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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
ALL QUIET AT PADUCAH.
After Another Skir mish in Which No One
Was Harmed.

Was Harmed.
LOUISVILLE, July 14.-Quiet prevailed
at Paducah to-day. An investigation was
held this morning to determine, if possible,
where the arms that the negro mob had are
kept and who are the leaders Of the mob.
All negroes who cannot show that they
have a means Of living will be compelled to
leave town. A judicial inquiry is also in
progress to-day to determine who killed
Elmer Edwards. Edwards was buried this
morning with military honors. Henry
Brown, colored, who last January stabbed
to death Charles Hampton, keeper of a
negro saloon, was, after trial last night,
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
There was another clash here last night
between the whites and blacks, but no one
was injured. The militia had been relieved
from duty, but have been ordered out
again. Purvine, the negro shot Tuesday
night, is dead, and the negroes say they
must have vengeance. Last night special
police force numbering 100 men was put on
duty to patrol the city, and every prscau-
tionary measure was taken to pre-
serve the peace. At o'clock the
squad of men in the north
eastern part of the city saw $50 negroes be-
yond Oak Grove cemetery, and several
shots were exchanged. As soon as this
word was communicated to the city authori-
ties 100 stand of arms were placed in the
hands of determined citizens, who marched
out to where the negroes were located.
When the citizens reached the place they
had retreated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
ENTERTAINING DEBATES.

| Inc senate considering the Purchase OF q
Government Printing Office Site-BiI:y
Mahones Properly and Cameron's
Scheme to Have 1t Bought at a Fancy
| Price.
! WASHINGTON, July 14.-[Specidl 1.-The
debates in the United States Senate during
the past few days have been highly enter
| tanning. The debate on the question
whether ex-senator Billy Malone, of Vir-
| ginia, would succeed in selling to the Gov
ernment for S250,000 piece of ground in
Northeast Washington as site for the new
government printing Office, is one of the
funniest for long while-and that is say
ing great deal.
The facts leading up to the discussion are
these: The present Government Printing
Office is dilapidated, dangerous, disease
breeding structure, which is apt to fall
down at any time beneath the weight of
the great presses that rumble and roar in it
day and night. Every person who works in
the building is in constant danger of his
life There is no doubt about this, and sew
eral Congressional committees have so re-
ported.
Quarter of a Million for q Site.
In tne last congress sum OF money
something like $3.50, 600 was set apart for
the purchase of site for the new building
and the Committees on Printing were
authorized to investigate the matter Of
site and report.
No definite action has ever been taken
looking for the purchase of a site, for the
reason that the real estate jobbers of the
District of Columbia began such a fight
among themselves that it was impossible to
choose between them without bloodshed
At the last session of the Fifty-frst Con-
gress Senator Cameron, OF Pennsylvania,
who is heavy dealer in Washington real
estate, endeavored to pass a resolution TAX
ing the matter of the selection of site out
of the hands of the Committee on Printing
and instructing them to choose the Malone
property. He did not succeed in this, but
while the Committee on Printing was still
struggling with the problem this year, Sen
ator Cameron and his friends stole march
on them, the result of which is the present
fight of Malone versus the other real estate
spectators of the District of Columbia.
How the schems Was Worked.
The Cameron Malone combination worked
their scheme in this wav: During the alb
sence of Senator Stanford in Europe, Sem
ator Quay was the Chairman of the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
and the leader of the minority on the COM
mittee is Senator Vest There is rule of
the Senate that no amendment can be
brought into an appropriation bill that has
not been recommended by a standing COM
mittee.
The Malone men, therefore, came for
ward with a formal recommendation
from Senator Quay's committee for the
purchase of the Malone property, and
Senator Manderson as Chairman of the
Committee on Printing. at once jumped into
the fight. Senator Henderson favors the
purchase of another piece of ground known
as the Baseball Park, although he has no
interest in it, and is perfectly willing that
some other site should be chosen, but what
made him mad was that the Committee on |
Public Buildings and Grounds shonld at
tempt to override the Committee on
Printing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
THE SHIP NOT GIVEN UP.

An Eloquent Speech Keeps the House
From Surrender-Holm IN Once More
Turned Down by His Friends-1he GAL
Iaghcr Resolution.
WASHINGTON, July 14.-The smoke of
Yesterdays battle having been dissipated
oy the night breezes, the House met to-day
somewhat refreshed and ready to dispose of
he business which stands between it and
IN early adjournment Although the day
was given to the Commerce Committee, that
committee was unable to transact any bust,
less, some of its members being rather in
iignant and attributing their failures to the
opposition of Mr.. Holman. Mr.. McMiliin
md other leaders or the Democratic side
lie legislative conference report was agreed
o without much opposition, as was also the
conference report on the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill, and the confer
ence report on the naval appropriation bill
Mr.. Andrew, of Massachusetts, from the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported and
he House adopted the McAleer resolution
'equesting the Department of State to in
luire into the circumstances relative to the
Imprisonment of DR.. Gallagher, an Amerl-
an citizen, in an English prison, and to
.ndeavor to secure his release.
Mr.. Herbert, of Alabama, presented a
lisagreeing conference report on the naval
appropriation bill, and it was agreed to.
Mr. Herbert then moved that the House
ecede from its disagreement to the Senate
amendments which are still in controversy.
These are the appropriation of S5O,0 900 for
he naval review and the authorization for
he construction of a new battleship.
Mr. Holman opposed any recession.
Mr. Fellows made an eloquent speech in
ayor of recession. With an earnestness
which received we'll merited applause Mr..
fellows pictured the dying Lawrence issu-
ng his command, "Don't give up the
hip," and he urged the House, in fervid
words, to obey the command OF the naval
zero. [Applause.l
And the House obeyed the command, and
lid not give up the ship. Mr. Herbert's
notion was agreed to-yeas 146, nays So
nd the bill is disposed of as far as the
House is concerned.
The conference report on the diplomatic
nd consular appropriation bill was pre-
ented and agreed to. The House then ad-
ourned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
IN VERY BAD 0DOR,
A Black Eye for Pinkerton
Detectives, Turn Which
Way They Will.
MR.. SCOTT'S LITTLE BILL
Would Prevent Their Travel on Any
Railroad or Boat Line.
CONGRESS SORE on THE SYSTEM,
And Fully Prepared to Pass Bill That
Would Annihilate 1t.
CONGRESS SORE ON THE SYSTEM,
A NEW MOVE TO AID HOMESTEADERS
tFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. ]

lFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, July 14,-There is every
probability that the present troubles at
Homestead, however that they may result
as far as the dispute between the Carnegie
Company and its workmen is concerned,
will give the Pinkerton system of furnish
ing armed guards black eve that will re-
suit in its ultimate overthrow.
Already several of the States have passed
laws intended to prevent the use of the
Pinkerton guards, and to-day Representa-
i've Scott, of Illinois, introduced bill in
the House of Representatives designed to
80 as far as the national Government can
Igo in the same direction. 1t is entitled IA
bill to prevent the interstate transporta-
Tion of bodies of armed men other than
hose in the military service of the United
S tates. the several States and Territories,
ar the District of Columbia" 1t prohibits
tbsolutely the transportation from one
State to another of all such bodies of men,
whether known as detectives" 'police"
or any other title.
A Heavy Fine and Imprisonment.
It provides that any owner, president,
or corporation convicted of violating the
provisions of the act shall be fined not less
han Sc, 900 and shall be imprisoned for one
rear. Further than this, any person or
corporation guilty of violating the law shall
be liable for any damage done to any per-
son, either in his person or his property, the
amount of such damages to be assessed by
court of competent jurisdiction.
The idea of Mr. Scot. was to make it i'm
possible to transport the Pinkerton guards
from one State to another. If there had
been such law as he proposes on the
statute books when the Pinkertou men were
taken into Homestead on "Wednesday of
last week
The ORicers and Employees
of every railway line over which they trav-
eled to their destination would have been
liable to heavy fines and imprisonment, and
would also have been liable for heavy dam
ages for the men who were wounded and
killed in the battle when they attempted to
land from their bsrges
Mr.. Scott takes the ground that the only
persons who should be allowed to interfere
10 enforce order or preserve the peace in
any part of the United States are the
legally constituted authorities of the Gov
ernment, whether State or National The
Ill was referred to the Committee on the
dietary, a subcommittee of which is
Jw engaged in investigating the trouble at
homestead. 1t is not likely that any re-
port will be made upon it until after the
return of that subcommittee, when either
he Scott bill some substitute for it pre-
pared by the committee will be reported.
In the present temper of the two Houses
such a bill would undoubtedly pass, with
little or no opposition. L.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15

Smith does accomplish great deal Thai
fact is evidenced by the increase of wage:
she has secured for scrub women in the de-
partments and for other women engaged In
the lowly classes of labor, and by the
wrongs to tie female department clerks she
has righted and by the wrongtully dis
charged women she has compelled depart.
ment officials to restore to peace.
Mrs. Smith Lobbying Hard.
To-day Mrs Charlotte Smith was bust
ling about the lobby of the House, button
holing members. She confined her atten-
She was successful in her mission. To.
morrow a meeting of Democratic and
Farmers Alliance Representatives will be
held here for the purpose Of discussing the
possibility and advisability of taking some
action indicative of the interest these Repre-
sentatives feel in the cause of labor.
What this action will be has not been de-
cided.
1t is unlikely anything definite will be
done at to-morrow's meeting. II is difficult
to see what can be done. There is some
talk of declaring in favor of an arbitration
law, broad enough in its scope to exercise
beneficial influence throughout the country,
and one that will effectually prevent like
troubles In the future.
Representative w. L. Wilson, of West
Virginia, one of the superior Democrats,
cannot see the possibility of enactipg ma
tional legislation that will prevent strue-
giles between labor and capital. Mr.. Will
son has given much attention to the ques-
tion. He is respected by members OF both
parties for his manifest fairness and calm
judicial mind.
The Proposed Arbitration Law.
'T cannot see how Congress can do any
thing to prevent conflicts between capital
and labor" said Mr. Wilson.
can arbitration law is suggested"
Congress cannot pass compulsory arbi-
tration law. 1t might direct the appoint
ment of voluntary arbitration committee
by the President. In case of dispute be-
tween a manufacturer and his workmen the
point in question could be referred to this
committee. But its finding would not nec-
essarily be final nor beyond appeal The
might repudiate it; the manufact-
urer might object to it. In either event, the
would remain unsettled, and the
contest would be on as of yore. I don't
mean to say such law would not have a
good effect On the contrary, think the
good effect would be marked. 1 merely
mean there is no system I know anything
of that could be applied to the final ire
vocable settlement of such disputes. There
are arbitration boards in England, but their
presence in that country does not obviate
labor troubles The masters, as they are
called, appoint certain members of this
board, and the workmen appoint other
The situation is undoubtedly
helped BY these boards, but the trouble is
not entirely removed" NJ. F. L
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
A coALIRG STATION SECURED
At South American Island Through the
Work of Minister Mahauy.

tFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, July 14-A matter of
international Importance is tine rumored
securing of one of the Galapagos Islands by
the United States as coaling station. The
negotiations are said to have been con-
Quoted by Rowland b. Mahany, Minister to
Ecuador, and now on his way back to this
country. Mr.. Mahany, who is from BuGalo,
secured his appointment, by the way,
through the agency of the same Father
Cronin who figured prominently during the
excitement attendant on Blaine's resipna-
tion of the State portfolio. Mr. Mahany is
expected to arrive in New York some day
next week.
For years the United States has been try-
ing to secure coaling station at a point
near the South American coast. Mr.. Ma
hany was appointed but recently. On his
arrival at Quito he obtained permission from
the State Department to take 80 DAYS leave
of absence. Mr.. Blount at the time was
making furious efforts to abolish number
of Ministers, and that atEcuador was one. It
was during Mr.. Mahany's brief stay in
South America that he is supposed to have
secured the coaling station. MEL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
RUSSIAN DOCTORS MOBBED.

Ignorant Peasantry Imagine That Cholera
Patients Are Being Buried Alive
Many Killed When They Resist Troops
Ravages OF the Disease in Astrakhan.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 14-Owing to a
report that the doctors were causing cholera
patients to be buried alive, the lower classes
of the city of Saratoff arose in revolt against
the authorities and the doctors on the 10th
inst. The populace wrecked and pluDdered
the police station, cholera hospitals and the
residences of the Chief of Police and physi-
clans. Several persons were dragged out
of one hospital to save them, as the ignorant
mob thought, from being buried alive. The
medical assistants were attacked and two of
them were killed.
The rioters threatened to take full pos
session of the city, and would undoubtedly
have done so had it not been for the oppor-
tune arrival of the troops, who had been
summoned. The mob resisted the soldiers,
and the latter were ordered to fire upon
them. A volley was poured into the mob,
killing three of them and wounding four
others. The rioters then dispersed.
The Astrakhan Messenger publishes de-
tails of the recent riots at that place grow
ing out of the cholera epidemic 1t says
that the mob held the town tor two days. A
hospital was burned to the ground, and all
the medical staff of the institution were
more or less injured. One doctor and his
assistant were brutally beaten by the mob
and trampled to death. The patients In the
hospital were carried to the banks of the
Volga and fed with milk, as a supposed
antidote to the poison administered by the
doctors, and several succumbed to this ex-
traordinary treatment. Only the firing of
infantry volleys brought the maddened
mob to reason.
Astrakhan has become the chief nursery
of cholera on this side of the Caucasus. The
epidemic advances more rapidly there than
elsewhere. The latest reports of the
progress of the disease in Astrakhan say
that in one day 235 persons were attacked
with cholera and 102 others died from the
disease.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
SHORT STORIES OF CITY LIFE

BARBARA KENT, "a years of age, fell from
the second story of her home at No. 1920
Penn avenue and crashed through kitchen
skyIight, sustaining serious injuries.
PATRICK CoNNoR, while attempting to
jump on a moving cable car yesterday at
Forty-second street, fell and cut his head
badly. DR.. Beer dressed the injury and he
lett for his home on Forty-seventh street.
HARRY E. BoDINE, an employe of the Du-
quesne printing office, had his hand caught
in the cogs of press Yesterday afternoon
ana badly lacerated. He was taken to the
Homeopathic Hospital and, after his wound
was dressed, lett for home.
BARBARA KERN. young lady. fell out Of a
window at 1920 Penn avenue yesterday.
Outside of a broken arm and some flesh
wounds she escaped serious injury and last
night at the West Penn Hospital was re-
ported in fair way to recovery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
THE CENTER FOB PEANUTS.
Norfolk is the City W hich Supplies the Mar
kets of the World.

Norfolk is the City W hich Supplies the Mar
kets of the World.
Philadelphia News.1
Norfolk has crop which is worth mil
lions of dollars annually-peanuts. Nor
folk supplies the civilized world with pea
nuts. The street corner Italian who empties
a pint in your overcoat pocket and the
Partisan fruit merchant who weighs you out
a quarter of kilogram of the homely nuts
get them from here, for this is the only
peanut market in the world.
Smyrna has its figs, Barbary its dates,
Bordeaux its grapes and Norfolk its pea
nuts What would life be without peanuts?
One can scarce picture an existence which
would be tolerable under such circum-
stances.
The peanut magnates grow the edible
tuber in Napsemond, Isle of Wight, Surrey
and Southampton counties. but the common
market is in Norfolk. The rows for the
nuts are laid off three feet apart. They
are made 15 inches deep, and phosphates
are largely used as an embarrassing They
are strewn along in these trenches about
the middle of April, and mature after the
same term which is required for potatoes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
HUNTING DOWN THE FAKIR.

The London General Postoffice Assisting
Mr.. a stor In the Investigation.
LONDON, July IA - Neither William
Waldorf Astor nor Mr.. Adams his agent
here, will give permission to anyone to see
the dispatch received in New York by Mr..
Baldwin, announcing the death of Mr.
Astor. They say they are ferreting out the
origin of the dispatch in their own way,
and that they do not want any further pub
licity.
Right Hon. Sir James Ferguson, Post
master General, has given the Astor people
authority to inspect all the cable dispatches
that have been fled in London recently.
The investigation thus far points unmistak-
ably to the fact that the originators of the
plot were in New York. Mr.. Astor's rep
resentatives have seen the original dispatch
that was filed here. 1t is believed they
will be able to identify all concerned in the
plot very soon. 1t is said Mr.. Adams has
intimated that public prosecution is imi-
nent. Mr.. Astor, though his health is i'm
proving. is still confined to the house.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
DISGRACE LEADS TO SUICIDE,
a Young Man Goes Over Niagara Falls to a
Certain Death.

Certain Death.
NIAGARA FALLS, July III Special. l.
This afternoon about o'clock young man
leaped into the river from Prospect Point,
and was carried down to death over the
American falls The suicide left a card
upon which was written:
Dear Father. Mother, Sister and Brother:
Please pardon me for what l have done,
but it is all for that woman.
NOBLE KENNEY.
On the opposite side of the card was the
advertisement of Madame Percy, Dress
making and School for Cutting and Finish.
ing, 263 Maryland street, Buffalo, N. Y"
This is the professional name of Mrs Burs-
leim, of Buffalo. Recently Kenney worked
for Mr. Bursleim, at the Cafe de Paris, Buff
falo. The woman referred to by the young
man is probably one with whom he had been
living on Seneca street, Buffalo. On Mon
day she had him arrested for stealing ring
1t seems it was gift of his, and, needing
money, he had borrowed and pawned it. He
was 21 years old, good looking, nice
dresser, and it is supposed the arrest preyed
upon his mind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
THE WOMEN AT WORK.

drs Charlotte Smith Keeps Up Her Agita-
ton for the Homesteaders' Wives and
Families-A New Step Taken for Their
Aid.
1FRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, July 14-The news wired
The DISPATCH yesterday as to the interest
n the Homestead affair among the women
f the country had something more than the
mere word of Mrs Charlotte Smith behind
{. There seems to be no doubt there is
iporous and spontaneous movement
mong the wives of artisans and laborers in
he United States to contribute aid in some
,rm or other to the cause of the locked-out
rorkmen.
Mrs Charlotte Smith, President of the
,-caIIed Woman's National Industrial
,eaeue, is well-known figure about the
apitol. Her task, that of attempting to
meliorate the condition of workers, is a
disappointed one. She began BY organ
ing the women day labo-ers about the de-
artments. Mrs. Smiths unconventionality,
er breeziness, energy and fearlessness have
ade it highly proper to regard her mission
it'll an indulgent smile on the presump-
on that what she accomplishes compares
sry insignificantly with her expressed OBJ
Ct
But despite these implied ieers, Mrs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
MORE RESOLUTIONS.

Tradesmen's Assembly No. 1907 Sympa-
thize With the Homestead Workmen.
The Tradesmen's Assembly No. 1907 met
in knights of Labor Hall last night for the
purpose of considering the Homestead labor
trouble. A committee was appointed to
draft resolutions, and after an hours work
returned with paper which they submitted
to the Chair.
The resolutions, which were accepted and
Endorsed, with few changes, are of red
hot character. While great sympathy is
extended to the locked-out men, the officers
of the Carnegie Steel Company are de-
nounced for engaging Pinkerton men to
protect the mill
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
A PLANT WITH A MISSION.
1t Can Forecast the Weather, and Hardly
Ever Makes a Mistake.

1t Can Forecast the Weather, and Hardly
Ever Makes Mistake.
Thomas G. Peterson, farmer living near
Woodstown, N. j., has growing in his yard
remarkable floral curiosity. It is known
as the weather plant, and from careful OBJ
servation it very accurately foretells the
state of the weather two days in advance,
by changing the position of its leaves.
If the leaves stand upward from the twig,
making with each other an angle of 45o, the
sky will be cloudless and the weather beau
titul in all respects. If they stand out
straight, changeable weather is indicated.
AS the leaves drop below the twig the indi-
cations range toward rain, until when the
leaves hang straight downward water may
be expected to fall in torrents
A local storm is indicated by curling to-
gether of the leaves, and a fog by bending
of the twigs. The seeds are the size Of
sweet peas. round and hard and Of bright
scarlet color.