Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| The fire at the Cameron Colliery, at Shamo-
kin, Pa, is thought to be under control.
| Ex-Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, denies that
he is candidate for the United States Senate.
The builders strike at Wheeling is ex-
| pected to be settled soon by mutual conces-
| sions.
Boomers are congregated around Arkansas
City awaiting the opening of the Cherokee strip
| to settlement.
State Senator B. H. Oxley has been ap-
| pointed Librarian and Adiutant General Of
| West Virginia.
The missionary steamer Glad Tidings, re-
| ported to be lost at sea, has arrived safely at
Port Simpson, B. c.
--Mortgages to the amount of s., loO, 600 on the
Jacksonville and Southeastern Railway Com
pany have been foreclosed.
"A man named Holmes. his wife and two
children were murdered for few dollars in the
Inoian Territory by outlaws.
-Brocky Smith has been convicted of muir
der in the first degree for the killing of Mrs
Byron at Cincinnati Smith pleaded insanity.
Six men got into fight Friday at Ritzville,
Wash, over the ownership of some hay. Four
were wounded, l. G. and Virgil Wilson fatally.
Rev. Barker Shields. a revivalist at Dan
vile, ILL.,, has been threatened with violence,
and now conducts meetings guarded by armed
disciples.
-Thirty-four applications for liquor licenses
will be made at the next term of the Beaver
(Pa.) County Court The w. c. T. q. will
demonstrate.
the killing of George Waltham and d. Cook by
w. A. Gardner and w. E. Carmichael. A
Sheritf's posse is hunting the murderers.
Several thousand employees of the cotton
mills at Lancaster, Pa. will work hereafter but
ten hours a day in compliance with the recent
act of Legislature. Eleven hours has hereto
fore constituted days work.
-Chauncey NJ. Depew denies that he con-
templates resgnIng as President of the New
York Central Railroad to prepare as a can
didate for the Presidency in 1872. MIR. Depew
says there is no truth whatever in the report
Three men were probably fatally injured in
wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul fast mail train and freight tram at Oak.
wood, Wis, yesterday morning. The injured
men are Engineer Carroll and his fireman, OF
the passenger train, and the rear brakeman of
the freight. The damage will exceed $780, 0C0.
AT New York John Griscom was found
dead in bed yesterday morning, having COM
mitted suicide with Illuminating gas. He had
attached a rubber tube to the gas burner,
turned on the gas and buried his head under
the bedclothing with the end of the tube next
his mouth. The suicide was man of some
prominence in the scientific world and in rail-
road circles.
John L. Spencer well-known farmer of
Somerset county, N. j., has disappeared from
his home, and it is reported that startling ir-
regularities have been discovered in his busi-
ness and personal accounts. A number of
notes on which he has secured money from
Plainfield and Newark banks are said to bear
forged Endorsements. Speculation is supposed
to have led to his downfall.
The large number of English horses ex-
ported in 1889 proves that the demand for
them abroad is unabated. Over Il, 900 were
sold away from the country last year, and fears
having been expressed that the English stock
is in danger of deterioration by the loss of its
best blood, the London Era assures its fellow
countrymen of fact which may be interesting
to buyers, that although the conhding for
eigners pay for the BEST they by no means get
the best.