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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
A HORSE ELECTRocUTED.
1t Fell Against a Trolley Pole and Was
Soon zzled by Electr;city

1t Fell Against Trolley Pole and Was
Soon zzled by Electricity.
NEW YORK, May 2S.-[SpectaLl IA stag party
of the Arion Singing Society, of Newark,
went out for o May. ride in that city this
morning, in a large stage drawn by four
horses. They were driving on the tracks of
tho electric railway, when the horses. with
out warning. sprans in the air and fell to the
ground simultaneously, and driver Coles sat
immovable on the seat and shouted for some
one to cut the reins.
The startled riders scrambled wildly from
the stage, and as each went over the side he
got an electric shock, and in that way dis
covered the cause of the trouble. Some one
drew n knife and severed the lines close to
Coles hands. In few minutes more than q
thousand were watching the four horses
struggling desperately. Three of them fin
ally got clear of the tracks, but the other
one became exhausted. IL fell with its neck
against the iron pole which supports the
trolley wire.
As soon as the contact was made blue
flames began to play about tho shattered
harness, about the horses mouth and nose
and ABOUT its iron-shod hoofs. Where its
neck touched the pole there was sizzling
sound and the smell of burning flesh was so
strong that some in the crowd sickened and
turned away. A few minutes later the horse
was dead, but not for two hours could it be
removed from the track.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
SCHOOL DIRECTORS QUESTIONED.
The Superintendent of instruction Want
to Know Their Opinions.

The Superintendent of instruction Wants
to Know Their Opinions.
HARRIsBuRe, Pa, May 23.-Superintendent
of Public Instruction Waller has sent the
following questions to the School Directors
in the State:
"What was the length of the annual
school term in your district last year? Were
months, or were they closed by the action
of. your board at the end of the minimum
term of six months? If your Board made
provision for only minimum term OF six
months last year or at any time since you
have been a director what has been
the motive that has governed the
majority of the members in taking
such action? Was the education OF the chill
dren duly considered and emphasized as an
imperative dnty on the part of the board
and the district before deciding to close the
excuse was offered for closing the schools OF
your district at the end of a short term of
six or seven months with low tax rate for
school purposesf Do you favor Q policy on
the plea of economy. that virtually deprives
the children of school privileges half the
year and places barrier in their way to ad-
vancement, and which prevents them from
obtaining such an education as the public
schools afford: OF are you in favor Of IL pro-
gressive policy in the administration OF the
office OF school director, policy that Will
result in having good schools and well quail
fed teachers honestly compensated for their
services?
"These are pertinent questions for your
consideration in view of the fact that your
voice and vote will determine the policy to
be pursued by your Board in the operation
of the schools of your district for the ensu-
ing year. The State has generously increased
the appropriation for the support of the
public schools to S., 600, coo. If all directors
have proper conception of the responsible
ity duties which they are called upon to dis
charge and due regard for the welfare of
the children and the Common wealth, every
boy and girl of legal school age in Pennsyl-
vania will have the privilege OF attending
a good public school, n continuous school
the school year beginning on the first Mon
day of June, 1892
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBuRG. TUESDAY. MAY "a. 1892.
TWELVE PAGES
THE SALARY DECISION.

The county salary question, after long
and hard fight through the courts from
bottom to top, was settled by the Supreme
Court yesterday, and the county officials
will not get the increased salaries While
this will doubtless be an object of regret
to most of the officials concerned, the pub
lie will accept the result with great equa-
nimity
With the general belief that the returns
to the various county officeholders are am
pie for the services performed, the public
will not be likely to inquire too critically
into the finely drawn reasoning by which
the popular conclusion is reached. The
principle that general affirmative act
cannot repeal specific enactment with
which 1t disagrees may not seem to the
lay mind quite so impregnable as the prin-
ciple that general act is intended to gov
ern all the subjects falling within its pro-
visions. But since the triumph of the first
principle over the second in the minds of
the Supreme Court saves the county nu-
merous thousands of dollars per annum,
the people at large will very willingly ac-
cept the reasoning as that which yields the
best results
The decision amounts to a very positive
feather in the cap of Controller Grier.
That energetic official fought the salary
increase through the lower courts until
definitely and finally decided against him
there He was not called upon as pub
lie officer to take the case beyond the
courts of the county, but when other citi-
1ens took that work uDon themselves his
position against the increased salaries was
fully sustained. 1t is safe to say that
without his determined opposition this re-
suit would never have been attained.
There seems to be very good prospect
of Allegheny county salaries remaining as
they are Since general affirmative act
cannot repeal the former enactment and
special legislation is prohibited by the
Constitution, the way for county officials
to secure any increase on their present
comfortable stipends is decidedly re-
Stricted
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

newspapers announcing that '.Governor
Flower, though worth $4,000, 900, wears a
$40 suit and fights corporations. .
This is striking Illustration of facile
political genius furnishing much in little.
In those few words an attempt is made to
satisfy every taste. The statement that
Governor Flower wears $40 suit is for
the Western granger, while the announce
ment of his $4,000 is addressed to the
Tammany taste. Finally the assertion
that he fights corporations is, in view of
his record, particularly eligible food for
the marines.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

IT is reported that the President has de-
cided to remove Raum from the Pension
Bureau. The investigations warrant such an
act on behalf of decency. But it would be
mighty poor diplomacy to foist on some for
eign nation man who has displayed unfit
ness for Office at home. And the rumor Is
either discredited or discredftabe to Harri-
son because 1t contains the statement that
Raums removal is to be palliated by the.
offer of a position abroad.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
A DOUBLE POSTAL CARD,

Twenty-Four Million OF Which Arc to Be
Shortly Placed on Sale.
SPRINGFIELD. MASS, May 23-[Speciui. 1.-The
Government has awarded a large contract
to the Morgan Envelope Company, of this
device which has long been considered by
the Postoff1ce Department.. The card will
be % by BIZ inches, and will be folded In the
middle, presenting four surfaces.
The outside surface u for the addres and
the inside for the message. At the fold the
card Is perforated, so that the recipient
will tear OF one-half and then answer on
the other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
ANTE.BELLUM DAYS RECALLED

BY Visits of Two Former United srat5 8 Sena-
tors to the Senate Yesterday.
WASHINGTON May 23.-Two distinguished
ex-Senators of ante-bellum times we're in
the Senate Chamber to-day. One was Mr.
Clingman, of North Carolina, and the other
was Mr. Jones, of Iowa. the same for whom
the Senate last week and the House to-day
passed pension bill for services in the war
Of 1914 and in the Black Hawk war.
Mr. Jones chatted for some time with Mr..
Sherman and Mr.. Palmer, and aiterward
occupied Mr. Hills seat, where he busted
himself in writing. sIr. Clingman's conver-
sation was principally with Mr.. Stanford.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

GUEssEs as to the contents of the letter
which it is alleged that Hill is about to write
may just as well be postponed until he has
written 1t. Hill plays lone hand, and keeps
his own counsel to an extent that makes sur
misses to-day asto his actions tomorrow q
very risky performance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

AMERICA is still some distance away
from woman suffrage, but that leading
American women can exercise a great in
fiuence in affairs OF national importance is
evident from the significance attached to
the rumors OF Mrs. Blaine's lack of love for
Mrs. Harrison, and her desires for or against
another nomination for hor husband.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
MARITIME CASUALTIES FOR MARCH
Some Peculiar Features Brought Out by
Glance at the List.

q
NEW YORK, May 23.-An examination of
the list of maritime casualties and disasters
for the month of March shows some curious
facts. The roll is headed by British sailing
ships, of which % were lost. OF this number
over one-half met disas when the wind
was blowing less than a gale. or when the
ships, if they had been properly navigated,
seaworthy and well-manned, should have
been able to keep the sea in safety. Ameri-
can sailing vessels come next on the list
with total loss of IL The losses sustained
by sailing vessels of all other nations are as
follows: Norwegian, 9: French, 9: German,
4; Swedish, 4 Spanish, g. Danish. 2; Dutch,
2: Portuguese, 2: Italian, /, and Austrian. ].
Stranded was the cause of the loss in 81
instances, and collision was responsible for
five disasters. One ship was burned, four
foundered at sea, u were abandoned, five
condemned, and nine others sailed to the
port of missing ships.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
Obituary Notes.

DIR. MYRoS n. BABcocK. one Of the Oldest and
most prominent practcing physicians of Saratoga.
N. Y. is dead. lie was born in Sheldon, VT, 70
years ago.
WILLIAM HENRY CROSBY, of William Bed
low Crosby. died on Saturday from heart failure at
New York. His grandfather. Ebenezer Crosby.
was surgeon in the Revolutionary War and was
one of the founders of the Society Of the Cincin-
natl. His mother Miss GARRISON of Phila-
deiphia: granddaughter of William Floyd. one Of
the slgners Of the Declaration Of Independence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
IMPARTIALITY OF ITALIAN JUSTICE.
A Case Which the Consul Thinks Should
Be Appreciated in this Country.


Be Appreciated in this Country.
PHILADELP HIA, May 23.-The Italian Consul
here las succeeded I'm obtaining a copy of a
verdict of April IA in the trial of Bevivino
and Villella, accomplices of Michael Rizzelo,
alias "Red Nosed Nike in the murder of
Paymaster Mcclure and Hugh Flanagan,
near Wilkesbarre. The Italian jury, not
withstanding the absence of many wit
nesses who, being Americans, Tor one rea-
son or another refused to personally appear
and testify in the case, admitted the COM
llicity of the two men, who were therefore
sentenced, Bevivino to 20 years and Yillella
to 10 years ut hard labor.
An appeal was forwarded to the Supreme
Court by the two convicts rs we'll as by the
Public Prosecutor. A verdict issued with
out any oral testimony and in the native
town of the accused for a crime committed
abroad is, in the opinion of the Consul, n
very good evidence OF the impartiality of
Italian justice, and ought to be appreciated
in the country where the crime was COM
mitted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

GERMANS are raising loud objections to
the magnificence and extravasance of EN-
peror Williams new special vestibulcd train.
He should send a delegation of his subjects to
study the habits of American millionaires,
and they might return more contented with
their high and mighty little Kaiser.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
John f.. Buchte!.

John R. Buchtel, founder of Buchtel
College, and well known throughout Ohio as
phantrop!st died at his home In Akron, at 2
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, one day over year
after the death of his wife. Paralysis with which
he was stricken over year ago was the cause OF
his DEATH Since the founding of Buchtel College
Mir. Buchtel has been its most generous giyer. he
having made donations amounting TO SOO.W0,
almost the entire amount of his fortune. BY his
death the college received FiU0) insurance on his
Il In
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
AWAY WITH FUNERAL TRUMPERY
VIII Be the watchword Of q New Burial

VIII Be the Watchword Of q New Burial
Reform Society Of New York.
NEW YORK, May 23-At special meeting
to-day in the Church of the Heavenly Rest,
Rev. C. F. Canedy outlined the principles of
a new burial reform society which is to be
organized at once in this city.
The object of the organization is to
simplify and cheaper modern burial Gus
TOMS abolish crepe, flowers, expensive
funeral trappings and all "pagan" devices,
and adhere to the observance of sanitary
measures by committing bodies to the soil
instead of placing them in vaults, etc, etc.
7 he results of such society, which has ex-
is ted for some time in London, are said to
be most satisfactory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
CIGARETTE SMOKING BARRED
How Couple Of Western Gambling Shark
Managed to Mark Cards.

CHEYENNE, WYo., May 23 - [Specid.J-A
sign new to the fraternity and frequenters
was posted in Cheyenne gambling houses,
last night. 1t is over the poker tables, and
reads: Cigarette smoking barred at this
table. This is for the projection
of 'bankers'" "Oregon Dick' and two
companion card sharks have been beating
every poker game for three weeks. Their
work was rot discovered until n few days
ago. All smoked cigarette and marked
cards with the nicotine stain. After half a
dozen hands they could read the deck by
the backs.
All the educated sports in town were
feeced, and tho winnings of the trio are es-
timated at s., 900 to $4,000. The stains were
found by black boy employed as porter in
one of the houses, after the artist had failed
to find anything under Il microscope. Wheh
once known the stains are very plain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

THERE is such terrific epidemic of con-
ferences of all kinds at present, that medical
scientists should direct their efforts to a dis
covery of the conference. bacillus or mi
crobe, with view to devising some fluid
for preventive and protective incubation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

The Pittsburger who committed mur-
der in West Virginia showed a proper con-
sideration for the Allegheny County Treas
ury. Besides, he has more chance of get
ting hanged there.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

The anonymous author of the alleged
Grant-Conkling epistle should now step for-
ward to receive the plaudits that await him
and from which modesty alone has hitherto
made him shrink.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
A SOCIAL CONFLICT.

The tempest in the teapot which has
arisen in connection with the Colonial
Danes of New York is amusing and, DOS
sibly, instructive. The exact nature of the
instruction may not be very clear; but il
is plain that the ladies outside and inside
that charmed circle cannot 90 through
quite so much experience without being
wiser than they were The exact high
and lofty purpose for which the society of
Colonial Danes was organized does not
appear very clearly in the statements of
its relation to the history of the Pilgrim
Mothers, the perpetuation of worthy
memories and the benefit of posterity.
Under these glittering generalities, lies
the lurking fact that the real purpose of
the organization is just to be Colonial
Danes. Here is the root of the difficulty.
70 organize society for that end of
woman implies, in the language of
Gilbert & Sullivan, that
"It is, it is glorious thing
To be a Colonial Dame"
Of course, this inference brought rush
of applicants. The millionaire danes of
New York who have hitherto found that
their wealth can give them whatever they
take fancy to-including encumbered
foreign titles-straightway conceived the
desire to be Colonial Danes. But, whether
it is dogma or an axiom, one of the first
rules of the Colonial Danes is that the
members must have pedigrees. Not that
we would for moment hint that million
airesses are lacking in that respect They
have, one and all, possessed the article
ever since they learned that it was 10 be
had of obliging experts in heraldry at a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
A MAMMOTH CASTING MADE
War Department Offclals Proud OF TheI
Very Latest Achievement.

Very Latest Achievement.
WASHINGTON, May 23-Tho War Depart
ment officials announce with considerable
pride the completion, at General Flager's
recently.established brass foundry at the
Watertown Arsenal, of the top carriage or
slide for the new barbette carriage for the
eight-inct, breech-loading, steel rifle Tor the
Pacific coast defences.
1t is bronze casting, and weighs little
more than the combined weight of seven of
our Napoleon guns made during the late
war, and is q very difficult casting, OF irregu-
lar shape. 1t is sal | 10 be the largest cast
ing of the kind ever attempted i'll the army
workshops.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

- MEssRs. Blaine and Bancroft appear to
have slight difference Of opinion which
neither of them hesitates to publish in Ian
guage more remarkable for its emphasis
than its courtesy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

THE air is full of chances for Presidential
aspirants. But there are chances of both
kinds, and most of the gentlemen will find
that good fortune is as elusive in national
politics as elsewhere.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

If reporters are to be excluded from the
investigation of the Baltimore Terminal
transactions before the Commissioner the
public will lose some Information which
would be useful from an educative point Of
view
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

ANTI-HARRIsoN politicians are en-
gagged in a game OF neck or nothing, and the
present odds are that they will lose their
political necks and gain nothing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

LADY SOMERSET says that immortality is
more rampant in London than New York.
But that does not necessarily say much for
New York
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

THERE are three ways to attract public
attention just now-to be hanged for mur-
der. to be q crack baseball pitcher, or to
pose as Presidential aspirant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
SUITED TO EvERv TASTE.

A Flower boom is reported to have been
planted in Chicago, where headquarters
have been started, and the boom blossoms
out with the publication of notices in the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

BLAINE went to see his new grand
daughter in New York, yesterday. If that
does not show that he is ready to accept the
Presidential nomination, what doesf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

ELEcTR1CITF plays but small part in,
modern industries when compared with the
value of personal magnetism in a Presiden-
tai aspirant. ~ .
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

THERE is hope for US yet. Pittsburg won
a ball game ut Chicago yesterday. and an
other Pittsburg club won two games at Har-
risburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
PRorECTI0NIsTs AT YALE.
Republican students in the Majority OF the
Graduating Class of 1892.

SiusB Oh 1oo%.
NEW HAVEN, May Special. 1.-The class
book o. the senior class of Yale will be is
sued tomorrow. 1t contains all sorts of
statistics, from the size of mans shirt collar
up to his ancestry.
OF the class 95 are Republicans. % Demo-
Gratis, % Independents and ] O Prohibition
ist. Twelve men never play cards on princi-
pie, and six for the same reason never go to
the theater.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
Plen ~ of ,Boes, but No Honey.

st. Louis Globe Democrat
The present fear is notable for the num-
Der OF Presidential bees that are buzzing
without mak4ng any honey. '-----~ =.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
Difference Between Two Humbugs.

Chicago Tribune.l
The difference between the Koreshan va
riety of Humbug and the ordinary kind is the
same as that between Tweedledum and
TWeedledee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

An Agreeable Thing to Contemplate.
st. Louis GIobe-Demo
The Alliance is a much more agreeable
thing TO contemplate when it occupies the
perch in South Carolina instead of Kansas.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
If They Can Fix tho Price.


The Reading combine apparently does not
care who makes the laws of the country as
long rs it fixes the price OF coal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24

PRESENT shivers are little helped by
thoughts of prospective scorchings.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-01
Hearing CoIors.

Experimental psychology is a new
chamber in the temple of speculative
science Of which the world has heard
comparatively little, yet it has attained
to the dignity of an international con.
gress held in London few days ago, In
connection with which the new branch
or, rather, twig-of science was de-
fined az the psychology of observation
conducted for special purpose. As a
rule the papers were somewhat too meta.
physical to enlist the popular interest,
yet there was one by Professor Grubei
on "Colored Addition" which dealt with
a mystical theme in a way TO fascinste
the fancy.
Professor Gruber, in brief, after years
Of observation, is stated to have found
in the persons whom he has made 9
study a number Of mysterious associa-
tons, not only between sounds and col
ors, but between sight and smell, sound
and taste, sight and taste, and even an
association between color and tempera
ture. His subjects think that soms
sounds are red or yellow, and also tina
some tastes correspond to special de
gree Of muscular exertion.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-01

John Shaver, seventy-nine years old,
of Schenectady, n. Y, has been struck
by lightning twice this year. The firss
shock was received about two month";
ago, and the second on Saturday, the
latter killing him instantly. When
struck the second time he was sitting at
the same place whore he received the
FIRST shock.
DO you wish to know the quickest
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To cure cold quickly, it must be
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cough is soon followed by watery ex-
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fuse watery discharge from the nose
In severe cases there is a thin white
coating on the tongue. What to do?
1t is only necessary to take Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy in double doses
every hour. That will greatly lessen
the severity of the cold and in many
cases will efiectually counteract 1t, and
cure what would have been a severe
cold within one or two days time. Try
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