Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-17
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The schooner Rio Lupton capsized six days
ago in Albemarle Sound. The captain and one
1 Of the crew were drowned.
The records and findings of the Lydecker
court martial have reached the Secretary of
War from Major General Schoheld, and will
probably be sent to the President to-day.
"A spaniard named Thomas Domingnez
aged S. killed his wife Clarina, in Buffalo, yes
terday, and then committed suicide. The
! double crime was a horrible one, the weapon
used being a razor. Jealousy was the cause.
| Governor Robinson has declined his ap-
pointment on the Indian Commission. A new
Commissioner will be appointed, with as little
delay as possible. This will delay the depart
ure of the commission for the Indian Terri
tory.
An order was granted in the equity session
of the Massachusetts Supreme Court yester-
day, dissolving the Brush Electric Company OF
ceIver The company has entirely ceased busi-
ness. and has assets of 5000.
The latest news from Oklahoma border is
to the effect that troops are being withdrawn
from the neighborhood of Caldwell and other
points on the Kansas line. and the boomers are
rapidly getting ready to cross the Cherokee
outlet to the northern boundary of Oklahoma
proper.
,.-Lieutenant John c. Wilson, of the Wanda
| liza, has teIegraphed TO the Navy Department
from Sydney, that he has chartered the
steamer Rockton for the purpose of transport
ing the shipwrecked sailors to the United
! on the 10th of May.
"A portion of the works of the Schaghticoke
| Powder Company at Troy. N. Y, was blown up
Monday night by the explosion of 200 pounds
OF material in mixing vat Charles Il rose
juries which will probably be fatal. The dam
age to the property is about So, 5000.
Mr.. A B. Chandler, President of the Postal
| Telegraph Cable Company, had his attention
| called to the report that consolidation of the
Postal Telegraph Cable Company with the
Western Union Company is likely to occur soon.
Mr.. Chandler stated that there is not the
slightest foundation in fact for such state
ment.
The Banking and Commerce Committee of
the Canadian Dominion Parliament yesterday
reported, after prolonged discussion, Mr.:
Clarke Wallace's bill for the suppression OF
combines. The amendment to the bill was car
ried. granting the accused option of trial by
Judge and jury: No appeals ::to the Supreme
Court will be allowed.
Before the Armes court martial yesterday,
Assistant District Attorney Shillington was
called to testify relative to the pohce court
proceedings against Captain Bourke, and cor
roborated what had already been developed on
that point. At the conclusion of this testi-
money the prosecution rested its case, and the
court adjourned until Thursday
Bill Ryan, the Missouri train robber and
associate of Jesse James, was released from the
penitentiary yesterday. He was sentenced for
25 years for completely in the Glendale train
1873, but Governor Morehouse, a short time be-
fore his retirement from office, commuted the
sentence to "a years. Ryan has been good
prisoner
"A beet sugar company was incorporated at
0O0, 900, with Louis Schloss, A. l. Cults, f.
Ehrmann, Claus Spreckels and John d.
Spreckels as directors, the last two holding
half of the stock. The object is to erect large
sugar refineries at various points on the coast
in addition to one already established at Wat
sonville. Cal. in the expectation of refining
5000 or 60, 900 tons of sugar year.
Ellsworth White shot and fatally wounded
Mrs. ]. Kellogg Monday night at Lockwood,
small place near Ithaca. N Y. Mrs. Kellogg
had been visiting Whites mother, who is sick,
and as she came out of the house, White fol.
No cause is assigned. but it is thought White
is insane. He was discharged from Auburn
prison about three months ago. where he served
a term for horsestealing After the shooting he
was captured by officers, who put him in jail at
0swego.
1t is stated unofficially that the cruiser
Charleston will probably start on her trial trip
on Friday next She has finished coaling, and
yesterday took on board large quantity of
rope, hawsers and other equipment from Mare
Island for the trip. On Saturday, while lying
at her dock, fires were started in her furnaces,
and the machinery, under full head of steam,
was found 10 work smoothly and in perfect or
der. Her anchors are in place, but her steel
masts which were made in Pittsburg, will not
pc put IN until aICer Lne Irlal ur1p.
Shortly after the bank of Grover, Col,
opened in the morning unknown cowboy
rode up to the bank, entered and presented
check for $40 to Cashier Smith, who was alone
at the time. II e turned toward the window to
examine the writing, and on turning his face
toward the man found himself covered with
six-shooter. The man said: "The check is no
| good, but want cash all the same" Smith
| demurred and the man threatened to shoot,
whereupon he handed him all the cash out of
the safe, amounting to over 81, 600, and was
thanked profusely by the robber. Mr.. Smith
ran into the street as soon as he could and fired
several rife shots at the daring robber, bnt
none of them took effect and he made good his
escape.
The President made the following appoint
ments yesterday: William P. Hepburn, of
Iowa, to be Solicitor of the Treasury; William
H. Whiteman, of New Mexico. Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory
| of New Mexico. General William P. Hepburn,
represented the Eighth district of Iowa
| in Congress for several terms. He was
born in .Columbiana county, Ohio, in
| 1888, and began the study of law
| in 1853 In 1856 he was elected Prosecuting
! Attorney of Marshal county, Iowa, and was
subsequently elected chief clerk of the Iowa
House of Representatives. He served in
| the Union army during the war, and at one
time commanded the Second Brigade, cavalry
division, Sixteenth Army Corps. He has al
! ways been an earnest Republican, and was
recommended for Solicitorship by the leading
men Of his party in the State.