Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-15
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

several satisfactory trials of speed yesterday at
the Delaware breakwater.
| The Secretary of the. Treasury yesterday
afternoon accepted the following bonds; AS,
registered. S53S 900 at 1885 $40 900 at 100; AS,
coupon, $4,000 at 1895.
Further advices from Shanghai by the
China steamer states that the famine in Anhui
and kianqsu is worse. In one province 100000
millions are suffering from famine caused by
drought two years in succession.
The President yesterday sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Commodore George
70. Belknap to be Rear Admiral: Captain John
q. Walker to be Commodore; Commander
Silas Casey to be Captain; Lieutenant Com
mander James NJ. Forsyth to be Commander.
AT a meeting of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad directors yesterday after
noon in Boston, at which all the directors ex-
cebt Messrs. Perkins, Payne, Coolidge and
Gardner were present, dividend of per cent
was declared. The directors were in session
three hours.
The President has approved the act ex-
tending the privileges of inland transportation
in bond to the Port of Sault Ste. Marie; the act
for the relief of the town of Flagstaff, AriZ.;
the act authorizing the Choctaw Coal and Rail
way Company to construct q railroad through
the Indian Territory, and the act for public
building at Sedalia, Mo.
The Belgian steamer Olbers, Captain Greg
ory, from New Y ork, FGbruary2 2, for Liverpool,
arrived at Queenstown yesterday, having in
tow the Cunard Line steamer Samaria. The
Samaria sailed from Liverpool for Boston. and
on February 10, when 800 miles west of Queens
town, she broke her shaft. On February II she
was taken in tow by the Olbers.
--Jeremie Daignault, aged As. French
Canadian and business man. was arrested in
Pawtucketville, Mass, Wednesday night for
embezzling $4,000 from Naphtali Parent, of
Danville, Quebec for whom he was agent in
the sale of henllock bark. DaiGnault carried
on his operations with some confidence under
the ImnrpSSlOn that pOull
here.
Sophia Buck, aged 30 living on the seconl
floor of tenement in Hoboken. n. j., becam-
suddenly insane yesterday morning and threw
her 1-months-old babe out of window fatally
injuring the child. The mother was placed
under arrest. She was abandoned by her hus-
band, who left her i'll and destitute, and while
brooding over her pitiable condition her reason
gave way
The policy of letting fire burn itself out in
the Calumet and Hecla copper mine has proved
a poor one. The smoldering flames have gained
headway and large part of the mine is filed
with smoke. The,nen got out of the mine as soon
as possible, and the openings are now being COW
cred. The prospects are that long and dis
couraging fight against the fire. already fought
four times, twill have to be gone through
again.
Arguments were begun this morning in the
UniteI States Circuit Court, at Chicago, on
the application of the Pullman Palace Car
Company for perpetual injunction restrain
ing the Wagner Sleeping Car Company from
infringing on the Pullman CompaEy'S patents
in connection with the manufacture and opera
tion of vestibule cars. Judges Gresham and
BlndgetJ are hearing the case. The arguments
will probably occupy the time of the court for
several days.
"A special cable dispatch from London, to
the Montreal Gazette, the Canadian Govern
ment organ, says: Statements have reached
journals here, through New York, that a syn
dicate of leading Republicans in the United
States controls $500, 000 GOO which it intends to
use in an effort to secure Canada's annexation
to the States by system of wholesale bribery
in Canada, in event of dissolution of the Do
minlon Parliament this year and a consequent
general election"
Secretary Whitney yesterday issued an or
der detaching Commodore George Belknap
from his duty as commaEdant of the Mare
Island Navy Yard, California, and ordering him
to duty in command of the Asiatic station, to
take the place of Rear Admiral Chandler who
died last Sunday. No person has yet been
selected as commandant of the Mare Island
Navy Yard. Captain F. NJ. Ramsey was yestcr-
day ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to
duty as commandant of tine navy'yard at New
York.
A. G. Wester, Northern Montana stock
grower, just in from the cattle ranges, says that
while the present very agreeable and spring
benefit cattle, it came far from
it. The streams are frozen, and as
there is not particle of snow on the ground
many cattle are in famished condition for
water. 1t is just cold enough to keep the ice
in the rivers. If, as is anticipated storm sets
in during the latter part OF this month or in
March. he fears that there will be great loss of
cattle on the ranges.
I'm advance of the official report of the
operations of the Texas and Pacific Railroad
for 1888 the following statement has been pre-
nared, based on estimate of first-class au-
expenses and taxes, s5,066,S $50: net earnings,
Sl340 757; fixed charges, 81 S COO; surplus S5S,-
757. No interest was paid on the second mort
gage bonds, and only one coupon on the new
first 5s. The interest actually paid was per
cent on SS,764,000 of prior mortgage bonds,
amounting to $227,00O, and ~ per cent on S2l,-
G4l000 of first mortgage IS, amounting to Sj26,.
l3O or total OF S753, l2S, leaving balance Of
s5s7627.
The barn of D. Henry Rieman, in Adams
county, Pennsylvania, near Emmittsburg Nd,
was destroyed by fire of inccndiary origin early
yesterday morning. The loss was 5000; in
sured S., 600. The property destroyed was in
the line of the dozen or more barns mysteriously
burned recently on the border of Frederick
and Carroll counties, Maryland. and the fire is
believed to have been the work of the same
fiends who have become such a terror to :he
farming community of thatsection. The instru-
ment usually used in setting fire to the barns is
the size of two fists and covered with wet phos-
phorus. In the center of this ball was an open
ing about the size of an egg aud filled with
powder, into which was stuck quill.
Acting on the circular sent out from Pbia-
delphia several weeks ago, signed by a number
of so-called original members of the knights
of Labor. George Schilling, the well-known So
cialist and labor agitator, has begun the work
OF recognizing several discontented assem-
blies. Schilling proposed a plan which was
agreed to- IL was to the effect that local as
semblies of the Knights all over the United
States and Canada should, as far as possible be
induced to reorganze on the secret plan, threw
ing off afiliation with the General Executive
Board and setting mp under modus operandi
that should be unknown outside of the order
A conference was held at Cincinnati few
weeks later when a Provisional Executive
Board was appointed and new General Master
Workman name1. The organizers claim that
in Chicago alone more than a score of assem-
blies have cut off all communication with the
General Executive Board, and have organized
as part of the new secret order.
Wool Mnrkefs.