Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-26
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

"A ten thousand spindle cotton mill to cost
s2OO,0 Is to be put up at Waco. Tex, this COM
ing summer.
The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday
afternoon accepted s76 100 ~ per cents, coupon.
1921.
Counsellor Brooke, for Messrs Ives and
Stayner. asked for stay of the proceedings
until this morning before Judge MARITIME in the
court OF General Sessions yesterday forenoon.
Ihe stay was granted.
Governor Jackson, of Maryland, yesterday
granted nolle prosequi in the case of the
State VS. James Graham Pearre, who was con-
v1cted OF an attempt to commit an assault on
Mrs. Kirkland. in Baltimore and pending an
appeal while under 5000 bail, fed the State.
The Court of Appeals sustained the court below
by divided court.
Finn Bros, of Grayling, Mich, working on
prospects north Of the Michigan mine, Satur-
day, struck gold ten feet from the surface. The
pounds of rock gold button worth s136 was
smelted. This is the fifth prospect on which
quartz carrying gold in wonderful amount has
been found.
The Captain of the steamer Kongolf
which arrived from Gonaives, Hayti. yester-
lished last week, that Hippolyte's army had
been routed at Gonaives, and Hippolyte him
self killed by one of his dissatisfied followers
The Captain of the Kongolf says that on the
l7th instant, when his vessel left the Haytian
port. Hippolyte was still alive and well, and
intent upon the defeat of Legitime. There was
no evidence Of disturbance at that time.
lit 10 an old saying that money talks" It
talked to the tune of $500 for the benefit Of the
Parnen Defense Fund at the meeting held in
New York City Sunday night in the big hall at
tached to the Church of the Paulist Fathers.
The chairman said the meeting was to ''cele-
brate the wake Of the Parnell Commission.
From the point of view of most of the speakers
1t was q celebration of the obsequies of the
London Times, and the impending overthrow
OF the Tory party in Great Britain. General
OBeirne, Judge Brown and DIR. William P.
Wallace spoke.
Mrs. Lizzie McAuley and her two children
were found dead in bed together at Chicago.
In the woman's mouth was rubber tube con-
Meeting with the gas jet. The gas turned on
full indicated that Mrs. McAuley deliberately
She is the woman who shot her husband De-
cember 4, 1887, while in a fit of jealousy. No
indictment was found against her by the grand
jury She has suffered from q mild form of
insanity ever since the murder. One of the
children found dead by her side was boy 81
years old, the other girl ~ years of age.
The President has committed to i'm
Kee-Da, alias Locate, New Mexican convict.
ed of murder and sentenced to be hanged No
vember 8, 1888, but subsequently respited. The
President says: IF this convict was not an
Indian, and If was not entirely unfamiliar
with the intoxicant 'Tis- Wing which for the
time being made him insane. I should, think,
feel that could not interfere with his case.
But the Judge and District Attorney who sem
fenced and prosecuted him, advised a commu-
tarion, and as they knew more of the Indian
character and the effects of the particular
beverage spoken of, follow their Judgment.