Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The New York Legislature adjourned sine
die at noon yesterday.
The legal rate Of interest in Illinois has
been reduced from to per cent.
-Pardee & Co., the Lehigh coal operators,
have reduced prices to the Philadelphia trade
10 and l5 cents per ton for domestic sizes.
The Worcester Theater, in Worcester,
Mass, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Lewis
Morrison and company, who were playing
Faust" in the house, lose about ll,OOO In
properties and costumes.
The Canadian Government has received a
copy of the treaty with Mexico ratified Febru-
ary II last. Canada has two years in which to
declare whether or not she desires to avail her
self of the provisions OF the treaty.
The Montana Constitutional Convention is
conceded to the Democrats by the Repu blic-
ans. The latter admit that the Democrats have
a majority of from three to five. The Repub-
hcans ascribe their defeat to the light vote.
The Trenton Oilcloth Works, at Trenton,
N J., were partially destroyed by fire yesterday
morning. The works were the largest of the
kind in the East. The main building alone was
saved. The loss is $50, 900 and is partially COW
cred by insurance.
Thomas L. Angle, a prominent citizen of
the Indian Territory, during an alteration yes
terday with John Swallow, the ferryman at the
Audrain ferry on Grand river, was shot three
times by Swallow and killed. Swallow escaped,
but will be captured.
"A disastrous fire broke ont early yesterday
morning in st. Sanvans, Quebec, during which
Major Short and Sergeant Wallack, of Battery
B, which had been called out to fight the flames,
were killed by premature explosion of the
powder they were using to check the spread of
the fire.
Sylvester Gable, young man residing at
Toledo, o., and IN the employ of the Toledo
Bridge Company, was yesterday morning killed
at Schlosser's bridge, across the Antietam, near
Keedysville, Md. Workmen were engaged in
building new bridge, and heavy piece Of
iron fell upon him, inflicting injuries from
which he died in few minutes.
General s. c. Lawrence Post No. g. g. A.
R.. of Medford. Mass, has adopted resolutions
instructing the adiutant to return to Rev. ]. P.
Abbott his application for membership as a
contributory member, with its accompanying
fee. Mr.. Abbott, on Easter Sunday, in the
course of sermon, reflected very severely upon
Grand Army veterans, and made the assertion
that more men owed their disabilities to
whisky from the suffers tent than to shot and
shell." He also alluded to them as whisky
SCARED and MANNED veterans"
1t is asserted that the New York Sugar
Trust has made overtures to the California
Antitrust Sugar Refinery within the past few
days to raise its prices, but without the desired
effect. Yesterdays prices, based on granulated
sugar. are quot ed Dy the trust at 81 cents.
Last Friday the California refinery tanti-trust)
tanned that rate ever since. The half-cent diff
ference in the prices of the two concerns causes
jobbers IN trust sugar to vince considerably.
John Mcbride. President OF the National
Miners Progressive Union, has been in Illinois
for the past two days trying to make some SET
tlement between the soft coal miners and oper-
ators of Northern Illinois. In this he has not
been successful. The miners held a two days
secret session, which ended yesterday after
noon. An attempt will be made to arrange for
a conference between the miners and oper-
atives at Joliet, on May Il. The policy of the
MINERS as outlined by MIR. Mcbride, is for the
miners of Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania to
unite IN supporting the miners of Indiana in a
strike against their Is cents reduction. This
cannot be done by the Illinois miners unless
tn cir operators pay nearly the same scale as
they did last year.