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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
wHITELAW REDS BIG HOUSE.
His Country Residence Will Eclipse Any
thing Ever Yet Gotten Up.

HIS country residence VIII Eclipse Any
thing Ever Yet Gotten Up.
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid's new country house
at White Plains when completed, will be
the largest, handsomest and most thorough
ly appointed of all the luxurious country re-
treats of wealthy men in the vicinity of
New York, says Contractor A. L. Bridges
The old house burned to the ground simply
because there was not sufficient water at
hand to put it out. We are putting in a
water-works plant that will supply enough
water for small village. This has suggest
ed the introduction of a dozen other modern
luxuries, which heretofore have been sup
posed to be attainable only in town or city.
Such is the electric. light plant, which will
furnish light for the big building from gar
ret to cellar.
The guest chambers number over one
dozen. The dining room is long and high,
almost completely sheathed in glass on the
two sides, and finished in polished oak. The
library will perhaps be the most remarka-
BILE room in the house, with shelves for 25,-
900 volumes and finished in fine old seasoned
woods, that will look as if they had. stood
the worms and frosts of centuries. The hall
of entrance is as spacious as was the re-
tainers' assembling place in some medieval
castle. Three open fireplaces will heat it.
These are also found in every room, and a
steam-heating plant supplies their defcien-
cies from the standpoint of actual warmth.
Nothing on an equally extensive scale has
been attempted in a country house before.
1t is now nearly ready for occupancy, and
know that Mr.. Reid will give house-warm-
ing in the old baronial style when he takes
possession. Next fall, think, it can be
thrown open. The cost will 60 very near
81 900. OO0
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
NOT A MERE FIGUREHEAD.
QUEEN VICTORIA SOMETIMES INTER.
FERES IN POLITICS.
She Knows Better Than the House Of Lords
on Which Side Royalty's Bread Is But
tered-Why She Reluctantly Favored the
Hill

She Knows Better Than the House Of Lords
on Which Side Royalty's Bread Is But
tered-why She Reluctantly Favored the
DisestablishmentB Bill
LONDON, June 21.-The position of the
Queen in English politics is usually sup
posed to be generally passive. Her Majesty
did not approve of the disestablishment
policy, but she accepted the decision of the
country, and the Commons used her infiu-
ence to induce the Lords on the one hand to
accept the bill and Mr.. Gladstone to take
conciliatory methods with the Lords. The
Archbishop of Canterbury was her media
tor and go-between, and throughout the
progress of disestablishment the bill went
through an active period of wire-pulling,
interviewing. and lobbying which would
have strained the nerves of a professional
politician.
general expectation was that they would
reject it and that another of those Constitu-
tional crises would arise which threaten the
existence of the Upper House as now con-
stituted The fate of monarchy is so lrea-
sonably associated in the mind Of Her
Majesty with that of an hereditary Upper
House as to create alarm when the position
of the latter appears menaced. Un-
doubtedly, if the peers had rejected the dis
establishment bill Mr. Gladstone would
have been backed up by an enraged coun-
try, and the always impending agitation to
disestablish the peers As legislative body
would have received a dangerous momentum.
The Queen wrote to the Archbishop:
Considering the circumstances under
which the measure has come to the House of
Lords, the Queen cannot regard, without the
greatest alarm, the probable effect of its ab-
solute rejection in that House. Carried rs it
has been by an overwhelming and steady
majority through q House of Commons
chosen expressly to speak the feeling of the
country on the question, there seems no rea-
son to believe that any fresh appeal to the
people would lead to q different result. The
rejection of the bill, therefore, would only
serve to bring the two Houses into COLI
sion and so prolonga dangerous agitation of
the subject.
These words, pregnant of application in
the early future, are being quoted through
out the Liberal press as a proof in anticipa-
tion that the Queen, accepting the verdict
of the country on Home Rule, will use all
her power and personal influence to prevent
the Lords from opposing it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
ABE LINCOLN CURED him.
How the Martyr President Took q Dram
From Whisky Barrel on q Bet.

How the Martyr President Took . Dram
From Whisky Barrel on Bet.
New York Sun.1
William Graham Green, now 80 years old,
taught President Lincoln all he ever knew
about grammar. He tells this story: There
used to be fellow named Enoch Easten,
who spent a lot of time loafng around. He
was betting, trifing kind of man and he
had lot of tricks that he was always bet
ting on. He had trick of doubling up his
hand in some way so as to hide his middle
finger. Then he would bet you that you
couldn't mark his middle finger with pen.
lost some nickels betting with him, and
one day Abe Lincoln said to me:
"Billy, you ought to know better than to
with a man on his own tricks. You ought
'fBut, Abe, he's got 80 cents the best of
me-" said.
"Will you promise me that you'll never
bet any more if 1 manage it so that you can
get way ahead of him with one bet ?"
asked Lincoln.
eyes" 1 said, 'but I'd hate to quit
loser"
"Billy," said Lincoln, "you are getting to
an age when you're beginning to think a
good deal about the girls. Wouldn't you
like to have plug hat to wear when you go
calling on them ?"
eyes, would" said, "but they cost
ST."
'fWell, said Lincoln, "when Enoch comes
in here again and wants to bet with you on
his tricks, you just say that you don't care
to bet on such trifing things with. him, but
that you will bet that Abe can take 40
gallon barrel of whisky off the floor and
take dram from the bunghole. You say
that you'll bet him plug hat on it.
"But can you do it?" asked.
''That night he took barrel of whisky
and chimed it up little on his left knee,
and then tilted it on his right knee, and
kind of bent back, and pulled the bung
out of the hole and he took dram sure
enough, and spurted it right out again on
the floor. The next day 1 won the plug hat
from Enoch, as Abe had said would. 1
have kept my word ever since, and I've
never bet on anything. And what's more, I
wouldn't for 81 ,OOO."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
A SPECTRAL WITNESS.
CORPSE OF A MAN DRAGGED FROM
THE GRAVE FOR TESTIMONY.

Three Photographs of the Cadayer At
tached to a Deposition in Court-A Girl
Claimants Effort to Establish the Iden-
tity of Her Father.
CINCINNATI, June 21.-Three spectral
exhibits-photographs of a cadaver, which
had lain in the grave for eight months-are
attached to dispositions handed up to Judge
Shroder in the Ernst case. The body is that
Of Andrew Ernst, who died near Gunnison,
Col, in August, 1889. 1t was placed in a
box, the head resting on bag filed with
hay. A thin shirt, trousers and piece of
canvas wrapped around the feet constituted
the dress when the body was ready for
burial. 1t was taken to Gunnison and in
tered by an undertaken there.
The April following, litigation having
arisen over legacy of s., 900 to one Andrew
DeKalb Ernst, who had been missing for %
years, the undertaken caused the grave to be
opened, and with the aid of photographer,
raised the body, when three photographs of
it were taken, and subsequently, attached to
the dispositions of the undertaken and his
helpers
Andrew DeKalb Ernst was son of An
drew Ernst, whose portrait graces the wall
of the Mercantile Library. He left the
property on the northwest corner of Fifth
and Race streets, to Seth c. Foster, in
trust for his widow, who was to receive the
income and devise the property at her
death. She gave it to her children, certain
legacies excepted, one of which was s., 900
to Andrew DeKalb Ernst, her stepson. He
had disappeared early in the sixties. He
left two children in Louisville. One of
them, a boy, died in blind asylum. The
other, daughter, upon attaining woman
hood married stenographer, and is now
living in st. Paul. This daughter is the
claimant of the 81, 900 legacy in question.
The legacy to Andrew DeKalb Ernst was
conditioned on his being alive at the time
of the testatrix's death. There is no doubt
at all that the st. Paul woman is the daugh-
ter of Andrew DeKalb Ernest, deserted by
him in infancy. But before she can take
the legacy she must show that he was living
in 1883 and is now dead now. She contends
that the Andrew Ernst who died in 1889, in
Colorado, was Andrew DeKalb Ernst, her
father. Her claim is opposed by the rep
resentatives of her grandmother's estate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
BARDsLEY's SENTENCE.
1t Is Believed That He Will Be Given a
Heavy One When He Comes I'm.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPATCH.1
PHILADELPHIA, June 21.-Bardsley' s
sentence and his statement to the Court
Tuesday promise to be the features of the
City Treasury scandal this week There is
much speculation, both as to the sentence and
the statement. The e1-Treasurer intends
to excuse and defend himself, rather than
trace the missing money, and that being the
case, it is believed that he will get very
heavy sentence from the Court. The max
imum on the indictments to which he has
pleaded is IS years.
City and county officials are ofthe opinion
that if Bardsley would make full and
frank confession to the Court it might re-
suit in taking a number of years off his
sentence On the other hand if he
attempted TO conceal anything or pro-
tect anybody, they we're as firmly
convinced that the Court would give
him practically life sentence. 1t is said
that Bardsley appreciates this fact and it
is also said that he believes he will be able
to impress the Court with the feeling that
he is telling the truth. Those who know
him well know him to be sly and foxy and
they believe that he is going to be sly and
foxy to the end.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
NO DANGER OF DEATH
In the Case of the Snake eharmer
Bitten by a Gila Monster.
SPECULATIONS OF THE DOCTORS
SonellS Case Has an Important Bearing
on HydrophObia.
AN OLD CONTROVERSY AGAIN REVIVED
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. ]

| i.lsPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
New YORK, June 21.-The gila monster
that bit John Sonelrs finger in DIR. G. s.
Aliens snake poison laboratory Saturday
appears to have been harmless specimen.
Controversy RACES over the poisonous or nom
poisonous nature of this lizard's bite. but
Sonell was certainly more frightened than
hurt. DR.. Bensel, who had charge of the
case at Bellevue, could find no symptoms of
poisoning, and felt sure that the man could
get well if he did not die of fright. This
morning the swelling of his hand,
which might have been caused by
the. cutting out OF the flesh
which the lizards teeth penetrated, sub
sided somewhat. Sonell became convinced
that his fears of death were groundless. He
was able to eat, and permitted cheerful
serenity to overspread his face. But the
mental shock had been so great that he was
still weak.
When DR.. Bensel was asked to-day what
he thought of the case, he said. "There is
no doubt that the man will get we'll. He
either was not poisoned or else the wound
was cauterized in time. 1t may be that the
gila monster had been biting its basket and
may be that the gila monster is not always
poisonous"
DIR. Bates, who cauterized the wound,
said: 81 have seen the gila monster bite
good many times, and do not believe that
it is any more venomous than our little
lizard. It's ugly appearance caused all
sorts of superstition to arise about it. If it
is poisonous then l think Dr. Bensel's idea
may be right. L have seen a rattlesnake
bite half dozen dogs The first dog will
get full charge of poison and will die in a
few minutes. The second dog will not die
for some time. The third dog will either
not die at all or will take a much longer
time. The fifth and sixth dogs may show
no signs of poisoning. / do not think that
the absence of the "crazy plant" in the
habitation of the gila has anything to do
with its poison. If it is venomous in one
place it will no doubt be venomous every
where
The case of this man Sonell is interesting
just now in another way. There have been
several cases of supposed death from hydro
phobia lately, and some controversy has
arisen as to whether the victims died of the
bite of rabid animal or the fear of death.
The balance of testimony in most of these
cases has been in favor of the theory of
fright. Yet here is a man who receives a
bite from a supposedly venomous reptile,
and who is convinced by long experience as
snake charmer with venOmous reptiles
that the bite will kill him. His whole
bearing showed that he had no hope of es-
cape. He is not an educated man, and is
of an e1citable, nervous temper. But he
does not die from fright. The mental
shock prostratss him, but his reasoning
powers seem to have been sufficient to con-
vince him that his mortal fear was ground
less
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
A GREAT ELECTRICAL GENIUS.
Something. About Nikola Tesla, Who Is
Known by Many Pittsburgers.

Known by Many Pittsburgers.
Nikola Tesla is fast becoming famous and
many Pittsburgers who learned to. know
him during his stay at the Westinghouse
works in this city rejoice at his progress.
A few weeks ago Tesla was thought to be
near his end from bad attack of the grip
But he pulled through, stood up before
the electrical engineers and took $50, 900
volts of electricity. As he laid down the
handles after this terrific shaking up he
remarked quietly: "And they say 1000
volts will kill man?''
Tesla is Montenegrin. His family are
pastoral people. An uncle is a Bishop in
the Greek Church. He is slender in body,
nervous in his movements and intense in his
application to the mysteries of electricity.
His Greek face lights up and his black eyes
CLEAN when he discourses on his favored
theme. The electrical engineers grow en-
thusiastic when they talk of Tesla and his
discoveries They belive that the
Greek is the greatest pioneer to-day
in the field Of electrical exploration.
So declaring, they bar not even
Edison. Tesla performed before the engi-
neers some experiments which one of them
declared had not been exceeded in startling
importance since Faraday's time He sug-
gested and illustrated new principles and
possibilities. He advanced the theory that
electrical and other phenomena are iden-
tical. eve cannot call electricity ether,
but we may call it ether associated with.
matter" he said.
With the development of his theory of
ether power Tesla opens up future which
is dazzling. 'gThe time will come, y he saws,
"when all our machinery will be driven, not
by steam or electricity, as now, but by a
different power. All we want is a way to
energize the dormant force. When we find
that the settler in the wilderness as well as
the manufacturer in the town will enjoy the
benefit of it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22

Had anyone pred cted that j. Palmer
O'Neil's Pittsburg team of stars would win
the BOBBY prize on the trip just closed he
would have been laughed at. Such, how
ever, has turned out to be the case. The
Pittsburgs won just games in l6 attempts,
] each from Brooklyn, New York and Phila-
delphia. L cannot imagine what the trouble
has been. The pitchers certainly should
have done better, and better efforts should
have been put forth by the team in general.
An inclination to play a sleepy game was
noticeable in several instances, and this
may have caused the falling Off The Pitts
burgs arrived in Brooklyn Decoration Day
morning in second place. They left Boston
Tuesday night poor seventh in the race.
There have been several rumors about
cliques and factions floating around of late
but they are not accepted as authentic by
most people. The team sadly needs the
services of Bierbauer and Hanlon. first
class shortstop would be of immense benefit
TO the team. Why don't you try and make
trade with Mr.. Brush for George Smith, Mr.
O'Neil?-SpOTfing Times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
Gossip of the Levee,

Gossip of the Levees.
The marks on the wharf show feet inches and
rising slowly.
THE John A. Wood will pass Memphis to-day.
THE H. K. Bedford will leave at noon to-day for
Parkersbug.
THE Keystone State will leave to-day at 4P. NJ.
for Cincinnati.
THE Mt. Clare left Cincinnati yesterday for this
port with empties.
THE Iron Age leaves St. Louis to-day for this
port with five empties.
THE wharf presents quite a bare appearance dur
ing the absen ce of the towboats.
THE Coal Bluff sunk a barge of fire clay at the
Portsmouth ice piers Saturday night. ~ -.
THE Hudson left Cincinnati yesterday for this
port. She Is due tomorrow night. 49,
THE John +. Walton had her wheel chain re-
paired at Paducah and passed on down.
CAPTAIN 1. M. MA SON, of the Anchor line. st.
Louis, has returned home from visit with
Captain NJ. A. Cox, Of the Brownsville line.
THE Harry Brownand Alice Brown passed Cairo
Yesterday morning. The W. W. O'Neil arrived at
Cairo with portion of her tow and returned to the
Ohio river to meet the remainder.
THE Dave Wood. Smoky City and Sam Brown
passed Evansville yesterday morning. Charlie
Clark stranded her tow a few miles below OWENS
boro. The Charles Brown went to her assistance.
UP to5P. NJ. yesterday SO of rain fell In this vi
cinity. The morning report showed Johnstown.
total rainfall for June is a; for the same period
of last year II was 10, difference Of 1o1 or 1.o4
above the average rainfall for three years. that OF
1889 being 1.1o.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
To-Morror at sheepshead Bar,

New YORK, June 2l.-The following are the
entries and weights for to-morrow's races at
Sheepshead Bay:
First race, sweepstake. 81 900 added, Futurity
coursc-Kngston. 129; Miss Colvile Ocypete liz
each: Bermuda, Leveller, 116 each: Sextus, Lord
Harry, Slmrock. Poetente. 10l each: Vintage
Time hlly, Mill Race, Nellie BLY,, log each.
Second race, sweepstakc, for maiden a-year-olds
f1.0O0 added, five and one-half furlongs-Emma
Primrose. Alggma, Ninone PIccalIlly, sister to
Jim Douglass flly, Faurette, ZOrling, Belle d.
Motto, Baaclava, ITO each; Delusion Shellback
Othmar, Schuylkill, Bitten, Wah Jim, Ermin-
trude colt, Fidelio. johannes Servis lI3 each
Third race, for 3-year-olds, 81. 900 added mile
and thrcc-sXieenths selling-Midget 95 pounds.
Long Leaf, Katrina, 1O6 each: Lillian Adventurer'
Calcium, Mountain Deer, Lepanto. los each; Tam,
many ll2.
Fourth race, for all ages, 81 900 added, selling.
mile and an eighth-Jim Clare, Longford, los
pounds each; Benedictine. l06: Virgie se; Long
Dance Ill; Rambler, los; Barnegat. io2; Admiral
los; Rico, %; Atlantic, a. -"
Finn race, handicap sweepstakes, 81, go added.
mile and quarter-Longstreet, I2G pounds: Riley
124: Sir John, 12l.
Sixth race. handicap sweepstakes. milo and three
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
WILL NOT RESIGN YET.
Superintendent Porter Says the Census
Work Is Well up.

Superintendent Porter Says the Census
Work Is Well up.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-Various reports
were in circulation to-day to the effect that
Superintendent Porter, of the Census Office.
had resigned. To an Associated Press rep
resentative who called on him tonight, to
inquire into the truth of the rumor, Mr..
Porter emphatically declared that he had
not resigned, and that he did not contem-
plate doing so until he had COM
pleted the work which he had undertaken.
The large number of removals that are now
being made in the bureau, Mr.. Porter said,
was because of the completion of the work
for which the persons discharged were en-
ployed. He said the work Of the bureau is
well up, and that the statements will be
completed by the end of July, and all but
two of the ten volumes will be ready for the
printer by July 1.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
KREIsTURNFEsT FESTIVAL.
The Turner'S Enjoy Themselves in Their
Usual Hearty Manner.


ST PAUL, June 21-The second day of
Kreisturnfest was a great success, notwith-
standing the occasional dashes of rain that
drove the crowds under shelter. Five
hundred active Turner'S participated in the
exercises of the day. The games began early
in the morning and continued all day without
interruption. The feature of the day was
the wand drill, in which 500 Joined. No
results were made known to-day of the vari-
GUS contests, the awards to be announced on
Tuesday. Running jump, putting the shot
and fencing took up the morning, and were
engaged in chiefly by the Chicago, Milwau-
kee, Davenport, ST. Paul and Minneapolis
societies.
The best record made in jumping was by
Emil Goetz, of Chicago who made 10 feet 6
inches He sprained two toes in the at
tempt, which is two feet behind his record
Adolph Stammwitz, of Minneapolis,
put the shot, weight 35 pounds, %
feet 6 inches. There were 13
participants in the fencing William
Eckie, of the Lincoln Turnvere:n, of Chi
cago, secured SO points out of possible &c.
Wands and parallel bars took up the after
noon, and tonight an oratorical contest was
held. The next meeting will be held at
Davenport, Ia, four years hence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22

Ex-senator Joseph Ewing Mcdonald was
born in Butler county, o., in 1873. His father
died while the son was an infant and the
latter was educated by his mother until his
18th year, when he was apprenticed to q
saddler. He entered Wabash College, Craw-
fordsville Ind, at IS years ofage. supporting
himself by working at his trade at odd hours
and between terms. He was at Asbury Uni
versity in 1902, and after leaving college
studied law. He was admitted to the bar
in 1874, and, removing to Charlottesville in
ls45, established practice. He was elected
Attorney General in 1855, and three years
later removed to indianapolis, where he has
since followed his profession. He was elected
to Congress as Democratin 1S4S and served
in lS49-'51. but was defeated in the next can
vass, and also in 1864 as Democratic candi-
date for Governor against Oliver P. Morton.
He was Chairman of the Democratic State
Committee in 1872, recognized the party and
secured the election ofa Democratic Legisla-
ture by which he was sent to the United States
Senate IN 1875, serving until 1881 While in
that body he took n conspicuous part in de-
bates on finance, and was in favor of hard
money and protective tariff.
In 1894 Mcdonald was the choice of the
Democrats of Indiana for President, and he
received the vote of the delegation from
that State in the national convention.
He was thought to. have good chance
for the second place on the ticket,
at last but after the nomination of Cleve-
land there was a rush to Hendricks that
swept everything before. Since that time
the ex-senator has not taken any very active
part in politics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
FIFTY CHILEANs KILLED.
The Esmeralda Fails in Attempting to Sc
cure Provisions.

WASHINGTON, June 21--The Chilean
Legation in this city to-day received tele-
gram from Peru, which says in substance
that when the warship Esmeralda, after its
voyage to San Diego, arrived at the Labos
Guano Islands the captain, being short of
provisions, landed 50 men to take
possession of provisions on the islands
The employees and wor1ingmen in care of
the islands attacked the men from the ves-
sci, killing them and taking possession of
their arms. The Esmeralda fired 80 shots,
exhausting her ammunition. The dispatch
concludes as follows:
''It is false that the Chilean Government
derived any benefit from the Labos Islands,
whose works have been stopped since JAN
nary. Perfect order reigns in Chile and the
army, well disciplined, is anxious to 20 to
Tarapca and make an end of the nitrate
speculators"