Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


The President has appointed Edward O:
Leech. of the District of Columbia Director OF
the Mint.
The Bates House in indianapolis, Ind, was
| damaged by fire yesterday afternoon to the ex-
| tent of $40, 600.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the we'll
known writer, was seriously injured in London
her from the cart.
Thieves blew safe open in Sigler Bros.
jewelry factory at Cleveland, O., Sunday night,
and stole s., 500 worth of watches, rings and
stones and s55 in cash.
Pete Baker, negro desperado shot and
fatally wounded Andy Glenn, white tough
In an Owensboro, KY, saloon Sunday. A
drunken quarrel was the cause. Baker escaped
The collapse of the negotiations with an
American syndicate for a loan 70 the Bulga-
rian Government was due to Prince Ferdl-
nand's objecting to the terms arranged py tne
ministers.
The large frame barn of Joseph Cruson,
near Bolivar, Pa, together with his entire crop
two horses, a yearling calf, all his farm1ng
utensils, ETC., were entirely destroyed py nre
yesterday. Loss 5000.
Hon. ]. ]. Woods Democratic Speaker OF
the West Virginia House of Delegates, Is dying
at his home Should his death occur before
the special session of the Legislature convenes,
the House will be tie politically.
General Casey, Chief of Engineers, will
leave Washington Wednesday for tour OF IN
spection of the river and harbor work under
charge OF the engineer CORDS de goes nrss 10
the Great Kanawha, West Virginia
Miss Kitty Roberts, second daughter OF
Mr. Charles B. Roberts, ex-Attorney General
of MARYLAND, bright blonde of II, eloped on
Saturday with William h. Thomas proml-
nent young member of the Carroll county par.
They were married in Washington.
"A steam threshing machine exploded yes
Gov of NJ MoA nd fuO
miles west of St. Thomas, Oak. Ed McCaf-
frey. Billy Paul. engineer. and Charles Frazer
were killed outright. r. p. Daily, another en-
ploye is supposed to be fatally injured.
The sixty-sixth annual session of the Ohio
SYNOD of the Reform Church closed yesterday
at Canton after a four days mee ting. Much
business of importance was transacted by the
synod. The reports showed the Church to be
in a iourishing condition, as are also the col
leges and seminaries.
Sir William Tindale Robertson committed
suicide at Brighton, England, on Sunday, by
cutting his throat The deceased represented
Brighton in the House of Commons. In poll
tics he was Conservative. He was blind and
served on the royal commission for inqu1ring
into the condition of the blind. He took his
life in nit of insanity.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in a number of
Upper Peninsula towns in Michigan, notably
at Negaunee and 1ronwood, there being nearly
100 cases in each of these cities. 1t IS also
prevalent in nearly all the other towns of the
district. The unusual number OF cases has
caused an investigation to be set on foot by the
State Board of Health.
Two hundred employees in the Edison cleo
trio light factory in Harrison, a suburb of
Newark, n. j., went on strike Yesterday as
ana SIG weekly salaries. The excuse given for
the reduction is that business is poor. The
works were closed it is conjectured on account
of the decision making incandescent patents
public property.
The twenty-third session of the National
Grange, which will be held in Sacramento,
Cal, on November l3. promises to be the most
important meeting the Patrons of Husbandry
have held for years Mr.. John Trimble, the
Secretary of the grange who lives in Washing
ten. thinks the grangers were snubbed when
President Harrison appointed Governor Rusk
Secretary of Agriculture.
Governor Melnette, of Dakota, has had
official copies of the Constitutions of North
and South Dakota prepared, with other neces-
placed in the hands of President Harrison, with
the view of being examined and the fact asceT-
tanned whether or not they comply with the
provisions of the enabling act and are not in
conflict with the Constitution of the United
States.
w. G. Allen, the United States Consul at
Kingston, Jamaica has made a partial report
of the circumstances connected with the riot
at Navassa The report is dated September 90
anu IS LnaQe up principally Vi correspondence
relating to the affair. According to the state
ment of the workmen, the bosses and managers
of the Navassa Phosphate Company fired the
first shots and the workmen retaliated. Two
bosses were fatally wounded.
The State Supreme Court of Kansas has
handed down an opinion in the famous Gray
county contest between the towns of Cimarron
and Ingalls, for the permanent county seat
The decision is in favor of the latter place.
Chief Justice Horton files q dissenting opin- |
ion, severely condemning A. T. Sou1e, the New |
York millionaire who established the town of |
Ingalls, who is charged with wholesale corrup- |
ton and intimidation.
-Wolcottville Ind, was the scene of an at |
tempt at murder and suicide Saturday night |
Mrs. Warren keeps hotel of more or less un- |
savory reputation. On Friday she returned |
from Toledo, bringing with her Mrs. Driscoll, |
who was installed as a diningroom girl, and |
with them cane an unknown man. Saturday |
night Mr.. Driscoll arrived and an attempt to
induce his wife to return to his home led to a |
quarrel, in which it is alleged he shot her and |
then put ball through his own brain. He will |
die, but she will recover.