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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

Swaeley is a man of national reputation. l
have spoken of him myself more than once.
Among his public services was the carrying
of his ward in the hotly contested election
of 's5. A great part of the opposition votes
was cast in a single precinct, where the
polling place was fire engine house. just
before the close of the polls Swagley
knocked down the stove in his saloon near
BY and pulled in an alarm. In the confu-
sion, the ballot box was run out of the poll
ing place with the fire engine, and was the
onlv total and uninsured loss occasioned by
the confagration.
We did not welcome Swagley among us.
We did not need him. Most of my neigh
bors walked a couple of blocks to Billy
Blood's place when they wanted a drink;
and they didn't mind the exercise SO long
as it was necessary for the maintenance of
our respectability, whereas the people who
lived near Billy Blood's were not nice bit.
As for me, a glass of soda water-and
served in the main room, If you
please, is the limit of my indulgence. There
was talk of an organized effort against
Swagley, but we hesitated to act. Some Of
nv neighbors did not wish to leave their
families unprovided for, and, as for me, I
am too young to die. It was mere accident
which thrust me forward IN THIS aHalr. Inc
only reliable shoe blacking stand near my
home is established beside Swagley's fam
lily entrance"
Gets Arrested as Witness.
was sitting in the chair about II o'clock
on peaceful Sunday forenoon. The
artist had Just blacked the lower portions of
nv spring pantaloons, and was about to
begin on my shoes, when the noise of an
argument in Swagley's resort caused me to
turn my head. A man was just coming out:
and, being in hurry, he had taken large
portion of the side door with him. think
the door was hanging around his neck when
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
JONES' SICK CHILD.
The Part 1t Played in the Senator's
Bonanza Strike of II.
HIS REMARKABLE PERSISTENCY.
Fought Against Hope and the Advice Of
the Wiseacre Miners.
A RISE In SHARES FROM So TO $40
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.I

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.I
Senator John P. Jones' recent purchase OF
mining property out West sets the gossips
to work on stories of his remarkable careers
He is a stockily built, deep chested man,
with a trunk nearly as round as a barrel
His thick moustache and chin beard and
hair are grizzled white, and his face is ruddy
with healthy blood What vitality and
staying power are in that sturdy framel
His shoulders are slightly rounded, but it is
not the stoop of the midnight oil burner.
1t is the swelling and everything of muscle.
That ridge was first made by the swing of
pick in mine. There was day, not many
years ago, when he could split fly on the
wall with the point of pick. 1t would be
risky to bet that he cannot do it to-day.
His arm is still strong and his eye is as clear
as ever.
The story of his sick. child and its bear
ing on the Crown Point Mine has never
been told in print. 1t was in 1870 that
the shares had reached their lowest
ebb. You could buy them for 81 This
meant $24, 900 for the mine, plant and all,
though its nominal assets were S114, 900 and
four times that amount had been sunk in il.
Wherever the weary miners turned with
their drills and their picks there was the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

while the crew was bringing forward boxes
with fiaring sides. One with a coil of
heavy hose, like great blacksnake, washed
down the deck
Out Among the Gill Nets.
The breeze freshens, but the pilot house
with doors and windows closed is filed
with the hot greasy breath of the engine
The captain stands at the wheel in his shirt
sleeves smoking as phiIosophically as ever
1saak Walton dreamed of beside an English
brook. The fog drives further away. The
horizon widens, but the curtains of drabs
and states and the faint bands of rose and
purple still fill the hazY distance. We
have reached the nets and the work of lift
ing them is begun.
A gill net is about six feet wide and
stands on the bottom of the lake, often In
60 or 75 feet of water. The only sign that
marks its existence at the surface is two
foot cedar buoy, with a cane and pennant
fastened through it, which is anchored at
each end of gang of nets. In this respect
it differs radically from the pound net, which
is wider and fastened to stakes, long lines of
which may be seen in all the western end of
the lake. There are usually 60 and rarely
less than 40 gill nets in a gang, and as each
net is 800 feet long the average gang of
nets stretches for nearly three miles and q
half
The men are in yellow oilskins or, more
properly speaking, oilskins that once were
yellow. The buoy with its great stone for
an anchor has been drawn aboard, and the
work of lifting the nets commences
Lifting the Freighted Meshes.
The tug is slowed down to two miles an
hour or less. The crew takes turns draw
ing in the net, raising it through 40 feet or
more of water. When the catch is big
enough to keep the others busy taking the
fish from the nets, two men have to do the
lifting, but to-day it is light and three are
drawing in over the smooth oak roller. The
steady tramp of the men walking backward
across the narrow deck lifting the net is
heard above the long breathing of the en-
CINE and the occasional creak Of the wheel,
as the captain keeps her ''head to- along
the nets. We creep forward so softly the
novice is scarcely aware of motion at all.
From the stern comes the splash of fish as
the men cleaning the nets thrust the cruel
gaff-hook into them to puncture the air
bladders, pull them through the meshes
and toss them into the faring boxes A
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

nets begins. First is dropped overheard the
stone for anchors and the buoy with its cane
standard and soiled little pennant Then
from the stern two men pay out the nets,
the cedar bobs in line at one side, the lead
sinkers at the other, to bring 1t into an up
right position on the bottom. The tug steams
away at ten miles an hour. Quickly, deity
the men catch the net from the faring
boxes and pay it out smoothly and steadily.
Upon its proper setting to-morrow's catch
depends, and the safety of the net as we'll
perhaps. Two others stand by to lift away
the empty box and replace it with full
one as occasion requires, the engine slowing
down to permit each change. The screw
throbs and the tug breathes hoarsely as we
dash along and the men pay out the net, the
captain himself taking one side of it. We
are headed south. The nets are always run
from north to south in order to catch the
fish in their migrations from the deep water
at the east end of the lake to the shallower
stretches westward, and back again.
One of Old Erie's Quick storms.
The sun is entirely hidden. A storm Is
gathering. Behind us as we rush along the
sky is a brilliant blush purple, and the
water darkening under it. In 20 minutes
or so, the thlee miles and half of nets
have been set and we are away for home
1t is none too soon. The skv is overcast.
The water no longer, changes with each
shifting cloud. The purple blackens on the
horizon ominously. The waves break in
white caps of foam under the whip of the
strong south wind. We dash forward fear
lessly, now breasting a wave and riding
high, now dashing the bow into a great
comber and throwing the spray high over
the pilot-house. The deck was all a-wash.
The spray flies angrily against the pilot
house windows and clings there till nothing
can be seen through them. On we 60 at
full speed, swinging like a great rocking
chair. The harsh metallic breathing of the
engine is almost drowned by the wind, and
the throb of the screw lost IN the splash of
the waves
1t is one of the quick storms that change
the great lakes from miIl-ponds to strong
seas in few minutes. The clouds roll up
in purple and black mountains, and the
rain comes down in large drops, making the
nearby waves in rare artistic designs. The
shadowv shoreline emerges from the hori-
zon, grows more distinct through the rain,
draws near, and before the full fury of the
storm breaks we are racing up the yellow
river bent on beating to our dock rival
tug that entered the harbor just behind us.
SAMUEL G. MCCLURE.
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LoNG-DIsTANCE PHOTOGRAPHY.
Camera That Works Successfully at a
Distance of Two Miles.

A Camera That Works Successfully at
Distance of Two Miles.
New Orleans Picayune.l
Photographers, especially the abused
amateurs, will be interested in the new tele-
scopic camera invented by German artist,
DR.. Adolph Meethe. Excellent photographs
have been made with it at distance of two
miles With this instrument no one will
be secure against the snap-shooter.
The objective consists of convex lens of
considerable length of focus and concave
lens of short focus. These are placed a GER
tain distance apart, depending upon the diff
ference of the two foci. BY the laws of
optics, this arrangement projects an in
verted image of an object at long distance
from the lenses. The size of the object is
greater the nearer the lenses are together,
and the greater the difference between the
foci. To obtain good images, the lenses are
of special form and achromatic. The whole
camera looks very like Galilean telescope
BY substituting an ordinary opera glass for
the objective on the camera and drawing it
out, fairly good picture will be obtained
on the ground glass of the camera.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

I saw him, but as have. since been shown
in open court to be entirely untrustworthy,
shall not insist upon these details.
However, 1 obtained good view of the
debate, and distinctly saw Swagley con-
vince his opponent so thoroughly that an
ambulance subsequently removed this un-
successful disputant, not to the hospital
from which a surgeon had been sent, but to
Bellevue, where the death rate doesn't so
much matter. I was arrested as witness on
the theory that having been outside the
saloon, 1 couldn't have observed the occur
renee. The policeman forgot the broken
door. Several other outsiders shared my
fate; and, with Swagley, we were taken to
the police station where Swagley secured a
magistrate and bail, while we others were
locked up.
I do not propose to dwell upon this
episode. 1t is we'll known that in many
parts of this broad land one would better be
the assailant, or even the victim, than a
witness. 1 shall pass at once to the trial,
which was held with remarkable prompti-
tude, refuting the criticisms OF those who
say that influence will secure delay.
Swagley was impatient to face his accusers.
The nature of the other mans injuries was
such, that, while he was able to be up and
about within fortnight, he was always
liable to drop dead. 1 mention this, not tor
its bearing on the case, but because it may
interest the medical fraternity.
Collecting Evidence a la Parkhurst
Swagley was defended by two eminent
counselors, Mr.. Slyme and Mr.. Mucker.
They exercised great care in the selection
OF the jury, rejecting all men who had an
inherited or acquired prejudice against as
sault and battery. A preference was given
to those who generally went to Coney
Island on Sunday, but objected to the jour
ney. The judge was strictly impartial, but
he had little less authority than base
ball umpire in Chicago.
had made strong effort to collect evil
dence against Swagley, believing that
was acting in the interests OF my neighbors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

lakes From their clear blue depths tens of
thousands of tons of fish are taken every
year and shipped far and wide over the
country. Lake whitefsh, trout and pike
have in their season an established place on
the menus of 6rst-class hotels throughout
the North and are prime tavorites in the
food supply of Pittsburg, while salted lake
herring and "pickerel" find ready sale in
a dozen great States, and lake caviare sup
plies all American demands, and is exported
10 all parts of Europe.
Tho gi the smallest of the sweet seas that
find ii outlet through the Niagara river,
Lake l..Ie is the most productive, surpass-
ing in its WELD of fish any other body of
fresh water in the world. Herring and
blue pike constitute the larger part of the
total from Lake Erie. Ninety-five per cent
of the catch is taken in either pound or gill
nets
Wonders of the Pound Net.
The pound net used is the familiar device
of Eastern fishermen and was brought TO
Lake Erie from Connecticut about 1850. 1t
consists of three parts-pot or bowl, heart
or funnel, and leaders The pot or bowl is
the net proper, and is usually about 80 feet
square. Into it leads the heart or funnel
from the leaders, which are long stretches
of netting, with 3 to 6-inch mesh, extend
ing often for miles into the lake. The fish
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

The population of the city of Rome,
which by the census of 1881 was 273, 900, is
now over 100000, having nearly doubled
within the past ten years. Since the city
became the capital of United Italy thou
sands of new edifces have been built, and it
has been greatly changed otherwise. The
Seven Hills themselves are undergoing
process of leyeling and the valleys are being
filed in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
1t Is Good.

The more Chamberfain's Cough Remedy
is used the better it is liked. We know of
no other remedy that always gives satisfac-
tion. 1t is good when you first catch cold:
1t is good when your cold is seated and
your lungs are sore. 1t is good in any kind
of cough. We have sold 25 dozen of it
and every bottle has given satisfaction.
Stedman & Friedman, druggists. Mime
sofa Lake, MINI. wsu
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Glass Bricks in Favor for Building.

Bricks made out of plate glass are of
very superior quality. A sand of iron and
glass is forced into mold under pressure
of several thousand pounds per inch. Then
the bricks are subjected to temperature of
2,700o Fahrenheit, which causes the glass
and sand to unite The bricks are perfectly
white, and will stand both frost and acid.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

No safer remedy can be had for coughs and
colds. any trouble of the throat, than Brown S
Bronchial Troches.n Price Is cts. Sold only in
boxes. ITSSu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

ONYX xAwNINGs-Entirely new and fast in
colors and exquisite in designs, ut Mamaux
& Sons, $50 Penn avenue. Tel. 1872 Thsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

SPRING time is here. The bugs will soon
begin to crawl Kill them all before they
multiply. Busine will do it Instantly. %
cents, -t-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

HERE are
few industries
in the Central
West more in
teresting or
surprising in
m ag nj de
the fisheries
sc @la -raaf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
ON A FISHING TUG.
A Day in Natures Glories
Catching the Finny Beau
ties of Lake Erie.
RARE CURTAINS OF MIST
That Break the Rays of Morning
Sun Into Rainbow Colors.
ONE OF THE LAKES QUICK STORMS.
Gathering Shining, Wriggling Masses of
Pearl From the Nets.
HOW PITTSBURG'S MARKET is SUPPLIED
RARE CURTAINS OF MIST
ONE OF THE LAKES QUICK STORMS.
Gathering Shining, Wriggling Masses of
Pearl From the Nets.
HOW PITTSBURG'S MARKET is SUPPLIED

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,
CLEVELAND. Nav %.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

same disheartening face of hard gray . 7or-
phyry. They groped in all directions on
the lowest levels they had reached, but their
search was vain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
The Ring.

PUGILIsM is on the wane in Australia. Faking
among the fighters has killed it.
AUSTRALIAN BILLY MURPHY was knocked out
in three rounds February 16 by Jim Barron at
Sydney.
THE Hennepin Club. of Minneapolis, is figuring
on ten-round fight between Ike Weir and Tommy
White.
THE Sullivan party want change in the articles
of agreement regarding the proposed Sullivan and
Corhett affair.
MAJOR FRANK MCLAUGHLIN. of the California
Athletic Club. IN New York, thinks that
Peter jackson will best Slavin.
GEORGE GODFREY has notified the Gladstone
Athletic Club, of Providence, that he will accept
its offer of So. 600 to meet Joe Choynski.
W. RUssELL.-The conditions were that Slavin
had to knock kilrain out in ten rounds if he failed
the better fighter was to win.
ABE WILLIS, the Australian bantam whom
his return to Australia that he has had to go TO
work in an iron manufactory.
THE easy defeat of Marcellus Baker, the veteran
New England boxer, by Bobby Burns. at Provi-
dence. Wednesday, in l minute, Is seconds. re-
calls the time Baker spared here about seven years
ago. Baker came here with a flourish of trumpets.
Eddie Thomas pitted against him, and he
bested the alleged wonder quite easily.
ARRANGEMENTS are being completed for the ap-
pearance at early date of Joe Choynski and
Hall, who are each to box local heavyweight in
Chicago under ''Parson' Davies management. 1t
is more than likely that well-known Pittsburg
the meantime Mike Queenan. Jim Dohoney or Jack
Dalton should be heard from. Hall is training at
Mount Clemens as he has also several Eastern
engagements.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
The Big Football Game To-pay.

The big football match between the local
team and the New Castles, who hold the
amateur championship of Western Pennsyl-
vanIa, for II gold medals, side bet, made
by outside parties, of $500 side, and the
title of champions of Pennsylvania, will
take place this afternoon at Recrea ton
Park, and rain or shine the match will be
PLAYED. Mr.. Fl. F. Kelly, secretary of the
famous Chicago cricket team, will come on
TO referee the game, which will prove one
of the most exciting ever played in this city
The members of both teams are in splendid
condition. and as the ground is in fine order
the beauties of the game will be fully shown
Both sides express the utmost confidence as
to the outcome, and the result will be
eagerly looked for. From New Castle comes
the news that upward OF 200 admirers of the
game Will come from that busy little city,
while Mcheesport, Homestead, Mcdonald
Bloomfield, Youngstown, o., and Uniontown
will contribute not a few of the spectators
who in case of rain, can view the match
from the grandstand. W. Powell and George
Woods Will be the respective captains. and
Pittsburg will line up in their favorite
colors. blue ana white, colors they have
worn in many hard won victory. PLAY
commences at $50 sharp.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
Gossip on tho Wharf.

The marks show 10 feet 2 inches and rising
slowly. The amount OF coal that will get away on
this rise will reach co., 600 bushels. The following
is list of boats. some of which left yesterday and
the balance will get away to-day: Fbr Jos. Walton
and fuels: Joseph Nixon, with IA barges and 2
fuels for Louisville, and the Nellie Walton, IA
barges, 2fues for Cincinnati. Crescent Coal Co..
Browns line. the Harry Brown with boats. 6
barges and fuels for Louisville. W. W. O'Neii
Coal Company l tine ,nE nEn1serprss ss}s with boats,
barges for Louisville. O'Neil 4 Co., the Fred
Wilson with boats and 10 barges. Lysle Coal
Wood Will probably go tomorrow with II barges.
Horner & Roberts. the Raymond Horner with 6
boats and barges: $. $. Crump Son. Tom
Risher with boats and barges: The Acorn will
probably leave tomorrow. The Mcdonald line, the
Hornet No. . with IA barges. c. lutte Il Co., the
boats and barges. John A. Wood & Son, S. l..
Wood with boats and barges. Faucett's line,
the Boaz, with 10 boats: s., Advance Coal Company.
John Moren, with boats and barges; Geo rye
Shiras with L. bargcs,
THE w. W. O'Neil arrived at Louisville yester-
day with empties from New Orleans. She will
make up 4 tow for a return trip at once.
THE yoyager sunk a boat beiow lock No. yes
terday morning. The accident was due to the
heavy fog.
THE J. &. Williams passed Delta yesterday en-
the way up from New Orleans with empties
THE Courier is due tonight on her regular week.
" trip from Parkersburg.
THE j. A. Blackmore passed Wheeling yesterday
on the way up with empties.
THE Smoky City left New Orleans with empties
for this port yesterday.
THE Scotia left yesterday with . heavy trip for
Cincinnati.
THE Congo will be the regular Cincinnati packet
TODAY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
READING PAYING BETTER NOW.

The Last Monthly Report Shows Quito an
Improvement Over tho Preceding.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.-The state
ment of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road for the month of February shows gross
traffic earnings of s1,7ss,774 15; traffic e1-
penses, s1,O25,9 ,96z so; profit in operating,
S762, 2,s16 "a; receipts from other sources,
$50, 1874 46; total profit, S798.SO4. Against
this are charges of 50, ,541 IL for permanent
improvements, and 1925, 900 as one-twelfth
of the current years fixed charges, leaving
surplus for the month of S164, 262 SO,
compared with deficit in February, 1891,
of $50, ,O49 96. The surplus for three months
of the year is S621, ,941 10, an increase of
$780, ,O67 81 compared with the same period
last year.
The statement of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company shows
gross receipts, 81, ,778, ,029 81; gross expenses,
S1.S13, ,389 OF. Colliery Improvements were
$40, 224 81; loss from mining, S35, 1861 16;
one-tweltth Of the current years fixed
charges, s65, 500; leaving deficit OF $780,
s61 16, showing decrease Of 74.14S 20 as
compared with February, 1891. The deficit
for three months of the current year is $780,.
274 Is, against 5000, 23s 81 during the same
period last year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
Tri-State Brevities.

LITTLE WASHINGTON is to have q Demo-
cratic newspaper.
CLINTON ANDREWS was on trial at Canton
for manslaughter. The jury returned a yer.
dict of assault and battery
Rem GANo, the wife murderer under death
sentence at Nit. Gilead, O., poisoned himself
and died in Jail yesterday.
HIRAM WILLIAMS, an ex-convict at fos-
toria, has been arrested on a charge that he
is the man who buncoed Farmer Schriever
out of S., 600 last December, near Canton,
P1CKPoCKETs in a crowded McKeesport
store Thursday raised the cry that the floor
was giving away. During the panic they re-
lieved two women of their pocketbooks and
large sums of money.
DURING fit of insanity yesterday John
Wilhart broke every window and door in
Caldwell & Co.'s real estate Office in Green's
burg. He imagined he was cheated in the
recent sale OF his property. He is under
arrest.
YESTERDAY morning the body of C. H. Gra-
ham, a prominent citizen of Richmond, O.,
was found in the river at Fairport with all
evidences that murder had been committed,
q candidate Tor Mayor at the coming elec-
tion.
PRESIDENT L. H. EATON and Agent O O'Brien,
of the Western Pennsylvania Humane So
ciety, appeared before Squire Taylor at
Rochester, Pa. yesterday in the case against
E. E. Haxen, of North Sewickley township,
charged with cruelty to animals in dehorn-
ing cattle. Haxen failed to appear. The
Humane officials say the case will be pushed.
WEDNESDAY MORNING the infant son of Mr..
and Mrs Farrow, at Springfield, o., was
found dead in bed. The funeral services
were stopped Thursday. The Coroner
walked in and forbade the removal OF the
body until an investigation is made of
charges preferred by the child'S mother
against her husband. She claims that he
strangled the child to death.