Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-18
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A perceptible shock of earthquake was felt
at Santa Anna, Cal, Monday afternoon.
Cholera has made its appearance in Bagdad
and the disease is spreading IN Western Persia.
"A letter signed Jack the Ripper" has been
received at news agency in London, in which
the writer states that in about week another
murder will be added to the list of Whitechapel
htrrors.
Several newspapers of London charge a
StOtch peer with having committed an assault
uIon young girl. Testimony, they say, was
gFen to show that the accused was guilty of
TIP crime, but the magistracy were afraid to
take action.
Joseph Conns, of Columbus O., an inmate
of. DR.. Delchon's private inebriate asylum in
Hartford. Conn, made his escape last Satur-
daF through second story window His body
was found by some boys yesterday in the Little
river. 1t is supposed that he committed sui
eide.
Fired Krohn and Frank Smith. of Fremont,
WIS., were drowned Sunday while fishing.
They went out in the morning and as they did
not return at night search was made, result
inf in the finding of the bodies IN Wolf river.
Ktohn leaves wife and eight children and
Smith wife and two children.
deputy Sheriff Tate. upon entering cell
in the prison at Sidney, Ia, was jumped on
and nearly pounded to death, with a chair leg,
by convict named HAYNES. The convict
secured Tate's revolver, and would have shot
the officer dead but for the Intervention of an.
other prisoner. Haynes was in the act of un-
locking the prison door and escaping when
other officers, hearing the noise, rushed upon
him and overpowered him. Tate's condition is
critical and should he die, there is such excite
ment that Haynes may meet death by lynchiDg.
"A daring highway robbery in broad day
light was committed on the streets of Ashland,
Wis An old German was walking with John
Kirby and John Fisher, when they grabbed
him by the throat and relieved him of Sl75.
The highwaymen then ran, but were captured
after several shots had been fired. Fisher es-
capped on the way to Jail. He boarded a North
ern Pacific train and was put off at Ashland
junction because he would not pay his fare.
Then he fired several shots at the train, break
ing windows but hitting no one. Officers are in
pursuit.
The story of an unknown tramp's heroism
comes from Council Bluffs. la. He was walk
ing on the Chicago and Northwestern tracks
and between Crescent and Stony Creek he
found broken rail on high embankment,
where the rail makes sharp curve. 1t was an
outside rail- next to the river, and no train
could have passed over in safety. The next
train due was the limited passenger, and he re-
solved to avert terrible wreck if possible. He
ran to Honey Creek, three miles, and tried to
raise the operator who was not at his post. He
then aroused the section hands, and they took
the hand car and went back to the broken rail,
arriving there just in time to flag the limited
and stop it within few feet of almost certain
destruction.
Vice Consul W0palenskl writes as folloWS
from Java: about 100000 cases of Russian
petroleum from Batoum are expected, guam
tity which will doubtless greatly influence the
Sava petroleum market, inasrnuch as the
consumption of the whole island only
amounts to 10000 cases. The contents of a
case of both American and Russian petroleum
is the same-two tins of ten gallons. Some of
the above Russian petroleum has already been
sold on delivery to retailers at 40 Java cents
(about 16 American cents) per case cheaper
than that at which American petroleum, i'm
ported in sailing vessels, can be bought. The
rate to consumers will be cents case less
than American petroleum.