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The morning call., 1890-05-21


NAPA, May 2O.-The trial OF Homer Moss and
Oreana Moss. charged with criminal assault, will
begin In the Superior Court tomorrow morning.
The morning call., 1890-05-21

NEW YORK, May 20. - Following are the
Grayesend entries for tomorrow:
First race, three-quarters of u mile (Handicap)
Judge Morrow lis, Guard lib. FItzroy Il6
Drumstick ITO. Meriden 100. Belwood 1o8,
Zephyrus 105, Tormentor 1o3, Re-echo 1O2,
Eccola colt 100.
Second race, one mile-Foxmede, La Favorite
colt, San Jose, MaSterlOde, Dunoee, Kings Own.
Fav0rite and Adamant l22 each.
Third race, one aud an eighth miles (GaZelle
stakes)-lnyermore hlly, Starlight, Martha, De-
coy Duck hlly, he'd Dress, Golden Horn Amazon
ana Eminence III each.
Fourth race, bali a mile-0sceola 100, Home
opathy 100, Dahlgren no. Civil Service no
Fordbam 12b, Geraldine 100. Ballaral no.
Sam Morse ITO.
fiith race, three quarters OF a mIle-Barnepat
DR.. Helmuth ana b. b. Million l 10 each. AdOpn
so, Faustina. Ruby, Royal BlDoleIte aud Decoy
Duck tilly 105 each
Sixth race, five furlongs-Pagan 100. The
Forum 122. Penzance, Fdvorie aud Architect
no each, Vendeur III, Lord Harry IIS, Wend-
away, Annie q and Seminole 10 each, Cotton
Rotation, Tuscaloosa coll and Sinaloa colt Is
each, Kate Clark and Blithe I15 each.
The morning call., 1890-05-21
COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING.
Narrow Escape of Workmen on Brick Block
az SEATTLE

SEATTLE, May 2o.-Thls afternoon at 800
O'clock tour Of the five walls of the big brick
block in course OF construction on the north
west corner OF South Third and Washington
streets collapsed. A gang Of labOrers were at
work on tie building, but fortunately all es-
capped without injury. The building was owned
by Broderck Slessinger and CAPTAIN Nugent
and was built up to the third story. Ii carried
down with 1t twO-St0ry building adjoining, also
beng constructed. Tie cause OF the collapse is
said 10 have been inferior quality of mortar
used. The damage Will amount 10 about $751;
600.
The morning call., 1890-05-21
PAYMENT OF WARRANTS.
The River and Harbor mmissioners Receive
Their Salaries

SACRAMENTO, May 2O.-The River and Harbor
Commissioners today tapped the State Treasury
for $4,000. pursuant K decision OF the Supreme
Court. rendered about two weeks ago. ordering
the Controller 10 pay their salaries. II Is not
generally known what or how much work they
have done, but Humberts warrant called for
$780, c. L. GIuusky's for S2026 &C and }. j.
CrawfOrd's for 5000 SO.
The morning call., 1890-05-21
unGE j. @. aRANerp

Judge l.. c. Granger, Register of the
United States Land Office at Marysville,
died at Oroville yesterday afternoon of
acute pneumonia. He left the Land Office
on Saturday evening, feeling unwell, to
spend Sunday with his family and sank
rapidly.
The morning call., 1890-05-21
The Coney Conspiracy Case.

The Stone-cutters' Union Initiated eight can
didates for membership and received four prop
ositions. Business was reported as brisk.
The morning call., 1890-05-21
LATEST SHIPPING INrELLIGENoE.

LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
TUESDAY May 20.
Schr AboIe, johnson, "a hours from Humboldt;
zoo Nj TT lumber, to Pacific Pine Lumber Co.
Movements of Transa tIantic Steamers
BREMEN-Arrived May 21-Stmr Maine. from
New York.
LsoNDoN-Arrived May 21-stmr Egyptian Mon
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
POSTAGE FREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
PITTsBURG. SATURDAY, NOV. %, 1890
THE INDIAN AGITATION.

The last reports from the Indian agencies
are TO the effect that the danger of hostili-
ties, which had been previously exaggerated,
Is nearly over. The excited Indians have
been restored to their senses by the approach
of winter, the majority of them have come
in to get their rations, and their pacifcation
until spring is now almost assured. By
that time it will be nothing but singular
incompetence if full precautions to prevent
an uprising are not taken.
The crisis being past there are iDtimations
Of investigation into the trouble which hint
At the implication OF Government agents.
Exactly how the officers cf the Government
could be connected with this general agita-
ton is not plain; but it is singular fact
that the old agents who were displaced to
make room for the appointees of the present
ADMINISTRATION have been able to exert a re-
markaDle influence in the pacifcation of the
Indians. II there is any suspicion of dis
honesty or iuiudicious treatment on the part
Of : officials who have charge of agencies
the investigation should be thorough and
the facts unsparingly made public.
There certainly could be no more telling
commentary on the spoils system of politics
than the displacement of the men who have
kept the Indians quiet and contented, while
under their successors the army has to be
called out and the old agents appealed to,
in order 10 avert the danger of savage out
break.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

The latest accounts from Oklahoma indi-
cate that the ameliorating influences of civil
ization are doing their work there. The
telegraphic account of a controversy be-
tween two members of the Legislature states
that they went outside of the House and
"clinched," but refrained from coming to
blows. This is encouraging. In the early
day of Oklahoma, difference of opinion
would result in the disputants getting out
their field artillery without leaving the floor
of the House. But in less than two years
they have reached the stage of good order
where they do not even come to blows. This
rapid progress warrants the hope that in a
short time the Oklahoma Legislature will
be more orderly than the National House
of Representatives. 1t can never be as
dignifed-or as dull-as the Senate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

nor carat lea, the greater and more far
reaching combinations rise serenely above
the principles of law and justice. 1t is
notorious fact that the whole anthracite coal
trade is under the control of a combination
which limits production and orders the en-
tire industry of district to stand idle, and
is not disturbed by law simply because 1t
does not take the trouble to ask the author
ity of the law for anything it does. On the
other hand, this proposed combination is
one of the smallest retailers in the business,
and could hardly have controlled the mar
ket in any way. Indeed, the attorney for
the applicants says that the purpose OF the
charter was to run a coal yard at which the
applicants, who are peddlers of coal, could
get their stock in trade at cost In that
case, the applicants are to be commiserated
on their bad luck In not employing an at
torney with sense enough to state clearly
the legitimate purpose of an organization
instead of shrouding it under mysterious
and incongrous professions of illegitimate
purposes.
Judge Garven's decision was, of course,
based on the principle of the thing, but it is
pity that he cannot have a chance to ap-
ply that principle to some of the gigantic
combinations instead of one of the smallest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mr.. G. P. HUNTINGTON began life as q tin
peddler.
A LATE estimate of John D. Rockefeller's
fortune places it at S125, ,0OO, ,0OO
SENATOR INGALLS, is arranging to build a
large business block in Atchison.
LORD BALTrMoRE's portrait in oil has been
offered to the city of Baltimore for $3.50.
j. G. RICE, of Mechanicville, N Y, who is
hale and hearty at s4. was present when the
water was let into the Champlain Canal, and
met the water from Lake Erie in the Erie
Canal, in 1928.
TEDDIE GOODWIN, 6 years old, of Camelia,
Ca, is a little hero. The gown of his 2-year-old
sister caught hre, and, with commendable
presence of mind, he tore off his jacket and
smothered the flames.
The Tichborne claimant is at present engaged
as barman il public house in Birmingham.
He makes himself generally useful, and in the
evening he lectures in the smoke room. 1t is
said that he gets fl2 week and all found.
1T appears from the souvenirs of the Baron
de Barante, which are about to be published,
that Talleyrand fed to America menaced by the
Reign of Terror, his worldly wealth consisting
of % louis-d'ors. and that Madame DE Stael pre-
vented him from committing suicide by obtain
ing for him post.
MR.. STEAD writes of Mr.. Morley that he
neither rides. nor skates nor bicycles. nor goes
a-ishng. No one ever heard of him playing at
cricket, or rowing, and his interest in lawn ten
mis- is solely that of spectator. 1t has been SO
from his youth up, his pleasures being those of
the intellect. He revels in long walks across
the hills, or solitary meditations In country
lanes. But, on the whole. he is probably hap
plest if you give him book and shady seat in
quiet garden. Give him favorite book and
familiar garden seat, and he has all that can
most minister to his pleasurable content.
MAJOR GENERAL MOLINA GUIRoLA, the re-
Gently appointed Minister of Salvador to the
United States. is "a man of distinguished appear
ance, was educated in the Salvadorian Military
Academy. and has fought in the battles of the
republic for 20 years. His present appointment
was conferred By President Ezeta in recogni-
tion of his services during the recent war with
Guatemala, when he acted as General Minister
holding for time all the Cabinet portfolios. In
1876 while fighting against Guatemala, he lost a
leg. General Guirola intends to bring his family
to this country soon, and have his sons educated
here.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
A COMPLETE SUCCESS.

Brilliant Opening of the New Union League
and Are Yet to be Heard-Card Parties
and Receptions.
The Union League Club donned its most
festive attire last evening" and made its formal
bow to the public in its c0zy new club house on
Penn avenue. AS early as o'clock everything
was in reception order for the expected 800
guests. The ebony-hued ''gentlemen's gentle
men, we're in waiting at their posts Of duty
the eoony-hued maids were anxiously awaiting
the fair ladies, whose wraps they we're to care
for, and the committee in full dress and broad
smIles meandered round their new possessions,
and with pardonable pride viewed the
beaui1fui floral decorations when the
electric lights, by condescending to shine,
permitted such feastIng of the eyes, and con-
graduated themselves and each other upon the
TACT that the initial reception of the Union
League promised to be grand success. Later
on. the guests began to arrive. and Gueni hers
orchestra, stationed in room on the second
moor, that seemed designed especially for them,
began the musical programme that added SO
much to the enjoyment of the evening.
beIore 0oclOck the rooms. so fresh and at
tractiVe In their artistic furnishings, and so
fragrant with the profusion of cut flowers,
were made even more enchanting by the
throngs OF handsomely attired ladies and gen.
tlemen that filed them. Refreshments were
served BIZ Hagan. in the comfortable dining
loCm.
Tho club is a new one-only about six weeks
old-but claims already 125 members all young
men. anu begins its career with pleasing pros
poets The patronesses for last evening were:
Mrs. Robert p. Duff. Mrs. John A. Myler Mrs
Edward A. kitzmiller Mrs. John E. Davidson,
Mrs. Asaph T. Rowand, Mrs. Hugh W. Mckee,
Mrs. Alexander NJ. Voigt, Mrs Frank E.
Moore; and the committee, F. f. Stewart, F.
N. Cooke,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
GOOD ANTITRUST DOCTRINE.

The decision by Judge Gordon, of the
Philadelphia Common Pleas, on an appli-
cation for a charter of an alleged retail coal
company adds another to the long list of
judicial declarations against combinations
in restraint of transit, under circumstances
which bring into strong relief the contempt
with which the strongest and wealthiest
combinations are treating the unanimous
declarations of the bench as to their illegal
ity. The application in this case was for a
charter for retail coal company, in which
the retail coal dealers were to be combined,
and the statement of its purpose was "to pro-
mote the business of such retail coal dealers
as NAV become members thereof, and to pro-
tect them from unwarranted increase in
gales and prices" The remarkable object
of protecting the retail coal dealers against
the calamity of an Increase of sales, rightly
attracted the judicial attention; and in his
opinion, Judge Gordon made the following
pointed Characterization OF the prevalent
combination policy:
AS matter of fact, beneath all its bungling
disguises and half-disclosed purposes. it is OBJ
yious that the intention of this proposed cor
poration is to commit acts that are not only
injurious to the community and against public
policy. but also indictable as a criminal con-
spiracy.
whether it be termed trust a pool a
combination or trade organization it is
still an unlawful combination in general re-
straint Of trade, and for the purpose of regu-
lating the price and controlling the supply Of
what, in effect, is necessary of life. All COM
binations of this character intended to inter-
fere with trade in its natural and ordinary
movement, as governed by supply and demand,
are unlawful. Such criminal compacts are not
infrequently heard of in our modern life. are
more often suspected to exist, and are some
times disclosed in the courts, but this is the
drst time we have known judicial sanction with
corporate powers and privileges to be asked for
them.
This is sound and commendable doctrine,
but it is one of the ironies of the fates, which
appear to preside over this whole subject of
monopolistic combinations, that this pointed
and forcible judicial denunciatIon of them
is directed against a combination of such
small proportions as to almost deserve i'm
munity. On the principle of de mininius
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
MANAAIAKER,S REPORT.

The annual report of Postmaster General
Wanamaker, which THE DISPATCH pub
fishes to-day, shows that the Postal Depart
ment is in satisfactory condition. The
growth of the mail service during the past
year has been remarkable, as the increase of
five million dollars in gross revenues and
the addition of over five thousand new post
Offices sufficiently attest. Mr. Wanamaker
is justified in taking pride in the
practical evidence of economy in the
administration of the Department
which he is able to produce, and it is
pleasant to learn that his ardor is unsub-
dued in the perfection of improvements in
the handling of mails. The opposition of
the anti-lottery bill appears to have had
good results already and the public will
echo heartily the Postmaster Generals ioy
on this score. The report contains recon-
mendations and plans for the further i'm
provement of postal facilities, 10Th domestic
and international, which with Mr.. Wana-
makers removed advocacy of government
telegraph deserve careful consideration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
THE TOPICAL TALKER,
A Sign of Impatience.

A GOOD many people ask for David Hender.
son or his brother Wemyss during the
day at Murray HammonG's office, opposite
the Duquesne Theater. The Hendersons have
made the office of the bill-posting firm sort
of headquarters, nominally perhaps, for they
might declare, as a certain general on the
Union side did-to his own discomfisure-that
their headquarters has been "in the saddle''
for the last three months. About a hundred
messenger boys. theatrical people, and others
bent on business. including good showing of
reporters, asked big Mr. Murray or his equally
urbane partner, Mr.. Hammond, yesterday to
tell them when the Hendersons would be in,
until the business of bill-posting bade fair to be
swamped beneath the food of inquiry
About o'clock, when the two hundred and
seventh person. by actual count, had opened
the door, letting in blast of cold air from
without and getting hot blast from within IN
answer to the query: Where is Mr.. Hender-
SOM" Mr.. Murray arose and directed an artis-
tic genius, who happened 10 be within call, to
paint sign to order. A sheet of fair, white
paper was procured, and upon this the artist
painted in red letters, beneath floral design
in black AMI crimson, representing the last rose
of summer in an advanced stage of decay, this
touching legend:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
oUR ANTIoUATED CAPITOL.

The Secretary of the Commonwealth, in
his report to Governor Beaver, prior to lay
ing down the Office for a Congressional
career, calls attention to the aisgracefully
inadequate Capitol building at Harrisburg.
As the Philadelphia Times says: ''It is a
striking comment on the peanut politics
that have 50 long disgraced Pennsylvania,
that the books and documents of the State
Department can find no other resting place
than loft that must be reached with lad
der when the documents are wanted and in
which thsy are entirely without protection
from fire."
1t is true that Pennsylvania, the second
State of the Union in wealth and popula-
ton, has Capitol building which would
be inadequate and discreditable for fourth
or ffth-class State. 1t was erected when the
wealth and population of Pennsylvania
were about equal to those of Wisconsin or
Minnesota at the present time; and it is one
of the singular features of our politics that
the opportunities for political spoiIs afforded
by the construction of a new and costly
Capitol have never been utilized by our
politicians. This suggests that it may be
better to get along with the shabby
and inadequate old building than
reproduce the scandals that have attended
the building of State capitols in other
States. The example of New York is, to
people who have a desire for honesty in
public administration, a decided deterrent
from advocating the construction of such a
State building as would be in accordance
with Pennsylvania magnitude and needs.
If our Legislators and State officials can
rise to the height of devising plan by
which a new capitol of architectural merits
and adequate accommodations can be built on
as business-like basis, and with as entire
freedom from jobbery, as the Allegheny
county Court House, the public would will
ingly indorse the policy of building such a
structure for the benefit of the State. Penn
sylvania can we'll afford the cost of at
trsctive and honestly constructed State
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
MRS. PARTINGTON's DEATH,

BROOKLYN Eagle: In the quiet almost un-
observed death Of Benjamin P. Shillaber in
Boston yesterday. death so like that kindly
authors modest life. our noisy age loses hu-
morIst it can i'll afford to remember carelessly
NEW YORK Press: Alas! Mrs Partingtonp
is no more. The genial Benjamin P. ShilIaber
has passed away and left great big niche va
cant in the temple of American humor. There
is nobody ready to exactly fill it, if there ever
will be.
PHILADELPHIA Record: Unlike many Of
our modern humorists, who go up like a rocket
and come down like q stick, Mr.. Shillaber's
work possessed the element of vitality; and
much of it, outside of its humorous conceits
had vein of tenderness running through it.
NEW YORK CONNIE rciaI Advertiser: As it
has been more than 40 years since Benjamin
PenhalIow Shillaber began to set all America
to laughing as Mrs. Partington," in the Bos-
ton Post, his name is naturally more of a
household word with elderly people than with
those of the rising generation. But his death
will be felt as loss by the whole country.
SPRINGFIELD Republican,: The creator Of
Mrs. Partington, who had been for years con-
fined to a wheeled chair in his home at Chelsea,
and vet kept the keenest interest in passing
events, died Yesterday. A more bright and
genial spirit one more filled with the milk of
human kindness, cheerful under the burdens
of advancing years and strict confinement, Is
not often encountered.
NEW YORK Star: The present generation
scarcely knows Mrs. Partington. 1t was back
in the forties that the good, motherly old lady,
unconsciously funny and always lovable, made
her debut A quarter of a century and more
ago she had firm hold upon the affections of a
large and appreciatve public. If the new lights
of modern DAYS have caused her to be over
looked. they have not obscured her lasting
fame, for she has permanent abiding place in
American literature.
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin: The death of B.
p. ShilIaber, which occurred last evening, re-
moves one of the foremost Of American
humorists. He was a pioneer in his line, and
his unique creation, "Mrs. Parrington," has be-
come household name throughout the land.
Her queer ideas and highly original misuse of
words have never been equalled by any of her
numerous imitators. Even Dickens failed to
make "Sairy Camp" as good as Mrs Parting
ton," and "Peck's Bad Boy is very far behind
like" in point of fun without malice.
BosroN Herald: Mr.. Shillaber was among
the most gentle of humorists. There was no
sting In any of his jokes. His wit always
played about his subject without wounding.
He had a refined taste, and was particularly at
tracted to poetical composition. His
heart had the warmest spot in it of all for the
brethren of the printers craft, in which he was
bred, and in connection with which nearly all
his life outside. his own doors was passed. Ben
Shillaber had a massive physical frame. and a
heart to correspond with 1t. Many loved him,
and he deserved all their love- Peace to his
ashest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
Freedom or Death,

ON Thanksgiving night when the train
stopped at Freedom a station about 20 miles
down the Fort Wayne road. two stalwart girls,
weighing about 800 pounds net, did not dis
cover that they had reached their destination
till the conductor reached for the bell coh to
give the signal to start. They were panic
stricken, of course, and as heavyweights of the
feminine gender are apt to do, they stood not
upon the order of their going. There were a
good many standing in the car when this heavy
brigade of two made its charge, but few were
standing minute later. Pickett's charge or
that of the light brigade were nothing to it.
AS the train pulled out leaving the pair of
Amazons in good order beside the track. stout
man who had fallen in the confusion against
the stove remarked: ''rhat must have been
the wild rush for Freedom I've so often heard
about"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
THE JAIL DELIVERY.

The Western Penitentiary lost two of its
inmates last night that the community can
ill afford to gain. The murderer and the
burglar, it is to be hoped, will soon be re-
turned to their cells, and it is hardly pos
sible that they can remain at large long, for
the alarm followed close upon the heels Of
their escape. The possibility OF human
tiger getting loose in this fashion is one Of
the best arguments for capital punishment.
If the hangman had attended to McGraw
his career of uselessness would not have
been indefinitely prolonged, as now it
NAV be,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
SOLVENT BUT SQUEEZED.

The failure of the Philadelphia banking
firm, B. x. Jamison & Co., which occurred
yesterday, is regretable result of the pres
ent financial stringency. The revelations
as to the causes of the failure are not at all
alarming; they show nothing more than the
inability of a conservative firm to realize
their assets in the face of an emergency
which could not have been foreseen.
The firm has enjoyed high
reputation, and at one time were
the fiscal agents of this city. 1t would ap-
pear that circumstances favor Jameson &
Co. IS resumption, and the failure in point OF
fact ought rather to prove a temporary re-
sumption. With the improving condition
of the money market there is no reason to
fear any extension of the financial disturb.
ance in this State.