Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The coIliers at Breslau have Joined the
strike.
Three telegraph offices in Amsterdam have
been closed, owing to the employees being pros
trated by influenza.
AT Williamsburg, N. Y, yesterday. a man
then committed suicide.
General Won Winterfeld, an aid-de-camp to
Emperor William, will represent His Majesty
at the funeral of the ex- x-Empress of Brazil
Dexter Turner, the life insurance agent ar
rested on charge of defrauding South Dakota
people, denies that he made any misreprsenta-
tions.
-Four Greek and Russian fishermen were
drowned in San Francisco bay Friday night.
One was rescued after clinging to rock six
hours.
AT High Prairie, Kan, Frank and Minnie
Boland who were crazed by religious excite
ment. set dre to their house and were IN dan
ger Of being cremated when rescued.
"A Baltimore and Ohio engine exploded at
Benwood junction yesterday, badly injuring
Fireman TaTry. Engineer Cunningham was
thrown 200 yards, but escaped with slight in
jury.
The remains of Mile Drancourt, the gov
erness of Princess Clementine, who was burned
to- death IN the fire that destroyed the royal
palace, at Brussels, have been found In the
ruins
Judge Porter King. of Alabama, ia dead
Justice of Alabama, and IN 1913 an elector on
the Taylor-Fillmore ticket, is dead IN Mont
gomery.
Deputy United States Marshal Jennings
was shot in the arm while trying to arrest es-
Gaping murderers in No Mans land. One Of
the murderers was killed in the fight. Jennings
returned to Wichita.
The extensive beef and pork packing bust
ness of Charles H. North & Co.. of Boston, has
been transferred to a corporation formed under
Packing
Company, with paid up capital of 81, 100000
The body of Gayarre, the tenor, was yester-
day taken to the Madrid railway station, en-
route for Roncal. There was an impressive
and spontaneous demonstration of respect.
thousands OF spectators waited on the line of
the procession.
Police Justice c. H. Freeman, of Lockport,
N. Y, was arrested Friday night on the charge
of defrauding Calvin Thompson. an old farmer
of the town of Cambria, out of nearly S8,0O0
Freeman was arrested to prevent his alleged
intended flight.
"A man named Henderson was fatally
stabbed at Mouston, Ia, Friday. The quarrel
began about woman, and friends Of the COM
batants took part Twenty-Five persons were
soon engaged, several of whom were badly
beaten and cut.
An important piece of church news has
been received at Milwaukee, IN a private letter
from Baltimore. 1t is that within year Arch
bishop ireland, of st. Paul, is to be invested
gate for the United States.
The RaiIu0dy Age says that the year
1889 makes a much less favorable showing
in respect to foreclosure sales than did its i'm
mediate predecessor, although on the other
hand, its record is much less discouraging than
in the three years preceding 1888.
M. Tirard, French Premier and Minister of
Commerce. has sent a circular letter to the
Chambers of Commerce throughout France,
asking those bodies if they would support
bill giving to women engaged in any trade the
right to vote at elections for judges of COM
mercial tribunals.
Gable dispatches from the Congo Free
State say that Governor General Jansen has
navigable as far as latitude 40 N, where large
falls obstruct the further passage of boats.
Affairs on the upper Congo, the dispatches say,
are quiet, and the people are prosperous.
"A freight train of % cars, on the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass road. went through
bridge at Halletsville, Tex, Thursday night.
There were dozen men on the cars. Seven
have been taken out, four of them not seri-
ously injured. 1t is reported that the bodies of
three men have been found about seven miles
below in the river.
1t seems practically settled that the Wheel
ing and Lake Erie Railroad is to enter Wheel
ing over the Union bridge. The Wheeling and
Lake Erie and the Baltimore and Ohio have al
ready come to an amicable understanding, and
long distance tickets over the Wheeling and
Lgke Erie are already being sold by the Balti-
more and Ohio agents.
Passenger rates from Chicago to the North
west will be reduced next Tuesday, January Z,
to correspond with the east-bound cut rate in
augurated last Wednesday. The Chicago,