Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

According to the latest estimates, nine per-
sons were killed and about 20 injured by Fri
days cyclone in Beaufort county. g. Q.
Maria Hubbard, living at No. 32S Fulton
street, Baltimore, was burned to a crisp yester-
day. She was lighting fire, and her clothing
was set In blaze.
Henry Weaver, who wrecked Michigan
Central train at Steubenville, Ont, pleaded
guilty yesterday and was sentenced to seven
years Imprisonment.
Lafayette Hungerford, once well known
throughout the country as a car builder was
found dead in bed at Rochester, N. Y, yester-
day morning. He had been an invalid from
creeping paralysis.
At q Catholic ball in Wellsville, N. Y,
Thursday night Eugene Farnum, who was in
toxicated, caused a disturbance, and shot at
an officer who attempted to arrest him. The
bullets struck and fatally wounded James Hig-
gins. guest, and caused q panic in the ball
room. Farnum is under arrest
The Missouri Pacific Company has closed q
contract for the construction Of 100 miles of
railway from Deermot Ark. on the Little
Rock Mississippi and Texas Railway, branch
of the Iron Mountain road, to Monroe, La
Work will be begun at once. This will give
the Iron Mountain a new southeastern connec-
tion.
e s. Bates, young student from Boston,
who was reading law at Cincinnati, committed
suicide in his room in the Hotel Geneva, by in
bed. It is said that he had led fast life, and
that when his money was gone he had been
Tilted by woman upon whom he had laVished
much Of his means.
The examination of Phelps Perrin and E.
W. Baker, charged with robbing the Iron Ex-
change Bank, of Hurley, Wis, Of over $4,000
has been adjourned until Monday. The detect,
ives who made the arrest express perfect con-
hdence that they will secure the conviction of
the parties arrested and the return of large
part of the stolen money.
President Evan Jones, Of the Farmers and
Iaborers' Union of America, said it was not
unlikely that an alliance would be formed with
the Knights OF Labor as the objects of the two
organizations were practically the same He
had no official knowledge that the knights
would send committee to the Convention.
The Farmers and 'Laborers propose to make
war on trusts, monopolies and syndicates that
control large tracts Of land.
-Baptiste Renaude. the French affiliate vos
seriously injured at New Orleans Friday NIGHT
in diving from tower, $50 feet high into a net
While in the air he tried to turn a somersauIt
and land on his shoulders in the net but he
struck on his back and injured his spine in such
manner as to cause complete paralysis of the
lower limbs. He was at once removed tn his
lodgings and was attended by physicians, who
decline TO forecast the result of his injuries,
Matthew Banks, colored. was banoed a.
Elizabeth City, n. c., Friday, in the presence
of about 200 people, of whom only two weTe
negroes Banks made no confession. When
asked If he had anything to say he replied:
mo, want 1t over as soon as possible" Com
pauy E First Regiment, formed military
guard. Banks fell eight feet and died vitbort
a struggle. The crime for which he was banoed
was an assault on Florence Swain, aged Is, in
July.
Assistant Secretary Tichenor has approved
the action of Inspector George W. Baker in
the case of the two Chinese laborers smnCgIed
into the United States from Gretna, Canada
and captured by him at a point in North
Dakota, nearly 80 miles from the boundary
line. The men were arrested by direction Of
the Inspector and taken before United States
Commissioner, and it being proved that thew
had entered the country Illegally, thew were
taken across the boundary line and delivered to
the foreign customs authorities