Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-13
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Nuzum & Heironimus, general merchants
OF Grafton w. Va, made an assignment yes
terday. Liabilities, Sl5, 600; assets unknown.
Preferred creditors about s., 900.
Mr.. Emmons Blaine, who has resigned his
position as general freight and passenger
agent of the Sante Fe and California road, is
TO be vice president of the West Virginia Cen
tral Railroad, with headquarters at Balti-
more.
Robert SigeI, who is. charged with forgery
and extortion in the New York pension office,
was up before Judge Benedict in the United
States Circuit Court yesterday. lie pleaded
not guilty, and will be given hearing on
Thursday next
Six or seven hundred colored laborers en-
ployed by the Danville Construction Company
on the Atlantic and Danville Railroad have
struck for 81 Is per day. the present pay being
81. The company refuses to advance, and the
hands are gradually falling back to work.
Clarence Goodwin has just returned from
visiting the alleged rich placer mines in Lower
California, and says they are fraud. Much
suffering will ensue among the people hocking
there. The authorities are trying to prevent
the publication of unfavorable reports.
i'm the Hartford Conn police court yester-
day morning Alexander Thuer and Amos r;
Rlsley, engineers at the late Park Central
Hotel, charged with manslaughter in causing
the explosion of the boiler by negligence, were
held for the Superior Court in bonds OF Sl,5OO
each, which were furnished.
-ClarleS ID. Mcintyre, private Oh Cne
United States Marine Corps, committed sui
eide by poisoning himself in Washington
police station Monday night. Mcintyre had
been arrested for desertion, and 1t is supposed
that his suicide was due to the fear OF conse-
quences which would follow his being turned
over to the military authorities. He was "A
years old, and came from Charleston, W. Va.
The President will shortly appoint 10 dele
gates to the Commercial Congress which is to
convene on October of this year. The Con-
gress will be attended by delegates from Mex
leo, Central and South America, Hayu, San
Domingo and Brazil and will consider the for
nation of an American customs union, the es-
tablishment of regular and frequent commu-
nication between the ports of the several
system of weights and measures and interna-
tional patent and copyright laws, and the adop-
tion of commau silver coin. 1t is expected
the congress will adopt definite tplan OF arbi-
traton of all questions. disputes or differences,
to the end that they may be peaceably settled
and wars prevented.
For the first time in great many years the
Germans and French authorities have found
something beside hatred of one another that
they are able to agree upon. namely, that the
Anarchist must be suppressed. During the
last fortnight the police of Berlin and Paris
have been actively engaged in hunting down
the leaders of the Anarchists in their respec-
tive cities, with the result OF making several
very important arrests in one and causing
many blatant agitators of violent measures to
flee for safety from the other. These latter
worthless have taken refuge in Switzerland,
much to the CONSERVATION of the police of that
county, who have had their hands full with the
already large number of fugitives from En-
glish. French and German justice infesting the
larger Swiss towns and plotting mischief
through the comrades they had left behind
them in their flight.