Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Car is said TO be anxious to change
| Finance Ministers.
That St Paul wolf story is ridicuied by
| the people of that city.
| Another very valuable iron ore deposit
has been found in Upper Michigan.
The Cotton Oil Trust is at war with inde-
| pendent manufacturers at Memphis
The steamer Charsnte has three cases of
yellow fever on board at Buenos Ayres.
-Melbournes rain making company has
been producing rain in the Texas Panhandle.
Smallpox IS spreading rapidly among the
negroes in Mcintosh county, Ga, and the
State lacks the legal facilities for graphing
with it.
The Russian Board of Imperial Control
reports that the present state of affairs in
Europe fully warrants the large extra credits
asked by the Minister of Marine.
A wonderful silver deposit, from which
5000 ounces OF pure metal have been taken
from depth of eight feet. has been found in
the Cumberland region, New Mexico.
Two Black Hills passenger trains col
lided at Germantown, near Lincoln, Neb.,
Thursday evening. The passengers were
shaken up only, but several trainmen were
injured.
The Rockdale Iron Mining and Manufac-
turing Company. of Columbia, Tenn, has as
and stock about Sl26 4C0. The low price of
iron caused the failure.
The Count of Paris organ. the Paris
GUuioiS. discredits the official assurance that
the visit Of the Russian Minister, NJ. de
Giers. TO Paris was not for the purpose of ar
ranging treaty of alliance.
The Russian Minister OF Finance has
issued decree prohibiting the mixing of
more than per cent of the grains the eI-
port of which and their products is pro-
n witt ,,aa
Herman Rypinski, iobber in jewelry at
81 Maiden Lane, New York, has assigned TO
Henry NJ. Toch. with preferences to Louis
Rypinsili. OF Kyle, Tex. for 81 Loo and to
Samuel Eichenberg, OF this city 1or $4,000.
j. A. Oblinger, owner of the Bank of
A rlington, Mimi, and postmaster of the
VILLAGE is a deFaulter to the extent of SIS, COO
or so COO. His postoffice accounts are
STRAIGHT 1t is rumored that speculation
caused his fall.
Several army officers at Fort Leaven-
worth have sued the Union Pacific Railroad
Company for damages for njuries received
returning from the Wounded Knee fight
last winter. The injuries were received in a
collision which occurred near Irving.
The Contract Labor inspectors at the
New York Barge Office have discovered five
Russian men and one woman, who came
here under contract TO work in the mines at
Tyrone, Pa. Joseph Bowonitz, a boss miner
at that place, made the contract with them.
Commander in Chief Palmer, of the
Grand Army of the Republic, in general
orders No. G, urges that the cases of sus-
post committees, and. when worthy, the ar
rears be remitted, all save the per capita
tax.
The first steel derrick ever made in the
United States was raised at the granite
quarry of c. L. Taylor & Co., at Bane, VI,
yesterday. The boom has a radius of ii
feet and the mast is 90 feet high, it being
the highest unsupported metal column in
the world.
The Washington State Farmers Alliance
Friday night passed resolutions favoring the
sub-Treasury scheme, the third party move
ment, free and unlimited coinage of domestic
silver, a tariff for revenue only and the cleo
tion of President and United States Senators
by the direct vote of the people.
Fifty thousand safe deposit boxes are to
be put into the basement of Chicaeo-s
Masonic temple, forming what will probably
be the largest system of safe deposit vaults
in the country for private use. The corner
store on the first floor has been leased TO the
Bankers National Bank for ten years at a
total rental OF Sl6O,00o.
The remaining 81 pictures of the verest-
chagin collection have been disposed of at
auction. The total sum realized was $i5 aS5
which, when added to the S26,65O that was
taken in on Tuesday evening, brings the
sum paid for all Eerestchagin's works up to
So, ,635. The collection went for a fraction of
what it is said to he worth.
"A motion, supported by the Conserva
tive party, was presented to the German
Reichstag yesterday demanding that the
Government introduce bill placing the
bOurSeS under the control of the State, and
rendering persons who gamble on time mar
gins, especially in articles of consumption.
liable to criminal prosecution.
There is a growing feeling at Monte
Carlo that the Englishnan, Wells, who has
had another great run of luck at the bank
this month, has an understanding with the |
bank which permits him to win. The stories |
Of big winnings by Wells and few others |
ere useful TO the Monte Carlo people in |
drawing visitors who hope to equal them
A lifeboat has succeeded in reaching the |
arge schooner at anchor off Goderich Ont
1t is the Ed Kelly, bound from Escanaba, |
Mich. to Cleveland, with n cargo of iron
rhe vessel is leaking and her foresail is gone |
Men have been sent to assist the crew and a !
supply of provisions furnished them. The |
lismantled vessel that was at anchor |
arther out cannot be sighted A tug is now |
searching for her.
AT the Kansas Episcopal Convention |
Friday, ex-senator Ingalls, was present at |
he dinner given by the ladies of the Episco- |
)al Church. and was called upon for a |
lie was not identified with any religious de- |
he had 'a brother engaged in |
he business" He recognized the fact that
he Church of Christ was the great conserva-
i've force of modern society
Chester B. Roberts, feeble-minded
-outh, native of South Waterloo, Me- re-
,ently inherited $40, coo from his father A
,ang of sharpers got Roberts to draw the
money from the bank and trust it to them
or safe keeping, but no memorandum of |
he trust to be made. Roberts disappeared
With the gang and was traced to Lynn, |
where he was found in the house of one of
'he sbarpers. Eight thousand dollars of the
money has been recovered, and suits to re-
over the balance will be begun by the
young mans mother
There was commenced in London yester-
Dll. hi fr.io1 1s i,,l \
he history OF British jurisprudence 1t is
he trial. on the charge of blackmail. of a |
mysterious individual known rs the |
French Colonel, "Le Grande." "Brisconv
, rant, captain Anderson" and as Charles
Irant: This distinguished criminals real
lame is not known. He saws ne is n Dane
'ut the police believe him to be IA we'll
inown American criminal who has
worked" both the United States and Eu-
ope for years past, and who has made large
ums of money by his operations
"A railroad accident occurred Yesterday
IN the Buenos Ayres and Ensenada Raii-
Dad. The train was crossing a high yiaduct |
which carries the line across a deep gorge |
When one of the carriages jumped from the !
ailS, dragging the Others after IT Tho |
whole train was derailed and two of the car |
iages plunged over the side of the viaduct |
vent over the coupling broke and the other |
arriages remained on the viaduct. Quite a
lumber OF passengers were in the two cars |
hat FELL but, strange to state, not one was |
illed.
INDIA is the paradise of liars. according |
o An bid fra 2Ier who relates his amus;nc |