Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-23
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Fire at Dover. N. H., yesterday DESTROYED
the Court House and City Hall. Loss, Sl,O0O;
insurance, $4,000
Tim and Pete Barrett were hanged at
Minneapolis yesterday, at ll:45 A. M, Tor the
murder of Car Driver Tollefsen on the night of
July 26 1857.
The Durfee and Pocassett Mills reported
yesterday larger number of looms running
than any time since the Fall River strike. but
at the other mills the situation remains the
same, and the number running does not affect
the strike. There were some expectations of a
break, but they were not realized. The strikers
held a mass meeting yesterday morning, and
the attendance showed no change.
About 100 boomers left the northern part Of
the Oklahoma TERRITORY yesterday for their re-
spective homes, having been conducted to the
State line by the soldiers. They say they will
return next month. About 800 boomers have
been brought to the State line, while fully that
number has been taken to Purcell. There are
many hundred boomers yet hiding in Okla
homa and fresh arrivals every day. The SOL
diers are escorting them out as fast as possible.
The ATTORNEYS representing the various in
teresus in the Wabash Railroad hearing in the
Chicago Federal Court looking to taking the
property out of the hands of the receiver, have
failed to agree upon the terms of decree.
The chief question in dispute is as to advisa-
bility of putting an upset price on the prop
erty. and the distinguished attorneys are en-
gagged in presenting their divergent views on
this subject before Judges Gresham and
Jackson.
The Lord Mayor of London is doing good
work in assisting poor and deserving people to
go to Paris during the coming exhibition and
to have a look at the fair capital of France.
He is collecting money for this purpose and is
aided by a number of gentlemen. The Mayor
himself has contributed largely to the scheme,
which is very popular among the workingmen.
Mr.. Quintin Hogg, the founder of the Poly
technic, is also organizing large expedition to
go Paris, for which he has obtained special
rates on the railways.
Patrick Trainor, of Cincinnati, who has
been a well-to-do builder and contractor, but
who through his habits of drunkenness has lost
his business and is without occupation. depend
ing on his wife to maintain the family of six
children, yesterday assaulted his wife while
she was at work ironing clothing, and ran a
red-hot poker through her cheek into her
mouth. Her jaw was broken. Physicians say
blood poisoning will most certainly follow and
cause her death. Trainor was arrested. Her
offense was in saying to his demand for dinner
that there was no food in the house. as she had
not received pay for the last work she had
done.
More railroad schemes are on foot in West
Virginia now than for ten years past. Major
Brown, of the Kanawha Valley, intimates that
$l2, coo 900 will be spent on West Virginia rail-
roads within the next Is months. Among the
new roads to be built is an extension of the
Norfolk and Western through the southern
counties of the State to the Ohio river, which
will be bridged at Credo. and the road contin-
ued to 1ronton, o., where there are several
western outlets. This road will be begun in 80
days, with 1000 men at work Bonds to the
will be l60 miles long, and save 600 miles in get
ting West Virginia coal and iron to the West.
The region made famous by the Hatfeld-Mc-
Coy troubles will be crossed by this road.