Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Postmaster General Wanamaker is ex
pected to return to Washington next Monday
Second Assistant Postmaster General White
held is also expected to return on Monday.
The Treasury department has informed .
Boston correspondent that the Chinese act OF
September IL, 1888, does not take effect till the
date of the exchange of ratifcations, which
date has not yet arrived.
YESTERDAY morning Fred s. Nichols. living
on Grove street, Winchester. Mass, while de-
Ilrous from typhoid fever, gor out OF bed. pro-
cured revolver from a bureau drawer and
shot his nurse. a Miss Smith, through the heart,
killing her. Before he could be secured he
fired two shots at his father, but without effect.
Miss Smith was q trained nurse from Boston.
Paul Haimont was held for extradition at
New York by United States Commissioner Os-
borne yesterday on the charge of being imph.
Gated in the robbery of l63, ,OO0f. from firm OF
was recently arrested here and sent back to
France with his pretty wife. On arrival OF the
necessary papers from Washington Haimont
will be sent back.
Simpson & Watkins anthracite coal opera
tors in the Carbondale district of Pennsylva-
mia, have filed with the Interstate Commerce
Commission. through their counsel, Franklin
b. Gowen. of Philadelphia, a complaint against
the New York, Lake Erie and Western Rail-
road Company charging unjust discrimination
against the complainants in freight rates and
shipping facilities.
The sensation at New Orleans yesterday
was the disappearance of a prominent young
lawyer and notary, AlphOnse Phillips. His alb
sence from the city, beyond the reach of his
creditors, has been a matter of gossip for some
weeks, but the matter came before the people
yesterday in a suit filed by one of his clients,
demanding an accounting for funds lef. in his
custody. 1t is alleged he has permanently abb
sented himself, and a garnishee of funds in a
national bank was issued. The funds in his
hands unaccounted for amount, it is claimed,
to $50, 600 or 100000. Phillips an official of
the Mexican Lottery Company, out of which he
made a handsome sum. He was also promi-
nent in politics and member of the Legisla-
ture.
Late Thursday night Mrs. G. E. Kemp, wife
OF prominent mining man of Helena, Mont,
disappeared. The police yesterday discovered
her body in a ditch in the hills. Mrs. Kemp
had been for some time deranged, and Thurs
day night quietly stepped out of the house in
her night clothes. Before the body was found
the husband discovered a note on a bureau
which said: 81 feel my mind is going: watch
me every minute" About three years ago the
unfortunate woman procured pistol, and Just
as she was about to shoot herself her only
daughter, a beautiful girl of 18 rushed up to
her. In the struggle to secure possession the
weapon was exploded and tho daughter was
shot, dying instantly. Since then the mother
has had lucid intervals, and when she inquired
for her daughter was told she was spending the
season in Europe At different times the
mother has started to 60 to her daughter, and
it is supposed it was in carrying out one of
these attempts that she wandered toward the
mountains, fell into the ditch and was drowned.
The family is prominent one