Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-11
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

peared with S22,UOO belonging to the Merchants
National Bank of Providence, R. l., has been
captured at Denver.
Yesterdays bond offerings aggregated
1885,, 900, follows: Registered As, SIS, 800 at
129. and $500, 900 at l29 ex-interest; coupon As,
$500 at l29: registered 4Hs. $500 at los. All
were accepted except the $500, 900 registered As.
The directors of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie road met in New York yesterday and de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend of per
cent on the preferred stock. The transfer
books close on the 18th inst, and the dividend
is payable May Is.
The orders for the Richmond to proceed
from the mouth of the La Platte river, South
America, to Samoa have been countermanded
and the work on the Adams now at Mare Island,
and which was also to have gone TO Samoa, will
not be pushed with such expedition.
AT Chicago Judge Prendergast yesterday
morning found William Wilson guilty of inter.
fering with the Judges and clerks of election in
the Eighth precinct of the First ward, and sem
fenced him to 300 days in the county jail. His
offense was stealing the ballots after they had
been counted.
John G. Thompson, the missing postal
clerk of Columbus, who left Detroit suddenly
Monday night when he learned that the author
tiles knew of his whereabouts, is now at the
British American HoIel, in Windsor, Canada.
The penalty for his alleged crime is from one
to ten years in the penitentiary.
The directors of the First National Bank
of Anoka, Mimi, claim that the amount of
Cashier Pratt's deficit will not be more than
one.ffth the sum first reported. President
Ticknor says the total amount is not enough to
seriously embarrass the bank, and that he feels
sure every depoStor will be paid in full The
Bank Examiner il still at work.
The Jury in the case of Libbie Beechler,
who killed Henry W. King, Jr., in the Paxton
House at Omaha, Neb., few months ago re-
turned verdict of not guilty yesterday. The
defense was insanity. The defendant lived
with King in Chicago, and when he married
M t0 I'M a ha mad h
and shot him in the hall of the hotel.
The Commandant of the Norfolk navy
yard has reported to Secretary Tracy that the
Pensacola is foated and has not been strained.
The accident will not cause over a weeks de-
lay in the work of repairing This report was
received at the department in answer to a tele-
gram of inquiry from Secretary Tracy, who
had heard rumor that the vessel was serious
ly injured. and that the sinking might easily
have been prevented by stopping the valve
holes.
E. Light SHOWS and no heavy rains during the
past winter have resulted in the most remark
able drouth this spring that the lumber woods
over 1000 900 of logs banked and ready to
be hoated to the mills below, are hung up be-
cause there is not enough water in the streams
to float them. Heavy and continued rains
alone will be able to rescue this winters cut
and thus keep the mills running the season
through.
Calvin s. Montague, of Michigan, has been
appointed member of the Board of Pension
Appeals of the Interior Department by trans
fer from the Pension Bureau. Tobe Heret, of
Indiana, has been appointed special agent of
the indian Bureau to investigate the Indian
depreciation claims. William T. Ford, of the
District of Columbia, has been appointed a
cbisf of division in the Pension ONCE. vice q
R. Faulkner. resigned. Mr.. Ford has been a
clerk in the Interior Department since 1S4S.
and was for several years chief of the division
to which he has been re-appointed.
formerly in the wool business in this city,
against the Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany. for 200 damages, is in progress in the
United States Circuit Court at Philadelphia
match sent from this city to Primrose's agent
in Kansas in June, 1888. The dispatch was in
cipher, and intended to say that they had
purchased all the wool that was wanted. The
change of a letter made the dispatch say
'buy" The agent purchased about 500 900
pounds of wool before the order was cor
rected.
Treasury Agent Simmons and his assistants
spent several hours yesterday in the art rooms
of Allard 4 Son, Fifth avenue, New York.
whose smuggling operations have kept the Gus
tom house officials so busy of late What this
mornings search revealed Mr.. Simmons re-
fused to state, but that there have been i'm
portant developments in the case of late is GER
tain. He says the case looks darker against
Allard & Son as the investigation proceeds,
and he deplores the fact that one of the firm is
not within reach of the United States law
1t will be weeks before the case is fully investi-
gated.
Theodore and Jacob Hnebler. brothers, en-
gagged in the grocery business in Chicago, were
seriously stabbed in a desperate encounter
with burglars. Looking across the street from
their store, they saw three men trying to pry
open the money drawer in Myers bakery. No
one was in the room but the burglars. The
grocers, who are courageous and powerful men.
rushed in and grappled with two Of the intru-
ders. The other came to his companions as
sistance. and by the liberal use of knives they
soon released themselves. They then clashed
through small crowd that had assembled and
escaped.
The trial OF the noted Indian chief, Jack
Spaniard. for the murder of Deputy United
States Marshal William Irwin was begun in
Fit. Smith, Ark. yesterday. One of the first
Government witnesses called was a mongrel dog,
Ratler by name. The Governments attempted
to prove that Ratler was the prisoners dog
having been seen in the neigborhood Of the
spot where the murder was committed. The
defendant denied ever having seen the animal,
but the dogs affectionate greeting to his old
master made him dangerous witness. The
animal picked him out of crowd and wagged
his tail with great vigor. Pearl Younger. q
daughter of the noted Belle Starr and Cole
Younger, the Kansas despsrado, Is witness in
the case.