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As two Of the riders are mounted for the
great sweepstake political race this fall, we
may reasonably expect to see squirt or two
over the course before the field enters for the
final dash,
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Mr.. g. Wilson, the popular proprietor and
editor OF the Marlboro Odze,ts, was in Port To-
bacco on the day Of the Convention and called
in to pay his respects to the lNDEPESpBNr. He
is a courteous and aliable gentleman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
An Indian Scare.

When fear stands at ones elbow it is easy
to find dangers ahead. In the early settle
ment of New Gloucester, Me-, a blockhouse
was found necessary in which the people
could assemble for safety and mutual de-
fense against the Indians, runs a sketch in
the Youths Companion. 1t was understood,
says one of the early settlers, that if any one
saw Indians about he should sound an alarm
on the tin horn, and the folks should get to
the blockhouse as quickly as possible. One
fall we were kept pretty well stirred up by
the redskins ugly pranks.
Two men were killed and scalped on the
outskirts of the town, and their horses car
ried Off, A child was lost in some way, and
most people laid it to the sllulking savages,
who, they supposed, had stolen her. A house
was fired i'll the next settlement, and every
thing carried away, and we expected mis-
chief any minute.
One afternoon in October, about dusk,
there came a sudden and tremendous horn
blowing. That meant the Indians were near.
Folks stopped whatever they were doing
and hurried to the blockhouse-men, women
and children. The horn blown that way
brought persons heart into his mouth.
When we were all inside and the great door
was shut, we began to inquire what was up,
and who had seen any Indians. n young
fellow Smith L believe was his name, had
given the alarm. and now said that he saw
an Indian in a tree accommodating, not "a doz-
en- rods from the blockhouse. He made no
doubt the rest OF the party were near; ana
he had been afraid we would be attacked
before we could all get inside the block
house.
The guns we're ready, and the men took up
tlIeir stations at the loopholes, and we
waited and watched for a long time. Some
were sure they could make out, by the
moon, that the redskin was still in the tree.
'He doesn't dare to get down, said one and
another, "for fear hen get peppered.' Some
were for firing at the tree, but the older ones
said we had better wait and not be the first
to shed blood, and this wise counsel pre-
vailed. have noticed, all through my life,
that it is always never best TO be the first to
start fuss.
Finally Ben Hammond, who had been COW
ering that tree with his gun, turned sudden
ly round and declared that he was going out
to get n higher view of that redskin. The
women were dreadfully scared, and begged
him not to be rash But Ben smiled, un-
bolted the door and went out.
He went close up to the tree and burst out
laughing heartily.
"Come out here" he shouted, "and see this
Indian up tree"
The Indian in that tree was only bear
cub. But to pay for our scare we had plenty
of bear meat in the settlement for week
afterWard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION.

One deduction from the immense popu-
larity of the park on the Fourth of July
ought not to pass unnoticed. That is the
indication it affords that the Library, Art
Gallery and Music Hall buildings there can
be reached by the people.
Whatever difference of opinion may be
held as to the superior availability of a
downtown site, day like last Saturday
leaves no question that the masses go to
the park. When 100000 people will GO
out there of an evening to see a s., 500
display of fireworks, there is no doubt
that 5000 or 1000 can be drawn there to
see a frst-class concert or grand opera.
If that number will take the trouble to
travel there and then proceed on foot
from the entrance over the mile or
two of roads that will take them
to Panther Hollow, it is a tolerably con-
elusive demonstration that those among
the masses who wish to study art or look
up branches of especial investigation in
the reference library will travel as far as
the entrance for the purpose The fact
that the traction lines were hardly ade-
quate to handle traffic of something over
that the transit accommodations will be
ample for the average travel to the main
Carnegie building. Finally the fact that
the travel to the park on gala day equals
one half the population Of Pittsburg per-
mits the conclusion that the building will
be placed directly in the path of normal
daily travel that will largely compensate
for its removal from the concentration of
business traffic.
There is still a wide liberty of opinion
left that a location near the business
center would have been better if attainable.
But, since it was not obtainable, the con-
clusion from such day as last Saturday
is gratifyingly evident that the park loca-
ton will be not only accessible to the
masses, but popular among them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08

ary paid to the head of the fire
department to $1,000 is not exces-
sive for man who can keep the
force up to the highest degree of efficiency
and adopt the most effective measures for
the suppression of fires; and all legislation
with regard to the organization of the
force must rest upon the assumption
that such an appointment will be made.
The ordinance retains the original vital
features of fireboat, water tower, in
creased force for the business section, and
the removal of electric wires. These are
points of the utmost importance, and the
fear that the provisions for them might be
emasculated evoked the suspicion that the
somewhat singular withdrawal of the
ordinance from the last meeting of Coun-
ellis might be for that purpose. As they
remain unchanged the measure, in its
amended form, will commend itself to
public approval.
1t is to be hoped that the special meet
ing of Councils foreshadowed will take
prompt action in the passage of the ordi-
nance. 1t is the result OF mature consider
alton, and any further delay is but an in
vitation to the hazards of destructive
contlagration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
The Coon Was a Cat.

By one of those condolences which some
times occur, a number of the attaches of the
Federal building were gathered into the
United States MarshaFs office this morning.
exchanging "reminiscences, says the New Or
leans Ne1O Delta.
"I'll never forget the time went coon
hunting out in the woods with party Of
other young fellows said Ed McDevitt, of
the Clerks office, who had ',just happened"
to dri1t into the room. "I expected to have
a load of fun, as the other boys had told me
what a picnic coon hunting always was.
Well, we started out about dark with fine
coon dog and several guns. At about the
same time it began to rain. The whole
blessed night we tramped through the dark
woods in the pouring rain, scratching our
selves all to pieces ON briers and wading
through swamps. 1 remember that along
toward morning my gun weighed at the
least calculation 3l6 pounds.
AT o'clock in the morning our dog treed
a coon. 1t was very dark, but we could
family see the animal moving about up
among the limbs of the tree. Then we rested
ourselves by chopping the tree down. 1t was
about two feet thick, and it was o'clock
when the tree fell. The coon jumped out of
the tree and started to run, but one of the
boys shot. We all ran up to get look at it.
1t was somebody's old cat. We then went
home.
"The dog was so disguised that he would
never hunt 'coons again. and the next day
the man who owned the land where we
caught the coon came over and Threatened
to sue us if we didn't pay for the tree and
the cat. l tell you what, fellows, there's
heap of fun in coon hunting"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
Rank SUPERVISION

In relation to the recent criticisms on
the efficacy of bank supervision, caused
by disclosures like those which have taken
place in Philadelphia, theNew York Tri6-
ane raises the question of the necessity
of bank supervision as follows;
One point seems to be overlooked by these
critics. There are in this country a great
many private banks, in which there is no di-
vision of responsibility. They are subjected
to no official examination. No legal re-
straints confine their action. Yet they have
a heavy private business, and hold and man.
age enormous sums of money. If restraints,
imposed by law are necessary to safe bank
ing, it might be inferred that many of these
banks would fail. Yet it seems to be the
fact, on the contrary, that failures among
banks of this sort are comparatively few.
But in making this assertion the Tribune
does what it accuses the critics of doing
it overlooks very important point. 1t
forgets that the testimony of the panic of
1873 and subsequent years was decid edly
to the effect that a system of bank super
vision faithfully carried out provide d
much more security and stability than
any system of unregulSted private
banks can do. The assertion of the TrS6-
uRe that failures among the private banks
care comparatively few" is far from being
the case. The bank failures of that decade
show that it was essentially a private
bankers panic, and it was the sta bility of
the national banking system during that
trying period which has given it the subse-
quent hold on the business interests.
OF course, there are private banks, such
as we have in this city, whose name is a
synonym for reliability; but there have
also been other private banks like the
Nations Trust Company and the Penn
Bank 1t is only within few years that
the national banking system has lost its
freedom from bank wrecklng scandals. 1t
is that fact which gives the suspicion of
favoritism or Incompetence in the system
of Government supervision its especial
gravity
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
LAUGHING WATER.

Cholly-To show you how rude that fell
Iah Cadgely is, the other night Miss Ethel made
remark, and Gawge said it opened up a new line
of thought for him.
Chappie-And what did CaGgely say?
Cholly-He wanted to know who were the fool
stockholders.-Neco York Telegram.
"S'lam' n Stew announced the table
girl.
81 have been doing that for the last half hour
answered the irate customer, ''bring me something
to eat.-DetrOit Free Press.
The "skeeter's" military in his nightly av-
ocations.
For generally he drills awhile and then he draws
his rations.-ChieuOO Herald.
''Bridges is quite heavy swell"
Eyes, but his wife keeps his nose on the grind
stone.''
In that case he might be described as a ground
swell. ''-Nebo York Herald.
Husband-Let's go to the circus this after
noon?
wife-I've nothing to wear.
H-All right. Let's go the beach and go in
swimming.-Neso York Press.
'Tm afraid, Uncle" said one of the
clerks in a real estate Office to the janitor of the
building, 'that you have been dallying with poul-
try again. / see your name in the police court
record to-day
Yasser; but it's mer kyfnd-heahtedness. Did We
'spose gwine TO see dem chickens cooped up
dis kim OBJ weddah an not lem EN- er helpin'
Washington Post.
He Gin Wild distress)-Dearest, why do
you turn from me?
She-HarOld, IL have been eating onions.-
Chicago Tribune.
'Your husband looks worried and care
worn all the time.''
.'Yes, he worries about his business and meeting
his bills
milne never does. He just takes things easy.''
'.Ah! but, you see, my husband has a character
to maintain. .''-Nel1 IOrk Press.
Again the summer girl is here
To fill with Joy life's brimming cup,
But we shall never know how dear
She's been till winter draweth near
And she has left us sad and drear
To pause and summer up. :, =
-Chieaco Herud.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
THE ELECTRICAL EXECUTIONS.

OF course the foolish attempt of the New
York law providing for electrical execu-
tions to prevent accounts of them reach
ing the public, has not been successful in
suppressing reports Full accounts of the
execution of the four men put to death in
Sing Sing yesterday are given in our special
telegraphic dispatches from statements of
official witnesses, and the public is thereby
enabled to form Just estimate of the new
method of capital punishment
The reports leave little doubt that the
method applied in this case is great ad-
vance over the semi-barbarouS execution
by hanging which has held sway so long
in this land. By the improved ap-
paratus employed the more repulsive
features of Kemmler's death were
entirely removed. There is every reason
to believe that death was instantaneous in
all cases The electric current was ap-
piled only few seconds in each case, and
death was maccompanied> by the cOntor-
tionS and cOnvulsive movements which in
dicate a prolonged death agony. The
feature of the accounts, which has at
once the strongest mixture of repulSion
and attraction, is the business-like celerity
with which four human beings were
quietly but effectively, hurried into the
next world.
On the whole there is every reason for
the opinion that electrical execution of
criminals in distinct advance of civiliza-
ton. The only respect in which the new
law is failure is in its attempt to prevent
the press of the United States from giving
the news with regard to that important
change
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
ANOTHER example of the necessity OF

ANOTHER example of the necessity of
urging little discretion on the tariff dispu-
tants is furnished by two-column article in
the New York Tribune on the opening of the
Irwin plate glass factory as a result of the
Mckinley bill, and the editorial assertion of
the Tribune that these works would have
been impossible but for the increase
in duty upon glass made by the
new law" As this reduces the half
dozen plate glass factories which were in
prosperous operation long before the McKin-
ley law was passed to the rank of impossi-
bilities, it seems necessary to dissent, and
the dissent is all the stronger when we find
that the schedule of duties on plate glass in
the Mckinley bill are unchanged from the
old law, with the exception of single ad-
vance on the smallest size of glass manufact-
ured. 1t is well to make the arguments in
favor of the tariff correspond with the facts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

A. J. Mcdonald, Chief Clerk of the
Schlosser since it opened, has resigned. He
was formerly connected with the Duquesne.
He was very popular, and his friends will be
sorry to learn that he is going elsewhere.
j. w. Britton, Secretary of the Tin Plate
Association, was at the MOnongahela House
yesterday He says the manufacturers are
pushing the work on their plants, and in u
short time will be able to make tin.
Colonel Thomas NJ. Bayne registered at
the Schlosser yesterday. He returned to
Washington last evening. The Colonel will
start in a few days for his trip around the
world.
G. w. Underwood, of Chicago, is stop
ping at the St. Charles Hotel. He is inter
ested in the company that intends to build
the safe and lock plant at the new town of
Blaine.
J.T. Gorsuch, of GAINESVILLE, and George
w. Yost, of Bellaire, two flint glass manu-
facturers, are at the Monongahela House.
A meeting of the association Will be held to-
day.
Deputy Warden Peter Soffel, of the
county Jail, left for Erie yesterday morning
on his summer vacation. He will stay ten
days on the lake.
The Misses Robinson, daughters of Secre-
tary Robinson. OF the Lake Erie road, went to
Ocean Grove last evening to spend several
weeks.
w. P Coaley, general eastern agent of
the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City road,
was in the city yesterday on his way to Chi
cago.
S. Perkins, of Sharon, F. r. Shryock, of
Meadville, and ID. S. Stewart, of Ohio Pyle,
are among the guests at the Schlosser.
John Kelly, Philadelphia shoe mer-
chant, who had been visiting friends in the
city, has returned home.
S. W. Foulk, of Newcastle, and A. II.
Huston, of Akron, are registered at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel.
or Chicago last evening.
Judge Porter returned last evening from
New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
ANOTHER CHANGE SUGGESTED.

It is asserted on behalf of the Builders
Exchange that as a result of the late con-
fiict with the employees in the building
trades. its members will make no distinc-
ton between union and non-union men.
hut will employ both as circumstances may
require. This announcement carries the
very plain inference that if the union
workmen do not like it they will have to
digest it as best they can.
This may be legitimate result of the
victory of the builders; but to preserve the
virtue Of consistency if the builders take
this stand, they should apply the principle
on which il is based to themselves. When
they assert that the unions must not have
the power to put nOn-union men under
the ban, they must abiure the
same extraordinary power for their
own organization. Concurrently with
this stand, therefore, We shall hope to see
the withdrawal Of their late extraordinary
war measure to the effect that no man in
pltts5urg is to be permitted to buy lumber,
bricks or other material for building un-
less he is member of the Builders Ex-
change, or that any man who attempts to
conduct building operations without the
authority Of tIat body shall be put under
he boycott.
Certainly no feature of the combination
or union principle more urgently requires
modification than denial of the right of
the American citizen to purchase any
stable commodity for which he NAV desire
10 spend mis- money
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
,ut it says they oppose the convention on

But it says they oppose the convention on
account of its expense.
All of which is setting up man of straw
in order to support an argument based on
an entirely erroneous preconception of the
question. The convention is essentially
corporation and machine measure.
A pretext for it was furnished
by the insstence of certain in
discreet Democrats that a con-
vention is necessary - to secure
a secret ballot The fact is that secret
ballot can be secured under the present
Constitution. But the same Legislature
which mutilated the ballot reform bill so
as to make it almost unacceptable passed
the Constitutional Convention bill. 1t
was drawn up by an avowed corporation
Senator in such shape as to secure control
of the convention and utilize the oppor
tunity offered by indiscreet partisans like
the World to repeal the restraints upon
corporations and political machines which
the present instrument imposes.
1t is not true, as the World AYERS, that
the Constitution ought to be amended, nor
that there are many reforms to be made in
it. The present Constitution, containing
the work of such men as Black, Bucka-
lew, Agnew, MacVeagh and their col
leagues, is the best protection the people
have in Pennsylvania to-day against cor
porate and political abuses. There may
be minor respects in which amendments
can be most intelligently decided each
upon its own merits. As whole the in
terests of the people require the mainte-
nance and enforcement of the present
Constitution.
There is much more recognition of the
real state of the case in the remark of the
Philadelphia Record that the "lines about
Constitutional changes should be tightly
drawn" so as to prevent alterations in
the interest of corporations. They should.
And the way to draw the lines tightly
is to defeat the proposition that has been
got up for wholesale raid upon the Con, ,
and to require that every Con-
stitutional change shall be submitted to
the scrutiny of the people for vote on its
individual merits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
MEN AND THEIR SPORTS.
Wonderful Fish Stories Brought Out at a
Worlds Fair Banquet-'Coon Hunters
Tree a Cat-A Butterfiy's Bath-Other
Tptarostipr Short Sketches,

| Wonderful Fish Stories Brought Out at a
Worlds Fair Banquet-Coon Hunters
Tree a Cat-A Butterfy's Bath-Other
Interesting Short Sketches.
"Just after the first Worlds Fair banquet
| about year ago." said Abram Williams q
prominent fire insurance manager, to Chi
cago Globe reporter, "a party of gentlemen
were talking in one of the parlors of the
Palmer House where the feast was spread,
and, as will happen sometimes, you know,
the conversation drifted to fish stories. And
fish stories reminded Delegate White, of the
South, of an experience he had in New
Mexico.
"'The fish were so PLENTIFUL said Mr..
White, that all our party needed to do when
we wanted a dinner of fish was to take two
boards or shingles, and, forming them into
the shape of a scoop, just dish out as many
as we needed for meal.
"'When Mr.. White had finished there was
a moments silence: then Edwin Walker, at
torney for the ST. Paul road, quietly said:
That's not much of a fish story, Mr.
White Why, when 1 was travelling up one
of the small rivers in Southern Alaska
saw fish in such great numbers that the
water could not be seen. 1t was most re-
markable thing and 1 have never heard of
the like before or since. They were actually
so thick that they were wedged in the water
heads town, and all that could be seen was
thousands OF their wriggling tails sticking
up out of the water, each one, OF course,
having an individual motion Of its own A
shout of laughter greeted Mr.. Walker from
everyone except Mr. White, whose face
flushed mp hotly, then paled until it was
whittier than Il sheet as he said:
But, Mr.. Walker, my story was true.'
cana so was my story true, ~ responded Mr..
Walker.
"And the best of it was that Mr. Walkers
story was literally true, as Mrs. Walker later
in the evening testified. 1t was in the
spawning season, and Just above tlie spot
where the remarkable sight was witnessed
was narrow rapids. The salmon went up
the stream in such quantities that many
were crowded out of the water, and gave to
the scene, literally, the aspect told by Mr..
Walker"