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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
Another Allegheny Kicker.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:

TO the Editor 0fThe Dfspatch:
The parties who have done nothing but
talk, and whose business it is to see that we
have some improvements made in way of
streets in the Tenth ward and out the Per-
rysville road, will find themselves taking q
trip up Salt river when election comes
around again, unless they bestir themselves,
for we who own property and live out that
way have stood trifing about long enough.
The unpaved streets have been impossible
all winter. PerrysviIle road, with broken
planks lying in all directions, has been very
dangerous to horses and wagons. The plank
walk is dangerous to life and limb, at least
that that portion or on which .aic has not been monSpo-
Many people have moved Off the hill on ac-
count Of the oity's negligence, and we who
have to remain will either have some Of our
ALLEGHENY, May 15. You BET.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

1T is interesting to learn that the fresh
man class at Princeton has adopted a reso-
luton against hazing. We are entirely in
sympathy with the resolution; but in view
of the praise esteemed contemporaries are
giving the same it seems rather pertinent
that the victims of hazing usually find no
difficulty in perceiving the wrong of it.
When the Princeton freshmen reach the
stage where, by the barbaric superstition of
college youth, they are permitted to haze
others, their opposition to the practice will
show a commendable enlightenment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
A REMARKABLE PAIR.
Burglary Was Their Occupation, and They
Did Big Business.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
BRIDaEPoRT, May 10 Henry Luddington
and Dora Conroy are now in the Bridgeport
Jail awaiting trial for a series of remarkable
burglaries. The house where the Ludding
tons lived was found to bepacked from eel
lar to garret with valuable household goods,
clothing, silver and q thousand and one
things which had been stolen during the
past two years, and ever since the arrest
persons who have been robbed have been
driving to the place to recognize booty as
theirs Over COO keys used by burglars, two
iimmies, dark lanterns, an ingeniously con-
trived bullseye lamp, brace and bit, saws to
be used on metal and u burglars stove and
blow pipe used to burn out locks were found
Oh the premises.
Fully 80 burglaries have been traced to
Luddington. Dora Conroy is very pretty
girl, barely 25 years old, and she has borne
Iuddington five children. She is not married
to him, she says. She claims to be the
daughter Of respectable New York people,
came infatuated with the good-looking bur
glar, and ran away to follow his fortunes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
WORLDS FAIR EXHIBITS.
Many Persons Want to Go Abroad to Super
wise Shipments.

MANY PERSONS WanG 70 CO ADkoAu W super.
wise Shipments.
rFRoM STAFF coRREsPoNDENT.1
WASHINGTON, May 15.-The eagerness with
which public Office is sought is illustrated
by the numerous inquiries that have come
to the Treasury Department relative to the
character of the duties that would devolve
upon persons whom it is supposed the de-
partment will appoint to go abroad to super
intend the shipment of articles of exhibit
intended to be sent to the Worlds Fair.
These inquiries resulted from the publica-
ton of an erroneous statement, to the effect
that the department. has really decided to
appoint such officers. Congress provided in
two separate appropriations $40, 900 to defray
the expenses Of the handling or inspection
of imports from abroad for exhibition at the
Worlds Fair.
The Director General of the Fair wrote to
the Secretary of the Treasury recently and
inquired what action the department had
taken in reference to this matter. The Sec
retary Of the Treasury stated to-day that he
has taken no action in this matter and is not
likely to do so for some time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
Mr.. Rowbottom's Denial.

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
In your paper this morning you state that
I broke faith by promising to support Nc
Kirby for Chief of the Department of Public
Works. 1 wish to state that have never
promised to support McKirdy, and defy any
one to produce evidence of the same.
Yours, G. W. RowBoTToM.
ALLEGHENY, May Is.
1.-THE DISPATCH only chronicled the gossip
incident to the election, and did not make
the statement positively.l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THERE is outspoken wisdom and party
sense in the declaration of the Media An,eri-
can that the Republicans who stab ballot re-
form in the house of its friends "wfll be held
up to public notice by the American and we
trust by every Republican newspaper in the
State, We cannot demand just election laws
for the South and refuse them for Pennsyl-
vania." This is an evidence on the part of the
sangujne Cooper that he is convinced that
honest politics is the only kind that pays.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE Senate has passed the bill abolish
ing the ward school boards of Philadelphia.
If the bill extended to second-class cities it
might or might not be benefit; but recent
experience warrants the apprehensions that
changes in the teaching corps would be very
abrupt, Sc. to speak.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE school children in New York have
voted for the golden rod as their favorite
flower. There is q suspicion that this
was part of the fine work of Jones, the
freight-payer, who is determined that New
York shall IN no way choose any such flower
as Roswell p.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
STILL HOPE FOR PITTsBURG.
Lima Oil to Supply the Aching Void Caused
by Gas Failure.

Lima Oil to supply the Aching Void Caused
by Gas Failure.
Lima Republican,
Pittsburg's natural gas boom has gone,
never to return. The great gas reservoirs
are partly exhausted and the gas men have
learned that fuel supply in unlimited guam
tity at limited prices, is improbable bust
ness. The mill supply has been cut off,
and the house supply regulated by the
meter system.
The drilling necessary to keep up this
supply, and the pipeage system to deliver it,
are becoming more expensive all the time.
In short, natural gas is now luxury, in
Pittsburg, laVishly as it was wasted few
years ago. AT this junoture, Lima receives
its benefit. To avoid the smoke and SCOT of
ante-gas days, the Pittsburg mill men are
turning to Lima oil. We can stand it, and
think Pittsburg can.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE demand of the New York VINE
and Spirit Gazette that the liquor dealers in
Buffalo should tell why Senator from that
city failed to vote for wholesale liquor bill
which that interest demanded from the New
York Legislature, is a singular indication Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
why Ingerson Was Barred.

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
1 have learned lately that Colonel R. G.
IngersoIl was refused permission to lecture
at Pittsburg on Sunday. Would you please
inform me where 1 can procure copy Of the
law preventing such lectures, etc.
CANoNsBURG, May 15 W. r. M.
[He is prevented by a city ordinance.
Write to the City Clerk, Pittsburg, Pa, for
copy.]
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE ruling of the Supreme Court of
Georgia that "the fact that the people of a
certain section had held mass-meeting and
agreed to disregard the stock lawtdoes not
repeal the law" is undoubtedly true, though
it does not seem like any very new princi-
pie. Nevertheless it oversets the New Or
leans theory of government. 1t might also
be pertinent in this section to say that the
edict of corporation managers does not re-
peal the law either.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THAT attempt to assassinate the Care
witch turns out to be a case in which the
Russian heir was out for quiet nocturnal
enjoyment, and the Japanese policemen
proved themselves as active with their clubs
as the New York kind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE Newark lodge of Elks has voted
that John i. Sullivan does not drink to ex-
cess This is more important as an indica-
ton of what the Newark Elks regard as ex-
cessive drinking than as vindication of
John L. sobriety.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
THE action of the Governor in vetoine

VI bllO oOfC1iOk fCeOiIS
the emasculated road bill is indorsed by
journals which have been foremost in sup
porting the work of real road reform. The
Philadelphia Press sums up the whole subj ect
by saying: "Every measure which is SO dis
torted from its original purpose as to be re-
pudiated by its best friends is proper sub
ject for executive Veto" This has hint
that the bogus movement to slaughter ballot
reform will, if it passes the Legislature, re-
ceive veto with the approval of the press
generally.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

that sort will force itself on the attention
of legislators by Its own merits; and Mr..
Olmstead's s work will be crowned by render
ing real estate as negotiable an investment
as stocks or bonds. and one that is much
more reliable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
Who Can Oblige Him?

To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
Would you please inform me where an or
ganization meets in this city by the name of
Washington or National Cadets.
PITTsBURG, May 10. SUBSCRIBER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
1t Puzzles Foreigners.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Which is the most difficult language to
learn, German or English, and which has
the most words? j.. II.
EAST LIVERPOOL, May IA.
[Linguists claim that English is far more
difficult than the German. The English Ian
guage certainly contains the largest number
of words.l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

New York politics. Itgives us the idea that
the wholesale liquor interest has The same
power to issue its orders in New York politics
that the corporations and practical politi-
clans have with regard to the legislation of
the Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

IF those reports Of assaulting and beat
ing deputy sheriffs in the Fayette county
coke regions are true, there is an obvious
need for strict enforcement Of the law. But
some of these reports need investigation
about as much as the one concerning the
Imprisonment of laborers in the mines.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

The Prince of Wales explains that most
of his debts were incurred in buying we'd
ding presents. This will secure for His
Royal Highness the sympathy of American
society generally; but otherwise twill have
an unfortunate effect. 1t will destroy the
growing idea in the United States that we'd
ding presents are going out of fashion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE Florida legislative caucus seems to
have appropriated all the pugnacity that
used to be developed by Democratic con-
vention in Allegheny county.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE.
Pennsylvania Press Opinions Upon the OFF,
cial Acts of Each.

fenuBylVduld ETeSs OpiulOao OPOh tuc Oui.
cial Acts of Each.
ALTOONA Tribune. Our Governor displays a
fine flowing style in his veto messages.
CoRRY Fiber: Governor Pattison has wisely
concluded to knock out the namby -pamby
nonsense enacted into road law.
MEADvILLE Messenger: Pattison's veto of
the road bill causes the Grange to shake
each other by the hand and shout, "Hurrah
for Pattison."
LANCASTER hstellige'acer: The Governor sur
prises us with a veto of the road bill, and the
reasons which he assigns, while numerous,
do not seem to us to be strong.
UNIoNTowN Democrat: Governor Pattison's
recommendation that the "direct tax
money" be used for the payment of State
bonds is an eminently proper one, and will
meet with the approval of all thinking peo-
pie.
PHILLIPsBURa Wdge-Em7er: The natural
and proper disposition of the tax returned is
to use it toward the extinguishment of the
debt which it caused. In this way it goes to
pay the expenses of the generation which
raised the money now restored to the State.
YORK Gazette: The butchery of the Baker
bill by the Republican bosses compels pro-
vision for Constitutional Convention for
ballot reform, OF else the abandonment of
all pretense of redeeming the guarded and
qualified pledge of the Republican State
Convention
WELLsBoRo Agitator: If the Senators sup
pose that the passage of such law (the
amended Baker bill) Will satisfy the people
they are badly mistaken. 1t viii be safer
for the responsible Republican majority to
defeat the bill utterly rather than pass it as
amended by the committee.
HoLLIDAYsBURG Standard. The return of the
direct tax money is much the same to the
people of Pennsylvania as if they had found
It: and the Governor. in deyising the only
appropriate use for it, was doubtless mind
full of the adage that found treasure is more
often attended with q curse than with
blessing.
DUBOIS Courier. Governor. Pattison IA truly
a politician of a new order. He slips into
office at times when an everyday Democrat
would not have a PARTICLE of show to do like
wise, and when he gets there he puts aside
the Muowunn nretensions that cantivate
certain elements and takes on nothing unbe-
coming to dyed-in-the-wool Democracy.
ERIE Times. The local authorities are the
best iudees of what sbn1id he done TO i'm
prove the roads of their resnective districts
and IL must have been a apoarent To most neo-
nla that the nro,,osed an,,ronriation
altbonoh n liberal one when snread ont over
the thousands of miles of country road in
this large State. would NOT have been suf.
ficient to bring about a noticeable improve-
mant anvwhare
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

MR.. John q. Fow's anxiety to slaughter
the trusts is commendable, but like his
determination to make the corporations
obey the Constitution, it is only active when
there is no chance of its becoming effective
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE Stewart will case is settled once
more by the defeat of the Irish heirs. There
is every reason to hope that this settlement
will last until some enterprising lawyer gets
up new set of heirs or new case.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
Social Chatter.

Rev. DIR. A. L. PETTY lectured lBst evening
for the Epworth League of the Arch Street
NJ. E. Church. Subject, "Oliver Cromwell"
A BOAT excursion will be given by the
Southside Medical Society next Tuesday.
Mr.. FRED MILLS and Miss Annie Smith were
married last evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Oliver Wheeler,

Oliver Wheeler died on Wednesday in,
Ashley, Mass. at the age of 96 years. Mr.. Wheeler
was member of Captain Oliver Kendall's company
in that town, which served with the militia who
were called out during the War of 1872 to resist the
expected invasion of the British at the time Of the
Wheeler, and his uncle, Amos Wheeler, were
members of Wyman's company, which fought In
the redoubt at Bunker HILL Mr.. Wheeler was the
oldest member of the Massachusetts, Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE whole world rejoices to hear that
Gladstone is getting better. No one Is ready
to hear that the career of the Grand Old
Man is ended until he has won at least one
more good fight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
He Never Was.

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Was Roscoe Conkling ever President of the
United States for any length of time?
WOODS RUN, May 10. SUBSCRIBER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

THE reason for the low temperature of
Tuesday and Wednesday is explained when
we recall the fact that Devoe prophesied the
hottest weather of the season for those two
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
Ivsaway We Have.
Altoona Time!

Altoona Times.]
We are never satisfied. Last spring it was
wet and cold, and we didn't like 1t. This
kicking.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
To Be Sure It Is.
williamsport SUM-

Williamsport Sun-l
1t is always safest and cheapest to do your
advertising in the newspapers, where the
sAle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
REIGrrM has lust informed Boul,

BELGIUM has just informed Boulanger
that he must shut up or leave Belgium.
This is so valuable an indication that Boul-
anger is still in the land of the living that
wonder grows how he brought influence to
bear on the Belgian Government to give him
this advertisement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
The Grand Mistake of Columbus.

York Age.1
The italian Government thinks the dis
covery Of America by Columbus was o
blunder of the first magnitude, and to en-
phasize that opinion it has decided that it
will take no part in the celebration at Genoa
next year or in our Columbian Exposition in
,oq
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
'Twould Be Terrible.

Baltimore Americana
The famous bloodhound used to track the
Whitechapel fiend has been kidnapped.
What If the Ripper should come back to
steal the police.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
Write to One Who Adyertises.

10 tne Euitor VI lhe Dispaschi
Can you inform me what the prices of the
consulting chemists of the city are, or where
l could get a schedule of prices? A. A. c.
PITTsBURG, May l5
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
THE STORY TOLD IN FIGURES.
Record of Coke Shipments by Weeks Since
the strike Began.
Connellsville Courier.1

The strike began February 10. The follow
ing is the record of shipments from that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16

Vol. IS, No. 9S.-Entered at Pittsburg Postoffce,
November Il, 1857, as second-class matter.
Mohave County miner., 1891-04-11
London's Fogs Described.

A letter recently sent TO Punch by an
irate London humorist gives some faint
idea OF the terrors OF the fogs there.
The writer says; Sir: ] have read
several letters in the papers complain
ing Of the fog. and asking not only
how one Is to protect the system from
It's injurious effects but also soliciting
information as to how one is TO safe
guard ones self against street accidents
IL obliged to quit the premises during
its prevalence. The first is simple
enough. Get complete divers suit,
put IL on, and let an attendant follow
you with a pumping apparatus for the
purpose of supplying you with the
fumes OF hydro-bicarbon in a state Of
suspension. This will considerably
assist the breathing. To avoid street
accidents wear an electric light, 500
candle power. on the top Of your hat,
round the brim OF which, in case OF
accident you have arranged dozen
lighted night lamps. Strap a duplex
reflector on 10 your back and fasten a
hanson cab lamp on TO each knee.
Let couple Of boys, bearing flaming
links and beating dinner gongs. clear
the way for you, while you yourself
shout: Here comes the bogie mani"
or any other appropriate ditty through
fog horn, which you carry in one
hand, while you spring a policeman's
ancient rattle vigorously with the
other. You will, If thus provided, get
along capitally. Be careful at cross
ings, fer your sudden appearance
might possibly frighten an omnibus
horse Or two and cause trouble.
haven't tried all this yet myself, but a
friend Of mine at Colney Hatch assures
me he has and found 1t a great
success -
Mohave County miner., 1891-04-11
The Drummer's Little story.

II never felt myself floored but once
in my life," said the drummer, with
the air OF man who thinks he has
something worth the telling. at was
down in Maine" he continued, after
waiting long enough TO set curiosity on
an edge I'D been living on railway
sandwiches for a week, and / Just
longed for square meal. Well, we
had TO stop at way station for a
couple OF hours, on account Of a hot
box or something o. that sort, and one
OF the brakemen put me on TO what he
said WIS first-class restaurant.
looked 1t up and ordered a steak. The
steak came, but it was disappoint-
ment j sawed away on it till my arms
ached. 1t was out Of the question to
chew the small bits / tore Off from 1t,
though / tried hard. gave 1t up
finally, and as paid my score I said
incidentally, That's about the tough
est eating / ever experienced. He
took the money, swept it into the
drawer, and without a CULVER he co0lly
remarked, You don't seem TO con-
slider how much good it'll do you in
the way Of exercise!' Boston Tran
script.
Mohave County miner., 1891-04-11
The British NEInerns Lot.

The discussion Of the Miners Eight
Hour bill in England has brought forth
a long and critical letter of opposition
from G. NJ. Percy, one OF the best
know British mining engineers.
In the course OF this letter, which
appears in several OF the English tech
nical journals, Mr.. Percy draws this
picture Of the miners, condition. past
"Half a. century agov whene mines
were badly worked and badly gentilat-
~ and men and women and children
worked like beasts Of burden. twelve
and fourteen hours every day. the
national sentiment was arouseds' but
now all is different.
No female can be employed under
ground. and no boy can be employed
for more than limited number Of
hours per day and per week. Perfect
ventilation and every provision for
safety is compulsory by law. Inspec-
tors Of mines devote their time 10 see
ing that everything that tends TO safety
is provided, and they have power to
enter mines prosecute owners and man
ayers for sins OF omission and eommls-
sion. The average hours OF labor Of
grown-up men in all the collieries OF
the United Kingdom do not exceed
forty-eight per week, including time
for meals.
Mohave County miner., 1891-04-11
Pure Cider Vinegar.

Many states have laws against adul-
teration Of vinegar. and all should
have. Chemically prepared acids are
injurious to teeth and to the digestive
organs. Apple cider allowed to fer
ment and make itself into vinegar Is
the best material; but any vegetable
compound is safe, and II well made is
a good substitute. Good vinegar is
made from maple sap and the refuse
from making maple sugar. 1t is often
mixed with cider and makes the vim
egar better and quicker than cider
alone could do. Much Of the vinegar
sold In the West Is made from the
refuse OF glucose factories. The glu-
.cose itself is not as healthful as pure
sugar, and its refuse contains consid-
cradle quantities Of sulphuric acid used
in changing the starch Of the grain
into sugar. Such product is therefore
open TO the objections against chemical
compounds when used directly in max
ing vinegar. = &c..