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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
MASON BADLY BUTCHERED.
The Pittsburger Tells Why He Tried to End
His Life.

Dispatches received from Cory, Pa, last
night stated that Mr.. Samuel S. Mason, who
attempted suicide Sunday morning, has, by
actual count, 46 wounds on different parts Of
his body. The most serious are those near
the jugula. veins and one in the abdomen.
He at first attempted to sever the artery on
his left wrist, but failing in this, he stabbed
and cut indiscriminately. Advices say that
Mr.. Mason is resting as comfortably as could
be expected under the circumstances. His
wife, mother and brother are still at his bed
side, and ar doing all in their power to al
leviate his suffering. He made statement,
which shows that he was the victim of mis-
placed confidence.
About two weeks ago he received from
supposed friends at Niagara Falls, letters
requesting him to come there for the pur-
pose of fleeing some ''chumps." Accord
inglv, with s, 900 on his person, he started
for that place. Instead of his friends work.
ing for him, they made him their prey and
secured nearly all his money. This blow,
together with the fact that he was subject to
spells of melancholy, SO unnerved him that
he tried to take his life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
AT THE ELE' VENTH HOUR.
Large Crowds After Vehicle Licenses at
the Last Moment The Applications More
Numerous Than Ever Before-Lots of
Dilatory People A .monR Them.

Large Crowds After Vehicle Licenses NJ
the Last Moment The Applications More
Numerous Than Ever Before-Lots OF
DiIatory People :mong Them.
The vehicle liceuse, time expired yesteE-
day in which set of plate could be assured
to the owner OF anything that went on
wheels without 50s cent bonus. Crowds
assailed the City Ire asurer's Office yester-
day from morn until frosty eve, and the re-
ceipts we're largely in excess of any former
day at Ear. One of the most
extraor, connected with the
license Ii many people wished
to be class )rse."
The vehic- embrace everything
from four-hoA to a wheel-barrow
and the efforts of l. various classes of peo-
pie who wish to be independent of the extra
numerous street car lines now in existence,
to make themselves appear as small as pos
sible were as laughable. as they were laud-
able. The plates were of all sizes and
shapes, from two inches by three three
quarters to an oval piece OF pewter, four
inches by two and a half in the shortest
diameter. 1t would take review of the
third book of Euclid to describe the various
shapes adopted in the pieces of pewter
which are to adorn the equipages Of the
city, from the lordly coach to the humble
huckster. The humility of the huckster is
one of the points whick makes his license so
high.
Yesterday the clerk in charge of the
vehicle licenses, with tired wrist and an
aching head from answering questions, left
the Treasurer's Office about P. M. and
said: "The applications are far more nu-
merous than those of last year. cannot
say what tine number of the various
classes of vehicles which have obtained
licenses is, but have taken in to-day not
less than 81, 800. while up to date the record
is much higher than it ever has been before.
At the same time there is, as you see, long
roll of plates waiting for the people who
wish to take out licenses, but are q little
dilatory in their proceedings"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
THE FIGHT AGAINST BUCKET SHOPS.
The Stock Exchange Determined to Push It
to the Limit.

The Stock Exchange Determined to Push 1t
TO the Limit.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE p1sPArcH,1
NEW YORK, March 3.-An the bucket
shops were thronged with customers ready
to buck the tiger when Frank Maier, whom
Police Captain Mclaughlin and the New
York Stock Exchange had tried in vain to
squeleh, sent forth proclamation announc-
ing first that he was the "Union Quotation
Company" and adding Service of this
company will be discontinued for the
present" The single old-fashioned gold and
stock instrument in Maier's sky parlor at 40
Broadway was to click off no more quo
tations for the bucket shops, and the gloom
that followed the announcement was un-
paralleled.
The New York Stock Exchange now uses
the Commercial telegram instruments.
Those instruments have the right of the
floor and in few days the gold and stock
instruments are to be put outside the rail
and when the Commercial Company has sent
off the official quotations they are to hand
over them to the gold and stock company.
This will mean delay of from four to five
minutes. just as the generosity of the ex-
change dictates. Neither Maier nor his
patron care to bet on the Exchanges gem
erosity and Maier -stires.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
DEFENDING PARNELL.
Gladstone Objects to the Adoption Of the
Report of the ParnelI Commission
Asking for Justice for the
Great Home RuIer.

Asking for Justice for the
Great Home Ruler.
LONDON, March 3.-In the House OF
Commons tonight Mr.. W. 81. Smith moved
the adoption of the report of the Parnell
Commission. He said it was unique re-
port. but the impartiality of the Judges
had been acknowledged by the accused
members.
Mr. Gladstone moved the amendment an
nounced by Mr.. Morley on February "a
declaring that the House reprobates the
charges, based upon calumny that have
been made against members of
the House, and while expressing
satisfaction at the exposure made of evil
doers, regrets the wrong inflicted and the
suffering endured through those acts of
hagrant iniquity."
Mr.. Gladstone said he desired to avoid
party recrimination. If the Government
motion had been sufficient to do Justice to
the members impugned he would have
been ready to support it. But it was utterly
lnsuf1clent. 1t failed to represent the sense
OF opinion which the House and the
country had formed upon the commissions
report Although he felt 1t to be lis duty
to criticise freely some of the Judges
statements, he believed there was not a line
of the report, from the beginning to the
end. that was not written in honor and good
faith. Was it, he asked, ever before pro-
posed to deliberative body that they
should accept in jump a report of 160
folio pages bristling with controversy mat
ter? In what respect mad the three judges
OF the commission more weight and authority
than other experienced men in deciding how
tar crime was due to the League and how
far to oppressive evictions? The. commits
slon's report touched these and other
questions long debated politically by men
as capable of deciding thereon as the Judges
who constituted the commission.
In conclusion he appealed from the Con-
servatives as party to the Conservatives as
individuals. He said:
i ask you as citizens and men to acknowledge
the law OF equal moral obligation ask YOU,
man Tor man, to place yourselves in ParnelPs
position. Is it possible for you to do
that without feeling that something
remains due him? And can you make that
something smaller than the amendment 1 pro-
pose! Give your judgment as men. not
Judgment that may be sustained by
majority of this House, but a judg-
ment that will bear scrutiny in
the heart and conscience of every man when he
Detakes himself to his chamber and is still I
entreat-l might also say demand-that you
pronounce such judgment as will give late
ana scanty reparation for an enormous wrong"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
A CHILLY AWAKENING,
Guests of a Burning Hotel Escape In Their
NIGHT Clothes.


Night Clothes.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH
MIDDLETowN, N. Y, March 3.-The Ex-
change Hotel, a three-story wooden building,
near the Main street depots of the Erie and
Ontario and Western Railroads, in that
city, was burned at o'clock this morning.
The temperature was near zero and the wind
blowing a gale. There were about 30
persons in the hotel, many of them trainmen
and all were asleep when the fire broke out
The sleepers did not awaken
until the lower part of the
hotel was in flames and the upper
stories filled with smoke. There were a
number of brave rescues of the imperiled
inmates by the fremen and others. Most
of the guests of the house
escaped in their night clothes by
Jumping from the second story window. D.
J. Robbins, an Ontario and Western brake
man, was found in his room unconscious.
He remains in critical condition.
Two girls employed at the hotel, Lille
Peck and Minnie johnson, escaped from
the burning building at the last moment
by jumping from the windows of their
room into the arms of Landlord M.F. Clune.
Miss Peck is dangerously burned about the
body and limbs, but will probably recover.
The origin Of the fire is unknown.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING.
Some Who Travel, Some Who Do Not, and
Others Who Talk.

The Rev. Dr. s. v. Leech, pastor of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Al
bany, N. Y, is the guest of his brother-in-law,
DR.. w F. Fundenbufg, 6420 Arabella street.
East Liberty DR.. Leech is one Of the National
Board of Trustees of the United Societies of
Christian Endeavor and was lately Chaplain
of the New York State Senate.
John e. Harris son of L. II. Harris. OF
Pittsburg, has made a very great success Of a
paper which with a temerity born of Pennsly-
yania enterprise he has started in st. Francis,
Lake County, Florida, under the name OF
Florida Facts This is something that the
whole country wants to see.
Boyd Crumrine, the State Supreme
Court reporter. was at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel last evening. He was going home TO
Washington. Mr.. Crumrine said that the list
of cases before the Court was not large this
term, and there was nothing startling in any Of
them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
IN A BURNING Mi NE.
Seven hIen and u Boy Imprison Led In
Wilkesbarre Colliery, and no C hance
of Escape-An Efforts to Re s.

Seven hIen and d Boy Imprison ed In
Wilkesbarre CoIliery, and no G hance
ofEscape-An Efforts to Re s.
cue Them Unavailing.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsP ArcHi
WILKEsBARRE March 3-Fi ire broke
out this evening in the Rock Tunn ell of the
South Wilkesbarre Colliery of thu Lehlgn
& Wilkesbarre Coal Company, In the
Southern section of this city, inere
are eight men imprisoned In the
working reached through this tu ,nnel and
although there are but slight ! hopes tnat
they will ever See the light ofo lay agar D,
heroic men are making every posslpie
effort to reach them in time to save their
lives. The day shift of men had
lust come out and the night shift had
gone down, seven men were woI king in a
gangway off the tunnel when Thomas
Jameson, the driver boy started il with his
two mules to bring out their los ided cars.
He had not gone 500 feet from Il ne bottom
of the shaft when the max, ed light
he carried on his head tired d
heavy blower of gas which was escaping
from crevice in the coal. The f iame was
strong, and in few minutes the dry, nan,
rotten timbering of the sides ant I roof had
caught fire and were in light bla ze. Jane,
son at once realized the danger. He called
to some men behind him to take pack his
mules.
s'I am going in to tell the other fellows"
he shouted. "We'l all have get out OF
here mighty quick" u.
With these words he ran p.s. the burning
timbers and on into u dark tun-
mel. He never came back, nor did
one of the seven go whom he
went to tell of their dan ,er ever appear.
Up to midnight not the s, ghtest trace of the
missing men had been re ched, and but very
slight headway had bee made against the
flames that were burnir : fercely among the
heavy timbers of the t mel.
The following are ne names Of the i'm
prisored miners: Mi ,nael Ferry, aged 20,
single; Frank Gull, aged 55, married,
wife and seven chi 1ren; Hugh Dugan,
aged "a, married, wifi and seven children;
Thomas Jameson, ag 19, single; Thomas
Mcdonald, aged 20 single; Thomas Will
Jams. aged 80, marri |, wife and two chill
dren; Thomas McDo aid, driver, aged q,
single; John McNea is, aged 32 single.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

Incidents of n Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
SADIE MORGAN, alias Lewis, was committed
TO iail last night by Alderman McNulty, of Al
legheny, on charges of illegal liquor selling and
keeping a disorderly house. The defendant
has been living on Liberty street. near the
Point James Ginniff is the prosecutor, and
the hearing is to take place on the 6th
A STILL alarm of fire was answered by the
Grant engine company, of Allegheny, about
o'clock last night for a fire under hearth in
tba house of Frank Anshutz, on Liberty street,
No damage of any consequence was done.
HARRY SCOTT, the hustling manager of the
worlds Museum, Allegheny was yesterday
relieved Of his posSoa aoma ae tim Sent IN his Eesg
accepted yesterday
RICHARD THOMPSON was badly injured yes
terday by being struck by an engine while in
d;scbaree of his duty as an employe of the De-
nartment of Public Works, at East Liberty.
TIE Allegheny police were paid yesterday.
The roll footed up little over $1,000
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
SLOW WORK ON THE ROOF.
The 35- Day Job on the New Postofice VIII
Require Two Months.

The 35-Day Job on the New Postofice VIII
Require Two Months.
The Pennsylvania Construction Company
claimed they would put the iron roof on the
Government building in 35 days when they
commenced, but it looks now from the pro-
gress made thatthey will do well ifthey finish
the job in 60 days. Inspector Pattison is
little impatient but he is not yet discour-
aged. He saws he never saw more willing
set of men to work, but they have not been
able to get the materials. About 20 men
are working on the roof now. As soon as
the iron is put on the tilers and copper men
will begin operations.
The contract for the arch work in the in
terror will be closed on March 10. There
are number of bidders, and it is not known
who will get the contract. Inspector Patti
son will soon ask for bids for the plastering,
plumbing, etc. He is anxious to finish the
building as soon as possible. The two iron
pavilions facing Smithfeld street will be
finished to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
LETTING NO GRASS GROW.
The Dnquesne Traction Company PIacel
Its Order for Steel Rails.

The Dnquesne Traction Company Places
Its Order for Steel Rails.
As an evidence Of the determination Of
the Duquesne Traction Company to proceed
Immediately with the construction of tracks
over its newly acquired right Of way, it was
learned last night from gentleman well
versed In local traction matters that the new
company had already placed an order for
10000 tons of best steel rails. Wharton q
Company, of Philadelphia, is said to be
the firm that is filling the order, and the
rails are to be delivered here on or before
May 15.
There were several bidders for the con-
tract, among them the manufacturers OF the
patent-fange johnson steel rail, also of
Philadelphia. The agent of the latter COM
pany was in this city the early part Of last
week, but left on Tuesday, and il Is said
that he told parties here that the contract
had been awarded to the Wharton company.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04

KANSAS City, Mo-. March 3.-The
Journals Bonneville, No., special says:
The cabin of W. B. Adams, on the outskirts
of the city, was destroyed by fire last night.
Its occupants were an unknown coIored
woman and her son. An investigation of
the ruins this morning discovered their
charred remains in the ashes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
DOWN On FREE MASONS,
Baptist Clergyman Asserts That Their
Influence Il Bad.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.1
BOSTON, March 3.-The Baptist minis
ters became involved in a heated discussion
over secret societies at their meeting to-day.
and charges were made that the Masons
especially exerted a harmful influence
upon religion and religious work. These
charges were hotly denied by certain
Masonic members of the Baptist ministry.
The trouble was begun by the Rev. Mr..
Grant. of Beverly, who complained
that Masonry presented a serious obstacle to
the spread of Christianity. 1.-THE influence
of the lodge" he said, sis paramount to the
influence of the church and is never welded
in favor OF the church, but against it,"
81 am prepared to back up the statements
I have made" retorted the Rev. Mr.. Grant.
Another clergyman made and reiterated a
denial, and said he spoke from his knowl-
edge of the workings of the order.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
A MISTAKE AVOID ED.
The Way in Which an Applicant Wished to
Make Black White.

Make Black White.
j. j. Davis, as the K. of R. and s. for the
State of Pennsylvania K. of P, had letter
about two weeks ago addressed to him
signed J. c. White, from Connellsville.
The writer asked that lodge be instituted
in Connellsville, and in further correspond
ence said he had 35 members ready for
initiation. Mr.. Davis, before issuing the
charter, made some inquiries and found
that although the application was signed
"White," the applicants were all colored.
The constitution, whether rightfully or
wrongfully, prescrlbes that only white males
shall be members of the order, and John J.
Davis was too acute on the points of consti-
tutional law to grant charter to a lodge of
colored men, even if the applicant signed
his name White
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
CHARGED WITH DIAMOND STEALING
An Alleged Philadelphia DefauIrer CAUGHT
Over In the Dominion.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
TORONTO, March 3.-Henry D. Lecato,
who is we'll known in the diamond business
in Philadelphia, and who has obtained his
goods from Sanford & Cook, diamond
brokers at the corner of John street and
Maiden lane, New York, was arrested here
tonight on charge of theft. He acquired
possession of a considerable quantity of
diamonds and struck for Toronto, arriving
here to-day.
Inspector Stark was informed that Lecato
was wanted, and when the defaulter ar
rived to-day he was arrested. He volun-
teered after little persuasion to 60 back to
Philadelphia, and left for Buffalo tonight,
escorted by local detective.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
MERELY A DRUNKEN FREAK.
A Young Fellow Fires OF Revolver In
the Seventh Avenue Hotel.

Young Fellow fires Oh n Revolver In
the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
A bullet mark in the news counter of the
Seventh Avenue Hotel tells the story of a
drunken freak early yesterday morning.
Three young men, guests of the house, had
been making night of it, and they came
in early in the morning. Suddenly one of
them whipped out a revolver and the ball
ploughed an ugly furrow in the counter.
No one was injured.
Night Clerk Borland saw the three men,
and as they were talking pleasantly to-
gether, he paid no attention to them. He
says they were not quarreling, and the shot
was the result of drunken idea. The
young men are we'll known, and they were
so badly frightened that 10 arrests were
made. The shot had SOLDERING effect, and
the young man deeply regretted his rash
act.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
AS BAD AS SOUTH AMERICA.
Impossible TO Haul Oil Well Timber on Ac-
count of Bad Roads.

1t is stated on good authority that oil
well borers are transporting timber con-
siderable distances on the shoulders of men,
the timber to be used in the construction of
derricks, etc., hauling being impossible on
account of mud.
Another good we'll has been struck near
the Davis gusher, but for want of material
to connect it with the pipe line, the owners
are afraid to drill in. As the district is
within sight of the city. such condition of
affairs is but few degrees removed from
barbarism,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
Maxwell Wanted to Fight.

George Maxwell was acting disorderly on
Smithfeld street last night, and when
Officer Miles MaIoney placed him under ar
rest, fought desperately. The two men
struggled all over the street before the
officer got his prisoner under subjection, at
tracing crowd of several hundred people,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
WAR ON THE LEAGUE
Said to be Future Possibility by the As.
sociation Men.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPATcHI
ST. LOUIS, March 3.-It is semi-oficially
given out here tonight that the American
Association have been polled by telegraph
that all are a unit in support of Columbus
claim on Leblanc. 1t is further asserted
that the Association is convinced that John
B. Day and the New York League club have
been illegally interfering in the matter
and that the Association is determined to
have Leblanc, or a war with the League. If
the Board of Arbitration should refuse to
assign Leblanc to Columbus the Association
proposes to open war on the League
Won der Abe said tonight: 81 hope it
will be settled fairly, and that Columbus
will get the man. We won't stand any
dictstion from the League, and we propose
to make the New York club suffer for what
it has already DONE"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
An Afflicted Family.

Lieutenant George Snyder, of the Second
Police district, has been confined to his
home, No. 317 Taylor street, Twentieth
ward, for the past three weeks with conges-
tion of the lungs. 1t was reported last night
at the Nineteenth ward station that his
physician had little hope of his recovery.
His wife is also very sick.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
Result of the German Elections,

BERLIN, March 3.-Excepting 8. nine re-
ballots, the results Of which are still await
ed, the 3O7 seats in the Reich
stag are divided as follows: Cen.
trists, 112; Freisinnige and Volks party, 80;
Socialists. 81; Conservatives, &c; Imperial
lists, 20; National Liberals, 80; Poles, 16;
anti-Semitics, 4; Independents, 8; Alsa-
tians, II.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
LIE C0NEY ACQUITTED.
He Listens Unmoved to the An
nouncement of the Verdict.
AN AFFECTING SCENE IN COURT.
Receiving Congratulations From Els Faith
full Friends.
PROSECUTOR JENKINS BREAKS DOWN
Close Of Camden's Sensational Trial, Which Ha
Lasted Four Weeks.

ChaIkley LIE Coney, who has been on trial
in Camden, N. j., for the murder of his
niece, was acquitted yesterday. He mani
tested no emotion when the verdict was rem
dered. Prosecutor Jenkins was taken i'll
and was unable to complete his address to
the jury.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
Charged With Choking Geese.

Joseph Haberfield will be given hear
ing before Alderman O'Donneu on Thurs
day, charged with choking i've geese to
death, belonging to Joseph Shaphouse.
The latter had been fattening the fouls for
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
Fifty New Members Admitted.

The monthly meeting of the Grover Cleve-
land Democratic Society was held in Hous-
toms Hall, Lawrenceville, last night.
Favorable action was taken on the applica-
tions of so persons. President BelIman was
elected member of the General Committee
of Democratic Societies of Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-04
VERY THOUGHTFUL OF HIM.
Minister Petre Desires to Save Pnuncefots
From m Attack of Enuui.
[BY DUNLAP's CABLE coMpANY.1

GBY DUNLAP's CABLE coMPANY.l
LONDON, March 3.-Minister Petre, the
British representative to Portugal, has been
made so uncomfortable, and his peace of
mind so disturbed by the hostile demonstra-
tions of the Portuguese since the African
question has been agitated, that he appealed
change of post Brussels and the Hague
were successively offered him, but declined,
and he finally asked to be transferred to
Washington, giving as an explanation that
he knew Minister Pauncefote desires a
change.