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DRAYToN AND BORRowE IN LONDON.
Milbank Still Refuses to Say With Whom
He Last Fought.
rBr CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. ]

BIZ CABLE To THE DISPATCH.1
LONDON, May 21.-Coleman Drayton and
Hallett Alsop. Borrowe are both in London.
Harry Vane Milbank is in Paris, and has
not yet been tried for his last duel at Ostend
The identity of his antagonist still remains
mystery. Milbank told DISPATCH re-
porter to-day that only his very old and in
innate friend, Henry Austin Lee, who is
First Secretary of the English Embassy in
Paris and private secretary to the Marquis
of Dufferin, is in the secret.
Milbank says the quarrel that brought
about the duel did not originate in the row
at the Grand Hotel in Brussels, but was the
result of an intimate family affair which he
is unable to discuss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
THEY WANT THE MEDICINE BAG.
Canadian Indians Excited Over the Doingl
of Witch Among Them.

of Witch Among Them.
sAULT STE MARIE, May 21-The Indian
village of Garden River, on the Canadian
side, Is likely to be the scene of serious
trouble The circumstance which gives rise
to the fear is found in the ''bewitching" by
an old medicine woman of the beau of the
reservation, who has Tilted her daughter.
The chief medicine man of the RESERVES
tion, Wabosh, has appealed to the Canadian
authorities to search the old squaw's wig
wan for the ''medicine bag" but the officials
refuse. Wabosh and his supporters threaten
to make the search, while the friends of the
old squaw are as determined she shall not
be molested.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22

first on the lower tier, directly at the right
of the main entrance door as you go in.
The officers and prisoner will descend the
main stairway to the floor of the rotunda,
distance of some 80 feet, and will then
proceed down the main right hand corri-
dor, which opens upon the Jail yard
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
Thousands of Birds Killed by Hail.

FLAGENFURsT, AUsTRo- HUNGARY May
21.-Immense damage has been done in this
district by heavy cloudburst The rain
fell in an apparently solid mass. The de-
structionto roads and crops is incalculable.
The storm was accompanied by heavy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22

downfall of hailstones, being as large as
wahuts The bodies of thousands of birds
are scattered throughout the district. The
inhabitants are gathering them up to be
used as food
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
Testing vitaline, the Ouaok Cure-An.

ST. PETERSBURG, May N.-Gatchkowsky,
the proprietor of the quack medicine
''vitaline," the use of which is alleged to
have caused the death of General Gresser,
Prefect of ST. Petersburg, and number of
other Russians high in authority, has been
released by the police pending analysis Of
alleged cure-all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
Funeral of MIR. Osgood.
IRY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. l

LONDON, May 2L-The funeral of the
late James R. Osgood will take place Mon
day afternoon and the remains will be in
tered in Kendall Green Cemetery.
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Suits for the A r

Comrades, here is your chance. We will
sell mems true blue suits, regulation STYLE
sizes "a to AZ, for Sc 40 each. Two sets OF but
tons with every suit.
P. c. c, c., Clothiers,
Cor. Grant and Diamond streets.
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and which is about IS feet
long. An iron door in the
massiveswalI opens upon the center Of the
yard and in the corner to the left, the
scatfold stands. This scaffold was obtained
in Columbus, o. 1t is an old one, but has
never been used for an execution 1t is
erected on the asphaltum covering of the
yard and stands about four feet in front the
high stone wall The location, in a general
way, of the scatold is about one-third of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
DULL TIMES FOR TRADEsMEN.
Royalty Absent From London and an Elec-
ton Coming On.
tBY CABLE TO THE DIsPATCH.1

tBY CABLE TO THE DIsPATCH.l
LONDON, May 2L-Since she has re-
turned from a prolonged sojourn in the
south of France the Queen mas remained in
strict seclusion at Windsor Castle, and the
two drawing rooms this week have been held
by her daughter, Princess Christian of
Schleswig-Holstein. Last night the Queen
and court started for Balmoral, in North
Scotland, where they will remain until the
end of next month, and it is doubtful if the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22

Queen will be seen in London at all this
season.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and
family will leave London for Copenhagen
tomorrow night, so that with royalty ab-
sent and general election approaching,
with all its disturbing influences on bust
ness, the outlook for metropolitan trades
men is unusually gloomy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22

BUeINE will Danish reaches, bedbugs, ETC.,
from your house forever. 25 centa
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listener His explanation of his fight for
life is that it will need years of praying to
wash away the stain upon his conscience.
Fif7oatriclr Ia @ PbtIosonbor
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01

State by 5000 majority; ex-United States
Senator Van Wyck, OF Nebraska, and Con-
gresham John H. Davis, of the Fifth Dis
trict of Kansas
The only candidate for whom any dele
gates have been instructed is General
Weaver of Iowa, and it is probable that he
has not more than 100, so that nine-tenths
of the delegates will probably come to the
National convention uninstructed and un-
committed.
There is disposition to give the Vice
Presidency to some live young campaigner
of the party, and the eloquent Tom Wat
son, of Georgia, leader of the Peoples party
In the National House of Representatives,
could have the nomination if he would ac-
cept it
Hon. j. h. Davis, of Texas, who accepts
the sobriquet of ''Cyclone Davis" is also
mentioned for the Vice Presidency.
The Temporary Chairmanship.
The Temporary Chairman of the conven-
tion will be Hon. c. h. Ellington, promi-
nent Farmers Alliance leader Of Georgia
The first choice of the National Committee
fell upon Congressman Tom Watson, Of
Georgia, but Watson has informed Chair
man Taubeneck that he cannot leave Wash
ington at this time, as he desires to record
himself on various important measures now
on the calendar.
A second installment of the Indiana dele
cation, headed by Sam w. Williams, dele
gate at large, arrived to-day. Friends of 8.
NJ. Holcomb, of the First Congressional
district, say he will be nominated for Con-
gress with almost q certainty of re-elec-
tion. Samuel w. Williams was Chairman
of the Indiana State Convention. He de-
clined to make any statement for publica-
tion, but in speaking of Judge Gresham he
said every citizen of the Hoosier State has
the highest regard for and the greatest con-
fdence in the Judge. Weaver, he said, has
also large following in Indiana
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
BUSINESS BREVITIES.

GOLD coin to the amount Of $l50.000 has
iust been ordered at the New York sub
Treasury for shipment to Canada.
N NoTw1THsTANDINa the defeat Of the Gov
ernment at Cincinnati and New York the
United States authorities at Chicago will
push the cases against the Whisky Trust
officers.
THE Poughksepsie bridge over the Hudson
was sold yesterday under foreclosure, for
$500, ,ooo 1t will now be turned over to
control of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company.
The general merchandise store of Beach
Bros, ut Pontiac. ILL.,, was taken possession
of by a sheriff yesterday morning under at
tachments aggregatfng $4,000. Liabilities
probably s6O, 900; stock estimated at $4,000.
THE boiler makers strike at Boston is
ended, the differences with the manu-
facturers having been adjusted through the
mediation of the State Board of Arbitration
on basis Of 60 hours pay for 50 hours work
per week.
STATISTICS Of Germany's foreign trade
for May show large increase OF exports
over the figures for the same month in 1891
The exports for the first i've months OF this
year show an increase OF 900 900 tons. as
against the exports for the corresponding
period in 1891; and the imports for these
months a corresponding decrease OF 20O, 900
tons.
A BULLETIN issued by the Finance Depart
ment of Ontario. Canada, shows that the egg
trade with the United States last year was
valued at 81, Ia, ,Ss1, as compared with 81 096.-
4s5 in 1885. For the six months ending with
September, 1890, the exports from Canada to
Great Britain were only 81 EOS, but for the
year ending September 80 last. the figures
reached $3.50, ,000 The imports Of eggs into
Great Britain last year were valued at
$I7, ,000, 900.
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RAILWAY INTERESTS.

THE Paris (Tex.) and Great Northern Rail-
road has been sued for SO, ,903, the value OF
225 bales of cotton burned while en- route.
THE first through freight train on the Great
Northern Railway arrived in Spokane,
WASH, Wednesday morning. The train will
be run over the Union Pacific tracks to San
Francisco and Portland, where the freight L.
consigned.
A CONTRACT for grading Is miles Of the
Yankton and Norfolk Is. d. Railroad has
been let. The road 10 to be completed within
80 days. It Is asserted that the road is to
have southern connection with the Mis-
souri, Pacific, and that that corporation will
operate it after its completion.
THE Chicago and Ohio River Railroad As
sociation is believed to be in a shaky condi-
tion. The trouble is over the commission
question. Some of the roads in the associa-
ton are in favor of the payment OF com.
missions while others are radically on
posed. Efforts to effect an agreement have
SO far been fruitless.
THE Broadway and Newburg Street Rail-
road strikers, at Cleveland, O., have agreed
to 60 back to work on the same terms as
were accepted by the East Cleveland men,
The question whether the six strikers fined
by Judge Soldiers for violating an inj JUNCTION
by interfering with the com pany's property
should be taken back is left to Judge
Soldiers.
THE charter of the Mead and Laurel Run
Railroad Company was amended at the State
Department yesterday to allow the COM
pany to extend its road and increase its CAP
ital stock. The road will hereafter be oper-
ated from the Brockport and Shawmut
Railroad, near Shawmut village, Elk county,
to the Retner, Elbon and Shawmut Railroad
in Fox township, Elk county. The length
of the road as proposed to be extended is
l3H miles. The capital stock has been in
creased from $45, 900 to Sl16, ,000
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

Chester W. Wallace, son of Attorney ].
K Wallace, of Fourth avenue, was admitted
to the McKean county bar yesterday, where
he was first registered as q law student He
will return to Pittsburg this week.
II. P. Ecker, organlst at Carnegie Hall,
Allegheny, left last night for New York He
will sail for Europe on Wednesday. He will
first visit Paris, and will then visit Andrew
Carnegie at his castle In Scotland.
Mrs Will T. Stark, of Springdale, Pa,
having returned from a brief visit to her
mother-in-law, Mrs E. A. Stark, Of Allie
gheny, will leave Saturday morning to visit
relatives at Apollo.
A telegram to Pittsburg announces the
steamer Columbia. Emanuel Wertheimer
and family are passengers on the steamer.
Chief Clerk W. H. Crosby, of the Hotel
Anderson, will leave this morning for q
months stay among the lakes of Michigan.
Hugh Ferguson, the Councilman, returned
In Tennessee
NJ. A. Roberts, a railroad man of DAYTON,
o., was in Pittsburg yesterday.
L. G. Brown, of Washington, Pa, was at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
Robert Snodgrass, of Harrisburg, is at
the Hotel Duquesne.
Frank w. jackson, of Apollo, was in
Pittsburg yesterday.
S. B. Elliott. Of Reynoldsville, Pa, is at
the Anderson.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01

years resident of this country. While
visiting his native land, some time since. he
saw this opportunity to act in the interests
Of Norwegian importers, and to assist them
in escaping from the tribute which they
have been paying to Great Britain on I'M
ports from this country. Nearly all the ex.
ports of the United States to Sweden and
Norway have been shipped via the port Of
Hull, England, and in English boats.
Up to few years ago all American prod.
nets used in Sweden and Norway were pur.
chased from English agents. Within the
last two or three years q number Of NOR.
wegian importers have been buying direct
from this and other American cities to some
extent, but the business is not 30 extensive
as the trade would seem to warrant, and the
English middleman Is still able to levy his
toll. Mr.. Spauberg fs confident that direct
line of steamships between Norway and the
United States will be established. He II
armed with letters from Christians impor-
tiers and from the American Consul at that
place, Gerhard Gade. He has already made
Contracts for large shipments of -four direct
from Topeka, Kan, to Christiana.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
THE FIRE RECORD,

Kansas City, Mo.-A fire yesterday morn.
ing destroyed half dozen stores and frame
dwellings at Guthrie, Okla. The loss is $40,
900; insurance, $4,000.
Newark, O.-Two more barns were burned
in this district to-day. There is great ex-
citement and indignation is expressed that
the officers are unable to locate the myste-
rious incendiaries.
Carlisle, Pa.-The new chain works located
at Riverton were totally destroyed by fire
last night. The works are new and have
only been in operation since April. The loss
will foot up to many thousands The prop
erty was owned by John Palmer, of Har-
risburg.
Wilmington, Del.-A disastrous fire broke
out in the fourth story Of McGarry & Sons
carpet and furniture establishment this
afternoon, ana before the fremen could be
summoned the entire stock of goods was
damaged by the flames, entailing a loss of
$4,000 on the building and $4,000 on the
stock; insurance $4,000 on the building and
$780, 600 on the stock. The fire was caused by
an electric motor in the fourth story,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
THE BUSINESS WORLD.
An improvement Shown by a De-
creased Number of Failures.
CONSERVATISM AND ECONOMY,
Rather Than Stagnated Traffic or Enforced
Curtailment.
FIRES, FAILURES AND RAILWAY NEWS

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
NEW YORK, June 30-The number of
failures taking place in the United States
during the first half of 1892 as reported to
Brodstrset's (south Dakota e1cepted) is 8, S51.
In 1891 the half year aggregate was 686
larger than for the past six months. The
number of mercantile failures of late has
fallen of quite rapidly and the total since
January Is smaller than for o correspond
ing period in three preceding years.
Aggregate debts of failing traders within
six months make like showing, amounting
to only S56, 535, ,521, which is less than for
any like period since the first half of 1887,
and smaller than in any similar half year
since 1882, except in 1886 and 1887. A like
story may be told of the total assets, $685.
$50, 1O6, which is less than any previous like
aggregate since 1882, except for six months
of 1886 and 1887.
The detailed exhibit goes so far to indi-
cate that the past half year has been a
period of retrenchment, conservatism and
economy in business circles rather than one
of stagnated traffic or enforced curtailment
Of business, inasmuch as the mercantile
death rate has fallen RAPIDLY away during
that period. Nowhere is this more fully
shown than by reference to the lists Of
larger business failures. These show that
in the first half of 1890 there was 70 business
failures In the United States in which the
liabilities were in excess of 800 600 with liza
bilities aggregating sci. 1872 900. In q like por-
tion of 1891 the total number of such failures
was lSs and of liabilities s's.4ll,0s9, moro
than twice as much as in the first half of
1880. In the past six months, however, the
number of failures with liabilities each in
excess OF 100000 was s3. and the total lia-
bilities was only SIS, ~, ,46l less than 40 per
cent of the total liabilities for the six
months of 1891, and 80 per cent of the total
for q like portion of 1890
No better indication of improved COM
meroial conditions throughout the country
can be given than to direct attention to the
fact that whereas failures with liabilities of
BLOC, 900 or more each in the first half of 1890
showed an aggregate of indebtedness
amounting to 81 per cent of the grand total
Of liabilities for that period, and in the first
six months OF 1891 the proportion of liabili-
ties OF 800 900 failures" to total liabilities
was % per cent, in the first half of the cur
'ent year it had declined to 81 per cent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
PIG IRON In LONDON,

Speculation Moderate With Prices Changed
Very Little From Last Week,
NEW YORK, June 3O.-The Iron Age in its
London cable says: The speculation in pig
iron warrants has been moderate. Scotch
prices have changed very. slightly, but
Cleveland advanced to AS Cd, while hema-
tites sold as low as 4ss. 1t is reported that the
London syndicate has transferred it's hold :
tngs of warrants to other outside hands.
and there is yet q scarcity on warran for
prompt delivery.
The advance In Cleveland is attributed to
continued diminution OF stocks, and conse.
Quent disinclination to SELL At present
there are only 49, 900 tons in warrant stores
The stock Of Scotch has further declined.
and Is now 43l,00 tons. Latest quota tions
on warrants were 4ls Sd for Scotch, AS Cd
for Cleveland, and 4os for hematite. In nip
iron a large business has been done during
the week at regular prices. Advices from
the American market are still employed for
speculative purposes and used to explain
both declines and advances in prices
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
FULL TIME FOB MINERa

MutterIugs Of Coal Diggers siIenced by tho
Reading Company's New Order.
PorTsvILLE, Pa. June 30.-An order was
issued by the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company before quitting
time this evening that all colliries in the
Schuylkfll region under their jurisdiction
shall work full time Friday and Saturday of
this week and all Of next week with the ex-
ception of Monday. This, it is expected,
will be followed next week by an order to
work full time thereafter.
There has been much dissatisfaction
among the miners for some, time back owing
to the short time and docka9e system Of this
corporation, as by it miners and their labor
ers were barely able to exc out an existence,
and the mutterings of brewing trouble have
been heard over the whole anthracite re-
gion. The rise in the market price of coal
and the 2 per cent advance in wages, fol-
lowed by to-day's order, will, however,
greatly tend toward changing the feeling OF
the mon and creating harmony again in
their ranks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
TALKING THROUGH HIS HAT.

Congressman Springer Says Powderly's
Stand May Make Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic-Power of the Peoples Party to
Prevent an Election-Course in Such an
Event
CHICAGO, June e30-Congressman Spring
er is at the Palmer House, on his way to his
summer home at Traverse Bay. He said to-
day:
The result OF the Peoples party con-
vention at Omaha may cut q considerable
figure in the November election. In many
of the States of the Southwest the new party
will have so strong following that the elec.
toral ticket may be lost to both the Re-
publicans and Democrats. In fact, in some
of the States where the Democrats are in a
hopeless minority they will not put up an
electoral ticket, but will put the Peoples
party electors on the regular Democratic
ticket in hopes that they may thereby pre-
vent the Republican electors from getting
majority of the votes cast If this can be
done in enough States, there will be no
doubt as to the result of the election and rs
to who will sit in the White House after
March 4.
The new Peoples party is not the old
Farmers Alliance alone. It Is q coalition Of
and members of various other parties, such
as the Greenbackers, the Grangers and the
Independents. In Pennsylvania the follow.
ers of Mr.. Powderly, to the number Of
100000, will vote for the nominees Of the
Omaha Convention, and, as most Of these
will be taken from the ranks of Republic
ans, Pennsylvania may go Democratic.
"lt requires a maj orfty of the voters Of the
Electoral College to make the candidate
President, and II the Peoples party can get
q balance Of power and keep both the Re.
publicans and Democrats from having Q ma
jority, the election will be thrown into the
House Of Representatives As the present
House is Democratic, Grover Cleveland, Of
course, would be the man elected. The vote
in the House of Representatives, in case the
Electoral College failed to select, would be
by States and not by the representation in
Congress. Each State would have one vote,
and the way that vote would be cast would
be determined by the complexion of the
representation. A State that has 20 repre-
sentatives in Congress- 9 of them Repub-
licans and ii Democrats, would cast its vote
for the Democratic nominees. As some
thing like 80 of the A States are Democratic
looked at from this standpoint there could
of course be but one result. The law pro-
vides that in case the Electoral College fails
to select the House shall ballot on the names
Of the three men who received the highest
number of votes. This would prevent the
choice of a rank outsider. In the Senate
where the Vice President is elected in such
an event as / have named-each Senator
casts one vote. The result of the election.
in case the Peoples party should get bal
ance of power, would be therefore: Presi-
dent, Grover Cleveland; Vice President,
Wh1telaw Reid"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
A Contractor Arrested.

Frank P. May, an East End contractor,
was arrested yesterday charged with per.
jury. The prosecutor is James Lucas, Of
Juniatta street, who alleges that the defend.
ant built house for him and after its COM
pletion furnished him with sworn state
ment that all sub-contractors had been paid
whereas it turned out they had not been
settled with.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
1t Was a Real Estate Scheme,

Major W. 3. Negley said yesterday that
he understood the 1900 acres of 'valu-
able" land, which Utah man named Mid
dlemiss had donated to the PRESBYTERIAN
General Assembly as the site for Presby-
terian college, consisted of tract of worth
less salt marshes near the Great Salt Lake.
The land was represented to be worth
81, 600, 900, and the Presbyterians have been
congratulating themselves until they re-
Gently discovered that they had been taken
in by Utah real estate boomer
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-01
Back to Their Fatherland.

Thirty-six Italians, IA of them women,
each of whom carried babe in her arms,
passed through Pittsburg last night for
New York, from which place they will sail
neatly and cleanly dressed. They had been
in America for three years. During that
time they saved considerable money, and
they said they were going back home to in
vest it. The party stopped of for an hour
at the Union station. The IA women with
their babies sat on the station benches and
chartered glibly. They attracted considera-
BILE attention.