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THE. 'PJTTSBUKG DISPATC 'i' rf Wms8TpmuS5ss8rsS MS HlkCKEI, fliiie Men Swear That They Cast Ballots for Him. ARRESTS WILL BE MADE. Republican Politicians Eeady for the Primaries. SOHEOFTHEMAKY WARD (MTESTS An important meeting of those interested in the Eighteenth ward Democratic primary fight was held at Alderman Mc-JJeirny's office last night.

Messrs. Dwyer, Bracken and Iiydon, the three candidates, snrronnded hy about a dozen voters, were comfortably ensconced around the big stove enjoving the hospitality of the 'sqnire, though that dignitary was not present in person. An adjoining back room, connected by a door, seemed to be a sort of sanctum sanctorum, and occasionally a little group would adjourn and discuss matters of a private character. Messrs. Bracken and Iiydon seem very much wrought up over the result of the election as announced, and charge the most flagrant violation of the law on the part of Mr.

Dwver and his adherents. In replying to the question what steps he had taken or proposed to take in the matter, Mr. Bracken said with an emphasis that left no doubt as to his earnestness: "I have been around among the voters with a view of tracing np this fraud, and I have succeeded in doing so. I took nine men to-day before P. M.

Cnshing, Notary Public of Lawrenceville, all of whom swore that they voted for me. and I have 28 more men willing to swear the same whenever called upon. HE CHAEGES FKAUD. "The whole thing was deliberate fraud, and an outrage which will not be tolerated. One man has carried out his system of bulldozing for years, and it is time to call a halt Some of these men will have to go to the penitentiary, and that will teach a few of the others that their game cannot be worked any longer with impunity." When asked if he had heard a rumor of two offenders harinjr been arrested, Mr.

Bracken said: "No, I have not, but you will hear of some arrests to-morrow. "Why, thev absolutely brought people over here in skiffs from Sharpsburg and voted them, and among others they voted a man who lives on Twenty-eighth street, and drives a wagon for a grocer. His name I do not know, nor do I beliere many others do in this ward, as lie is not a resident" Mr. Lvdon. when interviewed, exnressed himselt with eqnal positiveness of the course ne nan pursued ana intended following in the matter.

He said: "Twenty-three men, all voters in the Second precinct, voluntarily came to me to-day and expressed their willingness to swear they had voted for me. In this precinct I was, by the 'official creaked with only 11 votes. My opponent would take the tickets from voters. if the same did not suit him, and furnish them with others more in accordance with his views. The fact is that the returns were most unquestionably doctored, and that they received heroic treatment is evidenced by the result which was cooked and served up to the public We mean business, and this matter will be thoroughly shown np.

I feel a good deal of sympathy for Neal Crane, one of the clerks of the election board, because I believe he was innocent of any intention to do wrong. This belief is strengthened bv Crane's personal assurance that he voted for me. He has a widowed mother and sisters, and I am sorry for him because ot them. I believe that Michael Mulvaney was judge rVL and inspector, too. AEEESTS TO BE HADE.

Everything was run just to suit themselves, and every one connected with the fraud will be arrested. So strong is the feeling in the matter, and so general the indignation, that tbere is strong talk is raising a fund to prosecute the persons who had a hand in it" It is rumored that the ballot box was burned or otherwise made way with, and this statement is currently reported and generally believed. In a general talk with Alderman Leslie on the subject the conversation turned to the system in rogue prior to the adoption of the law governing primaries in '81. "In those days," said Mr. Leslie, "there was little in.

terest taken in primary elections because the vote was always pre-arranged and fixed as the party in power decidedito have it At that time those ot the voters who were interested enough to attend, would assemble in some convenient hall, suggest the names of the candidates and mark their votes down with a lead pencil opposite the name of the candidate chosen. Some of them, it was claimed, used snlit pencils, thus making two marks. Then tbere was an attendance which rarely reached 300 in number in this ward; now from 600 to 600 are always on hand at a primary election. People" take more interest now, ana there is less dissatisfaction both with the voters and the candidates, the former being assured as a rule that it is a fair vote and the latter havine the satisfaction, if elected, of knowing that they are the people's choice, and on the other hand, if defeated, the equal certainty that they were not" LOCAL POLITICS BOOMING. The Mayoralty contest having been settled down to the original proposition of Henry I.

Gourley against Judge Bailey, and this evenine the indorsements which Mr. Gourley will receive will most emphatically put an end to the talk which has been currentofa rival candidate for nomination. The tickets on both sides are all distributed, and as but one issue can come from the primaries to-night, the three candidates, Gourley, Morrow and Denniston, for the three leading positions in the city government, are assured of nomination or renomination, as the case may be. But there are contests in the wards for councilxnanic and aldermanic places, which make things interesting for not alone the candidates, but also the public, not to speak of the workers and ward politicians of all classes. The First ward councilmanic difficulty has been withdrawn to a great extent by the withdrawal of Georce Fleming, leaving virtually a walkover for Thomas De-laney on the Republican ticket for Common Council.

In the Fourth ward George H. Treusch has a fight on hand for nomination, bnt his friends say that there will be no difficulty about his success as he has already overcome opposition more decided and stronger. The Eighth ward shows up with "Cramper" McKee as against Mr. Angloch for Common Council with the odds apparently in favor ot the latter. The aldermanic fight in the Ninth ward between Messrs.

O'Bonnell and Donovan is likely to create some excitement ou the day of election, although, the primaries will not 1 show up much excitement. If luck consists in having odd numbers, the Eleventh ward takes the cake. Tbere are 11 candidates for Common Council, 11 candidates for Alderman, and the colored population will play policy and lose in that Vicinity for some time. A SCHOOL DIBECTOB TIGHT. In the Twelfth ward the only fight is on the school directorship, and the triends of John J.

Davis, Assistant City Controller, say he is yet a candidate although he personally disclaims the honor. Still the people who have nominated him keep the name of John J. Davis still to the front as one of the school directors of the ward. In the councilmanic fight in the Twelfth ward there will probably be a surprise in store for the regular nominees of both parties, as when the regular candidates. Messrs.

Hage-neyer and Johnson on the Republican ticket are nominated, as it is expected they will be to-night, a citizens ticket will be sprung upon them next week, and two new candidates, it is said, will rise like Banquo's ghost, with a loDg following. In the NineCeenth ward the old reliable nominations will show to the -front, S. D. Warmcastle and Bobert B. team, which although not a pair of grays, is prettv evenlv matched, and will be in at the finish, the one in Select and the other in Common Council.

The Twentieth ward shows np J. G. Stewart, yardmaster at Twenty-eighth street of the Pennsylvania Bailroad, a resident of Everson street He has been for 25 years a resident of the ward, and has never yet been an office holder of any kind, not even having been a delegate. A spirited contest will be held In the Twenty-first ward for Select Council between Bobert Ward, the baker, and James Fitz-simmons. It is thought that this will be a close fight for the nomination.

For Common Council the candidates are R. J. Mc-Gunnegle and Joseph L. Writrht, without opposition. There is no opposition in the Twenty-second, and loos.

A. Gillespie and N. P. Beed will be the candidates for Select and Common Councils. In the Twenty-third ward Dr.

C. Evans is the candidate for Select Council, and John E. Williams for Common Council. The latter was a well-known groceryman of the Sonthside, formerly a member of Councils, from which he resigned to attend to his private duties. OK THE SOTJTHSIDE.

In the Twenty-fourth ward, on the South-side, there is no opposition to E. H. Matthews for Select Council, but for Common Council the candidates for nomination are about as numerous as the voters. Mark Donley is an applicant for the suffrages of the people to replace him in Common Council, where his constituents have held him for these many years, while his antagonists for the nomination are, so far as known, with a citizens' ticket to hear from, W. D.

Vest, grocer, "William Thomas, attorney, and Richard Johnson, engineer in the American Iron Works. The division of opinion, making a great division of votes, makes it donbtfnl whether the old-time majority will be increased for Mark Donley or not Doctor Barchfeld is now in the hottest fight of his life for nomination in the Twenty-sixth ward, and his opponents, whose names have already been published in The Dispatch, are also hustlers, so that a lively fight is looked for to-night in the region formerly known as East Birming ham. Thomas Mullin, the present Councilman for the Thirtieth ward, will find on election day a ioeman worthy of his steel in Martin G. Frank, late building inspector, who js the Republican nominee for that ward in Common Council. There will be no contest for nomination in this case, but a very hard one for election.

In the Twenty-ninth ward the contest is upon the Aldermanic election, and J. Martin Schaeffer will have to keep his eye peeled upon F. Beinhauer, who is prepared to attend to the obsequies of his opponent The primaries for this nomination will be held on February 8. In the Thirty-fifth ward there is no contest, and there will be no objections, as both members are property owners in the ward, and are well known by the citizens to have the interests ot the ward at heart The Thirty-second ward is not quite so confident, but there will be no contests. In the Thirty-first there will be but few objections, except on the score of the miserable water supply, and this is echoed by the residents ot all the Sonthside wards.

ALLEGHENY DEMOCEATS. An enthusiastic meeting of Democrats was held last evening at their headquarters. No. 173 Federal street, Allegheny, last evenine. The Democratic candidate, Mr.

Stayton, was present, and addressed the meeting. The headquarters of the Allegheny Democracy will be at 173 Federal street until alter the election. Mr. Stayton, when asked what he thought of Mayor Pearson's position on the election business, said: "I never thought that Dick would hold over, and I believe now that he will gracefully surrender his seat to the gentleman who secures the most votes at the coming election, and, of course, I believe that will 'be the lucky man. It is more honor than anything else which is connected with the office, and I cannot see whv any man should insist on holding on to such a position." At a late hour last night it was announced that "Cramper" McKee had withdrawn in favor of John Knowlnnd for Alderman, in the Eighth ward.

This is authoritative, as the intormation is derived from one of the principals to the contest TALES TRUE IN THE MAIN, Bnt Llbby Prisoner Points Out an Impossibility lo a Wnr Story. Colonel William Bobinson has a diary of every day he spent in the military service of the United States during the Rebellion. It is fully written out from notes made each evening. Colonel Robinson calls attention to some vivid imaginative splicing on the part of some people who are writing histories of the war at present For instance, one writer in the Century tells of the guards at Libby prison firing on prisoners who put their heads out of the windows and sat on the sills, whereas Colonel Robinson states that neither could a man sit on the window sill nor put his head out, for the bars that obstructed. He says, however, that the guards did fire at prisoners who manifested much anxiety to look out WELSH AND HIS STILETTO.

A Man From the Owl Gang District Charged Wllb Assailing a Woman. Mrs. Annie Henderson, who lives at No. 22 Tunnel street, made an information before Alderman Richards yesterday, charging Michael Welsh with assault and battery and surety of the peace. It is alleged by Mrs.

Henderson that Welsh struck her in the face with his fist, knocked her down and threatened to cut her heart out with a stiletto. He was arrested by Constable Bovle and committed to jail in default of $1,000 bail for a hearing Monday. When on his way to jail he tried to throw away the stiletto, but the constable took it from him. WHAT PEOPLE AKE DOING. Some Who TraTel, Some Who Do Not, and Others Who Talk.

James G. Wyman, candidate for the nomination on the Republican ticket for Mayor of Allegheny, Is lying seriously 111 at his residence from an attack of la irrippe. Be expects to be able to circulate among nls constituents withinthe next six days. Thomas Brown, of Allegheny, Chairman of the Water Committee, who has been In California for some time, is in New York, where he arrived yesterday on his way home. He made the trip by water, and is much improved in health.

George F. Neil and John I. Rankin, of St Louis, glass manufacturers of that city, are stopping at tbe Hotel Duquesne. They spent last evening at the residence of James A. Chambers, on Ridge avenue, Allegheny.

Superintendent George Miller, of the Bureau of Water Assessments, was at his desk yesterday, after a two weeks' siege of pneumonia. Chill W. Hazzard and wife, of the Mo-nonganela Republican, in the city last night to attend the Burns banquet. Manager Wilt, of the Grand Opera House, will go to New York to-day on a business trip of about a week. Silas J.

Williams, Vice President of the Solid Steel Company, of Alliance, is at the Hotel Anderson. Clerk Edward DeLassus, of the Bureau 1 of Fire, returned from a week's visit to Massil-lon, yesterday. E. A. Humphries and daughter, of Scottdale, were at the Seventh Avenue yesterday.

E. T. Hutchinson, a well-known citizen of Canonsburg, is at the Seventh Avenue. Mr. Will M.

Cribbs, of Turtle Creek, is at the Hotel Anderson. TtJMELUG A SEWER. How Conduits Can be Constructed Without Tearing Up Streets. ETAN JONES' BIG UNDERTAKING. Boring like the Hole Under Houses, Railroads and Streams.

i MR. BIGELOTC'S UNDERGROUND PLANS "Within a year every wire in the city will be underground," said Chief Bigelow yesterday, to a reporter for Thb Dispatch. "Then you think that a big conduit, running beneath our principal thoroughfares, is practicable?" asked the reporter. "Practicable? Certainly it is practicable. The tunneling of such a condnit would not be an extraordinary matter.

Have you seen the big sewer that Contractor Evan Jones is making out in Lawrenceville? Mr. Jones is boring under hills and digging through water-courses. His sewer is an immense one; the first of its kind in Pittsburg. Now, if a huge drain like that can be run under houses and roadways and creeks aye, and under railways, too, for at one point the contractor has succeeded in boring beneath the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks it all this can be accomplished without the slightest obstruction to, traffic overhead, where would be the obstacle to performing a similar feat in the heart of tie city? "There is no idea, however," went on Mr. Bigelow, "of putting the conduit under principal streets like Smithfield street or Fifth avenue.

We have fixed a route for the two mains. One will run below Exchange alley all the way from the point to Lawrenceville. The other will pass underneath Cherry alley to the Monongahela river. The only delay in going to work on the conduits is caused by the conduct of the people who should put up the needful. They hesitate to do what is required of them, altogether neglecting to perceive how much their own interest is at stake." THE TOTDEEGBOUlrD SEWER.

A reporter visited the great underground sewer which Mr. Jones is constructing in Lawrenceville. It begins at Thirty-third street, the other end of the line being in the East End. Mr. Jones was fonnd overseeing the work at Sknnk Hollow.

Mr. Jones proceeded to explain the line ana general plan ol his big undertaking. The great sewer begins at the junction of Thirty-third street and Penn avenue, under the railroad bridge. At first the pipe is 8 feet in diameter, and those dimensions continue for the space of 6,220 feet Then the 7-foot sewer begins and stretches for 2,084 feet, followed by the 6-foot sewer for 2,909 feet, the 5-foot sewer for 472 feet, the 4-foot sewer for 393 feet and the 3-foot sewer for 1,960 feet The sewer is lined with brick and cement. The flooring is paved with ordinary paving blocks, and the whole construction is durable enough to last for ages.

There are manholes at regular intervals of about 500 feet, and at the changes in the various diameters there are also manholes. Thus thorough ventilation is secured, as well as easy access to the sewer at all points. Mr. Jones walked over the track of the sewer and explained some of the many difficult; places which have been tunneled. Thehill near the east end was bored under.

A sinuous water course winds like a snake right over the place where the sewer runs. This will, in time, be turned into the sewer, but just now it is a fierce enemy to progress in the work. Dming the rains, when it became swollen, it was almost unmanageable. Mr. Jones and his men found a means to bridle its impetuosity, and the work went steadily oh.

The old sewer crosses the big main, and although there is a very small space between the two, no damage was done in the boring. The sewer has been bored right under the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, as Mr. Bigelow stated, without the stoppage of traffio for the space of even one second. The laborers scarcely heard the trains rattling overhead, and the train passengers never imagined that a tunnel was being bored but a few feet below them. Now, some explosives are used in the tunneling, principally dynamite, and the great delicacy required "in the work becomes apparent when it is shown that the blasting has gone on under dwelling houses without the inhabitants discovering the fact.

Mr. Jones' men are one and all experts. In the contractor's own phrase, "Some of them can almost sit on a charge of powder and stand the blastl'' A little steam drilling has to be used, more especially in the narrow portions of the sewer, but the greater part of the work is done by picking, shoveling and carting. THE MEESEY TU2TKEL. Mr.

Edwards, foreman of the work, is eminently suited for his position, having held tbe post of Government inspector in the famons Mersey tunnel, which passes under the river from Liverpool to Birkenhead. "In the Mersey tunnel," he said, "are placed the electric wires, a double track railway and a big sewer. It is thus made to answer a triple purpose. It runs under the Mersey for the distance of over a mile be sides. Its height from the level of the tracks is 19 feet Below the tracks is a layer ot loose gravel and broken stones, followed by a ballast of broken stones surrounding the sewer.

"For a conduit in this city you wonld not require nearly so big a tunnel, as you do not want to run a railway through it Otherwise the plans might' coincide. I have brought with me tbe official plans of the Mersey tnnnel. They are at present in Mr. Jones' office, and are at the service of Mr. Bigelow or any other official.

It wonld not be necessary to have the Pittsburg conduits circular, as is the Mersey tunnel. A square, oval, quadrilateral, or octagonal conduit would answer equally well." In a further talk Mr. Jones said: "I really cannot understand why people hesitate about giving Bigelow every" assistance in his city conduit plan. Look at the many good things which would accrue from such a te-formation. Imagine the streets, with all tbe poles and wires removed! Strangers could then see the true width of our streeets and admire tbe beauty of our public buildings without the unsightly obstruction of the hideous black poles and the overhanging net work of wires.

Besides, the countless dangers of the electric wires would be removed. Nobody knows now at what moment he may prove a victim. One cannot lean against "the poles with ribk. Then look at the fact the boring of conduits can be effected without any street stoppage or other obstruction whatever. You have seen what we can do out here.

It would not be a more difficult for laborers of equal experience to do likewise in the center of the city." Several fire engine houses through the city were visited, with regard to the conduit idea and the removal of the wires. The men were all very enthusiastic about the matter. The wires are a horrible obstruction to the firemen, preventing the proper use of ladders, and grappling hooks, and stopping work in many ways. At several of the principal business houses oo Smithfield street and Fifth avenue, Chief Bigelow's project was very well received, and it was everywhere admitted that the removal of poles and wires would enhance the value of house property to a very great extent. Db.

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Cold Spell Good tor Biz Weeks. Anderson gas-saving burner; cheapest and best 82 Fourth avenue. upo PARTINGTON and Ike arrive safely iUllOs iu the sucar country, bnt are not pleased with the tropical diet To-moebow's Mammoth Dispatch will contain the funny narrative. THE GAS IGNITED. Four Drillers Badly Bnrn'd nt Haven While PlnffElns; a Gas Well The Terrible Fire Is Still Burning How It Canght Is Wrapped In Mystery.

Passengers over thePittsburg and Western Railroad have noticed near De Haven station for two nights past, a huge shaft of fire standing up against the sky and illuminating many square miles of territory with its lurid glow. Wonder as to what caused this remarkable flame phenomenon has been liberally expressed. It is the Spang, Chalfant well No. 2, which is on fire, and which has bnrned furiously since last Thursday morning, resisting all efforts to check it A probable fatality is an unpleasant feature of the burning well. The well came in last Wednesday with a rush.

It showed a pressure of about 500 pounds, being equal in value to the No. 1, which came in several weeks since. Both wells are on the Steiner farm distant nearly two miles from De Haven station. The well was permitted to blow ofi" all Wednesday night and Thursday four drillers set to work to plug the well with the customary appliances. They were working right at the hole in the ground, with thegas rushing forth at high pressure when in some mysterious manner the well caught fire.

How; the men are utterly unable to say. The surging flames swept skyward with a furious roar, enveloping all four drillers in a mass of flame. Screaming with pain the men staggered out of the circle of fire with the exception of George More, who was so badly burnt that he fell prostrate near the mouth of the well with tongues of flame flying around his prostrate body. His companions although badly scorched rushed to his assistance and dragged him forth in an insensible condition. The three men were burnt all over their faces and hands, and all the hair on their faces was destroyed.

More was very badly injured. His head and the upper part of his body were terribly scorched, and his failure to recover consciousness alarmed his fellow-workmen. Some men who were at work at a well several hundred yards away ran to the spot, and carried More to the Steiner farmhouse, assisting the three other men, who were suffering great pain. Dr. Griffith, of De Haven station, was sent for in all haste, and homely remedies were meanwhile resorted to.

When the physiciau arrived he found that More, in addition to being very seriously burnt, had inhaled the flames. More became conacioua under treatment, but his condition was considered hopeless yesterday. The three other drillers will be out without doubt in a few. days. A force of men was at work yesterday trying to extinguish the burning well, bnt without success.

The column of flame is nearly 100 feet in height, and presents a grand spectacle, but the heat is so intense that the men found it impossible to get near enough to accomplish anything. It is believed that the famous process of "smoke-stacking," which was employed successfully at the great Murrysville gas well fire, will have to be made use ot before the well is put out A smokestack of sufficient size will probably be made to-day by Spang, Chalfant and taken to the place for use. A YANKEE IN LONDON. Dr. Woodbnrn Gives Synopsis of His Experiences In the Ensllsh metropolis.

The Rev. B. F. Woodbnrn, of 170 North avenue, at the Sandusky Street Baptist Church last evening before the Society of Christian Endeaver on "London." This is his second lecture since his return from abroad. The subject of his first lecture was entitled "From New York to London." Last evening he discussed London, its size, inhabitants, aristocrats, plebeians and a number of departments which are interesting to an American.

"London proper." said he, "over which the Lord Mayor rules, contains only 0,000 inhabitants, but London as it is generally understood has 5,000,000 of people within its borders and covers an area 50 times larger than Allegheny, or 690 sqnare miles. There are 250 children born every day in that city, and the majority of them first open their eyes in the poorer quarters of the city. There are 140,000 paupers in London. We often talk about the rapid growth of onr Eastern cities, but London, under Queen Victoria's reign, has increased 180 percent. It now has 6,600 miles of streets and roads.

The population in the fashionable quarter does not increase nearly so fast as in the poorer quarter, and in this lies London's peril. He says we often speak in this country of London weather being foggy and cloudy, but he Btated that he was in London three weeks and did not see a drop of rain. There are 14,000 police in the English metropolis, who are controlled by one chief, and ordinarilvthe police service is all that could be wished. His next lecture will be entitled "From London to Paris." THAT NEW INCLINED PLANE. It Will Probably be In Operation Within the Next Year.

The charter for the latest incline on tbe Sonthside, which is to run from the head of South Thirteenth street to Knoxville, will be applied for on Saturday, February 8. The corporation is to be called the Arlington Avenue Inclined Plane. In addition to the gentlemen mentioned previously in these colnmns, James A. Elphinstone and P. J.

Pierce are interested in the scheme. The plane will run from the head of South Thirteenth street to a point on Arlington avenue, at or near the Brownsville road. Just as soon as the charter is received the company will begin to formulate plans for the erection of the plane. No time has been fixed for the completion of it, bnt it is thought it can be put in operation within a year trom the time the charter is granted. In the matter of passengers, the new incline will affect the traffic of the Mt Oliver incline and the St Clair electric road.

In fact the apparent f.iilure of the electric road is largely responsible for the formation of the new company. The St. Clair road, however, has been running steadily for several dnys and those interested in the line hope to get it to work satisfactorily hereafter. A FIKEMAN INJURED. Tbe Sonthside Track Fames Over Man and Mashes Ills Leg.

Thomas Wier, employed on the truck at No. 12 engine house, met with an accident yesterday morning which might have proven fatal. The truck was out on its usual morning practice run. Wier was standing on the side platform, and as the truck turned the corner of South Twenty-third street, he was jolted off, and the rear wheels passed over his lelt thigh. He was carried to his home and Dr.

Mer-cur called. The leg terribly mangled and may have to be amputated. STILL FORMER FACTB. Ryan's Rlstorr Being; Revealed by Other Complnlnants. Thomas Ryan was taken to Greenshnrg yesterday by Agent Dean.

An information was made before Alderman Keenan, who committed Ryan for court without a hearing. Ryan has a bad record in Westmoreland county, so Agent Dean says. Hettie Marti is still at Central station, and will probably be removed to some institution to-day. LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED. Incidents of a Day In Two Cities Condensed for Itendy Reading.

The Board of Viewers yesterday held a final meeting on the grading of Park Way avenue from Penn avenue to tbe city line. Dr. B. H. Feabody was appointed a member of the Board during the meeting because Colonel Allen, ajmember of the regular Board, is a property holder on that street, and therefore an interested party.

Ax engine in the South Fortieth street yards of the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston, left the track last night and damaged several cars. Four cases of typhoid fever and one of diphtheria were reported at the office of the oi Jieaiin yesieroay. THE IRON IS NOW HOT Neville Islanders Hnstling to Make Way for an Electric Eoad. MEETING TO DISCUSS PROPOSALS. A Company Will Bar the Island or Make Another Arrangement.

BEGINS TO LOOK LIKE BEAL BUSINESS If Neville Islanders continue isolated from the world any longer, they will probably be left to work ont their own salvation hereafter. Mr. Ralph Bagaley some years ago stated that an expenditure of some $2,000,000 would have been made on the island beside the construction of a switch to connect with the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway if the islanders had had nerve enough to have raised some $35,000 so as to donate 20 acres of ground lying above high-water mark. But to tell of all the stillborn efforts that have been made to develop the place into something more than a truck-patch would fill a volume. Again, something tangible presents itself, and if the projectors can only secure a continuance of weather that will fill the river with ice while deliberations are in progress and get negotiations clinched before trans-navigation opens, one of the most important deals of late years may be consummated.

If, however, it is not completed before garden-making time it may fall, as did all previous attempts. A company, one of whom is Mr. Scully. of the First National Bank, wants to put an electric railway down the center of the island, with down-river terminus on Second avenne, Coraopolis, a bridge to connect the lower end of the island with the village, being a part of the project The piers for a bridge at the upper end have already been built by the county. The lower bridge would not cost more than $20,000, and possibly might be bnilt for $15,000, as the back channel of the river is quite narrow.

NEGOTIATIONS IS PEOGKESS. A meeting of the islanders was held night before last, and unwonted interest was manifested, those present having submitted for their digestion two propositions, either of which is considered by disinterested people, as highly advantageous. One is the purchase of the entire island by the company at $1,500 an acre, allowing each inhabitant to reserve his house and a small plot of ground, if he so elect This purchase would involve an ontlay of about $1,650,000, as the area is said to be 1,100 acres. Another proposition is that if the inhabitants will give the company right of way down the center of the island, the corporators will survey and plot the ground, and sell it for the owners at a cost of 10 per cent on the sales. On the first proposition, it is said some options have been purchased and money paid.

The advantages of such an enterprise can scarcely be estimated in dollars and cents. The north side of the river in 1879 was just 29 years ahead of the Southside, the railway on the Northside having given it an impetus from 1850 to that date that the building of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway has even yet tailed to check. The islanders neglected to get into the dam because it would have cost a lew thousand dollars, and now, when they see their error, it is cheaper to build an electric road than to have the dam removed a few hundred yards down. The south side of the river was fully as slow in catching on as were the islanders. During 100 years the people of Moon, Crescent, and part of Robinson and Stowe townships, climbed a 350-foot hill, and went three miles out of their way to come to the city, and some of them came three times a week, on an average, when they could have come on the level all the way and saved that three miles of dfttance just as well as not MILES LOST EACH TIME.

Taking the climbing of the hill into the the equivalent of at least ten miles on the round trip was lost each time. There were people, and manv of them, who made three trips a week for 60 years, and in making them each traveled unnecessarily, during (it is hard to call it a long and useful lite when so much time was wasted), 90,000 miles. Less expenditure of time and money would nowadays carry them 7 3-5 times around the globe. But each of these people lost nearly three years' time, and saw but little more of the world in traveling 90,000 miles for nothing than does the horse who travels his life away in a power wheel in a wood yard, or a dog on the wheel that lifts a churn dasher. An 'aged resident, who in 1849 cared to keep step with pro gress, was asked why they did so, and he replied that to have built a road along the river bank would have necessitated the bridging of Montour and Moon runs.

By and by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway Company secured the ground for its roadbed and for three miles along the route there isn't room between the hill and river for two roads, making direct connection with the city only feasible by the island route. Only one good has been subserved the primeval beauty of the locality near the mouth of Moon run has been in a great measure preserved from such vandals as those which left the northern slope of Mt. Washington scarred and blasted as though tbe wrath of Omnipotence had stricken it; all the disfigurement being caused that coal miners might have a supply of pit posts. Should some of the Neville Island people elect to continue gardening, freight trucks on the electric road would carry all their stuff to the Diamond Market between midnight and 4 o'clock A. when the kitchen bosses begin to hustle for fresh laid eggs and vegetables.

THE OWNERS FOUND. The Possessor of Superfluous Jewelry Cansht In Ills Own Trap. Detective Conlson yesterday succeeded in finding the owner of some of the jewelry found on Sam Hutchinson alias Brown, et al, whom he arrested on Thursday. A lady's gold watch, valued at $45, and a diamond bracelet, valued at $50, were identified by Seidle Son, No. 64 Fifth avenne, as having been stolen from their store a week ago.

They had not missed the articles until they were shown to them; then they not only recognized them as their property but tbey also recognized Hntchinson, and remembered the day, over a week ago, when he came into the store and asked to be shown some jewelry. The other jewelry has not been identified, but the authorities at Dallas, have been asked to communicate what they know about Hntchinson. Inspector McAleese entered an information against the prisoner yesterday peiore unpp, and he was committed to jail. HARD OF HEARING. A Cose of Larceny bv Bailee Which Is Deferred TJmll Monday.

James Clancy is charged by Constable O'Brien with larceny by bailee before Alderman Reilly. The allegations are that the Constable levied on a horse of Clancy's some time ago. Before the time for the sale arrived the animal had disappeared, and as Clancy could not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the disappearance act, an information was brought. Clancy gave bail for a hearing on Monday. Will Use Electricity.

A meeting of the Committee on Gas, of Allegheny, was to have been held last night, but not enongh members appeared to constitute a quorum. Those present, however, authorized the Superintendent of Gas to contract with the Allegheny Light Company to light the new Carnegie library building with electricity until such time as the Allegheny electric plant is completed. AL CARLISLE IN TOWN. The Democratic Leader Disposed to ba Rather Reticent Regarding Brier. Al Carlisle, the Democratic leader whom the Cleveland papers allude to as "the robust politician of New Lisbon," arrived in town last night from Columbus.

He said that the country was breathlessly awaiting the screed of Millionaire John H. Thomas, of Springfield, who was the principal, and defeated opponent of Senator-eleqt Calvin S. Brice, and that after Mr. Thomas fired his cannon a series oi sensational statements might be expected. Mr.

Carlisle declined, however, to make any statement as to the present situation in regard to the charges that Brice had boodled his way into the United States Senate. The jolly hustler stated, however, that the Democratic State Committee which met last night at Colnmbus wonld make every effort to carry the Brown-Clermont Senatorial District at the special election. Mr. Ashburn's death left the State Senate in a ticklish position, and it was conceded that the Republicans would make a frantic effort to overcome the Democratic majority of 1,300 given to Mr. Ashburn at the last election.

It was certain that it would prove to be the hottest fight for a State Senator ever instituted in Ohio. The State Committee was to 'have gone over the whole situation and possiby pitch upon the strongest candidate. About Allen O. Myers, Mr. Carlisle said that he heard that tbe great kicker was very ill and therefore unable to get before the public in any way.

THE! MEET IN ST. PAUL Pittsburg's Delegation Will Oppose the Elght-Honr Law. Twelve of Pittsburg's representative contractors and builders left on the Baltimore and Ohio at 7:30 last night to attend the National Association of Master Builders to be held at St Paul, on the 26th and 27th inst They will reach their destination at 1:30 f. M. on Sunday.

The following is a list of the delegates: T. J. Hamilton, Samuel Francis, S. A. Steel, W.

R. Stonghton, A. H. Iiuman, Alex. Hall, Reese Lindsay, R.

W. Allison, W. S. Sharon, Arthur H. Sholes.

ARaemer. A. J. Harnack. The coming session promises to be one of unusual interest to the builders and their auxiliaries, principally Irom the fact that the much talked-of eight-hour law will be fully discussed and finally decided upon.

While Pittsburg's delegates go nninstructed they are almost, if not quite unanimous, in their opposition to the proposed innovation and agree in the opinion that tbe eight-hour system would be harmful to the best interests in the building liner A GOOD THING FOE HARPER. Petrolenm Prospects Much More Profitable Thnn Potato Raising. All the prizes in the real estate lottery are not drawn in the city. Five years ago last August John Harper purchased 64 asres of ground about a mile from Clinton, and proposed by industry, frugality and temperance to extract from it a comfortable living for himself and family. He paid $2,950 for the farm.

Well, some weeks ago it was discovered that the oil sand ran in that direction, and a few days since an oil development company came alorg and paid Mr. Harper to tie him np for six months, with the further promise of one-eighth of all the oil that may be extracted. Thus Mr. Harper gets $50 more than his farm cost him, with a good prospect of much more, and in a few years will get his farm back improved by the addition of one or more good water wells, whether oil be found or not TO THE SUPREME COURT. Attorneys Depart In the Interest of Mnrderer fcrnllh nnd tbe Boodlers.

Attorneys Marshal and McElioy, ex-District Attorney Porter and Chief J. O. Brown departed last evening for the East Tbe lawyers go to Philadelphia, where the Supreme Court is now in session. Messrs. Marshal and McElroy will present a motion to tbe Court, in behalf of the condemned murderer, William Smith, to have the time for arguments on a writ of error continued until next October.

This motion will be op- Sosed by Mr. Porter. Messrs. Marshal and fcEIroy expect also to apply to some member of tbe Supreme Court for a special allocatur, or leave to file a petition for a new trial, in the cases of Alderman W. H.

Porter and Constable Elijah Carney, sentenced to the penitentiary for conspiracy. Chief Brown goes to Harrisburg on business. A Hearing: To-Day. Nathan Walters, who mysteriously shot Charles Scott at the corner of Wylie avenue and Arthur street on the night of January 16 last, will have a hearing before Magistrate Gripp this afternoon on a charge of felonious shooting. OVERCOATS AND PANTS.

Those Are the Garments We Offer for Onr Usual Saturday Special Sale. We have on hand a great many overcoats which must be sold now while the cold weather lasts. The price is no object to us. Our aim is to sell them off, and we have arranged an overcoat sale for to-day which will really be wonderful. Four hundred overcoats will sell to-day for $5 each, worth $10 to $12, and about 300 very fine kersey and chinchilla overcoats at $8, regular price $18.

Also eight styles of men's fine ulsters at Don't forget the big pants counter; special value to-day at $3. Men's fine corkscrew pants' worth $7 and $8, price today $3. P. C. C.

Cor. Grant and Diamond opp. the new Court House. Bnrsnlns In Buttons. (Center of stores to-day.) A big lot of odds and ends in buttons, in all quantities from a dozen up: Pearl, cut steel, metal, colored and black crochet At 25c a dozen reduced from 50c, 75c, $1, $1 25, $1 50 and $2.

JOS. HOKNE Penn Avenue Stores. At $1 a French silk warp Henriettas, all the desirable colorings and best value ever shown. Htjgtjs Hacks. tissu Ladies' Finest French AII-S1IU Fancy Colored Stockings In harlequin and boot patterns, a small lot, regular price $5 and $6, to go to-day at $2 50 a pair.

A great bargain to early comers. JOS. HOENE Penn Avenue Stores. There is greater demand every year for the unexcelled ale and porter made by the Iron City Brewing Co. All first-class bars keep them on draught.

Cold Spell Good for Six Weeks. Anderson gas-saving burner; cheapest and best 82 Fourth avenue. Grent Bargains To-Uny In notions and dress trimmings. Jos. Horne Co.

Penn Avenue Stores. Mek's underwear at James H. Aiken 100 Fifth ave. Toils du Nord ginghams, 12c a 500 new styles and colorings. ttssu Hugtjs Hacee.

Immense bargains in muffs goods, at Rosenbanm and fur Ths Afteb a sleepless night, use Angostura Bitters to tone up your system. All druggists. TXljn woman's world; matters of fashion rain and society in to-hobbow's 20-faox GREEK GLASS HEN MEET. The Strike In the East Broken President Bodlne Concedes the Workers' Terms Prospects of an Early Resumption In Factories No Shut Down. Last night Local Assembly 6111, Green Glass Workers, met in K.

of L. Hall. Nothing but routine business was transacted. From advices received by the officials of the Flint Glass Workers' Association yesterday there is every reason to believe that the stubborn contest, which has been raging since last June, between tbe green glass workers and manufacturers in the East is almost ended. As stated in yesterday's Dispatch the Cohansey Glass Works and the East Lake Glass Works have agreed to the terms submitted by M.

W. Amngton, and yesterday two more telegrams were received here recording the complete surrender of two more large establishments in New Jersey. The Thomas Bodine Glass Works, of Bridgeton, have settled at the terms of tbe men, and the glass works of Gaynor of Salem, in the same State, have followed suit, and in consequence all workers in the glass trade are looking for an early settlement in the whole Eastern district Thomas Bodine is president of tbe Window Glass Manufacturers' Association, and carries on an extensive business in both window and green glass. The workers think that his surrender is significant, and believe that all other firms will quickly follow suit Moore at Clayton, have intimated that they desired to a conference with the men with a settlement in view. This firm, as well as the Whitney concern atGIassboro, is at present running' largely non-union, but the Moore Bros, are-willing to start up in regnlar fashion, if a compromise can be brought about so that a few of the non-union men now employed can be retained by them.

Although the settlement in these places is Important, there are still a large number of places which show no disposition to start up. The report circulated since the latter part of last week that the green and flint manufacturers adopted a resolution to help the Eastern manufacturers in the struggle by closing down all the factories in the Western district, has kept the glass workers of both organizations in a state of doubt since that time. Some credence was given to the idea that the green manufacturers might take such a step, but many doubted that the flint men contemplated such a move. Yesterday a Dispatch reporter called to see Mr. Flaccus, a flint bottle manufacturer, and member of the Flint Bottle Manufacturers' Association, in reference to Ihe in response to the question whether any such move was intended, the gentleman replied: "There is absolutely nothing in the report, as the Western flint men have no interest whatever in the outcome of the difficulty in the East We are, ot course, making large quantities of bottles for Eastern trade, but our ware in no way is related to the green trade." He also said that he could 'not speak for the green manufacturers in this section, and did not know what they would do.

The only firms in the flint trade that might possibly make snch a move would be those making both green and flint bottles. The reports show thatthe Eastern firms are weakening, and now, if ever, would be their time to keep their promise to close down. For Keeping a Gambling House. Henry Norton was arrested by Detective Sol Coulson, yesterday, on a warrant from Magistrate Gripp's office, where he is wanted to answer a charge of keeping a gambling house, at No. 4 Carpenter alley.

He was locked up in the Eleventh ward station. Ladles' Finest French All-Silk Fnncy Colored Stockings In harlequin and boot patterns, a small lot, regular price 55 and $6, to go to-day at $2 50 a pair. A great bargain to early comers. Jos. Hokne Penn Avenue Stores.

TTT NYE describes a trip in tho cab of a JjlliU locomotive in tc-Mobhow's 2U-PAGK Dispatch. A fireman's tale of woe. B. E. SOME JANUARY BARGAINS.

Extra grade genuine SEAL COATS Reduced from $125 to $100. A lot of very handsome Jackets, large smoke pearl button. Dlrectoire Fronts, eta, marked down from $13 to $7. A lot of very elegant Long Garments, tailor made, marked down from $20 to $12 50. Special good value in PLUSH JACKETS Just reduced 8, $10 and $12.

A largo range and choice in plain, fancy and vest front Jackets all reduced to SI, S3 and $7. Boys' Flannel Waists just received, 4 years, at SL to 12 3,550 yards extra grade and width SCOTCH GINGHAMS In choice new goods, just received and on sale AT 25c A YARD. New Baleens. Seersuckers, Ginghams, and other choice wash fabrics just received and on sale at 12Kc KID GLOVES Reduced to 25c per pair, only In sizes 6, 6, KID GLOVES In SI grade reduced to 50c. only in sizes 5 0, At 75c, special value in 5-hooK and 4-button Kid Gloves.

At SI 50. reduced from $2. entire line of sizes in best grade Suede Mousquetalre Qlores, In black and full line colors. Special prices for January on Hntchinson, Pierce Co. Star Waists.

Lots marKed from SI 40 to St Lots marked from SI down to 75c BIBER EASTON, 505 and 507 ja25-irwTs MARKET STREET. INFLUENZAE Is very contagions to people suffering from Irritation of tbe throat. By using the celebrated SODEN MINERAL PASTILLES, SODEN MINERAL PASTILLES, this unfailing remedy for sore throat, coughs, catarrh and hoarseness, yon can protectyour-selves agilnst this dreaded disease. Everybody should keep a box of SODEN MINERAL PASTILLES, in the house. Sold by all druggists at 25c and SOc a box.

Pamphlets sent gratis on application by the Soden Mineral SprTngs Lim'td. 15 CEDAR NEW YORK. jaZ-wa HAMS-JUSTRECE1VED A FRESH INVOICE Dans' Cincinnati Sugar Cured Hams. Also a fresh lot of Inside rounds Cincinnati Dried Beef. JOHN A.

REHSHAW 4 Fancy Grocers, corner Liberty and Ninth street. jal5-ws WEECK OS THE Frightful Slnngfater of Milk Cans, bnt No Loss of Humanity. An accident occurred on the Montour Railway which not only greatly impeded the business of the road, but gave the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway people some trouble day before yesterday. One of the staples of the Montour Valley is milk, and as usual the train was heavily laden, therewith. When the train was donbled up the" people in the vicinity thought 'twas raining milk and tinware milk cans to the right of them, milk cans to the left of them.

Con-doctor McCown and Engineer Weir threw themselves into the imminent deadly breach, and the other trainmen responded gallantly to the call for help, and succeeded in rescu-ing some 70 three-gallon cans. JANUARY CLEARANCE. JDS. HDRNE i ELL'S PENN AVENUE STORES. PrrTSntTBO, Saturday, January 25, 18Mt TO YOU.

If yon have the remotest notion ot buying a sealskin garment of any sort, this is a golden opportunity we are offering you. We have never before offered such a chance, nor heard of any offer to approach it We also believo we will never be able to equal it again under any circumstances. The peculiar season makes these extremely low prices necessary and imperative. With the inevitable advance in prices of all sealskins next year, snch prices as wa have made now would make our loss so great that W9 would be compelled to carry the goods over the season. So that next season it will be impossible tor us to make such prices, even should wa have a repetition of this season' weather.

This season we shall not carry a single garment over. The prices we have made are sending them out at a most astonishing rate. Large as the stock is, all sizes, of all grades, in all the shapes, jet there Is no telling at the present rate when the lines will be broken and getting a perfect fitting and comfortable garment will become more of a chance than it is now. Ladies who have difficulty in fitting should come immediately. Our goods are perfect and to be relied upon absolutely.

The same qualities' cannot be sold for less. The startlinc prices: Mantles, $75 and upward. Jackets, $85 and upward. Coats, $100 and unward. Newmarkets, $325 and upward.

MEN'S GOODS. There are some wonderful bar trains 1 Men's Underwear. havetaVen out ot the regular stock a lot ot Menno and Natural Wool Underwear and marked them down to quicken their going. You will be glad next year to find yourself supplied. This is a chance to buy ahead and save money.

Shirts and drawers with not a thing wrong with them going at a third off. Alt the best lines of Men's Underwear at the lowest prices. We make to order the best White Shirts that can be made. We make a specialty of Gents' Foil Dress Furnishings. Big bargains In Handkerchiefs not to be sneezed at: Pare linen, hemstitched, fancy embroidered, at 25c Reduced from 15c.

SOc and 75c Fancy hemstitched, embroidered, Jap silk, 50c. Seducedfrom 85c and 90c. Ecru silk, corded border, at Reduced Jrom fl 75. Fancy silk bordered. 75c Reduced from fl SS.

1 25 Silk Mufflers at 75c 5160 Silk Mufflers at St JDB. HDRNE 609-621 PENN AVE. ja25 Crcsson Springs later Limited SPRINGS 4 CRESSON, PA, MAIN LINE PENN A. R.R. i This Company has pcrchased the exclnjlvs) right to sell the water ot the famous springs at Cresson.

Pa and are ready to take orders by man or telephone for the dellTery of this water" to private residences, banks, offices, hotels and. restaurants. Tbe delivery will be made in cases containing 13 gallon (8 two gallon glass bottles in each case) at $1.00 per case. Parties desiring to use this water will please send in their, orders at once, that we may arrange to serve them promptly, and when ordering please give, correct names and address. CRESSON SPRINGS WAfER CO, Limited.

10 and 13 Sixth Pittsburg. 1, SHAW BROS, 1012, Telephones DAviD SHAW ISOi jalMVrrs mABLE MINERAL WATERS APPOLINA-J RIS, Bedford. Hathorn, Vichy. Wake-" snaw, in pints, quarts and half-gallons. Area- dlan ginger ale and Belfast ginger ale.

JOHN A. REN8HAW 4 CO, ii25-ws Cor, Liberty and Ninth street..