Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-09
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The long strike OF the Cabanas Tobacco
| Factory in Havana has been ended and the
men have resumed work.
Eight prisoners, among them two charged
with murder, escaped from the Springfield,
III, jail Tuesday night
Two of the famous Turner gang and five
| other prisoners escaped from the county jail at
Pinevflle, KY, Tuesday night.
"A collision between the fast mail and a
freight train at Howell, Wyo., demolished
both engines and severely injured Engineer
Wright and Mail Clerk McComb.
Sixteen dollars is all that a first class ticket
from st. Paul to Boston now costs over The
500 line. The Burlington has cut to Sl9.
The snow is three feet deep in Sweetwater
and Uintah counties, Wyoming, and the cattle
losses viii be the heaviest known for years.
-Westland Marston. the English poet and
tyre, the vocalist is seriously i'll with the dis
ease.
Olaf johnson and wife were killed by the
cars at Nashotah, near Oconomowoc, Wis,
Tuesday night. They were driving across the
track.
the sheriff at Chicago yesterday. Liabilities
estimated at 100000, with assets at about that
amount
Naomi Fairchild, of Chicago. is dead. She
claimed to be the widow of Colonel Babcook,
who was mysteriously murdered in Gardner,
ILL.,, in 1887.
The Western Union Telegraph building in
St Louis burned yesterday morning. The loss
is estimated at 100000 The fire is thought to
have been caused by an electric light wire.
&C. c. Remley, member of the Topolobam-
DO colony has written letter stating that the
colony is in bad shape He says it now con-
sists Of Ito people, mostly old and dissatisfied.
"A meeting of the holders of Lead Trust GER
tificates has been called for February 3. in New
York. 1t is semi-of1cially stated that good
statementwill be made, but no dividend will be
declared.
Yesterdays bond offerings were: Regis.
tered as $65 600 at 1045s; As registered, 1000
at 126; AIS registered, $500 at 1045S; AIS
coupon, 81, 800 at lO4sS All the AS and the As
at Log were accepted
Province of Marking, China, few days ago,
upward of hundred persons were drowned,
and number of boats were wrecked. and
large amount Of property of various kinds was
destroyed.
"A ship loaded with petroleum caught fire
burning oil escaped from the ship and, floating
Oil the tide way, set fire to three other vessels.
Great damage was done by the fire. A fireman
fell overheard and was drowned.
"A telegram has been received at the Lick
Observatory, from Prof. s. w. Burnham. chief
of the eclipse expedition to South America,
announcing that the observation of the eclipse
of the sun. December q was entirely success
full. The expedition is homeward bound.
The body of Mrs. G. ]. Lobin was found in
a rickety old tenement house. at Denver. with
the face horribly dishgured- Her husband has
been arrested on suspicion of having murdered
her. Mrs. Lobin was at one time leading st.
Louis BELLE Her brother is ex-Congressman
Stone, of st. Louis.
Governor Mellette, of South Dakota, sent
his first message to the Legislature yesterday.
The Governor estimates the deficiency for the
the first year of Statehood at Sl72905 g. He
nraSents a nlan whereby this dBficiAncV NAV he
done away with. The message favors compul.
sorry education, urges a liberal railroad policy
and indorses irrigation and the Australian
ballot system.