Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

Bad washouts are reported on the Illinois
Central in Wisconsin.
The Illinois Central bridge at Rockford is
swept away. Loss, SlO,0OO.
"A bolt of lightning killed Andrew Longe-
necker. of Harrisburg, Ont. while herding.
AT Milwaukee, Friday night, Samuel Kim
ball shot and killed his wife. He is under ar
rest
Tho proof sheets Of Stanley's forthcoming
book ''The Darkest Africa" are reported
stolen.
Howe Bros, drygoods retailers Of st.
Paul, have assigned Liabilities, $oO,OO0; assets,
SIS 600.
The South Carolina Iynchers of Willie
Leaphart have been acquitted OF the charge OF
murder.
The rainstorm at Rockford, Ill, was ter
rife. Two houses struck by lightning and one
consumed.
AT Brooklyn yesterday John F. Forrest
81 years of age, suicided by hanging. Could
not obtain employment.
The committee on site of the Worlds Fair
recommend the Lake Front If the present legal
difficulties can be removed
i'm addition to Miss Fawcett's Cambridge
honors Miss Margaret Afford, niece Of Dean
Afford won first place in classical tripos.
While attempting to rescue valuable stock
from lightning-struck barn. VIM. Turner, a
wealthy farmer Of Madison, Ind, perished.
quit at DAYTON la, by the indignation of citi-
zens at sight of 5year-old boy being drunk.
I'm the provincial circles of British Columbia
1t is believed the full returns will show a ma
iority of eight for the Government In the
House.
don, Ont. was hanged at $40 Yesterday morn
ing. He confessed on the scaffold, and warned
the audience against drink
"A wealthy stockman named Marshall was
struck by lightning and killed while driving a
herd Of cattle through Cass county, N. D. His
assistant Clark, was stunned, but will recover.
Father Green, of Rochelle, Ill, the priest
who has been mysteriously missing for two
weeks, is reported to be at the home of his
uncle, in New York, ill of congestion of the
brain.
Before recommitting George NJ. Storrs, son
of Emory Storrs to the Poughkeepsie Insane
Asylum, he said be was not insane, but that all
his actions had been brought on by domestic
trouble.
"A strike of horse car drivers in Chicago is
threatened because of the introduction of
cable cars. thus throwing many drivers out of
employment, the drivers not all being compe-
tent grlpmen.
in examining the walls of the new city hall
at San Francisco they were found to be stuffed
with rubbish. The contractors claim it was
done by George Hanks. who gave the informa-
tion for the purpose OF profting by the expos
ure.
The Congregationalists of London are pre-
pairing to erect magnificent buildings in East
london, in which Will be established univer-
sIUy for the education of the poor exclusively.
The institution will be called the Mansfield
House.
The Government has instructed the Ger
man officials in East Africa to prevent the
Emin Pasha expedition from entering Uganda
while the negotiations pending between
Germany and England relative to territory in
Africa
Ticket Agent Edwin ]. Elliott, who is now
sick in bed through exposure Of the shortage
in his accounts with the Louisville and Nash
vile road al Louisville, confessed to have taken
$500 of the SIS 100 and no more. He had been
playing poker.