Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-07
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

! Willie Wallace, the notorious outlaw o.
| Harris county, Ga, was rescued from jail il
Hamilton, at O'Clock Sunday morning, by
| large number of masked men.
| Ten miles of the St. Louis and Chicago
Railroad are advertised for sale at Springfield
/ February5.
The strikers on the Mackey roads resumed
business yesterday, the difficulties having beer
amicably settled.
Carson Parker, a drunkard and outcast
but once popular Methodist preacher in New
| York State, was found dead in Pueblo, Col,
saloon, Monday.
The snow storm In the Sierra Nevada
mountains, after raging for several days, has
abated, and the Central Pacific Railroad line,
over the mountains is now cleared and travel
resumed
"A band of Mexican horse thieves ambushed
a camping party consisting of three men, two
women and four children, IN canyon near
Chihuahua, Saturday, and shot and killed two
OF the men.
Another engagement has taken place be-
tween the insurgent African natives and the
forces commanded by Major Wissman Many
of the natives were killed and Is Germans
were wounded.
-Stetson Leach. Of Denver General Man
ager of the River and Rail Electric Company,
has been arrested, charged by Secretary Reed,
of the company. with forgery and the appropri-
alton of 5000 of the concerns funds to his
own use.
The Filertown Furniture Company's factory,
at Manlstee, Mich, was completely destroyed
from an explosion of a lamp in the hands of
William Chambers, who perished in the flames
Loss, $4,000 insurance, $lS, 600.
Most Puissant Sovereign ]. s. Gorgas, of
the Cerneau Scottish Rite in Freemasonry, who
was reported few days ago as having aban-
doned that rite has issued a proclamation in
which be declares his continued allegiance to
It He will merely slep down from the position
OF head of the rite.
Mrs. Southworth, the New York murderess
confined in the Tombs. had for company in her
cell Sunday night her mother, Mrs. Martin.
Her condition is somewhat improved. Her
trial, which has been set down for this month,
the doctor thinks will be adjourned until the
woman is entirely convalescent
Fire broke out in the principal hotel at
Hiawatha, Kan, yesterday morning, and the
guests were obliged to jump from the second
and third story windows to save their lives. A
and in jumping, but none fatally. The total
$1,000
AT the lodging house of Mrs. Baker, in
Kneeland street, Boston, Sunday, an inmate,
aged 90, who had called himself E. o. Camp
bell, of Montreal, was found dead in bed,
having been suffocated by escaping gas, which
had been left turned on. From papers found it
Is thought he was John s. Fuller, of either
Brockton or Wareham.
-Ab Heetlns Ol tue municipal COUNCIL IN
Dublin, yesterday, motion was made to ask the
Queen to visit Dublin and open the new
museum. The motion was rejected on the
grounds that the council had no authority over
the museum, and that if such a request was
made, political opponents might use the fact
against those members who voted in favor of 1t.
The New Years letter of Emperor William
to Prince Bismarck has aroused considerable
discussion over what is called the aggrandize-
ment of the executive in Germany. The
Kaiser for the present. seems most anxious to
settle all burning questions himself. This, it
is contended, has created revolutionary feel
ing among many Germans, who think it is put
ting the clock back whole century.