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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
PLAYS TO COME.

THE most notable comedy engagement Of the
season is that of MIR. A. NJ. Palmer's superb
organization, the Madison Square Theater
Stock Company, at the Duquesne next week.
The artists and successes of this repres enta-
tive American company are too well-knoWn to
theatergoers to require M ore than mere an
nouncement. All the successes of two seasons,
seven plays, six of which are new to Pittsburg
will be presented, and by such clever people as
Maurice Barrymore, Ada Dyas, Mr.. Stoddart,
Mrs. Phillips, E NJ. Holland. Miss Maude Har-
rison, Mr.. Frederic Robinson and Miss Mamie
Craddock. Every play will be staged and pre-
ented with that perfection of detail which has
made the Madison Square Theater of New
York such great reputation. The bill for the
week has been arranged as follows: Monday,
Captain Swift Tuesday evening and Satur-
day matinee, "A Pair of Spectacles' and "a
Man of the World;" Wednesday and Friday,
uSaiuts aud Sinners;" Thursday, "Sunlight and
Shadow" and zone Touch Of Nature" and
Saturday evening Jim the PenEan." The ad-
vance sale or seats and boxes begins this morn
ing.
THE sale Of seats for the May Festival ia pro-
crossing very fast. There has been q steady
stream of people at the tIcket-seller's counter
all the week. The management announce that
they have few private boxes left that will be
disposed of either entire or by the single seat.
Mr. Carl Retter says tie Wednesday evening
programme of The Festival is One Of the best
His own expression, evidently coming from the
bottom of his musicians soul, is that it is mag
nificenI."
THE Bijou Theater will present "a Pair of
Jacks" to its patrons next week. It is farce
comedy of good repute. by Happy Grafton
Donnelly, and will certainly afford plenty of
food for laughter. K. q. Knowles and George
A. Booker are the most responsible comedians,
and several young women of good looks, and
cleverne-s In dancing. singing and fun-making
are also in the cast. A lot Of new songs are
promised.
A DECENTRALIZATION OF the somewhat noror-i
ious novel, Thou Shalt Not" is promised at
the Grand Opera House next week. The pro-
ductiou, It is saId Will be IN competent hands.
THE sale OF seats for the Marine Band con-
certs at Old City Hall. next Saturday, Is pro-
crossing satisfactorily. Y. s.ss y ..t ,as. :. : 8
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
THE WORK OF THE TORPEDO.

The destruction of the two Chilean war
ships by torpedoes recently is attracting the
attention of the naval world to degree sur
passed by only one event in naval warfare,
namely, the duel between the Monitor and
Merrimac. That novelty in naval warfare
29 years ago destroyed the value of the
wooden fleets of the world as against IRON
elads. The demonstration of the effective
ness of the torpedo has been not quite so
decisive, perhaps, but is sufficiently effective
to work greater depreciation in money
value of the worth OF the great ironclad bat
tie ships of the naval powers.
In commenting on the work of naval
construction undertaken by this nation,
The DISPATCH has steadily pointed out
that the present is a transition period in
naval architecture, aud for that reason, be-
yond the construction of swift cruisers, the
line to be taken by our Government was the
tentative construction of various types OF
war vessels Especially in regard to the
construction of large battle ships, each of
which costs millions of dollars, it was
pointed out that the vast expense
might be made an utter waste by the demon
stration of some new method of DESTROYING
those unwieldy vessels. While many
millions have been appropriated for this
type of vessel, the demonstration of their
uselessness has, in comparison with their
cost, come sooner than was expected.
The best havsl minds are already agreed
that the work of the torpedo on the coast of
Chile is conclusive in its condemnation of
the great and unwieldy battle ships.
Against the quick movements of the torpedo
boat these heavy and slow-moYing monsters
will be practically defenseless. Even the
cruisers will be confined to the work of COM
merce-destroyers; and, unless new inven-
tions supersede the torpedo boats, they will
be the effective force in pitched naval con-
ficts
1t is by no means certain that dynamite
guns. or some undeveloped invention, may
not supersede the torpedo. But the new
phase of affairs fully corroborates the idea,
which The DISPATCH has always urged,
that the proper naval policy for the United
States is in the line of developing new in.
ventions in torpedoes, dynamite cannon and
defense of harbors by pipes that will present
barrier of burning petroleum to invading
vessels.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
THE SPICE OF LIFE.

Lord Noodleby-Yes, Miss Astorbilt, I
love you, but 1 never could marry 4 girl who
ssguesses'' so much. L do not hk that Amer
IcanIsm you all adopt, instead OF saying II
fancy
Miss A. (bent on matrimony)-Bu my lord, III
renounce 1t for your sake.
Lord NoodIsby-Then I'm ask you-wilI Jou be
my wife?
Miss A. (earried away with Joy)-wslL guess.
-Epoch.
Irate Father-I never gave my father
impudence when 1 was boy.
Son-Maybe your father didn't need it-Lys.
De Bank (reading cable dispatch from
ItaIy)-If were that man Humoert ! think I
should feel pretty small by this time.
De Crank (reading sporting eolumn)-fI was
Anson I'D FIRE him. They knocked him clear out
of the box at Plttsburg last Friday. -chfcado
Tribune.
"No." he said, rising from the piano, "I
have not been able to give much time to my music
lately" "
.,And the time you do give IT. - cheerfully re-
sponded his rival, ''is simply atrocious. '-Boston
Post.
When a woman wants 10 drive anything
out Of the aouse she ''shoos'' it. A man usually
boots YOnksrs Statssman.
Landlord-I'm going to raise your rent.
Mr.. Clark.
CIark-why. rents haven't gone up, have theyf
landlord-No, but 1 see you've been making
some improvements on the house. That, OF
course, ought to make 1t bring more rent.-fGR-
kee btdde.
PLANE PUN.
When carpenters hew chips away
To make things quite exact
II Is remarkable. they say.
To sec his adze subtract.
-WashSn1tos PosE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
SOCIALISM IN NEW PLACE.

1t is rather surprising to find the bright
and shining New York Euening Sun max
ing an adverse comment on Won Moltke's
direction that his funeral should be pri ivate.
Says that journal: pray by what valid
claim does Won Moltke or any other man
undertake to dispose of what doesn't belong
to him? He has left a shell to the necessary
care of other people; why not let them judge
of what it BELTS them to do?'
This view applies equally to the directions
General Sherman left on the same subject,
ana which men are frequently wont to make
by iestamentarY or anIe-mortem provisions
But the most remarkable aspect of the Sun s
assertion is that man has no right to con-
troll beyond his lifetime the material things
which belonged to him while living. A
mans body is as much or more his personal
possession in life as his money, his real
estate or his ehattels. The same logic BY
which the esteemed EUening Sdn arrives at
the conclusion that man should not dis
pose of his body because it does not belong
to him would exclude him from directing by
will how the dross and dirt be leaves in the
care of other people shall be distributed II
a man cannot logically dispose of his own
body, he should have nothing to say as to
what shall be done with his money or real
estate.
Il is not necessary to enter into a discus
sion of the correctness or incorrectness of
this view. The salient point is the outbreak
of decidedly Socialistic logic in the columns
of the paper. Have we new Socialist organ
in the New York EUening Sun? If so, the
Socialists are to be congratulated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

Mrs. David LAUDER left for New York
Iast evening to study art In the metropolitan
studios. Mrs LAUDER has considerable talent,
and is destined TO become gifted artist.
Henry King, Of Roanoke, formerly OF
the Girard Iron Company, and A. W. Crawford,
of Emlenton, ex- Minister to Belgium. are stop
ping at the Monongahela House.
Mrs. J. II. Lindsay, Of Trinidad. Col, is
among the guests at the Monongahela House.
She has been visiting friends in the East and
is about to return home.
John Clark, teller of the Fdrmers' De-
posit Bank, will leave for Europe to-day. He
has been III with the grip and was granted a
leave Of absence.
Commercial Agent Dimmock, of the Chi
capo. Milwaukee and st. Panl road, and Mr..
Ward. of Horne q Ward, went to New York
last evening
Chief Clerk Hall to Superintendent of
Transportation Provost, Of the Pennsylvania
road, was in the city yesterday.
j. DennelIy, of Hollidaysburg. and ex-
Senator ]. w. Lee, OF Franklin, are ar the
Duquesne.
e. M. Hukill. w. W. Scott and j. B.
Donan, Of Washington. left for New York last
evening.
Thomas B. Simpson, wife and two
daughters. of Oil City, are at the Schlosser.
Mrs. F. W. Torrance. of Montreal, is
registered at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
Prot. j. @. White, of Morgantowu, is ut
the Mon"ngahela House.
Judg Theodore S. Wilson, of Clarion,
was in The city yesterday.
Edward G. Waters, of Boston, is putting
up at the Anderson.
Squire Barney McKepna has returned
from Harrisburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
PITTsBURG. THURSDAY. APR 80 1891.
THE EIGHT-HoUR STRUGGLE.

The prospects are very strongly to the
effect that the elght-hour question will be
brought to the test, not of reason but of
strength, in the strike tomorrow. The
representations of the opposing interests
with regard to the prospects of the struggle
are decidedly conflicting If we accept the
statements of one side, the strike is doomed
to failure before it begins If the assertions
of the other side are to be relied on, the em-
ployers will be forced to speedily concede
the requirements of the men. The proba-
hilitv that both views are simply the prod
uct of the wishes of each party respectively
is 50 great that we can only await the issue
of the struggle to determine what its result
will be.
There will be tendency to similar i'm
partiality with regard TO the public sympa-
thies in the contest-outside of the very
large element whose affiliations JOIN them
to one side or the other. There will be
feeling that both are not wholly free from
the charge Of extreme action. The Interrupt
ton to building operations, and the feeling
that it is hardly just to concentrate the
eight-hour issue upon the city which pays
the largest wages for the shortest hours
Y ork, will create a certain degree of senti-
ment against the strike. On the other hand,
it is true that the increase in the cost OF
building in Pittsburg has not been wholly
due to the high wages The combination of
builders has probably done as much, if not
more, in making Pittsburg one of the cost
hest places in the country to erect homes as
the union among the men. Finally, the
last edict-that no one can buy building
material outside of the combination-pre-
sents an aspect of monopoly which puts the
attitude of the employers toward the public
in decidedly adverse light.
1t is one of the idiosyncrasies of the wage
dispute of the present season that the strike
which would have the best claim for public
sympathy has been abandoned, while those
which have less reasonable foundation are
10 be prosecuted. The general miners
strike, which had the provocation of per-
emptorv and unreasonable refusal of the
operators to consider the eight-hour proposal,
is declared of, while the coke strike, which
rests on the fatally defective basis of q strike
against a falling market, is waged by means
which bring it close to antagonism against
ths law. Similarly the miners proposition
for eight hours labor was the one where the
men had the most undoubted right to give
that system fair trial, at their own expense,
il il was not successful. 1t is a singular
feature of the chances which produce such
struggles that it should be laid aside while
the fight is concentrated in trades where it
is much less clearly founded on the equita-
bic rights of the men.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
NAMES THAT ARE FAMILIAR.


QUEEN VICTORIA has left Grasse home
ward bound.
WALT WHITMAN likes to talk to editors,
reporters and theatrical folk.
JERRY SIMPSON, the Kansas Congress
man, owns farm of 600 acres and has 80 acres
in wheat.
JOSEPH PULITZER has fad. 1t is to
commence whatever he has to do of importance
on the tenth day of the month.
FRANKLIN MOORE SINGER, son of the
sewing machine man, has just married Mile.
Blanche Vanderbilt Morcelain, of Paris.
Mr.. TAPLING, a British Member of
Parliament who died recently, was supposed to
have the largest collection Of foreign stamps
any man ever possessed.
GENERAL FRANCIS E. SPINNER's will
provides that on one side of his monument
shall be put in raised letters facsimile of his
signature, with the date of his birth and death.
RICHARD VAUX, ex-Congressman, now
says he is not sure whether he danced with
Queen Victoria or not as he was only 2l years
of age when the event is said to have hap
pened.f
MRS. ELIZABETH B. CUSTER is always
social gatherings. but that is because she has
a very gracious manner and says just the right
thing to everybody.
PRESIDENT HARPER, of the new Chi
cago University, hopes TO pick up some of his
faculty in New Haven, but it is possible that
he will secure one or more professors in Ger
many while he is abroad this summer.
REV. JOHN JASPER, of Richmond, whose
sermon. entitled. DE Sun Do Move," gained
him wide celebrity. has declined an invitation
to 60 TO Boston, determined as he says, that
they shall "play none of der Ibsen and Kipling
business on him..
Mks. KINNE RENO, the Nashville auth
Dress. is the wife of Robert Ross Reno, who
comes from the ROSES of Pennsylvania and
who, with the Haldemans and Camerops
claims share in the estate of old Philippe
Francois Renault, valued At S200, ,000,000
MRS. ANNIE BEsANT does not like to
talk to people after her lectures,s so her intimate
friends say. It is-not that her evening task has
been Such an arduous one. but because it is the
last Of the many labors that she has carried on
during the day, and she is ready to go home
and go to bed.
Mrs. IGNATIUs GRosSMANN (Edwina
Booth) is the only woman permitted to enter
the Players Club. When her father is in town
and staying at the club. she goes there fire.
quently. passing through to the elevator and
up to his room. almost without being seen. She
is very sedate little woman, and passionately
fond Of her two children.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
UNION PACIFIC WILL RErREHcH.
Only One Change in the Board of Directors
Made at the Election.

Ouiy Ouc Cnanko IN tnc DooE0 Va A>AAcSsSAe
Made at the Election.
Boston, April D.-President Dillon called
the Union Pacific stockholders to order at LIS,
and At 1:26 the polls were declared opened for
two hours tor the choice of 10 directors. 1t was
Immediately voted TO approve the company's
acquisition of the sl3.25o.O00 Union Pacific.
Denver and Gulf Railroad Company stock,
s7.ls0,0O0 consolidated mortgage bonds OF this
company. the IS. .265 900 Oregon Short Line and
Utah Northern per cent bonds and collateral
trust bonds of the same company for S44, 759, ,00O
and miuor securities Tie stockholders then
voted to approve all the directors acts. and to
annul and declare ultra wires the famous Rock
Island and st Paul bridge contract with she
Union Paciiic which 1t was declared had never
been submitted to the Board of Directors OF
the company, or to the government directors
President Dillon said that M. Gould, Mr..
Ames and himself would make an inspection OF
the road about May 10 or 20 '.aud if there is q
rotten limb there l will cut 1t of. II there are
supefnumeraries or high wages, we will cut them
OF. There has been," he continued, "a natural
tendency the past few years to go up, up, up
Now we must come down to the bottom
The only change in the board was the election
Of s. FL. Clark in place of Mr.. Holcombe,
whom he succeeded as General Manager. The
directors organized to-day as follows: President
Sidney Dillon: Vice President, s. H. Clark;
Second Vice President, G. M. Lane; Controller,
Oliver w. Minki: Treasurer, G. Harris; Secre-
tary, Alexander Miller. ~
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
Obituary Notes.

WILLIAM Fl. WEBB, wealthy tobacco broker,
died Tuesday at Louisville, aged 70.
WILLIAM MoNTooTH. the well-known grocer
of Butler street extension, died yesterday, aged
years.
GENERAL YGNAcIo MEJIA, ex-Minister Of War
and a member of the Pan.Amertcan Congress
from Mexico, Is dead.
LUKE REYNOLDS. prominent contractor and
politician. died Tuesday at Louisville. aged 81
years. He was native of Ireland.
JAMES GAMBLE. surviving partner of the old
firm of Proctor & Gamble soap manufacturers at
Cincinnati, died yesterday. aged IS years.
ENoCH MOORE, one or the Oldest Odd Fellows
in Pennsylvania. died Monday in his sirh year at
Pine Grove, where he had lived all his lie.
MRS FANNIE K. CRlswELL. aged 4s years. wife
of Il. 4. Criswell, of Mt. Pleasant, died Tuesday
at l:25 P. NJ. from severe attack OF grip. The
funeral will be on Friday at 2 P. NJ.
MISS ELIZABETH ADAIR JORDAN. aged 10 years,
daughter of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Jordan,
of the United States Army, died suddenly at the
Columbus barracks yesterday Of heart failure.
RIoLLoY f. LEE, who died at Pottsvllle Mon
day, had been President of the Pennsylvania
National Bank of that place for 20 years. He was
50 years old, and made fortune in the coal busi-
ness.
FREDERICK RINDERNEcHT expired Tuesday at
Erie at the age of 73 For half century he was
bank president, manufacturer and merchant, and
was also strong WING ana Republ1can- He
leaves his nephews q large fortune.
STEPHEN KUNTz of Washington. Pa, died
Tuesday night from stroke OF apoplexy. He
had been visiting his brother, and sat down for
mement near Bryson's hardware store. when
he fell to the ground. He was picked up and
taken home where he died In s short time.
NATHAN y FISK, centenarian, died Tuesday
at st, Croix, Wis. Mr. Fisk was born in Hills
borough, N. H, August %, 1871. He moved to
st. Croix Falls in 1859. He was schoolmate of
Fran kim Pierce. Mr.. Fisk has been in remarka-
bly, good health with q retentive memory, until
within the last two or three years.
REV. ID. Z. THAYER, aged 40 years. promi-
nent minister in Trumbuli county, o.. OF the
Disciples, Church, died yesterday at his home In
brother of DIR. 1. A. Thayer. pastor OF the Church
OF Disciples, in New Castle. He was educated In
Hiram College and entered the ministry in 1871.
DANIEL BEcKLEY died in Sunbury Tuesday,
aged CO. He was appointed Postmaster at Mifflins-
burg by President jackson in 1929. where he
served % years. He was Prothonotary of his
county from 1857 to 1858. and Sheriff from 1865 to
1862 In 1872 he was appointed court crter, and
and was IN office for so years.
DIR. PAUL II. KIETzscHMAR, an eminent
Brooklyn physician. died Monday night He was
a member of tho New York Academy of Medicine.
censor of the German Medical Society, member
of the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society. and
physician OF the Lutheran German
Hospital, He was u profile writer medical
subjects. and at the recent International Medical
Congress in Berlin he read paper on consump-
ton which attracted notice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
HEIR TO A FORTUNE.
The Death of Brother Makes Servant
Girl Very Wealthy.

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Girl Very Wealthy.
SPECIAL rxLEeRAA TO THE DISPATCH;
PORT JARVIS April 29-Sarah Cassidy.
hard working and respectable Irish domestic
here, has Unexpectedly fallen heir to a hand
some fortune, and she started tonight for far
of Portland on the Pacific coast to claim it.
She and her only brother, Robert Cassidy. were
born in Montrotb. Queens county, Ireland.
Robert. who was many years her senior, emi-
grated to the United States early in the ffties
He never wrote home and was lost sight of.
Sarah, when grown to womanhood, set out in
seach of her brother in America. Failing to
ind trace of him, she settled down in domestic
service in this town.
After some years she SO far renewed the quest
as to advertise for her lost brother. She got a
response from him dated at Portland, Ore. He
had gone there soon after his arrival in this
country, and when the now prosperous city was
only a hamlet He was an Industrious and
frugal man, and invested the money which he
saved to advantage in real estate. Now she is
iE receipt of letters from William Foley, at
torney at law, Scotland. Ore. announcing that
her brother died at Vancouver. WASH, Sep
tember 70 las, after having executed a will
leaving her all his estate, comprising valuable
city property in Portland and large cash assets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
MRS. BEACH SET FREE.
A Jury VIII Consider the Question Of
Sanity on Friday Next.

rrgcrAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcHJ
NEW YORK, April % I'm obedience to Justice
O'Brien's order, Alfred z. Beach. editor of the
Scientific american, brought his wife down to
court shortly after 10 o'clock :his morning.
Albert Bach. the Anti-Kidnaping Leagues
lawyer. and William F. Howe, lowered around
while Justice OBrien took Mrs. Beach into his
private room to question her alone, in order to
find out whether she is under restraint, as some
of her friends and the kidnapping League
claim. Mrs. Beach's conference with the Judge
was long one, and when it was over Justice
O'Brien announced to both sides that In ac-
cordance with Mrs. Beach's request, ne would
order jury trial TO determine the question of
her sanity. She had no objection, he said, to
remaining at her own home, and would prefer
to stay there. The Judge said there appeared
straint, but as she was desirous of having her
mental condition passed upon by a jury he
would order jury trial for Friday next.
"Well, now am I free to go where 1 wish?'
asked Mrs Beach. mo one will hinder YOU"
replied the Judge. "You are at perfect liberty
to go where you WILL" SpIritualist Murray
stepped up at this and offered his arm. Mr.
Murray and Mrs. Beach started of in one
direction and her husband in another. "Mrs
Beach has no money" said Mr.. Beach's lawyer.
"of her own, and It is all nonsense to say that
she was gUing to give thousands to establish
home for INDECENT mediums"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
FARMERS OUT sa,ooo,ooo. ass

Arkansas Railroad Foreclosed and Sold
Under the Auctioneer's Hammer.
TOPEKA, April 29-The Chicago. Kansas
and Nebraska Railroad was sold this morning
by the United States Marshalto satisfy the
s26 OOO, ,OOo-mortgage against the company in
favor of the United States Trust Company, of
New York. The road was bought by Edwin
W. Sheldon. Of New York. acting for the Trust
Company, for SIS, ,232 900, the appraised value
of the road.
the State claim to have lost 81 000, 600 in bonds
voted to the road in the various counties
through which the road passed. A fund was
raised by the citizens Of these counties, and
the foreclosure proceeding was bitterly con.
tested.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30

nouncement of the Mandelay Herald that the
Mingoon Prince had left Saigon for the Shan
States to head a rebellion there. investigation
proved the foundation for the story to be that
the copies of the Herald sent to the Prince
have been returned. and this disagreeable Incl
dent led the Herald to make the announce
ment The evil things that can be said of the
vile wretch who does not take the papet have
been illustrated in this country by the Arizona
Kicker; but even that genius never rosesto the
height of announcing that the recusant is
about to plunge into treason, stratagem aPd
sDols