Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


Secretary Tracy has accepted an invitation
to visit Secretary Blaine at Bar Harbor during
the latter part of August.
The British warship Sultan. which struck
q rock and sunk near Malta some months ago.
has been successfully raised.
The directors of the Flint and Pere Mar
quette Railroad Company declared semi-an-
nual dividend of per cent, payable August 10.
Seven thousand bales of American cotton
were destroyed by the burning of warehouses
on Red Cross and Grundy streets, Liverpool,
last Saturday.
The contract with the Union Iron Works,
of San Francisco, for the construction OF
coast defense vessel was signed yesterday by
Secretary Tracy. The contract price is S1OO,OO0.
-Detective John 7. Norris passed through
Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday, going east. He
with which to secure the arrest Of Jake Kill
rain.
"A voluntary petition in insolvency was filed
yesterday by Oliver s. Roberts, of Lynn, Mass,
Saugus. The liabilities are S6S. .t02, of which
81, ,SO2 is unsecured.
"A dispatch from Paris, KY, says that James
Kelly. colored who made a criminal assault on
Mrs. Peter Crow, wife of a section boss on the
Kentucky Central road, was taken from the jail
at o'clock Thursday morning by mob and
hanged to bridge near the town.
"A house occupied by Mary Ann GRAHAM,
near Sabattis, Me-, was burned at o'clock
yesterday morning. Mrs Graffam was 20 years
old. lived alone, and her charred remains were
found in the ruins. she having apparently been
burned to death in bed. Cause of fire un-
known.
1t is reported in New York that the Presi-
secured in Europe the necessary capital to
build the bridge, and that the work will soon
be commenced. The proposed bridge will span
the Hudson river at Cornwall, and will be
rival to the Poughkeepsie bridge.
-Advices from the front, received at Cairo,
state that three columns of dervishes are
marching to reinforce the rebels. The col
umns are followed by caravans conveying pro-
Inducements effect a junction with the main
body of rebels grand attack will be made
upon the Egyptian forces.
The New Hampshire House judiciary CON-
mittee is considering the advisabiity of report
lug bill abolishing capital punishment by
Recommendation of Attorney General Barnard,
who argued before the committee that there
exists quite a strong feeling in the State in
favor of such a measure, and personally rec
commended its adoption.
The house of Joseph Gordon, about five
miles from Keeseyille n. Y, was visited by
tramp to-day, who demanded money from Cor
don's l6-year-old daughter, who was alone. On
being told there was none in the house. he
choked her until she was unconscious and then
set fire to the house. The girl returned to con-
sciousness just in time TO crawl from under the
falling roof.
Fred Droenke's two bows. both of tender
years. were playing near the Northwestern
Railroad tracks at Elmhurst near Chicago,
Thursday evening" The younger strayed upon
the track as an incoming passenger train came
in sight. The elder brother hurried to the
rescue of the younger but tripped, and the two
were cut to pieces under the wheels. Death
was instantaneous.
Lawyer John R. Dunn was sent to Sing
Sing prison yesterday to serve out a sentence
of nine years and SIX months. Dunn was found
guilty of having induced Cashier Scott, of the
Manhattan Bank, to steal SlS5000. AS soon as
advised Scott to fly the country. Subsequently
the cashier came back and appeared rs a wit
ness against Dunn.
About o'clock yesterday morning the Gin
cinnati dry dock buildings on Eastern avenue,
in the eastern part of Cincinnati, caught fire
and were consumed, together with a consldera-
BILE quantity of lumber. The whole loss may
reach $50 600, upon which the insurance is said
to be $4,000. Half an hour before tine fire the
private watchman went through the building.
and says there was no FIRE there. This gives
reason to suspect arson.
James Mccall, of West Troy, N. Y, sur
rendered himself to the police of that village
yesterday afternoon, saying: II have kicked
my wife to DEATH" 1t was found that the
woman had been terribly kicked, and there
was deep knife wound in her neck which in
itself was sufficient to cause death. The
woman was found IN her home lying in pool
of blood. She was about 55 years old. The hus-
Dand is oI years old. He says his head has been
out OF order for some time.
The Richmond Paper COMPANY of Provi.
dence suspended yesterday morning. The COM
pany suspended some little time ago, and has
been working under an extension, $500, 600 new
capital being paid in, secured by mortgages,
the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company for
S3S1, 900. The company has had no rating with
dOr asssp. tine S state
so6S,OOO The plant is magnificent one.
Assistant Secretary Tichenor has resigned
his duties at the Treasury Department, and it
is now expected that number of important
questions, which have been pending in the de-
partment for some time will be settled in few
days. These include the classification of Mex
lean lead ores, the dutiable character of Cana
cars and the classih cation of mahog-
any boards, together with questions arising
under the alien labor contract law in regard to
Canadians employed in the United States
Christopher Carter. aged So completed a
three years sentence in the New Hampshire
State Prison for horse stealing yesterday, and
upon being released was Immediately rear
rested by Worcester, Mass, officer on a reuuj-
sition for larceny of team six years ago.
horse thieves in New England, one of his ex-
ploits having been the theft, transfer and sale
of all but three of carload of horses in Yer
mont few years ago. he has been in confine-
ment for horse stealing almost constantly dur.
ing the last l5 years.
AT a late hour Thursday night the Mis-
souri, Railroad Commissioners agreed upon a
of general freight rates in the State
A reduction In grain rates for local terminal
points, amounting on an average TO nearly 10
per cent, has been agreed upon by all the Mis-
souri, Pacific and Chicago and Alton roads All
other lines will have similar rates. From Kan
sas City east the live stock rate will aver-ge a
of l5 per cent. The reduction in coal
rates is principally of local importance and
embraces haul of 55 miles east of Kansas
City. The cut is about 10 per cent
Charles Dewey, who was arrested few
days ago at Cincinnati on a charge by Jennie
Park that he had stolen a diamond earring
from her while riding in carriage, has been
put to much trouble by other accusations both
here and elsewhere. Several gentlemen assert
that he had induced them to pay advance pre-
mIums on life insurance. and that he failed to
give them policy. He has admitted that he
and used the money, about $40 in each
case and he is liable to prosecution for embez.
element The Cincinnati police have also been
asked by the Detroit authorities to hold Dewey
until they can get requisition for him on the
charge OF forgery
The Standard Oil Company is endeayoripg
to get control of the natural gas lands in In
diana evidently with the intention of controll-
ing the entire gas field ultimately 1t will be
sometime soon for the pipe line com.
panies of indianapolis, Lafayette and other
cities to sink wells in new territory. and unless
wholly at the mercy of the Standard Oil Com
pany. Large numbers of leases have been
taken in the best gas territory near Indianapo-
lis within the last two days. and it is believed
it will be found that the company already
holds the most desirable land elsewhere in the /
Hoosier gas belt.
Information comes from Gillespie Ill, that
while Henry Bokamp and his wife we're riding
near that town, last Monday evening, they were
taken from their buggy by an armed band of
White Caps, who took shameful liberties with
the woman and swung Bokamp up to a tree
three times, the last hanging proving SO near
fatal that he could only be revived by the ad-
of medicine. They then left
thnE Of fhs nr1fW 4c
mere suspicion that Bokamp had committed
petit larceny. The case has been put in the