Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


Negotiations have been completed between
the Rock Island, Denver and Rio Grande, Col
orado Midland and Rio Grande Western, to
run through vestibule trains from Chicago to
Salt Lake City.
The first snow of the season fell in Western
Nebraska Tuesday night and Wednesday. The
men on the trains from the West say that
little west from Sydney the fan was heavy.
The Atlantic Express was an hour late in con-
| sequence.
During a matinee performance in San Fran
cisco. Wednesday, Emily Rigl. the well-known
actress, tainted while on the stage. The audi
ence was dismissed and Miss Rigl conveyed to
the hotel, where she is still very i'll. Over
exertion was given as the cause Of her sick
ness.
Ernest Potter went to Rockford, Ill. from
San Jose, Cal, Wednesday night, to effect a
reconciliation with his wife, who left him
| few days ago and took up her residence IN
Rockford with her sister, Mrs. George A. :.
Sealy. Failing in his object, he shot himself
through the heart.
Lawrence Perry Dawson, the son of ex-
Commissioner Dawson, of the Bureau OF Eou-
cation was arrested in Washington Wednes-
/ day night, on a warrant charging him with the
larceny of sol worth of postage stamps from
the bureau where he had been employed. Inc
friends OF the young man assert tnat ne VIII
be able upon examination to establish his in
nocence.
According to the articles of incorporation,
the extension of the Chicago Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railway to Lake Superior will be from
New Lisbon, in Juneau county, to Lake Su-
perior, and is to be called the New Lisbon,
Necedah and Lake Superior Railway. The
distance is about 200 miles. The capital stock
of the company is placed at s. 1000. Roswell
Miller is one of the directors.
William Bowen, known in history as the
Darefooted color bearer of General John MOT
gan's Confederate brigade, was married yester-
day at Flemingsburg, KY, to Miss Maggie
" UT1n f1.of7 f7y-rA ,-E haa wunF
were taken from the feet of dead Federal
soldier, whom he slew at Cynthiana with his
nagstaH, in battle there in 1858 His ex-com-
rades in arms remembered him handsomely.
Judge DeWolf, at Helena, Mont has sus-
tanned the motion of the Democrats, and issued
a peremptory order to have the canvassing
board make returns of the Tunnel precincts
motion for appeal has been filed and applica-
tlon made for stay of proceedings The Re
publican attorneys asked to have bonds fixed
on the application. The court took recess to
allow authorities to be looked up and pre-
sented.
First Vice President Peasley. of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railway. makes
the positive statement here that there is no
truth whatever in the rumored alliance be-
tween the Pennsylvania and the Chicago Bur
lington and Quincy, and that there is no truth
in the report that the "O~ road has withdrawn
from the Interstate Railway Association.
Burlington.
Mr.. Jacob Baiz Consul General of Guate-
mala, says that, noticing the news coming from
Mexico, published in the daily press of yester-
day, of the rumored revolution in Guatemala,
he made inquiries of the Guatemalan Govern
ment as to whether there was any truth in the
news. Last night Mr.. Baiz received the follow
ing reply from General Barillas, President of
Guatemala: Revolutionary news on frontier
OF Mexico is false"
The latest Peruvian advices say that four
officers belonging to the revolutionary force of
Iglesias were captured on September 26, while
attempting to capture the cruiser Lima. in
Callao harbor. They tried to corrupt the chief
officers of the gunboat. The latter pretended
to accept bribe of $4,000 and when boat
load of revolutionists came alongside on the
night designated four of the conspirators were
captured. They will be shot.
There was great rejoicing on the border
yesterday over Secretary Mobiles letter on the
Cherokee Strip situation. A public meeting
was held at Caldwell. attended by 1900 people
Speeches were made complimenting Secretary
Noble. 1t was not political affair, but all
Joined, as the action is looked upon as indicat-
the strip to settlement. At Hunnewell another
enthusiastic meeting was held; also one at
Arkansas City.
President Charles F. Adams, of the Union
Pacific Railroad. authorizes denial in toto of
the story about the purchase of the Alton
road, and the further report that the collateral
trust bonds to be used in payment for stock
are being printed. He says: mo purchase of
f6e Alton has or T RSos BE
sheer nonsense" The above relates to the
story that the Union Pacific Railroad had
purchased a controlling interest in the
Alton.
The convict Albert Sutherland. or John
Bowman. arrested at Philadelphia as Tascott
the murderer of Millionaire Smell, is a Chi
cago thief of unsavory reputation. His name
Is not Bowman 1, or sutherland, but Brown.
Ohio Penitentiary last April, after serving a
term of ~ years for burglary at Urbana.
While in the institution at Columbus Brown
nearly died of blood poisoning, superInduced
by wound in the knee received in the foun-
dry and afterward, at the solicitation of his
father, was placed in the hospital where he
had light duties.
The Conemaugh Valley relief fund, of New
York, has been closed by the action of the Ex-
ecutive Committee, which held meeting at
the Mayors office a few days ago. Mr.. ]. Ed
ward Simmons, the treasurer, made his final |
mittee letter was sent to Governor James A
Beaver authorizing him to draw the balance |
now in the hands of the treasurer, j. Edward |
Simmons, amounting to SIG, l99, and closing the |
York Conemaugh Valley Relief Committee
were s516,9S7 and the disbursements to date |
S5OO,7S7.
Suit has been begun at Leavenworth, Kan, |
by q Pottawatomie chief representing his |
tribe, for the recovery of large tracks OF land |
out of which the Indians claim to have been /
swindled. As soon as it was learned that the |
Indians were to have their lands in severalty |
number of white men came on the reservation, |
and working on the ignorance of the Potta- |
induced them to sell for $40 an acre |
land worth $500, the Indians signing the papers |
under the impression that they had something |
to do with the seVeralty matter Dispositions |
of General McCook and others bring out these |
facts. The suit was brought through the Gen
erals efforts.
Articles of incorporation of the St. Louis, |
and Eastern Railroad Company |
have been filed in the Office of the Illinois Sec |
retary of State. The railroad proposed begins |
at East st. Louis, running thence in an easterly |
direction to the boundary line of Illinois and |
Indiana. at point near the village of Pales-
tine, distance of l4s miles; and also branch
line from the city of bingham, running to
a connection with the main line at or near the |
city of Newton, a distance of q miles. The !
capital stock is to be $6,S00000. The incor- |
porators and first board of directors are /
Horatio B. Gardner, Thomas Brice. John Prin- |
diville, John L Stockton Nhd Ira c. Wood, all |
of Chicago The line will eventually be |
operated as part OF the new Mackay system, |