Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-31
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Mexican & Appleton, shoe manufacturers
at Salem Mass, have assigned to ]. Beebe, of
Boston. The estimated liabilities are from
S65O00 to $4,000.
La Presse. the Boulangist organ. accuses
the French Government of falsifying 3OOO.OO0
voting papers at the elections for the Councils
on Sunday. Corrected returns show that Gen
eral Boulanger was elected in % cantons.
"A dispatch received from Nagasaki, Japan,
states that dreadful earthquake has occurred
in the western portion of the Island Kiou Slou.
The town kumamoto was destroyed. A great
number of people perished- A vast amount of
property was also destroyed.
-Advices from Assouan state that the ad-
vance of the deryishes is continuous. though
slow. A skirmish occurred yesterday between
Egyptian patrolmen and dervish outposts,
during which so dervishes were killed. General
Grenfell, the commander of the Egyptians, is
moving southwark and has reached Johki.
One of the after-effects of the great storm
of Saturday night at Chicago has been to put
up the price of brick about 81 per thousand.
Vast numbers of fresh nodded and unburned
brick were melted down into heaps of mud by
the food and the damage, it is said will run
up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars
Mrs. Ed Loomis, who resides on a farm in
the town of Osceola, Wis, committed suicide
at o'clock Sunday morning by taking strych-
nine. Her husband was attending to his stock
poison. Soon afterward she told the house.
maid. A physician was summoned but the
poison had done its work before he arrived.
The woman was daughter:in-law of George
LOOMS, of the same town, who cut his wifes
throat and killed himself May Ii.
Chief of Police Hubbard. of Chicago, &C.
companied by Lieutenant Alexander Ross,
have left for Winnipeg, where they will arrive
Wednesday at noon. The chief is determined
to have Burke, and as soon as the full bench
at Winnipeg renders its decision, it is probable
that the prisoner will be started South. The
chiefs object in going to Winnipeg is to per-
prisoner and the witnesses, Carlson and Mar
Iinsen, back to Chicago. So much has been
said about assassinating the men that he deems
it good judgment to exercise every possible pre-
caution to assure their safety.
Cattle men in the Indian Territory report
that Texas fever is playing havoc among the
cattle in the Territory. Over 40 head were seen
dead in one pasture alone, and in others num-
bers varying, from z to 25. They also stated
that hundreds of cattle were dying in Oklaho-
ma, and predicted that there would not be a
living head of the cattle imported into that
country from the States of Kansas and Ne
braska in two months. The fatality among cat
tie in Oklahoma is not caused so much from
Texas fever as from the effect the more south
ern climate has on them. Reports from Guth-
rie, Oklahoma City and other points in the
Territory verify this statement.
The forest fire which has been raging in
Colorado for several days was started over a
week ago by some sportsmen in No Name
canyon, whereby Mr.. ]. Brown. his family and
party OF ladies' narrowly escaped death-Only
escaping by wading through a creek for nearly
two miles on their hands and knees The fire
has now spread and covers an area OF over ten
square miles. The entire air in the western
slope is filled with smoke from the burning
mountains. Reports from Red Cliff, LeadvilIe,
Aspen and New Castle report the sun COM
pletely obscured. The sight from Glenwood in
the evenings is magnificent as the entire face of
No Name and Grizzly Mountains is one mass
of fame.
Final arrangements have been made for
President Harrison's trip to Bar Harbor next
week. He will leave Washington at $40 A. M,
August 6. in a special car attached to the lmi-
ted express for New York on the Pennsylvania
road and take the Fall River boat that night
for Boston. The day and night of the 7th he
will remain in Boston, leaving on the morning
of the 8th for Bar Harbor in a special train
over the Boston and Maine and Maine Central
roads. He will make speeches en- route,
He will be accompanied by Private Secretary
Halford, and it is believed by Mrs. Harrison
also, although there has been no definite an
nouncement yet as to Mrs. Hurrison's inten-
tions.