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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
INTERNATIONAL INNINGS,

Mrs. HARRISON rested well last night,
and seems in good spirits and improving to-
day.
SECRETARY FOSTER is the only man in
the nations diplomatic history who has held
three first-class missions.
PARIS has a new sensation in the Princess
Salabou, small savage brought from Cen
tral Africa by Lieutenant NIXON.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER,
accompanied by several members OF his
family, sailed for Europe yesterday on the
steamship Augusta Victoria.
The Marquis de Mores has won a suit
against his father, the Due de Yallombrosa,
who had agreed at the time of the sons mar
riage to pay his debts and who proposed to
reimburse himself out of the Marquis allow
ance.
NJ. GUsTAvE SIMON, author of the
"woman of the Twentieth Century" is a son
of the Academist Jules Simon. The younger
Simon is preparing huge work on hygiene
and promises to become quite as cele brated
as his father.
GUsTAvE F. GRUENER, who has been q
tutor in German and literature at Yale. has
"been appointed Il professor. He is New
Haven boy, is not yet 80 years of age, and
ever received this honor.
LORD TENNYsoN, who has returned in
excellent health to the Isle of Wight, after
his enjoyable cruise in Colonel Crozier's
yacht across the channel, leaves Farringford
House, Freshwater, for Aldworth, near
Haselmere, next week. According to the
Poet Laureate's usual custom, he will stay
at Breakdown for the summer months.
TRUxoN BEALE, American Minister to
Persia, who is now home on leave of absence,
has secured for the State Departmeet
several plaster casts of the cuneiform in
scriptions at Persopolis, and it is expected
they will reach the United States before
similar ones are received in England, al
though British scientists have been eagerly
seeking them.
HoNoKs are coming fast to the little
Crown Prince of Germany. The Queen Re-
gent OF the Netherlands, who recently
visited Berlin, has conferred the Order of
the Lion upon him. As he has become a
lieutenant in the army, the other crowned
heads of Europe will soon follow the exam
pie of the Queen Regent and place their
coveted decorations upon the young mans
breast.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
AN ELECTRICAL THEORY,

A singular theory has lately been de-
veloped by ar Eastern scientific man,
which, though nothing more than theoreti-
cal as yet, may prove worthy of practical
investigation. The student of natural
science referred to has not only observed
the notable increase in electrical storms
during the past five years, but has. taken
the trouble to define the territory of their
greatest frequency. He finds that within
quadrilateral roughly fixed by the four
points, Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati and
Baltimore, the atmosphere has changed,
being humid and subject to violent
electric storms Outside of it there is
plenty of cold and plenty of heat, but
either condition is of greater duration,
and the storms contain less electricity.
From this structure the following theory
is produced: Within the territory indi-
Gated an immense number of electrical
wires have been strung, either uninsulated
or imperfectly insulated, which are con-
stantIy charging the surrounding air with
electricity. From this the conclusion is
suggested as follows:
The effect of this electrical charge is two
fold. The first is chemical one. 1t de-
composes molecules of oxygen thereby in
creasing the ratio of the other gases, and
during the chemical change the air becomes
surcharged with moisture. The second ef.
feet is dynauical. The power of force in
the electricity though small, is sufficient to
disturb the higher potential electrical cur
rents of the air, the result being that the
balance is destroyed and Il series of eiec-
trical discharges precipitated.
A magazine article q year or so ago con-
tanned an imaginative sketch of West
ern city which pushed the art of doing
everything by electricity to the point
where it attracted the entire electrical
fcrce OF nature and became the connect
ing point for the discharges between the
skies and the earth. The result sketched
by the imagination was, that the connec-
ton being imperfect at this point every
thing within the circle of electrical influ-
eDce was burned up. If the scientific
theory referred to is correct, an approach
to the same condition produces exactly the
opposite result. But the question whether
the ultimate result of too much artificial
electricity will be to burn up the world,
or to give it more humidity than it wishes,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
A CONSTITUTIONAL SUPERSTITION.


1t is painful to observe that the old
superstition about national bank director
being disqualified by the Constitution for
Presidential elector is cropping out again
thus early in the campaign. The esteemed
Philadelphia Times INDUCES in it to the
effect of asserting that it would be we'll
for both parties to have their electoral
ticket free from all who hold any official
position in any corporation chartered
under the laws of the general Govern
ment
No man who takes the trouble to give a
common sense construction to the clause
of the Constitution in question will find
any difficulty in perceiving its meaning
The very grouping of the words: ''NO
Senator OF Representative, or person hold
ing an Office of trust or profit under the
United States, shall be appointed an elec-
tor shows that it refers to persons
elected or appointed as part of the United
States Government The Comptroller of
the Currency and the national bank ex-
aminers are representatives Of this class;
the officers of the national banks are in an
entirely separate class They neither owe
their appointment to the Government nor
draw their remuneration from it.
1t is true that loose construction Of
the words "under the United States" can
make them take in great many things.
National bank directors in their business
relations are subject to United States
legislation. So in one relation or another
is every citizen of the country. There
would be just as much cogency in holding
that the bookkeeper of distillery, or the
receiving clerk of an importing house, is
disqualified by this position as that ma
tional bank directors are.
1t is of comparatively slight moment
whether national bankers or any other
class are selected for the purely per-
functory position of Presidential elec-
tors or not But it is not so important
that ordinary judgment shall be used in
constituting the tolerably clear intention of
the Constitution.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
THE HOMESTEAD SITUATION,

Yesterday was marked by quiet at
Homestead and the definite abandonment
by Sheriff McCeary of the posse comita-
tus plan of Intervention. The difficulty is
by no means ended, but there is some room
to hone that in the period of calm con-
sheraton which has set in, and in the
good offices and counsel of non-com-
batants, a peaceful and perhaps satisfac-
tory solution may yet arise.
The longer the events of Wednesday are
thought over and the causes which led to
them, the more unreasonable it seems that
some creditable way should not be found
out of the ugly situation which has es-
tablished itself
The greatest victory that either party
could win-the only method in fact by
which dark page could be re-illumined-
would be along the path Of mutual con-
cession.
? 1t takes higher quality of courage to
voluntarily make concessions after fight
is started than it does to keep on fighting.
There is great truth below this which if
well considered might quickly lead to
something worthy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
CHARACTERIZATION IN CRITICISM.

Recent editorial comments of The DIS
PATCH Oh the significance of Stevenson as
candidate and the exaltation of his name
by the organs of spoils moves the shining
but spoils-losing New York San to in
dulge in column of dissertation on the
subject In pursuit of its mission TO shine
for the spoilsmen, our very readable CO.
temporary starts out with an apparent
antagonism to THE DIsPATCH's view; but,
as it arrives at the goal Of declaring that
Stevenson's significance is exactly what
THE DISPATCH had asserted, we can
charitably overlook the tone of dissonance
in consideration of its agreement as to the
fact.
The critical, not to say inimical, frame
of mind is displayed by the San in its
comment on our reference to the signifi-
canoe of Vice Presidential nominations in
1864 and the present year. In this the San
discovers an inconsistency as follows:
Mr.. Pendleton, who was one o: the greatest
friends of civil service reform, and the
titular author of the civil service act of 1888,
is condemned by our beautiful but bilious
contemporary, and at the same time Mr..
Stevenson, one of the greatest foes of civil
service reform, is warned off the premises.
In the declaration that this presents a
paradox of ''deadly opposites" we discern
a case of intermittent shortness of mem
ory. When Mr.. Pendleton ran for Vice
President in 1864 he did not represent
civil service reform, for the adequate
reason that civil service reform was not
an ISSUE In the ardor of its mission to
secure maximum of official plunder for
the. faithful of TamnlAny, the esteemed
San forgets that Mr.. Pendeton in 1864
represented the policy Of opposing the
prosecution of the war to maintain the
Union. Not until nearly two decades after
that did Mr.. Pendleton appear as leader
in the work of removing the offices out of
politics. In 1864 his standing as a peace
Democrat was so unmistakable that as
candidate for Vice President he gave the
same character to the Democratic ticket
and earned its overwhelming defeat
In like manner THE DISPATCH asserted
the presence of Adlai Stevenson on the
Democratic national ticket has controll-
ing significance. Further discussion of
our esteemed cotemporary's elevation of
its nose at our way of making that state
ment is rendered unnecessary by its own
assertion with regard to Stevenson as fol-
lows: ''But his greatest significance, and
his chiefest use and beauty on the Demo-
cratic ticket, are that he represents the
Interchangeable and irrefragabie solid old
Democratic doctrine OF the spoils.
In this, it is clear, the esteemed Sun is in
complete unison with The DISPATCH as
regards the fact. As to the opinion, based
on the fact, we regretfully note diver
gence. The San glories in the signif-
canoe of Stevenson as a headsman. We
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
To Abolish the Pinkertons.
Chicago Tribune:j

chicago Ir1bune.J
In Illinois and some other States Pinker-
tonianism has been abolished by the Repub-
lfcan party by law. Pinkerton officers may
do as detectives to help run down criminals,
counterfeiters and embezzlerB, and for pri-
vate night watchmen SO long as their du-
ties are confined to the protection of prop
erty against thieves or the danger of fire,
for in no city is the regular police force
large enough to give special attention to in
dividual property, but with these duties
their usefulness ends. When they take the
place of the Sheriff1s deputies, the police
force, or the military, they only make
thinas:worse. They did in this city ut the
stockyards and South Chicago, and so at
Homestead Steel Mills, and the unfortunate
quito ONE is only too apparent. While this
is true, however, everybody must regret to
see the Pinkerton forces put in danger OF
their lives; and the violence of the strikers
toward them after they had displayed a
flag of truce and surrendered uncondition-
ally cannot be justified by any of the usages
of civilized warfare.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09

Richmond Dispatch.1
1t does not appear that the Carnegie works
at Homestead have been in any danger.
They are fortified with high fences electric
wires, hot-water hose, ETC., and manned by a
considerable number OF persons who hold
official relations to the company and whom
the Pinkertons were hired to reinforce, but
it is undoubtedly true that access to the
works has been denied by the old operatives
to all persons suspected of going there with
intent to take their places. A collision was
expected later on when the company at
tempted to introduce ''scab'' workmen, but
was not looked for yesterday until the
rumor of the coming of the Pinkertons was
noised. For the present the strikers, or
rather locked-out operatives, are in COM
plete and triumphant possession of the field
The situation suggests the exercise on the
part of MI. Carnegie of some of that concili-
atory and philanthropic spirit which he has
commended in his magazine articles. Arbi-
tration may lead him out of his difficulty,
but it would seem that force cannot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
THEY FOUND THE TORPEDO,
1t Was Lost During q Test and Caused the
Finder Some Alarm.

1t Was Lost During a Test and Caused the
Finder Some Alarm.
NEW YORK, July sc. NJ. Bliss & Co. have
a torpedo station at the foot of Sixty-si1th
street, South Brooklyn. They conducted
several experiments last Tuesday afternoon,
during which f1sh-shaped selfacting tor
pedo about ten feet in length got adrift. A
search for it was made, but no trace of it
could be found. 1t was not charged, and its
loss caused very little anxiety. Since then,
however, Bliss & Co. have kept q close watch
for the missing torpedo, but until yesterday
morning they heard nothing OF it.
One of the infantry men stationed Mt
Liberty Island, while walking along the
parapets yesterday morning, saw something
floating near the shore that looked like
monster fish. He hurried to the barracks
and summoned his companions. They all
rushed to the beach and pulled the object
ashore.
When the men discovered that it was q
torpedo they rushed away in alarm. No one
was willing to go near it until Lieutenant
Beckert arrived. He critically examined the
toroedo, saw the trademark of Bliss & Co.,
and at once concluded that 1t had been lbst
during some experimental tests. He give
instructions for its safe removal out Of
harms way.
Lieutenant Beckert came to this city and
notified Bliss & Co. that their property had
been found and they recovered it latpr.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
PERT POINTERS FROM PUCK.

Mr.. Henpeck-I see that Gladstone
and woman's rights.
Mrs. Henpeck (grimly)-Well. how can the
any true home rule without woman's rights?
Hiram Daly-Mrs. NJ. E. Grant i'm
all her servants.
Biddles Kip-Doesn't that infringe the law?
Hiram Daly-I don't know. She probably
they should come in free, as raw materials.
He was a very intelligent bird,
And learned in an instant each word III
heard;
But when on this parrot the children
pranks,
The remarks that he made were reported in
Weary Raggles Suddenly stopp
Oooi Lookee there! Sign says: 'Help wa
Le' IS runl
Dusty Rhodes-You hain't go no busines
just you pick up that sign an carry it alo
III foller behind an pass round tn hat.
Yes; Nellie was beauty;
Spruce gum and tutti frutti,
I'D often heard her say,
For her had charms not any:
But when she dropped that penn
She gave herself away.
Stokes-A New York man went
Brooklyn one day last week and has mt
to find his way back since.
Maitby-what part OF Brooklyn did he g
Stokes-Greenwood.
If I had so, 600, 900, what would 1
DO with that great and most entranc
I'd take that Doodle straight downtown
To get with 1t some 60. 700. 900 more.
Stranger-Gimme drink of saw
Bar tender-There you are, sir.
Stranger (smacking his lIps)-By Geor
goodl How much?
Bar tender-Four dollars.
''How is your wife getting on?'
''She's improving slowly. She is not
to attend to her household duties yet but
she was out shopping"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
Sufficient to Shock the Nation.


The occurrences at Homestead all day yes
day were indeed sufficient to shock the ma
ton. The shutting down of the Carnegie
iron and steel plant as the result of an at
tempt to reduce wages and, falling in that,
to substitute new men who would work Tor
the wages which the population of Home
stead refused to accept; the importation of
Pinkerton detectives to take care of the
property in their own peculiar way; the
resentment of the striking employees at such
an invasion of their county by men not
commissioned by the peace officers of the
State and having no authority in the
premises greater than that which they
chose to assume, the battles, the deaths and
the final surrender Of the invaders, all go to
form one of the most startling chapters in
the history of labor troubles that has yet
come to be written in America. There are
sequels and sequels to it. There are morals
to be drawn to-day by thoughtful persons,
lessons to be learned and put in practice
that no such occurrence may take place
again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09

do not regard that quality as the highest
recommendation for possible President.
As to the public view on the subject there
may be a similar difference Since the
sole Democratic national victory in thirty
years was obtained after the leading DEM
Ocrat in the Senate had secured the enact
ment of civil service reform and Demo-
cratic candidate pledged to that was nomi-
mated, we fail to see that the people are in
favor OF having the offices administered
for the benefit of party, instead of for
the whole nation.
The final fact that by the Suns own
statement Mr.. Stevenson is an exponent
of the political practice of repudiating
political promises, and turning platform
pledges into jeer, is also crucial Politi-
clans in plenty have been willing to throw
party pledges overheard; but Mr.. Steven
son is the first man who has been nomi-
mated for Vice President on account of his
industry in that practice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
The Governor and Sheriff.

Baltimore American.
The fearful responsibility for the loss of
life and the mutiIation of many persons, as
we'll as the spirit of lawlessness engendered,
which will be potential for many a day i n
the industrial centers of Western Pennsyl-
vania. must rest primarily upon the Sheriff
of Allegheny county. and ultimately upon
of the preparations on each side for q pro-
tracted struggle. The details were pub
nshed in the newspapers of the country with
great particularly for days beforehand and
both the Sheriff and the Governor were
asked to interpose. with view to settling
the dispute. The Governor betook himself
to a watering place, where he could follow,
the course of events at long range, and the
Sheriff went to Homestead with rtdicu-
lously inadequate force to quiet the warning
factions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
Too Late for Argument.
Washington Post.1


But it seems too late, now, to argue as to
the insuff1ciency Of the cause. The CHASTITY
result is before us. The overt act has been
committed, and the curtain has been raised
upon the drama. The owners of the Home
stead mills demand the protection of the
local, or failing them. of the State authori-
ties in securing access to and egress from
the mills. They demand. in fact, the lifting
of the embargo upon commerce and society
which has been laid by the striking work
men. They insist that Homestead shall be
restored to the position of other American
towns, and that they, as owners OF the mills
at that point, shall be sustained in the en-
joyment and administration of their prop
erty. We do not see how the authorities can
refuse to respond to these demands unless
they propose to connive at anarchy, nor is
there much room for hope. if the workmen
adhere to their present attitude, that solu-
ton will be reached save at an appalling
cost of human life. Altogether, it is one Of
the most serious controversies ever precip-
itated in America. the end Of which no man
may now forecast.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
Considerations OF Humanity.

Every consideration of humanity demands
that nothing should be spared to prevent
recurrence of this bloody affair. and it is not
only to be hoped, but commanded by the
proper authorities, that there be no un-
reasonable interpretations on either side, by
man or set of men. that may interfere with
an honorable and fair settlement of the
question at issue. If the company can
afford to pay the scale asked by the men it
should do so without further parleying. If
it cannot, it ought to be able to make its in
ability plain to its employees and the public.
No company should be required to pay more
i'll wages than its products bring in the mar
ket, and no company should fail to share its
prosperity and good fortune with the men
in its employ.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09

ALL kinds of advertisers are recommend
ing all sorts of alleged necessities to the
public to add to the comforts of summer
holiday. In view OF the amenities Of rail-
road travel and the opportunities afforded
by boating and bathing, the making of q will
is wise preliminary to a trip to the sea-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
The Sheriff a Subterfuee.

neelng lntelllgencer.1
Some things appear more clearly now than
they did through the smoke of Homestead's
unhappy fight. The managers of the Car
negie industries sent notice to the Sheriff of
Allegheny county that they would require
protection for their property exposed to the
resentment of their late employees. The
Sheriff MAJ ae little show of an effort to do
his duty, and got out of the affair at an early
stage. He was scarcely well out before the
Pinkerton mercenaries were in, and in to
the death of some of them. They did not
spring out of the ground in quick obedience
to the waving of a magician's wand. Their
coming had been carefully arranged. They
met in Pittsburg from points a thousand
miles apart They came armed and provis-
toned for assault or siege, The Carnegie
people had no intention Of trusting to the
State to protect their property by ordinary
lawful methods. They intended to call on
the Sherig so as to save their points under
the law in case of damage to their property
and a suit for damages. Their relations
with the Sheriff through the State were
make-believe. The Pinkertons were the
real present business end OF their plan of
campaign.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
SPEAKER CRIsp's denomination for Ct

SPEAKER CRISP's denomination for Con-
gress by acclamation will hardly be well
come news for Cleveland. But the Demo-
cratic chances of success are such bare
possibilities that serious difference of
opinion between the Speaker of the House
and the Democratic nominee for the Presi-
dency is q matter OF little consequence,
and especially so to party whose individ-
uals act in opposition to the declarations of
its platform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
Foreseen but Not Preyeuted.

New York Evening Post.l
1t does not follow that because things were
foreseen at Homestead they could have
been prevented. The cyclone may be dis
cerned at distance, but cannot be warded
of. All that we can do is to take such shell
ter as our means and our foreknowledge
may supply. 1t appears that the coming of
"Pinkerton's men, was tho immediate
provocation of the rioting at Homestead.
Pinkerton's men, as we have more than
once pointed out, are the outward sign and
evidence that the forces of law and order do
not begin to work in these cases until Ger
tain amount of mischief has been done,
arge enough to bring terror upon the whole
community. Before public opinion has
reached this stage the particular property
which is the subject OF controversy may be
destroyed, so far as 1t Is destructible. No
body can be prevented from guarding his
own property, either by supplementing the
public force which is bound to guard all
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
Can Take Care of Himself.
Boston Globe.I

Boston GlODe.j
That foreboding gentleman, Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain, foresess all sorts of trouble for
Mr.. Gladstone if he comes into office on the
question of an Irish tariff. There is no oc-
casion for worry. The "grand old man"
will be abundantly able to take care of all
the issues that may claim his thought and
attention.