Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-30
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Thirteen lives were lost in the collision on
Chesapeake Bay.
-Brooklyn's population is sO4,377, a gain Of
237 ia or 1886 per cent in the decade.
-Emin Pasha's party is more or less affected
with sickness. Emin is himself quite i'll.
Severe droughts prevail in Western Kansas
and prairie fires are feared in consequence.
The postmaster of Warren, Wyo T., has
been asked to resign for selling 2cent postage
stamps at cents each.
-Rumored in diplomatic circles that Uncle
Sam is figuring on the annexation of either
Hayti or San Domingo.
The Prince of Montenegro has demanded
of the Porte indemnity for the outrages COM
mitted by the Albanians.
The Democrats are booming Judge Allen
B. Morse of the Supreme Court of Michigan,
for Governor of the State.
The street car companies Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, granted the strikers demands and they
returned to work yesterday.
The Worlds Fair directors have made ar
rangements for the various exhibits both in
Jackson Park and Lake Front.
The delinquent census enumerators of Min
neapolIs were yesterday held in s., 600 bonds to
await the action Of the grand jury.
Indiana is suffering severely from drouth.
Crops are reduced in yield and pastures burned
up. New hay is being fed to stock.
The recent passage of the silver bill has in
tea is reported heavy and of prime quality.
-Four hundred of the Armenians who took
part in the riotous demonstrations against the
patriarch in the Armenian Cathedral Sunday,
have been arrested.
Mrs. Charles York and her aged mother,
living at Ben Mess, were murdered yesterday
morning. man named Meeks was accused
of committing the crime.
The remains of the late John Ericsson will
be taken to Sweden on board the Baltimore
some time in August. Secretary Porter Is
ranging for her departure.
The catch of seals in Alaskan waters this
year is proving the largest ever known. No
seizures have as yet been made, but some
anxiety is felt lest there will be.
General Mitre who was formerly President
of the Argentine Republic, and who has been
residing in Paris for some time, has suddenly
taken his departure from that city.
The secretary of the Knapp-Stout Lumber
Company. of st. Louis, who was arrested for
killing an emPloye, has been released, no evil
dence having been found against him.
"A Cleveland man who had not lived with
his wife for three years shot her and then him
self, both fatally. yesterday morning, as the
woman was going to work. Both died.
-Incendiaries set fire to the residence of
Rev. David Plumb. a Methodist minister of
Gale Ind, yesterday morning, and himself,
wife and three children perished in the flames.
On account of alleged insults offered some
of the ladies of Battle Creek, Mich, by the
mIlitiamen encamped there, a number OF
molders got together and beat up several of the
soldiers.
"A wealthy widow, who was so misery as to
fail to provide herself with food, died of star
vation and self-neglect at Chicago. aged IA.
Her fortune of over $50 900 will go to her sister
in Bavaria.
The entire property loss at Wallace. in the
Coeur d. Alene mining district is estimated at
S4l2 600 and insurance $38 900. The water supply
at the reservoir gave out after ten minutes,
leaving the town at the mercy of the flames.