Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-16
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr.. Henry Lea. of PHILADELPHIA has been
appointed corresponding member Of the
Munich Royal Academy of Science.
The Government has placed in Europe,
through the National Bank. the amount of in
terest due on the national debt on January /
next.
"A charter was issued from the State De-
partment yesterday to the Altoona Homestead
Loan and Trust Company, of Altoona; capital,
$4,000.
rived at the Wild Park Railway station, Berlin,
this morning. The Berlin newspapers warmly
welcomed their Majesties.
Joseph Smith was struck by the western
express at the stone bridge, at Johnstown, Pa,
yesterday, and instantly killed. He lived in
prospect, and was 90 years of age.
The Columbus, O., Gaslight and Coke Com
panY was sold to an Eastern syndicate yester-
Day, which wGs represented by Colonel H. B.
wilson. The purchase price was 81, 100000.
The Russian Grand Duke Nicholas who is
suner1ng from cancer, has undergone a surgi-
cal operation for the Introduction of a canula
into the throat. The Czar visited his uncle
yesterday.
Mrs Helen F. Moore and her brother, FL ed
| erick =. Whitcomb, of Wilbraham, Mass, on
| trlal for the alleged murder of the woman's
husband, have been acquitted after long and
| sensational trial.
"A company of Washington, Pa, capitalists
are examining the Tiltonville, o., pottery, with
1
| plant as a nucleus for large glass factory, and
a deal will probably be made.
| "A telegram from Glasgow announces that
Inc 1ne poom in the pig iron market has collapsed.
Inc Dull account was overburdened. Warrants
nave fallen lbs. At Mlddlesborough warrants
declined 1Ss and hematite las.
| "A fire broke out in the cotton on the Guion
line steamer, Alaska, at Liverpool, from New
1ork, while she was unloading at the Alexan-
| ora dock to-day. Five hundred bales were
damaged. The vessel sustained no injury.
President Harrison was not burned in efigy
at Jacksonville, Ind, as reported. Leading
Hepuol were indignant on account of the
appointment of A. M. Lake as postmaster and
burned all their transparencies and other cam
pa1gn paraDhernalia
Patrick MCGUIRE, well-known " estmore-
land county farmer, while crossing the railroad
at Latrobe last evening, with loaded wagon,
injured. He was thrown about Is feet and
considerably cut about the head and body
The wagon was smashed into kindl1ng wood.
The call for the eighth annual meeting of
tne National Law and Order League was issued
yesterday. 1t was signed by President c. c.
bonney, OF Chicago, and Secretary L. E. Dud-
ley OF Boston, and appointed the next annual
meeting Of the League to be held in Toronto,
Oanaoa commencing the I'D Of February, 1890.
"A deal by which the Schlesiuger syndicate
purchases the Buffalo, South Buffalo. Queen
and Prince of Wales ore mines, near Negaunee
1or prices aggregating about $500 600, has been
closea This gives the syndicate foothold in
the Marquette district and is an additional
earnest Of its inteution to ultimately control
the non-Bessemer ore market.
An explosion which shook Little Washing
ton, Pa, and broke glass in some houses, oc-
was at first thought to have been caused by the
bursting Of one of the numerous oil well boil
ers near town. but upon investigation it was
found that several oil men had exploded six
POUNDS OF n1tro-glycerine for joke.
P1tts6urg yesterday and went home on the
faSt llne but when the train stopped there he
was asleep and did not wake up until after the !
Train was some distance from the station. He |
then went to the platform and jumped of. and |
was found in the ditch by night watchman |
He was badly injured, but may recover.
"A telegram from Cheboygan, Mich, saws |
that the first winter weather of the season set |
In early yesterday morning from the northeast |
with driving snewstOrm. 1t kept many craft |
from leaving port, and several made the harbor |
yesterday. Inside are the White Cloud Mont |
calm, Martin, Lotus, Lookout, George Steel. |
sachem, NeWsDoy, Winslow, WestoVer, Chaffee
and consorts.
The sermon of Archbishop Ryan, of Phila-
delphia, at Baltimore, on Sunday, has caused a |
great sensation in Mexico, because of the Arch
bishops support Of the right Of Catholic writers
to criticise the faults of priests while here
Archbishop La Bastide has communicated a
number of persons for such criticism, and
charges have been brought against him in
NOME IOr SO oolng.
--Lehigh county detectives last evening
ralded camp Of 15 tramps at Aineyville and
found stolen goods on three Of them, who were
committed for trial while the others were dis
charge. The trio were Henry Shenk, of this
county, known as The Mysterious Telegraph
Operator" George Harman, of New York. and
Otto Berisch, Of New Jersey, and are said to
be notorious burglars.
joseph Daring. workmaaz a. the Tenth
street bridge Beaver alls, Pa now-fn course /
of erection here. and son of Free Darling, one
of the proprietors of the Sourbeck House New |
Brighton, fell from the structure this forenoon,
distance of 30 feet. He alighted upon pile
OF rocks, breaking an arm and several ribs and
receiving numerous cuts and bruises. His re-
covery is very doubtful.
Spence s. Hollingsworth, ex-Treasurer of
Vincennes county. Ind, has fled suit against
the county to recover money on 81, 900 order
issued in his favor on May /, 1886, which the
present Treasurer refused to pay. Hollings-
worth has but recently returned from the JEFF
fersonville prison, where he served three years
for an alleged defaleation of $4,000 The suit
promises some rich developments.
The National Grange of Sacramento. Cal,
at their session yesterday, received telegram
from the Farmers National Congress- in seS-
sion at Montgomery Ala, extending congratu-
lations. In the afternoon the National Grange
was given a reception by the California
Grange, Master David DAVIS, of the State
Grange, making the address of welcome. The
session will adjourn next Wednesday.
David, the 4-year-old son, and Kitty, the
2year-old daughter Of Robert Hennessy of |
Danbury, Conn.,, were playing with fire. in their
home, yesterday afternoon, while the mother
was hanging clothes in the yard. Both were
burned so badly that they died almost irnmedi-
ately. The third child, still younger. saw the
sufferings Of the other two, and toddled out,
bringing the mother in, but relief came too late.
The Little Washington, Pa, jury in the
case of James McPeak, charged with arson,
returned verdict of guilty this morning. The
strongest eVIdencenegainst McPeak was given
by his son, a 1Tyear-Old boy, who. it is said, is
on bad terms with his father. One witness in
the case affirmed that the boy told him that he
put the blame upon his father to save himself
from being accused of the crime. Counsel for
McPeak made application for new trial
Edward NJ MendeI, of Milwaukee astudent
at Harvard. was arrested Thursday night.
charged with the larceny of one tin and two
pasteboard signs from building in Pemberton
square, Boston. The young man took his dis
grace very hard. He said he was told BY the
fellows that the only way to get ahead in Har-
fellow, he says, has lot of them, and he was
told they were necessary, and without them he
would be nowhere.
There is great excitement in Webster county
Kentucky, over the temperance of the terrible
spotted fever scourge that ragged in that county
with such fatal effect last winter. A number |
Of new cases have been reported from different
villages surrounding Dixon, the county seat
all being the same disease in its most malig-
nant FORM Everything possible is being done |
10 prevent its spread and to keep the terrified
people from deserting their homes as they did
N large numbers last year.
"A. w. Morris & Bro, proprietors of the J.
Converse Plaster and Cordage Works, Mon
real, have been compelled to seek the indul- |
sence of their creditors. 1t is impossible to ]
estimate the liabilities, but they will reach, If
not exceed, 81, 100000. The Nelson's Bank is
to a large extent but is secured for
most of it's claim. The firm is an old one,
having been in existence for about 80 wears. It
has always enjoyed the highest confidence of
The business world, and was thought to be per- I
'ectly safe.