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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
HELD BY THE ENEMY.
How an Old Pole Was Fooled by Hill
Prospective Bride.

How an Old Pole Was Fooled by His
Prospective Bride.
Stanislaus Klowinski and Julia Natousick,
two Poles, were having an alteration on
Carson street yesterday afternoon, near
Eighteenth, which attracted quite a crowd.
Constable Linder of Alderman McGarey's
Office finally induced them to accompany
him to the Alderman's Office, where an in
terpreter was secured, and it was learned
that Klowinski had sent to the old country
for wife, and Miss Natousick was the one
sent him. At the reception given in her
honor on Sunday night she became enamored
of young Pole from McKeesport, and re-
fused to keep the contract.
Klowinski refused to give up her trunk,
hence the argument. Alderman McGarey
finally induced the girl to return $50 of the
money advanced by Klowinski to pay her
passage over, and he then gave up the
trunk, which was called for shortly after by
the McKeesporter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

November 1, 1891, S21, $50, ,44S 1t is be-
heved the movement will continue for some
months
The total earnings af the mints and assay
offices, from all sources, were $7,650, ,52S,
and the total expenditures and losses Of all
kinds, 81, ,661, ,139
The mines of the United States yielded
during the last year precious metals as fol-
lows: Gold, commercial value, $50, ,845, 600;
silver, commercial value, $57, ,225, 900. The
product of gold and silver in the world
during the last calendar year was: Gold,
SIG, ,O09 600, and silver, S134, ,ss6, 900 (com-
mercial value). The coinage: Gold, $149,-
lis, $50; silver, S131, $50 ,621
The director estimates the stock of metal
lie money in the United States on Novem
Der l, 1891, to have been 81, 210 1881, ,115.
The value of the precious metals used in
the industrial arts in the United States
during the last year was approximately:
Gold, SIS 900; silver, $4,000, 900; of
which SIG, zoo, 900 gold and So, 14O, 600 silver
was new bullion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
A Wife HOpelessly Insane Regains
Her Reason i'm a Madh0use.
HER SPOUSE HAD MARRIED AGAIN.
She Sues Tor Share in the Property and
He Asks for Divorce.
NEwSY NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS
Especial rrrrcpAu To THE nrepI

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.1
FINDLAY, Nov. 10-About four years
ago George Holbrooke and his wife became
permanent residents of Findlay. Mr.. Hol-
brooke, in partnership with another me-
chanic, began contracting, and the firm has
since done a large amount of work. All
went we'll until short time ago, when the
the firm suddenly suspended operations.
Some 10 or 20 years ago Mr.. Holbrooke
was married to bright young lady of the
Western Reserve, with whom he lived
happily for several years. Thirteen years
ago. through a severe spell of sickness, the
wife lost her reason, and becoming violent
was placed in an asylum. The physicians,
after several years thorough treatment,
pronounced her incurable, and after visit
ing his insane wife Holbrooke decided it
best to give her up as one dead, she being
completely, and physicians stated, perma-
nently insane. Some time before coming
to Findlay Mr.. Holbrooke married again.
He did not think it necessary to procure
divorce, not believing the law would re-
quire it.
A short time ago strange event occurred
in the asylum where the first Mrs. Hol-
brooke had been confined for over 13 years.
That lady awoke one morning and quietly
asked for her husband, expecting to take up
the old life where she had dropped it years
ago, the interim being to her perfect
blank, and at first she could not believe that
she had passed 13 years in an insane asylum.
A relapse succeeded when the truth was
finally told her. but physicians pulled her
through, and lately she engaged attorneys
to bring suit for her interest in her hus-
bands property.
If her grief was poignant that of her hus-
band and his second wife seemed no less so.
He had all along acted in good faith, and it
now seems his second wife must have been
innocent of any knowledge of his former
marriage and to be thus confrontedby
woman from madhouse with such substan-
tial claims to her husband, almost drove
the second wife insane with grief
1t is now said by Mr.. Holbroke's friends
that he will at once commence proceedings
for divorce from his first wife, and try in
every possible way to prevent her from tax
ing any legal action which will tend to get
him into trouble on account of his second
marriage. The business of his prosperous
firm, in view of the legal complications
about to arise, is being wound up. Other
facts equally strange are expected if the
cases come to trial.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
WANT ANOTHER TIAcHER
The Board OF Control Refuses Demand o
the Colfax District,

The Board OF Control Refuses Demand OF
the Colfax District.
Something rather unusual came up at the
meeting of the Central Board of Education
last night In the shape of preamble and
resolutions sent in by the local board of the
Colfax sub-school district The paper read:
WHEREAS, That portion Of the Twenty.sec;;
ond ward containing the Colfax sub-school
district is but sparsely settled, and contains
about 20 square miles; and
Whereas, Our children are obliged to walk
unpaved streets that are no better than bad
country roads, and
Whereas, 1t is imperative that three
school buildings be maintained for the &C.
commodation of the school population in
the several sections Of the ward; and
Whereas, The Twenty-second ward has
fewer improvements and advantages from
the city and receives less return from it in
than any other ward in the city, and
Whereas, The Central Board allows us but
six teachers, while seven are indispensable,
Resolved, That it is the unanimous opinion
of this board that the Central Board of
Education should suspend the rules and
grant us an additional teacher without de-
lay; and
Resolved, That it is our firm conviction
that equity circumstances and the welfare
of our schools, as well as the peace and good
Will OF tne community, demand this SpeClal
arrangement for our district.
When the resolutions were read there
was doubt as to whether the Colfax board
meant by its reference to the peace of the
community hidden threat of war, but the
paper was sent to the Committee on Teach
ers and Salaries. This committee met after
the board adjourned. The enrolment of
the Colfax sub-district showed that it was
entitled to four teachers, but the Central
Board has given it six. as the district 10
very large. 1t was explained to the COM
mittee that in one school where the aver
age attendance is 43 pupils there are three
teachers and principal. In another
school with Al pupils there is but one
teacher. The assertion was made that it
was "bullheadedness or favoritism" that
prevented the local board from assigning
the teachers differently, and that the dis
trict had all the teachers it required. The
committee took this view of the matter and
there will be no addition to the Colfax
force, peace or war. The other business
transacted by the board was purely routine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

Of water for the supply of the high wards
about it. The water is pumped up from the
Monongahela river to this stand-pipe.
Surrounded by Wards.
The plot is triangular. The Thirtieth,
Thirty-frst and Thirty-second wards push
their borders close up to the base of the
hill, but do not ascend. The space thus left
has an area of about five acres, and is owned
by the Monongahela Water Company.
Mot city maps have it as part Of the
Thirty ty-second ward, but it is not.
The way this little piece of ground came
to be left out Of the city is peculiar. At
one time it was portion of Lower st.
Clair. township, the only portion of the
county that can now lay any reasonable
claim to it. When the boroughs of Mt.
Washington and Allentown, which after
ward became the Thirty-second and Thirty
first wards respectively, were incorporated
from Lower st. Clair township, both drew
their boundaries SO as to avoid the useless
little lump of ground, which it was thought
some other district would take. But South
Pittsburg, the only adjoining borough, did
not want it either.
In 1872 when the Southside boroughs were
made part of the city of Pittsburg the old
boundary lines were adopted and the
Thirtieth, Thirty-frst and Thirty-second
wards were formed about the mound. The
mistake was not discovered until too late,
and the spot is not part of the city.
The City Has No Claim.
eyes, it is true" said Chief Bigelow,
of the Department of Public Works, yester-
day, when asked about the matter, 'that
little patch of ground, while surrounded on
all sides by the city, is not part of Pitts
burg. 1t is owned by the Monongahela
Water Company, and belongs to Lower st.
Clair township, if to any district in the
county"
Controller Morrow said: "One would sup
pose that a piece of ground SO situated
would necessarily be part of the city, but it
is not. To make it so would require a
special vote of the people or an act ofLegis-
lature, just like any other annexation"
As the ground is of no value aside from
the use it is now put to, there is little
chance that it will ever be annexed to the
city. 1t is not worth the trouble, being
unfit for residence purposes. The owners
would doubtless raise considerable objection
to such move, as they now escape the pay
ment of city taxes and can only be assessed
for county purposeA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

II. w. KoHLERs was appointed janitor of
Allegheny City Hall yesterday by Chief
Ehlers.
The body of the woman found in the
Monongahela river Sunday morning has not
yet been identified.
THE Board of Directors of the Pittsburg
Exposition Society met Yesterday afternoon
in their rooms in the Hamilton building.
A SMALL freight wreck occurred at the
East Liberty stockyards yesterday, caused
by two boys who placed an old tin boiler on
the track, derailing one car, which ran
against the platform. The damage was
slight.
THE Allegheny Property Committee met
last night ana approved the pay roll amount
ing to Ss9 10, and bills in the sum of $3s l5. II
was recommended that the claim of ss2l As
against the United States Government for
postoffice rent be exonerated.
AN infant boy, two weeks old, was left on
the doorstep of a boarding house near Third
avenue and Liberty street about dusk last
night by some unknown person. No marks
whereby it could be identified were found
about it. The little fellow was taken to
Central station. .-l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11

Wells and cisterns are nearly all dry in
Coraopolis and they have been having dry
time there generally of late, and the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie Railway Company pro-
poses to make the town still dryer by omit
ting to stop two Of its fast trains in the
town. The people of the village believe
this is retaliation on the part of the railway
Council in decreeing that the prolonged
whistling of locomotives should cease. The
proposition to make the villagers all travel
on slow trains causes much Indignation, but
still they neglect to open subscription
books for an electric railway company to
run to the city via Neville Island.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
What q Single Gust of Wind Did.

MANSFIELD, O., Nov. 1O.-[Specia. J.
A most peculiar accident happened in this
city this afternoon. A steady rain fell all
day, the monotony occasionally being
broken by severe gusts of wind. About 5
o'clock this afternoon cab drove up to the
Won Hof Hotel, and Frank Steckel, resi-
dent commercial traveller, slighted. Just
then sudden gust of wind swept down the
street. The cab was blown sidewise and
Steckel was blown into large plate glass
window in the front of the hotel, causing it
to fall with crash. John B. Fish, Phil
adelphia travelling man, standing near the
window, sustained bruised arm by falling
glass. Steckel escaped uninjured except
an insignificant cut on one Of his fingers.
No other damage was done.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
Saws Mckinley viii Be President

w. w. Crubaugh, of Canton, returned to
Washington last evening. He is employed
in the Government Printing Office. Mr..
Crubaugh had been in Ohio working for
Mckinley, and he was going back last even
ing feeling very we'll satisfied with the re-
suit He states that Stark county was lost
through Democratic trading on the local
ticket. The Republicans elected all
the officers except Sheriff: Mr. Cru
baugh says he travelled over the
district with Mckinley when the first ran
for Congress. That was IA years ago, and
he predicted then that some day the Major
would be President. He firmly believes
that the Republicans will nominate him in
1892, and that he will sweep the country.
He claims that Mckinley will not accept
second place with Blame. He adds that
the Stark county delegates were the only
ones in Ohio instructed for Blaine in 1884.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
USING WINNIE DAVIS NAME.
More Than One Begging Letter Turns I
From Stoddard, the Bold Forper,

more IMAM One beSg1nS Letter Turns Up
From Stoddard, the Bold Forger,
JERSEY CITY, Nov. 10.-Two letters have
been sent South from Jersey City recently,
purporting to be written by Miss Winnie
Davis, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis,
begging for 81 200. One was sent to DR..
W. NJ. Morrow, of Nashville, Tenn, and
the other to General Gordon, Of Atlanta.
There is little doubt that they were written
by Stoddard, the forger, who lives in the
Hudson county jail and who forged his way
ont of the Tennessee mines by a letter to the
Governor asking his pardon, purporting to
be signed by the States Attorney, and o
petition pretending to be signed by lot of
the most prominent people of Tennessee.
Superintendent of Police Smith received
a letter from DIR. Morrow enclosing copy
of the note to him. He turned the case over
to Chief Murphy, who wrote to DIR. Nor
row for the original. A day or two later a
friend of Miss Davis came from New York
with the note to General Gordon. The
General knew the address of Mrs. Davis and
her daughter and knew that they would not
need to write to him for money, so he sent
them the letter to put them on their guard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
MIXED RELIGION AND POLITICS
Cause Bitter and Complicated War in .
Country School District.

FRANKLIN, Nov. 10.-[Special. IA re-
ligious war is threatened in Sugar Creek
school district of this county that will like
ly be made political issue before the peo-
pie are through with it. Miss Alice Kane,
a devoted Catholic, was recently engaged to
teach district school in that township. The
directors require that the sessions be opened
each day by the reading of chapter from
the Scriptures. Instead of doing this Miss
Kane adopted the Catholic catechism, from
which she read extracts each morning.
Protestant scholars rebelled and refused to
take any part in the exercises
The Junior Order of American Mechanics
heard of the matter and committee at once
called upon the board and demanded that
the Protestant Bible be read in the school.
A meeting was held, but Miss Kane firmly
refused to read the Bible unless advised to
do 30 by her priest. The school is about
equally divided in the fight. Some of the
directors have political aspirations, while
others are holding Office at present, and the
fight will be carried into the next political
campaign, no matter what the board de-
cides.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
Trf-State Brevities.

MURDERER FITZGERALD is very ill in the Col
umbus Penitentiary.
MCKREsPoRT roughs are making it warm
for the Salvation Army.
THE Low Pressure Company has raised the
gas rates on Homestead 30 per cent.
The West Elizabeth Presbyterian Church
has just celebrated its semi-centennial.
THOMAS KIMBALL, who was imprisoned in
the Canton jail for drunkenness Monday
night, died in his cell before morning.
BRAKEMAN JAMES CoMsrooK, Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, was killed in attempting
to switch train at Youngstown yesterday.
CASPER nIEDE, an iron roller at Youngs-
town, has been awarded 5000 by Youngs-
town jury for the loss of an Arm. The Pitts
burg and Lake Erie Railroad is the defend
ant.
THE suppressed testimony in the prison
investigation shows that the escaped female
counterfeiter. Mrs. Collins, or CulbertsOn,
had a rather pleasant time in jail at Read
ing.
JOSEPH HILDA, a Syrian peddler, OF Wilkes
barre, is missing, and there are suspicious Of
foul play. His pack was found by his son
Monday on the Susquehanna river bank,
near Plymouth.
MISS KATE MoCurcHEoN, aged A years, of
Ligonier township, Westmoreland county,
committed suicide Monday by taking lauda-
mum. She had been rather melancholy for
some time
CLARENCE E. PACKARD, q contractor OF
Caldwell, W. Va, has been arrested on a
charge of embezzling So. 800 from II. P. Nc
Keown. He is accused of purchasing
machinery worth So 500 from McKeown and
not paying for it. Packard Alleges that he
intended writing to Mckeown ans telling
him that the machinery did not suit.
PAT HAYES, Peter Kearns and James
O'Brien were arrested yesterday morning by
Sheriff Mccormick, of Fayette county, in
Cool Spring hollow, for robbing and nearly
killing Joel Rosenstein, Hebrew peddler,
of Uniontown Monday evening. When the
robbery occurred the police gave out that
the Cooleys were suspected, in order to put
the guilty parties Off their guard. The
scheme worked, and the men were easily
trapped. Rosenstein recognizes them.
They are all notorious characters.
WHEN Robert Steinmetz, q Cleveland brass
roller, reached his home on the night Of
election day, he found it dark and deserted.
His wife had eloped with one Schrader,
taking along her l9.month-old baby and
leaving her 6year-old daughter with .
friend. Steinmetz traced them to Bingham,
N V where Schrader's parents live, and
Monday lie found them there. He tried to
shoot Schrader, but was prevented by the
policeman who was with him. He to"k his
baby boy and started back home, leaving
the elopers together.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
ESCAPED LIKE FITZsIMMONs.
-Four Of the Notorious Kendall Vendetta
Gang Break Jail in Kentucky.

UnuB Lrcak Coh III htntuCkys
LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. 10-The four.
Kendall boys escaped from Georgetown Jail
this afternoon at o'clock, by saving out
the bars of window while the jailer was
confined to his bed by sickness. The bloody
tragedy at Georgetown, August q, in
which Milton H. Kendall and his four Sons,
John, Burell, Dade and Russell B., were
engaged on one side, and the Jarvis broth
ers on the other, is we'll remembered. The
difficulty occurred over a watermelon patch
of the Kendalls which the Jarvis boys we're
charged with destroying. There was fight
and the parties were cited to appear before
the County Judge
Both families came to town and the Ken
dslls attacked the Jarvis boys, killing one
and wounding another. During the fight
old man Kendall, Milton H., ST., shot at
Burrel Jarvis and accidentally killed A. j.
Montgomery, highly-respected merchant.
Jumping over his body he pursued Burrel
through the store and shot him. Another
one of the Jarvis brothers, John, was shot
and killed by Milton Kendall, Jr. The
Kendalls finally surrendered and were
placed in Jail, where they have since re-
manned until to-day. The four boys got out
to-day, but the old man remains in Jail.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
MONEY MADE BY THE MINT.
ENCOURAGING ANNUAL REPORT
FROM THE DIRECTOR.
The Earnings Nearly Seven Times as Much
as the Expenses-Great Growth of the
Work Of the Establishment During the
Past Year.

The Earnings Nearly Seven Times as Much
as the Expenses-Great Growth of the
Work Of the Establishment During the
Past Year.
WASHINGTON, Nov. TO- - Edward o.
Leech, Director of the Mint, has submitted
to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of
the operations of mints and assay Offices fer
the last fiscal year. The value of gold de-
posted at the mints and assay offices during
the year was SIS, ,625, ,67s, against $40, 22S S23.
The deposits and purchases of silver aggre
gated II, S49, ,663. 92 standard ounces, of the
coming value of SSS, $50, ,154, against S43,
563, ,135 in the preceding year, an increase of
$40, ,065,O ,O19.
The coinage executed at the mints was
the largest in the history of the mint in
this country, aggregating 119, 547 ,S77 pieces.
The seignorage was S6,313, ,767. The total
coinage of silver dollars under the act of
1873, from March /, 1878, to the close of
such coinage, has been S378, 166, 793. The
coinage of silver dollars under the act of
July Il, 1890, to November 1, 1891, has been
S31 ,3OS, ,575, total coinage of silver dollars
since 1873 of $409, AS, ,36S. The net seignor-
age on the coinage of silver during the Is
years ended June 30, 1891, has aggregated
81. .952, 800 25.
The total amount of silver purchased dur
ing the fiscal wear under the acts was &c.
S7S, ,325 0S standard ounces, costing S53, $685.
925, an average of 81 04A per fine ounce.
The recoinage into silver dollars Of the
trade dollar bullion stored at the mints at
Philadelphia and New Orleans was COM
menced in June of the present year and the
total number of silver dollars coined from
trade dollar bullion to November 1, 1891,
has been s., 260, 100. 1t is expected that this
coinage will be completed by the time
Congress meets. The price of silver during
the last fiscal yeBr fuctusted from 30. 964 to
S1-21 per fine ounce, a fuctuation greater
than in any previous year Of which there is
knowledge.
The net loss of gold by export during the
fiscal year was S67 ,946, 76S while there was
gain of silver by excess of imports over
exports amounting to s., 2,745, 1865. The
Director says it is gratifying to report that
return movement of gold is well under
way which has aggregated since July 1 to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-11
AN 0UT-0F-T0WN SITE
Completely Surrounded By Three
Wards of Pittsburg.
LEFT OUT IN THE COLD ENTIRELY.
The Annexed Districts Did Not Want the
Five-Acre Hill.
A PECULIAR SPOT ON THE sOUTBSIDE

Up ON the highest portion of the South
side, surrounded by three wards of the city,
is a small plot of ground not included in
the municipal corporation. Just what
township, borough or city it belongs to is
matter of question. One thing certain is
that Pittsburg has no claim to it.
This outcast spot lisa small knoll rising
above all the houses on the hill wards of the
Southside. At its summit stands big iron
structure. like the turret of war-ship, bid
ding defiance to the surrounding city to
take it. 1t looks as though it might conceal
a great battery of cannons behind its black
sides. to make good its resistance; but every
resident of Mt. Washington knows better.
1t simply contains many thousand gallons