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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
Obituary Notes.

COLONEL MIGUEL LOPEZ, who it is said, be-
trayed Macmillan to Juarez is dead.
GENERAL ID. W. DAY, formerly Sergeant at
Arms of the Ohio Senate, and an ex-soldier with
an enyiable record, died at Columbus, o., yester-
day.
NEWS was received yesterday of til death on
Saturday i'll Paris of the Rev. Brother Patrick
assistant 10 the Superior General of the Brothers
Of the Christian Sch oos. During nearly half a
century he had been identified with educa Lional
interests in America.
JOHN z. RYAN, ex-Postmaster of South Iiethle-
hem, Pa, died Sunday of cancer Of the .ongue,
of Northampton county. He was brother of
the Rev. j. j. Ryan, of Amherst. Mass. He had
been unable TO partake of solid food for over a
year.
DIR. j. b. REssLER, native of Pennsylvania
and one of the most prominent divines of the
United Brethren Church. died yesterday at his
home in " esterville, o., aged 70. His daughter,
Missionary Board of the U. b. Church, and son
is minister at Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
ELIAS S. TERRY, well known in the west in
early days, died in Washington. ID. q. Saturday,
aged "a years. During long residence in Illinois
he practiced law before the Illinois and Indiana
courts Among those with whom he was associ-
ated at this time were Abraham Lincoln, Judge
David Davis, Senators voorhees,, Mcdonald and
Hannegan and others.
DR. ADAM CARL, the oldest practicing physi-
clan in Southern Pennsylvania. died in Greencas-
tie yesterday, aged 81 years. Ec had been In con-
tinuous and active practice for 66 years. and had
attended some of his patients up to within few
days of his death. He WAS born in York county,
Pa, graduated in Baltimore. and pracIiced In
career. During the invasion Of General Lee and
after the battle of Gettysburg he attended as
surgeon many of the wounded.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

George w. Yost, OF Bellaire, and F. j.
Park, Of Wheeling, both glass manufacturers.
were in Plttsburg on business yesterday, stop
ping at the Monongahela House.
GIN. .Rollin, of New York, superintending
the construction of the Braddock Electric Rail-
The road will be finished Jul. l.
John S. Barr, proprietor of the Pantall
Hotel, at Punxsutawney, formerly of the Red
Lion of this city, was at the st. James yester-
day.
Superintendent Hutchinson, of the In
sane Asylum at Dixmont was in the city yes
terday and left last night for Harrisburg.
Edgar Penney, manufacturer of artificial
ice machines at Waynesboro Pa, was at the
Hotel Duquesne yesterday
w. R. Mason, who has charge of the
Westinghouse interests at Chicago, was at the
Hotel Duquesne yesterday.
E. A. Kitzmiller, of P. Duff & Sons, left
last night for trip to California, accompanied
by his wife and daughter.
Thomas McNiernan, prominent citizen
yesterday on business.
W. E. McQuiston, of Chicago, and James
Henderson. of Sharon, iron manufacturers, are
at the Anderson.
Major E. A. Montooth went to Harris
burg on the fast line last evening accompanied
by his sister.
James II. Lindsay. President of Allegheny
Select Council. arrived here yesterday from the
East.
81. C. Adams, well-known coal man of
Philadelphia, was at the Duquesne last night.
j. NJ. Fox, ESQ.,, a well-known attorney
of Foxburg, was in the city yesterday.
W. n. Coen, prominent iron dealer of
indianapolis, is at the Schlosser.
Rev. Father Ward returned from trip
East yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

KING HUMBERT has2, 900 bloodsd horses
in his three stables near Pisa.
PRINCESS ALIx, of Hesse-Darmstadt,
is the most beautiful unmarried royal girl in
all Europe.
PROF. ANToNIN ROCHE says in an in
teryiew that the late Earl Granville was the
best French pupil he ever had.
THE Pope will give life-size statue of
himself to st. Mary's Church in Hanover for a
monument at the tomb of DR.. Windthorst
THEODORE THOMAS is so we'll known as
a conductor that it is almost forgotten he is a
firstclass violinist but he still remains aware
of the fact.
NINE. MICHELET, the widow of the illus
trious historian, is editing the journal and let
tiers of her husband. describing his journey to
Rome in 1880
SCHoPENHAUER's original manuscript
of the second volume of "Die Welt ais Willie
und Vorstelung' is for sale. Frankfort City
has offered S4OO for it.
The Bishop of Lichfeld, England, has
started a crusade against what he calls ''the
reformation and degradation" of graveyards
by the ornamentation of the graves with arri-
ticial flowers.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER's wife is
fine musician, and one of the pleasantest rooms
in their charming house at Hartford is the
music room, with Its grand piano and many
curios picked ap In foreign lands.
THE Turkish Sultan's kitchen costs the
empire 100000 annually. The building ex-
tends 150 feet on every side. The dishes are
sealed in the kitchen by no less person than
Osman Pasha, the hero of Plevna, and are
unsealed in the Sultan's presence
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
is said to have received more flowers while the
Presidential train was passing through the
South than any other member of the party.
His mild manners Sunday-school face and
high moral reputation seem to capture the fair
sex everywhere.
Mrs. KATE CHASE's face is notice able
for its lack of lines, while the countenances of
many women. her junior by many years. are
beds of maps and wrinkles. She is, too, a
woman of more than an ordinary emotional
disposition, and who surely has had variety of
experience such as few women can boast.
The Emperor of Russia will visit Fin
land this summer, and makes the announce
ment with profound Indifference to the
NihilIsts being given ample time to stir him
up He has expressed the opinion that there
is more "fake" and imagination in the threats
of those people than meaning or courage.
THE Princess Clotilde. widow of the late
Prince Napoleon, is one of the bravest women
known. In 1870 when all the members of the
imperial family fed. sne wrote to her father:
Il ought not to leave, still less to run away. 1t
is not for nothing that one has the honor to be-
long to the house of Savoy, and it is not fitting
for me to leave Paris
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
A PEEP. AT THE PLAY.


Theatricals Little weary-Faust in New
Disguise-The Idyil of Babe and a
Burglar-Real Horses Aid in a Kidnap-
ping Drama-The Lighter Trifies at the
Theaters.
The drama wilted before the hot wave yes
terday and audiences grew thin. 1t may be
that the season will put on squirt yet before it
dies, but the theaters last night looked very
much as If the epoch Of 1S909l were on its last
legs.
At the Duquesne Theater the four-act drama,
''The Burglar" by Mr.. Gus Thomas was
chiefly notable for showing how slender plot
may be stretched over vast amount of talk
and tedious sentimentality. The dramatic cpl
sode which was quite enough to make pretty
and pathetic curtain-raiser as "Editha's Bur-
glar," IS not sufficient foundation for struc-
ture four acts high. The story is too sad to be
SO long-drawn out, and too prolix to be
poignantly pathetic. AS in the smaller work
the chief charm of the play is the con-
trast between the innocence and trusting
confidence of the child and the rude
rascality of her burglariously inclined parent,
as exhibited In the third act. Mr.. A. S. Lipman
as the burglar, Wiltians LetOfs, was strong and
natural even In an Overwrought character, and
perhaps upset the proper trend of the audi-
euce sympathy Dy MS superior ART. Inc ioglc
OF the drama and its moral purpose, and it
claims to have the latter, are at odds all the
time. aid the spectator finds himself caring
more for the bad, bold burglar than the virtuons
and somewhat wooden editor embodied
in Mr.. L. A. Wagenhals. However,
the play is nicely acted as a whole
and Miss Helen Ottolengin is a very attractive
though always unhappy heroine. A very
sweet child. with the lovelIest mass of dark
hair you'll find in a thousand, plays the import
ant part of Editho in the crucial scene Miss
Gertie Homan is little actress of very posi-
tive ability, and what charms the play has is
very largely that of her personality. The play
is well staged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
FACT VS.. THEORY.

1t is significant fact that the most active
and outspoken of the Republican politicians
in opposition to President Harrison are
Messrs Huston and Clarkson. The average
Republican politician with other views is
willing to trust to the natural demonstra-
ton of Harrison's impossibility; but Clark
son and Huston speak right out, and show
both their faith not only by words but by
works.
Both these specimens oi Republican lead
ership were given tolerably high office under
the Harrison administration; but the trouble
was that it was not high enough to suit
them. They insisted that the President
should rate them at their own valuation of
themselves; but the President thought a
slight discount should be allowed in the di-
rection of the general estimate of their i'm
portance. The consequence is tina: Clark
son and Huston are out against the Presi.
dents renomi nation.
Yet, in spite of their own demonstration
to the contrary, both Clarkson and Huston
uphold the theory that patronage strengthens
the party in power.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
May Festival Box Holders.

There was an interesting little necromantie
seance in the parlors o. the Hotel Anderson
yesterday, and Messrs. Henry Holdship and
Carl Retter did some pretty juggling with a
weather-beaten hat belonging to Mr.. Roenigk
and lot of little bits Of paper. 1t was all for
the benefit of the May Festival. A large
number of ladies were there TO see the per-
formance, and they were deeply interested too,
every time MI. Retter took slip of paper
from the hat and Mr.. Holdship announced
some well-known Pittsburg name-for on the
paper slips were written the number of the
box drawn by the person whose name was
called simultaneously. AS soon as name and
a number were proclaimed, there was rush
for the next room of the interested parties to
locate the box upon the sheet which lay upon
a table. 1t was a mildly exciting scene all the
way through, and when the end of the sub
scription list was reached it was found that
about so boxes had been disposed of, to whom
the following list will disclose:
Mrs. d. A. Stewart, 81; Mrs. A. E, W. Painter,
II; Mrs. w. N. Frew. 9; Mrs. c. L. Magee, 70:
7: Mrs. Percy F. Smith, %; Mrs. E. NJ. Fer
guson, So; Mrs. H. c. Frick, 49,; Mrs Benjamin
Thaw, rs; Mrs R. Johnston, Mrs. G. G. Bur-
gwln, l6; Miss Bakewel, Mrs. BakeTell Phil
Miss McCreery 70; Mrs Josiah Cohen, 2S;
Mrs. James Oliver. Mrs. A. T. Hamp-
ton, II; Mrs. R. Mcknight, Miss Denny, IA;
Mrs. W. w. Patrick, "a; Miss Olive Jones and
d.. r.
Killikelly and Mrs. o. D. Thompson, 13; Mrs.
H. W. Oliver, IS: Mrs. Ch. ]. Clark. So: Mrs.
John ]. Holmes, II; Mr.. Carl Retter. 10; Mrs.
Reuben Miller. Is: Measrs. Joseph Horne & Co..
25 (Messrs,. Durbin Horne and A. ]. Burch-
6eld); Mrs Andrew Fleming and Mrs Wharton
Mcknight. s.; Mr.. P. F. smith. Mrs. George
Dilworth and Mrs. Walter McClint-
ock, SO; Mrs. James McCrea and Mrs.
NJ. K. Moorhead. 50; Mrs. j. B. Jackson, "A;
Mrs. w. G. Park. 72; Mrs. Geo. Laughlin. a.;
Mrs. VIM. Thaw, "a; Mrs. H. s. A. Stewart. Ss;
Mrs. Herbert Dupuy, 38: Mr.. c B. Shea, Is; Mrs.
B. w. vandergrift, 35; Mrs. Henry Fitzhugh,
66 Mrs. w. R. Proctor, 66; Mrs. Frank Sproul,
Mrs. Robert Pitcairn. 90; Mrs. w. R. Holmes.
81; Mrs a. NJ. Byers. 10; Mr.: A: G. McCallum.
49, Mr.. Samuel Hamilton. II: Messrs. Kleber
Bros, 9S; Mr. E. M. Hukil, 36: Mrs. w. R.
Thompson, IS; Mr.. D. P. Reighard, AZ: Messrs.
Horne & Ward, IL; Mrs. R. II. Boggs 80; Mr.. B.
f. Jones, SO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
P1TTsBURG. TUESDAY, APR Is. 1891
A HOPEFUL SIGN.

A peculiarity OF the natural gas supply is
furnished by the announcement that one OF
the leading mills, which changed to the use
of coal during the winter, has Just returned
to natural gas. The statement is to the eff
feet that sufficient supply of gas was Sc
cured. and that the change was made to
guard against possible scarcity of coal
from the threatened strike. Nevertheless,
the fact that mills compelled to abandon
gas last winter are now able to get that fuel
has no slight significance.
The change from the condition when it
was declared that the gas supply must be
shut of from the mills, and, even then, was
not sufficient to meet all domestic demands,
is likely to produce some sarcasms on this
idiosyncracy of the gas business. Never
theless, the contrast between the former sit
nation and the present is explainable In &C.
cordance with the conditions of the business.
The draft on the supply Of gas multiplies
several times over with drop of the ther-
mometer from 80 degrees to 20; and the sup
ply which was profuse in moderate weather
is wholly inadequate for severe winter cold.
1t is not strange when the domestic supply
is reduced to the bare needs of cooking that
sufficient should be found available for the
mills
Nevertheless, there is room in this state
ment for building up hope that the period
of waning gas supply may be ended. If the
better flow of gas will enable the mills to
use that fuel during the summer, it will be
public blessing in relieving the city of
smoke at the period when dust and SCOT are
most oppressive. In addition, the faint ex-
pectation that the increasing yield of the
wells may restore the old era of abundant
gas and smokeless atmosphere will be fat
tering JUNCTION that Pittsburg will fondly
cherish, even if the basis for it is slight
1t will be good news for Pittsburg if the
supply of gas should prove adequate for all
the mills But, pending the demonstration
OF that fact, it will be wise to take public
action to the effect that whoever has to use
coal shall do it SO as to consume the smoke
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
REDEEMING A PLEDGE,

The ground for the Grant monument was
broken with due ceremonial at New York
yesterday. and there is now fair prospect
that tie long-delayed fulfllment. of the
pledge for that memorial will be honorably
redeemed.
The sarcasms of the nation have been
leveled at New York for its delay in the
work TO which its citizens had pledged
themselves. Many of these were deserved;
but now that work has commenced the whole
nation will unite in giving the metropolis
credit. While the original idea of raising a
million-dollar monument to the dead hero
is not likely to be fulfilled, there is good
prospect that the memorial will be credit
able and fitly commemorate the character
and services of the nations greatest soldier.
Success TO New York in the redemption
of its pledge to mark the resting place of the
mourned warrior with fitting monument.
And may the dedication follow the COM
mencement of work more promptly than
Yesterdays ceremonies followed the incep-
ton of the scheme.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
Grand Opera House.

The ancient story of.Faust was presented by
Mr.. Lewis Morrison at the Grand Opera House
last evening. Everybody knows that Mr.. Nor.
rison's Faust is the Faust of Mr.. Henry Irving.
The plot, the words. and even the scenery, are
precisely similar. Even the famous Brocken
scene is modelled after that to which
the management of the Lyceum has
accustomed two worlds. But, it must
be owned, that Mr.. Morrison's performance
is a very faithful copy. Had it been original,
1t might have been ridiculous. Its greatest
merit lies in the fact that it is an almost exact
duplicate of the original. With regard to She
dramatis PERSONA of Mr.. Morrison's piece, the
most that can be said is that it Is salts
factory. We have all heard the story
of Faust 30 often that it is only neces-
sary for the characters to suggest their
peculiarities. Nevertheless Mr.. w. r.
Owen manages to inject some suggestion of
originality into his Faust; and Miss Florence
Roberts is an admirably naive Mdrguerite.
OF course the character of Aephisto is the
backbone of the whole story. Mr.. Lewis Nor
rison is entirely successful in his rendition of
the part. He Is not kindly, but an excessively
cynical Mephisto If he does not play accord
ing to the lines of Burns, he shows himself. a
close student of Goethe.
The setting of Mr.. Morrison's Faust is ad-
mirable. Every stage trick Is brought to bear
upon the hearing and eyesight. in order to con-
vince the soul of the reality of what is being
PLAYED upon the stage. The electrical effects
add great deal to the spectacular side of the
stress, and the novelty of the duel SCENE
wherein the internal sword Of Mephistopheles
plays the very dickens, with electric sparks to
boot is startling.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
Other Entertainments,

THE double stage show at Harry Davis Mu.
scum seems to be a great card. In the curio
hall the Japanese fire queen and other at
fractions are offered, and on the large stage.
among other clever people, appear: Taggart
and Stewart Louise Greland, and the Japanese
top-spinners.
ST PERKINS, the comedy of the meadow
land and tae farmyard, once more gladdened
the eyes of it's many friends at Harry Will
iams' Academy yesterday. 1t is as laughable
and refreshing as ever. with bit of new real
ism here and there added and not one Of the
old features left out.
Miss CARTER, who has hirsute growth on
her back that is not unlike horses name. is
the chief curio in the Worlds Museum. She
is certainly unique. A capital show is given in
the theater by the talented members of the
Fitzgibbon family. Ray Burton, a slack wire
walker and rife shot, and the amusing May
and Billy Golden.
A NEW play. Kentucky melodrama by Mi
ron Leffingwell, entitled "Blue Grass" is being
given to the patrons Of the above house this
week. IL is full of sensational incidents which
are made as much of as possible by fairly
good company. headed by the author and
Elena Leffingwell, VINO are good exponents OF
the characters they portray.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
DEATHS OF A DAY.
j. N. Hetherington.

J. N. Hetherington, known as "Colonel"
Hetherington by most of the old residents of
Allegheny and Clarion counties, died this morn
ing at the residence of his sonin-law, on Natchez
street, Mt. Washington. He had been suffering
for some time from a combination of jaundice
and heart trouble, and suddenly succumbed yes
terday. Mr. Hetherington was born in Clarion
county over 90 years ago and grew up in that
county. being regarded in his youthful days as
the handsomest man in Ciaficr where he en-
gagged in the iron business up to the time of the
Civil War breaking out He was then considered
worth about 500, 000 He married daughter of
Judge Myers, who survives him, with two sous
living in Philadelphia and n married daughter
in the Thirtv-second ward, Pittsburg. In 1861 he
enlisted in the Thirty Pennsylvania Vol
rnteers (the Eighth Reseryes) as First Lieuten-
ant, and resigned October 10, 1851.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28

A singular story comes from New York
that the father of Wm. j. Sharkey, a mur-
derer who escaped from the Tombs, was SO
affected by the criminal notoriety of mis- son,
that both he and brother OF the criminal
died of heart-break. 1t is also stated that
the heartbroken men had to pay $40, 900 for
the escape of the criminal from the Tombs,
and after that spent good share of their
fortunes in successfully resisting extradl-
ton proceedings to bring the murderer back
from Cuba,
Besides the Passing reflection that the New
York Jail officials who got the SIC, 900 for
permitting he escape of a murderer have
not died Of broken hearts, this fatal sensitive
ness among the Sharkey family can hardly
fail to rouse some curious speculations. The
fact that father and son, who could bribe
public officials TO secure immunity for
criminal son and brother, took it fatally to
heart, is very singular. There is an intima-
tion that it was the family disgrace which
weighed upon them SO heavily; but
it would be the natural presumption that
men who had the honor of family so closely
,at heart would not permit themselves to be
led into the more direct disgrace of public
corruption and spending money to defeat
Justice. We would be glad to believe that
it was the recollection that, by doing this,
they had shared the crime of the criminal
of the family which brought the Sharkeys
down in sorrow to the grave. But there is
no whimper to that effect in the comments
on the case which come from New York.
The popular and ignorant idea that there
is disgrace in suffering the penalty for crime
needs sharp correction. The disgrace is in
the crime itself, and it is deepened and rem
dered indellble by the resort to corruption to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-28
RURYING THE WIRES.

The public demand that telegraph, tele-
phone and similar wires be buried, has al
last reached the ears of Councils, and definite
action has been taken in compliance there
with. The introduction and referring of the
bills yesterday on the subject constitute, how
ever, but one step in the right direction.
Many beneficial bills have died mysterious
deaths while in the hands of committee,
and it behooves the originators of the pro-
posed laws against overhead wires to look
after them with great solicitude. There is
OF course no expectation that they will be
deliberately killed, but neglect would no
doubt be fatal to them. Therefore they
must not be neglected. The practicability
of putting such wires underground has
been demonstrated, and arguments against
the possibility of enforcing the proposed
ordinances should have no weight.
Pittsburg has suffered long enough from
the nuisance. The lives of the citizens and
their property have been endangered so
many times that it is almost wonderful de-
cided action was not taken long ago. The
discomfort against the existing state of
affairs was widespread and Councils action
yesterday will give general satisfaction.
This satisfaction will be complete when the
bills have finally passed and received the
Mayors signature.
No time should be lost in putting them
through. As they stand now they need but
few immaterial changes, if any, and the
sooner they are enacted into ordinances, the
sooner the various companies can get to
work in compliance with their provisions.
And when they are finally passed they
should be enforced. IF it is not intended to
enforce them, they might as well die where
they are.