Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-15
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Hon. joseph W.Fifer wasinaugurated Gov
ernor of Illinois at 2:3O o'clock this afternoon
in the presence of the House and Senate in
joint session.
.-Foote Wilcox, one of the oldest clothing
firms in Southern Wisconsin, have made an as
signment for the benefit of their creditors, who
are mainly in Chicago and the East.
The residence of y. w. Lamson, Board of
Trade broker, of Chicago, was seriously dam
aged by fire yesterday morning and LOttie
Erickson, domestic, suffocated by smoke.
Mr.. Lamson and family had narrow escape.
The Pope has sent to the Irish bishops, in
answer to the address they have forwarded to
him, letter full of kindest sympathy. The
Holy Father announces, at the same time, the
sending of several important presents for the
churches in Ireland.
Two sergeants belonging to the Royal Irish
Constabulary have be9n elected members of
the National League at MItchellstown. They say
that their action in joining the League is pro-
test against the employment of the military in
evicting tenants.
Mrs. Clemmie Coxl, demented woman of
Paris, Tex, locked herself IN her room Satur-
day night, and, after saturating her clothes
with oil, set them on fire. Every vestige of
clothing was burned off, and she died in great
agony in few hours.
The Anarchists of Paris have issued mani
festo to the electors of the Department of the
Seine, in which they appeal to the people not to
vote for any candidate. The manifesto says:
'sThe Senate and Chamber of Deputies are
powerless to emancipate the people. A revolu-
ton will alone free them from their op-
pressors."
Henry NJ Strohm, son OF Abraham Strobm.
of New Paris, Ind, who was last year captured
and held prisoner by cannibals on the Island of
Gaun, one of the South Sea group, finally max
ing his escape, has been heard from. The
young man is now on his way home, and when
he reaches this section he will have completed
the circuit of the globe.
Ut,a baads of dapa artr re in fbo Na,, vo-I-
postoffice have presented their annual reports
to Postmaster Pearson. The total receipts of
office we're S. 6i, ,yoS 81, and the total expendi-
lures 81, So, ,yS2 4S, giving u net revenue of
So. 27O,yS6 33. The receipts for the last quarter
of the year showed an increase of Sl2l, ,O34 65
over those of the corresponding part of the
previous year.
Hon. D. R. Francis was duly inaugurated
Governor of the State Of Missouri at 80 yes
terday morning. There was no parade or show
the Inauguration being the simplest admissi-
BILE under the law, which requires that the
Governor of the State take the oath of office
in the presence of the representatives of the
three branches of the government, the legis-
lative, Judiciary and executive.
Miss Gale, passenger on the steamer City
of Berlin, which arrived at Queenstown to-day
from New York. committed suicide the day
after the steamer left New York by taking a
dose of rat poison. She confessed that she had
quarreled with her niends, and said she wanted
to die. On the following day Mr.. H. Blonden. a
passenger, died from delirium tremens. Both
bodies were buried at sea.
President Corbin, of the Reading Railroad,
has cabled laconic message to Europe to the
dissatisfied holders of the preferred bonds
They had told him that they would begin legal
proceedings unless they were paid ~ per cent
in February, the same as paid on the frsts and
seconds, instead of the 211 per cent allotted to
them. Mr.. CorbiD's cablegram reads: "The
State courts of Pennsylvania are open every
day of the year. Their establishment has been
for the adjustment Of just such wrongs or rights
as you claim to have. You know your redress,
and il you have any complaint advise you to
make it"
An Ottawa special says it is indicated that
the British Government Will force Sir John
Macdonald to recede from his policy of re-
stricting Chinese immigration as being incon-
sistent with treaty obligations. The Govern
ment of China has directed the attention Of the
British Government to the hostile attitude of
Australia and Canada toward the Chinese, and
is discussing the propriety Of Withdrawing COM