Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-27
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| The Secretary ofthe Treasury has accepted
the designations c< II. B. Moore, Collector OF
| Customs at Duluth. and d. P. Asbury, Super
Vising Inspector Of Steam Vessels at st. Louis.
-C1arence Mart, a Moline, Ill, painter.
plunged knife into William Chatterton, lead
ing man of travelling dramatic company. yes
terday, and the doctors say the victim cannot
recover.
General BouIanger denies the reports that
ne has been engaged to deliver course Of
lectures in the United States. He says he
never thought Of going on lecturing tour in
that country.
The main building Of the Western College
at Toledo, Iowa, was burned yesterday, only q
part OF the library and the contents Of the
treasury being saved. The loss Is $50 900; in
surance, S22,500.
There is a mysterious discrepancy in the
accounts OF the stamp clerks Of the Chicago
postoface. The shortage is almost continuous
and every effort to straighten matters has
proved unavailable.
Congressman Bynum will introduce q reso-
luton in Congress for an Investigation of the
failure OF District Attorney Chambers to have
Colonel W. n. Dudley arrested because Of the
Blocks Of Five" letter.
John Cain, who was shot in the abdomen at;
Baltimore Christmas morning. died yesterday
at the City Hospital. Charles Yates. who is
charged with doing the shooting, is held for the
action OF the Coroner's inquest.
Two young men, John P. Jones and William
a,
room at the Pacific Hotel at Bethlehem. Pa.
this morning. They had blown out the gas be-
fore retiring, and were asphyxiated-
AT Dewitt near Syracuse, N Y, two aged
women, living by themselves, were found yes
terday morning asphyxiated by coal gas, One
is dead and the other will die. Their names
were Sarah Demerier aged 50, and Charlotte
Thompson, aged ~.
Miss Sarah F. Nichols, welI-known society
lady of Lowell. Mass, disappeared Christmas
nr1f m ma q Iaff md has
not been seen since In her room was note
saying: Forgive and forget" The affair Is
involved in mystery.
Despite the orders Issued by the Govern
ment prohibiting the holding OF meetings by
members of the Salvation Army in Switzer-
land, members Of that organization continue to
hold open-air meetings in Geneva. The au-
thorities have decided TO adopt vigorous meas
ures to suppress.
The City of Kingston. which used to ply up
and down the Hudson rlver. and which vas
sold some time ago to the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company for the Puget Sound trade,
Is proceeding safely but slowly to her new
home by the way of Cape Horn. She has Just
been heard Of at Barbados.
The Wabash Manufacturing Company, of
Chicago has made an assignment for the bene-
fit of its creditors Its liabilities estimated
at $4,000 and the assets at little less than
that. The failure grows out Of the recent fail
ure of the affiliated firms Of ]. @. Preble & Co.
and Sheffield & Co., who are in the same line Of
business in New York.
Judge Patterson, of the New York Supreme
Court, yesterday handed down decision in the
suit OF A. Gerushem q Co., stockholders of the
old Houston and Texas Central Railroad Com
pany, containing an injunction restraining the
Central Trust Company. as trustee, c. p. Hunt
ingron and others from issuing stock Of the re-
organized Houston and Texas Central Railway
Company.
The steamship Sirius, which left Rio
Janeiro December4 and arrived at New York
yesterday, reports that several foreign war
ships, among them the United States steamer
Richmond, had arrived in the harbor, and that
quietness reigned in the city; but that a riot
had taken place in the Rio Grande district, al
though no particulars could bedearned at the
time Of sailing.
Edward Gumbs, jr.. the confidential book
keeper and accountant for the Cincinnati,
Washington and Baltimore, and Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Railway Companies, was arrested and
locked up on the charge of embezzlement- The
warrant for his arrest was sworn to by 8. T.
Mclaughlin, general manager Of the Cont
mental Line; it charges the stealing of 81. 900.
After Gumbs was locked up he acknowledged
his guilt.