Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-14
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Judge Collins, of Chicago. has SET aside the
Jennings divorce suit
Three of Montana's Democratic Senators
are now stopping in Portland, Ore, others are
/ said to be at Pendleton.
Bishop Fink, of the Roman Catholic dio-
cese of Leavenworth, says Catholics cannot
Join the Farmers Alliance.
Coal gas escaping from a gas stove in a Mil
waukee house almost put an end to six persons.
Two of them will in all probability die.
1t is reported that Theodore Thomas viii
shortly lead to the altar Miss Rose Fay, daugh-
ter of the late Rev. Charles Fay. The bride to
be is now resident of Chicago
kilograms from all parts north and west
along the lines of Arkansas Pass, and Southern
Pacific Railways report the coolest weather of
the winter. The wind is blowing gale.
The Manitoba Legislature has passed a res
olution abolishing the use Of French as the Of
fetal language of the Province. The French
members made bitter Aght against the inno-
walton.
The international Association Of Railroad
Ticket Agents is holding its second annual
session in Jacksonville. Fla. The association
has decided to hold the next annual meeting in
Denver.
Citizens of Mobile have completed $780,
600 subscription to the preferred stock of the
Mobile, jackson and Kansas City Railroad, the
amount needed to secure the building Of the
road from Mobile to jackson.
F. A Walton. the Pacific Express Com
pany messenger, who is wanted in St Louis tor
getting away with $1,000, has been traced to
Toronto, Canada. Superintendent Fuller has
made up his mind TO have the man extra
dited.
The President has authorized the expendi-
ture Of 5000 for the relief of the present uT-
gent needs of the Devils Lake Indians in North
Dakota. A measure is pending in Congress
appropr1ating S250 900 additional for the subsist-
ence Of these Indians.
Thomas Bryant, aged Is years, attempted
to rob his mother in Burlington, Mont. He
was caught in the act, when struggle ensued.
The baffied boy then drew revolver and shot
his mother dead. The murderer skipped to
Silver Bow where he was captured.
The big ice crusher and ferryboat st Ignace
is fastened in the ice near ST. 1gnace, Mich.
The report that five Of the passengers on the
vessel tried to walk ashore on the ice and froze
to death proved to be groundless, as they
reached the shore yesterday morning.
There is now in Bonham, Tex, a woman
named Danua, from Tennessee, who claims to
be sister Of the late Thomas q. Bean. to whose
millions there have been so many claimants.
Mrs Danna claims that his name of Bean was
assumed and that his real name was Thomas
Bean Sanders.
President Ingalls,, of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway, says it is part of the plan OF
the company, in ayailing themselves Of the
franchises recently granted them by the Cen
eral Assembly of Virginia, to establish lines OF
steamers between Newport News and New
York and Liverpool. They also propose to
build several branch roads through Virginia
AT Fredericksburg. Va, the Mary Wash
ington monument litigation, which caused q
ludicrous scene in court several weeks ago, is
now the cause of another disagreement, in
which opposing counsel figure. The controversy
is between st. George R. FiuZhugh and Colonel
Robert Washington and is over a statement
made by Fitzhugh and denied by Mr.. Washing
ton. Serious difficulty is feared.