Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-30
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


-"Old Hutchn was caught in q squeeze in
| the Chicago corn market yesterday
The death Of the Ameer of Afghanistan
may cause serious complications in Europe.
Fire yesterday morning destroyed the plant
| of the Hartford Carpet Company at Thompson
Vile Conn, valued at $3.50 600; insurance, tl75-
6OO
The New York grand jury handed in pre-
| sentiment of great importance yesterday.
| Among other things the abolition Of the Board
| of Electrical Control was recommended.
Judge MARITIME, of New York City, has re-
fused the application for new trial in the case
| take place next Thursday.
AT Jackson, Mich, the Haehnle brewery
was discovered to be on fire, and the entire
plant valued at S6OOO9, was destroyed In
suranee only $4,000. The cause OF the nre Is
/ unknown.
LEVERS bakery, in Keyport ~, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $4,000. Jacob
| Leyrer the proprietor, was burned to death,
! and his wife and son were also badly burned
and may die.
| steamer Queen City, running from Providence
to Seaconnet became disabled and ran ashore
at Bristol Ferry. Tugs Wentto her relief. The
damage is not known.
CLAUS H. Van Hagen. who has been en-
poyed by machine @ shop at at SSsSllsgeyie 90 SS ~ has
from the Chester Twist Drill and Tool Com
pany for his invention Of a machine 60 forge
twist drills.
Eight Of the Blair, Wis, lynchers have
been arrested. All have waived examination
and given bail for $500 each. Thirty names are
in the Warrant Three of the youngest have
confessed. Prominent families are connected
with the crime
William h. Harvey, who in March last
murdered his wife and two daughters, was
hQ ad in
was one of the worst pieces OF bungling ever
witness ed, the condemned man being strangled
slowly to death.
"A Berlin editor il being tried for high
treason. The unfortunate editor had the mis-
fortune some time ago to allow paragraph to
appear in his paper giving the information that
His Majesty Kaiser William rode in a second
class droschKy."
Warden Brush is preparing for the execu-
tion of Charles McElvaine by electricity which
is to take place at Sing Sing during the week
beginning December 8. The dynamo was re-
ceived yesterday and the erection Of a building
to put It in was begun.
u. c. Gilliland. cashier of the Citizens State
Bank. at Selden, Kan, was placed under arrest,
charged with forging mortgages and thus OBJ
tanning money from Eastern loan companies.
He was making arrangements to leave for
Pennsylvania when he was arrested.
-Four little girls children of Hugh Dunn, q
wealthy mine owner, found keg of powder in
Va. In some way they exploded 1t, and were
blown to atoms. Their mother lost her reason
when told of the fate Of her children.
The weather at Buffalo grew colder Thurs
day about noon, changing the rain into snow,
which fell increasingly until yesterday morn
ing. The snow is about foot deep, and travel
is considerably interrupted Railroad traffic
is somewhat delayed, but not seriously.
On the arrival of the sailing ship Southern
Cross at New York yesterday, the Captain and
Mate were arrested by United States Marshal
Purcell. 1t is charged that they are guilty Of
the murder of Chinaman on the last outward
voyage of the ship The Southern Cross came
from China
Hank Pritchard colored deck hand on
the steamer Telegraph. became crazy drunk
while that boat was just above Cincinnati, and
seiZlng an ak, he almost cut OF the head Of
Richard NJ Curry and fatally wounded James
Butler. both colored. Pritchard was jailed at
New Richmond
JEFF McKenney, one Of the leading criminal
lawyers of Milwaukee, and known all over Wis
consin, Is lying at home with his face beaten to
pulp and suffering from other Injuries that
may result in his death. He was mysteriously
assaulted by unknown men. The entire police
force of the city is at work on the case, but
fruitlessly.
The general or national, ,Ecommittee ap-
pointed by the Silver Convention has elected
General A. ]. Warner, of Ohio. Chairman. and
chairman was authorized to name the time and
place for holding the next convention and to
appoint an executive committee of nine mem
bers to conduct the silver campaign.
William F. Sartelle, of Worcester, Mass,
performer in a dime museum, was shot dead
last night. He was performing trick with
rifle which he apparently loads with leaden
bullets, and then requests some one to shoot
at him, appearing to catch the bullet in his
mouth. This time he failed to substitute q
pasteboakd bullet and William Flanagan
who fired the gun, shot Sartelle dead.
Commissioner Mitchell. of the Patent Of
fee. has rendered a decision on the application
of Sigmund Odenheimer for a patent for the
use of cotton as baling fabric Odenheimer
claimed that only after great labor and ex-
pense did he discover that the cotton could be
used for such purpose, but the commissioner
decides that the discovery was not such as the
laws are intended TO encourage and reward,
and therefore denies the application.
-Four more bodies from the wreck of the
bark Germania were washed ashore near Long
Branch YESTERDAY. Among them was the body
of the captain, Theodore Ruger, one of the
agents of the vessel, denies that she was unsea-
worthy The same gentleman denounces the
action of the life saving corps, and claims that
they are cowardly and incompetent. He
charges that they huddled together on the
beach and made no effort to save the drowning
crew.
AT the Merrimac County Home, in North
Boscowen, N. H., Thursday, during the tempo
rary absence OF the matron from the building,
a woman named Bennett who was committed
from London, N. h. suddenly attacked slight,
delicate woman from Chester named Mrs
Sarah Q. Wood. SeiZiDg her around the body
she carried Mrs. Wood to a bathroom and
threw her into a tub. She held her down with
her feet and, turning on the cold waler, kept
her in that position till the water covered her
body and drowned her.