Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-13
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-Four men were badly scalded by the burst
ing of steam pipe at the opening Of a new
depot at Milwaukee.
y Mr.. Parnell has written letter in which he
says he is recovering frem the cold from which
he is suffering, and that he hopes to be able to
speak at Nottingham on Tuesday next.
Rev. DR.. Reilly, of Detroit, Treasurer of
the Irish National Fund League. has cabled
$4,000 to DR.. Kenny, Treasurer of the Irish
League, for the tenants defense fund.
-Diphtheria is raging in the little town Of
La Grange, Mo. A dozen deaths have oc-
CURED, and many people haYe left the town.
The public schools have been closed. A simi-
Mo.
Lew Dockstader. the well-known minstrel
who lately suffered financial distress in New
York, is, with his wife, making his temporary
abiding place in Parksburg. He is not well,
but he is not the very sick man that he has
recently been reported to be.
Major McKinzie, the Indian Agent, and
some Abiline warriors from the Standing Rock
Agency are on their way to Washington to en-
ter protest against the method by which the
reservation is being opened to settlement and
the treatment they are receiving.
"A cablegram received in New York City
yesterday states that the steamship Hammonia,
OF the Hamburg American Packet Company,
has been sold to the French Line and will be
used in the Mediterranean service. The price
is not given. but the vessel cost about $780, 900.
The funeral of Justus H. Rathbone took
place at Utica, N: Y. yesterday morning. A
large number of Knights of Pythias and others
were present Brief services were held in the
First Presbyterian Church, and at the Forest
Cemetery the body was inferred IN accordance
with the ritual of the order.
The coal miners of Central Illinois held
secret convention at Peoria The convention
adopted resolutions favoring 3 national ad-
vance in mining prices on May ], an eight-hour
day. abolition of truck stores, the breaking up
of all ironclad contracts between the miners
the
weeks.
The mail car, with its contents, attached to
the passenger train which lett Port Jefferson,
on the Long Island Railroad, at 655 o'clock
lyn, was totally destroyed by IRE about one hour
later. The smoker, next the mail car, was also
slightly damaged. The fire, it is thought, was
OF incendiary origin.
Miss Alta Sickles, who eloped Wednesday
evening with Thomas Dunham, is not the
daughter of General Daniel E. Sickles, but his
half-sister Their father. George E Sickles,
ing fortune of 100000. George E sickles
himself created quite social sensation by
marrying his housekeeper.
Queen Victoria has sent . cable dispatch to
Mr.. Stanley, in which she says: ''My thoughts
are after you and your brave followers, whose
hardships and dangers are at an end con-
graduate you all. including the Zanzibaris who
displayed such devotion and fortitude during
your marvellous expedition. trust Emin
Pasha is making favorable progress"
"A. X. and P. E. Torey, of Charleston, 8. G.,
unearthed copper pot containing 81, 900 worth
Of gold dust at Plattsmouth, Neb. 1t was buried
there by Henry Hopkins, an uncle. who brought
1t back from California with him in lS49. The
Iorey brothers recently found a letter among
their mothers effects telling about the burial
OF the gold, and went to Plattsmouth about
two weeks ago.
Bill Easton, alias '.Black Bill and Jack
Powers, chief of the gang. together with a con-
ductor on the Northern Pacific, who acted as
confederate, were arrested by the United
States Marshal at Tacoma. Wash. charged with
Delng engaged in an extensive opium SNUG
Cling conspiracy. Two hundred and fifty
taeis OF opium, valued at $780, were found in
their possession.
The fishing schooner Amy Hanson reports
at Boston having seen the United States
squadron ON Sunday last at 10 A. M, latitude
~ North, longitude $3.50 West, or lS5 miles e.
:. =. one-quarter E. from Thatcher's Island.
An hour later fell in with small schooner on
nre. The word Boston was seen on her stern,
but the name was burned of. The vessel ap-
peared without cargo and was abandoned.
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