Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

John Greer & Co., woolen mill proprietors
of Philadelphia, assigned yesterday.
Lewis B. White, Buffalo bookkeeper, miss
inc. So is $1,000 OF his employers money.
| Owing to the criticisms of the press Ann
Arbor will permit no m ore sparring in her field
day sports.
"A bad citizen named Owen Smith whipped
| two policemen of Burlington Ia, who tried to
| arrest him. and escaped.
The strike of the Toronto bricklayers and
laborefs has been settled under an agreement
| which is to last five years.
| Sixty valuable dogs, property of the Rad
| nor Hunt Club of Philadelphia, have been
killed to stamp out rabies.
Illinois contractors are charged with violat-
| ing the Alien Contract Labor law and proceed-
| ings will be instituted against them.
"A boy named Recon was burned to death at
| Payson, Utah, by the explosion OF can OF
petroleum he had placed on the stove
| The Canadian Steamship Company an
| nounce their intention of resuming steamship
service between Vancouver and San FRANCISCO.
| The Ryuse Planning mill, located in Kan
| sas City. Kan, was burned to the ground at
| o'clock yesterday morning. Loss, S5o,OOo; unln-
sured.
at Koshena Indian Agency, Wisconsin, has had
the effect of quieting the red mans outburst
of rage.
The Farmers Alliance of Minnesota are
ticket in the field. Politicians are somewhat
uneasy.
The story that Mr.. Pullman would take
s5OC00OO worth of Worlds Fair stock il he
were allowed to select the site, is denied by his
private secretary.
The body of Captain George Poor, an old
river man, who suicided in the MISSISSIPPI
Tuesday morning, was found floating at Hick-
man, Ill. yesterday.
Two highwaymen are said to have robbed
mail carrier of s.. 600 in currency, which he was
conveying to the Mine-la-Motte, Mo-, to be used
in paying off the men.
The New Bedford whaling bark Lancer,
Captain Cleveland commanding has been
wrecked at Nladivostock, in the Japan Sea.
The crew were saved.
Three negroes were hung at Linden. Tex,
yesterday for numbering James McGregor,
white man, of Atlanta, Tex. They all con-
fessed and died repenting.
"A collision on the Des Moines Union
wrecked Wabash engine. smashed a coach,
hurt a brakeman's hand and blockaded the
track several hours. Loss. 100000.
An insane man with Winchester has taken
possession of a lumber camp at Chippewa Falls,
Wis. People are terrorized, and the horses and
mules are suffering for lack of attention.
AT Albany yesterday ex-Recorder Anthony
Gould was arrested, charged with embeZzing
SIS, 900 from the CITY National Bank, through
collusion with defaulting Bookkeeper Whitney.
Hon. Lee +. Wilson, of Shelbyville. Ind,
has been found guilty of violating the pension
laws. Sentence was suspended. He had had
IL widowed pensioners. who were dropped1rom
the rolls on remarrying, restored.
The report that Prof. Alfred II. Welsh,
formerly of the Ohio State University. was
seen at the Palmer House. Chicago with
strange woman turns out false. He died Of
perotonitis at Huron, O., last August.
Captain Kennedy. of the Tenth United
States Cavalry left Tombstone, AIiz., yester-
day with 81 colored troops and Indian trailers
from Fort Grant for the Mexican frontier. He
was to be joined at Bisbee by Huachuha
troops
Martin BRYANT colored, and Sarah c.
Williams white, were arrested at Columbus
yesterday for the alleged killing of Elmer
Bradford, aged years. for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the life insurance that had been placed
on him.
in the Cleveland street, London, scandal, have
fallen out at Seattle, WASH, where they have
been for some time, and Hammond has offered
Sl2500 to retain the boy in his possession lest
he might make ugly disclosures.
-Frederict T. Mcleod, an ex-mInister. found
guilty in Judge Hawes court of living with a
woman in Chicago when he had legal wife in
Nova Scotia, whom he married while preach
ing there, was sentenced yesterday morning to
one year in the House of Correction. the
heaviest punishment provided by the statute,
Judge King of the New Orleans Civil Dis
trict Court finds for the plaintiff Jordan II
AycOck. VINO sueu FRANK A Lee, a broker for
the value of two stolen college bonds which
Lee had purchased among others for Aycock.
The Court also decided in favor of Lee as d
against the warrantors of whom he purchased
the bonds.
The proposed lottery amendment to the |
Louisiana State Constitution will be introduced |
tomorrow. 1t provides for ST. GOO 900 to be paid
annually into the State Treasury by John A. |
Morris and associates for 25 years, for the ben
eft of public schools. levees. charities and pen
sions and for New Orleans drainage and sani- |
tarY purposes.