Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

"A man has been arrested at Laredo, Tex,
who is thought to be the Tascott murderer.
The Sheriff Is holding him awaiting orders
from Chicago.
Yesterday afternoon John Richter and
Adolph Whitman. butchers at the Chicago
stock wards quarreled over some trifing
matter, and Richter plunged his butcher knife
into Whitman's heart, killing him instantly
Richter was locked up.
Instructions have been received from New
York to discontinue work on the Standard
Spirit Company's distillery building at La
Sale. Ill. Nearly 100000 has SO far been ex.
pended in the plant II Is believed that the
Whisky Trust has secured control Of the con-
Germ.
commanding officer of the United States
steamer Michigan to be present with the vessel
at Milwaukee during the National Encamp-
ment of the G.. A. r. on August q to 30, to take
part in the sham tattle and otherwise promote
the success of the encaDpment
For the last four weeks the bloody fux has
been epidemic among the citizens OF, White
Hall. ILL.,, and about 80 deaths have occurred
up to date. The disease as now made its ap-
pearance in the country adjacent to the city
and 1t s feared that it may spread throughout
the couny The physicians have been unable
to check the terrible epidemic.
While at work on the highway, eight miles
west of Peoria, Ill, on what is known as the
Lancaster road, William Given ana ]. W. Rich
They were all together. as if from one inter
ment. and were remarkably well preserved
One skeleton was large and well developed
them were children. They were found on a
gravel bank near Nesselhaus Hill
That the people of Spokane Falls have by
no means lost heart by the recent terrible dis
aster, or are inclined to abandon the city by the
falls. is evidenced by the preparations for re-
building and the buildings begun. Throughout
all the excitement attendant upon the destruc-
position on the part of all to assist in staying
the con1agration, and there were none of the
scenes of disorder and pillage that have marked
aie she experience OF other cities similarly at;
the spirit of recuperation has manifested itself
in marked degree.
Forty Russian peasants, comprising all the
ment Of Kursk, have % been % arrested M % for burning
the whole village to the ground to obtain the
insurance. The curious feature of this case Is
the evident innocence Of these simple villagers
of any wrong doing. They made no secret Of
their plans, gathered together and placed in
safe place such of their effects as they wished
to save. awaited q favorable wind and applied
the torch. Their houses, these simple villagers
explain. were old and they were anxious to i'm
proye the town by erecting new ones in their
stead with the insurance they expected. They
are at a loss to understand their arrest.
jefferson Davis having become dissatisfied
with his profits upon his book, THE Rise and
Fall of the Southern Confederacy" has had
dispute with the publishers OF the work,
Messrs. ID. Appleton q Co., as to the amount
due him. The firm has made q proposition to
refer the question to arbitrators and Mr.. Davis
has accepted this offer. The publishers say
that the sale Of the book is confined almost ex-
clusively to the South. where the poverty Of
the people materially limits the circulation of
the work. The publishers claim that the sale
of the book in the North was almost entirely
killed by the extracts from the work printed in
the newspapers In reviewing it. These ex-
tracts show such q strong sectional feeling that
Northern people declined to purchase the
work.
The people Of South Chicago are agitated
over the condition Of affairs at the morgue On
the morning Of July 81 the body Of an unknown
man was found on the lake shore, and was
placed in the morgue. The same day the Cor
oner held an inquest and issued burial per-
init, but Tor some reason the body has not been
removed. The county undertaken usually dele
gates some local undertaken to remove un-
known bodies, but as this body soon became
badly decomposed, the local undertakers would
not touch 1t for the fee Of S6. which the county
allows in such cases. As result the body is
still at the morgue, and Is daily becoming more
decomposed, 50 that it 10 almost impossible 70
60 near the place Health Ofhcer Larkin fumi-
gated the morgue. but this has not helped mat
ters much. He says now that it Is dangerous
for anyone to 80 near the body, IS the fumes
arising would be liable TO cause disease. The
Lieutenant Of Police said the police were not
concerned, ss when the body was turned over
to the Coroner their jurisdiction ended.