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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
A NOTED sMUGGLRR DIES.
His Relatives Assert That Some of Hi
Former Pals Poisoned RIm.

His Relatives Assert That Some of His
Former Pals Poisoned RIm.
SAND BEACH, MICH, Nov. 20-George
Wetzel, who has borne the reputation
among United States Treasury agents as the
keenest smuggler in the business, has Just
died at the home of his parents here. He
had many aliases, but his principal one was
George Thompson, name given him by
Harris, the noted opium smuggler. He
was about 81 years of age at the time of his
death, and had been in the smuggling bust
ness about Is years.
About a year ago the Treasury agents
gradually closed in upon Wetzel, but he was
too valuable a man to shut up in prison
providing he could be induced to talk. He
was, however arrested and threatened with
punishment, and then, to the surprise of
every one who had known him, he began
giving tips to the Treasury agents, which
enabled them to capture a number of noted
smugglers. He remained in and about De-
troit and Windsor in the employ of the
United States Government, and on Satur-
day last came to Sand Beach to visit his
relatives. His death is announced as hav-
ing been caused by typhoid fever, but, as he
was in perfect health when he reached here
Saturday, there are some of his relatives
who assert that he was the victim of poison,
administered by some of his former as
sociates
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
WHERE TO Co
No Need to Be Puzzled

In the language of an immortal CO.
"How tempus does keep fugitin!' We are
| wont to note the passing seasons BY certain
| events or happenings. Spring is heralded
| by the new bonnet, and, alas for the editor,
! too often by the old sonnet!-summer watts
| us to seashore and mountain, and autumn
| brings us back to the joyous wedding festiv-
tiles, while winter-well, here we are right
Sin it!' and soon the holly and mistletoe
will proclaim Christmas time the gladdest of
the year!
Apropos of Xmas, what a genuine re-
lief to everybody in general, women in par
ticular, that the all-torturing question:
What shall get that man? the chill
| dren and dozen other friends,
has been answered. The answer, as found at
the aggressive house of Boggs & Buhl, AL
leeheny, is as varied as there are tastes to
crafty. Among the more substantial gifts
you'll find great comfortable looking blan-
kets from So so (indeed some very fair
blanket specimens were quoted at Is cents)
to $25 pair. Comforts, from cotton filled
print at IS cents, to ch1ntz, satine and silk
eiderdowns to $780, Gents smoking jackets
what an arrayi Cloth, plaids, checks,
stripes and quilted silks in all desirable
shades.
English, Scotch and American dress goods
in such variety and excellence of style and
quality as even this establishment never be-
fore equaledl
Maybe the sudden blizzard was responsible
for the effect, but the cloak department was
the center of attraction. Great fur mantles
and capes of sable, seal, astrachan, marten,
ETC., boas and mufs-the latter ranging in
grade and price from black hare at 75c to
luxurious sable at $50. Wraps for 2-year-
old toddlers to silver-haired grandmothers
This, but mere mention of two or three of
the 81 departments of the popular house of
B. & B., gives no adequate idea of the dis
play in substantial gifts alone presented for
your choosing, without any mention what
ever of art Observation-Disclosures, leather
goods, etc, etc.
The enjoyment of the display is yours
as was it ours-for the going. If you'd
settle tine perple1ing question: ''What shall
it be, at not too great cost?" you will find
the answer sure by going soon!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
THE ALLEGHENY CONTEST.

Judge Ewing to Decide To-Day Whether
Ballot Boxes Can Be Opened-Some of
the Points Brought Out by the Attorneys
for Stayton.
The Stayton- Wyman contest for the ALLIE
gheny Mayoralty will assume shape of some
kind to-day, as it is the last allowed Wyman
by Judge Ewing to make defense to the
case which the Stayton side claims TO have
made out. Mr.. Bremen saws Stayton has
made prima facie case, which will Justify
an order for the opening of the ballot boxes,
and Mr.. Bennett, one of Wyman's s counsel,
refuses to say what their line of defense
will be.
During the past two weeks an immense
amount of arithmetic has been expended in
calculating the probable effect of the OPEN
ing of the ballot boxes and only one thing
has been definitely settled, and that is that
certainly not more than one or two of the
affidavits required to be taken by those
whose names are not in the registry list are
made in accordance with the law, and the
Supreme Court has ruled that every provi-
sion must be complied with in order to
make vote legal. The person making
such affidavit must answer quite number
of questions as to payment of taxes, whers
paid, to whom paid, etc, and if natural.
lied citizen the questions are still more ex-
plicit. Investigation of the returns from
almost any district will show that this kind
of illegal votes is the rule, scarce any afids-
Wit being legal. Sometimes enough have
been cast to vitiate an election from this
cause alone, though the voters had a right
to vote had they done it properly.
1t was developed in the present case
that voters whose standing has been known
to he ohahl 10 for 10 h.
voted illegally, though both their intent
and that of the election officers was to do
the right thing But the latter said when
summoned, ''why we knew that man had a
right to vote, as he had been a property
holder and voter for 20 years or more, and
we did not think it necessary to swear
him." Thus an Intentionally honest vote
will be thrown out, while that of rooster
who had no scruples against swearing lie
will probably go through. unless evidence is
forthcoming to show that his vote was
Illegal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
Worth Looking At.

"Turn to the press-its teeming sheets
survey, big with the wonders Of each pass
ing day." Among these the eye will pause
to look at the old familiar family need in
new dress. 1t will charm the sight, comfort
the weary and bring cheer and hope to the
pain-stricken. The columns of this paper
are graced by its temperance. Tits well
come, for what it promises to do, it does
with alacrity, and proves its promise by an
ample show of performance. The right
thing, in the right place, at the right time,
experience has proved it to be. Upon this
it has won public confidence and esteem, for
while st. Jacobs Oil, the great remedy for
pain, thus makes its annual rounds and re-
news its pledges Of prompt and permanent
cure, its continual success is the guaranty
that what it says is true and what It does is
sure Its best recommendation is its true
reputation. upon which all may depend for
cure and comfort.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
KNOWN IN PITTsBURG.
The Man Alleged to BE Responsible for
Stratton's Death Worked Here.


Stratton's Death Worked Here.
The death by fasting of G. Henry STRAIT
ton in New York museum created consid-
erable talk among the museum people of
Pittsburg. Elmer Collins, of this citv, was
in the fasting match with Stratton. J. NJ
Cousart, the manager of Collins, is alleged
to have been the originator and manager of
the New York fasting contest, and the
museum proprietor, Mr.. Huber, saws that
Cousart is responsible for the death of
Stratton.
Cousart came to Pittsburg about year
ago. He was employed for time as ticket
taker at Harry Davis Museum, and be-
came well known to the profession After
Collins completed his fast of four weeks in
this city he left Pittsburg with Consart.
The two turned up IN Philadelphia, where
Collins appeared in another con-
test. The show was not successful.
and for want of money both Collins
and Cousart were forced to fast in reality.
They left Philadelphia, and were next
heard of in New York, and the fatal fasting
contest was the first in which they appeared
since leaving Philadelphia. 1t is not def
nitely known here whether Cousart has
been arrested. 1t is known, however that
an effort is being made to hold him respon-
sible for Stratton's death.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
CALIFORNIA.
The Country Of Delightful Winters.

California is the most attractive and de
ightful section of the United States, if moi
of the world, and its many beautiful resort,
will be crowded with the best families Of
the East during the entire winter 1t offers
to the investor the best open opportunity
for safe and large returns from its fruit
lands. 1t offers the kindest climate in the
world to the feeble and debilitated; and it is
reached in the most comfortable manner
over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad. Pullman vestibule sleeping cars
leave Chicago by this line every day in the
year and 60 without change or transfer
through to San Francisco, Los Angeles and
San Diego This.is feature not offered by
any other line. Write to Charles T. Apple
by, Travelling Passenger Agent, Room 303,
Bank of Commerce Building, Pittsburg, Pa,
if you desire any further information as to
the country and the accommodations for
reaching it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

man and his wife and their seven children.
Their only home and stock and trade con-
sisted of few sticks, old rags, knives,
whistles and cracked drum. At North
amptonshire fair found ten vans and carts
and between 80 and 40 children, only one or
two Of whom had ever been inside either
Sunday or day schools.
Like the Woman Living in . Shoe.
"Moses Holland, one of my Oldest Gipsy
friends, knows about 250 families in the
midland counties, and thinks there will be
an average of five children to each tent or
van. In some tents he has Sc en- as many as
10, and in other tents IL, children. In his
own tent his wife was ill, and dead child
lay by her side, which Holland laid ont
himself on few rags and some litter.
AT Broomsgrove fair 1 counted over 80
vans and covered cart homes, connected
with which there were nearly $50 children.
But six could read and write. In one van,
feet long 3 broad and high, there slept
II men, women and children, whose night
dresses were saturated wet clothes. Some
time ago visited flower show at West
Haddon and found in two vans and tum-
bledown wagon 18 children and men and
women. Only two could read and write.
'On recent Sunday in a Northampton
shire lane, near Buckley wharf, during a
pouring rain I came upon II present-day
Gipsies, 6 men and women and children,
whose home was a small rickety donkey
cart, tied together with pieces of cord, and
q small sheet full of holes, under which
they crept at night
Thousands of Gypsy Children.
Con the preceding Saturday night these
gipsies were under this one rotten sheet for
the night by the roadside near Weldon.
A policeman told them to move on, as on
the following Sunday people would be 60
ing to church, and they would be an eye
sore to all these good people. Driving the
mans truncheon and move on will not
improve their condition. 1t can only be
done by means of the sanitary officers in
huence directly upon their homes and by
the schoolmaster's influence upon their
heads and hearts,"
These are the beings whom Mr.. Smith has
given the name of ''Gipsy and Van Dwell
ers, and it is the 40, 900 to $4,000 "Gipsy
and Van Children" of these wretched, wan
dering vagabonds, whom he is endeayoring
to rescue from their present condition of
utter bestiality through the hoped for pas
sage Of his movable dwellings bill" The
provisions of this bill, if carried out, would
cause the registration of all Gipsy and other
slant surveillance and sanitary inspection,
the same as with the lodging houses of the
great English cities; prevent the present
horrible overcrowding of tents and vans,
and, above all, bring every one of these out
cast children compulsorily into the public
schools, but wholly free of expense to their
parents, by system of free pass books for
use wherever the Gipsy family might be
temporarily tarrying.
EDGARL WAKEMAN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

AS the season is now at hand for ale and
porter, the Straub Brewing Company take
pleasure in announcing to the saloon and
private trade that they are prepared to fill
all orders promptly. We also claim that
our celebrated brands of "Pilsener" and
Munich" lager beer cannot be excelled BY
any brewers Of the States. We guarantee
our beer to be four and one-half months old
and all our goods are made of the very best
quality of hops and malt. Ask the saloon
trade for it or telephone No. 503S.
THE STRAUB BREWING Co.
Corner Main street and Liberty avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
The Pennsy,vani. VIII Bid $40, 600, 900.

The sale of tine Allegheny Valley road by
auction occurs December 10. 1t was learned
from stockholder yesterday that the Penn
sylvania's limit in bidding has been placed
at $4O,O00,OOO. This road now has s15, ,OO0,-
900 invested in the Valley. 1t is also stated
that if the Pennsylvania officials on the day
of sale discover combination present to
force up the price they will go into
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

court and move for postponement The
terminals of the Allegheny Valley in Pitts
burg alone are exceedingly valuable, and
worth good sum to the Pennsylvania The
Valley stockholders think the full limit will
be bid. They don't propose to give up the
road for song. 1t is thought that the
Pennsylvania will be the only bidder The
Valley has the lowest grade across the
mountains to Northern Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
Another Express Car Robbery.

MIssoULA, MONT, Nov. 20.-Yesterday
afternoon two masked men entered the
Northern Pacific express car, on the Miss
oula and Cour d'Alene Railroad, and, at the
point of their guns, made Express Messen-
ger Case open the safe and give up all the
money it contained, 5000. The robbery
occurred between Dorsey and Mullan, near
the Montana and Idaho line, q wild, noun
tainous country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
TURNED IN MANY FALSE ALARMS.
The Result of Queer Complications in st
Louis Municipal Politics

LOUIS w unlClpnt fOltlCS.
ST. LOUIS, Nov 2O.-Fireman Reidy, OF
one of the engine companies is in disgrace.
He was discharged from the force this
afternoon, on a serious charge-that of send
ing in false alarms. Ever since the spring
city elections war has been waged between
the Mayor and the Council combine
who declined to approve his nominations
for Fire Chief and Water Commissioner,
claiming that the two old officers were
thoroughly competent and they ought to
stay in Office.
It is now said that the Mayors friends
are throwing every impediment in the way
of the Chief of the Fire Department
with a view to making him resign. 1t is
alleged that Reidy is one of the Mayors
friends, and that while the big Famous
fire was burning 6ercely Tuesday Reidy
sent three false alarms from as many differ
ent localities. The case is being investi-
gated
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
REAL ESTATE SAVINGS BANK, LIN.
HO1 Snnith6eld 8

4O1 Smithfeld Street, Cor. Fourth Avenue.
Capital, 100000. Surplus, s75,
Deposits of 81 and upward received and
interest allowed at per cent. IT'S
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

AVOID a costive habit of body, not only
because of the attending discomfort, but lest
it engender diseases involving more seri-
GUS consequences. DR. d. Jayne's Sanative
Pills are either laxative or cathartic, ac-
cording to the dose, and may be depended
upon to produce healthy secretions of the
liver and stomach.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-President w.
T. Baker, of the Worlds Columbian Elk.
position, to-day had conference with Sec
retary Blaine, by appointment, on matters
connected with the displays of foreign coun.
tries at the Exposition. The Secretary ex.
pressed great interest in the subject.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
A Rare Chance

For some good man that understands the
saloon business. Will sell all or half in
terest in one of the best saloon and restau-
rants in Canton, o. Have other business.
and cannot give it all my time Call or ad-
dress 7. A H.,
154 South Market street.
Canton, o.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

No charge is made to determine if your
eyesight may be improved or headache re-
lieved by wearing properly adjusted glasses.
If your eyes trouble you consult Prof.
Little, 511 Penn avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
Pratt's Great Sale of Books,

Albums and Bibles at half price is now
open at 428 Wood, near Diamond street.
Call to-day and secure the bargains, as
Pratt comes but once year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

For eood-ftting dress, business suit or
overcoat at moderate prices go to Pitcairn's,
434 Wood street. ThSSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
GIVEN AWAY
Every Day This Week.

Every Day This Week.
Your picture free and handsomely framed,
with every dozen. Cabinets, 81. ~
HENDRICKS & Co.,
68 Federal street, Allegheny.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
Society Notes,

At recent swell wedding the bride re.
ceived q handsome diamond brooch and
other beautiful pieces of Dorfinger's cut
glass.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

IF you have cough don't delay. 1t is
dangerous. Piso's Cure for Consumption
will cure you. Guaranteed. All druggists.
% cents rus
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

PURE liquor is the solution Of the tenn
perance question in America. See Rev.
George Hodges sermon on saloons in THE
DISPATCH tomorrow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
B. & b.
Stylish Suitings.

Will it be q jacket or q cape newmarket
New ones TODAY. BOGGS & BUHL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

MRS. WINsLow's Soothing Syrup for chill
dren teething produces natural quiet sleep.
$50. rfswk
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

And double automatic bolt operating de-
vice-German National Bank safe deposit
vaults.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

VERY cheap. ALI kinds secondhand
frst-class sewing machines.
WHEELER & WILSON MFG. Co.,
No. 6 Sixth street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

BOYS and girls will be making Eolian
harps after reading how to mako them In
THE DISPATCH tomorrow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

THROAT DISEASES commence with cough, cold
or sore throat. Browns Bronchial Trochesn
give immediate relief. Sold only In boxes. Price
IS cents.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

MEMS kid gloves, lined and unlined.
JAMES H AIKEN & Co., 100 Fifth ave.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

DRESSES for busy women, by Ada Bachs
Cone, in THE DISPATCH tomorrow,
Handsome illustrations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21

ALLIANCE plans detailed to Carpenter
by Jerry Simpson and SENATOR PETER, in
THE DISPATCH tomorrow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
Misery In the Gipsy Wigwams.
"Among these folk, on the outskir

"Among these folk, on the outskirts of
London, in one wigwam have seen poor
woman dying; in another a man who had
taken to gipsying was gasping for breath;
in another tent a woman was at deaths
door, and at another abode of death, into
which had to creep on all fours, there sat
at the entrance, upon brick in the mud, a
poor lost, present day Gipsy girl of Z years
of age, but no heavier than a child of j
year. Its legs we're no thicker than drum
sticks 1t could neither stand, sing, speak,
cry nor hear.
CAT CROW pie feast near Rugby saw
in five vans 10 children, two of whom could
only read or write a little. During the
deep snow of the winter of 1878 met
with in the old Waiting street, but a mile
or two from our home here, nine men.
women and children crouched together.
whose only sleeping apartment as under
an old donkey cart. The man had worked
honorably and well in my neighborhood for
two years. The work gave out and he for
sock his trade to follow hedge bottom
creeping.
SAT Daventry found atravsling show.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-14

We are still ON deck, and are now
ready to take orders for the Improved
Steel Frame Header. Do not post
pone ordering until. too late. The
demand for the Hodge header will be
greater this year than ever before,
because it has proven the last years to
be the best Header in the market.
For sale at
The GREAT BEND IMPLEMENT Co.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-14

Marshal tread and clash of swords,
Battle songs and patriots words,
On the twenty-sixfh IF May;
Mark you well that gala day.
Rally there for this and more,
Round the ensign we adore.
This, for verse, is not sublime,
But twill serve to fix the time
Fix the time. when, at the ''Grand."
You and yours must be on hand.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-14

The members of the city fire depart
mentor twelve of the sixteen men,
bers- divided off to two teams of six
each and made dry rum" Monday
evening for prize of box of cigars
offered by their new chief, w. B.
Cornell. Both teams got over the
ground in good shape, and by contin
uing such practice can greatly increase
their working ability in time Of fires,
Quite a crowd of interested citizen:
gathered to witness the contest.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-14
Frank Doran returned Monday

Frank Doran returned Monday
morning from visit to his mother, in
Sullivan county, Mo. He says it
reined In the eastern part of this state
Sunday afternoon. Frank is full OF
praise for the bluegrass sections of Mis-
souri, and notices a wonderful change
in the thirteen years since he lived
there.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-05-14

1t is pleasure to sell Begg's Fam
lily Medicines. Every bottle guaran.
teed. Try them. All druggists. a