Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-19
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The President has approved the act in rela-
tion to dead and fallen timber on Indian lands.
The strike among the seamen at various
British ports is subsiding. The men are freely
signing all articles at the compromise rates
suggested by the ship owners.
The following bond offers were received
Monday afternoon by the Secretary of the
Treasury and accepted; Registered i15s. S3O3,.
600, at 1895; coupons. AS, s115,OOO, at 1906.
"A decision was to-day handed down by the
English Appeal Court. upholding the electric
light patents of Edison and Swan against the
Holland and Anglo-American Brush patents,
thus reversing the decision of the lower court.
1t is reported that at the coming session of
Parliament the Government will propose de-
tense loan of fl,000.0Oo. The proceeds of the
loan will be devoted to the construction of 20
men-of-war and 80 cruisers, and to increasing
the number of torpedo boats.
The Chinese colony in Chicago is greatly
excited over the departure of Sing Yon the
trusted cashier of See Son Co., Chinese mer-
chants with 81, 500, of which 81, 900 belonged to
the firm, and the remainder to individual Ce.
lestials who had used See Son Co.'s safe as a
place of their savings.
Mr. Herbert Gladstone has written a letter
defending the evictions on his fathers estate at
Hawarden. He says that the evictions were
perfectly compatible with all reasonable up
holding of the cause of the Irish tenants. The
attempts made to compare English with Irish
tenants, he declares, are futile. because the
which does not exist in England.
The continent has known no such severity
of weather as has prevailed the present week
since 1875. The most of the central German
railroads are still blocked by snow and in the
Pyrenees country the floods are beginning,
which will cause frightful damage within an.
other week. Should a sudden thaw come all
Europe will be taking up collections for the
sufferers by inundations i'll half dozen differ
ent countries.
AT midnight Sunday night, Mrs. Rail
Impsd J1sa st IgOm the rss story OF her residence
shots which were fired attracted the attention
of an officer, who found John c. Rahl with a
smoking revolver in his hand and bullet hole
in his hat: He would give no explanation of
suffering from broken leg. also declined to
give any information. Rail was arrested and
held for court
Edward Oakes, ex-Chief of Police of Sau-
gus, Mass, was arrested about midnight Sun.
day for trying to break into the house of q. G..
AmeS. The police had been notified of the at
tempt by man named Jordan, whom Cakes
took into his confidence. He had pried open a
window of the Ames residence and started the
burglar alarm. When he saw he was discov-
cred he tried to escape, but was captured in
East Saugus. A jimmy, with his name on it,
and policeman's badge and club were found
on him. He says it's put-up job.
The body of Joseph Chemelck, the Bo-
hemlan VINO Friday night killed Mrs. NJ l..
Chemelck, his half-brother's wife, her two
daughters, aged 6 and II years respectively,
and then committed suicide, at Glenyille.
Mimi, was taken to his fathers home last
night. A number of the former friends of the
dead man gathered about the bo y. Some of
them manifested their disapproval of the
crime by muttered curses, while others at
tempted to kick the body. The only cause
suggested for the murder is the fact that one of
the murdered girls had testified against Che
melck in recent law suit. The Coroner is in
vestigating the case, and it is believed that the
murderer had an accomplice. 1t is reported
that the partner to the crime is known and
that his arrest will soon follow.