Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

AT a: meeting OF the Minneapolis Union
League resolution was adopted placing MIN
neapolis in the field for the Republican Ma
tional Convention in 1892
There is great alarm among the farmers Of
the Eastern Panhandle over the ravages of h2g ;Cg
cholera during the past two weeks. Over 4OO
head of stock have died of the disease in Jeffer-
son and Berkley counties one man losing 40 and
another 80. The disease was brought from
Maryland.
The strike of 700 coal miners at the Kansas
and Texas Company's mines at Ardmore, Mo-,
so cents per ton for mining coal, but demanded
so cents. They went back to work at the former
price, except 20 miners who were peremptorily
refused permission to re-enter the mines be-
cause they inaugurated the strike.
The Inman Line racer has won another VIC
tory The great race across the ocean between
the City of New York and the White Star
Lines crack steamship Teutonic ended at
Queenstown in the defeat of the latter by the
small margin of one hour and half. The City
of New York arrived at 6;5O A. NJ, and the Teu-
tonic at $40 A. M. The time of the formers
passage was days, IL hours and 80 minutes.
Her daily runs were as follows: Three hundred
and ninetysix Knots, $50, 407 40, 4S4, AT 3l5-a
total of 2, 7S9 knots.
AT Pottsville, Pa, Pietro Baranovski, or
Peter Baranski, as his name is commonly
given was hanged at the county prison yester~
day morning for the murder of Mrs. Putlavtch
and Agnes Katch at "Bushey tract" on May
II. 1885 After the moose had been placed
about the culprit's neck and his legs pinioned,
the bolt vas at 1870, drawn by an unseen hand
and the drop fell. In seven and half minutes
he was pronounced dead and at 10:50 the body
was cut down. Death was caused by fracture
Of the neck. Between 400 and 500 spectators
witnessed the execution.
The announcement cabled to London some
two weeks ago Of the discovery of the
lnnor- fOrOO nf ord n
hero of the battle of Ticonderoga in
l753 under a street of the village of that
name in New York State, has stimulated
the patriotism of few public-spirited English
men who propose to appropriately mark the
resting place of the young hero. Funds are
being quietly collected for the purpose, and
monument will be erected at a convenient spot
near Ticonderoga, to which the remains can be
conveniently removed
Turkish officials in Constantinople have
been thrown into fever of excitement by the
discovery that Russian agents have been at
work for over three months in Armenia gather
ing evidence of the cruelty and outrage prae-
ticed by the Turks and Kurds upon the helpless
Armenian Christians The Russians have done
their work SO quietly that not hint of their
object reached the ears of the Turkish tyrants
and now that the evidence is in such shape as
can be used to present to the n notice Of all
get their first glimpse Of the object of the willy
Russian.
Travis Taylor, of Willow Springs. Mo-,
middle-aged man with wife and two children,
the other day wrote a letter to Miss Fannie
Osborne, daughter of respectable farmer liv
ing just out of town, asking her to elope with
him. The girl and her mother brought the
letter to town yesterday and showed it to
friends, and upon the advice and encourage
ment of a large number of citizens the girl pur-
chased a cowhide and went out to find Taylor.
Taylor put himself in charge of Justice Young
for protection. They began whipping Taylor.
but Young seized the cowhide and arrested the
girl He placed her under bond. which was
quickly filed by a large number Of indignant
citizens, and as soon as the Justice came out Of
his office the girl proceeded to wallop him with
the cowhide, in the presence OF large and ap-
preciative audience.
The people of Kinghsher, /. T., are greatly
excited and the town is crowded with an un-
ruly mob of railroad hands driven there by the
United States troops. The survey of the Rock
Island road being built to Fort Reno crosses
the dividing line between Oklahoma City and
the Indian Reservation, seven miles south of
Kingfsher. A large gang of men has been
grading the track, and yesterday the west line
OF Oklahoma was reached. There the United
States troops were congregated to pre-
vent further progress. The railroaders pro-
posed continuing the course of the railroad.
and only after some personal conflicts were
driven back at the point of the bayonets. Will
lam McGinness, President of the Kingfsher
Board of Trade is there to-day and in consulta-
tion with the attorneys for the Rock Island.
He is bitter in his denunciation of the troops
action which, he said was entirely unealled for.