Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Illinois editorial excursionists have ar
rived in the City of Mexico.
Governor Traconis, of Yucatan, Is taking
steps to drive back the Indians who have been
committing depredations in that STATE.
-Emin Pasha has almost completely re-
covered from the effects of his fall at Bago-
moyo. He is now able TO be out, and take long
walks.
Earle Cumpston years old, living with his
parents on Dexter avenue, Chicago. was shot
and instantly killed by Malcolm Cumpston, his
5year-old brother.
-Dr. E. A. Kilbourne, the well-known ex-
pert or insanity, died yesterday Of paralysis at
Elgin, Ill. He was unconscious the As hours
preceding his death.
Brown Washington was taken from the
Athens. Ga, jail and hanged and shot,. He
confessed to having assaulted 9-year-old girl
and afterward cut her throat.
The New Orleans grand jury states that the
police captains, sergeantS and corporals of the
Third precinct are totally unfit for their posi-
tions- The report recommends their removal.
Colonel j. Mervyn Donahue. President Of
the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad
and brother of Baroness Won Schroeder, Is re-
ported to be dying at his home in San Fran
cisco.
Rev Dr. w. H. vibbert, rector of St
James Episcopal Church, Chicago, has received
a call from 10 the rectorsh1p of ST. Peters
Church. Philadelphia. He will probably ac-
cept the offer.
R. j. Boylsn, Jr, observer at the United
States Signal station at st. Vincent Minn., has
left for parts unknown. leaving many creditors.
Some Of the Government property at the sig
nal station is also missing.
The Armenian Patriarch mas delivered to
the Porte special rote demanding the i'm
mediate and complete restoration of the priv
ileges of the Armenian Church and the execu-
ton of the reforms promised by the Berlin
Treaty.
President Harrison. by Private Secretary
Halford. has written the three condemned Ma
vassa murderers. Henry Jones, Edward Smith
and George Keys, that he has referred their
cases to the Attorney General. The men ara
confident that they will not be hanged
"A big suit in which the Government is the
plaintiff, has been instituted in the United
States Court at Montgomery, Ala, against the
Mobile and Girard Railroad, to recover 5000
acres of land in this state, which was granted
the State in trust for the Mobile and Girard
and other railroads.
The United States Fish Commission award
ed the contract for the erection of the steam
and water distributing plants at Put-in-Bay.
o., to Messrs. Shaw. Kendall Co.. OF
Toledo, o. 1t Is expected that the station will
be in complete running order in time for the
next whitefSh season. in November.
Representatives of 16O granite concerns Of
New England, covering the entire area from
Eastern Maine to Western Connecticut have
formed an organization to be known as the
England. 1t was voted that after May l all
labor should be paid for by the hour and the
piece.
Dick Halves was hanged in Birmingham,
Ala, yesterday for the terrible murder of his
wife and two children. May and Irene, on Tues
day. December l. 1883. As result OF the MUIR
der ten persons were killed and many others
were wounded They attempted to gain an
entrance to the jail and lynch Halves, when,
by the Sheritf's order, the mob was fired into
with the above result.