The Globe-republican., 1889-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
fIETRo BARANovsKI, Pole. was hanged
at Pottsville, Pa. recently for the murder
of two women, which was committed while
he was robbing a house.
MAJOR BURKE, ex-Treasurer of Louisi.
ana, has Ieen indicted for the bond
frauds.
HARRY NJ. LcEHR, the tax boodler of
Bloomington, Ill, has been sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary.
THE wheat growers of the Mississippi
valley met in convention at St Louis on
the 23i.
An alliance is reported between the Chi.
cago & Northwestern and the Union Pa
ciflc sy stems. The C. & N. is under con-
troll of the Vanderbilts, and the report
gave rise to considerable speculation.
A MEETING was held at Washington on
the night of the 23d to perfect an organ
iZation for securing the Worlds Fair in
that city.
BY the explosion of the boiler Of a steam
cotton gin near Pleasant Plains, Ark, the
| other day, Flavel and Alphonso Robert
son. brothers, were fatally and two other
men seriously hurt
IT is the general impression of officials
at the Navy Department that the board of
| survey recently ordered on the Ossippee
will report in favor of condemning the
vessel.
JUDGE MORRIS. of the United States
District Court of Baltimore. has decided
that the sinking of oyster pirate boats by
the State vessels was perfectly justifiable.
AN unknown man was found burned to
death in the Pendleton lodging house in
Duluth, Mimi.
Two of the employees of the Pension
Office whose pensi ions were rerated have
been officially requested to refund to the
Government the extra money paid to them
on account Of such rerating.
IT is stated at Shanghai that the COL
lapse of the railway scheme is due to
French insistence upon the enforcement
of an article in an old treaty emitting
France to supply the personnel and ma
terial for any Chinese railway.
A PLOT to release prisoners at Sing Sing
has been frustrated.
ADMIRAL GILLIs reports from Monte
video that yellow fever is spreading in
Brazil and is likely to give serious trouble
during the coming summer.
GIANT powder was exploded in the bed
Of Oscar Steinberg, a sign painter, at
Butte, Mont, while he was asleep the
other night, and he was fatally injured.
His wife and son were arrested for the
crime.
FIRE at Port Clinton, O., the other night
destroyed the lumber yard of August
Spies & Co. and other property. Loss.
500. COO.
AN autopsy has been had on the body of
William Burns. a saloon passenger on the
steamer Hondo, who died on the steamers
arrival at New York quarantine. 1t
showed conclusively that Burns died of
yellow fever.
The requirements of the United States
sinking fund for the present fiscal year.
estimated at S4S,OO0, 900. have been met
the bonds purchased on the Oath bringing
the total of this fund up to the amount re.
quired by law.
The examination of witnesses in the
Cronin case commenced at Chicago on the
oath.
THE annualreport of the supervising in
spector of steam vessels shows that dur
ing fifteen years past the number Of steam
vessels in the United States has increased
from ,Ss5 to G. 725.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de.
cided that q railway company allowing
newsboys on its cars is responsible for
any damages that they may receive. This
is the first decision of its kind and is Of
great importance to railroad people
TIE will Of the late E G. Rabbit, the
wealthy soap manufacturer of New York,
las been probated His widow is loft the
family home and 500, 900 cash in trust for
their daughter Ida. Another daughter,
Lila E. Babbitt 10 left $5OO, 900 cash and
500, 200 Of New York Central 4 Hudson
River railroad stock.
FIVE hundred Chicago tailors struck on
the oath.
JUDGE PRENDIRGAsr has issued war.
rants for the arrest of W. E. Keat and
Thomas E. Downey, Chicago Fifth ward
politicians, charged with procuring q
change Of names Of election judges BY
false representations.
TIE jury in the case Of Assemblyman
Smith, Of New York City. charged With
bribery at elections, were unable to agree
and were discharged
The following Gnounts were pledged to
the New York Worlds Fair on the 24th:
C. Vanderbilt $100, 900; New York Central
& Hudson River Railroad Company, $780,.
600; Wagner Palace Car Company, $50.
GOO; Joseph Pulitzer; $4,000