Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Miner House at East Tawas, Mich,
was burned yesterday, and two of the inmates
perisned in the flames.
: "A locomotive ana Is cars belonging to the
Canadian Pacific Railroad were seized at Port
Arthur, Ont, yesterday for taxes.
The total amount of insurance involved in
the Thanksgiving Day fire at Boston as Of
icially reported to date is 81 SO4, 800.
AT Duluth, Mimi. the wife of the Sheriff
discovered hole in the wall made by the pris-
oners, and frustrated general jail delivery.
Governor Hill yesterday refused to inter-
fere in the case of John Greenwald under SEN
tence of death, in Brooklyn, for the murder of
Lyman s. Weeks
Harry Carlton, alias Handsome Harry"
1888 was hanged at the Tombs prison at 7:S0
yesterday morning.
1t is understood that the duties on mining
machinery and coke will be removed and other
tariff changes made at the coming session of
the Canadian Parliament
" Yesterdays bond offerings were as follows
Coupon 4s 500; registered As. 1857 800 at I27
Coupon 41s 81 050 at l045s; registered 41<s SS77-
800 at l04SS. Ali the offers were accepted.
John Madden and his wife were burned to
death Wednesday night at Kingston, Ont
Their home took fire, and while they we're try
ing to extinguish the flames their means Of
escape were cut of.
William jackson, chopper in tie camp
near Bolton, NO., had fight with John Ryder
the camp cook, Wednesday. Each man was
armed with an ak, and the fight continued until
both were fatally wounded.
The steamer Atalanta arrived at New York
yesterday from West Indian ports, with the
chief officer and IA men of the steamer Edith
Gordon, which foundered at sea on November
York for Montego Bay. No lives were lost.
Considerable excitement was caused at
Port Arthur. Ont, yesterday. when bailiff, at
the instance of the tax collector, seized a loco
motive and II cars, the property of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, for taxes due by the COM
pany. Part of the cars are full of freight and
the whole train is sidetracked.
The Jury in the trial of Shihok Ingio, the
Japanese sailor who murdered Muro Comi Con-
tari, fellow countryman. in the Japanese sail
ors' boarding house, New York City, on Novem-
Der 10, by stabbing him in the left breast,
brought in verdict of murder in the first de,
gree yesterday afternoon. He was remanded
for sentence
"A few nights ago the bookkeeper of the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank at Fort Worth,
Tex, forgot to lock the safe, and Watchman
Charles Wallace, discovering this during the
night sent for his friend, Lee Reilly. Reilly re-
sponded with bag and $5, 900 in silver was car
ried of The men were arrested, and part of
the plunder recovered. :
"A circus exhibited at Lumberton, s. c.,
MOuOdy nlR1b anu crown Oh ueSEOeo DoBan
quarrel among themselves. Soon free fight
was in progress and pistols, knives, clubs
stones and other weapons were brought into
use. Jack Hunt, Tom Collier and julius EN-
bra were killed and half a dozen others more
or less seriously injured.
-"Jimmy" Hope, the noted bank burglar,
was Yesterday discharged from custody by
Judge Wheeler in the United States Circuit
Court, at New York, and he was allowed two
days time to leave the State. His Honor de-
cided that the prisoner was entitled to his
liberty, having served imprisonment for the
crime nnder which he was extradited.
-Viscount Preto, the last Prime Minister of
Brazil under the Empire who was exiled upon
the proclamation Of the Republic, has arrived
at Teneriffe, by way of st. Vincent. While at
the latter place he had conference with Dom
Pedro, the ex-Emperor Viscount Preto has
given an account Of the revolution. which agrees
with the details heretofore published.
The action brought by Mrs. John W.
Mackay against an English newspaper for
charging that, prior to her marriage to Mr..
Mackay, Mrs. Mackay was a washerwoman in
Nevada, was settled by the defendants apolo-
gizing to the plaintiff for the publication of the
article complained of and paying the costs of
the action. The defendants also agreed to pay
q certain sum of money to some charitable in
stitution to be selected by Mrs. Mackay.