Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-06
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

There were no bond offers received at the
Treasury Department yesterday
Isaac Twitchell, q farmer at Anoka, Minn.,
was killed BY bull yesterday. The bull be-
frightful manner, literally tearing his insides
out 1t took several balls from Winchester
rife to kill the brute.
1t is given out at st. Louis on the authority
of postofice inspector that the famous ban
dit and train robber, Black Bart was in ST.
Louis for 10 days prior TO last Friday, and il Is
suspected that he had something to do with, If
he did not direct in person, the train robbery
near Kansas City.
The President will leave Washington TO-
morrow morning at $40 o'clock for New York,
on his trip to Bar Harbor, Maine, to visit Sec
rotary Blaine. He will be accompanied by
retary Halford and possibly Secretary Tracy.
The President expects to return to washing
ten by the 18th inst for q few days stay prior
to his departure for indianapolis.
AT Q o'clock Sunday morning six masked
men stopped the Ft. Worth and Denver mail
and express soutb-bound, between Cheyenne
Water Tank and Tascosa. Three men got on
the locomotive and compelled the engineer to
had been detached by the robbers and left
under guard OF the other three. The robbers
then went through the express cars and held
up the passengers, securing about ZOU.
"A violent wind and rain storm from a south
westerly direction passed over Newburg. Ind.
Sunday morning, doing great damage to prop
erty in that place. The Newburg Furniture
Factory was completely demolished The
and turned completely around. The large dry
goods house Of G. F. Hopkins was also I'M
rooted and flooded. A number of smaller
dwellings between Newburg and Bonneville
were demolished and number of people killed.
The losses cannot now be estimated
Archie and Joseph Cockburn and Chris Syi-
vester, all young men, were drowned yesterday
about 10 miles south of the Cliff House, San
Tlaah h0us iner fk,o
a short distance from the shore when an i'm
mense wave came in and washed them OF, car
rying them away so far that they were unable to
get back, and all drowned before assistance ar
rived. The father of the Cockburn boys was
on the rock and saw the wave coming a short
distance away. he shouted to the others to
the situation they were washed out to sea.
Late last night the bodies had not been recov-
cred.
The Indian Bureau has received from the
commission appointed by the President to ne
gotiate with the Chippewa Indians in Mime
sofa for a reiinquishment to the Government
of part of their reservation lands. informa-
ton that more than two-thirds OF the Indians
on the White Earth and Red Lake reservations
have signed the articles Of cession. The con-
sent Of the Leech Lake Indians yet remains to
be obtained before the rights of the Govern
the aggregate about 1000, ,0Oo acres of which it
is estimated 1900 900 acres viii be surrendered
to the United States, the remaining 100000
acres to be allotted TO the Indians in severalty.
The President has made the following ap-
pointments: Edward P. hobart, of New Mex
ico to be Surveyor General of New Mexico;
Joseph A. Clark, of Maine. to be Pension
Agent at Augusta: Calvin G. Townsend, of
Michigan, co be principal clerk of the public
lands in the general land ONCE; Isaac r. Con-
WELL of Indiana, to be principal clerk on pri-
vate land claims in the general land ONCE. To
be registers of land office: VIM. H. McCann,
of Nebraska, at Chadron, Neb.; Julian N. Bing-
ham. of Alabama, at Montgomery, Ala; VIM.
be receivers of public moneys: T. Frank
Powers. of Nebraska, at Chadron, Neb.; Amer
icns NJ. Nicely. of Arkansas, at Little Rock;
Nathan II. Alexander, of Alabama, az Mont
pOmery.