Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-13
LATE NEWS TN BRIEF.


The present year will see great boom IN
the Wisconsin iron and gold helds.
Thomas Kane, the wife murderer, was
hanged in Toronto, Canada, yesterday.
"A 4year-old boy named Charles Brown fell
into vat of hot grease at Ypstlant1i Mich, ana
died from its injuries.
Miss Tart of White Bear Lake, sued DR..
Roman, of st. Paul, because he would not marry
her, and got 5000 damages.
Cooper & Hewitts iron works in Warren
county, N. J., resumed operations yesterday
after total suspension Of two years.
Three members of family were killed and
two almost drowned in a landslide at Florence,
Ore. mail carrier brought the news TO
Eugene
Two express trains on the Canadian Pacific
eoll1ded near Montreal yesterday: Express
Messenger Robert N. Thompson, Of Kensing-
ton, was killed. 'Ff
The ice in the Missouri at Chamberlain. 8.
D., is rotting rapidly, but settlers continue to
cross in large numbers. It Is feared that acct-
dents will occur.
rFire destroyed house near Bay City,
Mich, Tuesday evening. A l0-months'- old
baby perished in 1the flames The mother
Is now raving maniac.
R. A. Williams, one Of the labor agents at
work in North Carolina. reports that ne alone
has sent q, 900 negroes out of the State. He
has demands for 5000 more.
Claude Perry's residence at Lake View,
Mich, burned and baby months old was so
badly scorched that its feet and hands dropped
on before death came to its relief.
1t is stated that the object Of United States
Minister Fosters visit to the city OF Mexico is
to aid in establishing reciprocity between the
United States and the Mexican Republic
1t is estimated that the liabilities of the
firm OF Franklin Woodruff q Co., New York.
which failed Tuesday, viii be about $4,000,
with nominal assets enough to more than cover
that amount.
The Philadelphia Law and Order Society
have determined to make war on the con-
stables in that city. It is claimed that the con-
stables have failed to make returns against
ViOlators of the law.
Fire was discovered yesterday morning in
a garrett over the fourth floor of the Roman
Catholic Orphan Asylum, New York. AL Of
the 414 orphan children escaped safely. The
loss will amount to $4,000
The papers in the Anglo-Portuguese dispute
are soon to be presented to Parliament. Sir
James Ferguson says they will serve largely to
dispel the hosti feeling now being manifested
against the English by the Portuguese.
James W. sykes, of Chicago. has been
granted a new trial by the Supreme Court. He
was tried and sentenced to the penitentiary for
two years for defrauding the Merchants Loan
and Trust Company by means Of false ware
house receipts.
Prof. Louis Hast, q prominent musician Of
Louisville, walked into hardware store at that
place, yesterday, purchased razor, barred his
throat and before the atfrightened clerk could
interfere. drew 1t several times across his
jugular vein, dying In few minutes.
Francis Duffy, New York newspaper ad-
VertiSing solicitor, has sued Potter Palmer, of
Chicago. fog SIS 900 damages for the loss of an
oyercoat. This may be considered big price
Tor coat, but In one OF the pockets was
list of newspaper advertisers, with their ratings,
the most complete IN the country.
The property of A. W. Morris & Co.. Mon
treal, manufacturers Of binder twine and cord
age, who assigned some weeks ago, is offered
for sale. The probable purchaser is an Ameri-
can syndicate. This is the only important fac
tory Of this kind in Canada, and by this deal the
syndicate will secure control of the Canadian
market.
Hon. William Powell Clayton, United
States Senator from Arkansas, in an address
was to give perfect freedom of action to the
negroes in the South. instead Of hamperlng
them in many directions as at present, and let
them work out the solution of the race problem
themselves.
Z Owing to the rescripts recently issued by
Emperor William to Prince Bismarck and
Baron Won Berlepsch, Prussian Minister of
Commerce, in regard to the labor question, and
His MajesIy's censures of the doings of the
political police, the Socialists have Withdrawn
their decision to organize universal labor
strike in May.
"A sensational story appeared in New
York paper about the marriage of Douglass
Green, a New York stock broker, to Mrs.
Snell-McCrea, the divorced wife Of Wiley o.
McCrea, and the daughter of the murdered
William Snell Of Chicago. Just after noon
Green withdrew from the firm Of Green &
Bateman, and sailed for Europe. 1t is said
that his wife, from whom he is separated, but
not divorced, is living.
An Ottawa dispatch says: Senator Read
proposes to call the attention of his brother
Senators to the proposal TO ship us cattle from
Canadian ports to Europe, without being
subject to now existing quarantine relations,
and will inquire whether or not IL is the inten-
ton of the Government to sanction such pro-
posal. The cattle quarantine regulations abso-
1utely prohibit anything Of the Kind, and there
is no intention to relax them.
The jury IN the third Navassa trial at Balti-
more, after being locked up all night brought
in a verdict yesterday morning. AS to the kill
ing of Samuel Marsh the jury finds Edward
Smith guilty of murder in the first degree and
Charles H. Smith, Charles n. Davis, Steve
Poters, Al Jones, James H. Robinson, James
Phillips, Amos Lee, James johnson, Caesar
Fisher, Henry Jones and Edmund Francis
guilty of manSlaughter; George 8. Key, Jim
Tasker, Moses Williams, Norman Wooster and
Edward WoOdfork not guilty. As to the kill
ing of William T. Shea, all Of the defendants
are not guilty. The body of Shea has never
been found.