Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Two men were asphyxiated by gas in watch
house in Terre Haute on Sunday night.
Treasurer Flynn, of Custer county, 8. D. is
short in his accounts to the amount OF SlAUOO
The King of Corea is about 20 send another
envoy to England, despite the vigorous protests
! of the Chinese Government
"A violent storm passed over Southern Ken
| tuclIy on Monday. Several houses were wrecked
in the vicinity of Belleview.
1t has leaked out that 10 registered letters
| have been stolen from the Scranton postofi1ce.
The matter is being investigated.
1t is officially announced that the labor con-
ference which il was proposed to hold in Berne
has been abandoned by the Swiss Government.
-Rodolphe Du Bois who murdered his wife,
mother-inlaw and two children, Sunday. in the
village of st. Alban, Canada. was captured late
Sunday night.
Savings banks for children have been
opened in the borough Of West Chester. Pu.
pills IN the three schools have already deposited
the sum of Sl63 IL
AT PittsfiOld, Mass, the High School prin-
cipal suspended six Catholic scholars because
of dispute concerning the study of the history
of the reformation.
Hundreds of people are gathering on the
southern border of Kansas waiting to enter the
Cherokee strip when President Harrison shall
declare it lawful to do so.
Yesterday morning the county court house
and jail at Vancouver, W. T., were totally de-
stroyed by fire, together with most OF the
county records. The building was valued at
$4,000; insurance $4,000
"A charter has been filed in Topeka for a
standard gauge line of railroad across the state
of Kansas Its northern terminus will be at
Kearney and its southern terminus at Calves
ton. The length of the line Will be 300 miles.
Train No. on the Evansville and Terre
Haute road went through bridge at kelso
creek, Ind, yesterday. Engineer Lyon and Fire
man Bowden were crushed in the wreck, and
several others were injured. Brakeman Cham
bers is missing.
The remains of John Jacob Astor were yes
terday laid to rest, the services being held IN
Trinity Chapel New York. AT the conclusion
of the services the body was taken to Trinity
Cemetery, followed only by the family and inti-
mate friends, and placed beside the remains OF
the late Mrs. Astor.
Bay, reports that on February 2l while at
anchor during a heavy gale, Timothy OCon-
nell, of Shelburne, n. s.; Abram Frazier and
Abram Gerry, of Arichat, c. B., while furling
and drowned. The men were unmarried.
"A terrible hurricane swept over a part of
Northern Texas early yesterday evening" The
Masonic Hall in Gainesville was torn TO pieces,
the court house unroofed, the Santa Fe Railroad
depot wrecked and some twenty buildings
persons were more or less injured.
Two masked men entered the general store
of w. C. Henderson at Berwyn, Indian Terri
tory. One of them covered the clerks with re-
volvers while the other dumped into sacks a
large amount of jewelry and fine goods and
took all the money in the safe. mounted their
horses with their booty behind them and es-
capped.
Captain Turner, of the American schooner
Harry Prescott reports that on February 6 in
latitude "a longitude rs. he hove to near the
wreck of a three-masted schooner, dismasted
and water-logged, with her boats and forward
mast gone, and the sea making a clean breach
over her. Four men were clinging to the after
house. Owing to the dangerous sea, Captain
Turner says he was unable to render them any
assistance and when last seen the wreck was
drifting toward Hatteras Shoals
I'm the German Reichstag, Won Maybach,
Minister OF Public Works, expressed entire
sympathy with the request made by Herr
Bachens, of the Center, or Clerical. party, that
the Government should promote the running
of cheap trains between cities and the neigh
boring rural districts, to enable vorkingmen to
have their homes outside the cities and to 90 to
and fro every day instead of having nQmadic
lodges in the city. He thought reforms like
this the best means of counteracting the actions
Of the Socialists