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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23

since then has been consumed by the delays
in receiving plates. These tests are OF great
importance. They will develop the ability
of American manufacturers to compete with
foreign foundries, although no direct
comparison will be made between domestic
and foreign product. Three companies nave
already signifed an intention of submitting
armor plates-the Reddeman-Ti ford, the
International Steel Company, and Carnegie,
Phipps & Co. No plates are expected from
the Bethlehem Iron Works, as it has the
contract for supplying this material and
present war vessel, and the work Will keep
them busy for some years.
The NAVY Department will test newly
invented nickel steel plate from Crensor,
and an old steel plate also from Schneider
& Co. The present delay is said to be due
to the non-arrival of the compound plate
made of soft iron, faced with steel, pur-
chased by Commodore Falger from Shelf
field firm. 1t is intended to make relative
test of the Crensor and Shelf eld material.
The tests were to take place September z, at
where two huge targets were
erected some months ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
TWO TRAINS RUN AWAY.
A BRACE OF FRIeHTFUL ACCIDENTS IN
THE FAR WEST.

Nineteen Cars Wrecked and Four Men
Killed on California Road-Three M en-
Meet the Same Fate in n Similar Way
in Colorado.
EMIGRANT GAP, CAL, August IA
serious freight wreck occurred at Cascade
early this morning, A train was standing
at Summit with airbrakes set while the
engineer went after more cars. The air
leaked and the hand brakes not being set
up, the caboose and several cars started
down grade. When the runaway train
reached Cascade another freight was pulling
liz on side track. All but the caboose and
one car cleared the main track. The run
away train struck them and wreck re-
suited. Conductor Kingsley, of the run
away, and Conductor Connolly and Brake
men Beaver and Levi, of the other train,
were killed, and it is understood one or two
others were badly hurt.
Cascade station, a small structure, was
thrown down a precipitous hill, but the op-
orator escaped. The snow sheds were de-
molished tor some distance Seventeen cars
of the runaway train and two of the other
train were piled up in mass and the wires
prostrated. Wrecking trains are clearing
away the debris.
A dispatch from Denver says: Three men
were killed and three seriously injured by
the running wild Of a stock train in the
vicinity OF Lyons, COL, this morning. The
train was on down grade, and without ap-
parent reason the engineer found be had
lost control of the engine, whereupon the
whole train started on wild run down the
mountain side. When Engineer Norton
found he could not control his engine, he
jumped and was killed. The fireman
then climbed back over the tender
and attempted to uncouple the engine
but was unsuccessful and sustained serious
injuries in jumping from the train. Both
brakenen jumped, one being almost in
stantly killed and the other sustained inju-
ries from which he cannot recover. The
train continued on its career until the dump
was reached, when all the cars went over
and piled up in 8 promiscuous mass OF
ruins.
The names of the killed were E. Norton,
engineer; Ferguson, car repairer; w. Cur
ken, car repairer. Injured: James Consi-
dine, conductor; j. B. Strayer, brakem an;
james Miller, fireman. -
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
As to the charge affecting himself the
Doctor said:
DELEGATE sCHAFFER ARRESTED.

Further Legal Action in the Twenty. Fifth
District Bribery Case.
BEAVER FALLS, August 22.-This after
noon at late hour Edwin Schaffer, one of
the delegates from this (Twenty-ffth Con-
gressionaD district, alleged to have been
bribed, was arrested by Marshal Stevens, of
New Castle, on a charge of conspiracy. He
at once gave bail in the sum OF 81, 900 before
Justice Piper, Titus Welsh going his bail.
Schaffer was seen this evening by your re-
porter, and in regard to the arrest said he
had nothing to go on record now. They
could do nothing with him, and it was all
wind work at any event.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23

tention to the individual. There is not alone
the man, but it Is the man and woman to-
gether, always equal, but always different,
who shall work OUT this question"
In the afternoon Prot. A. j. Marks, assist
ed by DR.. ]. s. Ostrander, gave an Oriental
exhibition in the Amphitheater, having some
20 people on the platform dressed in the cos
tunes OF the Holy Land, making a very
novel entertainment.
Tomorrow is G. A. r. Day, and veterans
from all over the country are here to cele-
brate their annual visit to Chautaueua.
day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
DR. MKINNEY EXPLAINS.
He Talks About His Charge of Conspiracy,
md The Charse Against Him.

He Talks About His Charge of Conspira OF,
md The Charae Against Him.
NEW BRIGHTON, August 22.-Dr. David
Mckinney was seen this evening in regard
to his action in making information yester-
day at New Castle against W. S. Wallace,
Esq, of that place, and Edward Schafer,
of Beaver Falls, charging them with con-
spiracy to bribe delegates to the last conven-
tion at New Castle; also as to the charge
that the doctor, who is President of the
Examining Board of Pension Surgeons of
this district, has refused to grant certificates
to poor ard disabled soldiers because the
latter were unable to pay for them. He
said as to the first:
The question being raised by various parties
as to the scope of the special bribery act, on
advice of my attorney, Messrs. Hurts, of New
Castle, and Hice and Bigger, of Beaver, made
second information under the common law
of conspiracy. so that none might escape on a
technicality who was guilty. So far as we can
gather Schatfer and Wallace with others un-
known, are the conspiring spirits who induced
the men to commit the crime. Schatfer was
master of ceremonies for the ''booders," and
Wallace acted in the same capacity for the
''bribers."
As to the charge affecting himself the
Doctor said:
never charged for pension certificate in
my life, but In all cases wnere give written
medical opinion or affidavit in my private ca
pacity as practicIng physician I charge the
customary fee of So, the same as all other doc
tors 90 Tor like papers, without considering
whether the man is a soldier not. 1t is the
smallest sum of the fee bill for written test-
mony. and would always rather do without
the fee than have the trouble aud responsible
ty OF furnishing the papers. These fellows are
trying to convey the impression that have as
Pension Surgeon. violated the rules and regula-
tions of the Pension Department The object is
to prejudice the minds of jurors in Lawrence
county against me as prosecutor in the bribery
case or to intimidate me as to the further pros
ecution thereof. 1t cannot have the effect of in
timidating me, and don't believe it will infiu-
ence the citizens of Lawrence county.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
Violated the Insurance Laws.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
BRADDocK, August 22.-'Squire Holtz-
man sent to Jail in default of bail to-day R.
R. Powers, who was placed under arrest by
Detective Gibson, for negotiating contracts
of insurance by placing risks without hay-
ing procured a certificate of authority from
the Insurance Commissioner He was a So
licltor for the Commonwealth Beneficial
Association of Philadelphia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
An Independent Candidate.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.h
BELLEFANTE. August 22.-Hon. T. P.
Rynder. State Chairman of the United
Labor party, and former candidate for Con-
gress on the Republican and United Labor
tickets, has announced his independent
candidacy for State Senator. He will also
probably be indorsed by the Republicans.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
AMENDED AND STRENGTHENED.
A New Alien Contract Labor Law Pre-.
scented TO Congress-.

WASHINGTON, August22.-An amended
alien contract labor law bill was presented
in the House to-day from the Committee on
Labor. Its principal features are as fol-
lows:
1t is made unlawful on the part of an alien to
enier the United States under any contract to
perform labor or service.
II q master of vessel shall bring any such
alien into the United States he shall, beside be-
ing subject to fine and imprisonment be re-
ouired TO return the alien to the port of en-
bark alton.
It shall not be lawful for any person or cor
poratIon to encourage any alien laborer, me-
chanic or artisan to emigrate from any foreign
country to the United States by promise of
employment through advertisement or other
wise. Any alien thus encouraged to emigrate
shall not be permitted to remain in the United
States.
The provisions of the act shall not apply to
professional actors, artists, lecturers regularly
ordained ministers Of the Gospel: learned pro-
fessors for colleges and seminaries or profes.
sopal singers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
KILLED ON 4 FLAGSHIP,

Sailors Receive Fatal Wounds by the Dis.
charge of Gun.
SAN FRANCISCO, August %. = The
steamer Oceanic arrived this after
noon, %. days from Hong Kong, 13
from Yokohama. On. July 81 the
United States flagship Omaha returned
to Yokohama, from target practice outside
of the bay and reported Carl Emanuelson
and j. E. Kirke, of Baltimore, sponger, had
been killed by the premature discharge
from Dahlgren gun.
Kirke was blown from the vessel and his
remains could not be found. Emanuelson
was terribly mangled.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
HOW THEY LIGHT CIGARS,
International Comparisons Made In q
Cuunrd Smokers Room.

lnternationai Comparisons Made In q
Cunnrd Smokers Room.
"Did you ever notice." said DR.. Hamil-
ton, of the Cunarder Scythia, just before
her last departure for the other side, ''the
peculiarities in cigar-lighting practiced by
men of different nationalities?
"No? Well, there is no better place in
the world to note these little oddities than
in the smoking room of an ocean steamer.
"Now, for instance take Frenchman. If
party are sitting down for smoke he will
scratch match, wait till the birthstone has
exhausted itself, and with smile and gra-
cious bow will pass it to his nearest neigh
Dor before lighting his own weed.
"The German, after igniting the match,
will first light his own cigar and then offer
the match to his friend. But the oldest
character of all is the Englishman. His
weed ready for use he will infame his
match, light his cigar, and. without a
thought Of the others, will deliberately drop
the Iucifer into the nearest receptacle"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
FROST IN MANITOBA.

Reports State That Damage to Crops Has
Been Tremendous.
MONTREAL, August ga cipher dis
patch received to-day from Manitoba by a
leading broker was q topic of coRversa-
ton on Change. The dispatch said that
a frost ranging 20 to 80 below had
prevailed over the whole province of
Manitoba and the territories, and that
about IS per cent of the crop had
been injured more or less severely. The
general opinion here is that estimates of the
extent Of the damage must be purely con-
jectural as yet j.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
HIRED BY UNCLE SAM.
'eople Who Have Obtained More or Less

People Who Have Obtained More or Less
Fat Public OfGces.
WASHINGTON, August 22-The follow
ing nominations were sent to the Senate
to-day:
William Grimes. United States Marshal for
Oklahoma.
Abraham K. Parker, of New York, Assistant
to Attorney General.
Peter Roman, Montana, Indian Agent Flat
head Agency Montana.
Postmasters-Andrew Stranahan, Sigourney,
Ia, George L. Siebrecht La Grange, Tex;
John l. Kent, Circleville. O.; Samuel M.
Altenbaugh, White Sulphur Springs, Mont; c.
Elliot Moore, Cherryvilie, Kan.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
List of Nominations Made in the Big State or
the Pacific Slope.

Aist OF nominations Nlade IN tne DIE State VI
the Pacific Slope.
SAN JOSE, CAL. August 22.-The Demo-
cratic State Convention completed their
nominations to-day, as follows: As
sociate Justice of the Supreme
Court, Judge J. N. Coffee, of San
Francisco, and George A. Smith, Los
Angeles; Secretary of State, W. W. G.
Hendricks; Controller, J. G. Dunn; Treas
urer, Adam Herald; Attorney General, W.
G. Graces; Surveyor General, 8. c. Boon;
Superintendent of Schools. Henry G. Hall;
CLERK Supreme Court, J. D. Spencer.
The Fifth Congressional district renomi-
mated Thomas j. Clunie.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
MUD AND PHILOSOPHY
Form the Main Features Of Yester-
days Chautauquan Exercises.
A ROAST FOR MATTHEW ARNOLD.
His Statements About America Character
lied as ISLANDERS.
TIE FACTORY AS A FAMILY DEsTRolER
Governor Beaver to Attend To-Day and Address the
Veterans.

Despite the rain at Chautauqua yesterday
the exercises were very entertaining. DR..
Fairborn spoke on the attitude of literature
to religion, and incidentally fell afoul of
Arnold, TyndaH and Huxley. To-day will
be given up to the G. A. R., who will be
addressed by Governor Beaver.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
THE QUINCY VICTIMS.

Those Injured in the Wreck Progressing
Toward Recovery.
BOSTON, August 22.-The reports from
Quincy Hospital tonight are more favorable
than at any time since the accident. Little
Elizabeth Fenley was to-day able to take
little ishment and that was considered
a most favorable sign. Captain Abbott has
improved little, and Lucy johnson, the
Fenley's colored nurse, has been promised
that she can sit up in few days.
Rev. +. N. Dimmick and his wife, of Los
Angeles, are very low. but there are some
chances Of their recovery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
BUYING UP SILVER.
The MONTHLY Purchases TO be Kept Within
the Prescribed Limits.

the Prescribed Limits.
WASHINGTON, August 22-The offers
for the sale of silver to-day amounted to >
520,0 900 ounces. The amount purchased was
$50, 900 ounces ss follows: 100000 ounces at
s1.19.S; 100000 at s1.19.4; 10000 ounces
at S1.19.5.
Secretary Nettleton said this afternoon
that the silver purchases for the present
month would be limited to proportionate
percentage of the total months quota of
100000 ounces, so that hereafter the
amount purchased might be reckoned by
calendar months.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23

OF the Independent Republicans was held
tonight for permanent organization. 1t
starts off with over 200 members. It in
dorsed Pattison for Governor and Chas. n.
Noyes Democrat, for President Judge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
Beemers iu Hard Lack.

WASHINGTON, August 2.-The special
agent sent to Oklahoma by Secretary Noble
has returned and made has report He con-
firms the stories Of destitution existing there,
and says aid should be sent once.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
Exposition Notes.

Mattings, 1inoleums, off cloths and car
pets made and laid on shortest possible
notice. Muslins, sateens and silk draperies
in stock and put up at short notice.
HOPPER BROS. & Co.. 307 Wood street
MwFSSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
The Conference Tnke. n Rest.

sALTsBURG, August 22.-The conference
has adjourned to meet at the Chambers
House, Apollo, September 80. Two hundred
and sixty-two ballots have been taken since
Wednesday, and the situation still remains
unchanged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
TALKING ON TARIFF.
Carlisle Objects to American
Manufacturers Selling
Goods Abroad
CHEAPER THAN AT HOME.
Defending a Prominent Hardware
Merchants Character.
PRUNING THE APPROPRIATIONS.
The House Refuses to Adopt the Senate
Recommendations.
INVESTIGATING COMMISSIONER RAUM

The Senate spent another day talking
tariff, but nothing much resulted from it.
The House is not pleased with the Senate's
increase of appropriations for rivers and
harbOrs. The Investigation of Pension
Commissioner Raum is rather tunnv.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
More Bond Purchases.

WASHINGTON, August 22.-The Secre-
tary of the Treasury to-day purchased S171,-
600 As at 124, and 81. .7SS, 700 41ks, under the
provisions of the department circular of
August 81
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
THE RAILWAY BEATEN,
Action Of the State Commissioners Upheld
by the Iowa Court.

iowa CITY, IA, August 22.-Judge
Fairall filed decision to-day in the case of
OF the Burlington. Cedar Rapids and North
ern Railroad Company against the Iowa
State Railway Commissioners, overruling
a motion to dissolve the temporary injunc-
ton restraining the commission of establish
ing and promulgatlng joint rates authorized
by act of the last Legislature.
Judge Fairall held that the act requires
the companies to perform without regard to
their ability to comply or to the solvency Of
those to whom their property will be in
trusted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
DEATHS RAPID RIDE
Broken Brakes Lose Control of a
Gravity Railroad Car and 1t
DASHES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE
Panie-Stricken Passengers Leap to Certain
Destruction.
A PLUNGE OVER A 4O-FOpT CLIFF.
Four Persons Instantly Killed. and Many Seriously In.
jured.

A frightful accident, due to defective
brakes, occurred on the Mt. Penn Gravity
Railroad yesterday. Control was lost of car
full Of passengers, and it ran away down
the mountain side at a frightful speed.
Several jumped and were killed, and those
who stayed in the car Jared but little better,
as it finally left the track and plunged over
a 40-foot embankment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23

AT a yard silk-faced trimming velvets
"a complete assortment of all the new fall
colorings now opened.
TTssu HuGUs q HAcKk
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23

Independents Iudorse Pnttison.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAroH.i
WARREN, PA, August ga meeting
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
PENNSYLVANIA POPULATIONS.
The Fourth District Census Returns show
Gratifying Increase.

T.,
WASHINGTON, August 22.-The Census
Office to-day completed the count of the
Fourth Pennsylvania Supervisors District
by counties, and the principal towns in those
counties. 1t is found that the total popu-
lation of the district is 425,645. In 1880 it
was 345, ,59S, so that the increase in the ten
years has been s0.047, or at the rate of % 16
per cent The figures in detail are as
follows:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
SUDDEN DROP IN TEMPERATURES.
Within Degrees OF the Lowest Point
Reached During August.

The temperature last night and early this
morning fell to nearly as low point as it
has been known to reach at this time OF the
year in this city. At midnight the mercury
registered 56o, and at o'clock $40.
This is within four points OF the lowest
temperature reached here in the month of
August. The indications are that it will be
colder yet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
POSTPONED WITHOUT DATE.

No Knowing When the Steel Armor Plate
Trials Will Take Place.
ESPECIAL TEL eGKAM TO THE D1sPArcH.,
WASHINGTON, August 22.-The steel
armor plate trials have been again post
poned. this time without date. The date
originally fixed vas May !, and the time
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
Attsud Our BIauket Sail

Attend Our Blanket Sale.
Buy now against q time Of need. You'll
never get such bargains again.
Jos. HORNE q Co.'S
: Ram Avenue Stores.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23

Ladies' SOC, 55c and 81 Fancy LisIs and
Cotton Hose Now nj 25c.
Special lot Of children's stainless black
ribbed cotton hose 4Sc. formerly 85c and 81.
A. g. CAMPBELL 3 Sons. q Fifth ave.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
KNOCKOUT FOR LOTTERIES.
A Norih Dakota Man Proposes to Amend
the Consfifuffou.

WASHINGTON, August 22.-Representa-
tive Hsnsbrough, of North Dakota, has in
troduced in the House joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the constitu-
tiop providing that neither the United
States nor any State shall pass a law au-
thorizing the establishment or maintenance
of a lottery or any scheme for the distribu-
ton of prizes by chance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
A BASELEss REPRoACH.

'If ever there was a profane and baseless
these words OF Arnold's. He had forgotten
the noble Puritans, whose lives we're as a
life of the saints on @arth. Arnold's great
mistake was his idea of the relation OF man
and the deity"
Mrs. Helen Campbell closed the series of
instructive lectures on "Women and Social
Economies" Looking to-day at the
future of woman, factory employment is a
great destroyer OF the family. Children
who are put into the factories at 10 and IL
years of age are often useless by the time
they are of age. The mother is
taken away from her children and
they grow up in ignorance and vice. The
experimental lesson of Bellamy's book"
she said, "has popular sentiment with it,
but it is as wide of the mark as the dreams
OF the past. Each man for himself is the
sentiment Of the past, the present and i'm
mortality, no man can acquire for another;
no man can grow for another. At all points
women are banding together for mutual
help In clubs and organizations.
ELEoTRICITY's MISSION.
"It is possible that this new and portable
power Of electricity may do away with the
factory and return us to home avocations. It
is certain that the processes in factories are
constantly changing. The better day for
which we hope and work is shaping itself
for the future. An almost everlasting
patience Is needed ih the address Of eur a.,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-23
A FARMER CANDIDATE
Likely to be Chosen to Head the
Buckeye Democratic Ticket,
TO SATISFY THE RURAL ELEMENT.
The Coming Convention Not Likely to
Develop Any Big Fights.
DELEGATE scHAfFER is ARRESTED.
DR.. Mckinney Tells Why he Preferred the Charge
Of Conspiracy.

Ohio Democrats hold their State Conven-
ton next Tuesday. The agricultural ele-
ment is likely to show considerable strength.
DR.. Mckinney says he charged conspiracy
against the alleged Beaver boodlers, so that
no guilty might escape. Delegate Schaffer
was arrested yesterday.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-02-21

LOCAL PEDEsTRIANs.-Last Fri
day W. S. McFadden had an occa-
sion to attend to some law business
in Albany, and was compelled to
remain until after the train left.
Desiring to be here that evening,
he ran across Ala Harris, who was
in the same fix, and proposed to
him to turn pedestrians and walk
home. Ala agreed to it and at 4
o'clock they started from the AL
bany side OF the bridge and began
their journey. AT three minutes
to 6 they arrived at Monroe street
where it crossed the track in this
city-traveIing about eleven miles
in one hour and Gfty-seven min
utes. This is ''fast" time consider
ing the weather; probably they
could have arrived earlier had the
distance been much less.