Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-10
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Sultan has ordered special meeting OF
the Cabinet to devise measures to suppress the
disorder that prevails in Armenia.
William NJ. Caldwell dealer In hardware
| and cutlery at LOG Chambers street, New York
City. made an assignment yesterday to James
K. Caldwell with preferences OF S2620
While christening party were enjoying a
| sail on Lake Killarney, Sunday evening, their
boat was capszed. and before assistance could
reach them five of the party were drowned.
The mob which took S. s. Tate from the
| Sheriff at Mattoon, H., Sunday night, with the
| supposed intention of lynching on suspicion
| that he was horse thief, did not carry out
| their purpose. They became convinced OF his
| innocence and released him.
&C. A. Parker, who has just resigned the posi-
| tion of General Freight Agent of the Atchi-
| son, Topeka and Santa Fe, has accepted simi-
| lar position with the Missouri Pacific, with
headquarters at St Louis. He will assume the
duties of his new Office on Octoperl l.
The second section of freight tram 43 and
| the first section of train so collided near Go
shen. Ind, on the Lake Shore road, yesterday.
| Both trains were badly damaged and both en-
gines ruined. but lives lost. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000. All traffic on this line has
been stopped.
Senators Vest. Coke and Plumb, of the Sen
ate committee investigating the beef business
of the West, have arrived in Kansas City from
El Paso, Tex, wdere they have been holding a
session. Senators Farwell and Manderson
q,
another sitting.
-Eisenmann Brothers & Company, wholesale
feed dealers at Louisville, made an assignment
yesterday afternoon. j. C. and L. +. Eisen-
mann, the individual members, also assigned.
Their liabilities are estimated by the firm at
$50 000 and their assets are sufficient probably,
to pay dollar for dollar.
John McGuffy shot and killed his divorced
wife at San Pedro. CAL, Sunday. He then
placed the pistol to his breast and shot himself,
inf, rn,hi vrf1l nrohqllv rpSnlt
fatally. McGuffy asked his wife to return to
him. and it was on her refusal that he fired the
fatal shot.
During Forepaugh's procession yesterday
morning in Kansas City. brake on the band
wagon failed to work while descending one of
Kansas Citys steep hills, and the wagon
coasted to the bottom. where it overturned and
was completely wrecked. Six of the occupants
were more or less injured, but one Of the in
juries will prove fatal
The thirtv-ninth anniversary of the admis-
sion of California into the Union was cele-
brated to-day. As the day was legal holiday.
the banks and exchanges and large number
of commercial houses of San Francisco were
closed. The principal celebration was con-
Quoted at San Jose, by the order of the Native
Sons of the Golden West.
John Frendel, farmer living near Atchi-
son, Kan. became insane Saturday afternoon.
He locked his wife and three children in the
house, set fire to it. and then hid in the barn to
watch results. The woman and children es-
capped by means of a back window to the house
of a neighbor. The house and contents were
completely destroyed. Late Sunday Frendel
was placed in Jail.
Charley Brown and Howard Jackson both
colored, had a quarrel at Paris, KY, Sunday
afternoon. Brown took Jackson's pistol away
and they separated. Afterward Jackson came
back to see Brown, and the latter seeing that
Jackson had shotgun, drew out the pistol that
he had taken in the morning and nred three
shots. They took effect in Jackson's back, and
when found he was dead.
"A dispatch from Saltwater. Minn., says:
Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw, laid in
stupor all day. He does not now recognize
even his sister, who has been at his bedside
constantly for two months. DR.. Merrill says he
will probably die in the next "a hours. though
he may live day or two. His brothers, Jim
and Cole. serving life sentences with him are
visihly affected They are allowed to be with
him large part of the time.
-Eben Dale aged As. a Boston manufacturer
who for many years has been summer resi-
dent at Fresh Water Cove, committed suicide
yesterday morning in his room there, shooting
himself with an old-fashioned pistol, the bullet
going through his head. Some years ago Mr..
Dale had Roman fever. and the lingering eff
fects of the disease caused him considerable
brain trouble, and this is supposed to be the
cause of the suicide. He leaves a widow, for
whom he left a letter.
"A crowd of bows at Winchester Kan, on
mischief bent, thought to frighten one of their
by putting ''tick-tack" on his
window. Willie Ray was selected as the victim.
He thought the boys were burglars sure
enough, and loading his shotgun he fired load
of buckshot into the crowd. Daniel Lowe re-
ceived a bullet in the head. He will die. Tom
Gardiner received four wounds. one of which
was in the head and another through the lungs.
His recovery is doubtful. Ed Lucas received
painful wound in the arm.
An opinion was given by Judge Colt in the
United States Circuit Court at Boston, yester-
f0 q n
the United States VS.. the American Bell Tele-
phone Company. In this case the defendant
company has filed general answer to the bill,
and defendant Bell has filed plea and answer
in support thereof. The defendant company
now asFs leave to withdraw its answer and dle
the same plea and answer in support thereof,
which has been fled by Bell. The motion has
been granted by Judge Colt.
The Mississippi Valley Medical Association
will meet in Evansville, Ind to-day, tomorrow
and Thursday. This will be an event of ma
tional importance. Leading physicians through
out the Union will participate in the affair.
The citizens of Evansville have arranged an
interesting programme of entertainment, the
features of which will be a banquet of electric
light in Garvin's Park on Tuesday evening, and
ball on Wednesday evening. Eighty-nIne
carefully prepared papers will be read. Elabo-
rate preparations are being made for entertain
ing visitors
The Bishop of Seez has written to NJ.
Thevenet Minister of Justice. protesting against
Iue l6Ll6T TeceOIlY sent ny LD6 Minister
TO the bishops, reminding them that they are
forbidden by law from taking part in the elec-
tions. and stating that the Government would
prosecute any ecclesiastic who might overstep
the lines, enjoined under all Governments since
the Concordat. In his letter the Bishop states
that the circular of the Minister of Justice
wounds the dignity and patriotism of the
clergy. Continuing he says: "As French citi-
zens we claim our rights, of which you cannot
deprive u.s."
The following particulars of the killing of
a horse thief near Aztec, New Mexico, have
just been received: Early Friday morning
party of Navajo Indians road into Aztec and
stated that three white men had stolen herd
of 36 horses from them. The deputy sheriff,
accompanied by two companions, started with
the Indians to capture them. Just before night
the trail of the outlaws was discovered, and
they were soon overtaken and the horses Sc.
cured. In attempting to arrest the horse
thieves one of them was shot through the back.
He was taken to ranch nearby and a doctor
from Aztec summoned. The wounded man re-
fused to receive assistance. neither would he
reveal his name or any other particulars and
died without giving his captors any clue,