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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16

THE effort to enlist Indians in the regu-
lar army has proved failure. The Indians
have observed the amount of work that pri-
Yates in the army have to do. and evince de-
cided preferencefor living like the politicians
on the appropriations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
FOUND: A GLOVE BUrTONER.

, What pretty maiden let It fall
Upon the muddy pave,
That 1, on finding 1t, should call
Rhyme, fancy, entiment and all
Such things to help me rave?
For must rave little while
Upon this dainty toy,
And dream of a fair girls sweet smile
So innocent of earthly guile,
That seeing it were Joy.
Two rounded wrists, beth firm and white,
This trinket has caressed,
When little hands, perfection quite,
With taper fingers, jewel Digit,
In softest kid were dressed.
As beautiful as morn 10 she
In soul ana form and face.
am almost in love, you see,
But As You will ofcourse agree,
With not Of hope%a- trace.
This buttoner, 'tis solid gold,
Cost her pretty sum.
The metal for which love is sold,
The reader hardly needs be told,
Not often free does come.
Yet now to me, rhymster meek,
Free gold comes once In life,
And serves to make as brass my cheek,
For on her birthdsy-,tis next week
III give It to my wife. g. o'KAY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16

THE experience of the House in dealing
with amendments to the license law indicates
that if the amendmant idea il given a start it
is liable not to stop short of amending the law
altogether out of existence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16

ANOTHER recess of the Senate from
Thursday to Tuesday, if agreed to. would indi-
cate that thorough precautions are being taken
to prevent the calamity of too much work by
that body
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16

THERE is beginning to be a suggestion
that Italys pugnacious attitude toward the
United States may be auelled by the fact that
the greater powers are beginning to scowl at
each other,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
Indian Fighters with Floberts.

xPEcIAL rELEGRAM TO THE DIspArcH,
OIL CITY, April 1.-TWO boys from this city
armed themselves with fobert rifles, two re-
volvers and two bootblack kits and started for
the West yesterday on an Indianskilling expe-
dftion. They were captured at Reno, near
here, brought home and roundly spanked.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
THE CHAMPION BOUNTY JUMPER.
He Enlisted 16 Times In IL Months, Re-
ceived 81, ,375 and Was Shot.

ceived 81, 1915 and Was Shot.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The Pension Office
has unearthed the champion bounty jumper in
the record of a man whose mother has made
two applications for pension. The first appli-
cation under the general law was denied be-
cause the soldiers death was not in the line of
duty. The records showed that ne was shot by
order Of court-martial.
Further search revealed the fact that he had
enlisted no less than 16 times during the period
from July. 1863. to June 1854, At each enlist
ment he received sums ranging from $3.50 to
81, SEQ, and aggregating 81, 375 up to the time he
was shot as a member of Company E, One
Ii undred and Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment.
The mother has filed a second application,
under the act of June q, 1890.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
How He Must Feel!
Toledo Blade.l

IOItuO bIdutI
Senator Palmer, of Illinois, has been ex-
tremely quiet for the past week. He probably
realizes the fearful blunder he made in med
ding with Chicago municipal election.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16

The Governors vetoing machinery is in
such actively good working order as to suggest
that the Pittsburg legislation had better be
kept within the limits of strict constitution
ality
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
But He'd Catch q Tartar.

Kansas City Star.l
Ex-Speaker Reed gave Paris the go-by,
spending only few hours in that city and pass
on through to Italy. If King Humbert wants
to go into the hostage business. now's his
chance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16

1t is announced that Speaker Reed has
arrived in Italy, and it is expected that he will
at once call Rudinl to order and take the floor
away from him,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
CABLE TARIFFS REDUCED.

1t VIII Cost Only Half as Much as Formerly
to Wire to Australia.
NEW YORK, April 15.-The direct United
States Cable Company announces that on and
after May ] the rates to the various parts of
Australia from New York will be as follows:
To New South Wales, Victoria South Aus
per word. No changes are made in the rates
to Queensland and New Zealand The above
rates represent a reduction of over so per cent
on the present tariff.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
This From Quakertown!

Philadelphia Press.l
A 81, l,0O0,000 fire has recently visited Chicago.
1t would seem as though the Windy City had
to be treated like balky horse-nothing will
make it 60 except fire.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
Social Chatter.

THE Allegheny Cotiilion dances this evening
at the MoDongahela House.
The postponed entertainment for the benefit
of the orphans will be given tonight asTrinity
Hall.
THE Epworth League of the Sharpsburg
Methodist Church will give an entertainment
and social tonight.
PROF. SLEErH, Of the High School, will give
an elocutionary entertainment at the Third U.
P. Church this evening.
MISS JANEY NJ. CoARD, the secretary of the
Woman's Press Club. will entertain the will
o. the Wisp' literary circle at her home on
Dinwiddie street tomorrow evening"
THE first Of series of parlor concerts for
the benefit Of the Central Presbyterian Churc b
of Allegheny will be given this evening at the
home of Mrs. Haslett, Buena Vista street, Ale.
gheny.
The fifth annual commencement of the Pitts
burg Training School for Nurses of the Home.
opathic Hospital will be held this evening in
the chapel of the hospital. A pleasing pro-
gramme will be presented.
A PARLoR concert for the benefit of the new
Westminster Church will be given this evening
in the parlors of Mrs. Irwin, lis Page street
Vocal, violin and piano recitals will be rem.
dered by Miss Irene Samples. Miss Cartwright.
Mr.. and Mrs. kdair. Mr.. Matthews and Mr.
JACK Irwin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
LIGHTNING FREAKS AT CANTON.

Many People Shocked and Electric Lights
Extinguished.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE prsP ArcH,
CANTON, April 15-During a severe storm
Tuesday evening a number of people In this
vicinity were badly shocked by lightning. and
many pedestrians in all parts OF the city were
thrown to the ground.
Henry Gaschetti was shocked and knocked
down in his room, and his muscles became
rigid and so remained for several hours Many
lights were put out Electric car stations were
damaged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
pETR1F1FD coRPsEs IN A CEMETERY.

The Latest Body Exhumed Is the Most Re-
markable of ALL
lsPEcrAL TELEeRAM TO TIE DIsPArcH.l
YOUNGSTOWN, April 15-Laborers in re-
moving bodies from Rose Hill Cemetery to
Calvary Cemetery. found the remains OF Mrs.
John Creagan, buried in March, 1883 in Der.
feet state Of petrifcation.
Its weight required large number of men to
handle It Several petrified bodies have been
found in the same csmetery, but none in so
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
News Rooms and Publishing House

Business Of1ce--Corner Smith8eld
and Diamond Streets,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
Mrs. e. w. Halford.

Mrs. HALFoRD. wife of E. W. Halford,
private secretary to Pfssident Harrison, died in
Washington at 7:45 O'Clock yesterday morning. OF
consumption. Mrs. Halford was about 42 years OF
age and was the youngest daughter of George W.
Armstrong, Of Wilton, Me. She was married TO
Mr. Halford IN indianapolis, May l, 1866. She
leaves one child, daughter, Miss Jeannette, who
indianapolis for interment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16

Vol. s6 No. 6.-Entered at Pittseurg Postonice
November Il. lSS7, as second-class matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
DEATHS OF A DAY.
William McCague.

William McCague died at his residence
in Rochester, Pa. yesterday morning. His death
was due to . complication of diseases, the imme-
diate cause being heart failure. He was born In
Allegheny in 1907. He was = prominent member
of the M. L. Church and the Oldest Odd Fellow in
this State, having been o member of Western Star
Lodge of Allegheny SO years, and having acted re-
peatedly representative to the Grand LodRe.
He was also member of the encampment. He
removed to Rochester from Allegheny In 1871 since
which time. until recent years. he has been
gagged in variety of employments.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
John Breckinridge.

John Breckinridge, who was one of the
Oldest inhabitants Of Lawrence county, cousin Of
Robert j. Breckinridge, the once noted divine.
and ex-Presidental candidate John q. Breckin-
ridge, died IN New Castle yesterday forming from
q complication of diseases arising from an attack
of grip. The deceased was born in Washington
county August 81, 1S09 and went to Lawrence
county more than 60 years ago. His children liv-
ing are Alderman Robert Breckinridge and Miss
Kate, with whom he lived.
Mrs. Sarah Frazer.
Mrs. Sarah Frazer, wife of Colonel G. T.
Frazer died yesterday at the family residence
Rippey street, from pneumonia. The family had
but recently removed from Johnstown to Pitts
burg. Her children. Hon. X. s. Frazer and Mrs.
Samuel Ellis, of this city, and Mrs. Kate Brown,
of Pueblo, COL, were all with her during her Ill
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
THE BANK OF SCOTLAND.

coin that came in from other sources hsd
to conform to that standard by weight.
The difference was often 20 per cent.-a
fact sometimes stated thus, THE banks
notes were at 20 per cent premium above
coin" which Is manifest nonsense, as j: is
equivalent 10 saying that a premise TO pay
was worth 20 per cent. more than the cash.
The Bank OF Amsterdam was only coin
warehouse; that is, it guaranteed payment
in coin Of a certain weight and fneness Of
all bills drawn on Amsterdam. After do
ing that in every case for iS5 years II got
on the losing side in the French wars, tx
hausted its resources and went 70 smash
in 1874. Three years later the Bank Of
England sus ended specie payments and
did not resCme till 1921 Tne credit Of
originating this wonderful institution has
been. after so.ss 5.sc-S1:--, rSuc.artlv
conceded to William Paterson. the Scotch
adventurer q eRterpriser- / say "reluc
tantly," bec- 1se this man was 50 e-raJic
and made snch disastrous failure Of the
Oarien colony that Euciishmen found AZ
hard 10 believe tnSt ne designed their IA
nous bank
The reasons given were the same as in
Venice almost the same as those given By
Secretary Chase for the national banks
The war Of William and Mary with
France made the bank necessity. and on
the 2Sth Of April, 1894. the act creating It
received the royal signature The capital
was Z. 200 600, which has been increased
nine times until is Is nominaliy sIS.5530co
In fact. however, the hank issues absolute
credit notes to the full amount of the E14.-
oo0Oo0 in government bonds which i
holds. and thereafter notes ('-dollzr for
dollar'A for its coin So there are about
$4,000 600 worth Of Bank Of EnKla1d noseA
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19

had among his WILLIAM ". WILBER.
passengers grandchild of one who trav.
eled Oh bis first trains, and often sees WON
en- who first travelled with him on half fare
and are now taking their own children at
that rate.
He began as a brakeman In March, 1874,
became freight conductor the same year,
rose in the regular order to the control of q
mixed train, and since 1868 has been rum
ming the regular passenger train between
Pittsfeld and North Adams, doubling the
route two or three times day, as it may
happen. His first freight engine weighed
ten tons, and could pull but ten small
freight cars loaded; now the road engines
weigh sixty tons, haul thirty large cars
over steep grades and do not have one
fourth the delays they did.
Mr.. WILDER is very positive the winters
were formerly much worse on railroads
than now. 1t WAS a common thing in the
fifties for trains TO stick in the snow all
day, and as late as the winter of 1861 he
was on passenger train which was blocked
two days. The passengers tore down all
the adjacent fences to keep from freezing,
while the strongest men waded to the
neighboring farmhouses for food. Once
his engine was thrown from the track and
his collar bone broken, the only serious
hurt he ever received.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
how THE BUILDING WILL LOOK.

As the first of the kind in the United
States and an indication of what union and
business cooperation are to do for labor
ers, the structure will have a rare interest.
The location is or G street, between Fourth
and Fifth, opposite the pension office, and
at a point where three street car lines con-
meet with all parts of the city. The build
ing will have a frontage of forty-four feet
and extend back 106 feet to twelve 70
alley. The front will be in the Itali
Renaissance style, the basement and Fl
story will be entirely of stone and the
ond and third of brick, with brownstone
finish, and on the front a very elaborate
cornice of copper. The partition walls will
be almost entirely of brick.
The second story will contain the Offices
of the nion and an assembly room 43 by
Ga feet, v 'th ceiling twenty-five feet high.
The third story will contain lodgerooms,
anterooms, etc, while the first floor will
be taken up by rented offices, kitchen, din
ing room, etc.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19

which are IKE American national bank
notes as to basis, and varying quantity
on the Holland or "coin warehouse" sys-
TEN. And similarly the two sides OF the
bank are run separately-there are, in ef-
feet, two great banks under one roof and
one management, and a total collapse Of
the discount and deposit side would have
no effect whatever on the credit OF the
notes
1t is not true, however, that the notes
have always been thus guarded; for they
have more than once been as low as 20 per
cent below gold par and once, under ex-
traordinary circumstances, the stock went
20 per cent. below par. This was but few
years after its establishment. The govern
ment increased the capital by 81, 100000 and
promises of peace coming soon after, the
stock bounded in few days from 40 below
to IL above par, creating of course wide
spread commotion and strewing the street
with the ''corpses of the bears.
The Bank of Scotland was established
Immediately after the Bank of England,
and the Scotch have proved in general the
most sagacious bankers; but it was nearly
a century later that the Bank Of Ireland
was established. There is something de-
clU6Ul1 CURIOUS IN lie dIIlGuNS 0tISISEI
races assume toward banks, but in general
it may be said that the so called popular
party" in each nation is instinctively op-
posed to banks of issue. ''The unknown is
always great" and generally alarming
80, as the popular element prevails in any
nation, banks Of issue must go out of ex-
istence.
July II, 1895, viii be celebrated as the BIZ
centennial of the Bank of Scotland; that Of
England is not fixed, save that it is TO be
in 1894 A full history of this bank would
be interesting as any romance, especially
the frauds and forgeries. Twice in its ca
reer it has lost sums amounting to 81 ,5OO,-
000 by ingenious frauds, and at one time it
lost 500, 600 year for ten years. At an
other time its notes were counterfeited so
successfully that the bank itself redeemed
many IF them John Matheson, Scotch
engraver, confessed to having put out
$500, 900 worth of these notes just before be
was turned off, at Tyburn.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
The ''Roof of the World"

Various reasons determine the desira-
bility Of land That bleak, unproductive
section of central Asia known as the
Pamir region or 'roof of the world" where
the Russians are showing their latest dis
position for earth hunger, is valuable
solely on political grounds. The highest
point of central Asia, this extensive table
land is little else than a succession of roll
ing downs, about 1900 feet above the sea
level. But four powers meet on the Pamir
ground-China. Afghanistan, Russia and
Great Britain-snd since exploration
proved that Lake Sir-i-Kol or Victoria in
the Little Panir Steppe, gave rise to the
stream forming the headwaters of the
Oxus, territorial claims have become lit
tie mixed
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
In Memory of GarlbaldI.

That Garibaldi still has large place in
the affections of the French and Italians
was shown the other day by the monster
demonstration at Nice, the occasion being
the unwilling of statue of the famous
patriot. The memorial is a handsome
work of art. Garibaldi is represented
standing, bareheaded, in his traditional
costume of loose shirt and heavy cloak,
his left hand resting on the handle of his
saber, while the right is clasped to express
determination. The pose is excellent, like
the intent expression of the face. On the
front of the pedestal is group showing
France and Italy leaning over the cradle
of Garibaldi as an infant, with the words
beneath, ITO Garibaldi. his native town,
1891" The opposite side shows allegori-
cal figures of the Powers escorting Peace,
and below is a heap of bronze wreaths
with the dates, Nice, 1907, Caprera, 1882 :"
Two lions guard the sides of the monu-
ment, one with its paw on a cannon
marked '1S60"-the date Of Nice being an
nexed to France, and the other in similar
pose, with the date "lS7O, pannee ter
rihle ~
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
SCHOOL HOUSE WHERE THEY MET.

SCHOOL HOUSE WHERE IhE1 hkE.
therefore sprang into being. But the pub
lie mind wants facts more in the concrete,
and it may now be taken as proved that
Ripon. Wis, was the place, March %, 1854,
the time, and Mr.. A. E. BOyay the man
who devised the name.
The Kansas Nebraska act was not passed,
but it was plain that it soon would be, and
all the northern states were in a ferment.
The popular mind had settled down to the
belief that the Missouri compromise of
1901 was a sacred compact, even less liza
bic TO change or repeal than the constitu-
tion itself The Wing party had been de-
stroyed, as one might say, by the election
of 1852, and only the AbOlitionists main
tanned any formidable opposition to the
COMPROMISE measures. But all the Aboli-
tionists, nearly all the " higs and large
part of the Democrats earnestly opposed
the repeal of the compromise and reopen
ing Of tue slavery issue.
a call was published in the Ripon Her
aid, signed by fifty-four citizens, of all par
ties, and a meeting was held in the school
house. There was a hard struggle. Old
Wings hated to give mp the old party
name, and old Democrats hated TO afili-
ate with old Wings, but the thing was
done at last and the name Republican,
suggested by Mr.. Bovay, was adopted. 1t
was a wise suggestion. The Democrats
have always gained much strength by
their name. 1t means something definite
and plain TO common minds. "Federalist"
had long been odious, and to Americans
generally "Whig" was meaningless. "Re-
publican" had had definite and tOlerably
uniform meaning for $500 years, and was
the honored title of the party which over
threw the Federalists in 1900 and ruled the
United States for twenty-four years.
The principal organizers were A. E
Bovay, Jedediah Bowen, A. Loper, A.
Thomas and j. Woodruff, three Wings.
one Democrat and one Abolitionist or
Free SOiler. These were the committee.
but Mr. Bovay was the active man. He
was born in jefferson county, n. Y, July
u, 1918, was graduated from Norwich (Vt.) }
university in 1S41, and located in Ripon in
1850 He was teacher, lawyer and finally
soldier, attaining the rank Of major in the
war for the union. From Ripon the
organization was extended through Wis
consin and northern Illinois, and on July
8, 1854, meeting of representative men at
the fremont House, Chicago, formally
adopted the name.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
THE WUKLUS BIG BANKS.
SOME NOTABLE CENTENNIAL AN
NIVERSARlES AT HAND.

The Conditions Under Which Great Fi-
nanclaI Enterprises Are Created-Ths
United States, English, Scotch and
French Banks-Enormous Swind1es.
copyright, 1891. by American Press Associa-
tion.l
Banks and banking are always subjects
of interest, but just now there is revival
of interest, as there is a conjunction of un-
usual circumstances. First. the centennial
of the United States bank of 1871 is at
hand, and its legitimate successor, the ma
tional banking system, is just entering on
its final trial for continuance. The bicen-
tennial of the great Bank of England comes
in 1894, and that institution has also en-
tered on severe trial.
The mystery of banking is discussed
more than ever by the worlds inanciers,
and the opinion is gaining ground that the
day for banks of issue is past. That here
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19

But the greatest fraud ever perpetrated
in England was that of 1914. On stormy
day in February of that year very richly
dressed gentleman landed from a boat at
Dover, called for post horses to London.
and gave his name as Lieutenant Colonel
Dubourg. He said that he had bribed a
smuggler to cross the channel in the great
storm then prev ,iling, as events of the
greatest Importance had occurred. Napo-
leon Bonaparte had been killed in the cri-
sis of affairs, his army had broken up and
the allied armies were in or near Paris. In
five minutes the fastest horses to be had in
Dover were bearing. the news in every di
rection and stocks of all kinds rose with a
bound. The conspirators who organized
the fraud realized little over SIC, 600, 900 in
one day And before the Bank of England
rallied from this shock came the perfectly
reckless forgeries of Henry Fauntleroy, by
which it lost 9360, 200. or nearly 81, 100000.
The story goes that after the season of
forgery passed aud the law got in it's work
there weresixty hangings in one day. Such
are some of the experiences of the ''Old
Lady of Thread eedle street"
J. II. BEADLE.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
SPORTING NOTES.

F. H. Hovey, of Harvard, is intercot
legiate tennis champion for 1891.
The retirement of Luther Cary, the world
famous sprinter, is said to have been final.
He says he will never race again.
A. A. Jordan, who has thrice won the
all-round championship Of the A. A o.,
says he will not compete next year.
P. J. Finneran, of the Boston Athletic
association, recently broke the 40 yards
hurdle race record of SO 4-5 seconds. Fin
neran's time was 81 2-5 seconds.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
THE PosToFFTCE.

The Office is s roonly old shed in the GEN.
ter ot an uninhahited tract of prairie, and
is fsmiliarly known as "Bummers' Roost, I"
as the owner and postmaster never refuses
trsTnpS the permission 70 sDouZe there. He
is, however, very hard TO find except just
at the time the mail Is thrown of the cars,
aud usually carries said mSil in his hat
There are few fsrmhouses in sight, but
the local factory which caused the location
of ths Office mas long since disappeared.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-19
Pro1ress in VenezueIa.

The state department has received ad-
vices from Venezuela announcing that the
republic had decided to erect seminary
for the higher education of women at
Caracas to accommodate 200 students.
The government last year established four
immigration Offices in Europe, which ara
already giving satisfactory results, and in
many ways the republic seems entering on
an era Of enterprise and advancement.