Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-12
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Minneapolis street car lines are tied up by
a strike.
-Paymasters ]. R. Carmody and F. H. Hin
man have been placed on the retired list of the
navy.
Female White Caps soundly whipped man
named Hurlo9t at Anegan, Mich, for mall
treating his wife.
Board of Pension Appeals, in the Interior De-
partment, has resigned.
Alexander Emery, coffee and spice dealer
of New Haven, Conn, has assigned. Liabili-
ties. $4,000; assets, so 900.
France and China have agreed to connect
the China and Tonquin telegraph lines, and
thus establish communication between Saigon
and Pekin.
Henry E. Dixey (Adonis) has been served
with papers in a suit for divorce brought by his
wife, formerly Ida Glover on the ground OF
unfaithfulness.
The storehouse of the Suffolk Cordage Com
pany, at Chelsea. Mass, was damaged 60 the sx-
tent Of $4,000, yesterday afternoon, by fre. The
loss is covered by insurance.
William Wharton, the newly appointed
assistant Secretary of State, appeared at the
Department yesterday, took the oath OF off1ce
and made the acquaintance of the Department
officials.
The Governing Committee of the New
York Stock Exchange has decided to suspend
business on the Exchange on Good Friday; also
on the 18th and 30th instant because OF the
Centennial celebration
Thomas Mccarthy, one of the planners of
the Manhattan bank burglary, and who after
ward held up train near Troy, for which he
served seven years in prison, was yesterday
sent to prison for eightyears for grand larceny.
The new cruiser Baltimore has been docked
at Philadelphia for the purpose of having her
propellers put on. She will probably remain in
dock until the 18th or 10Th instant. Her bottom
was slightly muddy, but otherwise in good con-
dition.
AT a meeting of the Trunk Line passenger
agents. held in Commissioner Fink's office, New
York City. yesterday, it was agreed that the
system of paying commissions to passenger
agents be abolished. The agreement is to 60
into effect at once.
Edgar Swan. of Lynn, Mass, defaulting
ex-bank cashier was yesternay sentenced to
five wears in the Lawrence Jail for embezzle-
ment. The sentence was the lightest permis-
sible under the law, the Judge being requested
to be lenient by number of persons.
Mrs. ]. F. Hart, of Brookline, Mass. who
was so badly scalded in the accident on the
Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railroad,
near Joliet. died yesterday. The physicians IN
attendance say that Mr.. Hart and the other
wounded are doing well, and will probably re-
cover.
Tuesday night James Webster. of Detroit,
representing the Union Manufacturing Com
pany of Toledo, alighted from train at the
Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton depot for
lunch, leaving his vallse, containing SlAVu IN
notes, contracts and other papers in a seat.
While he was gone James Klein, a painter,
stole it and hid it in a saloon near by. and was
investigating the contents when he was ar
rested.
"A strike on all the Western roads center
ing in Chicago is one of the possibilities of the
near future. No other subject is discussed at
the secret meetings of the brotherhoods of To-
connective engineers and firemen. The impress
sion prevails among the men that the Western
roads have determined upon a general and
sweeping reduction in wag ges- During the last
week several things have transpired which tend
to strengthen this impression.
The new Inman line steamer City of Paris
completed her maiden voyage across the At
lantic at $40 A. NJ, yesterday. She left Queens
town at 3:l9 T. NJ. on April 4, and arrived of
Sandy Hook at 5:S yesterday morning, thus
making the trip from harbor to harbor in
days, Is hours and 50 minutes. From Fastnet
light to Fire Island the time was about five
hours less. She reached quarantine at 6:58 A.
NJ. and one hour and two minutes later she
was at her dock. 1t was expected that the new
steamer would make the trip within very few
hours of six days Her failure to do so is at
tributed TO the fact that her new machinery
had not time to smooth down, and because the
weather was not favorable to quick voyage.