Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Karl Tormes. the well-known baritone
singer and music instructor, died Sunday in his
o0th year, in San Francisco.
Jake Kemple of Wheeling, who is known
sylVania as q campaign orator and humorist,
has been appointed s Jecial Agent OF Customs
for the Treasury z pafment
"A dispatch from London states that Mr..
! John Aird, NJ. p suggests royal commission
/ to consider and report upon the labor question.
He believes that some good results would
accrue from an investigation going thoroughly
into the matter
The London grand jury has found true
bill against Mr.. Pafke, editor of the North
The alleged libel consisted of an article pub
lished in the North London Press charging
that the Earl was implicated in the "West End
scandal"
"A telegram from Vienna says that the
Rothschilds have agreed to pay the mother-of-
pearl workmen increased wages on condition
that they alone be supplied with the goods
manufactured and that the production be lin
tied. The strikers have accepted those terms
ana viii resume work.
The Bdnco Inte7ndciondI do BrGziI, of Rio
Janelro. has telegraphed to the manager of its
branch house in London that the customs and
excise duties collected during the first half of
December exceeded by So, 900 the sum collected
during the corresponding period of last year.
The dispatch adds that everything throughout
the Republic is proceeding satisfactorily
Michael Fierback, while out hunting on
Sunday in the neighborhood Of York, Pa,
found the remains of well-dressed man. The
man had evidently been dead for long time,
as the flesh had nearly all disappeared from
the bones and the arms were separated from
the body. The body was finely dressed. There
were no marks of violence and no one could
Identity 1t. The Coroner was notified and will
hold an investigation. ~
The strike of the employees of the London
South M0trOnOliSqn a
fa1lure, the company having filed all the
strikers places with non-union men. There
nave been no disturbances, and work at the
gashouse is proceeding quietly. The commit
zee OF the striking gas men at Manchester and
Stafford announce that their funds are ex-
haus1ed, and they advise the men to ask the
companies to take them back in their employ.
The Ohio. Indiana and Western Railway
pay car, which left this city early yesterday was
wrecked three miles east of CoVington, Ind. by
the breaking of an axle. Five persons occupied
the coach, namely, General Superintendent l.
tor w ". Lynn, Cashier j. Il. N. Ciaggett and
Frank Wilson, clerk to the pavmaster. The
train was whirling along at terrific rate when
the front axle OF the pay car gave way, precipi-
tating the coach into the ditch by the side of
the track.
The barn of Moses E Dodge, at Hopkinton,
n. H., was burned early yesterday morning.
Two bloody axes and fresh blood have been
found in neighboring shed, and it is learned
bnab nelgnDOr was at the OOQge mouse In the
evening. crazy drunk. Mr.. Dodge sent him
home, but the drunken man is said to have
escaped from his house about the time of the
fire. A boy named Henry Searle. who worked
for Dodge, saved the horses in the barn. But
Mr.. Dodge was lost in the fire. Over II head of
cattle persisted.
w. H. Bartram, solicitor, of London, Can,
was arrested in Chicago on Sunday night on
the charge of kidnapping 9-year-old girl named
Bessie Cameron, who is an heiress. The child
was taken from her mother, who had been
living with Bartram's family. Bartram was
counsel for Ludwig Cameron, managing editor
Of the London, Can, Advertiser. The girl is
the daughter of Alexander Cameron, formerly
night editor Of the paper. but now an inmate Of
3 lunatic asylum. 1t is said that Ludwig Cam.
eron, tempted by the little girls $40 600 has in
stigated the kidnapping. and a warrant is out
for his arrest.
The trains on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road due at Los Angeles, CAL, yesterday from
San Francisco have not yet arri we'd, owing to a
washout of the road near Langs. The train for
San Francisco which left Los Angeles Satur-
day night returned on Sunday, bringing the
passengers of one of the tied-up trains. It is
reported that train from the north due here
this morning went into washout at Langs and
two Pullman cars jumped the track. No
passengers were injured. A dispatch from
luna, Ariz. T., SAYS: An extensive washout at
Mesuite station, 81 miles west of here, has
caused suspension of traffic, and all passenger
trains have turned back.