Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-17
REDUCED FOR RAPID READING.
The Happenings and MishnppeninRs of the
World Briefly Told.

EMPRESS FREDERICK is visiting Gibraltar.
THE race war at Blackville, S. c.. has sub
sided and no further trouble is anticipated.
BANGOR, Me, experienced severe thunder
storm yesterday. Much damage was done.
THE Queen has given ESQ to the fund fol
placing a steamer on the Victoria Nyanza.
E. F. ELwELL, editor of the Portland Tran.
sc7Tot, died at Bar Harbor of heart disease yes
terday.
THE Farmers Alliance. of Minnesota, are in
session In st. Paul. They purpose putting a
full ticket in the field.
WILLIAM JOHNSON. of Lowell, Mass, aged
16 who was bitten by dog three months ago,
died of hydrophobia yesterday.
THE Dimmey glasshouse at Rochester, Pa,
owned by John Carter, burned with nothing
saved. About 40 men and boys were employed
there the year around. Loss s5.OOO
BY the burning of the 525 tons of binding
twine at Minneapolis, the market will be ad.
vanced 20 per cent. One half of the entire
stock in the United States was destroyed.
1t has been practically settled that Hon. ].
B. Smith. of Hlllsboro, N. Y. shall receive the
Republican Gubernatorial nomination. c. H.
Amsden will be the Democratic nominee.
WH1LEJ ]. S. jacobson and Mrs. John J.
Huddart were rowing on Berkley Lake, near
Denver, last night, their boat overturned and
both were drowned. The bodies were recov-
cred.
NJ. RIBoT, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, has notified the powers that treaties
have been concluded whereby the native chiefs
on the upper Niger agree to French protec-
torate.
INTENSE heat prevails in Central Austria
and in the Alps from Graubuenden to Lower
Austria. The melting of the snow on the
mountains has caused the afluents of the Dan.
ube to rise. Much damage has already been
done.
DR.. DALE, of London. has accepted the
Presidency of the International Council of Con-
gregationalsts to be held in July, 1891. Rev.
DIR. Storrs, of Brooklyn, will deliver the in
augural sermon.
AT Chicago the Mollie Spencer, of Port Hu.
ron, took fire in the lake. The city fire boat
went to her assistance and succeeded in
Quenching the flames after she had been dam.
aged to the extent of s., 600
THE White Star Line steamer Teutonic
which arrived in New York from Liverpool
yesterday, made the trip in days. q hours
and So minutes This places the Teutonic
second among the ocean racers.
The clerical newspapers deny that the Pope
drove outside the Vatican. The Ryormd
maintains the truth of the statement that the
Pope drove out and that the sentries at the
Mint saluted the Papal carriage.
GOVERNOR HILL has commuted to i'm.
prisonment for life the sentence of Joseph
Chapleau, convicted in Clinton county. New
York, of murder in the first degree. and SEN
fenced TO be electrocuted during the week
commencing July Il
1T is believed in Minneapolis that Otto Reabe
perished in the Security Warehouse fire.
When the flames broke out he was busy sort
ing twine and probably did not know OF the
fire until egress had been cut of. He has not
been seen since the fire.
THE great cloak lockout in New York is
virtually over. The various committees agreed
to sign a contract binding the manufacturers to
take back all their union hands and to dis
charge any man now In their employ who
would not join the union.
FIRE was discoved in the Belding Soda
Works at Marysville, CAL, and after it had
been extinguished the remains OF George Ball
quantity of straw at the back door. His head
bore marks of having been struck by piece OF
gas pipe.
THE Directors of the Denver and Rio Grande
Company declared a semi-annual dividend OF
IL per cent on the preferred stock. The state.
ment presented shows net earnings for the six
months ending June 3d. Sl.5l7, lS4; interest
taxes and contingent expenses, u, 0OOO0-sur
plus $4l7,7S4.
THE mystery Of the robbery Of SIC, 900 In gold
from the United States Express Company last
fall at Chicago, has been cleared up at last. De
tectives have traced the crime to Behert, the
teamster, and that he is now either under ar
rest or under such close espionage that 1t Ii
impossible for him to escape.
GLOUCESTER n. j., has another mystery
in the drowning of q young woman, Maggie
Howard, or Mcguire, from a sail boat in the
Delaware Chief of Police Boylen says the
woman was choked and thrown overheard
while those who were in the boat with her in
sist that she went in to swim and was drowned.