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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
A McKeesport claimant TO Millions.

MokEEsPoRT, Jan. 3l.-[Special1- lit is
claimed that Mrs. Otto +. Tauber, OF this
city, is one of the several heirs to 5000 900
worth of property in Philadelphia, on por-
tion of which the Union depot is located
She is O direct descendant of one Mrs.
Scutten, who owned the property and was
murdered in philadelphia years ago. The
Keil family of philadelphia are also heirs,
and have attorneys arranging papers pre-
paratory to laying claim to the estate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

and help to form public desire for the bet
tering of it, might do more good than all the
Sunday sermons.
The Sunday paper is not perfect. 1t will
admit of decided improvements. 1t could
not yet be read in its entirety from the pull
pits of the churches. But / do think that
here in Pittsburg it is an uncommonly good
paper. The Law and Order Society ought to
have tried the Blue Law in some other town.
Let us confine our assaults to that which is
definitely and plainly bad. We ought to
take hold of everything that has any good
in it and help to make it better.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
DEATHS HERE. AND ELSEWHERE.
DIR. Howard Smith.

DR.. Howard Smith, prominent ply
sicisn. died of the grip at New Orleans Saturday
morning, aged SO years. He was son of Major
General Persifor f. Smith of the United States
Army, in the Mexican War. DIR. smith held the
Chair of Materia Medica in the New Orleans School
of Medicine for years. He was surgeon in charge
of the Marine Hospital under President Polk. He
served throughout the late war surgeon in the
Confederate army. For the past three years DIR.
Smith was employed by the Louisiana State Board
of Health medical representative in Central
American ports to keep the board Informed upon
the sanitary condition of those places, where he
rendered Invaluable services.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

case cited had the narrowing feature that
the victims were mainly cripples, and this
suggests the explanation that some who
reached the fire escape were unable to use
it. But for the vast majority of mankind
modern fire escape protected by hand
rails is, even at dizzy height, far prefer
able alternative to burning to death.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
BABY AsToR NOT REGISTERED.
The Richest Infant in the World Not on
the Official Record


NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-Health Department
officials were somewhat surprised yesterday
to discover that the richest baby in the
United States had never been recorded as
the law provides, and its parents were
accordingly liable to punishment for the
omission. This refers to the infant son of
John Jacob Astor, who was born November
Is. The law provides that within ten days
of every birth it shall be registered in the
office of Vital Statistics, otherwise the
parents, attending physician, nurses and
every other person VINO was present at the
birth may be fined $40.
The attending physician. when asked if he
had registered the baby, said: BY Joye!
that's SO, that's so. / didn't" l usually
leave that To my assistants, and in this case
1 forgot it. l will pay the fine If the>city
demands it," DR.. Lusk said he would report
the birth at once. No proceedings have
been begun against him as vet. Baby Astor
has been named William Vincent. lie is
thriving in spite OF the tact that his exist
ence has not beeh legally declared.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

HILL is showing many kinds of ability
and adsptability. He would make an ex-
cellent "fence," promoter of speculative
limited-liability companies, petty despot, or
anything in fact which requires cunning to
devise and deceit to carry out. One may say
that he would be success in almost any role
bnt that of true statesman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

CHICAGO authorities are at last coming to
the conclusion that buildings may be built
too high for the health and welfare or the
general community. 1t is wise conclusion,
though one likely to meet with opposition
from those interested in getting the greatest
gain for themselves, no matter at what cost
to the workers who suffer from insufficient
air and the evils of a constant artificial
light
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
THOUGHT HER AN ICEBERG.
A Big Steamer Covered With Ice Enters
New York Harbor.

"A
New York Harbor.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-There was considera-
BILE excitement on the floor of the Maritime
Exchange yesterday morning when it was re-
ported that mammoth iceberg was floating
up past Sandy Hook. Marine glasses were in
order, and, armed with them, the old sea
dogs started for Staten Island to see the
strange sight. They did see one, too, for
just at this time the big steamship Trave, of
tine North German Lloyd, turned into the
North river. The big vessel was completely
covered with ice, and glistered and sparkled
in the sunlight indescribably.
The steamer was covered from stem to
stern with an ice coating two inches thick,
and her yards and rigging were encased. An
unceasing storm WAS experienced from the
time of leaving Southampton. While at
Nordenham. at the mouth of the Elbe river,
the Trave was completely frozen in, so that
it was impossible to use the rudder Or pro-
peller. Before she was released three small
steamers were used to cut her out of the ice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
A MONSTER LOCOMOTIVE.
The Flying Jersey Dutchman Is Marvel
of Power and Speed.

PLA1NFIELD, N j., Jan. 3l.-The monster
locomotive No. 1856, just placed on the tracks
of the Jersey Central Railroad is considered
by railroad officials a marvel of speed and
mechanism. The huge engine was completed
January 5 at the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. 1t has made such phenome nal runs
that it is already known along the line as
"The Flying Jersey Dutchman."
In the boilers are 250 fiues. The fire box is
ii feet by 8 feet inches and has water
CRATE for hard coal. There are four cylinders
two of high and two of low pressure. All
four cylinders can be used at the same time,
and this is the secret of the engine starting
and getting under way so quickly with
heavy train. The boiler carries $50 pounds
of steam and is tested to 220 The whole
weight of the engine is 6213 tons. The COM
muters along the Jersey Central are enthusi-
astic in praise of the locomotive, which
gives them lightning trains to and from New
York
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

A GOOD government, whether municipal
or national, can only be secured by indi-
vidual effort. Everyone in Pittsburg is di-
rectly interested in its government, the
wage-earner in particular, and now is the
time to show that interest by agitating for,
and insisting upon, the election of Council
men pledged to true economy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
OIL FIND In MICHIGAN.
Excitement i'm Ithaca over the Results Of
Recent Borinss.

JACKSON, MICH. Jan. s1-Great excite
ment prevails at Ithaca over indications of
an immense Oil field around near there.
For some time indications Of crude oil have
have been found on the surface and in dry
wells.
Owen Perry drilled well on his farm.
and it is due TO hts success that others are
starting wells of their own, Oh experts who
have examined the indications and Perry's
well say that if wells are put down they will
prove paying investments.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
Captain LYMAN Van Wan.

Captain Lyman w. Van Wan. who has
been living in Dayton since the war, was found
dead in bed Saturday morning. He had been In
falling health for several years. had been in dis
tress for the past few days and finally died from
heart failure. He was born at Athens. n. Y, in
Jsy: enlisted at Pittseld Mass, in the first three
months service; then was commissioned by Presi-
dent Lincoln TO organize brigade of Tennessee
lnountaineers, which he did.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

Actions pending against steamship agents
for allowing Immigrants to escape to shore,
after having been refused admission by the
authorities, should convince them and the
public at large that laws are made to be
kept-not broken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
Mrs. Rachel Fowler.
An old resident, Mrs. Rachel Fowle

An OLD TesIutnC, MIS- IdcHtI TOWIef,
who died recently III Allegheny at the residence of
her son-in-law George A. Smith, was born where
the Court House now stands in 1914. Her father,
John Stevenson, lost his life in an explosion while
manufacturing powder ut Newark, N. j., for the
War of ISl2 after which her mother removed to
Pittsburg and in 1873 married William Carnahan.
She was half sister of the late X. B. CarnahaI
and niece of John Brown after whom Brownstown
was named. In 1897 she married George s. Fowler,
who died in 1885 in his s0th year. She leaves be-
hind her son, daughters, Is grandchildren and
great yrandclld,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
THE movement taken by the Board

THE movement taken by the Board of
Health to enforce the responsibilities of
ministers for the report of marriages they
conduct, and of doctors for that of births at
which they assist, should be a warning to
those people to bestir themselves. Records
of such events are of great Importance, and
their value is greatly diminished by incom-
pleteness or inaccuracy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
Henry Church, Meadville.

Henry Church. of the Phoenix Iron Works
and the frm of Dick Church, of Meadville, and
manager of the firms business, died yesterday
morning of the grip. The deceased was son Of
Judge Gaylord Church, deceased, and a brothsr of
Judge Pearson Church. of Meadyille. He stood
high in Masonic fraternity. in which he u past
master. past commander, past high priest and
m .mber of the cons. story. His age was 40 years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

FEW are the men who would care so far to
sink their individuality as to have the month
fixed for their wedding without knowledge
as to the identity of their bride, and all for
the sake of providing heirs to succeed to the
Office of ornamental fgurehead to the British
M tiaD
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

NEWS that Whisky Trust stock is chang
ing hands would point to the expectation
on the part of the late holders that there is
danger of shipwreck from the legal rocks
ahead
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

NOTICE the class of motives which gov
ern professional politicians. One New York
man is to be made a Senator because he
needs a rest, and the man who would be his
most powerful competitor reiinouishes his
ambition because his wife so wills it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
CARMENcITA LIKES PITTsBURG.
1t Is q Much Better Place Than New York
She Thinks.

NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-Carmencita, the pretty
Spanish dancer, has great admiration for
Pittsburg. In an interview to-day she said
she liked Pittsburg. She called it "Peepur"
There was such grand house to dance in
there.
She had never seen any theater half so
NICE There was hot and cold water in the
dressing rooms, and electric lights and no
draughts. "And' that's what / don't get
used to here-those draughts. First get
warm, warm, warm. Then 1 get shiyer,
shiver, shiver.'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

THOSE householders who have been vainly
seeking natural gas through the cold
weather will no doubt be deeply interested
in the exhibition of it which is to be made
a feature of next seasons Exposition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

THERE is ,discreditable condition of
overcrowding in the New York insane asy-
lums at present. From all accounts the
state of affairs at Dixmont is little better.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

NEXT 10 the grip the worst thing that
unsuspeoring people have to contend with is
the number of remedies propounded by
officious friends or interested quacks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
Is Might Be a Good Plan.

Chicago Mail.
During the cessation of hostilities Uncle
Sam might with profit secure few coaling
stations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01
1T is natural that English engrayers should

x
object to an absence of representatives on
the British committee for the Worlds Fair.
They cannot afford to show anything but
their very best if they want to compete in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-01

to be a day destitute of pleasure, a bug
bear, q weekly strait jacket. After all, Sun
day is the day of rest, and was meant for
man. The Scribes and Pharisees were for
ever finding fault with the Master because
He did not keep the Sabbath in their way.
He kept it, they thought, in very Lax wav
And the Scribes and Pharisees are not all
dead yet Tho purpose of the day or rest is
to minister to all the needs of man. be-
lieve, of course, that the man or woman who
willingly stays away from the House OF God
on that day is quite as unreasonable
as the people who would limit our
Sunday reading. 1t is not even so req
sonable to make the day altogether day of
benefit to the body, as it is to try to make it
altogether day of benefit to the soul. I
have much more admiration for the Law
and Order Society than have for the Sum
day sleepers. l believe they have mora
sense. After all, man is not really an ami
NAL. The soul is somewhat more valuable.
and worth ministering to- than the BODY.
Nevertheless, we have body.
should Help to Make the Good Better.
NO; the real question is what shall peo-
pie read. The real test of the good OF i'll of
the Sunday paper is not the fact of its dis
tribution on Sunday morning. If Spurgeon's
sermons could be distributed every Sunday
morning, the Law and Order Society would
not take offense. The real test is the char
acter of the contents of the paper. Ii the
paper contains things which good people
ought.no5 to talk about and do not talk
about, on Sunday, If the matter in it is diff
ferent from that which good people read on
sunday out of the books in their libraries:
then let Cs attack that part of it. The best
thing to do with the sunday paper, as my
friend Mr.. Donehoo said week ago, is to
convert it to Christianity. There is no in
cantation that can stop it. but there is power
in it that can be made OF use inmeasurable
The Sunday paper, If the Law and Order
people would all of them take it and read it,
Griggs courier., 1892-08-19
BOSTON STREETS FLOODED.

Much Damage Caused by . Heavy Rain.
fan-Nfany Houses Struck by Lightning
B Tho Same Agency Destroys Two Lives
and Injuries Several Persons.
p Boston, Aug. 1sss-The terrific thun.
derstorm which swept across eastern
Massachusetts, Friday morning broke
all records Is . producer Of rain and
lightning. In Boston the fall of rain in
the first ten minutes ot the showe,
measured s5-10o Of an inch and the
total fall for the three hours during
which it rained was 2 2s-1oo
inches Many stores were flooded in
Boston, the heaviest sufferers being b.
81. Cotton & Co., carpet dealers, whose
stock was damaged to the extent o,
SIS, 600. fremont street, in Boston;
was in some places flooded from curb
TO- curb. while all were temporarily
transformed into rivers.
The lightning was unusually severe
in Boston and vicinity. From the re.
turns now in the record of the light.
ntng's work in three hours is as fol.
lows: Number of dwellings and stores
struck. -; number of barns, 8; mum.
Der of persons killed, 2; number Of per-
sons injured, 15 - ~
Griggs courier., 1892-08-19
ToiLERs MANGLED.
A Score of workmen Buried In the Ruins
of . Collapsed Building.

b
A Score OF WOrkmen Buried In the Ruins
of . Collapsed Building.
I OGDEN, N. j., Aug. ia building
which was being erected here fell Fri.
day afternoon, burying twenty men be.
meath the ruins. One dead man and
four fatally injured have already been
taken from the ruins, and the work of
digging out the remainder is still going
on. The accident occurred by the sud.
den giving way Of derrick, causing
the entire structure Of massive wooden
beams and timbers to collapse. But
few Of the workmen on the building
escaped.
There was great excitement and q
big crowd of men employed in other
factories stopped work and the search
for the bodies under the wreck of the
collapsed building was Immediately
begun. The first victim taken out was
an Italian workman. The man was
dead. His body was terribly mangled.
Soon after three others were removed
in dying condition. p
I Up to a late hour at night twelve
men had been taken out from the ruina
of the collapsed factory, all seriously
and four fatally wounded. The injuries
of those taken from the ruins are of the
most terrible nature, the limbs of some
being torn of, while the faces and bodies
of others are crushed almost beyond
recopnition
Griggs courier., 1892-08-19

MRS. AsENArn MILLER celebrated nor
1o5th birthday ut st. Charles, III.
Mrs. LAvINIA FILLMORE, relict Of
Rev. g. Fillmore and cousin OF Mil
lard Fillmore, the former president Of
the United States, who died in 1874.
celebrated her l05th birthday at her
home in Lawrence, N. Y.
. The Mississippi democrats have re-
nominated for congress j. M. Allen in
the First district, ]. G. Kyle in the Sec
ond and T. G. Catchings in the Third.
In the Ninth Michigan district the re-
publicans nominated John w. Moon,
and in the Second district Of Kentucky
j. E. Kimberly is the prohibition nomi-
nee.
Griggs courier., 1892-08-19
KNIGHTS LEAVING DENVER.

The Triennial Conclave IL Over and the
Templars Are Going Home. :,
DENVER, Col, Aug. 1S.-The knights
are leaving town rapidly, some to 60
home and others to make tours of the
state. There are enough remaining,
however, to make the city extremely
lively. 1t is estimated that 100, 800
visitors were in Denver this week. Dur.
ing the week Denver took care Of q
crowd of people equal to its own popu.
lation. Over 800, 600 pieces Of baggage
were handled and as many packages.
The Pullman company handled 60a
cars.
Griggs courier., 1892-08-19
FOUNDATIONS IN JAPAN.
Ashigawa River Rose Twenty-rour Fec,
Hundreds Of Lives Lost.

Ashigawa River Rose Twenty-Four Feet
Hundreds Of Lives Lost.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 1s.-Advices
from Japan brought by the steamer
Rio Janeiro include reports of damage
done BY storms and foundations at Okla
yama, Tokushima, Bamanashi, Gumma,
Saitama, Chiba and Hyogo. Of
these Olkayama seems to have
suffered most. Rain began falling
July 20. and was followed BY terrible
typhoon July 2s. The Ashigawa river
rose "a feet, causing the embankment
to give way in several places. Over
1000 houses were submerged and about
100 persons drowned. in addition to
which several thousand acres Of culti-
waited land were laid waste. In
Tokushima on the 2sd number of
houses were blown down., while the
streets were inundated through the
effects of a tidal wave, forty-one per-
sons were crushed to death through the
falling of houses. Reports from Saita-
ma.Ken concerning q whirlwind say
the wind in its passage left track Of
destroyed and wrecked houses, in the
midst Of which were found men and
cattle crushed to death under rafters.
Trees were either snapped or up
rooted, but the damage to crops was
not SO great. Nitta-Gun suffered Sc
verely from the storm, which continued
about two hours. Over 100 houses
were demolished, six persons crushed
to death and about thirty others in
jured. Several bridges were swept
away. In Meiji-Mura and Minion-
aimura fourteen houses were demol-
ished, while forty-one persons were
crushed to death and seven others in
jured. In Chiba and Hyogo there was
some damage from inundations.
Griggs courier., 1892-08-19
FOREIGN.

The queens speech which was read
in the British parliament was purely
formal, and foreshadowed an early ad.
| journment.
IT was said that in the governments
of Saratof and Samara, Russia, the
deaths from cholera numbered 5000
daily.
Mrs. ROSE, one of the first women to
speak in the United States in favor OF
the abolition of slavery, died in Lon.
don, aged ss years.
! The American schooner Belle Bart.
lett has been seized at Port Hawks
bury, N. s., on a charge of violating
the customs laws in 1890.
| A GovERNEss named Matuscka en-.
tered cafe in Warsaw, Russia, and
fatally shot two officers who had cast
reflections on her character
EARTHQUAKE shocks frightened the
residents of Coblentz and other German
cities.
OVER 100 persons were reported miss.
ing from the coaster Ajax, which was
run down outside of Helsingfors, Rus
sia.
i G. G. CAMPBELL, immigration agent
for Winnipeg, says there was big in
f1ux of immigration into the northwest
f., this season. The new arrivals came
principally from the United States.
A BAND of brigands near Culiacan,
| Mexico, captured train of ten burros
loaded with $4,000 worth of silver,
killed three of the guards and escaped
with the money.
A THUNDERSTORM devastated the
town of Ia Urea, Spain. Lightning set
fire to a great number of buildings, two
sections of the town being entirely de-
stroyed.
In the British house of commons the
motion of mo confidence" in the con-
servative government of Lord Sails
bury was carried by vote of $50 to
80, thus bringing on the change of adj
ministration and placing Gladstone in
power.
The Gillian government has consent
ed to a convention for the settlement
of claims of United States citizens
against Chilli.
CHOLERA was decreasing in the
Crimea and Caucasus districts owing to
cooler weather, but in Moscow the
plague was on the increase.
A TUG sank in the Lach,ne canal at
Montreal and Alfred Beauchamp, AL
exander Ratelle and Henry Larose were
drowned.
TWENTY European agents in Africa
have been killed or captured by Arabs,
who have also burned many stations.
JOHANN SINGER, clerk in Vienna,
Austria, sufocated his mistress and her
three children and then took his own
life. Poverty was the cause.
HONDURAS latest revolution is re-
ported to have been crushed and hun.
dreds of rebels killed.
The death was announced of Sulei-
man Pacha, governor OF Bagdad.
1T is is said that Ferdinand Allard, a
poor blacksmith at Quebec, has discov-
cred the long lost art known to the
pyramid builders of Egypt of hardening
copper.