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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
THEIR OWN MUTUAL BENEFIT.

Lewis W. johnson and william II. Spencer
Arrested in Washington Charged With
Embezzlement-They Ran the Pruden-
tiaI Society In Philadelphia and the
Funds Disappeared.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-Lewis w. John
son, Supreme Treasurer of the American
Mutual AID Society, and William II. Spen-
Ger were arrested tonight by Detective
Donaghy, of Philadelphia, and Deputy
Marshall joyce and Detective McDevitt. of
this city. They were locked up charged
with embezzling S2S,000 johnson and
Spencer were connected with the Pruden-
tial Mutual Benefit Society, whose Offices
were at No. 1907 Arch street, Philadelphia
The society was organized in December,
1890. Business was carried on for year,
when the demands of members became so
pressing that the concern was placed in q
receivers hands.
The alleged society had in time collected
sums aggregating from S22, 900 to S2S, 900.
The receiver found the assets to be $3.50.
A bill in equity was filed by the subscribers
and johnson and Spencer left Philadelphia
and were not heard of until few weeks ago,
when they bobbed up here. The scheme as
worked in Philadelphia was to promise to
nav to the holder of a maturing certificate
500 at the expiration of year. The certif-
cate was issued on payment of an initiation
fee of S., so cents week for Sc weeks and
81 week for the remaining 16 weeks of the
year.
johnson, since his arrival here, has started
an alleged beneficial society entitled the
American Mutual Aid Society with objects
apparently the sane as those of the Phila-
delphia concern. In the circular they men,
tion the names of prominent tradesmen in
the city, who subscribed to the scheme.
Spencer was apparently not in this, and
at the time of his arrest was conducting a
photograph gallery in a tent. The men will
be arraigned before the Chief Justice of the
District tomorrow, and then taken to Phila-
delphia by Detective Donaghy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
RELATIVES WILL BURY HIM.

A Son-in-Law Claims the Remains OF the
Anarchist Who Suicided.
The son-in-law of Joseph Spellmeyer,
Lawrence Murphy, called at the morgue
yesterday and made arrangements to get
possession of the body of the suicide. He
said Spellmeyer was crazy for the past ten
years and that his family of wife and five
children, who reside at Manor station, re-
fused to live with him.
At one time he had been confined i'm the
Westmoreland county insane ward of the
almshouse, and when liberated from there
had wandered away from home He drank
almost constantly and had been great an
noyance to the family. The latter, however,
desire to give him a Christian burial and
his remains will be moved to Manor to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
LICENSE COURT CLOSED.

Ed Morris and Fred Golmor Both Win
Out Easily-Thrce More Drinking Places
for Aliegheny-No More Petitions Will
Be Heard.
License Court wound up yesterday for
good and on its last wave Ed Morris, the
ball player, and Fred Golmer, the veteran
saloon keeper of Allegheny, found success.
There was also one other license granted in
Allegheny, which brings the list up to 124
saloons, an increase of two over last year
Decisions were handed down IN all the
pending cases, and it was announced that
no more petitions for rehearings would be
received and the License Court was done.
At the opening of the License Court it was
anticipated that the business would be dis.
posed of in short order and that about half
| the time taken BY the previous courts would
suffice. In view of this Criminal Court was,
at first. ouly adjourned for three weeks, but
| it was given second adjournment. Con-
trary to expectations, however, the work
has stretched over two months, all out TWO
weeks, though License Court was not In ses-
| sion all the time.
The decisions handed down yesterday DIS
| posed of all pending cases A number OF
decisions were handed down in the forenoon
and in the afternoon Morris, Lynn, Barck-
hoff and Reinhart were decided. The list
of the granted is as follows:
Fred W. Golmer, No. 81 Ohio ST., Allegheny,
retail. 49,
Il. j. Meyer, No. 1O1 Madison avenue, Allie
gheny, retail.
Edward Morris, No. 9 Robinson street, Alle-
gheny, retail
Hugh Lynn. Etna borough, retail.
Lawrence Barckhoff, Frankstown avenue,
Twenty-first ward, wholesale.
Charles Z. Reinhart, No. West Carson
street. brewers license as representative of
the Observation-Disclosures Brewing Com
pany.
The refused were: Albert E. James. Du-
ouesne; C. H. Corrigan, No. 46S Beaver
avenue Allegheny; Patrick German and
Patrick J. Connolly, Mckeesport; Justice
Hass, Duquesne; Charles Ochsenshirt, Allie
gheny: Jacob Walters, Braddock; Abner
Ross, Duquesre; James McGifney, Jefferson
township: Richard Owons, Jefferson town
ship; Patrick J. Smythe, Twenty-eighth
ward, Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
THE FIRE RECORD.

Norfolk, Va.-McCulloch & Grandy's cot
ton warehouse. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$50 900.
Oshkosh, Wis.-Pain & Co.'s sash and door
storage house Loss. $4,000, insured. Origin
thought to be incendiary.
Beaver avenue-The alarm from box 25,
Allegheny, at O'Clock last evening, was
caused by slight fire at A. Holly's black
smith shop, los Beaver avenue. The loss
was $50.
Hfllsboro Texan incendiary fire caused
10000 loss. The principal losers are o. l..
Lyons & Son, DR.. N. B. Kennedy, Arse Brea-
Wis, j. A. Lawler and j. NJ. Walker. Insur-
ance small
Paris, Tenn.-The hotel at the Louisville
and Nashville depot, the depot itself, freight
house, round house and water tank. A great
deal of freight was consumed, as well as
valuable records.
Sandy Lake. Pa.-Following are the losses
by the fire Monday; l.. P. Foster, barn, hay,
grain, Implements, etc.. s700, insurance, 5000:
j. L. Cross, barn and fixtures, 5000, no insIlr-
ance: 7. s. Bailey, barn and contents, 5000
insurance, $500. The origin is mystery.
Pottsville-Fire was discovered in work
ings Of the York Farm colliery Monday
night. The timberings of one of the air ways
caught fire The coiliery is troubled greatly
with gas, and ha d the fire advanced toward
the inner workings no doubt a terrible acci-
dent would have resulted. After hard fight
the fire was e1tingulshed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
SHORT STORIES OF CITY LIFE.

The Public Lighting Committee of ALE
gheny was to meet last night, but failed to
get q quorum.
THE one hundredth Carnegie organ recital
will take place on the 7th inst. at p. NJ. at
Music Hall, Allegheny.
THERE was but one case of dtphtheria re.
ported at the Bureau of Health yesterday
and two cases of scarlatina.
TONIGHT Colonel r. G. Ingersol1 will de-
liver his lecture on Shakespeare" This is
the genial ColonePs first temperance in Pitts
burg for some years.
THE question of prosecuting the persons
engaged in fo1-chasing was brought before
the meeting of the Humane Society yester-
day but no action was taken.
JOHN MORAN, a, workman in the Black Dia.
mond Works, had mis- right leg broken yes
terday by falling under the wheels OF an iron
wagon. DR.. Clarke attended him.
JOHN HAMILTON, employed in Wightman &
Co. glass house, West End had an artery
in his arm cut yesterday by piece of glass
and lost great deal of blood, but will re-
cover.
A VALUABLE horse belonging to Michael
McCaull, of the West End Coal and Coke
Works ran the shaft of wagon into its side
yesterday, njuring it SO badly that it had to
be shot.
THE Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad will
shortly begin the erection of station in
Coraopolis at Chestnut street to replace the
one recently destroyed by fire at Montour
junction, and for the purpose of combin-
ing Montour and Coraopolis in one.
THE annual election OF the Southside Gas
Company resulted in George Trautman,
Martin Maloney, George W. Elkins, John s.
Dickson, Jos. G.. Walter, William II. Alldred,
Remsen V. Messler Robert B. Brown and
Samuel T. Bodine being chosen directors.
A HORSE attached to wagon belonging to
A. Gibson, of Western avenue, Allegheny,
ran away in the West End yesterday after
noon and broke the wagon and tore the har-
ness in pieces The wagon was loaded with
groceries, which were strewn over tho
street.
A SCHOOL entertainment was given last
evening, in the new Turner Hail. Thirteenth
street, by the Twenty-eighth ward school,
about 900 persons being present. The pro-
gram consisted OF singing, recitations, vocal
themes
FRIENDS of W. j. Bremen, of Mt. WASH
ington, called on Superintendent of Police
O'Mara last night and had him send q tele-
gram to Marysville, o.. where young man by
that name is lying with n crushed leg. Bren
nen has been missing and it Is thought the
injured man is the one being searched for.
Two hundred plasterers belonging to the
local union went on strike yesterday on ac-
count of the bosses requiring them to work
ten minutes overtime each day to make up
for the eight-hour day on Saturday. A COM
mittee from the plastererS' union will prob
ably confer with the bosses in q day or SO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
RAILWAY INTERESTS.

TIE Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
in Upper Michigan, is fighting the State tax
law.
THE rate on sixth.class freight from Chica-
70 to tho seabeard will be reduced to 20
conts per 100 pounds.
THE earnings Of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way for the week ending April 30, were s4S3,-
900; for the same period last year, s472 900; in
crease 81, 900.
TIE estimated gross earnings of the Chica.
20, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in
April are sl,338,42 an increase over the
same month last year of s6s, 6o6
THE Atchison, during the past nine
months, has earned ss31s3l0 tnet), an
increase Of 81, ,356. .622. This does not include
miscellaneous earnings, reckoned at 81, l,OOO,-
600 year.
IT is reported at Jacksonville, Fla, that
B. B. Plant, of New York, President of the
Plant system of railways and steamships,
has purchased the Florida Central and Penin-
sular Railway for 81, 500.0 600.
RUMoRED in Denver that Mr. Cable, Presi-
dent of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc, will soon resign his Office and De sue
ceeded by President Truesdale, of the Min
neapolis and st. Paul. This report Is denied
In Chicago.
THE Florida Southern Railroad, which has
been in the hands Of receiver since March,
loSO ana was sOld under mortgage lore
closure in March, 1892 has been formally
transferred from the hands of the receiver
into the hands of the purchasers.
DISTRICT JUDGE SLOAN. of Arizona, has de-
oided that the Tucson and Globe Narrow
Gauge Railroad bonds were Illegal, on the
grounds that the organic act creating the
Territorial Government of Arizona pro-
hfbits the Legislature from granting special
privileges or franchises.
EXPORTS are being made to bring about o
meeting OF the general managers OF the
roads in the Chicago and Ohio River Traffic
Association to put stop to the demoraliza.
tion in passenger rates. 1t is probable an
early meeting will be arranged, and that it
will result in n full restoration of rates, as
well as the adoption OF a new association
agreement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Farther south they are damaged by lack

Farther south they are damaged by lack
Of rain.
THE British and American Debenture
Company has been organized at Chicago
with 910O0 900 capital.
PLANTING Of cotton has been delayed on
account Of in ncessant rains in the hill lands
and high water on the Mississippi.
THE Bristol Silver and Copper Mining
Company at Bristol Conn.,, made its first
shipment Of copper to New York yesterday.
A CHICAGO rumor says the Westinghouse
Company and the big foreign firm OF
Siemans q Halske have combined to op-
pose the n-Thomson-H Fl Houston deal.
George Westinghouse, however, denies the
report.
PATENT COMMISSIONER s1MoNbs, at Wash
ington, issued a patent for the Edison tele-
phone. assigned to the Western Union Tele-
graph Company. The Bell telephone patent
expires in May, 1898. and the patent issued
will run for II years.
FOREIGN bankers who shipped large
amounts of gold in the last two weeks do not
expect any gold to go out this week, on &C.
count of an advance of centtme in ex-
change between London and Paris and a de-
oline of II cent in sight sterling rates in New
York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
TRIED TO HELP HER MOTHER.
A Little Tot Fatally Burned While Pouring
OIL on a Fire.

Oil on Fire.
Jennie Maxwell, years of age, was
fatally burned at her parents home, Shaf-
fer and Flora streets, at o'clock last even
ing. There was nobody but the child at
home at the time, and, thinking to help her
mother in her work in preparing supper,
the child began kindling a fire in the
kitchen stove. She placed lot of wood
In the stove and poured some oil from
lamp on the pile. There were hot Goals in
the stove and the fluid exploded. The
child's clothes caught fire and she screamed
in such a way as to attract the neighbors.
Almost all her clothing was burned off and
her body was badly roasted.
A physician was hastily procured, but he
gave but little hope for the child's recovery,
and last night she was expected to die be-
fore morning, Her parents are heartbroken
over the accident Mrs. Maxwell had been
gone from the house to a grocery store but
a few minutes before An alarm of fire was
sent in from box 3S2 on account of the
flames, but the services of the department
were not needed, as the house did not
catch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
The New Transatlantic Line.

PHILADELPHIA May ga representative of
the International Navigation Company said
to-day that as soon as the bill permitting the
American registration of the steamships
City of Paris and City of New York should
become a law, the company would take steps
to build the new vessels provided for by the
BILL 1t is understood the contracts will be
awarded as soon as possible, and that no e1-
pense will be spared in the construction Of
the new ShinS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
An Early Morning Burglary.

AT an early hour yesterday morning the
Office of Thomas S. O'Neil & Sons, Penn
avenue, was broken into and the contents
of the cash drawer of the safe, $3.50, was
taken. The combination of the safe was
knocked of and slender iron bar inserted
and forced through until the lock was
broken, and by another bar the whole
side was pushed out until the bolts slipped
from their keepers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
WORK OF PIrTsBURa PREsBYTERY.
Four Young Ministers, Who Have r
csived Calls Arc OrdoInad

Four Young Ministers, Who Have Re-
ceived Calls, Are Ordained.
The Pittsburg Presbytery yesterday was
mainly devoted to the examination and
ordination of four ministers. Rev. Mr.. Nc
Cartney, who has been called to Edgewood;
Rev. Mr.. Gallagher to Oakmont; Rev. Mr.
Roemer to Fairview, and Rev. c. L. Chal-
FAINT, who goes to Cleveland, o. The
Moderator, Rev. Nh. Lewis, of Canons-
D. D., of Wei Hsien, China, presched the
sermon. Rev. w. j. Holland, Chancellor
of the Western University, delivered the
charge to Rev. Mr.. Chalfant.
The minutes of the different sessions
were examined and approved, after which
the Presbytery adjourned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
HAVEMEYER WON'T TALK.
Protests of Wholesalers Is What Cause
the Sugar Trust Prosecution.

Protests of Wholesalers Is What Caused
the Sugar Trust Prosecution.
NEW YORK, May 3.-President Havemeyer.
of the American Sugar Refining Company,
had nothing to say in answer to the report
that United States District Attorney
Ingham has commenced suit in the United
States courts, at Philadelphia, to dissolve
the trust He claimed he mad heard nothing
of it. 1t is said the action is the result of
the protest of the wholesale grocers of this
city, who have appealed to the Federal
authorities for relief, as they can make no
profit in handling sugar.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says: The
United States Circuit Court directed the
United States Marshal to serve summons
on the parties named in the bill in equity
against the sugar combination living out
side the limits of the Judicial Circuit. This
action is taken under new law authorizing
the court of one circuit to issue subp9nas
and processes in the territory comprising
other Jurisdictions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
BUSINESS BREVITIES.

MoKEEsPoRr BARRIERS are organizing pro-
tective association.
THE Stove Founders National Defense
Association Is in session in Chicago.
THE Cotton Oil Trust declared dividend
yesterday OF per cent on preferred stock.
The Biscuit Trust has cut prices on Is i'm
portant articles of the sweet goods class.
CROPS in Northern California look well.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Weaver Had His Share of Hard Luck.

Boster Weaver, 15-year-old boy, em-
ployed in Painters West End mill, had bis
arm caught in the machinery in the mill
yesterday and broken. This is the second
time he has had his arm broken in the past
year. Before, he fell out Of hayloft and
broke both arms and fractured his skull.
He lives next door to No. patrol station
in the West End.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Driven Ont Like So MANY Rats.

The rain last night had a depressing
effect on the comfort of that class of people
who rest on board piles and street cor
ners over night Up until o'clock there
was not an arrest in either of the Penn ave-
nue. wards. Half an hour after it began to
rain there were dozen men in the Twelfth
and Seventeenth ward station houses
charged with vagrancy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
voegtIy Again q Candidate for Mayor.

Ex.Mayor Voegtly yesterday announced
his candidacy for Mayor for the full term
which commences next April The prim-
aries will have to be held the early part of
January. Major John Krepps has also an
nounced himself He expects the backing
of the old soldiers and the reformers. MI.
Voegtly is also mentioned for Chief of the
Department of Public Safety.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04

George A. Duke, a steamboat captain,
was removed from Mercy Hospital last
night to Central police station. He had
been confined in the hospital but few
days. Yesterday he became insane and un-
manageable. He is 80 years of age and
lives in Homestead. His friends will be
notified to-day to have him removed to an
asylum for proper care
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Rushing for Dog Licenses.

There has been a rush the past three days
for dog licenses, and owners of pet poodle.
have besieged the license clerks at all the
station houses A great many people
don't seem to understand that they can get
licenses at any police station in the city, and
the clerk at Central station gets most of the
business in consequence. The receipts for
licenses on Monday was S521, at the rate of
81 per dog, of which S203 was collected al
Central station. Yesterdays receipts at
Central were Sl91.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
A SCHEME TO INJURE TRADE.
One Lockport, New York, Coal Dealer
I Could Not Supply His Customers.

LooKPoRT, May 8.-[SpectaL lone of the
greatest sensations of the day was the in
dictment at Lockport to-day by the grand
jury of four prominent coal dealers charging
them with conspiracy to injure trade and
commerce and to prevent the exercise of
trade and calling. The men are members of
what is known as the Lockport Coal E1-
change, President Carson j. Sheldon: Vice
President, Edward S. Brown; Charles j. Fer
rim and Sheldon n. Cook.
The complainant is another coal dealer
Edward B. Jelley. When the Lockport Ex-
change was formed Jelley refused to be-
come member, and he soon found ne could
do no business. and his supply of coal was
cut off He offered the wholesale dealers
cash for coal, but he was invariably refused.
Some told him they could not supply him
because he was not member Of the Ex-
change. Jelley charges the exchange and
its members with conspiring to ruin his
business The gentlemen were arraigned
and pleaded not guilty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Brazil No Longer Attracts Emigrants,

WARSAW, May 3.-Out of $4,000 Polish
emigrants who went to Brazil, 1900 are re-
corded as having returned. 1t is estimated
that 1s, 200 Poles died in Brazil from the
yellow fever, The many bad reports from
Brazil have diverted the stream of emigra-
tion to the United States, and this has been
increased by the recent bad haryests in
Poland
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Robert Lindsay Is Favored Again.

National Chairman Clarkson, of the Ma
tional Republican Committee, has named
Robert Lindsay, e1-Secretary of the State
League of Republican Clubs, as First As
sistant Sergeant at Arms of the National
Republican Convention, which meets in
Minneapolis next month. This is one of
the first of Chairman Clarkson's appoint
ments
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
OR EAT GRAFT ON STREET CARS
Pickpockets Do a Rushing Business Early
in the Evenings.

A gentleman who declined to give his
name was relieved of his pocketbook while
on his way home on a Fifth avenue car yes
terday about 6 o'clock. Cars at that hour
are usually crowded to their entire capacity
and no better opportunity for picking
pockets could present ITSELF The first stop
was made two or three blocks from the
Court House to permit lady to alight, and
about this time the thieves got in their
work, which, however, was poorly rewarded,
as the purse contained but little change.
The employees of both the Fifth avenue
and Duquesne roads have frequent COM
plants from passengers about losing their
pocketbooks, and it seems that the thieves
work exclusively on these roads.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Death of Mrs. Huev

Mrs Sarah Jane Huey died yesterday at
Belle Bridge, Pa, where her husband, WILL
lam Huey, Esq, has been in the coal bus
lness Tor many years. She was an old resi-
dent of Minersyille where she was born in
1922
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
A Craft Avenue Fire.

An alarm was sent in from box SO,
located at Fifth and Craft ave-
nues, about $3.50 o'clock this morning. By
the time the engines arrived the building
was abiaze, and telephone message said it
would be total loss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Have You Noticed Them?

II not make n note OF this: The ITO Let
Rooms" and "Wanted Boarders" cent a
word advertising columns of the Daily and
Sunday DISPATCH contain the most de-
sirable houses at moderate rates and in the
best locations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Choered by tho Printers

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Columbia Typo
graphical Union dedicated its new building
last night the finest ever erected bya single
chapter of labor organization. Hon. Amos
J. Cummings made an address. President
Harrison was present and was loudly
eheered.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
Readings Possessions Extending.

From Chicago comes the report that the
Philadelphia and Reading hard coal combi-
nation has secured the Lackawanna and Le-
high Valley boats and all the property Of
the companies.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
To-DAY's BIG CONVENTIONS,
Republicans of Illinois and Democrats q
Michigan Ready for Work.

HIcHIEdn heauy Tor Work.
CHICAGO, May "a dispatch from
Springfield says delegates are already ar
irving for to-morrow's State Republican
Convention. Governor Fifer is still in the
lead for the governorship and other situa-
tions are practically unchanged.
A Muskegon, Mich, special says every
thing Is In readiness for the Democratic
convention In that State tomorrow, and the
leaders are already at the scene of the con.
fict Don NJ. Dickinson and Edward RYAN
are slated for delegates at large.