Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-06
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| line German bu0Q6SraLl has T6IeIIou tuo
| sugar tax bill to q committee.
"A caucus of Republican Senators has been
called for this morning to consider the question
| of organization of the new Senate
The House Committee of the Rhode Island
| Legislature yesterday reported in favor of re-
pealing the prohibitory amendment.
Germany has made overtures to Switzer-
land with the object OF inducing that Govern
ment to demand passports of all persons enter
| ing Switzerland.
"A deputation from Boulogne has visited
General Boulanger and presented him with a
sword of honor. The Government has forbid
den any similar demonstrations in the future.
The following bonds were offered and &C.
cepted yesterday at the United States Treasury;
AS, registered $3.50 at los; As, registered,
100000 were offered at l29, but were not &C
cepted.
At the Exposition inaugural ball at Kansas
City the programme and music were the same
that were used at Washington, and the dances
were started by telegraph at the same moment
that they were in Washington.
w. l. Cabell, the Democratic Marshal for
the Northern district of Texas, has forwarded
his resignation to President Harrison, to take
| effect at once. He is a wayback Democrat and
| could not stand the new order of things.
AT caucus of Democratic Senators, held
/ yesterday morning, Senators Cockrell, kenna
and Harris were made committee to discuss
with the Republican Senators the arrangement
/ of the committees and the order Of executive
business.
-Forty.f1ve members of the Dakota Legisla-
ture have telegraphed to President Harrison
asking to remove Governor Church at once.
and to appoint Secretary Mccormack as Act
ing Governor, the object being to shut of more
Vetoes on the part of Church.
The trial of Father Stephens who was ar
rested for inciting Irish tenants not to pay their
rents, took place yesterday and resulted in his
conviction. Father Stephens refused to give
security for his good behavior for two years
and he was thereupon sentenced to six months
imprisonment without hard labor.
Charles Wiel was instantly killed and
George Schook dangerously wounded, at Col
conda, small river town near Cairo, Ill.
These men. with several others, were firing a
cannon in honor of President Harrison's in
auguration. when the cannon was discharged
prematurely with the result mentioned
Crowds assembled in the New York Gen.
eral Sessions Court yesterday to see Ives and
Stayner, the Wall street financiers, who were
expected to be officially transferred from Lud-
low Street Jail to the Tombs, but at P. M. the
District Attorney stated that the distinguished
prisoners would not be brought into court dur
ing the day.
1t is said at Indianapolis that during his
recent visit to New York John c. New re-
ceived slight paralytic stroke and this fact
put an end to his Cabinet ambition. If he re-
ceives any appointment now it will be in the
shape of a foreign mission. either to Spain.
Italy or France, where the climate is mild and
Among the kilograms received by the Presi-
dent yesterday morning was the following from
Indianapolis: las old friends and neighbors
we congratulate you and the nation upon your
Inauguration as President, and we cordially in
dorse your selection of Cabinet" 1t was signed
by John G. New, William Wallace, ]. A. Wild
man. L. G. Walker, Lew Wallace and Theodore
P. Haughey.
Robert Mullaney cashier and bookkeeper
for the lithographing firm of Bien & Co., l59
Ina Nnrr Il
mitted suicide in the office of the firm. A
deputy sheriff had just placed him under arrest
for embezZlement and he preferred death to
imprisonment. He shot himself in the temple
with a revolver. His accounts are said to show
shortage of 5000. He was not a married
man.
No definite conclusion was reached by the
Democratic Senators, at their conference yes
terday, but the sentiment of the members was
against permitting the consideration of legis-
lative business of any character. While no
formal action has been taken by the Republi-
can Senators it is stated that they will not at
tempt to do anything but purely executive
business; they are tired, and want to get away.
A two weeks session at the most is all that is
expected now.
MIR. Parnell, finding it impossible to re-
sspond to the many letters he has received from
both Europe and America. congratulating him
upon the collapse of the Times case against
him, desires through the press to heartily
thank the writers Of the letters. The commu-
II.
tiers from unexpected quarters and from per
sons in the highest ranks of art. literature and
science. Many of the writers say that the rev.
elatlons OF the trial have converted them from
Balfourism to Parnellism.
Citizens of Fredericksburg, Va, held a mass
| meeting to consider the rumored sale of the
| land in which lies buried the body of Mary
| Washington. Resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing such sale and pledging the people of
the city to erect monument over the grave
Mr.. Shepherd, owner of the land, denied that
he had taken any steps whatever looking to the
sale OF the property, and had authorized no
such steps by any other person. In addition
he voluntarily gave 60-days' option for the
purchase of the land for s., 500.
John B. Van Schaicl. of New York; q. c.
| Manley, of Augusta Me- and about dozen 9TH
er Harvard students, became involved in fight
with some Cambridge boys on a Boston horse
car Monday and several of the fighters were
arrested. Van Schaick was the only one of the
students captured, however, and he was re-
leased after paying fine of $40. The trouble
in the street car began when a woman pas
senger accidentally dropped some oranges on
the floor. The students gathered up the
oranges and kept them. The woman became
angry and slapped the face of Henshaw, the
catcher of the Harvard baseball team.
Chance has led to the discovery of a cure
for hydrophobia. In Ayacueho. Peru, man
was bitten by mad dog, and shortly after the
dreaded disease developed. In his madness the
man rushed from the house, and falling
among a lot of ''peuca" some of the Juice of
these plants entered his mouth and he swaI-
lowed it A moment of reason seems to have
followed, during which he seized some of the
leaves, broke them and drank of the milky and
slutinous san with which they are generally
saturated. When his friends found him he
was senseless with the 'peuca" or 'tmaguey"
leaves clutched in his hands. He was carried
to his home and soon regained his health Ex-
perience has long since taught the Indians that
'peuca" juice or sap invariably acts as a cure
upon dogs suffering from hydrophobia
The announcement yesterday that the
House of Representatives had passed the Sem
ate amendments to the interstate commerce
act, and that President Cleveland had affixed
his signature thereto as one of the last acts of
his administration, caused intense excitement
in railroad circles at Chicago. The railroad
ofheials were taken completely by surprise.
They had no idea that the differences between
the House and the Senate could be harmonized
in time for action by both houses. The new
amendment would not be especially obnoxious
to the railroads if it was for the fact that in
addition to fine for violation of the law any
officer, agent, or other person connected with a
railroad company who shall be convicted of
discrimination shall be liable to Imprisonment
in the penitentiary. A money fine alone has
no terrors for the railroad offcers-they knew
the company would foot the bill-but when
prison walls and lonely cells stare them in
the face, the caseis different
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