Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The following letter was found in bottle
near Gananoque, Canada: Captain of the Ba-
varia, help. the ship IS sinking; all have been
washed overheard but me, expect my turn
VIII come next. About 100 yards off Galoup
Island now."
The Catholic societies of Rome intend ask
ing the municipality for permission to erect a
monument to the Apostle of Rome, ST. Philip
Ner1, founder of the Society of the Oratorians, 4"
OF which Cardinal Newman is member This
Is intended as protest against the recent erec-
tlon of monument in honor Of the great Free
thinker, Giordano Bruno.
1t is learned that the New York broker,
untermeyer, acting as the authorized agent of
OF the English syndicate. was in Boston re-
Gently and made proposition to all the great
hoxbury brewers, which, if accepted, will give
the Englishmen possession. The breweries
which it is proposed to purchase are Hough-
tons, Roessles', Burkhardt's and Pfaff's, the
aggregate valuation of which is estimated at
from 1000, 600 to 81, 100000.
Notwithstanding the flattering reports sent
out from Dakota relative to the anticipated
abundant yield of small grain. advces received
from good portion of Western and South
Dakota state that small grain is an entire fail
ure, more SO than any in other years. The
grain is all burned up. Fully half of the acre
age is sown to wheat and oats. Corn does not
yet show the effects of the drouth. Among
the farming community this failure will be
sorely felt
r OlCenan 1arG WenC TO Cle mayor B ONCE
at South Oklahoma Saturday afternoon and be-
gan abusing the Mayor. He was locked up by
Marshal Mckee and Policeman Howard after
a desperate resistance. When Mckee and
Howard returned to the Mayors Office Police
man Mattox, friend of Hart. opened fire on
them with Winchester. Mckee was slightly
wounded in the abdomen and Howard seriously
in the hips. After he was shot, Howard shot
Mattox through the lungs, fatally wounding
him.
Thursday two children of Edward Bachus,
farmer of Roster, No. small village 80 miles
South Of Kansas City, on the Kansas line, went
to creek about mile from home to fish.
Upon their failing to return at night searching
parties were organized. and last Friday evening
that had long been known as VOLTS Den. A
band of timber wolves have used this section
for years. and it is thought the children were
killed and eaten by the animals. The boys
were aged 10 and II years.
I'm the northern part of Tuscaloosa county
Ala, the citizens have undertaken to break
up number Of Illicit distilleries and capture
the men engaged in the business. For year
or more that part of the State has been over
run with moonshiners who finally grew SO bold
they carried on their business almost openly
and became terror, not only to revenue Off
GERS but to all law-abiding citizens. Finding
peaceable and lawful means unavailing, the
citizens met and organized themselves into q
vigilance committee. They have notified the
noonshlners that they may expect no quarter.
The latter are we'll armed and determined to
resist to the death, and bloody local feud is
sure to result. Revenue officers have gone to
the scene of threatened trouble.