Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-26
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

About so tons Of provisions will be shipped
from Chicago to Spring Valley, ILL.,, for the
the State.
AN English syndicate has purchased i've Of
the six breweries in Paterson for an aggregate
OF s., 2,3S0, 600, the owners TO retain a one-rhird
interest in the concerns.
Father Dilles. Catholic, and member Of
the Protester party, has been elected menu
Der of the German Reichstag for Metz. to take
the place of Herr Antoine. who relinquished
his seat and returned TO France.
Colonel Rogers, of the Market Record, re-
ported BY the Associated Press to be one of the
most reliable crop statisticians in the North
west, estimates the yield of wheat for Dakota
and Minnesota at $4,000, 900 bushels.
"A son of Marshall H. Twitchell, United
States Consul at Kingston, Ont, has been ar
burglar who entered the residence Of Mars
Martin on Wednesday night. He is a mere boy
and up to the present time bore a good char
acter. He is said to be insane.
The Kickapoo Indians Commission met at
Holton, Kan, on Wednesday near the reserva-
tion, but on account of the hostile attitude of
the Indians were unable to accomplish any
thing The commission was appointed to treat
with the Indians for the sale of their reserva-
tion of 9,0U0 acres in Jefferson and Brown coun-
ties The Indians are unanimously determined
to have no dealings whatever with the COM
mission.
Thomas Frey, the murderer of ]. NJ Cooper,
after having been sentenced at Batavia, o.,
to imprisonment for life, was taken to jail and
shortly afterward placed In irons and put into
carriage and driven to Cincinnati. where early
the county jail. BE will be taken to the Ohio
Penitentiary. The Sheriff at Batavia feared
mob violence If he undertook to keep Frey in
thatjai
The Treasury Department has acquiesced
in the opinion of the Attorney General thar
Chinese can pass through United States terri
tory in transit to foreign ports, and the prac.
tice of the department which has been exactly
the reverse will be modified accordingly. In
structions were to-day sent to the Collector at
New Orleans to permit the landing of the
Chinese who recently arrived there on their
way to China.
The trial of the strikers arrested at Breslau
has resulted in the conviction Of 30 of the
prisoners. Henkel, the leader, was sentenced
to seven years penal servitude aud to be de-
prived of his civil rights for seven years. Nine
OF the strikers were sentenced TO terms Of i'm
prisonment ranging from Is months to five
years. at hard labor, and q were sentenced to
imprisonment from year to four years with
out hard labor.
Although Governor Larrabee has offered a
reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of
the murderer of John Elkins and wife on the
night of July IL at their home near Edgewood,
Iowa, no new clews have thus far been OBJ
tanned. Those most thoroughly conversant
with the facts in the tragedy hold firmly to the
opinion that Wesley, the 11-year-old son, COM
mitted the deed without assistance. He has
not yet been seen to shed q tear or display the
least emotion over the terrible affair. 1t has
been thought best to place him under arrest,
and he is now closely confined.
"A dispatch from Bsmarck, Oak, says: Major
Warner, Chief of the g. A. r.,
in speaking of the recent troubles between the
Grand Army and the railroads with regard to
rates to the National Encampment to be held
at Milwaukee, said the g. "A r. would go
anead with its encampment and will treat the
people of Milwaukee with the respect and con-
sderation to which their generous preparation
entities them. He added significantly: 1--WE
will settle with the railroads afterward." He
says that the Eastern people will suffer little
by the refusal of the roads to give a special
rate to the encsmpment, but 1t will be a hard
ship on the G. A. R. men of the West where
rates are high.
"A delegation of the membersof the Church
of Schweinfurtb, of Kansas City, headed by
their pastor, Stephen Ford. called on County
Assessor Edwards yesterday for the purpose of
consulting him as to the necessity OF taking
the oath in making schedule of their taxable
property. The assessor informed them that
they must take the oath or submit to the pen
alty-the doubling of their assessments. Mr..
Ford quoted portions of the Bible to the assess
or where the command is given, "Swear not at
all" The assessor Suggested that they might
make compromise on the @ Quaker affirmation,
but Mr.. Ford met the suggestion with the quo
tation: LET your Communication be Yea, yea,
and Nay nay.'" The Schweinfurthians finally
departed determined TO submit to the penalty.