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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
PASTOR ROBERTS MUST PAY.
A Verdict of $4,000 in the Breach of
Promise Case Against Him.

n verulcL OIL SO.GUU IN Lne Dreacu OIL
Promise Case Against Him.
SCRANTON, October 3.-One of the most
sensational cases ever heard in the courts of
this (Lackawanna) county ended this morn
ing, when the jury in the breach of promise
case of Annie Husaboe against Rev. Peter
Roberts, of the Plymouth Congregational
Church, came in with verdict of So, 900
damages for the woman. The case has been
fruitful of surprising developments, and
has created a sensation among the church
going people of this city. The deacons of
Roberts church have clung to him and be-
1ieved in him during the four years in which
this caseihas been pending in the courts, but
the evidence given has stunned them, and
in case the young man does not voluntarily
withdraw from the pastorate of the church,
his resignation will be peremptorily de-
manded. Roberts is graduate of Yale,
and met Miss Husaboe at New Haven in
1886. He wooed, won, and betrayed her, and
she demanded immediate marriage. After
ward he fled to Wales, whittier she followed
him. There he renewed his promise to
marry her which had been given in Amer
lea, and both returned to the United States.
solutely re used to fulfill his promise, and a
criminal case was instituted against him,
which was never pressed. Roberts attor-
ney made overtures for a settlement, and
once offered $1,000 to that end, but Miss
Husaboe would not consider it, although
she once declared she would accept 5000
year. While these negotiations were in
progress, Roberts married q most estimable
lady. When the case finally came to trial
yesterday it was learned that Roberts was
in hiding, and Miss Husaboe could not ap-
pear, owing to nervous attack, brought on
by her troubles. The evidence for the plain
tiff was very damaging. Letters from Rob-
erts to the woman were produced, in one OF
which he says: ''If the world is to know
what was between me and you it will be a
fall to three others with myself" 1t is said
that Pastor Roberts deceived his counsel as
we'll as the woman and his church, for they
presented no testimony in defense of the
charges.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
ALL ADVICE IGNORED.
WALKING DELEGATES INDICTED BY A
GRAND JURY
Contrary TO the Counsel of District Attorney
and Recorder-surprising Result OF the
Attempted Brick Boy Boycott-Conspirncy is
Nhor

Contrary TO the Counsel of District Attorney
and Recorder-surprisins Result oil the
Attempted Brick Boycott-Conspirnc is
Charged.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPATcH-i
NEW YORK, October 3.-The grand jury's
recent inquiry into the boycott instituted by
the Board of Walking Delegates against
four brick manufacturers of Verplanck' s
Point because they did not employ union
men bore unexpected fruit to-day In the
General Sessions. In the inquiry the grand
jury heard much testimony, and being in
doubt as to the legal effect of it, consulted
Recorder Smyth and District Attorney Eel
lows. Both advised the grand jury that the
testimony did not justify the indictment of
anyone.
When the grand jury filed into the Gen
eral Sessions to-day, Foreman Haynes
handed up, among other indictments, an in
dictment for conspiracy against Walking
Delegates James Carroll, Thomas Mcclure,
James P. Archibald, William McNalr,
William Taylor, Frank MCGUIRE, Owen
Carroll, Charles P. Rogers, John Gray, Al
fred Ashley, Nelson f. McFadden and
John Dolan. District Attorney Fellows
had heard that this was coming and was on
hand. He promptly moved the dismissal
of the indictments.
Gentlemen of the grand jury, have you
completed your business?" asked the he
corder, dryly.
eyes, SIR" said the foreman.
Then the Recorder gave them talking
to. He said among other things: 81 regret
that for the first time in my experience of
ten years, as the presiding justice of this
court and the official legal adviser of the
grand jury, the grand jury has seen fit to
overruie the opinion of the presiding Judge
of this court in reference to the indictment
which has just been presented. There was
no legal evidence before the grand jury
upon which to sustain a conviction. 1com-
municated, in substance, to the grand jury
to that effect. I also stated that the evil
dence that was presented to me was insult
fcient and no bill ought to be drawn unless
the grand jury were in possession Of some
evidence in addition to what was presented
to me. 1t was a mistake to find bill right
in the teeth of the advice of the official ad-
wiser of the grand jury"
The indictment that died a-borning,
charges the indicted men with conspiracy to
coerce the four brick manufacturing firms at
Verplanck's Point into employing union
men and to prevent the handling of their
bricks, and with notifying Peck, Martin &
Co., one of the members of which firm was
grand Juror, in letter attached to the in
dictment that they must not handle the
boycotted brick under penalty of strike.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
OVER THE RAILROAD WALL.
ANOTHER BAD sMAsHUP ON THE PAN
HANDLE BRIDGE.


Mnny People Escape From Under the FALL
Ing Cars-One Brakeman VIII Likely
Die-Oiber nIishnps and One Fatality
Reported in the City Yesterday.
A freight train on the Pittsburg, Virginia
and Charleston Railroad ran into an open
switch at the intersection with the Panhan-
die on Carson street, Southside, Yesterday
afternoon, at the point, which mas been the
scene of many such similar acci-
dents during the last five years, all
of which have been remarkable, from the
fact that no great loss of life has resulted.
Yesterdays accident'was a repetition of its
predecessors. Two gondola cars, loaded
with steel billets, was precipitated over the
retaining wall, which towers 40 feet above
Carson street, and boxcar containing mas
sive chunks of ice overturned. The con-
tents broke through the top, and fell to the
street below with a crash, carrying with it
Samuel Jobes, a brakeman, who was standing
on top of the car. A few seconds previous
to the accident two street cars filled with
passengers passed by the spot where the
cars came over the wall.
Police Inspector McNeIvey made a very
narrow escape from being crushed
to death beneath the falling mass
of steel and ice. He was driving home
in his buggy and just passed under the
bridge as the cars came crashing over the
bridge. His horse took fright and started to
run, which saved him. Two fiat cars loaded
with steel billets were also overturned on
the bridge. Master of Transportation j. L..
Tucker stated the accident was caused by
defective truck on one of the freight cars.
ir1o al ifoh
which did the business. 1t is thought that
Brakeman Jobe will not recover from his in
juries.
G. M. Brown, assistant yardmaster at
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad on
the Southside, was killed last night. Mr..
Brown was standing on the tracks in COM
pany with brakeman named f. f. Inks,
when both men were struck by shifting
engine. Inks was thrown of the track,
receiving only a slight scalp wound.
Brown was run over by the engine and had
both legs cut of, arms crushed and injured
internally. He was taken Immediately to
the West Penn Hospital, where he died at
10 o'clock. Brown is q young man and
single. He came from West Newton, Pa.
James Finton, an employe at the Lucy
furnace, had his left leg broken yesterday
afternoon by falling into furnace pit.
Martin Prlceli and George Peirrio were
digging ditch at the new residence of Mrs.
j. NJ. Gusky, on Filth avenue, yesterday
afternoon, when the side of the ditch caved
in, almost burying themen. Priceti's right
hip was dislocated, and he was badly
bruised about the body. Peiriro received
fracture OF the thigh.
George G. Brown, brakeman on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, had his right
hand badly crushed yesterday at Glenwood
wards
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
TORY IGNORANCE.
A REPLY TO THE ATTACK ON THE IRISH
RELIEF FUND.

The Secretary of the Committee Shows
That There is No Politics of Any De.
scription in the Movement-Words of
Sympathy and Encouragement Received.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH:
NEW YORK, October 3.-Arthur Dudley
Vinton, Secretary OF the American Com
mittee for the Relief of Famine in ireland,
gives out the following reply to the London
Times attack:
The editorial Of the London Times of October
exhibits an astounding ignorance of the So
cial standing of the gentlemen connected with
the movemont for the relief Of famine in Ire
land-it is simply ludicrous to call them politi-
clans. The movement is only great 1nterna-
tional charity. The American Committee for
the Relief of Famine in Ireland has nothing to
do with American politics, nothing to do with
English politics. nothing to do with Irish poll
tics and nothing to do with any kind of politics
whatsoever. The American committee
has but one aim-to send aid
to thousands of famine-shadowed Irish cabins,
so that human life may be saved and human
suffering prevented. The more aid that the
English people send to the Irish people the
better. The disasters resulting from the fail
ure of the potato crop threatens to be so gen.
eral in Ireland that in spite of all effort of re-
lief there will be many empty stomachs and
many nal1-clad Dodles among the worthy
peasantry before the winter is over.
The American committee cannot for an in
slant believe that England Tor any other civil
lied nation) can for one moment object to a
movement which has as its only aim the feed
ing of the hungry and the clothing of the
naked. The American committee cannot enter
tain the thought that the generosity of any
people-and especially of the American people
will for one instant check the generosity of
the English people.
American readers need no such explanation
of the personnel of the commission to assure
them of the non-political character of the
movement. The assumption of the British
Government organ is demonstration of big
otry and voluntary blindness which more than
anything else perhaps will make clear to the
American people the real attitude of the
British dominant party toward Ireland and her
woes Some stirring words of sympathy and
encouragement are being sent the American
Commission by the subscribers to the relief
fund. In a letter received to-day Adjutant
Castro, of Phil Kearney Post No. s, writes:
Enclosed please find SIS, the donation of this
Post toward the relief of the suffering people
of the Green 1sle' The magnificent record OF
Ireland's sons during the long and bloody con-
test on land and sea to uphold the Stars and
Stripes and perpetuate our free institutions,
fighting shoulder to shoulder with the sons of
their adopted country, merits the recognition
of every member of our grand order in this
the hour of need of their oppressed and almost
starving compatriots."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
ESPECIAL rELEeRAM TO THE DISPATCH,


NEW YORK, October 3.-The last session
of the British Iron and Steel Institute in
Chickering Hall was held to-day. Before
the opening of the session some of the Eu-
ropean visitors to the city went with cleo
trical expert Schuyler S. Wheeler to view the
Telephone Exchange, the Western q nion
telegraph office, and the Brush and Edison
electric light plants.
Sir james Kitson called the meeting at
Chickering Hall to order, and the work be-
gan with the reading of a paper by R. A.
Hadfield, OF Sheffield, on aluminium
Steel" Mr.. Hadfeld gave to America the
credit of originating and developing the
manufacture of this wonderful metal,
aluminium. He described in detail num-
ber of experiments in combining it with
iron. He showed how aluminium had de-
clined in cost within about 80 years from 6
shillings an ounce to 6 shillings per pound,
not because it deteriorated in value, but be-
cause methods had been invented which had
GREATLY CHEAPENED PRODUCTION,
and he predicted for it highly interesting
history. Mr.. Hadfeld's statements were
discussed by j. E. Stead, of Middleboro,
England, and P. C. Gilchrist, OF London.
"Welding by Electricity" was the title of
paper presented by Prof Elihu Thompson,
of Boston. illustrations OF his subject were
presented upon a screen. When Prof.
and P. ii. Gilchrist, of London, spoke upon
his address.
DR.. G. B. Dudley, chemist of the Penn
sylvania Railroad spoke upon the 'Wear
of Metal as Influenced by Its Chemical and
Physical Properties" His observations of
the rails used by the Pennsylvania Railroad
led him to the conclusion that mild steel
is less liable to fracture, and if properly
made, less liable to crushing or disintegra-
ton than harder steel. He was also con-
vinced that the wearing power of steel does
not increase in ratio with Its progress in
hardness, but on the contrary, diminishes.
The popular idea that the harder the steel
the greater the wear was a mistake.
Sir Lowthian Bell, in discussing the
paper, expressed surprise at the conclusions
arrived at by DIR. Dudley. AS member Of
the Locomotive Committee OF the North
eastern Railway OF England he had taken a
cautionary view, and the committee had
lately decided to increase the proportion of
carbon in the steel used for rails and give
them greater hardness.
THE INSTITUTE ADJoURNS.
With the conclusion of the speakers re-
marks the time for adjournment arrived,
and Sir james Kitson presented set of
resolutions thanking the American Insti-
tute of Mining Engineers, the various local
committees and others for the courtesy ex-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
INDIANS NOT ALLOWED TO ROAM.
No More Noble Red Men for the Wild West
Shows.

WASHINGTON, October 3.-Acting In
dian Commissioner Belt has issued letter
of instructions to Indian agents in which he
says that the department is informed that
company is preparing to obtain Indians
from some of the reservations to join "Wild
West Shows" in Europe. The agents are
instructed to promptly refuse any applica-
tions for this purpose, as it is now against
the policy of the Interior Department to
grant permits for such purposes under any
circumstances whatever.
The agents are further instructed to Law
the matter before their respective tribes. and
advise them that if any of the Indians should
hereafter attempt to leave their reservation
for exhibition purposes, it will be regarded
as an open defiance of the authority of the
Government, and that prompt measures will
be adopted to detain them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
THEIR LAST RESORT.
Failing 10 Nominate Candidate the Apollo
Conferees Leave IL 10 Others.

Failing 10 Nominate Candidate the Apollo
Conferees Leave IL 10 Others.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.J
APOLLO, October 3.-After two weeks
session and 400 fruitless ballots the Con-
qressional Conference of the Armstrong,
Indiana, Jefferson and Westmoreland dis
trict took the following action, to which
Messrs. Heiner, Cunningham, Craig and
Huff, the four candidates, agreed:
We, the conferees of the Twenty-hrst Con-
gressional district, having failed to agree upon
a Congressional nominee, and there being no
reasonable prospect for an agreement, and the
several candidates having consented thereto, do
resolve that the selection for a candidate for
Congress is hereby assigned to three reputable
men. not residing within the bounds of this
Congressional district, they to be selected by
Hon. W. III. Andrews. Chairman of the State
Central Committee, who shall meet at Apollo
at the earliest possible date, and who shall be
confined in their selection to the four candi-
dates now before the conference.
Adopted in conference October 8, 1890.
Attest ID. d. ATKINSON, President
WV. WINsLOw, Secretary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
PULLED BY POLICE,
Persons Gathered in by Strong Arms Clad
In Blue Cloth.

ferB0nb Uatuercu Dy SGrOnR arms Cla0
In Blue Cloth.
DETECTIVE DEMMELL returned to the city
yesterday with r. L. Heaton who was arrested
in Dayton, O., charged with being responsible
for the death of pretty Blanche Perkins. of No.
422 Fifth avenue. The Coroner's inquest will be
continued to-day.
MICHAEL FOLEY went to Central station last
evening and insisted upon the release of his
friend Gallagher. who had been arrested for
drunkenness. Foley became a nuisance and
was also locked up.
ROBERT BLACK, IA years old, threw q stone
at William Fingers 7-year-old boy. and is now
charged with aggravated assault and battery
before Alderman Kerr.
SAMUEL MILLER ended four years. term at
Riverside yesterday for burglary. He was at
once rearrested and taken to Harrisburg to an
swer a similar charge.
VINCENT SEGALsKI is asked to explain why
he thumped Adam Piskou In house on Greg
ory street. Southside.
DANIEL JENKINS, machinist Of Rebecca
street, is charged with neglecting and abusing
his wife and family.
THE McGaw investigating Committee will
report 70 the Central Trades Council ro-night
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
WALLACE ON THE STUMP.
He Will Soon Take the Field In Behalf Of
Ex-Governor Pnttisou,

He Will Soon Take the Field In Behalf Of
Ex-Governor Pattison.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcHI
HARRISBURG, October 3.-At a large
Democratic meeting, held in this city to-
night, B. F. Meyers, who was one of Sena-
tors Wallace's most active supporters for
Governor at Scranton, ridiculed the Repub-
licans for trying to create the impression
that the Wallace Democrats could not be
depended on to vote for Pattison, and an
nounced, amid great applause, that the ex-
Senator would soon be on the stump battling
for the standard bearer of the Democratic
party OF this State.
Mr.. Wallace is expected to arrive from
Europe in few days. Mayor Fritchey and
James McCrory, candidate for member Of
the House from this city, made brief
speeches.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
BIRMINGHANs WELCOME.

The Iron City of the south Making Grand
Prcpnrn tions for the Visitors.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, October 3.-Quite
an elaborate programme has been arranged
by the local committee for the entertainment
of the English and German iron and steel
men on the occasion of their visit to Bir-
mingham during the present month. Ex-
cursions will be made to 15 of the most i'm
portant points in this district, including
furnaces, ore mines, coal mines, mills and
steel plants.
Special trains will be provided. Souve-
mir pamphlets in both languages have been
gotten up especially tor the guests.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
STONES OPPONENT.

Democrats Put Up Mayor Dunn. of Franklln,
for Congress-.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.I
OIL CITY, October 3.-The Democratic
Congressional Conference was held here this
afternoon. r. w. Dunn, Mayor of Frank
lin, was nominated without opposition on
the first ballot. The nominee is a we'll
known member of the Venango county bar,
but stands no show for election against
Stone in the district, which comprises
Venango, Warren, Mexican and Cameron
counties, with Republican majority Of
about 1000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
NEVER SAW SUCH 0vAT1oNs.
The Tour of Ex-Governor Pnttisou From
Erie to PiItsburg.

Ine Tour oil Ex-Governor tntttaon From
Erie to PiItsburg.
When Ex-Governor PattIson and his party
passed through the city last evening for
Braddock, DISPATCH reporter saw him at
the depot. Timothy O'Leary, Jr., and a
number of other local Democrats were there
to greet him. A crowd of ladies passed
through the car and shook hands
with Mr.. Pattison. He looked a little
weary, and the hard work of the campaign
seems to be telling on him. He said the
people wherever be had been were enthusi-
astic, and turned out to hear the issues as
they are discussed. He would express no
opinion about what he thought of his
chances. remarking that the present situa-
ton might be changed in two weeks.
Ex-Collector Bigler and W. U. Hensel
said they had been on many campaign tours,
but they had never seen sach -ovations given
any man as the Democratic candidate re-
ceived on the way from Erie to Pittsburg.
They would not guess at his majority. Mr..
Hensel registered at the Monongahela
House and did not go to Braddock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
SURRENDERED TO THE POLICE.

Tired of Being a Fugitive. a Defnulting
Cashier Gives Himself Up.
ST. LOUIS, October 3.-Nathan s. Pinck-
ney, a well-dressed and respectable-looking
man walked into police headquarters here
last night. and said he was tired of being a
fugitive from justice, and gave himself up.
He claims to be ex-cashier of the Michigan
Southern Railroad at Grand Rapids, and
saws he is defaulter to large amount, and
has been hiding from the officers for the past
18 months.
CITY Marshal Kuhn telegraphed the off,
GERS at Grand Rapids, and received instruc-
tions to arrest Pinckney and hold him until
their arrival.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
CLAUS sPRECKLEs' CLAIMS.
The Owners of the Wetherby Must Settle
for Dana giug His Sugar.

PHILADELPHIA, October 3.-After hear
ing argument of counsel in the United
States Court in admiralty to-day Judge
Butler made an order in the claim of Claus
Spreckles to recover S97 900 from the owners
of the British steamship Wetherby, COM
manded by j. M. Harrison. from the trans
portation from a cargo of sugar.
The terms of the order were that the
owners OF the WetherbY should pay into
court $50. 742 of the S51, $40 realized by
Captain Harrison from the sale OF the dam
aged sugar, aud retain $4,000 to secure
them the payment OF the sum to be ascer-
tanned by general average and other charges.
In compliance with this order the security
for the release of the attached steamship is
to be largely reduced.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
NEVER FALTERED AT THE sCAFF0LD,

Wife Murderer Martin Is Hanged in the
Presence of Thousands.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE prsrArcH.,
RALEIGH, G. H, W. VA, October g.
W. J. Martin, the wife murderer, was
hanged here at o'clock this afternoon in
the presence of about 5000 people. The
scaffold was located in an old brickyard,
about 300 yards from the Jail, and the pro-
cession, headed by Sheriff Shumate and his
deputies, set out for it at 1890 o'clock.
Martin walked steadily, and never faltered
in ascending the steps to the platform. The
execution was one of the most successful
ever recorded in West Virginia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
INDIANS EXCITED.

Tho Flood OF Mud Story Has Set Them All
AgoR In the Territory.
FORT RENO, 1. T., October 5.-The Choc-
taw Commission arrived here to-day and on
Saturday will resume negotiations with
the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians at
New Darlington for the sale OF the interest
in the Indian lands to the Government
The Indians at present take no interest in
the commissions visit. They are all agog
over the stories of one of their number who
has Just returned from visit to the Sioux
Indians, where he saw the Indian Messiah.
He saws the Messiah told him that ali the
white people and the bad Indians would be
DESTROYED next summer in a flood of mud
through which only the good Indians would
be able to wriggle their way to life and hap
piness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
DIED IN HONOLULU.
Advices of the Death of Pennsylvnnian on
the Island.

SAN FRANCISCO. October 3.-The steam
ship Australia arrived to-day from Homo
lulu, bringing advices to September 26. The
bill to subsidize steamship line between
San LEGO and Hilo has been killed in the
House.
Charles n. Arnold, well-known hotel
keeper on the islands, native of Pennsyl-
vania and member OF George DeLong Post
No. 45, G. A, R., died of aneurism of the
heart on September "a at Honolulu. Ar
mold had of late been employed in the De-
partment of Public Works. The National
Reform organ of September 20 contains an
editorial referring to the Cabinet, entitled
''They had better go out" Mr.. Bush and
Mr.. Parker, members of the House, are un-
derstood to be agitating against the Cabinet.
The volcano of Kilanea shows renewed
activity, and it is stated that new lava
lake has been formed, and that the cones
which sank sometime ago rose 80 feet in enc
day.