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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE

directly Interested in tho Industrial Con-
ference to Open at st. Louis To-Mor-
row-Plans of the Movement-fo 20
Into Politics-Labor to Be United.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20.-[ Special MANY
of the delegates to the National. Industrial
Conference, which will open its convention
here OH Monday, arrived to-day. The or
ganizations that will be represented IN the
conference are the Reformed Press A.socla-
tion, Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, Farmers Alliance, knights OF
Labor, Farmers Mutual Benefit Assocla-
tion. the Patrons of Industry, Grange, Fed
Grated Trades Union, Citizens Industrial
Alliance and the Colored Alliance.
The movement, it is claimed, represents
1000, 900 people, principally in the West
and South. AS to the object of the confer
ence and its probable results, a. F. Streetor
said to-day: 'The conference has been
called for one main purpose-that OF unit
ing all the. armies of labor into one party.
A union of all these will take from the
ranks of the Democratic and Republican
parties hundreds of thousands of voters who
have been for years waiting for such
chance to break away from them.
81 believe the platform adopted will be In
line with the policy of the third party
wing of the Farmers Alliance. The chief
plank, however, will be a money plank.
The third party will favor free silver-not,
however, that it is so much in favor of free
coinage of silver, but because that is the
most practicable way to obtain sufficient
currency. There will be no plank relating
TO the eight-hour law, no provision for
strikes, or anything of that character in our
platform. ="
The conference will issue a call for
National Convention to nominate Presi-
dental ticket.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

George Pullman was on the limited last
evening, going to Chicago.
j. L. Patty, of Lima, and H. Reynolds,
OF kittanning, are at the Anderson.
H. B. Plummer, collector of the Phila-
delphia port under Cleveland, is at the
Anderson.
r. G. Layton and William Letche went
to Washington last evening, to spend Wash.
ington's Birthday.
Charles Morris, of Houtzdsle, and R. P
Kennedy, of Uniontown, registered at the
Schlosser yesterday.
Fred Pearl, the advance man for 'sYon
Yonson,r and Albert Smith, of Washington,
are at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
W. ii. Keene, a Boston lawyer, and
James N. Harlan, a Philadelphia manufac-
turer, put up at the Duquesne last evening
Senator McMillen, of Michigan, with a
through Pittsburg this morning, bound for
Detroit.
Mrs De Lancey Cleveland, of Short
Hills n. j., n member of New York's 400, and
Miss Cleveland are among the guests at the
Duquesne.
Assistant Postmaster Edwards went to
Atlantic City last evening, to see Postmaster
Mexican. Mr.. McKean is recovering from
his illness very rapidly.
w. seymour EdWardS, OF charleston, the
manager of the hunting grounds for the
Cheat Mountain Club, and E. Knabe, the
Baltimore piano manufacturer, are stopping
at the Monongahela House.
Alex. H. Irwin, 4 Western miner, passed
through the city yesterday, on his way East
He says the Western people are much inter-
ested in the game exhibit contemplated for
the Worlds Fair. He says the ranch display
will be something fine.
Among the passengers tor New York last
evening on the Pennsylvania road were
Captain f. Y. Breck, c. Z. E. Childers the
joint agent of the CentralTraff ff1c Association,
William Roseburg, the banker, S. c. Mil
bourne, the local passenger agent of the
Union Pacific road, and /. w. Becker, the
chief engineer of the Panhandle road.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
COLLIDED WITH THE LAW,

THE charges of false pretense against c. C.
Lance, made before Alderman McKenna,
have been dismissed
MARTIN LoRorsKY got drunk last evening,
and proceeded to smash the furniture in his
home in Armstrong row. He was locked up
for the night.
WILSON FREEBORN cOlored, was arrested
last evening on Wood street. near Water, as
loafer. He broke away from the officer,
but couple of shots in the air brought him
to halt, badly frightened.
JOHN SwoLwELL, of Boston. was brought to
the city, yesterday, and placed in jail. He
is charged with Il serious Offense before
Squire w. L. Douglass of that place Miss
Myrtle B. Ballier preferred the charge
PATRICK CAIN, OF Braddock, was committed
to Jail yesterday by F. W. Edwards, Justice
of the Peace, of that place. He is held for
court on the charge of larcenv. The charge
was preferred by Daniel MuIlin, of Brad
dock.
ANDREW CARR. on behalf of Maggie Hen
sci, entered suit before Alderman Donovan
yesterday against Eugene Fitzgerald for as
sault. Fitzgerald was arrested at his home
on Shingles street. and in default of $500 bail
was remanded to- Jail to await q hearing next
Friday.
JAMES SPEARNAN was arrested at Twenty
eighth street last night, and locked up in
the Twelfth ward police station, on charge
of disorderly conduct. Spearman was fight
ing with two men who ran when the officer
appeared. Spearman claims that the two
men insulted a lady passing, and he re-
monstrated with them, and that they both
struck him.
MIKE DICKSON. a Southside boy, was ar
rested and sent to jail yesterday afternoon
on the charge of malicious mischief The
charge was made by John C. Schaffer, of the
Clinton mill, West Carson street. He charges
that the boy wilfully broke and punched
holes in the water pipes at the mill. He
will be given hearing on Saturday next by
Alderman McMasters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
A POsrMAsTERs' CONVENTION
To Be Held March 8, to Talk Over Pro
posed improvements.

To Be Held March 8, to Talk Over Pro-
posed Improvements.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-A conference
of postmasters of 45 of the largest cities in
the country which has been arranged for
the 9th of March is received, it is said, with
much favor by the postmasters addressed,
and the meeting promises to be very in
teresting and profitable one. There are
many questions of postal reform, some of
them requiring notifications of existing
laws and regulations, that will come up for
discussion and interchange of views by the
practical postofice men who will be present
on that occasion. The following are some
of the questions that have already been sug-
gested as proper ones for discussion and in
terchange of views:
The consolidation OF third and fourth
class matter (printed matter and merchan-
dise) into one class, at the lowest existing
rate of postage, cent for two ounces.
Notifications or amendments in existing
laws and regulations governing the admis-
sion of second-class matter.
The insuring against loss by the Govern
ment of parties sending registered matter.
The question of more rapid transportation
of mails between depots and postoffices and
postofice and stations in the large cities.
The consideration of measures looking to
the improvement and extension OF the
special delivery system.
Consideration OF the charge for money Or
ders and the propriety of any amendment
of existing laws and regulations governing
the same.
The advisability of continuing extension
of facilities afforded by the establishment of
the s24-per-annum stamp agencies, and
whether the increased business accommo-
dation resulting therefrom justifes the same.
The extension of the maximum period
of loss from five to ten years.
MI, 1ryioo hi ffx- of atoh 1ichv of
branch OF the dead letter office at San Fran
cisco or some other point on the Pacific.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
CLEVELAND HAS THIRTEEN.

Hill Only AIcws the Ex-President the Un-
lucky Number of Delegates tothe State
Convention-onIy One Platform to BE
Considered, Which Is u. B. Hill.
ALBANY, \. Y, Feb. 2O.-[ Especial IA
Democratic State Convention will be held
In this town on Monday. For weeks every
body has known just what the convention
would do and how unanimous it would be.
There is no fuss over the preliminarics, no
discussion, no feverish anxiety. OF the 3S4
delegates to the convention Senator Hill
has 81.
Everything that the convention will do
will be settled tomorrow, when Mr. Nc
Laughlin, of Kings county, arrives There
will be conference in the rooms of Senator
Hill, at the Delevan House, or at the
Executive Mansion, and everything will be
settled Lieutenant Governor Sheehan will
go as a delegate from Buffalo. Chair
man Murphy, of the State Com
mittee, intended to go as dis
trict delegate from Troy, but in
compliance with the wishes of Senator Hill,
it is likely that he will go as one of the
delegates at large. Mr.. Croker will be the
second delegate at large. Mayor Boody, or
ex-Mayor Chaplin, of Brooklyn, is to be the
third delegate at large. Ex-Mayor John
Boyd Thacher, Worlds Fair Commissioner,
and one of the few Hill men in Albany
county, is to be the fourth delegate
The Committee of Fifty has hired little
hall on State street The professors will go
before the State Committee on Monday
morning, and they will ask to dissolve the
convention and call a new convention in
May. The State Committee will deny their
request, and the State Convention will 60
on and meet as though nothing had hap
pened The Committee of Fifty will try
to get its protests before the convention,
and it will have hard time of it there.
Then the committee will flock by itself to
discuss what shall be done.
Senator Hill was busy at his rooms in the
Delevan House to-day, receiving delega-
tions and visitors. He said he knew of
nothing to disturb the existing harmony,
and that no programme for the convention
had as vet been arranged At present no
platform or set OF resolutions has been
agreed on. If Senator Hill makes speech
there will be none, as his speech will be in
lieu of a platform. The only resolution, the
form of which is now discussed, is the one
presenting Hill for President
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
THE FIRE RECORD.

AT Louisville, the Weller block, occupied
by Wulschuer's piano store and tenants of
flats on the three floors above. Loss, s25, COO
insured.
AT Scott Haven, Westmoreland county,
the company store. Loss on building and
stock, $4,000, partly covered by insurance.
Origin unknown.
NEAR Mullicahill, n. j., the large barns
and outbuildings on the farm of Warren
Atkinson. There were AS sheep "A hogs, IL
horses and mules burned Loss about s., 900:
insured for s., 500. Incendiary origin.
AN alarm from box SO last night was
caused by a car loaded with hot Stag. ex-
ploding at the Eliza Furnace, at Frankstown,
The hot metal set fire to the railroad track
and frame house near by. The fire depart
ment arrived promptly and extinguished the
flames. The house is owned by the com
pany, and was damaged to the extent or
$500 The car and about 400 feet of the track
were burnt. No person was injured by the
explosion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
His Friends Paid the Money,

Alderman Kerr said last evening that the
case of George T. Mcconnell, the default
ing Treasurer of the Model Building and
Loan Association, had been settled, and
that the charges against him would not be
pushed. AT the time his peculations were
discovered, it was alleged that he had em-
bezzled about $1,000. Careful investiga-
tion showed the amount to be far less.
However, to secure themselves, Sam VAIN
wright, on behalf of the company, entered
suit against Mcconnell before Alderman
Kerr, charging him with embezzling $4,000.
Different times had been set for the hear
ing but it was postponed. McConr ellis
friends came to his rescue and raised the
money to pay the association.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
AN INVESTIGATION NEEDED.
At First 1t Wasn't Considered Necessary,
But 1t Is All Right.

KINGSTON, n. Y, Feb. 20.-[Special J.
The investigation of the accounts of Grove
Webster, late City Treasurer, who held that
office for nearly 1S consecutive years, is
nearly completed, and the Common Council
Committe is about to report. At the sew
eral hearings had by the committee, promi-
nent business men and politicians were
subppnaed and testified. 1t was shown that
the late millionaire. Thomas Cornell, was
permitted to withhold the taxes on his vast
property for three consecutive wears, ag-
gregating $4,000, while the Treasurer's
books were doctored to indicate that they
were paid regularly.
Public opinion has been divided as to the
justice of the investigation, many believing
that undue notoriety was being given
Treasurer Webster, and that the most that
possibly could be brought against him was
that while treasurer he had befriended his
bondsmen and others and kept a peculiar
system of bookkeeping that could be de-
ciphered only by himself There was not
shadow of suspicion of a shortage in his ac-
counts. 1t now turns out that Expert Will
lam Trenholm, of New York, discovered
that Mr.. Webster should have turned over
about S14, 900 more at the expiration of his
term on the 1st of January than he really
did
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
OCEAN CABLES KNOCKED OUT.
How the Big Snow Storm in England
Affected the Telegraph Service.

Affected the Telegraph Service.
NEW YORK, Feb 20-[ Special. THE
effects of the big snow storm in England on
Friday, which broke the storm record there
and pretty much everything else, were
seriously felt on this side the ocean,
to-day, by reason of the Interruptions
to telegraphic communication. Foreign
business was very slow on the Stock Ex-
change and the other exchanges, and in all
the other lines that depend on quick touch
with Great Britain. The land line connec-
tions of nearly all the cable companies were
badly interrupted. The Western Union
cables were all right, and messages could
reach Lsndsend, but could not get to Lon
don. An interesting point is that the East
ern Company's cables to India and the
far east land at Landsend and the Anglo
could handle anything from America for
those parts, but this did not do the brokers
much good. Communication might have
been had with London by way of Egypt,
by another return route, probably, but
stock speculations require and got five
minute service between here and London.
The storm was principally in Devonshire
and Cornwall, and all telegraph wires in
that section were prostrated. The Western
Union cable lands at Penzance. The Com
mercial lands at Bristol, and has the benefit
of short land line route. which was not in
terrupted. BY 8 O'Clock in the afternoon
the wires were getting Strengthened out in
England, and the Western Union secured
one and began to work again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
Effected a Permanent Association.

The Washington Association of the Jr.
o. U. A. NJ. met last night at Saller's Hall
and effected a permanent organization.
About so councils were represented and 20
names were added to the roll. The follow
ing officers were elected: President, j. II.
Ginniff Council No. 294; First Vice Presi-
dent, w. w. Chaplain, No. 365; Second
Vice President, R. S. Thomas, No. 100;
Treasurer, George B. Donaldson, No. III;
Recording Secretary, U. Byron, Jr., No
107; Financial Secretary, c. A. Hendr1ck-
son, No no; Corresponding Secretary,
George r. Beecher, No. 365: Board of. Di-
rectors, Scott Dibert. No 1O7; L. A. Stern,
No. 500; j. Smith, No. 126; S. 81. Frazier
No. 325; j. R. Anderson, No. 160; H.. E;
Stewart, No. 541; J. w. Holmes, No. 249
G. I. Fleming, No 11O. The association
will meet with East Park Council, at No.
173 Federal street, Allegheny, Tuesday
night,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
Our Better Halves Say

They could not keep house without Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, especially for the
children. In case few weeks since at
the home of a neighbor the attending physi-
clan had given up case of what he called
dropsy. Mother happening in, told the
parents that in her mind it was case of
lung fever, and advised the use of this cough
syrup, which they did. Result, the child is
well and the parents happy. Chamberlain's
medicines are used in more than half the
homes in IIeeds.-Sims Bros, Leeds, La.
This remedy is not intended Tor lung fever,
but for colds, la grippe, Group and whoop-
ing cough. 1t will loosen cold, relieve
the lungs and prevent the cold from result
ing in lung fever. 50-cent and 81 bottles
for sale by druggists. = TTssu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21

:. WASHINGTON, Feb 20.-Attorney Gen.
eral Miller has advised the Treasury De-
partment that while the law for q public
building at Portland, Ore, does not legally
prohibit the construction of the building in
East Portland. its evident purpose and in
tent is that the building should be erected
within the limits of the city proper. As
Secretary Crounz puts it, he holds that they
could locate the building in East Portland,
but that they should not do it. The Treas
ury Department has not yet acted in the
matter
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
THE MUGwUMPS SPEAK OUT.
They Will Not BE Content With Any Cam
didate Except Cleveland.


Boston, Feb. 2O-[SpeciGl Ito NOM
mate any candidate but Cleveland is to be
timid, and to be timid Is to be weak and
impotent in the face of a combination
which is powerful. adroit and INSCRIPTIONS.
To nominate any man not in sympathy with
Cleveland is to be false to the great cause of
just and equal taxation, which the Demo-
cratic party processes to champion
This was the creed spoken by Colonel
Charles r. Goldman, President of the Massa-
chusetts Reform Club, which met at Young's
Hotel tonight to discuss the political situa-
tion. The purpose of the meeting was to in
dorse ga national conference of independent
voters at New York, to promote tariff re-
form, honest money and civil service re-
form, i" but the underlying current of senti-
ment was boom for Grover Cleveland.
There were 100 in the banquet hall Colonel
Codman's speech was the most important of
the evening, inasmuch as it will be the
platform of the Mugwump party in the
United States in the coming election.
The club, BY unanimous vote, indorsed
the proposilition TO hold a conference Of
independent voters In New York CITY, the
arrangements for which are to be left en-
tirelv in the hands of the New York
branch
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
TALES OF THE TWO CITIES

A BROKEN axle threw four freight cars
over the embankment at Twenty-eighth
street on the Allegheny Valley road last
evening.
THE first of a series of musicales was given
last night in the Electric Club. sO3 Penn ave.
nue.. The club recently bought a new piano
which was dedicated last night. Next Sat-
urday evening a musicale on a more ex-
tended scale will be given.
A SLIGHT wreck occurred last evening at
the scene of the recent landslide on the Pam
handle Railroad, and the road was again
blocked for over four hours. temporary
track has been laid around the slide. Last
nightan East-bound extra freight was pulling
into Birmingham station when one of the cars
left the track a few rods from the slide The
train was running at a slow rate of speed,
and little damage was done.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
THE HEAD OF A CRIMINAL
Wonderful Reproduction of an Ingenious
and Ernert Wnad Carver.

Wonderful Reproduction of an Ingenious
and Expert Wood Carver.
The model of a head in the museum Of
the University of Pennsylvania has an in
teresting history. In 1889 Count Okuma,
the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs,
" as severely injured by bomb thrown into
his carriage. The would-be assassin, struck
down by an officers sword, was easily cap
tured, and was duly beheaded.
An ingenious and expert wood carver,
Hannenuma, saw the head, and after care
full study made this model which is a faith
ful reproduction of the CHASTITY original.
The livid flesh tint is initiated in sort of
lacquer, and each separate hair of the head
is inserted in a cavity drilled for it. The
head forms part of the University's large
collection of Japanese armor, weapons and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
A PORTUGUESE BANKER ARRESTED,
He is an Ex-Cabinet Member and a Peer of
His Kingdom.

LISBON, Feb. 20.-Senhor Mendoza
Cortes, an ex-MInister and a peer of the
kingdom, who holds the Office of President
of the Lusitano Bank, has been arrested on
a warrant signed by the Minister of Justice.
No doubt is entertained that the arrest is
due to the financial troubles between the
Government, the bank and the royal rail-
way company. Senior Refs Suza, direc-
tor of the Lusitano Bank, is now out on
S225, 600 bail, and the Marquis da Foz,
formerly director of the royal railway, has
been arrested in connection with the same
affair, frands in connection with the railway
employees pension fund.
1t is stated that the affairs of the Banco
Lusitano and the Royal Railway Company
are so intermingled that the liabilities of
the one and the other can scarcely be dis
tinguished. A decree was recently issued
ordering the formation of a commission to
examine the books and affairs of the rail-
way company. A similar commission was
ordered to examine into the banks affairs,
and it is highly probable that the arrest of
Senior Mendoza Cortez is an outcome of
this examination. These troubles led to
the recent resignation of the Portuguese
Ministry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
THE NAKED LAMP IN WALES.

It Finds an Accumulation of Gas and .
Frightfui Explosion Results.
LONDON, Feb. 20.-There was an explo-
sion of gas to-day in the Craig coal pit, near
Aberdare, in South Wales. One miner was
killed and ten were seriously wounded. 1t
is feared that some Of the injured men will
die.
The accident was due to the use of lamps
with naked flames by the men at their work.
They had been cautioned to use the safety
lamp, but paid no attention TO the warning.
The result was that when sufficient guam
tity of gas had accumulated in the mine it
was exploded by the flame from the lamps.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
For the Ladies.

We have just the thing you have needed
for years. What is it? The 'tDayis Fill
ter admitted to be the best one in the
market to-day. What will it do? Give
you supply of clear, pure water on wash
DAYS, in your bathrooms, for drinking and
culinary purposes, instead of the dirty, un-
healthy water you have been using. Send
for catalogue and price list to the Pittsburg
Allegheny, Pa
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
Special Sale.

We will, during this week, have special
sale, at which we will offer some Real
Bargains. Among other items will be 25
Genuine China Dinner Sets, former price S27,
now S21; 25 Decorated English Dinner Sets,
former price S13, are closing them out at
So; % dozen Fine Plates, in dozens or singly,
at much below cost; 30 Decorated Chamber
Sets at 25 to 90 per cent reduction, 100 Beau
tiful Decorated Vase Lamps at from 81 3S up.
We wish to close these goods out at once
and have made prices that will do it.
CAvIrT, POLLOCK & Co.,
No 935 Penn avenue, . few doors from
Ninth street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
THE LAST OF P0LYGAMY.

Utah People Who Want to Come Into the
States Close Their Case.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-The delegates
who have appeared before the Senate and
House Committees on Territories, during
the past week or so. favoring the bills to
give local government to Utah, closed their
presentation of the case this morning before
the Senate Committee on Territories.
Ex-Governor West, the last speaker for
the adherents of the bill, spoke of the dis
appearance of polygamy in the Territory,
and'the non-interference of the church in
public affairs and in politics. He thought
the passage of the bill would demonstrate
to the people of the country that the people
of Utah were sincere, and that they were
capable of governing themselves