing himself,
however, in the next few minutes Now that
he is home, he often starts up and says: oh,
please let me goi I must 60 home.'n