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1 6 THE PITTSBURGH TOST, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1893. CHICAGO 'CHANGE LEAKING GAS MAINS. MUST CLOSE ON SUNDAY. weight championship of the world. Sol Smith of San Francisco is also desirous of fighting Dixon.

His backer, Zack Abrahams, has issued a challenge, and will bet on the side, to fight tor the championship of the world at 118 pounds, THE MONDAY NIGHT SHOWS. Sothern as Captain Lettar-blair at the Alvin. THAT MYSTERIOUS DEAL. Auten, Kerr and Buckenber-ger Buy Out Temple. Princess Josepha, bowed to the audience in the handsome curio hall, the spectators uttered many expressions of surprise.

Handsome Aama, towering high above the tallest man in the crowd, looked more like an animated statue than a human being, while her tiny sister was almost lost in the lights and shadows that crept through the windows. Aama is just 16 years of age, and measures 8 feet 1 inch, while the princess has just attained a height of 2(3 inches, although she is 23 years old. But she is just as much of a curiosity as Aama, if there is not as much of her. Another astonishing feature of this week's program is Herr Kreiger, the llusiaii conjurer, conceded to be the equal of either Hermann or Keller. His sleight of hand performance is the most amazing that has been seen in Pittsburgh in years.

In the theater the Gold Medal aggregation includes some of the cleverest people of the vaudeville stage. The Grain Market Wren Weak an ProTloionsi Were Sttronsr. Chicago, Jan. 23. The grain markets weire weak to-day and the provision market strong.

Compared with Saturday's closing the price wheat this evening is off 5a6 per bushel, corn oats and rye each Jc. Pork and lard are each 25c up and ribs 15c. Business in all departments was dull. Wheat started a shade higher on some good buying by prominent local opera tors, and th-i destruction of a St. Louis elevator with 1,000,000 bushels of wheat.

It was also reported that the anti-option bill would come to a vote to-morrow, and was pretty sure to pass. This helped to caiisij weakness and resulted in a decline. The opening was about the same as Saturday's closing, and prices then advanced lie, became easy, and then declined c. held steady at the decline, and closed within a shade of the bottom. Corn opened rather firm and sold up a fraction, but then turned heavy and weak.

Trade was slow ami when wheat became sott core was inclined to weakness. The big receipts expected to-morrow were, a 1 depressing factor, but the chief weakness 1 came lrom reports of an increased supply of railway cars, and ati expected lrcer movement on that account Iroia country i Mat ions. It was reported that the Chicago division 01 rue wanasa, which previously could snare cars for East-bound grain, distributed 90 cars to various stations on Saturday, and the Santa Fe notified receivers here to muI them no more foreign cars, as they now had sufficient of their own. The oats market was inclined to be firm and acted so until corn commenced to break. It then weakened and declined Jc from the high point of the dav.

Provisions were remarkably strong on only a moderate amount of business. The receipts ot hogs were only head, compared with estimates of 7.000. and for to-morrow only 21,000 are looked for. Such continued light receipts, notwithstanding the present prices being p-iid at the varus, make those inclined to take the bull side of the provision deal rather ag gressive. tne lngn prices are very tempting to those who prefer to act upon the short side, and thus help to supply the bulls with victims.

The offerings were exceedingly light, and it took very little buying to give the market a boost. Casn quotations were as follows: Flour dull and easier; quotations unchanged; No. li spring wheat, No. 3 soring wheat, (il i No. 2 red, 73'ic: No.

2 corn, 4'VcT No. 2 oats, No. 2 White, f. o. 30c; No.

3 white, 33(j5 331ac: No. 2 rye, 04c; No. 2 barley, 00c; No. 3, f. o.

42(2. 70c; No. 4, f. o. No.

1 flaxseed, 15; prime timothy seed, WJ; mess pork, per barrel. "flS lard, per loO pounds, til 00; short ribs sides (loose), 10 05(i 10 10: dry salted shoulders (boxed), 00; short clear sides (boxed), J10 3U(10 40: whisky, distillers' finished goods, per gallon, 1 35; sugars unchanged; No. 3 corn, Receipts Flour, IK. 000 barrels; wheat, 153,000 bushels: corn, 137.000 bushels; oats. 240.

0(K) bushels; rye, 1,000 bushels; barley, Oo.onO bushels. Shipments Flour, 12,000 barrels; wheat, 12,000 bushels; orn. (iti.OoO bushels; oats, bushels: rye, 2,000 bushels. On the produce exchange to-day the butter market was quiet: creamery. 22o, 32c; dairy, 20ft 20c.

Egs easy: strictly fresh, 303 30'jcl Opening, highest, lowest and closing quotations furnished by John M. Oakley i bankers and brokers. No. 40 Sixth street, Hotel Anderson building: Articles Open-, iligli-i Mon'hs ing. est.

est. CI os- Closing. Jan Legislature Favors World's Fair Shut Up Plan. ANCIENT BLUE LAWS TO BE REPEALED. Rafts of Bills Introduced piring Members.

bv As- THE PR0P03ED SHIP CANAL SURVEY Spjccial to Thi riTTBBtrnrm Post. Hakkisucko, Jan. 23. In the senate to-night Neeb's bills for the. hanging of murderers in the penitentiaries and to repeal the prohibitory liquor law in Pine township, Allegheny county, were favorably reported.

Similar action was taken on the bill providing for the payment of wholesale license- fees into local treasuries. Bills were introduced as follows: By Neeb, to repeal the act of April 20, IsOj, imposing a lino of f-Io for the violation of the Sunday law of lTi'l; also appropriating (HV to the German Protestant Home for the Aged at Fair Oaks, Allegheny county; Woods ot providing tor the changing oi count lines; McCarthy ot Dauphin, providing lor suitable clerical assistance to the judges of the courts which commonwealth cases are tried, the expense not to exceed 1, 000 for each judge; Baker of Delaware, authorizing the courts to direct, the. hiing ot bonds to the commonwealth bv railro.nl and canal companies to secure payment of damages for taking laud and material in cases of disputed title; Logan of Craw ford, to cliai.ge the basis of distribution of ions to common jhoois lrom the umber of taxable eiti ens to the number ol schools: rattord Venango, providing that road commissioners, viewers and surveyors shall be paid by the proper county or by the petitioners, as the court may direct. The senate having on -May 2, 1MH, re- jected the nomination of Bobert Wat. horn as factory inspector, and the government having recently again submitted his name I to the senate, a resolution was offered by Sena'or Gobin, and adopted, directing the judiciary special committee to investigate how the office of factory inspector has been tilled since the reiiction of his nomination, and inquire into his right to till the apiKiintmctit since the adverse motion was taken and report its action to the Senate, The governor sent to the senate, the nomination of William Powell of Crawford as a member of the State 1 oard of agriculture.

The rest of the session was d. -voted to the reading of bills the first time. In the house, Lawrence of Washington, presented a petition of oTO citizens of Monong.ihi la City lor the rejieal of the prohibitory liquor iaw in that town. Remonstrances against it from citizens of lie same place were also presented by him. The following bills were preset, 'ed: Mansfield of Beaver, providing for elections every third year on the propriety of selling intoxicating liquors; Talbot of Delaware, appropriating ij.ooi) to the State board of agriculture: Tewkesbury, a duplicate of the old anti-discrimination bill: Jeffries of Lu.erne, providing for tho erection of a new county out of Lu.erne and Schuylkill counties; Patterson of Washington, making appropriation to the California normal school: Col lamer of Philadelphia, making election days legal holidays; Fow ot Philadelphia, to prevent the sal- of cigarettes; Branson of Chester, appropriating sfoo ihio for the erection of boil lings or agricuit ura parf'oses.

'Uthettof Butler ottered a resolution, which was adopted after brief debate, re- questing Pennsylvania, numbers of con-i gross to stand by the conditions under which the 5J.oOO.oou was appropriated to the world's fair, namely the closing of the gates on Sumla v. Weyaiid 01 Beaver offered a resolution, which was adopted, requesting Penusvl-I vania representatives in congress to vote for and advocate the passage of the bill pending requiring the secretary of ar to cause a survey to be made for a ship canal connecting the waters of Lake Erie and the 10 river. '1 iie communi-i cation of jhe governor relative to the State printing was referred to the committee on printing. HI I I.I. I OK IH HI'SI V.

amf la llCHol II I At a mei ting ot bly 1577, K. of L. tions asserting un-innocencc and inte the Teamsters' Assem-held last night, resolu-h iken confidence in the grity of Hugh F. Iemp- sey were unanimously passed. It was further resolved that until all means had been exhausted in his defense financial assistance 10 the extent of the treasury, containing 1 rendered him in his defense.

Bricklayers" Assembly 'JMii, K. of at a meeting last night passed similar resolutions of confidence in Iienipseyand voted i) to his defense fund. On oniiiii's Snllre. Mrs. Henry Wilson in a letter written yesterday takes to task the trustees of the M.

K. church for their apathy toward the question of woman's suffrage. When the question of admitting woman to tho general conference was voted on in I'nion M. K. church there was the largest vote ever taVen, and the majority who voted were women.

The result was for to 2H against. They Were Well Trent-l. Michael Sherron and I S. Mitchell, representing the building trades' council of Allegheny county, have returned highly pleased from Wheeling, where they had been soliciting funds tor the Homestead sufferers. I'ell from (lie It oof.

Henry Hose, employed on the new round-house at Wall's station, fell from the roof yesterday, fracturing his skull. I i Never were fine Imported Dress Goods sold like this: Several thousand yards of fine IMPORTED SUITINGS and NOVELTIES, 81.25 and $1.50 ones, to-daj 50c a Yard. If you want material for elegant Gowns, then you see this sacrifice of fine goods at once 50 Cents A Yard. They are at French Dress Goods Department further aisle opposite the Silks. The individual patterns high cost ones are all to be sol( 75c, 61.00, $1.25 and 1.50 a varil.

One case of fine CASHMERE CIIEVKOX DRESS GOODS, 36 inches wide, 25c a Yard. Surpassing in texture and quality anything ever this store sold at a like price double width, 36 inches wide 25c a Yard, Large lot of good, double-width WINTER DRESS GOODS, 32 to 36 inches wide, 15 Cents. The 100-foot Center Table in wide aisle in new Silk and Dress Goods Room will have several hundred pieces wide Printed Serge Frills, Printed Repps, and Crepe Cloth dark good goods and good styles large surplus lots from our wholesale departments and everything on this long table one price, 6 1-2c We're taking stock, and will end it the last of this week, and everything possible upstairs and down that can be converted into cash is going to be sold and when our name is subscribed to an advertisement it means what it says. We make the loss, and those who come will get the bargains. See for yourself.

OGGS BUHL, ALLEGHENY. A Wet Beer. Schoenhofen's Chi cago Lairer. Sold ZD at all bars. first class i5 Feask M.

Sole Dealer, 5 E. Carson Street. Phone G119. T'r S. FR 1 ARCHITECT, SO.

4 EIGHTH PITTSBURGH, FA. SACQUE BUYERS IN Residents or the Penu Avenue Dla-triet Are SutrerlitK From EcDin Ons. Besidents along I'enn avenue and tlie cross streets from Thirteenth clear out to Thirty-third, and on all the alleys in that section between Liberty street nd the river, are living in a state of continual anxiety on account of leaking gas mains. this instance it is not the. natural but the artificial article that is causing the trouble.

Throughout this entire district the air is heavily laden with the sickening, deadly fumes of escaping gas. Everybody is complaining and many are in constant fear of being asphyxiated or blown to pieces by the deadly vapor. At different points about the territory mentioned the trouble is worse than at others. This is particularly noticeable at the corner of Seventeenth street and Spring alley. Here the people are afraid to enter their cellars at nights while it is absolutely necessary to sleep with bedroom windows wide open to avoid, waking on the other shore before morning.

The cause of the trouble is said to be worn out pipes. "Al the mains in this part of the city ha ve been laid for many years, and it is said, some of them have been so eaten away with rust that nothing is left of the pipe, and the. illuminating fluid is conducted through a hole in 'the ground surrounded by an inch or two of rust. No action has been taken by any of those, interested in the matter as yet, but, judging from the indignation it is atirrhig up, something will drop ere long. Added to the fact that they are being almost suffocated by the smell of tlie gas the consumers are complaining bitterly of a shortage in the supply for lighting purposes.

In tome resiliences it has been absolutely necessary to fall back on the old-time tallow candle and kerosene lamp in order to get ligjit to see by. Mrs. John Davitt. of 110 Webster street and Mrs. John Loekhart of 112 on the iLtpfr ityi nln i net! at noiice head- quarters yesterday that their cellars were full of illuminating gas, escaping from street mams.

1 hey said they had notined the gas company, but had been told it would not be attended to until the company felt disposed to give it attention. The authorities say they are powerless to do anything. TURNED CALIFORNIA. A WEALTHY MEBCHANT EXPLAINS HIS STATE'S FLOP. Iteiitlicanim Wa (ontrulleil by the Southern l'aoifie.

Eugene J. Cantin of San Francisco is registered at the Hotel Anderson. Mr. Cantin is proprietor of one of the largest vineyards on the Pacific slope. lie has been in Chicago selecting a position and completing arrangements for the wine growers' exhibit of California.

Tho wine crop of last fall fell away off from the usual secured, thus raising the price of wine a good deal in that section. In speaking of railroad affairs in California Mr. Cantin said: "Within tne past two week the freight rates on the Southern Pacific from San Francisco east have been red need nearly 50 per cent. You know he mthern Pacific is the connecting line between San Francisco and the East. It has all along discriminated against the city.

The steamship line which some of the leading capitalists have gone into recently helped bring the Pacific to its senses. then agnin you know that 000,1100 was subscribed about a year ago for the bui! ling of a road from San Francisco to Sacramento. This road will connect us with the Central Pacific and give us a competing line. Work on this road has already been started. "The Southern Pacific is very unpopular with our people.

Lei md Stanford's election to the I'nited States senate, and Mr. Huntingdon's having succeeded him as president of the road has somewhat abated this feeling. President Huntingdon has made very fair promises, and so iar lias carried them out. I really believe it was through the Southern Pacific that Caii- forma was lost to the Republican party last fall. The people seem to think that i ti Republican party was only the figure- head, and that the Southern Pacific management in things to suit itself.

This lack of confidence in the party Secured against it an overwhelming sentiment that nothing could stay." nilnrpil in Italy. Washington, Jan. Last January near Monontahela City James Odela, alias Pete ISacco, while shooting birds with a revolver, fired into an outhouse, where a fellow-Italian, named Jnies Placedo, happened to be at the time, killing him. Odela disappeared, and I lie case was never pushed. Last Friday communication was received by the authorities here from the Italian consul at Philadelphia stating that Odela had been iirrested for the crime at Brino, Italy.

The coroner's jury decided the shooting was accidental, but that Odela should be held for criminal nceligence. ci rv r.s jx mi i nr. Mn QriNN, an oil driller.dropped dead yesterday morning in a Diamond alley saloon. An infant child of Mrs. F.liza Fayne.

living back of Sharpsburg, died yesterday from an overdose of medicine. Jamks ll.iKVKV 7P years old. the oldest justice of the peace in the county, died Sunday at Mclvcesnort. Pkf.siiiknt Oomit.ks of the A. F.

of L. was here yesterday conferring with Amalgamated officials relative to Homestead matters. Mils. M. HorsK, the wealthy widow who was ordered to pay to for alienating the affections of Mrs.

Harry Collins's husband, has left for France. Faci rove smckinsr tobacco. that has held its Against Time Fears Nothing Unchanging Cheap as good to-day '2 tobacco tor yon should smoke KnnrioiJAiai Talk's i I i i I Wheat Jan T3i; li Feb 71 I 74 73- May 79 i Juiy 7s''4; "rgl 77 7'4 cobs i i Jan i'. 42' '2K Vi Keb 43' Mav 47 '-H; 4s 4.V 7V July 4 47V ATs i Jan 1 SI 31V SV :51 Feb 3i 3iv 3i anj: si May I 30.V 3j4j S4-i 35? l'OKR 1 Jan 0 1ft 00 ls is 72 Mav IS ir. la 40 19 12 19 jW 07 A I'apninr lilt.

New Yokk, Jan. 23 Hundreds of wheelmen who have been riding under the colors of prominent amateur bicycle anil athletic clubs will be found competing in the races of the Professional Cycle Kacing Association next season. The new association has made a popular Hit among the riders of the silent steed who have been wheeling for prizes and are anxious now to race lor money. From all parts of the United States letters have been received by the otlicials of the association asking lor information about the new organization. Jnrk Mitel ly Mother Ied.

New Yokk, Jan. 23. Owing to the death of his mother, which occurred on Saturday morning, Jack Skelly has been to call oft his proposed match with Geo. Siddons, which was to be a feature of the Conny Island Athletic club's March carnival. Fiitflixli HorMC (online.

London. Jan. 23. Colonel Thomas Ochiltree ill sail for the United States on February rt. lie will have in his charge seven horses belonsiing to Colonel North, the "Nitrate lviug," and some racers belonging to others which he will take to Chicago.

Sam Baxter lefcatel. London, Jan. 23. At the National spotting club to-night Abbott knocked out Sam Knxtcr in the eighteenth round, although Haxter had been backed at odds to win. The right was for 200 a side.

Sporting otPH. The new arena of the Crescent City club will have a seating capacity Harvard does not want to re-enter the Intercolrigiafe Foot Hall association and will not, do so. The Chicago dog show, beginning February 7, promises to be one of the biggest events of the kind ever given. Yonder Ahe is the victim of the wils of a slippery doorstep. He fell and fractured his right shoulder on Saturday.

Tommy Ilowd does not wish to play in St. Louis. He wants to return to the senators, as also does Pitcher l)uryea. The Baltimore team is trying to arrange a number of exhibition games with the Pirtsburghs in April. The Orioles play exhibition games in Louisville April 8, ai.d 10, and in Cincinnati, April 14, and lti.

Washington intends to carry tint over 13 players this year, and make few changes after the team has been made tip. Last year's experience with some 30 odd players was a costly lesson, and the mistake will not be ide again. Joe Lewis, the backer of Alex Greg-gnins, has posted a torteit of S.nio in the hand of Captain A. Cooke at Huston, and issued a challenge to tight any middleweight in the world before any recognized athletic club in America, and prefers Young Mitchell. oiu.i its iiiii n.

Men Who Tleeeed I'ittburgtier nncht in Ilnllhiiorc Jacob Frey, the city marshal of Baltimore, sent a telegram to Superintendent O'Mara last night telling him of the arrest there of Thomas Hamilton anil Otto Deucker for forgery. A description of the latter was sent and it is asserted here he is the man who secured some tl.H io by forgery from the Kt. Pitt, Masonic and Farmer's National banks two days before last Christmas. 1 nquiry was made here just after that time bv police officials of half a dozen city's who wanted to know the mode of his operations, saying that the same tricks had been played by a sharper in those towns. A description showed hiiu to be 1 he same individual who operated here.

The otiicials of Nashville said he secured In Toledo he got and he also vot various sums in Cleveland, Kansas City, Topeka a. id other cities. After he left here he raised in Brooklyn, and it is supposed he went to iltimore from there. He wont under the name of A. Gutman here and work-d with a man named Howard.

He was known under the aliases of Stevenson. Hinckley, Hulk-ley, Thomas and K. D. John. Mr.

Metcar, a director of the Ft. Pitt bank, is interested in the Baltimore prisoner's detention, and after a conversation witn Superintendent O'Mara last night derided to extradite him in case he is not held at Baltimore. A BLOW AT TIIK A I A S. The V'nlted Stale ompaiiy 4iet the Iteadinu: Line. Philadelphia, Jan.

23. It transpired to-day that an alliance that took ef-lect on the first, of the year has been entered into between the United States Kx-press Company and the American Kxpress Company. Hitherto the American express has had a contract wilh the Adams Express Company, and has been in the nature of a feeder to the Adams. A 10-years contract was signed to-day between the United States Express Company and the Beading Kailroad Company by which theUnit'-d States express will carry all express matter on the Beading road and leased lines. The United States company has been carrying the express business of the Beading for several years, but hail only a yearly contract, 'ihe old contract also applied only to the Beading's own lines, hut the new contract includes the Li high Valley.

The Adams Express Company has neeii trans)iting the business ol the Lehigh alley, and the loss ot its business will ba a severe blow to the Ad mis company. Tlie contract between Beading and the United States company is to go into ell'ect on February 1. Mr, ope lte(iisel Liberty. Philadelphia, Jan. 23.

The case of Mrs. Josephine Cope, the wi.low of Caleb Cope, who was recently committed to the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane, came up to-day on a writ of habeas corpus. The application for her detention in the asylum was made by Mrs. Cope's youngest son, l'orter F. Cope.

Her eldest son, Caleb Cope, desired her release. After hearing testimony to-day Judge Hare refused to grant her liberty. The judge said if any suitable piace was provided her which would be more advantageous to her under the circumstances, the court might order a transfer. 'I lie Leak Is omul. The big leak in the Butler street water main was found yesterday morning at Thirty-fifth street.

This trouble has existed for a week, and has flooded many cellars, causing a great, deal of damage and inconvenience. All il. rs caused bv a bilious state of the system can be cured by using Carter's Little Liver Pills. No pain, griping or discomfort attending their use. Try them.

TIIK PEOl'LfS MORI), III Til AVE Iio," kilt Siiili at 1-2 iriee. A lot of kilt suits in plain blue or fancy cloth sizes 2 to ti years were 1 75 and Your choice to-day at 1. Campbell Dick. I i I I I NOTHING SENSATIONAL ABOUT IT. Pennsylvania Will Not Withdraw Prom the College League.

BILLY PLIMMER CHALLENGES DIXON Last Friday Thil Auten of Chicago, W. W. Kerr and A. Huekcnbcrger purchased W. 0.

Temple's stock in the Pittsburgh base ball club, and thus secured control of the organization. This is the deal that has foepn guarded with so much secrecy by the magnates. Mr. Temple, who owned over 400 of the 8u0 shares, sold out every cent's worth and will retire from base ball altogether. Messrs.

Auten and Kerr now control the club, which means that Uuckenberger will have full ewing, and absolute power regarding the make-up and handling of the team. The present stockholders are Auten, Kerr, linckenberger, Scandrett, Brown, Ray, Baldwin, Hanlon and Tener. There is nothing sensational in the deal as one was led to believe there would be by the mysterious attitude of the magnates. Since the close of last season Mr. Temple bad expressed a purpose to quit th ball business.

Manager IJuckenbergcr, as it known, received an option on his stock, but tailed to raise the required sum. Then Auten and Kerr stepped in and the deal was accomplished. HIM. SOT WITIIDAW. Init) Ivniiln Will the Ilest She C'iiii With II hw Material.

Philadelphia, Jan. 23. The action of the collegiate delegates at the meeting of the Intercollegiate Foot Bill Association in practically relegating the- University of Pennsylvania to defeat by barring from playing all students outsida the academy department is angrily commented on by Pennsylvania undergraduates. The prevailing sentimedt among the students is to withdraw from the association, but it is probable that the counsel of older heads will be adopted, and Pennsylvania will continue in the league. John C.

Hell, chairman of the toot bail committee, voiced the sentiments of the graduates of the college when he said to-day that I'enn sylvania would remain in the association and do the best she could with the material in the academic department. By the action of the delegates Saturday Pennsylvania will lose every men that played on last year's team except Left Guard Thornton. Six of the substitutes, however, are eligible, and with these and what luaterial can be developed between now and next fall Pennsylvania will do battle with her old toes. Nnuw Nlorni at JfKW YORK, Jan. 23.

Five out of six is the record of winning lavorites to-day. There was a slight snow storm, and the attendance was poor. First race, oJ3' furlongs Fred Lee first, laurestan second, Marcellus third. Time, Second race, 4' furlongs Mayor B. first, ulhatton second, Kxcellenza filly third.

Time, Third race, 3 furlongs Blossom filly first, Blue and White second, Tody Smith third. Time, Fourth race, 4.j furloncs April Fool first. Bed Kim sscond, Lucy Cla.k third. Time, Fifth race, 1 3-Ki miles Sir George first, Baylor second, Maggie K. third.

Time, Sixth race, furlongs Greenwich first, Kepeater second, Vera third. Time, 1:24. I'll Will Weivh IH5 PountU. Chicago, Jan. 23.

Said Bob Fitzsim-mons to-day: "My tight with Hall will not be for tho middle-weight championship. Hail would not come down to the weight limit, which is at, l.jR pounds 1 wanted to tight tor a side bet of 510,000, but Hall declared that the purse itself was big enough. 1 how weigh pounds and expect to go into the ring weighing about 100 or 165 pounds. Instead ofjtearing myself down 1 will build up a bit. If I can't beat Hall, he won't beat me.

Of that 1 am certain. The fight ought not to last over 20 rounds. I am so confident that I will convert all my belongings into cash and bet on it myself." Carey Will Xot Retire. New Yokk, Jan 23. After his defeat in the amateur athletic union championships at Manhattan field last summer, Luther Cary, the well-known sprinter of the Manhattan Athletic club, went to Chicago and announced his intention of retiring from the cinder path.

Like Owens, he thought that he had won enough honois, and ho determined to allow Jewett, the new champion, to have tho field all to himself. Lately, however, Cary has changed his mind and he has notified Trainer Kobiuson of the Manhattan Athletic club that he will take part in the world's lair contests. Vltle'N I 'once nml Athlete. New Jan. 23.

The Yale gymnasium has received a valuable oil painting, a gift of Chauncey M. De-jew of New York. The subject is the old Vale fence, on which are represented nearly all of Vale's famous athletes. It is eight feet long and six wide. It is painted by Howland of New York.

It will hang in the main room of the gymnasium, where it will be put in place tomorrow. I'ijcht Hot eon Ilox and C'nt. Laramie, Jan. 23. A fight has been arranged to take place next Saturday night between a pedigreed bull dog and a mountain wild cat for a purse of 5100.

A week ago last night a similar event took place. The cat was killed in three minutes, and as the same dog is to fight next Saturday tho betting is in the canine's tavor. Jlnnlan Will Challenge the Winner. ToKON'To, Jan. 22.

Fdward Hanlan, the oarsman, will challenge the winner of the Bubear-Hosmer race for the championship of Knglaml, for from 200 to lo00, and will take or give fur expenses, the race to be rowed next April over the Thames championship course. Hanlan has deposited 200 with the London jioitguiau. Winner at Xew Orlean. New Om.KAXs, Jan. 23.

The track was heavy to-day. The winners were: First race, h)i furlongs Virgin; time, Lll. Second rate, furlongs San Salvador; time, 1:18) j. Third race, 0' furlongs Little Addie; time, 1:27 '4. Fourth race, 7 lurlongs Virden: time, 1:35.

Fifth race, 7 furlongs Dixie V. time, 1:33. IMimmer 4 hal leiisre Dixon. Nkw Yokk, Jan. 23.

Hilly Plimmer, champion bantam-weight of England, today issued a -jchallenge to light featherweight GeortefcJ i xon at 112 pounds. lor JDNKERMANN SEEN AT THE EUQOESNE. George Monroe in Aunt Bridget's Baby at the Bijou. THE GKAND OPERA PRESENTS KIDNAPPED Mr. E.

II. Sothern supported by Taniel Frohman's company presented ''Captain Lettarblair" at the Alvin theater last night, to an audience that filled the house. To criticise the play from a dramatic stand point would be to find fault with almost every incident, but in consideration of the enjoyment of the audience it was an instantaneous success. The plot hinges on the heroine anonymously transferring 10.000 from London to a provincial bank for the credit of her lover, so that he may discharge a debt of honor inherited from his father of which she is the creditor. The money is drawn by the villain of the play on a forged indorsement, a common transaction of course, in so large a sum by banks.

The lady proposes marriage in a painfully drawn-out scene. But why go on? A lady. Miss Merrington, wrote the play, and what she lacked in business knowledge and dramatic construction she fully made up for in poetic, bright, genuinely humorous lines, barring the numerous puns, and no more pure, clean, symp ithetic comedy has been seen in any theater here. As the play is cast, there are only th'ee characters, 'it(i 'ii I.etlnrhhi ir, 'iittn ILuliho, and Joi k'uix. The other characters furnish the necessary incidental lines, though some of the parts would be very strong in other hands.

As ('oiitaiit. I.rffitrltlair, Mr. Sothern has never had better part, and has never done anything better. Heisquaintlv humorous, touchingly sentimental, by flashes, and always a comedian of the highest class. Even his art, though, cannot encompass a continuous fidelity to the Irish brogue, a task at which otiier great comedians have failed.

Miss Virginia Harried as yannii' is good every mom. nt, and it is not her fault that she must do the wooing in the last act. Mr. liowland Brickstone as Jtrkinx was a capital character part, done as this well-known actor does everything. The people oi Pittsburgh will have few opportunities to see so good a comedy in any season, and should avail themselves of this one.

The audience laughed, not uproariously, but with enjoyment at every scene. The setting of the captain's quarters was true to nature, and that of the last act very elective. The play i smooth, connected, and free from great mysteries, and as a genuine treat to all present. The Itijou Thentpr. At the Bijou last night Mr.

George Monroe, with his good-natured half moon face, his "Oil, by his inimitable laugh, a double quartet of very pretty girls, an excellent company, each with a specialty, good scenery and striking costumes, presented such a rapid and clever fusillade of fun that the large audience could scarcely keep track of it. Mr. Monroe first came into prominence by hiscrea- tion of the Irish servant girl character, with George S. Knight in "over the Garden Wall." The part was so original, so lunny, and sucn a complete impersonation, that his reputation was made at once. The next season, with Mr.

Bice, he, went on the road as a star in "Mv Aunt Bridget," and is now one of the most suc-1 cessful comedians in the country. "Aunt Bridget's Baby" doesn't follow the strict rules of dramatic construction. It is not a great drama, in fact it is. like all farce comedies, a transparency, through which is shown the clever acts and specialties of a carefully selected company. The music is bright and catchy.

Mr. Louis Foy ami Mr. Henry Stanley made a big hit with their new songs, and the solos of Miss Nellie Hose- bud, who took the part of -is, "Aunt Bridget's Baby," won hearty plaudits, Miss Lottie Hyde as the Im tiring is a bright little star. Mr. lhos.

.1. Kyan, well known here, as from the wild West, brought shouts from the audience. Alf Hampton as ltu'V- ij Atlrrvid shared the comedy honors. A big hit was made by Mr. Monroe in his burlesque of Mrs.

Potter's disrobing as Tlfrnxr Uijqnin. The frnnI opera IIoue. The large crowd last night at the Grand cheered, applauded and laughed for nearly three hours. The performance was the play called "Kidnapped," and it proved to be exciting and sensational enough to please all. It is not the most carefully made play in the world, and in many places explanations were omitted, but it pleased the audience.

The villain, who is of the decidedly heavy type, "kills his wife, who was in his way, tries to fasten the crime ou a young artist, who is in love with the heroine. Then he forcef. the heroine's father to give his daughter to him in marriage. The heroine flees from the ceremony, is kidnapped, and held captive. She is rescued, of course, and all ends beautifully.

l.onin Ui if-iuil, "A German dude," is played by D. lv. Higgins, who is also the author of the play. He is always turning up to foil the villain, and helping along the comedy. Perhaps the best actor in the company is Mr.

Gus Mortimer, who is very good as the Irish policeman. Miss Lilly Buriiham plays Ihrisij, the policeman's daughter, and does very well. She caught the audience with a good uaiu and a tiright lace. Iiss Georgia Waldron as the heroine does pretty well, and the remainder of the com pany is fair. Mr.

Charles Moore, tho villain, is villainous enough, goodness knows, and Mr. Bert Andruss as the artist will be better when he limbers up a little. In mentioning the company the team of horses, the coupe, the patrol wagon, the steam launch and the Brooklyn bridge, should not be forgotten. Altogether "Kidnapped" is the kind of a play that will delight the people, and further remark is unnecessary. 2unnc5ne Hjcatcr.

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Sal otnf fcanbdt con aUerijatiD toff, con iiauSlt'tDen, Don be I'leroe, Don (noie unb 2d)led)te ieroe aber imtmr i ft be Ciile Onfel ba urn be fierce in ihrem irobel to belDen. Se in bod) be iUite odiauiDeller be rot bod) je aefebn I)abn. i'acben bap: mie mbft, bat inie to Iftjt flu nicfat njiiften lean roi up hbren molten. Ia Cble 3UDe 'Ufoko roe ene mo be bctten Don fmcm (ejdilecbt be roi je fleicfin bept. Xc abertnan unb Xribbclfilj icoen ocf (loot, 'lion be Srobenlieroe it sHriflitte unb Coutie flan? net gcroeffen.

aauje ift be iiorfteUuna. ene uta.etefne:e fleituffen. (St ift to appen bat aUe be bii (fe ilecfe nad) ben Ibeate.r a.an urn to iJadjen unb urn to ilikbnen. The F.rien usee. Harry Davis's Eden Musee and family theater was packed to its fullest capacity at every performance yesterday afternoon and evening.

When Lady Aama, the French giantess, and her midget sister. The World' Museum-Theater. At the World's museum this week Messrs. Connor and Keenan are serving a high-priced entertainment at no cost at all when it is considered that almost any feature of tho house is worth more than the admission fee. The theater stage was occupied yesterday by the.

"Adah Dixon Model Burlesque Company, who faced audiences that occupied every seat at each performance. The bill is a long one, ami every act received an encore. Between the two one-act comedies, a specialty bill by the Sheppard sisters in songs and dances, the Minor quartette in a uumlwr of good songs, Frauk Jones and Ida La Pearl in a comical scene, and Campbell and Schepp. acrobatic comedians, in ado a biff hit. 'Keception at the Hotel Grand" ami "A Turkish Tartar" by the strength of the company, with Miss Maggie Maxwell as Mifhiinf- Iisoii.

in the lirst, and Miss Hose Lydeli as I'ritn-e liw'-vr-tt, in the latter, were very amusing, and showed a number of pretty eirls, new costumes and tuneful songs. For the curio hail the attractions are new and up to World's standa rd. Academy of Miilc. At the Academy of Music last night night Manager Williams presented the Bentz-Santley combination to the usual packed house, and with the usual results, rounds of applause and a well-satisfied crowd. The company has been before the public so long, and has become so familiar to the patrons of the Academy, that tliey need no extended notice.

The Uentz-S intley troupe is made up of pretty and shapely women, original comedians and sketch, artists, and good singers. The amazons' march brought into piay all the beauties ot lace, form and costume, tor which the company is noted. The British soldiers' march was another feature illustrating the poetry of morion, and was warmly received. The company is full of clever people, ami ail received strong encores. Harry LtClair, and Pusey, Lester and Phillips, the comical trio, made big hits.

Frank Dumont 's new burlesque extravaganza. "America, or the Discovery of Columbus." was bright in lines, Songs and dresses, and displayed the strength of the company, and alo the girls. Harris" Theater. With the ad veil of far omedy many such plays were put on the stage, and most of them died of dry rot. But there was one that has lived and thrived years, on its merits for clever acting and spakling fun, and that is "Skipped by the Light of the Moon." 'Funny, very, verv funny" is the motto that has stuck to it all these years, ami it deserves it.

It would seem that a better title might have been selected tor so good a play, but Fowler and Warmingtuii have drawn the people each successive Season, so the name goes. Budd Boss and Charley Hagiu portray the two sickly husbands, and are ably assisted by the other members of the company. Large audiences were at the theater vesterdav. ami thoroughly eiiioy 1 the 11 fun. Not many vacant seats will be the re this week.

UK HKT TO JAIL Captain of a Philadelphia Company haruel Willi I uittrrz lemon t. Philadelphia, Jan. 2:5. For some months past the ranks of the Gray Inviu- cibies, the only colored company ia the State National Guard, have been almost, disrupted by a conflict that has been going on between Captain Charles H. liailstock and the men of his ceinni and.

The men charge that Hailstock was running the company's funds for his own benefit, and they preferred charges aeaitist hint det'ore the adjutant general. Hailstock claimed I that there was a conspiracy to force him out of the command, and at a meeting of the company last Wednesday night he summarily discharged the most active of; his opponents. To-day Sergeant John Montier, one of the discharged men, had Hailstock arrested on the charge of em- bezzhng fsuo. Hailstock was committed in default of bail. I lol'a LS.

Jam km I Ha M-it of Franklin is at the Monongahela house. Jottv a voting business; man of Washington, Pa. was hero yesterday. i S. H.

Fitkk.n, an iron manufacturer of i Akron, is registered at the I hotel. i i J. I. Wolfe and T. N.

P.arnsdall, busi- ness men of Uradford, were in the city yes- terdav. (). If. L.M fl who is interested in the glassworks at Findlay, O. is stopping at I the Monongahela house.

Attohnkvs W. H. MoOiy and A. G. Duncan lett last niht for Sr.

Augustine, where they will join Attorney L. It. I). Ueese in a two-mouths' pleasuring. H.

of Philadelphia, a wholesale dealer in plumbers' supplies, is at the Dmpicsne hotel, looking after his interests here. Jiusinens has been first-rate all winter. Cll J. Cl.AKKK and family left last night for Florida Keys, where they will spend the winter and early spring cruising in it vacht which Mr. Clarke, has lately purchased.

Jt'lxif'. 1 1 akky White of Indiana, Pa. went to Philadelphia last night. Ho said his town is enjoying a substantial business boom, speaking with pride of tho work of a new glass factory. CrF.OKiiK W.

KlXNt.v, a coal operator from Cleveland, and K. F. Luce, a coal dealer lrom Chicago, are at the. Monongahela house. They say there is a great shortage of coal all over the country.

J. C. SlBLf'T of Franklin went to llarrisburg last night to attend a meeting of the State board of agriculture. He. favored Congressman Hatch of Missouri for secretary of agriculture.

llF.NKY Wick, a prominent banker and real estate owner of Yonngstown, and his wife sire registered at the Duipaesne hotel. Mr. Wick is here on a business trip and his wife accompanied him to visit seme friends in the city. Assemblyman W. T.

Marshall of Allegheny went to Harrisburg last night. He triumphantly displayed a bill which he said he would present this morning. It was exclusively an act making it lawful for newspapers to be, published and sold on Sunday. Ministers, lawyers, teachers and others whose occupation gives but little exercise, should use Carter's Little Liver Pills for torpid liver and biliousness. One is a dose.

Try tliem. Laud Jan May Julv s. KlBS- .1:111 Mav Julv :10 9i 10 s7 7'J 10 i1 9 97 10 11 07 i 11 12 11 00 I 10 0.5 10 In 1 10 15 10 9 10 10 72 io co 9 95 iio oo 07 11 1-7 10 90 10 82 10 05 io 03 10 10 50 Car receipts for to-day Wheat. 373 cars; corn, cars; oats, cars. Estimates for to-morrow Wheat, 310 cars; corn, 540 cars: oats, 338 cars.

C'otlee nnl Nngnr. "F.w York, Jan. 23. Coffee Options barely steady at 5 points up to 10 points dowifand closed firm and unchanged to 10 points up; sales. bags, including January, bi.70f lti.80c; February, li.tGc; March.

Id. -loOi April. lti.30c; May, l'i. June. 1 'J5( a lt.30c: July, li.

mber, ItV-'Oet 10. 2.1c; ctober, liecember, lt. 20c: spot Rio firm and more act ive; Xo. 7, tsucar Raw firmer and dull; centrifugals, latest, ratined quiet an 1 steady. Anollier 1 nl II islin ny man.

About 7 o'clock last evening as Miss Sailie Parker was walking along Fifth avenue, near Wilkins avenue, a man snatched her roc ket book and ran. Miss Parker notified a clerk in Kaercher's drng-i store, who cave chase and captured the 'thief on Westminster street. The purse contained 5-0 ami was recovered. The prisoner was sent to No. 4 police station, i lie gave the name of Janu Hamilton, his ho tne in Cleveland, ami said he was buiii-j nnng f.round" for a living.

i i The Mctiil Marliet. New Jan. 21. Pig iron I and about steady: American, Si la 50. Coppi-r easy and quiet: I S12 00.

Lead quiet: domestic, $3 i0 easier; siraisb'S, S2' 25 dull 2 lake, Till SEAL Health SDLMl and ComfOrt are AVe will state why in a word. Messrs. Harris Kussak, the largest Fur house in York, go out of business February 1. We have taken advantage of this by purchasing at first cost of manufacture the remainder of their 30-inch, 32-inch and 34-inch deep, loose-front Seal (Jarments. They are all -No.

1 qualities and brand now goods. AVo quote prices with prices they sold at be est Jill AM bvthe use of roor ir' JMI The one tobacco fore this sale: 30-inch Garments, 175.. 32-inch Garments, 137.. $240. $260.

Garments, $200.. Were $275. vou to lav them aside, as next season price own tnrougn an me cnanges or time and against all competitors is BlackwellV Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco. 34-inch It wii: rav A Question WHV will not be us low. PAULSON 441 Wood Street.

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BLACKWELL'S DURHAM TOBACCO DURHAM. N. C. in I ti 3 WT3LCKVfeV EES' 2,500 to S5.0C1 Vi side and the feather.