Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Priscilla Davis. colored, died at Baltimore
Friday, after attaining the advanced age of 1O5
years.
The President has appointed Moses
the Indians of the Crow agency in Montana.
The liabilities of R. Kell & Co., of Brad
ford, Yorkshire, amount to fl20 600. including
$4,000 due to creditors in the United States.
Two Thousand emigrants left Liverpool yes
terday for America making total of 1900
who have sailed from that place during the
past week.
"A private letter from Honolulu states that
R. L. Stevenson, the author, is very i'll at no.
tel there, and fears are entertained that he
may not recover.
The following named Presidential postmas-
ters were appointed yesterday: Charles c.
| Schroeder at HuntIng6urgh Ind, and Elmer
Crockett, at South Bend, Ind.
Mr.. George w. MasIln has resignad his po-
sition in the office of the First Vice President
of the Baltimore and Ohio to become the Su-
| perintendent of the Roanoke and Southern
| Railroad.
"A terrible fight occurred between number
of men at a hotel in Spokane Falls, W. T., Fri
day night in which five men were stabbed-two
of them fatally. One of them is Harry John
son, of Chicago
The Minneapolis street railway manage
ment has decided not TO try to run cars before
Monday. Everything is quiet, and it is not
probable that there will be further trouble un-
\
The annual meeting of the London Bar
Committee was held yesterday. Attorney Gen
eral Webster was present and was given an
ovation as demonstration of the committees
approval of his conduct in connection with the
Parneu Commission.
The liquidator of the Compton d. Escompte
of Paris will arrive in London on Monday. The
object Of his visit is to enter into negotiations
looking to the canceling of the contracts be-
tween the Compton d. Escompte and the En-
glish copper companies.
The Judges of the Court of Queens Bench
have decided that women are not eligible to
membership in the London County Council.
The election of Lady Sandhurst is therefore
declared void. The Council has given notice
that it will appeal from this decision.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new British Min
lister to the United States, left Liverpool at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning for Liverpool, where
he embarked in the afternoon for New York.
A large number of his friends gathered at the
Euston station and bade him farewell.
James E Stuart, OF Chicago, has been ap-
pointed postofdce inspector, with headquar-
ters at Chicago; George M. Christian has been
appointed an assistant superintendent of the
railway mail service, and designated for duty
in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster
General.
-Mr. David Sheehy, member of Parliament
for South Galway, who is undergoing imprison-
onment for ofenses under the crimes act, and
whose sentence was reduced on appeal from ten
to five months, has been confined in a cell and
placed on bread and water diet for refusing to
perform menial work about the prison.
Among the 300 saloon passengers on the
Cunard steamship Umbria, for Liverpool, yes
terday, were the members of the Samoan Com
mission-John A. Kasson, William Walter
Phelps and George II. Bates. Mr.. Bates is ac-
companied by his family. Ex-Mayor Abram S.
Hewitt and family are also on the Umbria.
News comes from Oklahoma that all the
cattlemen in that Territory excepting one have
driven their cattle out, and that he is getting
herds away as rapidly as possible. Some so or
more families of negroes have left Fort Smith,
Ark, for the vicinity of Guthrie, Oklahoma
where they and numerous other colored people
will establish colony.
Colonel Fred Grant, the new Minister to
Austria, had short interview with the Presi.
dent yesterday morning prior to his departure
were Senator Spooner, Representatives Wade,
Burton, Houk Taylor, Allen, Morrow, McKen.
ma, Reed, Cox and Cannon, James B. Weed.
Charles w. Sears, and s. c. Millard, of Bing.
hamton, n. Y.
The Secretary of the Interior has accepted
the resignation of Geo. A. Howard, Chief Clerk
of that department.. Mr.. Howard rendered his
resignation March last. He will be succeeded
by E. NJ. Dawson, Chief of the Division Of
Patents and Miscellaneous, Interior Depart
nent Mr.. Howard retires to enter business at
Cleveland, o. Thomas 81. Musick, of Missouri
has been appointed to the office vacated by Mr..
Dawson.
The North German Lloyd steamer AIler.
which arrived from Bremen late Friday night
encountered severe storms and rough weather
during the passage. During the last three days
of her voyage the water continually washed
over the vessel tearing away her lifeboats and
breaking her guard rails. On Saturday night,
during heavyrain storm, Wilhelm Saat6off
one Of the crew, Is years old, was washed over,
board and drowned.