Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-29
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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gland.
Fears Of revolution at Zanzibar are en-.
| tertaiued.
"A Chicago woman dies from drinking pin,
| Of paregoric.
FIT. Worth suffered $4,000 fire. A fine
residence with all its contents
The Wells railroaders miners and dock.
men, are on the eve of strike.
An insane girl at Berlin kills her mother
while sleeping and then fires the house.
Fire at Piley's Island. N. F., entirely de.
stroyed the village and 900 are homeless.
Emperor William has returned to Berlin
from his trip to Norwegian waters much i'm.
proved in health.
John Wesley Meyers, well-known colored
man of Baltimore, was found murdered near
| the city yesterday
Fears are entertained for the recovery OF
the Crown Princess of Greece, who recently
gave birth to son.
The third annual meeting of the National
Bar Association will be held in Indianapolis, be
ginning Wednesday.
The Georgia Supreme Court has refused q
new trial to Tom Woolfork, who murdered nine
people in Bibb county.
While Miss Eastlake. the actress was voy.
aging from New York to England, she was re-
lieved of $500 worth of jewels
Tho cattlemen accused of stealing beer
while on their return from England on the
steamer Chicago have been held.
While boatriding in company with two
young men. on the Desplaines river, near Chi.
cago, Miss Lena Jennings was drowned.
Frank Ward, of Newburg, N. Y, who has
been missing for some time, turned up yester-
day in Chicago Claimed that he is insane.
One Chinaman III El Paso accused another
of being Highbinder and stabbed him to
death with dagger. The murderer is in Jail.
The German soldiers are collecting fund
tion in honor of Count Won Moltke's ninetieth
birthday.
The town of Wallace. Idaho, the great min
ing camp of the Coeur d'Alene mining district
has been destroyed by fire. Fully l, 500 persons
are homeless.
cloakmakers returned to work yesterday under
the new agreement. and the troubles between
the employers and the men are ended.
"A well-connected registry clerk who has
been in the Galveston Postofice for six years is
under for ts to The
The secretary of the Knapp, Stout Co.
lumber firm, of st. Louis, is under arrest for
killing a workman by striking him over the
head, for breaking valuable piece Of timber.
Owing to discriminating between white
and colored customers, George Hughes, an old
postoffice steps for 20 years, was ordered re-
moved.
1T is thought First Lord of the Treasury.
the Right Hon. W. II. Smith, will be obliged TO
resign his seat in Parliament on account of
failing health. He tainted at dinner party ON
Saturday last.
Mrs. Margaret c. e. Steele, eldest sister of
the late Roscoe Conkling, is dangerously ill at
her home in Brooklyn. She is 76 years old and
was for 20 years an inspectress in the New York
Custom House.
Six of the victims of the Lawrence cyclone
have been buried and another funeral will oc-
cur to-day. -Four thousand dollars relief fund
was raised up to yesterday and the amount
largely increased last night.
1t is said the Mormon Church has from
900 to s. 600 900 invested in California real
estate in the names of various members Of the
church, SO that 1t would not be subject to con-
hscation by the United States Government.
BY throwing off pouch of mail from a fast
train at Kilbourn, Wis, a truck was Knocked
under the train, derailing one car. The train
was stopped before the bridge was reached,
where serious calamity must have occurred.
"A riot ensued in a cathedral at CONSTANT
nople. when the Patriarch of the Armenian
Church was dragged from the pulpit by
mob. The Turkish troops were brought out
to quelI the riot and several soldiers were
killed,
From small cloud in an otherwise clear
sky single vivid fash Of lightning descended
were standing against barbed wire fence in
stantly killing one and paralyzing the other
from the waist downward.
Near Springfield, No.. the body OF John B,
Carpenter. aged go, was found hanging to a
tree. He left letter in his hat, complaining of
his children mistreating him. Had had moth.
ing to eat for four days. IL is claimed he was
once Congressman from Ohio.
BY colliding with a horse that had fallen
through trestle Louisville and Nashville
freight train of engine and IL cars were ditched
near Sulphur, KY. The fireman was instantly
killed by the engine falling on him, the engi-
neer had both legs broken and brakeman was
badly hurt