Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Major Serpa Pinto has gone to the Portu-
guese colony of Mossamedis.
IS. W. Yeagley defaulting clerk Of Hills
dale Mich, has been captured in Chicago.
James P. Joy, Chicago lumber broker. as
signed yesterday. Liabilities are placed at
So. 600 and the assets SIS 900.
The Iowa Senate has passed the bill re-
duclng the maximum rate of interest on nego-
table paper from 10 to s per cent.
Rust Bros. & Co.'s mill at Bay City, Mich,
was burned at o'clock yesterday morning by
incendiaries. The loss will reach So, 900. In
sured.
Miss Katie OFT. teacher in the Cincinnati
schools, shot herself through the temple az
her home in fit of dependency caused by
overwork.
Two Russian artillery officers have been ar
rested at st. Petersburg on the charges of being
Nihilists. The night patrols of Cossack and
gendarnes have been increased.
The President has approved the acts for the
construction of bridges across the Mississippi
river near Lyons, Ia, across the Arkansas
river in the Indian Territory and at Ft. Smith,
Ark.
Secretary Proctor has authorized the
Mississippi River Commission to expend $4,000
for the immediate protection of the Morgansea
levee in Louisiana, reported in danger Of
destruction.
The village of Gampel. Switzerland has
been almost wholly destroyed by fire. Fully
three-fourths of the buildings were burned.
The loss is very heavy. Many of the villagers
were injured
John Mcdonald, a crazy man, was arrested
after desperate struggle on train at
Rochester, Pa. He claims TO live on a farm of
296 acres four miles back of Liverpool, and to
be worth $4,000.
The rig on the Hon. James Stocking lease,
near Washington, Pa, was DESTROYED by fire
yesterday The cable parted and the tools are
now at the bottom of the hole The loss will be
in the neighborhood of s., 600. Natural gas was
the cause.
Burglars last night entered the house Of
Alfred Smith, a Baltimore and Ohio employe,
at Berkeley Springs. w. Va, and secured 81, 800
in money The family were absent from the
house at the time, and the robbers succeeded
in getting Smiths entire savings.
1t has been discovered that a widow named
Payne, living in Memphis with her widowed
famous General "Fighting J0e'' Hooker A
movement is on foot to relieve the family's dis
tress, which will be contributed to by old SOL
diers of both armies.
The Farmers Alliance has addressed an
open letter to the Kansas delegation in Con-
gress, demanding legislation for the relief CT
the agricultural interests OF the State. Atten-
tion is called to the fact that single law firm
one city in Southern Kansas now has the
contract for the foreclosure of l,S00 mort
cages.
Jacob Rffner, aged so years. living at
Ritchie c. H., W. Va, walked to the home Of
Mrs. nay, q WIDOW OF %, ana introduced 01n-
self to the widow, stating that he understood
she wished to marry. They talked 20 minutes
and Mr.. Riffner started for Ritchie, secured
a license and returned with a minister and
before night they were married. Mr.. Rifner
is prosperous farmer.
-Four members of a gang of counterfeiters
have been arrested at Wheeling. Recently a
raid was made on the boathouse of Hiram
Lewis, where an extensive counterfeiter's outfit
was captured, with nearly $1,000 in bogus coin.
The gang escaped, but Saturday John Arm
stead and Thomas Beech. two members, were
arrested at Mason City, and yesterday another
raid was made and two others captured.
The remains of Benjamin A. Jones, the
paymasters clerk of the Marine Corps at
Washington. who disappeared in December,
were found floating in the Potomac yesterday.
Jones went away Christmas night. His wife
received letter from him next morning, say
ing that he would never return. His hat was
found in the river on the day following. An ex-
animation of Jones' accounts developed a
shortage of $500.
DIR. Hamilton, prominent citizen of North
port, l. l., committed suicide yesterday while
depressed by illness. For several weeks his
friends have feared that his mind was unbal-
anced. He has been watched closely. almost
constantly, but was left alone in his house for
few minutes yesterday. Hurriedly going to the
barn he drew a revolver which he had hidden
in his pocket and, placing the muzzle to his
breast, he pulled the trigger.