Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The President yesterday appointed the
following named postmasters: Samuel P.
Burnes, at Talledge, Ala; James p. Jones, at
Batesville, Ark; Flora ii. Hawes, at Hot
Springs, Ark; Edward B. Cushman, at Long
Beach, Cal; George W. Critchfeld. at Ukiah,
Cal; James 9. Hughes at Marietta, Ga; Luther
b. Boice, at Lewiston. Idaho Territory.
The Chicago representatives of the Louis
lana lottery, Messrs- William Daily and William
l. Wright. were arrested yesterday morning.
charged with violating the city Ordinances ne,
lating to gambling Devere Kearney, the pro-
prietor of the Little Louisiana" lottery, was
also gathered in. The three prisoners were ar
raigned before Justice Prindle, and were held
in $500 bonds pending their preliminary hear
ing on the 10th instant. All furnished bail.
The Solicitor Of the Treasury has refused
to give an opinion in answer to the question
propounded by an electric light and power
company, as to whether duty would be i'm
posed in case electricity developed in Canada
at Niagara Falls were sent across the river
into the United States. The refusal is based
upon the grouud that the department cannot
properly answer hypothetical questions, the
plants not yet having been put into operation.
1t is estimated that though the hop crop of
Washington Territory has suffered slightly
from drouth and blight: the crop of 1889 will
greatly exceed that of 1855 The area planted
this year is SO per cent larger than last year
This increased acreage will produce in the ag-
gregate good crop. The yield per acre will
be 10 per cent. less than in 1888. The crop in
White River valley is looking well. The Puget
Sound and Lake Shore Road has largely in
creased their warehouses in anticipation of
heavy yield.
"A Mexican boy who was bitten by a mad
wolf in the San Dias mountains, Albuuueruue
died in great agony. The scene around the
little fellows bed was heartrending, for he
acted like wolf, and, though small, 1t took
several men to hold him down. He and his
elder brother were playing few yards from
the house when the wolf attacked them las
cerating their faces and hands, the younger
boy, however, receiving the deepest wounds,
A Mexican herder lassoed the wolf, throwing
the maddened beast to the ground, and having
no knife, tightened the rope and strangled it to
death. 1t feared the other boy will die.
The President yesterday made the following
appointments: Robert B. Rentfro, to be Col
lector of Customs for the district of Brazos de
Santiago, Tex; Daniel r. Collier, to be Sur.
yeyor of Customs for the port of Louisville,
KY; Robert A Mosely, Jr., to be Collector of
Internal Revenue for the district of Alabama:
Louis w. Enstein. to be Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Fourth district of Iowa:
Rudolph Herring, of New York City: Samuel
NJ. Gray, of Providence, r. l., and F. r.
Stearns, of Boston. to be sanitary engineers to
examine and report upon the system of sewer
age in the District OF Columbia
AT New York, yesterday, Sam Crane. seo
ond baseman of the Metropolitan Baseball Club.
was arrested and locked up at police headquar.
ters on the charge of running away with Hattie
Travenfelter, the pretty wife of a Scranton
fruit dealer. Mrs. Hattie, in russett shoes and
baseball cap, was also made captive, and
locked up in a cell adjoining her lover. The
arrest was made on a requisition by the Gov
serted husband, who charges Crane with grand
larceny and receiving stolen goods. Traven-
telter claims that his wife took 81, 500 belonging
to him when she ran away.