Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

"A blizzard ragged over Lake Superior Thurs
day.
An explosion at the Chinese Government
powder mill killed 300 men.
Mine owners and operatives at Sydney,
Australia, have reached an agreement.
Work has begun on the Canadian water
power canal along the Ssult Ste. Marie river.
Henry Bros. & Co., Baltimore, fruit dealers,
have assigned Amount involved about $4,000
Nearly all of the business portion of Hart
man, Ark, burned Thursday morning. Loss
about S36, 900 and no insurance.
Illinois Central switchmen at Freeport,
III. struck Thursday night for higher wages.
Railroad officials Delttle the trouble
M. Maurice Bernhardt, son of Sarah.
the actress, slightly wounded NJ. Boureya, dra-
matte critic, in sword duel Thursday.
"A vestibule train on the Big Four railroad
jumped the track near Indianapolis Thursday.
No one seriously injured. Rails spread
Mrs. Lila Hildburg, while delirious from
illness at her home in New York, eiuded her
nurses leaped from thiId-story window and
was killed.
Dom Emilio de Murunga, the Spanish Min
lister, called 1.-THE White House yesterday, in
company with Secretary Blaine, and presented
his letter of recall.
"A 9-year-old child named Roland Matthews
was killed by a cable car In Chicago Thursday
night. He had Just aiighted from another car
going in an opposite direction.
DR. e. 81. Reed, a young dentist of Bing-
hampton, N. Y, was found dead in hallway.
There were no marks of violence on him and
the cause of his death is a mystery.
-Succi, the faster, who has started on long
fast. is beginning to look pale and haggard, al
though he has tasted for only As hours. He has
already dropped 10 pounds in weight.
Two footpads assaulted DR.. j. c. McPher-
son, of Lyons, N. Y, in New ork City, Thurs
day night leaving him unconscious, but were
frightened away without securing any booty
Actor Charles Webster, who was convicted
of manslaughter in the fist degree. at New
York, in shooting Robert Men eill. has been
granted stay of sentence until November 25.
Before adjourning Thursday the Illinois
Woman's Suffrage Convention decided to make
an effort to induce the Legislature to submit a
franchise amendment to tie State constitution.
Mary Bryan, aged II years. burned to death
Wednesday. Her clothes had caught fire in
taking up ashes. and she was not aware of the
ignition until she went out into the open air,
when flames burst out
Wages of the freight engineers and fremen
in the employ of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railway have been increased 20 cents
a day. The engineers are advanced from So so
to So 20, and the fremen from 81 Is to 81 s..
Joseph Chamberlin. NJ. p. of England, in
an interview at Boston, says that Americans
cannot compete with England in the South
American markets anG in other foreign and
neutral countries on accoun: of the Mckinley
tariff
Upon the demand of the American Consul
at Juarez, the Mexican authorities have re-
leased Henry Henderson, the colored Amer
lean citizen who escaped from Jail at Juarez
but was recaptured on American soil and
dragged back to JuareZ.
General Miles believes that there are sew
eral persons masquerading as Indian Messiahs
since every tribe of Indians are addressed by
the great unknown in their own tongue. He
also thinks that the Mormons are the prime
movers of the superstitition.
-stansloff Vichowsky ayoung Pole, stabbed
his father, Josef Vichowsky, in the abdomen
during quarrel at Perth Amboy, n. j. infiicU-
ing wound from the effects of which the in
jured man died. The murderer fed but was
arrested. he says his father murdered his
mother in Poland.
Vice President H. Walter Webb of the
New York Central railroad, has brought suit
against the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad Company for an injunction to prevent
its issuing certain car improvements the
patents of which, it is alleged, have been con-
signed 10 the compiainan,.