Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-11
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Employes.of the casting department of the
Lehigh Iron Company, at AineyVille, Pa, have
struck for an advance Of 10 per cent.
The French Government is about to nego-
tiate loan Of 1U0 QUO 900 francs for the purpose
Of constructing railways in Tonquin and other
French colonies.
The Rock Island road has cut freight rates
to all points west of Topeka. Rates on first
class freight are reduced cents per 100; second
class cents, fourth class cents.
--Advices from Senegal state that Governor
Bajal, Of Southern Senegal, has been impris-
Oned by the King of Dahomey. A body of Sem
egal sharpshooters has started to rescue him.
-Therston Nordenfelt, of London, civil engi-
neer and manager of the Maxim-N Nordentelt
Gun and Ammunition Company, has been de-
clared bankrupt. His liabilities amount to
5000
Bailey Davenport, an Illinois pioneer, died
at Rock Island, Wednesday evening. He was
a son Of Colonel George Davenport, who settled
on Rock Island in 1916 and was murdered by
robbers in lS45. He left large estate.
"A runaway team caused bad accident at a
funeral in Milwaukee Thursday. Scared at a
train one team ran into another and toppled the
carriage over and down an embankment. Mrs.
Mannard, Mrs: George Hays ana Mrs. ]. Chal-
ber were badly injured.
Mr.. Parnell has written a letter stating that
the letter published under his name on
wednesday, addressed to the Ennis Board Is
IOFR6ry. Inc l0Lern1i 6VlQ60Ce, ne thinks
should have been sufficient to convince anyone
that it was not genuine.
j. U. Parish was hanged at Raleigh, N e.,
yesterday, for assault upon his own daughter.
He died maintaining his innocence. He was
AZ years OF age and had a wife and several
children. Parish said nothing on the gallows.
He died By strangulation after hanging IL min
utes.
Special dispatches report that many farms
in Southern Illinois are almost submerged with
water, the result of the long continued rainfall,
thousands Of bushels OF corn in that State re-
main ungathered. Much sickness has been
caused by the damp weather and the stagnant
water.
The thermometer ranged from go to 90 be-
low zero throughout Washington county,
Name. yesterday morning. with gale of wind
blowing. At Calais at "a o'clock 1t was 25o be-
low; at Princeton. go; at MilItown 20; at HouI-
ton, 300; at Fort Fairfield, 800, and at Caribou,
Slo below.
Judge Cooley narrowly escaped being
killed by his crazy coachman at Ann Arbor
The man entered the Judges office with
double barreled gun, and said he had come TO
kill the whole family. The Judge betrayed no
ALARM but succeeded In quieting the man and
summoning officers to arrest him.
The Quebec Government has sold a num-
Der of leases for salmon fishing, several Ameri-
cans being among the purchasers. The Fed
eral authorities had requested that the sale be
postponed, as they claimed exclusive jurlsdic-
ton over all the fisheries Of Canada, but the
Quebec Government refused TO acknowledge
this claim, and the Dominion authorities will
carry the matter into the courts.
in the little German settlement of Wal
than, Minn., there are 70 cases of trichinosis.
A few days before Christmas a man named
Shick slaughtered four hogs. A dinner was
given to which 3S people were invited. Now all
but four of the guests are prostrated and the
local physician pronounces the disease trichino-
sis. A l0-year-old son of Mr.. Shick has died, and
it is feared that several of the guests will not
recover.
The clouds are clearing above the head of
the Rev. DR.. Joseph II. Rylance, of st. Marks
Protestant Episcopal Parish. Washington. Mr.
William V. King. one of tile trustees who have
been most aggressive against the pastor, has
seen 1T to withdraw all his charges in writing
This will end the proceedings in the civil
courts against Mr.. King for alleged libelous
of his congregation.