Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-26
LATE NEWS TN BRIEF,

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George Rabourin. q. workman in the
Congregations Church at Newport. VT, fell u
feet from the spire. yesterday morning, and was
fatally injured.
Much of the business portion of PORT
Leyden, Lewis county, N. Y. was destroyed BY
nre early yesterday morning. Loss S100, 900; in
surance about $4,000.
Dispatches from the City Of Mexico say
that earthquake shocks were felt over large
part of the country Wednesday evening, but nc
damage or loss of life is reported.
The trial of Harry Spiess who killed wo-
man named Ruby Nelson in Buffalo last June,
was concluded yesterday. The jury found him
guilty Of manslaughter in the first degree.
Mot freight wheel turned on the Chicago
and Great Western Railway yesterday, the
strike of the switchmen being still on. The
strike is the outgrowth Of an alleged arbitrary
dismissal of switchman last Thursday.
M. D. Trifren, a prominent LAWYER and
real estate dealer of Kansas City, was arrested
on two indictments charged with embezzling
S45 in money and a note of s., 200 the alleged
property of L. p. jackson, of jackson county,
Captain ]. h. Wallace, a prominent citizen
Of Faulkton 3. D., has been sent out by
the Commissioners of Faulk county. one Of the
worst of the droughr-stricken sections of Da-
kota, to solicit and receive aid for the suffer
ing farmers.
Newton P. R. Hatch, IN March, 1883, while
Company, at New York, absconded with 81 600,
was arrested in Chicago. He was identified by
the attorney for the American Surety Com
pany and taken to New York.
Secretary Grouse, of the Executive Board
of the Indiana striking coal miners; reports
S710 in excess of the needs of the dependents.
The dependents are decreasing. while the re-
lief fund is growing. Many blacklegs are at
work, and the strikers have no prospect Of win
ming.
Joseph s. sonney, age g. for 30 years resi-
dent of Lawrence, Mass, and a well-known in
ventor, shot himself through the heart yester-
day morning. He took a pistol ostensibly to
clean 1t, but the wound IS such as TO preclude
the theory of accident. He was prominent
Mason and Odd Fellow.
Charles McIlvaine, 10 years old, murderer
OF Christian w. Luca, while committing bur-
glary in New York on the night of August 2l-22
last, was sentenced by Judge Moore in the
Kings County Court Of Sessions, yesterday
morning, to death by electricity at Sing Sing
prison in the week beginning December9.
Upward of so persons were injured by the
dynamite explosion at Montreal Thursday and
of this number five or six may die. The only
person known to have been killed was Jules
Chartrand, but it is rumored that two other
men we're blown to pieces The block OF stores
where the explosion occurred is practically
mass of ruins. The loss to property is about
$100, ,000
e. j. Girard, Chicago saloonkeeper, shot
his bartender, Oliver Bertrand, shortly after
midnight. The injured man is at the County
Hospital and will die from the two bullet
wounds, one in the side and the other in the
abdomen. The shooting took place in front Of
the saloon. Bertrand's employer accused him
of stealing from the drawer and a quarrel fol-
lowed during which the shooting occurred.
Girard was arrested.
The State Prohibition Conference, held at
Birmingham, Ala, resolved that party vic
tory at the polls was the only way to stop the
liquor traffic. They therefore took steps to put
new life into the Prohibition party of Alabama,
appointed committee to look after the pub
fishers of the Prohibition party papers and
others, and to make arrangements for conven-
tions for nominating State and county officers
next year. Hon. John 7. Tanner, of Athens,
presided.
The action Of Patterson Post No. IS, G. A.
r., Of Pittsburg, in objecting to the erection Of
the Confederate monuments by the Maryland
regiments, has excited considerable comment
among ex-Confederates in Baltimore. They
say that they cannot understand how the Pitts
burgers could have been led into such action.
General Bradley T. johnson said that the mon
ument erected blythe Second Maryland Regi-
ment at Gettysburg was the result of q press
ing invitation from Colonel Batcheller, the
Federal historian of the Gettysburg Memorial
Association. There was certainly nothing OBJ
jectionable in the monument, and Confeder
ates had no apologies to make.