Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

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The President has appointed Rev. Henry
| n. Hall, of California, chaplain in the army.
AT Sioux City, Ia Hedges livery stable
| with about 25 head of horses and mules, wa;
totally consumed by fire. Loss, sl2,0 900.
Reports from Madrid, Spain. say that
| yellow fever is raging at Vigo, seaport towr
| on the Atlantic coast, in the Province of Ponte
| vedra.
"A saloon passenger named Toole, on board
the Cunard Line steamer Umbria, committed
suicide during the voyage by cutting his throat
| with a razor.
-ExPresident Legitime of Hayti. sailed
| from New York on La Bretagne for France
yesterday morning. Minister William Walter
Phelps was passenger on the Elbe.
Secretary Proctor left Washington yester
| day morning for his home in Vermont. he
will be gone about a week, and in his absence
General Schofeld will act as Secretary OF w ar.
The bond offerings yesterday aggregated
Sd62OO, as follows: 4per cent coupons, Sioo az
| l2S; per cents registered, S2S,2OO at l2S; ~
per cents, coupon, 81 600 at 1867; Al per cents,
registered. SlS.900 at 1857.
The extensive mill and yards of the Ford
| River Lumber Company, seven miles from
! Escanaba were partly burned yesterday. The
! property is valued at SO00.0OO, and the amount
OF damage cannot yet be estimated.
AT Richmond, Ind, the Central Telephone
| Company's exchange was burned out yesterday
| Dy one or more OF the wires coming IN CONTACT
with the cable of the electric street railway.
AL the mass of wires between the operating
room and tower were burned out.
w. F. Harrison, in the Frankfort, KY,
penitentiary, died Thursday from poison in
commercial alcohol which he imbibed in large
quantities. He was employed in the paint
shop and used to steal the bottles of alcohol,
and carry them to his cell to drink at leisure.
1t is understood at Washington that the
friends Of silver currency will make vigorous
G-l~ a., ,,FH Harn Co.
an increase of coinage of silver dollars to the
limit of 1900 900 per month. The steady in
crease of the circulation of silver certificates
encourages them to believe this will be ac-
ceded.
Secretary Proctor has detailed Major
Oswald Ernest, of the Engineers corps, as
Superintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds of the District of Columbia, vice
Colonel j. NJ. Watson, appointed commandant
at West Point. Major Ernest has been located
for several years in charge of the improvements
at Galveston.
-Emmons Blaine and Miss Anita Mccormick
will be married on the 26th, at Richfeld
Springs, and will spend their honeymoon at the
Mi. Blaine met Miss Mccormick first in Chi
cago, when he was in the service of the Santa
Fe Railway. He is now General Manager OF
the West Virginia Central
At Linkville, Ore, fire broke out back of ].
7. Forbes saloon and in two hours the whole
business part of the town was in ashes. The
loss will be about $4,000. There was no loss
of life. Ben Monroe,s barkeeper, was Sc
verely burned. G. w. Smith, merchant and
hotel keeper, lost $4,000, insurance Sll0OO;
Baldwin & Forbes, hardware, loss $50, 900, in
surance $500; Reems. Martin & Co., general
merchandise. loss S30,000 insurance $4,000.
Other losses range from $4,000 down to $500.
The case of Denison D. Dana. Treasurer of
the Douglas Ak Manufacturing Company has
been taken in hand by the Boston police. A
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with embezzling S25,0O0 from the company.
This is not regarded as more than a small part
of what he actually took, but it was necessary
that particular sum should've specified, and
the facts we're not at hand to substantiate an
allegation as to the whole amount
"A German daily of Milwaukee devoted a
page to the opinions of the German press of
the country on the much agitated question of
national German-American holiday which it
is proposed to be celebrated annually by the
German-Americans all over the country. The
paper sent out 81 circulars to German dailies
in all parts of the United States, and the
answers received show that great majority of
them are in favor of such holiday, although
some of the prominent papers are opposed
to it.
An accident, which may result in the death
of one man and the permanent injury of
another, occurred yesterday afternoon in the
sewer opposite No. East Sixteenth street.
New York. A quantity of sewer gas was
ignited by candle in the hands of workman,
and in a moment fountain of flame rushed up
the manhole l6 feet high Two of the men
were enveloped In the flames and other two
saved themselves by falling face foremost into
the stream running through the bottom of the
sewer.
AS the Sheriff of Butler county, Kan, was
taking Robert Snyder, who about a month ago
murdered his wife and mother-in-aw to the
Court House for preliminary hearing, mob
formed and made a rush for the prisoner with
the intention of lynchi1g him. A number of
deputies were with the Sheriff and pitched
battle ensued, which resulted disastrously for
the lynchers No one was killed but SNYDER
was struck in the shoulder with bullet The
Sheriff finally ran the prisoner into the Court
House.
The draw span of the Thames river,
Conn.,, bridge, on the New York, Providence
and Boston Railroad, was swung into place
yesterday afternoon. The elevations and con-
nections were exactly as calculated. This is
the longest draw span in the world-503 feet,
full length; clear opening, 225 feet each side of
the central pier. The bridge was designed by
A. +. Boiler, and constructed by the Union
Bridge Company at the Athens shop. Trains
will probably be running over the bridge by Oc-
tober l.
AT Montreal, Canada, the Dominion Labor
Congress yesterday passed resolutions approx
ing the eight-hour movement Henry Georges
land taxation scheme, the appointment of a
compulsory board of arbitration for all disputes
between laborer and employer and asking the
Government to pass law compelling all cigar
dealers to destroy their empty boxes. Day
labor for bakers was encouraged, and female
typesetters, it was declared. should receive the
same pay as men or be prevented from work
ing Ottawa was agreed on as the next place
of meeting.
The Senate Committee on Irrigation ar
rived in El Paso, Tex, yesterday They were
met by committee from the City Council and
driven in carriages to the City Hall, where
short addresses were made, explaining the me-
cessity of irrigation and touching upon the ben
eft to be derived by the Mills reservoir. Colonel
Mills stated that the value of the land which
would be submerged would amount to about
100000, and the estimated cost of constructing
the dam $4,000, but that it would afford am
pie water to lrrigate 10 200 acres of land in
Mexico and nearly as much on this side.
-Encroachments by boomers and intended
settlers upon the Sioux reservation have caused
the Interior Department to station a number
OF companies of regulars across the river at
Fort Pierre to preserve order. Trouble is
feared. A party of Government surveyors is
also on the spot surveying off a mile square
allotted to the Northwestern Railroad Com
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