Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-30
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The New York General Assembly passed
the Worlds Fair bill yesterday.
-Emin Pasha's condition is much improved.
Re is staying at private house in Bagamoyo.
AT Wants, near Warsaw, in Poland, gang
of burglars murdered a man, his wife and
mother.
Princess Helena, wife of Prince Christian,
OF Schleswig-Hols is i'll with influenza at
Weisbaden.
Near London, O., Tuesday night, William
Woodhouse and wife were shot at by a drunken
man named Graham, and both badly wounded.
1t is believed that Switzerland is negotiat.
ing with England for loan in order to secure
possession OF her railways, now controlled py
Germany.
-AdeIbert L. Brown, an attorney and insur.
snce, loan and real estate agent of Laporte,
Ind, has left for parts unknown, leaving debts
to the amount Of $4,000.
Serious trouble is anticipated in the Chick
asaw Nation as the time approaches for the
collection of the per capita tax of S. levied on
white residents for the privilege OF performing
manual labor.
"A number of French priests have arrived at
Malinpi They state that they recently met Dr.
Peters, the German explorer, concerning whose
death manv conflicting reports have been re-
ceiYed at Kokl. He was in good health
The steamer DANA. from Hamburg, sailed
from Havre for New Y YOrk yesterday. She has
on board the passengers and cargo OF m Ine
Hamburg-American line steamer SueVla, from
Hamburg January q for New YORK which
put back TO Southampton January 2, with her
shaft cracked.
Henry Hentz, a prominent broker, who
claims TO have organized the Sugar Trust, has
begun suit against the trustees for $500 600 as
commission for his services 1t is said this
suit if not compromised, will bring the trusts
books into court and show how much of its
capitalization is real and how much is hctltlous,
There is a general demand for an investiga.
ton into the cause of the Monon wreck at
Carmel. Ind, and the Coroner of Hamilton
county is expected to impanel jury and at once
begin an inquiry into the matter. 1t is charged
that the Wilkinson creek bridge was known by
the railroad company TO be in an unsafe con-
dition.
The Interstate Commerce Railway Asso-
citation, better known as the 'tGentlemen's As
sociation,' has at last reached the end OF It's
rope. 1t received Its death blow yesterday,
formal notice being given by the Union Pacific
and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Companies of their withdrawal from the asso'
citation.
"A daring robbery has been perpetrated in
Vienna. The thieves entered the office of a
navigation company, and, walking TO the desk
of the cashier, entered into conversation with
him. Suddenly one of the men threw quanti-
~ of pepper into the cashiers eyes, temporarily
binding him. They seized sum Of money
lying on the cashiers desk, and made their
escape.
A horrible case of infanticide has been
is Julia Craig, a 20-year-old colored girl, who
has been employed for the past four months as
domestic at the home of Joseph Hannum. a
retired and wealthy Quaker, living on East
Hanover street. The girl says that she dashed
the child's head against the bedpost, causing
instant death.
Henry Buechler, the l9year-old son of a
prominent German of Dubuque, Ia, became
Violently insane Tuesday afternoon and threat
ened to kill his family. His father had him re-
moved temporarily to the city prison. In the
evening he set fire TO his bedding in the cell
where he was confined, and before aid could
reach HIM he was fatally burned. He died soon
after being removed.
Mr.. Charlton states that the object of the
wrecking bill be has introduced in the Canadian
Parliament is to secure complete reciprocity in
wrecking and towing OF vessels and rejects
with the United States. A Canadian wrecking
tug lie saws assisting disabled vessel in Amer
ican waters under the provisions of the bills
introduced by Patterson and kirkpatrick, have
to tow the vessel over to the Canadian side.
There is trouble again in Harlan county
Kentucky. Circuit Court opens there in a
week or two and the Sharp Rifles, of Lex
ington, are ordered to be in readiness to march
at a DAVIS notice. This county has caused the
State much trouble and expense and as COM
mittee of the Legislature has been ordered to
investigate the cause, the members may take
advantage of the presence of the troops to
make their proposed visit
There lies dead in Nicholasville Ky.,
man than whom none is better known in Ken
tucky-the Rev. Stephen Noland, who died sud-
denly yesterday. He was an evangelist, and
claimed that he had divine visitations from
Jesus Christ, who appeared to him in bodily
form three times. He gave full account over
his signature in his paper, the Central Aetho-
dist, of the strange meetings, and described the
conversations in full Many members of his
church-the Methodist South-so revered him
that TO doubt his story was considered impiety.