Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Roumanian Parliament has expressed
confidence in the Ministry.
Michigan peach growers join in the chorus
that the fruit crop is ruined.
The Larned. Kas.. State Bank has failed.
Liabilities, S33, 900: assets, Sll 900.
The King of Dahomey, with his Amazons,
is retreating. being afraid to attack the French
posts.
Mrs Robert Ray Hamilton, the heroine of
the famous New York baby case, has petitioned
for pardon.
-"Buch" Murray. the burglar who shot and
killed a Detroit policeman last week, has been
arrested in Cleveland.
1t is now known that IS persons lost their
lives by the explosion in the Morsa colliery, in
Glamorganshire, Wales.
-Ashmead Bartlett denies Mr.. Sections
statement that he bargained with Pigott for
contributions to the Englishmdn, a newspaper
edited by Bartlett.
Congressman Mason against the bill taxing and
branding compound lard, before the House
Committee yesterday.
The German Government will shortly
notify the other powers that she has taken the
islands of Mapda and Patta of the east coast
of Africa under her protection.
While returning from a prayer meeting at
Armstrong, Mo-, Rev: David McGrew Mrs.
Andrew Beyman and Will jackson, all colored,
were run over by train and killed.
The new Brazilian Government has au-
thorized the National Bank and the Bank of
Brazil to issued 80 O00, 600 milreis in paper each
to be redeemable i'll gold as soon as exchange
permits.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed Mr.. John Scanlon, of Chicago, to be
special agent of the Treasury. Mr.. Scanlan is
regarded as an authority on tariff questions
and passed very good examination.
"A large vote was polled at the Sacramento
city election yesterday. w. D. Comstock, Dem
ocrat. defeated e. ]. Gregory Republican can
didate for reelection as Mayor, by Al votes.
The remainder of the Republican ticket was
elected by large majority.
AT Roanoke. Va, Miss Nora Wooten went
to the residence Of DR.. III. A. Sims, a physician,
and placed pistol to his face and fired. The
bullet struck the doctors cheek bone and
glanced OF, without inficting serious injury.
About two weeks ago Miss Wooten was ad-
judged insane by commission of lunacy, but
was not deprived Of her liberty.
The great Dorrie iron mine, the largest
producer in th world is idle Its lOoO en-
Tuesday for higher wages. And yesterday the
miners refused to send an ounce of ore to any
tramway men except to those on strike. Both
sides are determined and the fight seems
destined to be long one. Most of the strikers
are foreigners.
Last Sunday the 2-year-old child of John
Blunt, farmer near Stockton, Kas., found a
bottle of laudanum and drank quantity of it.
Ht CuHu uiou III suOTt Inc next Qay
Mrs. Blunt, crazed by the death of her child
drank the rest of the poison remaining in the
bottle. She cannot recover. Mr.. Blunt is
prostrated and his friends are watching him
lest he, too, may commit suicide.
John Charles Rykert, member of the
Canadian Parliament. has been impeached for
corruptly using his position as a member of
Parliament and q supporter of the Government
to influence the Government in securing for
friend of his named Adams. a Valuable tract
of timber land in the Northwest Territories for
q nominal sum, out of which transaction
Rykert received, as his share, S90,0O0