Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-09
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

line RTesl0enC yesterday 1Sbueu q pAOSioAt
tion admitting Montana as a State OF the
Union.
The reported death at Gratz of the wife oi y
Prince Alexander, the exruler of Bulgaria, Is
denied.
=. The President has appointed Charles
Riggs to be postmaster at Beatrice, NeD.' NISe
f. E. Rigg, resigned.
i'm Idaho, out of 10. 600 votes polled on Iues-
day not more than 900 we're against the O@Un @
stitution. The vote demonstrated that Ine
people Of Idaho are strongly in favor Oh 9'sse-
hood.
Simon Walker, of Chesterfield county, Nd,
the negro boy who assaulted Mary Ann " I -
aged IL years, and who was twice seDtence4 ~ "
be hanged and respited the last time until NJ
vember g. yesterday had his sentence commate;u q.
by the Governor to 20 years imprisonment IL
the penitentlary.
"A programme has been issued for ceie-
bration in Baltimore of the anniversary OF the
hanging of the Chicago Anarchists IL is lons
and violent, and closes as follows: "Anarcn-
lists, the day has arrived for paying homage 10
your comrades to brand your enemies, TO pIo-
mulgate your ideas, TO advance the SIruSSIei W
hasten the victory"
"A report from Newfoundland says that the
Thorburn Government was badly deteaIe1 n y
the elections Thursday by the opposl tion, leu
by Sir William Whiteway. The Colonial oecte- s.S
tary and Surveyor General have lost their seass:
A strong card of the Whiteway opposltionN W. was
the alleged injury done the people OF Ne"-
foundland by the Bait act.
"A boy giving the name and answering the
description of Willie w. Dickinson, who mys-
teriously disappeared about eight years agos,
and for whose recovery standing rewaru % %
$1,000 Is offered, has been found in the BOYS any
Girls Home at Los Angeles, Cal. The Ch1eI ot
Police has telegraphed the boys father, VINO
now resides in Bessemer, Mich, to come 10 Los
Angeles and identify the boy.
John Brewer a colored man, was arrested
streets of Petersburg, Va. The expression
which he was charged with using was ao-
dressed to an assemblage of negroes and was
that Lieutenant Crichton, who was killed AZ Ine
fire Thursday "ought to have been dead ana IN N
hades years ago." The Mayor fined him Sl9
and required peace bond penalty of sou on
an appeal he was required to give both an ap-
peal and peace bond In the sum of 81, OOO each'
The leading feature of the fourth day OF
gala week at Charleston, S. c., was tantastlc
parade at night through the principal streets; Us:
Five thousand people were in line and 5OO
spectators cheered them wildly. The influx OF
visitors from Middle and Upper Carolina and
adjacent States is little abated and every lncom-
ing train is packed. Last night the leadlng
feature was an illumination of the harbor ana
forts and the bombardment of Fort Sumter,
The grandest military event ever witnessed
at Toronto took place Thursday, when seven
regiments engaged in sham battle and other
military maneuvers in High Park. The evolu-
Minister of Militia, and Sir Frederick Middle
ton, commander of the military forces OF
Canada, and 2000O people as spectators. The
march past the Minister and commander after
the maneuvers was the most imposing feature
of the day.
Frank South, the Granger financier, of
Fargo, Oak, has gone to Canada with $1,000
in cash, leaving debts amounting to from Sl7,-
700 to $4,000 secured by property worth less
than s., ,OOO South purchased all kinds Of prop,
erty on the installment plan, paying small
amounts down and giving chattel mortgages
for the balance. One of his creditors closed
and levied on 40 head of cattle and some farm
ing implements, whereupon 81 other chattei
mortgages on the same property were filed, and
South crossed the frontier.
The following statement is furnished by the
Department of State; "a commission, known
as the United States and Venezuelan Claims
Commission, is now in session in Washington
to adjudicate claims of citizens of the United
Statea against Venezuela presented to the
former or its legation at Caracas before August
!, 1868, and to determine under certain circum-
stances as to rights of third parties in certii-
Gates of award issued by former similar COM
mission. Persons concerned will do we'll to
give immediate attention to their interests, as
the commission will expire under the treaty in
less than a year from this time"
j. A. Sheppard, of Chicago, dealer in
crayon portraits, is in Ballston looking for H.
K Chamberlain, who has been acting as his
agent in Syracuse N Y He claims that
Chamberlain retained several hundred dollars
collected for work done by the firm. Chamber
lain took many orders for portraits and spent
money freely. In September he was married,
after an acquaintance of few days, to Miss
Bertha Freeman, an employe of the st. Charles
Hotel in Ballston, and after living with her
three weeks disappeared and has not been seen
since. 1t is said that he has other wives living
Papers for his arrest are in the hands of off
GERS.
George w. Ewing. of Fort Wayne, Ind,
has been given a setback in his endeaYor to
wrest property valued at several hundred thou
sand dollars from parties in st. Louis, Chicago
Cincinnati and other cities. Ewing claims
property which was decided to his father, George
Ewing, Jr., by George Ewing Sr., with the
stidulation that the estate should descend to
the legal representatives of George, Jr. The
latter disposed of the property and made way
with the proceeds. The first trial of the
numerous suits in the case was made in the
Wabash Circuit Court: Judge Conner holds
that. there is insufficient cause for action.
Ewing's lawyers have amended the complaint
and will submit additional facts.
News has reached the commander of the
Mexican troops in NeuVo Laredo, of serious
trouble which is now going on in Mier, Mex
leo, down the Rio Grande from this point
about l60 miles. Last Sunday merchant
named Guteries was shot and killed by two
customs guards who claimed that he refused to
stop ana be searched on the road between Mier
and Camarog. On the arrival of the guards in
Mier they reported the affair, and the citizens
were SO inceDsed they raised mob and lynched
them. About 40 or 80 Mexican soldiers and
body of customs guards arrived there too late
to save the lives of the guards. and general
battle occurred, resulting in ths death and
Woundlng of some 10 or l5 persons.