Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Hail fell to the depth of two feet near
Bloomington, Ill.
Harry Van Aiken was drowned while on
the lake near Toledo in a small boat.
ALI the union carpenters in indianapolis
are out for eight hours and 35 cents an hour.
An earthq uake at the Isthmus of Panama.
recently, was the severest experienced since
1882. -
Leading German Socialists have appealed
to the workmen to avoid conflicts with the au-
thorities.
The new American Consul to Tangiers-
will go there on a man-of-war in order to I'M
press the natives.
The syndicate which has secured the Buffa-
10, Rochester and Pittsbnrg Railway expects to
control the soft coal traffic.
Henry Borch, of St. Louis fve months out
of work, committed suicide that his family
might secure So, 900 life insurance.
Friends of Vernon Everett of the Chicago
Medical College. believe that he has been de-
coye d away. murdered and robbed.
"A disastrous storm in Western Nebraska,
has inflicted great damage upon the farmers.
Governor Thayer has issued an appeal 1or ald.
Two unknown bodies have been washed
ashore at Chicago, and it is believed that some
vessel went to the bottom during the recent
storm.
king Leopold, sovereign of the Congo Free
State. denies that any proposals ever were
made by anyone looking to the purchase OF
that State.
The President has sent to the Senate the
nomination of Henry ]. RItchie, of Florida, to
be Collector of Customs for the District OF St.
Augustine.
The steamer Shapparah has gone to pieces
on the rocks near Acajutla None of the cargo
of 10 900 sacks of coffee, valued at about S4OO-
900, was saved.
-Millets ..EAngelus' is now in the vaults of
t1,a Ron nf
obliged to remove it from the United States or
pay $4,000 duty on it, and they chose the for
mer course.
Yesterday President Platt refused to either
affirm OF deny story which was current in e1-
press circles that the United States Express
Company had decided to reduce the pay OF its
employees 10 per cent on May /.
AT Ottawa Miss Alice G. Elliott. aged @,
while suffering from dementia, swallowed a
small penknIfe with the blades open. So far she
has experienced no unpleasant results, but her
physician is watching the case with great an1-
iety.
AT Barre, VT, the stone cutters have set
tied their difficulties by compromising on a
basis of 2915 cents per hour, the arrangement
to take effect on May and to continue one
year, either party to give three months notice
to break il.
The new German Premier, Chancellor Won
Caprivi, has forbidden ministers or other Off
cials to furnish any communications to the
newspapers. All intelligence which it is deemed
desirous should be published will appear in the
official paper.
Acting under orders from Mayor Creiger,
Chief of Police Marsh. of Chicago, notified the
prorrietors of all the gambling houses in the
city that they would no longer be allowed to do
business. The consequence was that nearly
every house was closed at midnight
The Austrian authorities have found it
necessary to place Prince Karl, of Trauttmans-
dorff, under restraint By reckless gambling
on the turf and by wild speculation on the
Stock Exchange, the Prince has squandered
large sums OF money.
in the Iowa Legislature yesterday the joint
resolution passed by the Senate providing for
resubmIssion of the prohibition amendment
was brought up, but the rules could not he sus-
pended, SO it was killed SO far as this session is
concerned, and it will not be submitted Tor two
years.
"A Madrid dispatch says that the proposition
for the repression of false marks of origin on
industrial products is opposed by the American
delegates to the Industrial Conference.
proposal to refuse admlttance to falsely
marked goods was assented to by the same
delegates.
AT Oswego, N. Y, Thomas Glynn, while in.
toxicated,, fell under a locomotive, which
crushed his arm. He was taken to hospital.
but refused to allow the physicians to come
near him, and his mother also objected. The
man died IN a short time. The physicians say
they could have saved his life.
Ex-senator Angus Cameron has forwarded
to Washington declination to serve as men,
ber of the Cherokee Commission. The reason
is that he is too old man for the hard work
required. He had supposed that the business
could be done at the capital of the Cherokee
nation. but he finds there are Is tribes to be
treated with, and the commission must live
about four months In tents.
AT Sioux City, Ia, two shots were fred into
the residence OF the Rev. j. w. Southwell,
pastor of the West Side Methodist Church, late
Sunday night, after the family had retired to
bed. Mr.. Southwell has been active in prose-
cutting saloon keepers, and is leader i'll the
Law and Order League, which is the same
organization with which DR.. Haddock was con-
nected at the time of his murder by the liquor
men.