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SUITS FOB DAMAGES.
A Father Wants s15,o for the Killing OF
His Son,

A Father Wants S15,OOO Tor the Killing OF
His Son.
ePEcIAL TKLEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH
SCRANTON, March 1.-Two suits yesterday
were fled in the Prothonotarys Office. The
first was that of James Dunning against the
Pennsylvania Coal Company. Dunning alleges
that his son was caught between the cars and
the life crushed out of him, and that the acci-
dent was due to the carelessness of the CON-
pany He asks $4,000 damages
John Dougherty wants damages in the sum OF
5000 from the Greenwood Coal Company. he
alleges that he was badly burned by an explo-
sion of gas In the mines of the company and
that the explosion was caused by the negli-
gence Of the company's officers.
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whirled to Death by a Shaft

rsPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
ALLIANCE, March L-Leroy South years
old, met horrible death yesterday by his coat
being caught on the shaft of a turbine wheel.
The body was whirled abort 100 revolutions
per minute until torn into shreds.
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Corset Bargains.

Very fine sateen corsets, 5Oc, worth 81;
fine French woven. common sense, 75c,
worth 81 %; Madame Foy's improved, boxes
slightly soiled. 81. All popular makes,
American and French corsets, cheapest at
Rosenbaun & Co.'S
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b. &B.

A good seller. Why? Because they're ex-
ira nice, high shoulders, Medici collar
slashed aud long pointed clos fitting front
Black wove seal capes. IS so each.
BoGGS Sc BUHL.
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RELICS AT JOHESTOWN,
A Lady's satchel Containing Twenty Silver
Dollars Is Dug Up.

rsPEcTAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcHI
JoHNsTowN. March lit is impossible for
the people here to forget the SAD scenes of the
food Of 1889. Every once in a while there is
something thrown up by food or wind that
brings back sad reminders. The other day,
while men were digging hole for a telegraph
pole a small satchel was thrown out evidently
belonging TO lady, and when it fell to the
ground 1t burst scattering several silver
coins around A rush ensued, and IN all about
60 In small sums was picked up. The silver
was as black as COAL and the question as to
whom it belonged will probably never be an
swered.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
New To-Day

Seven new styles of ladies' Mackintoshes
seven distinct shapes Choice assortment
of patterns of stripes and checks and popu.
lar colors in plains. Lowest prices.
Jos. HORNE & Co. IS
Penn Avenue Stores
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
Tourists,

Whether on pleasure bent or business should
take on every trip bottle of Syrup of Figs, as
u acts most pleasantly and effectnally on the
headaches and other forms of sickness. For
sale in Soc and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gisss, mbl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
OPENINGS I'm Fine Linens,

New table linens. large spring importa-
tions just received direct in German finest
hemstitched linens, cloths, nankins, lunch
cloths tray covers and D'Ovlies. Scotch
and Irish damasks in choicest styles and at
lowest prices. Special values in Turkish
towels from 25c to 81 each.
Jos. HORNE & Co.,
609-62: Penn avenue.
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SPECIALITY. Specially. Specially.
Dress trimmings, notions, Innings, etc., at
7l0 Penn avenue. Ask for the celebrated
R. & W. dress shields-only to be had at
our store.
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Don't miss Groetzinger's special sale Of
llnnieums that got caught in the food.
Begins March and lasts one week. 627 and
629 Penn avenue. MWsu
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A FEATURE

OF Great Interest to Renters.
The special rent lists appearing Mondays
and THURSDAYS in this paper are very help
full to home hunters. Look at them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
Early SnrinR Onening

Dresses and gowns, Wednesday and Thurs
day next
LADIES SUIT PARLoRs, 29 + FIJI avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02

KEEP Salvation Oil handy. 1t kills all
pain. Price only 25 cents. Don't fail to
try it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
A FEATURE

OF Great Interest to Renters.
The special rent lists appearing Mondays
and Thursdays in this paper are very help
full to home hunters. Look at them
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
New To-Day New To-Day.

New Io-I1ay. New To-day.
Ladies'
New spring jackets,
New spring REFERS,
New spring suits,
New spring gowns,
Jos. HORNE & Co.'S
Penn Avenue Stores.
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SUNDAYS DISPATCH.
THE CREAM OF THE WORLDS NEWS IN
ATTRACTIVE SHAPE

A Newspaper of Twenty Pages That Has No
Superior-The Cable Service Unsur-
passed by Any, While the Selections Are
of a Varied Character.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
VIRGINIA THE BONANZA OF THE
FUTURE.

The Coming Iron District of the United
States.
For maps. reference book, pamphlets, etc.,
descriptive of the wonderful mineral and
agricultural resources of the State, apply to
agents of the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road, 290 Washington street, Boston, 3o3
Broadway, New York, 1923 Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, or General Office,
Roanoke, Va.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02

Special To Let Lists This Morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02

leaders in the articles singled
special mention because of their extremely good values
specimens They leaders
lead numbers people their please
suit them all
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
PITTsBURG, SATURDAY. AUGUST l, 1881
THE EXPRESSIONS TOR BLAINE.

The one sure thing in the Presidential
prospect which is now presenting interest
ING phases daily-as instanced in the
shake-up of the Republican National Com
mittee-fs that Mr. Blaine will have a
practically unanimous nomination from
his party. if his health permits.
Should he he in even pasSable health, it
is doubtful if he will be given beforehand
an opportunity to decline. That is to say,
the expressions from the party upon the
subject will make it so sufficiently clear to
him that he is the unequivocal choice,
alike of the leaders and Of the rank and
file. as to leave him no excuse for declina-
ton short of absolute physical inability to
discharge the duties of the Presidency if
elected.
The situation now has taken the aspect
Of the office seeking the man, in place of
the man seeking the Office. This must be
wholly gratifying to the statesman who
has lived to see the objections which were
once urged vehemently against him gradu-
ally diSsipated. and the mastery qualities
Of his mind lifting him in national estima-
ton head and shoulders above cotempor-
ary politicians.
The recent change in the party manage
ment, while interesting, cannot check, and
is hardly needed to promote, a drift of
public preference which is becoming
stronger every day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
A NEW TRIBUTE TO THE TARIFF.

The growing prosperity of the country
and its increasing commerce are driving
the tariff reformers and free traders into
an uncomfortable corner. They have said
very little about the results of the new
tariff as disclosed in the recently pub
lished Treasury report, and have generally
evinced of late less inclination to discuss
the protective policy. If the tarif1tes
could persuade everybody else to keep
similar silence they might be happy, but
they cannot Even their friends will talk
indiscreetly. Here is the British Consul
General at New York, Mr.. W. L.
Booker, frankly admitting in his
report to Her Maiestys Government an
improvement of American manufacturing
interests under the new tariff. New life
has been impaired to the cotton, wooden,
worsted, and knit underwear industries,
he says, and then goes on to describe
healthy condition of the textile manufact-
uring interests all over the country, but
especially in the South. The production
has been of larger volume than ever in
cotton goods, and Consul Booker is
authority for statement that the McKin-
worSted goods, Nh. Booker states, ''this
industry has been marked by fresh life
since the new tariff has to a great extent
cut off the Importation of the lowest
grades of such goods. All the
old factories have started up, and are
making goods on safe orders; and new
mills are being erected by European and
British capitalists with a view to manu-
featuring finer class of dress goods than
ever before.
This is evidence from an unexpected
quarter that the Mckinley tariff is pro-
tector of domestic industries and a means
of fostering new enterprise in this coun-
try's manufactures. An English consul
has no inducement to faIsify in this direc-
ton. We believe that it will be six
months or possibly even year yet, before
an adequate estimate can be made of the
full effects of the Mckinley bill; but it is
interesting to note that, as the returns
come in, they are favorable, and just the
opposite Of opponents predictions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
PAST ENOUGH FOR ES.

1t is hard for Europeans to understand
how we get along comfortably without a
host of institutions superstitionS and tradi-
tions deemed indispensable in the Old
World. A writer in the Journal des Debdts,
of Paris, presents one phase of this per-
pleNity in comparing the patriotism of the
citizens of the United States and that of
European peoples. His argument is inge-
NOUS, and part of it may be quoted:
Country and patriotism in the United
States do not resemble what we understand
by the words in Europe, and especially in
France. In this respect there is decided
contrast between the Old and the New World.
America is a mosaic. 1t would be useless to
point out the numerous and more or less
different stones of which it is composed In
nearly all the countries of Europe the nation,
the country, and the State are ancient and
almost immemorial reaching far back and
seeming to grow greater and grander in the
mystic fogs of the past. In the United States
these same objects stand out whole and en-
tire in the plain light of the present Behind
them the historic horizon is wanting. The
imagination of Americans has remained a
stranger to the charms of those old things.
to the religion of origins. They live in the
present and still more in the future. If there
is any mystery which attracts them, it is not
behind them; it is before them. Therefore
we must not expect to find among them that
sentiment of hereditary solidarity which is
engendered by national life rich in trials of
all sorts prolonged through succession of
generations.
The Frenchman may be pardoned for
failing to appreciate the immense compen-
sation to the American who has only
hundred years or so of past to contem-
plate; but the compensation is full and
complete nevertheless. The present in
the United States contains more substan-
tial satisfaction for the citizen than all the
retrospection of fourteen centuries of the
monarchy or the brief existence of the
Republic in France can bring Frenchmen.
Europeans are welcome to 60 into raptureS
over the ancient grandeur of the mystic
fogs of the past, but Americans will
strenuously prefer to fix their eyes upon
the stupendous outlines of their great
Republic in the future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
BIG CROPS AND BETTER PRICES.

Not for a long while has the outlook
been so encouraging for farmers as now.
The American crops are unusually large;
the European crops are abnormally small,
and as a consequence the American farmer
will realize better prices for his products.
In wheat alone the advantage of the
American farmer is already apparent.
The wheat crop of the world should be
about two billions of bushels, Of which the
United States should furnish about one
quarter The demand fOr export will be
sharper than for years, and it is estimated
that 200. coo, 600 bushels will be available
for export. For these breadstuffs prices
are sure to be better.
How much money will be realized from
the wheat crop depends largely upon the
more or less artificial manipulation of the
market. The wheat growers of the West
and Northwest are planning to hold back
crops for better prices, and the movement
is receiving the support Of large specula-
tive element. But a more substantial
factOr in the elevation of prices here is
the shortage in Europe. 1t is already re-
ported that Russia is buying grain extern
slvely in order to make up for the failure
of the crop in the Cars dominions. With
immense crops and good prices it is plain
that an era of unwonted prosperity is in
store for the farmers.
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are dozens of others both favorable and

are dozens of others both favorable and
mfavorable.
But ex-President Cleveland's conduct is
consistent. In the first place it is not in
cumbent upon him to make speeches for
the Democratic candidate for Governor in
Ohio. 1t is not in the best of taste for a
prominent candidate for the Presidential
nomination to make an oratorical splurge
out of season. This may have been the
reason which induced Mr.. Cleveland to
keep out of the Ohio fight But it would
have been bad politics if he had decided
otherwise. He could not have afforded to
speak against the platform of his candi-
date, and yet he could not have remained
silent upon the silver question. His silver
letter would have been thrown up at
him if he had tried to avoid that
awkward topic. Lastly, Cleveland's alb
sentatiOn from the Ohio canvass may be
due to premonition of defeat. This is
the soundest argument of all, for Nc
Kinley, standing with the business judg
ment of the country upon the tariff and
upon silver, is not easily to be defeated,
and little is to be gained by candidate
for Presidential honorS in losing fight.
Whether he abstains from simple inclina-
ton, from political sagacity or from what
ever motive, Mr.. Cleveland acts wisely in
steering clear of Ohio this fall
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
Rat AND TORTOISE FIGHT.
Novel and Exciting Battle Witnessed by
Party of Clerks.


PARKERsBURe, W. VA, July 31.-One of the
clerks in a Market street clothing store cap
tured land tortoise a few days ago and
turned it loose in the yard in the rear of the
store. Yesterday afternoon the clerks were
attracted to the yard by an unusual noise.
On repairing thither they were surprised to
find that big gray rat had attacked the tor
toise and that battle royal was going on In
few minutes quite a crowd had gathered,
but the combatants were so deeply engaged
that they paid not the slightest attention to
the men.
The rat, being much the quicker, would
dart at the tortoise and bite at it, Jumping
back each time to avoid the vicious snap
made by the tortoise. The rat at last ap-
peared to realize that the shell was an I'M
penetrable armor, and then turned its atten-
tion to the feet of the tortoise. The fOrelegs
were too near the scalY mouth of its enemy,
ana IN endeavoring to bite them the rat got
tack the tortoise in the rear, seiZing its hind
feet ana legs and then springing away as the
tortoise reared up and endeayored to throw
itself upon its enemy. The tortoise soon
learned that it wasn't quick enough to catch
the rat by the head or neck, but perceived
that when the rat made snap its legs the
rear OF the rodent would be within easy
reach. 1t now became q question whether
the rat would be able to disable one of the
tortoise's legs before the latter chewed off
the rats tail, which had already been Sc
yerely bitten.
They had fought for half an hour; both
were bleeding from wounds and both appar-
emily more determined than ever to con-
quer. At this point, unfortunately for the
sport and to the disgust of the onlookers,
Eidrldge Warthen's rat terrier got into
the yard and made dart for the rat, which
saw Its hereditary enemy barely in time to
make Its escape through a hole in the fence.
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WHERE SILENCE Is sTLyERN

EX-PreSident Cleveland'S determination
not to speak in Ohio is criticised in all
sorts Of ways. Some Republican journals
profess to regret the President silence.
So do some Of the anti-Cleveland Demo-
cratic papers, on widely different grounds.
the New York Tribune, for instance, is
sorry the country has been deprived of the
majestic spectacle of Mr.. Cleveland upon
the stump in Ohio, fearlessly assailing the
false and pestilent theories of the silver
fanatics, and holding alOft the standard of
honest money and sound finance. 1t
would be amusing to have Mr.
Cleveland speak for the Demo-
cratic ticket in Ohio, and in the
same breath go for the free silver plank
in the Democratic platform. The ex-
President doubtless sees this himself.
Some critics of his own party aver that
5Ir. Cleveland keeps in the background
because stump-speaking is not his forte.
The New York San, an old enemy, asserts
that he will not make campaign speecnes
for Campbell because he has not the
ability. Another journal insinuates he
does not care to assist a possible rival in
the Presidential field. These are only
1.-THE Of the current comments, and there
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Ex-Judge John Huston Miller.

Ex-Judge John Huston Miller died at
Steubenville yesterday morning aged IS years. He
was born in Northumberland county, Pa. January
80 1873 being a son of Amos and Elizabeth Huston
Miller. He had been a continuous resident of
Steubenville since 1882 He was admitted to the
Ohio bar in 1910, and for many years occupied
prominent place able lawyer and distin-
guished judge in the Jurisprudence of the State,
being also widely known, professionally. in the
adjacent States of West Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania. He was married in 1871 to Ann G. Stokely,
of Brownsville, Pa, the youngest daughter of
Colonel Thomas StOkely an officer of the Revolu-
tionarv War. She died in 1882. Two children, a
son and married daughter, survive.
Judge Miller tall and straight
as an arrow, possessing fine physique a brilliant
facial expression, commanding presence, a fine
intellect superior intelligence and that urbanity
or courtesy of manner which is often said to be
typical of the Old-time gentleman. For years he
was Judge of the Common Pleas Court for the
Third subdivision of the Eighth Ohio Judicial Dis
trict embracing jefferson, Harrison and Tuscara-
was counties. Politically he formerly affiliated with
the Wing party. but since 1855 he had been
ardent Republican, The Judge was the senior
member of the Jefferson county bar, and prac-
ttioner thereat shoulder to shoulder with such men
as Stanton. Moody, McCook, Stokely and others
acknowledged to lead the State. As private citi-
zen Mr.. Miller was highly esteemed. For many
years his growing inte ests and public spirit have
been closely identified with the best welfare of
Steubenville. He was connected with the Presby
terian Church. He leaves large estate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
THE UPPER TEN.

JAY GOULD, his, daughter Helen, his son
Howard, and his physician, DR.. Mum, left
New York Monday night for Colorado
Springs.
REV. JAMES NELSON, of Staunton, Va,
has been elected President of the Female
College at Richmond to succeed DR.. f. B.
Hobgood, resigned.
Miss EMMA EAMEs, the operate artist,
was married yesterday at the Registrars
Office, in London, TO the son of W. w. Storey,
the well-known sculptor.
DR.. JAMES w. BABCoCK, of the Nc
Lean Asylum, Somerville, has been ap-
pointed Superintendent of the South Caro-
lima State Asylum at Columbia.
Mrs. AMELIE RIvEs-CHANLER and her
for America on the steamship La Gas
coigne, which is due in New Y ork on Aug
ust 3.
THE general impression that ex-State
Senator j. S. Fassett, just appointed Col
lector of the Port of New York. is a million
aire, is said to be erroneous. He has COM
Portable fortune, but it does not run up into
the millions.
Mrs. JANE ROBERTS, widow of Presi-
dent Roberts, OF the Liberian Republic,
sailed for England last week with several
thousand dollars which she has raised to-
ward building a hospital at Monrovla.
From England she will go to Liberia.
HERMAN CELMAN, the South American
millionaire, who is soon expected in New
York with his $1,0010O0 yacht, the Southern
Cross, is only IS years of age and has an in
come of S500,0O0 year. He is the only son
of ex-PreSident Celman, OF the Argentine
Republic.
SENIOR SALVADOR MENDONCA, the
Brazilian Minister is the wealthiest man in
the diplomatic corps at Washington. A
portion of his fortune he made in invest
ments in Brazil and a very comfortable
sum came to him as his wife's dowry. Nine.
Maria Mendoza, is an American, and the
Minister'S four daughters have spent almost
all their lives in this country.
HON. THOMAS F. MORGAN, Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, will leave New
York on Saturday for a trip to Europe, for
the benefit of his health. Assistant Secre-
tary Spauldfng has left Washington for
three weeks visit to his home in st. John,
Mich. c. F. Betten, private secretary to
General Bussey, Assistant Secretary Of the
Interior, has resigned to go into private
business in the West.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
PEFFER,S WILL O, THE WISP.

The fiat money schemes of Senator
PETER and other Farmers Alliance apos-
ties are said to be in high favor in the
South. The Democratic party is threat
ened there with the fate that befell Republi-
cans last fall But surely the cheap money
fever cannot last. 1t has attacked the
nation at stated intervals for half a
century, but the common sense of the ma
iOrity has always thrown off the disease
before it has done much harm. The
lesson of other countries experience with
the plague ought to be enough to us. The
Argentine Republic tried the Alliance plan
of financiering in all essential particulars,
with what result? The credit of the
Argentine Republic is in ruins, everything
in it, be it public or private enterprise, has
come to a standstill, and the financial
foundations Of the world are still trembling
from the shock.
Do the farmers of Kansas and Texas and
Of the South expect any better result from
Senator PETERS proposal that the Govern
ment should lend them money directly at
one per cent to pay off mortgages? The
plan is about as substantial as the meteoric
beard Of the prophet who proposes it.
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
concise history Of the Argentine Repub-
lies experience with cheap money. 1t is a
plain. unvamished statement of fact that
anybody can understand. The fate of the
country that follows any such will O. the
wisp as "cedulas' Or sub-treasuries and
unlimited loans at one per cent, or any of
the fantastic schemes of creating wealth for
all by act Of Congress, must always be that
of the Argentine. With the United States,
Of course. the crash would be worse a
thOUand-fold.