Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Fire DESTROYED the Alden block at Bald
Einsville, N. Y, yesterday. Loss, S45,OOO; COW
cred by insurance.
BY direction Of the President. the State Of
Wisconsin has been transferred from the Mlll-
ment of Dakota
The Secretary of State is informed that
Ecuador will be represented at the conference
of American States to meet at Washington
on October 4 next.
Governor jackson Of Maryland, is a very
sick man. He is suffering from erysipelas OF
the face. he bore the journey from Philadel-
phia yesterday quite well, but had hlgh lever
today.
BY direction of the President, the Secretary
Of War has ordered that the new military post
near Denver shall be known as Fort Logan 70
honor the memory of the late General John A
Logan.
Crook, Horner & Co., of Baltimore, have
been awarded contracts for supplying the
public buildings at Keokuk, Iowa and Jetfer-
son, Tex, with steam heating ana NehIlaLlns
apparatus.
The air of Gramercy Park, where the Play
ers' Club is situated is slowly but surely I'M
proving Edwin Booths health. and IN Iew
days the great tragedian will be able TO De OUT
His condition is much improved
An examination of the poll lists of the dis
tricts in Detroit shows that over 2OOO women
voted for school officers at the city elecuon.
They were courteously received at the polls
and the latter, in most districts, were kept very
quiet and orderly.
Owing to Major Armes' absence from
Washington, the court martial before which
he is to be tried will not meet until Thursday.
Meanwhile messenger will be sent to him IN
Virginia, bearing order for him to appear
before the court for trial.
The President has designated Assistant
Secretary Bachelor to act as Secretary OF the
Treasury in the absence of Secretary Window,
and Assistant Secretary Tichenor to act as
Secretary in the absence of both Secretary
Window and Assistant Secretary Bachelor.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has sent
a note of thanks to the Methodist ministers OF
Chicago for the resolutions which they passed
last Monday, wherein they commended his pro-
hibition stand, publicly taken IN speech before
the Sunday school of Bethany Church, Phila-
delphia, on the day previous.
John OConne, Thomas Reardon and Pat
rick S. Close, the alleged dynamiters, who are
supposed to have made the attempt to blow up
David Stevepson's brewery on Fortieth street,
last winter, we're arraigned before Judge Mar
tine yesterday morning. and held in 5000 bail
for trial. All three pleaded not guilty.
The woman suffrage party is rejoicing over
in appointing one of its members, Miss Mary
n. Seymour, of New York. a Court Commis-
sioner for the whole country. The members of
the party claim that the court has thus settled
that woman can legally hold office.
Attorney General Miller has appointed
William F. Hazen, of Kentucky. as Special
Examiner in the Department of Justice, vice
Mr.. Fisher, resigned Mr.. Hazen is a we'll
known resident Of Covington, and is said to
possess excellent qualifications for his new
Office. His appointment takes effect April l5
--Slade, the world-renowned medium, was
exposed on Saturday in the presence of we'll
known believers in spiritualism and citizens of
high standing of Portland, Me. 1t was shown
that the states on which the spirits were to be
asked to write had the alleged messages al
ready written on them before the show began.
The faith of the believers is not shaken. Thew
lay it all to ''evil spirits"
The Rochester car strike situation remains
practically unchanged About % cars are run
ming. Another disturbance like that of Satur-
day occurred yesterday at noon. Thousands of
men lined the tracks and hooted at the drivers
of the cars as they passed. A few stones we're
thrown and one driver drew revolver and at
tempted to fire into the crowd 1t was knocked
out of his hand and picked up by an officer.
The remains of the late James n. Christie,
Assistant Doorkeeper of the United States Sem
'ate, arrived in New York Sunday in charge of
the following: Captain Bassett, Head Door
Keeper; c. B. Reade. of Maine; Clifford Warden,
George W. Boyd, B. II. Shvers, David S. Cor
ser, w. R Reynolds and Frank N. Evans The
body was taken to Dover n: h, YESTERDAY; lay;
A. NJ, N the Episcopal Church,
Mrs. Anna Roberts, beautiful girl of 16
and a wife of only eight days, attempted sui
eide at Grafton, Ala, yesterday She loaded a
gun with birdsbot, and. placing the butt on
the floor, leaned her breast on the muzzle and
pressed the trigger with her foot At last ac-
counts she was still alive, but cannot recover.
The girl is daughter of Henry Smith, a
prominent resident of Columbia county. She
gives as the cause of her desperate act un-
pleasant relations with her husband.
The report that a commission would soon
be appointed by the President to confer with
the Indians for the opening of the great Sioux
reservation, is received with much interest
among the Indians at Standing Rock, who are
headed by Sitting Bull, Gall, John Grass and
other noted chiefs. The Indians are pleased
with the action of the Government in increas-
ing the price to be paid them from 50 cents per
acre to 81 90, and many of them have expressed
their willingness to accept the terms of the
treaty.
1t is learned that the members of the COM
mission recently appointed to negotiate with
the Cherokee and other Indian tribes for ces-
sion Of their lands in the Indian Territory
will meet in Washington early next week, prob
ably on Monday, to receive their instructions
from Secretary Noble. 1t is understood that
the commission will first direct its attention to
the Cherokee strip, which contains about
100000 acres, and if no unexpected obstacles
are encountered all necessary relinquishments
will have been obtained by the 10th of June
next
The provincial treasury of Quebec is abso-
lutely empty, and there is no money with which
to pay the $4,000 provided for in the "Jesuits
Estate Act" In order to raise the money a
public loan would be necessary. To negotiate
such a loan would require an act of the Degis-
lature, and the act must be signed by the Lieu
tenant Governor of the Province, who also has
the power to veto. 1t is stated that the Lieu
tenant Governor has made up his mind to veto
such bill if it should be presented to him, so
that there seems to be no way open at present
for the Jesuits to secure the money.