Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-04
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

"A loss Of slOo, 900 was sustained by floods at
| Arcadia, Wis.
Judge A. NJ. Williams, of the Utah Com
mission, is very i'll.
No confederation OF the reported cyclone
| at Jasper and Huntingburg, IND.
The French police are endeavoring TO 10
cate the conspIrators against the Gar.
The steamer La Bourgogne. reported dis
| abled. has arrived at New York all right.
The worst electrical storm of the season is
reported from Western Iowa, Monday nign~
| Five men were seriously injured, two fatal
ly by the fall of an old church roof at Free
| port Ill.
--Eyraud, the Paris strangler, Is trying to
place the blame of his crime upon his female
accomplice.
The Duke de Broglie denounced the alleged
extracts from the memoirs OF Prince IaLey-
rand as forgeries.
White and coIored tramps just out of Chi
cago are having serious battles. The police
force has been doubled.
The high waters are again threatening the
levees on the Ponchartrain Railroad, New Or
leans. Five inches more will do much damage.
ID. Webster stoddard. on trial at Utica, N.
Y, for forgery, attempted suicide by shooting
himself, In an ante-room Of the Court House.
ALL the delegates to the Anti-Slavery Con-
ference at Brussels, except those representing
the United States, formally adhered to the
congo tarIn.
Prince Bismarck does not look with favor
upon the determined reception to be rendered
him by his German friends on his forthcoming
visit to London.
AT 2 o'clock Monday afternoon a severe
storm struck Lamar, Ark. The Masonic Hall
and school building were struck by lightning
and destroyed.
shal shot and killed a distiller of Campbell
county, Tenn, because he refused to sell Lind
say gallon of whisky.
Maud Gordon, who had a trepanned skull.
became involved in fight with another Chica-
go girl, who pushed the silver plate into the
brain. resulting in death.
The Pueblo and Duluth Railroad Company
has been incorporated with a capital stock of
So 600 600. Their headquarters are at Lincoln,
Neb 1t is said to be Sante Fe extension.
At Hay, Wis, washout on the Chicago,
Burlington and Northern Railway ditched an
engine and 20 cars of Kansas City and st.
Paul train. killing fireman and brakeman.
The Coroner's jury in the San Francisco
drawbridge disaster finds Engineer Dunn
guilty of manslaughter. and the railroad COM
pany negligent in not providing for signaling.
Anarchist Jacob Kaiser. arrested by the
Chicago police on suspicion of having knowl-
edge of the placing of the bomb in Haymarket,
has been released on writ Of habeas corpus.
AT Clarksville Ia, a German woman named
Lobock sought refuge from a runaway team
under fence. The team jumped over the
fence killing her and crippling the child In her
arms.
The family OF the missing Viscount Boyle
are anxiously awaiting his return to London to
assume the title and estate of his father, the
late Earl Shannon. 1t is feared he has been
foully dealt with.
The Prince of SAKE Meiningen, brother-in-
law of the Emperor, is very ill at Coblenz, at
trihntsd to injuries received by being thrown
from the carriage in which he and EmDeror
William were riding Sunday, the 18th ut.
AT the annual meeting of the st. Louis, Al
ton and Terre Haute Railroad Company it was
decided to give go days notice of a special
meeting to be held for the purpose of voting
upon the proposition to sell the main line to
the Big Four for $40, ,000, 900.
The new twin L I7O0-ton United States gun
boat Bennington, companion of the Concord.
launched few months ago, and the last one
contracted for at Roach's yards, was launched
yesterday at noon at Chester, Pa The new
boat was christened by Miss Annie Ashton,
daughter of Chief Engineer Ashton.