Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-19
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

! Forty American students have been ex-
! PEELED from the Berlin University for miscon-
duct.
Judge Adam snider, of the Supreme Bench
of West Virginia. has prepared his resignation,
TO take effect June l.
Marcus Marx, a clothing dealer, was fatally
| injured by falling 70 feet down an elevator
shaft Monday evening in Chicago.
Mrs Burritt commenced on her twenty-sec-
ond dav of fasting in Racine, Wis, yesterday.
She is attempting TO cure stubborn case Oh
| dyspepsia.
The announcement is made that the reslg-
| nation of ]. r. Mcdonald as president OF the
Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad has
been accepted.
| The Interstate Commerce Railway Asso-
| citation has received another blow by the WITH
| drawal of the Wisconsin Central Railway from
| the association.
| st. Louis has q hydrophobia scare. dog
| with rabies has bitten four other dogs and SIX
| COWS. An order has been issued TO kill all tne
| dogs and cows infected.
Christopher Latham Sholes. one of the
early settlers of Wisconsin, is dead. he
| gained national reputation as the inventor OF
| the first successful typewriter.
Petitions are in circulation in every county
| in Nebraska asking the Legislature not TO ex-
| tend the time granted the Union Paclnc TO
| meet its obligations to the Government
Mr.. Matthews, the English Home Secre-
| tary, replying to deputation of miners. told
them he could hold out no hopes that the Gov
ernment would support an e1ght-hour move
ment
Victor Cravath, 80 years old, of DE Soto.
No.. committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver, on the side
walk in front of No. IL Perry street, New
York
The Royal Geographical Society has invited
Thomas Stevens. the African traveller, to send
paper, to be read before the society, describ-
ing how he reached Henry M. Stanley in East
ern Africa.
The passenger steamer Coral Queen, from
Gothenburg, has been sunk off the river Tees
in a collision with the British steamer Brinio
1t is reported that 16 persons on the Coral
Queen were drowned.
II. W. Burke, his wife and another woman
have been arrested in Chicago, charged with
obtaining money under false pretences. The
parties have been giving seances, charging 81
admission to the rooms.
The City Hall at Orange, Tex, was set on
fire Monday evening. Before the flames were
sub1ued the jail. court house and all the city
records and D. Morrison's icehouse were con-
sumed. The loss will be heavy.
The biennial convention of the Sons of
Benjamin is in session in Cleveland, with Coro-
ner Ferdinand Levy, of New York, in the
chair. Nearly 200 delegates are in attendance.
The report of the secretary shows that the re-
ceipts were 500, ,667 and disbursement Sl99, ,456.
"A man named Shockley, living near Snow
Hill, Ind, dreamed that his son was lying dead
in q wood close by. A search was made and the
boys body was found in the precise spot indi-
Gated in the dream. The boy had committed
suicide because his father had chastised him
the day before
M Boucher, an Orleanist member of the
French Chamber of Deputies, has received
from Havana a cable dispatch from the
Count Of Paris, father of the Duke of Or
leans, in which he saws: 81 am proud of my son
and pleased with the attitude he has taKen but
1 am deeply concerned on account Of his SEN
tence."
1t is the intention of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company, as soon as one OF their new
Pacific steamers is completed, which will be
about November next, to carry the first Cana
dian excursion party around the world. 1t is
estimated that the round trip will be made
within IS days. With fast Atlantic service
the trip could be made in 5S days.
The Sawtelle property in Boston has been
attached for SS. 900. on behalf of Frank L. Rich
ardsoD, with whom Isaac Sawtelle spent several
days when he left Boston with Hlram's little
daughter. The suit is based expenses in
CURED III procuring pardon for Isaac and an
agreement made by Isaac to give Richardson
81, 500 when he should be released from prison.
in the London High Court of Justice. Mr..
Justice Butt refused to grant the application
made IN behalf of Captain O'Shea for writs of
attachment against the managers of the Star
and the London editions of the New York
Herald, for publishing certain comments rela-
OShea against his wife, in which Mr.. Parneu
is named as correspondent
The Senate Committee on Commerce
yesterday agreed to report tavorab1y Mr..
Coke's bill, approprIatng Sc. 200 900 for the
struction of deep water harbor at Galveston,
penditure shall be made at the rate of ST. 600 600
a year. This change was suggested by the
engineer department of the army, under di-
rection of which the work is to be prosecuted.