Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-30
LATE NEWS In BRIEF,

The Shah is about to depart from England,
He bade farewell to the Queen at Osborne yes
terday.
Madame e. L. Diss De Bar of New York,
to convent.
Governor Beaver has issued a requisition
for William Houtz, who is wanted at Lewiston,
Miffiin county, for forgery ano who is now
under arrest at Dubuque, Ia
DIR. Tanner. member of Parliament for
Cork. was sentenced yesterday at Tipperary to
one months imprisonment for assauiting
Police Inspector stephens in May last. When
Judgment was pronounced he cried out in the
docket: Il defy yon. The magistracy are the
real criminals" For this outbreak three
months were added to his sentence.
"A tremendous storm of wind, hail and rain
trees, outhouses and unfinished buildings and
doing great deal of damage of gere ri char
acter. The wind was terrific and the rainfall
tremendous while hail as large as hick ory n its
fell. 1t was the most destructive st a m of the
year. and the loss to property is great.
President Harrison will leave Deer Park
for Bar Harbor August and leave on his re-
turn August Is. Secretary Proctor was ex-
pected at the War Department TODAY, but
Acting Secretary Tweedal to-day received a
telegram from him saying he would rot be
able to get here. The Secretary's young son.
who has been an invalid for several weeks, is
worse again.
Reports from Norfolk, respecting the con-
struction Of the Texas at the navy yard there,
equanimity of officials about the NAVY Depart
ment. but in the absence of Secretary Troy
nothing definite can be learned. TIE reports
state that instructions have been received at
the yard to investigate the condition of the
Texas and the progress of the work. with the
result that court of inquiry will be ordered,
and probably court martial for several of the
officers connected with the yard.
Forest fires are reported in the mountains
and along the banks of the Missouri for many
miles below Ft Benton. At Bowdoin the Sec
tion house was burned, and Miss Matte John
son, a school teacher. SO severely burned that
her recovery is doubtful. The Northern Pacific
track east of Livingston burned out for a short
distance, but has been repaired. Several min
ing camps have been deserted, and ranchers are
plowiDg around their land to prevent fire in the
grass from running. The air is filled with a
dense smoke, but SO far no loss of life is re-
ported. Telegraph lines are somewhat demor-
allied from the burning of poles.
The storm of Saturday night at Chicago
was even more severe than had been supposed,
great as was the uproar of the elements and
visible the effects. The Unprecedented rain
fall, the high wind and the incessant lightning
caused loss of property that is difficult TO es-
innate. All kinds of property suffered-goods
sidewalks. lawns, shrubbery. driveways, unfin.
fshed houses and dwellings. There were "A
alarms of fire; many from lightning and more
from the destruction of the insulation of the
electric-light wires Fire, water and wind
combined caused loss probably in excess of
sl,OOO.OOO and possibly as much again.
The cases of the Cincinnati saloon keepers
who were arrested for violating the Owen Sun
day law were called in the Police Court and
bonds were given for appearance for trial.
Most of them were not set for any speci al date.
In the case of Warfiinger and one or two others
who have been specially defiant in their con-
duct, early trial will be given. The saloon
keepers mass meeting which resolved to defy
the law also resolved that those who should be
arrested should meet this morning and march
to the Police Court with music The resolu-
tion was not carried out. The men went to the
court without procession or music.
Articles of consolidation have been filed
with the Illinois Secretary of State combining
the Toledo Western Railway Company. the De-
troit aud State Line Wabash Railway Com
pany, the Wabash Eastern Railway Company
of Indiana, the Wabash Eastern Railway Com
pany of Illinois, and the Wabash Western Rail-
way Company. under the general name of
''The Wabash Railroad Company" The capt.
tai stock is S52 600, 900. The first board of d.
rectors is constituted as follows: James F.
Joy, of Detroit Mich; Ossian ID. Ashley of
New York; Thomas II. Hubbard. of New York;
Edgar T. Welles, of Hartford, Conn; George
W. Smith, of Chicago; Abram NJ. Fence of
Chicago: Charles Henrotin, of Chicago; John
w. Bum. of Springfield, and John Maynard
Harlan, of Chicago.