Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


-Alady has been arrested as German spy
at Cannes.
-Roughs beat William Joslyn to death at
MI. Morris, n. j.
Forest fires are doing great damage in
South Dakota hills.
The town of Druja, in Russia. burned Sat-
urday night, with great loss of life.
Arthur Cruttenden was murdered In
Mexican mine by all unknown man.
Raphael & Leuenberg, Boston clothiers
have assigned. Liabilities. slI5,OO0 to SOC. 600
Philadelphia grocers and importers met
to protest against the passage of the Conger
lard bill.
1t is asserted that Premier Crispi denied
that Figaro representative had any interview
with him.
Settlers and loggers dispute the title to GER
tain lands in upper Michigan, and are arming
for a conflict.
"A Chicago printer named E. J. Maghan
was killed while attempting to board freight
train yesterday.
Young William H. Vanderbilt threatens to
sue New York paper that said he was dropped
from his class at Yale.
Orders have been received By the revenue
cutter Rush to proceed to Behring Sea and seize
all sealing schoOners found there.
The engineer of the British steamer Picton.
from disease resembling cholera.
MIR, Croft, a prominent Chicago millionaire,
Is defendant In breach of promise suit
brought by Miss May II. Wooster-Mason.
John @. Nichols shot himself and sister.
Mrs. Ida Cunningham, at Lowell, on account
of money matters. Both are in critical con-
dition
The miners strike near Camden, NO., now
five weeks old, is assuming serious aspect.
New men are hired whom the strikers do not
permit to work.
Creditors seized the stable of a man in
debt, and took with 1t Vice President Morton's
horses, at Schooley's mountain, but the ami
mails were released
"A riot between Russian and Persian labor
ers at Novo Rossck, on the Black Sea. was
quelled by the military, inficting the loss of II
Killed and wounded.
BY boiler explosion. at DeedsvilIe, Ind, a
workman named Charles Deed, had his head
blown from his body, and several others were
dangerously injured.
An ordinance before the Chicago Council
requires all car companies to pay 5 per cent of
their earnings into the city treasury as o COM
pensation for their franchise.
The Rohan Bros, Boiler Manufacturing
Company, of st. Louis, one of the largest IN
the country. has assigned. Assets, $4,000.
Liabilities, sll0,Oe1 to $4,000
White Caps in Calhoun county, Ala.
dragged a widow named Mrs. Jane Cody, from
her bed with the intention OF fogging her and
ended by fatally shooting her. The Sheriff is
on the track of the gang.
For the past two years two Napa, CAL, boys,
aged, respectively. 20 and II. have made bust
ness of firing houses. being the leaders of
gang of other lads The elder has just been
arrested and has confessed.
Under the nuisance provision of the Kansas
prohibitory law, the city marshal of Leaven-
worth has been evicting saloon keepers from
their property, including their families when
thew lived on the premises. Some of the
acgrieved parties having appealed to the
courts the powers OF the marshal will be
iudIcialIy determined.
in May last, Charles Sheldon, q well-to-do
citizen visited an Evansville place of amuse-
ment managed by one Eugene Robinson.
and demanded the best seat for which ne