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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
MERCER WET AND DRY.
The whistler House MA make Stubborn
Ii.ht for a License.

The Whistler House MA make a Stubborn
Fight for License.
MERCER, Jan. 1S.-T Soecial This was
the dag set BIZ Judge Mehsrd for the hear
ing of Arguments on license cases. 1t was
said hard fight was to be niaGe by attor-
neys for tlfe Whistler House, this city, the
finest hotel in this Section, which has al
wavs been without license Some wears
ago Judge Mehard made railing, which is
still in force, "when a petition for a license
has a preponaerance OF siguers, then the
license NAV be granted; when the remon-
straHce contains the larger number of names,
then the license is refused" Under the
above ruling Mercer mas been without a
license ever since, and there is the hardest
fight Of all on the Whistler House.
In the cases of the applications from
Greenville and Sharon, the liquor element
seems to have control and there we're no
remonstrances filed. The main questions in
these places Sre ou the restaurant licenses,
as the Judge has stated shat tWo restaurant
licenses. with liquor, were enough Ia Sharon
this year, but a third man has applied. In
jamestown the renionstrsrces are largely in
excess OF the petitions, and under the rll-
ing quoted above that place mas no show for
licensed drinking places.
Perhaps in no part OF the county has the
fight been carried on with such bitterness as
in Sharpsyille. There we're two applica-
tions from that place. The names on the
petition tor ;he Knapp House exceeded the
names on the remonssraEce, while the re-
monstrance against the Pierce House led
the application by about 80 names. Since
the il;ng of the petitions and remon-
strances the two elements have been en-
gagged in bitter general war, their bitter
ness increasing every day. The temperance
facticn Published the names of those who
had signed the petitions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
POLICE DOCKET ENTRIES.

THE Pennsylvania road intends to put on
fast express next month for horses. The
train will run between New York and Chi
cago. A charge of 81 20 per car will be made,
or about $39 more than the rate on freight
trains.
GEORGE RUSSELL was arrested in Allegheny
yesterday twice by the same officer and for
the same offense.each time. He was locked
up in the morning for drunkenness. He left
S. and was released He was locked up in
the evening again on the same charge.
HENRY LIGHrNEE, arrested by officer Cole
early yesterday morning, was committed to
Jail later in default of $1,000 bail for court.
He is charged with assisting James Sweeny
and Thomas Moody to rob Anthony Mine
hen of $94 The other two were arrested
several days ago.
FRANK BEcKroLD, of Ellsworth avenue,
was arrested yesterday by Detective Gum
bert on a warrant and lodged in the Nine
teenth ward station on serious charge.
preferred by Miss Ada Anderson, aged l6
years. He will be given hearing before
Alderman Hyndman to-day.
BENJAMIN RODGERS appeared before Alder
man McPike yesterday, and swore out
warrant against Andrew Suday and Mary
Kizolia. II was alleged that they kept dis
orderly house in Church alley, frequented
by a noisy and drunken crowd, causing
much annoyance to the neighbors.
MRS KATE JORDAN, of No. 149 Cherry alley,
made information before Alderman Rich
ards yesterday charging her husband with
assault and battery. 1t is alleged by Mrs.
Jordan that the defendant struck her on the
head with poker. He was arrested and
committed to Jail for hearing Thursday.
MARTIN SMITH, mill worker. entered the
saloon OF John Rulang on Carson and Nine
teenth streets, Southside. last night and
ordered several drinks. When asked to pay
+ r them he refused and became abusive
He was locked up in station house No. land
will be given hearing this morning. Off
Ger Mccormick made the arrest.
MICHAEL MARRIvIs, an Italian, was arrested
yesterday by Officer Schaffer at his boarding
house on River avenue, East End, charged
with larceny by Joseph Seagcr. who alleges.
that the defendant stole a silver watch from
him about two months ago. When the pris-
oner was searched at the station house the
watch was found on him. He was locked up
in the Nineteenth ward station for hearing
to-day.
The Allegheny police yesterday returned
to Mrs Hannaeh, of st. Louis, the s95 stolen
from her in Mrs. Bucks boarding house,
on Troy Hill, Saturday night. She returned
to her houe last night. The police found
that the money had been stolen by another
woman boarding in the house, who was
taking treatment for the morphine habit of
Father Mollinger. Mrs. Hannach was also a
patient She refused to prosecute.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
DOWN A PREC|P|CE,
A SleighlOad of a Dozen Pleas
ure Seekers Have a
Frightful Fall.
TWO OF THEM MAY DIE.
The Team, Climbing an Icy Mountain
Road, Lose Their FOOthOld.
ORCHARDS KILLED BY THE SLEET.
Lively Contests in Prospect in the Mercer
License Court.
TWO OF THEM MAY DIE.
ORCHARDS KILLED BY THE SLEET.
Lively Contests in Prospect in the Mercer
License Court.
NEWSY NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
ZELIENoPLE. Jan. 1S-A terrible acci-
dent happened to a sleighload of pleasure
seekers between here and Harmony last
night. The party, consisting of'12 young
people, sons and daughters of prominent
farmers of that section, started out COM
fortablv packed in a two-horse bobsled, and
after lively ride OF several miles they
started for home. To lessen the distance
the driver took an unused road that wound
along the top of steep hill. Everything
was coated with an inch of ice and the road
was as slippery as glass.
Hardly had the horses entered the road
and reached the hilltop when it was seen
an accident must occur, as the sled slipDed
ominously close to the precipice at every
step. The driver tried 10 turn the horses,
but too late, and in an instant later the sled
swung to the edge and tumbled down the
hill. The driver lashed the horses, but they
could obtain no foothold, and were dragged
down with the sled and its screaming occu-
pants The young people were so securely
packed in the sled that they could not es-
cape, and of the entire load the driver is the
only one who ESCAPED uniniured, as he
jumped Just as the sled went over the hill.
AT the point where the accident occurred
there is a sheer fall of fully 800 feet, with
gentle slope of 200 feet more at the bottom.
The place was comparatively bare and cov
cred with ice, and when the sled and its
load went over the hill the horses were
dragged after and.fell floundering, instantly
overturning the sled. Then began terrible
slide down the hill, horses, sled-runners
and occup ants mixed up in an almost inex-
tricable mass.
By the time the driver could scramble
down the hill some few of the young men
less seriously hurt had helped several
young ladies from beneath the sled. Three
were insensible from fright and pain, and
one young lady, Miss Elizabeth Martin, had
her spine so badly injured that if she lives
she will be crippled for life. A young man
named Berry had been struck by one of the
horses and his skull is fractured. He will
likely die. Miss Long was also struck by
one of the shoes of the plunging horses
and received a terrible cash four inches
long across her forehead. Those mentioned
were found to be the most seriously hurt,
though not one escaped without bruises or
cuts.
1t was found that both horses had broken
their legs in the fall, and they were shot to
end their misery. The young men, bearing
the injured, were obliged to walk nearly a
mile over the slippery ice before they
reached a farmhouse. Physicians were
then sent for, and all are expected to re-
cover in a short time except Mr.. Berry and
Miss Martin, whose cases are serious.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
Tri-State Brevities,

MRS EMMA F. CooNs who was recently dis
honorably discharged by the Canton
Woman's Relief Corps, will appeal her case
to the National Department.
Mr.. c. Nj. WILLIAMS, of Calumet, Pa, states
there is no truth in the report sent to the
Pittsburg papers that Mrs. Anna Williams
was arrested for shooting at some school
children there few days ago.
SATURDAY night the McKeesport Salvation
Army National Guard brass band was giving
one Of its concerts. A trombone player gave
Policeman Hahn little back talk and was
told to keep quiet, but did not seem to heed
The officer arrested him and took him to the
lookup and was followed by a large mob of
about 300 people. The prisoner was immedi-
diately bailed out.
A NATURAL gas explosion at Lancaster O.,
demolished the two-story brick dwelling of
Judge Brazee. Mrs. Brace, four grown chill
dren and servant were in their beds at the
time, Judge BraZee being the only occupant
stirring. He was blown go teet across the
street, where he was found unconscious am
bleeding from severe wounds about the
head None of the sleeping occupants were
seriously injured.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL.
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

Among the eastbonnd passengers on the
Pennsylvania road last night were N. f.
Dorente, Sam De Armitt and E. L. Gillespie
and wife. Mr. Dorente said he was going TO
Ph1ladelphia on business for District Attor-
ney Burleigh.
A. w. Thompson, the receiver for J. P.
Witherow & Co., and job Abbott, of New
York, the engineer of the Wheeling Bridge
ana terminal Company. registered at the
Monongahela House last evening.
J. W. ReinhaA, of Boston, First Vice
President of the Santa Fe road, and his wife
are among the guests at the Schiosser. Mr..
Reinhart is visiting the Rev. DR.. Allison.
John G. Edwards, Superintendent of the
blooming mill ct the Columbia Iron and
Steel Company, Uniontown, was a business
visitor in Pittsburg yesterday.
W. X. Gillette, Assistant General Aud
itor of the Santa Fe road at Topeka, passed
through the city yesterday bound for New
York.
II. Matson and wife. of Brookville, and
John W. Sutton. an Indiana coal operator,
were at the Seventh Avenue yesterday.
G. P. McNichol, of Harvard College, re-
turned to Cambridge last evening. He had
been visiting j. B. Ford, Jr.
James r. Doran, a well-known horse
dealer and lyerynan Of Uniontown, spent
last night in Pittsburg.
Frank Williams, of Johnstown, and
Major Mcdowell, of Sharon, are stopping at
the Duquesne.
Ross Reynolds, of Kittanning. and ii. W.
CurRmins, of Wheeling, are stopping at the
Anderson.
w. A. White, of Claysville, and G. Fl.
Gather, of Findleyville, are at the Central
Hotel.
Coroner Wakefield, of Westmoreland
county, was in the city yesterday on busi-
ness.
James Gallery, President of the Second
Avenue road, went to New York last even
ing.
Walter Thompson, of Manchester, Eng
land, was in the city yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
Pittsbureers in New York.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1s.-[Specidl. 1.-The follow
ing PittsDurgers are registered at hotels
here: ]. S. Arnold, Gilsey House; E. Biller,
Union Square Hotel C. S. Black, Sturteyant
House; T. S. Blair, Jr, Hotel Brunswick; j..
NJ. Brokechoff. Gilsey House: H. S. Denny,
st. James Hotel; G. Dibrot, Hoffman House;
c. III. Edwards. Grand Central; A. Fulton,
Glsey House; j. NJ. Fulton, Gilsey House; G..
Z. Goddard, ST. James Hotel; Il. II. Hartley,
Metropolitan; o. s. Hershman, Hotel I'M
perial; J. Kemble, Metropolitan Hotel: B. H.
Rubie, Windsor Hotel; A. Starr, Sturtevant
Hickman. Metropolitan: b. L. johnson, Ho.
tel Imperial: j. P. Murphy, Oriental Hotel;
J: Wainwright, Imperial: W. f. and w.
Webb, Coleman; B. S.Wood, Hotel Imperial.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
VALUABLE DOGS SOLD.
+. C. Fowler Buys Some Of Mr.. Washing
toms Famous Irish Settlers.

f. c. Fowler Buys Some Of Mr.. Washing
tons Famous Irish Settlers.
MooDUs, CONN, Jan. 49, Special. IF.
G. Fowler, the owner of the famous Oak
Grove racing stables and Irish setter
kennels of this place, has made deal with
w. L. Washington, the owner of the Kildare
Kennels of Pittsburg, by which he has
secured the three well-known Irish setter
brood bitches, Kildare Doris, Helene and
Rose Boroimhe, together with litter of
puppies out of the last named bitch that
were sired by the famous champion Elcho,
Jr., who died this fall they are his last get.
The price paid was long one, but the exact
amount was not made public.
Kildare Doris was bred by w. L. WASH
ington, and is sired by Champion Elcho, Jr.,
the champion of America, and is damned
by Champion Ruby Glenmore, the cham
pion bitch of America. She is one of the
best of her breed living, and will be shown
on the bench during the spring circuit.
Ileene was imported from England last
summer; she was bred by Major I. Colt
hurst-J Jameson, of the English army; she
is sired by Champion Ponto and damned by
Champion Drenagh, the two best of their
breed in Europe. Rose Boroimhe was bred
by G. E. Gray, of Minnesota, and repre-
sents strain of Irish settlers owned in that
country; she is full sister to the famous
Tillie Boroimhe, the winner of first prize in
the Irish setter stake at the Eastern field
trials in North Carolina last fall. These
are three of the most widely known and
best bred Irish settlers in this country.
Fowler is a new light in the kennel world,
and has only within the last two years
added kennel to his extensive breeding
farm, but has already brought together one
Of the finest kennels of Irish settlers in this
country, all but few of which have been
purchased from the Kildare Kennels, of
Pittsburg, and his purchases in this line
represent an outlay of several thousand
dollars. At the head OF his kennels is the
famous Champion Kildare.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
General Sporting Notes.

o. S.-His correct name is Killion.
NED HANLAN will return to San Francico in
March to row Peterson.
|. ERNEST RoEHER is out with a challenge to
wrestle any man in America.
The prospects are that Patsy Cardiff and
Joe Choynsh will be matched shortly.
j. w. ROGERS saws that Lamplighter is the
best developed youngster he ever had in
training.
PoroMAc has grown into the largest horse
in training in the East. He will not race
until late.
YoRKvILLE BELLE is said to have filled and
grown splendidly and promises to be . sem
sational filly next year.
JIMMY CARROLL writes to friends in San
Francisco from New Orleans that he has no
excuses for his defeat by Myer.
The date of the Gilmore-C Collins eight
round glove contest, to take place in Detroit,
has been changed to January 81.
If Australian Billy Murphy arrives on the
next steamer. as expected. the California
Athletic Club will offer purse for him and
Van Heest to fight for.
LoNGsTREErand Kingston are1ooking finely
Mt Gravesend. Raceland is heavier and
stronger than he has ever been at this time
of the year, and Banquet is big and robust.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
TREES BARE as BEANPoLEs.

Disastrous Effects of the SIeet on the
Orchards of Beaver County
BEAVER FALLS Jan. 18.-[S Special RE
ports from farmers in this section show that
the damage done to fruit trees by the late
rain and ice storms is much greater than at
first reported. This is especially true in
young orchards The ice formed on the
branches half an inch thick, and the trees
sometimes snapped off like pipestems.
In some cases farmers built fires under
the trees to melt the ice, while in others an
attempt was made to knock the ice of,
usually resulting in breaking down the
limbs. One farmer this morning reports
that his entire peach orchard of ten acres is
entirely denuded of branches, the trees
standing as bare as beanpoles
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
TWO FUsILLADRs WITH ROBBERS.
One Captured and the Others Escap'
Though One Badly Wounded.

One Captured and the Others Escape
Though One Badly Wounded.
BEAVER FALLS, Jan. 18.-( Specid- i
About IL o'clock last night, Officers Green
and Cornell saw two young men named
Cole and Ross, acting in suspicious man
ner. They followed them and found the
two men; in company with two others,
named Barnes and Lee, trying to break into
the factory of Hall Brothers. The men
started to run. The officers opened fire,
which was returned by the men, and a fusil-
lade followed. No one was hurt, and the
men escaped. About 8 o'clock this morn
ing an officer discovered the same gang at
the same place. Again they escaped,
though not before several shots had been
fired.
Shortly after that hour, man, supposed
to be Cole, called to the watchman in the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie shanty, that he
wanted to come in, as he had been shot.
The watchman refused and the wounded
man disappeared, leaving behind him
traces of blood in the snow. The police
captured Barnes this morning, and he is
now in Jail. The others have disappeared,
and it is not known how badly one was
hurt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
THE COLUMBUS CLUB.
Magnates There Think of Joining the West
ern Baseball Orga anizstion.

Magnates Ihere Inlnk OF joining the w est
ern Baseball Organization.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 49, - Columbus
will be represented in the Western Baseball
Association. The projectors of the enter
prise are meeting with genuine encourage
ment of the bankable nature and will soon
have the entire stock subscribed
The Columbus club will not invest its en-
tire capital stock in players this year as has
been the case during the past few seasons
The company will be solid p financial
point of view and quiet as determined in
its hostility to paying exorbitant salaries
and taxing themselves at the end of the
season for the amusement they have been
giving the admirers of the national game.
The home management will not favor a
season longer than six months, having be-
come firmly convinced by experience that a
seven months run of baseball cannot be
successfully conducted without loss.
The Columbus club of last year cost $32,-
900. The new club will have salary list
of about $12, 500, and under no circumstances
will this be increased to over 81 900 for the
season. With Toledo, indianapolis, Colum-
bus and Milwaukee in the East the present
managers are confident that the interest
will be revived and profitable season fol-
1n,r
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
FIRE RECORD.

Ar Petersburg, o., near Youngstown, the
Town Hall, a hote,. q bakery and a saloon
burned Total loss, $1,000: insurance, 50, ,OO0
AT Rome, q house in the Piazza Spagna
occupied by Countess Paduska, the cele-
brated painter, Corrodi, and others. Some
valuable pictures, curios and jewelry were
destroyed. The inmates narrowly escaped
with their lives.
THE entire business portion of Orleans,
Neb., was destroyed Sunday. The flames
started in the jewelry store OF Frank Bristol
and the postoffice, with all its mails R. IT.
Trees drugstore, C. D. Coles store, Rander's
meat market, Rowley's harness shop and an
were destroyed. Many citizens and firemen
were frost bitten, as the weather was very
cold. The loss will amount to $4,000 with
but nominal insurance
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
Baseball Notes.

WE are already getting there again. Poor
Pittsburg.
DAVE ROWE will have charge of the St.
Paul club this season.
ANsoN's Michigan man is Harry L. Pipp
He will play second base.
J.PALMER O'NEIL has sold his last share of
stock OF the local club to Treasurer Brown
for $40.
AFTER the minor leagues are all supplied
the Pittsburg club will have plenty of men
to sign.
BECKLEY will remain in Pittsburg until he,
Baldwin, Hanlon and Miller leave here for
Hot Springs.
JOHN B. DAY makes an emphatic denial Of
the report that he is to retire from the New
York club Presidency.
TAKING the past into consideration, it is
an insult to baseball intelligence to discard
a man like Mack for an Earle or a Stencil
or a dozen of them.
SHUeARr got $500 advance money; Bier.
bauer, $500: Miller, $500, and Beckley, 81, 600
Baldwin, whom the club will rely on next
year as a pitcher, was hoodooed down to
$500.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
BRADD0CK BREVITIES.
A Former Residents Suicide-A Shooting
Scrape-Struck by a Train.

Former Residents suicide-A Shooting
Scrape-Struck by a Train.
BRADDoCK, Jan. 1S.-[ Special 1-Word
has just reached here of the suicide of
Robert A. Hart, who threw himself under
the car wheels at Du Quoin, Ill. The de-
ceased was an expert rail inspector, and for
a long time had been connected with the
leading iron firms between here and Chi
cago. He left Braddock to go to Baltimore
in the interests of the Carnegie firm last
September, and nothing had been heard
from him since, until the news of his suicide
reached here.
Squire Clementson to-day committed
Stone Horweth TO Jail. Horweth, in quar-
rel, shot George Martezen in his brothers
boarding house last night in the hip. The
man will live
S. r. Hurd, stock foreman at the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works, was struck by a
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad be-
tween Swissvale and this city, and sustained
serious, though probably not fatal, injuries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
s GOOD DIVIDEND PROBABLE.

Receiver Sproul, of the Defunct Cory
Bank, Doing Good Work.
CORY, Jan. 1S.-[SpeciaL j. w.
Sproui, receiver Of The First National Bank
here. said this evening that Controller
Lacey had ordered dividend to be paid the
the last Of next month, the first day the
law will permit. There is more than enough
money on hand now to pay so per cent
dividend, and the receiver says he thinks
he can make it 40 per cent. This will put
in circulation over 5000, 900 and wonder
fully relieve the present stringency in
money caused by the failure.
When Mr. Sproul took charge of the
bank there were $4,000 cash on hand.
Within the past so days he has collected
nearly S150,000. 1t is believed the depos-
itors will receive so per cent. in all
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
Mark Baldwin's Suit.

Mark Baldwin, the local pitcher, received
letter from his attorney, r. c. Dale, of
Philadelphia, yesterday, relative to his suit
against Won der Abe. The case will come
up for hearing next month. Baldwin claims
$50. 900, and deserves every dollar of it ac-
cording to the opinion of lots of people.
Won der Abe caused Baldwin to be put in
Jail in st. Louis without any alleged sound
pronounce on the matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
Raftsmen's Narrow Escaps,'

PARKERsBURG, Jan. 49, - TtSpcciGl. i
William Taylor, William Bovinger and
Martin Lawless had a thrilling ride last
night down the Ohio river on raft of logs
The raft broke loose on the Little Kanawha,
darted down that river ami out into the
Ohio like flash. Twenty miles down the
river the logs grounded and the men were
rescued, almost perishing from the cold.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
Winners at Guttenburg.

GUTTENBURG, Jan. 1S.-The track was
not in good condition to-day and the at
tendance was small.
First race, one mile-Knapp first Bonnie
King second, Burnside third. Time, E4eA.
Second race, five furlongs-Irregular first,
Gladiator second, Fassett third. Time,
l:033z.
Third race, one mile-Irene H first. De-
fendant second, Prince Edward third. Time,
l:471S.
Fourth race, one mile-Mabeile first, Seven
second, Rafiers third. Time, 1:453z.
Fifth race, six furlongs-St. Patrick first,
Stratagem second, Wheeler I. third. Time,
I'll.
Sixth race, six furlonrs-Van first. Onaway
second, Longstride third. Time, 1877.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
McClelland Is Very Busy.

E. C. McClelland, the pedestrian, has
been matched to run three~men at Martins
Ferry, February 6, race of three miles;
that is at the end of each mile a new man
will start against McClelland, commencing
where the latter's opponent leaves off, The
three men are Amos Paxton, Clarence
Ebbett and Bert Montgomery. McClelland
is also matched to contest against B. Shep-
pard on roller skates, best two in three
heats, for S100 and the gate receipts