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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-30
Mos OF DESTRUCTION.

LSLives Sacrificed During the
on ImpIigh Fires, Explosions, Etc.
Tin JANUARY.
I0UN ,shville; loss, S475,00O; deaths.
JUN fsaybrook. Ills, destroyed by fire;
W mOOO.
1853 aRl.' COLLISION on the WABASH H. H.
from fire damp explosion at
~; injured, 1l5.
Scales oied brass factory in Water
wholesaie; loss, S260,O00.
Sal :, Grain warehouse fire in New
nils COZ death.
land rora mouse dock burned In Wau-
ers, sink, loss, 600, 600.
screws, hburned at Au Sable, Mich.
conoe nieXplo5ion at Phoenix Powder
tficyles, graz City. w. Va.
or1ppSi snkilled n,I Il injured in hos
Send fct Indian. oils.
CHIC Ark, LOST $4,000 by fire.
slo homeless by fire at Bev-
II.
"a CInildings burned in Columbus.
ma -p,0C3.
ia Salae at Elizabethport, VI.
npr,lry burned at Chester, s. c.;
No q exRgerIb.
- Dps burned at Meridian, Miss;
HFj FEBRUARY.
FEmattox (va.) court house building
Led by fire.
S-Ttory burned at Danvers, Mass;
Nj ef%ss blocks burned in Rochester, Ills;
~ ~ Jle5,UOO.
.~lei loyal burned in New York city; so
WUe FIRE in business portion of Memphis;
\ " 3, nearly S1,000,0O0.
~ d Central hotel burned at Ell Paso,
*; loss, 100000.
M opera house block burned at Mon
buth, Ills; loss, $4,000.
lin of Murta, Ark, nearly destroyed by
le; loss, Sl25, 900.
10 insane asylum burned at Jackson.
fss.; loss, 100000.
tillion dollar blaze in New Orleans.
nary block burned in Decatur, Ills. loss,
nre at Malvern, ARK.
n Ares of business properties burned in
IN Antonio. Tex; loss, S25O0O0.
III MARCH.
NJ state female reformatory burned at
\ Indianapolis; 30 inmates escaped.
y en workmen killed in a railroad COLI
bn in Milwaukee.
Ill foit lost 100000 by fire.
Liverpool, o., lost 100000 by fire.
Eden Musee at Omaha burned.
Allouz block burned in West Superior,
Eis.; loss, $4,000.
b damp exploded in the Anderlino coal
Inc near Charleroi, Belgium, destroy
lg over 200 lives.
bra house and stores burned at Bloom
bid, Ia; loss, S165,0O0.
b store burned at Fort Worth, Tex;
ISIS, $4,000.
tanning, Pa, lost 100000 by fire.
1900 blaze in Danbury, Conn.
kcustom house at st. John, N. b., burned;
Sss, 100000.
killed by the explosion of a mill boiler
N East Jordan, Mich.
M Has, 900 fire at Cambridge, Mass.
M b, Tex, lost over 100000 by fire.
kss works burned near Braddock, Pa;
81 kBs, 100000.
n fdware company burned out at Omaha;
" fs, 100000.
10000 factory fire In Cincinnati.
LPRIL.
100000 fire In Erie, Pa.
jenville, Miss, lost 100000 by fire.
Orleans lost nearly 81, 100000 In fires.
baths by an explosion and fire at Fort
adison, To.
n niture factory burned at Piqua, O.; loss.
II 10000.
II "a works burned at west st. Paul; loss.
n 100000.
illery burned at Portland, Or; loss,
100000.
tory burned at Manitowoc, Wis; loss,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-30

10. British ship Thracian foundered Oft the
Isle of Man; % lives lost.
H. Schooner Snowflake capsized on the Texas
coast. carrying down Is people, includ-
ing several prominent citizens of Houma
SEPTEMBER.
l. 20 drowned by the wrecking of the pro-
peller Western Reserve on Lake Superior
OCTQBER.
IS. Steamer Bokhara lost in typhoon in Chi
nese waters; 100 drowned.
2S. The Anchor line steamer Roumania, from
Liverpool for Bombay, wrecked Off Portu-
gall k3 lives lost.
DECEMBER.
8. The German steamer Spree towed into
Queenstown in sinking condition.
Q. 3vessels wrecked by gale at Santa Venerc,
Italy; 10 deaths.
Norwegian bark India lost with all her
crew in Mersey river, England.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-30

We hope every friend Of TIE TINES will
ask his neighbOr to send for sample copy, or
better still show him your paper and get
his subscription. We want 500 new sub
scribers by February list.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-30

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
Used TO Such BLOWS.

Some of our Eastern contemporaries
are representing the action in the House
last week as "a blow at the coal combine. -
Inasmuch as the sole extent of the al
legged blow consists of a report of the
Committee on Commerce in favor of in
vestigating the combination, it is one of
the sort to which that corporate aggrega-
ton is fully Injured
The anthracite coal combination, in the
various forms which ithas assumed during
the last twenty years, has become fully
accustomed toinvestigationS 1t has been
investigated by legislative authority, by
executive authority and by congressional
authority Each of these investigations
has disclosed the illegal purpose and pub
lie injury of the agreement to exact ex-
cessive prices for an article of necessity,
and that is all the good it has done. The
combination has gone on the even tenor of
its way, secure in the confidence that the
social force of some hundreds of millions
of composite capital will prevent any
legislative power from doing it serious
harm.
The last congressional investigation was
at the time of the Reading strike, four
years ago. The report was severe against
the combination, and that was the sole re-
suit of the investigation. An investiga-
tion may be worth while now, but it is not
likely 20 have any effect unless followed
by further legislative action.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
PROTECTION FROM DAMS.

The proposition for the inspection Of
dams throughout the State is natural re-
suit of the Conemaugh and Oil creek dis
asters. 1t is widely supported and yet Its
immediate value is very limited by the fact
that there is not line of legislation pro-
viding for such measure of precaution.
This leaves the people exposed to peril
from unsafe structures of that sort with
out much relief. But as the danger mainly
attaches to towns built along narrow val
leys below dams, con6ning large bodies of
water, it is possible that they may be able
to provide some precautions on their own
account Any town within the zone of
danger from dam will be remiss
if it does not cause the question
of safety to be investigated on its own ac-
count If the dam is safe the inspection
will do as much good as if the inspection
were official. If is unsafe the imperiled
community will be forawarned, valuable
evidence will be contributed looking to-
ward the necessity of legislation, and
there is very good reason for thinking that
a clear case of that sort would procure
from any competent court an order for re-
moving the danger. 1t is not likely that
the rights of property will be held to in
clude the right to so obstruct water
course as to imperil the lives and property
of people further down the stream.
Legislation is undoubtedly necessary to
abolish such dangers as soon as they are
discovered but pending its enactment the
communities exposed to this danger can
do good deal for themselves
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
p1TTSBuRG. TUESDAY. JUNE "A. lsss.
PAGES
THE HANDICAP OF DEMOCRACY.

The fight at Minneapolis last week was
a family affair, and the indications are
that the soreness which grew out of it Is
pretty well healed. On the other hand, the
Democrats have a bitter and deadly feud
on, which they seem determined to keep
in the icebox all summer for fear it may
spoil. 1t is not at all likely that the De-
mocracy can effect consolidation of its
factions. If Cleveland is nominated such a
thing as pact of harmony is next to i'm
possible in New York, if present indica-
tons are safe to premise upon. Besides
this elusive harmony, there is still
greater difference in the outlook of the
two parties The Democrats will 60 on
offering free trade quack medicine at the
old stand, and they will doubtless adhere
to their free silver doctrine. This will
make it impossible for the people to sup
port any Democratic nominee even if he
could span all the party chasms and sew
up all the gaping wounds.
The Hill men are now discussing plans
in New York to discomfort their old-time
enemy, and new candidates are springing
up like mushrooms 1t is not new men
but new ideas that the Democratic party
needs most. As long as it wants to tear
down instead of build up it will continue
to stand out in the rain and look in.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
ABUDGET OF HUMOR.

satan-Did you torture MIN wellf
Asmodeus-Yes.
sstan-what did you do?
Aemodeus-I asked him If it was hot enough
bim.-N,o York Herald.
younpster-I understand the marie
women have organized a club?
OIdster-What do they call it2 ''Broom-handh
or ..Rolling-pin2' Detroit Free Press.
A face that's sweet, figure neat,
A fancy parasol;
A gauzy dress-lace more or less
Alas, but that's not all.
Besides her smile used to beguile
The youth that's smart.
Hid meath her dress. must confess,
Is an India rubber heart.
Music and DrnnaS
'Is this healthy portion of the State'
asked . traveller in Arkansas.
.'weIl. 1 should say IL is. There has been n
body hung about here In three months. va
Sytinos.
IT beg your pardon, ma'am, but your
count is overdrawn."
Dear me. Why, I've got whole lot Of cne'
left. Chicago Mcs Record
Your girl good reason has to frown
If she goes with you to the track:
She finds that when you're going down
You're nicer than when cominR back
-NeD York Evening SnS
Elder Berry-What is your definition
faith?
Joblots-PuttinG nickel on the plate and
pecting 10 get crown Of pure gold.-Neto II
Herald.
(Harry has been teaching the farme
how to play tennis.)
She (after half an hours instruction)-And h
don't mean nothin'; how funny.-Seo York 6
etin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
THE IRISH MUST UNITE.

The announcement of Mr.. Balfour, in
the House of Commons yesterday, that
Parliament will be dissolved some time
next week indicates that the Cabinet has
abandoned its idea of hanging on till next
spring. The announcement carries with
it the inference that general election
will follow, and that the issue Of Home
Rule will be fought out in England at the
same time that the tariff issue is being
settled in the United States.
The campaign in England will open
under favorable auspices for the triumph
of the cause which has been urged for a
dozen years, provided the Home Rulers
can compose their differences. 1t they
present a united front their prospects
for a final triumph are encouraging.
But, if they continue to present
the aspect of factional quarrel illustrated
in Limerick on Sunday, they do nothing
but furnish the strongest handle to their
opponents. 1t would be terrible epitaph
to write upon the tombstone Of the Home
Rule cause that it was killed by the quar-
rels of its supporters when nothing else
could have conqueredit.
1riSh-Americans should use their in
f1uence to unite the Home Rule party by
serving notice on its leaders that no sup
port can be expected from this country
until the Irish party presents united
front
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. author of
"Home, Sweet Home,'' was born 100 years
ago last Thursday.
Mr.. AND MRS WILLIAM G. END1coTT
have sailed for Europe to spend the summer
with their daughter, Mrs. Joseph Chamber
lain.
A. C. WHEELER, better known by his
nom DE- ouevre of Nym Crinltle, is out with a
new novel entitled "The Primrose Path of
Dalliance."
COMMODORE HUNTER, who died in New
Orleans last week. left $40 900 in Confederate
currency-the money paid him for his serv-
ices in the Confederate navy-to his nephew.
KATE FIELD believes that the moral and
temperate saloon system advocated by Rev.
DR.. Rainsford would be a great improvement
upon the hard dri mixing bar trade as now
countenanced.
THE Duchess of Bedford, sister of Lady
Henry Somerset, who has been on a recent
visit to this country, dimes at midnight and
somehow manages to maintain q reputation
as an early riser.
LIEUTENANT CAvENDIsH, nephew of
the Duke OF Devonshire, Will have a lovely
bride in Lady Evelyn, the eldest daughter
of the Marquis of f>Lansdowne, to whom he
will be married on July 25.
REV. R. J. GEORGE, pastor of the Re-
formed Presbyterian Church, of Beaver
Falls, yesterday notified his congregation
that ne had accepted n professorship in the
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Semi
nary ut Allegheny.
RAY GREENE BULING, editor of the
School and College, and Principal of the New
Bedford (AIass.) High School. has declined
President Harper's offer OF $4,000 to so to
Chicago University. He has also declined q
proposition from the Morgan Park Academy
Ex-PREMIER MERCER, of Quebec, is a
very sick man, physically as well as men,
tally, and his physicians give no hope of his
living more than q few months, even if he
lasts through the criminal prosecution and
bankruptcy proceedings which are hanging
over him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
REscU1Na THE ExPLoRERs.

An expedition will start from ST. Johns
in few days to relieve the party of
Lieutenant Peary, left on the coast of
Greenland within the Polar Circle last
year. 1t will be in charge of Prof. He'll
prin, the geographer who escorted Peary
to his depot a year ago. 1t is hoped that
his complete knowledge of the explorers
plans and aims will justify the confidence
expressed in finding the party and bring
ing them back to civilization.
After this is done what is to follow?
The wearisome and generally fatal itera-
ton of sending exploring parties to the
Pole and then sending rescuing parties
after them should afford ground for the
obvious deduction. After the remnant of
the Greedy party was rescued the con-
clusion was recognized, so far as the
Government was concerned, that no more
public money should be spent on this use
less and dangerous chimera. The Peary
party was sent out by private funds; and it
is not hazardous to predict that, when the
usual rescue has been effected and the
results counted up, it will be found that
the gain to scientific knowledge is slight
beside the cost and loss of life. Is it not
time for science as well as civilization to
adopt the conclusion that the icy will-o'-
the-wisp which explorers have been pur-
suing in the polar region for nearly three
centuries is not worth the expenditure of
any more lives?
The scientific demonstration of the bar
renness of the polar region by the lives lost
in the attempt to penetrate it ought to be
convincing enough to insure its being left
to its icebergS and polar bears.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14

is sufficiently Illustrated by couple OF
examples. The New York World under
Joseph Pulitzer, yields fortune each
year; under his predecessor 1t was ruin
Gus failure. A. T. Stewards commercial
business, when he was at the head Of it,
netted him the revenues Of principality;
his successor saved the buildings Dy
shutting up the stores. Now when anyone
pretends to offer investments in Joseph
Pulitzer, A. T. Stewart or their equiva-
lent In any successful business they are at
tempting either deliberate or unconscious
fraud. 1t cannot be done for the simple
reason that any man who knows that his
management is the source of the profits
will keep the profits to himself.
There are some kinds of business which
rest so largely on permanent conditions as
to be Independent so far as value is con-
cerned of the variations of personal man
agement A building can hardly be SO
poorly managed that it will not yield its
rentals A railway may be SO badly man
aged that its earning power will be at
fected; but without absolute robbery 1t
can hardly be so wrecked as not to afford
basis for earnings when 1t falls under de-
cent management again. To exactly the
extent to which the personal equation is
vital in determining profits to that extent
the business is unsuitable for a reliable
corporate investment.
As the interests capitalized under the
syndicate fever of two years ago were the
subjects of haply principle of selection
of this most unreliable class, the results
are correspondingly severe on the in
investors. But the only wonder is over
the prevalence of the ignorance Of those
principles which permitted the investing
public to be so largely bitten.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
OBITUARY NOTES.

Mrs. LEVIN, " ILAs, mother of Senator Villas
died suddenly Sunday night, at Madison. WIS.
JOHN A. sIEFERT. of Alegheny's best
known citizens. died yesterday afternoon, at his
home, 292 Ohio street He was "A years OLD. lie
will be buried from his late residence tomorrow
ftern ,on at ,:3o O'Clock.
JAMES T. COLT died at the residence or MS
brother. Charles. New York. on Saturday nignt' OF
lung trouble. He was well known hotel pro-
prietor. With his brother he had conducted LOT
some years the Argyle Hotel, at Babylon, L. !.
Senwfck Hall, at Savbrook Conn.,; the Hotei
Windsor, at jacksonville, and the Snerwood
House and Burlington Hotel in New York.
ANpREp GILsEY, aged So, who, with his broth
ers Peter, john Henry and Charles. were the ex-
ecutors OF the large Gilsey estate in New York.
died at his home at North Long Branch. N. D.. on
Friday, from n complication of diseases, aiter an
illness of about three months. Mr.. Gilsey was born
In New York. After the death OF his father, reter
Gilsey, he superintended the construction OF tne
old Fifth Avenue Theater and the new ouliolne
was also erected under his direction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
A HOT DAY IN THE METROPOLIS
Tho Street Thermometers Register From
SO Degrees to Several Notches Higher.

Tho Street Thermometers Register From
SO Degrees to Several Notches Higher.
NEW York, June 1S-[SpecfaL l-Ninety-six
degrees in the shade was n fair average for
the street thermometers here to-day, and
some got up to 9SL 1t was the hottest day
on record for the first half of June. and,
worst Of all, continuance of the heat Is
promised for tomorrow. What made the
heat harder to bear was the moisture,
officially known as Humidity" which was
700 per cent. The sidewalk merchants
profited by the general discomfort. They
ceased purveyfng the pendulous shoestring
and the unreasonable sulphur match and
went into the palm-leaf fan industry. So
many thoughtless citizens induced more
perspiration by the exertion Of tanning.
1t was hottest at $3.50 o'clock. All the
things that distinguish q torrid day in New
York were observable. The street car lines
that had open cars put them all on. There
were relays of horses along the routes. The
sides of the poor beasts thrODbed as they
staggered before their loads, always heavy
on hot days, when walking produces discom-
fort. Many animals were knocked out at the
shady relay stations, where hostlers sponged
them with cool water and let them rest for a
time. All night tired dwellers in the tene-
ments slept for the first time this year on
the fire escapes or roofs. Eleven cases of
prostration were reported to the police be-
fore 4:30 O'Clock, but the total list will foot
up at least double this.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14

THERE is no movement that rebounds to
the reputation OF welfare of the city, or that
is calculated to promote the comfort or en-
joyment of its people that Mayor Gourley
does not vigorously support. In this as in
all respects he is model Mayor; and when
he asks that citizens help along the Fourth
of July celebra ton, which will give pleasure
to hundreds of thousands, he Is right in line
with his patriotic precedents. The Mayor
wants at least couple of thousand dollars
more for the Schenley demonstration on the
Fourth. Right in the midst of two national
conventions, the exuberance of feeling
would seem but hollow sham If the shekels
do not Immediately pour in upon his Honor
for q rousing good time on the "oid" Fourth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
REID BEFORE THE sEARCHLIGHT.

WHrrELAw REID will add great strength to
the ticket. He is {. finished scholar. a diplo
mat of rare ability, and q man of frreproach-
able personal character.-C2eveldnd World.
Mr.. REID is a representative journalist,
and his selection is compliment to the
newspaper men of the country, which they
will no doubt fully Minneapolis
Tribune
Mr. REID will give strength to the ticket,
for he is recognized as a man of integrity
and ability, who has done good service for
both the party and the country.-DenUer Re-
publican
THE discussion of Mr. Reid's public SER
vices during the campaign must all draw
attention to the successful foreign policy of
the administration, and add to the strength
of the ticket as a whole.-Philadeph phia Press
Mr.. REID will give strength to the ticket,
not only in his own State, but in every sec
tion of the country as WELL He is an able
editor, a wise diplomat, and a man of wide
culture and experience, and loyal Repub-
lican.-7roy Times.
THE nomination of Mr.. Whitelaw Reid
adds greatly to the strength of the Republi-
can National ticket. Rarely has any of the
candidates for this Office united in his per-
son so many qualities bearing the promise
of success.-Ne,U York Sun.
WH1rELAw REID worked his way up from
the lowest round of the newspaper ladder to
his present great position. He was once d
reporter in the United States Senate, where,
after March l. 1s93 he will preside as Vice
President of the United States.-Neao York
Recorder.
Mr. REID is not politician or statesman,
in the usual sense OF those terms, but an ed
itor, with all which that word implies. He
has risen from poverty and obscurity to the
highest place OF journalistic success by his
own efforts and ability. The country might
he searched in vain for a more notable ex-
ample of American possibilities-Chtcdgo
Inter- Oc an.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-14
AFoREGoNE CONCLUSION.

As THE DISPATCH took occasion to pre-.
dict three years ago, wheh the rage fol
turning breweries and wholesale mercan-
tile establishments into syndicates was at
its height, the unwary investors who were
bitten by that fever are now discovering
that there is radical difference between
reports of profits and the actual payment
of dividends. One signal case in which a
brewery company was capitalized at
1890, 900 on the report of expert account
ants that they had earned 500, 900 in 1889
comes down with severe fall for the
stockholders to an earning of $50, 900 in
1890 and S42, 900 in 1891.
The New York Post, in connection with
this and other cases, enters into lengthy
explanation of the way in which account
ants with an honest intention can be de-
ceived by the vendors of an industrial cor
poration taking exceptionally prosperous
years or producing fictitious showing of
prosperity. The result of its conclusions
is that these reports of earnings on which
the profuse capitalization of industrial
and mercantile corporations is founded
are really of no value what.
ever. The conclusion having been
reached after costly demonstra-
ton by experience to some of the invest
ors, it is indisputable; but there is less
foundation for the assertion that "the
question of profitableness in the long
run is the vital one, and really determines
the price which can safely be paid for the
plant and good will. The amount Of
money originally invested by the first
partners is no concern to the public
As this is said in approval of the genera
principle of valuing business simply by
its record of earnings, it requires decided
exception, and constitutes one of the
weak points in the entire scheme of syn
dicating business stocks. The practice is
vicious because, apart from the actual
property owned by the concern thus capi.
talized, good will is one of the most tran
sient and variable values that exists. Ir
some kinds of business the good will
is more lasting, and, therefore, more
valuable than in Others. In al
cases it is largely creation
of personal management. Real estate
values are nearly Independent of good
will, and are therefore among the mos
solid investments In another business
the value may consist chiefly of good will
and the ease with which that good will
may be destroyed makes investments in il
among the least reliable.
This brings up the second and kindred
fault of the plan under review, namely,
that you cannot capitalize the persona
equation. The interests which were put on
the market under the guise of investments
were those whose profits are almost en-
tirely question of personal management
The transient nature of such investment