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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
Obituary Notes.

HUGH G.. CLARK, General Western Agent of the
Dupont Powder Company and one Of the wealthiest
cIzens of Omaha, died yesterday of heart disease.
THOMAS NOLAN, Of the firm of N Nolan Bros, the
well-known railroad contractors and bridge build
ers in Reading. died yesterday of apoplexy. aged
40 years.
PROF. EUGENE LETANG, for 20 years Professor
of Architectural Drawing at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. died in Boston Monday,
aged so.
HOMER AsBAUGH, a well-known potter Of East
Liverpool, o., died there Monday night. He was
prominent among the odd Fellows, and was Past
Grand.
DANIEL GILNIx, Justice of the Peace for 30
years, School Director and County Commissioner
for several years, as q Democrat. died At Upper
Strassburg. Pa, yesterday, aged 81 years.
JEREMIAH PLnPToN, for a score of years Prin-
cipal of the Dudley School for Girls in Roxbury,
Mass, and Ior six years an official In the United
States customs service in Massachusetts, died Mon
day at Roxbury, aged 81.
j. N. ORR. prominent merchant of McKees-
port, died rather suddenly yesterday morning of
acute pneumonia. A singular coincidence is that
his sister, Mrs. Jane CawsOn. oil near Maysville,
Armstrong county, died Tuesday afternoon of the
same disease.
HON. AsAPH CHURCHILL, one of the classmates
of Wendell hilips In Harvard's class Of 81 died
Tuesday in Milton Mass. aged "a He-had served
as President of several banks and was President of
the old Dorchester and Milton Railroad. He was q
member of the state Senate In 1857
HENRY BAKE one of the smallest men in the
world, died Tuesday at his home near Saratoga.
He was 36 years old and well proportioned, but
was only 40 inches high. He was the son OF the
mapy offers to 20 on exhibition, but had refused
them all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
FAMILIAR DISCOVERIES.

A Congressional committee last week
resumed the sisyphean task of inyesti-
eating the anthracite coal combination.
The progress made in the extraction of
evidence concerning that great combina-
ton is worthy of note. By dint of two
or three examinations of such magnates
as Mr.. Mcleod and Mr. Holden, flanked
by their attorneys and reinforced by a
convenient shortness of memory concern
ing things that are better forgotten, the
committee have drawn out admissions
that the coal combination controls 113, 900
of the 130, 900 acres of coal territory; that
it is able thus to restrict production in
order to maintain prices; that the high and
nominal freight charges before the combi-
nation have been advanced since then;
and that monthly conferences fix the price
of coal for the Eastern cities. In short,
the progress of the committee shows that
it will go near to discover what everyone
already knows, and what the coal comoi-
nation takes no trouble to deny-except
when in the presence of the courts or of
Congressional Investigation.
If the investigating committees will add
W 6ucu uSCONollco buS 1dCb budG GIlSS3
things have been proved time and again
they may arrive at the conclusion that
what is needed IS not so much investiga-
tion as prosecution. The course of pro-
cedure in connection with the great mo-
nopolistic trusts has become so stereo-
typed as to be monotonous Congressional
or legislative committees are appointed to
investigate. They extract information
from unwilling or forgetful Trust mag
mates; they report that monopolistic
combination exists contrary to public pol
icy; and the matter stops there. This
operation has been repeated something
like half dozen times with the anthra-
cite coal combination. If the present
committee desires to vary the proceedings
it will have to take measures to make its
investigation bear more tangible fruit.
When committees realize the situation
sufficiently to report that there is law
enough'to suppress such illegal combina-
tions, but that the machinery of the law
stands benumbed and inert in the pres
ence of aggregated wealth, it may 90 far
toward indicating what has to be done to
remedy matters
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
FOLK TALKED ABOUT.

The President yesterday appointed John
P. Erich, of Ohio, to be United States Con-
sui at Antigua. West Indies.
Mrs. LEASE is 40, strong-minded, full of
fight, and born agitator, and while once
an almost fanatical Roman Catholic, is now
an Agnostic.
THE Salvation Army is about to make
fresh campaign in France, apparently.
At any rate, General Booth is being extern
sively advertised in the Paris newspapers.
THE Boston Boat and Shore Club (not
Boot and Shoe Club, Mr.. Proofreader) has
engaged only women as after-dinner speak
ers for its forthcoming annual celebration.
VICE PREsIDENT-ELECT STEVENSON
will stay in Washington during sessions of
Congress, but he ana his family will occupy
their old home at Bloomington, Ill, the rest
of the time.
W. r. HEARST is said to be selling off
his San Francisco property, intending to
| make his future residence in Europe. 1t is
even said he intends to dispose of his inter-
est in the Examiner.
Now that cool weather has come Presi-
dent Harrison has taken to pedestrian
pleasures once more, and there is scarcely a
fine afternoon now when he does not go out
Tor a tramp OF several miles. He did SO on
Thanksgiving Day, after attending service.
PATRICK EGAN, United States Minister
to Chile, was at the Gilsey House, New
York, yesterday, preparing for his departure
for Valparaiso. The Pacific Mail steamer
City OF Para, which is to leave for Colon at
noon to-day, will take Minister Egan back
to his post
NATHANIEL S. BARRY, of Bristol, n.
H, is said to be the Oldest living ex-Gov-
ernor ofa State in the United States. If he
survives until September ], 1896. he will be
centenarian. BE was boy OF very humble
parentage. became a tanner, as General
Grant did, and in 1861 was elected Governor
of New Hampshire.
THE Holy See has declined to sanction
the marriage OF Prince Ferdinand, of Bull
garia, to the daughter of the e1-Duke of
Parma, because in asking the Papal con-
sent, Prince Ferdinand stipulated that the
issue of the marriage should be trained as
members of the Greek Orthodox Church.
The ex-Duke has, therefore, refused to as
sent to his daughters marriage to Prince
Ferdinand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.

The order of the Mayor for the suppress
son of disorderly houses in the city re-
moves what has been topic of abstract
discussion to the realm of actual expert
ment What will be the effect of the order;
whether the police will be able to suppress
all such establishments everywhere; or
whether if they are suppressed there will
be diminutiOn of wee, are questions that
may be best answered after year OF two
of the vigorous enforcement of this policy.
But one point, generally overlooked,
rendered this order the only one which is
possible. The law directs that such places
shall be suppressed. Whether the law
affords solution of the problem is very
doubtful question; but that the police
power includes nullifying privilege over
criminal legislation is a most indefensible
proposition. Yet it requires an assertion
of such an authority of nullifca-
tion to abstain from the enforcement of
the law, because it is thought that the re-
suits will not be what the law intends.
1t will certainly be wise to try the ex-
pertinent of vigorous enforcement of the
law. But it does not require any gift of
prophecy to foretell that no measures will
be eficacious until both the law and
society inflict the same penalties on male
offenders against chastity as on female
offenders
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
THE CoNsr1rUr1ofy AND THE BALLOT

A recent expression from Hon. G. f.
Black with regard to the purity of the new
ballot law in preserving the secrecy of
suffrage, under the present Constitu-
ton, brings up the discussion of an old
subject The Philadelphia Press rather
sarcastically refers to the crushing defeat
of the old proposition for a constitutional
convention, and correctly says that the
proper way of disposing of the matter is
by an amendment to the Constitution.
With regard to the ballot numbering clause
it says:
There are certainly very different opinions
in the public mind regarding the numbered
ballot. 1t was provided for when the pres
ent Constitution was formulated as means
of detecting and exposing fraud. 1t was not
designed, and cannot be used without vio-
lation of law, to destroy the secrecy of the
ballot. Under the circumstances it is very
doubtful what the Judgment of the people
would be in the matter Of changing it.
1t is one of tine peculiar features of the
debate on this topic that it nearly always
takes into consideration the phrase that
does not necessarily destroy the secrecy
of the ballot and ignores that which does.
The requirement for ballot numbering is a
wise precaution against frauds in counting,
and with the provisions of the ballot law
is not at all destructive of its secrecy. But
the succeeding sentence that "any elector
may write his name on his ticket OF cause
the same to be written thereon and at
tested by citizen of the district" estab-
fishes personal right which if claimed is
wholly destructive of the secrecy. As long
as the clause stands that purpose of the
law can be nullified at any election.
The Constitutional Convention propo-
sition was deservedly defeated, because it
would open the door to wholesale tinker
ing with the Constitution in which special
interests might get larger share than the
public welfare. The proper way to make
any changes necessary to complete ballot
reform is by special amendment If the
purpose of secrecy is to be attained the
provision quoted above should be amended.
A wise amendment would be to restrain
the numbering of ballots and to abolish
the right to have votes attested. Such
change would maintain the precaution
against fraud and at the same time defend
the secrecy of the ba lot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
LOST OPPORTUNITY.

Pennsylvania is to be well represented
at the Worlds Columbian Exposition
But Pittsburg's industries will be demon
strated on scale altogether unworthy uf
their Importance. There is still room for
sudden squirt, as all the space has not
yet been allotted. But even that would
not be sufficient to recover the opportun-
tiles already lost by apathetic neglect.
When it is known-as an example of the
superior enterprise of other places-that
more applications for space have been re-
ceived from Erie than from Pittsburg,
business men of this city ought to be a
good deal ashamed at their failure to
recognize good thing when they see it.
1t is about time that Pittsburgers should
see the necessity for progressiveness, and
set about far-sighted advertisement Of
their city's claims to national and inter.
national recognition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
AN EXAMPLE FOR Us.

An example of the difference between
the appreciation of internal water ways
in Europe and in this country is afforded
by the dispute now going on over the con-
struction of ship canal to connect the
Danube with the Oder and the Moldau
with the Elbe. The canal is intended to
open up water transportation from the
coal DISTRICTS of Bohemia, Moravia and
Silesia to the Danube.
The contrast between the European and
American attitude on ship canals is shown
by the fact that, while it is difficult in this
country to arouse public attention to the
importance of such work, the dispute in
this case is not whether the canal shall be
built but as to who shall build it. Inter-
national jealousy has been aroused by the
employment of French engineers in the
survey, and the German susceptibilities
are protesting against having a French
syndicate do the work. The usual rail-
way enmity to such enterprises is also in
timated by the declaration of directors of
the Austrian railways that the estimate
of 26 600, 900 fiorins for the cost of the
canals is insufficient, and that its total
cost will be 10000 600 forms. But as Bo-
hemia, Moravla and Lower Austria have
pledged 12 900, 900 forms to the enterprise
it is considered certain that the work will
be done under one management or an
other.
Tie estimates of the cost of the canal
indicate that it is work of somewhat the
same cost as the Ohio river and Lake Erie
project But it cannot contain anything
like the magnificent possibilities that fol-
low the bringing of water transportation
to this great mining and manufacturing
section. Yet while Western Peunsylva-
MIA has not yet arrived at the point of
pledging the first ten thousand dollars to
her project, the Austrian and German
people have pledged millions and are dis
putting over the contract In such things
the Europeans are more far-sighted than
our people. If we are to keep up our rep
utation for enterprise and progress we
should take hold of the subject of inter-
nal water Wavs with a new yigor
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
THE sPR1TE OF B1TUMEN.

What nils the air at break of day,
Enshrouds us with cloud of gray,
Bedaubs our clothes, destroys our light
Transforms twilight into night?
The smoke.
What blots the landscape with cloud,
And causes swear words big and loud,
Writhes and wriggles in every crack,
And leaves behind a trail of black?
The smoke.
What marks our walls with streaks of crime,
Ages our buildings before their time,
Turns turret and tower an ugly hue,
And makes us all most deuced blue2
The smoke.
What soils our linen, discolors our laces,
Destroys our beauty by daubing our faces.
Brings to our streets dirty slime
And makes US sigh for another elmer
The smoke.
When to party maiden goes,
With a large black streak athwart her nose.
Who laughs to himself with malicious glee.
Who chuckles and grins. this sight 10 see2
The smoke.
What specks the collar Of the dainty dude
And makes him say. "It's just too rudeYp
What soils his glossy, well-starched shirt
With something worse than plebeian dirtp
The smoke,
Where is the law by which to stop
This malicious sprite of mill and shop.
DO the city dads think 1t all Joke?
Has the ordinance. too. gone up in smoke,
Same smoker
-Cieueldnd Leader,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
BISMARCK IN HOT WATER.

SOME one should be placed in charge of the
ex-Chance!lor. His tongue will get him in
Philadelphia Call
BISMARCK is undoubtedly growing feeble,
but he is still able to heave brick every
time Caprivi leaves an opening Washington
Post
CAPRIvI has called Bismarck liar. And
yet for many years one of Bismarck s
frowns was enough to set all Europe to
trembling.-Nashuille american.
READERS of future lives of the ex-Chancel-
lor will have to stand good way off in order
to see his past glory over the top of his pres
ent grumpiness.-Bu6dIo Express.
THINGS are ra pidly taking such shape that
no interview with Bismarck will be consid-
cred complete unless followed promptly by
the Chancellor's repudiation.-W Washington
Star.
HIS confession of the crooked part that he
played in a momentous contingency will be
apt to provoke a good deal of un pleasant
feeling toward him, Notwithstanding the
great things that he has accomplished for
the country.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
THERE is now a Iumor that Bismarck is
coming to our Worlds Fair. We are de-
sirous that this event should be an entirely
peaceful one; and il he and Kaiser William
are here at the same time we hope that their
respective friends Will keep them apart
Boston Globe
WHAT a weight of responsibility for human
anguish, broken hearts and butchered thou
sands Bismarck is willing to assume in the
eyes of God and man when he coolly an
nounces that he forged the dispatch which
precipitated the Franco Prussian war-iS
Paul Piopeer- Press.
AGAIN Bismarck has caused great indigna-
tion. He goes on telling the things he did in
the management of the old King William.
He had to coax and worry and bully William
a great deal to get him to be great and IA
nous man. Young William does not like it.
All there is of it is, it is the OLD case of man.
hood against the royalties.-Brookty7l STAN
dQrd- Union
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
Social Chatter.

THIS is the date set for the wedding of
Miss Harriet Patterson, daughter OF Mrs.
Jane +. Patterson. OF Western avenue, Allie
gheny, and MIR. Henry Frank Blackstone.
The ceremony is to take place in the North
Presbyterian Church, Rev. DIR. Fox Off
ciat1ng.
BAZAAR is to be held tomorrow evening
under the auspices of the Kings Daughters
of the Christ NJ. Z. Church, in the chapel of
the church, for the benefit of a Singapore
maiden. The entertainment is expected to
be pretty as well as a novel one.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Flo Win
nett, of Rochester, Pa, to Mr.. Samuel P.
Ewart OF Heron avenue, Pittsburg, was to
take place in Rochester last evening. A
large number of Pittsburgers went to
Rochester to attend the wedding.
THIS evening q bazaar and supper for
the benefit of the Edgewood Presbyterian
Church will be held at the residance OF Mrs.
James H. Orr, OF Edgewood. The entertain
ment will last over Friday.
THIS evening Rev. George Vending is to
lecture in the Methodist Church of Sewfck-
ley. 1t will be the first of the Sewickley
Valley lecture course.
THE Christian Endeavor Society of the
Central Churcn, Alleg gheny, will give "Mrs.
Jarley's Waxworks" entertainment TO-
morrow evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01

at the beginning of the test Side by side
with that is the probability that the men,
bers of the trades union, while able to do
certain classes of work in the industry,
recognized their inability to undertake the
business direction. To acknowledge that
labor cannot universally furnish the
brains for business management is not a
confession that labor might not beneficial
ly to itself share in the ownership of the
concern.
If the proposition had been to open the
way for the workingmen to acquire shares
in the concern which was to employ them,
and thus to become capitalists on small
scale, it would undoubtedly have been for
the advantage of labor and of society.
But even then it is possible that the trades
unions might have declined SO beneficial a
proposition. 1t is one of the aggravations
of the present situation that it tends to
array the trades union spirit against more
liberal and permanent devices to solve the
problem by making workingmen their own
employers and sharers in the capital of the
enterprise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
FAR FROM CONCLUSIVE.

A case recently occurred in Bradford,
England, which is held to be demonstra-
ton of the futility of what is loosely
termed socialist efforts for the improve
ment of the condition of labor A Brad
ford manufacturer made a proposition,
based on statements by the labor leaders,
that if industry was operated under So
cialist principles it would be greatly to
the advantage of labor. He proposed to
furnish the trades unions one of his mills
thoroughly equipped, with working cap
ital sufficient for years operation. If at
the end of the year 1t was found that the
operation of the mill by the workmen
yielded better returns than the wage sys-
TEN he would let them have the mill at a
reasonable valuation on easy terms for
permanent use. The trades union after
careful consideration concluded that it
was ''expedient to decline the PROPOSE
ton, and the conservative element refer
to it as confession of impracticabiIity on
the part of professed reformers.
Before accepting that conclusion it
would be necessary to know more of the
details of the matter in nearly every as
PSSs III WIZ uAop paw IL
whose advocacy is reported to have evoked
the offer was the true State socialism, the
labor unions were justified in declining
the proposition. However impractieable
may be the idea of the industry whose
ultimate control is that of the State or en-
tire community, the establishment
of single cooperative concern
would not be a test Of the system. On the
other hand, if the alleged socialism was
merely the advocacy of cooperation or
proit-sharing, a dozen details, either in
the condition of the mill, the state Of the
industry, or the equipment of the men to
whom the offer was made, might make it
necessary to decline such an offer.
Thus it is generally understood that
Bradford industries are at present de-
pressed. However firmly man may
believe in any method of conducting bust
ness, ordinary wisdom will prevent him
from making test of it in an industry
where everything is down to minimum
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
STATE TAX CASES DECIDED.
Some Big Corporations Come Out Second
Best, While Others Win.

Some Big Corporations Come Out Second
Best, While Others Win.
HARRISBURG, Nov. 3l.-The long list of
State tax cases was called this morning,
with Judges Simonton and Mcpherson on
the bench. Many cases were continued,
several of the more Important, on account
of the necessary absence of Attorney
General Hensel, by reason of the critical
illness of his father, at Quarryville. These
cases were marked settled: Cumberland
Nail and Iron Company, two cases, and the
Ridley Park Associa tion. Judgments were
entered for the Commonwealth in the follow
ing cases:
Pittsburg, Fit. wavne and Chicago Rail
way Company. $4l4 20 in one case and SIG IS
in another; Woodruff Sleeping and Parlor
Coach Company, $463; International Navi.a-
ton Company $l.626 81 in the first case.
8. Ss5 81 in the second and 1857 81 in the
third.
Verdicts for the defendants and against
the State were given in these cases:
Crane Iron Company, Lincoln Market
Company, New York Mutual Telegraph
Company (six cases), Erie and Wyoming
Valley Railroad Company 1.-TWO cases). Pro-
ducers' Consolidated Land and Petroleum
Company, Woodruff Sleeping and Parlor
Car Company, Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley
and Pittsburg Railroad Company.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01

A CAREFUL study of the criminal and
pauper statistics of this county and country
provides more than enough arguments for
the necessity of imposing discriminatory
restrictions upon immigration. There is
still room for some of Europe's honest, in
dustrious, healthy and intelligent surplus
population. But once for all the gates of
America should be strongly barred. and
kept shut, against the criminal, the idle, the
diseased, the cripple, the unclean, the de-
PRAYED, the ignorant or the brainless OF.
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SENATOR GIBSON MAY DIE.

His Physicians Are Now Looking for the
End at Any Moment.
Hot SPRINGS. ARK, Nov. Ex-senator r. L.
Gibson, of New Orleans. who has been lying
at the point OF death at the Park Hotel for
several days past, is reported worse.
He has grown weaker since last
night, winch, owing to the
nature of his ailment, is regarded
as very unfavorable by the attending physi-
cans.
The attending physicians tonight admit
that Senator Gibson may die atany moment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
Heroic but HurtfuI.

bunaIO fApItsb.I .
Lawrenceviile steel-workers struck out of
sympathy for the Homestead men. The
Homestead strike is over. The Lawrence
vile men nave voted to continue their
strike because they could not get their
places back and there was nothing to be
gained by surrendering. Winter Is ap-
preaching and want is staring the poor fell
lows in the face. In one sense their action
has Deen heroic, but it has been inspired by
a wrong principle. By this time the work
mon should have concluded that strike Is
settle q dispute. I