Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-10
LATE NEWS IN RRIEF.


-Auer & Ring. dealersin furs at No. 2l5 Race
street. Cincinnati have assigned to A. W. Gold
smith. Assets, $4,000; liabilities, Slo,VOo
Floods have been causing serious damage
| co crops, farm property and rallroaos along tne
| Green, Wabash and White rivers In Indiana.
The special House Committee. on the sil.
| colt defalcation yesterday completed lEs Dill
and report, and viii present them 10 the House
to-day.
1t is believed in London that the Cretan
question will soon be settled and the island de-
livered from the hands OF the Moslems and
| given to Greece.
Mrs, Gard. of Ashland, Wis., has been
arrested charged with attempting to murder
her husband. He was shot q month ago and
lies in a critical condition.
--Isadore Monasch, the defaulting Secretary
of the Minneapolis Turner Building Associa-
tion, was arrested Wednesday evening charged
with making away with funds of the society to
the amount Of nearly $50 900.
DIR. Beall a physician of Washington,
charged with robbing grave In the Congress
sional Cemetery, was last night convicted and
sentenced TO six months imprisonment in jail
and required to pay fine of 500.
The Maryland Democratic caucus Yesterday
morning renominated United States Senator E,
K Wilson to succeed himself The name Of
Governor jackson was not presented, and Mr..
Wilson was nominated by acclsmation.
Yesterdays bond offerings were as follows:
600 at lOl5z is registered, sT6 OOi at l26; ~ per
cents registered. S33500 at l045k. All the offers
were accepted except the s5O.00O as at l04Sz.
The libel suit of MIR. ParDeIl against the
Times is among the first cases that will come
before the Hilary sittings, which commence
next Saturday. The case will probably be
heard before the report of the Parnell Commis-
sion is published.
plates sending TO the Senate several important
nominations within day or two. Among
them will probably be Collectors of Customs
and Internal Revenue at Chicago. and post
masters at st. Louis and Baltimore.
The final papers of the treaty between the
United States and the Ceur d'Alene Indians
have been signed The treaty conveys 222O 600
acres of the most valuable part Of the Cour
d'Alene reservation, embracing thelargest por-
ton of the beautiful lake of the same name and
much rich mineral and fine agricultural land.
The third trial in the case of the State of
Kansas versus Mrs. Lucy Tunnison, SO years of
age, charged with poisoning her husband. was
brought to termination at Olathe yesterday;
One of the jurors was taken i'll Wednesday, and
yesterday the entire jury was discharged. A
motion is pending for the dismissal of the de-
fendant.
Il P. Ecoville, of Chicago, a nephew of
Guiteau, the assassin OF President Garneld. has
disappeared, and his whereabouts are unknown.
He was the secretary of building and loan
association, and it is alleged that he is short in
his accounts to the extent of between 5000 and
wife was sister of Guiteau.
Upon the application Of Captain O'Shea an
attachment has been issued against the Free
mans Journal in a suit for damages brought
by Captain O'Shea against that paper for its
comments upon him in connection with his suit
for divorce. In an interview Mr.. E Dwyer
Gray, the proprietor of the Journal said he was
ready to meet Captain o'Shea in any court
The supply of ice in New York City and
within re asonable reach is not sufhcient to fill
an wi fhraa WQaRa
The mild weather has increased the usual
winter consumption fully 40 per cent. Plenty
of old-fashioned zero weather within two
weeks is all that can avert D. genuine ice
famine. Boston is as badly of as New York.
Detectives have succeeded in recovering
$40, 900 worth of the $25,000 worth of goods out
of which Ellis q Co.. general merchants of
Carlton Place, Montreal. attempted to defraud
Montreal merchants. Ellis & Co. got away
safely with the rest of the property 1t is
learned that the firm treated Philadelphia
merchants to similar experience about three
years ago.
"A copy of the proposed extradition treaty
between the United States and Great Britain
has been received by the Canadian Minister of
Justice. The scope of the proposed treaty is
very wide, in contrast with the treaty of 1872
which contains only four offenses. If the pend
ing treaty is adopted legislation by the Domin-
ion Parliament will be necessary to bring
Canada under its provisions.
The steamer City Of Picking arrived at San
francisco from Hong kong ana Yokohama
yesterday. Chinese advices report the wreck
Of the British ship Nye Ghau, from Yarmouth,
N. s. on Protas Shoal November & Captain
Butler and eight men arrived at Hong Kong in
small boat four days later. Another boat
containing Mate Briggs and six men. is missing
The British gunboat Cockchafer left Hong
Kong in search of the boat, but returned with
out finding her.
There is a sensation in Montreal over the
blackballing of four of Montreal's leading citi-
zens from membership in the St James Club, the
swell organization of Montreal. One of those
blackballed is Mr.. B. ]. Coughlin. The great
est secrecy is maintained over the whole affair,
but it is whispered that the sole cause for the |
blackballing is the origin of the applicants.
When the affair gains publicity there will be |
great indignation in Irish circles, and reprisals
win probably be made by the Montreal Hunt |
Club. of which the gentlemen who have been |
refused admission to the St James are the &C
heads.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas bondhold- |
ers in Holland Will not assent to Olcott's plan |
of reorganization unless the income bonds are |
given voting power until they become fixed |
charge at the end Of five years 1t appears |
that about S. 600 600 of the bonds, out of total
of S2S 600 0O0 are held in London and Amster- |
dam. The BondhoIders' Committee at the lat |
ter city met on Tuesday and decided TO send |
one of their number, ]. DemereZ Oyens, to this |
country to try to bring matters to a harmoni- |
Gus conclusion. Mr.. Bretherton, Chairman of |
the English Committee, said that it would CO. |
operate with the Dutch interest.