Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-07
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


The Secretary Of the Treasury yesterday
afternoon accepted the following bonds: Regis
tered AS, S277, 500 at los.
Mr.. Robert 8. Chiffon, clerk in the State
Department, has been appointed private secre-
tary to Vice President Morton.
Mary Anderson, the actress, was overcome
by nervous pFostration Tuesday evening, and
House, Washington.
The Ministry of New South Wales has
been defeated on the question of protection
and has resigned. Sir Henry Parkes will form
free trade Cabinet.
The shoddy and wool storehouse Of Am
prose Fow, on Hope street. Philadelphia
day morning. Loss $4,000. Mr.. Fow had
allowed his Insurance policy to expire, and the
loss falls entirely upon himself.
king Milan has abdicated the throne of
Servia. Crown Prince Alexander will be pro-
claimed King tomorrow MN. Protitch, Bell
markovic and Ristitch will act as Regents dur
ing the minority Of the King, who was born
| August Il, 1876.
Tho Garrett family left Ringwood, N. J.,
yesterday in a special train for Mexico. The
| party includes Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett, DR.. ia
| cobs, two servants and some intimate friends of
the family from Baltimore. This is Mr.. Gar
rett's second trip to Mexico since he has been
| In falling health.
A conference of the delegates-elect to the
| Washington yesterday morning, and it was de-
| cided to postpone the convention which was
| called for yesterday until March 80, and to
meet in New York City on that date, The con.
vention will consider the intellectual, civil and
| political status Of the colored people
Harlan Turner and J. W. McVeigh,
two well-known and highly respected citizens Of
| Butler, Mo-, got into an alteration Monday
night and were separated by friends. Later
they met again, the quarrel renewed and both
being
| shot in the head and through the body and died
soon after. Turner was not hurt, and was ar
rested and locked up.
BY its first election under city charter,
| John Barden, Democrat, was elected Mayor of
Ithaca, n. Y, by five votes more than Warren
| Hunt, Republican, received in q total poll Of
| 2,2N. As the Mayors term is two years, and he
has autocratic powers of appointment without
confirmation, the Republicans are chagrined at
the loss of city control held by them for the
| last two years. The Republicans elected three
of the Aldermen and the Democrats one.
AN awful tragedy was enacted on the
streets Of Temple, Tex, yesterday. Alfred and
Herbert Rother engaged in gun fight with
Tom and Hugh Mattock. The latter was killed
outright and Tom Mattock is dying. Alfred
Rother was shot in the arm. The trouble
grew out of the sale of a railroad ticket by Tom
Mattock to Albert Rother. The latter sued the
railroad company. and Mattocks testimony
angered him so that he demanded an apology.
MattocK refused and was assaulted by Rother.
The brothers then opened fire.
1t is believed that there will be trouble
at Flathead Lake unless j. E. Clifford and Dr.
| Cunningham are arrested without delay. The
Indian assaulted by these parties some days ago
| died Monday, and the father of tine dead boy
and the chief of the tribe have announced their
intention to kill Clifford at all hazards. Major
| Roman, the agent, is attempting to prevent the
| Indians from carrying their threat into execu-
| tion under promise of arresting Clifford and
| Cunningham. and letting the law take its
| course. Warrants will be issued for the men
e. 8. Tuley now occupies the office of
| Assistant Postmaster at Louisville, XIV, under
| Postmistress Thompson, having been installed
at noon yesterday, when Charles P. Weaver
| turned over to him the affairs of the office.
| The Assistant P Postermastership seems to be
| Mrs Thompson's banner of allegiance. Under
| Democratic rule she takes a Democrat as
lieutenant, and keeps h!m there until the Re-
| publicans get possession. Then in goes q Re-
| publican. Mr.. Tuley was first appointed to his
Office 25 years ago, and has held It continuously
since, except during the brief period when the
office was filled by Mr.. Weaver.