Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-04
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Pacific mail steamer China has again
brok en- the record from San Francisco to Hong
Kong.
An early morning fire in New York de-
stroyed property to the amount of $4,000 and
burned six horses. A number of persons mar
rowly escaped.
w. P. McMurtry, President of the Fresno,
CaL Water Works, sold the entire plant to the
Municipal Investment Company, of Chicago
and London, for $500. 600.
AT Brainerd. Mimi, Charles SeArle and
William Paine, the young men charged with
robbing the Northern Pacific Express Company
of Sl5, 600, were acquitted.
The French freight steamer Panama, Cap
tain Chabot, which left Bordeaux March 13 for
New York is stranded at Jones Inlet. The
Panama registers ,S57 tons.
"A dinner was given at the White House
Wednesday night by the President and Mrs.
Harrison in honor of Mr.. Whitelaw Reid
United States Minister to France.
New York Produce Exchange members are
jubilant over the decision of the St. Louis
Board of Trade to use New York market quo
tations instead of the Chicago prices.
There was big freight smashup on the
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
near Garrisons caused by falling rock. Freight
cars were piled up in heaps and several train
men injured.
"A number of prominent women met at
W
address calling upon the women of America for
contributions for bronze statue to be
presented to France as a token of friendship.
Some person sent H G. Perster, boot and
shoe merchant of Petoskey, Mich, several
dynamite cartridges in a box of shoes. Fortu-
nately the cartridges were frozen and did not
thaw out during the transit, the plot being thus
thwarted.
Fast Day was observed as usual throughout
Massachusetts and New Hampshire yesterday.
Banks and exchanges were closed and public
and mercantile business generally suspended,
as we're also the evening editions of daily
papers in Boston and most other New England
cities.
AT Chattanooga, Tenn, Richard Catron,
while resisting arrest shot and killed Deputy
Sheriff George Gibson and seriously wounded
Deputy Sheriff Charles Hosett. While en-
deavoring to escape Catron was shot by Deputy
Sheriff Dow through the bowels and may die.
A warrant was out against him for highway
robbery.
-Rumor has it that the Sc rvian administra-
tion has again become almost thoroughly Rus
sianized, through the quiet but well-direct cted
efforts of exQueen Natalie, and the rupture
between Servia and Bulgaria is merely to go
far enough to afford the Gar a pretext for
armed interference in the ostensible interest of
peace.
Sir Francis De Winton, who was connected
with the Emin Pasha Relief Committee, Is bit
terly indignant with Emin Pasha for entering
Ine Oerlnau stINlCe Slr. FRANCIS says ne re-
CARDS Enin as man who is absolutely devoid
of gratitude and generosity and declares that
his course will lower him in the estimation of
the world.
AT Tacoma, Wash, Guthrie & Co. nave re-
ceived news from the bark Embleton, which
was dIsmasted last fall, while en- route from
England to Tacoma and supposed to be lost.
Advices are that she left the Falkland Islands
late in February. having put in for repairs.
1t will take her three months to reach here, SO
she will arrive about the last of May.
-Rawlins county, Kan, near the Colorado
line, is excited over the finding of the body of
a boy. named Chleboard, in an old we'll. Sew
eral other members of the Chleboard family
have mysteriously disappeared within the last
few years, and it is now thought they have all
been murdered by their relatives. Grocfan