Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Owing to the prevalence of influenza in the
st. Cyr Military College, Paris, that institution
has been closed
The Chinese railway, projects have been
suspended, owing to political intrigues and pop
ular opposition.
The directors of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific yesterday declared the quarterly
dividend of per cent, payable FebruaryL
The directors of Michigan Central yester-
day declared the regular semi-annual dividend
of 2per cent; also an extra dividend Of per
cent.
said there was not word of truth in the
rumor that the Vanderbilts had bought the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad.
The fine of $1,000 imposed by Collector
Presson at Gloucester, Mass. upon the schooner
Mary for discharging cargo without permit
has, except the sum of $50, been remitted by
order Of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Hugh McNamee, a prominent business man
of Monticello, ILL.,, was bitten by a tarantula
while unpaeking lot of bananas He was at
tended by several doctors, who applied strong
remedies, but his hand swelled up and turned
black with the poisoned blood. He is very
sick.
--Diphtheria in its most malignant form is
prevalenJ in Rockford. Ill. The Rockford
seminary is closed and Is of its pupils down
with the disease. There are about 100 cases on
the East Side alone, and as many more on the
West Side. Many people are leaving the city
with their children.
The Portuguese Government is agitating
for the holding of an International Congress
for the settlement of questions which have
arisen from the dispute between Portugal and
Great Britain concerning their respective pos
sessions in Africa as it prefers to accept Eu--
ropean opinion to English dictation.
Negotiations for the purchase of the grain
elevator properties in Buffalo by an English
syndicate, which had been tagging, have been
resumed. The total value Of the plant, includ-
ing the flowers" and 'hoaters" i" is estimated at
from 100000 TO $S,0OO0O0. Options had been
secured on nearly all the property.
Two young men named Wall and Taylor
were passing along Clark street, Chicago, att
o'clock yesterday morning, when tall we'll
dressed man accosted them with an insulting
remark. Wall struck at him and the stranger
whipped outa dagger and plunged itinto Wallis
groin. He then turned upon Taylor and cut
his left eye out. The stranger escaped, and
there is no clew to his identity
Upon the request of Arthur Newton, the
solicitor who was arrested on the charge of con-
spring to defeat justice in connection with. the
West End scandal in London, the Court has
granted him copy OF the information upon
which the Government bases its charges. A
hearing in the case will be held on Monday.
Newton was charged with aiding Hammond,
the proprietor of the CaVendish street house,
to escape.
Among the many stories in circulation in
London growing out of the attitude of Portu-
gal in Southeast Africa, and the action of the
British Government in the matter, is the rather
shadoWy statement that the Portuguese Gov
ernment has no intention of insisting upon her
claims in Africa to the end of establishing
them, or attempting to do so, but is merely
prolonging the dispute in order to throw dust
in the eyes of any other powers likely to dis.
cover the real object in view.