Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

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tower since the opening of the Exposition have
been 1000, 600 francs.
1t is now asserted that Graham did not. 20
over Niagara Falls in his barrel, but that the
whole affair was a cleverly constructed fraud.
Not much proof of the assertion has been ad-
vanced.
The bond offerings yesterday aggregated
$4,000 as follows: Four per cents coupon,
go at s registered 4psr esnts eso ts $4,000 At
All were accepted.
A largely attended meeting of the Catholic
clergy of Baltimore and Washington was held
in the library of the Baltimore Cathedral for
the purpose of discussing the details Of the
sided.
Prof. Brooks, of the Smith Observatory, Sc.
cured several photographs of the occuitation OF
Jupiter by the moon, one of them showing him
half covered. the first photograph ever taken
OF the phenomenon. His observations were
taken Tuesday night.
The President has appointed the following
named postmasters: Edward B. Scott at Ba,
tavia, O., vice stephen Craner, removed; Nelson
A Fuiton, at Xenia, g, vice M. w. Caurce,
removed; Wilbur 7. Morton, at Alton, Ill, vice
L. ID. Perrin, removed.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Au-
| gustus Schoonmaker is highly pleased with the
appointment of Judge Veazey as his new asso-
| clate in the commission. The first autumn ses-
sion of the commission will be held In New
York on September II.
| -Ine CanaQ1an dominion LABOR congress
yesterday passed strong resolutions calling on
| the Dominion and Provincial Governments to
abolish the system of subsidizing railways by
| land and money grants as detrimental to the
| interests of the country.
Reports from every district in Manitoba
and Northwest indicate frst-class wheat crop.
The whole country is busy threshing and crop
will all grade Mol hard. Several cars have
| already been shipped. About ~ new elevators
are building in Manitoba alone.
| pr. 7. T. Lynn. prominent physician of
| bourbon, Ind, was the victim of an inhuman
act Thursday night. Mrs. Myers, wife of
blacksmith, sent for him, and as he entered the
gate threw vitriol in his face putting out one Of
his eyes. No arrests have been made.
| "A remarkable trial has commenced in the
Federal court at Fort Smith, Ark, five Creek
Indians being charged with the murder of
Deputy United States Marshal Mcintosh in
| Indian Territory last November. Neither of
the principals and few of the witnesses speak
English, the testimony being interpreted.
| The Postmaster General has received a
telegram from Spokane Falls, Wash, con-
veying the information that a majority of the
clerks IN the postof1ce there had concluded to
remain at their posts of duty and not 90 on
strike on account of alleged inadequate
allowances for salaries, etc.. as they threatened
| to do.
Mrs. Della Stewart Parnell, mother of
Charles Stewart Parnell, who has been in fail
| ing health for some time, is worrying for fear
that she will not live to finish her literary
x
ant papers bearing on the Irish land question,
and is working daily under the watchful eye of
her physician.
| General Master Workman Powderly. of the
knights Of Labor, announces that the General
Executive Board Of the order will meet in st.
Louis on the 30th of September and continue
in session several days. Important questions
affecting the Knights in the entire Southwest,
embracing Missouri Kansas, Indian Territory,
Arkansas and Texas, will be considered.
AT Fort Smith, Ark, Jefferson Hogue, a
white man, aged 25, was jailed yesterday on a
charge Of bigamy. Two girls, neither over 10
| years OF age, appeared and swore that he mar
ried them last winter. Hogue acknowledged
that he married them, and also he has an
other wife now living at Eureka Springs
Ark, and the officers say that he has still two
others.
There were received at the Department of
from Consul General Lesene at Melbourne,
Australia, transmitting S5S Is collected at
Hamilton, Australia. for the Johnstown food
sufferers, and statement from Consul Dawson,
at Newcastle, New South Wales, that 81, 800
had been raised at Brisbane for the same pur.
pose.
During thunder storm Wednesday at Co.
lumbus, Wis, five head of horses belonging to
L. b. franklin. an extensive breeder, were in
stantly killed by flash of lightning. The ami
mails were passing through bars in tandem
oruer when struck, and lay upon the ground as
If asleep, with the mark of the lightning upon
the right side of each one. They were of high
bred stock.
Mayor N. R. Marks, of Orlando. Fla, re-
ported at New York police headquarters that
he was swindled yesterday out of $40 all the
money he had with him at the time, by bunco
men. They played the familiar trick of discov-
ering his name, inducing him to visit a house
to examine samples of cloth leading him to
display money, which was snatched from his
hand by confederate, who escaped.
AN official statement of the action of the
American nations upon the invitation to par
tclpate In the congress next month was issued
by the State Department yesterday. 1t shows
that every one accepted the invitation, except
San Domingo. The reason given by the Gov
ticipate was that a treaty negotiated by the
representatives of the two countries several
years ago failed of ratification by the Senate of
the United States.
1t is announced at Chicago that George M.
Pullman has subscribed $4,000 to the worlds
fair fund. To reporter who called on him |
Mr.. Pullman would only admit that he had
suggested the advisability of giving an immedi-
ate impetus to the work Of raising the S5OO0,0OO
by securing a half million in one lump from
five citizens of Chicago in subscriptions of
100000 each. Who the four besides Mr.. Pull |
man are has not been divulged, but P. D. Ar |
mour and Marshall Field are mentioned as two
of them.
The friends of the proposition to repeal the |
tobacco tax are very active and are preparing |
ship who will support their cause in every |
way possible. They charge that the bill could
have been readily passed in two former Con-
crosses had not Speaker Carlisle refused to re- |
cogniZe members who would have called it up |
at times when it might have been considered. |
They propose to forestall every course of this |
sort hereafter. Judge Houk, of Tennessee, is |
mentioned as their probable candidate.
The President yesterday made the following |
appointments: Edwin Dun to be Secretary Of |
Arthur W. Barrett, of Massachusetts, to be |
Secretary of the Legation of the United States |
to Venezuela; William B. Gardiner. Jr., of In |
DIANA to be second Secretary of the Legation |
of the United States to Japan; Consuls Of the |
United States, Joseph T. Mason. of Virginia, at |
Mannheim; Bernard G. Macauley, of New |
York, at Msnagua. Nicaragua; Auleck Palmer, |
of the District of Columbia, at Dresden; John |
D. De Little, of Texas, at Bristol; Thomas H. |
Anderson, of Ohlo Minister Resident and Con- |
sui General of the United States to Bolivia.
The pearl excitement in the vicinity of New |
Albany, Wis, is now at its height. Although |
claims are getting scarce and the divers have |
to dig in the mud in the bottom of the river, |
the finds are more numerous and valuable |
than ever. The largest, and by far the largest |
pearl in Wisconsin, was found yesterday. A |
New York buyer offered S. 500 for it, but this |
figure was considered too low. Hundreds OF |
small pearls are found and sold daily. The |
purchasers are agents of Chicago, New York |
and Paris houses. Visitors and claim hunters |
are pouring into the village, and the banks of |
the river for miles are dotted with tents.
The German people are just now expert |
encing some of the ills of the management of |
railroads by a Government. In response to the |
urgent demands for fast trains between inI- |
portant cities, the Prussian Minister of Rail- |
roads complacentlY wirhdraws the few fast
trains which were put on year ago as an ex- |
pertinent, and declares that the increased ex-
pense to the department is not warranted by
the result achieved. The newspapers raise |
howl over this backward move, and the COM