Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-21
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

ington from his home in Vermont and was IN
his office yesterday.
Andrew Grimes, the colored murderer of
John Martin, mate of the schooner Annie Carl,
at Navy LANDING ss at @ @Sa
this afternoon. There was no unusual scene.
Dispatches from Southeastern Kansas says
the NeoshO river is at flood height, is out of its
banks in numerous places. and that many
merged and destroyed. In NeOsno county
alone the damage to crops is estimated at over
$500, ZOO.
Among the 713 steerage passengers landed
at Castle Garden yesterday by the steamer
were carefully called out from the other pas
sengers and transferred to the Old Dominionline
steamer, en- route for Utah by way of Norfolk,
Va. The elders in charge of the party travelled
first class on the Wyoming.
Three murders in one day is the record in
Putnam county, w. Va. James D. Paul, a
bachelor farmer, was killed by tenant, whose
daughter he had misled. John Moore. another
farmer killed neighbor, Henry Bradley, with
a club and Doc Lawrence, miner, killed Tom
Stevens, fellow miner, with pick. All the
murders were in radius of three miles.
The complaints in Indiana about the destruc-
tion of wheat by strange insect are increasing
They come chiefly from the central and eastern
parts of the State. but the ravages of the little
bug have already spread to Northern Indiana
and the Secretary of the State Board of Agri-
culture regards the reports as alarming. The
insect is what is known among agriculturists as
the green mldge," another species of which is
the "red midge."
Two Choctaw Indians. who had drawn sew
eral hundred dollars of Choctaw net proceeds
funds and started for Ft Smith, Ark, were
killed Tuesday night in the woods of Sugar
Loaf Mountain, in Indian Territory. The re-
mains were found yesterday by an Indian
school teacher. Both men had been shot
through the head with Winchesters and their
pockets rifled. Their horses were also stolen.
Deputy Marshals were ordered to scour the
country.
-Advices from Tucson. Ariz., say that
friends of the men who robbed Paymaster
are making secret efforts to procure the ap-
pointnent of a successor to United States Mar
shall N. K. Meade, who has pushed the pursuit
and capture of seven of the robbers. Three
yet at large have been identified and will be
taken in few days, Marshal Meade is in
possession of important clews fixing the crime,
and they regard the prompt appointment of
his successor necessary to save the thieves from
conviction
An the Lake Superior lines gave notice
yesterday of reduction in canal rates from
New York to st. Paul to a basis of 36 cents.
This is cents lower than the rates announced
on Tuesday. The announcement was also made
yesterday that the Fitchburg would take its
usual differential under the 6cent lake and
rail rate. This makes first class from Boston
via that line 40 cents. The Omaha has an
nounced that it will not only reduce its lumber
rate 70 Kansas City to meet the Altons cut
but will put it's Kansas City rate into Council.
Bluffs, Omaha, Sioux City and other Southwest
Missouri river points. 1t does this under the
long and short haul clause. The new rate is 15
Eastern and Northern divisions as well as st.
Paul and Minneapolis,