Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-06
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| Graduating exercises at the Annapolis
| Naval Academy to-day.
| -Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland will while
the summer away at Marion, Mass.
The German painters have formed union
| to protect the small artists against the oppres-
| sion of the larger ones.
"A Berlin surgeon has successfully inserted
an ivory knee joint in q patients limb. No
| lameness is apparent
AT Berlin yesterday, while horseback rid
ing, Chancellor Won Caprivi was thrown from
his horse and slightly hurt.
| "A railroader of Butte Mont, named VIM.
| P. Pixley, suicided because his wife and two
| daughters were working as mattresses IN beer
hall.
| "A great exodus of Hebrews to America is
reported from the English colonies of Rembe-
| tow and Nalarows, leaving them almost de-
serted.
| According to returns made bv order of the
| French Minister of the Interior, France might
rely upon the services of 500 900 carrier pigeons
in case of war.
| The Chinese war in Formosa Is prosecuted
with little vigor. The Chinese officers have
been censured for unmilitary acts and one
colonel beheaded.
Two American cattle drovers fell out and
| fought duel with razors at resort in London.
Both were horribly mutilated, and their wounds
| may yet prove fatal.
Storms at Easton, Pa, Wednesday night
| Lightning also destroyed an undertaking estab-
lishment and a barn of live stock
BY recent order from the British War
Office none but British subjects will be allowed
to inspect English national defenses unless ac-
companied by army officers in uniform.
AT meeting of the Masonic Grand Lodge
at Ottumwa, Ia. a small majority voted to
amend the code thereby operating to expel
some 600 prominent Cerneau Masons Of the
State.
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ing to cross the railroad track near Alton, ILL.,,
was run over and instantly killed. The mother,
who tried to rescue il, was badly injured and
may die.
Steam schooner Louis Buck. of New York,
burned at Sea. The Nacoochee fell in with the
burning vessels crew. l3 men and one woman.
in an open boat. and picked up the crew and
their boat.
The body Of handsomely dressed young
woman. believed to be that of Ella Cordell. Of
Industry, ILL.,, who has been missing from her
home since May l6, has been found on lonely
island near Canton, Mo.
The story of the Indian massacre near Tue
son, Ariz., turns out to be a hoax The Indians,
whom the Mexicans reported chasing them,
were from the San Carlos reservation gather
ing cactus fruit and were not hostile.
The editor of the Cologne Gazette, who was
serving months imprisonment for hbeling
the Emperor Frederick, has been released by
the Dusseldorf Tribune of Berlin the
grounds of the punishment being too severe for
the offense.
for Berlin. where, it is said, he will reopen the
African discussion Saturday, in which he
hopes to arrive at some definite agreement in
regard to the respective claims of England ami
Germany IN Africa.
The Irish situation was discussed wednes-
day by Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. John Di Ion. it
being the first visit of Mr.. Dillon to the ex-
Premier. Mr.. Dillon thought the Radicals had
1N1rf l.
icalism set in. Mr.. Gladstone displayed much
specific information in his questions to Mr..
Dillon.
The storms that have swept over the West
ern States have been of unusual severity, and
accompanied with great loss of life and prop
erty. Much damage is reported from DEBORAH,
Apoca, McGregor and Algona, Ia. at the latter
OF which two lives were lost. and Mt. Carroll.
ILL.,. is practically shut out from the world on
account of high water.
"A deputation from Scotland has waited
upon Mr.. Chaplin. Minister of Agriculture. and
asked him to modify the restriction against i'm
porting American cattle. This because of the
scarcity of store cattle and the absence of
pleuropneumoniai in American cattle, The re-
guest could not be granted, because the Great
Britain farmers favored the restriction.
1t is now believed that the filibustering
scheme In Lower California was a movement
by Englishmen to foment strife and create
trouble for both the United States and Mexican
Governments who would proceed to oust them,
when they would call England to the rescue
and establish an independent government, as
was done by the East India companies in ac-
quring Asiatic possessions.
Serious trouble is reported at Queretaro
Mexico. between the Federal Government and
the Catholics. The latter, it is said threatened
the wife Of District Judge Monasterio The
entire police force was called out and Federal
troops patroled the streets The troops were
attacked by the Catholic masses led by one
MacGregor, convert from the Protestant
faff nd fad = fhax
on both sides. MacGregor among others. No
further outbreaks are anticipated