Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-07
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LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Vice President Morton's private secretary
denies that bar is to be run in connection
with Mr.. Morton's new hotel in Washington.
Tuesday morning the dredge boat S. W. R.
Bayley exploded at South Pass, killing two
fremen-McGinty and Zengel. The Bayley
was owned by Port Eads Jetty Company was
built at Pittsburg and cost $4,000.
Vice Consul General johnson at London
In private letter, states that he recently
called on Mary Anderson, who in long talk
said that she had never been in better health
and spirits, and Mr.. johnson adds she looks it
The Secretary of the Navy has ordered the
acceptance of the Charleston, and has so Doti-
ned the Union Iron Works Company of San
Francisco. The question of penalty will be
| considered when the final settlement is made.
Otto ]. Klotz, astronomer of the Canadian
Interior Department. has returned from Alas
ka, where he has been gathering data to be
used by Canada in the negotiations for the set
tlement of the Alaska boundary line. He also
| visited Sitka.
The anniversary of the gunpowder plot was
| celebrated at Ottawa Tuesday by huge gath
ering of Orangemen. At a mass meeting in
the evening anti-J resolutions were passed
and both political parties were censured for
| trucking to the Roman Church.
-Adviees from England are that the neces-
sary funds have already been subscribed to OBJ
tain charter for and locate the line OF pro-
i
renee will be bridged, along the north shore of
| the st. Lawrence to the Atlantic coast Of
Labrador. The scheme includes the purchase
OF the constructed portion of the Quebec,
! Montmorencl and CharlevOix Railway. St
Charles Bay will probably be made the Atlantic
| port Of the road
Jeremiah and Mary E., aged respectively
8 and years. children of jeremiah Shaw, re-
| siding in Shaw's lane at Haverhil Mass were
found dead in sandbank near their home
i UnC fnFdo T7or Nfn aIs
been in the habit of playing near the sand
bank, were missed on Tuesday afternoon, and
search began then and continued until the
bodies were discovered in the sand The bank
was high one, and has been rendered danger
Gus by excavations.
-Advices from Australia say that a number
of natives of Solomon Islands deceived an En-
glishman. named Nelson, and three native bows
to one of their villages and then murdered
them. The bodies of the victims were deYoured
by their murderers. 1' Upon learning of the
ROyalist proceeded to the scene and shelled the
villages along the coast where the murders
we're committed. The natives deserted the
villages and fled to the hills where thev are safe
from pursuit. Other cases of cannibaIism on
the island are reported.
The good order which prevailed during
Tuesdays election in Buffalo was terminated
that night by brutal murder William Nixon
and Joseph Gilbert met in a saloon on PennsyI-
Vanla street, where excitementwa at its height
over the result of the voting. James Mcdowell
put the whole party out of the saloon and
shortly atterward Dixon and Gilbert we're
found lying side by side, the latter with his
throat cut. They had got into a fight and
when Gilbert was lying on Top of him, Dixon
pulled out razor and severed the large arteries
OF Gilberts neck. Dixon was so drunk that he
could not get away from the spot an6 lay by
the dead man until found.
The Southern Exposition began under
favorable auspices at Montgomery Ala, Tues
day. The Governor and other State officers
city and county officers and large number OF
citizens were present when President Harrison
touched the bell by wire from Washington,
which put the machinery in motion. Speeches
were made by Governor Seay to Mayor Ora
ham and President Van Diver, of the Exposi-
ton. The artillery fred salute and the Ex-
position was declared formally opened. There
is large and fine display of the products of the
farm, the mine, the forest and the stock farm.
The number of fine race horses is the largest
ever assembled in the State. The Exposition
will remain open until the 18th inst.