Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-02
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| The conference between the coal operators
and miners has so far reached no result
The Duke of Edinburgh opened the Elec
trio exhibition at Edinburgh yesterday.
| Canadian Parliament sustains the course
of Government upon the Jesuit estates act
Joseph H. Ford, New York, cashier of the
chicago Beef Company, mysteriously missing.
-Advices from Lagos, West Africa, state
that Captain Zeenerner. the African explorer,
| is dead.
Ninety per cent of the creditors of Henry
S. Ives have agreed to compromise at cents
on the dollar.
The American war ships Chicago, York
town, Boston and Atlantis sailed from Malta
yesterday for Algiers.
&C. L. Billingsley, a st. Paul contractor, was
killed yesterday by n house which he was
moving falling upon him.
Minnie Palmer Rodgers and her husband
were severely injured by q runaway accident at
Brighton, England, yesterday.
-Emigrant steamer Lake Michigan, bound
from Liverpool to Montreal, was held six days
IN an ice pack and nearly lost.
Annie Waller, instantly killed, and Regina
Fry, fatally init. ed by express train at Nor
wood, Ont. Playing on the track
Officers arrested Henry C. Raymond, Sing
Sing, n. Y, for bigamy He committed suicide
by shooting rather than 60 to jail.
The Salvation Army of Des Moines were
made prisoners of war yesterday for parading
with horns and drums without q license
John Crittingtou, colored, Baltimore, stole
hot stove from an oyster pungy, and was
caught when he went back for the stovepipe.
James Palmer was hanged at Concord, N.
H., yesterday, for murder OF Henry White
house, May q, 1SSs. He did not confess the
crime.
OF the Otter Creek Lumber Company, convicted
of the murder of DR.. Thurber and Sheriff Mar
shall, was sentenced tor life to hard labor at
jackson Penitentiary.
George Allen, of Phillipsburg, Kan, and
Elijah Beebe, of Superior, Neb., paid 500 to a
Newark, n. j., man whom they met on their
way East for what they supposed was s., 900 in
counterfeit money. Same old green goods.
United Ireland. commenting on the land
purchase bill, says that il the Irish tenants
eviction, repldIation will become mere mat
Ter of expediency and may become necessity
Deputy Postmaster w. B. Lindsay left
Helena in hurry and skif yesterday. So
did IS, 500 of the postofice funds. Neither has
yet been caught. Postmaster Grant makes
good the deficit. 1t was all taken within 90
days.
AT Boston Drs. Durgin, Greenough and
Wigglesworth yesterday examined the Swedish
woman at quarantine and unhesitatingly pro
nounce it a case of leprosy. The woman was
passed as all right by the English Port physician
at Liverpool.
Mary L. and Allie d. Williams were yester-
day married to c. r. Smith. of Chicago. and
w alter ID. Williams, of Rockport, at the latter
place beside the deathbed of the girls mother.
This was done at the dying woman's request,
and she retained consciousness during the
Marcus Moller Thorne Eau Claire, Wis,
died yesterday. aged n He was one of the
European exiles in lS4S who advocated Repub-
lIcanism although a nephew of the Norwegian
Prime Minister and of Bishop Rlddervold.
His last requests were that none but free
thinkers attend his funeral that there be no
sermon, and that no monument but plain iron
slab be erected over his grave.