Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The New York Central has reelected its
The latest steamer arriving at New York
yesterday brought no news of the nl-fated
Denmark or its 200 passengers.
Work has reached San Francisco that
cholera Is epidemic in the PHILIPPINE hlands,
and that out Of 800 cases 1000 have proved
fatal
Fire destroyed big factory at Ninth ave-
nue. and One Hundred and Twenty-fourth
street, New York City, yesterday. Loss, $780,
600; covered by insurance.
The Department OF State is informed that
the Canadian Government has continued the
special rates of last year on the Welland canal
business.
Thomas f. Scanlan, doing business as the
New England Piano Company, with offices at
157 fremont street. Boston, and Sc Fifth ave-
Mass Mas Sas failed and assigned to Godfrey
Morse. Liabilities, 100000.
Yesterdays bond offerings aggregated s27l,.
600. as follows: Registered As, $4,000 at 129;
5000 at 1915; registered As, S2I700O at los;
registered, S52, 900 at los. All the offers were
accepted except the 5000 per cents regis
tered at 1895.
The Interstate Commerce Commission yes.
terday afternoon issued orders instructing
large number Of railroad companies. includ-
ing many OF the most important lines in the
United States, to appear before It and make
explanations in the matter OF free passes and
free transportation.
Local officers claim to have discovered in
Waterloo. La, headquarters of gang of boot
leggers," as the sellers of liquor in bottles are
called who have been working all the small
towns in this section. While one man Is on the
road another remains in the city and receives
the liquors. which are smuggIed from Dubuque
byIan Illinois Central Railroad brakeman.
The Pennsylvania Railroad ferryboat New
Brunswick. plying between the Pennsylvania
Railroad station in Jersey City and DesbrosseS
street, New York, took fire yesterday Just as
she was leaving her slip in Jersey City, and was
destroyed. All the persons who were on board
escaped, but it is understood that some horses
and trucks were burned. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Out of respect for the memory of Hon
John P. Usher, Secretary of the Interior from
January Is. 1858, to May 10 1855 who died on
the 18th inst, Secretary Noble has issued an
order directing that the Interior Department
and all its bureaus be closed on Thurday, April
IL, the day of the funeral at Lawrence, Kan,
and that the Department building be draped in
mourning.
Later reports from the forest fires in Pat
rick county, Virginia, show that the first
ports were slightly exaggerated as to the num-
Der OF dwellings burned. Fifty odd farmers
were burned out, and not l00 as reported. The
destruction Of cattle and hogs was very great
and not exaggerated in the first reports. DIR.
Abe Robertson, prominent citizen, while
nghtlng the fire, was surrounded by smoke and
flames, and burned to death.
The President made the following appoint
ments yesterday afternoon: Robert p. Porter,
of New York, to be Superintendent of the Gen.
sus; j. w. Cunningham to be Assayer of the
United States Assay Office at Boise City Idaho;
William n. Jalkins, of Washington Territory
to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
OF the Territory of Washington: John B. Don
nelly, of Louisiana, to be Marshal of the United
States for the Eastern district of Louisiana.
= The coroner's jury which has been investi-
0atlnr Santa disaster
occurred at Lorenzo, Ill, last week, bv which
Mrs. Hartt, of Brookline, Mass ard her son
and niece were killed. and her husband and
several other persons injured, has returned a
verdict charging gross criminal earelessnes5
against Conductor Fred Hughes and Engineer
Frank Converse. 1t is reported that the sheriff
has gone to arrest the men.
The monthly meeting of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was held yesterday. The semi
annual dividend was passed, and the usual
dividend OF per cent for the six months ended
March 81 was declared for the Washington
branch. The Statement of earnings and ex-
penses for March, 1889. compared with March,
1oSS, was as follows: 1SSS-Earnings S1.572, I5g.
expenses ST. 1852 $50; net earnings. slO9. .l72 1889
Net earnings, SIS, ,239a increase, $751; .O67.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company viii
soon receive from Glasgow, Scotland, their
magnificent new steamer Scotland, which they
found it 3cheaper to build abroad than in an
American shfpyard. Captain Seabury set sail
for New York on the Guion steamer Alaska,
Tuesday, to take possession of the new vessel
on behalf of Jay Gould. He will have to hoist
the British flag on her, for by our lawsshe can
not ny the Stars and Stripes, having been con-
structed on the Clyde.
Mrs. ]. W. Helm, wife of the missing grain
merchant, who disappeared from Danville, ILL.,,
March IL, has received letter from him, dated
last week at Silver Spring, Fla, in which he
only stated that he was unconscious when he
left Danville; did not know how he reached
Florida; was i'll, and would start for DanVille as
soon as he was able. No answer has been re-
ceived from communications sent him, and she
thinks he may now be on his way home Busi.
ness troubles caused his dementia. His ac-
counts are all right.
The funeral services over the remains of
Mrs. Emma l. Hartt, Robert W Hartt, her Is
niece, victims of the railroad accident at
Lorenzo, ILL.,. were held on Tuesday at Brook
line, Mass. Among those present were many
prominently connected with the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe as well other friends,
the assemblage being one of the largest that has
ever gathered at private residence in Boston
to attend a funeral service. The services were
OF simple character. and were conducted by
the Rev. Charles F. Dole, pastor of the First
Congregational Church, Jamaica Plain.
George MeCrayen and John Harrison went
to the little town of Kershaw 8. c., on Sunday
morning and then proceeded to paint the
town red after the traditional Western style.
Drawing their pistols, they ran through the
streets yelling like Indians, shooting holes
through the windows of the closed stores and
threatening to 'clean out the whole ton ," Po-
Hceman Hilton determined to arrest them, but
as he approached them they opened fire on
him. one shot taking effect in his neck, ,produe-
ing fatal wound. The policeman then re-
turned the fire, killing McCraven at the first
shot and breaking HaTrisoA's right arm at the
second and compelling him to drop his pistol.
Policeman Hilton died from the effect Of his
wound yesterday. Harrison is in jail.