Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-15
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

IAlE NE ND In Dn1Eta
Joseph Plummer aged "a. died near San,
ford, KY, YESTERDAY Two months ago ne nae
a stroke of paralysis and 1t is said went With
out food for 40 days, his weight decllnlng Irom
225 to lbs pounds.
The large three-masted schooner Charles
f. Rohle, of Baltimore, was capslzeo IN sne
gale Wednesday near Sharp's Island IN In Ine
Chesapeake. The mate was drowned. Inc
Rohle is being raised.
After two nights discussion, which was at
times acrimonious, the New Orleans CnamDeI
of Commerce and Industry has pronounced IN
favor of Chicago as the site Of the w orlds 7 al
by vote Of 81 for Chicago and 81 Tor Ne"
York.
Admiral Gherardi, whose management OF
affairs at Hayti during the troubles there last
Tracyhas been ordered to proceed to the West
Indies again. he will 60 down in either the
Kearsage or Galena.
While boring for water, a man owning
farm about 25 miles southwest OF chicago nas
struck a vein of natural gas which noWs Win
into the air. The well is so near the FARMER
house that he has not dared to light it, put
pipe Will be put in and test made OF the now
"A dispatch from Rio Grande, dated yester-
day, says that the Swedish bark Hi.ma. from
New York August q, for Pelotas, went ashore
there and became toTal wreck Part OF .ne
crew were saved. Captain Frisell, the master
of the vessel. was drowned. porron Oh Tue
cargo is probably salvable.
Miss Bertha A. Gates daughter of Rev. M.
A. Gates of St Johnsbury, VT, aged Il years,
a graduate of Wellesley College, and most
estimable young lady, was thrown from morse
before her parents eyes Wednesday, and, her
foot catching the stirrup, was dragged through
the streets BY the frightened animal and shock-
ingly bruised and mangled When the horse
was caught Miss Gates was dead.
First Auditor Fisher, in his annual report
to the Secretary of the Treasury, says there has
been decided increase in the work of the Of
flee during the past few years, with no corre-
spending increase in the clerical force, and he
recommends that provision be made for an ad-
ditional chief of division and two assistants.
He reports that during the past fiscal year
there were examined and adjusted 29, 46S ac-
counts, representing $l,670,6l9,725.
"A man who formerly kept one of the largest
saloons in Waterloo, Ia, but who left there
when prohibition was enacted. has returned
and states that he has obtained the refusal of q
location for a saloon here. He is so positive of
the repeal Of prohibition that he contempiates
renting the building at once, paying the rent,
and allowing it to remain empty until license
law is enacted. The opinion is general that the
Legislature will repeal prohibition this winter.
Notwithstanding the large Democratic ma
jority in Virginia last week, the Democratic
leaders intend to have the Legislature change
LQe eleCIlOu laws. O6QaLOI JOQn w. Daulel
says that he favors tie Australian system,
with certain notifications but he declines to
say what the notifications are. Governor
Lee says change in the present law is doubt
less needed, but he is not prepared to say
whether he will recommend the Australian
system or not. He is rather inclined to think
that the Australian plan, with a few changes,
might answer.
B. Knapp, a vineyard owner of Napa CAL,
says that all raisin growers who have not
,odn
small fortunes. "The crop of the Province of
Malaga" said he, ''has fallen of in half a
dozen years from 100000 to 10000 boxes, and
the shipments to the United States have de-
cIined from 100000 to IL. 600 boxes. Spain is
no longer competitor, and the recent storms
in California have cut down the product by
one-half. This shock struck the market after
most of the Malaga crop ha6 been disposed of,
thus leaving large deficiency, hard to over
come"
"A new United States customs station has
been established on the south shore of Lake of
the Woods. n. D., near the mouth of Rainy
Lake river. 1t is stated that the Canadian saw
mills at Keewatin, station on the Northern
Pacific Railway on the north shore of Lake of
the Woods, have been for years past engaged
in manufacturing lumber from logs cut in Min
nesota and rarted across the lake to the Cana
dian territory, and the establishment of the
station is for the purpose Of putting a stop to
it It is said that the Canadians have eight
steamboats, on Lake of the Woods engaged in
towing logs across the lake.
in passing upon the demurrer to the gen.
eral Indictment embracing Is of the NaVassa
Island laborers charged as principals and &C.
cessories in the murder of the five white officers
at the island, on September IA Judges Bond
and Morris ruled that, in the discretion of the
court il was deemed advisable that the muir
ders of each of the officers be charged in sepa-
rate indictments. District Attorney Hays un-
der this ruling, will have five new indictments
found by the grand jury, and the trial will be
gin Tuesday next. Should jury fail to con-
vict any of the men on the first trial. they would
still have to stand trial, either as principal in
another indictment for murder or of being
present aiding and abetting or as accessory
before the fact, and so on, through all five in
Commercial Agent Smith, at Mayence
Germany, reports that the prevalence of high
prices for meat in Germany has caused firm
in Mayence to try the experiment of importing
arrangements have been made for the ship
ment from Illinois to Germany of 900 head of
fat oxen within period of two months. He is
Informed that this is the first time that live
oxen from the United States, all ready for
slaughter. have been imported to GERMANY.
The first lot of cattle arrived the week follow
ing Mr.. Smiths report, and their appearance
seems to have raised apprehenslve fears in the
minds of the German butchers who were ac-
customed to the tame. submissive cattle Of
Europe and not to the fierce intractable AMI
mails of our Western country. The German
butchers, Mr.. Smith continues like before
buying to punch the cattle in the ribs, to scru-
tiniZe them closely and lead them by a rope.
All this the American oxen strongly resent
The importers have been disconnected by the
discovery, and fears are entertained that the