Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-24
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Spanish Government Is Strengthening
its protective duties
The Gaulois says Emperor William will
visit Paris incognito.
The Pope has appointed DR.. Brennan
Bishop of Dallas, Tex.
The Columbian Congress has ratified the
new Panama canal contract.
-Parisian feeling is turning in favor of
Eyraud, and a new trial may be granted him.
John Calligan and John Johnson, miners at
Salina. Col, were held up and robbed of $1,000
in gold.
"A block of business buildings in Alexandria,
No., burned Monday night. Loss, S25, 600; small
insurance.
-Four men were killed and others wounded
bv the falling of an old packing house wall in
Chicago yesterday.
Mrs. Piercey was hanged for the murder of
Mrs. Hogg at London, yesterday, amid the
cheering of the crowd.
The st. Paul Railroad is retrenching by
cutting down salaries and wages of employees,
not including trainmen.
In the burning of Victor Rodgers dwelling
at JessevIle, Mich, Monday night, two chill
dren perished in the flames.
in his annual report. the Attorney General
of Nebraska accuses the railroads of violating
the State constitution and laws.
The burning of a sugar house on the Fusi-
leer plantation at New Orleans, yesterday, en-
An Anarchist at Palermo asked unsuccess-
fully to be arrested in order that he may testify
in Paris as an abettor in the flight of Padlewski.
Two Mexican lawyers, Angel Sergas and
Nocoia lingo, were arrested in Juarez, Mex
yesterday, charged with completely in the Boil
ton escape.
The Evanston, ILL.,, cooperative house
keeping scheme has been losing money on ac-
count of alleged extravaganza, and the ladies
have requested the resignation of Manager
Grau.
Il F. & c. L. We'll, cigar jobbers of New
Haven C onn., have called a meeting of credit
ors for tomorrow at which they will offer to
compromise'for 1873 per cent Liabilities about
5000: assets, So, 600.
News has been received of the loss of the
schooner Mary Ellen, Captain Henry Wheat
lev, off Popular Island, Chesapeake Bay, in the
gale of last " Wednesday night, with the Captain
and crew Of five men.
Charles States, who claims to be cigar man.
ufacturer of West Superior. Wis, reported to
the police of Elmira, N. Y, that while drunk
Monday his pocket was cut open and 81 500
stolen. Several arrests have already been
made.
William Marter. a wealthy farmer was
found unconscious on the streets of Burling-
The cuts were received in aquarrel over game
of poker, but who his assailant was he refuses
to divulge.
The American schooner H. B. Parker has
arrived at Shelbourne with 70 men. the crew of
the ST. John ship Eurydice, from Liverpool,
November l. for Pensacola. The ship was
badly damaged by storms and the crew were
frostbiuten. Two passing vessels refused to re-
spond to the Eurydice's signals of distress.
Mrs Harriet Worre,l, said to be the cham
pion chess player Of the country. attempted su-
icide at College Point, l. L, by drinking a
quantity of carbolic acid. She Is still alive,
but slight hopes are entertained for her recov.
cry She is the widow Of Captain Wurrsll, o
veaithy Eng1ishman. who held high piaca IN
Mexico during Msximtiian's reign.