Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-1l0 ILLINOIS, senate yesterday passed a Dill
to regulate telephone charges unanimously.
The following bonds were offered yesterday
and were accepted by the Secretary of the
Treasury: ~ per cents, registered, $223,75
at l08
The Young Mems Christian Association
building in Paterson, N. j., burned yesterday
morning. The loss is about $4,000; partly IN
sured.
Representative Laird, Of Nebraska, who
was very i'll during the whole of the last session
of Congress, has reached Washington much i'm
proved in health, although he has not entirely
recovered.
The United States Government has made
formal requisition to the Department of
Justice at Ottawa for the surrender of Aldrich,
the Pennsylvania robber, who has been in Gus
tody at Windsor.
The labor organizations which took sides
with the strikers in the recent tie-up of the
Atlantic Avenue Railroad in Brooklyn, have
placed boycott on that corporation. Their
members have been forbidden to ride on the
cars, under penalty of heavy fines or expulsion.
David Treadi,. proprietor of sporting
place in Paterson, N. j., fell down stairs at his
residence Wednesday night and was smothered
to death in the carpet In falling, his head
struck doorsill which rendered him uncon-
scious. He was member of Farragut Post,
G. A. r.
"A dispatch from Huntingburg, Ind, says
that White Caps are again at work in that
county and are being encouraged by the greater
number of citizt ms. Tuesday night, at Ireland,
Joseph Serwersheim was taken from his home
and given 30 lashes for neglectng to obey a
warning to go to work or leave. Notices have
been left with others.
Commencing Sunday next, the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company will run trains
from Philadelphia for New York, leaving the
and Chestnut streets. The schedule on that
day provides for five trains each way, and on
week days an additional train will be run.
The New York police are looking for Will.
lam D. Sproul, the manager of Austin, Nichols
ously disappeared on Monday last His ac-
counts are all right. Mr.. Sproul is 40 years old,
about feet inches in height wears full
brown beard. and is dressed in checked suit
and dark overcoat
Mrs Olive B. Friend Mrs Emily Howard
William E. Howard. Gus Halstead and George
Halstead, all interested parties in the great
electric sugar refining frauds, arrived in New
York City yesterday morning from Detroit. The
party was under the escort of detectives, and
all were locked up in police headquarters.
They will be arraigned for preliminary exami-
nation to-day.
The new Board of Directors of the Texas
and Pacific Railway Company elected yester-
day the following officers: John G. Brown,
President: First Vice President, George J..
Gould; Second Vice President, s. H. II. Clark;
Secretary and Treasurer, G. E. Satterlee. The
only change made was the election OF s. II. II.
Clark to iii the Office of Second Vice Presi-
dent, made vacant by the death of H. NJ.
Hoxie.
The action Of the Maine House of Repre-
sentatives in passing the pharmacy bill, as
amended. creates surprise. The bill allows
municipal officers to license any number of
drugstores in any town or city to sell in
amounts not exceeding quart, on physicians
prescription, a. and any druggiss who O. is 81 doctor
cally a free rum BILL and was passed by the
vote of "a to 49,
The telegram from the Humane Society Of
Kansas City to the Secretary of State, request
ing him to have the British Minister interpose
to prevent kidnapped child from being taken
out of the United States, was received at the
Department of State to-day. In answer the
society was informed that the British Minister
could not exercise such powers in this country,
and suggestion was made that the case be
turned over to the police authorities.
The stockholders of the Pacific Guano
Company, at a meeting in Boston, yesterday,
listened to the report of a committee showing
So, 500 900 liabilities and 5000 quick assets.
the 'Dc Company at Woods Hall, C6arIestown,
Chisholm island, and Swan Island. In the
liabilities are included 81 100000 of acceptances
which Mr.. Glidden claimed were not proper
liabilities of the Pacific Guano Company. 1t
was voted that the report of the committee
and Glidden's statement be sent TO the stock
holders.
Colonel John M. Wilson, of the Engineer
Corps has been placed in charge of the work
on the Washington aqueduct extension, reliev-
ing Major G. J. Lydecker who will be tried by
cOurtmartial on the 25th inst. for neglect of
duty in connection with this Improvement
This assignment of Colonel Wilson is in ad-
dition to his present duties in charge of the
Washington Monument, the Gettysburg Monu-
ment and the public buildings and grounds in
the District of Columbia In this latter
capacity he acts as master of ceremony at the
White House receptions. Heis also member
of the Lighthouse Board.
The situation in Oklahoma is growing criti-
cal. Between 200 and 800 men have taken up
claims Nearly all of the valuable land on the
river bottom, from the neighborhood of Fort
Reno on the west, to the Pottawottamie Res
ervation on the east, has been taken up and
is held by the usual squatter Scores of men
are slipping in on all sides, and the influx of
boomers by the railroad has begun. Throngs
of anxious boomers who have been waiting at
Purcell for weeks can scarcely be held back,
and altogether the indications are that there
will be fully 1000 men there inside of week
unless the militia move from Fort Reno at once
Preparations for raid have been going on at
the fort for some time, and it Is expected they
will move tomorrow or next day. The proba-
bilities are, however, that raid of the soldiers
will only result in scattering of the squatters
through the woods, as they are already within
the limits of Oklahoma in sufficient numbers
to come, back faster than they can be sent out
It is the universal prayer that the President
may issue his proclamation soon and declare
the country open to settlement at once, and not
set the date ahead, as it is feared he will do