Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-10
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The City of Rome arrived at Liverpool yes
terday.
insects are rapidly devouring the crops in
Northern Germany. They fly in swarms.
Fifteen thousand GOLFERS of Merthyr Tydvil.
Wales, have refused to adopt weekly holiday.
Ben T. Barbour, station agent, s.. 400 short
in his accounts has decamped from Hanover,
Tenn.
The business portion of Colchester, Conn.,,
was DESTROYED by fire yesterday morning. Loss
about $4,000
General Lindsay Walker, of A. P. Hills
Confederate Army Corps, was buried at Rich
mond yesterday.
George H. Ppn, the Lenox Hill bank
wrecker Of New York, gets ~ years at hard
labor in the penitentiary.
"A press dispatch to New Orleans Saturday
night reported a case of yellow fever at Claude
leur Island Marine Hospital
Two passengers were severely injured by a
runaway horse that dashed through an open
street car at Falls River Mass.
The Boston Touring mill in Lake City,
Mimi, valued at $4,000, with its contents, was
destroyed Sunday night Loss 100000
The elevator at West Memphis Tenn,
built for the Kentucky Central Railroad at q
cost OF SIS, 900, was burned yesterday morning.
Judge Barrett, of the Supreme Court of
New York. yesterday remitted the fine of s., 900
imposed on "Boodler" O'Neill, of the Board of
Aldermen.
The State Convention of Ancient Order of
Hibernians convened at Sedalia. No. yester-
day. Resolutions were passed indorsing Par
nell and Balfour.
Charles R. Nelson, of Marseilles. Ill, started
yesterday morning from Chicago to New York
on bicycle. He hopes to beat Van Wagoner's
record of Is days.
Lawrence Brown shot and killed James
Metcalfe in the court room of Casey county,
SATURDAY. Killing
calte was on trial.
%. W. Jones. leader of the anti-Ingalls
movement in Kansas, has been nominated by
the Farmers Alliance, OF Butler county, for
the State Legislature.
President Roswell Miller, of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul. speaking of the rate
situation, says rates can only be established
again by the pooling system.
George Washington Butterfeld an Amer
ican. has brought an action in London against
the Financial NetUs for libel. He claims dam
ages to the amount of 100000.
The steamer Anchoria met the steamer
La Bourgogne yesterday morning 2lO miles
east of Sandy Hook, in a disabled conditIon.
The La Bourgogue left New York Saturday.
-Feodorovna, the Nihilist, was an intimate
friend OF Slnida. who was arrested for estab-
fishing a secret printing press at Tanganrog.
Russia. Both were found guilty and exiled to
Siberia. Feodorovna escaped.
The Mexican Government has granted TO
: A. K. Owen, head of the Topolobambo Com
pany's operative colony. 81, 900 square miles of
land with railway. telegraph and telephone
system J, 200 miles long with subsidy of S12 600
a mile.
Searching parties are out after the robbers
who went through the Northern Pacific train
near New Salem. Oak. Express Messenger Au-
gernie shipped his treasure box to st. Paul
which contained from $4,000 to $4,000 in
money.
Governor Towes says the Mexican Govern
ment was in full knowledge of the flibuster-
ing movement in Lower California, by cipher
dispatches, and will insist this Government
Furnishing several Americans engaged in the
conspiracy.
The United States District Attorneys Of
fice New York, was crowded yesterday with
census enumerators, who had come to lodge
complaints against persons who refused to an
swer questions. Thirty-five warrants were is
sued, and short time after 25 more.
The Harrison county, Ind, White Caps
were out Saturday morning and took from his
bed Walter Rowe, an estimable farmer of that
county, and gave him -5 lashes on his bare
back. He recognized several of the White
Caps and intends prosecuting them.
The European powers do not seem to be
making much progress IN suppressing the slave
trade, which has been made the pretext for
seizing and apportioning Africa. On the East
coast and the Congo the slave trade is in
creased. England in the meantime Is building
a number of gunboats for the work of Chris
tianizing Africa.