Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-28
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
.cbicauo claims to nave the influenza.

Chicago claims to have the influenza.
Two more CeIestlals have been killed
in Chinatown. San Francisco, by highbinders.
The directors of the LacKawanna Railroad
| yesterday declared the regular quarterly dfvi-
| dend of IL per cent
The following offer of bonds was received
| at the Treasury and accepted yesterday after
/ noon: -Four per cents, registered $4,000 at 127
| -Lorillard's brick works at Keyport, N. j.,
! were damaged by FIRE early yesterday morning
to the extent of $4,000 The fire started In the
| boiler room.
Boston is overrun with ia grippe" OF
| actual cases demanding medical care 1t Is no
exaggeration to say there are 5000 cases in
and around Boston.
Two live stock insurance companies. Of
Plankinton. s. D., the Dakota Mutual and the
! State Live Stock, have had their charters taken
! away by the Public Examiner
| Eight little boys aged from 9'to l3 years
| have been arrested in Boston for larceny. They
] were members Of q band bound together by
| blood-curdling oaths to stand or fall together.
u. j. Plunkett, the Christian scientist, whose
| wife recently left him for A. Bentley WORTH
| ington the bigamist was married in Massachu-
setts on Christmas Day to Irene Venguita, OF
New York.
"A stormy meeting of the Chicago Board Of
| Trade Association,was held yesterday. The
meeting was called to protest against the recent
| advance in storage rates agreed upon by the
| elevator men.
The furnaces Of the Chestnut Hip Iron Ore
Company. at Columbia which have been idle
| for three years. are being repaired to be put in
blast Immediately. They are among the largest
furnaces in Pennsylvania.
Thomas Smith, aged rs of Canton, Mass,
died yesterday morning. He had been i'll with
ia grippe" and ventured out before he had
entirely recovered. His illness developed into
pneumonia, with the stated result.
1T is stated that the nter-oceanic Mexican
railroads viii pool their freight and passenger
rates. Work on the Inter-Oceanic road is being
vigorously pushed, and the line to Vera Cruz
will be completed at an early date.
Michael Boland, the husband of ST. Louis
woman and the father of IL St. Louis children,
has been located at Bright Star, Ark, spending
second honeymoon with l6-year-old BRIDE.
He will be prosecuted for bigamy,
Joseph Newman and Ernest Jomberg step
ped off a street car platform on railroad
crossing in Chicago. Thursday evening" and
were struck and thrown down by train. New
man was fatally injured, and Jomberg may die.
Wesley Gheezua, young man living near
Dover Bridge, Nd, died yesterday from the
effects of an accidental shooting on Christmas.
He was crossing a stile when the hammer of
his gun feil, and the charge went into his head.
The cable working between Maranham
and Rio Janelro has, according to latest adj
vices from Brazil, ceased to work. No cause Is
given for the break in the line, as means of
Communication between the two points is
limited
DR. Paul ZoIki, the New York dentist, who
recently entered the Office of Dentist Q. II Del
amater, and assaulted the latter with an iron
bar, yesterday pleaded guilty, and was SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment and to pay
fne of $500
lin Newport, KY, Mrs. Reda Huch, widow
aged 81 years, while on her way to mass yester-
day, attempted to cross the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad track, when she was caught
by passing engine and frightfully mangled.
She was killed instantly.
John Hoos, . resident of Harlem, Ill,
was found in the river near the Rush street
bridge, Chicago, Thursday night, with his
skull crushed in and in a drowning condition.
The circumstances surrounding the affair
point to robbery and an attempted murder.
"A terrible accident occurred near Van
couver, B. c.. Tuesday Six young men, out
sleigh riding, were driving along the road, when
tree fell, crushing the sleigh, killing four of
the occupants and the horses. The names of
the dead are: James lawson, q. d. Campbell,
Joseph Lock and j. V. Bodwell. The other two
escaped with severe bruises
Natural gas has been discovered at Red
field, IN Sphinx county, South Dakota. The lind
is the strongest yet struck in the State, and its
quality is of the best. The discovery was made
by parties digging for water. The pressure is
so great that IL carries sand and gravel 80 feet
in the air. This is the fourth discovery of the
kind made in South Dakota within 80 days.
William Green and George Wilkerson, two
negroes are under arrest at Leavenwoith Kan,
for the alleged murder Of the old soldier, Alex.
Blackburn, who was found in an clubhouse
Thursday with his skull crushed. The coIored
men were seen with Blackburn the night of the
murder. 1t is supposed that the pension money
that Blackburn had recently drawn was the in
kentiVe for the crime.
The scaffolding at the new building of the
First National Bank of Baltimore gave way
yesterday afternoon, and preeipitated Fore
man William Devine, and William DENLY and
Thomas Elliott, bricklayers, so feet to the
ground floor. DENLY IS So badly injured in
ternally and on the head that his death is ex-
pected momentarIly. Devine and Elliott are
also quite seriously hurt.
The body of Lille Cook, an attractive young
girl the victim of malpractice, lies at her late
home in Brooklyn, N. Y, and DR.. Vansile has
fed, it is alleged. TO avoid the consequences of
an unlawful deed. Howard Terrell, the young
man whose name is coupled with that of Miss
Cook. left home on Thanksgiving eve, and peo-
pie in the neighborhood say he took about
& 600 with him. Nothing has since been seen
OF him.