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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
The hiidst of a Great Sale.

Search the town from end to end and
you'd fail anywhere to find such an en-
thusiastic crowd of good natured people as
throng the stores of the P. G. c. C.'s, corner
Grant and Diamond streets. We are in the
midst of the greatest sale of suits and over
coats ever offered to the public. Persuasion
is utterly out of the question. Thousands
of people come in with the crowds who
simply '1ook" to see what's going on, and
low. Don't wait. The sale lasts but few
days more; only about S2O0,OOO worth lett
of the great purchase of over $500, 900 of
clothing that we bought at bargain, and
must turn it into cash. The superior
quality and excellence of the goods offered
tell their own tale, and the low prices sell
the goods. Here are few of them:
We offer suits made of imported
suitings in French thibets, Hudders-
field cheviots, Clays, worsteds, Hocka-
NUNS, Globes, etc, made in every
detail better than any goods ever offered for
$50, at $15, either in sacks or cutaways.
Come and see them. If they are not better
after bought and compared with other gar
ments that cost more elsewhere, return
them and Well cheerfuIly return the money.
We have added to-day 200 mems genuine
imported Carr's melton and English kersey
overcoats, in black, blue, brown and olive
shades, that are made as fine as the best
skilled journeymen tailors can produce
them, thoroughly lined with cutters silk,
sold always at $40 to $50. We offer them
to-day at SIS and $40. We offer mems bust
ness suits in all the correct styles in sacks
or frocks, made of the best cassimeres,
cheviots, homespuns, all new effects, at S12,
that are considered cheap in other houses at
500 and $25. We offer hundreds of over
coats superbly made in meltons, kerseys,
thibets, fine silk and woolen Innings, perfect
filters, at S15, that sell everywhere at $25
and $780, and we leave it to your good taste
whether ours are better made or not.
Mems business and dress suits at 80 that
if bought regularly would cost US SIS and
$18. Mems worsted and cashmere pants,
generally sold at 81 and $S, in handsome
stripes and checks, we are selling at S3 75
BOYS and children's suits and overcoats
equally as cheap. Space does not allow us
to mention more than a few prices. 400
suits for boys, ages to IA, worth So 90, we
sell at 81 49, Boys overcoats, worth So so,
90 at 81, and hundreds of other bargains in
mems and boys dress suits and overcoats of
every description. Remember, there are
but a few days left and the early ones get
first pick. You'll never get better chance
to make a "good front" in the way of good
clothes for so little money. For we want
the cash, and low prices must bring it.
laundering big values in men Is furnishings.
Come and see. You'll believe your own eyes.
p. G. G. c., Pittsburg Combination
Clothing Company, corner Grant and
Diamond streets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
THE TARIFF TOO HIGH.
A Plate Glass Man Says the Protection
Rates Are Exorbitant on His Article,

A Plate Glass Man Says the Protection
Rates Are Exorbitant on His Article,
H. Cleveland, member Of one Of the
largest plate glass firms in New York, is at
the Duquesne. He is relative of the ex-
President. Major McKinley's election in
Ohio was not anticipated by him, and he
was not pleased with the result. 'There is
too much protection on plate glass
brought from France and Belgium. "
said he. "The duly is about
175 per cent. We cannot compete
with foreign plate glass, as to quality and
finish of imported goods. OF course the
American manufacturers claim that their
article is just as good, but 1 have been in
the business for MANY years, and l differ
with them. The French workmen take
more pains in finishing their goods, which
the home labor overlooks. Even if you
buy a pair of boots in France they will
have finer finish than ours. This holds
good in the case of plate glass and mir
rors.'
Mr.. Cleveland is attending to private
business, but will stay over Saturday to
take in the unwilling of statue erected to
j. R. Ford at Ford City.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
Buns and Bondage.

1t has been reserved for Mrs Fawcett,
says the Lady's Pictorial, to boldly attack
that seemingly harmless confection as the
most deadly enemy to female freedom-the
bun. The bun, she insinuates, is synony-
NOUS with slavery, the teapot is the stumb-
ling block to emancipation. 1t is idle, 80
she declares, for women to dream of free
dom while buns and tea hold sway. and
practically impossible for them to attain
the superior pedestal occupied by man
while thev are content to consume slabs of
plumb cake and drink Bohea out of "thick
china bowls" at midday. What q terrible
picture this presents to the imaginative
mind pining to be freed from the
shackles wherein woman is now bound?
Fancy paints the ''oppressed'' female lured
by the potent fumes of the baneful teapot
into the fatal recesses of the confectioner's
den. Once inside she falls ready victim
to the insidious bun, and as she eats her
energy departs Then the deadly bowl is
quaffed, and an apathy akin to that of the
lotus eater comes upon her, while the fet-
ters tighten. She may, it is true, make
feeble astempt to shake them off; she may
upraise her voice to cry aloud for "rights,"
she may even struggle on to platforms and
declare her determination to be free, but it
is all in vain. The bun and the tea have
done their work. Her chest is
Weighed upon with heaviness
And utterly consumed with sharp distress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
NOT MAKING BIG FORTUNES.
A Saloon Is Not Always q Gold Mine in
Pittsburg.

A Saloon Is Not Always a Gold Mine in
Pittsburg.
Cuisines is nothing like it was before
the passage of the Brooks law" said a
Smithfeld street saloon keeper yesterday.
'In my case the daytime trade is as good
as ever, but ohl what a difference in the
EVENING" Before the Brooks law went into
effect men could play cards in the saloons,
and shake dice or play pool for the drinks;
they can't do any of those things now, and
as consequence great many OF them seek
their evenings amusement elsewhere
Doubtless the counter attractions of the
theaters carry off lots of men who would
have been our customers in the old days.
There was day not SO very long ago when
the saloon was about all the field for enter
tainment open to the bulk of Pittsburg's s
population. The increase in the number of
theaters, together with the restrictions of
the Brooks law, have made large hole in
the profits of most of the downtown saloon
keepers. The saloons near the theaters are
the only ones that do big business between
8 o'clock and II in the evening. After the
theaters are out the business is better dis
tributed, but about the time tine bartenders
are beginning to hustle, boom goes the
City Hall clock, midnight, the days ended,
doors must be closed. The idea that all q
man need do to make fortune in
the retail liquor business is to
get license, location on a
principal street downtown, some beer and
whisky and bartender to sling it over the
bar, is pretty well exploded. After few
more saloonkeepers have failed those who
are left may make a good living, but not
much more, if a half-dozen popular or pecu-
liar bars be excepted. don't deny that
the latter exceptions are making their
owners wealthy-but they can be counted
on one hand almost
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
OVERCOMING A PREJUDICE.
Increased Demand for Cottonseed Oil-It Il
Now Taking the Place of Lard-Whst
the Change Win Mean to Pork

Increased Demand for Cottonseed Oil-It ID
Now Taking the Place of Lard-Whst
the Change Win Mean to Pork
Growers.
Realizing that all flesh is grass, and there.
fore there is relation more or less distant
between them and the hog, Americans are
Justly jealous of the American-reared ami
NAL of foreign countries, and they are de-
termined that he shall be given clean bill
of health under penalty of retaliation, but
the bar on the animals behalf against cot
touseed oil languishes to an extent sufficient
to arouse the suspicion that Chicago lard
industries have ended it by going into part
nership with the oil manufacturers and
make lard productions more profitable.
But it begins to look as though the mask
under which oil is sold as lard will before q
great while be thrown off and the oil come
into general use for pastry-making despite
the peoples prejudice and the solemn warn
ing of a Pennsylvania legislator who de-
nounced it as deobstruent when fighting
for the passage of the anti-oleomargarin
law. People appear to be content to pay
S4 or S. gallon for it as salad oil, but OBJ
ject to. it at one-tenth of that
price as shortening, and yet at
ingly for the latter purpose. Cottonseed oil
is gradually but steadily working its way
into favor, not only elsewhere, but in Pitts
burg, though outside of the italian quarter
beefsteak is not fried in it. Those who use
it in cooking find that the evil effect of the
consumption of hog lard does not follow
that of oil, and it is especially nice for the
manufacture of ioughnuts, as it does not
impregnate the dough to the same extent
that lard does. People who have tried it
say that it is just the thing in which to fry
Saratoga chips, and some who a few years
ago bought gallon as an experiment now
buy it by the barrel
The cotton crop appears to be late this
year, at least the new oil has not yet gotten
into the Northern market, though Mr.. Car
roll states that it is on the way, shipments
having been made from Texas a week or
ten DAYS since. As cotton was once king,
even when the growers thought not of get
ting revenue out of the seed, and as peO-
pie are ruled mainly through their stomachs
there is promise that the plant Will again
within few years be enthroned. In that
event one may expect either an improve
ment in the quality of pork or a decrease
in the quantity grown. At present the hog
is the great corn crib of the country, but he
will not be to so great an extent if people
cease consuming his fat This state of
affairs emphasizes the Importance of culti-
waiting an appetite for the grain in Europe so
that if America cannot supply the Old World
with pork she may induce consumption in
the shape of corn. This must be done or
the Hebrews and Mohammedans should be
persuaded to give over their aversion to
pork.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
TIME DID NOT AVAIL.
A Saloon Keeper in Trouble Over the Pas
sage OF a Counterfeit.

sage OF Counterfeit.
United States Deputy Marshal Barring
Yesterday brought from Wilkesbarre, Pa,
William Zirnhelt on a writ of habeas cor
pus, issued by Judge Reed, of the United
States District Court. Zirnhelt is saloon
keeper in Wilkesbarre, and was arrested
there on charge of attempting to pass q
raised bill. His relatives claimed that
he is insane, and asked for writ of habeas
corpus TO bring him into court for hear
ing The case is an odd one. Five
wears ago a $40 bill, raised to $50,
was passed on Zirnhelt. He made an in
formation against the man he supposed
passed it on him, and he was arrested by
Deputy Marshal Barring. A case could
not be made against the prisoner and he
was discharged. In the meanwhile, how
ever, Barring had put little mark on the
edge of the bill Zirnhelt retained 1t for
five years, but recently, it is charged,
tried to pass ii. An information was
made against him and he was ar
rested by Barring. The note was at
once recognized by Barring, his little mark
still showing. Zirnhelt's family obtained an
attorney who appeared in court and asked
for the writ of habeas corpus, alleging that
he is insane, and therefore not responsible.
Zirnhelt was brought here Yesterday and
placed in Jail, Judge Reed fixing next
Wednesday for hearing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
sCoTTs MOTHER BREAKS DOWN
When 1t Is Announced That He Must Go t,
the Reformatory.

A scene occurred in Criminal Court yes
terday afternoon. James Scott, indicted
for the killing of John Haduka at Wall
station on MAY 5, was to have been tried.
The case was postponed in the morning
until afternoon owing to the fact that Mr.
Marshall, young Scott's counsel, was en-
gagged in the Common PIE. Court. In the
afternoon he announced to the court that his
client would plead guilty to involuntary
manslaughter. Scott was sentenced to the
Huntingdon Reformatory. His mother,
who had expected her son to be released,
broke down completely and had to be as
sisted from the court room.
The jury in the assault and battery case
against Officers Thomas Paisley and Ross
Rorison rendered q verdict of not guilty
and placed the costs on the prosecutor S.
L. Orr
Bridget Hanna, of Homestead, pleaded
guilty to three charges Of selling liquor
without license.
Charles +. Goldstrohm, of Webster, Pa,
was convicted of assault and battery on
John \. Perkins, June 49,
John and Augusta Rain, charged with
malicious mischief in injuring the house
of James Hamilton, of Milyale, were ac-
quilted and the costs divided.
William Long was acquitted of a charge
Of receiving stolen goods from George
Gamble, August 2S, on Grant street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
HIS GENIUS HIS OWN.
Such Is the Claim of a Former En-
ploye of an Iron Firm, Who
INVENTED A VALUABLE MACHINE.
A Counterfeit Held Five Years Gets Man
into Trouble.
wHATTHECOURTS ACTED on YESTERDAY

A suit of more than ordinary interest is
in progress in the United States Circuit
Court and will be concluded to-day. The
plaintiffs are John (. Haskin, John Ill.
Dalzell, W. J. Crawford and Francis L.
Bates, the latter of Philadelphia. The de-
PENDANTS are Dilworth, Porter ~ Co,
Limited The suit Is for damages for the
alleged unlawful use of a patent rolling
mill. J. A. Wakefield and w. L. Pierce
are counsel for plaintiffs and James A. Kay
and D. F. Patterson for the defense.
Haskin invented an open housing for a
rolling mill while in the employ of Dill
worth, Porter & Co., and when he refused
10 assign the patent to them they dismissed
him from their service. Defendants hold
that when they employed Haskin they also
employed all his inventive ability, and that
in consequence they rightfully own the
patent This Haskin denies, and the court
mast settle the controversy, which involves
about S150,0O0.
Judge Reed yesterday handed down an
opinion granting a rule for attachment in
contempt on John Fulton in the suit OF
the johnson Steel Rail Company VS. the
North Branch Street Company. The rule
is the outgrowth of patent Infringement
between the two companies. AT the hear
ing before the commissioner, Fulton ap-
peared as witness, but refused to produce
certain papers and drawings, claiming that
he would be divulging valuable business
secrets. The rule provides that when the
drawings are produced the witness will be
discharged.
A verdict was rendered in the case of the
United States against the Pittsburg, Ft.
Wavne and Chicago Railway Company and
the Pennsylvania Company, lessee, being
dispute on boundary line along the COM
pany's tracks near Davis Island dam. The
jury found for the plaintiff for the portion
of the land south of the line and for the de-
PENDANTS for the portion north.
The case of Captain s. S. Brown VS.
Francis NJ. Lechner, an action on q note for
$1,000, was finished, verdict being rem
dered for s., 5SS 0S for the plaintiff.
verdict for $40, ,722 96 was rendered for
the plaintiff in the action of the American
Exchange National Bank, of New York, vs.
Holmes, Lafferty & Co.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
CALIFORNIA,
The Country Of Delightful Winters.

California is the most attractive and de-
lightful section of the United States, if not
of the world, and its many beautiful resorts
will be crowded with the best families of
the East during the entire winter. 1t offers
to the investor the best open opportunity
for safe and large returns from its fruit
lands. It offers the kindest climate in the
world to the feeble and debilitated; and it is
reached in the most comfortable manner
over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Pullman vestibule sleeping cars
leave Chicago by this line every day in the
year and go without change or transfer
through to San Francisco, Los Angeles and
San Diego This is feature not offered by
any other line. Write to Charles T. Apple
by, Travelling Passenger Agent, Room 303,
if you desire any further information as to
the country and the accommodations for
reaching it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13

Bv the "WilliamesVac System" with
out back pressure upon the engine. Guar
anteed advantages-Saving power, and %
per cent and over of coal compared with the
pressure system, removal Of cracking or
hammering in pipes, increasing efficiency of
the heating system. Send ornew descriptive
catalogue to Warren Webster s. CO., 491
\. Third street, Philadelphia,
Patentees and Mfrs. of Webster Vacuum
Feed Water Heater and Purifez
MTFSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
The Alton Declares War.

KANSAS City, Nov. 12.-The Chicago
and Alton Railroad has made through rate
of SIS from Kansas City to Cincinnati over
the Alton, and the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroads. For some months the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad has been offering the
rate to the Western railroads, but the asso-
citation lines have not dared to accept it.
This cut will, in all likelihood, inaugurate
a retaliatory policy from the indianapolis
lines, and result in lively rate war.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
SUITS TO ORDER.
GENTS FURNISHINGS.
R T NJ { NJ bER!

That every purchase of S. made in Our
Boys Department will entitle the pur-
chaser to one of those Ideal Dime Saw
ings Bank or the Musical Bell Toy, and
we are still giving away the best Dinner
Bucket in the world to all purchasers in
Mems Department =: =: =:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
DIVORCE SUITS IN COURT.
Two Filed Yesterday and as Many More
Granted.

Attorney ]. H. Porte yesterday filed the
divorce suit of Mary Gregory, by her next
friend J. H. Jacobs, against Jackson
Gregory. They were married March G, 1891,
she charges him with cruel treatment and
infdeiity.
Attorneys Robb & Fitzsimmons filed the
divorce suit of Charles Zeller, Jr against
Catherine Zeller. They were married
September q, 1887. He claims that she
treated him so cruelty that he had to leave
ner August z, 1888.
W. A Blskely, commissioner, filed the
testimony taken in the divorce case of Fred
Chester against Florence Chester. They
were married May o, 1890, and lived in
Hazelwood. Chester alleged that he came
home from work, found his wife drunk and
learned that she had been unfaithful. Other
witnesses testified to her acting badly and
going to improper places. The couple
separated June %, 1890
Divorces were granted In the cases of
Mary Schmitt against Joseph Schmitt, and
Pauline r. Mocber against Charles Mocher.
Desertion was the allegation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13

decide betwixt the respective claims OF
bodice or polonaise. See to it that all such
things are abundantly supplied; also that
your sewing room is not SO numbered that
there is no room to work. Put into it a
light oblong deal-topped table, high enough
for comfortable tearing and cutting. 1t
ought to have one shallow drawer for pat
terms. Under the drawers have two light
shelves that will be simply ideal places for
slowing away boxes, bundles and unfinished
work.
Have also a lap-board or folding-lap
table, a neat fannel-covered press-board
and tiny gas or oil stove, to supply hot
irons. You need also two pin cushions
one large, one small-and at least dozen
papers OF pins, large and small. not forget
ting several sizes of safety-pins, which are
the ''sovereignest things on earth" for
cstching and fixing the unstudied grace Of
accidental efects IN draping. Provide also
a couple of emery cushions and of measur-
ing tapes, half dozen cheap light thimbles,
and at least three pair of good sharp scis-
sors. One pair should be long, keen bladed
shears. and there should be button-hole scis-
sors besides, as well as keen, small pen
knife for ripping seam that has been
wrongly sewed.
A sewing room of all places demonstrates
the total depravity Of inanimate things.
They lose themselves and persistently re-
fuse to be found in the most heart-breaklng
fashion. The time saved by such provision
in a single weeks sewing will be worth
double the cost of all the things here set
down.
Of course you will have several reels OF
silk and twist, and plenty of fresh new
Innings for made-oyer garments. Choose
lightish silesia, soft but firm, and close
woven. A stiff stuff is fatal to the style of
whatever goes over it.
Handsome stuffs, either silk or wool, or
the two together, may go to the dyer and
come back better than new. Mixtures con-
tanning cotton and poor stuffs generally
never pay for either the trouble OF expense
of dyeing.
Only the very finest velvet admits of re-
dying. You may help the looks of any sort
though by laying its face downward upon
clean paper and whipping it smartly, then
brushing off the dust from the right side.
To take out wrinkles from large bits, damp
the wrong side slightly, put weight
in each corner and hang smooth face up
ward till dry.
Lastly provide for your sewing-woman q
light comfortable sewlng-chair, a rocker
also, and low footstool, and basket for clip
pings. Remember, too, that she is human
and fallable, that most likely her horizon
is narrow, her ideals not too high. If you
encourage her to gossip with you about her
last place, revealing the secrets
of its prison-house, for your delec-
tation, what else can you expect
than that your own cherished skeleton shall
be served up, with sauce piquant, to the
next customer?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
THE MERCANTILE AGENCY
II. G.. Dun & Co..

Westinghouse Building, corner Penn Ave.
and Ninth St., Pittsburg, Pa.
This establishment supplies all necessary
Information as to the standing, responsible
ity, ETC., of business men throughout North
America. 1t is the Oldest and by far the
most complete and extensive system ever
organized for the accommodation of Bank
ing and Mercantile interests and the General
Promotion and Protection of Trade:
Debts Collected and Legal Business at
tended to throughout the North American
Continent. FPS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13

A short session of Common Pleas Court
No. was held yesterday to fix cases for
jury trials to commence next Monday. The
regular list, the first one of the new court,
was called. 1t has 1874 cases on ii, which
will give the court plenty of work for
start. 1t was expected that the appoint
ment of crier and tipstaves would be an
nounced, but they were not. There are
four tipstaves and one crier TO appoint.
They will likely be named Saturday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-13
IRON AND STEEL BUILDINGS.
ROOF TRUSSES, COLUMNS AND GIRDERS.
PIrrsBURG BRIDGE COMPANY, Thirty y-Eshth St.
STEAMERS AND EXCURSIONS:
STARLINEI

WHITE TARLINE-
w For Queenstown and Liverpool.
Royal and United States Mail steamers.
sTeutonc, Nov. IS. am -Teutonic Dec. 16, $50 am
Britannia Nov. 25, $50 am Britannia, Dec. a. II am
Majestic Dec. 2. $3.50 am Majestic, Dec. 90 3 pm
Germanic Dec. g. IL 80 am Gerinanic, Jan. s.
NewYork.
Second cabin on these steamers Saloon rates,
so and upward. Second cabin SIS and $40. Excur-
sion tickets favorable terms. Steerage, from or
to old country, so.
White Star drafts payable demand in all the
principal banks throughout Great Britain. Apply
to JOHN j. MCCORMICK. $50 and 4O1 Smithfield
ST.. Pittsburg. or II: MAITLAND KERSEY. Gen
eral Agent - broadway New York, ocl5-D