Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Alexander Foster. a Boston lumber dealer,
has gone into insolvency. His liabilities are
So, 600 while his Office furniture comprises MS
only assets.
The factory of Mitchell & Shepherd. at
Bradford, England, has been destroyed by hre
The loss is $50 900.
The American squadron Of evolution ar
rived at Lisbon yesterday. The squadron con-
sists of the new cruisers Chicago, Boston, AT
lanta and Yorktown.
The proprietors of the boot and shoe fac
tories in Bristol, England, have locked out
their operatives. By this step 5000 persons are
thrown out Of employment
A syndicate. with capital of $1,000, ,000
has been formed to buy out the business OF
British carpet manufacturers and work their
establishments on American patents.
S-The gasometer of the Asheville city gas
works exploded yesterday while being repaired.
William Gates and Lewis Guthrie were in
stantly killed and several others were injured.
James II. Pickney, manufacturer of silk
goods at sos Broadway, New York, and at West
Hoboken, n. J.. made a general assignment
yesterday, without preferences to Frederick Il.
Plckney.
Mr.. W. NJ. Greene, now assistant TO Presi-
dent Ingalls, Of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi
cago and st. Louis road, has been appointed
general manager of the system, to take effect
January /, 1890
Prof Oldreive started from the battery
wharf in Boston, at E30 o'clock Friday after
noon, to walk on the water to Boston Light, on
q wager of Sl00. He cannot now be found, and
it is feared that he islost.
AT Glenwood Springs, COL. Robert Holmes
was sentenced to be hanged, William Chambers
received a life sentence, and Joseph Holmes
was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment, for
the murder Of Henry Holmes on Cache creek
last June.
The bodies of Of the missing Is persons
and one of the boats belonging to the British
steamer Cleddy. which was SUNK off the Isle of
Wight Friday by collision with the British
steamer Isle of Cyprus have been washed
ashore st St Catherine Point on the south side
of the island.
Mr. E. W. Kellogg, who is connected with
the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, has
Just returned to Boston from visit to Hayti.
He says that the published stories that Minis
ter Douglass is not receiving the treatment to
which he is entitled as an officer of the United
States Government are false.
Mrs. h. Keck, aged 70, wife of a Cincinnati
manufacturing jeweler, died in a cab Friday
night while on her way home. She had been
to the theater with her daughter. They under
took to board q cable car, but Mrs. Keck fell,
striking on her head. A surgeon was called,
who advised that she be taken home in cab.
During 8 street fight at Chicago two labor
ers-Edward Hughes, of 326 Milwaukee ave-
nue. and William Smith, boarder at the St
Cloud Hotel-were dangerously stabbed by
Ezra Cohen, Westside bartender. Hughes
was cut three times in the face, arms and
neck. The injured men are at the County Hos
pital. Cohen is locked up at the Desplaines
Etreet Station.
AT o'clock yesterday morning engine IS,
drawing southbound train, ran into engine
IA, which was side-tracked at One Hundred
and Thirty-seventh street and Fourth avenue,
New York City. William Bunough had his
jaw, right leg and left arm fractured, and Fire
man Frank Eslack was internally injured.
Both were taken to the Harlem Hospital. The
accident was caused by an open switch.
Mrs. Margaret Taylor, living at Cottage
Grove, Lane county, Ore, yesterday shot and
killed Marion P. Martin, aged 20 years, and
pioneer. The woman claims that Martin came
to her house during the absence of her hus-
band and attempted to assault her. She pro-
cured q pistol and repeatedly warned him
to leave He refused to do so, and vio-
lently seized hold of her. She then fired two
shots at Martins head, producing instant
death.