Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-28
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The President yesterday appointed the fol-
lowing postmasters: Joseph II. Hirst at
Angola, Ind. vice Harmon Freygang removed,
and John R. Bonnell. at Charlottesville, Ind,
vice ]. B. Booze removed.
The Gar and Czarina have started for
Copenhagen. 1t is reported that the Care
witch will make an official visit to Paris If the
interview which is to take place between the
Car and the Kaiser is not harmonious.
General Boulanger. in a manifesto, calls
upon the electors of the Department Of the
Seine to remain united and preserve discipline
in order to insure respect for their sovereign
viii: Aecompanying the manifesto is list of
for seats in the Chamber of Deputies from the
Department Of the Seine.
-Quong Lung Hong: head of the importing
hrm OF the same name, is the head of the syn
dicate OF four who have leased the Oriental
Theater, of New York. at a rental of $1,000 a
year. They have also signed contract for a
year with the Swentian Lok Company of
Chinese actors, and get control of the 200
Chinese plays which they represent
w. H,Mathewson, of Cambridge, Mass, q
driver of an electric street car for the W est
tives in line of heirship of the late Hiram
Pearsons son of the late Colonel Hiram
Pearsons. of Chicago. Young Hiram was %
years old sna M,.s; was drowned In Mackinaw
100000
The annual meeting Of the National Bar
Association will open at Chicago to-day 1t is
expected that more than l.000 delegates will at
begin at 8 O'Clock, when Judge Trumbull, on
behalf of the Chicago and Illinois Bar Associa-
ton, will introduce the National Association
as body to its Illinois representatives, and
will deliver an address of welcome to the visit
ing lawyers.
Passenger Agent Williams, Of the Memphis
and Charleston road has contracted for 400
white families to be brought from the Caro-
linas to Woodruff county: Ark. where they
will go to work October l. as day laborers.
Next season they will be renters or croppers on
shares. as they may choose. The same agent
has also made arrangements to bring 5000
negroes from the Carolinas and Georgia to
various points in the Yazoo delta. They will
reach their destination in time to assist in
gathering the cotton crop. Williams has already
brought out over 3,0O0 negroes.
Gustav FIeischbein, of Bellevllle, Mich,
day afternoon near Lake Gogebic, is not ex-
pected to live. The wounds of the two others
who were shot are very slight There is no
trace OF the robber. The description of the
highwayman Is the same as that Of the train
robber who held up the Milwaukee and North
ern train at Ellis junction on May 28 and the
Wisconsin Central train on August T. The
name of the man is Reimund Holzhay, resi-
dence at Shawnee, Shawnee county, Wis. He
is wanted by the Government, two railroad
companies and others for murder and highway
robbery The rewards offered for his,capture
aggregate $500.
Just three weeks ago the Rio Grande West
ern train was "held up'' near Thompson's |
Springs, Utah, and the passengers relieved of
many valuables. The outlaws, after robbing
the train, started for the Blue Mountains in
southern direction. Two of them--one of the |
robbers and a noted horse thief |
went to Bluff, in San Juan county. When |
about go miles southwest of Bluff, on the |
Navajo Reservation, the fugitives were cap
tured. The prisoners were put in irons and |
Moab the thieves got away by Jumping from |
the wagon into the brush. 1t was dark and the |
brush was thick. and it was hard to get on their |
track. Twenty men hunted that night, and the |
next day their tracks were found heading for |
the Blue Mountains. Deputy Bush and some |
Indians are still in pursuit
There has been made public recent letter
from General Lew Wallace to President Diaz |
of Mexico, suggesting that General Hermann
5turm. Of Indiana, be recompensed by Mexico
Tor certain expenses incurred about 1854. The |
by Mexico in this country by the aid of the |
secret influence of General Grant, President
Lincoln. General Wallace and others, General |
5turm being the confidential agent between
,he parties. General Wallace says that when
General Grant saw that the Confederacy was
loomed. he feared large numbers Of the Con-
ederate soldiers would, afrer the war closed,
20 TO Mexico and Join Maximilian's army. He !
persuaded President Lincoln to secretly ask
he Juarez government to expel MaximilIan
Wallace was sent to Mexico to open the nego-
iations. and was instructed not TO let Secre-
airy Seward know his action. as the latter was
opposed to such = action. The result OF the
Movement was the strengthening Of the Mex
can army and the overthrow Of Maximilian.