Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Bank of Paris will issue Russian loan
on February %
The jury in the libel case of Rev. DR.. Ball
| against the New Fork Evening Post, at Buffalo,
| returned verdict of mo cause for action"
While the engineers of the twin screw
British cruiser Barracuda were testing her
boilers off Margate, a cylinder exploded, kill
| ing two men and injuring ten.
Yesterday fire was discovered in the base
ment of the New York World office The fire
was caused probably by an electric wire. The
damage done will not exceed 500.
The President has approved the act for a
bridge across the Missouri river near the mouth
of the Kansas river. and the act establis hing
three different land offices in the State of Colo
rado.
of the oldest inhabitant was raging Thursday
at Stephen, MINI. The wind from the north
and the air cloud of snow. The mercury
registered 10o below zero.
About ], 400 sacks of delayed Eastern mail
and large number OF passengers arrived by
boat at Portland, Ore, from Dallas last Thurs
day evening having been transferred from the
Union Pacific train at that point.
Mrs. 7. W. Burrill, of Racine, Wis, is fast
ing to cure dyspepsia. She has Just completed
her seventh day without food, liquid or solid.
She appears strong and in good health. She
has fixed three weeks as time for her fast
The Pope, though much affected by the
condition of his brother, Cardinal Pecci, who
absolution from the Pontifical throne on the
occasion of the anniversary of the death Of
Pope Plus TX.
General Isaac Catlin, brother of Mrs.
Tracy, says: There is no probability whatever
that Secretary Tracy will retire from public
life. OF course his health is greatly shattered
and 1t will take a long time to bring him around,
but he will persevere in his life's work"
Judge Dundy, of the Federal Court, Lin
coin, Neb., sentenced "Grandpa" Burrus to
1oI for fhraa fOF nfT fTTcia frph hia
granddaughter into court in response to an or
der. Application will be made to the United
States Supreme Court for writ of habeas cor
pus
The officers of the building and loan asso-
Citations of New York and Brooklyn believe the
collapse of the American Building and Loan
Association, whose headquarters are in Mime
apolis, is the beginning Of the end of all the
National building and loan associations
throughout the United States.
The Department of Justice is trying to To-
cate Henry FAM, the Fort Wayne timer, who
was whipped at Aberdeen, Miss, few days
after the jefferson Davis funeral, because he
cut down the efhgy of Secretary of War Proc
tor. His testimony is needed to complete the
report which will be furnished the Senate.
The schooner Minnehaha, loaded with l357
barrels of crude oil consigned to the Standard
Oil Company, of Providence, r. l., is, with her
captain and six men, believed to have been
lost. She was commanded by Captain John A.
Tryon. She left Philadelphia January IL, and
some OF the cargo has been picked up at sea.
The steamer Iowa, from Liverpool, reports
January 81, 9:4U A. M, latitude 46o A, longitude
8Io 49,, signaled British steamer Persian Mon
arch, Captain Bristow, from London, January
II, for New York, with loss of propeller, and
heading east under foressil, foretop sail jib
and fore trysail The Iowa offered assistance,
but it was declined.
1t is stated in Boston that there is to be Or
ganized in this country, previous to the eight
hour strike of May /, 1890. a gigantic financial
e1,n
Grafton of Labor. 1t is proposed to accumulate
joint stock fund of at least $3.50 900 before
May 81, to be placed at the disposal of any trade
that may be on strike or locked out. The or
ganization of this alliance is said to be already
well under way, although the matter has been
keptas secret as possible.