Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-27
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday
| afternoon accepted the following bonds: As
registered, S5S9000 at 1091s; coupons, 4Ss, 5000
in the Governor Larrabee libel case at Des
Moines, the jury yesterday morning returned
night.
When Mr.. and Mrs. John Swanson, who
live in Townsend street, Chicago, awoke yester-
day morning, they discovered that their twin
babies, months old, lying in bed with them,
had been smothered to death.t
Twenty persons in one neighborhood in
Lapere county, Indiana, have been attacked
with trichinosis, and most of the afhicted ones
will die. All are Germans, who, at q christ
ening recently. ate pork which had been poorly
cooked.
AT Shelby, Ala, small town in the mining
region, United States Marshal Milan Monday
unearthed gang of counterfeiters who have
been freely scattering spurious dollar coins IN
that section. The officer arrested one OF the
gang, Cokly, and another, Greene, has been
captured in Clay county.
"A. Heggeland, President Of the Second
National Bank of Mcpherson, Kan, was in
stantly killed Monday, while in his bank. by
the accidental discharge of a revolver in his
own hands. The deceased was one of the rich
est men in Central Kansas, and was prominent
in the political affairs of the State.
William Emerson, mulatto convict in the
State prison at Ft. Madison, Ind Monday as
saulted Deputy Warden Townsend with
sharp knife, ground down from heavy table
knife while the deputy was endeavoring to in
duce him to come out from his cell. Townsend
drew his revolver and shot Emerson, killing
him almost instantly.
An extra freight train on the Illinois Cep-
trail ran into a broken rail four miles from
Freeport, Ill, Monday, and IL cars were thrown
down deep embankment- Five of the Stand
ard OIL Company tanks, containing 1900 gal
Ions of oil were smashed. A carload OF valu-
able horses was thrown so feet, All of the
horses and their attendants were injured.
One hundred and fifty girls employed in
street. St Louis, went out on strike for back
wages yesterday. They secured an attachment
against their employer, and under it 100 sewing
machines and various other property were
seized The girls claim that Cotton owed them
an aggregate of 50 600. The factory is now in
the hands of the courts
Terence McKiernan, in his own saloon, at
Union City, Conn, Mondays night shot and
1asa1 eE The xe
McKiernan, when the saloonkeeper retorted:
IF fight it will be with lead" Cleary laughed
scornfully and said: "Pshaw! You dare not
shootr' McKiernan fired and Cleary dropped
to the floor, fatally injured.
1T is claimed that spoilers for the prohi-
bition people in Leavenworth, Kan, have been
reaping rich harvest from keepers of places
where whisky has been sold Yesterday TWO
ex-convicts named w. r. Banker and W. G.
Demey, who assessed two hotel proprletors SIS
each as the price of their silence in not swear
ing out warrants against them as liquor sellers,
were arrested upon a charge of blackmail The
two men claim to be in the pay of the temper
ance element, and do not deny that they took
the money.
Five tons of powder were exploded at
Schneider's granite quarry at Granitevllle. Mo-.
Monday, and the force upturned mountain of
granite 81 feet in the air. The shaft was sunk
100 feet in solid granite, and three chambers, 80
feet long, were cut on each side of the shaft.
The powder was packed in close. About 100
people witnessed the great upheaval from
safe position. The conclusion was terrific. and
the windows in houses for some distance were
broken. Blocks of granite weighing 100 tons
were tossed in the air.
"A Chicago paper says that the Standard
Oil Company has either acquired, or is fast
acquiring, stocks and bonds which gives it the
controlling interest in the Chicago Gas Trust;
also, that the reason the Standard Oil Com
pany built its double system of pipe lines from
Lima, o., to South Chicago is for the purpose
of making gas Of it. The company has OBJ
tanned control of new process for the produc-
tion of gas from oil, and very successful expert
ments have been made with 1t. The company,
by this MEANS will find new market for their
oil and obtain rich dividends from the Gas
Trust.
Prof. Green, of the Minnesota Agricul-
tural College, has completed his experiments
His report shows that from 40 to 80 per cent of
the total amount planted will sprout and grow.
He says that the experiments may be relied
upon, and hereafter farmers may plant frosted
grain with the assurance that it will grow,
rather than run in debt for other seed. Oliver
the largest wheat grower in the Northwest, is
inclined to believe that the experiment can
safely be relied upon and will test further on
his 1000 acre farm.