Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-14
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


M. NJ. Estee says the printed statement
that he had written to a friend. saying he
would be in the Cabinet, is wholly untrue.
j. Bellahy, agent for jeweler in Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, has been arrested IN Montreal
for stealing $1,000 worth of his employers
goods.
The French Senate yesterday by vote of
22S to 81 adopted the bill providing for the re-
establishment of the scrutin d'arrondissment
system of election.
Emperor William yesterday gave audience
to Lieutenant B. H. Buckingham and Lieu
tenant Aaron Ward, the military and naval
attaches of the American Legation at Berlin.
Barney Kennedy, the Dubuque wife MUIR
derer. has been denied a new trial by the Su-
preme Court His crime was most atrocious
one. and wholly without justification. He will
be hanged March 4.
I'm the Canadian House of Commons last
night postmaster General Haggert announced
that the maximum postal matter TO be sent
with Scent stamp will be raised from half an
ounce to one ounce.
s-Royal Ryder, aged 10 years, of Youngstown,
son of Edward Ryder, Lake Shore employe,
died this morning of inflammation of the
bowels, death being caused by eating paper
wads while attending school,
The Secretary Of the Treasury yesterday
accepted the following bond offerings: Regis
tered AS. s5 500 at 109; Sl6600O at 1O935 $OOOOo
at l09l $50 600 at los, ex-interest and S. 900 at
10915; 411a5s coupons. $4,000 at 100.
Captain Wissman starts tonight for East
Africa. Some of the members of his staff have
already started. The steamers purchased for
the expedition for coast and river service will
arrive at Zanzibar about the end of the present
month.
The extension of the Quarryville branch of
the Reading Railroad, to connect with the
York and Peach Bottom road, and through that
with the Maryland Central, will soon be made.
This will give the Reading direct line to Bal
timore from their coal mines.
I'm the action for divorce brought against
Marie Temple. the actress, by her husband, Mr..
lizard, Mr.. u. w. Leslie, proprietor of the Lyr-
ic Theater, London. correspondent. from
whom damages were claimed, has been sem
fenced NY the Court to pay to Mr.. lizard the
sum Of IS 600.
"A number of stockholders in the yChicago
Consolidated Bottling Company have applied
to the Circuit Court for receiver for that cor
poration, alleging that it has become hopelessly
insolvent through dissensions in the director
ate The capital stock of the company is $780,
06o. William Hafner was appointed receiver.
Fire broke out in the store of Ryan Diet
zer at Honesdale about 10 o'clock last night,
totally destroying the stores and stock of Ryan
& Dieter, boots and shoes: S. W. Powell gen.
erai merchandise; W Wefferling & Sons, bakery
and general merchandise Several other build
ings were badly damaged. The loss is about
S50,0O0
The Pennsylvania Railroad has taken out a
charter for line In New Jersey that will
shorten the route for through freight to New
York. 1t is called the Waverly and New York
Railroad, and will run from Waverly station
midway between Newark and Elizabeth, across
the Newark Meadows and across Bergett Point
to the National docks at Jersey City.
Examination of the persons arrested for
being concerned in the riots at Rome appears to
confirm theory which the Government would
fain have credited at home and abroad, name-
ly, that the disturbances were instigated by
French emissaries, and the authorities are still
using every etfort to gam further information
that will bear out their real or pretended be-
lief.
AT 2:20 o'clock this morning an alarm of fire
at the Southern Hotel, Wabash avenue and
Twentysecond street. followed by volume of
smoke which poured into the halls, created a
panic among the guests The fire department
succeeded in extinguishing the flames after
damages probably amounting to $4,000 had
been inflicted on the hotel and the property of
guests.
"A movement is on foot to form new coun-
ty from the portions of Wayne and Susquehan-
ma Immediately adjoining Lackawanna. The
towns that would be in this proposed new coun-
ty are Thompson. Forest City, Clifford, Dun
daft Uniondale, Susquehanna, Oakland, Har-
mony, Jackson, Gibson, Ararat and Herrick in
SusQuehanna county and Scott, Preston. Buck
ingham, Manchester and Starucca in Wayne
county.
Readings Liquor Dealers Law and Order
Society met yesterday and adopted constitu-
ton. Similar societies will be organized, if
possible, in every county in Pennsylvania. 1t is
probable that similar action will be taken at
the State Brewers Convention, in Philadel-
phia, this week. The society is organized to en-
courage members to comply with the liquor
law, to elevate the standard of the trade and to
protect resDectable dealers against unlicensed
dealers and violaters of the law.
The fact that the quantity of crude opium
imported yearly into British Columbia from
China has increased from II, 100 to 100000
pounds since 1878 has attracted considerable
attention at Ottawa, and with a view to ascer-
tanning how the product of this crude article is
disposed of, the matter is to be brought up in
Parliament this week. 1t is an open secret that
nine-tenths of the prepared opium produced by
the 10 opium factories i'll Victoria is destined
for and smuggled into the United States.
Two Chicago policemen yesterday morning
found in the middle of the road, a barrel that
had evidently fallen off a wagon some time
during the night. On examining it they found
it contained the mutilated remains of woman
in an advanced stage of decomposition. The
feet had been severed from the legs. In an old
bloody apron or shawl we're the viscera- The
long hair of the woman was matted with blood
clots and lay in confusion over the trunkless
head. The fragments were taken to the
morgue.