Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-20
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Turks and Christians in Crete are
| fighting.
-"Original package" houses are being raided
| by the score in Iowa.
The citizens of Mexico protest against the
| telephone poles in the streets.
-Hailstones the size of hens eggs destroyed
the crops yesterday in Central Wisconsin.
An old resident and well known physician
| of Lincoln, Neb., named Rofus cut his throat
Wednesday.
| Over 700 cigar makers struck yesterday at
the Nickelin factories in New York. This
makes 1000 out
Wisconsin schools are still using the Bible
| as a textbook, contrary to law. A test case Is
| to be made at Edgertom.
BY the use of q hand grenade Mike Kelly,
| a 1l-year- old boy, frustrated q plot to fire the
Cincinnati House of Refuge.
Sheriff Huston and posse arrested nine
| ringIeaders who were enjoyed in compelling
Quarrymen to strike at Joliet, Ill
| g. s. Nichols, postmaster at Valasco, Tex,
| put a bullet through his heart yesterday. Ex-
cessive drinking and short in accounts.
| A notorious burglar, Jasper Hill, of Frank
| fort Ind, tried to suicide by taking pounded
| glass, to avoid serving Il years sentence.
| Daniel Hiliard, an agent of the Society for
| the Prevention of Vice in New York, has mys-
teriously disappeared. Foul play suspected
One of the heaviest transforms of the
| season occurred in the vicinity OF VuoQua
| Wis, yesterday. Eight inches of rain fell in
one hour.
teacher in New York. is wanted by anxious
creditors to whom he is indebted in the sum of
$4,000.
BY setting the date of the Republican State
convention of North Dakota for July g. instead
of September 10. it was regarded as a knockout
for the lottery men.
"A mash tub containing 500 barrels of malt
exploded yesterday in the brewery of John F.
Betz Sons. Philadelphia Two employees were
scalded to death.
storm did much damage to property. Light
ming killed Mrs. Brown and one SOD and Sc
verely injured a second son.
"A race war is imminent in the vicinity Of
Houston, Tex, over the lynching of a negro,
for the murder of a white man. Both sides are
well armed and determined.
John Smith, of San Francisco, was rescued
while clinglng to a capsized boat from which
his two companions had drowned, near Santa
Cruz, Cal, almost exhausted.
session at Minneapolis for several days ad-
journed last night. The closing feature was a
banquet at which there were 600 guests.
Madame Tschebrikova, who wrote a letter
to the CA. protesting against the system of
government prevailing in Russia, has been
exiled to the extreme northern part of Russia.
Near the Cumberland Gap tunnel on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad boxcar was
precipitated down a bank, fatally iniurinC
Brakeman Buckley and seriously three section
men.
BY cleverly-worked scheme of appearing
to be deaf and dumb, Katie McNamara and
Nellie Denny, each aged IA, living in Lowell,
Mass. succeeded in plundering 81 houses be-
fore being arrested
The bricklayers. the plasterers hodcarriers
ironworkers, of Cincinnati, have indorsed the
carpenters strike and refuse to work until the
trouble is settled. Almost a general tie up in
the building industry is the result
The trial of the Ashton woman and her nal
Brady. who are accused of stealing s25 600 from
Walton. the Dallas, Tex, express robber. COM
menced in Montreal yesterday. The princinal
witness is Georgia C. Garland, who secured a
confession from the thieves.
While trying TO climb up to the windows of
two InGian girls, in company with a companion.
an indian student was shot by Prof. Harvey
at Shawneetown, L T.. and seriously hurt
The student failed to come down when the
Professor called him.