Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-14
Bosten Stocks.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Two incendiary fires were started In
Wheeling simultaneously yesterday morning,
and only extinguished after great exertio6s
and loss Of $4,000
AT New York the death watch has been
placed by the Sheriff on the five women murder.
ers in the rombs. The men are Packenham
Lewis (colored), Nolan, Giblin and Carolid
who are sentenced to be hanged together
August q.
The Canadian Department of Fisheries has
gwen BY the commander of the United States
cutter Rush to the prize officer who was placed
on board Of the schooner Black Diamond when
she was seized in Behring Sea.
Fire Monday night destroyed the erecting
and machine shops of the Huntingdon, Pa.
Car Manufacturing Company, together with so
cars in various stages of completion, entailing
aloss of about $500 Insured The plant is
owned by New York capitalists
-Assistant Librarian scudder. of the Ma
tional Museum, at Washington, the other day
received from Florida land company the deed
OF town lot, and letter saying he could have
the property If he would send 81 25 to pay for
learned that the company had the recording
done by one of its clerks and pocketed the fee.
and as there are ten lots in each acre, the COM
pany can get Sl2 so an acre for its land by giving
1t away.
granted to Mary E. Flack from her husband
James, .Flack, Sheriff of New York county was
yesterday on her petition annulled and all pro-
ceedings had before the referee were set aside.
An order to this effect was granted by Judge
Bookstaver in the Court Of Common Pleas on
the divorced woman's petition. In her affidavit
she stated that she had never applied for di-
vorce, and first learned of the granting of the
decree from newspaper reporter.
-Eben 8. Allen. lately President of the
Forty-second and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
Company, New York City, was arraigned before
Judge Gildersleeve yesterday He pleaded
fha Il 6sNkS, IL
him with the over-issue of stock. Lawyer Eus-
tbs, who appeared for Allen, asked that sen.
tence be deferred for 48 hours. Judge Glider
sleeve then remanded Allen for sentence until
Friday. Allen was taken back to the Tombs
He will be arraigned later on the charge of
forgery.
j. Frank Colon. the young Minneapolis
attorney. who is charged with forgeries Of the
aggregating over $500 900, was called for a pre-,
llminary hearing in the municipal court yester-
day. The State would consent to no POSTPONE.
ment and accordingly examination was waived.
The case now goes to the grand Jury. The bail
had been placed at $4,000 in each Of the ii
cases. After argument it was this morning re-
duced to S5l, Oc0 in the aggregate, which, 1t Is
expected, will be furnished by Collom's wealthy
friends.
1t is announced that during the coming Ma
tional Encampment of the Grand Army Of the
Republic at Milwaukee 1,000 COMPANY battery
gun boat, regimental brigade, division and
COl lpo EcuniOuS Will Dc uclu ana plaCeS oil meet
ing for this number have been secured. The
naval battle, which will be participated in by
the Michigan, and four revenue cutters and
fifty of her water craft of various descriptions.
besides thirty pieces OF cannon and mortars
regiments of the National Guard and divisions
Of the Sons of Veterans, will be the chisf at
traction.
The celebrated grain shortage case of
reached a new and interesting phase, criminal
proceedings having been instituted. Edward
Q. Hawks, Vice-President of the International
Company, and one of the losers by
the operations of Sherman Bros. & Co., yester.
day appeared before Justice King and swore
put criminal warrants against Stephen F. Sher-
man, manager of the Associated Elevators,
and Edward G. Loverldge, his assistant. The
warrants were four In number one charging
sherman and Loveridge Jointly with grand
arceny in the first degree, and the three others
charging stephen F. Sherman Individually
With violations Of sections 632 and 633 of the
renal Code. The warrants were handed TO
ne police, and sherman was arrested. Lover
dge was arrested, and spent the night a pris-
'ner at police headquarters.
Near Birmingham, Ala, on Saturday last,
hree young negro men, driven to religious
renzy by the exhortations of an old negro |
famed Tobias jackson, who claims to be Daniel |
hey were representative Of shadrach.
deshach and Abednego, the Israelites who en-. |
cred the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar of |
be negr naer the n inn4snGe OF their new prophet
md Bill Verdier, deliberately entered the gate |
II the cupola of the Schloss furnace and |
ushed into the white heat of melting iron. |
" hen they failed to come out, jackson, the /
,rophet proclaimed that he saw them rising in /
ne air with the smoke, attended by angels, and |
AID they would revisit the earth again next |
'unday. The negroes propose to meet in church |
ext Sunday, and will continue in prayer all |
ay, Tobias jackson leading, ana will await the |
eturn OF the three children Of Israel.
q. c. Schegel, of Hersey,, Mich says that
man sent to jackson prison for horse stealing /
rom Hersey on a three years sentence is none
7ell and that the horse stealing was a plan to
ct him into safe place. Schegel went to
arden Hatch with his story and Hatch sent
i'm to Chicago. After a while Schegel re-
urned and said that certain persons told him
hey knew TascotJ was in jackson prison and
fered him half the reward to keep it quiet.
chegel refused, he said, and instead engaged |
lawyer to look after the matter. In an inter-
lew, Warden Hatch said: II examined the
onvict and found the resemblance startling so
ar as had heard of Tascott. He has the
anne scars that are given as being on the Smell
lurderer, with the exception that the one on
be leg In the published report of Tascotts ap-
eararice was on the other leg Of the convict.
he height 10 the same; the complexion, size
nd all correspouded, I do not know what to
lake OF the matter, but shall take steps to |
nlly satisfy myself of the identity of the man."
detective who arrived from Jackson last
lght say. the convict 10 not Tsscott though