Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-07
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Prince of Wales has arrived In Vienna.
Labor troubles in New Zealand and Aus
tralia are still unsettled.
The boilermakers of Newport and Mon.
| mouth, Eng, are on strike.
-Cartmen at Liverpool and lightermen at
Hull, England. are on strike.
On account OF the illness of the King of
Holland a regency will be proclaimed.
Immense veins of gold and silver have
been discovered In the Arbuckle Mountains,
Ind. T.
Booths steamer Dixon, With passengers
and freight. is ashore in Lake Michigan, and
in peril.
1t is rumored that the engagement be-
tween Miss Winnie Davis and Mr.. Wilkinson is
broken of.
Irish constables who are university gradu-
ates want to be enfranchised, which at present
they are not.
Miss Kittie Rohre committed suicide by
drowning at ClIntonville, Wis, Saturday night.
Motive, consumption
q, "A Spanish engineer and two journalists
left Genoa yesterday in a balloon, intending to
tcross the Mediterranean.
Ling & shafer. dealers in mems furnish
ings at Cincinnati have failed for SO zoo; assets
less than half that amount
The Turkish authorities alleging the exist
ence of plot against the Government, has sus-
pended the local mail service.
-Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro, now at Berlin, sp-
pears disconsolate and broken down. 1t is
feared his mind is weakening.
The big Four" railroad announces So fare
from st. Louis to Cincinnati and return. with
prospect of still further reduction.
Sculptor Volk had plaster cast of Presi-
dent Llncoln's hand stolen from him during the
McVicker Theater fire in Chicago.
Andrew s. Hughes has been rendered, and
will accept the:Presidency of the new South
d ~ IN AaoN NaSn
Bishop Macs. of Covington, says that the
church objections against secret societies will
be insisted upon only in case of the Free Ma
sons
1t is stated that BirchalI has admitted that
he was an accessory to the Benwell murder and
it is believed that he will make a full confes-
sion.
Justin Glenn, wealthy young man, of Syr-
acuse, n. Y, committed suicide by jumping
from a window because his mothers will placed
him on an allowance.
Little Tommy O'Rourke after being lost in
the woods near st. Cloud, Mimi, for eight
days, subsistlng on acorns and water, was found
Sunday, nearly starved.
The 81. 600 appropriated by Congress for
the relief of Oklahoma sufferers which is now
being expended, will be insufficient. The ad-
vent of winter is dreaded.
France claims over Belgium the prefer
ential right to purchase Congo Free State ter
ritories, and King Leopold is looking to En-
gland and Germany for backing.
Preparations are being made for the coming
Australasian Federation Convention. the
object Of which will be to unite Australia and
djacent British islands under one government
The President has appointed Charles A.
Dougherty of Pennsylvania. to be Secretary of
Legation to Mexico, and H. Remsen White
house, of New York, to be Secretary of Lega-
ton to Italy.
All the missionaries at stations within
reach of the Vitu insurgents in Zanzibar have
reached the coast in safety. Another large
armed expedition will soon start from Lindi
under the command of the Germany commas
lonary, to subjugate the inland tribes.
-Ex-President Cleveland said yesterday that |
all the stories to the effect that he to visit
the West shortly and that he was to follow |
closely the trail OF Harrison in the matter of |
speech making were erroneous. He says he |
may go West in November. on the occasion of |
Mr.. Thurman's birthday celebration, but it will |
De very brief trip.
Two notorious desperadoes at Mullen, |
and Bassett-undertook to raid |
ind rob all the saloons in town. At the first |
place they visited they killed the proprietor
md raked In SO cents. At the next place they
,roke up poker party and secured $500 At |
he last place they met resistance, in which |
Stacy was killed and his partner fed, with
POSSE in hot pursuit.