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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
FIGHTING CHAUTAUQUA FLIES.
Very Disagreeable Duty OF Devotees o
the Summer Font of Learning.

A Very Disagreeable Duty OF Devotees OF
the Summer Font of Learning.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArCH.1
CHAUTAUQUA, Aug. a-The hot weather
continues here, anu the assembly is in its
height. The gate receipts to-day were
nearly so per cent more than this time last
year, and still the crowd comes. The one
great nuisance both night and day is the
lake flies AT the Fresh Air Fund enter
tainment last night along the lake the lead
ing singers had a terrible time of it. Every
time the soprano singer would open her
mouth whole swarm of insects would rush
for her The audience applauded the
singers in their heroic efforts, but one of the
big musical quartets broke completely
down. One prominent prima donna nearly
choked from small swarm of the insects
that rushed down her throat while she was
carrying a sustained passage, and the noses
of others were attacked so they were set to
sneeZing.
To-day's exercises were intensely inter-
esting. DR.. Edward McGlynn, of Brook
lyn, delivered a fine address in the after
noon on GLOW to Abolish Poverty" and
Rev. J. NJ. Buckley, editor of the New
York Christian Aduocate, charmed very
large audience by his very bright and witty
lecture on 'The Use and Abuse of Preju-
dice" At the Womens Club this morn
ing Miss Grace Dodge spoke about woman's
interest in educational matters The
Fresh Air. Fund entertainment last night
for the benefit of the little waits of New
York was great success, and was partici-
pated in by well-known and prominent art
lists who happened here. The programme
in part was as follows: Violin solo, Mr.
Forest Cheney, of Jamestown; reading, by
Miss Bishop, of Washington; vocal solo, by
Madam Belle Cole, of New York; piano
solo, by W. H. Sherwood, of Chicago;
selection, by the Melopoia Quartet, of Brook
Boston. The entertainment concluded with
minstrel performance, which was full of
rollicking fun. The minstrels were among
the most prominent people of Chautauqua.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
ELLIOTT SENTENCED.
JUDGE PUGH VERY SEVERE IN HIS
REMARKS ON THE CASE.

Witnesses for the Defense Declared to Be
Perjurers - The Murderer Makes a
Speech Protesting Innocence-He Goes
to Prison for Life.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. S.-William j.
Elliott, convicted of murder in the second
degree for the killing of A. c. Osborn last
February, was to-day sentenced to the Ohio
Penitentiary for life. There was a great
crowd present, but not one of the defend
ants relatives was in court. Judge Pugh
first took up the motion for a new
trial and reviewed the evidence in
the case, commenting in a scathing
manner upon the testimony of certain wit
nesses for the defense, who were declared to
have perjured themselves without stint.
The killing of Osborn was characterized by
the Court as deliberate, malicious, relent-
less murder. The verdict was declared to
be not against the weight of evidence, and
the motion to set it aside was overruled. A
motion for stay of the sentence pending ap-
peal to the Supreme Court was overruled
and the prisoner was asked if he had any
thing to say before receiving sentence.
Elliott arose and made speech of some
length, in which he declared before the
Immaculate God that he was innocent; that
he had not expected to meet Osborn on
that fatal day; that Osborn began the shoot
ing. He also claimed the jury had done
him great wrong. He said he would bid
goodby to liberty with the reflection that
he was victim of circumstances and was
suffering for his devotion to the cause of
pure womanhood.
Judge Pugh then sentenced Elliott to i'm
prisonment at hard labor during the period
of his natural life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.
Trip of a Special Car Which Makes the DIS.
tance In Less Than Five Days.

Trip of Special Car Which Makes the Dis
tance In Less Than Five Days.
CHICAGO, Aug. 8.-Baron Won Schroeder,
the German banker, and his party arrived
here this morning from San Francisco. The
party is running on the fastest schedule
ever made between the Atlantic and Pacific
Ocean by regular train service. L. has
special car attached successfully to the fast
trains of the connecting roads across the
continent, and the actual time from its de-
parture from San Francisco till its arrival
in New York is scheduled at days, 18
hours and 80 minutes. The distance is
$500 miles, a trihe over 25 miles per hour.
The average west of Chicago was 2215
miles and that east of Chicago will be 35
miles per hour. The party left San Fran
cisco on Tuesday, the 4th inst, at o'clock
in the morning and came over the Southern
and Union Pacific roads to Omaha; thence
over the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
to this city, connecting with the new fast
train via the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern at 1890 o'clock this morning. At
Buffalo they will connect with the New
York Central, reaching New York City at
2:10 o'clock on Sunday morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
TUMBLED FROM A BALLOON.
A Trapeze Performer Killed, and a Young
Woman Narrowly Escapes.

"ohidh IsChpcs
LONDON, Aug. 8.-A balloon accident
occurred to-day at Leeds, in which a
balloonist and a parachutist named Higgins
was killed, and a young woman, a Miss
Dewey, had narrow escape from death.
The ascent of the couple was watched by a
large number of people, and when the
balloon was released it rapidly scared up
ward amid the cheers of the crowd. A
cross-bar was attached to the balloon and it
was the intention of the couple to give a
trapeze performance when they had reached
a sufficient height, and afterward to de-
scend by means of a parachute. After the
balloon had rison short distance it was
caught in current of air and, while still
ascending, drifted sideways until it struck
a telegraph pole.
The couple were sitting on the bar, and
when the balloon struck the pole the bar
swayed to and fro in frightful manner,
threatening at every moment to throw them
to the ground. Miss Dewey, thinking it
would be safer to drop from the bar before
she was thrown from it, lowered herself by
her hands, hung for a moment, and then let
go. The height from which she dropped
was not great, and she landed on the ground
unhurt. Released from her weight the bal
loon swung upward, and, as it did so, Hig-
gins, who still retained his place on the bar,
became entangled in the telegraph wires,
and, like flash, he was swept off the bar,
and fell, twisting and turning, upon a
fence. He struck on his back, and received
such terrible injuries that he died after suf-
fering for few moments the most intense
agony.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
THE CHARGES AGAINST EGAN.
Chilean Insurgents Say He Favors Balma
ceda on Account of His Son.

Chilean Insurgents Say He Favors Balma-
ceda on Account of HI. Son.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.l
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8.-The officers
of the Charleston differ somewhat from their
brethren of Pensacola in their statements of
the standing of Minister Egan among
Chilesns. The Charleston was in the in
surgents' territory long enough to make sure
that the Congressional party leaders charge
Minister Eagan with being strong Balma-
ceda sympathizer. The insurgents do not
hesitate to charge Egan with conniving at
the sending of the dispatches that reach this
country creditlng the Government with
making progress toward the subjection of
the Congressionals.
Minister Egan's motive for aiding Bal
maceda, they say, is the fact that his son
has heavy interest in Government con-
tracts for building railroad into the noun
tains to open some extremely rich mines
discovered some time ago, and wants the
war stopped as soon as possible. They also
claim that Balmaceda's relations with Egan
were such that he was enabled to find the
means of offering this Government S4,0O0,-
600 in gold for the cruiser Baltimore. With
the Baltimore Balmaceda could wipe out
the insurgent feet in short order and re-
take the nitrate ports, which would deprive
the Congressionals of over S1,0oO,oO0 per
month
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
CAPTURED BY THE SEA SERPENT.
The Mermaid Beaten in the Dory Rae
Across the Ocean.

The Mermaid Beaten in the Oory Race
Across the Ocean.
LONDON, Aug. 8.-Captaip Lawlor, on
board the American dory Sea Serpent,
which started from Boston on an ocean race
with the Mermaid, another dory oficered
and manned by Captain Andrews, arrived
at Covernack, near Lizard Point, on the
English Channel, at $50 clock Wednesday
morning Captain Lawlor's recital of the
incidents of the trip show many narrow
escapes from death. The most exciting
event was an encounter he had with shark
and the novel method he adopted to fight
the monster On one night he was suddenly
awakened by a grinding noise, and upon
investigation found q shark rubbing against
the bow.
He paid little attention to this, but sud-
denly the boat gave twist, and he found
that the shark had turned over and had one
end of the bow in its mouth trying to gnaw
it off. Captain Lawlor saw that something
must be done or he would shortly make a
meal for the shark. He had harpoon, but
was afraid if he threw it he might lose it.
At last, taking a patent yacht signal, a
number of which he had on board, and
which consists of an explosive preparation
which acts somewhat after the manner of
Roman candles, he lit the fuse and then
wrapped the signal in a newspaper. Then
he threw his novel weapon overheard. As
soon as it touched the water the shark let 90
the boat and made a dash for it. This was
an unfortunate move on the part of the
shark, for Just as he seized it the bomb ex-
ploded, much to the detriment of the shark s
internal economy, and it rolled over dead.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
REMARKABLE RESOLUTIONS.
Kansas Farmers Ask That the President Call
an Extra Session of Congress.


TOPEKA, KAN, Aug. S.-The most re-
markable set of resolutions which the ALI
ance has yet sprung on the public comes
from Elk comfy. Several whereases tell
the condition of the people and announce
that the loan companies and the banks have
refused TO loan any more money in Kansas.
Continuing, the resolutions say:
That where We have made good CROP
the unjust hand of monopoly has been so
well played as to make il impossible for us
TO sell the surplus for more than the cost of
production, so that we arc still left unable
TO pay our mortgages. Now, therefore be it
resolved that We ask the President of the
+. a. Il /. L, of Kansas, to Immediately call
q convention OF the people for the purpose
OF petitioning the President OF the United
States to Immediately assemble Congress
for the purpose of passing a law whereby
the United states can issue legal tender
Treasury notes to the amount needed and
loan to the people above mentioned at low
small annual installments on the principal
until the whole is paid and the Government
shall be secured by the land above men
toned, thus relieving the grasp of the
money power of the world and give them
chance to save their homes.
The Cincinnati platform is fully indorsed
and Congress is asked TO pass law making
everything that eirculates as money and all
interest-bearing bonds taxable so that the
man of luxury and wealth may bear an
equal burden of the taxes with the farmer,
and that all men who hold interests in any
railraod or ride on free passes from same is
ineligible TO any legislative, executive or
iudicial office
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
A MYSTERIOUS MOVE.
Work on a New Plate to Displace Counter
felt Suddenly stopped.


felt Suddenly Stopped.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.1
WASHINGTON, August S.-About four
months ago there appeared in nearly all the
leading cities and many minor towns 50
counterfeit of the silver certificates. They
were of that series which bore a vignette of
the late General Hancock Their execution
was remarkably fine. The matter was re-
ported to the Treasury Department,
and the department had experts
look into it. They recommended that
no more of the Hancock certificates be
issued, and that all of them outstanding
should be called in. Not many of them
were returned, in conformity with the call
which followed their report. The holders
of them would not trust them in the hands
of National Bank cashiers, as they might
have what was really genuine bill car
celed to their loss.
The Secretary of the Treasury also d.
rected that new certificate of the denomi-
nation of s2, bearing the vignette of the late
Secretary of the Treasury Window, be pre-
pared. Work on the plates for this new
issue had been going on for nearly three
months before it was suddenly stopped the
other day. There came an order from the
Treasury to the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing to strike off 200 Impressions
from the old Hancock plates. Exactly why
this course should be taken it is difficult to
say. The counterfeit plates have never been
CAPTURED
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
CURED BY A FALL.
An Epiieptic Child Tumbles 33 Feet and
rt Gets Up Perfectly Well.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH1
READING, PA, Aug. 8.-Little Willie
Rothenberger, aged 8, is the object of great
wonder and interest on the part of the medi-
cal fraternity here on account of his strange
and instantaneous recovery from prolonged
case of epilepsy. He is the son of Jacob H.
Rothenberger, street car conductor, re-
siding at 213 North Tenth street. When
Willie was 3 years old he gave evidence of
some serious mental malady. AT the age of
he was afflicted with epilepsy, which
gradually grew worse, until at years he
was seized with from 20 to 30 spells each day
and had wasted away to a mere skeleton.
Sometimes during the most violent paro1-
isms he would leap clear across room.
Recently the disease deprived him of all in
telligence. Half dozen physicians could
do no good.
The other day, however, Willie had a
moe distressing fit than usual and fell out
of the attic window, 33 feet, to the pave
ment A lady next door saw him fall and
ran into his mothers house to inform her of
the accident. The mother rushed out doors
to pick up her dead child, but 10, he was
not there. He had picked himself up COM
paratively unhurt and walked iEto the yard,
whence he called, Mamma, fell out of the
Window Before the fall he had not been
able TO say anything intelligible for months.
Better still, after his bruises and other
slight injuries had been treated, it was
found that his mind had again become per-
fectly sound, and the epileptic fits ceased
entirely. The case is here regarded as one
of the strangest on record.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
SUITS BY THE STATE
FOR OVER A MILLION BEGUN By AT
TORNEY GENERAL HENsEL.

One Against Bardsley and the Other Against
PhiIadelphia County-A Big Fight Will
Be NIade-Yard Does Not Sell the Sen
Girt Property.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
HARRISBURG, Aug. 8.-The Common
wealth has fired the first shot in the litigation
growing out of the Bardsley defalcations
Two suits were entered to-day, one against
the county of Philadelphia and the other
against John Bardsley, late City Treasurer.
The first is to recover personal property
tax for $780, amounting to $622, ,013 II, and
the second for license taxes, amounting to
1927 ,604 IS, less credits of $3.50, 200, on ac-
count of taxes, paid by brewers, brokers,
wholesale and retail liquor dealers since the
first settlement and during the months of
March, April and May, 1891.
Under the construction of the act Of June
1, 1885, the county is required to pay into
the State Treasury the entire amount of
personal property tax for 1890, less the 1
per cent commission of the County Treas
urer. When this is done the Auditor Gen
eral will issue his warrant for S259, 1887 20 in
favor of said tax, under section 16 of the act
of 1889. On the 30th of last December the
Auditor General issued warrant of $780,
600 as part payment of the one-third
amount, and June 13, 1891, there was paid
S150,0O0 on the general account, which was
included in the settlement.
Attorney General Hensel contends that
no defense can be made, because no excep-
tiops to the statement of account were filed
within the required period when the bonds
men of John Bardsley paid S1OO, 200, the
amount of their bond, that will go as credit
on his account. L. D. Gilbert, ESQ.,. of this
city, is associate counsel for Philadelphia
in these suits. The State will be repre-
sented by the Attorney General and
Deputy Attorney General
A dispatch from Philadelphia saws: The
sale of the Sea Girt property by H. H. Yard
was to have taken place to-day, but was
prevented by the receipt of a writ this morn
ing from Trenton forbidding the sale, an in
junction having been granted at the in
stance of Receiver Yardley, of the Key
stone National Bank. AS stated yesterday
the receiver went to Trenton and made ap-
plication for an injunction restraining Yard
from selling the property, having learned
that the latter proposed disposing of it to-
day.
The Sea Girt property is one of the i'm
portant, if not the most important, assets of
the bank, and it is claimed by the institu-
tion. A struggle will take place in the
courts before the receiver will acknowledge
anyone else as the owner of it.
lie receiver to-day received a number of
assessments from shareholders and by Tues
day next anticipates that nearly all will
come forward and pay the amounts as
sessed upon them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS
Committees Appointed to Consult Regard.
ing Changes of Plans.

Committees Appointed to Consult Regard
ing Changes of Plans.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
BEAVER, Aug S.-A brief session of the
Republican County Committee was held
this afternoon, at which about 80 members
were present Chairman w. w. Kerr, of
Beaver Falls, was instructed to. appoint a
committee of three to confer with similar
committee from the other counties of this
Congressional District, in regard to a change
in the way Of nominating Republican Con-
gressional and Senatorial candidates
There was some discussion, but nothing
done to indicate the intention of those present
to do away with the delegates" system,
and nominate by direct vote. The Chair
man was also instructed to appoint a COM
mittee of two to confer with a similar COM
mittee from Washington county to appoint
candidates for the position of delegates to
the proposed Constitutional Convention to
be held this fall. These appointments will
probably be made next week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
THE COMING LABOR CONGRESS.
1t Promises to Be Lively, as the Socialists
Will Endeavor to Capture It.

~ rOiuiscS W DC AtSciy, rs inc oOclbilSts
Will Endeavor to Capture It.
[BY CABLE TO THE DIsPArCu.l
LONDON, Aug. S.-The forthcoming In
ternational Labor Congress at Brussels
promises to be more lively than that held
In Paris last year, which, it will be remem-
bered, was not allowed to be dull The rest
less Socialists are already at work, with a
view to capture the congress at its first sit
ting, and are exulting at the prospect of
outnumbering the British and Continental
moderates. The Socialists may succeed this
year, because many of the British delegates
were so disgusted at Paris by the revolu-
tionary antics as to declare that they would
never again attend an international con-
gress.
The British Trade Union Congress, meet
ing at Newcastle September twill discuss a
practical programme instead of wasting time
in debating the brotherhood of man and
bowling the Marseillaise. Englishmen don t
object to liberty, equality and fraternity,
but, pending the arrival of the millennium.
they will endeavor to secure reforms in the
laws relating to employers, liabilities for
accidents, hours of labor, steam engines and
boilers, contracts. fair wages, the sanitation
of factories and workshops, and such like
proSaic matters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
PSORIASIS 20 YEARS
Body . Mass Of Disease. Suffering Fearful
All Thought He Must Die. Cured
in Six Weeks by Cuticura
Remedies.

I have been afflicted for twenty years with an
obstinate skin disease called by some N. ID. Psori.
asis, and others LeprOsy, commencing on my scalpy
and, In spite Of all could do with the help Of the
most skillfu doctors 1t slowly but surely extended
until year ago this winter 1t covered my entire
person in the form Of dry scales For the last three
years have been unable TO do any labor, and
suffering intensely all the time. Every morning
there could be nearly dustpanful Of scales taken
from the sheet on my bed, some Of them half as
large the envelope containing this letter. In the
latter part Of winter my skin commenced cracking
open. tried everything. almost, that could be
thought Of; without any relief The 12th Of June
l started West. in hopes / could reach the Hot
Springs. / reached Detroit and was so low
thought should have TO go to the hospital but
finally got as far as Lansing, Mich, where had
n sister living, One DR. treated me for about
two weeks. but did me no good. All thought had
but short time TO live. earnestly prayed to die.
Cracked through the skin all over my back, across
my ribs, arms hands, limbs: feet badly swollen;
toe-nails came off; fnger-nails dead, and hard
bone; hair dead, dry and lfeless as old straw. o
my God! how did suffer. My sister, Mrs. Z. H.
Davis, had a small part OF a box of CUTICURA in
the house. She wouldn't give up; said I'VE will
and arm. Eureka! there relief: stopped the
terrible burning sensation from the word 20. They
Immediately got the CUTICURA, CUTICCRA REsoL-
VENT and SOAP. / commenced by taking
tablespoonful Of REsOLvENT three times q day,
after meals; had a bath once day water about
blood heat; used CCTICURA SOAP freely applied
CUTICCRA morning and evening. Result: returned
to my home in just six weeks from the time I LEFT
and my skin as smooth a sheet Of paper.
HIRAM z. CARPENTER,
Henderson. Jefferson Co. N.Y-
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fications and Ordnance, which recommends
that contract for 100 high-power gums be
let to the Bethlehem Iron Company at
prices aggregating nearly 81, 900, 900. Cen
eral Grant is much puzzled to know what
he had best do. "a great blunder has been
made by Congress" he said, 'and l don't
see what we can do. We do not make laws;
we execute them. The law is mandatory,
as 1T leaves the Secretary of War no option
but to purchase guns at rates which may be
recommended by the Bureau of Fortiflcations
and Ordnance. 1 can advertise for new
bids, and it is the advisability of doing this
which now have under consideration.
If General Grant will consult the officers
OF the Ordnance Bureau he will learn that
the proposed contract is one which should
not have been made. An officer of this
bureau, who is thoroughly familiar with
every detail of cgun-making at Watervllet
said to-day: "We can build these 100 guns
at Watervliet 81 ,OOO, 900 cheaper than bid
ders propose to build them for, and we can
build them in one-half the time which they
ask u