Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-28
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The Supreme Council Of the Germ eau
| Scottish Rite Masons has issued prociama-
| tion Withdrawing the famous proposal made 70
the Grand College of Rites.
Rufus J. Eckerson, Of Montana, q clerk Of
class three, in the Office of the Second Assist
ant Postmaster General, has been appointed an
| Assistant Superintendent Of the Railway Mail
| Service.
Forest fires are reported from many parts
Of California. In Santa Cruz, San Mateo,
Sonoma and Marin counties the loss has been
very heavy, as valuable timber is destroyed and
many suburban villages are burned.
Prof. Benjamin E. Nichols was killed
Thursday while trying to stop runaway
horse. Deceased had been q teacher in the
public schools at Ann Arbor, Mich, for %
years, and organized and conducted the COM
mercial department in the High School
The steamer Providence, of the Old
Colony Line. was in collision Thursday evening
with the three-masted schooner AVIS, Captain
Farnsworth, of st. John for New York. She
ass snS sr
ward Of the paddle wheel open for 80 feet
George Munson. faro dealer, was shot by
an unknown man in Public Library Park, De-
troit, Thursday night and fatally wounded.
theory is that Munson found his wife and q
man together, that he endeavored to kill his
wife and was in turn killed by the man who
was with her.
-Apropos of current reports that ex-Presi
dent Strong Of the AtcniPfyi Pacitic II Young % MI
Edwin Gould says: my tatner mas ai"ays ~
looked after his roads He Is president ol the
Missouri Pacific, and will continue IN tnat Ca
pacity SO far as know. He does not inteno 10
give up the position"
The international Cigarmakers Union at
It's session yesterday discussed various amend
ments to its constitution. Section six, article
seven, was amended so that members accept
ing illegal loans shall be fined IS for each
ohense, payable to the International Union the
International President to be the Judge, SUBJ
lect to an appeal to the international Execu-
tive Board.
General Master Workman PowderlY will
be out in manifesto in the next number Of
the United Journal Of Labor, attacking the
Reading railroad officials He charges them
with planning and carrying out the strike OF
its own employees. The leaders, he alleges,were
bought out by the railroad bosses and the strike
forced. thus enabling the insiders to buy the
stock at price below its real value.
News of the discovery of rich gold bearing
quartz IN the Province of Canton, China, about
100 miles from the city of Canton, has been re-
ceived at Portland, Ore, by Seid Back, promi-
nent Chinese merchant The discovery was
made five months ago, when Chinese mer-
chants en- 1d OF the coast organised company with
S20, 600 capital. Experts from New York. who
examined the ledge, report that the rock assays
from sS75 to s4Oo per ton.
The Wyoming Constitutional Convention
has selected Cheyenne as the seat Of govern
ment for ten years, or until majority of the
people vote a change. Grant lands may be
sold at any time for not less than $40 per acre.
The coal mine chapter favors the 1aborers.
Educational provisions are very liberal. The
oath OF office prescribed in the constitution is
extremely rigid, and contemplates abolishmens
OF Doodle campaigns.
The International Socialistic Labor Move
Wi toz firm
State and Territory, will convene at Chicago,
to-day. and hold four days session. 1t will
be the first national convention Of the organiza-
tion in five years. The agitation and pubic
excitement which followed the arrest, trial and
execution Of the Anarchists prevented the
movement from eliminating last year. The
execution of the Anarchists will be taken up
and they will be duly canonized as martyrs
Much excitement has been caused by let
ter received by County Attorney Graves, of
Pender. Neb., in which he is warned to desist
in his efforts TO convict the two Indians now
confined in the Thurston county jail on charge
Of killing little Jimmie Benjamin, who was shot
near his fathers house, on the edge of the res
ervation, July T. Not only is Mr.. Graves
threatened with personal injury, but the state
ment is made that IL any harm comes to the
prisoners the WInnebagoes will kill every
white person in Thurston county.
I'm few days Secretary Proctor will send
board of army officers, in company with a
committee of the Indian Rights Association,
to conclude the purchase of the tract of land
in North Carolina upon which Geronimo and
his Indians now in Alabama will be placed.
This tract is in Western North Carolina, near
the Tennessee line, from which it is separated
by the Great Smoky Mountains There are
number of CherOkees living there now,
remnants of band which refused to go to the
Indian Territory, and Quaker settlement
The Haverstraw express from Jersey City
on the New York and New Jersey Railroad,
ran into freight train on q siding at Lodi
junction Thursday night, causing bad wreck
of the engine and several freight cars. None
of the 200 passengers were injured. Engineer
Theodore Sherman reversed when he saw the
misplaced switch, and, though he could not
avert the collision, he saved the passengers by
sticking to his post. Fireman William Young
jumped and was badly hurt, and was also ter
ribly burned by being showered with vitriol
from wrecked car that contained the acid.
He will die.
Governor Lee, of Virginia. has respdted for