Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-28
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Delaware avenue houses, Philadelphia
were flooded by the river.
| "A revolver fell from the pockets of ]. F
Brown, Mt Holly, and fatally shot his wife.
| President Carnot. of France, will open al
| exhibit of French products at st. Petersburg il
May.
Though the spring tooth harrow men hav,
| organized, prices have been reduced below
those of last year.
+ 1T is discovered that the Frankfort treat,
Will prevent a reciprocity arrangement between
! germany and Austria.
Branch No. 403 of the Irish Nationa
League. New York, raised 81, 43S to be placed il
Dillon's and O'BrIens hands.
"A projected tunnel through a high mount
am on the proposedline of he Utah and Pacific
Railroad will be 5000 feet long.
-McAllister says he and Mrs. Vanderbilt
never quarreled OH the point that he raised al
her dinner about serving hot and a cold en-
| tree.
Judge II. Marshall Buford, of Lexington
KY, has become insane from the excessive
use of whisky, and has been placed in private
asylum.
During the TWO days storm on the Mediter
ranean. the Italian squadron sustained dam
ages of 1000 francs. Many small craft were
wrecked.
The Dominion Government has purchased
four Mergenthaler linotype machines for use
in the Government Printing Office. Others will
probably be ordered.
Houston, Tex, shot colored porter dead,
then pulled the bell cord and as the train
slowed jumped of and escaped.
Charles NJ. Thornton, young farmer living
near Alliance. Neb. killed Fred Robinson and
fatally shot his sweetheart, Myrtle Kerr on
Sunday. The murderer was arrested.
Attorney General Miller says that for the
being w
be denied to newspapers containing advertise
ments of voting and guessing schemes
During a session of the Hawaiian Legisla-
ture recently Wilcox, the revolutionary leader
openly threatened that within n year the realm
Will have new governments without King.
Reported that Murat Halstead has sold to
broker large part of his stock in the Cincin-
natl Commercial ozette. Speculation con-
meets the name OF Alger and Clarkson with the
purchase.
While drunken Edward Houck was threat
ening his sick wife with hatchet Saturday
four masked entered, and. taking him out, beat
his head into jelly with the same hatchet.
Houck died. No arrests.
AT st. Louis yesterday John McCune and
two others met Byron NJ Scott and the former
drew knife. Scott fired at his three enemies,
killing McCune and wounding the others. Ali
parties to the affray were colored steamboat
men.
-Ex-Lord High Sheriff Hutton, of London,
spent part of Saturday night in the county Jail
at st. Francis before he could secure bail OF
$6, 600. He was arrested at the instance of an
old English friend and fellow lawyer named
Donague, with whom he quarreled over fees in
the Blythe case.
1t has transpired that LAWYER T. j. Blount.
of Muncie Ind, who died in the Richmond H os-
pital in the latter part of September, was kicked
and choked to death by four guards to prevent
his ineessant talking A fellow inmate in
formed on the attendants, and an autopsy con-
firms the charge. The guards and assistant
will be arrested.
Judge John c. Sherwin. who was among the
first to render decision in an original pack |
age case. allowing importers to sell in The State
nowlnstructs grand Jury of Mason City. Ia.
to indict all parties found selling within the |
STATE. and holds that the Iowa prohibition law |
IS in full force and effect. the recent decision |
Of the Kansas Court to the contrary notYith- |