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PXTTSBtTRGII COMMERCIAL' DAZETTK. MOHDAY, llXY 1 Vita TP'jfrr THE Bi COMBINES. TWO BROTHERS DROWNED. ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES. Feneration at Churehes Held rob He Meeting; lu the Sixth U.

P. Chnreh UilMtbt. Anniversary services ct tte IVtt -ation of Churches wer fc, Id Uwt evet.lng in 'he Sixth sited Tresbybnar. church, North' KSffcland avenue. Ifc edifice was well llled.

vnHani R. Thtimpton prc-Bulea. The prlnelrM ad.ire- lu1 Kev. Wilbur F. Crafts.

Ph. ecretary of the bu-tu of refcrm. Washing-ton, c. He said; of I'-Quor ia this 1 erio-l 1 not the work' ef any one man to the xtnt that he would be entitled to the distinction cf fceing. "the father" of the public sihool system cf the state.

i The system was the result of many years of and discussion, and one of the earliest and most Influential agencies in enlightening fend arousing-public sentiment was the Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Public Schools. 3. Gov. Wolf- and his successor, Gov. Rltner.

were both active promoters of legislation in behalf of free schools. When the first school bill became a law in 1334 it was bo open to objections that It was repealed by the senate In and would hive shared the came fate in the house had not the eloquence of Tlmddeus turned a majority into minority and th law was saved. It was the of tlie common school law who charged Gov. Wolf with being "its father." 4. At the session of 2S36 the whole question was gf ne over anew, with the aid of F.itner, Eurrowes and othera, and an entirely new fclil was framed embodying the principles, but eliminating the objectionable features of the old law.

In its new form the bill was passed and became the basis of our present admirable school system. CLD WORLD NOTABLES." The Marriage of an English Prince stttl a Prussia Prince. BY THE MAKQVISE DE fOXTEXOT. It Is not to Prince Frederick William, but to Prince Fre-'eiick of Prussia that Princess Margaret of Connaught and of Great Britsli has Just become erg-aged. Ho is th eldest son of Field Marshal Prince Albert of Prussia, the tallest, stateliest and wealthiest scion of the reigning house of Hohenaollern, who may be di scribed as a ruler in spite of himself.

Tor be Is regent of the duchy of Brunswick, which Involves residence durinj part of th? year at Brunswick, a city which he abominates, and which la the dreariest and most uninteresting of all the numerous petty courts of Germany. Moreover as the duchy of Brunswick belongs by tight, and by those principles of legitimate descent and inheritance which are the basis of the entire monarchies! system, to the duke of Cumberland, an English prince who makes his home in Austria, and who is a great favorite of his kinsfolk in Russia. Denmark. England, Austria and Saxony, in all of which countries he is regarded as unjustly deprived of his own by Prussian usurpation. Prince Albert feels himself, as regent of Brunswick, placed in a false position at all these courts.

He has repeatedly urged both the present emperor and the latter's grandfather to permit him to resign the regency of Brunswick, which was practically forced upon him by Prince Bismirck, but has constantly been put off under one pretext and another. It is probable, however, that he will now have his way, and that the kaiser's brother-in-law, Prince Adolphus of Schaumburg-Lippe. who was ousted some time ago from the regency of Llppe, will be appointed in his stad. For only a few months ago it was officially announced In the Prussian newspapers that all the negotiations with a view to the fiuit- of Cumberland's eldest son, George, taking possession of the throne of Brunswick had faiien through. Was Intended for a Qneen.

Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia has inherited a good deal of his father's comeliness, stature and geniality, and was regarded until about a year ago as the principal fcuitor for the hand of the young queen of Holland. Prince Albert's mother was Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, daughter of King William I. of Holland, and through her he has inherited vast estates in the Netherlands, including very handsome palaces at The 1 1 .1 i 1 1 i .,2 3 ,1 ft 1, 4t 1 it. He wsa charuf with contubutlng Si-V to the national committee I tn 12 but he was also charged with raising- found fcr the Republican party in tee of isij. charges he allowed to "go vr.iliuied.

JERSEY INCORPORATIONS. United Stuten Plate Glass Company, Cwpitat, and a OOO Tobacco Combine. TRENTON, N. May United States Plate Glass Company, capital was Incorporated here yesterday to manufacture gias-t of all kinds. Tue incorporators are William H.

Brearley, Frederick B. Hyde, Kenneth McLaren, ail of Jersey City. The Continental Tobacco Company a cettmcate showing an increase of in Its paid up capita! stock, making the total stock issued BUSIXESS MATTERS IX BRIEF. There Is no ohanse, In te grain shovelers' strike at Buffalo. Tha annua! conference of the green, glass bottie men opens in thia oily to-day.

Arrangements have been completed for the annual convention of the Amalgamated association, which opens In Detroit this week. The proposed glas ptableware cornbln la to have been agree to informally by twenty-two concern? out of a total of twenty-five engaged In the busmns. Rev. Wallace R. Covert, pastor of the Church of Ood, at Anlerson, "who formerly resided in states that he has' los: $30,000 during the past two years: J.

700. his lat lani account, was taken by a judgment or. tallied from the Ordrr of Solon at Pittsburgh three years ao. TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION Allegheny County S. S.

Association Announce a Remarkable Program. The tenth annual convention of the Allegheny County Sabbath School aasooiatlon will open at o'elack this evening In the Methodist Eplscoptl church. Rev. J. H.

Pick-ford, pastor. It Is believed the program li the best ever issued by the association. While in Atlanta, attending the sessions of the International sabbath school convention th officers of the local association secured th services of inany eminent KeakerB. who announced fcr nis convention. At the injetu.s this evening.

H. J. president of ths aiBociati -n, will preside, ar.d Rev. L. C.

RarotfS, U. will conduct the opening devotional exercise. Prtf scent He'ni will deliver las annuul address, following which C. D. ileiss, ger.r-ral secretary of tha Indiana Stat- Sabhath School association, will make an address on "Organized fcjaboaih School Work In America," Committees -Hill be appointed.

V. C. Lilley will preside at the forenoon session to-morrow, which will open at 8:30 o'clock. After devotional exercises conducted by Percy F. Smith, reports will be heard from the twenty-livs district presidents; Treasurer W.

K. Gillespie will present his annua! statement; Kev. C. Hatch, field secretary, will report and William C. Lliley will report for the excintve committee.

The adireaa of the forenoon win be delivered by J. Woodbrhise Barnes, ntate superintendent of primary ork Lun. will bs served to the delegates at noon. The afternoon Eisalon -mill bs opened Bt 2 o'clock with devctl nal conducted by Kev. H.

T. McClelland, Y. D. Key. E.

H. Ward. I. will preside. Fcev.

H. A. Bom-bereer will make an address on "Teacher Training In Pennsylvania." and a question box will be opened by Kev. Chailes Road, I). general fo-cretary Pennsylvania Sabbath S.

hool association. A conference of workers will be conducted by Mrs. J. Woodbridge Report of committee will be heard at this The cicslng session will open at 7:5 p. m.

Rev. W. J. Rcbir.son will preside and conduct the owning exercises. Addresses will be delivered by Rev.

Charles Rods on "Banners for thf Advancing Sabbath School Army," and by Rev. H. A. Bomberjrer on '-The Modern Bible School." Tea will be served to delegates between tfce afternoon and the evening ses- DIED IN GREAT PAIN, Death Come to Mrs. Cella Batter After She Had Taken a Head, ache Povrder.

Headache powder, a jpater.t medicine, attributed as the cause of four or five dee ths investigated by the coroner during the past eix months, are said to have ended the life of Mrs. Celia Butler, a young 'married woman of 18 Mercer -street yesterday afternoon. She had been complaining to her buabar.d that she felt 111. He purchased the powders at K. C.

Ptlofel's drug store at Fulton ntreet and Wyiie avenue. Mrs. Butler swallowed one of the powders about p. m. Fifteen minutes later she was dead.

Mr. Butler says he noticed that his wife became pale very suddenly. She complained of a pain in the stomach. He hurried to Wylie avenue, where, he summoned Dr. Brown.

When the physician arrived Mrs. Butl6r was gasping- for breath and foaming at the mouth. Her suffering indicated poisoning. Mr. Butler claims his wife had not been in the habit of taking the powders.

She had teen so ill yesterday that she toll him that she hoped to find relief if her headache was cured. The coroner was rotified of the death and an inquest will be held this morning. SEMI-ANSI' AI CONVENTION. Churches of Christ Will Meet at New Castle To-Morrow. The semi-annual convention of the Churches of Christ in Western Pennsylvania will open in New Castle, tomorrow afternoon.

The officers are: President, R. S. Latimer of Pittsburgh; vice-presidents, T. J. Allen, Dr.

C. Evans, W. II. Graham, T. W.

PmT.ins, John Barge; treasurer, W. R. Errett, Pittsburgh: secretary, Rev. J. H.

Craig, Beiie-vue; corresponding secretary, Rev. T. E. Cramblet, Pittsburgh; superintendent of Bible work, Rev. John A.

Jayne. Allegheny; superintendent Y. P. S. C.

Rev. M. H. Wilson. Knoxvllie; superintendent of children's home mission work.

May Netting and Nellie Ford, financial secretary, F. F. Bullard, Greenaburg. An elaborate convention program has been arranged, including addresses by O. A.

Richards, Beaver Falls; Dr. I. A. Thayer, New Castle; M. B.

Ryan, Erie; W. R. Warren, Conr.elleviile; Mrs. Anna B. Streator, T.

E. Cramblet, Pittsburgh; B. F. Daily, Somerset; C. C.

Waits, Pittsburgh; C. M. lams, Pittsburgh; O. H. Phillips Braddock; M.

E. Chatley, Carnegie; Herbert Yeuell, Banksville; James B. Grier. Allegheny; C. H.

Plattenburg, Unlontown: MIbs Leona Tomllnson, Beaver; Miss May Netting, Allegheny, and J. Tyler, Cleveland, O. Sermons will be delivered by Rev. J. M.

Kersey. Washington, and Rev. J. H. McSpar-ran, McKeesport.

The convention will close Thursday evening-. ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES. Centenary M. E. Chnreh Collections Reached $1,051 Yesterday.

The thirt y-third anniversary exercises at the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. N. L. Brown, pastor, were continued yesterday arid ere of the most interesting character.

An appropriate sermon was delivered in the morning by Rev. Sylvester Burt. D. of Ashtabula, and at the evening service Rev. James A.

Miller of Wilkinsourg preached to a large audience. At 2:30 p. ra. a Sabbath school rally was held at which addresses were delivered by several superintendents, including Prof. C.

B. Wood, C. B. Cook. S.

A. Def.llnger and Attorney Johnson. During the day collections were taken for tho removal of the debt of the church and the mm of $1,051 was realized. The attendance at all the services of the day was lta.rite. HAVE BUT FIVE CASES.

Smallpox Patients on Nevllla Island A Isolated. Exaggerated B.ories of the supposed smallpox: epidemic near McKeea Rocks are causing the officials of the health board considerable annoyance. Secretary E. N. Mere stated yesterday that there are only five cases of the disease, all of which are In an Isolated part of Neville island.

Strict quarantine rules have been adopted near the Infected district and everything is being done to prevent a spread. City Physician R. L. Taylor' advice to the public to get vaccinated, thereby avoiding smallpox, is being very generally accepted. The demand for vaccine virus on Saturday at the bureau cf health was quite noticeable.

Mrs. E. M. AVbittemore Lecture. Mrs.

E. M. Whittemora of New York, founder the Door of Hope for fallen Kirla. spoke three times in this city yes terday under the auspices of the Pitts burgh ana Aiiegner.y jies'je Dana. The morning address was delivered In te Park Avenue Presbyterian church, the afternoon address in th Butler Street Methodist Episcopal church and the evening meeting was in the North 'Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Allegheny.

Large audiences were present at ail these services ar.d the pathe ic appeala cf the speaker for earnest worse in tbe direction indicated deeply i.npie'ssd those present. Busary Upset In a stream Merlons or Fatal Aeeldents. CUMBERLAND. May 7. (Special.) Harrison Twigg, aged la, and hia brother William, aged 14, are reported to have drowned in fifteen Mile creek late lust night.

had driven to a country stora about four miles from their home and remained until late. The night was dark and they missed the fording, -the horse plunging into water beyond its depth. The buggy was overturned and its occupants thrown into the water. Neither of the boys could swim. NEW CASTLE, May 7.

A work train on the Pennsylvania lumped the track near here yesterday and rlunod into Hickory creek. David Ear-a 'vas pinioned under the wreck and fatdllv hurt. ALTOONA. May 7. Special.) While playing at Brant's lumber yrd here last evening fotr children.

Pearl and Emma Htpr.er ond Vincent Lorene Woomer, narrowly escaped smothering to death. They got under a Inrge pile of lumber, when the props wy and a heavy mass of rough boards te'i on top of them. The children fccreamru for hlp and nearby neighbors Emma Hepner received injuries about the head which may yet prove fatal. Vincent Hepner has both thighs broken, while the other two escaped with slight bruises. READING, May 7 Wiiiinm Go- heen, aged 65, died as the result of injuries sustained In belni? run down bj a bicyclist a frw days ago.

His skull was fractured. The wlieolrr.an claims he rang his heii. He mar be arre3ted. BURGETTSTOVYN, May 7. Special.) The badiy mangled remains of a young man were fouud In the cut west of Burgettstown this- morning.

There nothing on his person to ienUfy hfm Ke ia supposed to have fallen off La Pearle's circus train last r.ifrbt. HARRIS SURG. May 7. Joseph Knoll, aged a restaurant keer'er residing on Fourth street, was probauiy iitaliy burned tkis afternoon by the explosion of a gasoline stove WILKE3BARRE, May 7. Thomas McGouidrlck, a section hand in the employ of tha Lehieh Valley railroad, was fctruck by a passenger train Pi'tston last night and killed.

ACCIDENT AT A BRIDGE. Part of Its Support Palled Avray By a Ti-h! Several llnrt. CONNELLSVILLE. May 7. -A Baltimore Ohio train carrying a steam shovel was passing under the ConneHs-ville and New Haven suspension bridge when the shovel caught the bridge ropes.

A "great crowd of Saturday night were on the triage and at the crossing waiting: for the train t.i naas. end the shovel pulled off the heavy iron i capping or tne pier on the east Pule. Heavy stones ffli and many people were struck. One victim was unconscious. His name is Thomas Evans, John Johnson, colored, was also struck and seriously Injured.

Bell Rout, aged 14 ye.ars, who also lives in New Haven, whs among the others Injured. The bridge has sagged about two feet because of the accident. Just as the train displaced the eaODinir the wire wf nt down and had It net righted itsIf 200 people would have been thiown into the river. I Threatened to Kill Herself. CUMBERLAND, May 7.

(Special.) No trace has been found ot Mrs. Charles Brooke, widow of tha West Virginia soldier who committed suicide here nine months ago, who yesterday pent her mother a sensational letter, in which ehe stated that the next time her mother saw her she would be dead. About an hour after the mother received the letter tha. Brooke woman was seen to pass out of the southern end of the citv. It Is now said she threatened to kill herself on the grave of her husband, who was buried at Martinsburg, W.

and it thought she may be trying to work her way to Martinsburg. Mrs. Brooke was a very attractive woman. Since the death of her young husband she had been working In the glass factory here. She had been married two weeks when her husband killed himself.

The police do not believe she has kilied he.rself. Reeovery from a. Broken Back. TAYLORSTOWN, May 7. (Special.) Last July while working on a- tubing board In a derrick at Jakes James Mitchell fell 6J feet tr the derrick floor, breaking his back in threo places.

He was taken to the Homeopathic hospital at Pittsburgh and kept until September 21, then to the hospital at Washington. staying there until January 20, when he was -brought to the home of his brother here. All this time Mitchell had been completely paralyzed and unable to move, but within the past few weeks he has commenced to recover and can now raise himself up in bed and has considerable feeling in his- I'mbs. Girls Saved Their Grandfather. FRANKLIN, May residence of William Bowser, an aged farmer near here, burned yesterday.

Bowser nd his two granddaughters, aged 18 and 20 years, were upstairs and their escape was cut off. The two girls finally succeeded in lowering their grandfather from a window in a sheet, and they were afterwards rescued with difficulty. Donhle Tragedy in a Ohio Town. MOUNT VICTORY. May 7 -Deputy Sheriff Frank Morrison was shot dead by Ike Bird yesterday while trvirg to arrest him.

After the murder Bird sent a bullet through his own heart, expiring instantly. Oldest Man in Ohio. COSHOCTON, 0., May Murphy, who makes his hom with Mrs. Edith Reed of this city ha just celebrated his 108th birthday, and i3 held to be the oldest male resident In Ohio. STATE AND NEIGHBORHOOD.

A discovery cf gold in Ashtabula county near the Pennsylvania state, line. Is reported. An Incendiary fire at Fort Homer, destroyed the large barn of H. C' leeilems. Loss, $4,000, C.

B. Hart of Wheeling, minister to Colombia, is returning to his post after a 60 days' leave of absence. John Bonier of West Latrobe, found or. hi lot a trunk containing clothing and papers bearing the name Altert Chencei. H.

Seller McKee and Manager D. E. Carl cf the JeanneTte flint glas factorv. sail Jur Kurope thi week in the interest of tie trade. A court decision favoring Elkins es tte county seat of Randolph comity, W.

has been handed down, and ths controversy ended. The engagement of Mrs. Anna E. cioargo of Canton, to lectur in ha bsen canceled. She will continue working on her book.

The financial statement cf the town of Clarksburg- fW. Va. show an of $30 town tax levied on each family, exclusive -ut county and state taxes. Margaret and John Jackets of Boston township. Summit county, after being married 50 years, are aeeklng divorce.

The wife brings the suit, charging cruelty. Greenville (Pa.) Presbyterian congregation has decided to a new church on the plot of ground recently donated by Mr. 3r ii. Uridley, and work will commence at once. DOCUMENTS AGAINST DREYFUS.

An Imprisoned OfHeer's Daoghtrr Says She Has Them Borled in an Iron Box. PARIS, May 7. Mademoiselle Elodle Wattier, daughter of a French officer now undergoing imprisonment at Amiens for swindling, has written to M. Mazeau. first president of the court of casation, declaring that "the late Sergt.

Maj. Leri-mler, at one time secretary of the late Lieut. Col. Henry, who, like Henry, committed suicide, secretly b-ought her documents, including letters from Dreyfus to Emperor William, which she says, she buried in an iron box in the forest of Marly, northwest of Versailles. She forwarded a cabman's receipt lor the trip and declared herself ready to reproduce the documents.

Her communication has been presented to the court of cassation. TERSE TELEGRAMS. Rudyard Kipling ba been offered and ha agreed to accept tha degree of LL. D. from AIcGill university, Montreal.

Tha Howard Avenue Baptist church of Xew Haven, want Tale tenter rush, Rev. George B. Cutlin, to accept Ha pastorate- More than 100 street car windows were broken at Duluth yeter.1ay by stones thrown by strikers, and several passenger were injured. Capt. Coghlan cf tha Raleigh on Saturday presented the Nordenfelt cannon taken Ircra the Spanish cruiser Rema Cristlana, av Mani'a to the city of Raleigh.

X. C. American lawyers in Havana have organized Jr ith Junifi O'Leary, formally atlorney-generu! of Texa. a chairman, ihey claim tha right to practice as Americans. Rain feil hpsvily all over Nebraska ys-tirday.

At Cedar creek, in Cass i-otmty. a cioudhust caufed several thousand doliars damage. Crops, railroad and telegraph lines were caiuaged. Hagh Oavar.augh. 21 years of age.

was struck over the bea.t anrj killed by a pitched by L. Franklin f'ltsher cf be Emeralds, in game at Mount Clatr. N. with the Washington Athletic club. 1 I I i I i foolnod from El rat Pajcre.

spons6 to all iSritiirv from "the correspondent hre or the Associated Press regarding th.4 reported transfer of his business interests Is, the United States to a syndicate, Mr. Andrew Carnegie has furnished ths following statement: "Mr. Carnegie ha given" his young partners the terms on which he would bj willing to sell and retire from business. He has no definite information as yet whether they are going to buy or not, but he thinks that they will." Regarding the Carnegie deal the New York Tribune of yesterday says: "Mr. II.

C. Frick was quoted astain yesteraay as denying that the Carnegie interests "contemplated consolidating with the American Steel and Wire Company and other outlying steel Interests." but Wall Street was still inclined to regard his den'-als as "tuchnicai," and to beiiwe that his participation day fter day last week in the conferences of the ateel men at the Holland house mast he taken to signify at lefrst that there had been contemplated and discussed some proposition for combining the "Carnegie interests with the Arnenican Steel and Wire Company and the several big corporations which W. H. Moore of Chicago has been instrumental in organizing," No Change In Management, An important feature cf the announcement of H. C.

Frick, In connection with the retire nent of Andrew Carnegie from the Carnegie Steel Company, and other Carnegie interests, was thbt "It should be well understood that there will be no change ir the management- of the various companies." If this Idea is carried out literally it will be comforting news to a small army of business men who are now engaged in the management ht the vast enterprises known collectively as "the Carnegie interests." Many of these men have grown up in the companies with which they are now connected, and have been advanced as their merits have been recognized. It is in this connection that Andrew Carnegie has shown his greatest ability in the steel business. He has chosen able lieutenants. He has selected the best brains available, paid well for them, given them every aid possible, and exacted the greatest returns. His master stroke in this direction was when he brought H.

C. Frick into partnership witn him. From that time the- prestige of the company has grown very fast, until it now occupies the leading position among steel manufacturing concerns cf tho worid. Gave the Reins to Mr. Frick.

It has not been a part of the policy of the Carnegie Stetl Company. to K-t the public Into ita private affairs, and consequently there are many things of which the public has remained in ignorance. Of the capital of the Carnegie Steel Company, when It was formed, Andrew Carnegie held $13, While this made Mr. Carnegie the majority stockholder and gave him the power to handle the ruins in ail the company's affairs, he saw tit to cb legate practically all this power to H. C.

Frick. In the memorable labor battle of Isi-S, when Mr. Frick stood out upon a principle against the- Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workerc, Mr. Carnegie was In Scotland, and the brunt of the fight fell upon Mr. Frick and hia associates.

The contest was carried to a s.jccess'ul issue by the company, and to Mr. Frick fell the unenviable lot of being designated the victor over organized Inter. But he was fighting for wr.at he considered a just cause, and as soon as the smoke of battle had cleared away the mills were again busy, workmen were re-employed ana another ei a of prosperity was begun at the Carncgi'? milis. It is a wfll-known fact that the workmen in the Carnegla rnills are paid the highest wages of any of their class. Carnearle Was Not an.Offlelnl.

The transfef" of Mr. Carnegie's interests will not of necessity cause any changes in the personnel of officials, and Mr. Frlck'3 statement that there will be no change In the management is quite consistent. Mr. Carnegie has held no official position in the oompany since its reorganization in 1812.

He lias not tven been on the board of managers. Mr. Frick, as chairman of the board of managers. Is the chief and next to him is the president, Mr. C.

M. Schwab, who succeeded Mr. John G. A. Leishman.

now minister to Switzerland. Mr. Carnegie has contented himself with mere advisory powers In the concern, and he has been extremely-fortunate In the. choice of his representatives. The prosperity of the company bus evidently been tatisfac-toty to him.

H. Frick who 14 real head of the reorganized Carnegie Steel Company, la a modest man and dislikes notoriety. This includes praise as well as criticism. He attends to his own affairs, and would much prefer the' newspapers to rrnuiate his example and not write about business matters. Among rnanufact'-uera he is highly respected, and makers of steel recognize in him their fchrewdest competitor.

Ki3 advancement from a penniless clerk to the president of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, with a capitalization of siaXO.OoO, is a well-known story In business circles. Through the organiratloh of the Carnegie Steel Company, the H. C.

Frick Coke Company and the allied organizations Into a single company, Pittsburgh attains the distinction of having within Its district the most extensive industrial corporation of the world. Alongside of it tha famous Weatphallan concern of the Krupps at Essen, Germany, easily takes a second place. The other combines, with their authorized capital of 100,000,000 and $200,000,000, are also secondary. HEXRY CLAY FK1CK. Wonderful Career of the Head of the Great Carnegie Interests.

Henry Clay Frkk, the head of the greatest single Industrial interest in ths world, as he will be In relation to the reorganised Carnegie company. Is just now a man of much Interest. He wouid be better satisfied if it were not so. For while Mr. Frick ia actuated by a commendable ambition to reach tremendous results, In which he has scored no failures In the commercial and financial world, he greatly dislikes having public attention called to himself or his projects.

Mr. Frick is 60 years old, having been born in 1M9 in Fayetta county, Pennsylvania. His father was a farmer in moderate circumstances who lived in We Overton, Pa. With nothing but a common school education young Frick went to work as a drygoods clerk, but soon gave that up to become a bookkeeper in the distillery owned by his grandfather at Broad-ford, Pa. This took him into the center of the coke region.

Although he was but 31 years of age then he had developed tho habit of accumulating money and saved most of hia earnings. He took a great interest hi the manufacture of coke, st-jciieJ the process and made his mind that he wouid some day go into the At this time, too, he was a ciose student of the labor situation in the coal and coke regions. A short time after passing his majorlty Frlck and two other young men scraped up enough money between them to buy 3uO acres of land and 50 coke ovens. They began to manufacture coke under the firm name of Frick Co. Frick succeeded so well in the coke business that within four years he increased his ovens from Si) to 100.

The coke business kept on booming until 8,673 ovens had been built in the region. Then came the panic of 1373. The price of pig iron deciined enormously, the price of coke fell in sympathy, and everybody wanted to get out of the coke business. Not so with Mr. Frick.

He invested every dollar that he had or could raise in purchasing the coke properties and ovens which others were so ready to sell at low prices. All through the panic he kept his ovens going. In 1S7 he separated from his old partners and took M. Ferguson as a new partner. Real success came to this new firm in 1879, when there came an unprecedented demand for coke and prices went up from about $1 to $5 a ton.

under the impetus of this boom Mr. Frick continued to buy coke ovens and coal lands until in 1882 his firm had 3,000 acres of coal land and coke ovens. It was in that year that Carnegie Bros. became partners in the firm of H. C.

Frick Co. The success of the firm from 18S2 until 1S90 was phenomenal, and it is generally acknowledged that it was In the greatest derree due to the energy and push of Mr. Frick himself. In 1S90 the corporation owned and controled 5,000 acres of coal lar.d3. 42 of the sfO coke plants in the region, with an aggregate of 10.046 ovens, three water plants with a pumping capac-Jtv of 5,000,000 gallons daily.

35 miles of railroad and 1.200 cars. Eleven thousand men were on the payrolls of the company tiien. On the death of David A. Stewart. In December, 1888, Andrew Carnegie offered Mr.

Fiick an interest in the Arm of Carnegie Bros. Co. and Carnerle, Phipps which Mr. Frick accepted and paid for. He was at once mude chairman ot the directors of Carnegie Bros.

Co. Mr. Frick has one of the most beautiful homes in this city. Hera he lives with his wife sad two children. During: recent vears he has traveled extensively with them, and hiJs become a generous patron of the arts.

Ifshis collection cf pictures there are manvVtremeiy valuable canvases If Mr. "Fiit' has any politics he FUELIT1ED EVERT MORNING. (Except Sunday.) CO. PROPRIETORS. Offfos 3I3 end JOJitthJv DAILY COMMERCIAL.

GAZETTE By Carrier la Flttshura Alle-Shenr imd snrronnslluK towns tor Fntl a eveek. ne year, f-3 six 1.50j three nionlii. 7S cfttii. WKEKtV COMMERCIAL GAZETTE One Dollar year by mall- Specimen Copies sect lrt. JlONDAr, MAY 8, 1399- TEN PAGES.

CACSE FOU CO ATCX AT ION. Western Pennsylvania generally, and Pittsburgh particularly, are to be congratulated on the fact that In the reorganization of the Carnegie interests they continue in management In the hands of men whose homes as well as their interest are here, ar.d that the reorganization no curtailment of activity In any branch of the interests embraced. There are many reorganizations which mean the passing front local ownership and management of the Interests Involved and which further may mean not merely tha discontinuance of noma branch of the, business reorganised, but eventually the tranb'er of all It. or the bulk Of it, to some otluT point. It is repeated that it Is a matter for congratulation to the.

People of thia region that reorganization of the Carr.est interests signifies nothing of this sort. The Interests embraced ara la' no snse competitive, but, on tne contrary, are integral parts of a great system. This la the natural point for their centralisation and further growth. FINANCIAL. LEGISLATION.

The reason given for withholding from the public for the present tho text of tha f.ranclal reform measure agreed upon the recent meeting of tha Republican caucus committee of the- house is that, la courtesy, it should first be considered by tha memoirs of tha. senate committee. Thia la a consideration which it is natural the member of, the house committee should entertain, but, inasmuch as the prospect is that a meeting of the joint committee will not be held before fall it 'would teem to be a fitting return of courtesy on the part of the now widely acattered senatorial members of the Joint committee to express their individual willingness to have' the bill made publi-j in advance of tne prospective fall meeting. The sooner It text la known soorter the opportunity will be presented for the general consideration and discussion of it and for famine rising the with the effects of whatever its provisions may be la the form In which the measure finally passes. It is not to be expected that It will carry forward the reforms In the financial system to the limits to which they will' ultimately and properly go.

but It is assured In advance that Its progress will be in 'the right di-rect'on. This being trua, It will meet all the opposition tha fiatista and "endless chalii" advocates can muster, and the sooner It la made public the any fog may be dispelled which tha flutists are able to create. HE IS NO NOVICE. In an editorial on the subject of -Philanthropy as a Business" the New York Times dwells at length on the announcement that In retiring from other business Andrew Carnegie will do so "to give his entire time in future to the prosecution of his great philanthropic The Times refers to this announcement, but does not quote and some of its comments and conjectures would imply that Mr. Carnegie la about to take up a new work Instead of giving his whole time to the prosecution of work In which he is a leader.

Among other things It nays of him that "being shrewd and conscientious, he may Vj "expected to Introduce tome improvements In the business," speaks of the things be expected "from a man. who, In the prime of his powers, like Mr. Carnegie, retires from accumulating money in order to tpend It," and says: shall wv.tch Mr. Carnegie's application to philanthropy of business principles with great Interest." The Times need not wmt for further developments to make note of Mr. Carnegie's application of business principle to philanthropies, numerous public Institutions he has already established and the manner of their establishment will afford abundant demonstrations of thLs arr'icttion.

In Pittsburgh, for ex-cm pie. 11 fiul a single structure the Carnegie library building to whose structure and various educational equipments of Mr. Cametfle's money has ben -apptlid, and for the expansion which he recently announced the contribution of $1,750,000, bringing his gifts for this Institution alone above JLGOO.OOO. Making a business of philanthropy Is not a new thing for Mr. Carnegie.

For a number of years It has been his chief Increasing with bis gradual withdrawal from other business. He has about his philanthropic work In the lama practical Manner as In the accumulation of the wealth which has made this work possible to him on such a scale. AH the dlference there will be relative to his future and past, work of this character will be that herca'ter It will receive not a part but all of h's time. COM'ERXIXG HOPES. Referring to the reported probability of the ending Ejon of war In the Philippines and the adoption cf a plan for the future government of the islands, our neighbor, the Post, says: "His (Aguin-aldo'e) position is said to be that.

If satisfactory terms are not accorded, the army would fall to the mountain and continue a guerrilla war Indefinitely. This Is not conclusive, but the hope is felt "at Washington for easily understood political reasons that the negotiations may be successful." What satisfaction does th Post experience in expressing it in that way? It says of the reports to which It refjrs that they "will be re- reived with an earnest hope that they may rrst on solid ground and win soon be facts," yet the entertatn- 'jnerit ct 'this hope at Washington it acterizes as being "for easiiy understood pclUical reasons." The hope is felt at Washington ca elswhsre, as the Post knows, because it Is humane and patriotic and coie In. which everybody should thu're. Answers to Correapoadents. S.

M. X. l'etrolla. Pa. 1.

Tha eatab-'llshmnt of free schools In Pennsylvania twice a fat aa the populaUon. and part.v as consequence dtvorce. and murder have crtse.1 in like proportion. Trree -tIer clou-Is ether. peculiar to ocr own national i to thia part cf our hixtorv.

namely, tue ncres.se of lynchmfs, lahor rku an4 luuniciptl coiruptl.n (all of which are larger in our country than In mv other). Trrea ouif are no less threatrnjn- nasieiv ti increase of Saceata ai parent to in; or Impurity, deciaie-1 by a recnt conven-j tn of physicians; and of corrupt journalism. tr.at proclaim? The ninth rhmrf lore- Thau all and partly inoluulve of la the natinial habit of law-bmaklnir." SiiHam li. Thompson made few remark relative to the and history of fce He eoEsid-red that -oneetted action aeainut evi, ix a pecssitv, reir arklrr that, if one tnan snouid stand amt tne oirrnuan of a city he will te beu-ve X. he said, that wives end mother powessesj the grtateat force toward a remedy for tnis, as they can and should lafluence their huebanas and son to vote properly and what to do rurally.

Only one trrce, he ecnsicered can Petit against wrones the Chrlsrlan Rev. W. C. 1hb. field secretar of the federation, ea'd he considr-ed itat churches have tfone much for reform iuric the past year, but it is hoped the future to secure more that will be a to cities especially.

Much has bea do- he said, yet Pule in the fight for Jesjg He concluded his remarks by nu.kir,g an appeal ior funds ir literature to be dismount, ts a result of the religious ceneua ten aon.e time as-i. Pev. John IT. Prurh. president of the creant-wtinn, that he is proud of Fituburgh.

and la thankful that many cf th fpoke-i of by the first speaker da net exist her. He spoke of the manner the Sabbali Is observed in thl9 city, and compared It with the lawlessness in ether piace. However, he remarked, that In ail cities much wickedness does exist and it must be met. The federation of churches ia pot pulling Uown the. lines, but is an organization where all hands to put down the common eneaiy.

After a prayer by Dr. Prugh the service came to a close. BROUGHT DEWEY'S MEN. V. S.

Cruiser Buffalo Made Quick Return Voyage 5oO Sailors to lie Dlst-hariteil. NEW YORK, May United States cruiser Buffalo arrived to-day from Manila after a very quick rim of 44 days, which includes stops at Port Said and Gibraltar. The Bufalo brought about 500 officers and men of Admiral Dewey's squadron. Theso men are mostly lotife-term men whose time has lorg run out and are to be landed at the navy yard to-morrow, where they will be discharged. Among there aro forty-nine who were on Dewey's flagship on Mav 1 There are also on bcar-1 Paymaster John R.

Martin and Capt. Dutton End Lieut. Robinson of the marine corps, nil front th cruiser Boston. The Buffalo flies a homeward-bound pennant" 2N6 feet in length. John Strench, gunner's mate, second class died of cancer and W3s buried at Singapore.

The Bu.falo whs formerlv the Brazilian, cruiser Nictheroy. ESCAPED FROM PEST HOUSE. In Superintendent's Clofhes, Armed, a Nearo ith Smallpox ied. JANESV1LLE. May 7.

A negro tramp who came here from Cincinnati and was placed in the pest house afflicted with smallpox dressed himself to-tlay in the clothes of George Phelps, the pest house keeper, drew a knife on Pheipo, and threatening his life, compelled him to five up his watch and money. The negro then made his escape and has not been captured. There is mush alarm over the possible spread of the disease. APPHOVAU AND VETOES. More Bills Acted ipsa By the Coventor-Saturday.

HART.ISBURG, May 7. The governor has. signed, the following bllla: An act to amend the 10th section of an act entitled, "a further suppliment to the act regulating elections In this commonwealth." approved the 30th day of January, 187-1; on act to validate conveyances and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged; an act to amend the title to an act approved the 4th day of June, ISS7. Gov. Stone has vetoed an appropriation of $3,000 to the Alientown Hospital association for maintenance for the reason that a previous appropriation of $5,000 for this institution was not used, because no hospital building has been provided by the association, and It Is therefore not in existence.

The governor elso disapproved the bill amending certain sections of the act regulating the manufacture and sal of distilled and fermented vinegars so as to provide that vinegar made wholly from grapes, apples or other fruits shall not be required to contain an acidity of 4 per cent, or 14 per cent of solids. The governor also vetoed the bill relating to tha election of justices of the in wards of boroughs. Six bills granting pensions ar.d gratuities have been vetoed by Gov. Stone, as follows: Emma C. Shadel.

widow of Sergt. Elmr E. Phadel, providing for a month; appropriating S275 to Wlliiam District, a cook in the Fourteenth regiment, N. G. for Injuries at Camp Hastings; pension of $8 a month for Mary E.

Givens, widow of W. E. Givens; appropriating $150 to Charles H. Robinson, fia-man in First nval battalion of the state, for Injuries; also $750 for William P. Powell, second lieutenant.

Ninth regiment. N. G. for accident and disability at Hajtle-ton during riots in 1SS7: alfco providing compensation for Daniel B. Hughes, member of the national guard, for disability contracted at Lattimer during the riots the same year.

The governor does not favor special pension laws and says if pensions and gratuities are granted It should be under a general law. The governor has also vetoed the till fixing $1,500 as the minimum salary for county superintendent of school because this matter should be left to school directors; and a biil amending the act limiting the period within which application may be made lo the 8tat treasurer for the refunding of collateral inheritance tax erroneously pail so that In estates consisting In whole or part of a partnership the act shall not apply. BERTHA BE1LSTE1.VS TrtlAU Will Begin This Morniss-The telle Not Barred. Bertha A. ellstein.

the our.g Allegheny woman who killed her mother on October 2. last, at their home, 203 Spring Garden avenue, ar.d drank a quantity of laudanum, inflicted a dagger wound in her breast and then fired three shots from two different revolvers into her head and body, wilt be placed on trial for her life this morning. The trial promises to be the most inter: sting one that baa ev-r occurred in Allegheny county and It is highly probable that sensations 1 testimony will be presented by the prosecution and the defense. Every member of the Beilstetn family has been subpoenaed and the family history will doubtless be analysed. District-Attorney Jo'-m C.

Haymaker, why will, represent tho commonwealth In the trial, said that the doots of the court room will be open to the public and that tha trial will "be conducted the same t.i other murder trials. Mis Beilsteln wiii be defended by City Attorney Clarence Burleigh and George Elphtnstone. Vhile the attorneys decline to tiiscuss the matter of defense, it Is generally presumed that Insanity will be the. plea. It is authoritatively stated that the defense wiil draw spiritualism and other occult theories into the case.

THE CXCLEHS WERE OCT. Over Three Hundred Riders Were tat a Joint Ran. The delightful weather of yesterdny was responsible for outpouring of lovers of tfce wel and they were cut In the parks and on she East E.id series by the hundreds. The roads ia She parks being in flrst-cless condition the cyclers found it a pleasure to rl-je over tneni'as on tbe Tte'w boulevard One of the features of the -lay wus a joint run to Tarentum by the members cf the Allegheny Ovclers nd Pittsburgh Century club. In the neirhh'rrhood of 300 rider took rrt In tha run.

ani aisc took part in a nice dinner, whih was terved la the Tarentum Opera house. Okmoat Park Over people attended the cpenln? concert at Oak wood park yesterday. A special musical program was pre tinted by Gaston's American Military hcnd ar.J e.veral so'o were splendidly rcn-leied David T. Moore, the popular baritone Steamship Movements. 1 Port.

Am- I. "aileC Tip, Allegheny City. "Snickersnee" is a slang term for a knife or cutting weapon. "Snick and snee" was a combat with knives. Thackeray uses the word In his humorous poem, "Little Eillee." The latter was about to be sacrificed at sea by his two starving companions, Jimmy and Jack: Which my poor mother taught to me." "First let me say my catechism "Make haste! make haste!" says guzzling Jimmy, While Jack pulled out his snickersnee, A.

City. in all cities having a population of 7D.00O or more, letter carriers are divided Into three classes first, second and third. The salary is $1,000, JS00 and SK respectively. THE DEATH ROLL. Rev.

tViiilsta O. Jones. Rev. William O. Jones, who ur.tll three weeks ago was pastor of the First Congregational church of thia city, died Saturday morning at the residence of Ellas Owen of Roch and Barr streets.

Rev. Jones had resigned hu pastorate with the intention of visiting the early home cf his parents In Walea. He had given up his house and was making his home with Mr. Owen until his departure. A wef-k ro last Tuesday he was taken lii with typhoid fever.

His condition became quite serious, the disease settling in his lungs, but it was not until Friday night that there was any thought of his not recovering. Ifn then begran to sink rap-idlv, dying at 8:30 o'clock in the morning. Rev. Wlliiam O. Jones was born S3 j'ear aio at Nebo.

Gallis county, O. He received hi first education In the district schools. After a preliminary training he entered Marietta college, graduating when quite a young man. Subsequently he taught school for some time, when he decided to enter the ministry. JIij then returned to Marietta.

completed his cour at Chicago and Oherlin. taking the decree of doctor of divinity. Rev. Jones was ordained at Centervllie. in His first charge was at Siloam, followed by a pastorate at Jackson and Glen Roy.

Leaving that place, he went to Cincinnati, where he remained until coming to Pittsburgh in January of He was unmarried, his sister, Miss Mary Jones, keeping house for him. His one brother is David O. Jones of Wales, O. This afternoon the remains will be taken to the First Congregational church. Fifth avenue, where services will 1 held.

The Congregational ministers of the two cities will act aa pallbearers p.nd officiate at the services. The body will remain in the church until Monday, when it will be taken to Ty'Xrhos for Interment. Mrs. William C. Whitney.

NEW YORK, May William C. Whitney, wife of the former secretary of the navy, died shortly before I o'clock yesterday afternoon. The change for the worse in Mrs. Whitney's condition came on last Mrs. Whitney was thrown from her fcorsa whil- fox la'Alkeq, S.

on February 21, ISt-S. tried to pass under a low bridge, but struck her head on a beam and fell to the ground. She was place-; in a piaster cast and remained In it for a long time. Everything possib? was clout- tor her, but she remained absolutely helpless from the time of the accident until ihe died. She was completely from the neck down.

Mrs. Whitney was tho second wife of ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney, and he wan her second husband her hrst husband having been Capt. Randolph of the British army. The funeral services will be held In the City (L. cathedral to-morrow.

Bis It op Littlejohn cf the diocese of Long Island wili officiate. Ths entire Whitney family wa? at her bedside hen she died, including Harry Payne Whitney and his wife. Bishop Henry C. Potter will officiate at the funeral services over the remains of Mrs. W.

C. Whitney, which will be held on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at Garden City, I. A special train will carry the friends who are to attend the funeral. Enoch. M.

Johnson. Enoch M. Johnson, aged. 60 years, died Saturday morning at the residence of his son-in-law, I. G.

McDonald, 120 Larimer avenue. East End. He was one of the best-known engineers in the western end of th atnie. For 22 years he was con-nete. vltlx the Panhandie railroad, and latterly was foreman cf the machine department at Wiimerding.

He had also worked In the Pittsburgh locomotive works and with the Wcstlr.ghouse Airbrake Company. He was born In Cadie, aid was a member ot Steubenvnle i ommandery, Knights Templar and of ravage lodge of Allegheny. He was also a member of many technical societies, liis funeral will be taken charge of by the ccramanJery. and will be from the place where he died to-day at 2 p. m.

He leaves one married daughter. Mis Elisabeth Applesrate. MONONGAHELA, May 7. (Special.) Miss Elizabeth Applegate, aged 82, at her Lowe in Forward township last evening of general debility. Miss Appleirate wrs a daughter James Appiegate, and well-to-do.

She was the last member of a large family. She was a life-long member of the Baptist church. Obituary otc. Pr. William Lambert Russoll died at Barre.

Saturday of mumps, sgart 9S years. He was tlij oldest Harvard graduate. Dr. Whitney Godding, euperlntend-nt of tbe government honpital fvr th insane at Washington, D. died Saturday, aged 6s years.

Hon. Fariy F. Poppleton. one of the leading criminal lawyers of the state, died at Delaware, U. He waa an active Democrat, and represented tha old Ninih congressional district in the Forty-fourth congress.

APPRAISERS AT WORK. RlTer Coal Combine Will Take Over a targe Vamber of Properties. The promoters of the rler coal combine have secured options on nearly a half hundred mines. There are three not yet optioned, being the property cf estates. A board of appraisers has started to work.

A Pittsburgh concern la expected to finance the deal. Delegates I torn Mercer. MERCER, May 7. Special.) The result of yesterday's Republican primaries in Mercer county for several offices t3 in' doubt, but 50 out of the 64 precincts indicate the following nominations: Sheriff, Tnomas gtwart; prothonotary, J. B.

Morrow; clerk of courts, J. A. Greer; recorder, John McOcnnell; treasurer, C. A. Ashton; commissioners, J.

N. McClure. A. B. Mercnant; poor director, C.

W. Tittsler; district attorney, J. M. Campbell; auditors, R. A.

Beil. E. A. Voorhies. The delegates to the state convention are R.

McClure and Capt. J. H. Martin, friends of Col. Quay.

The Quay and auit-Quay factions broke even in the nominations for county officers. Named Another Committee. At a meeting of the United Labor leagne last night a new committee was appointed to meet the finance committee o' councils at their next session to ask for repeal of the ordinance regulating the wages of employes of the department of public work. The former committee accomplished nothing. CaryeTiter' Strike Ended.

It was reported at a meeting of th organised cai pentsrs yesterday that three of the largest Arms of the two cities who have been holding out against the.r.ew scale have signed it. This will practically snrt strike. Hague and Amsterdam. Ever since Prince Frederick Henry has been 10 years old his younger brother and himself have been accustomed to spend a portion of the ear In these Butch palaces of their father, with the object of qualifying the elder for eventually becoming the consort of the young queen of Holland. In fact, Prince Frederick Henry and his brother Joachim are probably the only two Prussian princes who speak Dutch as fluently as high German.

Let me add that the Princess Marianne of the Netherlands nbove-ijfentloned was divorced after seven years' marriage, her Prussian husband contracting shortly afterwards a morganatic alliance with Baroness Rauch, who was created countess of Hoher.au, by whom he had e. numerous family. The counts and countesses of Hohenau are among the moat conspicuous members of Berlin society, and are naturally treated by the kaiser and by his family as kinsfolk. Princess Marianne died insane. Prince Albert of Prussia and his two eldest pons arj extremely fund of England, more so Indeed than any other mein-beis of the reigning house of Prussia.

For a number of years past the nrlnce and his two boys have been in the habit of spending several weeks, sometimes even several months, at Bournemouth, Torquay and other south of England watering places. It Is therefore not altogether surprising that Prince Frederick Henry, having been rejected by the young queen of Holland, should console himself with an English wife, and certainly he could find no more charming girl than young Princess Margaret of Connaught, who has just made her debut, end Is a very pretty, simple aud unaffected girl. The match Is in every sense of the word a love match. For the princess will have nothing in the way of a dowry, excepting what her grandmother. Queen Victoria, may choose to give her, while the prince himself Is so rich that money is an object of no importance to him.

Nor has he any dynastic advantage to obtain through the match, since all that future has in store for the father of the young is the throne of the duchies of Saxo-Coburg and Gotha. The wedding is certain to take place at Windsor, where two years ago the young princess was confirmed In the presence of her grandmother, and it Is that she will make her home in Berlin, where her future husband is serving as captain of the First regiment of dragoon guards, of which, by the by. Queen Victoria is cclonel-in-chief. Prlncefs Margaret's mother, as everyone knows, is a Prussian princess and the favorite daughter of that Prince Frederick Charies of Prussia, popularly known as the "Red Prince," and famous, not oniy as the commander to whom Meta capitulated, but likewise as the most brilliant and successful cavalry general of his day. Princess Henry Won't Visit Vs.

Owing to the unfriendly sentiments which are considered at Brlain to pre vail in this country against Germany, Princess Henry of Prussia ia returning: home from China by the Suez canal. Instead of, as originally intended, through the United States. She is due at Genoa a fortnight hence. Her trip to the orient has been i distinct failure as far aa the politics! objects which It was destined to obtain nre concerned. Thus much had been noped from the visits which she was to have paid to the empresses of China and of Japan and to the queen of Eiam, this belr.g the first Instance of a princess of one of the reigning houses of Europe vibiting the far orient.

In one way or another theso visits were declined by the Astatic potentates in question, obstacles of one kind and another being raised at the courts of Pekin and of Bangkok, while the Japan-esa government actually went so far as to state outright that it would sooner if the princess and her husband kept away from Jain, as the authorities there could not undertake the responsibility of their safety from the attack of soma such fanatic as the one who attempted the life of tha czar when he visited Japan shortly before his accession to the throne. It had been hoped that, through the Influence of the princess with tha impresses of Japan and China and the queen Slam, who all three are women of remarkable Intelligence, wielding great Influence upon the governments of their respective countries, advantages for Germany might have been obtained. But these hopes have been disappointed and the princess returns to Europe without having; accomplished anything. Fell from a Xlargre. Harry Flibinger, 13 years old.

was drowned in the- Allegheny river at the foot of Seventeenth street, about 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. With Joseph Conift, W. J. Hauifaian and C. A.

Sweeny, he was playing on some barges. Filbinger lost his balance and fell into the river. His body was recovered and removed to the morgue. His parents are dead and he lived with Jacob Vaik at 202S 'Webster avenue. The bey started for Sunday school, but went to the river.

The body was taken to Mr. Valk's home last night. PERSOXAL ME.VTIOX, Cart. B. Ford of Creigliton.

the founder of the Pittsburgh Plate OIas Company, received a notice from Paris, France, on Saturday that ha had been elected a member or L'Academle Parlsienue dea Inventeurs. Aoeornpaaylng this notice was a diploma of the first class, together with Its gold medal, all of which is given In recognition of his Inventions and Improved methods for the manufacture of plate glass. This is an honor rarely conferred upon any but French Inventors. Only a few Americans have been thus honored. Capt.

Ford'a Inventions have made the United States the leading plate rlass manufacturing country In the world, and redjeed the price of the commodity over 60 per cent. S. a miller of Bexley, Kent, England; J. Allen, an agricultural engineer of Oxford, England: Samuel B. Downing of Bath.

Er.if.-and A. Cannon of Oxfori, the two latter being paper-makers, are at the Hotel Lincoln. The party Is making a two months' tour of the TTntti States, combining pleasure with business. Mr. Cannon, the cillier, said last night that Enciand is a big market tr American flour.

Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, secretary of the Interior, arrived In Pittsburgh on the Pttnnsylva-nia limited last night, and is to-day a guest of the r-uquesno club on Sixth avenua He la here otv, official and will return ta Washington on the Pittsburgh limited Among tj Pittsbursrhers who went to New Yrrk la lit nljtht wtr J. O.

lirowti, director of public Bafetfi Roger of the bv.rea1 -Jeteetives; P. Knox, coune! Wf Piunburgh, Bessemer A Lake yr.e railroad! and Harry W. Oliver, the tteei manytacturer. I Chan.vcan. Cn4fejsls New YaTk yueer.iitown...