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Arpino, the blind beggar, sat at his usual
post opposite the Palazzo Medina. For
nearly three months he had never missed
taking up his position there at 10 O'Clock in
the morning, and he never left it till g. As
he sat slightly forwards, with his sinewy
hands clasplng his knees. and the yellowlsh
whites of his sightless eyes upturned, the
sun, which at Naples, even in April, has
ferceness in it, famed upon his lean,
menacing head till the scalp's whiteness
shone through the closely-shorn red hair.
A large plaster covered some sore on his
right cheek. The man sat there so perfectly
motionless that he might have been lay
figure. From morning to evening he never
unclapsed his hands from his knees, unless
his quickened sense of hearing caught the
approaching footsteps of a chance passer-by.
Then Arpino extended one hand, and cried,
with loud. monotonous cry, "For the pity
OF God." He received dole or no, as the
case might be; but the yellowish whites of
his upturned eyes renamed fixed on the
Palazzo.
So fixed, indeed, was this upturncd stare
that tourists at first supposed that Arpino
was really admiring that interesting piece
OF domestic architecture of the Fifteenth
century, attributed to Antonio Baboccio,
with its inscription of 1406 over the door
way, as the date of its erection, with its
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treme comfort is, plainly. its one advantage;
and attired in it, aud unconscious OF Its
wild peculiarities, DR.. Koch sits down to his
breakfast No coffee for him, nor any other
cup that cheers, but instead rather unin-
viting-looking, thick white soup, into which
he puts any amount of little squares
OF toasted brown bread. Then
he changes his coat, starts on
by the Stadtbahn to the Hygienic Institute,
where we shall presently see him at work,
and is seen no more till, punctually at 2 p.
NJ, he returns home to the most frugal OF
dinners, consisting of one course of meat
and vegetables. one light sweet dish, and to
finish up with plate Of soup.
DIR. Koch's amusements are intellectual
rather than physical, but he is not for
nothing Professor of Hygiene at the Berlin
University; and he knows we'll that after
hunting and breeding and studying bacilli
for four hours he is in duty bound to take
some bodily exercise. This he does faith
fully every afternoon. When the clock
strikes there comes hobbling up the
Bruckenstrasse. and led by sturdy sub
altern OF the newest bait stables,
comfortable-looking dapple gray.
The animal has learned by long
experience where to stop, and turns to look
at the two fierce stone lions that guard the
steps in the little front garden of the house
on the top floor of which the Professor lives.
Presently he comes out, in an attire which,
were it ever seen in Rotten Row, would be
the joke of the clubs that night. and which,
even at Berlin, is regarded with good
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began to fan herself languidly. Presently
she asked. rather abruptly. how long the
Count would be at Caserta.
An unwonted vivacity appeared in the
Countess tones as she replied.
"For a month certain" she said. "My
estinIable husband has gone to his country
estate to superintend the sheep shearing,
Carissima, in this sorrowful world we must
be thankful for small mercies."
As she spoke a beautiful resigned smils
lighted her worn face. The Baroness Bra.
vura, however, threw off her apathy and
answered with some warmth, do YOU
know" she said, "that admire your hus-
band?"
"Cara binnda. you were always singular"
Possibly: but I admire your husband all
the same. He is so grim; SO stern looking; so
out of the common run OF Italians, with
that long, fixed gaze of his, which seems to
tell OF the privations he has undergone in
the deserts. Then that scar on his bronzed
lace where the lion clawed him makes him
additionally interesting Yes, my friend,
L envy you your husband"
you the universally admired wife of
the greatest banker in ItalyP'
"What is a banker to an African explorer?
Antonio's sole idea is saving; and he has no
figure. Your husband has at least a
waist."
And being launched on this agreeable
theme, the Baroness passed some further
criticisms on her absent fnancier. She
finally concluded by saying that for so de-
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many palaces of the rich. In reality they
are nothing more than rather superior
houses of the type which the Berliner sweep
ingly calls s"Mietskasernen" (hire-barracks).
In the basement live five cobblers, tailors
and small shopkeepers, and in the front
windows of the ground floor humble flower
pots, and here and there hyacinth in a
glass, with a big paper nightcap over the
sprouting top, to keep the light of, stand in
row. The second floor, tine beI-etsge, is
the show floor. for which most rent is paid,
and to which balcony and occasionally
bow window belongs. But DIR. Koch lives
not on either of these floors; his quarters
are higher still, up three flights OF
steps, covered with the regulation cocoa
nut mating, And there he has only
the one side of the house, with three win
dows looking upon the opposite side of the
street, where the houses are still in the
course of erection, aud with pleasant view
from the side windows over an empty space
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A COSTLY CANDY PULLING.
Reymer Bros Wood Street Factory
Scorched-Great Damage to Stock by
water-The Loss Placed at S2O, ,000-The
.,r Ir,a

Scorched-Great Damage to Stock by
water-The Loss Placed at $50 ,OO0-The
List of Insurance.
Reymer Bros candy factory and store,
Nos. 50S and $40 Wood street, was scorched
early yesterday morning, and much of the
stock badly damaged by water. The entire
loss is placed at $40, 900.
The fire started at 4:35 A. NJ. on the fifth
floor of No. sos, and was confined to this
floor. 1t is supposed to have originated
from defective fue. The damage to the
building is about s., 500. All the stock in
the retail department was destroyed. About
IL, 900 pounds OF candy were ruined. In one
room 5000 pounds had been packed, ready
for shipment to-day. This was all ruined,
and in order to get through the building it
was necessary to literally wade through
melted candy. Such a quantity OF water
was poured into the fire that it was several
inches deep on each floor and three inches
deep in the cellar. Here were stored about
200 barrels of sugar and quantity of I'M
ported cigars. The latter were badly dam
aged and a number OF the barrels OF sugar
ruined. While the fire was entirely con-
fined to the retail store, No. sos Wood
street, the deIuge of water ran into the
wholesale department and damaged much Of
the stock.
The insurance is as follows: Armenia, of
Pittsburg, So, 900; Artisans, 81, 500; M. & M.
of Pittsburg, $1,000; Druggists Mutual,
s., 500; Western. OF Pittsourg, s., 500; M
nougahela. 81, 500; Hartford, ,S5. 500; Pennsyl-
vania, of Philadelphia, s., 500; Sprlnsfeld,
5000; Allegheny, of Pittsburg, $500;
Citizens. ST, 900; Reading. 81, 500; City OF
Pittsburg, s., 500; Manufacturers and Build
ers', of New York, s., 500; Providence, 81 500;
Spring Garden. 81, 500; Cash, of Pittsburg,
s., 500; Franklin, of Philadelphia, 81 800;
Mercantile, of Cleveland, 81 ,250; German,
Pittsburg, S1,25O; Security, $500; Mer-
chants, of New Jersey, s., 900; Equitable,
$1,000; Western, of PIttsburg, $1,000: Ger
msu-American, of New York, 81, 800; Teu-
tonia, Allegheny, $1,000. Insurance on
furniture in retail store: Union, of Pitts.
burg, 81, 500; Northern Assurance, 81 900;
Farmers, 81, 500; total, 81, ,000.
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SEVEN MEN MAY 60 FREE.
History of Remarkable Case Originating
in No Mans Land.

History of Remarkable Case Originating
in No Mans Land.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-Attorney Gen.
eral Miller acknowledges that he erred in
the conduct of the Hay-Camp killing case,
in which seven men were sentenced to die
December 10 by the United States Court for
the Northern district of Texas. This will
probably reverse the verdict and sentence of
the Texas court.
Captain Cyrus Frease, of the Nineteenth
Ohio Volunteers, formerly of near Canton,
o., and six citizens of Hugotown, Kan,
were indicted for the killing of Sheriff
Cross and two companions from Woodsdale,
Kan, whose bodies were found in No Mans
Land. The evidence was all circumstantial.
Sam Wood, Woodsdale leader, was shown
to have worked up the prosecution, and it is
claimed that 800, 900 was spent in the name
OF the Government to convict these men.
Grand Army men and various society
organizations all over the country have
been moving in behalf of the prisoners, one
of whom was a County Commissioner and
another Congressional candidate. Senator
Manderson, of Nebraska, has been active in
behalf of the prisoners. The question Of
the jurisdiction of the Court of the North
ern district of Texas, over No Mans Land,
is involved in the case, and is now being
argued by judges Dillon, of New York;
Peck, Of Topeka, and Day, OF Canton.
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0 where the roof of the bellevue Palace

to where the roof of the Bellevue Palace
looks over the bare trees. CDR. r. Koch"
is printed on the small china plate above the
letter-box on the door, behind which, on
entering, You find dark little vesti-
bule-again just as you find it in scores
and scores of thousands of Berlin fats. A
big looking-glass. hat-stand and few
chairs are the only furniture upon which
dim ray of light from window in passage
round the corner fails on a gray November
day.
THE DOCTORS WIFE.
Three doors lead into the vestibule: the
one nearest to the front door admitting to
the doctors cozy and comfortable study, the
chief ornament in which is o fine large
marble bust of the old Emperor William l.,
foliage plants. Everything is of that spot
less cleanliness which is the German house
wiie's greatest pride, and the Frau Pro-
fessor in herself is exactly the woman one
would imagine to be the presiding genius
over the establishment She is of me-
dunn height, and very simple
dark dress, held at the throat with
a gold ornament, fits closely round her
slight and elegant figure Her complexion
is fresh and healthy. and her fair hair,
which is simply parted in the center, in the
way which is now often playfully called the
madonna coiffure," is just beginning to
turn gray.
Sometimes, however, the family servant,
a mIddle-aged woman, in whom the SIM
plicity and neatness. and even the slight
nervousness, OF the FRAU Professor" are
repeated, comes out, and bids the visitor
enter. The hours of the early afternoon,
and again the pleasant time from P. NJ. to
midnight, are the visiting hours in DR..
Koch's household. The morning callers
find him pleasant enough and courteous,
with the ease of man of the world, but
with much more than the kindness and
geniality of that parsonage. But it is only
at night, when the work of the day is over,
that he gives himself fully up to social
pleasures. 1t is then that his friends drop
in, to share his ample meal (during which
he take great deal of soda water, but very
little of any alcoholic drink, and more fire.
quently after supper. Up to midnight the
conversation flows on; the professor, who is
an excellent talker and companion, being
never weary Of entertaining his guests.
NOT AN EARLY RISER.
In the morning DR.. Koch likes to remain
undisturbed till about O'Clock, when he
rises and dresses, carefully and rather
slowly, and comes to breakfast ready to go
out, except that, instead of the usual morn
ing coat, he wears garment at the sight OF
which one is at first almost inclined to turn
away and hide . wicked smile. This is q
long, loose coat, mot unlike q lady's dress
| ing-gown, and it is quite sleeveless, Its ex-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
8 BIG COMBINE
Owners Of Steel Patents Hold an Inn
portant Conference.

Owners OF Steel Patents Hold an I'm
portant Conference.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12.-Fifty millions
Of capital were represented by little gronp
OF iron and steel magnates that met in this
city yesterday. They were members of the
Steel Patents Company and owners of the
patents controlling the basic process OF man.
ufacture and also the Bessemer process. A
number of important patents connected with
both the Bessemer and the basic processes
have expired, and it was mainly this that
brought the magnates together They pro-
pose to take steps which will make it next
to an impossibility for anyone outside of the
big combine to get a foothoid, even in
possession Of patents
Competition of smaher plants may grow
more formidable as the patents expire, and
how to get rid of this competition was one
of the important matters discussed. Among
the companies represented at the meeting
were the Andrew Carnegie Works, the
Cambria Iron Company, the Pennsylvania
Steel and Iron Company and others.
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natured smile. Were the doctor twice as
stout as he is, and were the beast from the
bait stables just little better groomed and
spirited, one might imagine the man in the
slouch hat and the ill-ftting coat were
another Bismarck, for it is about the same
time that the guarded gates of Friedrichs-
rub open to let ont the ci-devant Great
Chancellor.
CROWD OF DOCTORS AND PATIENTS.
So far DR.. Koch's daily life. 1t still goes
on as it did before the great discovery was
published. and Berlin is only just awakening
TO the fact that the great man lives and moves
and has his being within her walls. But
the hotel keepers kn6wif, for it is not fiction,
but plain tact, that all the hotels are
crowded with medical men and with con-
sumptives.
About dozen English doctors arrived Oh
Tuesday, and are staying in clusters OF
threes and fours at the Bellevue, the CONT
mental, and the Kaiserhof, and there is not
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an hotel at Berlin where there are not at
least a couple OF doctors. At one hotel no
less than 38 OF the fraternity have their
haunt; they have come from the utmost
ends of Europe. an especially large
contingent of italian medical men
being among them. Montreux, Davos-
platz. and most Of the Riviera sanitary re-
sorts have sent a medical man, and every
morning they go to assist at the 'demonstra-
tions' of Koch's method, or to visit the
patients at the various temporary hospitals,
and every night they sit together, discussing
now gravely, now noisiiy and excitedly, the
wonderful discovery that has sent thrill
of new hope through uncounted numbers
who, until few weeks ago. were believed,
and believed themselves, to be slowly. but
surely, drawn into the valley of the shadow
of DEATH
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DEATHS RICH HARVEST.
Scattered Gases of Diphtheris Reported
From All Over the City.

Scattered Cases of Dfphtheria Reported
From All Over the City.
The mortuary report for the week ending
December shows total of S8 deaths, as
compared with &C during the corresponding
period OF 1889. In the old city there were
21 deaths; East End, 81; Southside, 25, and
institutions, IL. Twenty-one of the deaths
were those of children under Q years of age;
II were between the ages of 2 years and 10
years; % between the ages OF 10 years and 40
years, and % between the ages OF 40 years
and 80 years.
There were deaths from typhoid fever, 6
from diphtheria, 10 from phthisis pulmonalis,
from diseases of heart, from pneumonia,
6 from bronchitis, from Group, 1 from asth.
ma, from congestion of lungs, 8 from dis
eases Of the nervous system and 8 from old
age.
During the week there were reported to
the Bureau Of Health SO cases of diphtheria
and of scsrlatina. Seven OF the diphtheria
cases were in the Sixteenth ward, in the
Fourteenth ward, 8 in the Eleventh ward,
2 in the Seventeenth ward, 2.in the Twenty
fourth ward, 2 in the Thirteenth ward, 2 in
the Thirty-second ward, 2 in the Fifth ward,
and one case in each of the following wards:
Thirty y-frst, Eighteenth, Eighth, Twenty
eighth, Twelfth, Twenty-ninth, Twenty
seventh and Second.
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GOT THEIR PLACES HONESTLY.
Oficeholders Before the CT ncinnati Inves-
tigating Committee.

Omceholders Before the CT ncinnati Inves-
tigating Committee.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 12.-The Investi-
eating Committee to-day took up the matter
OF the appointment of the Decennial Board
of Equalization, concerning which Mr..
Zumstein had testified that Controller Stew
ems had offered to appoint himifor 81, 900,
ss ying he had offers from others of $6, 600.
The committee exami ned James Allison, j.
II. Rhodes, Charles Whiteley, Frederick
Baine, Michael Mueller. William Schmidt,
A. @. Gilligan and T. NJ. Pattison, who had
received appointments.
They all agreed in saying that no i'm
proper means were adopted to secure their
places. They had Recommendations from
leading citizens. One of them was detec-
tive and used that fact as an inducement.
Most of them thought the pay was $8 day y,
but found it only $3. Mr.. Drausin Wilson
denied that he was employed by Stevens to
urge giving him the appointing power.
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WILL KEEP THEIR PROMISE.
southside Chicago People Win Raise
Million for the Worlds Fair.

Southside Chicago People win Raise q
Million for the Worlds Fair.
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-The local Worlds
Fair fund of $40, 900, 900 is to be increased
81, 600, 900, to be subscribed by the Legisla-
tive authorities or by the many rich men of
the Thirty.second ward. This interesting
fact was communicated to Vice President
Bryan this morning by Alderman w. r.
Kerr, Of that ward.
When the question of site was under
discussion, Mr.. Kerr was Chairman of a
meeting in Hyde Park, which promised the
Directory 81, 900, 900 if the fair was located
at Jackson Park. Mr.. Kerr this morning
stated that he recognized their engagement
to produce this sum and steps will imme-
diately be taken to get hold OF it. '"There is
one thing evident" admitted Mr.. Kerr,
sand that is, if we cannot induce the Leg
islature to grant the South Park Board the
right TO borrow this sum, we, the response
BILE people of the South Park district, will
have to 60 down into our own pockets"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-13
A CoNTEMPTU0Us HUN
Is Brought Into Court After Fight at the
Muzzle of Revolver.

Is Brought Into Court After a Fight at the
Muzzle of Revolver.
John David, a Hungarian. whose home is
in Braddock, was committed to Jail yester-
day afternoon charged with contempt of
court. David was subpoenaed on Thursday
to appear as witness in court in case of
felonious assault and battery preferred
against George Matzo. David told the
officer when he subpenaed him that he
would not appear.
Yesterday when the case was brought up
in court David was missing. Officer John
Howard was sent to Braddock with war
rant for Dayid's arrest. When Howard
went to David's house he was surrounded
BY David and four or five other men, who
brandished knives and threatened to cut
him to pieces ii he attempted the arrest.
After some discussion over the matter How
ard managed to get out of the way of the
men with the knives and arrested David,
by pointing a revolver at him,
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CITIES.

Pittsburg is practically entitled to fourth
place in the foregoing table in the matter
OF increase. Philadelphia actually shows q
larger increase than Pittsburg, however,
but when you come to consider that with
two times as many inhabitants as ALLIE
gheny county, it only has gained l, ,737 more
population than Allegheny county in ten
years, that increase becomes so trivial as to
be almost lost sight Of In proportion to
the population, Pittsburg has ouIran Phila-
delphia in growth.
The next two closest rivals to Pittsburg
have always been supposed to be Baltimore
and st. Louis. By Mr.. Blair's table we
have left both those cities far in the rear,
having more than doubled on their rate of
increase. We have nearly trebled the rate
of Cincinnati's progress. For the balance
of the American cities, the above table is
comprehensive, and will show at a glance
how Pittsburg has ran in the decades race
with all OF them.
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TO RESTRICT PRODUCTION.

A Farmers Organization Desires Products
Withdrawn From the Markets.
DECATUR, ILL, Dec. 1.-THE Maroa
Lodge of the Farmers Mutual Benefit
Association announced the adoption to-day
of the following resolution:
Believing that the farmers products are far
below the average cost of production, and be-
lieving that the agriculturists can, through
their organizations, control the markets. there
fore he it
Resolved, That It is the sense of this meeting
that the State and national organizations Of
the Farmers Mutual Benefr Association,
Grange and Alliance be requested to fix the
day and date for taking all the CATTLE hogs and
gram off the market in this month for 20 days.
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KOCH AND HIS LYMPH
The Home Life of the Physician Who
is Now so Prominent.
NUMBER OF VISITING DOCTORS
He Believes in Exercise and Takes Horse
back Ride Daily.
DOES NOT LIVE AS AN ARIsTocRAT

Not more than stones throw from the
Bellevue station of the Berlin Stadtbahn, in
the last house of the Bruckenstrasse, says
the Pail Mall Budget. lives DR.. Koch, the
Consumption curer," or, as somebody
called him here to-day, the Faust of the
nineteenth century. The Bruckenstrasse is
by no means an aristocratic thoroughfare,
though any one who does not know the
secrets of the "new Berlin" which
has sprung up round the
old town during the last 20 years
would at first sight imagine that all those
high white stone buildings, with balconies,
carvings and other ornamentations, were so
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EMPLOYERS SUING FOR PEACE.

The Long Dispute Between Master Car
penters and Employees to End.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-THE Master Car
penters' Association, which for months past
has been fighting the Journeymen Car
penters' Union, took more amicable view
of matters tonight and appointed COM
mittee to meet i similar body from the
jourDeymen.
The conference will be held Saturday, 1t
is expected that a compromise will be
reached.
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KEEPING UP THEIR WORK.
Alderman Bell and Captain Wishart Still
After the Oil Pumpers.

After the Oil Pumpers.
Alderman ]. w. Bell and Captain
Wishart yesterday made Gillespie Bros.
take their dose of treacle and birthstone as a
penalty for having petroleum pumped from
their well at Forest Grove on Sunday. On
the fourth conviction they were fined $40
and costs. Defendants paid but little atten-
tion to the matter, neither having counsel
nor offering testimony.
The indications are that the pumping will
go on and defendants carry the case into
court, where. if they succeed in the same de-
tense made week or two ago, showing
pumping to be necessity to save the
destruction of the wells, they will come out
on top.
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THE BOY MURDERER CONVICTED.

The Attorney Of Charles Miller VIII Apply
for a New Trial.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 12.-Charles
Miller, the 15-year-old boy. who last Sep
tember murdered Ross Fishbaugh and
Wallie Emerson. of st. Joseph, while steal
ing ride with them in box car, was to-
day found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree.
His attorney will apply for new trial.
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REMOVING THE REMAINS.

Hundreds of Coff1ns of Forgotten New York
Worthless Transferred.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Withina few days
the last of the crumbled habitants of the
crumbling vaults under the site of old St.
Luke's, in Hudson street, will have been
brought up to the light once more for re-
movai to Woodlawn or Mt. Hope. There
are 20 vaults crowded together in the church
yard and under the chapel. All but four of
these vaults have been opened-the four
under the chapel. From them over 600