Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


The new Michigan license law has been dis
covered to be fun of fatal errors.
The sixtieth general council Of the Mormon
Cnurch is now in session at Salt Lake City.
Private Secretary Halford is in bad healtl
and has not been able to attend to his officia
duties for Two days.
The Chicago grand jury failed to return
any indictments against the gamblers OF thu
city, though their attention was particular,
directed to that matter by Judge Horton.
Sir Edwin Arnold and daughter are en- routt
Tor San Francisco, where they embark By
steamer to China, and thence to India and Per
sla, and so back to London, completing toul
OF the world.
The New Brunswick Government and the
city authorities of st. John each offer a reward
of 81, 200 for the discovery of the person or
persons who sent candies containing strychnine
70 Mrs. McRae.
The Etna Fire Insurance Company. of Hart
ford, has given notice that it Will retire from
what is known as the New Hampshire compact.
The result will be general disruption of in
surance combinations.
As Pleasant E. Bryant. a colored man, was
charging the soda water fountain in Milburn's
drugstore, Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, the fountain exploded.
splitting his head open and killing him in
stantly.
The steamer Belgic has arrived at San
Francisco from Hong Kong and Yokohama.
Investigations INTO the loss of life and damage
caused by the recent floods in Wahayama.
Japan, have been in progress. but owing to the
extensive nature of the damage, the inquiries
have been completed in only one district.
"A prairie fire started several miles east of
Spirit Lake, Ia, Friday, and has been burning
ever since. Driven by a strong wind from the
Dickinson county, and seems to be beyond con-
troll. The damage already done is very heavy
A great deal of corn in the field and grain in
the stack has been destroyed, and probably some
farm houses
The three vacancies in the staff depart
ments of the army were filled yesterday by the
following appointments: Lieutenant George s.
Hoyt Eighteenth Infantry, to be Assistant
Quartermaster, with the rank of captain;
Lieutenant Henry B. 0sgood, Third Artillery
and General L W. Alexander, of Iowa. to be
commissaries in the subsistence department
with the rank of captain
-Ex-Congressman John NJ. Glover, of St
Louis, announces himself as a candidate for
the United States Senate from Missouri in op-
position to Senator Vest Mrs. GlOverS
mother died recently, leaving her over 81, ,0OO,-
001 1t is said she is willing to spend money
literally to get her husband in the Senate.
Mrs. Glover is anxious to return to Washing
ton, where she once shone in society.
There was a fatal rear end collision on the
St Louis and San Francisco Railway near
dumped down an embankment and four men
dangerously hurt. Engineer Savage. of the
rear train, suffered a bad fracture Of the skull
and will not live. The other men injured are
William Dwyer, fireman; Mike Murphy, an en-
gineer; Tom Sawyer and Ed Cartwright, brake
men.
One of the most daring robberies ever
known was perpetrated at Elizabeth, n. j.,
early yesterday morning The house of Mrs.
James Ross, corner of Niles street and Second
avenue, was entered by burglars, who used
extraordinary means to effect their end. The
entire household of four persons were chloro-
formed. and the house was looted from cellar
cles TO the value of 5000 were stolen. The
police have been unable to find any clew to the
robbers
"A number Of Milwaukee, Cleveland and
Marquette capitalists have combined for the
purpose of dividing the iron Bessemer ores
with the Schleisinger syndicate, and will erect
large furnaces IN Marquette to reduce their
own ores. 1t is proposed to utilize the labor of
the convicts in the Marquette penitentiary.
The prison is located on the bay, and by using
the convicts in manufacturing coke the pro-
moters of the plan think they can produce pig
iron as cheaply as it is produced in Birming-
ham, Ala. The company has an option on
number of mines near Negaunee and 1shpem-
ing.
The grand jury of San Joaquin county,
Cal, has presented its final report concerning
the case of Deputy United States Marshal
Nagle. The report says the facts show that the
killing of the late Judge Terry was intentional
and deliberate, and that while the Constitution
and laws of the State require that crime
against its laws should be tried Hereunder, the
accused was taken from the power of the State
by { 'ccess emanating from the United States
Circuit Court. The report continues: 1.-The
United States Circuit Court has decided that