Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Two fully developed cases of rabies have
appeared at Denver, Ill.
Henderson, Tenn. was nearly wiped out by
fire yesterday. 1ncendiary.
Extensive grain fields were destroyed by
fire yesterday in Southern California.
The Manitoba road is raising s6,0O0, 900 to
extend their road to the Pacific coast.
The lottery amendment in the Louisiana
State Legislature will be brought up to-day.
Two Chinese were arrested yesterday at
Tucson Ariz, for violating the exclusion law.
Henry Jones, colored. living in Newark. n.
J., shot and probably fatally injured his wife.
The Mahdi of Egypt has released all
European prisoners who were taken by his
forces.
One of the highest peaks of Mount Shasta
fell into the crater below. Internal fires are
raging.
-Hudelback, Ickelheimer & Co., of New
York, have ordered S5O0,0O0 gold for export to
Europe.
"A stray balloon, claimed to be Prof. Walk
er's. from Dayton, o., was seen yesterday at
Atlanta, Ga
The subscriptions to the Egyptian con-
version loan are 20 times in excess Of the
amount OF the loan.
Ben jamin &. Perry, of Lawrence. Mass, has
been suddenly stricken blind, and doctors are
baffied over the case.
"A procession containing 10000 marched in
Yorkshire yesterday demonstrating their favor
of the eight-hOur day.
August Zimmerman of New York, won the
highest prize at the International Schuetzen-
Fest in Bremen yesterday.
The miners of England and Wales are or
ganIzing for shorter hours Sixty thousand
will demand the new work-day.
The Sugar Trust was not mentioned in the
list of decisions handed down in the Court of
a lie vnsr day in Cor ~
The tannery of the Cincinnati Oak Leather
Company was destroyed by fire yesterday
morning. Loss. $4,000; insurance. S50.000
During the last % years there were ll0,352-
us tons of coal mined in the anthracite regions
of Pennsylvania. There were l, ,204 men killed.
Guy Turner, of Augusta, Me-, who last
January attempted suicide while insane regard
ing his accounts as City Treasurer, died yes
terday.
rights successfully worked" the banks OF
Cleveland Tenn. to the amount Of Sl,0O0 on
forged notes.
Rev. DIR. John 8. Lindsay, of st. Paurs
Church. Boston, declines the honor of Assist
ant Bishop of Alabama 10 which he was re-
Gently elected.
The Catholics in Malta loudly protest
against the convention signed by the Vatican
and General Simmons, representing the En-
gllsh Government
The laborers of Boston, Somerville and
numbering between 200 aud 1900
men, are out on a strike. The strike is for An
of wages.
Maine Democrats are in trouble over the
matter of a license plank in their platform. A
is on foot among both Democrats
and Republicans for license campaign.
"A race riot occurred at Brookside, Ala,
between 100 negroes and rs whites.
One negro killed. Trouble caused by whites
attempting to take a keg of beer from the
negroes.
The evidence in the case of the 25 China
men who are on trial in Tucson, Arlz., charged |
with violating the exclusion law, is conclusive |
that they came direct from Hong Kong to San |
Francisco.
The Whisky Trust bave purchased the new |
Wilson dlstillery at Pekin H., and have ANAL !
gamated with the Protective Liquor Dealers |
Association. They will make their future |
at Peoria, Ill
"A dishonest clerk caused W. C. Albertson,
well-known commission broker of Chicago to |
order his trades on the board closed. The clerk |
plunged" to the extent of 250,000 bushels of |
wheat, and the market went against him.