Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-26
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which the meeting was held. was crowded.
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Emperor of Austria has paid the late
Crown Princes debts, which amounted TO SA-
SOC, ,00O.
r. W. Glider, editor of the Century denies
that Mrs. Cleveland has leased cottage at
Marion, Mass.
The New York Senate yesterday afternoon
passed the Saxton electoral reform bill by a
vote of Is to IL
Mr.. Kasson, one of the American commits
sioners sent to Berlin to treat on Samoan at
fairs, has left London for that city.
James Conner and James Harris were killed
near Homer, Mich, by premature explosion
of dynamite while blasting stumps.
Philip Bonzone, dealer in trimmings at 92l
Broadway, New York City, has made a general
assignment, without preferences, to Motifs
Goldberg.
Hon. Henry Starness has been appointed
Speaker Of the Quebec Legislative Council;
vice Hon. Pierre Boucher de Ia Bruere removed
for partisan conduct.
The Connecticut House yesterday refused
TO reconsider the vote by which the prohlbltory
amendment was passed, and it will be submit
ted to the people, The Senate has concurred.
Recorder Smythe, of New York, has re-
duced the bail of Mrs. Olive Z. Friend from
ST. 500 to 5000 on each of.the three indictments
which stand against her in the Electric sugar
cases.
The yacht Coronet, which has sailed around
the world, has returnedto New York in good
Gibraltar 80 days ago and encountered at least
half dozen storms without any serious mis-
hap.
Andrew w. Bogart committed suicide yes
terday morning in New York City by shooting
himself through the head. He was a real
ness and financial losses are thought to have
been the cause.
General Manager Hickson, Of the Grand
Trunk Railway, has ordered that no freight
those carrying live stock and perishable goods.
It is stated that the Delaware and Hudson
road is also in sympathy with the movement
The President has several matters on hand
that he desires to dispose of before his de-
parture for New York. They will occupy al
most his entire attention to-day and tomorrow,
and will render it impossible to receive visitors
except such as call Saturday afternoon att
o'clock.
"A dispatch from Glen Mary, Tenn, says a
Cincinnati Southern freight trains, as a result
of the forgetfulness of the engineer of one of
them. Brakeman Taylor, Conductor Hineline
and Engineer Rusk were badly crushed. The
first two died soon after being extricated.
Rusk's injuries are fatal Two others were
slightly injured.
The Minnesota State Legislature has passed
a capital punishment law, similar in some re-
spects to the New York law. Under its pro-
visions the prisoner is to be kept in solitary
confinement and see no one but his family his
lawyers and his spiritual advisers. He is to be
executed before sunrise, and may invite three
persons to be present The sheriff invites six
persons beside the surgeon. 1t is made mis-
demeanor for any newspaper to publish any
thing more about the execution than the mere
fact.
I'm accordance with his own request the
Rev. Henry Truro Bray, of ST. Louis, was yes
perday deposed from the Episcopal ministry by
Bishop Tuttle DR.. Bray's case is celebrated
one in church circles. After serving several
years in the ministry, spirit of disbelief took
possession of him. and he became an agnostic.
He wrote letter to the Bishop in which he
outlined his religious platform. In this letter
God; nor did he believe In revealed religion or
the God of the Bible. In an interview he as
serts that disbelief is widespread in the pulpit,
and that Bishop told him that he did not be-
lieve in the Bible, but thought Plato was better
than the Bible.