Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Mr.. Justice Brewer will take his seat upon
| the Supreme Bench on the reassembling OF the
court on January6
The total production of the mills at Fall
River, Mass, for 1889 with the week ending
last Saturday, was 100000 pieces. or No,OOO
| less than 1883
M. Naquet. Boulancist, whose election to
| the French Chamber of Deputies was recently
| declared invalid by that body, has issued a
manifesto in which he says he will again seek
| election in the Fifth ACCOMPLISHMENT OF Paris
Captain Edward Harlan, of Marshall, ILL.,,
who ran for Congress in that Congressional dis
trict in the last election, has been appointed a
special agent of the Treasury Department, TO
take the place made vacant by the resignation
of John Reeves.
AT a meeting of the Chicago Council last
night the bond of Frederick II. Marsh, the
new Chief of Police was approved, and reso-
luton, in the nature of an Introduction to him
TO suppress gambling in the city, was passed by
a vote of IS to 8.
While four boys between the ages OF and
s years were playing under the edge OF sand
bank in the eastern portion Of jackson, Tenn,
the bank caved in, burying the little felloWs
under about ten feet of sand. Life was extinct
before they could be got out
While four little boys, aged between and
years. were playing last evening under the
edge of a sand bank in the eastern part OF Jack-
son. Tenn, the bank caved in, burying them
under about ten feet of sand. Before they
could be rescued life was extinct.
Governor Jackson, of Maryland, in his
message to the Legislature, which meets to-
day, will recommend general law for tax on
the gross receipts of foreign corporations and
the repeal of all laws exemptlng from taxation
corporations other than religious and charita-
BILE.
"A dispatch from st. Petersburg states.that
another Nihilist plot to assassinate the Gar
has been discovered at the Imperial Palace
Among those implicated were number of the
inmates OF the palace, several of whom were
arrested in the passages. One OF the consp1ra-
tors, while resisting arrest, was killed by an
officer of the guard.
The Dublin Freeman sJouT1dI says that Mr.
Parnell has instructed Mr.. Lewis, his counsel,
to obtain for him at the earliest possible
moment the citation to appear and defend him
self in the suit for divorce brought by Captain
O'Shea against his wife, in which Mr.. Parnell Is
named as a correspondent. Mr.. Parnell, the
paper says desires to settle this issue as
quickly as possible.
The funeral services over the remains of Rob
ert Browning took place at Westminster "A Nbey,
London, yesterday. The body was placed in a
polished pine coffin, on which was small brass
plate bearing the dates of the birth and death
of the poet. Wreaths from Lord Tennyson and
Miss Browning were placed on the top OF the
coffin. Wreaths were sent by many other per-
sons including Henry Irving, Mr. Bancroft
Sir John Miliais, Mr.. Alma -Tadema and Sir
Theodore Martin.
While four men were engaged in weighing
iron at the Ontario rolling mills yesterday
gearing of the scales, which were guaranteed
to stand weight of Is tons, suddenly gave
way. and caused n tons of metal to fall on the
men. Two of them, George Head and William
McGuire were instantly killed. William ].
Coulter and Richard Heath were badly but not
fatally wounded. The scales were thoroughly
overhauled the night previous and found TO be
apparently all right.
The trustees of the bondholders of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, under
the act of 1884 and the mortgage of lS4S, yester-
day filed bills in the Circuit Court for WASH
ington county, Nd, and the Supreme Court of
the District of Colum bia, in equity, asking for
the appointment OF a receiver to take charge Of
the canal, to borrow money to repair it and
operate it The trustees say that it is a mis-
take to believe that the day for successful
canals is past. They do not want any more
political management of the canal, though.