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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
FAILED FOR A MILLION.
The Big New York Silk Firm of Louis
FRANKIE & Co. Goes under-Losses by
Recent Failures and Tight
Money the Causes.


NEW YORK, April ia big failure in
the silk trade was announced to-day-that
of the well-known firm of Louis FRANKIE &
Co., raw silk importers, ITO Grand street,
who are also manufacturers of thrown silk
at Paterson, n. j. Louis FRANKIE and
Henry W. Strauss, the partners of the firm,
made general assignment without prefer
ences to lawer Adolphus II. Stoiber.:.
There were rumors current several da vs.
ago that silk house was sin trouble" but
the trade had no idea the firm Of Louis
FRANKIE & Co. were embarrassed, as they
were supposed to have capital of at least
S500,0 Sympathy is expressed for the
firm, and it is hoped they will get an e1ten-
sion of time. The liabilities are said
to be upward of 100000, with
nominal assets of 81, 200, 900. The causes
attributed for the embarrassment are inabil-
ity to raise money to meet maturing obliga-
tions, the stringency of the money market
the stoppage of accommodations by the
banks and losses by recent failures in Pater-
son. 1t is said the firm lost In all the
recent silk trade failures, that they have
been carrying great many small concerns
who do not pay promptly and find difficulty
In collections. Their outstanding accounts
are large and they were liberal in credits
They imported the bulk of their raw silk
from France and Japan and bought in the
local market. @''-~e - - .-.'
They are said to be one of the firms who
bought heavily of raw silk in 1888, when
prices were low and made a big profit.
They generally carried a stock of about
$780, 200. Their paper heretofore had sold
at low rates as gilt edged, but recently, it is
said, they found difficulty in disposing of
it, although their financial position was un-
questioned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
ON TIE VANDERBILT SYSTEM.
The Men Threaten TO Go Out In Body on
Account of Wholesale Dismissnls.
rsPEcIAL rELEGRAM TO THE nIsP ArCHl

The Men Threaten 10 Go Out In Body on
Account of Wholesale DismIssnIs.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCH.l
LoCKPoRT, N. Y, April 1.-THE trouble
along the New York Central over the
wholesale discharge OF men is spreading
rapidly. From private and trustworthy
sources it is learned that the X. of L.
switchmen and freight men of the
whole Vanderbilt system of lines have
been holding secret meetings, and the Ex-
ecutive Committees have named committee
to wait upon the Executive Com
mittee of the company to ask for
the removal of the General Superin-
tendent of that road or else change
his policy against the men. Orders have
been received from New York to remove
some 30 or more men on the Niagara Falls
division. The work trains are to lose from
eight to ten men each.
The men are in earnest in the matter of
a strike. There has been man here in
conference with the switchmen and brake
men, and every man is made to sign a cast
iron agreement to 60 out when the
order is given, From the talk among
the men it is thought that the whole
Vanderbilt system will be affected. Not
only are the men dissatisfied with the sud-
den and unexplained dismissal, butthe heads
of departments condemn the policy in no
unmeasured terms. The result is anxiousIy
awaited on all sides.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
TOOK HIM BY THE THROAT.
An Angry Wife Follows a Recreant Hus-
band Across the Atlantic.

An Angry Wife Follows a Recreant Hus.
band Across the Atlantic.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
NEW YORK, April 17.-Theodore Wilde,
well-to-do furrier, lived happily with his
wife and seven children in London until
three months ago, when he engaged good
looking servant girl, Augustine Sunbach.
The wife became so jealous that the girl was
ordered to leave the house. She took her
time about it, and when, early in March, she
sailed for this country, she was accompanied
by Wilde, who took with him his four boys.
Mrs. Wilde followed them and arrived on
Tuesday last, together with her three little
girls. Detective Gordon, OF Castle Garden,
found the husband at 46 First street. To-
day Gordon, Mrs. Wilde and the three lit
tie girls went to the house. The husband,
the servant girl and the four boys were
seated at table eating their dinner.
The four little boys jumped off their stools
and ran to their mother, who stood glaring
at the woman who had taken her place. The
next moment she had Augustine by the
throat. Gordon arrested Wilde and took
him to the Essex Market Police Court,
where Justice Patterson held him to pay his
wife s. week. The other woman also came
to court and, after the husband paid the Sc
for the coming week and had given bonds,
she linked her arm in his and they walked
off. Mrs. Wilde has now the seven children
to care for.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE.
Novel scheme Projected by the Canadian
Administration to Aid the Working
Clnsses - Annuities for

Men or Women.
OTTAWA, April lit is understood that
the Government has under consideration an
important measure drawn up by the Secre-
tary of State with view to offering the
working classes the advantages of a gigantic
scheme of cooperative insurance, and that
an endeavor will be made to get the bill
through during the present session.
The main idea is to enable the working
people to insure for themselves a competence
in old age. ANY person desirous of provid-
ing an annuity for himself or herself may do
SO by arranging to pay in so much
per year to the Government to any age be-
tween 30 and 56. At the end of the time
stipulated payments cease and the annuity
commences. The annuity may take one Of
two shapes, either the annuity is paid SIM
the deposit itself is paid over to the heirs
of the depositor on his death, or an annuity
is paid to the depositor on scale calculated
from both the interest and capital of the de-
posit, in which case the annuity will be
much larger, but there will be nothing left
at the depositor's death. The largest annuity
that can be provided tor by any one person
will be $500 per year. In case of sickness
of death before the annuity falls due, the
money paid is available at once for the de-
positor or the heirs. The Secretary of State
has availed himself of various features of
the German and French systems. The small
est payments, if continued for lifetime,
will amply protect the insured in old age.
The scheme is aimed to be a corrective
against improvidence, and will afford to the
working classes protection they cannot pay
for to ordinary insurance companies.
Women can enjoy the same advantages as
men by making payments. and various
clauses in the bill will protect the rights OF
married women.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
TAKE HEED.

1t is an absolute fact that many suffer. and
indeed too many are daily hood winked by pat
ent medicine and quack treatment, anG they
give way to foolish advice and leave a regular
schooled and reputable physician 10 resort to
all kinds OF patent nostrums in vain to find
health and strength. when they could really be
assured that there is more nourishment in one
bottle of Klein's Silver Age than in a carload
of the stuff they call '.invigorators" 1t is too,
well-known physicians, who cheerfully indorse
this excellent and pure stimulant. Hospital
superlntendents. who are regularly using these
goods. say. ut is the best stimuant we can get
and has its desired effect" All druggists keen
it. Each bottle contains a full standard quart
and is sold at 81 80 each. Send for complete
catalogue and price list of all kinds of liqu0rsto
MAX KLEIN,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
Troubles in the Labor World.

THE strike of the London shoemakers has
been amicably settled.
NoN-UNIoN carpenters are being imported to
Wheeling to take the places Of the strikers.
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY contractors
have agreed to their employees demands for a
nine-hour day, with appropriate decrease of
wages.
THE 800 employees Of the Jackson Company's
Mills at Nashau. N. H., have struck for an in.
crease of wages. The strike has been ex.
pected.
FOURTEEN Of the 20 employers have con-
ceded the demands OF the New York knee
pant makers. and 200 Of the 1000 strikers have
returned to work. The other employers are
now ready to settle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
A PADRONE'S PROFITS.
a Railroad Contractor Who Has Furnished
$4,000 italian Railroad Lnborers-
His Business Methods and

His Business Methods and
How He is Paid.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
NEW YORK, April F.-Joseph Gallo, an
italian broker and railroad contractor, gave
to the subcommittee of the Congressional
Committee on immigration, at its session
to-day. some information that may interrupt
his business prosperity when the sub-com-
mittee frames an immigrant law for Congress
to act on. Gallo said he had about 300
Italians, rs Huns and smaller number OF
colored men working for him. The Italians
lived on from IS to s. month, the colored
men lived higher, usually paying from SIS
to $40 a month. Mr.. Gallo said he had sent
down South, within the past 10 years, about
50, 900 Italians who were put to work on
railroads.
He made no profit out of furnishing these
men. He did it merely to advertise his
business as broker. There was plenty of
work for all. He handled about 81 ,O0O, 900
year in his brokerage business. Tom Nc
CURE, Master Workman of District Assem-
bly, 49, said that Gallo was nothing more nor
less than padrone. The men whom he sent
away had to pay him and others of his class
IS for the privilege of getting work on the
month perhaps, the padrone had tine laborer
discharged and the laborer would go to the
padrone again and pay s. more for another
job. The witness knew of men who were
landed al Castle Garden one day and were
found working on the West Shore tracks
the next day.
While Gallo was testifving Mr.. Mcclure
said be had sent messenger to Gallo's
place and the messenger was told that Gallo
would furnish labnrers to anybody who
wanted them at 81 25 to 81 45 a day. He
denied Gallo's statement that there was
work for everybody. An American citizen
with family could not live on the same
money that an italian without a family
subsisted on. The steamship companies
were to blame for much of the stimulated
immigration Mr.. Mcclure said the immi-
grafton commissioners had persistently
prevented the representatives of labor from
trying to find out anything about contract
laborers whom the labor organization knew
were about to be landed at Castle Garden.
When the contract labor law was made
President Cleveland was asked to appoint
labor men as inspectors. He did nothing in
the matter. Contract laborers had been
landed ever since the law had gone into
effect
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
Sick Headache

is complaint from which many suffer
and few are entirely free. Its cause
is Indigestion and sluggish liver, the
cure for which is readily found In the
use of Ayers Pills.
"I have found that for sick headache,
caused by disordered condition OF the
stomach, Ayers Pills are the most re-
liable dy."-Samuel G. Bradburn,
Worthington, Mass.
"After the use of Ayers Pills for
many years, in my practice and family,
/ am justified in saying that they are an
excellent cathartic and liver medicine
sustaining all the claims made for them"
w. A. Westfall, M. D., V. p. Austin
&.N. W. Railway Co., Burnet, Texas. 4
"Ayer's Pills are the best medicine
known to me for regulating the bowels,
and for all diseases caused by a dis
ordered stomach and liver. / suffered
for over three years from headache, in
digestion, and constipation. I had no
appetite and was weak and nervous
most of the time. By using three boxes
of Ayers Pills, and at the same time
dieting myself, 1 was completely cured"
Philip Lockwood, Topeka, Kansas.
al was troubled for years with indi-
gestion, constipation, and headache. A
few boxes of Ayers Pills, used in small
daily doses, restored me to health,
They are prompt and effective. w. II.
Strout, MeadVille, Pa.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
LEVEES IN DANGER,

Five thousand Men Already Mt Work and
More Needed.
NEW ORLEANS, April 17.-Information
having been received of the critical condi-
tion of Morganza and other levees along
the Point Coupee front Captain John
w. Grant, of the Texas aud Pa
cifc Railroad, made requisition
on this district for 100 men to 90 to their
relief Tht requisition was honored Ly
Colonel Sparks, who left at 2 P. M, taking
with him 800 men. They go by special
train 10 Baton Rouge junction, thence by
steamer to Morganza.
Five thousand men are now working on
the levees, but as this is only 80 men to a
mile there is plenty of room for few thou
sand more.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
A POOR INVENTOR'S TROUBLES.
Charged With Using the Mails TO Incur OBJ
legations He Cannot Meet.


legations He Cannot Meet.
CINCINNATI, April 17.-An interesting
case of alleged misuse of the mails has been
brought before the court by the arrest in
Newport, KY, of Charles L. Hartsfeld on a
charge of using the United Sta tes mails for
the purpose of defrauding. The allegation
is that Harstfeld has been sencling out long
advertisements of his Schme idebarenguss
Furnace Company, the Newport Aluminium
and Steel Company, and the Harfsfeld Alum
mum and Steel Company, and in this way
incurring many obligations, butwhen drafts
are made upon him he refuses payment. 1t
is stated that several hundred newspapers
have been thus defrauded and 1oostofice In
spector Holden, who has charge. of the pros
ecution, is engaged now in obt aiming state
ments of newspapers of their dealings with
Hartsfeld.
The defendant has been relea sed on bond
OF $500 to answer before the q nited States
Commissioner. His defense is that he is a
struggling inventor and eing out of
money is not evidence Of intent to defraud.
He has claimed to discover process of re-
timing aluminium at a very cheap rate, and
later he has claimed the discovery of a new
metal called Schmeidebarenguss which can
be nodded into any shape, and still have
most wonderful strength.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
WANT THEIR PAY FIXED BYLAW.
Railway Postal Clerks Will Ask Congress
to Regulate Their Salaries,

CHICAGO, April T.-Fifty members of
the Executive Committee of the National
Association of Railway Postal Clerks held
a meeting here to-day to discuss wavs of
having their salaries fixed by law and the
regulation of the same placed in the hands
of Congress. The committee will meet
Congressman W. E. Mason for a conference
tomorrow.
Chairman John A. Mahar stated at the
meeting that under the existing system of
handling appropriations the clerks, not the
people, are forced to pay for every increase
in the efficiency of the service. The Ex-
ecutiVe Committee, which acts for over
thousand members, has sent out circulars to
members of Congress asking their support
to House resolution G, ,459, which fixes their
salaries by law. as against two other bills
now under consideration which impose the
deficiency conditions upon the clerks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
RIOTING STRIKERS ARRESTED,
They Pound nm Alleged Spy Until He Calls
for Police Assistance.

for Police Assistance.
NEW YORK, April ia riot on small
scale took place tonight at the American
Star Hall in East Broadway. A mob of
excited Hebrews were holding q meet
ing to consider whether they should
stay out on strike, having left a
tailor shop because they could not get
higher wages when Louis Rubensky came
along. The strikers called Rubensky a spy
and pounded him so seriously that he ran
bleeding to the Eldridge street police sta
tion.
Two policemen went out to look for the
assailants and were attacked by them. Re-
in iorcements were summoned and four
strikers, including woman, were arrested
and locked ND,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
THE MERCANTILE AGENCY
r. G.. Dun & Co..

Germania Bank Building. 423 Wood street, cor
ner of Diamond, Pittsburg Pa.
This establishment supplies all necessary
ETC., of business men throughout North Amer
lea. 1t is the oldest and by far the most COM
plete and extensive system ever organized for
the accommodation of Banking and Mercantile
interests and the General Promotion and Pro-
lection of Trade.
Debts Collected and Legal Business Attended
to throughout the North American Continent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
ASKING FOR TARIFF REVISION.

The Massnchusetts Senate Dtsclares for
Reduced Duties Upon Nece,Isaries.
BOSTON, April 1.-THE Senate to-day
adopted resolution to Congress declaring
in favor of thorough revision of tine tariff
and the reduction of duties upon the raw
materials of manufactures and upon the
necessaries of lie, as far as the same can be
made with due regard to laboring and man
ufacturing interests.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
A CONFLICT AT WASHINGTON,
Contractors and Carpenters Cannot Agree on
Wages and Hours of Labor.

Contractors and Carpenters Cannot Agree on
Wages and Hours of Labor.
ESPECIAL rELEGRAM TO THE DIsP ArcH,I
WASHINGTON, PA, April H.-Both
contractors and carpenters grow nervous as
the LIST of May approaches. On the LIST
Of January last, the Carpenters Union here
informed the builders that on the 1st of
May they would demand 50 80 per day, and
that nine hourss were toi constitute days
work, and eight on Saturday. The masons
and other unions have demanded an increase
of wages with shorter hours, and the inter-
views with prominent contractors show a
strong spirit of opposition to these demands.
1t is now probable they will unite to fight
these demands. Contractors are refusing to
take any work that will take them longer
than the 5th of May to finish, and will make
no estimate on work until the matter is
finished. The carpenters claim that there
are so few non-union men here that their
demands will be granted, as the work is
very imperative. The men receive some
5000 per week from the contractors now,
and that sum will be elargely increased when
the weather and roads permit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
FAVOR BALLOT REFORM.
Tho Australian System Adopted by One
Branch Of Obio's Legislature.


COLUMBUS, April 1.-THE House occu-
pied the entire day, with the exception OF
the time the members were in attendance on
the baseball game, in the consideration Of
the Mallon election bill, known as the Aus
tralian system of voting. The bill was
finally passed, many Republicans voting
for it, and it is believed the Senate will act
favorably upon the measure. The bill has
been championed to some extent by Gov
ernor Campbell, and it is understood that
many Democrats voted for it out of defer
ence to the wishes of the Governor.
The food adulteration bill became law
as amended. The bill recreating the State
Canal Commission has become a law. 1t is
to look after the regaining of waste lands
The Governor has appointed as the CON-
mission W. c. Boden, of Guernsey, A. h
Roose, Circleville, and R. NJ. Rownd, Co.
lumbus.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
DESTROYING A MURDER.
The Alleged Victim still In the Land Of tho
Living.

THO AHeRed VIctIm sun II INC Land Of tho
Living.
KANSAS CITY, April 17.-Henry Graves.
a travelling salesman, stated to the Chief of
Police to-day that in July, 1887, he saw at
Los Angeles, CAL, William c. Wrighte-
man, for whose alleged murder in 1886, his
partner, James Sherman, was arrested at
Springfield, Mo-, day or two ago.
Chief Speers regards this as convincing
evidence that Wrighteman was not MUIR
dered but disappeared in the hopes that the
insurance company would pay over to his
heirs s23, 900 in policies. The Prosecuting
Attorney refuses to present Sherman's case
to the grand Jury.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
More Pennsylvania Postmusters.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE President
to-day sent to the following nominations of
postmasters in Pennsylvania: Bide W.
Wilde, Hazelton; Frank E. Hollar, Ship
pensburg: Nathan Wilson, Downingtown:
Thomas Biting. Amber; George W. Stet-
son, Cambridgeborough Milton T. Don
never, Kutztown.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
A COUNTESS LAW SUIT.

She Says the Trustee of Her Estate Has
Not Accounted TruthfuIIy.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Countess Won
Linden has instituted suit against Henri
M. Bream, halEblood relative to cancel
the deed of trust by which her property was
given in care to him for an accounting, and
to have the property returned and a new
trustee appointed.
Her father died in 1873. leaving her s57,-
9S4 in cash and securities valued at S132,-
5S8. She claims that Bream, as trustee,
rendered false accounting. He interposed
demurrer in the Supreme Court, which
Judge Ingraham to-day overruled.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
PUBLISHER EMBARRAS SED.
A. Il. Hubbard, of Philadelphia, Needs Time
TO Meet His LiabiIitie,L

PHILADELPHIA, April IA. 81. Hub
bard, the owner of Hubbard Bros Pub
hshing House, No. 406 Race street. is fnan-
cially EN- barrassed and canno. 20 on with
his business unless he is given an extension
of time. His liabilities amount, it is said,
to s140, 900, and he places his assets at about
$500, 900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18

IF your house needs papering don't put
it off any longer, but go and see the largest
line of all classes of wall paper ever shown
in Pittsburg or Allegheny at John S. Rob-
erts', Ala Wood ST. wThFsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
THIRTY THOUSAND MINERS OUT.
Conflicts Between Troops and Strikers, II
Which Some of the Latter Are Killed.


Which Some of the Latter Are Killed.
VIENNA, April 17.-ln the Ostran and
Karwin districts there are 80, 900 miners out
on strike. The men demand a working day
of eight hours and the settlement of minor
grievances. The latest news from the dis
turbed districts is that the strikers attacked
a party of soldiers, and that in the fight that
followed three of the miners were killed and
many wounded. The troops in the mining
districts have been reinforced.
Twelve thousand workmen in the Witt
kovitz Iron Works have struck. The troops
at Karwin fred among the rioters. Several
persons were wounded. one, it is reported
fatally. The mire owners of Rohonitz have
asked the Governor of Prague to send troops
The Ostran strikers, tonight, attacked a
factory at Kunzendorf and cellulose
factory at Ratiman, and compelled the
hands to leave work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
Eight Hours a Days Work,

KANSAS CITY, April 1.-THE lower
house of City Council tonight passed by
unanimous vote the ordinance fixing eight
hours as days work. for all city employees
and for laborers employed on city con-
tracts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
Al the pennle,a SIare,

Ladies' calico wrappers, plain, 70 cents;
a little fuller and ruff I'D, 81 90
Mother Hubbards 81 25 All goods sold
as low as permissible with paying our oper-
atives fair wages, and give the merchant a
share of profit. CAMPBELL & DICK.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
A Russian Palnce Rnrned.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 1.-THE Impe-
rial palace at oranienbaum, 20 miles west
OF this city, has been destroyed by fire.
seyen of the palace servants were burned to
death.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18

SEE our special drives in underwear at
81, 81 so, 81 per suit. You will find them
better values than ever at Chas. Pfeiler's,
443 Smithteld and 100 Federal st., Allie
pheny