Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-16
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Parliament will probably meet again about
November 25.
The American rifemen arrived yesterday
at Cologne from Berlin.
The English press regard the contemplated
peace congress as humbug.
The new Board of the National Bank sat.
isfes the commercial community of Monte
video
-Nihilist Mendelssohn doesn't like French
prisons although the officials are kind and
sympathetic.
AT the county asylum at Galena, ILL.,. John
Roth, after living without food for go days,
died Monday of paralysis.
Two hundred Chicago and Northwestern
employees are to be laid off at Chicago in the in
terest of economy. 1t is said.
The Madrid Gazette says that within the
last two months there have been 4a6 cases Of
cholera in Spain, 251 Of which proved fatal
Mr.. Gladstone has SO far recovered from
his recent illness as to be able to attend
garden party at which Her Majesty, the Queen,
was also present.
Mr.. Stanley continues unwell. Dr. Parke
says he is very weak. The Queen has sent
message by telegraph making inquiries as to
Mr.. Stanley's condition.
Fire broke out yesterday in large rag
house in Cincinnati and caused loss of S10-
600. Almost panic resulted De1ore the girls In
the building could be rescued.
The Fifth Louisiana Levee Board refuse to
recognize the action Of Governor Nichols in
removing four members of the board. They
claim he had no legal right to do so.
The ten days fete at Brussels, in honor of
the slxtleth anniversary of Belgian inde-
peudence and the Jwenty-ffth year of King
teopold's reign, commences on the Goth inst.
The sawmill operators at Ashland, Wis,
have been notified by their 1,500 employees that
unless they reduce the hours from IL to 10 per
day at the same wages they will strike July 1S
.frk,o
General Fremont deprives America of a ro-
mantle personality which it can Ill afford to
lose in these prosaic times His name will live
in history"
The Senate Committee on Finance yester-
day ordered q favorable report upon the nUmi-
nations of the FIVE appraisers of merchandise,
nominated two weeks ago under the customs
administrative bill.
"A l6-year-old lad Of Green Bay, Wis,
aourished like green bay tree by the rivers of
waters pilfering from railroad cars until de-
tected ana arrested. He had about drayload
of goods at his home.
In the suit of John E. Cornell against Mrs.
Hetty Green, to redeem property from fore
closure mortgaged to her by George W Gage
for SI5O 900, and which is now worth 81, 600 0O0,
Judge Blodgett decided in favor of defendant.
"A special stock train ran into freight
standing on the track at Chillicothe, o., de-
mollshing both trains and killing Mrs. Green
r.. Roberts, of Wheeling, also injuring two or
three train men. The conductor and engineer
of the special are under arrest.
in 1858 Jasper Douglas Pyne, formerly
member of Parliament from West Waterford,
ireland, mysteriously disappeared from home
and has not since been heard OF. His wife
asks permission to administer on his estate, but
the application has been refused BY the court
as there is no evidence Pyne is dead. 1t is sup
posed he was lost at sea.
At Leland, Iowa, the citizens held an indig-
nation meeting to protest against the invasion
of the quiet precincts by the original package
man. They closed the business of the evening
bv unanimously passing the following resolu-
tion: That IL be unlawful to sell Intoxicating
iisuors of any kind in Leland. and that any
nerson violating this ordinance shall be tarred,
feathered and cowhided out of the village.