Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-04
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF

Rye in Berlin has risen six marks.
The run on the Buenos Ayres banks still
continues. s44z
Three horse thieves were killed by In
dian policemen in the Seminole Nation Sun
day.
The Uruguay budget shows that the
financial condition of that republic is satis-
factory.
The six men who were covered over q
feet by the caving in of Minneapolis sewer
were all rescued alive.
"A mortgage of $5,0O0OOO, given by the
Central New England and Western Railroad
Company, has been filed.
Three thousand feet of the Deadwood
Central Railroad in South Dakota was
washed away by the storm.
Lord Rothschild fears dangerous state
of affairs in England owing to the remark
able influx of Russian Hebrews.
"A monument to Maryland's first Gov
ernor, Leonard Calvert, was unveiled at st.
Mary's yesterday by Miss Calvert, a de-
scendant of the family.
The steam launch Ytsam blew up in the
lake at Ithaca Tuesday night, fatally scald-
ing the fireman and seriously injuring sew
eral others. The craft cost S1l 900.
"A yellow fir tree has been shipped from
Seattle, Wash, to Chicago to be exhibited at
the Worlds Fair. 1t is lib feet long and 50
inches in diameter at the large end.
facturer, Moses B. Shante, has been arrested
for violating the alien contract labor law.
He brought over number of workmen from
Canada.
l. --Rnmored that there is q secret under
standing between Italy and Great Britain.
France, England will send fleet to defend
its ally.
"A fist fight between Senators Campbell
and Allen enlivened the proceedings of the
Illinois Senate Tuesday afternoon. After
the beliigerents were separated the proper
apologies took place.
Cardinal Taschereau and other members
of the Quebec clergy are petitioning Parlia-
ment to amend the election law to make it
an offense punishable by imprisonment to
use liquor for corrupt purposes during cleo
tion times.
for another negro tragedy near Hermitage,
La. In dispute Sam Hummel shot Willie
Jennings dead, for which he and two other
negroes were at once lynched by colored
levee hands.
Tho schooner Minnie Coulbourn ran
aground at a drawbridge over Nanticoke
river at Seaford, Del, stopping traffic on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad. The detention may affect the
market of Southern and peninsular fruit.
John spellman, the kleptomaniac, who
last Saturday attempted to carry off valise
and overcoat from the Southern Hotel, in St.
Louis, has been turned over to his father
Edward Spellman, the Peoria, ILL.,, distiller
on condition that he be placed in an insane
asylum.
A Vienna correspondent says it is semi
officially announced that the Russian Gov
eminent is disposed to negotiate with Baron
Hirsch in the matter of transporting the
colony which Baron Hirsch intended to
found in the Argentine Republic.
: An attempt was made at Waterbury,
New England passenger train by placing
pile of iron and lumber upon the track. The
engineer noticed the obstruction in time to
save his train. Two boys were afterward ar
rested for the deed, confessed and were sent
to the reform school.
Miss Mary Emerson, aged 65, who con-
Quoted a small farm and boarding house
at Dedham, Mass, was found dead in a small
closet in her kitchen Tuesday night. Marks
on her throat indicated that she had been
strangled. The motive was evidently rob-
August is suspected, but has not as yet been
caught.
Robert Piercy, young seal hunter of the
schooner May Bell, arrived at Victoria from
Juneau by the latest Alaska boat, with story
of adventure and hardship He and two
other men strayed from the steamer off Cape
Fairweather, in the latter part of April, and
after some days made land about $50 miles
from Juneau. Thence they pulled along the
calm. The stock of provisions soon gave
out and they were forced to feed on raw seal
and ducks. They reached Juneau, thor
oughly exhausted and broken down, after Is
days Of starvation and exposure. The two
other men are still at Juneau.