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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

Superintendent Patton, of the Hunting
don Reformatory, spent yesterday with
Warden Wright at the penitentiary. He was
shown the prison from top to bottom, and
the veteran manager gave him all the
pointers he could. Mr.. Patton said last even
ing that Riverside was a Swell-kept institu-
ton. No change in the system has been
made at Huntingdon, and the new Superin-
tendent is following in the footsteps of
Mayor McClaughrey, who is now bossing the
Chicago police force.
A. Bell and his son, Russell, of Union
town, and D. w. II. Reynolds, Cumberland
lawyer, registered at the Monongahela
House last evening. Young Bell is one of
the candidates for the West Point cadetship
in the Twenty-fourth district, and will be
examined to-day.
E.E. Bonneville, one of the clerks at the
Anderson, left last evening for Fortress
Monroe and Virginia Beach to spend his
vacation. Bonny, as the boys call him, is
popular and deserves rest.
Lieutenant Palmer E. Pierce, U. s. A,
one of the last graduating class at West
Point, is making. short visit in the city
with friends in the East End before going to
his home in Iowa.
H. A. Sumeley, r. L. Sleeth and J.
Montgomery, Of the East End, went to
turned yesterday by rail.
j. R. Shepheard, of North Attleboro,
Mass, is at the Anderson. He came here to
buy machinery for large woolen factory he
is building.
President John W. Egan, of the Chicago,
st. Paul and Kansas City road, passed
through the city yesterday bound for Wash
ington.
Rev. DR.. Lester, of West Alexandria,
passed through the city last evening with
his daughter bound for Clifton Springs.
Wilson N. Paxton, former Pittsburg
lawyer, but now in the Pennsylvania office
at Washington, is visiting friends here.
E. B. Cofroth, of Somerset, and Peter j.
Hughes a Philadelphia correspondent were
at the Seventh Avenue yesterday.
John Gatz, prominent Brookville lum-
herman, and wife were among the guests at
the st. Charles yesterday.
Miss Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. d. j. Evans
and Mrs. Eliza Strain started on a European
trip last evening.
Colonel w. H. Hulings and Miss Bess
Hulings took breakfast at the Monongahela
House yesterday.
midnight, and registered at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel
E. o. Emerson, of Oil City, and T. D.
Cassanane, OF Ft. Wayne, are stopping at the
Anderson.
George w. Boss, of Parkersburg, and HI.
H. Minor, of Uniontown, are at the Duquesne.
+. Klepetka, a Montana ranchman from
Great Falls, is stopping at the Schlosser.
Miss Clarke, of Canonsburg, was among
the passengers going East last evening.
I'D. Casey, one of the penitentiary in
spectors, went East last evening.
Captain w. w. O'Neil left for Cincinnati
last evening on coal business.
C. C. Craft and wife, of Grafton, left for
Boston.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
Duouesne Theater Not for Sale.

A RUMoR was current yesterday in theatre
cal circles to the effect that Managers Hen
derson and Morton were about to sell the
Duquesne Theater. Mr.. Mccullough, the
acting manager of the Duquesne, denied the
report with emphasis, saying: "Such a story
is not only false but ridiculous, and has its
origin in the imaginatio of some Jealous
donkey. The managers of the Duquesne
Theater are not such fools as to sell out when
they have such a chance to coin money as
next seasons excellent bookings promise to
give them Mr.. Henderson's new spectacular
production, 'Sinbad,' is playing to crowded
Some new machinery, steam coils for heat
ing, and other improvements will soon be
set up in the Duquesne."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

THE new electric cars on the Birmingham
road have started in with positive enthu-
siasm. Between the clang of the bells and
the roar of the electricity, people walking or
doing business on Smithfield street have
only to close their eyes and they will fancy
when the Birmingham cars are passing that
they are listening to some Of the most tre-
mendous erescendo passages of Wagner's
operas. This is all right, perhaps, as a sort
of formal inauguration-a joyous proclama-
tion that the day Of horse-draught is gone
forever on the Birmingham line. But when
the novelty is worn off, it may gently be
suggested to the company's engineers that
il the operation of the road were pitched in
a lower key there would be great relief for
the public ear and nerves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
MOURNING IN WASHINGTON.
The Death of Ex-senator Mcdonald Re-
gretted at the National Capital.

tFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, June 22-The death of ex-
Senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, was not
known here generally until this morning,
when the expressions of regret were heart
felt and universal. "Joe'' Mcdonald, as he
was familiarly called, was the senior mem
Der of the most prominent law firm in this
city, the firm of Mcdonald, Bright & Fay, the
second member in rank being "Dickn Bright,
formerly Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate.
Each member of the firm was so popular per-
sonally as to make them exceptional and
public characters as much as the highest Off
cials of the Government. To Fay and Bright
the loss of the head of their firm comes like
q death in their own families and the public
expression of grief is as though the genial
old Senator had been one Of the chief figures
of the Government
Had factional politics taken different
turn in Indiana, Mcdonald would undoubt-
edly at one time have been the nominee of
the Democrats for President. Mr.. John FAY,
the junior member of the firm, has q great
reputation as O successful prosecutor Of i'm
portant claims before Congress and the
Court of Claims, and the death of his emf
nent partner will probably result in the re-
organization of the firm In manner which
will place Mr.. Fay in a conspicuous position
before the Government, to which his talents
and success have long entitled him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
THE CHEROKEE COMMISSION.
The Efforts to Effect an Agreement Are
Again a Failure.

OKLAHOMA CITY, June 22.-The Cherokee
Commission returned here yesterday after
spending ten days negotiating with the
Kickapoo Indians, who occupy an Executive
order reservation, adjacent to Oklahoma on
the east, and surrounded on all sides by
Indians who have taken lands in severalty.
When the commission visited the Kicka-
poos last summer they refused to listen to
any proposition, and while respectful this
year, they still emphatically refuse to agree
to any proposition providing for the open
ing of the reservation, and offered as rea-
spirit, who would certainly be angered by
such action. Since this is the third time
this commission has visited this tribe with
out effecting settlement, it is likely that
the President will soon order the Indians to
take allotments under the Downs bill. The
commission will adjourn for the summer
and return to the Territory in September to
resume work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

SENATOR PLUMB is now regarded as the
Republican champion. 1t is q strange illus
tration of the irony of fate that Plumb was
read out of the Republican party for little
plain talk, nearly year before Ingalls,
finished the Farmers Alliance work by
kicking himself out But Plumb is now the
hope Of the organs, while Ingalls, is po-
litical outlaw.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

1t is asserted as upsetting the received
notions of the conditions of England's poorer
classes that the last census shows a decrease
in pauperism. The number of paupers is
%. 900 less in Great Britain than ten years
ago, while the increase in population makes
the proportion of pauperism still lower.
This looks creditable to England on the sur
face; but before making it the ground for
final conclusions, it would be well to have
direct proof that it is due to more prosperity
among the laborers, and not to the English
policy of shipping the paupers to more pros
porous and unwary countries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

A VERY praiseworthy though perhaps
arduous attempt is made to show that Lady
Brooke is much misunderstood but very
proper beauty. At the same time a writer
comes out with a defense of the character of
Lady Hamilton. The public will always be
glad to have reasons for thinking well of
beauteous females, but sometimes the effort
of faith is little too strong for poor human
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
A New YORK cotemporary warns I

European governments that they will find
it to their highest advantage to keep out of
trouble by letting Haiti alone" and reverts
to the Monroe doctrine as the obstacle to
their interference. Very well; but if the
Monroe doctrine is practiced by the United
States in the way of setting up bloodthirsty
tyrants in exchange for coaling stations and
then getting cheated out of them that politi-
cal principle will be in grave danger of
wasting illness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
SOME comment is evoked by the fact that

SOME comment is evoked by the fact that
President Barillas of Guatemala has
pocketed 100000 of the proceeds of a
$6,OO0OO loan. Yet this is what is understood
to be the regular thing in Central American
politics. The late President Barrios had
some $l0,OOO,OOO snugly salted down in New
York He did not get away to enjoy it; but
it is understood that his interesting widow
is enjoying it for both. People who object
to that sort of thing are the impracticable
Mugwumps who do not understand Central
American politics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
COMMENCEMENT AT YALE.

1t Opens With Very Large Attendance of
Friends of the Students.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, June 22.-The COM
mencement exercises at Yale opened to-day,
and train after train brought friends of the
graduates and alumni, who are to attend the
various class reunions to the city. The ex-
ercises this morning consisted of the de-
livery of the class oration and the reading of
the class poem in the chapel.
The class historians were: Ashbel Green,
Jr., of New York City; Thomas H. Guy, of
Troy, N. Y; Joseph R. Herod, of Indianapolis;
John B. Sears, of Chicago, and Harry w.
Tweedy, of Binghamton, n. Y.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

IT is sad to learn that the Governors veto
of Senator Jack Robinson's committees ex-
penses leaves the hotelkeepers and not the
committee in the lurch. This may strengthen
the tendency of landlords, recently exem-
plified in this city, to demand pay in ad-
vance from legislators who try their hospi-
Aoli
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
His Idea of a Bribe.

GONE time Judge Geddes, the popular
Democratic member of Congress, was max
ing round of calls upon his constituents ~
said an Ohio man to me yesterday. "and,
among others, he visited an old farmer in
Ashland county who was a reliable friend
of his. The farmer and Judge Geddes were
strolling about the farm when they came
upon a farmland and the farmer addressed
him with: "Rube, you must be sure to vote
for the Judge next month"
The man who was hoeing corn looked up
at Judge Geddis and said: oval, fact is,
Jedge, I'm fer SALE"
"I'm not buying votes-haven'ta any money
to spend" said the Judge with laugh.
"Who said anythin' bout buyin'?' asked
Rube; "yer can't buy mel don't want no
money-a gallon O. whisky's bout my size"'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
THE demand of Doodle alderman in \

York for back salary during the time he was
sojourning in Canada is tolerably cheeky;
but it does not rival the demand of one of
his brother aldermen for his share of
the Broadway steal. Why should not the
man have his salary when New York has
plainly pronounced against any prosecution
of the public thieves? The real stroke of
genius will be reached when these heroes
of practical politics sue for malicious inter-
ference with their business by raising the
row over the Broadway Railroad steal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

THE construction of 125-ton gun is
planned at Watervlict Arsenal, which at
once arouses the protest that cannon of that
size have been proved by experience to be
unwieldly, expensive, short-lived and use
less. Rather than rely on such costly ord
nance, which can only be fired few score
times 1t may be found more economical for
this country to stick to the policy of treat
ing all nations with such fairness as to make
Quarrels impossible.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

1T is sad to learn that the Western ''agree-
ment among gentlemen is going to pieces
1t will cause another outburst of argument
from the railway gentlemen to prove the
necessity of their being restrained by law
from running their properties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
IT ACTS BY WHAT RIGHT.
Quo Warranto Proceedings Against a Live
Stock Exchange,

Stock Exchange.
CHICAGO, June 22.-Attorney General Hunt
this afternoon began quo warranto proceed
ings against the Chicago Live Stock Ex-
change. He sets forth that the act under
which the company was organized restricts
it from doing business for pecuniary profit,
and that its legitimate objects are to adjust
business disputes, guard against the sale Of
unwholesome meat, etc.
The Attorney General alleges that the
company is trying to fl the minimum rate
of sale on the yards market, and to prohibit
its members from purchasing stock from
any person not member of the Exchange.
In the name of the people, the Attorney
General asks the company to show by what
legal right it is acting.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
THE considerations s

THE considerations surrounding the
milk supply are various. A New Orleans
milkman who has been fined for watering
his milk protests that water in the milk is
necessary in that warm city to prevent it
from churning during transportation over
the streets. New Orleans milk must be many
times richer than the Northern variety, of
which the cream only will churn, and some
of what is alleged to be cream requires steam
power to convert it into butter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
The Bait Was Superb.

WHENEVER anyone about the Court House
has good fish story these days he is pretty
sure to fire it at District Attorney Dick
Johnston. This is one of the results of Mr..
Johnston's prodigious performances in Elk
county this spring with fishing pole. An
Attorney with: "Say Dick, 1 had an i'm
mense time last week trout flshing-never
had such good time"
"What was your catchP" asked Mr.. john
ston.
"Didn't get a fish-but six of our party had
mania potu!" was the reply.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
THEY CoURTED BY TELEPHONE.
The Marriage That Followed a Tale of Love
Sent Over the Wire.

Sent Over the Wire.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.]
ALBANY, June ga June wedding to-day
in cozy home in Madison avenue was the
sequel to a story of love over the telephone
wire. 1t was the marriage Of Rufus King
Townsend, whose family and friends are all
of Albany's social 400, to Miss Ida Jerome
Wiley, who, up to a short time ago, worked
in the central office of the Hudson River Tel
ephone Company.
Among the guests at the wedding were
General Franklin Townsend, who was ad-
jutant General of the State of New York i'll
war times; Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Townsend,
General Frederick Townsend, who has also
been Adjutant General of the State, and the
the members of his family.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
Every Section to Its Custom.

KANSAS CITY oIur.J
The extremity of politeness has been at
tanned by New York journalism, the Evening
Post pleasantly addressing the Tribune as
"Mendax" Out in Arizona the Kicker would
call the Ripper plain "liar'' and feel the bet,
ter for It.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
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Presented With n Purse.

Rev. o. p. Gallagher, of st. Johns Catholic
Church, South Fourteenth street, was pre-
sented on Saturday evening with purse of
$500 by his congregation, as a mark of their
esteem for him. He will leave for a trip to
Europe on next Saturday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
JUNE showers make July bowers

WHEN the whale-back barge shoots the
rapids of the st. Lawrence and reaches the
Atlantic the sea monster fakirs will be heard
from.
A SUMMER hotel at the base of Green
lands icy mountains would undoubtedly be
well patronized.
THE cry of the melon vender will soon be
heard in the Northland.
IF the rains do not cease the June rise
will put on flood airs.
THERE is no law against keeping the
wharves clean or making them attractive.
COMPETITION is the life of trade-or the
death of one of tile competitors.
THE first half holiday was scarcely half
observed.
A MIsF1T gives the fashionable Miss a
fit.
DRYGooDs merchants are lucky. They
can make money on waist goods.
THE Itata should be added to the sideshow
end of the Worlds Fair:
A SCIENTIST declares that monkeys can
talk. If a few could be captured in Darkest
Africa the world would secure the secrets of
Stan1ey's rear guard.
THOSE in the fast set are rather loose in
their habits.
UNsELFIsHNEsS is the corner stone of
Christianity, and the sooner the churches
find it out the better.
BANK vaults have time locks, but they
have to be watched also.
If you laugh in lifs's face trouble will
keep its distance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

THE ex-Empress Eugenie has no faith in
the future of Comparison, and says: "The
Empire died with my son." The conclusion
is iseminently correct, but there is a mistake
in her assertion concerning tho date of its
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

death. The Empire was completely wiped
out at Sedan; and the intolerant ambition of
Eugenie is credited with having brought on
the war, which produced that disaster.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

THE question who is King of Samoa seems
to be as insoluable as who is Governor of
Connecticut? Has practical politics got its
grip on that once peaceful Pacific group?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.

THE jolly dog does not have to be
licensed, but he frequently pays fine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

IT is interesting but cheeky for the New
York Advertiser to get out sixteen-page
Sunday edition-and a very readable one at
that-and then turn up its nose at its cotem-
poraries as "Jumbonian journals
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.

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DAILY DISPATCH including Sunday, 'th-. 80
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THE DAILY DISPATCH is delivered by carriers at
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2Oceuts per week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

THE Atlantic City Councilman whose in
dignant constituents rolled him in bed of
mortar is probably in position to express
preference for whitewash.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
profits of that privilege concentrated

profits of that privilege concentrated in
the hands of favored few.
1t would be uncharitable to accuse these
papers of wilfully misrepresenting facts
in the interests of the Standard. Bufthe
charitable view leads US to wonder at the
degree of intelligence which can discover
no difference between combination to es-
tablish competition in a legitimate indus
try and ombination to suppress it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
Cranks on the Cars.

THE Pittsburg and Lake Erie train coming
in from Youngstown on Saturday night had
more than O fair share of crankS on board.
just after the train left Youngstown young
man, who had been filling up too enthusias-
tically on liquor that inebriates, took it into
his head to lie down at full length in the seat
and put his feet out of the window. Mr..
Blackford, the energetic representative OF
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie at New Castle,
observing the young mans danger, humanely
cautioned him, and for his pains was told by
the bibulous youth to go to warm place not
on any railroad map.
"They're my feet and it's my business to
look after them" added the youth-but he
drew in his feet and went to sleep. The car
was choke-full of benevolent people, and an
old man who noticed that big roll of bills
was sticking out of the sleeping youths
vest pocket tapped the latter on the shoulder
and warned him that he ran the risk of losing
his money. The disinterested adviser got
cursing too.
The next excitement was afforded by an
old fellow with more or less hayseed in his
hair, and a chin tuft that made him resem-
BILE caricature of Uncle Sam, who insisted
on sticking his head out of the window and
looking back at the end of the train. The
train was running along beneath the
rocky cliffs that, with the Ohio on the other
side, fence in the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
tracks from Hn1lllpSDurR lot miles edStWdru
The other passengers fully expected to see
the old mans head split by some projecting
rock for the train was running very fast
and swaying a good deal. Mr.. Blackford
again came to the rescue. He took his um-
brella, and while the old man was craning
his neck over the window sill, gave his skull
a gentle jab, and withdrew the umbrella
with all possible dispatch. The old man
drew in his head as if he had been an
alarmed turtle and howled: "1'm dead
man! I've been struck!'
But he soon forgot his experience and out
went his head again. This time Mr.; Black
ford was not so merciful, for he took his UNI
brella by the ferrule and dealt the old man a
sharp crack with the handle, a gnarled one
with metal knobs. The passengers couldn't
restrain their laughter, and the old man per-
ceived that he had been the victim of a joke.
To get even he pulled out a pint flask of
whisky, saying: "You shan't get a drop!'
His Will was better than the deed, for the
car gave sudden lurch at that moment, and
every drop of the whisky flew out on the
floor and neighboring passengers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
Roasted Theatricals in New York.

"THEATRIcALs in New York are feeling the
effect of extremely hot weather." said Man.
ager Harry Williams yesterday give just
come back from New York and last weeks
weather was the hottest I've ever met there.
The business some of the New York theaters
are doing is frightfully thin. One night
when was in the Madison Square Theater,
where The Merchant is being done, there
were only eight people in the balcony, and
the patronage OF the comic operas at the
Broadway and Palmer's is not enough to be
profitable. All the same the Tar and the
Tartar and Wang are both clever pieces,
and the mounting of the latter, in which De
Wolf Hopper is the star, is particularly
gorgeous. New York theatrical people are
wondering what Pittsburg is going to do
think that it will result in the attra ctions
getting decidedly the best Of the local man
agerS."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

WHEN the whale-back barge shoots the
rapids of the st. Lawrence and reaches the
Atlantic the sea monster fakirs will be heard
from.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

THE Emory II. L. Church and Sunday
school of the East End will picnic at Rock
Point, Wednesday, July L
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

A SUMMER hotel at the base of Green
lands icy. mountains would undoubtedly be
well patronized.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23

UNsELFIsHNESS is the corner stone of
Christianity, and the sooner the churches
find it out the better.