Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

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port at New York, yesterday, was sS,S50.00O-
The Milwaukee and Northwestern officials
oRer 5000 reward for the man who robbed the
train at Ellis Junction.
The Cunard Steamship Company and the
Oceanic Navigation Company have secured
the contracts to carry the outward British
mails. As
The storm of Thursday night was wide
spread A very heavy rain fell at many
points. and at places in the Northwest snow
made its appearance
MIR. William o,Brien, Member of Parlia-
ment, who was recently released from an Irish
| prison, has gone to Nice to recuperate his
health. friend has placed villa at his dis
| posal.
John Gilliland, who had recently moved to
| Illinois from Columbus, o., was arrested last
! night by the Sheriff of this county upon a
! Tequisition from the Governor Of Ohio on a
charge of bigamY.
Wells York, aged 50, section boss on the
Boston and Maine Railroad, committed suicide
| at Ipswich, Mass, Thursday by cutting his
throat. Dependency from i'll health was the
probable cause. He leaves widow.
The Carpenters Union of Lowell, Mass,
| Thursday evening adopted a resolution notify
| ing the 200 signers of the agreement to strike
on June for nine hours and regular pay that
the obligation goes into effect at 5 p NJ. to-day.
All contractors were notified to-day.
Rev. William l. Gage, who resided at Hart
| ford, Conn.,, jumped from fourth story win
dow of the Orthopedic Hospital, in Philadel-
| phia, yesterday morning, and died few hours
| later from his injuries Mr.. Gage came to the
hospital for treatment for insomnia.
Acting Secretary Tichenor has infor med
! the Surveyor of Customs at Memphis that
| chewing gum manufactured from imported
Mexican chicle and 5alsam tolu and domestic
sugar is not entitled to drawback under the
law, because of the presence of domestic
material.
Prof. 81. K. Frawley, who disappeared mys-
teriously from Buffalo on April 20, and after
ward turned up in Chicago, where he was sus-
pected of completely In the plot to assassinate
Dr.. Cronin, is discovered to have Gefrauded
the American Business College in Buffalo of
over $500.
"A fierce gale ragged over Lakes Ontario and
Erie and portions of Lakes Huron and Michi-
gan Thursday. All around the lakes vessels
are reported wind bound and driven ashore. At
Chicago the wind reached velocity of 40 miles
an hour and number of vessels were forced to
anchor outside.
AN Indian outbreak is reported in Keya
Paha county, on the Dakota frontier. Settlers
are said to be focking into Norden and the
place is being fortified. Whether there is
really any trouble or this is simply one OF the
periodical scares to which frontier settlers are
subject is unknown at present.
There is no truth in the report that the
steamer Lake Ontario was wrecked off Anticosti
island, and that all hands were lost. Inquiries
at various points along the cost of Antieosti
elicit the same anSWer-that nothing has been
heard from the steamer since she passed out to
sea on Wednesday.
The annual report of the New Hampshire
State Bank Committee, will show that the
savings banks of the State have So 632 900 in
vested IN western loans, an increase of $9l8,400
over last year. The report will also show that
the number of depositors is 144.834, of whom
ES,OS4 have more than s., 600 to their credit.
"A dispatch has Just been received by the
State Department from the American Minister
at Berne, stating that France and Austro-
Hungary have officially notified the Swiss Gov
ernment OF their willingness to take Dart in the
international Labor Protection Congress,
which is to be held in Berne next September.
"A gang of lightning rod men have been
swindling farmers in Hancock and adjoining 4
counties in Illinois. They robbed A. s. Tager,
OF Bushnell, Ill, out Of $500 recently OH bogus
contract, and Frank Lucie, wealthy French
man living near Carthage, ILL.,, signed his name
$1,000. p~p', "Ii'H N' - IS 'HOusA'' COST nim
1t was officially announced at the New
York Stock Exchange at3 P. M. yesterday that
no more quotations will be distributed by
stock indicators or tickers.. Quotations will
be gathered on the floor to-day but members
will have to furnish them to customers by
memorandum, as in former times. The order
goes into effect to-day.
Yesterdays bond offerings were as follows.
aggTeegasng ge g 26S 81 oOO Registered 4s go 600 at
fiat; 100000 at l2915 fiat; $4,000 at 1881 fat;
100000 at $50 fiat. Coupons. as S2 O00 at IO6
fiat Registered AS, 1921. 500 at los fat. Forty
thousand dollars AS, registered, at 1Os All
the ~ per cents were accepted
"A heavy sign was blown from the roof of a
house In East Fourteenth street, New York,
yesterday, and shower of bricks and piece
OF coping we're brought down with it. Four
children who were gathering wood in front of
the building were struck by the falling missiles
and badly hurt, one of them receiving frac-
tured skull and the scalp of another being in
jured.
While Ephraim Kessner was returning
from Leavenworth, Ind, Wednesday evening
seated five persons besides himself, instantly
killing his wife and SO severely shocking lady
named Cline that she has become insane. All
the others were more or less injured. The
wagon was shattered and one of the horses was
killed.
"A telegram from Mount Auburn, Iowa, re-
ports brief particulars of White Cap outrage
which occurred there on Wednesday night, ana
in which several persons were fatally injured
The victim was farmer and his barn was
burned down. Being driven out by the flames
he defended himself with a pitchfork, wound
ing several White Caps. All parties implicated
are under arrest except the wounded.
-lnstIucIlonS nave neen issued Dy the Cana
dian Department of Railways and Canals for
the opening of all the StLawrence canals from
midnihgt Saturdays until P. NJ. Sundays This
order is the outcome of the strong representa-
tionS OF Canadian forwarders that by closing
the canals all day on Sunday they are discrimi-
mated against and that traffic was being d.
verted to the Erie Canal which otherwise would
take the St Lawrence route.
An explosion occurred yesterday afternoon
in the New Jersey Extraction Works on Staten
Island Sound, below Elizabethport A furnace
blew up and threw boiling copper over num-
Der of employees VIM. Dale was fatally burned
and Edward McNamee was struck by a flying
bolt and is in critical condition. James
Wright and Samuel, Elliott were also badly in
jured. but will probably recover. TheIamage
to the works amounts to about 5000.
"A shock of earthquake was felt on the left
bank of the Seine in Paris yesterday Dis
patches show that earthquake shocks were not
only felt in the Channel Islands yesterday but
also in the Isle of Wight The disturbances
were also experienced in many towns on the |
Among the places included are Portsmouth, |
Cherbourg. Havant, Havre, Rouen, Granville |
and Caen. No damage was done anywhere.
g. s. Wormer & Sons, of Chicago, Detroit |
and ST. Louis, dealers in machinery on commls- |
sion, made assignments simultaneously IN those |
cities yesterday, the assignee in each case being
James NJ. Arnold. The main house is at De, |
troit Inc iiaDiltes es OF the Chicago house are
of the Chicago house are the National Bank of |
America of Chicago, Sl3, 900; the Erie City Iron |
Works Erie, Pa Sl2,O49; G. s. Wormer, De- |
troit, S11, 2S5
"A dispatch from Oxford Chenango county.
N Y, says that Garrett Wheeler, foreman in |
the stone quarries there, was fatally shot by /
Nelson Bracket, one of the workmen at 1920 |
Thursday night: The assault was made with
out warning and was inspired by revenge be-
cause Wheeler had been concerned in the pros
ecution of Brackettis brother for an offense |
which he had committed Wheeler is middle
aged man, and has wife and two children. |
Brackett has been arrested.
-Proiting by the recent events at Samoa.
when the treasure of the wrecked Trenton was |
recovered by means of diving apparatus bor-