Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Ill, while boring for water yesterday struck a
powerful vein of natural gas. Stones were
thrown out and the wheels of an engine were
turned by the escaping gas.
-Advices are at hand from Panama. Sus-
pension of work on the canal has left Colon
full of empty houses, stores and shops, of
removal inland of workmen's camps as the
work progressed.
AS an outcome of the differences between
Harris & Sons and the Lasters' Protective
Union, the firm has begun packing its ma
enlnery Preparatory 70 movlng their entire
employed 150 hands.
"A badly decomposed body, found in the
Charles river, at Waltham, Mass, has been
identified by Mr.. Frank Handy of the Boston
Transcript, as that of his sister, Lucy N.
Handy, who had been missing from her home
in Dorchester since early in January.
Assistant District Attorney Park says Ives
and Stayner will be tried for grand larceny
early in April. 1t is understood that Wood
ward, who is under Indictment for connection
with the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton con-
spiracy. has made some important admissions
to the District Attorney, and he may be used
as witness for the prosecution.
Among the passengers on the steamship
Australia, which arrived at San Francisco from
Honolulu yesterday, was Claus Spreckels, who
has been paying an extended visit to his sugar
plantations in Hawaii. He stated that the
crop of the plantations will exceed the esti-
islands, it is stated, will he about 125006 TONS or
the largest in the history of the islands.
The report sent out early in the week from
Big Sandy, Mont, giving an account of the
gold excitement III Sweet Grass Hills, and
stating that such large numbers were hocking
to the new fields as to seriously threaten fam
inc, is untrue. The Sweet Grass placers have
been worked for number of years, and while
considerable gold has been and is being taken
out there has been no rush to the hills since
1878.
Herr Won Hortig Kruger, who a year ago
was the editor of the International ConsoLi-
dated Press. of Berlin, is now living in New
Haven, Conn.,, and is the editor of lie Con.
Kruger was obliged to flee from Germany on
account of his connection with the publication
of the diary of Emperor Frederick. His prop
erry was confscated, and his partner, Prof.
Getfcken, was imprisoned fer several months.
The bagging trust, which caused a good
deal of excitement and excited much oppo-
sition on the part of cotton planters and others
last year, and which expired by Limitation last
December, it is announced has practically
been reorganized and will be run or managed
by the same parties as before. The plan of
operation will not exactly be the same as last
year, however. and prices are not expected to
be pushed up so high, but it is alleged that 1t
will not be long before they reach 10 cents per
pound.
The Wagner Palace Car Company is building
at It's shops, in Buffalo. an entire new equip
ment for the New York Centrars Chicago linn
tied train. The most novel feature of the new
train will be car containing ten enclosed com.
partments or staterooms, which will afford to
the occupants the utmost privacy and secluslon.
Folding doors between the rooms will permit
them to be arranged en- suite for the accommo-
datiOn of families or large parties. Each car
will have a buffet and well-filed bookcase.
The new train is expected to be ready for SER
vice early next month
The French line steamship La Champagne,
,I,iaI soil for How
valuable cargo of freight. Since Thursday vast
quantities of boxed pictures and paintings
have been slowed in the vessels hold. They
| were contributions of resident artists to the
American art exhibit at the coming Paris In.
| ternational Exposition. The value of the paint
ings shipped to-day foets up over $500, 600. The
most costly work in the collection was Mum;
which Postmaster General Wanamaker has
| loaned to the Exposition.
Kansas is about to develop small Okla.
| homa excitement, all her own. On the north
| ern border of Shawnee county, in which To
| neka is situated, lie the Pottawottamie and
| Kickapoo Indian reservations, ii miles square,
| containing 5000 acres. The last Legislature
| passed strong resolutions urging Congress to
make an appropriation looking to the opening
| for honest eads of tins tract. Word has been
| received from Congressman Morrill, saying
| that he secured the passage of q measure
| which appropriates S. 900 for the purpose OF
negotiating with the Indian tribes interested.
| This will open for settlement nearly 500 home.
| steads and will be of inestimable value to the
| surrounding counties.
| There is queer case on trial at Richmond,
Va. When William A. Thomas died he left a
| $500, 600 estate to Bette Lewis, q mulattO, his
| natural daughter. White cousins of the dead
man attempted to dispossess her. therefore the
| entire estate is now locked up Thomas left nc
! will, and in the absence of such instrument 1t
| was supposed that his legal kin would get his
fortune. When Thomas found he was about
| to die he called Bette to his side and gave her
| his bank book and keys to a. deposit box. He
died in the presence of a colored female wit
| ness, and he told his daughter that he wanted
| her to have his for tune, and that she must un.
| der no circumstances surrender these keys
his securities. After long legal fight the
court decided to appoint receiver to take
| charge of the estate while the litigation is
| pending.
There are sensational developments in con
| nection with the bill passed by the recent In
diana General Assembly requiring uniformity
| in the screening and weighing of coal, and such
| inspection as would prevent cheating OF
miners. There was strong lobby influence
| against the hill from the mine operators, and
| the miners we're equally jealous in its advo
| cacy. The House passed the bill, and it came
up for third reading in the Senate on The
ments were made by the Senate, and when II
| was sent to the House for concurrence in the
| changes, like some other bills in which the
| lobby was greatly interested, It mysteriously
| disappeared. No one has any idea who did the
! work. The defeat of the bill will cause much
| disappointment among the miners of the State
| as 1t was measure which they were more in
terested In than any other that came before
the Legislature.