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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
A LIBERAL OFFER.
Thompson, the Australian Bookmaker,
Wants to Give Frisco Race Track.

Thompson, the Australian Bookmaker,
Wants to Give Frisco Race Track.
rBY DUNLAP's CABLE CoMPANrI
LONDON, October 2&-JOe Thompson. the
well.known Australian sporting man who made
his first money many years ago by his horse Don
Juan, who won the Ballarat cup and f3O. 900 be-
sides, will sail by the Teutonic Wednesday. on
his way to San francisco, in which city he in
tends 10 establish a new race course Being in
terTiewed by reporter Mr.. Thompson said:
Il believe there is room for a new race course
in Frisco on thoroughly honest and improved
principles, and 1 am ready to spend any amount
of money to make it the finest course in Ameri-
ca. make only one condition, and that is that
the citizens of Frisco shall get up Jockey
club TO control the course, like it is IN England
where the stewards are a guarantee of good
sport and honest management. If such a club
can be started am ready to make the course
Thompson intends to offer splendid cups as
prizes, and not only TO keep race horses in
CalllOrna a hut to breed them there and also 10
attract the best horses from the Eastern States
he viii spend one day in New York and one
in Chicago and then push on to San Francisco,
where be Is promised heavy support He is
prepared to spend $50 600, and will, if it be so
desired, put trotting track inside the running
course. Thompson is a man of his word
although a very rough diamond indeed aad
many stories are told in Australia of his good
heart and liberallty
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
River Telegrams.

ESPECIAL rELEGRAMS TO THE DIsPATCH.l
BRowNsvILLE-RiverI2 II feet inches and station
ary. Weather rainy. Thermometer 4lo at 5 P. N.
WARREN-River 4.6 feet and falling. Weather
cool. with light rains.
MoRGANTowN-Rfver 10 feet and stationary.
Weather rainy. Thermometer 40 at4P.M
LoUISvILLR-Riverr rising: Ills feet canal; o. 4
feet falls: rs Ieet at foot of locks. Business
good. Weather cloudy, windy and cool.
CAIRo-River 1871 feet and falling. Cloudy
and mild.
ALLEGHENY JUNCPION-River 10 feet 2 inches
and falling. Cloudy and raining.
MEMPHIs-River 1876 feet and stationary. Clear
and cool.
CINCINNATI-River 30 feet inches and rising
Departed State, Pittsburg. Cool and
raining.
ST. LoUIs-River on stand: SO feet. Cloudy and
damp.
WHEELING-River Is feet inches and falling
Departed Bedford. Pittsburg, at9A.M Clear
and cool.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
COLD WATER ENTHUSIASTS

Receive Encouraging Reports From Their
Workers in the County.
There was meeting of the active Prohibition
party workers of the county Mt Moorhead Hall
yesterday afternoon, the county chairman, L.
It. Yoder, presiding. The object of the meet
ing was to conclude the work of organizing the
county and provide for the proper distribution
of tickets at the polls. The county organizer
made his report, showing that every district in
the county had been provided for, with a few
exceptions The outlook seemed encouraging,
and when the meeting adjourned the Executive
Committee held meeting and authorized the
county organizer To engage an assistant, and
instructed him to visit several precincts in the
country districts and secure men to take charge
of the polls. They approved his action in
getting out circulars, tickets and other
campaign printing. and arranged for its dis
tribution.
+. Final arrangements were made for the recep-
tion of Colonel Balm and ]. d. Gill, the candi-
date for Governor, who will address the mass
meeting in Lafayette Hall on Friday night.
They will be doniciled at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel and taken care Of by the Executive Com
mittee,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
SUGGESTIONS ABOUT FOOTBALL.
An Admirer of the Game Thinks Chal'
lenge Cup Ought to be Secured.

An Admirer Of the Game Thinks Chal-
1enge Cup Ought to be Secured.
The following letter on local football will be
of interest to those interested in the game:
To the Sporting Editor of The Dispatch:
SIR read with great interest your opinion
last Sunday on football at home 1 am also
great lover of football, having PLAYED both
Rugby and Association rules in the old country.
Iprefer the latter rules and am glad TO know
that the public is taking an interest in the
game.
1 think there are some clubs in and about
Pittsburg that could induce our leading busi-
ness men who patronize football TO give chal-
lenge cup to be PLAYED for. l think this good
idea, and it would make the game more popular
in this section of the State. In Ireland they
have got cup that they call the Irish Inter
national Challenge Cup, and all the professional
clubs play for it. The club winning it three
years in succession holds it, and the club win
nlng 1t one year only. their name Is engraved on
il for the year they won IL.
Yours respectfully,
WILLIAM MCILvEEN.
WATTS LANE, NEAR WEBSTER AVENUE.
FITTSBURG.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
WILL APPEAL TO AMERICA
To Relieve the Distress in Irelands Famine
Stricken District.

To Relieve the Distress in Ireland's Famine
Stricken District.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.]
NEW YORK, October 2S.-T. B. Gill, the
delegate of the Irish Parliamentary party,
who is now in America, denied to-day that
the Irish party was Indifferent to the action
of Americans in collecting money for the
relief of the famine.t threatened counties Of
Ireland. Among other things he said:
The delegation of the Irish Parliamentary
party who are on their way TO this country at
the present moment will be representatives
equally of the people of the distressed districts
and of the rest of Ireland. 1t will certainly be
a part of their business to lay before the
American people the exact plight of
their famine-strickep constituents. Re-
lief of distress will form a leading por-
ton of our programme, distress occasioned
by the famine and distress among the thou
sands of evicted families who are always in
proximate danger of starvation and who de-
pend solely upon our aid for their support. But
we also intend to appeal for the means of ad-
vancing that policy which aims at
currence of famine. Our only anxiety is
not to see the mischief of 1879 repeated. when,
for want of proper system in the distribution,
large proportion of the money subscribed
was worse than wasted Much of it passed
straight into the pockets of the landlords.
There is no danger of a recurrence of this error.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
AT INDEPENDENT HEADQUARTERS.
Chairman Ayres Does Not Like the Quit
Attitude of AlIeghenians.

Chairman Ayres Does Not Like the Quiet
Attitude of Aneghenians.
At Independents Republican headquarters
yesterday Notwithstanding the fact that it was
a blue Monday, there was considerable enthusi-
asm. Chairman Ayres was busy, as usual, with
his assistants, opening letters, addressing com
munications etc. A number of letters were re-
ceived from persons in country districts, pledg-
ing support to the Pattison ticket. Mr.. Ayres
said:
I'VE got number of new accessions, to-day,
and the only case of drawback was the Fifth
avenue barber. mentioned yesterday. The
deeper we get into the movement the more
voters we find coming with us. They are not
confined to Pitisburg or Allegheny county. but
are in all the counties. The only thing 1 don't
like is the quiet feeling in Allegheny. If We are
weak anywhereit is there, on account of having
the postofice. police, and fire departments to
fight. There is not SO much enthusiasm there,
but find the people who do not enthuse know
how TO vote. They do not blow their horns, but
the blast will come in the shape of solid
votes"
An Independent meeting will be held at
Washington, Pa, tomorrow evening 1t will
be addressed by ex-Congressman Osmer and
Thomas NJ. Marshall, Esq.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
FIGHTING FOR A PATENT.
The Invention of a Beer Filter, Worth
Millions of Dollars, in Dispute.

The Invention of a Beer Filter, Worth
Millions of Dollars, in Dispute.
WASHINGTON, October 2S.- Commits
sioner Mitchell, Of the Bureau OF Patents,
to-day rendered an important decision in
the case of Zwietusch against Stockholm,
involving the right to a certain beer filter
and fltering process for purifying beer.
now in very general use in this country. 1t
appears from the record that Stockheim's
applications were first in the Patent
Office. Zweitusch, however, claims to be
the first inventor of the apparatus FOR prac-
ticing the process as well as the process
itself. The only question involved, there
fore, is that Of priority of invention.
The Board of Examiners of the Patent
Office found for Zweitusch. On appeal to
the Commissioner, however, their decision
was reversed and priority awarded to Stock
helm. This decision follows that of Judge
Gresham, recently rendered in the suit
brought By Simon and Frederick Uhlmann,
as assignee of the Stockholm patent, against
Bartholomay and the Leicht Brewing Com
pany. Very large interests are involved in
this decision, inasmuch as the invention is
said to be valued at several million dollars.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
MORE DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS.

Programme for the Balance of the Week
Completed Last Night.
A meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Democratic County Committee was held
last night and arrangements made for the fol-
lowing meetings: Tomorrow night at Millvale,
in the Opera House, with Thomas NJ. Marshall,
Levi Bird Duff, John Marion, Joseph Breil, g.
A. Fa-ap and Robert ]. H. Malone. At Natrona,
Colonel j. W. Echols. James W akefield, ]. F.
Miller and William Reardon. On Friday even
ing. at the County Democracy rooms, in this
city.
same evening" with Thomas NJ. Marshall, G. F.
McKenna. Morrison Foster and Henry Meyer
as the attractions. On Saturday night rous-
ing demonstration will be held at Lawrence
Rink. In addition TO a host of others, John e.
Shoemaker, John Marron John R. Large and
L. b. Duff have promised to fire the hearts of
those who attend.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
A CLEVER swINDLER.
How a Money Lender Used to Kill Two
Birds With One Stone.

How a Money Lender Used to Kill Two
Birds With One Stone.
CHICAGO, October 2S.-The whereabouts
of W. S. Whorton. who has been engaged
in the money lending business in this city
for several years. is troubling a number OF
citizens. and particularly the Chicago Trust
and Savings Bank and the United States
Loan Company. For over a week Whorton
has not been seen, and his wife and creditors
have finally concluded he has left the city.
1t is asserted that his indebtedness will
amount to s250,0OO. 1t is asserted that
Whorton frequently pursued a plan of
double dealing in hypothecating notes made
to him. When a note became due, it is
asserted he was accustomed to notify the
signer that he could not carry it unless a
new one was made. When this was done,
he promised to destroy the old notes, but
instead of doing so would leave them with
the financial institution where he had
placed them and take the new ones to
another place.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
AUTUMNAL ADVICE.

Keep your feet warm and dry
Wear waterproof boots in preference to
arctics or rubbers.
Keep your eye on your umbrella, you will
need it yourself.
Stop cough or a cold a. once. Pneumonia
and consumption may be started by either.
If you wear rubbers take them off whenever
you have the chance, even if only for few
minutes.
Ii you feel cough or a cold coming on take
drink of pure whiskey at once. 1t will keep
the blood in circulation and is the best pre-
ventive against the diseases of the season.
Remember that only pure whiskey should be
taken. Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey has the
strongest recommendations from the leading
scientists and medical men in the country, and
the only standard medicinal whiskey known.
Insist on having it. seA-w
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
CALLED A HALT.

The Alleged Worlds Championship Con-
testants Stop Until Next Spring.
NEW YORK, October 2S-The Worlds
championship series between the Brooklyn and
Louisville teams came to an unexpected close
this afternoon. Seven games have been
played, each team winning three and one being
a tie. The cold weather was too much for the
players, and the series will be played off next
spring. To-days game was played at WASH
ington Park Brooklyn. before few hundred
shvering spectators. When a ball struck a
players hands it sounded like pistol shot.
The Louisville men simply outbatted their op-
ponents and won easily.
Louisville. % o o. s
Brooklyn. o O.
SUMMARY-B -Batteries-Ehret Bligh and Week
becker; Lovett and DAILY Base hits-Louisville,
s; Brooklyn, 4 krrors-Louisville, 4; Brooklyn,
l. Earned runs Louisville, /: Brooklyn, l.
Three-base hits-Raymond. Ehret: Two-base
hits-Collins, Foutz. Taylor. Double plays
Shinnick. Raymond and TAYLOR: Weaver and
Weckbecker. Umpires-McQuaida and Curry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
THE MORTGAGE TROUBLED HIM,
And to Get Rid of 1t a Co1ored Man Forsake.
the Policy of Honesty.

And to Get Rid of 1t a Co1ored Man Forsakes
the Policy of Honesty.
DENVER, October 2S.-Harry Forester,
alias George Evans, alias Charles Homes,
was arrested last night on charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses. His
manner of operating was quite novel and
very successful. He visited all the banks
and leading business houses of the city, rep
resenting himself as a solicitor for the col
ored Orphans Home. to be located at some
Eastern point. His victims in this city
number over 100, each having subscribed
from 81 to $50.
Before coming to Denver he worked all
the large towns in this State and Western
Kansas. The prisoner is eolored, 26 years
old, and claims to have a wife living in
Kansas. He says he forsook the honest
policy when he found that he could not pay
off the mortgage on his house.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
FOUR MILESAM MINUTE.
Rapid Transmission From New York
to Philadelphia Planned
BY MEANS OF PNEUMATIC TUBES.
A New Project Which Seems to be Very
Profuse in Promises.
FEASIBLE FEATURES OF THE SCHEME

NEW YORK, October 2S.-Arrangements
are making for the laying of double pneu-
matte tube line between New York and
Philadelphia. Between these two and all
intermediate points 1t is expected that let
ters, newspapers and small packages will be
whirled at the rate of four miles minute.
S. F. Leake, OF Philadelphia. claims
to have discovered all the es-
sentials to this great undertaking.
namely, practical switching sys-
tenn for intermediate points, a long-distance
carrier that will not heat by friction. ability
to stop the same without serious shock or
injury, and very rapid transmission of
messages, ETC., without even a liability to
accident. His carriers will run on wheels
whose axles will revolve in a journal Of
asbestos and plumbago. The carriers will
be automatically stopped by compressed
air. and he will be able, he says, by means
OF block system to make switch or sta
ton at any point on the line.
In order to test the practicability and
efficiency of Mr.. Leake's patent devices
double pneumatic tube line will shortly be
laid between Jersey City and Newark on
the route which has been selected for the
through line. The transmission of letters,
newspapers and small packages between
these two points will furnish approximately
accurate criteria about the business possi-
bilities of the new enterprise.
Although the inventor will start his sys-
tenn for the transmission of letters, newspa-
pers and small packages, he hopes, in case
of success, to adapt it to larger uses. In
fact, he says that he may vet solve the
problem of cheap and rapid transit and run
passenger trains and freight trains through
monster tubes with absolute safety.
Such pneumatic inventors in this city as
Edward Vernon, of No. 3S Wall street,
being interviewed, say that they nave no
doubt that if the new scheme works success
fully as far as Newark it will be made just
as feasible and practicable through to Phila-
delphia, and that it will be profitable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
KICKING HORSE THE KICKER,

And the Cunning Method He Employs to
Foment Indian Troubles.
BISMARCK, October 2S.-Kicking Horse,
the great Sioux prophet, seems to be re-
sponsible for most of the trouble at Standing
Rock. He claims to have visited heaven
and returned to earth to tell the Indians
what good things are in store for them.
Major Mclaughlin ordered him of the
reservation. and confined several other
troublesome spirits in the guard house.
The Indians have been making day and
night hideous. Kicking Horse is cunning
enough to mix Christianity with his prophe-
sizes. He tells them they must not kill the
whites, as the Great Spirit would take care
of them. If it were spring instead of fall
there would be danger of an uprising, but it
is not believed that one will now occur.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
A UNION PACIFIC MAN REPLIES
To Several Stories Which Have Been Circl
lated About the Road.

To Several Stories Which Have Been Circu-
lated About the Road.
BOSTON, October 2S. Vice President
Lane, of the Union Pacific Railway, was
seen to-day with regard to the stories with
which the "street" of late has teemed de-
rogatory to the Union Pacific, its manage.
ment, eic. With regard to the boycott"
and the effect thereof, Mr.. Lane said: "The
west-bound through business is really all
that is affected, and even this can suffer but
little" The Union Pacific people are not
at all disturbed by the so-called "boycott,"
and they find in the causes leading to it and
in the ill-feeling of competitors an inspira
ton for ali the recent wild reports concern
ing the road.
The stories Of accidents have, Mr.. Lane
says, been greatly exaggerated. A few ac-
cidents have naturally occurred under the
circumstances of enormous traffic, but none
of these have involved auy serious damage.
As regards the latest story from Chicago to
the effect that the management was working
tacitly to wreck the road with a view to ulti-
mately turning it over to the Vanderbilts,
Mr.. Lane says the yarn is too absurd to
deny.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
SMITH AND GODFREY.

The Denver Pugilist Thinks He Will Defeat
the Colored Fighter of Boston.
NEW YORK. October &-Ed. Smith, the
Denver heavyweight. who is to box George
Godfrey for purse of 200 at the Puritan
Athletic Club. In Long Island City. on Novem-
Der II. arrived here from Belfast, N. Y, yes
terday morning with his trainer and manager,
William Muldoon. Smith was in excellent
spirits when reporter saw him.
II have been training pretty hard for 10
days" he said land intend to put the finish
ing touches on at Hampstead, L. l. What do L
think OF Godfrey? l can only say that be-
lieve him to be good man. l think shall be
able to defeat him, however, and my friends in
Denver will bet pile of money that way"
How much will you weigh when you have
finished training?"
About $50 pounds" replied Smith. AT
that weight will be strong and in prime nx.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
FATAL CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.

The Widow of Naval Officer Killed and
Her Daughter Injured.
WASHINGTON, October pa fatal rum
away accident occurred in this city to-day
by which Mrs. Margarent CAN'T, widow OF
the late Lieutenant CAN'T, of the navy. was
killed. and her daughter, Miss Clara CAN'T,
very seriously injured.
The two ladies were out in their own
carriage, with colored man driving, when
the horse, which was somewhat fractions,
took fright and became unmanageable. The
ladies, fearing for their lives, jumped out
of the carriage, with the result above stated
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED.

Two Men and Eight Fine Horses Killed and
Cars Demolished.
MACON, October 28.-Barnum's circus
train in five sections left Macon this MORN
ing at o'clock for Athens on tine Coving-
ton and Macon Railroad. Five miles from
Monticello the trainmen lost control of the
third section on long down grade, and it
dashed into the rear of the second section,
on the end OF which was the cooks car, pre-
ceded by car containing horses.
A man named Kelly, of Kalamazoo,
Mich. in the Car, was killed, and another
man, name unknown. was badly hurt. Eight
horses in the forward car were killed. The
two engines pulling the third section were
derailed and badly damaged, as were six or
eight cars following. The fireman of the
first engine, Lewis Glenn. was instantly
killed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

Governor Page Gives His Democratic Oppo-
nent an Honorary Appointment.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrspArcH.,
MONTPELIER, October 28.- Governor
Page created sensation to-day when he ap-
pointed as Chief of his Staff Colonel Her
bert F. Brigham, who had been his
Democratic opponent for the Gubernatorial
chair, and who had succeeded in whiting
down the Republican plurality from %, 900
to 10000. He also appointed as member
of his staff Colonel Herbert E. FOLSOM, su-
perintendent of the Passumpic division of
the Boston and Maine Railroad Company.
Colonel FOLSOM was the Democratic can
didate for Congress in the Second district.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
MIFFED AT THE IRON MEN.
Reception Committee Decide to
Not Entertain Them.

Toronto's Reception Committee Decide to
Not Entertain Them.
NIAGARA FALLS, ONT, October 28.-
The Southern contingent of the Iron and
and Steel Institute arrived at noon from
Washington. The party visited the princi-
pal points of interest on both sides OF the
river. The portion of the party that is to
make Canadian tour was taken charge of
by representatives of the Canadian Govern
ment. They will leave for Toronto in the
morning.
A dispatch from Toronto says: The Re-
ception Committee of the City Council to-
day decided not to entertain the iron and
steel delegates. The Mayor said the VISIT
ors had paid Toronto but scant courtesy in
arranging to stop here only five hours.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
Results at Mashinrtnn.

WASHINGTON. October 2s.-Following were
the results OF to-day's races here:
First race, six furlongs -Bellwood first, Tanner
second, Bellevue third. Time. l:l6
Second race-FoXmede first Busted second
King HaZen third. Time, I:5lB.
THIRD race, six furlongs-Helen Rose first
NirEie second, Biddy Doyle third. Time I:I7J1
Fourth race, mile and furlong-Iceberg first
Blue Jeans second, Bradford third. Time I:57
Fifth race. one mile-Cornelia first Pericles
second. Silleck third. Time, Las,
Sixth race steeplechase-NaUchesf first Mogul
second, Punch third. Time, 4:5O
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
THE ROYAL TOUR CONTINUES.

The Count of Paris and Party Spend a Day
Seeing Canadian Sights.
QUEBEC, October 2S.-This morning the
Comte de Paris and party visited the
Ursuline Convent where the Count re-
sponded with speech to an address of well
come. Thence the party drove to the Card
inal's Palace. They were cordially received
by Cardinal Archbishop Taschereau, who
was attended bv several dignitaries of the
church in the state drawing room.
Cardinal Taschereau and the visitors next
visited Laval University. The rest of the
day was spent in visiting the museums and
library and the Shrine of LIE Bonne Ste.
Anne. In the evening they were BAN
quoted bv citizens.