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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
SURE TO BE A DEFICIENCY.

To the broad question as to how the Post
master Generals plan appeared to him, as a
business proposition, DIR. Green said that
Of course it could be carried out, but the
business could not be done by the Govern
ment or corporation at a profit; and some
body would have to make up deficiency.
Mr.. Anderson, referring to the Postmaster
Generals bill, said that it did not contem-
plate the payment of large salaries to
officers.
DIR. Green dryly responded that if he
wanted to do telegraph business he would
have to pay somebody to look after it, and
pay them well, too. After all, what mat
tered it; salary of $4,000 per annum
amounted to charge of about one-tenth of
a cent per message on the Western Unions
business. If the Postmaster Generals rates
were adopted by the Western Union, its
receipts would fall just So, 900, 900 below the
expenditures every year.
At this point the committee adjourned to
meet tomorrow, when DR.. Green will con-
tinue his statement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
SDortipg Notes.

1T will be a long time before the Ewing case
can be decided
BILLY MEYER says he will now reside per-
manently in Chicago.
CHARLEY MCCOY was in the city yesterday
seeking a fight with Harry Nikirk.
AND still Fogarty wants to fight champions
and he cannot get fight This is strange.
IT is said that Anderson & Rowland, of coun-
sci for Ward, have detected flaw in a recent
notice served on that player, which will put
the case off until the April term of court.
Mr.. w. BARR, of the East End Athletics,
wishes it to be stated that he is not yet en-
gagged to go to England to play baseball. He
may go. At present he has good position.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
WIDENING THE DIAMOND.

The Report of the Board of Viewers to be
Shortly Ready.
The Board of Viewers began yesterday TO
figure out the damages to be allowed and
the benefits to be assessed upon the widen
ing OF Diamond street, and that portion of
Webster avenue from Fulton street to Arthur
street. The board will require several days
vet to do this work, and then the figures
will be turned over to Clerk Blackmore for
calculation and completion.
The report will be submitted to Councils
at the first regular meeting after the new
Councils are organized.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
No Need of Anyone

Wearing shabby clothes, when we offer such
elegant new spring overcoats and suits for
men at the very low price of $40. Nothing
but new early spring designs shown; no old
stocks, but grand and varied assortment
OF incompatible values at $40. Take your
choice to-day. On the one side of our store
are the suits; $40 buys one. Turn to the
left, and see the mems spring overcoats in
light or dark shades, just as your fancy die
tates; $40 also secures one OF them. To-day
will be a great $40 bargain day at our store.
P. c. c. c., cor. Grant and Diamond sts..
ODD. the new Court House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
ALDERMAN PORTER ALL RIGHT.

He Didn't Commit suicide and Doesn't
Mean to Do So.
A rumor obtained wide circulation last
evening to the effect that Alderman Porter
had committed suicide yesterday at the
penltentiary. Upon inquiry, Warden
Wright said that the report was without
truth.
Alderman Porter was alive and in excel
lent health, and had made no attempt on
his life. Nothing had happened about the
penitentiary to give rise to such rumor,
and he had no idea how it had started.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01

Wearing shabby clothes, when we offer such
elegant new spring overcoats and suits for
men at the very low price of $40. Nothing
but new early spring designs shown; no old
stocks but grand and varied assortment
of incompatible values at $40. Take your
choice to-day. On the one side of our store
are the suits; SO buys one. Turn to the
left, and see the mems spring overcoats in
light or dark shades, just as yonr fancy die
tates; $40 also secures one of them. To-day
will be great $40 bargain day at our store.
P. C. c. c., cor. Grant and Diamond sts.,
opp. the new Court House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
xv,r,, for D;v,r,o s,.,.

The divorce courts of the country are kept
busy, chiefly because women have too much
work to do and are often cross and irritable
as result. Housewives who avoid the
worry and bother of baking and who keep
on hand good supply of Marvin's famous
Royal loaf bread rarely know anything but
happiness and contentment in their home
lives. TTSSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
IF BUFFALO WANTS TO GO

al johnson Will Throw His Infu ence in
Favor of St. Louis.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DTsPArcH.,
CLEVELAND, February 2.-Al johnson de-
nies peremptorIly that ne has signed Dunlap or
thinks of signing him. He says that NICK can
will play short for the local Brotherhood team
and nothing can prevent it. He is considerably
put out because Chicago would not give him a
catcher, and declares that he will appeal to the
Board OF Directors for a catcher when the
meeting of the Players League is held here.
Will johnson, of st. Louis, has been in the city
consulting AL with reference 10 the transfer of
the Buffalo club to St. Louis.
johnson says that he will not vote to force
any club out, but If Buffalo wants to drop he
will give his support to ST. Louis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
UNREQUITED LOVE.

A Beaver Girl Makes Two Unsuccessful
Attempts on Her Own Life.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsrATcH.l
BEAVER. February 2S.-This morning Miss
Ella Boland, girl of about 20 years of age,
attempted twice to commit suicide. She took
a strip of muslin and tied it tightly about her
neck, then. while hunting for convenient
place on which she could tie the other end, was
captured, and the improvised rope was cut
from her neck. -..
She then produced two-ounce bottle of
laudanum, and before she could be prevented,
ever. succeeded in saving her life. Unre1uited
love is said to be the cause.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
FOGARTY'S NOTIONS.
He Offers to Fight Dempsey or
George La Blanche.
TO.DAY'S BIG FOOT RACE.
Slosson and Daily Win Two Games in
the Billiard Tournament.
THE SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAY

Jack Fogarty, the pugilist, talks about
the leading fighters of the day. Kilrain
placed very high. Priddy and McClelland
will run at Recreation Park. Great interest
in the race. There were two interesting
billiard contests.
There is sometimes happy relief in the
monotony of baseball stories. Jack Fogarty
arrived in town yesterday, and his opinions
regarding pugilists in general may be worth
while recounting. Fogarty, as pugilIst,
is we'll known in this city, but it is more
than two years since he left this city for the
East Since he left he has guided many men
to victory but he is still on the warpath toward
Dempsey.
Fngarty last evening talked as follows TO the
writer: Now want to fight Dempsey or any
body else my weight. / am now in Pittsburg
where can get backing, and honestly we are
prepared at an hours notice to make match.
/ don't expect that Dempsey will be willing to
meet me, but neither he nor anybody else who
claims the middleweighr championship can
refuse to meet me.
WISE THOUGHT.
81 think that THE DISPATCH of Pittsburg is
read by all who patronize sports, and 1 say that
l am now ready to hight any man living VINO
claims the mIddleweight championship of
America. This is no bluff because will be in
Pittsburg few days, and if nybody with back
ing behind them will answer my challenge, 1
will be there"
Fogarty talked considerably about the promi-
nent pug1lists now before the public. He said:
Il disagree with Pringle,' of THE DISPATCH,
and others regarding hilrain. OF course
know that there are very weighty arguments
against me. But l really think that, barring
Sullivan, Jake Kllran is the best pugilist liv-
ing. Now, have my ideas and notions for this.
have seen all of them fight. and 1 say that,
barring ]. l. Sullivan, Jake Kilrain is the best
man in America. Kilrain can beat Slavin or
jackson, and that means that in my opinion,
Sullivan can beat both of them"
ABOUT CoRBETT.
Don't let anybody be led astray about the
man Corbett Why, Mike Cleary told me that
he is merely tapper,' that is, a man who will
touch you and run away. Corbett is probably
a good boxer when he has a good thing of it;
that is when he has a man who is too fat or too
dead to move around. Corbett is not cham
pion, and if he is, there are two or three heavy
weights who will meet him soon as he wants
to Ff conditions mean to a finish. At present
my ambition is to fight either Dempsey or La
blanche. This is no bluff, because can pro-
BE- duce s.. 600 on Saturday night at THE DISPATCH
Office to make match. cannot get match
somehow or other, but the world will know that
! have money behind me when THE DISPATCH
makes public this challenge. l will fight either
Dempsey or La Blanche, or fight them both
within four weeks"
Jack Fogarty Just arrived in the city yester-
day. He is much beyond weighs, but thinks
that he can get down all right within few
weeks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
Tri.stnte Sanitary Convention.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
WHEELING, February 2S.-The leading paper
of the day at the Tri-State Sanitary Conven-
tion was upon the topic: Dangerous Flood
Materials. and How to Dispose of Them" by
Prof. 8. NJ. Free of Pennsylvania 1t was
largely based upon the experiences of the past
two years in the Susquehanna and Juniata
valleys. and at Johnstown, and the data ad-
duced and information given brought out quite
a long discussion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
Will COLO Providence.

rEpECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
NEW BRIGHTON. Pa February 2S.-Floyd
Lauman, captain of last years Quincy Baseball
Club, of Quincy, ILL.,, signed a contract to-day
to Captain the Providence club in the Atlantic
League during the coming season. John Far
row fielder in last years Greenville, Mich,
team, will accompany MIN and play with the
Providences.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
The Mansfield Team Complete.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH:
MANSFIELD, O., February 2S.-The Mans
field ball team was completed yesterday by the
signing of William ]. Mooney, of New York
city, to play third base. He played with the
Uticas last season and had a batting average of
2y9 and fielding average of 963. The personnel
of the team is as follows: Fitzsimmons and
Flack. catchers; Fournier, Thomas and Cleve,
pitchers; Plock, Mccormack, Goodryder and
Mooney basemen; Dale and Cain, felders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
MYSTERIOUS POISONING CASE.
Child's Death nt Johnstown May Lead to
Startling Developments.

Child's Death at Johnstown May Lead to
Startling Developments.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
JoHNsTowN, PA, February 2S. - Last
Wednesday three children of Washington L.
Boyer were taken suddenly and mysteriously
ill. They showed symptoms of poisoning, which
was attributed at the time to their having eaten
heartily of canned fruits. This morning one of
the children died, and not four hours after the
chiid's death an agent of the Metropolitan
Company, which insures children and babes,
called at the Office of DR.. Matthews, who at
tended the children, and asked him to sign a
certificate as to the cause of death. The gen.
eral mystery surrounding the sickness of the
children aroused the doctors suspicion and he
refused to sign the certificate until a further
investigation. The Coroner has been notified
and will hold an inquest tomorrow. The chill
dren were all insured in the Metropolitan Com
pany, Boyer paying cents week each of
the i've children. The family is in poor cir
CumSCaQCeS,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
BRESLIN WAS THERE.
Moore Failed to Meet Him to Arrange a
Battle.

Battle.
rPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
NEW YORK. February 2S.-Mike Bresin was
at the New York Illustrated NetUS office on
Thursday, the day set by Frank Moore to meet
him, for the purpose of signing articles, but
Moore failed to show up. Bresin says the
reason he did not keep his appointment with
Moore last Friday was because he was suffering
from severe attack of la grippe, from which
he has not yet fully recovered.
i am disgusted," he saws with the amount
of newspaper talk Moore has been indulging in
of late. 1 will fight him to a finish with skin
gloves, under either Queensberry or London
rules, six weeks from signing articles. for $3.50
a side, providing he can guarantee S400 purse
and will hight at LA pounds, give or take one,
and weigh in at ring side. If Moore wants to
fight under these conditions he can notify me
Soet e,,d Lao, hi,, WI ~ s MS
cles
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
WASHINGTON'S BIG GASSER.


Experts Say 1t is the Biggest Well Ever
Struck in the County.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcHI
WASHINGTON, PA, February 2S.-John w.
Hallam, superintendent of the Werner Gas
Company. which company is applying for
charter. turned the gas from the big Hallam &
Smith well into the mains to-day. Experts
here say it is the largest well ever struck in the
county, and the driller of the famous McGugin
at Hickory says it is the largest he has ever
seen.
A gauge to-day shows 700 pounds while
pressure of 160 is shown with tine six-inch casing
open. This Is something remarkable. as a 40
pound pressure on an open pipe is considered
something very large.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
Drygoods.

NEW YORK. February 2S.-Stormy weather
again interrupted trade in drygoods to some
extent, but there was good business with job
bers and fair demand was realized at hrst
hands. with some activity in bleached shirt
ings. Fruit of the loom "A, and 7-S bleached
shirtings were sold ahead. and orders are now
taken .At value only" Wide sheetings were
also in good request and are very nrm. DENY
pretty evenly and stocks do not increase mate
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
. A Nent Prize Fight.

INDIANAPOLIS. February ga neat prize
fight took place at an early hour this morning
west Of the city, between Tommy Burke, of this
city, and Abel Lloyd, of Brazil. Twenty rounds
were fought, when it was declared draw.
Lloyd had the best of 1t to the sixteenth round,
when Burke got his second wind and came to
the scratch as fresh as daisy and forced the
fight until 1t was declared draw.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
MATCH FACTORY BURNED.

PhilIipsburg's Principal Industry Destroyed
by the Fiery Elements.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.i
PHILLIPsBURG, February 2S.-The Grant
Parlor Match Factory, of this place, an in
dus try that gave employment to about so per-
sons, was totally destroyed by fire at an early
hour this morning, incurring loss of about
$4,000. on which there is no insurance.
The factory was built two years ago by local
capitalists and was just beginning to be pay
ing investment to the stockholders. 1t is hardly
likely that it will be rebuilt. The origin of the
fire is unknown
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
DAILY AND SL0SS0N.
They Win Their Games in the Great Billiard
Argument.

New YORK. February 2S.-The longest game
of the billiard tournament was played in
Chickering Hall this afternoon between DAILY
and Heiser on the eightinch balk line. DAILY
won. The score was: Daily. 500; average, IL ALI;
Heiser, 402; average, 15-43. Time of game, 3
hours minutes.
The evening game was between Slosson and
Cation. Slosson played the H-inch balk line.
while Cation PLAYED the eight-inch. Slosson led
off with run of ten. Cation opened with a run
of IL. A series of uninteresting plays followed
up to the ninth inning, when Slosson made a
run of A. Then Cation made run of 27 points.
The game proceeded in very dull fashion. Slos-
son piled up number of big runs toward the
end of the game that helped to atone for the
poor play of the early innings.
The score is: Slosson, 500: Cation, 267.
Highest runs: Slosson. a. IS: Cation. go 81.
Average: Slosson, 10 626; Cation, 10 l7-25.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
ANOTHER BIG PURCHASE.
The Franklin Farm Buy Conductor at
Very FlatterinC Price.

Very FlatterinE Price.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
FRANKLIN. PA, February 2S-Messrs. Mil
Ter and Sibley have purchased from E. F. Coe,
of New York, for 81, 500 the 3-year-old stallion
Conductor, by Electioneer. dam Sontag Mo-
hawk Sontag Mohawk is the dam of Sally
Benton, 2:l754; Eros. 229lz; Sport, 1929; also,
the dam of two, If not three others that will
enter the 2:30 list this season, which will make
world.
She promises to exceed all other brood mares,
as at present she is but Is years old. Conductor,
after a short season in the stud, will be trained
for a record.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
Never Mind the Weather.

If it's cold weather drink ale; if it's warm
use beer, and be sure you use the celebrated
brands manufactured by the Iron City
Brewing Co. Their Pilsner, Pittsburg, and
bars, or may be ordered direct from brewery.
Telephone 11S6.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
MEETING WITH FAVOR.
ALE. .berinns Who Would Like to See Hay
market sqnare Transformed.

There is very general commendatlon In
Allegheny of the resolution offering Hay
market Square to the Government as site
for a Federal building, which was intro
duced in Councils last Thursday night oy
Mr.. Arthur Kennedy. The citizens appear
almost unanimous in the belief that it would
be powerful factor in the task OF securing
the appropriation.
Several gentlemen at City Hall last even
ing were chatting about the history OF efforts
10 secnre a Federal building, and one of
them instanced the last time the Treasury
Department sent agents to Allegheny to
look up site for the building, when prop
ertv-holders who were approached jumped
their prices 100 per cent because Uncle Sam
wanted the land.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
Never Mind the Weather.

If it's cold weather drink ale; if it's warm
use beer, and be sure you use the celebrated
brands manufactured by the Iron City
Brewing Co. Their Pilsner, Pittsburg, and
Iron City beers are sold at all frst-class
bars, or may be ordered direct from brewery.
Telephone 1885,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
this city furnishes the following:
River TeleRrams.

ESPECIAL TELEGsAMs TO THE DISPATCH,
WARREN-River $40 feet and falling.
Weather cloudy and mild
BRowNsvILLE-River feet inches and
rising Weather cloudy. Thermometer. $50 at
g P. n.
River 8 feet 8 inches and
falling. Weather cloudy. Thermometer, go
at4P.N.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
Furnace H in Full Blast.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPArCH.1
BRADDooK, February 2s.-At 8 o'clock this
morning Miss Martha Frick, daughter of H.
G. Frlck, reached out the match that put the
blast in one of the greatest blast furnaces in
this country. 1t was the new Furnace III" at
the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, and her
stacks are ten feet higher than those of &C."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
The Centennial.

This highly favored country has celebrated
its hundredth birthday. Under its favored
privileges, its citizens have been happy; wor-
Shipping God according to the dictates of their
own consciences; pursuing their avocations un-
molested: growing rich and prosperous. Some
have attained the most exalted positions from
the smallest beginnings. This is particularly
applicable to Dr. TUFTS Liver Pills. Ten years
ago they had but local reputation, but in this
time aided by scientific research, they have at
tanned such a celebrity that there is not a
country on the globe where they are not used.
Wherever Torpid Liver. Dyspepsia, Costive-
ness. Sick Headache and Malaria prevail, they
are the recognized remedy.
TUFTS Liver Pills,
IN USE Is YEARS. TTssu-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
LEFT THE GIRL BEHIND

While the Ardent Lover Returns to Get
Her Parents Consent.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH:
YoUNGsTowN. February 2S.-Jacob Uhlinger
and Miss Grace Sheeler, young couple re-
siding in Beaver Falls, came here this
afternoon and made application for a marriage
license. The bride-elect being under Is, a
license was refused until the consent of her
parents was obtained Uhliuger departed on
the next train for Beaver Falls to secure the
consent, leaving the bride-elect here to await
his return,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
COULDN'T STAND INVITING.

Defeated Mnn Committed TO jail Tor a
Murderous Assault.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
HARRISBURG. February 2S.-John Fillmore,
ex-constable of the Second ward, this city,
who was defeated at the recent election by a
colored man. has been committed to Jail for
making a murderous assault on George Rice, a
young man, with hatchet.
While building a fence near his residence
Fillmore was twitted for having been beaten by
a colored man by a number of young men,
which greatly incensed him and finally led him
to the commission of the assault on Rice whose
skull was fractured and whose condition is pre-
cariouS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
VIII Buy n Pumping Engine Site.

The Subcommittee on Water, OF Allie
gheny Councils, met last night and decided
to recommend the purchase Of some property
on Howard street for pumping station prop
erty. The price fixed was S2, 800.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
Johnstown's vinduct Completed.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.I
JoHNsTowN, PA, February 8.-1he great
mass of masonry known as the viaduct, taking
the place of the old viaduct eight miles above
this city, which was destroyed by the flood, is
now in use for the regular crossing of trains
The Philadelphia Express east was the first
train to pass over it,