Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hundreds of Cinnamon were drowned In
the storm on the Chinese coast in January.
The Fifth Presbyterian Church in North
Minneapolis burned yesterday morning. Loss
$4,000
BY the bursting Of boiler at zabala, on the
Mexican Central, two bumpers we're Killed
They were both Americans.
The Congo Free State has empowered the
Brussels Anti-SlaYery' Society to send an eX-
pedition to Africa to aid In suppressing the
slave trade.
"A boiler exploded yesterday morning in the
sawmill of James Hunter, at Rutherglen, Car
olina county, Va, killing three people and
wounding six.
Cashier Bard's shortage amounts to about
$4,000 The stockholders Of the Lincoln Bank
will hold meeting at once to decide upon their
future course.
The French Senate, by a vote of us to lOI,
has passed the bill providing for summary pro-
ceeding against newspapers publishing hDeis on
Government officials.
r. h. Culpepper member Of one OF the
largest grocery and cotton houses in Texas,
suicided by shooting himself on THURSDAY at
his home in Houston.
"A branch of the Non-Partisan WomanS
Christian Temperance Union, of which Mrs- J,
Ellen Foster. Of Iowa, is the recognized leader,
has been formed in Chicago.
Dick Hawes the wife and child murderer
who will be hanged next Friday in Birming-
ham, Ala, has made third confession, and
this is believed to be the true one.
The arc andincandescentl light plant owned
by Farwell & Mum, at Freeport, Ill, was de-
stroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morn
ing. Loss SIS, 900; insurance 5000.
-Ad7ices from Wood river. Montana, state
that cattle and horses are dy1ng in large num-
bers in shat section. Many bands will be wiped
out entirely unless thaw comes soon.
The grand jury at Lafayette, Ind. returned
indictments against 2l persons, all charged with
conspiracy in connection with their acts as reg
ulators The parties will be allowed bail.
"A boat with six of the crew Of the British
ship Sovereign, from Cardiff for Montevideo,
which was sunk by a collision with the steamer
Highgste of Lundy Island, is still missing.
The China Courier d FRGiphong chronicles
the assassination of three Europeans, NJ. dAr-
gencie, his wife and their son. Their bodies
were found in house thatthey had been occu-
pying.
AT Dublin Father Kinsella has been SEN
fenced to two months imprisonment with
hard labor, for connection with the recent
resistance to eVictions from the Clangory
estate.
Pension Agent Ensley has sent to Charles
Flaherty Terre Haupe. guardian of Owen Fla
herty, a draft for Sl3,07 The beneficiary came
out Of the service at the close of the war hopeS
lessly insane.
-TheIstest the ory regarding the assassination
Mich. is that the shots wtre not intended for
the doctor, but for Albert Fosdrick himself, the
alleged assassin.
Almost complete returns from the election
for Mobiles and Representatives held in the
Hawaiian Kingdom February indicate that
the Reform party will have a small maj iority in
the next Legislature,
AT Baltimore the Johns Hopkins University
celebrated its fourteenth anniversary yesterday.
The public exercises we're held in the Mt Yer
O1alna 1rrh OF
Remsen presided and made an address.
The jury in the Cronin jury bribing case
brought la a verdict finding the only remain
ing defendant on trial, jeremiah O'Donnell,
guilty of the offense charged and fixing his
punishment at three years in the penitentiary.
The President has approved the act for the
construction of bridge across the Missouri
river at or near Burlington, Ia, and the act for
the construction of bridge over the Missouri
river in Douglass county. No., or in sarpy
county, Neb.
1t is reported that as soon as the lease is
signed whereby the Northern Pacific gains
control of the Wisconsin Central, Mr.. Willard
will commence operations to shorten the
length of the latter line from the twin cities to
Chicago by about go miles.
The Jury in the case Of Frank Twombley
and Edward La Cloege. engineer and fireman
respectively of freight train which in Sep
timber last ran into passenger train on the
Rock Island road near Chicago, causing the
loss Of seven lives. brought in its verdict Of
not guilty.
Samuel Belt and Oliver Lee have been ar
rested at Lebanon, Ind, on the strength of an
affidavit made by the divorced wife of Samuel
Belt, charging them with having attempted the
assassination of Mrs. Randall while a prayer
meeting was in progress at her residence, i've
miles south of Lebanon.
AT London the Court has granted an in
junction against Miss Agnes Huntington, for
bidding her TO sing in or outside the United
Kingdom without the consent Of the Carl Rosa
Opera Company. The Judge said he hoped the
Gtgants would arrange their trouble before
trial, as it was disadvantageous to managers,
actors and singers TO parade their quarrels be-
fare the uublic