Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Judge Mckinney, of Ithaca, N. Y, was
thrown from his buggy last night and fatally
injured.
The indianapolis city council has unani.
mously passed resolutions favoring Chicago as
the place for holding the Worlds Fair.
in Nebraska the Republican Congressional
Convention has nominated Secretary of State
g. L. Laws to succeed the late Congressman
Laird.
Judge Garrison. Of Camden, n. J., has re-
fused new trial to Hillman, the murderer of
Herman Leidman and he will be hanged No
vember l3
-Chauncey Depew says that Grover Cleve-
land will again be the Democratic candidate
for President in 1882 He is not SO certain as
to the identity of tae Republican nominee.
John s. Bugbee, of California, has been ap-
pointed United States District Judge for
Alaska Territory and George w. Bartels Of
Utah, to be Probate Judge Of Salt Lake county,
Utah, by the President.
Major George w. Steele, of Indiana, one of
the men talked of as successor to Tanner, had
his left arm broken just below the shoulder
and his wife her left arm broken at the elbow
in runaway accident Monday. The accident
happened at Marion, Ind.
M Schneider, the great French iron mas
ter. recently read paper on his proposed
bridge across the British Channel between
Cape Grisnez and Folkestone He would build
IL 60tlTel1 VI ebcel anu Auleu ~
ten years. 1t would be on the Cantileyer prin-
ciple.
The New York Sisters of Charity are about
to establish mission at Nassau. New Provi-
dence. the old point of departure tor British
blockade runners during the war. The resi-
dent population, principally blacks and
Wreckers, are said to need missionary work
badly.
AT Spring Valley ILL.,, work has been re-
sumed in the middle vein by about so men, on
the conditions established by the Streator Ar
bitration Board. This was in opposition to the
resolution passed by the miners last Friday,
and for this reason some trouble was antici-
pated Nothing occurred, however, TO disturb
the peace.
The United States revenue cutter Rush has
arrived at San Francisco. Her officers express
fear for the safety of the United States steamer
Thetis, which is thought to be in the ice north
OF POINT Barrow. When the Rush started down
the Bear was reported to be coaling at Ouna-
laska Tor the purpose of going in search of the
Thetis The vessel is not considered to be any
too stanch to encounter field of Ice, and if she
is frozen In the ice as everything indicates, her
only safety lies in . heavy southerly gale.
The new Lebel rifle of the French army is
said to be Wonderful implement of destruc-
ton with its smokeless powder, the only objec-
tion 10 which is its intolerable stencil. This
would make the arm undesirable for house fr-
ing or fort and barricade defenses. The bullet,
which is of very small caliber. the maximum
being 322S inch, will pierce over Is inches of
solid oak at range Of go yards. The rifles are
produced at the rate of 1000 daily, and each
arm is accompanied with 5000 rounds of am
munition.
The steamboat Minnie Bay, bound from
Manchester to Cincinnati, with Us passengers
aboard, struck a snag Monday while rounding
to at Kramers Landing, opposite Moscow, O.,
and sank. The passengers became panic
stricken, but the officers and crew lowered
boats and yawls and safely transferred all the
passengers TO shore. The boat is supposed to
have broken in two and to be total loss. The
freight was removed by the steamer st. Law
renee. When built SIX years ago, the Minnie
Bay cost S23,0 900. She was insured for $1,000.