Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-23
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


Ernst H. Adams, boolskeeper in the office
of Henry v. Skinner. New YORK agent for the
Canadian Pacific Railroad. is under arrest for
stealing 1850 from his employer.
The Navy Department was informed yes
terday of the arrival at Delaware BreaRwater
of the Kearsarge. She has just returned from
Hayti, whittier she conveyed Minister Doug
lass.
Leon We'll, a scrap iron dealer of Cleveland,
assigned to-day to Emil Joseph, The liabilities
are placed at $50, 900; assets unknown, but
Thought to be small The Erie Railway Com
pany are said to be the heaviest creditors, Well
owing them S22.0O0
EARLY yesterday morning Sailor ]. Neil. age
%, of London, England, belonging to a Steam
er plying on Lake Erie, and young man, name
unknown, were instantly killed by the Boston
express train at Metuchen. Their bodies were
terribly mangled and thrown long distance.
Yesterdays bond offerings were as follows:
Coupons As, S4O0 at l27; registered As, sl52 050,
cents registered, slS5ooO. at i27; 4 per cent
coupon. $ll 100, at l27; ~ per cent registered.
SIS, ,45O, at 1861. All the offers were accepted.
the man named Dumage, said to have been ar
rested at Minneapolis for stealing s60, 600 while
acting as crown timber agent at Portage,
for the Dominion Government. The Canadian
Government has no such individual in its en-
ployment.
Surgeon General Hamilton. of the Marine
Hospital service, has resolved telegram from
DIR. Porter. at Key West, reporting another
case of yellow fever at that place, and that
quarantine restrictions have been. resumed.
The patient in this case is E. Ellinger, who
lett Havana September q, bound for New
York.
The Iowa Democrats, since the publica ton
of Ashby's letter, have been saying that Cover
Senator Hutchison, pretending that he was
not acceptable to the anti-monopolists. The
Governor took up the challenge and wrote for
publication letter indorsing Senator Hutch
lson fully and uneqivocally.
The supposed Mexican stolen bonds
have turned up all right Through the care
lessness of clerk In the Treasury Department
the books had been taken to the stamp print
stamped; they had been forgotten, and were
only brought to light yesterday by careful
search. The officials and clerks in the Treasury
Department are much elated in consequence
in a review of the calamities caused by
foods during the year 1889, the Japan Mail
says: "Incomplete returns show that IL pre-
lectures have been devastated; 24l9 people
killed. lis wounded and over 90, 000 people de-
80. 900 houses have been swept away or sub
merged, $50 OC0 acres of crops destroyed, about
6. 900 bridges washed away, and some hundreds
of miles of road broken up.
|. The Seventh Day Adventists Conven-
Z tion. in session at Battle Greek, Mich is at
tended by delegates from 2S States and Terri
tories and Canada. Mrs. Ellen G. White,
"The prophecies" is still the spiritual intel
lectuaf leader of this scot: The work of the
church is being pushed in New Zealand,
Russia, Greece, Switzerland, Turkey, Germany,
NORWAY. South Africa and in the South and
Northwest portions of the United States.
Secretary Carter, of the Baltimore Health
Board, has received sanitary report from
Asiatlc Turkey, showing the extent Of the
epidemic of cholera in Mesopotamia, a part of
the country lying between the Euphrates and
Tigris rivers. The total number OF deaths
from cholera, from July q TO september 26,
was GIG Among the afflicted cities were
Bagdad. wherein there were 924 deaths in about
five weeks; Nasrie, 485 deaths; Bossora, $50;
Kerkank, 3S5; Kerbela, 343; Chatra, 345.
"A family scandal was exposed at San Fran
cisco In court when United Sta es Senator
Stewart. of Nevada was cited to show why he
should not be punished for contempt for fail
ing to allow his son-in-law, A. w. Fox, to see
his children. Fox and ms wite nave peen
been cared for by the Senator. Fox tiled
sensational affidavit yesterday, In which he
Stewart' Mrs. Stewart testified that Fox was a
worthless character, with whom her daughter
fell in love when she was only IL years old. To
prevent the scandal of an elopement. her
parents consented to the marriage. The Sena-
tor repeatedly secured good employment for
Fox. but he never kept situation.
-Advices of startling tragedy come from
Japan In the province OF kiangsu Is temple
boys school. Whle the teacner was called
away one day all the boys except one-with the
intention of playing joke IN the teacher-hid
in empty coffins that were in the temple. The
boy who was to act as sentinel had hardly
closed down the lids over the i've boys when
the schoolmaster appeared Answering the
teachers question. the sentinel said his COM
rades had gone to heaven, their bodies being
now in the coffins. The teacher. fearing the
joke might have been carried too far, raised
the lids Of the cofins and found that all five
BOYS had died from suffocation. The sixth boy,
being now thoroughly scared, started to run.
when the teacher overlook him and whipped
him to death.