Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-19
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Lieutenant Rust in a letter to London
dated a week later than Dr.. Peters last report
does not mention the massacre Of Dr.. Peters
and party.
1t is reported that the German Emperor in
tends to build new palace in the Avenue I'm
ter den Linden, at Berlin, on the site OF the
Royal Academy of Arts.
Archbishop Croke of Cashel, has written a
letter to the officers of the Irish Tenants De
fense League wishing them Godspeed in their
undertaking, and inclosing subscription OF
$50 for the League.
The jury In the Colon forgery case al
Minneapolis came in at lois A. NJ, to-day,
having been out since Saturday night. The
foreman announced that the jurymen were un.
able to agree. Judge Hoker sent them back
again.
"A telegram from Wheeling states that
the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad will
! build an extension to Bellaire at an early day.
| Connection will be made with the Baltimore
| and Ohio Railroad there.
| n. " Phillips, city editor of the Carthage
Banner, accidently shot himself dead yester-
day afternoon, at Carthage Mo-, while clean
being one of the Vice Presidents of the Asso-
citation OF National Fire Engineers.
| Thomas EddIngton, travelling agent for the
| Standard Life Insurance Company, of Detroit,
| Mich. was found dead in bed at the Head
| quarters Hotel, Fargo n. D., on Sunday 1t is
thought he committed suicide, as a bottle which
had contained laudanum was found on the
table.
| Hamilton Co., the glass manufacturers
| of Pittsburg, who purchased the Cooperative
| Glass Works at Butler six weeks ago, com
/ menced work yesterday morning in their II
| pot factory. 1t is the intention of the firm to
rebuild the other factory as soon as they get
their new one fairly started.
The first snow of the season fell at Wanda
liza, Ill. on Sunday. The ground was covered
| TO depth of three inches on level. At
| Bloomington, ILL.,, on Sunday afternoon and
| evening the first snow of the season fell. The
Alton road from Dwight to St. Louis, was COW
| cred. About six inches fell
| The Elkador train on the Chicago Milwau.
! kee and St. Paul road left the track Saturday
evening at Stolaf, Ia, shaking up the passen-
gers and badly lnjuring several Mary Mehan,
| of Dubuque, was seriously hurt about the
| spine and side; Andrew Reiter, of the Nc
| Gregor NeIOS, Mrs. Thomas Williams and
! Deputy Sheriff Elmer Benton, of McGregor
| sustained painful though not serious injuries
The passenger coach turned completely over.
General Sir Frederick Middleton, COM
/ manding the forces of the Dominion is now on
his way TO British Columbia. where he goes to
| thoroughly inspect and report upon the de-
fense of the Canadian Pacific coast The
British Government is not satisfied with what
the Canadian Government has done in the di-
rection of increasing the efficiency Of their
military strength and the coast defenses of that
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cif1c not reaching 300 men.
Sergeant Oliver Tins, of the Thirtieth Po.
lice Precinct. New York. said in an interview re-
Gently published in the VoLkS Zeitun0 a So
cialist organ. that every fifth man on the New
York police force was a Socialist or an
Anarchist and the sentiments expressed by
him would do credit to Most and Mrs. Parsons.
A translation of the interview has been pub
lished, and the Police Board called on for an
investigation. Inspector Byrnes says he will
look into the matter at once.
The famous case cf Collins against Collins
was decided at Ritchie q. H., W. Va, on Sat
urday. The plaintiff was Hon. Creld Collins,
who is nearly millionaire. The defendant was
his wealthy brother who five years ago was in
dicted for counterfeiting- Collins was proven
to have been the leader of a notorious gang
who flooded the State with spurious coin. He
was convicted, but escaped Imprisonment His
brother spent large amount of money in mis-
defense. 1t was to recover this that suit was
brought The jury's verdict was for the plain
tiff.
The Butler, Pa, jury in the case of P. c.
Boyle vs.. J. B. Smithman, for $50 900 damages
for the refusal of the pipe line company,
operated by defendant, to publish monthly
statement of business DONE etc, and which
was on trial at Butler last week, returned YER
dict for defendant. A writ of error was taken
by plaintiff s attorney and the case will be taken
to the Supreme Court. The verdict is black
eye for the Standard Oil Company, as Boyle
was looked upon merely as the representative
of the Standard. He is the lessee and manager
of the Oil City Derrick.
The work of lifting the bodies of victims of
the Johnstown flood that were taken from the
river and inferred at Nineveh, began yes ;erday.
The bodies will be brought to Johnstown and
inferred in the Grand View Cemetery. There
is a large number of victims at Nineveh, and
many friends of the deceased went
down from Johnstown yesterday to be
present when the bodies we're taken up.
The removal of the remains from Nineveh,
will complete the work of transferring the
dead from their temporary to their final resting
places except few picked up here and there
along the river banks and inferred near where
they were found.
An eastbound freight train on the Michi-
gan Central Railroad was ditched at Stevens
ville Ont. Sunday, owing to the switch having
scoundrels. The engine was turned upside
down, burying Engineer Reardon his fireman
and Brakeman Murray in the wreck. They
managed to crawl out of a small hole in the
cab. Reardou was badly cut on the head.
Murray was internally injured and may die.
OF the ID cars composing the train seven were
wrecked, and live stock, flour, glue, ETC., piled
heavenward. Over 100 head of sheep were
killed, and the track SO badly torn up that nine
hours we're required to clear the wreck.
One OF the most important issues of the DAY
is the proposal for the federation of the Aus
tralian Colonies, set forth in the dispatch which
Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier of New South
Wales has addressed to the Premiers of the
other colonies in Australia. 1t is in reality an
invitation to meet and consider the formation
of an independent combination of the colonies
a sort of United States in Australia. Most of
the colonists probably will not exactly so regard
it, and England has not the faintest suspicion |
of its meaning. The proposal has come ABOUT
through the advice of the Military Commits |
sioner whom England sent to assist the Austria |
lians to a common scheme of national defense
He reported in favor of Federal Australian |
army, and Sir Henry Parkes, who is a Feder-
alisJ, but not an Imperial Federalist at heart, |
has seizedthe opportunity and boldly tells the |
colonies that the time has come for a grand |
federation, not only for military protection, |
but for all the uses that are implied by the |
term.
Is is with nleasnre that I add nv tesfi |