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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
FIVE UNFoRTUNATEs ON THE LIST.
The Accidents of Two Days Were More
Painful Than Serious.

The Accidents of Two Days Were More
Painful Than Serious.
OF two days mishaps a little girl run
over by a wagon affords the most serious
case. The list is as follows:
FoRD-Miss Ford young Allegheny lady,
cut off two of her fingers in singular man
ner Saturday night. She was talking with
Mr.. Herbert, at the corner of North avenue
and East street, and the latter had a razor
in his hand. Miss Ford desired to examine
it and in attempting to close the razor she
held her hand over the opening so that the
blade came down on her hand and partly
chopped off two of her fingers.
STARR-Mrs. William Starr, the wife of q
baker living at No. l LacOck street, ALLIE
gheny, was severely burned about the face
by an explosion of q gasoline torch yester-
day morning. The torch had been packed
day, and while using lighted match to re-
move it from the barrel the gas caught and
exploded. Her injury is not serious one.
BROwN-Denhis Brown was struck by q
train of the FIT. Wayne road in Allegheny
yesterday while walking along the track.
The cars passed yer his arm. He was taken
to the Allegheny General Hospital, where it
was amputated.
KRAMER-On Saturday afternoon, 2
year-old daughter of II. W. Kramer, of East
street extension, Allegheny, while playing
on the street was run over by a hay wagon.
The wagon passed over the child's thighs,
crushing them so badly that she may die.
SMrTH-Albert Smith, a laborer employed
at the Liuden steel works, was badly burnt
last night. He was passing natural gas
jet, when it suddenly fared up, setting ire
to his clothing. Before the fire could be ex-
tinguished he was seriously burnt about the
head, face and hands. He was removed to
his home on Linden Hill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
SPIRITUAL WELFARE.
Rev. Henry Tarrant, of st. Marks Episco-
pal Church, Gives His Opinions.

Rev. Henry Tarrant, of st. Marks Episco-
pal Church, Gives His Opinions.
Rev. Henry Tarrant, of st. Marks Epis-
copal Church, Southside, took for his text
yesterday morning, Isaiah ", 6: 'I will
also command the clouds that they rain no
rain upon it." He said: ''The words of
the text represent Gods vineyard, and the
main idea conveyed is the means without
the blessing. Rain is essential to the pro-
duction of all vegetable matter. The in
fuence of the Holy Spirit, represented by
the rain, is essential to the growth of all
spiritual life. The withdrawment of the
Holy Spirit is the last and most terrible of
Gods temporary judgments. What does
this mean to us? A great many things.
The ministry permitted to preach without
power, ordinances and sacraments, are adj
ministered without the divine blessing; con-
gregations are gathered without Christ be-
ing felt the word of God is read without
any application of it to the human soul, and
what are the consequences? Personal hu-
initiation, and of the need of an atoning
Savior. The way to avoid the consequences
of having means without the blessing is to
acknowledge ones unworthiness both of the
means and the blessings, and to confess our
entire dependence upon the spiritual infu-
ence to gather encouragement from the
slightest indication of the divine presence. I"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
SCORED ON SUNDAY.
A Large Congregation, Attracted by.
Some Unique Advertising,
LISTENS TO DIR. GEORGES SERMON.
Rev. Robert A. Cutler Talks Entertainingly
for Few Minutes.
OTHER PULPIT TOPICS OF YESTERDAY

Rev. 81. II. George, of Geneva College,
preached last night at the Central R. P:
Church of Allegheny, on ''The dangers
been billed as though for circus, and
thousands of dodgers were distributed many
of them by ladies. AS result, the house
was crowded to the doors, by an audience
that listened attentively to the reverend
gentleman as he thundered denunciations
from the pulpit against modern Sunday
desecration. First he described Sunday as
it should be-a "home" day, day too sacred
to be spent In visiting any house but the
house of God. The law of Sabbath obser-
vance was law of God. He traced, briefly,
the working out of that law,
down along the line of history
coming down to the Puritan Fathers, who,
it might be said, "smoothed off the face of
Plymouth Rock" and wrote that command
that Moses wrote on Sinai: Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy"
eve are asked, he continued, &C but do
you want the Puritan Sabbath, with all its
restrictions and fanaticism?' L ask you, do
yon want the Continental Sabbath, with its
freedom, it's license, its vice and crime?
Pittsburg, we are glad to say has clean
Sabbath. Here 1t is impossible to buy a
glass of soda water, but there are cities in
this country where the Sabbath approaches
a continental aspect. Cincinnati is tonight
largely free and open; three-fourths of the
population of Chicago would vote to-day
for continental Sabbath; st. Louis is the
same; New Orleans is worse; San Francisco
is 20 times as bad. Now is it not time for
us to stop and consider where we are? If
we would prevent this danger that threat
ems our homes and the sacredness of the
Sabbath, we must unite, and we must
fight.
''One of the most gigantic dangers that
is moving down and crushing and destroy
ing our Christian institutions is the United
States mail system This is the foundation
of it all, and this Government, which does
not recognize God in its Constitution, is at
the bottom of this. The whole system is
wrong and is sin against the Most High,
and it must be stopped"
Mr.. George then proceeded to demon
strate the utter lack of any necessity for
the handling of the mails on Sunday.
London, over there, small village in
which considerable business is transacted
probably as much as in Allegheny-has no
Sunday mails and no inconvenience is ex-
perienced."
The railroads, saloons and other things
were then touched upon. In speaking of
the Worlds Fair he stated that the contro-
versy about keeping it open on Sunday was
the greatest fight this country ever had, and
if those doors are thrown open on the Lords
Day this nation will leap backward 100
years into heathendom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
SCARED BY THE LABEL,
Bottle of Whisky that Frightens Two
Thirsty Old Soaks.

Yesterday was a pretty close day in
Allegheny, and had not the speak-easies
been watched efectually they doubtless
would have done a thriving business.
Drug stores had many customers begging
for "spiritus," but as the prescription did
not accompany the call the customers were
turned away empty-handed.
A customer at Egger's pharmacy, on East
Ohio street, however, was very per-
sistent. He wanted just 10 cents
worth "to rub on the sore
leg of his horse" He pleaded
SO hard and stuck to his story SO faithfully
that the clerk finally gave him the pure
liquor, but at the same time labeled the
bottle poison The customers face
frightened up as he grasped the phial, and
almost ran out of the store The clerk
watched him and, as he suspected, the GUS
toner Joined his 'friend" around the cor
ner. They were about to swallow the con-
tents, but politely insisted on drinking
latter you, when in the action the label met
their eyes. A halt was made. They looked
at it long and intently, smelled of it, shook
their heads doubtfully, and finally poured
it out in the gutter. Shortly after the Gus
toner visited the store again and meekly
asked the clerk if he had sold him poison,
and collapsed when the clerk answered
that he had sold him the very best whisky
in the house.
Another customer in the same store was
given half pint of water yesterday instead
of the Spirits he asked for. He Joined
his friend around the corner, where both
men tasted it and shook their heads, swore
little and dashed the bottle to pieces on
the sidewalk
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
THE HOSPITAL BENEFIT.

Arrangements for the Fairies Carnival Max
! ing Good Progress-How the Big Stage,
the Scenery, Costumes and Other Neces-
saries Are Being Constructed.
The magnificent arrangements for the
great Homeopathic Hospital benefit, though
necessarily on colossal scale, costing thou
sands of money and the time and labor of a
thousand persons in the cast of the Fairies
Carnival, are progressing so handsomely
that nothing short of stormy weather can
prevent it from being a most gratifying sue
cess.
The task of collecting a thousand chill
dren, necessary for the production of
the musical and spectacular effects of
pantomine aud operetta of such
proportions, has not been one of the
most easy tasks, though through
the efforts of the Ladies' Society of the
hospital and other friends of the institution,
the Sabbath schools have been induced to
lend good assistance, and the cast will be
complete, with pretty prattlers to spare.
Many children were brought home from the
country to take part. Mr.. Fl. P. Ecker, the
musical director, has been met with hatter-
ing success in the rehearsals, as has also Mr..
j. Edgar Owen, the author and proprietor
of the play. Another rehearsal in the pretty
marches, dances and songs will take place
this morning, and tonight the 200 or 300
choir boys, who are to take part, will also
be trained in their parts.
The attractive costumes, 1000 in num-
Der, are being made at the Central Rink,
which presents the appearance of very
active juvenile tailoring establishment. A
large force of sewing girls has been engaged
for this part of the work, and all necessary
machines were kindly lent free to the
Ladies Society by the New Home Sewing
Machine Company. Many of the costumes
are being made so as to transform the little
performers into fairies and pretty butter
flies, bees, and crickets, and fantastic, in
deed. The contract for the construction of
the enormous stage to be erected in front of
the grand stand in Exposition Park was let
on Saturday to Murphy q Hamilton. 1t is
to be 300 feet long, and so substantially
built as to preclude the possibility of
danger. John johnson, the scenic
artist, is busily engaged in
the production Of 200 yards of
Fsiryland scenery, which is from designs
especially prepared for this exhibition. In
addition to the electric lights, II calcium
lights have been arranged to show the daz-
zling spectacle properly and lend pleasing
sharps and shadows.
Some of the members of the committee of
the Ladies' Society, which is composed of
Mrs. William Thaw, Mrs. George L. Mccoy,
Mrs. j. j. Vandegrift, Mrs Norman NJ.
Smith, Miss McClelland, Miss Pitcairn, Mrs.
W. j. Moreland and Miss Woods, are al
ways present at the rehearsals, witnessing
the progress of the entertainment and look
ing to the care of the children. Tickets will
be placed on sale by the members of the
Ladies' Society and at various places of bus
mess throughout Pittsburg and Allegheny
to-day. 1t is hoped and believed that the
receipts will reach SIS, 200, which will net a
good profit to the hospital fund, which is
short this year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24

tum fair this year. Additional chicken
houses have been erected for 100 more fowls.
The stalls have been improved until zoe
horses can be accommodated. Up to yester-
day $50 exhibition horses had been entered.
They embrace the magnificent stations, the
powerful draft horses of Clydesdale and
and Percheron extraction, the snowy coach
equines and the serviceable family cobs.
There had also been entered up to last
night 20 speed horses. ALI these figures
are ahead of the extent of last years ex-
hlbit.
NECESSITY FOR MORE ROOM.
So many more pigs, cows and sheep have
been entered this year above the capacity OF
last year, that the pens for swine have been
enlarged, cattle pens remodeled and sheep
folds overhauled. A new feed house had to
be erected for this increase in Allegheny
county live stock, and as great many more
farmers will be in daily attendance to take
care of them carpenters have also just fin
ished additional buildings for restaurants,
etc. The fruit and floral departments have
each been gone over with an eye to meeting
all the demands for space In every way
the applications for the privilege of exhibit
Indicate healthy renewal of agricultural
ambitions.
AuCoudy Will Ut dlIOScIHtT uCNOtCu w
receiving livestock and classifying exhibits.
The races will begin Tuesday and continue
all week. Wednesday will be the first day
OF real interest. Cattle, sheep and swine
will be judged, and cavalcade of all the
horses on the grounds will take place
at P. M. On Thursday another cavalcade
of both horses and cattle will be
held, and the show horses will be judged.
In the Farmers trot no professional drivers
will be allowed. This one race is intended
to encourage the breeding and training of
driving horses by farmers. To encourage
the breeding and importation of fine cattle,
sheep, poultry, swine, etc., premiums will
be awarded. Even an educational depart
ment and domestic department have not
been overlooked, but in both premiums
have been booked for penmanship, fancy
needlework, etc.
II. N. Brackinridge is President of the
Fair Association; R. s. P. Mccall, Secre-
tary, and o. G. Camp, Treasurer. The diff
ferent departments are in the hands of prac-
tical Allegheny county farmers, and the
stockholders are nearly all suburban resi-
dents Of the Allegheny valley. A few
shares are held by Pittsburgers, among
them ex- mayor McCollin, Senator William
Finn, Magistrate John Gripp, Max Klein
and Senator John Neeb. They went into
it solely to encourage agriculture. The
charter allowed no dividends to accrue to
stockholders, all profits to go into the i'm
proyement of the grounds
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
MISSED 1T ONCE MORE.
Mrs. Mattison Fails to Diagnose the Case
of Valentine Bishop ShuII--He Is Suffer-
ing From Typhoid Fever--OnIy One
Place Was She Right.

Mrs. Mattison Fails to Diagnose the Case
ofvalentine Bishop ShuII--He Is Suffer-
ing From Typhoid Fever--Only One
Place Was She Right.
Mrs. DIR. Mattison's communion with the
spirits yesterday was not pronounced sue
cess. She failed in every particular, and
there is only one point on which to hang a
hope She said that while the case was
being diagnosed short woman entered the
room carrying bowl At the time there
was short woman who carried glass of
water to the patient under treatment.
When THE DISPATCH received request
from its Lily Dale correspondent for an
other test, DR.. w. f. Edmundson, of Fifth
avenue, was asked to give his assistance in
the matter. Mrs. Mattison asked for the
fulPname, age and sex of the patient, and
said she would prefer to have the patient in
private house, as there are so many in q
hospital. The following telegram was sent
Mrs. Mattison:
Here is diagram for the test: Sunday
morning, 10 oGlock' standard time m Pasients
months. Residence, 73 Main street, Sixth
ward, Pittsburg: room second story. All
arranged for 10 O'Clock in the morning.
On account of the telegram having been
delayed the test was postponed to P. NJ.
DIR. Edmundson was accompanied by Willis
j. K. Perrine, who slightly leans to spirit
ualisni. In the room also was the boys
mother. The doctors diagnosis follows:
Pulse 96, temperature 40. Diarrhpa,
tongue coated brown. No pains or aches.
Clear case of typhoid fever.
The boy is not seriously ill, but his case
may develop, or it may be only mild at
tack.
THE DISPATCH correspondent at Lily
Dale sends the following as the result of
Mrs. Mattison's trance diagnosis:
The medium was in hurry to catch
train and the test was hastily made. She
was not sure she had the right place, as the
number of room was not mentioned. She
described the place as a large brown house
with the outer door in the middle of build
ing. She said on going up stairs and turning
to the left she found in the third room
lame boy under the effect of opiates and
she would not make the diagnosis until he
was free from it's effect. Two persons, q
man and a woman, were i'll the room besides
the patient. There were three windows.
The room contained a sofa, four chairs and
q stool. Another short woman entered the
room with something in a bowl.
DR.. Edmundson says the patient has had
no opiates at all and could not have had, in
the condition named. He is not lame, and
the only illness is typhoid fever. The room
is the second after turning to the left on the
second floor. A small servant girl entered
during the diagnosis, carrying a glass of
water.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
DR.. STEWARDS DEATH.
Important Evidence Develops Which Car
ries With 1t Grave Responsibilities
Was Put Off Train, with a Ticket in
His Pocket

Important Evidence Develops Which Car
rfes With 1t Grave Responsibilities-He
Was Put Off a Train, With a Ticket in
His Pocket.
The Coroners inquest on the death of DIR.
Samuel Stewart, of Hutton, who was killed
by work train of the Allegheny Valley
Railroad, at Wildwood, on Saturday after
noon, will be held at the Court House to-
day. The investigation of the Coroner
will be very searching in view of certain in
formation he received yesterday.
Mr.. James Clark was passenger on the
same train with DR.. Stewart, and saw him
get on the Braeburn accommodation at But
Ter street about 4:45 Saturday afternoon.
The doctor sat down in the seat in front of
Mr.. Clark, and soon afterward the con-
ductor came along for his ticket. Dr. Stew
art was 20 years of age, and has lately been
rather feeble and forgetful. 1t is reported
that when the conductor came for
his ticket he fumbled around through
his pockets in search of it. The
conductor waited some little time. Being
in hurry and evidently not believing the
old gentleman had ticket, he stopped the
train and put him off at Wildwood. 1t is
not known how long afterward it was the
accident occurred which cost DR.. Stewart
his life. A work train passed along and
caught him on the curve near Wildwood,
and when the body was searched at the
morgue the missing railroad ticket was
found in the old gentlemen's vest pocket.
Dr.. Stewart was native of Dublin, Ire
land, and graduate of the Dublin Uni
versity. He came here and began the
practice of medicine at Bakerstown, this
county, 40 years ago. He married daugh-
ter of the Rev. James Mcconnell, of East
Deer township, and they had family of
children, only two of whom survive, a
widowed daughter with whom the doctor
made his home at Hutton, and son who
is in the glass business at Streator, III. His
son had been here visiting the doctor and
had purchased his ticket and put him on
the train at the Sharpsburg bridge, intend
ing then to come to Union station and take
an early train fo1 the West. He had the
body removed home from the morgue last
evening and will remain for the interment
tomorrow morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
BEATEN WITH A BOARD.
An Aneghenian Crippled, and His Assailant
Released From Custody.

An Alleghenian Crippled, and His Assailant
Released From Custody.
Charles Grainor, a groceryman, of East
street, Allegheny, was assaulted by an un-
known man on Saturday night. He was
hit on the head with board, cutting his
head and breaking his jaw bone in fearful
manner. Serious results may follow.
Mr.. Grainor and his brother Were in a
wagon driving along Royal street, in Re-
serve township, when they met man driv
ing team in the opposite direction. The
team was stalled, and the driver was whip
ping his horses, when Mr.. Grainor remon-
strated with him, and volunteered to drive
the team. Grainor jumped out of his own
wagon and was about to jump into the
wagon of the stranger when the
latter took ofense at his interference,
and attacked him with the seat of the
wagon.
The first blow knocked Grainor down and
another cut his face from the ear to the
mouth, breaking his jaw bone and exposing
his teeth The brother then came to the
rescue, but was beaten off. The fight at
tracted a crowd of some 200 people, all of
whom were about to pitch into the stranger,
when Constable Homan, of the township,
appeared and placed him under arrest.
Ine stranger was sent 10 Ine lookup In Ine
patrol wagon, but as the constable
had failed to state the mans offense and no
warrant accompanied the body Chief Muir
ply would not allow him to be locked up
and ordered his release, particularly as he
knew nothing of the mans offending. Later
in the evening the unknown secured his
team where it had been left standing, and
drove away, since which time no trace of
him has been found. His name was not
learned, and it is possible he may escape
arrest.
Meantime Mr.. Grainor had been taken to
his home and revived from the insensible
condition he had been beaten into. DR.. P.
W. Heron was called to attend hem. He
sewed up his wounds, pronouncing the inju-
ries to be very serious ones, and likely to
result in confinement at least for several
weeks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24
A GOOD SHORT SERMON.
An Invitation to Come and See the Mighty
Workings of the Lord.

An Invitation TO Come ana See the mighty
Workings of the Lord.
The cosy little auditorium of the Central
Christian Church, corner of Caldwell and
Pride streets, was comfortably filled last
evening with warm-weather worshipers,
who had come to see what the pastor had to
say on his announced subject: "Come and
See." They heard very able and enter
taing sermon by the young minister, Rev.
Robert A. Cutler, though he talked less
than 10 minutes
Discussing the words of his subject the
pastor briefly referred to the high claims
Jesus makes for Himself, and the striking
popularity of Bible expression IN its sim
plicity. He compared the Bible language
with that of other works, and said that even
a child could read chapter after chapter of
Scripture and not find an obscure word or
one that it could not understand. The
simple and beautiful imagery and poetry of
the Bible-where in literature are their
equal? he inquired.
Then taking up more properly his text,
contained in David, Come and see the
cited innumerable Bible quotations where
the expression "Come and see" bore di-
rectly upon the lessons which he desired to
impress. To those who disputed the resur-
rection of Christ Mary and the Angel said
"Come and see." When Nathaniel asked
Philip, "Can any good come out of Naza-
reth?'' the reply was "Come and see." The
humble abodes of Jesus were described, and
the question suggested: "Can we ask to-day,
Master, where dwellest Thou?'" eyes"
was the reply, "Come and see"-come to the
Christian and there Jesus dwells in his
heart. Have you in your heart lurking
some secret sin? Then come and see Jesus
now. go to your home and kneel by your
mothers side and confess it. Then 90 into
your closet. After Nathaniel, who asked
'Can any good come out of Nazereth?" had
consulted with Jesus, he said: master, Thou
art the Son of God, the King of Israel" If
we accept the invitations to come and see
we will believe them all.