Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-29
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Michigan Copper lode, one,of the best
mines in the Rawhide district OF Wyoming
Yania Salt W" Man%facturing a @ Company Of Pitts
burg. for $4,000 Ore will be hauled to the
company's Eastern works for treatment
1T is very likely that within few hours
Wisconsin's 'Black Bart viii be in the hands
pany. of Michigan. The sheriff and his men
are closely on the trail of the robDer, and as
they were reinforced by . pack of bloodhounds
they will soon overrake him. Fifty ambitious
men, who have been stim ulated by the offer Of
81 900 reward for the robbers capture by the
Milwaukee Lake Shore and Western Railway
Company. have also joined in the search
Milford, Conn.,, yesterday celebrated the
two hundred and fftieth anniversary of the
settlement of the city. According to the
records, Captain Thomas Tibbals discovered
the present site Of Milford. the river Wopo-
wage, the narrow gorge and Its cascade, during
the Pequor War, the Indians retreating to the
Fairfield swamps IN 1888. A party of settlers
summer under TibbalS guidance. ana founded
the town of Milford, August g. 1889 The
bridge and tower that have been erected to
commemorate this event are Of undressed
granite.
AT Baltimore the fleets of oyster dredges
are being painted, recaulked, overhauled and
fixed up generally for the oyster-dredging sea-
son, which opens. October Is and closes April Is.
truck and wood-carryiHg trade, are scattered
around about the shipyards. being fixed up.
The oyster-packers say that this season Is more
promising for the bivalve than the last, from
the fact that a number Of the large beds, which
have not been touched for year or two. are in
a thriving condition, and give indication that
the supply will be fully equal to the demand.
The erection of the proposed sugar refinery
at Burtis Bay, Md, is now assured. All the
capital has been subscribed, most OF it coming
from three or four Baltimoreans, and the
balance from New York. The output of the
refinery will be about $50 barrels day. two
thirds Of which could be used in Baltimore
alone, and as the price of the article will be
precisely the same as that governed by the
trust, the directors argue that they will get the
bulk Of the home trade as the freight is saved.
From the correspondence which has been GO
ing on between the projectors and prominent
siderable business Is expected with them. The
factory will employ about 500 men.
The steamship City of Paris, which arrived
at New York yesterday, has broken the record
again, beating her own best time from Queens
town by three hours and 40 minutes. Her
actual time (reckoning by Greenwich timel
was days, 10 hours and Is minutes. She left
Queenstown at 209 (Greenwich time) on Fri
day. Her run TOR the first day was 432 miles:
for the second. 493 miles; third, 502 miles;
fourth, 506 miles, and fifth, oO9 miles. The run
from 200 Greenwich time) yesterday after
noon, to 9:27 A. M (same time) to Sandy Hook
Lighfship was 346 miles The total distance
travelled was 2,78S miles. Among the passengers
on the City of Paris were Russell Harrison,
Andrew Carnegie, John A. Kassou and Joseph
Medill, of the Chicago Tribune.