Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-28
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Since June the General Land Ofice has
issued 1885 land patents.
&C. v. Jaquith. of Illinois, a special examiner
in the Pension Office, has resigned.
%. J. Bixby, of Dakota, has been reap
pointed Postofice Inspector on mail depreda-
tlons under Rule 10 of the Civil Service Com
mission.
William Hortz was arrested by the Sheriff
last night in his bedroom at hotel in Dubuque.
He is wanted at Lewiston, Pa, for forgeries ag-
gregating $500
"A true bill has been returned against Mrs.
Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, the American,
on the charge of having poisoned her husband,
James Maybrick. who was q wealthy cotton
broker of Liverpool.
"A dispatch was received at the Marine Hos
pital Bureau Yesterday from DR.. j. l. Posey, at
Gainesville, Fla. in which he says that there Is
no dengue fever at that place. He adds that
there have been some cases of typhoid and
typho-malarial fever.
ters began last evening at St Clara Academy,
the mother house at Sinsinawa Mound, Wis.
One hundred members of the order from all
parts Of the United States are in attendance.
The retreat closes August 4
Charles Gee, o prominent Republican Of
Virginia, has been appointed a timber agent of
the General Land Office. and has been assigned
to duty at Sitka. Alaska, where he will CO.
operate with the United States District At
torney in suppressing depredations on valuable
Government timber land.
Attorney General VIM. Pinckney whyte,
whom President Harrison appointed q delegate
to the Congress of American Republics, has
State in the prosecution Of the numerous mur-
der trials in Baltimore and also with his other
professional business.
The west-bound passenger train on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, due at Mem
phis at los A. NJ, was wrecked yesterday morn
ing at Brighton, Tenn, 30 miles north of Men,
phis, by the switch being left open. The killed
are the eng .neer, fireman, baggage master and
mail agent. All the passengers were badly
shaken up, but none were seriously injured.
AT Columbus, Christ Weinman murdered
his wife at an early hour yesterday morning,
then shot himself IN the head, and the physi-
clans say he cannot recover. He blew the
front portion of his wife's head of with shot
gum then fired shot into his own head with o
revolver. Domestic trouble was the cause of
the tragedy. Preparations had been made by
the wife to fle petition for divorce.
Mr.. Tichenor, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. says that it IS not fact that the de-
partment has rendered decision in the matter
of Canadian cars. as was stated in a New York
paper. He has come to an individual conclu-
sion in the matter, but he does not know
whether the Secretary of the Treasury will ap-
prove it. His conclusion is that loaded cars en-
gagged in international traffic between the
United States and Canada shall not be taxed.
The State Department has received advices
from our representative in Hayti up to the 18th
inst, but they contain nothing new. Min
lister Thompson makes no allusion in his COM
muuication to the request Of Legitime that he
(Thompson) use his good offices with Hip
polyte TO bring about a cessation of hostilities
which leads the department officials to infer
either that Mr.. Thompson declined to act, or
that nothing came OF his efforts With Hip
polyte.
The negotiations Of the English syndicate
for the Indianapolis breweries have terminated
in a failure to agree on terms. The syndicate's
agents express willingness to invest s., 600 900
In ffo Traf1Io hrnxu uarso hrrN
have all OF them at that price. One of the
firms peremptorily refused to sell, while the
principal proprietor OF another is now in Ger
many and cannot be communicated with. The
agents Of the syndicate have abandoned efforts
to purchase the property.
Joseph A. Starck, ticket agent at Easton
Pa. for the New Jersey Central Railroad Com
pany. was discovered short in his accounts, and
yesterday morning committed suicide by
shooting himself in the left temple. The deed
was committed in an outbuilding at the resi-
dence of Mrs. DR.. ]. p. Hof, whose husband
note giving description Of jewelry belonging
to himself and Mrs. Hoff, and staling they
could be found at Rosenfelt's pawn shop.
"A United States Marshal arrived at Sulli-
van, ILL.,, Friday from Springfield and arrested
Joe and Lewis Freeman for making and pass
ing counterfeit silver coin. A few months ago
q neighbor while Telling some trees on Free
ing of small silver coin with other evidences Of
illegal work. He at once made his discovery
known to the States Attorney and he in turn
to the United States Grand Jury, whose inves-
LEGATIONS resulted as above.
The following is an extract from letter to
United States Consul Taylor, at Winnipeg,
from Sitka, Alaska, dated July IL: 'Please be
on tho lookout for any news about the loss Of
young man, Bruce by name, from Nebraska, on
the Pacific glacier, near the Muir glacier,
Glacier Bay. Alaska, He was correspondent
fer syndicate and is supposed to be lost in a
creyasse. His companion, a young man. came
on board while We were at the Muir glacier.
He had been missing three days then. His
companion was getting Indians then to help
him in his search. Thsre is little chance that
even his body can be recovered"
Postmaster General Wanamaker has ap-
pointed a commission to visit the Chicago post
office, examine the postal service of that city
and to receive and consider any recommenda-
tions for its reorganization. The following
named persons constitute the commission: J.
s. Clarkson. First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral; Henry @: Payne. formerly Postmaster.
Milwaukee. Wis.;J F. Bates, General Super
intendent Free Delivery; Albert H. Scott, Chief
Of Salary and Allowance Division Postoffice
Department and j. E. Stuart, Chief Division
Inspector, Chicago. The commission viii begin
its Investigation in about one week.