Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

John Bright has suffered another relapse.
Russia will build three large men-of-war
| this spring.
Emperor William will present a standard to
the Russian regiment of which he is Honorary
Colonel.
The Aschinoff expedition, which is to
| found a colony in Abyssinia, is composed of
200 half Cossacks.
Duo dAumale says it would neither be to
support Boulanger.
Prince Bismarck is suffering from indis-
| position in consequence of his exertions in the
! Reichstag on Tuesday.
The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday
afternoon accepted the following bonds: -Four
and one-half per cents, registered, 81 600, at l09
DIR. Friedberg has resigned the Office of
Prussian Minister of Justice in consequence of
the publication of the Indictment against Prof.
Geffcken.
Arabs have destroyed the German mission
airy station at Tugu. Is miles west of Dar-Es-
Salm. Eight missionaries were masSacred and
but one escaped.
President Cleveland sent to the Senate YES
terday the following nomination: John Far
rington, to be Collector of Customs for the
district of Minnesota
I'm joint convention yesterday the two
Houses of the Michigan Legislature elected
James Mcmillan United States Senator, he re-
celving so votes against 50 for Melbourne H.
Ford.
At Hackett City, Ark, two men named
Webb and Harris became involved in deadly
quarrel yesterday, shooting each other with
revolvers. Both men were killed, and by
stander seriously Wounded.
Three men, charged with the murder of
Thomas Wardell, the wealthy coal operator
who was shot in riot at Bevier last fall, were
arrested and brought to Macon yesterday.
They were labor agitators during the strike.
Last week Abraham Vandyne died in
boarding house in New Orleans. The public
administrator opened his possessions and an in
ventory was taken. In an old trunk was 1ound
nearly 100000 in greenbacks and bonds. Henry
]. Vandyne, his brother. arrived from New
Jersey and claimed the estate.
The engineers on the Minneapolis and st.
Louis Railroad system have petitioled the
management for the reinstatement of En-
gineer Ed Deitz, a brotherhood man, recently
discharged, after nine years service, for al
legged color blindness The engineers claim
that an expert physicians examination does
threaten to strike unless their demands are ac-
ceded to.
I'm the District Court at indianapolis yester-
day the jury in the case OF the State versus
George Hacker returned a verdict of guilty,
and Hacker was sentenced to IA years in the
penitentiary. Hacker is the Anarchist who
brutally assaulted his employer, James Bruce,
because the latter expressed qualification at
the election of General Harrison. Bruce was
HIS recovery was almost miraculous.
The Toronto Globe contradicts the report
that the Hon. Wilfred Laurier, leader of the
Opposition in the Dominion House of Com
MONS had issued a circular to the members of
the Liberal party in which he said it had been
deemed advisable to drop the reciprocity agita-
tion in Canada. The Globe says Mr.. Laurier
did recently issue circular, but that the docu-
ments, instead of proposing retreat from the
unrestricted reciprocity position, proposes
new forward movement.
General L. G. Brown. who, during the war,
commanded the One Hundred and Seventeenth
Regiment, colored troops, was before the Pro-
bate Court at Cincinnati, yesterday on an in
quest of lunacy. He was ordered to jail, and
upon entering the private Office. the jailer asked
him if he had any weapons about him. Brown
thereupon drew from his pocket an old four
shooter, and, placing the muzzle to his temple
pulled the trigger. The cartridge failed to ex-
plode. During the struggle which followed
Brown succeeded in swapping the remaining
cartridges, but fortunately none of them ex-
ploded.