Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-14
LAVE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Berlin Reichstag adjourned yesterday
until JanuaryS 8
The steamer Etruria, from New York for
Liverpool passed Browhead Yesterday after
noon. The time Of her passage was six days
and As minutes.
The London, Court of Queens Bench has
dismissed the appeal of the Rio Tinto Copper
Lining Company, In It's litigation with the
Compton D. Escompte.
He did not attend the session Of the Academy
of Sciences at Lisbon last night, owing to i'll
ness, but he is better to-day.
The rumor that Jay Gould has an option on
the GarrettJohns Hopkins baltimore and Ohio
stock is denied by William E. Frick. father-in-
law Of Robert Garrett ana director in the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
DIR. Louis P. Aldrich, Of 40 Beach street.
New York, a tottering old man p years old
was held in the Tombs Police Court yesterday
on the charge of assaulting two Eyear-old
girls. He made no attempt to deny the charge.
-on Monday next the Sultan win be pre-
sented with the insignia of the English order of
St Michael and st. George and the grand
cross of the German order of the Red Eagle
All the ailableBritish men-of-war are arriving
here for the purpose Of giving eclat to the oe-
casion.
Yesterdays bond offerings were as follows:
Coupon As, 81 500; registered As $4,000 at III;
coupon As at l04Ss; registered SIS, $4,000, at
I04H. OF these offerings $100, 900 per cents
were surrendered by national bank in liqui-
dation of its deposits. All the offers were ac-
cepted.
Alarming reports are coming in from tn
flooded sections of California. The Sacramento
has almost overhoMed its banks, and terribl
losses are feared. The country between Marys-
vile and Chico, is actually under water. In
Los Angeles there are also heavy floods, and
rain is still falling.
Private advices received in New York City
from Brazil confirm the dispatch published a
few days after the proclamation Of the Repub-
lie, to the effect that the new Government pro-
posed to sever the connection between the
Roman Catholic Church and the State that had
existed under the monarchy.
"A private cablegram announces the we'd
ding IN Paris Thursday Of Honore Sosthenes
Marie Charles dAlbert Due de Luynes ct de
Chevreuse, and Miss Simone Dues de Crussel,
the eldest daughter of the Duchess Dues, so
well known by all sportsmen and through their
friendship for General Boulanger.
Three children, belonging to very respect
able families, lost their lives at Port Hope, Ont,
yesterday. Two little boys, sons of Joseph
Mallette, and son Of E. M. Mitchell, of the
Port Hope gardens, went skating on the cleo
trio light pond, where they were last seen. They
undoubtedly broke through the ice and were
drowned.
The strike of the men employed in thesgas-
house of the South Metropolitan Company Of
LONDON was 1nauGuraEe0 to-day. Twelve hum
dred men engaged to take the strikers places
entered under escort OF police. A crowd out
side the works groaned at them. The pickets
posted by the strikers to intercept these men
were outwitted, and were unable to obstruet
their entrance.
Charles Carter, the colored man who was
found guilty of murder in the first degree for
shooting and killing John Matthews, in a dis
orderly house, in Conemaugh borough, Pa, IN
November last was yesterday sentenced to be
CQrtnrJa "
in Pittsburg. about three years ago, and another
is now serving a term in the penltentiary for
using his revolver too freely.
The death OF Robert Browning on Thurs-
day night at Venice has come as surprise an
shock to the poets admirers and friends.
Browning has long been popular in America,
and it is expected that suitable action will be
taken in literary circles toward the proper re-
cognition of his genius. Browning leaves one
child, Robert Barrett Browning, the sole Of
spring Of the union of two great poets
"A number of Sioux Chiefs have arrived in
Chicago on their way to Washington. to close
the treaty ceding their territory in Dakota to
the Government They include John Grass,
Gall, Mad Bear Big Head and Bear Face. Of
the Standing Rock agency; Joseph Campbell
and and Phil Webster, Of the same agency; Foolish
and Yellow Hair, of the Rosebud agency.
After two days preliminary examination
before Justice of the Peace at Lafayette, Ind.
the bail bond of the Rev. William F. Petit,
charged by affidavit with administering poison
to his wife, was fixed at $4,000 Mrs. Petit
died last July, her death indicating strychnine
poisoning An analysis Of the stomach re-
7ealed over half grain of strychnine, and her
husband was arrested last week at Column
bus, o. The accused is a prominent Methodist
minister.
The enthusiasm attending the success OF
the Tenants Defense League, whose branches
have lately been established in most of the
cities and towns of Ireland, has proved bitter
pill to the Conservative Government The ad-
ditional legislation which will be required to
combat the new order of things will meet with
stout resistance in the House. not only from
the Nationals and Liberals, but also from many
Conservatives who are growing tired Of the
bootless contest with national opinion.