Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Incessant rains in France have DESTROYED
! the crops.
"A general tie-up OF the building trades is
| on IN Brooklyn.
Plans are on foot for the reorganization OF
the Sugar Trust
"A well-deveioped case of cholera is re-.
ported from Paris.
The usual Italian murder occurred in Har.
lem yesterday. Jealousy
The striking cloakmakers in New York re.
turned to work yesterday.
Roger @. Mills severely denounces the
Southern boycott scheme.
The Indi ana Republican State Convention
is called for September 10.
The lumber mill strike in Wisconsin is off.
the men losing on every point.
Pool sellers are being arrested and fined
with daily regularity in Chicago.
Province of Ontario Prison Commissioners
are inspecting American prisons.
The Street Cleaning Department strike in
New York was settled yesterday.
The crew of the steamer Idaho is reported
lost near South Point, Anticosti.
-Centralia, ILL.,, experienced lively cyclone
yesterday. Trains badly delayed.
The carpenter of the burned ship Egypt
states that the boats were worthless.
The Sioux Indlans at the Lower Brule and
Grow Creek agencies are completely out of
beef and other supplies.
English capitalists have completed negotia-
tions for the purchase of a site for the erection
of a mammoth brewery in Chicago.
The people of st. Johns have administered
a severe snub to Prince George of Wales and
A Admiral Watson and Sir John Ross
The National Amateur Press Association.
which has been in session in indianapolis, has
adjourned to meet next year in Boston.
The Coroner's inquest in the case of the
murdered cigarette girl. Anna Goodwin, by
malpractice, commenced yesterday in New
York.
During Emperor Williams visit to Russia
he will not attend the military maneuvers In
Volhynia, as it was at first understood he
would.
-Slgnor Crispi. the italian Premier, has in
formed the French Ambassador that if France
should annex Tunis, Italy would occupy
Tripoli.
Official reports from the great wheat dis
trict of La Blange. in France, state that the
crop is rotting. The losses are estimated at
10000, 900 francs.
"A combine of all the principal label
and Will be controlled by Hynes, eKetchum d
Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pueblo, COL. lays claim TO the honor of be-
ing the only city in America which has doubled
its population in two years. The returns in
1883 gave that city 49, 500.
.OoioT1uOb pOpuldtlOu 10 cotlmdLcu dL 4UU,-
GOO The three largest cities in the State, out
side of Denver, are: Pueblo. a, 455; LeadvIlle,
1885; Colorado Springs, II, 200.
Attorney General Dollard, of South
Dakota, rendered an opinion that mainten.
ance of place where liquor is drunk is viola
tiOn of the law and the seller must prove that
he is not violating the law.
Mrs. Emily Cavanagh was arrested in New
York for shooting her husband, James Cava-
nagh, for abandoning her. The husband who
is connected with the my Aunt Bridget" COM
pany, is not seriously injured.
-Messrs. Riggs and Reillineer, Americans,
have been created Knights of the Legion of
Honor, at Paris for services to French trade
but more especially for the work they did in
connection with the French Exposition last
year.
The strike Of .workmen on the New York
public schools is extending and it now includes
"a of the grammar schools. Only a few nom
may seriously interfere with the opening of the
schools in the fall.
Mrs. Wade. who keeps boarding house on
East Market street, Buffalo; Mary Sylvia, aged
l6 years, and her brother John, aged a. were
arrested last night, charged with attempting
to poison Annie Silks. dissolute woman who
lived with the children's father.
The English Amalgamated Society of Rail-
way Servants has ordered the employees of the
Tatfvale, Rhymney & Barry Railway to quit
work within a fortnight unless granted 60
hours work week. The directors have re-
fused the demand, and a general strike is
threatened About l50 600 men will be affected.