Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-09
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

John W. Hardee. for five years Probate
Judge OF Towner county, OAK, has disap-
supposed to be in Canada. A warrant has been
| issued.
| The young and talented opera singer of
Berlin. Catherine Michotsann, while on a visit
to Vienna, committed suicide by shooting her
| self with pistol. She was q years of age and
renowned for her beauty as well as her talents
No cause for the act is assigned.
"A. Frank, the owner of the British sealer
Black Diamond intends to demand damages
| from the United States Government If is
generally considered that Lieutenant Tuttle
acted entirely outside the law in breaking open
the captain papers. The law, it is under
stood, merely authorized him to take schooner
to some American port with all on board
-"Ckicago Frank" Logan. the Canadian fire.
bug, an lncendiary tramp who has made him.
self terror in many parts of the country, was
captured at Indianapolis: He is the incendiary
who set fre to the Philadelphia House of Cor
rection and burned a lumber yard at St Cath
crimes, Canada. He confessed that one of his
recent crimes was the burning of building at
Meriden, Conn.
A big mining deal, involving more than
81, COO 600, and embracing 600 acres of mineral
lands in and around Joplin and Webb City,
NO., has Just been consummated by o. NJ.
Iowner, of New York city. A forfeit of $50 0OO
has been put up to bind the trade. The prop
erty is to be operated by a syndicate of New
York. Kansas City and Joplin capitalists II is
probable that the capital stock will be more
AT Cleveland Wednesday evening Charles
Oberg, l3 years old. while creeping under a cir
Gus tent on the Westside. was struck on the
neck by one of the showmen. His wind pipe
was fractured, and after suffering terrible
agony all night he died to-day. His body, on
account of the escape of air which should have
gone into his lungs, was twice its normal size
when he died. Three showmen are under ar
IeSt.
The finding of the dead bodies of lille
Jones, his wife and two other persons is re-
ported from Corvallis. a small town in the
Bitter Root Valley, in Western Montana. A
young girl who had been shot in the hip was
also found on Big hole Mountain. All of the
others had been shot in the back party has
been formed 10 bring in the bodies. No further
details of the affair can be obtained, as Cor
wallis is without Geographic facilities. Jones
was married three weeks ago and was on the
road to his ranch.
Claus Spreckels was responsible for the re-
cent failure Of the great Magdeburg Sugar
syndicate. When Spreckels was in Germany
bankers who had agreed to back the syndicate
with several millions asked him what were the
chances for cornering the sugar supply of the
world Spreckels replied bluntly that it could
not be done so long as he controlled large cane
plantations on the Sandwich Islands and the
beet sugar product of California. Upon this
Information the bankers declined to advance
money, and the Magdeburg syndicate was
forced to appeal to the American Sugar
Trust and thus the details of the scheme
to defraud the revenue by artificial coloring
were exposed.
The Geodetic Survey party sent out by the
United States Government TO definitely de-
termne and establish the Alaskan boundary
are now at work: They stopped at Ounalaska,
where the souDdings were made and the varia-
ton of the magnetic needle was ascertained
The surveyors with their stores were disem-
barked at the mouth Of the Yukon river, and
proceeded on their way. The Canadian Interior
Department is thinking of sending an expedi-
tion to assist the United States Geodetic SURVEY
party in the establishment of the boundary,
hr1f
matters are satisfactorily arranged the party
will start next month. and, proceeding by boat
up the Yukon, will winter there and continue
their operations next year.
"A syndicate of capitalists. including
marck, Grand Forks and jamestown, OAK,
has been organized to develop a new canal
scheme that will reclaim upward Of 100000
acres of arid land in North Dakota
The idea is to construct a canal from the Mis-
souri, river at Bismarck, l,6SS feet above the
level of the sea, to Lake Traverse and Big
Stone Lake, 800 feet above the level of the sea.
This canal would run through a section of
country that Is In great need of irrigation
Later all canals are to be constructed by the
various counties, and hundreds of thousands
of acres of arid land reclaimed while the
present cultivated country will be wonderfully
enhanced in value.
The Democratic politicians in Indiana ara
still pursuing Colonel Dudley. and just now
they have a scheme for again attempting to ar
rest him IL he comes inside the boundaries of
Indiana They still have in their possession
the warrant for his arrest which was sworn out
last fall. and it is believed that the Grand ARMY
Enca mpment at milwaukee,, which he Us ex-
pected to attend, will afford an opportunity for
the use of it, If he goes to Milwaukee be will
be sure to pass through Indiana, and it is a part
OF the scheme TO have his movements closely
watched by detectives with view to tax ing
him into custody the moment he comes within
the jurisdiction of the officers of Indiana. The
warrant for Dudley's arrest is in the possession
of United States Commissioner Van Buren,
who, it is said, carries it in his pocket con-
stantly.