Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-20
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The PRESBYTERIAN Church at Chaumont, n.
Y has extended a unanimous call to Rev. W.
y. Cleveland, brother of the ex-President.
The Sheriff has levied on the property OF
the Oneonta chair factory OF Sawen q Io, ~,
Utica, N. Y. Liabilities S5U0 value plant
SO, 600.
William Bolander was killed and three
other workmen narrowly escaped death py
cave-in which occurred in the Equator mine,
near Placerville. Col.
The commission appointed by Secretary
Whitney last January to select a site @ loL d
navy yard on the Gulf made its report yesUer--
day. The commission reports in favor OF
Algiers, opposite the lower end OF New Or-
leans
An Anarchist meeting at Thalia Hall, Chi
cago. resulted in a lively row in which revol-
vers were drawn, and, though no one was
killed two prominent reds, John Menser ana
man named Polycarp Zeister, were locked up
at the station.
Mine No. 8, operated by the Lehigh and
Wnkesbarre Coal Company, at Sugar Notch; is
burning. The fire was discovered yesterday
morning. The smoke spread throughout the
mine and became SO sitting that the laborers
and miners to the number Of 400, who we're at
work at the time, had to hastily abandon the
mine. Superintendeuts Phillips and Scott,
with a large force of men, are endeaVorlng TO
check the flames.
AT a meeting Monday night of the Typo
graphical Union of Washington, D. c.. reso-
luton was adopted repeating the eight-hour
rule that has heretofore prevailed Thls &C
tion will allow employers to work their men as
many hours as they please, and Will result IL Is
believed, in causing the men in the Govern
ment printing Office who now work in the day
time, to work also at night, whenever ordered
to do so. The printers in the JOB and news
paper Offices opposed the resolution unani-
mously. but it was carried by the men from the
Government printing office.
1t has been reported that an English syndi-
cate was endeavoring to buy out the Elgin
fTfHN n Of 40
company. when questioned, sand that no actual
negotiations have occurred. The English peo-
pies Representatives merely wanted an option
on the plant. The manager would not say what
figure had been given. but said the reported
price of S. 00,U00 for the concern was at leass
s., ,00O 600 below what the directors would con-
slider. In fact, they are not at ali certain yet
that they are willing to sell.
The PHILADELPHIA and Reading Railroad
managers at the shops at Reading have adopted
novel, but effective plan OF getting rld OF their
! old-faShioned four-wheeled coal cars, now re-
garded as altogether out of date for the require
ment of modern rolling stock. The wheels are
removed from the trucks, and then the cars are
piled up in great heaps in the yard and the
! torch applied. For week 25 cars a day have
been destroyed, but the work was found to be
going on too slowly at that rate, so on Saturday
/ a heap of 200 was made at once and reduced to
ashes. That rate will be continued.
Judge Fisher, of St. Louis, has rendered q
| decision of considerable interest to the EN-
| plOyeS OF corporations OOlO8 business III MIS-
! souri, and Illinois. John HI. Robinson Co
purchased claims against several employees OF
! the Wabash and Western Railway and began
! attachment suits in Illinois courts, although
the parties against whom the claims were held
resided in Missouri. The law of Missouri ex-
empts married mans wages from execution.
Judgment was obtained against one Jack Spar
row in Justices court in Chicago and Spar
rows wages were garnisheed in ST. Louis. The
| railway company applied for an injunction re-
strainIng the garnishment and Judge Fisher
| granted it.
| Three weeks ago George Bliss, J. Dillon L
| Collinger and Sam Newman went to Mime
apolis from Chicago and went to work fol-
Jacob Mueller, soliciting orders for enlarging
| pictures Friday night Bliss was taken sick
! and an eruption appeared on his face. He
| thought nothing of it until yesterday, when he
became alarmed and consulted 4 physician
who told him he had smallpox, and sent him to
! DR.. KiIvington, the health officer. DR.. Kilving
! ton Immediately took steps to prevent the
spread OF the disease and had all four of the
! parties conveyed to the pesthouse. The men
have been all over the city in active pursuit OF
their business and there is no telling how much
| damage has been done. Steps have been taken
| to quarantine the house, and DR.. Kilvington
thinks no serious results will follow.