Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-22
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The President has appointed George Wald
ers to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Tenth district of Ohio.
The safe in the Iron Exchange Bank al
Hurley, Wis., was blown open Friday night
and over S4O. 600 stolen The money was to pay
the miners of the Ashland and Germanis
Mines
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided
that bicyclists cannot be made liable for dam
ages resulting from horses becoming fright
e5ed at their wheels II such runaways occur %
while the bicyclists are riding upon the high
way and are doing nothing which shows 8
lack of regard for the rights of others.
Frederick Douglass, United States Minister
70 Hayti, was at the Department of State yes
terday receiving his final instructions. he
will sail for his post Saturday, September q,
from Norfolk or Fort Monroe on either the
United States steamship Ossipee or kearsarge,
as may be determined by the Navy Depart
ment
i'm the Wyoming Convention proposition
to embody in the Constitution a clause provid.
ing for the appointment of State Board of
Arbitration TO determine and settle differ
ences between employers and employees, was
adopted A bill providing tor the establish
ment of State militia was passed. A bill to
establish Supreme Court consisting of three
Judges separate and distinct from the District
Court, meets with much opposition from the
advocates of an economical system of
judiciary.
For several months the Government had
made no effort to prevent the sale of liquor in
Guthrie, Oklahoma, and as time went on the
liquor smugglers became emboldened and over
a dozen groggeries have been running in full
blast during the last month. The granting of
licenses was refused, yet to all appearances the
Government winked at its sale. Yesterday,
however, a deputy United States collector
dropped into the city unexpectedly, and before
night p men were under arrest and will be
sent to Wichita for trial.
"A railroad accident occurred on the Boston
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morning, between Lancaster and South Lam
caster. Mass. A freight train left Rochester
at Gas o'clock in the evening. and special
freight train left Worcester early in the morning
and got half way between Lancaster and South
Lancaster when they collided- Engineer Ed.
ward Lawrence, of Rochester, had his left arm
Tapron injured about the head. The cars, ID
in number, were piled on top of each other.
The engines were totally ruined.
The physicians of Battle Creek, Mich, are
puzzled over the peculiar condition OF the
widow of w. A. Dennson, the brankeman who
was killed in the Grand Trunk yards a week
ago. Since the funeral the unfortunate wo-
man has been as one dead. A death-like sleep
rigid and she takes no heed of surroundings.
No nourishment has passed her lips with the
exception of a little beef tea that was given her
yesterday morning. AT intervals violent
spasms shake her frame. after which she re-
lapses into her former stupor. She has been
taken to the asylum at Kalamazoo.
-Advices from different parts of Mexico says
heavy storms have been sweeping over that
country since August Is. visiting different
States at different times. The latest prev allied
along the Pacific coast, and reports from Maz-
allan and Manzanillo are thar the steamers
Porfirio Diaz and Alata have probably been
wrecked. After five days steady rain in the
State of Vera Cruz a cyclone passed over the
town of Chicintepec. causing great destruction.
and to add to the terror of the inhabitants a
great landslide occurred on the mountain
back of the town, q part of which passed di-
rectly through the town, cutting great swath
through the buildings and carrying away
everything IN its path.
The shipments of iron ore by lake to date
have passed the 5000 900 mark, the last weeks
work carrying the total up to 5, 100. III gross
tons, which is ,94l, 669 tons above the quantity
that had been forwarded in the corresponding
date last year. and the shipments for the week
footed up 242 6S3 tons, of which amount 4, 326
tons were from Marquette. sc, Ill from Escan-
aba, So S43 from Ashland, %, 790 from Two Har-
bors. 2O42 from st. 1gnace, and 4660 from
Gladstone. The last weeks shipments were
fully up to the average for the season, and the
indications now are that the output of the
mines for 1889 will easily reach 100000 tons,
and may somewhat exceed that figure
The sealing schooner Beatrice, Captain Nc