Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-17
A COMPLETE NEWSPAPER.
Yesterdays 2O-Page Dispatch Replete
With Useful and Interesting Matter.

Yesterdays 2O.PaRe Dispatch Replete
With Useful and Interesting Matter.
The mammoth triple number of THE DIS
PATCH issued yesterday contained as much
literary matter as an ordinary 81 volume, and
all the news of two continents as we'll. 1t cost
but cents-S2 will purchase this mammoth
edition for whole year-and contained in
formation, full. complete and authentic, on
hundreds of interesting topics. Its regular
readers number tens of thousands, and the
long list is growing daily.
The International Labor Conference opened
at Berlin Saturday. The delegates were
warmly welcomed. but the ceremonies were
very informal. Lord Randolph Churchills
attack on the Government is thought to have
killed his political prospects. The downfall
of the French Cabinet was caused by the
resignation of M. Constans, who quit because
France sent delegates to the Berlin conference.
Other interesting news from abroad was con-
tanned In the special cablegrams.
tits charged that the Commissioners at Castle
Garden have neglected their duties. and that
10000 contract laborers have been permitted to
slip through during the past few months.
Floods are still doing great damage on the lower
Mississippi. The real fight, with the Democ-
racy of this State is over the choice of delegates
to the next National Convention. The South
Penn Railroad was sold by the Sheriff of Fulton
county. Hon. George F. Baer. of Reading, pur-
chased it for s., 500. The people of McCon.
neIlsburg believe that the road will be finished.
Andrew Carnegie presided at meeting in New
York which arranged for the reception of the
British engineers in October. The session of
the International Association will be held in
Pittsburg.
I
Mrs. Emily Rodgers died suddenly in Alle-
gheny. Her relatives in Hamilton, Ont. be-
came alarmed and charged that she had been
poisoned An inquest was held, and it was de-
cided that the woman died from natural causes.
John c. Brosi, well-known Southside jeweler,
is missing, and is said to have raised consider
able money on forged paper. The Mansell
trial at McKeesport ended with a verdict of
guilty on one charge, and the pastor is sus-
pended from the ministry. awaiting the action
of Conference. Members of the Lawson-Doris
Comedy Company which came to grief on the
road, are in the county jail. Franz Grade, an
Allegheny painter murdered his step-daughter
girl of years. Coffee is rising, and there is
prospect that high prices will be kept up.
Pringle's review and the news and gossip of
the sporting world occupied the sixth page.
III.
In the second and third parts there was the
usual choice variety of original articles of
high literary standard. In 1.-THE Land of the
Cannibar' Roger Easement gave a graphic
picture of scenes and adventures in African
wilds. H. Rider Haggard's Beatrice" was
continued, and additional chapters of Mrs.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps story were given.
Rigs for Racing Boats" by George H. sandi-
son. and pretty story by Paysie were among
the papers that were most interesting to
young people. In the "Woman's World" were
bright thoughts from Meg Mrs. Frank Leslie
and other gifted writer's. Emma v. Sheridan,
Shirley Dare, Bessie Bramble Miss Grundy,
Jr., Fannie B. Ward, Sweet Briar and Clara
Belle furnished papers on various interesting
subjects. Frank Carpenter. II. l. s.. James C.
Purdy, Bill Nye, Rev. George Hodges, B. P.
Shillaber, several noted artists, Edward Wake
field and r. w. Shoppell were a few of the
many writers whose productions appeared in
yesterdays great newspaper-magazine.