Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-10
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

1t is reported that Sir Charles Russell's fee
| for acting as counsel for the Parnellites before
the special committee is fl0,OO0
Irving G. Caldwell of Ohio, and Richard
| w. DeLambert of Kansas, have been ap-
| pointed special agents Of the general land
| office.
Hon. Hugh 8. Thompson, recently an.
| pointed Civil Service Commissioner, took the
| oath Of office yesterday, and will enter upon
the discharge Of his official duties to-day. No
| information has been received from MI. Roose.
| welt as to the time when he expects to assume
| the duties Of his office.
The reports Of the Government agents in
| Oklahoma and considerable other evidence
| bearing upou the charges which have been
| brought against Government officials in Okla
homa are now under consideration by the
President and Secretary Noble, and some
action will likely be taken within very few
days.
"A strike at a Duluth, Mimi, factory was
settled In a rather singular manner. The pro-
prletor increased the wages of all his married
employees and g1Ee the single men notice that
they would not be wanted after the end of the
month, unless they were married by that time,
In which event they would be retained at an in
creased salary.
Yesterdays bond offerings aggregated
S26A 400. as follows: Registered AS 81 500, 800
1857; coupon AS, $4,000 at los fat; ~ per
cents registered, 10000 at l08; SIS 900 at 10 ex
interest; per cents, coupon, $3.50 at 129. AL
the offers were accepted, except the 800 ~
per cent registered at 1851.
Ten of the fremen Of the Inman line
steamer City Of Chicago. which was detained
IN the Mersey owing to a strike among her fire.
men, were arrested and arraigned before a
police magistrate at Liverpool who fined them
each 10 shillings and costs. New men were
shipped in place of the strikers and the steamer
proceeded on her voyage for New York.
Kentucky Democrats met in convention at
Louisville yesterday and nominated a State
ticket; The majority report on resolutions in
dorsed the national platforms Of 1884 and 1855,
especial reference being made TO the stand
taken on the tariff. A minority report in
dorsed previous National Democratic plat
forms generally, and purposely avoided refer
enee to the tariff. The majority report was
adopted by an almost unanimous vote.
The Ontario Department of Agriculture
has issued bulletin No. 25 from the Bureau of
Industries. 1t reports q remarkable and graft
tying contrast in the tenor of information
about fall wheat as compared with that of the
spring of 1885. Wherever winter wheat is
grown extensively, prospects of. an extraordi-
nary crop are reported. From the Province as
bad, the early spring having been against the
plant
"A dock trial was given the starboard
engine of the U. 8. cruiser Baltimore, now in
course of completion at Cramp Sons ship
yards phiIa1ds;iRhia Yesterday speed Of
from A. NJ. to 8 P. M, on steam pressure Of
% pounds. The engine was also operated to-
day and on Friday and Saturday the port
engines will be worked. Only two Of the
boilers were in use yesterday and the test is re-
garded as satisfactory in every detail
The President has commuted't to ten years
imprisonment the sentence of death imposed
in the case of Grace Smallwood. colored, con-
murder of her infant child. He has also
granted pardon in the case Of John Alaska,
an Indian convicted OF resisting an officer and
sentenced to six years imprisonment in Wash
ington Territory. The application for pardon
in the case of Joseph White and Shannon Fos-
ter, convicted in Arkansas of manslaughter, is
denied.
Fierce forest dres are burning in Northern
Wisconsin, east of Gogebic Lake. Several rail-
way stations have been burned, and reports
from the Vermillion Range state that all the
towns in that vicinity are surrounded by
flames: Great damage has been done to tim
Der. All the telegraph wires from there to Du-
luth have been down for two days. Stephen
Carpenter, aged So. while fighting the flames on
his premises in Madison. Mich, Tuesday, was
overcome and died Of suffocation before assist
ance could reach him.
Judge Barrett, in the New York Supreme
Court yesterday. granted Attorney General
Tabor permission to bring suit in the name of
the people of the State of New York against
the Electric Sugar Refining Company for the
dissolution OF the corporation, the annulment
of its existence. the eDjoining Of the corpora
tion from acting further, and for the appoint
ment of receiver of its property The NOV
ing papers were af1davits by Lawson N. Fuller,
which set forth that the corporation did not
effect the purposes for which 1t was formed
within the prescribed time.
AT 9:l5 o'clock yesterday morning the
steam boiler in the rear basement at 252 West
Seventh street. New York city, occupied by
the Spooner Manufacturing Company, ex-
ploded. Daniel Clupka, German 1aborer, 25
years old, who was attending to the boiler. was
killed on the spot Three hundred girls were
at work in the upper stories OF the same build
ing, and when the report of the explosion was
heard there was q scene of the most terrible ex-
element. It seemed as if panic was unaYoid-
able. Through the GOODNESS of few who in
1uenced the rest, the panic was averted.