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

"A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature to regulate telephone rentals.
President Cleveland yesterday sent to the
| Senate the name of Henry w. Beckwith, OF
Illinois, to be United States consul at Bermuda
The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday
| afternoon accepted the following bonds: AZ
iOS1S.
Governor Waterman has appointed NJ. H.
De Young proprietor of the San Francisco
Chronicle, as Commissioner to represent Cali
fornia at the Paris Exposition.
Mayor Grant, of New York City, yesterday
appointed Maurice F. holahan, an old Tam
many chieftain, a Commissioner of Accounts
in place of James DAILY, removed
Frederick E. Whitney, New York paper
manufacturer, doing business as F. E. Whit
ney q Co., made an assignment yesterday to
William r. Koehl, without preferences.
Richard Sauer, manufacturer of show
cases, in Baltimore, made an assignment yes
terday for the benefit of creditors to Robert E.
France, trustee, who gave bond for $50, 600.
MIR. Robert Gent Davis, Member of Parlia-
ment, who was committed to prison for con.
tempt of court in failing to pay the sum of
f3.77S, due by him as administrator of his
uncle's estate, has been released.
The negotiations between the Chinese and
Indian Governments regarding Sikkim, have
been brought to standstill by the refusal Of
the Thibetans to further discuss the matter,
unless their sovereignty over Sikkim is ad-
mitted.
The Illinois Central Railway Company has
purchased the right of way of the projected
Midland road from Madison to Fon du Lac and
thence along the shore OF Lake Winnebago to
Florence, with branch line on the east side of
the lake to Sturgeon Bay.
Last night an alteration occurred in a
scho0lhouSe near Vienna ILL.,, between Charles
Jacobs, John Bridges and Charles and joseph
Arnett. Eight shots were exchanged John
Bridges was killed and Charles Arnett wounded
The other men were arrested.
The Western Freight Association has de.
cided to advance the rate on dressed beef from
Missouri river points to Chicago to the basis of
ance with the recognized basis which governs
such business. The present rate is 26 cents.
The funeral of Owen Brown, son of John
Brown, the Abolitionist and last survivor of
the Harper's Ferry tragedy, was held yester-
day. and was attended by an immense number
of people. Mr.. Brown was "A years of age and
had lived for many years in retirement at Pas
adena.
The committee appointed by the last Ma.
tional Encampment of the G. A R. to form a
basis of consolidation for the two organiza-
tiOns of Sons of Veterans. known as the Camp
system and the Post system, has met in Cincin-
matt, and is considering the claims of the two
systems.
The Bradford, Yorkshire, magistrates to-
day decided that a prima facie case had not
been proved against Barrett. the mikman who
was charged with the murder of S-year-old
John Gill, whose body, horribly mutilated, was
found in an clubhouse on the morning of De.
cember %.
Sergeant Albert A. Thurston, of the Sec.
ond police precinct of Buffalo, while making
his rounds at 2AOyesterday morning, was struck
and killed by an engine at the Seneca street
crossing of the Western New York and Phila-
delphia Railroad. Both legs were severed from
the body.
The reports of the fighting between the
Germans and the followers of the deposed King
Mataafa in Samoa, have been confirmed. The
Germans allege that Mataafa's men fired the
first shot, while the followers of Mataafa assert
that the Germans first shot an important chief
and his son.
The Executive Committee of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association, in session
in New York City, has selected New York,
February 15 as the place and time for holding
the annual convention of the association An
exhibition of type-setting machines will be
given in connection with the convention.
Judge Barrett's decision in the Sugar Trust
case, while warmly received by all anti-monopo-
lists, seems to fall short of the champion trust.
the Standard Oil Mr.. Dodd, the solicitor. saws
his company is simply union of stockholders,
and not of corporations. and that the decision
against the sugar company will not affect it in
the least.
The cocoanut laden brig Nile, from San
Bias, which was thought to have been lost in
the storm of November 25, arrived at New
York Thursday night without the loss of sail
or spar. The Nile did not leave San Bias so
early as was thought and Captain Coffin saws
he was out only "a days Heavy northwest
winds were experienced during the voyage.
The opposers of the Eiffel tower, on the
Paris Exposition grounds, are spreading re-
ports that the structure is unsafe, and state
that some of the workmen declare that the
swaying of the tower is dangerous and terrify-
ing TO one unused to giddy heights. The tower
is now over 740 feet above the surface of the
Seine, and has over 200 feet more to rear itself,
"A dispatch was received at the NAVY De.
partment yesterday morning from Lieutenant
Cowles, at Philadelphia, stating that the
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius at the third official
trial yesterday attained a speed of N.G knots
an hour. an excess of LG knots over the speed
required by the contract. The trial took place
in deep water in Delaware Bay over 2% mile
course, the vessel running back and forth
ol mill nd tod1 he