Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

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The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday
afternoon accepted the following bonds: ~
per cents registered, SSU, ,3O0 at l09s; $4,000 al
100 l2-l00.
The Welsh golfers have given notice that on
March lhey will demand an advance in their
wages. 1t is believed that the demand will be
refused and that strike will follow.
The President has pardoned George All.
bright, who was convicted in the Montgomery,
Ala, district for illicit dstilling and sentenced
to Is months in the Ohio Penitentiary. The
convict's family are destitute.
About l50 of Sitting Bulls followers have
left their agency at Standing Rock, and gone
up tile Big Missouri river. 1t is SAID that Sit
ting Bull has inspired them with hostility to-
ward the whites and trouble is expected.
Tile llage of Reserve. Kan. a town Of two
or three hundred inhabitants, siilated in Doni-
phan county, not far from the Nebraska State
line. has been 9uarantined by. the authorities
on account Of the smallpox epidemic that is
raging there.
Alfred A. Liscomb will start from New
York City on Monday morning to walk to
Washington. thus paying an election bet made
with George Griffin, oil Philadelphia. Ii he
fails to accomplish the feat he will have to pay
q forfeit of 81, 600.
The Nova Scotian bark Josie Troop, with a
cargo of chalk and crew of II men, was wrecked
Friday evening at Chicamicomico, N. G The
master and ten men were drowned. Six were
saved. The vessel and cargo are q total los'
The vessel is broken up and strewn on the
beach.
A freight train. running from Cam.
den to Jersey City, crashed into the rear of
another freight train OIL the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, just below Bordentown, N. Y, early yes
terday morning. The colliding cars were badly
wrecked- The total damage is estimated at
$4,000
The news of the signing by the President Of
the bill making four new States was received
in Minnesota with quiet satisfaction, but a
telegram from Helena states that all Montana
is celebrating, and Dakota is really beside itself
with delight From every hamlet large enough
to have a telegraph Office come dispatches ex-
pressive of state of jubilation bordering on
insanity.
The Sheriff of johnson county. Iowa,
seized, at the Burlington depot, two carloads of
beer and removed it to storehouse to await
the result of trial. A number of search
warrants have been executed against the
saloons running in a quiet way, and, as re-
suit every place In the city has closed up and
the town is under absolute prohibition, except
as to individual supplies.
The convention of Democratic representa-
tives from the various counties in the State,
which met at st. Louis, after great deal Of
discussion, finally provided for thorough or
ganization of the party by school districts
throughout the State, for the organization of
clubs in every county, and for the calling of a
State convention of club delegates for the
formation of a State League.
The extent to which the telephone has en-
tered into Connecticuts social and business life
is graphically shown by the summary of the
Sou hern New England Telephone C0mpany's
annual report, which has just been published
There are 25OO circuits in the State. 69Sl miles
of wire, of which 753 are copper, and 5,7l9 sta
tons, 2,793 of which are business places; l94
persons are given employment
The BODY of Edward Boyle was found in the
ruips of the Park Central Hotel, Hartford,
Conn. at $50 yesterday morning. This makes
the twenty-third victim of the disaster. The
remains were discovered in the tool room, un-
der the floor of the billiard room. and were
badly charred. The left leg was burned COM
plerely off at the thigh. Boyle was man'about
q years of age, vagrant, and slept wherever
shelter offered.
Dispatches from Northern Iowa state that
the cold Is very severe, the mercury ranging
from 10 TO 10 below zero at different points,
dispatch from 1shpeming, Mich, says: The
worst storm OF the season, and one of the most
severe ever known, is now raging over the en-
tire upper peninsula. Little snow has fallen,
but the wind has reached velocity of so miles
an hour, and the temperature has ranged from
25 to IS degrees below zero. 1t is now 35 degrees
below and still falling. The roads are all
blockaded and the country roads are impass-
able.
partially masked, went into the general mer-
chandse store of w. f. Yungblood, at Toyah
Tex. and compelled two clerks and four other
men to hold up their hands. They then bound
the arms of the men behind their backs. rif1ed
the safe of $1,000 marched their prisoners out
on the road about mile from town, then
mounted their horses and fed at a brisk pace
firing volley from their guns as they rode Off
SheriffS both east and west were notified and
posses are out looking for the robbers. As
usual. one of them was big fellow. while the
other was small man and appeared to have
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