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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
AMERICAS FIRST STRIKE.
1t Resulted in a Cooperation Business
Which Later Broke Up,

Which Later Broke Up.
"Do you know that this Government had
been in existence over 80 years before such
a thing as strike was known among the
laboring people?" asked Frank Gassner of
Cincinnati as he leaned thoughtfully against
the cigar stand at the Occidental in CONVEX
sation with San Francisco Call reporter.
Eyes sir, so years. and it was reserved for
Ohio to be the scene of the first revolt. 1t
was in 1s40, in June, 1 think, that the en-
ployes of Wolf & Co.'S foundry in Cincinnati
struck for increase in pay, and in few days
it spread so as to include all the iron-w ork-
ers of this city. For more than a month both
sides held out, and at the end of that time
the laborers succeeded in securing money
with which to start a cooperative foundry
They chose business manager and a super
intendent from among their own number,
and started out with a great boom. At the
end of three years they went to tie wall and
after everything was cleared up they were
still $300, ,000 behind As each of the incorpor-
ators was personally responsible under the
Ohio law for the liabilities of the concern,
without limitation as to time, every one of
the strikers was compelled to leave the State
in order to prevent their savings being
seized to satisfy their creditors. So ended
the first strike"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
BATTLEFIELD MUMMIEs.
Four Thousand Men Killed In 1879 Lying
Where They Fell.


Youths Companion.1
A sea captain, Who has recently returned
from a long cruise along the South Ameri-
can coast, reports some very strange and in
teresting sights, especially in Peru. He WIS.,
tied the battlefield of Tarapaca, where the
Chileans defeated the Peruvians with great
slaughter in November, 1879
The Peruvians lost 1000 men, and were
forced to leave them unburied on the field.
In almost any other country all these
corpSes would in a few weeks have been re-
duced to skeletons, either by wild beasts or
by the action of the elements. Here, how
ever, for more than hundred miles on
either side of the battlefield there is not
spear of grass, and as q natural result there
are no wild animals.
The soil, moreover, is strongly impreg-
mated with nitrate of soda and this, in connec-
tlon with the hot, dry atmosphere, has liter
ally converted men and horses into perfect
mummies.
moonlight and, as may well be imagined
tacle. To all appearance the battle might
have been fought but day or two before.
The uniforms were still bright and the steel
weapons untarnIshed.
Inspection by daylight brought out still
more curious phenomenon. The hair had
continued to grow, both on the men and on
the horses, for some time after death. Some
of the soldiers heads were covered with ex-
cessively long hair, while the horses tails
were long enough to trail for some distance
on the ground.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
A FABLE.
Its Moral Has to Do With Eating Beefsteak

New York SUM-
A beefsteak pie, which had been sent from
the table untasted, confided its pains to the
remains of a leg of lamb. Here 1 have got
cold," lamented the succulent dish: "my
fluids are clogged, my aroma spent, my
existence failure. Why was / ever made
at all?" The leg confessed that this mystery
beat him. But, when a neighboring clock
doomed the small hours an explorer with q
candle discovered the pie, and a void IN its
substance shortly revealed the moral pur-
pose of its being, while the discoverer OBJ
served with interest the replenishment of a
VOID elsewhere
While enforcing the doctrine of correlation
in the physical world. this fable points the
essential immortality of eating beefsteak pie
before m dnight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
seNow that Alabama has distanced Penn

'tNow that Alabama has distanced Penn
sylvania and every other State as an iron
producer she wants to enforce her name s
meaning-shere we rest" The esteemed
Star is more excusable than some Pittsburg
journals in failing to make the distinction
between Iron ore producing and 'iron-
producing There is an immense difference
of capital and labor between ton of iron
ore and ton of pig iron, of which latter
Allegheny county alone produced more in
1890 than the entire State of Alabama. And
the difference in finished iron and steel is
still greater.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
STOOD ON HER DIGNITY.
A Woman Was Offended Because the Milk
Was Wanted for a Cat.

New York Ledger.1
Simplicity OF manners, Joined with strong,
sturdy common sense, is one of the rare
and refreshing virtues which adorn the
character of true man. They shine con-
spicuously, though without ostentation, in
asmuch as they form such striking con trast
to the countless instances of false dignity
and vile affectation which we daily see about
us. We lately heard of a most amusing in
stance of offended dignity. A man called at
a grocery and bought some milk, and while
the portly hostess was pouring it out he
happened to mention that he wanted it for
a favorite cat.
"whatr' exclaimed the woman, with in
dignation in her red face, "do you suppose
/ Keep milk to sell for cats to drink? rather
guess mott" and she poured it back, saying:
81 rather guess haven't got down quite SO
low as that yeti" And so the man was
obliged to go without the milk and wait till
the woman got a little lowerand dignity was
a little cheaper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

CONCERNING the discovery that a large
amount of material in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard is stolen by workmen, the New York
Eucning Sun affirms that it docs not affect
the standing of the Navy Department as the
best managed in the Government. This
character, which it does notoriously enjoy,
serves to conjure up a fascinating vision of
what such a department as that of Public
Railways would be- While that is one ap-
plication of the moral, the assertion that
this is done in 1.-THE best managed depart
ment" conjures up another and far from
fascinating vision of what must be done in
the worst managed department of the Gov
ernment,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

IT was to be supposed from the first in
stallment of Bashkirtseff literature that the
people who published it had very little care
to present the young woman as a healthy
minded girl The second installment, in
which her letters to literary men whom she
did not know, but wished to strike up an
affinity with, place the matter beyond all
question. The letters do not indicate any
talent beyond a genius for vanity and
intrigue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
AN ODD GEOGRAPHY.
A Book Which To-Day's Boys and Girls
Would Laugh At.

New York Advertiser.1
About 100 a geography was introduced
into the New York schools from England,
"a Little Description of the Great World "
by Peter Heylyn. The biographies of those
days are the oldest of all our textbook
relics. The prevailing ideas of Europe and
Asia were tolerably clear but the most of
Africa was a mysterious land, and the inter-
ior of America-dark and unknown.
The Sahara Desert consisted of the Land
of BeIedulgerid and the Land of Zaara, in
habited by wild beasts and pagan peoples,
said to be hospitable and friendly, who eat
camel's flesh and milk.
In Negro Land, or the center of Africa,
were people without heads, who had eyes
and mouths in their breasts. The King re-
sided at town called Mousul, where was IL
market for human flesh and where 100
slaves were killed daily for the Kings table,
Wonderful stories came from the French
possessions along the Mississippi, where the
land was so fruitful that two acres would
return 400 bushels of corn. In the land of
Florida were found goodly fruits and
goodly quantity of gold and silver.
"Emeralds are found there also, and tur-
uuoises and pearls. The men of this country
doe naturally love ware and revenge inso-
much that they are continually in ware with
one or other"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

THE county judges yesterday filled the
District Attorneyship vacancy by the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Burleigh, who was already
known to the public by his services in the
legal field for the city. Mr.. Burleigh goes
into office with the prestige of approval
from greater variety of differing political
factors than is ordinarily extended to candi-
dates. 1t should and doubtless WILL be es-
teemed by him a privilege to justify this
large measure of preliminary Endorsement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
THE new form of the Sugar Trust is

THE new form of the Sugar Trust is es-
tablishing system of rebates by which
merchants are to be bound to sell sugar at
fixed rates. This is plain case of combin-
ing to prevent competition in interstate
commerce and affords an excellent oppor-
tunity for the United States authorities to
demonstrate their stamina by putting the
law in force against that overgrown and
defiant combination. 1t also gives some
enterprising person a chance to knock the
Trust higher than a kite by importing sugar
at prices that will crush the rebate scheme.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
CONCERNING the element viii,

CONCERNING the element which, 1t
alleges will determine the sensational
murder case in New York, the Telegram re-
marks: Science has seized it. Science is
merciless, but it is also just. Science has no
motives. Science tells the truth" Where
upon science with big S. proceeds to cor
roborate the assertion by swearing on both
sides of the case with beautiful impartiality.
When science says that thing is so and
then in the person of another representative
says it is not so, it makes certain of telling
the truth on one side or the other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

SENATOR INGALLS, lecture on "The
Problems of the Twentieth Century" sug-
gests that the problems of the Nineteenth
Century proved altogether too much for the
distinguished ex-senator. The fact that he
also calls himself "a statesman out of a job''
suggests that his solution of the problem of
craftsmanship on the lines of swearing to
every thing that the party caucus enacted
did not work out so as to keep him on the in
side of the lob,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

fatherland with the patriotism of their
adopted nation to an eminent degree. The
great work of establishing American inde-
pendence will be duly honored, while the
attributes of German song and jollification
will emphasize the celebration. Our Ger
mans have the national faculty of enjoying
their sengerfests to an exceptional degree.
Its combination with the Fourth of July
celebration at Newark will make the occa-
sion a rouser.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

BRUSSELS is now striking to make itself
a seaport by ship canal to the North Sea.
Every city without water navigation and
with enterprise strives to make the latter
secure the former. Yet Brussels has not half
as much to gain from ship canal as Pitts
burg and Western Pennsylvania have.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
ORIGIN OF FIREWORKS.

IA Song for the Fourth of July.l
Away. far off in China,
In the days of Nanke-chin,
Lived a funny little fellow,
Who was priest anu mandarin,
And ever through his shaven head,
A strain of music rang.
Which seemed to him like ''Fizz
And crackle, fizz and crackle-BANG."
One day this little fellow,
As he trolled his merry song.
=Chanced to meet the royal viceroY,
As he rode in state along,
Who, stopping, listened with delight,
To what lie gaily sang,
And begged at once the music rare,
Of ''FIzz and crackle-BANG."
But naught had he of music,
Nor note had ever read,
For this strain so shrill and stirring,
Was but running in his head;
Nor could the gongS nor kettle.drums,
With all their noisy clang,
Express bit of what he meant
BY ''Fizz and crack le-BANG.h
Then said this little fellow,
Twill try what can do"
And he straghtway set to mOlding
Rockets, Roman candles too;-
But what ne sought and most desired,
Was something with Il twang,
That could express in all its force,
His '.Fizz and crackle-BANG."
But e'en while he was planning.
Burst his rockets with such noise.
Frightened came the whole town running,
To behold the dreadful toys;
Then nIadly danced the mandarin,
And cried, 20, l will hang,
IfI'vc not found the very thing
To make my 'Crackle-BANG.'
Now sound the rattling crackers,
AS In days of Nanke-chin,
(For the Fourth, to be well honored,
Musli have clangor, clash and dln,) ..
The banners all are waving,
And the drums and trumpets clang.
Awaking echoes far and near
OF ''Fizz and crackle-BANG."
And when the day departing,
Does the evening open out,
Sparkling, fiery little demons
Leap from wheels and dance about
And Kissing rockets upward hy,
Amid prolonged huzza,
While crowds astOnished, gaping.
Cry out, ''Sst' Boom. A-A-A-A-H."
II. NJ fi-'eD'aof fn fte fouth's Compd', ion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
His Clothes Only Went to Bed.

THE First ward, Pittsburg, is talking about
the almost tragic termination of the attempt
of a local celebrity to sleep in his bed-a
thing he very seldom does. He is bar
tender by profession, and q rounder by
choice, and when he gets sleepy as a rule
chair is good enough couch for him, and
harder places have served. But the other
night he thought he would enjoy the luxury
of a night between the sheets; so he retired
early to his room, divested himself of his
clothes, laid them on the bed, donned his
nightshirt and sat down at the window to
enjoy the novelty OF the river view by moon
scene, or the habit of sleeping in chairs, that
stole his senses nobody can say, but he fell
asleep with his head in his hands and his
arms resting s on face .e WraHow T bi ,fS I Inc sun
and rem nded him it was time to go to work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

THE vigorous attack which the Hon.
Henry NJ watterson has been making on
the new Constitution of Kentucky has re-
solved itselfinto boomerang, to judge from
the announcement of the Courier Journal
that it viii no longer discuss the new Con-
stitution. That esteemed contemporary
therefore resumes its attacks on the force
bill, which has no friends with toes to be
trodden Oil.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

unpaved streets, and $40 to $50 on paved
streets. For the present purchasers will find
no difficulty in obtaining really eligible sites
at these figures. which the people of that
section claim to be much cheaper than can
be found anywhere else within the same dis
tance OF the center of business.
THIRTEENTH WARDER.
PIrTsBURG, July3
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE
Judge j. M. Love.

Judge J. NJ. Love died at his home in
Keokuk. Ia, Friday night. OF complication of
diseases due to kidney troubles He was 70 years
old, was appointed Judge of the United States
Court for the district of Iowa by President Pierce,
in 1s, which position he held until tine division in
1ss3 when he became Judge of the Southern Dis
trict He had national reputation as a jurist and
author.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
CURB AND CORRIDOR.

Some Significant Poor Farm Statistics
Street Car Conductors Trials-How Pol
iticians Are Made-Stories of Life in City
Streets.
81 HAVE just completed an investigation
of the records at the Poor Farm and the
county JAIL" said immigration Inspector
Layton yesterday, "and 1 find that of the
inmates at Homestead from April /, 1890, to
March 81, 1891, $50 were natives and 1865
foreigners, while at the jail, of the prisoners
now held there for court, 70 are natives and
2Sforelgners. l think the preponderance of
the foreign-born element at the Poor Farm
is of great significance. A small excess of
the former might have been expected, but 36
per cent native as against GA per cent
foreign is astonishing. In the course of my
inquiries at the Poor Farm, also, was much
impressed with what number of the old
men gave as the cause of their being there.
They said that they attributed their in
ability to obtain work to the fact that young
men of recent immigration were ready to
labor for any wages, no matter how low, and
that employers naturally preferred young
able-bodied men when they could be had so
cheap"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

Chicago Inter-Ucean.I
The richest woman in the world is Chile
answidow, Donna Isidora Cousino. Isidora
has an income of $50, 1000 n month. Whether
she remains rich depends upon how much
she has got invested elsewhere than in
Chile.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
Watch 1t in Ohio.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.1
A traveller says that Japanese elections are
always conducted with the utmost good Or
der and politeness. We should hurry up
and send lot moro missionaries to that be-
nighted people Manifestly there is little
civilization there.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
The Home of Astor.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please inform ME of what nationality the
Astors are. Where they originally came
from. NJ r.
PTTSBURG July 8.
[John Jacob Astor was born at Waldorf,
near Heidelberg, Germany, in 1858. He came
to America in 1881
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
The Gentleman Wins.

To the Editor, of The Dispatch:
Please decide this: A gentleman bets that
resident of this country has right in GER
tain States to vote for President without
being citizen of the United States Please
answer. j. III.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., July 8.
In some States aliens who have declared
their intention of becoming citizens can
vote for President1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
Not a Sparrow Falleth.

Chicago Tribune.J ---'----
The only consolation remaining to the
English sparrow in Illinois is found in Matt.
K. 20, and many commentators are of the
opinion that even that passage has no refer
ence to this impious and profane bird.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

ALL accounts agree that the Hon. Thomas
B. Reed is having lots of fun in Paris He is
evidently storing up his supply for the
period during the next session of Congress,
when the other fellows will have fun with
him
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
They Were Now Then.

New York World
An Englishman has just paid s425o for the
autographs of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. The original signatures
cost England q far bigger price than that.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
'ITTSBURG. July !:
Municipal PerpIexities.


To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Has the city any right to compel persons
to lay new sidewalks when they are in
pretty good condition. The wear on the
pavements on Fifth avenue has been caused
by the constant tearing up of the street for
gas, water and cable roads, and it does not
seem just to make citizens pay for what
companies are responsible for.
PTrTsBURG, July 3. TAxPAYER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

So FAR the Agricultural Departments
weather has been above criticism. If it is
kept up to this mark Uncle Jerry will pres
entity have to make promises of respect to
the Presidents alleged denomination boom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

AS to the publication of Pennsylvania
politics some of the party leaders might say
that it is an iridescent dream, if the remark
had not come to be regarded as having asso-
Citations of misfortune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

UNDER the glowing accounts of the Della
ware peach crop, a faint hope asserts itself
that the bottoms of the baskets will have a
less ambitious tendency this year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
A Huge Assignment.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
would like very much to know the name
of the leading paper of each State and Terri
tory, too, if possible, in the United States.
A READER.
PrTTSBURG, July g.
Newspaper directories are issued by
Rowell Il Co., 10 Spruce street, New York;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

WITH the reports of short crops and even
famine in Southern Russia and India, the
prospects multiply that this will be the year
of prosperity for the American farmer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

THE opening of the National Sengerfest
at Newark, y. j., to-day will permit the Ger
mans to combiE7 -he customs of their
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
Counterfeit Gratitude.

THREE dollars was what a hackman
charged Pittsburger for taking him to his
home in the East End. The fare was not un-
reasonable, it was late of night, but when
the East Ender felt in his pockets he could
find nothing but five-dollar bill. The hack
man then searched his clothes for change
but all he could produce was solitary coin
a dollar. There was no way of obtaining
change elsewhere at that unholy hour, so
the East Ender made virtue of necessity
and told the hackman he could keep the ex-
ira dollar. The hackman said thank you
and pocketed the V, while the other fellow
pocKeted his loss with good grace in fact
he felt the glow which comes after gener-
Gus action.
But he giowed in. another way next morn
ing when he discovered that the dollar the
hackman had given him was a counterfeit
of the baldeSt kind,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
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