Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

AT meeting Of the newly elected directors
| of the Mexican Central Railroad yesterday
the old officers were reelected for the ensuing
year.
-Abner Mellen. manufacturer OF bedding
supplies at l42 and IA Worth street, New
York, has assigned to Gordon Mckay without
preferences.
AT Albany, N. Y. Yesterday John Collins,
an engineer, shot his sweetheart, Sarah Gard
ner, and then shot himself. He is dead, and
the woman will also die.
The Democrats OF the Nineteenth Congress
sional district of Illinois have nominated Judge
]. r. Williams, of White county, to succeed r.
w. Townshend, lately deceased.
May II in the case of Nelson Colbert, who was
to be hanged in Washington to-day for the
murder of Philip Wentzell, in October last
The steamer Weser is reported as being
passed at Dover yesterday morning with all
aboard well. The reported yellow fever aboard
is denied by the North German Lloyd Steam
ship Company.
The firm Of W. & H. Erdtmann, importers
and manufacturers of cOl0rs, lithographing
and printing inks at 252 and 254 Pearl street,
New York City, have made general assign
ment to Clemens ]. Kracht, with S952 prefer
ences.
The English Tories quote as proof that
the Irish are not so destitute as reputed, the
fact that out of the EDS, 900 subscribed for the
Parnell defense fund, some $4,000 were raised
in Ireland, thus making their nberality point
against them.
The steamship Viendam, which arrived at
New York yesterday from Rotterdam, reports
that on April 70 she passed raft made of
planks and spars nailed together. There was
no one on the raft, and no clew to its identity
could be ascertained.
"A dispatch from Melbourne Australia, says
that monster meeting of Irish sympathizers
was held in that city on Tuesday. Mr.. John
Dillon made an address which created great
enthusiasm among his listeners. One thousand
pounds was subscribed to aid the Irish cause.
The Sixth and Seventeenth Regiments Of
Ohio Infantry reached Washington yesterday
morning and spent the day in visiting the
various places of interest in the city. Many
other members called at the White House, and
the War Department was source OF great in.
terest. The regiments are homeward bound
from New York, and left Washington for Ohio
last evening.
The first of the longtime weather predic-
tious issued by the Signal Office appeared yes
terday, as follows; The general weather pre-
diction indicates thatfair weather will continue
in the Gulf States during Friday and Saturday
with slight rise in temperature. Fair weather
is also indicated in the central valleys. New
York and New England States, during Thurs
day and Friday, with no marked changes in
temperature.
Almost a panic was caused during the
burning of an extension of the Catholic Col
lege in Germantown, Philadelphia, yesterday,
when it became known that two brothers, II
natius and Michael Kemmerle, aged 50 and 70
years respectively, we're In part Of the build
ing. Presently the two men appeared at a
window and Michael jumped to the ground.
His brother was about TO follow him. when the
flooring gave way under him, and he sank into
the burning mass Of debris. Michael was badly
injured by his lump,