Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-06
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.
Alaska now has the grip.

| Alaska now has the grip.
The run on the Buenos Ayres banks has
| ceased.
Destructive storms have visited Austrian
| vineyards.
Lake sailors wages have been reduced
| 25 cents a day.
london has 4,2ll, ,o56 inhabitants, accord.
| ing to the new census.
An English syndicate is after the big stock
| yards in Missouri river towns.
The police of Lisbon have stopped the
publication of the ReuoItd Netcs Journal.
Kentucky jeans manufacturers met at
Louisville and agreed to reduce the output.
Commissioner shufeldt is on his way to
Zanzibar looking for pigmies for the Worlds
Fair.
-Phetarco Ornelas, Mexican Consul at
| tention-
The Jail at Nyack, n Y, burned yester-
| day, and an unknown old soldier inmate was
| cremated.
DIR. Brooks has already a safe majority in
| favor of his confirmation, with returns still
| coming in.
The revenue cutters, Rush and Bear, are
| instructed to seize all whisky found in
Alaskan waters.
Baron Szalatuyas, proprietor of great
! Hungarian estate, is about to join Emin
| Pasha in Africa.
-Ine Mldland Rallroad STRIKE IN Indiana is
practically ended. The men demanded back
| pay, and are now gettingit.
William Henry Smith thinks the immi-
| grafton of Russian Hebrews into England is
| not SO great as represented.
Duncan, the Washington would-be wife
| murderer, in London, was arraigned yester-
| day and committed for trial
Only one big distillery in the United
| States is now out of the Whisky TrSst-that
| of DOdsworth, of Cincinnati.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
signed the bill permitting customers to
drink while standing at saloon bars.
Cincinnati merchants and bankers, an
ticipating the coming of free coinage, are
having their promissory notes read sin
gold"
james Ferguson, of the British foreign
Office denies that England is pledged to as
sist Italy in the event of France attacking
the latter.
ing wall at Charleston Thursday. Charles
MariSault was killed and Charles Thomas
probably fatally injured.
Prof. Geffcken, in his lecture at London,
exposed the bankrupt condition of both
Government and people in Russia, and gave
fair warning to investors.
William d. Owen, of Logansport, Ind,
who has been appointed Superintendent of
immigration, was strongly backed by labor
organizations for the position.
People turning to bone have been known
before, but a Tennessee woman at Asheville,
n. c., is apparently becoming boneless
Pieces of bone are continually coming out of
her mouth and her skin.
Charles Shepard and Christian Furst
were hanged at Fremont, Neb, for murder
ing and robbing Carl Pulsifer in December
1889. Shepard, who showed the most nerve
confessed on the gallows.
President Eberhart, of the Glassworkers'
Association, has decided the difficulty at the
| glass works at Muncie, Ind in favor of the
| employers, saying they were justified in dis
| charging one of the workmen
M. De Forg, the French Minister at Car
acas, has been transferred to Mexico,in place
| of Count de st. Faix, who is placed on the
unattached list. NJ. Monclair, French Consul
at Havana, is appointed Minister at Caracas.
"A woman at Berkeley, S. c., fed her in
FAINT on Boston baked beans and milk, and
when the child sickened, dosed it with lau-
danum. The little one died of course, and
now its mother is held for criminal careless
ness.
Little George Martin, at Harlem, swal-
lowed thermometer in a fit of coughing re-
Gently while physician was testing the
sick boys temperature The lad seems to
be all right, but is tired of obeyiug the doc
tors injunction to keep perfectly quiet"
An Allegheny man named Perkins came
near being caught by the green goods game
in New York. He was about to invest $3.50 in
the stuff, but became suspicious. His COM
panion, however, bit and found that he had
| paid 800 for a clay brick. Both men were
arrested, and the police are now after the
green goods opeRtors. Perkins was re-
leased.