Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-11
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

White Caps are again becoming active at
Mays Landing, N. j.
Reports to the Department. Of Agriculture
indicate good yield of cotton
Morocco is courtlng friendship with Ger
many as security against France.
The indications at present are that the
English VIII obtain possession OF the chicago
stock yards.
The next General Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church will be held at Omaha
some time in 1892
But little apparent damage was done the
Anchor line steamer City Of Rome, which
struck Fastnet Rock.
"A crooked gambling house at Pesth. Hun
gary, was mobOed and the inmates barely es-
capped with their lives.
At Piedmont, Ala, cyclone razed the
BANK OF Piedmont building to the ground,
fatally injur1ng two men.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company has
acceded to the employees demands and slight
advance has been granted.
"A misunderstanding OF orders caused the
INJURY OF ten men near Plymouth, Wis, on the
Milwaukee Northern road
A fire at Lebanon, Mo-, destroyed the dry
goods store of ]. w. Scott & Sons, with several
omces and contents. Loss S21 600
Mrs. Maggie O'DonneIl, of Peabody, Mass,
attempted to start fire with kerosene. She
leaves husband and three children.
The estimated damages to crops from the
heavy rains in Iowa is now said to be Offset by
the drowning out of injurious insects.
The Spanish grape growers have not been
successful in the Introduction of American
vines. Mildew and black rot interfered.
--Ex-Alderman James Pearson was fatally
injured by an Erie train as jersey City. Pear
son was one of the Doodle aldermen of New
York.
AN italian sentry who shot and killed an
English sailor for not answering his challenge
at GENOA, was exonerated by both govern
ments.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad deal has
been completed. The syndicate has paid over
5Co.O00 and the balance will be forthcoming
July l.
Mexican authorities now confiscate all stray
American cattle as retaliatory measure
against the SO tar levied against the Msxi-
can OK.
engaged in fight with Harry Mcbride at San
Francisco over the affections of girl and he
will probably die. No arrest.
Two men. Simon Purman and Timothy
Lynch, were smothered by a bin of wheat
falling in on them at William p. Harvey &
CO.'S Ch1cago grain elevator. Monday.
Three detachments of cavalry. besides a
posse OF Vlgilantes are said to be close upon
the four Northern Pacific train robbers The
ROBBERS are heading for the Bad Lands Of
Chicago wants to loan the Worlds Fair
3oWUUOO. She has requested Governor Fifer
70 call an extra session Of the Legislature to
grant her the privilege of bonding the city that
additional amount.
-Conlin, a soap maker of San Francisco. shot
and 1t IS believed mortally wounded his wife,
Mary, yesterday. They have been marr1ed for
about seven years. Jealousy and domestic
troubles was the cause.
Editor Tully. of the Roscommon Herald,
OF Dublin, Ire., has been convicted under the
crimes act of publishing a denunciatory article
against land grabbers and sentenced to three
months Imprisonment.
After living 50 days on nothing but soda
water, Tommy Sutton died Monday at Du-
buque. Ia. of paralysis of the stomach ana
bowels, superinduced by fall. One Of the
most remarkable cases on record.
General Passenger Agent shattuc is ouoted
as saying the east-bound passenger rate on the
Ohio and Mississippi will not be restored. II
will be 81 rate from st. Louis to Cincinnati
and corresponding rate to all Eastern points
Sheridan Copass, a loafer, and John Wat
hen. telegraph operator on the Iron Mountain
Railroad, are under arrest for robbiup the
Mine-La-Mott, Mo-, mail carrier of R OO0
Copass confessed Most of the money has been
secured
-Three-year-old Willie Dodds sprapp from
his bed at Peoria Ill, Sunday night and bit his
mother and his aunt and immediately expired
from hydrophobia- He had been bitten six
montns DeIore, Dut tne dog showed no symp-
toms of rabies.
John Schmid, John Kim and Matthias 7
Polak, all of New York, started on a fishing
trip on Canarsis Bay last Saturday and have
not since been seen. It is thought that all
three were drowned, and efforts are being made
to recover their bodies.
1t is reported that Rev. DR.. Qugley, Catho-
lie pastor of st. Francis de Sales Church. and
head of the largest parochial school in Ohio,
has been indicted for not making return of the
number of pupils in his school as provided By
the truant law Of the State.
Six Oberlin, O., college students engaged in
drawing the college baseball team about the
city in parade stumbled and fell. and the band
wagon, containing 35 people, Immediately be-
hind, ran over them, iniuring three perhaps
fatally, the others seriously.
Maggie Baker. aged 10 Lola, Alfred and
Charles Seib. aged respectively O. and years,
were drowned at Rapids City, 8. D.. ON Sunday.
They were boating and the boat struck the
shaft of an old water wheel belonging to the
mill and capsized. Tie bodies of the two girls
and Alfred have been recovered but that of
Charlie Seib has not.
BY the first error of Train Dispatcher
Davidson, of the St Louis, Keokuk and North
western, wreck occurred Monday II miles
south of Hannibal, Mo-, in which Firemen
Arthur Taylor and Berry Nelson were scalded
to death and Engineers Louis Carver and Fitz-
patrick and Conductor Lemons were more or
less hurt. Davidson resigned.