Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-19
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Mare Island to-day.
The Indianapolis Laundry Girls Union
threatens to strike.
There are prospects for good average
wheat crop in England
The Leeds, England, Millers' Association
has again advanced the price of flour.
Large numbers of cattle on the ranges of
Southern Kansas have died from sunStroke.
The Belt Line of Chicago has been pur-
chased by the Chicago Union Transfer Com
pany. .....
The Infectious Disease Institute in Berlin
has been opened in the presence of Prof
Koch.
The President of Louisiana's Board of
Health pronounces New Orleans free from
fever.
"A hail storm at Deer Creek. Mimi, Mon
day night destroyed about 1000 acres of
grain.
Switzerland has rejected the terms for
commercial alliance with Germany and
Austria.
The London Times thinks that American
Presidents should not be eligible to re-
election.
The brakemen's strike on the Lake Erie
and Western Railroad has extended to In
dianapolfs.
The region around Ogden, Utah, Is
ablaze with excitement over the discovery
of lead ore.
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New ork Times will remain in the control
Of his family.
The Swiss Government has promised to
the Commissioners a fine exhibit in the
Worlds Fair.
The warship Pensacola is in the Mare Is
land dry dock for repairs, and when she EN-
erges she will go to Honolulu.
"A tornado near jackson, Mich, destroyed
or unroofed barns, uprooted trees and did
vast amount of other damage.
AT the German Catholic Central Society
meeting at Louisville yesterday, letter of
blessing from the Pope was read.
More forged opium stamps have been
captured in San Francisco. The police be-
l1eVe white man executed them
The Russian rye ukase was al first wider
and more severe in its scope, but the Gar
opposed it and secured its modification.
The Dominion Government is holding an
investigation into the alleged stealing from
the Printing Bureau of paper for civil service
examinations.
two weeks spurious silver dollars. The coin
bears the date of 1889, the stars are dull
pointed and the milling is dull.
Large deposits of gold, lead and iron, as
well as many petroleum springs, are said to
have been discovered in the Asiatic broy-
ince of Zeratschan by Russian explorer.
"A Democratic caucus in Oswego county,
n. Y, ended in riot between the Cleveland
and Hill factions. Mayor Kehoe and three
other Cleveland adherents were arrested.
"A young married woman living near
Isabella Ga, had no use for children, so she
sold her newborn twins to a neighbor of a
different turn of mind for 80 cents apiece.
"A majority of Mississippi's Legislative
votes have been pledged for the reelection
of Senator's George and Walthall. Barks-
dale, the sub-treasury candidate, is away be-
hind.
Colopa1 r,d1au Frax-zar xrbo ros ohIo-o
formed and robbed in Memphis hotel last
week, viewed the suspect whom the police
had arrested yesterday, but pronounced him
the wrong man.
Three hundred and fifty nailers and
packers at the Minneapolis flour mills were
on a strike yesterday for two hours. They
demanded % cents per day more. The mill
owners submitted
The alleged intention of the Dominion
Government to relax the restrictions upon
United States cattle imports is causing much
anxiety in Canadian shipping and other cir
cles i'll London, England.
A clerk named J. i. Bay was appointed
to investigate the accounts of Arkansas
embezZling State Treasurer, Woodruff. Now
Bay has been arrested himself for making
way with Sl0O, 900 not his own.
"A Viennese peasant who recently missed
his daughter, traced her and found that she
had been the victim of the murderer,
Schneider. who it has been proved recently
killed three girls in five days.
A convention of that section of the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union op-
posed to the suh-Treasury scheme has been
called to meet in st. Louis September Is
The callers are all Northern men,
"A freight train of an engine and % cars
left the track and fell down 50-foot cliff
into the Pacific ocean on the Greenwood
Railroad, in Mendocino county, Cal, yester-
day. The crew escaped by jumping.
Monday evening, while bathing in the
Red river at Grand Forks, N. D., Rev. Will
lam T. Currie, rector of st. Paurs Episcopal
Church; Miss Ruth Currie, his daughter,
aged 13, and Miss Dora Van Kirk, aged H.
were all drowned.
-Forty-six of the recalcitrant Russians in
the Berlin poorhouse have declared that
they would rather pay to return to Russia
than work for the Germans. They produced
the necessary money. ALI the others who
refused to work will be sent to the frontier.
Governor Toole, of Montana. has been
informed by Acting Secretary Grant, of the
the petition of citizens of Custer county. 4
the cavalry detachment on Tongue river |
has been ordered from its camp there to the |
Indian agency on that river.
Justice O'Brien, of New York, has ap-
pointed a committee to inquire into the |
sanity of Elliott Roosevelt, brother of Theo- !
dore Roosevelt, United States Civil Service |
Commissioner. and brother-in-law of Baron |
Won Zedlits. The petition Is made by Theo- |
dore Roosevelt with the consent of the wife. |
"A Boston man named Taylor was locked |
up for drunkenness Friday night Saturday |
afternoon he was arrested for repeating the |
offense. Yesterday morning he answered to |
the court that he had drank nothing since |
his previous discharge, but was simply on |
the same old drunk. The Judge gave him |
the benefit of the doubt.
Nine district judges are to be elected in |
Kansas this fall, and the Peoples party poll |
ticians claim that in six of them Democrats |
and Republicans will unite OH candidate |
to defeat the Alliance nominees Fusion |
between the old parties has already been |
effected in the Eighth, Ninth, Thirteenth |
and Twenty eighth districts
1t is now a generally accepted theory IN /
sultry weather which has lasted since July |
l, with one short interval have been the re-
suit of the flooding of the Colorado desert. If
this continues permanently it will result in
there being more water in the mountains for
irrigation purposes, but the summer climate
will be less pleasant.
The Union Pacific Railroad directors
have issued the following statement: "The
holding OF more than half of the floating
debt of the Union Pacific Railway Company
having assented to plan for extending that
debt by an issue of notes for three years,
the Board of Directors of the company to-
day passed the necessary resolution to put
that into effect. 1t is proposed to issue
sufficient three-year per cent notes to re-
tire the entire floating debt of the COM
pany."
CALIGRAPH Writing Machine received
the only Gold Medal at Mechanics Fair,
Boston. wS