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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-24
DEBASED CURRENCY.

GOLD will sell at premium If a free silver
coinage act should become a lau.--iL6dny
Journal.
1T will do no one any good TO have two
silver dollars instead of one gold one If the
one gold dollar will buy as much food and
clothing as the two silver ones.-SE Paul
Globe.
Mr.. BLAND's free coinage bill is designed
to initiate the currency, but its principal
effect will be to initiate the Republican vote
in New York and New England.-&. Louis
Globe Democrat.
THE fact that a free coinage bill is the first
party measure which the Democrats bring
before the House shows that the cranks are
in the majority and will make silver the
leading issue for next fall-Bu1uLo Express.
THE whole free silver argument is largely
theoretical The only tangible fact is that
the bill enables the silver men to take about
70cents-wo orth of silver to the United States
mint and receive therefor what is to pass
current among the people as 100 cents, CIV
ing clear profit of nearly 4S per cent on the
transaction.-Iroy Times
THE purpose of the Republican party is to
maintain the currency at an equality, so that
the dollar shall be worth 100 cents. No bill
departing from that standard can become
law by President Harrison's consent. 1t 10
on the President and the sound-money Re-
publicans of the Senate that the country
relies for salvation from disastrous financial
legislation Utica Herald
The silver kings, taking advantage of
so-called popular sentiments which is partly
the result OF ignorance, partly of reckless
ness have assumed to make the United
States throw away the gold standard and
adopt standard recognized in scarcely any
part OF the civilized.world with which our
country dealsl 1t is madness on the part of
the dupes of the silver kings; it is greed run
mad on the parsof the kings themselves
Ohio State Journal
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ENFORCE TT Mp.RTIAuy

The Philadelphia Record has recently
changed front from its former answering
defence of constitutional rights as against
corporate aggression. As champion of
the anthracite deal it presents somewhat
singular explanation of its report that the
Attorney General knew of that combina-
ton ten days in advance 1t is that the
Pennsylvania Railroad has recently ac-
quired second through line from Pitts
burg to Harrisburg by the purchase of the
Allegheny Valley Railroad, and that it
was this deal which the Attorney General
said that he knew of ten days before the
date of its dispatch. The Record also in
Inmates that this purchase of the Allie
gheny Valley requires the attention of the
State administration as much, if not more,
than the anthracite combination.
If either the Pennsylvania Railroad, the
Reading or any other corporation has vio-
lated the Constitution of the State, the
State administration should turn all its
powers against the offender, and compel
obedience to the law more completely
than was done in the South Penn case.
But there are three obstacles to making
the Allegheny Valley purchase an ex-
ample of such disciplinary proceed
ings. First, the Pennsylvania Railroad
controlled the Allegheny Valley
long before the present Constitution; sec
ond, the person who attempts to travel
from Pittsburg to Harrisburg by that al
legged Through line' will find himself
woefully stranded after days ride; and,
third, although it is general presump-
ton that the recent proceedings left the
control of that road in the same hands as
before, namely the Pennsylvania Railroad,
the only actual knowledge of the matter
is that it is in the hands of a purchasing
committee, whose principals are not speci-
fed.
Nevertheless, as already said, if there is
a violation of the Constitution in this pro-
cedure, it should be the subject of action
by the Attorney General. But that official
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must not permit even the appearance of
partiality suggested by the report that he
had been examining into the Valley trans
action long before, and of his own motion,
while he declined to take notice of the
anthracite combination except on COM
plant of some outside party.
This intimation that the administration
can permit to one corporation what it
denies to another requires prompt denial.
1t is not living up to the standard set by
Governor Pattison's first administration to
suppose that it makes any difference what
corporation trespasses ON the Constitution.
The platform which gave the Governors
first term its strength before the people
was that tine Constitution was supreme
over all corporations alike. The best
refutation of such an imputation of
partiality as is contained in the repre-
sentation of our cotemporary is to be
given by prompt action in connection with
the Reading deal. 1t is gratifying to hope
that this disproof is to be found in the
latest report from Harrisburg that the At
torney General will take such action.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-24
FITFuL BOLTS OF FLAME
A Startling Meteor That Worked Dire Re-
suits in Montana.

kuttS IN montana.
HELENA, MONT, Feb. pa special from
Hamilton, Missoula county tells of great ex-
citement caused by the fall of a meteor
which drove itself 200 feet into the earth,
but protrudes 100 feet in the air and is still
sputtering and sizzling furiously, emitting
sulphurous gases that impregnate the air
for miles around. The startling heavenly
visitor arrived early in the morning, leav-
ing lurid trail that lighted up the sky and
stirred the doing fowl betimes from the
restful perch. But sad to relate the horrid
monster wrought death, and worked
havoc as it struck the earth. On the ranch
of Henry Chambers, but few miles from
the blooded horse ranch of Marcus Daily,
the king tHrfman, it struck Chambers cat
tie shed in which some 40 head OF cows and
two Cinnamon were corralled, and SO great
was the circumference of the meteor that
not an animal was left on earth, but with
the two Celestials all are buried beneath
that awful monument of heated meteoric
stone v
The earth rocked like cradle for miles,
buildings were shaken from their founda-
tons, the contents of pantries demolished,
and sleeping inhabitants thrown from their
beds. Great excitement exists all through
the Bitter Root Valley. and hundreds of
people are f1ocking to the scene which is
one of terrifying aspect, and makes stout
hearts quail. Great globuless of molten
metal roll from the sides of the Kissing,
sputterieg monster and appalling, crashing
sounds are heard as its limits contract from
the effects of exposure to the cold air. Fit
ful bolts of flame shoot high in the air from
the summit and great stream of liquid
lava has plowed its way from the base down
the hillside and loses itself in tho basin of
the extinct lake in which was recently
found petrifed sea serpent SO feet in
length, and only few miles distant from
the great cave in the mountains in which
were found the band of alternating Indians,
the last of the cliff dwellers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-24
DEMAGoGUERY ON SILVER,

The demagoguery of the Hill Democ-
racy on the silver question is revealed by
the platform of the New York Conven-
ton, and the deliverances of Hill himself,
to degree which surpasseS the limits Of
effrontery. The Albany gathering was
used as the opportunity for putting out
denunciations of the silver legislation of
1890 and for looking to ''the permanent
reduction of every American dollar by 30
per cent" 1t is true that this is an ulti-
mate danger of our present coinage laws,
and by attacking that point of weakness,
and repeating the clap-trap of the opposi-
ton to ''the coinage of any silver dollar
which is not of the intrinsic value of every
other dollar" distinct effort is made to
catch the vote of the Eastern States.
At the same time Senator Hill indulges
in his old pratings of ''free bi-metallic
coinage from 1892 to 1s73," thus holding
out to the free silver men of the South and
West the profession of support to their
views. He deliberately repeats the per-
formance of his Elmira speech in joining
the incongruous and irreconcilable utter
ances which were then used to represent
him in the East as opposed to the Bland
style of free coinage and in the South as
supporting it.
Everyone knows that the only way to
establish silver dollar of equal intrinsic
value to the gold dollar is to increase the
amount of silver in the dollar in proper
tion to its present depreciation. The
proposition to do this was voted down in
the House Coinage Committee, and the
Democratic branch of the national legis-
lature is now on the verge of passing
bill which, if enacted, will produce at
single blow the depreciation which the
Hill convention denounces Republican
policy for making possible in the distant
future. Yet not word of disapproval is
heard from the Hill ranks Of the Bland
bill, now the pivotal issue on the silver
question.
The reason OF this silence is not hard to
discern. Hill will want the votes of the
free silver coinage men as well as the
votes of the East; and it is entirely con-
sistent with the Hill principles to pose at
the same time as the representative of two
opposed and irreconcilable ideas.
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ALL HUMBUGs BUT ONE.

The Industrial Conference in session at
st. Louis, while ostensibly hesitating
whether it shall take plunge into the
third party movement, really develops
the qualities which have already brought
that party to the stage of decadence.
That is, the enthusiastic union of all the
dissimilar elements, and the incorporation
in one anomalous whole of all their incon-
gruous and impracticable ideas.
1t is not to be denied that union of
the agricultural and labor elements
against the evils of legislation and admin
istration which react unfavorably on both
interests is feasible But to make such
union effective it should confine its plat
form to the reform of those evils without
adopting the incongruous crazes of both
sides. To join the sub-treasury scheme
of the Peoples Party to the land
tax ideas of the labor socialists, and
to weight both down with the fat
money craze of fifteen years past,
is simply to prepare for a breakdown.
With that unique union, the addition to
the whole of female suffrage, prohibition,
and the unknown craZes of the Union Re-
form Association, the Central National
lists, the National Anti-Monopolists, and
the Alliance assemblies of the Industrial
Association, whatever the latter may be,
is really unimportant. 1t only increases
the incongruity and superabundance of
the irreconcilable elements by compara-
lively slight increment.
In one respect, however, the conference
must be credited with stopping short of
the climax of inconsistency. 1t is reported
to be unable to swallow the Stanford
humbug.
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ENCOUNTERED A BEAR.
BOW a Lehish Lumberman Met ana Con-

BOW a Lehigh Lumberman Met ana Con-
quered an Obstinate Bruin.
SCRANTON, Feb. 2s.-Peter Mallory, Lehigh
lumberman, met a bear face to face on
Wednesday on a ledge OF rocks between
Trout creek and Gravel run, on the east
side of the Lehigh river, in Tobyhanna
township. Mallory was hurrying along with
a log chain over his shoulders when he
saw the bear waddling toward him. On
the lower side of the narrow path
there was a precipice, and on the upper
side steep mass of rocks. Turning out on
either side was impossible, and, as there was
not room enough in the path for Mallory
at the bear, imagining hat the bear would
face about and give him chance. Instead
of turning around, the bear tramped for
ward, glaring At Mallory. and paid no atten-
bear over the the head with an end of the
heavy chain.
The bear WINGED and snarled under the
blow, but he didn't turn, and the next in
slant he rose up on his launches and made
a lunge at Mallory, lust as Mallory swung
the chain around his head and brought it
down on the bears snout. That infuriated
the bear still more, and with rush and u
growl Of rage he gave Mallory cuff with
his paw that sent him spinning over the
precipice toward the frozen creek, As feet
below. At the instant that the bear tumbled
Mallory from the path, one of the hooks of
the log chain caught in corner the bears
mouth. Mallory clung to the chain for dear
life, his weight pulled the bear from the
path, and man and bear went rolling and
tumbling down the rocks together.
Mallory checked, his speed on the upper
side of log near the brook, and the bear
landed on the lower side of the log. Mallory
quickly fastened the chain around the log
and had the bear at his mercy. The log
was so heavy that the bear couldn't move it,
and while he was yanking and paving at
the hook Mallory got hold of a big hemlock
hnn nd a, IN q M 70
the knot into the bears open mouth out of
sight and then the bear began to struggle
and founce about, thrashing so violently
that he soon tore the hook loose and rolled
onto the ice in the creek. The ice gave way
and the bear choked to death while he was
making the water fly with his paws.
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TERMS OF wITHERs' WILL.
He Wanted His Executors to Continue in
.-.. the Business He Followed.

...,s,. the Business He Followed.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-[SpecidL 1.-The will of
David Dunham Withers, the turfman, was
filed for probate to-day. The will was signed
October 81, 1873. 1t directs that the estate
shall be divided into five equal shares and
held in trust as follows: The income of
one share to be paid semi-annually
during her life to the use of the testator's
sister, Elizabeth Mary ludlow, of this city,
the principal to be paid upon her death to
her son. The incomes of the other four
shares to be paid respectively to these two
sisters and two brothers for life. and after
their death the principal to their lawful
issue-Euphanie D. Clason, wife of Augustus
W. Clason, of this city; Virginia Paine, wife
of William H. Paine; Alfred d. Withers and
Reuben B. Withers.
One clause of the will says: 81 empower
my executors to sell all or any part of my
property at public or private sale, but mas
much as great loss and injury would result
to my estate if my farms and plantations in
the States of New Jersey and Mis-
sissippi should be sold by forced
sale, it is my wish that my
executors continue the said business, or If
that cannot lawfully be done, then they may
lease the said farms for such terms of years
as to them may seem expedient during the
continuance of the respective trusts, until
the farms can be sold atfavorable terms and
said business wound up in such manner as
will result in the greatest advantage to my
estate"
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TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
". FEBRUARY "a
TWELVE PAGES
THE G. A. r. MEETING.

The meeting of the Department En-
campment of the G. A. r. for the State of
Pennsylvania in. this city to-day is another
of those reunions which increase in inter-
est as the order advances in years. The liv-
ing membership grows gray and the death
roll lengthens. Thirty-one years have
nearly elapsed since the first soldiers who
form this order went to the front in the
nations time of need; twenty-seven since
they laid down their arms with their he
roic work nobly finished. Every meeting
which recalls the deeds of that history
making epoch is of great interest, not only
to the participants in the struggle, but to
the whole people who enjoy the benefits
of their patriotism.
The meetings of the Grand Army are
surrounded with increased sentiment from
fact which every gathering makes more
sadly evident-that age is steadily increas-
ing its inroads on the ranks of the veter-
ans. Many retain, notwithstanding their
gray hairs, the hale, vigorous bodies
which enabled them to bear the
hardships of service in the
field. But even in their case the flight of
1l1nc 10 Dub bOO oNluoHb, VIII Ill Jut CdocS
in which the feebleness of age is manifest,
or the end of life has come, we have the
warning that each meeting of the organ
ization brings it nearer to the limits of
duration imposed by the transitory nature
of life.
The members of the Grand Army may
die, but their united deeds cannot No
sentiment can be too exalted and no well
come too warm for their annual assem-
blages while they live. Pittsburg offers
them the same enthusiastic hospitality
that she extended to all the soldiers of the
Union during that struggle.
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Obituary Notes.

BISHOP OxENDEN, late Primate Of the Anglican
Church in Canada. died in Biarrite Monday.
RI. HON. SIR HENRY COTTON, d. c. L., P. c.,
late Lord Justice of Her Msjesty's Court of Ap-
peal died in London yesterday.
REV. ANTHONY SCHWARTZ, who has been .
priest 81 years. died at hh home in Minersville Pa
Monday of pneumonia. He came to this country
AZ years ago, and for q years was pastor of the
Church OF Our Lady.
GEORGE WYATT HUTHINsoN, aged s6 one Of
the Oldest and wealthiest citizens of Parkersburg
died Monday night. For years he had been
prominent business man and owned half of the
eastern portion of the city.
HENRY FERRAND. an actor in Henry Irying's
Lyceum Theater Company, London, is dead aged
49, He had visited this country on one of the Irv-
ing-Terry tours. His death is the second In the
ranks of frying's players within the past month.
ADA WEST, an actress, is dead, at the residence
of her father. In Chicago. She was the wife of
Sidney q. France, who Is starring in sensation
dramas, and to whom she was married In 1883,
Since that year she had travelled In his company.
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A NOVEL LAW SUIT
Brought Against Corporations by Nan of
Inventive Ideas.

BosToN, Feb. 25.--ISpeciaI. IA novel suit
came up before Judge Mason in the fifth ses-
sion OF the Superior Court to-day. The
plaintiff is Nathaniel Hill of Lowell, and
the defendant is the fremont and Suffolk
Mills corporation. The suit is to recover
$4,000 damages, and it is alleged that the
defendant and all the other great mill cor
porations of Lowell have entered into a con-
spiracy to deprive the plaintiff of his rights.
Hill alleges that he is the inventor of plan
OF system of main driving for mills, the use
of which does away with gears and toothed
wheels; he also claims other advantages for
his plan which are not readily understood
Dy one not well versed i'll mechanics. He
says that in May, 1882 he made a contract
with the defendant, by the terms OF which
the latter was to employ him for term of
years at $l5 a day to obtain the use of his
system. He further alleges that after being
in the employ of the defendant until Sep
tember, 1889, the contract was broken by the
latter.
As an explanation for the breach of the
contract the plaintiff sets forth that the
defendant and the other mill companies of
Lowell are members of one corporation, the
proprietors o. locks and canals on the Mer-
rlmack river, and that the contract was orig
inally made as part of a conspiracy to obtain
possession of the ideas of the plaintiff in
order that all the mills might use them The
defendant denies the allegations of the
plaintiff and says they are absurd, and that
no such combination OF mill owners exists.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-24
H1RscH TRUST IN GOOD SHAPE.
Satisfactory Progress of the Colony of Immi-

Satisfactory Progress of the Colony ofImmi-
grants at Cape May.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.-GSpecta1. AT the
annual meeting of the Baron Hirsch Trust
last evening it was shown that the affairs of
the organization were IN excellent con-
dftion. At the Hebrew colony, near Cape
May, satisfactory progress has been made by
the colonists. Eight hundred acres have
been fully planted and considerable work is
being done to the remainder of the 5000
acres -Seventy-hve houses have been con-
structed and work upon a factory and a
hotel is in progress. .-
The educational work conducted by the
trust shows that 600 Hebrew children are
being educated i'll New York City, in ad-
dition to e number in the normal training
school, under the charge of the Hebrew
Technical Institute of New York.
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DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
c. A. Fyf1e, Historian.

G. A. Fyfe, the author and historian,
died Monday. The cause of his death is directly
attributed to the mental and physical depression
from which he suffered consequence. of the
false charge which was brought against him about
year ago, and the attempt at suicide which he
made at that time. In the spring of last year Mr..
Fyffe was charged with odious crime, and he
was so overwhelmed with disgrace at the revolving
accusation and the terrible position in which he
was placed, that he cut his throat April II. He
was brought to court in ambulance and the trial
had to be temporarily postponed, owing to his
weak condition. In July the London grand ju1y,
which had been investigating the charge, declared
that no bill should be found against him.
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LET us have every possible increase in
trans Atlantic travel compatible with safety
and humanity. The public will see to the
maintenance of the first condition, and it
should be equally firm in its demand that
the terrible conditions under which stokers
now work should be ameliorated and not
made worse.
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PROPOSE A SOLDIERS NAME
Colonel Greenland Favored for Appoint
ment as Adjutant General.

ment as AOJutant Gencrai.
HUNTINGTON, Pa, Feb. 23.-ISpecial. 1.-The
surviving members of the 125th Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, at this place have
signed a petition to Governor Pattison for
the appointment of Colonel Walter W..
Greenland, of Clarion, who was member of
the regiment, as Adjutant General of the
State. Colonel Greenland is a native of
Huntington, and is very popular among the
members of the 125th. about 400 of whom are
living in this county and Blair.
He is remembered by them as very gal
liant soldier who saved the flag of his regi-
ment from falling into the hands of the
enemy at the battle of Antietam. The color
bearer was shot and instantly killed and an
other who picked the colors up had carried
them but a few yards when he fell badly
wounded and was captured by the rebels.
Greenland then seized them and bore them
away amid a storm of bullets and deliv-
cred them to the Captain of the color COM
pany Colonel Higgins who commanded
the regiment, at once offered Greenland the
position of Color Sergeant, which honor he
declined, preferring to stay with his COM
pany His old comrades are unanimous in
desiring his appointment by the Governor.
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FUNERAL OF DIR. SHEA

To Take Place From st. Mary's Church,
Elizabeth, on Friday.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-[Special 1.-The funeral
of Dr.. John Culinary Shea, the Catholic
historian and editor of the Catholic Ne,os,
who died on Monday at hi. home, in Eliza
beth, will take place on Friday morning.
Bishop Wigger, of Newark, his lifelong
friend, will celebrate pontifica1 mass of re-
QUEEN in st. Mary's Church, Elizabeth, at
1890 o'clock A. NJ.
Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Corrigan,
Arch bishop Ryan, of Philadelphia; Arch
bishop Elder, OF Cincinnati; Bishop O'Farrell,
of Trenton, and other prelates will partici-
pate in the services. A delegation of the
Catholic Club of this city, of which DR.. Shea
was an honorary member. will attend the
funeral. The interment will be in Newark.
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The recent typhus incident has put the
quarantine officials on their metals. They
will have ample opportunity to show that
they have profted by the lesson in exercis-
ing strict scrutiny on vessels from Brazil,
as the approach of warmer weather will
render yellow fever cases more numerous.