Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The village of stoughton, Wis, had $40.
600 fire Sunday
The total loss by the Louisville fire is esti.
mated at 81. .263, ,0O0 of which Bamberger, Bloom
d Co. lost nearly 81, 100000.
| Cyrus Filed is passenger on the Guion
Line steamer Alaska, which sailed from
Queenstown for New York Sunday.
Most of the London strikers resumed work
| yesterday morning. 1t is expected that work
| on all the docks will be in full swing to-day.
During moose hunt at Ship Harbor, N
s., on Friday, two young men named Mitchell
and Webber were fatally shot by their COM
panions, who mistook one of them for the
moose.
"A grand prix and gold medal have been
awarded at the Paris Exposition to Prof.
Rowland, of the Johns Hopkins University, for
his photographic map Of the solar spectrum
and his concave gratings.
The Chicago, st. Paul and Kansas City
Railroad yesterday met the cut in rates made
by the Burlington and Northern on business
from Chicago to st. Paul and Minneapolis. The
cut amounts to about SO per cent.
"A meeting of Hebrew residents to honor
the memory Of the late Hon. 8. 8. Cox was held
Addresses were made by Simon Wolf and A. s.
Solomons, and Lewis Abrahams recited "Abou
Ben Adhem" as his tribute.
One hundred and fifty freight handlers en-
ployed in the New York Central freight house
at Buffalo are on strike because the company
men have been getting 81 40 per day and de-
mand day and halt for Sunday work.
Colonel F. Raine, lately Consul General at
Berlin, has returned to Baltimore, where he
Will resume the managemeng of his paper the
German Correspondent. The Colonel says:
The conservatives of France and Germany do
not desire war, but Russian ambition and PAN
Agitation IN af
moment.
The weekly shipments of ore from the Lake
Superior region exceed those of the CORES
ponding weeks of last year, although they are
not as large as month ago. Ore is now going
forward at the rate of 225, 600 tons a week. and
there remain two months of the shipping sea-
son, with a trifle over 100000 tons sent by
water since the opening Of navigation last year.
Sunday night several men entered the house
OF Margaret Robinson, at Lanark, Ont, and at
tempted to assault an imbecile girl. Thomas
Cameron and his son, alarmed by the girls cries.
went into the house and ordered the men away,
firing some shots with the intention Of frighten-
ing them. Yesterday the body Of William
Waon, one of the party, was found. pierced by
bullet.
-Congressmen Springer, Of Illinois: Baker,
OF New York: Allen, of Mississippi; Peters and
with John O'Day, of the Frisco road, arrived
at Guthrie Sunday night in O'Day's special
car. The gentlemen are on tour of investiga-
ton Of affairs in the Indian Territory, the
object being to discover by actual observation
what the needs of the settlers are, and also to
ascertain what legislation they desire at the
hands of Congress.
The opening of the handsome new armory
of the Woodstock Guards, at Birmingham,
Ala. Saturday night-a social event-con-
cluded IN most disastrous manner. A de-
liclous supper was served during the evening
OF which all the guests partook freely. About
midnight all of them between so and 100 in
number. were seized with violent pains in the
stomach. The ice cream had been poisoned. A
stomach pump and antidotes of various kinds
were used, but for a while it looked serious. As
yet none Of them are dead, but number are
still quite i'll.
"A dispatch from Portland, Ore, says: A
whale chase BY Indians of the Neah BAY reser.
walton occurred recently off Cape Flattery, in
which one canoe was lost and seven Indians
were drowned The whale waS discovered
spouting off the coast, and following the Gus
toms of the Indians, a report of the fact was
made to the medicine man, who called bur
ried council and allotted a number of picked
men to the different canoes. In the night a
storm came up, and on the following morning
only two of the canoes remained aloat. The
whale was killed, and the surviving savages as
sembled and held dance.
An accident, by which one man was killed
outright and half a dozen others made mirac-
ulous escape from death, occurred at the
Western avenue crossing of the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad at Eighteenth
street, Chicago Sunday night. At that hour
milk wagon, driven by young man named
Halmstrom, was struck by an engine at the
crossing mentioned. There were five persons
in the wagon, one of whom, illiam Benzel,
was thrown out upon the track when the wagon |
was overturned. The engine passed over him,
killing him instantly. The other four got off !
with slight bruises.