Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-31
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The dissolution of the Western Passenger
| Association will be followed by war of rates.
| The French dispatch boat BouVet is Ashore
near Zanzibar. 1t is expected that she will be a
total wreck.
| The St Louis Academy of Music, in course
| OF erection, fell in a heap yesterday morning.
| Nobody was killed, and only one workman was
| slightly bruised
"A Papal consistory was held at Rome yes
terday. The Pope delivered an allocution, in
which ne emphasized his censure of the Gov
ernment's Ecclesiastical trusts bill. and con-
demned the deposition of the Bishop of Alta
mura, Italy.
Mrs, Charles F, Sautler, wife of Williams
burg IN. W druggist. has left her husband
and three children for the sake of a cOmpara-
tive stranger, Herman E, Sturcke. She took
with her all her jewelry and 81 2OO0, which she
drew from the bank.
The article by Mr.. Gladstone, favor
ing revival of the practice of confession in
England, was written As years ago. Mr.. Glad
stone has requested the editor who Just
publlshed 1t as representing the authors pres
ent views to explain his unauthorized action.
On dispatch from the chief of police Sat
urday to Inspector Byrnes. of New YORK. the
latters detectives arrested James F. Latham
yesterday afternoon on a charge OF forgery.
At the Tombs Court the latter was remanded
to await the action of the Governor OF Illinois,
AS Allen Sanderson, a well-to-do farmer
with his wife and two children. were on the
way to Muncle, Ind, in a wagon yesterday a
tree fell across the road the vehicle in
stantly killing the father and one of the chill
dren. The mother and other child were un-
harmed.
Intelligence has been received at Paris
from ObOck, French settlement on Tajurah
Bay. on the east coast of Africa, that two
French missionaries who were travelling from
Zeilah to Harrar under the escort of eight
Greeks, were attacked by natives and all the
party were murdered.
An incendiary fire in Henry Sherry & Co.'S
lumber yard, at Vesper, Wis, Sunday, de.
stroyed l,5O0,O0O feet of lumber, valued at
S20,OOp. The loss is partially covered by inSur-
ance. About ~ rods of sdetrack belonging to
the Wisconsin, PitJsvllle and Superior Railroad
Company was ruined, and three Chicago Mil
waukee and St Paul fat cars were burned
Sara Bernhardt came near meeting with a
serious accident during the initial performance
Of Joan dArc" Sunday night. The funeral
ated great excitement on the stage. BerDhardt
tainted, but was uninjured by the fire although
two of the scene shifters we're seriously burned
while extinguishing the flames.
Henry C, Moller, wealthy Hoboken man,
committed suicide Sunday night by blowing
out his brains with revolver. He was 30
years old, married and had two children. He
lived on the income of the fortune left by his
father. Christian Moller the sugar refiner
who committed suicide seven years ago. 1t is
supposed Moller was temporarily insane.
"A desperate named Jacob Gregory, at a
country dance in Mcdonald county, Missouri,
became involved in an alteration with Nor
man Hagar, at whom he fired shot in the
darkness. The bullet missed Hagar and struck
AdOlphus GriffiIhs near the heart. Griffiths
who was highly respected young man, spoke
pnlp-a few words hefnra ha diad-- G-sqarT-
mounted his morse and made good his escape,
and at last accounts was still at large
"A double murder was committed at Mount
Sterling, Crawford county, Wis, Sunday morn
ing. Jerry ONell and his wife were fatally
shot while in bed the former in the breast and
the latter in the stomach by an unknown as
sailant. The victims we're well-to-do and in
offensive people. They were about 80 years of
age. The snots awoke two daughters, who slept
near the old folks. Their cries summoned the
rest Of the family, who were in the second
story, but the murderer had escaped.