Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Boston Stock Exchange has voted to
close Wednesday, May j.
Richard s. Albert has purchased the Mt
Vernon Hotel property and furniture for $780,
The King of Holland will go abroad on May
2 with the hope of effecting complete cure of
his disease.
The strike of the employees of the Vienna
Tramway Company has entirely ended and
the directors OF the company have resigned.
The Secretary of the Navy has directed
that all navy yards be closed on the 30th inst
Studies and work at the naval academy will be
suspended.
-Messrs. Kasson, Phelps and Bates, the
American delegates to the Samoan conference.
made social call upon Prince Bismarck at 2:S0
O'CLOCK yesterday afternoon, in Berlin.
Rev. Messrs TAYLOR Edwardes and Hooner
who were captured by Bushiri, the chief of the
insurgents, and held by him for ransom of
9l,00O, were released on the payment of the
sum demanded and have arrived at Zanzibar II
The large fve-story building of the Lowell
Manufaeturing Company. on Market street,
Lowell, Mass, known as the Carpet Mill, was
gutted by ire early yesterday morning, causing
aloss of 100000, as roughly estimated by Agent
Lyons.
The Quebec Government has served pro-
test on the Federal Government against any
settlement OF the northern and northwestern
boundary question with Ontario without its
consent and without the question being settled
with quebec at the same time.
The New York Stock Exchange the Con.
solidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange and
the Coffee Exchange will be closed on Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The
Produce Exchange and the Cotton Exchange
will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
An international anti-slavery Congress
will be held at Lucerne in July next, The
Papal delegate will preside and DR.. Wind
thorst and Count De Nun, the well known Ger
man and French Catholic leaders respectively,
and other prominent papists Will ATTEND.
The Duke of Edinburgh reached Ports
mouth yesterday. His condition is better
though he is suffering from extreme weakness
and is confined to his bed. The Duchess of
Edinburgh was at Portsmouth, awaiting his
arrival. The Duke went direct to Portsmouth.
travelling night and DAY and made no stop on
his journey.
While gang of New York pole choppers
under Foreman Hess, of the Department. of
Public Works, was engaged yesterday in lower
ing 20foot pole, it suddenly fell without warn
ing, carrying with 1t Lineman Patrick Mullane
who was engaged in cutting the wires at the top
of the pole. He sustained compound fracture
of the left leg and ankle joint.
IS. ]. Ritchie, of Akron, O., had an interview
with Sir John Macdonald Friday night relative
to the proposed visit to Canada Of the inter
State Commission. The object of the visit is to
hold conference with the Government on rail-
way matters. The Premier said the Dominion
Government would be perfectly willing to re-
ceive the commission, and suggested the end of
May or early in June as a desirable time.
Peter ]. Nansett has been prisoner on
board the schooner Carolina, at New Bedford.
Mass, from Cape Verde Islands, for the past
week. He is not allowed to land under the
pauper law, because last fall, being IN. he
asked aid as q State pauper to send him to his
native land, from which he is now returned
He has wife and five children, and has him
self lived in New Bedford for 40 years. He was
a whaler for 20 years. Nansett claims that
rather than 60 back to the islands he VIII com
NIT suicide.
This year begins the enforcement of the
new license law in Boston, which limits the
number of licensed places in that city to 7SO
and as there were over 1000 applicants there
are 1.500 drinking places that must close by
May /. The list of rejected applications in
cludes some of. the most prominent dealers
within the city limits. There is not single
sporting house in town except Councilman Billy
Mahoney's place, on LaGrange street, that has
been granted a license. Among the noted
sporting resorts that will have to close are
those of ex-Oarsman Thomas Butler and
Sculler George Hosmer.