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

Mrs E W. Barber, an old lady living near
Lafayette, Ind, was bitten by rattlesnake
Monday. She was very i'll for a few hours and
afterwards became totally blind. Otherwise
the bite. Her physicians do not know how to
account for the circumstance.
-Advices have been received from Apia say.
ing that treaty of peace has been concluded
between Mataafa and Tamasese. Lieutenant
Thurston has concluded his inquiry into the
charges made by Germany that assistance had
been given Mataafa by the British Consul at
Apia. The investigation resulted in the exon
GRAFTON of the Consul from all the charges.
ALI negotiations between the Indiana block
coal miners and operators and their arbitration
friends, are now considered of. The opera
tors, in the Judgment of the State Board Of
paid, but the miners persist in refusing. The
operators will introduce machines as the only
alternative. The cost Of mining by this pro.
cess will be As cents ton. where they offer 20
and Is cents tor pick mining.
Deputy Marshal Swayne arrived in FIT
Smith. Ark, yesterday from Chickasaw Noun
tains with IA prisoners, two dead men and one
nearly dead. One OF the dead men Is Cornelius
approached by the officer near Pauls VALLEY, in
the Chickasaw Nation, but resisted and shot
one Of the posse named Williams, who died
Shooting % walker Is times % before be fell de dead %
AT Columbus,O., Republican ex-Congre.s.
man Beatty made fierce assault upon Gov.
ernor Foraker in an address before a body Of
@. A. r. men. He charged that Foraker
packed the recent convention with his hench-
men, while at the same time protesting not to
want the nomination. He plainly stated that
the Governor uttered an untruth when he said
he did not solicit a nomination for a third
term. In another part Of his speech the Cen
eral said that in the days of Washington can
didates for Governor did not food the country
with photographs Of themselves, and thus pub
licly display the weakness Of vanity.
EARLY yesterday morning PASSENGER train
Ohio Railroad. and freight No. IS, came to-
gether near Kennedy. Both engines were COM
pletely demolished, freight cars piled up, and
the smoker of the passenger train was forced
man, o1Meadville, Pa, engineer OF the freight,
and Louis Wentz, Of Meadvile, baggage mas
ter were killed. Both fremen were injured.
The only passenger hurt was Fred Slbley of
jamestown, NY, who was alone in the smoker
and had time to jump before the crash came,
collision occurred. The blame Is said to be on
the engineer of the freight who should have
waited at Kennedy for the passenger train.
The Roman Catholic prayer book, author
lied by the Third Plenary Council of Balti-
more, which met in the Cathedral in November,
1884 has been completed and placed in the
hands of the publishers. 1t will be issued in
two weeks. Being prepared and put forth with
the authority of the Plenary Council. it will
take. the place, as the council intended IL to do,
of The various Catholic prayer books which
have been IN use hitherto 1t is so arranged
that the entire service IF the mass for every
Sunday in the year can be followed by the con-
gregation Just as it Is said by the clergyman. Il
was compiled by Rev. Clarence E. Woodman,
and has the approval of Cardinal Gibbons, the
Papal delegate at the council, and of Arch
bishop Corrigan, Of New York, who had special
superyision of the work.