Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-25
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Chicago Horse Exchange has been in.
corporated.
During a storm new Brooklyn brick build.
ing was blown down.
"A company has been formed to plant cotton
in Russian territory in Turkestan.
-Balfour has started on tour through the
Irish countries threatened with famine.
Disastrous foods are reported from the
Mexican States of Colima and Very Cruz,
Two Mexican sheep herders have been
murdered by Indians. 20 miles from Silver City,
N. NJ.
The catch of seals by Canadian poacbers
this year is reported greater than it was last
year.
The Brooklyn Sugar Refinery has closed
down and $50 men are thrown out of employ
ment.
The Swiss Radical Castioni. under arrest in
London, will be extradited unless he appeals
successfully.
Hundreds were thrown out of employment
and 900 lost by an East Pepperell, Mass,
shoe factory fire.
The manufacturing element in the Liberal
party severely criticize Gladstone's speech on
the eight-hour question.
The time of the O'Shea divorce trial. in
which Parnell is correspondent, has been fixed
for the middle of November.
The Sultan of Vitu has refused to sur
render to British authorities or to afford re-
The Quebec Telegram has published an
other strong editorial favoring Canadian an
nexation to the United States.
w. d. Highers, who cut his wifes throat,
near Lebanon, Tenn. Thursday, committed
suicide by hanging himself in jail
Terra Haute has raised Sc, 600 for W. CT
q. building, in addition to the gift of ITO acres
Of land by Addison Hadley, Quaker.
Summer resorts were damaged. boats up
set, tracks submerged and general destruction
caused by heavy storm in the East yesterday.
The decline of Portuguese funds on the
London stock market caused panic among
Lisbon business circles. Many failures are ex-
pected.
San Francisco Custom House officers seized
5000 worth of diamonds and other Jewels
Thursday smuggled from Ceylon on the
steamer Gaelic.
The mills of the Tampa Lumber Company,
at Tampa, were burned yesterday, together
insurance, S., 000
Berlin capitalists promise to aid Baron
Wissmann to construct railroad in German
African territory. Chancellor von Caprivl dis
courages the idea.
The Chicago and Erie Railroad, beaten in
its suit Of ejectment against the Wabash, which
uses its line to enter Chicago, will carry the
case up to the Federal courts.
The dispute between the Allan Steamship
Company and Its London employees was sub
submit to the judgess decision.
twenty-five Milwaukee Monks have regis
tered for the first time intending to vote at the
coming election. Opposition to the public
school system is the cause of their sudden in
terest in politics.
Captain Schley, commander of the United
States steamer Baltimore, gave luncheon on
board the ship yesterday to Mr.. Wilbor, Secre-
tary of the American Legation, and a number
of other gentlemen.
While cigars were handed around at Re-
publican conference In Alexandria, some one
said they belonged to the Hume brand, whereat
fierce struggle was made by an anti-Humite
to throw the box our. Peace was restored.
Thomas B. Carson, Democratic candidate
for the Illinois Legislature, has begun Sl00 900
damage suit against ]. c. Myers, the present
Democratic member, for stating over his own
signature that Carson had offered Myers S2O0
brlbe while in the Legislature.
The Indians about the Goat River district
British Columbia, are threatening to extermin,
nate the whites who have gone into that country
unless they are compensated for the minerals
taken. The latest advices state that the In
dams have gone on the warpath.
-Summonses have been served upon Mr..
Harrison. member of the House of Commons
for the middle division of Tipperary; Michael
O'Brien Dalton, the latter of whom is one of
the defendants in the conspiracy case on trial
here. and upon a number of other persons, ON
the charge of assaulting the police at the time
OF tie opening of the CONSPIRACY trial,