Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-12
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-Edison's patent for incandescent lighting
In Canada was Cancelled some time ago on the
the Dominion. The inventor has given notice
of appeal from the decision on the ground that
the Commissioner Of Patents had no authority
to try the case.
The Grand Lodge of Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order OF Elks concluded their session
at New York yesterday. The business done
was the reception of reports of various COM
mittees and the Inhalation Of its officers
elected yesterday The convention adjourned
to meet next year in Cleveland.
The acting secretary of the Illinois State
Board of Health was notified yesterday by A.
]. Crews. President of the Town Board of New
Canton, Pike county. that disease resembling
two weeks and has now become epidemic. re-
sulting in great fatality among children. Seven
deaths are already reported and a large num-
make an investigation into the matter at once.
George whitmore, of Rochester, N. Y,
has complained to the police that he was robbed
of 81, ,075 by Ada Knapp, also of Rochester.
The parties were to have been married at Buff
bank, and on the way to Buffalo Ada persuaded
him to let her have all but US of the money,
which he did. They were accompanied by two
mutual friends, named William Wolfe and
Charles Boyle. Whitmore went to get min
lister to tie the knot, when Ada skipped with
Wolfe and Boyle, taking the cash with her.
The Mayor Of Cincinnati has directed the
police to enforce the law against performing
common labor on Sunday by arresting all gro
GERS, tobacconists. ice cream and soda water
stand proprietors, barDers etc The order does
not contemplate interference with street car
drivers. nor newspaper work. as the Mayor re-
CARDS these as works Of necessity. This action
Is taken at the request of an organization
which is hostile to the movement which has
caused the closing of saloons on Sunday, and is
thought to be In the interest OF repeal of the
Sunday laws.
Some days ago the State officials of New
Jersey notified Secretary Rusk of their inten-
tion to raise the quarantine against pleuro-
pneumonia. To this the Secretary has made
vigorous protest. appealing to the State officials
to aid the department in protecting the export
cattle trade of the country against the ravages
of the disease, which is now confined to the
City In case the local quarantine is raised,
how ever, the Secretary gives notice that he
will at once establish and enforce national regu-
lations to effect the desired end.
"A case that is likely to bring out a lively
contest arose yesterday when constables at
Des Moines. Iowa, seized a carload of beer con-
signed from Quincy, H.. to Fremont Neb. The
car was brought by the Chicago Burlington
PLANTATION that it was to be sent on to Nebraska
over the Northwestern road. The local con-
stables were suspicious that it was to be un-
loaded. and so swore out warrant and seized
the car in the face of the waybill which
showed that 1t was destined for another State.
The great strike of the miners in the Braid
wood, H.. region Is about to be broken. The
Sheriff has been called upon to protect some 70
miners who have affixed their names to an
agreement to resume work at the Cooley mine
of the Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal
Company, at the prices set by the operators. IS
cents per ton. The Sheriff summoned a posse
OF 25 deputies and left for Cooley, all being
armed with rifles. which had been forwarded
by the Governor. This first break in the ranks
of the miners does not meet with approval
among the majority of the Cooley miners, and
trouble is feared when the signers attempt to
enter the mine.