Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-22
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

The Central Pacific snow blockade has been
lifted, and trains are again running on schedule
time
"A fire at Toledo, O., yesterday. destroyed
property worth Sl04, 500 on which there was On
Insurance of $61 5OO
The seasons total rainfall in San Francisco
amounts to 80 inches, Just two inches less than
the famous season Of 1861
Over 100 miners employed in the mines in
Springfield, H., are out on strike because OF
18th.
The life of the Legislature of Montana ex-
pired Thursday by constitutional limit, and
both Houses adjourned sine die. The treasury
is empty.
The wheat crop in Northern Ohio has not
suffered any by the cold wave. The ground
being bare of snow, damage may result II IL
thaws suddenly.
Samuel Bayless, of Ft Wayne who went q
days without food or liquids. owing to his IN.
ability to swallow because OF consumption OF
the throat, is dead.
"A dispatch from San Angelo, Tex, says the
Presidents proclamation oJ1sting the cattlemen
from the Cherokee strip will entail heavy losses
TO stockmen of Texas.
Eight men were hurt yesterday, but none
fatally, by the dropping of the roof OF the
Grand Opera House in Philadelphia, while re-
pairs were being made.
The Toledo Pump Company's works and
property have been taken possession of by the
sheriH to satisfy claim @ OF SlSGEO OF the the Mer M
total one.
During q heavy thunder storm Saunders
Buckley and horse, which he was driving,
were killed near Gambia statation, o. A female
cousin received injuries which will probably
prove fatal.
1T is stated that the rumored resignation Of
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson has
taken definite shape, and that in very short
time he will certainly sever his connection with
the Postoff1ce Department
The jury in Bishop Dubs' case returned
verdict at noon yesterday. He was found
guilty and suspended from office until the
meeting of the general conference in Septem-
Der, 1881, when the case will be reopened.
So far as is known, the recent cold wave
was not severe enough to cause any damage to
winter wheat in Missouri and Kansas. The
weather in those States has moderated consld-
erably during the past "a hours. and it is
thought the crop will be affected.
-Jo. Jolliver, butcher. was probably fatally
assaulted in the Kankakee, Ill, insane asylum
by patient named John Hoffman. JolliVer
had just split beef carcass in Two, and was
STOPPING over when Hoffman caught the eight
pound cleaver and sliced off part of his skull,
leaving the brain exposed.
The transatlantic steamship companies
are opening the season Of quick voyages across
the Atlantic by putting into active service the
noted racers Of summer travel. The Inman
Line racer City of Paris started on her return
trip Thursday, and cablegram from Queens
town announced the sailing from that port of
the Teutonic, the White Star Lines standard
bearer.
Commissioner Croft, Of the General Land
Office, has rendered decision in the cele-
brated Peralta grant case in Arizona, in which
he holds that'no grant of she character claimed
was ever made. He decides against the
claimants on every point, and orders the case
stricken from the Surveyor Generals docket.
The claim has been many years before the de-
partment, ana embraces about 1000 900 acres in
the central part of Arizona
AT Petersburg, Va. an angry looking cloud
passed over, enVelOping the city in darkness
for about ten minutes. Lamps and gas had to
be lighted to enable people to see what they
were about Many people were frightened by
the appearance of the cloud, which came from
the west and Travelled due east. The people in
the surrounding country were also scared by
the sudden darkness. The cloud also passed
over BurkvIlle, 90 miles west.