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THE ROANOKE TIMES.

Third avenue and First street Southwest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
A Toss-up SETTLES A DEADLOCK.

The Judfciel Nj uddle at New Castle to Be
Settled in Pittsburs.
NEW CASTLE, Aug. 17-[SpeciaL Tho
judicial muddle in this district will end
next Monday. John NJ Grear, OF Butler,
and William d. Wallace, of this city. met
at Zelienople this afternoon, and after
dozen or more ballots had been taken it
was seen that unless something was done no
result would be reached. The two candi-
dates were brought into the conference,
where Mr. Grear declined to make any
proposition looking to result. Nh. Wal
lace at first agreed to draw entirely from
the field provided Mr.. Grear would do SO,
and let the conference nominate an entirely
new man. Mr.. Grear would not agree to
this. Mr.. Wallace then said he was WILL
ing to arbitrate. This was not acceded TO.
FINALLY it was decided that each side
place ten names in hat, both sides to see
the names, and then draw out II names, the
three remaining to be additional conferees.
The preparing of the names occupied some
time, and when the result was announced it
was found that Judge Stowe, of Pittsburg;
Hon. j. w. Lee, of Venango county, and
George II. Anderson, OF Sewickley, had
been chosen. This will make in all nine
conferees, and these conferses will meet at
the Hotel Schlosser, Pittsburg, next Mon
dav, when a nomination will necessarily be
made
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
LYRIC DRAMA IN JAPAN.

Tho Music Is Soft and without Amy Stirring
National Tunes.
Among people whose two centuries and
more of pesce form only little span in the
history of a warlike race with high ideals
of military glory, whose greatest heroes,
almost without exception, are warriors, one
marvels to find so little of the fire of battle
in the notes of its singers, says Flora Har-
ris in the Chauauquan Another thing
strikes the Western mind strangely; accus-
toned as we are, not only to idyls Of court
and king but also to the loves and sorrows
of the lowly wrought into song, we
wonder that these Eastern verse;
makers, when they sing of humanity
at all, should prefer that type whose
smiles and tears are hidden behind the
glimmering brocade Of palace curtain or be-
meath the shadow of the ''Dragon Throne. 4"
Poet, as well as novelist, delights to mingle,
even in an imaginary world, in the society
of lordly knights and of court ladies with
cheeks ''the tint of cherry blossoms" and
"eyes tender as the waters in autumn"
As one reads some charming rendering of
Japanese poetic fancy or listens patiently
to some bright-eyed gray-haired expounder
of ancient literature, he grows eager for a
newborn singer to arise, prepared to strike
harp of iron, and give to us grand SYM
symphonies worthy of the nation and its
history, instead of the silver tinklings of
too aristocratic Tyre.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
THE DEATH OF GLACIERS.
They Come to an Abrupt End by Me lting
Faster Than the Flow.
Eoin

They Come to an Abrupt End by Me lting
Faster Than the Flow.
Edinburgh Review.l
Glaciers plunge into the sea in many cold
countries, and perish by drowning. their dis
membered remains floating away as bergs
But their end is by dissolution where the
annual mean temperature rises consider
ably above the freezing point. At some
certain level they melt faster than they can
flow, and so terminate.
The level, indeed, is a fuctuating one.
Icelandic glaciers are now steadily advanc-
ing; Swiss glaciers, according to M. Forel,
have undergone during the present century
five alternating periods of diminution and
growth. The meteorological changes occa-
sioning, and emphasized by these oscilla-
tions are very slight. Their character,
however, is unmistakable, and such as
might have been anticipated. That is to
say, glacial decrease accompanies a warm
and dry cycle; glacial increase, one that is
damp and cold.
Without one additional degree of cold, it
is conceivable that persistently augmented
deposit OF snow upon the Gernstenhorner
and the Schneestock, although otherwise
scarcely perceptible, might enable the
hnoue gldcleT TO oVeTWnelm brleS. Dut
this would be an exceedingly small step
toward the restoration of former state
of things, when an ice stream close upon
$50 miles in length, starting from the same
source, crossed the frozen or non-existent
Lake of Geneva, and debouched by Culoz
upon Lyons. Without severe cold as we'll
as heavy precipitation, ice could not poSsi-
bly, have gained so great an ascendancy.
And this was no local phenomenon; 1t was
prevalent over widely sepa-
rated tracts of the earth's surface.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
SOME BRADDOcK BREvI-IEs
Tho Borough Wins II Victory 'gainst the
E'-ciric RaiTway-A Thief

The Borough Wins Victory Against the
E'-crric RaiIway-A Thief
BRApDoCK, Aug. 17.-ISpecial I'm
Judge McCiung's court to-day His Honor
refused to grant preliminary injunction to
restrain the borough from lifting the tracks
of the Braddock Electric Railway on
Eighth street and Braddock avenue, and
directed the borough authorities to proceed
with the work. The IA men in the employ
OF the electric company, including Super
intendent Ellis, who were arrested yester-
day for interfering with the men in the en-
ploy of the borough, were fined $40 and
costs this morning.
Constable Best to-day arrested man in
a buggy, which was loaded down with
augers, wrencEes, chisels, women's skirts
and wraps old coats and a lot of other
things When he was taken in custody he
had on a pair of trousers taken from the
house of Squire Crawford, of Port Perry.
The man gave his name as George Rocker.
Shortly after w. c. Irwin came to town and
identified the horse and buggy as belongingto
him, and said it had been stolen from the
Presbyterian churchyard at Washington
about a week ago. Rocker was committed
to Jail
The remains Of Arthur Cooper, whose
death was the result of shocking accident
at the Homestead Steel Works this morn
ing, were brought to this place this even
ing. The young man was the son of John
II. Cooper, a former clerk in the steel
works. He was 20 years OF age, and men,
Der of Braddock Council No. 299, Jr.
O. ~ A NJ
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
DISPATCH THURSDAY.
DANGER OF SURF BATHING.


An Expert swimmer Must he Able to
Master tho Three Waves.
Harper's Weekly.l
Perhaps the most ordinary danger Of the
seashore-if danger can be called ordinary
lis what are known as the three waves
The breakers, as a rule, come in series of
three. Sometimes the three are small, and
sometimes are very heavy, but, as a rule,
the sequences run about the same size
Imagine bather inside the surf line, with
the surf breaking over bar about 30 or 100
feet from shore. Those big green waves
that rise higher and higher as they come
toward him do not seem very formidable.
The first one rears its head before it
reaches him with an angry swish; curl of
foam, like feather edge, crops out along
the top, and fills the air with sprav Then
the wave takes a more decided shoreward
curl, the line of foam becomes deeper. there
ID crash as 1t drops to a level, and the
bather finds himself thrown down in a cal
dron OF seething surf. Say he is in three feet
OF water on the level. After the wave has
passed, he struggles to his feet choking,
gasping, and halt blind with the salt water.
He doesn't really know what has happened,
but he has dim idea that something has hit
him. Before he has time to. collect his
senses the second of the series is upon him,
and he goes down again. He is dazed and
confused, and he founders around hope
lessly.
The third wave is always the finishing
stroke, and gives the life-saver, if there is
one, a chance to do some work Guided by
an outstretched arm thrust above the water
involuntarily, or by bobbing head with
which the surf is playing football, he drags
the unsophisticated one out on the sand.
That is the most common danger of the surf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
CATCHING A CONSTRUCTOR.

Batting With Live Pigs Is the Way to &c
After the Rapacious Boa.
Manchester Weekly.1
"To catch boa constructor is very di fl
cult and dangerous task, says man who
makes it his business to capture wild AMI
mails and reptiles for fnenagerie purposes.
''Briefy, it is accomplished by means of a
labyrinthian tangle, embracing 60 square
feet of ground. The labyrinth is made by
joining together, end on end, pieces of mat
ting. The web is 8 feet high, usually, and
placed so that the opposing walls will be
two feet apart. All sorts of criss-cross and
diverging combinations are made with the
matting-it is supported here and there by
stakes-making, when it is set, geometrical
puzzle that might well challenge the inge-
nuity of man.
''The trap is bated with live pig, which
is placed in pen in the center of the laby-
rinth. By and by along comes the boa con-
strictor. 1t is easy enough to get in. He
scents the prey; be is very hungry; the pig
is devoured, and here the boa comes to
grief For hours he tries to release hsmself
from the tortuous passages which rise about
him, but finally he grows tired and stretches
himself out for nap. Then is our time
We open the labyrinth and catch him. -
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
THE RISE OF A RIVER.

1t Can Be Ascertained by Two Organ Pipes
and Telephone Circuit.
New York Commercial Advertiser
Prof E. J. Smith describes how he was
enabled to ascertain from time to time the
rate at which river considerable distance
away was rising after fall of rain He
used simply two organ pipes and telephone
circuit. At the river station he fixed an
organ pipe vertically in an inverted posi-
tion, SO that the water in the river 3cted as
stopper to the pipe, and the rise Of fall of
the water determined the note it gate when
blown by small bellows driven bH avery
small waterwheeL A microphone was at
tached to the upper end of the organ pipe,
and this was in circuit with wire leading
to the second station. Here was an organ
pipe exactly like the other which could be
lowered into vessel full of water while it
was sounding.
By means of the telephone the note given
by the pipe at the river was clearly heard at
the second station, at which the duplicated
organ pipe was aised or lowered bv hand
until it gave the same note. The length of
the organ pipes under water at the two sta
tions was then equal, so that the height of
tine water in the distant river was known.
The total height to be measured was II
inches, and the determination could be
made in less than minute by any ear fairly
sensitive to musical sounds.
A lad with an average ear was able to get
the two heights to agree with one-eighth of
an inch Of each other, while person with
an educated ear adjusted the instrument iml
mediately to almost exact agreement Al
difference in temperature between the two
sections would make small difference in
the observed heights The organ pipes were
of square section and made Of metal to resist
the action OF the water.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
QUEER CUSTOMS AMONG ROMANS
The Women of Old Spent Most Their Time
in Dressing the Hair.

The Women of Old Spent Most Their Time
in Dressing the Hair.
Spare Moments
The Ancient Romans were most simple in
their attire, and SO continued for long
period; but after a time fashion came to
reign supreme among them, just as it does
with us to-day.
In the early Roman days the women, fol.
lowing Eastern traditions were seldom seen
abroad, and, when they did go out, wore
their faces veiled; but, as richness and
luxury increased, the household labors were
delegated to slaves, and dress and show be-
came the chief object of ambition. The
simplicity of their home life, and the num-
Der of bakers and cook shops, enabled even
the women of the poorer classes to spend
much of their time in the streets, market
places, and at the public games.
1t is noticeable that this day, the poorest
Roman woman, no matter how coarse her
garments, will invariably have her hair
neat, plated and elaborately coiled, and
fastened with snowy beaded pins--which
care of her bountiful tresses she derives
directly from her ancestress of ancient
times-for the ancients spent more time in
the elaborate dressing of the hair than in
any other adornment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18

NEW CASTLE, Aug 17.-[SpecidL j.
BALTIC Catigan. about - years of age, in
Greenville, Mercer county, will likely be
deaf A day or two ago he was In the She
mango river, bathing with some other boys.
While diving one of his companions cracked
two stones together under the water, caus-
ing concussion. In few minutes the boy
began complaining of something hurting in
his ear, and within "a hours he was unable
to hear, except loud tones. His physicians
think the drum of the ear is broken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
THE MAN WITHOUT A STOMACH

May exist as a museum freak, but most Of
us recognize the stomach as necessary to
life and comfort. Most of us experience q
little trouble from this source occasionally,
wrong action of the stomach causing dys-
pepsia, etc., and often the trouble extends.
find btlfousness and constipation, We find
also that the bowels and kidneys (nature's
sewage system) become clogged with effete
matter, from which comes impure blood,
bois, blotches, pimples, scrofula, scrofulous
sweliings and cancerous complaints. Tho
Burdock Blood Bitters taken at the begin
ming or at any later stage, arrests the
activity therebV removin@ sme eyery vessire of of
disease. B. B. B. is an absolutely pure ex-
tract Of roots and herbs, which can not
injure even the most delicate constitution,
and as cure for dyspepsia, biliousness,
constipation, bad blood, etc, succeeds in SO
cases out of loo. aulTrsSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
BOX CAR BURGLARS.
Three Railroad Men of New Castle
Arrested and Bound Over.
THE BRADDOCK ELECTRIC FIGHT.
West Virginia officers Securing the State
for the Cooleys :
NEWS FROM SEVERAL NEARBY TOWNS
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH
NEW CASTLE, Aug T.-New Castle
railroad circles were considerably shaken
up by the arrest this evening of Marion
Stark, engineer of yard engine; S. C.
Hardy, baggagemaster of the New Castle
and Allegheny accommodation and William
Mcmahon, yardmaster at New Castle juno
tion, all OF the Pittsburg and Western Rail-
road, and residing here.
They are charged by Detective Shomo, of
the Pittsburg and Western, with burglary,
it being alleged that they entered Pitts
burg and Western freight car on or about
the night OF July and stole So bottles of
whisky and one case of cigars, the whisky
being consigned to Fitch, Mcconnell &
Phipps and the cigars to R. Goldberg, both
of Youngstown.
The three men each pleaded not guilty,
but Detective Shomo and Detective Mar
shall. of this city, think different. They
will be given hearing, the bail being fixed
at $500 each
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
The OIL Market.

Range of the September option: Opening,
56c; highest. 561sc; lowest, 56c; closing. SEC.
Sales, 5000 barrels.
Refined oil-New York, 6.l0c; London, 40
l3- l6d; Antwerp, 14f
OIL CITY, Aug. H.-Opened, $3.50; hikhest,
5611c; closed $3.50; lowest. 561sc Sales l35, 900
barrels: clearances. 462, 600 barrels Iship-
NEW YORK, Aug. E.-Petroleum opened
steady and advanced 20 on local baying,
closing firm. Pennsylvania oil, spot lsales,
none: August option, sales. $4,000 barrels;
opening, 55ssc; highest, 561lc; lowest 5515c:
closing. 561lc. Lima oil, no sales. Total
sales, &, ,00t barrels.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
Ihe Epworth League of Pour t..es.

HARRISBURG, Aug. III Special J.
About 60 delegates from the Fourth Gen.
eral Conference District of the Epworth
League. comprising Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Virginia and West Virginia, met in
Grace Methodist Church this afternoon
These officers were elected: President, w.
Lee Woodcock, Altoona Vice Presidents,
j. L. Speedy, Port Royal; Appleton Bast,
Pennsylvania; Secretary, Mr. Pickup, Phil
adelphia; Treasurer, L. H. Jordan, Balti-
more. The contest for member of the Ma
tional Board of Control was quite exciting
A. R. Carthcart, of Baltimore, was elected.
A convention of the District League organ
lied to-day and will probably be held at
Altoona during the year
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18

A farmer in Bradford county, Fla, has
been greatly annoyed for some time past by
chicken thieves, so the other night he
strewed lot of paper slips smeared with
tar around his henhouse. He was soon
awakened by negro, who begged for some
coal OIL He had come barefooted to steal
chickens, and his feet were loaded down
With tarred paper, sand and briars, which
could not be removed by hand. He got the
oil, likewise sound thrashing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
Boycotted Out of Boarding House.

MANSFIELD, O., Aug 17.-[Specidl i
For the past week G. H. Dippo has been
taking meals at Mrs Twins boarding house
while his family was away on visit Mr..
Dippo is the Superintendent of the Eclipse
Stove Works. where union molders were
locked out, and Mrs Twins boarders being
all union men, issued an edict this morning
that unless Dlppo quit boarding at Mrs
Twins they would The landlady informed
the non-union superintendent of the situa-
tion, and he promptly quit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
CURIOUS INDIAN ETIQUETTE
Why the Heir = PIP aren't of odhpore Could
Not Accept an Invitation.

Why the Heir = PIP aren't of odhpore Could
Not Accept an Invitation.
A curious incident was brought to notice
in connection with the recent marriage Of
the heir-apparent of the Jodhpore State
1t appears that, according to the custom in
vogue among native chiefs, a kbarita of in
vitation to the royal wedding was ordered
to be sent to the Maharajah of Gwalior.
The official who wrote the kharita did not
know the mode of addressing the ruling
chief Of Scindia, and therefore referred to
old records of the State, in which the name
of the late grandfather of the present chief
was mentioned. The official copied the ad-
dress word for word and sent it off to
Gwalior by daroga On the kharita being
presented to the Maharajah of Gwalior he
refused to open it, saying he could not open
a kharita addressed to his grandfather, who
died before the mutiny, and asked the man
to take to take it to his samad, three miles
out OF Gwalior. None of the representa-
tives of the Gwalior State the Bombay Ca
zette says, attended the wedding on this &C
count
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
A Famous Portrait.

The original of the famous Ramage por-
trait of Washington, painted from life in
17S9, is offered for exhibition in the
Woman's Building at the Worlds Fair.
The miniature is set as a Iocket. with hair
and monogram at the back. Miss johnson.
in her Original Portraits of Washington. ,
pronounces it the finest of all, and predicts
that 1t will be one day the standard, a. the
Stuart portrait now is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18

A debtor down in Madison county, Va,
turned over as his only property gold
watch, bearing the name of extra Billy
Smith" and the date 1880. Extra Billy, who
died not long since, was once the manager
of stage line between Washington and
points in Virginia, but later Governor of
that State, Congressman and Major General
in the Confederate army. Extra Billy's
watch, though it has run for at least 62
years, still keeps good time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18

DITTsBURa AND WESTERN RAILWAY
/ Schedule in effect Nav Is. 1892 (Central timer
Depot cor. Anderson ST. and River av., Allegheny.
Depart for Chicago. 900 p. m. Solid train
Bradford. i7:io a. m. For Clarion. f7:ii
.. M, t2:oo p. m. For Eoxpurg, T:lO a, M.
N:i0 a. m. For Greenville, Mercer Grove CITY,
M:iO a. M. 1900 p. m. For Akron, Cleveland
=. M. $500. 1906 p M. For Butler $3.50 .7:ia
$3.50 a. M, 1900 t4:S, t5;15 D. m.
Trains arrive: From Kane, t6:45 D. M: Clarion,
!. M. =" fs:$ p; m. Erie ts:sS p M Grssnyiiis
q. m 1s,45 p. m. New Castle, fs:os 'n:55 T. M.
ss,4s D. M Butler. .7:oo ts:oo fii:so a m, tssjc
DAILY. Except Sunday
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
A LITTLE JAIL BREAKER,
He Proves to BE BoIder and More 1nge-
nious Than Adult Iumatek

NEW CASTLE, Aug. 17.-[SpeciaL Twill
lam Custer, 13 years of age. escaped from
the New Castle Jail when the turnkey left
for dinner to-day. Custer has already pleaded
guilty to two burglaries.
He was captured about o'clock this
evening while in swimming. He claims he
left the Jail to go out and get bath, and
effected his escape by picking the two locks
with bent piece OF gas pipe. He says that
the other prisoners in the Jail had wooden
key with which they tried to get out, but
after he had picked the lock they were too
cowardly to leave with him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
RAHRO ADS.

DTTTsBURG AND LAKE ERIE RAILROAD
[ Company. Schedule in effect May Is, 1892
Central tms.-DIPARr-For Cleveland, S.00a. M,
Lth ~. 9,S p. m. For Cincinnati, Chicago and
1t. Louis; T.5k g. .x p. m. For Buffalo. 500 I'm,
- @4 p. m Tor salamanca 800 q m; -i.Ss
Beaver fsils 500 10 500, n.sSa. M. rss $50
500, fs.4s 100, Ia, T.5o. $500 s.sa s.I9 1l.s.
AZ &1Ssivs-irSm' M FRO ''ii. cI:vslsSd' elan $50 a. M, ra,
Sis. T:0 p. n. From Cincinnati. Chicago and st.
faio, $3.50 ). M. ii:so, $50 D. m From salamanca
and New Castle, 's:sS 10 7 D7S. :1csoo .. %:, 'is:o,
$500 7:24 40 Z. M. 1880 l:20 s:la Tis6 9:so
p, Q. Y. trains for Mansfield. 7:x q. m. f2:io.
l:os p. m. For Esplen and Beechmont 7:0 .. m.
P, C. xY. trains from Mansfield. 7:ai. 11:5s :.
M, 2:T p. M. From Beechmont. 7:sl, lt:5s a. 10.
P, NICK. 7. X. z. .-DRPART-Eor Nov Haven,
's:2C .. m, .s:oop. m. For West Newton. $50 a.
xRRivsSFrom New Haven. $500 8. M, '4:o7 D.
m. From West Newton, s,Ss. $500 .. M. '4so7
For McKeesport. Elizabeth, Monongahela City
and Belle Vernon. $40. 1:0S q. m. $500 D. m.
From Belle Vernon. HononEahela City, Eliza
beth and AcKeespork 7l0 .. M. 1855. '5s0S p. m.
'Daily 1sundsys only. ITO and from New Cas- .
oiV Tiekss omss, csc snithnsld ssrsss
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18

the heart this morning. He was tound lying
dead in a vacant lot He cane home from
Chicago to visit his grandfather, and said
that be had trouble with his wife, and that
he would move here to get away from GER
tain influences He left q note to his
mother, saying that he was tired of life.