Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-22
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Robert Puchett, a l6-year-old boy, has beer
| lodged in the Frankfort, KY, penitentiary tc
serve one year for robbfng the postoftice al
| Marion of SS5
Senator Chandler has issued statement
giving his version of his quarrel with his col
| league, Blackburn. He lays the blame en-
| tirely upon the latter.
| "A frightful storm prevailed in the Central
the rain poured down in torrents and the streets
were rivers of water. Thunder and lightning
were unusually severe.
Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, has issued
proclamation offering S400 reward for the ar
rest and conviction of the murderer of Caro-.
line and Bessie Deavitt, who were so foully
murdered in Seward countysthe other day.
Rev. VIM. E. howard, convicted of grand
larceny in connection with the Electric Sugar
Refining Company frauds. was yesterday
nine years and eight months Imprisonment in
Sing Sing at hard labor.
in Fayette county, Iowa, Wednesday Bar
hara Roster shot and killed her husband,
Francis Roster. She was his third wife. He
was of Incorporate habits and Quarrels be-
tween them were frequent. She states that he
beat her and she shot him to save her own life.
The New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio has
made another big cut in iron rates. 1t is prob
able that it will cause trouble with the Eastern
the benefit of the Pennsylvania manufactur-
ers. being good from New Castle and Pulaski,
Pa, to Eastern points. 1t will take effect June
q, succeeding the tariff Of May IL.
AT the commencement of Miami University
at Oxford. O.. the newly elected president, E.
D. WaIfeld, was inaugurated Hon. Calvin
s. Brice made the address on behalf of the
alumni and Hon. John w. Heron delivered
the keys At the meeting of the trustees the
suggestion of d. w. McClung to provide for an
allumnal management of the university was
referred to a committee to recommend plan.
Mr.Brice made proposition to duplicate what
ever sum might be appropriated to the uniyer-
sity during the coming year by the Ohio Legis-
lature.
Sioux City, Iowa, was visited by destruct-
i've storm of wind and rain yesterday. The
wind blew at the rate of go miles an hour and
the rain fell in torrents. A section of the via
duct of the new cable line on jackson street
was washed OUT and filled with mud. The new
pontoon bridge sustained heavy loss. The
heavy northwest wind, combined with rushing
waters, snapped the cables holding two sections
of the draw and the draws and dollhouse were
carried out. Sixty boats were carried out and
soon broke apart Huge piles of driftwood are
stacked against the upstream side of the
bridge, and the damage will amount to several
thousand dollars to the bridge company. Re-
ports received from surrounding points show
that the storm was general.
Robert Howick and Benjamin Klinger, two
wealthy and prominent farmers in Mercer
county, Ohio, we're instantly killed by light
ming yesterday. Mr.. Klinger, who was JUS
tice of the Peace in Hopewell township, was
at Mr.. Howick's farm. two miles north of town,
whep,a shower coming up the two men stepped
into the stable nearby and leaned against the
doorpost on each side. There was fash and
the two men fell to the floor without a groan
or movement. Within four feet of them a boy
was milking a COW. The animal was also
killed, but the boy was only stunned. Mr..
Klinger was one of the best known men in the
county. for many years treasurer of the agri-
cultural society and for six years County School
Examiner.
The news has been received of brutal
crime committed in what is known as Judith
county," apout $50 miles north of Helena,
Mont On Saturday last the body of a middle
aged woman, who had been shot In the back
was found by cowboy in a wild and unfre-
quented spot on Judith river. On Tuesday the
bodies of two men, 16-year-old girl and a g.
year-old girl we're discovered about 100 yards
above the same place. All were shot in the
back except the child, who was strangled.
Nearby were found the remains of burned
trunks and camp equipage. Everything by
which the bodies might be identified was de-
stroyed. Nobody in Judith county can recog-
nize the bodies. They are supposed to have
been family1of emigrants from Iowa or Illi-
nois. The whole of Judith county Is aroused
and 100 horsemen are securing the plains seek
ing the trail of the murderers.