Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Acting Secretary of the Treasury yes
| terday afternoon accepted the following bonds
Registered 415s S555, 100, at 10S3a.
"A famine is prevailing in portion of the
| interior of Russia. Many persons have died
from starvation in the district of the Oren-
burg.
| Fire in Philadelphia. yesterday, destroyed
| Rudolph Bankenberg's large importing house
and several adjoining buildings and stocks
| were badly damaged.
The machine shops roundhouse and car
! shops of the Big Four Railroad, at Cincinnati,
were destroyed by fire between 8 and O'Clock
| this morning. Loss about 100000
| Elaborate preparations are making for
holding beauty show in Paris in April, the
entries to embrace types of Ethiopian and
/ Mongolian as well as Caucasian beauty. The
| first prize will represent value of S. 900.
The House Committee on Military Affairs
| has decided to recommend the appointment of
| W. H. Markham, of Pasadena, Cal. as man.
| ager of the Pacific Coast Home for Volunteer
| Soldiers Mr. Markham was a member of the
Forty-ninth Congress.
Two thousand and five hundred men were
discharged from the Panama Canal works at
Tavernilla on the 10TH, The contractors con-
tinue to curtail the work on all the sections.
There is strong military force on the line of
the canal to maintain order.
in the case of Gore versus Best, the Su-
preme Court of California has decided that
when the Government had patented lands to
the Central Pacific Railway, with the under
standing that they were agricultural lands, the
said railroad could not afterward be dispos-
sessed of them by persons setting up mining
claims thereon, even should the land prove to
be mineral, unless there is a reservation OF
mineral lands other than the general one by
the GoSernmenr.
1t Is said that the arrest of the persons who
planned and aided in the assassination of Hon.
John NJ. Clayton at P1ummerVille, Ark, will
soon be accomplished. One of the suspected
parties belongs to family whose reputation
tends beyond the limits of Arkansas, being
well known throughout the country, and it is
due to his prominence that officials, before
making an arrest, are endeavoring to establish
to a certainty what up to the present time is
only well-grounded suspicion of guilt.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road was held yesterday. The only change in
the Board of Directors was the retirement of
Jay Gould, whose place was filled by HenryA.
G. Taylor, a son of the late Moses Taylor, whose
estate is still the largest holder of the companys
stock. The retirement of Mr.. Gould was in
accordance with his wish as expressed in a let
ter in which he said his health IS too poor to
allow him'to devote his attention to such bust
ness.
"A private cablegram has been received
from Nice announcing the prostration by par
alyss of Bishop G, T. Bedell, of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. The Bishop is an
old man and had to relinquish the work of his
Office nearly year ago on account of failing
health. He has since been travelling in
Europe. Three diocese conventions have been
held to choose an assistant bishop who will
eventually succeed him, but none of the di-
vines elected would accept the position.
Should the Bishop die soon the Episcopal
Church would be lett without head in North
ern Ohio.
Mr.. Greenbaum, ex-United States Consul to
Samoa, is quoted as saying, with reference to
mail matter reaching Captain Leary when at
the Samoan Islands: 1T is nothing new to me-
When was in Samoa 1 was informed by an
employe of the German Trading Company that
they had a regular system of opening letters by
steaming them over boiler, and by this proc
ess opening the seal and muclage. 1t was then
easy TO take out the contents, copy all CORE
spondence therein, and replace them in proper
manner without being noticeable. On this &C.
count used silk thread and ribbons as fasten.
ings, sealing them together securely to protect
my mail, and notified the Government at Wash
ington."