Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF,

The cruiser Charleston has sailed fol-
China.
The Lookout Mountain battlefield IS in
litigation.
About 10000 iron and tin miners Of South
w NaleS are on strike.
-Berne is 700 years old and is celebrating
the fact with great gusto.
The rail fall in India, breaking disas-
trous drouth, was general.
A New York boy is afflicted with trich.
inosis from eating boiled ham.
M Paravey, director OF the Opera Com
1Que, is missing, and SO is So, 900.
The City of Victoria, B. c., will vote
on granting nearly S3,00O,000 railroad sub
sides.
The pope commends the coming exhibit
tion of the Sayior's alleged holy coat at
Treves-
The Frank ingram Lumber Company, of
Louisville, has failed for S50,090. Assets
nearly the same.
The international Geographical Congress
has closed. London was decided upon for
the next meeting.
Lord Lurgan will sell his Irish estate to
SOC tenants This is the first sale under the
land purchase act.
"A new manufacturing town will be
founded near Chicago by syndicate which
will build street cars.
The failure of Crampel's mission to Lake
Tchad, Africa, under the auspices of the
French Government is said to be certain.
Five men at work in a sewer ditch at
Danyille, Va, Friday were buried by cave
in. Sam Perkins were taken out dead and
Spencer Ewell mortally injured.
The betrothal of the Czarowitz of Rus
sia with Princess Mary, of Greece, as now
announced, will occur October 80 at the
palace OF Fredensborg, Copenhagen.
"A family of nine persons was poisoned in
Riga. Russia, by eating what they supposed
to be mushrooms. Two are already dead
and the others are not expected to live.
Three preachers were struck by light
ming at the home of their father. Wallace
Williams, in Severn county, Ga, yesterday
Two were killed and the third seriously in
jured.
1t is said that Governor Merriam, of
Minnesota, will refuse to call an extra ses-
sion OF the Legislature to make further ap-
preparation for further exhibit in the
Worlds Fair.
Private j. S. kasserman U. S. A. tried to
commit suicide by repeatedly throwing him
self upon his bayonet, at Camp Lincoln, Ill.
He Will die. Kasserman was subject to dts
OF despondency.
The effects of the recent hailstorm in
minnesota were worse than at first supposed.
All standing crops in its path were com
pletely ruined. Men caught in the fields
were badly bruised and cut about the heads.
All exposed Windows were smashed
The National Colored Congress. in ses
sion at Red Oak, Ia, elected j. C. Fremont
OF that city, President for the ensuing wear,
and passed resolution for the appointment
OF National Executive, consisting of one
member from each State and Territory
"A lone fisherman in an open boat drifteu
away from his vessel in Nova Scotia waters.
He was tossed on the waves seven days and
nights without food or water, until com
pletely exhausted he was picked UP by the
schooner Annie 7. Bell and brought to Hall
fax.
The name of the day foreman at the Bes-
semer (Ala.), foundry is William Douglass.
He is a white man. The night wa6chman is
Wlll Douglass, a negro. Friday they had a
difficulty, the white man saying that the
negro drew his pay. This confusion of names
Is responsible for the death OF the colored
William Douglass.
The suit instituted to test the constitu-
tionality of the California law appropriating
$300,010 for the California exhibit at the
worlds Fair was argued before the San
Francisco Superior Court Friday. The Court
ordered the case submitted on brief the
State Controller being allowed 20 days and
the state Commission the same time after
receiving the Con Groler's brief, and the At
torney General 10 days thereafter The At
torney General thinks the law constitutional,