Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| creation OF French vice consulshlp az baku,
Russia.
The President yesterday appointed Oliver
C. Bosbyshell Superintendent of the Mint at
Philadelphia.
"A cable to the Maritime Exchange yester-
day announced that Hippolyte has been unani-
mously elected President of Hayti.
John I.innehan, of Fall River, Mass, serv-
| ing a sentence for drunkenness IN the Taunton
Jail, hanged himself in his cell early yesterday
morning.
Judge Martin In Part I, New York General
Sessions, Yesterday morning, resentenced 20
death Henry Carlton, the murderer OF Poiiee-
man Brennan, and fixed the date Tor the e1ecu-
| tion December 8.
AT Murray CITY, O., residents burned to the
ground the house of George Washington, col
ored man. He lost everything. Inc excuse
given for the outrage is that no DlacKs are
wanted in the place.
-Advices have been received by the Canadian
Depar tment of Agriculture, from the Hlgn
Commissioners office at London, tnat tnere
has been another arrival at Deptforo, from new
York, of animals suffering from pleuro-pneu-
monia.
As Wilson W. HazeltQn was cleaning
cedar cask at Train, Smith 4 Co.'s pulp mill, at
Bristol, N. H, with steam injected from the
steam pipe the cask exploded, hurting hlm
some distance and killing him almost In
stantly.
James Hickey was arrested on some minor
charge down in Lower Chiffon county, Ala.
His captors subsequently found that ne was
concerned in some brutal murders near
Montevailo, some weeks ago. In fact, ne con,
fessed, and then he was swung to hmp and
shot
General A. b. Campbell, of Kansas, contra
diets emphatically dispatch from Topeka to
the effect that he has been offered the posit%iSn ION
0f off MalhOuruA
President has rendered him no office, and that
the publication of this report was wltnout MS
knowledge or sanction.
Henry W. Gilbert ~ United States Consul TO
Trieste, Austria Hungary, reports to the state
Department that the exports from IN the dlstrlGt S;
of Trieste, Flume for 1883 were ST. $50 043 fall
ing of from the previous year OF sosZ SoS 1he
aggregate value of imports from the umteo
States was S557, ,007, decrease OF SlS4,16o
The North German Gazette says it is not
unlikely that Germany will refuse TO recognize
Mataafa as King of Samoa and that IL must pc
assumed that the other powers parties TO the
Samoan treaty have similarly expressed them
selves, because at the conference recently neio
at Berlin all. the representatives agreed that
Malletoa should be King.
An injunction was granted in the New
York Supreme Court Yesterday to Henry Z.
George s. Field ct al from taking action undsr
a resolution passed at meeting OF the stock-
holders in Louisville, KY, on October z toward
winding up the affairs OF the North and South
American Construction Company.
AT meeting of the Andrew jackson
League at Chicago Colonel Robert Rae ad-
dressed the club. He said the time had come
when the West should have Presidential can
didate and that Illinois would present the
name of Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller be-
for the next Democratic Convention. his re-
marks were greeted by immense applause.
voupo man residante 0f HudR0n. N.
Y, John Lewis, Jerome Race and Thomas
Cooney, each about Is years old, while proceed
ing up the track of the Hudson River Railroad
at o'clock yesterday morning, were run over
by locomotive of freight train as they
stepped from one track to another to let an ex-
press train pass. They were all Killed instantly.
"A wreck occurred on the Texas and Pacific
road at Madden. about 90 miles east OF I'll
Paso, Tex. A washout threw freight engine
and several cars down an embankment. En-.
gineer r. j. Bible, recently of St. Louis and
Fireman Charles Jones were caught under the
side of the engine and literally roasted to
death Brakeman G. w. Mansfield was also
killed
-Emmet V. Rhoades, cashier of the First
National Bank, OF ST. Paris, o., pleaded guilty
in the United States Court to the misapproprl-
alton of tie bank funds. 1t was shown that
there was no ultimate intention of defrauding
the bank and that the money was used In
public spirited effort to advance the interests
of his community. The minimum sentence,
five years in the penitentiarY was imposed
The Laundrymen's National Association
has wound up its annual convention at Buffalo.
NJ. F. Doremus, of Chicago, was elected Presl-
dent; c. H. Brace, of Pittsburg, and Major
Taylor, of Indianapolis. Vice Presidents; 81. A.
Stoer of Cleveland, Secretary, and Levi &.
Carr, of Philadelphia, Treasurer. Pittsburg
was selected as the next place for holding the
convention. and the second Monday in October,
1896, the date.
Representatives of the firms engaged in the
bart wire industry are in secret conference in
Chicago. with view, it is understood, of form
ing trust. The principals in the negotiations
are said to be G. S. Douglas OF New York: j.
S. Gates. of St Louis, and w. r. Stirling, OF
the Illinois Steel Company 1t is not yet known
whether or not Washbur1 and Moen are par
ties to the movement Considerable Sc
crecy surrounds the conference.
The Atlas Line steamship Athos arrived at
New York yesterday from Haytian points. The
voyage was tempe Ituous one. On September
Is and l6 a northeast gale was encountered with
a heavy sea running. This state of things
lasted for 50 hours, during which everything
movable was swept from the decks. TIE vessel,
however, sustained no serious damage. The
Athos left Port au Prince on September q, and
brings the intelligence that Hippolyte at that
time was busly ensaged in arranging for the
Presidential election. Hppolyte expects that
he will be the unanimous choice Of the people.
The election takes place this month.
superintendent of Census Porter has had a
conference with the special agents in charge of
the collection of statistics of cotton, wool and
worsted and silks and mixed textiles. The de-
sire is to secure better classification and
more complete collection of such statistics.
The list of manufactures in the United States
is complete now, and shows total of 5, 2l8 The
most noticeable thing about the figures is the
increase in the number of mills in the South.
They have more than doubled since 1880.
Another notable thing is that whereas there
were 900 cotton mills in the United States in
1880 / 447 have already been reported.
General Master Workman T. v. Powderly.
of the Knights of Labor, in speaking OF the
eght-hour question, yesterday, said: II am
certainly in favor of shortening the hours of
labor in such a manner as not only to give the
workingman time for recreation, but also to
afford him an opportunity to study the ques-
tions of the day, for il is evident that the work.
ing classes are realizing the importance of in
vestigating these things for themselves. l have
never been in favor of sudden change in the
would cause terrible disturbance in manufac-
turing and commercial circles. On the contrary
have always preferred a systematic course
one that would gradually educate the people
on the subject"
The Paris Temps, in resume Of the fnan-
cial results of the Exposition, says that before
its close the number of people who will have
visited the great show will reach 26 600 00O and
will in all probability exceed that figure, Re
ferring to the proposed Worlds Fair in 1892,
the Temps says it is by no means as certain as
it seemed month ago that the Americansiwill
select New York for the location OF their Ex-
position, as Chicago is making strenuous efforts
to secure it. Commenting on the availability
of Chicago, as compared with New York, the
Temps SAYS: "We wonder how many of the
Chicagoans who crossed the ocean to visit the