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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20
SLIPPING BELTS.

Paradoxical Though it May Seem. Grease
Will Stop the Trouble.
''Until a few days ago." said an engineer
in one of the city planning mills yesterday, 81
was always greatly annoyed while on duty
by the constant slipping of of the belts
from the pulleys. 1 have now, however,
found remedy for this evil. 1t is to apply
grease to the belt in moderation. Tallow
seems to answer the purpose best. Hold a
piece gently against the working side of the
belt while it is running. The tallow should
be moved from edge to edge while the belt is
making 3hr e or four revolutions Too
much grease will make the belt slip more
than BEFORE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20
Can such Thing. Be!
Commercial Advertiser.l

Commercial Advertiser.1
The Prohibitionists of Cape May are
much exercised over the fact that the Presi-
dent runs mosquito bar in his new cot
tage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

Margaret, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-
Lippe, Prince Rupert of Bavaria, the osaer
Royal Princes and Princesses. General von
Caprivi, Chancellor OF the German empire,
and other persons of rank. The emperor
drank the health of his sister ana her future
husband, wishing them all happiness
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

formidable 1t is the uniform Of New
YORK hose company and Prussian SOL
dier.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20
DRINK AND LONGEVITY.

The Best Insurance Companies Draw the
Line nt Glasses With Meals.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

News of another bride, Margaret Blaine,
is that Mr.. and Mrs. Damrosch are staying
quietly in Dresden. They will return home
about the 1st of September, and join the
brides family at Bar Harbor, where all are
likely to pass the autumn. 1t was not
until the Fourth" that the Blaine house
on Lafayette Square, took on a ''gone
away" look, the family leaving the night
before for the Maine coast. Secretary
Blaine will take but brief outing and will
return to remain until the adjournment of
Congress. James Blaine, Jr., will keep
his father company.
saw Jimmy Blaine in the Congressional
library the other day. He wore a white
flannel suit and as he sat at one of the read
ing tables he looked cool and Indifferent.
Back of his seeming indifference, however, 1
see settled look which has deepened since
his brother Walkers death, and he evil
IDENTIFY feels the responsibility incumbent
upon him as his fathers representative. He
was appointed Clerk to the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs asshort time ago, and
he attends, am told, strictly to his duties.
1t may be that the story of his lie will be
the same as that OF Thomas f. Bayard's.
When Bayard was a young fellow his
brother james A. Bayard was set aside by
the family as their future statesman, and
they decided that Tom should be a mer-
chant. They sent him to Philadelphia. but
while he was acting as counter-jumper his
brother James died and Senator Bayard
then recalled Tom and put him to studying
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20
ROBERT BURNS,

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

Russia sends US Vodka or vodky. III
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
THE WOOL MEN.
They Enter a Protest Against Amend
mentS to The Mckinley Bill

ST. LOUIS, July 6.-The officers of the
Wool-growers' National Association have
issued another address to woolgrowers set
ting forth the dangers of the proposed Sem
ate amendments to the Mckinley Bill so
far as wool is concerned. Senator Hale's
amendment, if adopted, the address says.
will admit wool free of duty from all ma
tions on this hemisphere. Cleveland's free
wool recommendation was no worse, and
South American woods would supplant do
nestle woods and the industry would
perish. The Republican platform would
be violated and the principles of protection
surrendered, as the production of wool is
necessary for clothing i'll the United States,
but it will be transferred by the amend
ment to foreign nations.
The address further protests vigorously
against the proposed Senate amendments
TO strike out the clause prohibiting the
sorting OF w0OlS; to strike out the words
Including charges" thus raising the divid-
ing lines, and continues: I'VE have yielded
all that can be safely yielded In justice to
our industry TO secure a general pro-
tectve legislation. Any OF the amendments
referred to are dangerous, and the Hale
amendments would work absolute ruin.
Eighteen of the other amendments will per-
petuate fraudulent practices in the impor-
tations of carpet wool, etc. We call for
your immediate action as individuals and
as an association to give notice to those
representing you in the halls of legislation
that you expect the Republican party to re-
deem its pledges and fulfill its promises by
speedily passing the Mckinley Bill
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
RAIL VS.. CANAL.
Colonel Andrews StilI Says the Ship Rail-
way at Panama Is Not Dead.

Colonel Andrews sun Says the Ship Rail-
way at Panama Is Not Dead.
In the Fifth-avenue Hotel yesterday, says
New York Star reporter, l met Colonel
Andrews, the wealthy Pttsburg man, who
was the backer of Captain Eads in his Mis-
sissippi jetties undertaking, and also in the
Tehuantepec Ship Railway scheme which
Eads had projected when he died. The
Colonel is President of the Tehuantepec
Shlp Railway Company at the present time,
and is endeavoring to raise money in Europe
to build the road on the plans made by Eads.
He said to me that while nothing in the way
of interoceanic communication is now talked
about in this country, except the Nicaragua
Canal, the railway project was very much
alive. " 1t costs good deal more to build
canal than a ship railway" he con-
tinued. when the canal Is built the
cost OF maintaining it is an enormous sum.
Especially at the Isthmus of Panama the
maintenance cost would be very great.
What with storms and floods and tidal
waves and earthquakes canal there would
be shut up half the time. Where the canal
skirts along rock mountains single little
earthquake shock might roll down stone to
block 1t up inside Of minute. Then, too,
it is exceedingly dangerous to run iron YES
sells through canal with rock sides and
bottom. There is no knowing at what mo-
ment the ship may drift upon rock, and
something must then give way. Iron ships
cannot be steered In q narrow channel.
They steer themselves and swing about so
slowly and ponderously that in such rock
channel they would be in constant danger"
Il examined the Suez Canal very care
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
HOW IT STARTED.

A Friendly Favor to Wounded Soldiers
Original National Custom.
The late Hon. j. F. Trumbull OF Connecticut was
called 1.-THE friend of the soldiers because It was
through his influence that water was furnished to
sick and wounded soldiers while travelling during
the war. This practice has further developed Into
the universal American habit OF drinking ice-water
on all available occasions. So universal has this
become. that 1t may be called our national habit
and it has begotten craving for icewater that Is
quite appalling. The introduction Of the water
cooler in oices Is bad. Most water Is filed with
the germs of disease and its cold action on the
stomach checks digestion, lowers the tone OF the
stomach and brings about dyspepsia, with all Its at
tendant ills. This evil. which Is the cause OF more
Summer sickness and kidney disease than any other
known cause, can readily be avoided by mixing
little pure whisky with the drinking water. Thus
the stomach can be stim uated into healthy action
and its tone retained Net only this, but pure
whisky mixed with the water kills the germs OF
disease that may be lurking in the water and thus
avoids malaria and the thousand Ills which come
during the heated term. But while whisky Is .
great benefit, 1t must be pure whisky, aud unfortu
nately there is little pure whisky In the market
There can be not the slightest doubt, however. as
to the absolute purity OF Dufys Pure Malt. 1t has
stood the test OF time 1t Is used by the leading
men and women Of the land. 1t Is so pure In It's
nature that it cannot harm child and IL m
doing moro than any one thing to check summer
dangers Be sure to secure the genuine. Insist on
having NO other,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
ON HABEAS CORPUS.
A Rancher OF YoIo County Wants to
Released on Bail.

Rancher of YolO County Wants to Be
Released on Bail.
Sheriff n w. Weaver of Yolo County
brought to this city last night Daniel Benz
merly, well-to-do rancher, who has a
place near Black Station, and registered his
prisoner at the Central Station.
About year ago Bemmerly had man
working for him named Nat Eagle, but dis
charged him. Eagle passed some remark
about Bemmerly's house being lousy, which
angered the latter very much. One day
when Bemmerly had taken considerable
beer he induced friend named John WAL
fin, laborer. to go with him and have it
out with Eagle The result of the meeting
was the shooting and killing of Eagle.
On the trial, which caused great excite
ment in Yol0, the evidence showed that
Bemmerly had struck Eagle with a whip,
and that Wolfen had done the shooting.
Both men were convicted of murder in the
second degree and each was sentenced to
seventeen years at San Quentin. WOfen is
in prison serving out his term. Bemmerly,
however, is fighting his case and has APP
piled for writ of habeas corpus, which
Will be heard by the Supreme Court to-day.
His object is to secure release on bail
pending the hearing of his motion for new
trial.
Sheriff Weaver stated last night that since
his incarceration Wolfen has made con-
fession, in which he swears that Bemmerly
did the shooting. Bemmerly's motion for
new trial is based on the ground Of newly
discovered evidence.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
A COAST DEFENSE RAM.
Salient Features Of the Vessel Practically
Decided Upon.

WASHINGTON, July 6.-The Construction
and Steam Engineering Bureau is at work
On the plans of the new coast-defense ram,
and contractors will probably soon be In
vited to send in their bids. The board of
bureau chiefs have practically decided upon
the following features in the construction
Of the vessel Length, extreme, 243 feet {;
breadth, 43:5 feet; depth, extreme, 21 feet ;
draught of water, 15:5 feet: displacement
at water line, 2160 tons; displacement Of
total volume, $3.50 tons; INDICATED horse
total weight of armor, 76S tons; greatest
thickness, being on the conning-towsf, IS
inches; deck armor, 3 inches at center, 6
inches on sides; upper-sde armor inches,
and lower inches. She will carry officers
and 81 men, II in the engine department,
and 20 seamen, stewards, etc. coal Ca
pacity, 296 tons. She will have triple-ex-
pansion engines of the twin screw type.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07

On the night of the Fourth the ferry
steamer Oakland made what is called a
"fying trip" to Oakland to bring over the
passengers by the southern Oakland train.
which was late. A number of hoodlums.
who had been attending picnics across the
bay, boarded the boat. and on the trip
across for time had things their own way
and terrorZed the passengers. They put out
the lights in the ladies' toiIet-room and
took the lamps out of the chandeliers in the
cabin and threw them on the carpet. There
was great danger from fire. Captain Brown
was notified. and coming down from the
pilot-house, he organized his officers and
men, and charging on the hoodlums soon,
by dint of hard knocks, brought them into
subjecticn. No police officer was on the
boat and no arrests were made.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
A BIG BLAZE.
Magner's Hall Is Burnt to the Groun
EiarcA FL meg.

Magner's Hall Is Burnt to the Ground.
Fierce Flames.
At II 80 o'clock a third alarm caused the
fremen to imagine that something big was
going to happen and they became excited
accordingly. At that hour an alarm
Potrero avenue and Santa Clara street.
Although the damage from financial point
of view was not so large, yet as fire it was
larger blaze than had occurred in this city
for some time.
This fire started in the basement of Mag
ner's Hall, on the corner Of Harriet
street and Corbett road. The building was
a two-stOry frame, and was constructed of
light material. The lower floor was used
as grocery and saloon, and was
run by William Magner The basement
was used as meeting place. and during
the last ten years many political orator
has given vent to his eloquence in Magner's
Hall, which was the only meeting place for
blocks around.
The house was situated on a bluff, rising
many feet above the street. The wind blew
strongly and famed the flames. On the ar
rival of the engines nothing could be done
to save the building, which was one mass
of flames.
On account Of the burning structure be-
ing on high hill the flames were visible
from all parts of the city, and there being
plenty of fog in the atmosphere to reflect
tDb light, tu6 ire appeared 10 De an extra
ordinarily large one. Hundreds of people
gathered from all directions to watch the
coDtlagration, which swept everything be-
fore it in spite of the small streams Of water
that were played upon it.
The flames attacked dwelling. next door
to the hall, occupied by j. Henshaw and
wife. This was two7story frame, but it
was swept away, although the flames had
to work down hill and against the wind.
A third house was next doomed. It
was a one-story frame occupied by
J. T. Lewis. 1t burned like tin
der-box. The flames then turned
upon themselves. because there was moth
ing else to burn. Had there been any more
houses in the line of the fire, they could not
have been saved, as the wind was strong
and the water hard to get. AS it was
the three buildings were burned to
the ground. They were consumed
like the sticks of big bonfire.
Only few charred and smolder-
ing timbers were left half hour after the
breaking out of the flames,
The fire spread so rapidly that the occu-
pants of the houses could not save any Of
their personal effects The buildings
were all cheap modern structures.
The damage to William Magner's property
Is estimated at $1,000, while that of Hen
shaw and Lewis is placed at $500 and
$1,000 respectively. There was not much
insurance on the buildings.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
FIVE VICTIMS.
Sad Result of the Powder Explosion on satur-
dav

Sad Result of the Powder Explosion on satur-
day.
INDUSTRY Pa.), July Give out Of
seven of the little victims of the powder
explosion last night have died. the last one
being the nineteen-months-ol daughter Of
August Smith. Emma Smith, aged 9. and
Charlie Shaw, aged 8, the two other victims,
will recover The father of young Brennan
is crazed with grief. and last night tried to
kill Smith, the owner of the building where
the powder was stored. This morning he
wandered away from his home and was found
near Elizabeth, Pa, several miles from In
dustry. A close watch is now being kept
over him. The Coroner's jury rendered a
verdict in accordance with the facts, as
stated in last nights dispatches, and con-
denim the practice of merchants kee ing
powder and other explosives where chill
dreu have access to them.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
MAY BE LYNCHED.
An Inofensi,e Boy Shot By Notorious New
III hexino CnWh1v

DENVER. July Ga Poison n. Mex,
special to the News says: "About s
o'clock this morning w. II. Riley, operator
on the Denver andi Fort Worth Railway,
stepped into a saloon to transact some bust
ness with the proprietor. He was covered
by revolver in the hands of Charles Ellis,
Riley grabbed the man and tried to prevent
his shooting, but Ellis being the stronger
Of the two got Riley's head under his arm,
placed the revolver back Of the boys neck
and fired, the ball passing near the jugular
vein into the left lung and near the heart,
coming out on the left side. Riley was but
Is years old and a quiet, iDoffensive
boy, while Ellis is drinking, disreputable
cowboy. He is considered one OF the
toughest characters in the country. He is
Uuder arrest and ii the boy dies will prob
ably be lynched."
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
A GREAT RACE.
Salvador, TGnny and FirenZi Entered for a
Mile and Three Quarters.

New YORK, July 6.-Tenny and Saliva
tor are both entered in the Shrewsbury
handicap at Monmouth on Thursday
and so are titty-one others, including Fir
emf. Raceland. Longstrset, Exile and Cas-
sius. Tenny and Salvador will have stjll
another chance for meeting in tn Mon
mouth cup stake, as the distance is one
Pusifer's great horse will be given an on
porIunity to see whether their boast
was wise one that Tenny can easily
beat Salvador over a longer dis
tarce than mile and a quarter.
As Frenzi is also entered, it is probable
that Haggin will RELY on his matchless mare
to carp his colorS to victory. Unless ham
dicapped by Carving too heavy weight, FL
renzi can beat any horse now in training
over that distance, and beat him easily at
that
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
A NOBLE WOMAN'S DISTRESS.
The Mother Of a Civil Var Hero Ap-
plies for Assistance.

BosToN, July 6-The venerable mother
of Lieutenant William B. Cushing, who in
1864 with crew of thirteen men blew up
the rebel ram Albemarlc, is now an
object of charity and has called
upon a Masonic lodge in the
city of Belfast, Me-, for assistance.
She is poor and owes for her board since
November last. Her name is now Susan
p. c. Garrison and she is with relatives at
Castine. Me- All her eleven children
are dead. During the war she
served four years as nurse
and was wounded twice while caring for
wounded soldiers on the field. She claims
property in Monterey County, Cal, and
also lands in Florida, the latter through
her last husband, w. L. Garrison. She
has never been in possession of the latter.
She says that, owing to some trouble which
she does not understand, she has not re-
eeived one cent from her property for one
year. which is the cause of her present
financial distress. When she came East
she had plenty of money with her, but it
has long been exhausted
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
OVATION TO MARKsMEN.
Grand Opening of the German Federal Riff
Meetiua

Grand Opening of the German Federal Riffs
Meeting.
BERLIN, July 6.-The German Federal
Rifle meeting opened to-day with splendid
procession. Starting from Brandenburg it
marched through the decorated streets to
the shootingg grounds A herald carrying
the imperial banner led the procession.
The different bodies taking part in the
parade were arranged in order according to
their nationalities, the visiting American
rifemen taking precedence over the other
foreign organizations. A series of indus
trial groups followed and after that came
rhemen representing developments of Ger
man shooting guilds since the thirteenth
century, and attired in costumes of the diff
ferent periods. a number of pictorial cars
closed the procession. On reaching the
Town Hall each section was greeted with
flourish of trumpets, and when all had ar
rived Burgomaster Forckenbeck delivered
an address Of welcome. The paraders were
given an ovation by the thousands Of spec
tators that lined the route.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED.
Man Believed to Have Been Murdered and

A Man Believed to Have Been Murdered and
Robbed at Round Lake.
SARATOGA, July 6.-Frederick Shepperd
of New York was found dead in Round Lake
yesterday. The body was naked. and il
was at first supposed that he had been
drowned while swimming An autopsy
showed none of the ordinary evidences Of
drowning, but wounds sufficient to cause
death were found upon his head, and it was
then discovered that his clothing had been
ritied of a valuable watch and sum of
money. The indications are that he was
murdered on tie shore of the lake and his
body stripped and thrown into the water
to give the appearance of accidental death.
Much excitement prevails.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
VOLUME LXVIII-NO. 81. SAN I

he indicates that among the cardinal prin-
ciples that must govern the Constitutional
Convention are the following: Coed
government in Mississippi can come only
from the predominance of influence and
that such predominance must be
formed on the essential truth of equality
and the voting power of all who are entitled
to suffrage; ''that the civil and political
rights of the cOlored race, as guaranteed by
the Constitution Of the United States, are
not to be denied or abridged. but protected.
Their ineapacity must be acknowledged to
the end that their rights and the rights of
the other races may be protected"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
DISASTROUS FIRE.

A urning Vessel Ignites and Consumes
Lsrg Amount of Property
EAST TAws (Mich.l, July 6.-Late last
night the steam barge Seagull was discoy-
cred to be on fire. The cook, Maggie Cor
nett. was unable to get ashore, and was
burned to death. The Seagul's lines
were burned off and she drifted across the
slip. setting fire to the steam barge Calvin,
which, however, was saved. Further on
the burning vessel set Emery's dock and
mills on fire, which were destroyed; loss,
$4,000. Also Lock & Stevens docks,
Silby & Bearringer's docks and lumber.
Their losses cannot be ascertained. Six
teen million feet of lumber were con-
sumed. The Seagul is total wreck.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
California Emit Sales.

CHICAGO, July 6.-The Earl Fruit Com
pany sold two carloads of fruit yesterday
Peach plums brought 81 25 per lalf-crate,
So % per box; Royal native plums, 81 80
for fancy to 81 70 for choice per halfcrate; j;
peaches, 50 to 81 85 per box; apricots, 81
to S2 15; figs, 81 90 to 81 70. The fruit is
in fine order, and prices the highest realized
this season.
NEW YORK, July 6-The first California
peaches vi the season we're sold at auction
Saturday for upward Of cents each.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
PENSION LAWS.
Comments of the New York Tribune on the
Approximation

has been conspicuous for many years in Sc
curing justice for veterans of the army,
will this time call halt in the matter of
pensions Tomorrow it will say: The
measure of proper expenditures for pen
sions has been reached, if, indeed, it has
not been passed already. There is no act
i've demand on the part of veterans of the
Union for sums exceeding those already ap-
prOprated, and those veterans are sensible
enough to know that appropriations exceed
ing half tue entire revenue of the Govern
ment to benefit a small fraction of the
people might quickly cause the collapse Of
the whole system for lack of popular ap-
proyal and support
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07

PARKERsBURG (W. Va.). July 6.-The
fourth destructive storm of the week passed
over this locality Friday, flooding cellars,
damaging the streets and sweeping away
crops. The sudden heavy rain all deluged
Kanawha and Muskinpum valleys. An
unofficial estimate places the damage in
Muskingum Valley al half a million dollars.
Much of this loss falls on Government
works for the Improvement of navigation.