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E. E. FOSTER,

MANUFACTURER and dealer in all kinds Of
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
A NEW METHOD OF EXECUTION.

Representative wherry's scheme for nm
Easy Ending of Condemned Murderers.
5. NJ. Wherry in Philadelphia Press.l
changing is played out" is true in
sense not meant by the notorious criminal
who gave the expression currency. As
method of capital punishment it is OBJ
noxious to the humane sense of mod
ern times. By humane sense" is not
meant the sickIy sentiment that condones
crime and crowns the murderer with flow
ers, but that educated, civilized opinion
which believes in a death penalty and ia
vors its execution in the least barbarous way.
Besides the possible accidents due to the
bungling of officials, hanging has many ac-
cessories of an unnecessarily disagreeable
and painful character. Electricity as a
death agent is still more uncertain than
the rope, and hideously revolving and
cruel in its application. Paganism never
contriYed torture worse than the deIiber-
ate seating, the tedious straDping, the
painstaking adjustment, the buzzing and
the creeping and the writhIng of the death
dealing current. The method has not re-
deeming feature, and were it not for the
glamor of novelty thrown around it by GER
tain pseudo-scientists it would speedily drop
out of consideration.
NV medical friend, DIR. R. G. Stewart,
suggests a method of penal death which is
practicable, simple, cheap, certain and hu-
name. 1t contemplates the construction
in each prison and Jail of
death celia cell differing from others only
in having properly contrived ad-
iustments to make it relatively air.
tight when needed, into which
shall run a number of gas pipes from the
ordinary (bi-carburetted hydrogen) gas
main, or, better still, from a retort general
ing sufficient carbonic acid gas. This cell
can be fitted up like other cells as place
of confinement. The condemned subject
can occupy it for weeks or months, uncer-
tain of his day of doom. When the fatal
hour arrives the Sheriff enters and reads
the solemn sentence, relatives and friends
take their last farewell, Sthe minister of
spiritual com ort does his last sad Offices,
suitable time is given the prisoner for re-
Election. Then the cell is closed tight, the
cocks are turned. and unconscious OF his
end the victim falls asleep to
wake no more on earth. By this form of
asph yxiation death is absolutely certain and
wholly painless while the majesty OF the
law. punitive and deterrent, is sustained.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
CHARACTERISTICS OF TEXANS,
They Are Becoming n Pleasures Loving ana
Pleasure- Seeking People.

They Are Becoming PIensure-Lovins and
Pleasures -SeelzinR People.
Harper's Magazine for July.
Texas, settled as it is with emigrants from
every part of the Union and of Europe, pre-
sents such variety of character among its
people that it will be hard to say what Is
their most prominent trait. The personal
characteristics which used to distinguish
them are changing. In early times
their lives as pioneers were so hard
and fraught with danger that it made
them grave and even severe, but now
they have become decidedly gay people,
pleasure-loviDg and pieasure-seeking. For
merly rigid plainness and severity marked
their lives and surroundings. At this day,
even in the counties remote from the cen
tiers of population, their tastes have become
more luxurious. They crave the elegancles
and refnements OF life, which is but the
natural effect of the superior facilities Tor
education which distinguish the State.
Yet with the simplicity has disappeared
much of the hospitality of the olden time;
the warm and unquestioning welcome grows
rarer each day, and the entertainment OF
guests is more a matter of calculation or
distant social obligation than a sponta-
neous outpouring Of hospitable hearts.
Yet away off upon the frontier are still
found, here and there, specimens of those
strong, brave early settlers who live literally
with their lives in their hands, establishing
themselves far beyond the outposts of civili-
zation, not knowing at what time the red
men might raid upon them and lay their
homes in ashes. Sturdy houses those, stock
ades they might better be called, built of
heavy upright logs, with thatched or sodded
roofs. houses that are lorts as we'll as homes.
And there is found rare hospitality which
asks no questions, but entertains the way
farer, giving him all that he requires and
that their store affords without money and
without price"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
AN APPORTIONMENT PLAN
WHICH MAY sUPERsEDE THE FEDERAL
ELECTION BILL,

Republican Lenders Considering the Ad-
visibility of Pushing such a Measure
Through This session-some Senators
Are In Favor of the Scheme.
WAsHIN GToN, July 5.-There IS re-
vlVal Of the scheme mentioned some time
ago of crowding an appropriation Dill
through the present t Congress while the ne
Publicans have a safe majority In Dotn
Houses. The results of the census
just completed will control the basis
OF representation in the Lower House OF
Congress for the next ten years A prenml-
nary summary of the results, informally
submitted to the Republican leaders. 1t Is
said, shows large gains received In the Re
publican States Of the Northwest, while IN
the Democratic Southern States there Is
made to appear falling off in population
which will materially reduce the basis OF
representation,
Some of the Republican leaders in the
senate are quietly urging upon their col
leagues that by the prompt tabulat1on OF the
returns of the eleventh census and the
speedy passage Of an apportionment Dill
based thereon, continuation OF pow
er for the Republican party in the
Lower House can be more effectuallv as
sured than by the passage of the Lodge
election law. They argue that the pro-
visions of the Force bill are SO repugnant
to the general sentiment of the communities
in which it is proposed to put them In
operation that the execution OF the law,
even if it can be passed by the Senate, it is
believed, will be practically impossi-
Bile. A new apportionment, on the other
hand, passed BY a Republican House and
Senate, and approved by Republican Pres
ideut, striking off Is or 20 Representatives
from districts now represented by Demo-
Gratis, and adding 30 or 40 new members to
States deemed reliable Republican, it is
hoped, will give steady working majority
in the House for ten years to come.
Superintendent Porter can. of course, be
relied upon to facilitate this scheme in
every way by fastening the final tabulatlon
and report. On all previous occasions the
new apportionment based on the completed
census has been made in leisurely and
orderly manner by the Congress succeeding
the one which controlled the taking of the
census
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
CAROLINA CAMPAIGN.
The Democratic Party seems 20 be In
Danger of Total Disruption.

The Democrntlc fnrty seems 20 De IN
Danger of TOTAL Disruption.
CHARLESTON, s. c., July 5.-The fourth
week of the political campaign in this State
closed to-day. The bitterness between the
warning factions has increased day by
day, and is now at an intense white
heat The situation has been further
complicated by another split. The follow
ing call is published to-day all over the
State: "The tenants, hirelings and laborers
of every vocation, also those that sympathize
with them and desire the betterment
of their condition, and who look upon
'Tillmanism' as the synonym of a landed
aristocracy organized to oppress and de-
prlve them of their rights as freemen,
are hereby called to meet at their various
county seats on Monday. August 4. 1890,
and elect delegates to double the number of
the membership they have in the General
Assembly OF the State to a convention of
laborers and ireemen to be held in the city
of Columbia, S. c., on August 27, 1890, for
the purpose OF taking into consideration the
betteruien of their condition, and if found
practicable to nominate State ticket from
Governor down, subject to the Democratic
State Convention"
1t is said that the Tillmanites, who up TO
this time have swept everything before
them, intend to capture the August con-
vention, depose the regular Democratic
Elective Committee, and nominate full
ticket The proceeding will lead to two
Democratic State Conventions, which, with
the other complications, promises to smash
the Democracy into pieces, In the mean
time still third convention, composed of
the old-line Democrats, has been called to
meet in July to devise means to stem the
TJllman torrent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
FOOLED WITH A LIVE WIRE.
Antics of n New Yorker Who Experimental
With nm Electric Light Wire.

Antics of New Yorker Who Experimented
With nm Electric Light Wire.
NEW YORK, July 5.-r'ne or two electric
light wires which terminated at pole on
the south side of Thirteenth street, snapped
il two yesterday morning. Just before If
broke a man fell in fit on the
sidewalk, almost under it. A group
of children on their way to
the Thirteenth Street Grammar School
gathered around the man, and Douglass
Stewart, a young colored truck driver,
reined up his horse near the sidewalk to get
q nearer view. The live end of the wire
grazed Stewards hat and burned dark
line across it. Walter Mackim, II years
old, of "a East Tenth street, grabbed the end
Of the wire and went spinning around like
a top. He couldn't let go. He says that
he couldn't help spinning, though he tried
to with all his might. He tried to yell. but
he couldn't do that either. Then he gave
himself to the electrical dance. Presently
he fell, still holding on to the wire,
and began rolling on the sidewalk.
He says he felt himself stifening
out, and heard somebody say. "He's dying"
He was not, however, thinking of dying.
All he wanted was somebody to take the
wire out of his right fist. While he was
lying looking upward and unable to say
work, a man ran up, grabbed him by the
heels, let 60 in hurry, and said something
short and hot without releasing Walter.
Policeman Tom Mcconnell came along. He
bit the wire a swift, strong blow with his
stick and sent it flying skyward out of the
boys grasp. Then he picked the boy up
and carried him to a drugstore. Walter
recovered enough to walk half of tie dis
tance. There was a slight burn. across the
palm of his hand. He went to school in the
afternoon. He says he will never touch any
kind of wire again. The East River Electric
Light Company, which owns the wire, says
the wire was dead, had been dead long
time, and must have got its load from
Hnrncc
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
INHERITED A FORTUNE.
A Little Negro Girl Falls Heir to IN Unex-
pPctsd Estnte.


ST. LOUIS, July ga little colored girl,
accompanied bv a tall, gaunt man, at
tracted considerable attention at the Union
depot few days ago. The girl was clad
in plain, dotted calico gown, and wore a
straw hat. The man had on a suit of rusty
jeans, and was constantly smoking short
cob pipe.
He said that his name was Leslie Carter,
and that the father of the negro child he
had with him was called Jack Carter, and
was former slave of his. The child is now
IL years of age. Ten years ago the father Of
the child left Mr.. Carter's place. a small
garden farm near New Orleans, and went
West Before leaving he entrusted his
child to Mr.. Carter's care. Mr.. Carter took
the child out of kindness to the former slave.
Jack Carter then left the South. After
knocking about the West for a number of
years. he settled in Denver and opened
barber shop. He prospered in business,
and began to speculate in real estate. He
got hold of valuable piece of property
while prices were low, and when he died, a
short time ago, he was worth something
over S35, 900.
He had not written to Louisiana during
the ten years of his absence, when his at
torney wrote to Mr.. Carter announcing the
death and the value of the property which
the little negro child was to inherit, it was
a great surprise. By his will Jack Carter
appoints his former master administrator of
his will, and leaves his entire property to
his daughter
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
ACCUSED OF FORGERY,
A Young Colorcd Man, of Morton, GETS
Into Trouble.

MEDIA, July 5.-Benjamin Fields, a
young colored man, of Morton, was arrested
by Constable James McKniff to-day on the
charge of forging the name OF DR.. j. Foster
Flagg, of Swarthmore, to check for S34.3I
about two weeks ago. He took the check
to Woodbury., N. j.. where DR.. Flagg owns
property and is we'll known, and the bank
there cashed the forged paper without sus-
pecting its character.
Shortly after his departure the check was
discovered to be forgery, and the next day
one of the bank officials came to Swartbmore
and found Fields at his work in Ogdep's
lumber yard. Fields admitted his puilt and
offered TO make full restitution if let 90. He
handed over $50 at the time, and promised to
have the balance in day or two. A war
rant was issued and placed in the hands of
Constable Eachus, of Morton, but was not
served until Constable McKniff arrested the
man TO-DAY. After hearing before Justice
w. III. Newlin, of Morton, Fields was COM
nlitted to Med ia Jail for trial at the Septem-
ber term of court.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
UNDER CONsTANTINOPLE.
Wonders Which Might BE Revealed IL
Excavation Were Permitted.

Constantinople is built in part on buried
palaces, ruins and hidden passages. From
time to time casual excavations have dis
covered vaulted passages of fine masonry
like labyrinth, and magnificent chambers,
the roofs of which are supported by Corinth-
ian pillars; but superstition of the Turk
prevents all exploration.
They believe that they are eventually to
be driven out of Europe, not by the might
of the Christians, but by the Greeks who
fell during the siege, who will be raised by
magic art and will burst, headed by the
Emperor, through a certain door of Santa
Sophia. To prevent such a calamity the
door is kept bolted and barred, and the sight
of Christians e1cavating among the ruins
is sufficient cause for a riot, says the Illus
trated american. Nevertheless, some of
underground Constantinople is known.
There is cistern known as Yere-Batan
Serni, 'the underground palace" which is
an eIpanse of Inky water and an array
of columns as far as the eye can reach,
A Christian once started to row boat to
its farthest limit, legend says, and he has
not got back yet. Another Christian. who
took the precaution of fixing a rope to the
platform before starting, rowed for an hour,
so another tradition says, without seeing
any end to the row of pillars. Other such
cisterns are known to exist under the city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
EXCITED EXCURSIONlSTS.
TWO PLEASURE STEAMERS COLLIDE IN
HELL GATE.


Many Injured, but no Deaths Reported-A
Steamer Crnshes Into n Barge and the
Utmost Confusion Is the Resufr-For-
tunate Escape OF the Passengers.
ASTORIA. L. l., July 5.-The coasting
steamer Eleanora while bound eastward
through He'll Gate, about $50 this evening,
coilided with the Walter Sands, one of the
two barges lashed together, upon which
were between 1000 and 1000 men, women
and children, in tow of the tug
boat Idlewild. It is almost miracle that
a terrible disaster and great loss of life did
not follow, fortunately however, no one was
killed, though several were injured. Those
whose injuries are most serious and who
were taken to bellevue Hospital, New
York, are:
Henry Elk cut on the head. Edmund
O'Brien, badly cut about the head and face.
George Lang, internal injuries. Mrs Slattery,
nose split open. MTs JennHgS ca' Sesrs oid
badly cut about the body. Mary Smith, cuts on
the head and face Henry Oxie, cuts and
bruises on head, face and hands.
All of the above reside in Elizabeth, n. j.
The story O. the collision, as related by
Captain William Connorton. OF the barge
Walter Sands, which was struck by the
steamer, is that the barges in tow of the tug
IdIewild were returning from 1dlewild
Grove, L. l., and were passing
through He'll Gate about $50, when
the Eleanora was seen steaming to the east
ward. The tug signaled by the whistle
twice to keep the port side, and the steamer
obeyed the signal until she was about
opposite the port. Her barges then
suddenly turned, and in moment
crashed against the barge amidshlps,
almost throwing the latter on its beam ends,
though it was lashed to this other barge.
Spear. In a second the rear half OF the
guard rail and bulwarks of the
upper deck of the barge was cut
clean away, as if done with knife.
around the upper deck were seated many
men, women and children, upon whom the
broken supports and splinters of the timbers
fell. About 20 persons, in all, were injured
by these flying pieces, but all except those
named above were able to go to
their homes, and their names
could not be ascertained. Had
the steamer struck the barge more squarely
there is no telling what the result would
have been. At the time of the collision
the larger portion of the excursionists were
dancing on the upper and lower decks,
and the moment the crash was
heard a scene of the most intense
excitement began. Men ran hither and
thither, searching for their wives, children
and sweethearts, and shouting for life pre-
servers, while the women screamed and
tainted and the children Joined in with
chorus OF cries. Some half crazed men
wanted to jump into the water with
their families, but the captains of the
barges quieted their fears in a measure by
assuring them that there was no further
danger, as injury to the barge was entirely
on the outside.
The excursion was that of Court Lafayette
No. 344, Independent Order of Foresters of
Elizabeth, N. j.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
BOUND FOB THE FAIR.
A Little 9-Year-OId Girl Starts to Walk
TO Chicago.

Little 9-Year- Old Girl Starts to Walk
TO Chicago.
MARTINsvILLE, IND, July 5.-Bright
little 9-year-old Maggie Richardson, who
lives on farm Is miles away from here, set
out on her first long journey yesterday.
Picking up her dollie and dollie's little
trunk while her mothers back was turned,
the rosy-cheeked little one quietly slipped
away from home. She trudged in the heat
and dust of the country roads until she
reached the railroad station in this citv.
Maggie boarded the first train out for In
dianapolis and cnntentedly planted Dollie
and herself in the first vacant seat. By and
by the conductor came along and looked
down at the wee little woman where she sat,
pointing out to Dollie the flying trees and
telegraph poles.
Where are You going, little girl?" said
the big man in uniform.
The round, blue eyes were turned upward
in astonishment and unhesitatingly the re-
ply came: "Why I'm goin' to the Worlds
Fair, of course"
When the little traveller was restored to
her mother later on in the day she was
loaded down with SO many presents that she
looked as if she had really seen the wonders
of Worlds Fair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
JOHN A. LOGAN, JR.'s ILLNESS.
One of His Lungs Affecred-Mrs. Logan
Talks of Her Husbands Statues.


NEW YORK, July 5.-Mrs.Joh A. Logan
was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day. She
came over to see her daughter, the wife of
Major Tucker, depart for Europe. Her son,
John A. Logan, Jr., is also in the city, un-
der the ozone treatment for his lungs. Some
weeks ago he had hemorrhage and came
here for treatment. Mrs. Logan said only
one of his lungs was affected, but that the
doctor thought there was no danger.
Speaking about her husbands monument,
TO be erected at Washington, Mrs. Logan
said: "A site has already been selected in
Iowa circle, and the models for the design
will soon be submitted. The fund is getting
along splendidly and will soon be raised.
1t will be an equestrian bronze statue, in
tended to represent General Logan as a vol
unteer. jackson Park has been selected
for his statue to be erected in Chicago. St.
Gaudens has been busy at work on the statue
or rather the designs. 1 saw his drawings
not long ago. General Logan will be on
horseback, and the four columns of the
base will be surmounted by eagles. On the
columns will be pictures of the battles he
participated in.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
RAISING FUNDS FOR GRANT PARK.
Entertainments TO be Given ut the Historic
GaIenn Residence.

GALENA, ILL, July 5.-The young
ladies of Galena have hit upon a somewhat
novel plan for enlarging the Grant Park
fund, which is to include the holding OF
garden festivals and lawn parties at the
Grant residence on the east side, the grounds
of which are admirably adapted for enter
tainments of that sort.
The entertainments are to be of public
nature, and bid fair to be immensely popu-
lar. The matter of,moving the soldiers
monument from its present out-of-the-way
location to Grant Park is be brought be-
fore the July meeting of the Board of
Supervisors
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
OXFoRDs OLDEST COLLEGE.
A Story of Frnnck Bright, President of the
University College.


University College.
Harper's Magazine for Juy.1
University College, the oldest in Oxford,
said by tradition to have been founded by
Alfred the Great, is now presided over by
DIR. Franck Bright, the author of widely
used History of England. who succeeded DR..
Bradley in the mas-ership on the appoint
ment of the latter to the deaaery OF West
miuster. He is genial, socially disposed
man, full Of certain dry humor, and i'm
mensely popular in the college. They
tell a story of him which sufficiently
illustrates the quality of his humor.
The college had done well one year in the
annual spring boat races, and the crew,
elated by their success, INDUCED them
selves by giving an unusually uproarious
bump-supper at the conclusion of their ex-
ertions. The next morning one of their
number had to present himself in the Mas
ter's study to give him an essay. The Mas
ter was sitting at his writing table. evil
IDENTIFY absorbed in business. Presently he
looked up, to see the young man standing at
his elbow, essay in hand.
"So-and-so," said the Master Che shutters
a little), "you were all d-d-drunk last
night"
''No. sir! uron my word, sirP' remon-
strated the young man, full OF righteous
indignation.
"Th-th-then there's NO excuse for you,"
said the Master, and went on with his writ
ing.