Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-30

Yesterday. aO.Pass Dispatch RsDIsts

Yesterdays 20-Page Dispatch RepIete
With Interesting Features.
The mammoth triple number Of THE DIS
PATCH went out to its $50 900 readers yesterday
filed with the freshest news and the choicest
literature. It was an unusually excellent mum.
Der, as the following brief summary will show.
Nearly three-quarters Of million of people
in Europe have been attacked by the influenza,
and between 200 and 800 deaths occurred last
week. In this country the epidemic is also
spreading rapidly. ana fatal case is reported
from Chicago. The ex-Empress of Brazil died
at Oporto OF heart disease. How Christmas
was celebrated abroad was told by THE DIS
PAToH's London correspondent. Captain
O'Shea has sued for divorce. making grave
charges against Parne1l. Portugal and En-
gland refuse to refer their difficulty to arbi-
traitors. England wants Blaine to have no
hand in the matter. Prince Bismarck Is i'll. A
determined anti-Socialist agitation Is Kept up
in the German Empire.
Business men in New York. Pittsburg and
elsewhere talk encouragingly of trade prospects
for the coming year. Jay Gould is particularly
hopeful. Mrs. Brooks of Brooklyn, was MUIR
dered by her young son, who put her to death
to end her sufferings. Ten persons were killed
in railroad wreck near White sulphur
Springs, w. Va. Colonel Harry Nc ecormick, Of
Dauphin county, is being pushed for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor Of Pennsyi-
vania. Nine men were terribly burned by
molten metal in an accident at Dallas. Tex.
foundry. A mob took possession Of the Jail at
Barnwell s. c., and took out and shct nine ne
gro prisoners
County Commissioner Mercer and others
talked Interestingly on the convict labor ques-
ton. Complaints are made to the Humane So
ciety that the law against employing children
in factories is violated and nulIi-
fed. 1t is thought that clew
to the Tarentum murderers has at last
been found United States Marshal Harrah
was given banquet by his friends at the Du-
quesne Hotel. The warehouse of the Wormser
Glass Company at Laughlin was burned; loss,
$1,000.
A review of leading events in the sporting
world for the year, and the latest news In
pugilistic and baseball circles. was given on
the sixth page.
The Washington homes Of Congressman and
other statesmen were described in an illus
trated article by Frank G. Carpenter in the
second part Interesting "reminiscences were
contributed by B. p. Shillaber (Mrs. Parting
toni. Willis Kenyon's paper dwelt upon the
curious relations Of hypnotism and crime.
Prominent politicians, among them several
Senators and Representatives, discussed the
question. "Should Young Man Engage in
Politlcsf' The Pittsburg Library and the
reasons why it should be preserved formed the
subject of Brenan's article. Robert Buchanan
told how plays are made. Henry Haynie gave
some entertaining gossip about Mime. Bern
hardt
Hon. Henry Hall pictured life in the novels
and concert halls Of London. Prof. Ebers'
novel Joshua was brought to happy con-
clusion. Rev. DR.. Talmage and Marian White
contributed fine Christmas story ''Violet ISL
and" was the title of pretty fairy tale by
Ernest H. Heinrichs. Choice miscellany, the
usual departments and articles by Edward
Wakefield, Max O'Rell, Clara Belle. Shirley
Dare, Rev. George Hodges, F. s. Bassett,
Gerald E. Flanagan, James G. Purdy, Maud
Howe. Mrs. GruDdy. Jr, Dr. jackson. Bessie
Bramble and others were included in the sec
ond and third parts.