Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-23
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Illinois has adopted the Australian system
of voting.
"A slight fall of snow is reported throughout
Michigan.
The President yesterday appointed Nathan
Kimball Postmaster at Ogden, Utah, vice John
g. Tyler, resigned.
"A number of towns in Central and South
| ern Minnesota report a hard frost doing some
damage to vegetation.
AT the Inman Line office in New York the
announcement was made yesterday that the
City OF Paris had broken the record for east
ward passages by an hour and IS minutes.
The heaviest rainfall known to the people
| in Western Wicomico county Maryland. for 81
| years, fell in that section yesterday. Growing
crops were submerged. Highways were badly
washed.
"A mine of graphite has been discovered on
the farm Of ]. II. Berch, near Plattsburg, Mo.
The vein is ~ feet wide and 800 feet long.
will be developed for stove polish. lubr1catlnR
| powders and lead pencils.
The grand jury of Union county, New
| Jersey. yesterday handed into court three IN
| dictments against General j. Madison Drake,
Commander of the Veteran Zouaves for crimi-
nal libel. He was held in s, 500 bail
case, at Chicago yesterday brought in YER
| dict in favor of Mr.. Carter, the defendant MI
| Carter was granted a divorce on his croSs-bill
charging unfaithfulness. An appeal will prob
ably be made.
R. N. Whitlock, manufacturer of box
shocks at Tiffin, o., complains to the Inter
State Commerce Commission of wrongful
classification of box shocks, which are now
charged higher rates than lumber, with which
they were formerly classed.
The Bourne Mills Corporation, of Fall
River, Mass, have decided to adopt plan of
proit-sharing with their employees. The plan
is to go into effect on the lst of July, and after
that date 6 per cent of the profits of the mills
Will be divided among the employees.
AT joint meeting of the Massachusetts
Freight Handlers Assemblies, 5572 and 7l74,
4. of L., Tuesday, it was decided to ask of the
Fttchburg Railroad Company's contractors an
increase in wages to S1 40 per week for men
working on the docks. and S1l per week for
men working in the freight houses.
Brooks & Wells, boot and shoe manufac-
turers at Westboro, Mass, with an Office at lob
Bedford street, Boston have failed. Liabili-
ties are reported at $50 200; nominal assets S90,
600 The firm, it is stated, has been doing too
large business for its capital which is $4,000
while the transactions aggregated S400 900
yearly.
Mayor Grant, of New York, yesterday
made announcement of his appointments as
follows: Police Commissioner, James ]. Mar
tin; Commissioner of Charities and Correction,
Edward Sheehy; Corporation Counsel, William
H. .Clark; Dock commissioner, j. Sergeant
Crane; Police Justices Charles N. Taintor,
Edward Hogan and General John Cochrane.
The most disastrous May storm and freshet
that has occurred in many years was expe-
rienced Monday and Tuesday at saltwater, N.
Y. The canal overhewed and the crops on the
lowlands were ruined. Four inches of water
fell at Comstocks, Washington county, and the
crops were badly damaged. A furious storm
of wind, rain and hail fell at Sandy Hill and
vicinity. Considerable damage was done to
crops by the storm. The Hudson river has
risen about three feet at Troy owing to the
rains.
-Tha Surname CAN'T of ob;o has dacidad
the case of the State against Henry y. Ives
and George h Stayner in favor of the defend
ants. The prosecuting attorney of Hamilton
county had taken exceptions to the ruling of
Judge Shredder, of the Common Pleas Court
where the jury was directed to bring in q ver
dict for acquittal, the defendants being on trial
Ior swindllng the stockholders OF the Gincin-
matt, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. The ex-
ceptions were overruled and the case dis
missed.
The American seamen who were brought
from Samoa on the steamer Rockton complain
OF the bad accommodations and insufficient
food on thai vessel during the voyage. The
steamer was greatly overcrowded, carrying 4A
men, while she had accommodations for but $50
at the outside. The Rockton had been used as
a cattle ship, and her general condition, the
men say, was miserable. The sailors also state
that while in Samoa they were compelled to
sweep the streets of Apia every morning in
front of the German, British and native prop
erty.
"A peculiar case of wholesale poisoning ON
the farm Of Mr.. Hayden, near Wichita, Kan,
has been reported. The father, mother, child
and hired man are deathly sick, and two cows
and horse lie dead in the barn yard.
1t would seem from the death of the ami
mails that the poison came from the well. Mr..
Hayden became sick Sunday evening and dur
ing the night his cows died. In the morning
the hired man complained of being ill, but
after vomiting he became better. Soon after
the daughter. aged Is was seized with convul-
sions. and had no sooner been placed in bed
than her mother and father were seized with
the same pains. The girl, it is feared, will not
recover.
An explosion of gas occurred in the base
ment OF the Van Ness House, Boston, yester-
day morning. The windows of the hotel were
blown out and those in the vicinity smashed,
while the lower portion of the hotel was
wrecked. Edward Levers, the porter, was dan
gerously burned and is not expected to live;
Ellis ZarditsA was dangerously burned about
the face and body; Herbert Russell, aged Is
clerk in the hotel. was badly burned about the
hands, head and face; Nicholas Emery, aged
81, a lobster peddler, and Clement Saunders
were cut about the hands and face by glass;
They are all in the hospital. Two men stand
ing in the entrance were blown across the
street, but escaped without serious injury. The
cause is said to have been the lighting of
match in the basement, where a gas-purifying
machine had been disconnected from the
service pipes, which had been left unplugged
1t is supposed one of the men now in the hos
pital Lit the match.