Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

1t is semi-offcially announced that the new
German Reichstag will be convened on April
Is
There are great fields of ice in the path OF
| the transatlantic steamers, and serious
| trouble is feared.
The loss by yesterday mornings fire in Gin.
cinnati will reach nearly S5OO,OOG Two men
were seriously injured.
| "A director of the Delagoa Railway declares
that neither England nor America has any
right to interfere in the matter.
AT London. in the trial of Elizabeth Win.
| cent for the attempted murder of Lewis Henry
1saacs, NJ. p, the defendant was acquitted.
| AT Dallas Tex, a robber broke jewelers.
| window and secured 42 diamond rings valued at
| 5000. The Sheriff and other officials, with
| bloedhounds are now on his trail.
BY landslide that occurred at Viewers
miners, were drowned. The slide caused a
| large body of water to rush down the gulch in
Wnlch they were working.
"A terrific encounter between Turkish
| troops and band of brigands has taken place
at Elassona- The Turks succeeded in dispers-
ing the brigands but lost 20 killed in the fight,
while the brigands lost only 6.
The children of the Cayuga, n. Y. Orphan
Asylum, are suffering from an epidemic of
measles and whooping cough. The first cases
made their appearance on Wednesday last and
yesterday out of a total of 1l2 inmates 60'were
down with measles and 40 with Hhooping cough
The French Cabinet has decided to send
Senators Jules Simon and Tolain. NJ. Burdead,
member of the Chamber OF Deputies; NJ.
Linden. an inspector of mines and NJ. Delhave,
mechanic as the representatives of France at
the International Labor Conferences at Berlin.
-Advices from Sonora Mex, state that on
4th instant posse of Mexicans overlook and
had fight with six Apache Indians. One In
oian and one Mexican were killed, and another
Mexican wounded. These Apaches are part of
a small band that has been depredating in
Mexico for the past four years.
Acting on the advice of the Attorney Gen.
eral, Secretary Window has decided that Chi
nese merchants coming to this country for the
first time, provided with the certificate pre-
scribed by section of the act of July 5, 1884.
cannot be permitted to land in the United
States, notwithstanding the fact that they are
not laborers.
The Philadelphia Times offers a reward of
S, 600 to the person or persons who may dlscoy-
er and bring to conviction, IN the New Jersey
courts, the murderer or murderers of Annie
IeConey. The money Will be paid on the Joint
certificate of the Judge who tries and the Pros
ecuting Attorney who prosecutes the case after
the final conviction of the murderer or muir
derers
Mrs. Sarah Higgons, of Tiffon. Ga, is
fugitive from Justice pursued by officers and
haunted by the memory OF her two dead chill
dren barbarously lashed to death by her own
hands. Becoming angered at the little ones for
some offenSe, she began the punishment. One
of the children died while under the lash and
the other was so badly scourged that IL dled
during the night.
-Four of the miners who were entombed bv
the explosion yesterday in the Morsa colliery,
in Glamorganshire, Wales, have made their
escape from the pit without assistance. They
crawled through a crevice between the roof of
the mine and the debris. They report that they
passed over a number of dead men lying in
heaps. and say that they believe not one of
those in the pit are alive.
Ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts, and
the Boston Committee of One Hundred pro-
pose the following amendment to the Constitu-
tion: No State shall pass any law respecting
an establishment of religion or prohibiting the
exercise thereof. Nor shall any municipal,
town or county organization, or any State, use
or authorize, or permit the use of its property,
money or credit or any power of taxation, for
the purpose of founding supporting or aiding
any church. religious denomination. society,
school or other institution undertaking
under sectarian, denominatIonal or ecclesias-
tical control. This article shall not have the
effect to impair any rights of property already
vested"