Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
--he report of the Costa Rica revolution is
| confirmed.
The Iowa Republican State Convention
viii be held July l.
"A children's department may be feature
| O the Worlds Fair I
- Boston h. nSiiern.ksrs contemplate striking
Seven thousand New York molders and
Ifoundrymen will strike.
The Eastern Worlds Fair headquarters
have been opened in New York.
The Paris MunicipalC Council has condemned
the Governments May Day policy.
The German Government has officially &C.
cepted the Worlds Fair invitation.
The carpenters strike in st. Louis has SO
far succeeded that only As are now out
Lord Douglas is officially declared to have
been insane when he committed suicide.
Illinois fruit growers expect a heavy fruit
crop, in spite Of considerable damage by frost.
"A Georgia convention has asked the Legis.
lature to appropriate Sl0oOO0 to the WORLDS
Fair.
Those preparing for the third.pa conven.
tion at Cincinnati are quarreling among them
selves.
1t is denied that Belgian strikers have been
assisted by funds from the United States and
England.
Edison is going to Chicago to protest
against the plans for the Worlds Fair electrical
building.
The Calumet and Hecla mine directors
have declared dividend of IS per share, paya-
BILE June Is.
the Marinette tWis.) Iron Works Of $1,000
Wednesday night.
British authorities are hesitating about
sending warship to the scene of the New
foundland troubles
twenty-five thousand st. LOUIS children
began a systematic canvas of the whole city
yesterday for Sunday school recruits.
Dixon, the crank who wanted to kill Jay
Gould. was resident of Pueblo Col, year
ago. and was then known to be insane.
The garrison at Metz is excited by the dis
coyery Of the mangled body of Colonel Prayer.
Robbery is supposed to have been the motive.
The first Professor of Statistics in any
American school has just been elected for the
University of Peansylvania-Roland P. Falk-
ner.
Jay Gould denies the published interview
in which he was quoted as threatening to de-
stroy the Western Traffic Association, root and
branch.
The Czarewitch of Russia arrived at Hong
kong April 4, and the buildings of the Russian
consulate were decorated and illuminated IN
his honor.
"A New York labor leader named Joseph
for year and nine monts for extorting 500
from two men.
Lawrence Barrett's will has been allowed.
His property is left as a trust fund, the in come
rent and profits of which are to be used for the
beneft OF his wife and three daughters.
The steamship Germanic. from New York.
arrived of Queenstown harbor yesterday morn.
ing Owing to q heavy fog she did not stop and
land passengers, but proceeded directly to
Liverpool.
The terms of the purchase of the Moline
Plow Company. the Deere and Monsure Com
pany and the Deere & Co. Harvester Works,
all at Moline, ILL.,, by syndicate have been
agreed upon.
Indian Agent Patrick has ordered all
Strangers and everyone not an indian and not
10 Government employ to leave the Sac and Fox
reservation. The country has been infested
with boomers.
William Henry Smith, First Lord Of the Treas
ury, must submit to a reelection to the House
OF Commons on account of his appointment as
Warden Of the Cinque ports.
I'm an interview in London yesterday.
Colonel North, the so-called nitrate king"
said that IL was absolutely untrue that be had
supported either side in the Chilean conflict In
q pecunia-y y manner, or had otherwise taken
sides in the contest.
A naval court OF inquiry at Nagasaki found
that the British steamer Queen Elizabeth
which was lost Off the island Of Iskishima in
February was not properly supplied with
taken. The court suspended the certificate of
Captain Wilson for six months.
Several well-known Salvadorians assert that
the people OF Salvador do not hate the Guate-
malans, but they have been imposed upon and
coerced SO often that for their own safety they
have been obliged to arrange treaties with other
Central American Governments to isolate
Guatemala, SO that she would be unable to
make war.
Prof. H c. Headeu who is analyzing the
from nj ia
Mrs. Josephine B. Barnaby, has made discov-
cry, ii is said, which will set arrest all rumors
that Mrs. Barnaby did not die from the effects
OF arsenical poisoning. He announces that
poison has been discovered in large quantities
in one of the kidneys.
The controversy between Sir Henry Tyler
and Sir Charles Tupper in London still pro-
ceeds. Sir Charles Tupper has written the
Times a reply to Sir Henry Tyler's last commu.
nication- Sir Charles says he is confident the
stockholders of the Grand Trunk Railroad
now realize the necessity Of change in the
Presidency of the company
"A. B. Shanz, a member of the Price
Alaska expedition, arrived in San Francisco
Wednesday. He was taken sick at Camp Da.
wilson and left behind. He descended the
Yukon river in boat He made winter quar-
ters in an EsQuimaux village, and in company
with John Clark, trader: made 40 days
trip north sleds. On this trip Clark Lake
and Noghelim river were discovered.
The suit of John W. Mackay against Cas-
sius H. Reed and Edward S. Stokes, proprie-
tors of the Hoffman House, for the recovery of
S3OO,052 the amount of a note came to a sud-
den end yesterday in the United States Circuit
Court at New York by counsel for Mackay
upon the ruling of Judge Wallace that in the
first instance the suit should have been begun
by Hector de Castro, instead of Mr.. Mackay,
as Mr.. de Castro's name was on the note maze
by Reed and Stokes.
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