Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-12
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Rev John Oakley, D. D., Dean of Manches-
ter, England, is dead.
Two slight shocks Of earthquake were felt
at San Diego Tuesday.
"A company has been formed with $3.50 900 to
build railways to all the resorts about Denver.
violent shock of earthquake has occurred
at Poligny and other towns in the department
of Juda
Alvarez Cortez a revolutionist of the State
of Guerrero, Mexico, has been arrested and
will be shot.
-Methodists of Quebec will not accept the
$4,000 awarded to them under the Jesuit's
estates act.
AT Poughkeepsie. n. Y. Frank Chichester
Co.'S chair mandatory was destroyed by
fire yesterday.
The Indians who murdered Ranchman
Robert Ferguson, of Montana, have been ar
rested and bound over to June 28
The French Chamber of Deputies has voted
the credits asked by the Government for mill
tary equipment and for railway construction.
The Governor of Queretaro says the re-
ports of the difficulties between the Catholics
and Protestants of that place were greatly ex-
Rggerated.
A mother of South Lebanon, O., rescued
her drowning daughter, who was fishing in the
Little Miami, too late and died from the shock
herself soon afterward.
-FoOtpads beat, robbed and left John Burk,
Youngstown, o., stockdealer. unconscious on
n street corner in Chicago yesterday morning
He was taken to the hospital.
No human lives were lost bv the cyclone at
Channahon, Ill. Tuesday night, but :three
horses were blown against trees and killed
Barns and residences were wrecked.
AT Phenix City, Ga, r. H. Caldwell. a
prominent railroad contractor of East Point
Ga, fell from second-story window ana
crushed his skull He had been drinking.
The damage to the Anchor line steamer
City of Rome is serious. A 20-foot hole was
knocked IN her plates covering the forepeak
and prompt action only saved her from sinking.
The Montreal Conference of the Methodist
Churches has resolved to form an insurance
company and do their own insurinE. 1t is stated
that similar move IN England was eminently
successful.
The case of the Queen versus David Creigh-
ton, publisher of the Toronto Empire for
hbeling the Toronto Mail, has been postponed
till fall. United States Senators Hoar, Hale
and others are witnesses.
Troops were called out to quell rioting
strikers at BenniSch, Silesia, Tuesday. The
ponce, In arrestlng number of them for dam
age 10 the factories were set upon by the
strikers and serious trouble resulted.
Sheriff Flora and deputies are in pursuit
OF TWO horse traders who abducted two daugh-
ters Oh miner OF Leavenworth. Kan. named
Aker, and TOOK them away in a covered wagon.
The girls were aged l6 and 20 respectively
"A number of Pierre, S. D., citizens were
prevented from witnessing the sun dance by
Shlei humps no nand OF hostile Indians by sud-
zen rise IN the cheyenne river. 1t was fortunate
for the Indians threatened them if they crossed
over.
"A railroad brakeman named Edward r
Costello, of Palmer, Mass. shot his 10 months;
old son as it lay sleeping IN the cradle and then
fired three shots at his wife, one of which
struck corset steel, saving her life. Domestic
trouble.
Reports received at st. Petersburp indicate
great loss OF life and property in the TTraI
Mountains mining districts. Forty nersnn.
burned to death and 1900 made homeless. A