Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-25
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The premium on gold has advanced to 20
| per cent. at Buenos Ayres.
The comet recently discovered at Lick
Observatory, in California. is visible at sydney
| n. S. W.
George Lewis. negro living near Belden,
! Tex. was lynched Tuesday night for poisoning
the well of VIM. Shaw.
Mrs. Miranda Lawyer, wife of Bishop Law
| yer, who had been adjudged insane by the
County Court. hung herself at Huntsville, Mo-,
| Monday night
| -EX-King Milan arrived in Belgrade yester-
| day. He was met at the station by his son,
| King Alexander. the regents, the members of
| the Servian Cabinet ana the foreign representa-
| tives
The first bale of new crop cotton was
| brought to Austin, Tex. Tuesday. The cotton
| crop of Texas this year will probably reach
| enormous.
| "A dispatch from Ishpeming. Mich, says:
| Carbon & johnson, builders and contractors,
went under yesterday. The firm was erecting
some Is buildings. costing about S6OOVO, in the
city. Liabilities unknown.
The Minneapolis and Northern and the
Northwestern elevator at Hamilton. Oak,
were burned yesterday morning. There was
little grain in them. The loss is about $4,000,
| equally divided between the two companies.
-Emmerich Rasse. Paul Belijik, Joseph
Beliiik and John Andrusik, four tinsmiths, who
| arrived in New York last week from Germany,
under contract to work for a Milwaukee
timer, were yesterday sent back on the steamer
| Trave.
Henri Rochefort announces that the Bou-
langist committee will pay the officials who are
dismissed from Government employ. because of
their allegiance to the principles OF Boulang-
ism, the full salaries they now receive from the
Government
-Chauncey Knifir. % years of age, shot him
self dead at Lake Mahopac, n. Y, Tuesday
morning, after firing three shots at his wife.
Anne, aged Is The young lady was alive
yesterday morning. but will die. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
The southern part of VanZandt county,
Tex, is suffering from the acts of band OF in
churches right and left. Four of these build
ings have been destroyed within a week, and
citizens are becoming greatly excited.
The funeral of Ex-Governor Dewey, of Wis
consin, took place Tuesday from the residence
OF Mrs. George Cox, of Lancaster, Wis, an old
time friend of Wisconsin's first Governor. At
the funeral we're Governor II Hoard, ex-Governors
Lewis, Taylor and Ludington, and many other
prominent Wisconsin citizens.
M. Duport, a Boulangist member of the
Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday night at
tempted to make a speech at Port Liable,
Finisterre, but was attacked by mob and
stoned. A number of NJ. Duport's teeth were
broken and his face was cut, and he was refused
permission to proceed with his remarks
Suit has been brought to set aside the will
of William Glenn, one of the wealthiest mer-
chants of Cincinnati, who died recently. The
suit is brought by the widow of son OF Mr..
Glenn, who died ten years before the death of
the testator. but it is in the interest of the
widows son. The estate is quite valuable.
The Missouri Railroad Commissioners have
compiled the following figures as to- the gross
earnings and expenses of the railroads operated
in this State for the last year, based upon
total mileage of 57l9: Passenger earnings,
$3.50 40; freight. SIS, ,583. .954; miscellaneous
earnings, So, l40365; total S30S2S, 799; net earn
ings over expenses, 81, SIS, ,lS3.
The SUBJ Committee on Irrigation Auxiliary
to the United States Senate committee have
visited Garden City. Kan. and made an in
vestigation of the irrigation system now in use
there and also listened TO q new theory of
irrigation, the so-called under-drainage sea-
Believers in the new plan say that there is an
ineXhaustible supply of water in the lower
strata of sands in Western Kansas. which their
system can bring to the surface. The sub
committee will visit the irrigatible portion of
Nebraska.
"A great sensation has been caused in the
highest circles of society at Copenhagen by the
suicide of Count Spare, a member of prom
inent Swiss family, after he had killed his mis-
tress. Cont Sparre had for some time been
carrying on liaison with Elvira Madigan, a
circus performer on the island of Tagasinge.
Becoming involved in a quarrel with his mis-
tress, he drew pistol and shot her and then
killed himself. Count Spare was married and
he and his wife moved in the most aristocratic
circle of Copenhagen.
Engineer Moore of a switch engine on the
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore road,
was coming In from the stockyards to Cincin-
natl Tuesday night. when he saw some sort OF
bundle lying on the track before him. Stopping
his engine quickly, he sent the fireman for
ward, who found wrapped in a black shawl a
boy baby weeks old. A woman was seen run
ming away, but she had escaped in the darkness
before the contents of the shawl had been dis
covered. The child was uninjured, and was
sent to the Home of the Friendless
Tuesday night Morris Crawford and Walter
Mason attempted TO cross street when a
buggy containing two men drove up and
blocked the way. Upon beng requested to
move words ensued and the men got out OF
the buggy and assaulted Crawford and CON-
panion. Crawford was knocked down and in
jured so seriously by kick in the abdomen
that he died shortly after being taken to the
hospital. Mason was seriously, though not
fatally injured. Two men were arrested at an
early hour yesterday morning charged with the
murder.
"A Scranton, Pa, special says: The dwell
ing houses. barns ana gardens in the two blocks
bounded by Hyde Park avenue. Eleventh. Lu-
zerne and Division streets, in the Hyde Park
region of this city. were seriously disturbed at
5O'clock this morning by the collapse of one of
the veins in the central mine. Four of the
houses were cracked so badly that they will
have to be rebuilt. Most of the people living
in the disturbed district were asleep when the
crash came. and they were badly frightened.
The ground is considerably depressed, and is
traversed by fssures from a few inches to q
foot in width.