Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-22
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


Nearly all railway projects in China are in
Pekin.
IT. B. Nofnger was yesterday appointed
postmaster at Kansas City, Mo-, vice H. s. Ad'
kins removed
Isaac G. Schuler, casket manufacturer and
undertaken, of Amsterdam. N. Y. has assigned.
His liabilities are estimated at $4,000
The strike of Central Hudson Railroad en-
ployes at West Albany has been settled, the
train men getting the pay for extra work.
Of Charles Giblin, under sentence OF death at
New York for killing Mrs. Goeth, to 1mprlson-
ment for life.
The Quinnebaug and Juniata, which have
been condemned by a board of survey, were
yesterday stricken from the list of vessels In
the navy. They will be advertised and Sold
The Quinnebaugh and Juniata, which have
been condemned by Board Of Survey, were
yesterday stricken from the list OF vessels in
the navy. They will be advertised and sold.
Frank Foster, of Gloucester, Mass, who
leaves widow and three children, attempted
to shut of an electric light with wet iron
killed.
p. 8. Countz and Julius Clarry, while
digging cellar at Paola, Kan, were buried by
one of the sides of the excavation falling in
When discovered, both were dead. Each leaves
family.
The Standard Oil Company. through VIM.
Rockefeller, yesterday subscribed $l00.0O0 to
the New York Worlds Fair fund. Mr.. Jay
Gould, She Manhattan Elevated Railroad Com
pany and the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany also subscribed $4,000 each.
Miss Jennie Swetland, was arrested at
Kalamazoo, Mich, charged with forging AL
bert ]. Whites name to note for $780, and q
mortgage security on some land which she had
sold him under contract. The note and mort
gage were given to an uncle of Miss SHETLAND,
from whom she borrowed the money. Miss
SWetland has been in similar trouble before.
j. B. Gray, West Virginia carpenter, was
shot and killed on a freight train last
Wednesday near Gray's station, in East
Kentucky, Gray and several others were in
the caboose of freight train, when an un-
known drunken man pulled revolver and
began a promiscuous firing on the prisoners.
All escaped except Gray, who was instantly
killed and the murderer Immediately hed.
Nobody knows his name.
The President made the following appoint
ments yesterday: John II. Devaux of Georgia,
to be Collector of Customs for the District of
Brunswick, Ga; David B. Miller, of Iowa, to be
Marshal of the United States for the District
of Southern Iowa; Lewis Miles, of Iowa, to be
Attorney of the United States for the Southern
District of Iowa; Joseph H. Wilson, of Texas,
to be Attorney of the United States for the
Eastern District of Texas.
0JOnn II. Hllllams, OF MarDlehead, Mass,
81 years old, was taken violently i'll Wednesday
with hydrophobia and died yesterday morning,
after suffering terrible agony. A young son of
William A. Bell was also attacked by the dis
ease Yesterday The boy is stii alive, but can;
dog two months ago. and the boy about six
weeks ago. The same dog that bit Williams
also bit his brother and several other persons,
but they have shown no symptoms of the
malady as yet.
vi fr bo
bark, went ashore on the south side of Guilty.
hunk, Mass, about o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and went to pieces. Soon after the men at
the life-saving station made out her name as
the Willie and Ida. A man was deserted
coming out of the cabin just before the vessel
broke up, and was atterward seen clinging to a
spar and waving for help until he lost his hold
and was drowned. A body was washed ashore
a little later. The vessel was loaded with log
wood. 1t is feared all hands were lost as their
only hope was to work down the sound to the
eastward in their boat.
Henry L. Whiting an engineer of the
Coast Survey, has made report on the dis
puted boundary line between Maryland and
Virginia at Hog Island. G. r. Lewis leased of
the State of Virginia some oyster fats at Hog
Island The authorities of the State of Mary
land claimed that these oyster beds were in
their State. The question was debated for
some time and the Governors of the States
finally agreed to appoint Commissioners to ar
bitrate the matter. General Joseph B. Seth
was appointed to represent Maryland, and A.
W. Jones the State of Virginia. Mr.. Whiting
was made referee. His report awards the dis
puted territory to the State of Maryland. The
Virginia Legislature will be asked to repeal the
act leasing the fats to Mr.. Lewis.
Thomas Ryan, United States Minister to
Mexico, in a report to the Department of State
on Mexican products and exports, says: THE
productions of sugar, corn and wheat are re-
markably small; the average value of the sugar
G-oduct is about 5H cents per pound and the
export thereof 23 cents per pound, aggregat-
ing only Sl07276, said to be the most inferior
grade; the average value of the coffee product
is q cents per pound. about one-half Of which
is exported at value of 1863 cents per pound,
and the value of the hennequen (hemp) export
is more than twice the combined value of the
entire export of sugar, coffee, corn, wheat and
ixtle (hber). The native sugar product coming
into the City of Mexico has steadily decreased
from 5S4 55S Kilograms in 1884 to 681 207 kilO-
grams in 1888. There has been a steady increase
in beef consumption in the capital, from So, ,751
beeves slaughtered in 1878 to So, 22S slaughtered
in 1883, and an increase of mutton consumption
from 81, OBJ sheep in 1873 to l3O, 263 in 1888"