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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
REAL ESTATE SAVINGS BANK, LIN.

4o1 Smithfield Street, Cor. Fourth Avenue.
Capital, 100000. Surplus, S69,0OO
Deposits of 81 and upward received and
interest allowed at per cent. IT'S
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
As to the Stockton Avenue Site.

special from Washington last night
says: T. II. Baird Patterson, representing
owners of portion of the Stockton avenue
site talked of for the new postoffice in Ale
gheny, called upon Assistant Secretary
Crounse to-day and made an interesting
statement. He informed the Assistant Sec
retary that the property, 100 feet wide on
Stockton avenue and 240 feet deep on East
Diamond street, extending back to Park way,
could be acquired, without condemna tion,
for q sum within the appropriation of $65,
900. This would give only go feet front on
Stockton avenue, after substracting the
space necessary for the fire limit prescribed
by law, but it would give spacious depth,
with opportunity for light and for receiving
and shipping mails that would be very de-
sirable. Judge Crounse listened with much
interest to the new proposition
of Mr.. Patterson, and informed
the gentleman that if he would
go home and cause to be executed q bond
in the sum of $50 or 5000 to guarantee the
bargain on the part of the owners, the de-
partment would consider the proposition.
1t is just possible that this property may be
acquired at such a price as will enable the
Government also to secure the remaining 80
feet of the site described in these kilograms
few days ago, without going outside the
limits of the appropriation. at any rate, the
question of the site, so long in abeyance,
seems to have prospect OF settlement
soon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
TROUBLE AT MENDELss0HN.
Town Builders Claim Part of the PIo
Was Not Turned Over.

A bill in equity was filed yesterday by E.
O. Hays, Of Pittsburg, and B. P. Wallace, of
McheeSport, against Jane E., Alex q. and j.
T. Wilson, of Snowden township. In May,
1880, it is stated the defendants gave the
plaintiffs an option on ten acres of land in
Snowden township, and agreed to sell it to
them at $500 an acre.
They afterward refused to sell the land as
agreed and the court is now asked to compel
them to carry out the agreement and sell the
land.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

Mrs. WINsLow's Soothing Syrup reduce
Inflammation while children are teething.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

DITTSBURG AND CASTLE SHANNON r. -
L summer Time Table. On and after June 7,
standard time: Leaving Pittsburg-6:25 m. 7:15
m 500 m, 935 IN, II 80 m, las III, 3:Sl m.
SHOP m, 5:55 pm, sOpm, $50 p IN. II 80 IN.
Arlington-5:i0 m, 20 m, 7;l0 a m; s;Ooam,
lO:25 m, 100 m, 2:40 m, 4:20 m, 500 IN, $50
I'm, 7:15 III, 1880 pm. Sunday trains, leaving
Pittsburg-10:oo IN, 1855 m. 2;35 IN, 5;l0 N,
$3.50 I'm. Arlington-9:l0 a IN, 1910 p M, l:5O IN.
4:2O d M $50 m. o. A. ROGERS, Supt.
DITTSBURG AND WESTERN RAILWAY
L Trains (Ct'l Stand'd time). Leave. Arrive.
Mail, Butler, Clarion, Kane 81 $3.50 IN IL 20 a m
Akron, Toledo and Greenville. 7:30 a IN 1880 IN
Butler Accommodation. .........l 900 a m 3:35 D IN
Greenville, New Castle Clarion lao D m 9:I5 a m
Chicago Express daily ......12:45 D m 1910 D IN
Zelienople and Butler ..,.....l 4:25 D m $40 m
Butler Accommodation .......l $50 d IN 7:2O a IN
First class fare to Chicago, $40 so. Second class,
~ so. Pullman buffet sleeping car TO Chicago daily
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
Court News Cut Fine,

JouH McKEEvER wss yesterday acquitted
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

SAxoNBURG-The Webber Bros. well on the
Webber farm which has been reported on
several occasions as doing anywhere from
$50 to 200 barrels a day is dry as the Sahara
and has been abandoned by the owners 1t
was drilled to find a connecting link be-
tween SaNonburg and the Thorn Creek ex-
tension. The link is still missing. Hoffman
& Co. will start test well today Oh the
Adderholt farm, one-haIf mile west of the
Wpbbar hole
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GENERAL MILES
Commands the Forces at Pine
Ridge Agency.
Nebraska State Militia Ordered to Move
to Chadron, the Scene of the
Threatened Indian Gut
break.

A special to the Omaha Bee from Pine
Ridge Agency, dated January /, says:
General Miles has assumed conn md
Of the forces here, relieving General
Brooke, who started this morning into
the field with the Second Infantry, 90
ing by way of Oelrichs to a point some
fifteen miles north of here. Yester-
day, amid as wild, binding and bit
ter a wintry storm as ever swept
this bleak and barren country were
laid away to their last rest thirty
of the brave boys who fell with
face to the foe in the bloody encounter
at Wounded Knee. 1t was , o'clock
when the funeral cortege, with General
FOrsythe and Major Whiteside at the
head, and composed of fifteen wagons
bearing the rudely cofired dead, fol-
lowed by an escort of Companies A, K,
B, I, d and Z of the noble but
unfortunate Seventh Cavalry, togeth-
er with an assisting squad from the
Second Cavalry, wound away from the
camp up to the little cemetery situated
at the crest Of the hill northwest of the
Agency. The surviving members of the
fated Company X looked lonesome
enough with their fearfully thinned
ranks The vacancy, so striking in
contrast to the rest of the column,
caused the tears to start in the eyes
of many cOmrade for the comrades
lost The graves were in rows
Of six, close together, in the
southwest corner Of the cemetery and
also overlooking the camp. After the
reading of the burial service by Rev.
Mr.. Cook, the Episcopal clergyman
here, aided by his assistant, the bodies
were lowered into the grave Owing
to the intensely critical condition of
the surroundings, with boards of the
enemy fOclzing about the agency
threatening an attack, the usual sa-
Lutte Of guns was omitted, while soft
notes from the bugle and the wall of
the storm whispered the last good-by.
The remains Of Captain Wallace will
be sent to Fort Riley, Kas., for inter
ment. Those of Captain Mills, who
was found dead in his tent from rheu-
matism of the heart. from which he has
been a sufferer for long time, were
sent to Omaha" Governor Thayer, of
Nebraska, Thursday sent Geographic
instructions to the commander of the
State militia at Long Pine to move at
once to ChadrCn. the scene of the threat
ened Indian outbreak. Orders were
also given to the commanders at Ere
mont, Central City and Tekamah to be
prepared to start ct any time
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1891-01-07

REPRESENTATIVE KELL, Of Kansas,
introduced in the House a bill directing
the Secretary of the Treasury to print
fractional currency of the United States
to the amount Of fifty millions Of dol
lars.
REPRESENTATIVE ABSER TAYLOR, of
Illinois, has introduced in the House a
bill providing that the rate chargeable
for registration on domestic mail mat
ter shall be five cents for each piece in
addition to the regular postage.
The Treasury Department, on the I'd,
under its circular of October 9, re-
deemed S27, 800 acknowledgement
bonds
IHE Treasury Department on the I'd
resumed the purchase of silver. The
amount offered was 932, 900 ounces, and
the amount purchased 8O7, 900 ounces as
follows: 25, 900 ounces at l.O41<; SO, 600
at 1.O45S; 1875, 200 ounces at 1.O4 %; 49,
coo ounces at LOS; $4,000 ounces at
LOS 10; 1000 ounces at LOS "A; BIG, 900
ounces at los 25.
SECRETARY WINDOW has appointed A.
L. Drummond, of New York, Chief of
the Secret Service Division of the
Treasury Department, and H. H. Rand,
Of Wisconsin, a Chief of division in the
Fifth Auditors Office, Treasury Depart
ment.
THE President has approved the bill
for the 375, 900 public building at South
Bend, Ind.
THE Chief of Engineers reports as
not worthy of improvement, Gunter's
creek and ChattahOoche river, in Ala
bama.
SECRETARY WINDOW has directed all
Collectors of Customs to conform to the
decision of the q. S. Supreme Court in
the case Of Zeburger, Collector, against
Conn, in which it was held that a man
ufacture of wOrsted was not a manufac-
ture of wool This decision of the
court, Collectors are informed, will APP
ply only to importations of worsted
cloths made prior to the passage of the
act of May 9, 1890.
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMS, of Day
ton, o., has secured the appointment of
John I. Waymire, Of Piqua, and Jas.
T. Moorhead, of Troy, as Weigh Mas
tiers in the Railway Mail Service.
REPRESENTATIVE CUTCHEON, of Mich
igan, on the I'd introduced in the House
a joint resolution constituting a Board,
to consist of two Senators and three
members Of the House, and two officers
each from the army and navy, which
shall take into consideration during the
recess OF Congress the subject of coast
defenses with special reference TO the
most urgent necessities as to fortifica-
tons, armament, defensive ships and
torpedoes. The Board is to report to
Congress on these subjects before jan
nary l next. Ten thousand dollars is
appropriated to meet the necessary ex.
pense Of the Board.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1891-01-07
BAD OUTLOOK.
Grave Fears of Another Flood at wheel
ing, ". Va.

Grave Fears of Another Flood at wheel
ing, ". Va.
It rained al day at Wheeling, W. Va,
Thursday, on top Of two feet of snow,
and the water is running down the
streets and cutters, increasing in
volume every hour. Reports from
points above and from the headwaters
Of the Monongahela, as well as from
other West Virginia streams that empty
into or contribute to the Ohio, are to the
effect that the snow is going off
rapidly, and the mountain
streams are becoming torrents.
Wheeling people are fearful
lest they viii be called upon to expert
ence a similar food to that Of 1854, ard
are prepared for the worst The news
from above Is Of the most alarming
character. The river is rising rapidly
at the rate of a half foot per hour.
People living in the lower part of
Wheeling were anxious Thursday night,
and the 1000 residents of Wheeling
Island are thoroughly alarmed.
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THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN.

The Redskins Loss in the Battle Placed
at 3OO-Whites Killed and wounded Over
Fifty.
A dispatch from Pine Ridge Agency
says that the battle between the treach-
erous Big Foot hostiles and the Seventh
cavalry resulted in the killing and
wounding of about seventy-five of the
cavalry troopers and the almost total
wiping out Of the Indian village, compos-
ID of about 10 warriors and $50 women
and children. Perhaps half a dozen
Indian children were all that were left
Of the entire hostile camp. The Com
missioner of Indian Affairs Tuesday
morning received the following dispatch
from Agent d. f. Royer, dated Pine Ridge
Indian agency, December %: ION
Wounded Knee creek this morning,
while the soldiers were disarming Big
Foot and his band after their surren-
+, fight took place which resulted in
the killing Of about 500 Indians and sew
eral Of the soldiers, including Captain
Wallace, with a number wounded. Two
Strike and his party, who were encamp-
ed on White Clay creek just below Red
Clouds house, opened fire on the agency
from the hill tops opposite the board
ing school, wounding two soldiers. The
police returned the fire, killing two of
the Two Strike Indians and wOunding
two others. Two Strike and his band
have retreated in a northwesterly direc-
ton from the agency and it is supposed
he is trying to make his way back to
the Bad Lands. Thus far the Pine
Ridge Indians have taken no active part
in the war, but Big Foot, Slow Bear,
Kicking Bear and the Two Strike band
have been and are active in the disturb
ance"
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TOWBOAT BLOWS UP.
Five Killed and Several Injured DEPOSITS
Portsmouth. o.

Five Killed and Several Injured Opposite
Portsmouth, o.
The towboat Anna Roberts exploded
a cylinder head Friday at a. m. oppo-
site Portsmouth, O., instantly killing
five men and terribly wOunding many
more. The boat was bound for Pitts
burgh, and was moving slowly up the
river, but with a full pressure of steam.
just opposite Portsmouth q terrible ex-
plosiOn occurred, tearing open the boiler
deck Of the boat and hurting the man
gled bodies Of men into the river. Most
Of the men killed and injured were
sleeping in their hunks at the time
of the accident. The killed are as fol-
lows: Frank Perry, deck hand; Ben
Lawson, fireman; James Swail; J. b.
Shaw, deck hand; James Green. deck
hand All were horribly burned and
scal6ed and some mangled by pieces OF
iron Eight or ten others are wounded.
The damage to the vessel does not ex-
coed $1,000. 1t is owned by a Pittsburgh
firm and most Of the crew lived there.
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ANOTHER ENCOUNTER.
Two Strike and His Band Capture a Pr;
vision Train. Rut Are Ronted.

Two Strike and His Band Capture a Pro-
vision Train, But Are Routed.
The Omaha Bees special from Rush
vile, Neb., says: Advices from the seat
of war give the news of another en-
counter between the troops and Indians
at a point within four miles of the
agency. The Seventh and Ninth Cav
airy were just coming in from Mon
days battlefield, followed at some dis
lance by their provision train. On reach
ing the point named a large band Of
Indians, headed by Chief Two Strike,
dashed suddenly upon the train, captured
it, and were making off toward the Bad
Lands, when the cavalry wheeled and
gave pursuit. In the battle which fol-
lowed over thirty Indians were wound
ed, but no soldiers were killed. Accord
ing to the latest reports, Two Strikes
Indians had Monday been considered
peaceable and subdued, but their sud
den change of mind causes the gravest
fears at the Agency that perhaps none
of the sO-called friendies can be relied
on. However, word from General
Brooke to the settlers Tuesday is some
what reassuring, it being to the effect
that a great body of the savages
have remained loyal all the time,
while nearly all the rebels are dead He
further says the settlers here are not in
danger. Reliable news is also at hand
that Colonel Henry is now approaching
the agency with 200 Indians captured
in the Bad Lands. This is believed to
include all of the rebels on the reserva-
ton, and hopes are entertained of a
speedy settlement. It has cost the lives
of about $50 Indians and twenty-five or
thirty soldiers killed and wounded TO
effect this result, if indeed, it may be
said that peace is yet established.
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THEATERs BURNED.
Fortunately the Fire Started After the
Audiences MEEe Qismissed1r -

- ------~ ---~-. - .-aOadway, be-
TWEEN Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
streets, New York, was burned at mid
night Friday night. This includes the
Eifth-avenue theater. Hermann's thea
ter and the various stores between the
streets named. At 11:45 o'clock watch
man in the flies of the Fifth-avenue
theater, saw smoke behind the stairs
near the pre- 2erty room. which is under
the stage and Just under the Twenty
eighth street lobby. The fire began
Spreading rapidly and communicated
with the wood work under the stage.
At midnight the flames were leaping
up all over the light wood, and fifteen
minutes later the entire building on the
Iwenty-eighth street side was ablaze.
Then the flames burst upward and in a
few moments the roof had taken fire and
blazed fercely. At 1890 o'clock the
flames burst out furiOusly TO the north.
and sparks communicated with the roof
Of Hermann's theater. The buildings
between the two theaters took
fire, and at 1910 o'clock
the entire block was in danger
OF complete destruction. Hermann's
Theater was ablaze at 1915 o'clock, and
then The buildings between the two
structures began to crumble under the
fierce heat. Bricks melted away, raft
ers crashed down. A series of explo-
sions coming from Crooks gun store
next to the theater on Broadway ere
ated panic and almost a stampede in
the crowd. BY this time the flames had
q
the north. The wind suddenly fresh
ened into half gale, and a sheet Of
fame shot up to the corner of
Twenty-ninth street. A shower
of sparks flew across the street,
and the woodwork of the windows of
the Sturtevant House took fire. The
hotel brigade extinguished this, but in
less than five minutes it was ablaze
again. Almost at the same instant
there was a crash and Hermann's The
ster, which was then burning briskly,
seemed to 60 up in an ocean of sparks
end flame. Following this all the
buildings beyond Hermann's took fire
and then the flames began spreading
east on Twenty-eight street. At
o'clock the entire front Of every build
ing on Broadway between Twenty
eighth and Twenty-ninth street was on
fire inside. The wind had increased to
a small hurricane, and it was apparent
that not only was the Twenty-eighth
street block doomed, but the buildings
between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth
streets were in danger of destruction.
The firemen worked heroically, but the
high wind and ferceness of the fire was
almost too much for them. The loss is
estimated at $500, 900.
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TOUCHED -OFF.
Six Lads Fool with Bung-HOIe and Ar,
Knocked silly.

Six Lads Fool with a BunG-HOIe and Are
Knocked silly.
While a number of boys Of ages rang
ing from ten to fifteen years, were play
ing about lot Of empty naphtha bar
rels in foundry building attached to
the Stoddard manufacturing estab-
hshment, at Dayton, O., Sunday,
one Of the number threw a light
ed match into the bung-hole of
a barrel Instantly an explosion fol-
lowed, and barrels and boys scattered
with equal swiftness about the build
ing. Four of the Youngsters were
knocked senseless and two severely
bruised about the face and breast. 1t
Is supposed that a small quantity of
naphtha was contained IN the barrel In
which the torch was applied.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1891-01-07
AT PINE RIDGE.
Frenzied Warriors Went to Die
Killing White Men.
Night Of Observation-Disclosures From
General Miles TornUp.

4 Night Of Observation-Disclosures From
General Miles TornUp.
A special to the Inter-Oeean from Pine
Ridge dated the 4th, SAYS: Last night
was one Of feverish excitement to mary
at the Agency. For the first time the
squaw men and half-breeds were alarm
ed, and remained up all night fearing
that an attack would be made before
morning. The Agency is too well guard
co TO permit any large force to approach
very close without discovery, but It
would be hard TO prevent q few daring
individuals from creeping up some OF
the numerous ravines and throwing
tre-arrOws into barns and haystaclzs.
The friendly spies all say that there
are large number of warriors
in the enemy's camp who have worked
themselves up to a condition of
frenzy similar 20 those who committed
suicide at Wounded Knee. They saw
they want TO die, and are going to die
while killing white men. 1t is also said
that two bucks escaped alive from the
Wounded Knee fight, who swore that
they viii set the Agency on fire and
kill the agent themselves. General
Miles has his troops all around the
enemy, and could throw all in any dav and
have a tremendous battle, but could not
prevent small bands escaping here and
there, which would have to be followed
mp by the soldiers, which would
place the lives of many set
tiers in danger. By holding his
troops until a much larger force
can be thrown around the Indians the
trouble can be confined to the reserve.
The end can not be reached without
one or more battles, and bloody ones.
as there are too many of the crazy who
only want to follow the example of
their Big Foot relatives. General Miles
sent out letter yesterday asking for a
hearing. The Indians tore the letter
into fragments and threw them into
the fire, saying. I'VE want no treaty;
we are here to fight" Last night sew
eral shots were fired by our pickets,
and 2 couple of arrows were thrown
into the yards Doctors are constantly
arriving, there being no less than if
teen here, with a large corps of
assistants. A delegation of friend
lies asks that a large party be
sent out at once to aid those 40
desire TO escape from the hostile Csm1.
They claim that seven or eight hundred
warriors wish 70 return; that they
either fed through fright at first, or
were forced to go with the rest. To let
the friendhes go would undoubtedly
precipitate fight and consume several
days Of valuable time. No decision in
the matter has been made yet. Sunday
was warm and clear, and the wounded,
who are on their way to the railroad,
will suffer no diseomforts. The In
dams in the hospital camp number over
four thousand men, women and chill
dren, and represent every agency in the
two Dalzotas
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Word comes from New Martins
vile, w. Va, that two physicians have
been summoned togo to Ten Mile, Tyler
County, 10 attend two women who
fought a duel with butcher knives. The
fight occurred without spectators in the
kitchen Of one Of the combatants, named
Wilson, which is described as most
ferocious and desperate encounter. Mrs.
Wilson is terribly cut about the face,
neck and breast, and is fatally hurt.
The other woman's name is not known
as yet, nor the cause of the strange
duel
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1891-01-07

At Madison, Ind, Thursday, as the
steamer General Pike was backing out
from the wharf on her trip to Cincin-
matt, she was caught by a heavy wind
and forced on top Of one Of Middleton &
Wymond's coal barges, tearing the
whole end out Of the barge and knock
ing q hole in the Pike large enough to
roll a hogshead in Both the steamer
and barge sank in few minutes, the
crew on the lower deck barely escaping
with their lives. Loss, SIS, 600.
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The strike Of tho Hungarian furnace
men at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works
at Braddoclz. Pa. resulted in a serious
riot Thursday afternoon, in which four
men were seriously hurt and a dozen
others were battered and bruised Five
Of the rioters were jailed, and more
trouble is feared
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LITERARY AND ART NOTES.

MnLETT's Angelus, which in size meas
ures 26x21]E inches, sold at the rate Of
S2Gs.34 per square inch.
AT birmingham, Eng, collection Of
five hundred examples of David Cox,
who was a native Of that city, is shown
in the art gallery.
COLONEL n. s. GOss, Of Topeka, Kan,
has an archaeological collection that is
surpassed only by that Of the National
Museum at Washington.
Dr. HOLMES appears in the Harvard
catalogue as "Oiiver Wendell Homes,
~ D., IL D., Lit. D., D. c. L..
Professor of Anatomy. Emeritus"
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1891-01-07

For seine tine past a syndicate Of
Danville citizens has been quietly secur-
ing options on real estate fronting the
north fork Of the NerInillion river. in
Blount Township, III It has just leaked
ont that gold has been ldse1Fered IN
paying quantities in the sands in the
creek bottom.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1891-01-07

Friday morning Mrs. George Balm,
near Irwin, Pa, arose at 6 o'clock and
drowned herself in a well. Three weeks
ago her lovely young daughter went
crazy. This drove her husband insane,
and he died in a mad-house at Pitts
burgh, December go, and Friday morning
the last Of the family suicided, all with
in three weeks
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The steamer z. ". Cole s,nrs.

The steamboat E. w. Cole, while en-
route from Donaldsonville to New Or
leans, and landing at Welham planta-
ton, seventy miles above New Orleans,
at midnight Wednesday night, struck
an unknown snag, which tore a large
hole in the bottom of the boat. The
vessel careened on her larboard side
and sank in twenty-eight feet Of water
"a total loss.