Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

600. s'''
New York wants to spend 50, ,OO0, 900 on street
repairing.
United States Minister Phelps will return
to this country on the 3lst inst.
Anthony Higgins was elected United States
Senator by the Delaware Legislature yester-
day.
At the annual meeting Of the trustees of
Racine College. held yesterday, Right Rev. W.
F; McLaren, Bishop of Chicago, was elected
shot and killed Bradley a celebrated profess
sional base ball catcher. 1t is said there is
woman at the bottom of the affair.
The Emperor of Germany slightly wounded
a citizen while out shooting yesterday. He
apologized properly and invited the injured
man to visit him when he got well.
Mr.. Bagley, of Virginia, was refused lte in
surance because he had been bitten by Spitz
dog. Bagley wrote to DR.. Pasteur, who replied
that the bite of a healthy dog was harmless.
All Republican members of both branches
of the Arkansas Legislature have held a meet
ing and adopted resolution unanimously
recommending General Powell Clayton for
Cabinet position.
William Rind, IS years old, was found near
his home, on East Fifty-third street. New York,
yesterday, under the influence of liquor, and
with his throat cut. The only information he
men. He will die.
Little Rock and Fort Smith road ran into a
slide one mile from Ozark yesterday The
whole train was wrecked, and the engineer, w.
A. VosS, buried beneath the wreck. The fire.
man and number of others were seriously in
jured.
Pacific Railway, held in Boston Saturday, Ed
win F. Atkins was elected director in place of
Elisha Atkins, deceased; P. Spaulding in place
of M. d. Spaulding and J. II. Millard. of Oma-
ha, in place of Ezra II. Baker. President
Adams made an address in which he spoke in
high terms Of the deceased directors.
The United States Court at Philadelphia is
considering suit against James Lee & Son for
importing contract labor from England Coun-
sci for Lee & Son claim that the men over the
engagement of whom the dispute is waged were
employed to perform work in introducing
class of goods that had never been manu-
factured in this country before, and that such
employment came within the exception intend
ed by the law.
Late advices from Costa Rica regarding the
earthquake of December 80 last, briefly men
toned in the cable dispatches short time
ago. say the shocks were the most severe ex-
perienced since 1889. In San Jose both the
national capitol and the magnificent Cathe-
dral-fronting the public square, which re-
quired ten years of labor to erect, at an ex-
penditure of 81, 900 900. are in ruins. The Presi-
dental palace, city hall, national postoffice
and dozen other public buildings are almost
wrecked
For two weeks past the demi-monde of st.
Louis have been prosecuted by a letter writer,
who signs himself THE Seer" He has been
threatening them with physical and moral de.
struction of the most fiery character, and the
women by the score have been appealing to the
police for protection. Not only did he threaten
them with swift judgment from on high, but
said he would call around and do little Jack
the Ripper business. The Chief of Police has
50 of these letters in his possession and yester-
day, after long hunt, ran down "The Seer"
who proved to be a religious crank. His name
is William Brennan. A woman was arrested
with him.