Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-25
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Mrs. David Mann, who lived near Lewis
burg, w. Va, hanged herself Sunday night be-
cause of quarrel with her husband.
The vassar brewery, which has made its
owners half dozen fortunes, is, it is reported,
on the point of being sold to an English syndi.
cate.
General Sewell accompanied President
Harrison on his departure from Cape May TO-
day. They were joined at Philadelphia by
Postmaster General Wanamaker.
General Annenkoff and General Vanoffsky,
the Russian War Minister, have been in Paris
to ascertain on what terms a Franco-Russian
political and military alliance could be ar
ranged.
The Most Rev. James Cleary, Roman Cath
olic bishop of Kingston, Ont, has been nomi-
mated to be bishop of the diocese of Waterford
and Lsmore, Ireland, to succeed the Most Rev.
Pierce Power, deceased.
The temperance element in Cincinnati is
wrought up because the Mayor on Sunday in
structed the police not to interfere with sa-
looms that were open because Of the presence
of SO many Turner'S in town.
There are $500 persons, mostly women and
children, unprovided for at Spring Valley Ill.
Fifteen hundred persons, nearly all men, have
left to look for work since the lockout of the
coal miners, on account of wages dispute, on
MayL
All Grlzzar0, al1as dawklns, won the money
Of some other negro gamblers on boat at Tip
tonville, Tenn, last Wednesday Enraged st
their loss they threw sack over his head to
smother his cries, took him to the woods and
hanged him
Charles de Baur, who escaped to Canada
with SOS, 600 of the funds Of the National Park
Bank, pleaded guilty to forgery in the second
fenced to five years and seven months in the
penirentiary.
IS. c. Coombs, an Englishman. who has been
in business in San Francisco for six months,
went to Golden Gate Park with stranger, saw
an Indian drill gold brick, had the driliings
assayed by a chemist, who pronounced them
genuine gold, paid 5000 for the brick, and dis
covered too late that it was brass
G. w. Norwood, of Birmingham, Ala. a
contractor on the Cumberland Valley Exten-
sion, was shot and killed on Saturday by an
Italian known as Tony Cavasso. Norwood had
refused to hold the pay of laborers to pay Ca.
vasso and his brother for bread The broth
ers who were together. escaped to Tennessee,
but were brought back to Kentucky. They
were taken to Jail, when lynchers took Tony
and hanged him. AS the officers were proceed.
ing with the brother someone in the woods
shot and killed him.
During the past year Irish members have
been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ag-
gregating nearly seven years. Tweuty-four
Irish members have been convicted, and one
English member. Mr.. Conybeare, has sentence
still hanging over him. Mr.. Cox and Mr..
Finucane have sustained no less than five
prosecutions EACH though their sentence ag-
gregated only five and nine months respect
lively Mr.. Condor is undergoing his fourth in
carceration, having altogether been sentenced
to eight months imprisonment. Edward Har.
rington has to complete term of six months,
following another of one month, and Patrick
O'Brien's two convictions have shut him up for
seven months. William O'Bren has received
sentences aggregating l6 months and David
Sheehy ten months.