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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
WOMEN RETURN UMBRELLAS.

One Point In Which the Superiority of the
Sex Must be Conceded.
"Did you ever know woman to fail to
return borrowed umbrella?'' asked a
dealer in these articles, addressing re-
porter.
II can't say ever did,"
Nobody else ever did," said the dealer,
emphatically. II have been long time in
the business Of selling them, and I have
made special study of woman, in connec-
tion with the borrowed umbrella phase of
social ethics, and I have yet to learn of a
case in which she has abused the confidence
reposed in her when she was lent an UNI
brella to protect herself when she was
caught in a sudden shower. She either re-
turns it in person or sends it with verbal or
pretty note of thanks at the first opportu-
nifty. When man comes in here to buy an
umbrella and 1 get chatting with him, 1
ask the question, point blank:
Did you ever lend woman an um-
brella ?''
"Yes."
"Did she ever return it 2"
eyes"
,"Then go to a book 1 keep for this pur-
pose, and make an entry in this form: In
terrogated another to-day (entering the
promptly Here is the book"
And the dealer showed to the reporter
book with many pages of entries in the form
given, covering a number OF years..
No. sir" repeated the dealer, with strong
emphasis, as the reporter took his leave, "a
woman never fails to return borrowed um-
brella."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of n Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Readfug.

Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
WILLIAM MARSH, of the Eureka Copying
Company, Sixth street. charged Philip Rosen.
thai, an agent of the company, with the EN-.
bezzlement of $50. Rosenthal, who has been
in Jail two days had hearing last night and
was held for the grand jury now sitting
HOLMES ANDERSON, of Banksville. was sent
to jail by Alderman Gripp yesterday afternoon
on a charge of burglary of the house of Rev.
]. B. Gray, of that place, on December 81, and
the larceny of clothing, His case will come
before the grand jury to-day.
CAPTAIN MERCER yesterday forbade sled
ding by boys on the Forbes avenue hill, from
Craft avenue down to Soho hollow In many
part of the city the boys have rendered the
sidewalks dangerous to walkers
DIR. HART is expected home from Amboy,
Mich, tomorrow, where he went to bury a
brother. This was the first death in family
OF III children, five of whom served in the army
during the war.
ARTHUR J. BLAKE. accused by his wife of
beating her, is held to answer before Alderman
Doughty on Monday evening Mrs Blake saws
that her husband is jealous.
SALVATORE RIcKE, living near Heron res
ervoir, beat his wife and tried to stab her
father, who interfered Salvatore was sent to
jail for the grand jury.
HUMANE AGENT o'BRIEN entered a charge
of cruelty against Thomas Cadwalader. of VII.
kinsburg, yesterday. 1t is claimed he beat his
horse numerically.
An overheated stove caused fire last night
in the hardware store of George A Cadwalla-
der, In Aazelwood. The damage was slight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
FOR THE WATER WORKS.
The Allegheny Committee Awarded Mum
ber of Contract Last Night.

The Allegheny Committee Awarded a Mum.
ber of Contracts Inst Night.
The Water Committee of Allegheny
Councils met last night Bids for water
pipe were received OF W. D. Wood & Co.,
the National Foundry and Pipe Company,
Dennis Long & Co., the Addison Pipe and
Supply Company and the Cleveland Pipe
Company. The contract was awarded to
the National Foun drv and Pipe Company.
Their bids were as follows: For four-inch
pipe, SIG 40 per ton; six-inch, S24 80; eight
inch, S24 so; branches, ~ cents per pound;
sleeves, 2L cents per pound.
The Rensselaer, Manufacturing Com
pany were awarded the contract for supply
ing stop gates, their bid being 81 so for
4inch connection; S12 for 6-inch and SIS As
for S-inch.
The Union Foundry and Machine Com.
pany were awarded the contract for supply
ing micellaneous castings, on their bid of
81 79 per pound. Samuel Hastings got the
contract for furnishing wooden boxes for
stop gates at S5 75 eoch, fire plugs at 50 so
each and wash-out boxes at so cents each.
Bailey, Farrell & Co. were given the con-
tract for pig lead at 81 80 per hundred, or
81 10 if 15 tons were taken. The same firm
got the contract for furnishing ferru!es ut
the following prices: Oue-halfinch, S. per
dozen; 5s-inch. S. 80 per dozen; 3z-inch,
81 so per dozen and 1-inch, IS 80 per dozen.
w. H. Megraw was awarded the contract
for doing the hauling for the department at
40 cents per load or S4 so per day.
The Allegheny Heating Company was
given the contract for fuel gas at the rate of
s25, 900 per year. A committee was ap-
pointed to look into the matter of making
their own fuel by a method in use at the
power house of the Pleasant Valley Car
Company
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
THE VOICE OF LABOR
Heard in Behalf of an Unlimited Postal
Telegraph scheme.

Heard in Behalf of an Unlimited Postal
Telegraph scheme.
WASHINGTON, March THE House
committee to-day resumed the consideration
of postal telegraphy, and was addressed by
Ralph Beaumont, Chairman of the Legisla-
tive Committee OF the knights of Labor. He
said that the eighteenth plank OF the plat
form of his organization declared for Gov
ernment telegraph system; and Representa-
tive Wade had introduced bill embodying
their views. This bill had been reported to
the last Congress, and placed on the calen-
dar; but the House calendar had been a sort
of potter's field for all bills, and the knights
had no special lot in that field. AS TO the
Postmaster Generals bill-lt was not a good
business proposition, and, not even the Post
master General, as a business man, would
enterin to on his own responsibility.
The Postmaster General was not to blame
for that, for he had admitted that he had
submitted this limited plan because a COM
plete system would require a larger appro-
priation than he could obtain. What
farmer would buy half a farm when he
could buy the whole? The Government
was abundantly able to buy the whole thing
and carry it on without furnishing business
opportunities for somebody else The Post
master General had said that he did not
blame the Western Union for charging what
it could, but he represented the people
whose Interests suffered. He (BeaumonO
thanked the Postmaster General for the
declaration; it was just what he had con-
tended all along-that the interests of great
corporations were opposed to the interests of
the people.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
TAKES ALL THAT'S LEFT.

The Postonice and schenIey Park Electric
Park Railway Cleans the Piatrer-RivnI
Corporations Likely 10 Make a Big
Fight-A Route With Many Advantages
The day the Duquesne Street Railway Com
pany received from Councils the right to use
the greater part OF the streets between Fourth
ave nue. and the East End, j. S. Ferguson,
Esq, filed an application in Harrisburg for
charter for the Postoffice and Park Trac-
tion Railway Company. Within an hour
thereafter a protest was filed, it being
claimed by the corporators of the last
named railway that people are kept en-
ployed by persons in this city to keep them
advised of what Is going on in Harrisburg.
The corporators OF the last venture are
Major W. G. McCandless, James W. Breen,
j. G. Allies, C. F. jain, M. F. Maloney,
and Mr.. Bailey. The latter says it will
control more travel than any other line in
the city, running closer to 4, 800 houses on
one side OF the route than any other line.
1t starts On Fourth avenue and Grant
street runs through Hardscrabble to Watson
streets, along Watson to Shingles, to Locust.
to GIst or Ann, to Junonvill, to Wyan-
uottG W AlIlqulppa, 10 h0Dl0S0n 10 Ter
race, to De Sofa, to Oakland avenue and to
Pier street, connects with the Squirrel Hill
road at Fifth avenue, comes back over the
same route to Hill street, down Hill to
Fourth avenne and thence to place of be-
ginning. The capital stock is $50, 900 and
1t is proposed to begin work as soon as the
the season opens and prosecute it to compile
tlon as soon as possible.
The road, with its connections, will be
eight miles in length, and will be operated
by the Sprague electric system, now in use
on the Pleasant Valley Railway. One of
corporators says it will not injure Forbes
avenue as pleasant drive. as it will cross
it but once.
For the new road it is claimed that it
does not interfere with any other franchise;
that the application is in due legal form,
and being filed before that of the Dueuesne
Street Railway, has the advantage of prior
rights, obtained by the mode prescribed by
law. If it is decided tha- it has prior rights
from the Commonwealth, which will be
determined after the hearing on the 18th
inst, the projectors claim there will be no
trouble about getting the approval of Coun-
ellis
As this is the only route from the new post
office to Schenley Park, the projectors say
they can bank on not only large regular
income from resident patronage, but also of
pleasure-seeking travellers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
A FLOOD OF ELOQUENCE
Concerning the Free Navigation of the
Monongahela to be Turned Loose.

Monongahela to be Turned Loose.
rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, March THE House
Committee on Rivers and Harbors has set
next Tuesday as the day for hearing the
representatives of the Monongahela Naviga-
tion Company, in reply to the arguments Of
Mr.. John bravo in favor of condemning the
locks and dams of the company. The COM
pany will be represented by Mr.. George
Shiras, one of its managers, and bv ex-Dis-
trict Attorney Carnahan. Captain Merrill,
the United States engineer in charge of the
Pittsburg district, will also appear before
the committee on that day, and will give
his opinion on the appraisement of lock No.
z, which is at present in the courts. 1t will
be remembered that the bill which passed
Congress appropriated S162, 900 for the pur-
chase of that lock and dam, which sum was
increased by an appraising committee to
about S206, 600.
Captain Merrill SAYS that this is about %
per cent more than it should have been. and
that the original cost of the construction
was not more than S135 O00 The material
used In its building he claims to have been
very inferior and cheap. He will make
these statements to the Rivers and Harbor
COMMITTEE in support of the position taken
by Mr.. bravo.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. :

WASHINGTON, March IA good OPP
portunity to witness the workings of the
new House rules will be afforded when the
direct tax bill which has passed the Senate,
and was to-day reported from the House
Judiciary Committee, comes up for consld-
Grafton. 1t will be remembered that this
bill, identical in every particular came up
in the House during the first session Of the
last Congress and occasioned a deadlock
more protracted than any in the history OF
Congress. The opposition came from 90
Democrats who objected to the bill on the
ground that it was unconstitutional and
that the refunding of the tax would be bad
policy. The deadlock was broken by an
agreement postponing the consideration of
the bill until next session. when 1t was
passed and vetoed by President Cleveland.
The bill, the purpose OF which is to credit
and paw TO the several States and Territories
and the District of Columbia all moneys
collected under the direct tax levied by the
act of Congress approved August 8, 1861, is
reported favorably by the majority of the
Committee on the Judiciary, while NIL
nority report is appended objecting to its
passage, signed by the men who led the fill
clustering in the last House. The minority
report saws that the veto message of ex-
President Cleveland is so accurate and lucid
in statement. SO cogent in reasoning and
logical in deduction, that the minority
adopts it as expressing their views on the
bill.
When it comes up for consideration there
is no doubt that strenuous attempt will be
made by its opponents to obstruct its pass
age, and the new rules giving the Speaker
the power to define a dilatory motion, which
have not yet been enforced, will probably
have TO be called into reouisition. The
State of Pennsylvania is the second largest
creditor 20 be benefited by the passage of
this bill, New York leading the list The
sum coming to Pennsylvania is 81, ,946, 720.
The whole amount the bill will call for is
in round numbers about $40, 600, 900. II the
bill is brought to vote it will undoubtedly
pass. There was not single Republican
vote cast against ii in the last Congress,
while some 90 Democrats voted for 1t.
I,IGHTNFR
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
NEATLY TAKEN IN.
southern Colonel Cleverly VEcfimized by
n Sharper-He Entertains Him ns
Brother in Distress at
n Cost of $500.

n Cost of $500.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcHl
RALEIGH, N. c., March I'll Information
has just reached here of a confidence game
played in Indianapolis by young swindler
who halls from North Carolina. Colonel
E. P. Jones, a business man OF
that city, but originally from this
State, was victimized by young man " no
called at his place of business, representing
himself to have come from North Carolina,
and to be nephew of the late Senator John
Pool, of North Carolina.
His frank and plausible manner and his
thorough gentlemanly address won the
Colonel's favor, and he showed the young
man many courtesies. When friend
ly relations were intimately estab-
lished between the two, the young
man broached a matter of vital Importance
of which he wished to speak in confidence
to his new-found friend. He said he was
wanted by the uthorities in North Caro-
detectives. He declared that he
had killed man in Edenton,
n. c., In self-defense. and that reward Of
SlO0 was offered for him. AS proof of his
being wanted. he took from his cravat a
portion of a postal card, to which he fitted
another piece taken from his shoes. Putting
the two together, he showed the Colonel
that the reward was genuine.
The heart of the North Carolinian was
touched, and Pool confessed that his name
was Pender, and that he was the nephew of
General Pender, late of the Confederate
army.
He appealed to Colonel Jones for financial
assistance, in order that he might get be-
yond the reach OF his pursuers. The Colonel
succumbed to mis- earnest solicitations, gave
him money. fitted him out with clothing,
and bought him a ticket to Salt Lake.
Not satisfied with this generous assistance,
representing an expenditure of $500, the
young man after his departure drew drafts
upon the Colonel, all of which the big
hearted Carolinian generously honored.
Last week, however, he received a letter
from friend in this State, informing him
that General Pender had no nephew, and
that the young man was therefore an i'm
poster. An effort will be made to arrest
Pool alias Pepder
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
AMELIE RIVES' SISTER,
Little Poem Brought Her Pretty Pair of
Riding Boots Besides Fame.

A Little Poem Brought Her Pretty Pair of
Riding Boots Besides Fame.
Amelie Rives Chanler seems to be vanish
ing from the public's gaze, says Washing
ton correspondent of the New York World,
but her sister Gertrude is creeping into
fame. She is rather walking in, as her
dainty feet literally brought her to the
threshold of literature. The story is as fol-
lows and was told by herself:
II had long wanted a pair Of riding boots,
but they seemed very unnecessary luxury,
and so had almost despaired of ever hav-
ing my wish gratifed. However, 1 got
them, and one morning as was mounting
for good long canter through the woods, a
friend of mine standing near me noticed
them and severely reproved me for my ex-
travagance. I could keep nv secret no
longer, as to how those boots became mine,
so l told her as do you, how 1, despairing
one evening, still longing for the dear boots,
sat down to my desk and scratched off some
poetical lines and sent them to well-known
magazine. I received shortly check, the
size of which covered the expense of my
long-coveted boots and several additional
wants"
heard that this explanation of her ex-
travagance was accepted, aud no one grudges
her the pleasure. for it is said that a prettier
foot never graced stirrup.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
ELEVATORS ON OUR STAIRS.
A Novelty That Will be Welcomed
PannIe Whn Hnua In Climb

Novelty That Will be Welcomed by
People Who Have to Climb.
Amony the novelties shown at the late
Paris Exhibition was Amiot's stair-climber,
an apparatus which is very likely to come
into use in houses where there is no pro-
vision for a lift of the ordinary kind. 1t
consists of small platform, upon which
one person can stand at time, and which
runs up the stairs, be they curved or straight.
The motion is brought about by electricity,
water-power, air-pressure, or steam, accord
ing to convenience.
A couple of steel bands or rails are at
tached to the balusters, and follow their
contour, and upon them runs the carriage to
which the platform already referred to is
fastened. The little platform will rise,
descend, or stop at the will of the passenger
who occupies it. This apparatus will be
much appreciated by aged persons who are
occupiers of old houses, to whom the work
of walking upstairs is great strain on the
strength; but younger persons will be in
clined to look upon the machine rather as
an obstacle to progress than a convenience.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
HIS SEVENTH PROPOSAL.
Retired Captain Aged SO EIopes With a
Handsome Young Widow.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.I
LOUISVILLE, March T. An unusual
elopement brought a couple from New Al
bany to this city last night. They were
Captain james Blake, of New Albany,
aged 83, and said to be a lineal de-
scendant of the great English Admiral
Blake, and Mrs. Artle Thompson. She is
handsome women of % years whose bloom
ing fair face and fine form contrasted sharp
ly with the wrinkles and gray hair of the
captain. The marriage ceremony was per-
formed in the hotel parlors where they
stopped. Blake has five grown children and
they would not allow him to be married at
home.
Captain Blake has navigated almost every
sea, and later followed the river finally
settling down to enjoy comfortable
fortune of about $4,000 and the rents of
several houses. He was first married 55 years
ago. His wife died three years ago. He
told the proprietors of the Central Hotel
last night, while talking of the approaching
nuptials, that he had proposed to seven diff
ferent women at various times during the
last two years, but had met with no encour-
agement until he met Mrs. Thompson.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
A SINGING MOUSE.
The Little Animal Wnrbled Like n Canary
But Met n Violent Death.

The Little Animal Warbled Like Canary
But Met Violent Death.
1 was sitting quietly by my freside one
winter evening, writes correspondent of
the Youths Companion, when my curiosity
was aroused by hearing a sound not unlike
a canary's warble, but much more subdued,
which seemed to come from under the fen
der. The sound increased in loudness,
changing from the warble to a rapid sue
cession of bell-like notes, rising and falling
as the notes were more or less rapid, and
sounding clearer than a birds, and far
softer and sweeter. gently lifted the fem
der, and was just in time to see little stub
tailed mouse, of light brown color, pop
into a hole under the sill.
Every night for six months was sung to
sleep by my little warbler, who got to be on
very intimate terms with me, and would
run around the room and pick up stray
crumbs, or sit up on the fender and sing his
plaintive little solo. Once or twice he
climbed upon my bed. where he sat on his
little launches on the foot-board, and sang
for an hour or more.
He was finally killed by trap, set against
orders by servant. His fate was bemoaned
BY every member of the family.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
QUEEN OF THE FOUR HUNDRED.
Gorgeous Display Made by Mrs. william
Astor Before Her Departure.

Gorgeous Display Made by Mrs. William
Astor Before Her Departure.
New York World.i
Mrs. William Astor's last appearance at
the opera prior to her departure for Havre
was the night the "Walkure" was given.
The second act was almost finished when
she entered her box. and so magnificent was
her attire that the orchestra and the stage
were forgotten. A murmur of admiration
ran through the house, glasses and lorgn-
cites were raised and eyes strained in an
effort to distinguish the details of her gor-
geous toilet and splendid jewels.
She was dressed in crimson velvet, with
the regulation evening bodice, and her orna-
ments included a girdle, bracelets, neck
laces, earrings and terra studded with dia-
monds of wonderful brilliancy, beauty and
number. Row uponrow of diamonds encir-
cled her throat, the pendants covering her
neck and the longest fringing the corsage of
rich velvet. The jewels in her hair were
worthy of queens coronet, the large stones
shining like stars. Butterflies with out
spread wings quivered on her shoulders, and
in the soft lace of her corsage flowers, birds
and priceless insects were fastened. 1t is
doubtful if more costly display of dia-
monds was ever seen in the Metropolitan
Opera House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
THE MURDER OF CLAYTON
To be Thoroughly Investigated by Special
Congressional Committee.

Congressional Committee.
WASHINGTON, March AT the meet
ing of the House Committee on Electio ms
the subcommittee, consisting of Chairman
Rowell and Messrs. Lacey and Crisp, re-
ported that it had received the evidence in
the contested election case of Clayton versus
Breckinridge, from Arkansas, with q me-
mortal from the contestant and statement
from the contestee. They recommend that
these be printed for the use of the House,
and say they have proceeded as FAR as they
can withou: authority from the House, and
that, owing to the alleged assassination of
Clayton. whereby the contest has been sus-
pended, it is of the highest Importance that
the matter be fully investigated.
Therefore they reported resolution pro-
viding for the appointment of a sub-com-
mittee of five members to be appointed by
the chairman to make a full and thorough
investigation of the contested election case
of Clayton versus Breckinridgc The SUBJ
committee is to be authorized to send for
persons and papers and if necessary to go to
Arkansas to pursue the inquiry. The res
olution was adopted by unanimous vote.