Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-20
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Phoenix Cigar Factory. Chicago, will
start up to-day with about 100 non-unlon men
from Detroit, Milwaukee and other points,
Just before adjourning the North Dakota
Legislature rejected all of the nominations sent
in by Governor Miller. He will commission the
officers anyhow.
Representative Dalzell announces that
owing to the condition of his health, which has
not been vigorous since ne had the grip he will
not be able to accompany the committee to Ar
kansas to investigate the murder of John NJ.
Clayton.
AT Albany, n. Y, while Mrs Battersby.
wife of County Treasurer John Battersby, was
out riding her team took fright and ran away
Mrs. Battersby was thrown violently to the
pavement, sustaining injuries from which she
died four hours later.
The court martial convened at Mare Island
to try Commander ]. B. Coghlan, of the u g.
Steamer Mohican, for publicly criticising the
Navy, naval officials and navy discipline, COM
pleted Its labors yesterday, and the findings
have been sent to Washington.
i'm regard to the rumor that Lester B.
Faulkner the bank wrecker, had feigned death
and escaped to Mexico, DIR. A. 7. Bacon tele-
graphs from Canaseraga, n. Y, as follows:
Lester B. Faulkner died at my house January
q, 1890 of pneumonia"
I'm the Perrin case at Ashland, Wis, Dis
trict Attorney Rossman yesterday charged that
at least two of the jurors were bribed the first
night after they were chosen. The District
Attorney proposes to push a thorough investi
CATION, and says he WI implicate a number of
prominent persons.
"A Pan Handle engineer discovered little
child seated on tie, against the rail. as his
train was approaching Hartford City, Ind, yes-
terday. Climbing down on to the pilot he sue
ceeded in pushing the little one out of the way
of the engine with his foot, The child was
badly frightened, but unhurt
AT Charleston. s. c., the trial of Robert
James, who hired two negroes to murder his
father in order that he,might inherit his estate,
James gave the negroes $500 each for their
bloody work, and the jury found him guilty of
murder in the first degree. He was remanded
for sentence.
"A party was given at the house of Finley
Caskey in OrrvIlle. O., Monday night. During
the evening young Caskey, aged q became
jealous of the attentions paid to Alice Hupp,
his sweetheart. by other young men. Leaving
the house he shot himself in the forehead with
revolver. Caskey is alive, but the physicians
say he will die --.
Rev. ]. L. Carmichael pastor of the Baptist
Church at Lathrop. Mo-, has applied for a d.
Women's Christian Temperance Union of that
place, ard also one of the leading organizers of
the recent crusade movement in Clinton
county. Mr.. Carmichael accuses his wife of
intimacy with one of the members of his church.
AN alibi has spoiled the theory the Chicago
ponce were working on in the Bingham mur-
der. Mrs. McGarvey. the mother of the mur-
dered woman, says: Major Bingham, the hus-
band OF Jennie, is absolutely innocent of any
part IN her death. He called on me Sun
day evening and was with me until after 8
O'Clock. know he was desperately in love
with Jennie, but he did not murder her."