Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-15
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

Cholera in virulent form has broken out
at Mecca.
in Texas corn and cotton crop prospects
are excellent.
| Another outbreak against President Hip
polyte is apprehended in Haiti.
Madrid tradesmen made an unsuccessful
attempt to boycott Bank of Spain notes.
The Peoples party, led by Senator Pef-
| fer, is making an energetic canvass in Ken
| lucky.
The indications in Kansas are that the
Alliance will split on the sub-Treasury
| scheme.
Editor William Rule, of the Knoxville
Journal has withdrawn from the Congress
sioual race.
Topeka prohibitfonists complain that
"drugstores" are entirely too numerous in
that city.
Two young girls fought with negro
burglar and drove him away at Plainfield,
n. j. Sunday night.
The first importation of beet Sugar ar
rived in san Francisco last, where it under
sold the Spreckels product.
British Columbia sealing vessels are be-
ing generally frightened back home by the
American naval force there.
Mrs. j. S Holloway, of Springfield, O.,
has been notified that she has been left ST.
100000 by an uncle in England.
= The Waugh steel plant at Belleville, ILL.,,
and the East st. Louis rolling mill have
signed the Amalgamated scale.
The new Chilean cruiser Erazurie has
hurriedly left France for Portugal, where
she will take on the rest of her supplies.
The Lancaster, built in 1858, has been
ordered to Asiatic waters by the Navy De-
partment. The steamer is still in good con-
dition.
1t is said that if the Balmaceda Govern
ment is overthrown, Mr.. Egan, United States
Minister to Chile, will be ordered to leave
that country.
One Russian Governor has warned grain
spectators they will be banished and other
wise punished for cornering wheat or man.
ipulating prices.
A policeman shot a man and his wife at
Jersey City yesterday morning. He alleged
that he was attacked by them and had to
shoot to save himself.
Mayor Washburn, of Chicago, has vetoed
the ordinance giving the Economic Gas
Company franchises to tear up and lay pipes
in the streets of the city.
The grasshoppers now in Colorado are
not the red-legged variety which devastated
Kansas in 1874, and are not destructive. They
are not moving eastward.
Duncan, the American who tried to kill
his wife in Wales, has been acquitted on the
ground of insanity, but will be held until the
authorities decide what to do with him.
-Rumored that the Standard oil people
have gained control of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, and that Mr.. Rockefeller
will be the President of that corporation.
The Dominion Government is growing
very uneasy over the recent postal scandal.
1t is rumored that the Superintendent of
the Government Printing Bureau has dis
appeared.
Investigation at Olney, ILL.,, has thus far
revealed a shortage on the part of ex-1reas-
urer Frank Gillespie of SO 900, and the in
Quiry has only begun. Gillespie is the pres
ent postmaster OF that town.
Duncan McIntyres election to the Grand
Trunk board has sent the price of shares up
in London with bound. The management
in Canada, it is claimed, had fallen into O
groove and needed more bringing into line
with modern methods.
Tho Petition Committee of the French |
Senate has recommended that the Govern |
ment favorably consider the appeal of the |
Panama Canal shareholders that the Gov |
ernment cooperate with the Credit Foncier |
to raise funds to complete the canal. |
"A negro named Sam Gillespie in De Soto |
county, Miss, was tied to a tree and shot to |
death by masked mob Monday night. The |
only immediate cause for the deed was that |
Gillespie had been arrested for rescuing a |
negro thief from the arm of the law. |
Mrs. Lucy Pratt, young San Francisco |
widow, y esterday sold As square inches of |
her cuticle for 500. A strip of skin was cut |
from her body by surgeons and grated on |
to the leg of William A Daggett a railway |
mail clerk, who was injured in the railroad |
accident at Port Costa. The operation was |
successful.