Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday
accepted the following bids: AIS regular
s6i5 900 at sl0s7s; s27, 900 at l0SA.
The Democratic legislative caucus fol
United States Senator from New Jersey, 1t Is
thought will not be held till next week.
DIR. Kruss a Munich dentist. has succeeded
in decomposing cobalt and nickel both OF
which have hitherto been supposed to be ele
mentary substances.
MIR. John O'Connor, M. P. for South Tip.
perary against whom a warrant was issued for
offenses under the crimes act, has been ar
rested at Charleston.
Large dealers in sugar in Philadelphia say
that Claus Spreckels has secured the entire
Philippine Islands sugar crop for his Philadel-
phia and San Francisco refineries.
e IS. II. Sheffield, Manager of the Pullman
cars the Canadian Pacific, was shot, prob
ably fatally, Monday night, by a colored porter
who had been discharged for irregularities.
Snow storms are reported throughout East
ern Europe. Railways are blocked in Galicia
and Roumania. The Danube is frozen over
solidly for distance of Is miles below Vienna.
A delegation of the marine engineers, who
have been assembled in convention IN baitl-
more, paid visit to the President yesterday
morning under the escort of Representative
Lawler, of Illinois.
Henry Woods Son & Co., varnish and color
makers, No. 43S Atlantic avenue, Boston, and
factory at Wellesley, have made an assignment
no figures have been furnished as yet.
A jamestown O., dispatch says that Mrs.
Eads locked her 2-year-old adopted child in the
room while she went to fire in the neighbor-
hood. Her own house caught fire and when
some one broke into it they found the child
burned to death.
Before the Senate met yesterday morning
E. w. Pou, Jr messenger of the North Caro-
lima electors, delivered to President pro TEN
Ingalls, the vote cast in that State yesterday
for Cleveland and Thurman. He was the first
messenger to report.
During the charge of the police at Water
ford, Monday, upon the crowd which was ac-
companying the persons who had been SEN
fenced for participating in the Manchester
Martyrs" demonstration, police inspector
and IA constables were injured.
"A conditional writ of habeas corpus has
been granted in Dublin for the release of Mr..
Edward Harrington, who was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment for publishing in his
paper, thd Kerry Sentinel, reports concerning
meetings of suppressed branches of the Ma
tional League.
AT noon yesterday both branches of the
Maine Legislature voted for United States Sen
ator. In the House the vote stood: w. P. Frye
(Republican), l2l, to % for Harris NJ. Plaisted
(Democrat). In the Senate all of the % votes
were for w. p. Frye, two Senators being alb
sent. The vote will be declared in both branches
at noon to-day
Dan Reynolds, colored was taken out of
his house, near Helena, Ark, Saturday night,
and whipped so severely that he has since died.
He was tied to tree, and his captors, nine in
number, used piece of wire from barbed
wire fence. Reynolds made statement before
his death, and gave the sheriff the names OF his
assailants, seven of whom are under arrest.
The Atlas line steamer Allen, which arrived
at New Y Gork from Kingston Jamaica, Monday,
brought no news of importance from Hayti.
At the Haytian Consulate in this city it is stated
that General Contreras has received letter
from President TaUitimQ dated .Iannary de-
nying that Legitime's forces had been beaten
at Hinche, that General st. Fleur Paul had
been captured and shot, or that General Rosa
was refugee in Port-au-Prince.
Archbishop Croke has donated ESQ to the
fund for the relief of evicted tenants In his
letter accompanying the donation the Arch
bishop says: There is no other land, savage
or civilized, where such scandalous and un-
christianlike scenes could he enacted without
fierce contest and even bloodshed. The send
ing of crown forces to demolsh the dwellings
the poor for the benefit of the pampered few is
a crime that cries to heaven for vengeance"
The negro George Meadows was hung at
Pratt mines yesterday morning by a mob of
quiet but determined men who had him in
charge. While Mrs. Kellam, his victim, was
almost positive In her identification, she still
asked the mob not to hang him, as she might
possibly be mistaken. There is little doubt that
this was because she shrank from the response
bility of saying what she knew would cause
certain death, and the mob SO regarded it,
-Brigadier General Myers, who commanded
the regiment ordered to the scene of war in
Gray county, Kan, has made report TO the
Governor. General Myers reports very seri-
Gus state of affairs in the county and fears
more trouble He arrived at Cimarron at
O'Clock Sunday morning. The citizens were
greatly relieved upon the arrival of the troops,
and had been under arms up to that time, and
fearful lest another deadly attack should be
made.
"A fire at noon yesterday in the New York
patent cigar box factory at III Fifth street
caused damage of S., 900 and the loss of three
lives. Five girls were at work upon the upper
floor, and two were carried down the ladders by
the firemen. The other three lost their lives.
They were Josephine Farenkoph, about 20yeGrs
old; Lena Straub, "a years old, and Barbara Ap-
pei. The girls had been suffocated by the
dense smoke, and their bodies were not badly
ad