Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-31
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ia State ball, attended by 5000 guests, was
giyen at the Royal Palace in Athens Tuesday
nignt
kansas officers think they have discovered
the notorious Bender family in the vicinity OF
Niles. Mich.
General Orlando Smith has been appointed
manager of the Cincinnati, Washington ana
Baltimore Railroad recently bought py tne
Purchasing Committee represented py =. n'
Bacon.
Later reports confirm the rumor Of great
suffering in the Dakotas. Mr.. Marvin. C1ai,-
man of the st. Paul Relief Conmittee ise,s eS
in distress.
Joseph Bridge, a prominent farmer OF
Unity township, was struck bv the day express
at Latrobe, yesterday morning, and lnstantiy
killed. He was about 65 years old ana nVeo
three miles from Latrobe.
The Indiana Board of Agriculture has ad-
vices from many of the northern and nortn-
western counties, saying that cholera is epl.
demic and that hundreds of hogs are dying
daily and the disease steadily increasing.
Willard N. Fos, the Manchester, N. h, boy
now at San Diego Cal, who was Ire recently zen ar
rested on the charge of obtaining S5oyv t unuet
false pretenses, teiegraphs that the indictment
against him has been quashed, and that IL was
blackmailing scheme
DIR. Schweinfurth, the we'll known African
traveller, has written to the Ndttona! GGzeue
that letters from Emin Pasha, which nave
reached Captain Wissmann, Justify tne e4pec-
tation that Emin Pasha and Henry M. Stanley
will soon arrive at Mpwapwa.
The largest discovery Of zinc ore, known as
dry bone, ever made in this vicinity is reporteo
on land owned by Morris Cavanaugh on Ine
Platte river, tour miles from Potosi, WIS. inc
vein is said to be 10 feet wide, feet tnlck
and three-quarters of mile long. The quality
is of the best.
The Mexican State Department has re-
ceived a note from Mr.. Blaine, stating that tne
Objectionable address of MIR. MizDer on MS re-
ception as Minister OF the United stases AZ
Costa Rica was delivered without authority
from the United States Government and that
he strongly disapproves Of It.
-Adyices from Brisbane state that the
natives of Southwest New Guinea have mas
sacred Rev. Mr.. Savage, who was sent out Dy
teachers and the crew of the cutter Mary be-
longing to the society. The steamer Albatross,
belonging to the Queensland Government, has
been dispatched to the scene OF the murders.
The President made the following appoint
ments in the navy yesterday: W. A. WINDSOR
to be Chief Engineer with the rank OF Com
mander: William B. Caperton to be Lieuten-
ant; Harry M. Hodges to be Lieutenant;
James A. King to be Paymaster, with rank OF
Hotcombe to be Lieutenants, Junior grade.
The Yale corporation has established q
Professorship of Biblical Literature in the aca-
demical department. The foundation for the
professorship is $50, ,000 given by a few men who
desire their names to remain unknown. The
object of the new chair Of instruction is, as ex-
pressed by the donors, to impart an intelligent
apprehension of the English Bible, with view
to stimulating an earnest Christian falth and
developing manly Christian life.
AT Maryborough, Ireland, yesterday the
persons who were convicted of completely in
the murder of Police Inspector Martin, at
Gweedore, in February last, were arraigned for
sentence. William Coll, who was convicted of
manslaughter was sentenced to ten years
penal servitude. Two other of the prisoners
were sentenced to seven years penal servitude
each, one to five years penal servitude, and
ten to terms ranging from two to six months
confinement in jail
1t is reported that the deal between the
Association Brewers of st. Louis and the COM
bination of Eastern and foreign capitalists,
commonly denominated IAN English syndi-
cate" has practically been concluded, and
there remains only the formal signing of papers
OF transfer to make the sale Of all the brewing
properties controlled by the association an &C
complished fact. The capitalization of the
association is s5,25o, 600. The association in
cludes every brewery in the city. except the
Anhauser- Rusch Iemps and the Obert