Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-20
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The President will visit Cape May Friday
and remain there until Monday or Tuesday OF
next week. He will make the trip both ways
by rail instead of by water, as at first intended
The President has appointed William
Wakefield postmaster at Humboldt Kan, vice
Mrs. Ella G. Kimball, commission explred and
Albert 81. Fortune. postmaster at Bloomfield,
Ia, vice Harry c. Evans, removed.
AT the inquest at Armagh into the cause of
the fatal railroad accident near there last week.
representatives of the Irish Northern Railroad
Company, on whose road the disaster occurred,
announced that the company would accept all
liability for the accident, and was prepared to
consider all claims for damages on account of
loss of life or injuries that might be presented.
II have no time to talk politics." said Gov
ernor Foraker, of Ohio in New York yester-
day. II am about to start for home and have
barely time to catch my train. l am not can
didate for denomination. have no desire for
the honor again. and believe it is time to give
somebody else a chance. l am aware of the
movement to push the nomination upon me,
but you can say for me that 1 do not want it
and will not take it"
The lucky North German Lloyd steamship
Saale is probably not the only craft that showed
an iron prov into an iceberg on June II. A
crystalline fleet of these lowering ship destroy
ers seems to have been drifting northeasterly
on that day along the current of the gulf
stream right in the path of adventurous navi-
gators who risk the higher latitudes to shorten
their voyage hither from European ports.
Other vessels report meeting with the icy feet,
and it is feared some accidents may have oc-
CURED.
among the farmers of Marion county, Indiana, by
the appearance during the last day or two of a
small, green bug or parasite that threatens to
demolish the wheat, oats and rye crop. The
pests appear upon ever head by hundreds and
planting themselves at the base of the grain
sap the life out of it, 1t is believed that the
backward portion OF the crop will be utterly
will be badly njured. Reports from ADJACENT
counties indicate that the presence of the par
asite is widespread.
"A young woman named Hannah Heitland
has been working for her brother in Quincy.
Ill. She recently left his house and walked to
her home in Tioga, a distance of 20 or 30 miles.
She showed symptoms of insanity, and her
vicinity. held sort of incantation over the
girl, sticking pins into her person to drive
away the evil spirit" The young woman be-
came almost unconscious, and in this condition
she was bound hand and foot gagged and
placed in a farm wagon. brought to Cathage
and placed in a livery stable. Here she re-
mained from noon yesterday until near mid
night last night in an unconscious condition.
The unfortunate creature was finally taken to
Jail, where physician is trying to save her life
Pins were still found sticking in her person.
A judicial investigation will be held.
The local option bill after hanging fire in
the Michigan Senate for weeks, passed that
body yesterday and will probably become law
as soon as it reaches the Governor. A number
OF serious defectS leu Lne supreme court TO de-
clare the local option law of two years ago un-
constitutional, and the new act has been care
fully framed to avoid these objections. On
this account the power of suspending the liquor
traffic in any county is given to the County
Supervisors instead of directly to the people.
Any time one-fifth of the voters of q county
petition for local option election the County
CLERK is required to call a special meeting of
the supervisors and they in turn to call the
election. If the county votes in favor of pro-
hibition the Supervisors have power to adopt
resolution prohibiting the sale of liquors, but
are not compelled to do so only as morally
bound by the decision of the voters.