Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

M. Allard. a French journalist was fatal.
shot in duel near Tours on Saturday.
Chicago steamftters began their strik,
yesterday. Every shop in the city is idle.
"A dock strike is imminent at Liverpool
caused by the retention of non-union men.
Mexico has placed an import duty of $500 a
carload on cattle in retaliation for the McKin
ley tariff
"A schooner, probably the Jane Anderson
was seen from Franklin. Mich, flying flag OF
distress. tug dispatched for her relief failed
to find her.
The steamer Mackinaw burned to the
waters edge at Alpena, Mich. yesterday. Loss
Sl2,OOO; owned by Detroit men.
Mrs, Rearick of Woonsocket, s. D., has
confessed that she poisoned her husband to
death. The pair had quarreled.
-Four Mexican gamblers near Austin, Tex,
fell out over a game of monte Sunday. One
drew pistol and killed the other three.
Whisky administered to Abraham Winner,
farmer of AtcO. Camden county, N. j., who
had been bitten by a black spider. saved his
life.
-Pascale and Antley, two Flathead Indians
baye been sentenced in Helena, Mont, to be
hanged December 10 for murder of white
men.
William Watson. a section laborer, was
found dead at Ft. Madison Ia, Sunday morn
ing. His head had been beaten with blunt
instrument.
Though total strangers to each other,
Francis Brewster and Miss Ida Richards, after
four hours courtship, were married at Bridge.
town, N. j.
There was a small sized riot between
Italians in lower Mulberry street, New York, in
which several suffered severely from knife and
pistol wounds.
The Northern Cheyenne Commission has
completed its conference with the Sioux and
Cheyennes, as result of which those Indians
will be transferred.
Bud Lee a colored saloon porter at Nash.
vile, was shot and killed by William Young.
bartender. Monday night It was a quarrel
over can of oysters.
John ]. Irving. late County Clerk at Chat
tanooga, is defaulter to the extent of So 900 or
$4,000. He has mortgaged his property to
make good the deficit
There is prospect that The differences be-
tween the Southwestern Union Pacific combi-
nation and the other western trunk lines will
be adjusted before November L
Bishop O'Dwyer advises Americans to draw
a line OF distinction between contributions for
the RELIEF of the Irish people and contributions
to the funds of the National League. .
Suit has been brought against William L.
More by Joseph Sandberg. of Philadelphia, to
recover s250t0 damages. Sandberg says More
called an insurance plan of his fraud.
An express train over the shore line division
of rhe New York and New Hampshire Rail-
road struck party of men working on bridge
near Lynn, and two civil engineers were killed
Massachusetts Republicans claim the Demo-
Gratis of the State have Illegally paid poll taxes
from fund deposited with the City Treasurer
of Lawrence by the Democratic managers, and
will take the matter into court.
Officer Mahoney. of Chicago, caught two
footpads in the act of robbing woman Sun
day night. They retaliaTed by holding the
policeman up, divesting him of his star, watch,
club. revolver and small change.
Lee Allen. the noted border desperate, with
100 indictments hanging over his head, was
cornered by United States officers in the
Comanche country Sunday, shot and killed
He had been the DerpetratOr of many murders.
Louis Rittenhouse. OF Prairie du Long, ILL.,.
near ST. Louis. a discharged lunatic supposed
to be harmless, shot and killed neighbor
name'l Talbot, then wounded bis brother and
was about to shoot down his father when the
old gentleman felled him with erubbing hoe
7 he unconscious maniac who cannot recover,
was arrested.