Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-23
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

AT Providence, R. L. four strangers beat
roulette wheel for sl1, 700 by plasteringiI
| President Corbin, of the Reading Railroad.
prohibits employees drinking Whne on outy
| under penalty OF discharge.
| The Canadian Government has decided tc
| expend $4,000 more or s30 OOO IN all purchasing
| seed wheat for Northwest farmers
| -Dingledy Bros hardware store, Youngs
| town. o. was burglarized by tramps yesterday,
| and quantity of fine goods stolen
AT Madrid forged notes TO the amount OF
500 900 pesetas have been discovered IN pack
| age of funds brought to bank from seville.
| w lillian Jones, driver for Chemical Com.
pany No l, a victim of the Bowen Merrill Com.
| pany disaster at indianapolis, died yesterday.
| D. O. Hillegas, Reading tobacco dealer.
who failed recently, offers to settle at ~ cents
on the dollar Liabilities, Sl73,0Oo; assets, SlS,-
700
Mrs. Elizabeth Smiley. the oldest resident
| of Dunbar, Pa, died yesterday. aged 9S. Her
| father and mother died at the ages OF l04 and
102 respectively.
The bodies of four colored laborers were
found yesterday in the woods near Blocton,
| Ala. Three had been shot and one killed with
| an ak. No clew to the murderers.
| Ten skeletons were discovered by exca-
| vators, near Pierre. s. d. They are the remains
| of Henry Mackenzie. wife and friends who
were massacred by Sioux Indians, % years
ago.
| the larry at the Hill Farm Works. near Dun.
bar, Pa, had his feet caught in the guard rail:
He was thrown under the car and received fatal
injuries.
z. g. Ricketts,, the Democratic Prosecuting
Attorney of Cabell county, W. Va, has been
removed from office for intemperance. He is
one of the ablest men of the State, but has been
ruined by dissipation.
"A freight train went through a trestle on
the Georgia Pacific yesterday. CONDUCTOR
Mitchell was killed, and four trainmen seriously
and perhaps fatally injured. The officials think
the trestle had been tampered with.
The British steamer Virent, from Suliua,
Roumania for London has been abandoned at
sea with her shaft broken. The captain and
eight of her crew have landed at FerroL The
mate and IA other men belonging to the crew
were lost.
The Rev. DR.. Duncan McGregor, a we'll
past four years pastor of the Carroll Park
Methodist Church in that city, Friday night
announced his conversion from Methodlsm TO
the Baptist faith.
Governor Miller of North Dakota, has re-
fused to sign the bill allowing two years instead
of one for the redemption of mortgaged prop
erty, on account of advices from loan agents,
stating that the measure would result in hnan-
cial disaster to the State.
John Conklin, of Harrisburg. Pa, who was
an official of the Iron and Steel Association. OF
the United States, has been appointed by
Secretary Window special inspector under
the Alien Contract Labor law. His pay will
be $4 a day and So a day for expenses.
The Russian Government has abandoned
the prosecution of the woman Tchebrikov, who
was charged with writing and sending to the
Gear letter threatening that unless he modi-
fled his reactionary policy he would meet the
fate of Peter ILL, Paul l. and Alexander II.
"A special from San Francisco says that
fast steamer is being fitted out there for seal
poaching in Behring Sea by company of local
aud Eastern capitalists. The Government
revenue steamers can make only eight knots an
hour, while the pirate is expected to make Il
Governor Merriam has issued acquisitions
on Governor Toole, of Montana, for Charles
A. Searle and William 9. Paine, arrested at
Missoula, Thursday night, the charge of
robbing the Northern Pacific Express Com
pany Of sl5, 900 at Brainerd, Mimi, eight months
ago.
-Ex-Congressman John NJ. Glover, of st.
Louis. who spends much of his time now in
New York and Washington. recently met with
a rare stroke of luck. He found in st. Louis
a few years ago, a Swedish inventor who had
made some wonderful discoveries in the way of
electrical and steam appliances He investi-
gated them, had faith in them, and secured
fine string of patents. He is confident that he
has million dollars in sight.