Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Erie Canal has been watered for the
season.
There will probably be no carpenters
strike In st. Louis May /.
The new cruiser Newark will be repaired
before going into commission.
Society ladies at the National Capital have
organized the Washington Club.
Five instead of four men we're killed in the
Metropolitan branch b. & o. collision.
The printers of Rome have struck. None
OF the papers will be published Thursday.
The French wooden cruiser Seignelay is
aground on Jaffa. Her crew have been saved.
The New York Central will introduce the
civil service reform system among its employees.
Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon say the Union
Pacific will earn 5 per cent. dividend this
year.
New charges of looting and robbing the
Monon have been preferred against President
Breyfogle.
The grip drove insane Henry Bender, an
aged citizen of Rochester, N. Y, and he COM
mitted suicide.
The Cigar Makers Association of Chicago
has refused the demand of employees for an ad.
vance in wages.
The London Times is kicking over the delay
of the Bering Sea casesin the United States
Supreme Court.
-Rumored in London that Parliament will
be dissolved if the Governments free educa-
ton plan is obstructed.
According to Senate bill, Michigan will be
divided into IL Congressional districts accord
ing to the plan of the Patrons Of Industry.
Philadelphia officials, under State law. for
bid branches of the Jersey banks doing busi-
ness in their city. The Jerseymen refuse to
close.
The Texas Central Railway was sold at
Waco. Texas, on the 22d inst under foreclos-
ure to the committee of reorganization for
$3.50, ,000
John L. Sullivan, in st. Louis, Tuesday, an.
nounced that he would probably be the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress from the Sixth
Massachusetts district.
In tn Millington murder trial at San Fran.
cisco yesterday Counsel Patterson, of the de-
tense, Ill his closing plea, charged that one of
the Jurors had been bribed.
The reported sale of the Anaconda mines
TO the Rothsehiids is said to be thought in
Baltimore to be but repetition of an old story
In circulation there for some time.
The new Canadian Pacific steamer. EN-.
press Of India. has crossed the Pacific from
Yokohama to Victoria, B. C., in 10 days hours
and 36 minutes breaking the record.
Joseph Leidy, NJ. D., LII D., Professor of
Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania
aud one OF the most distinguished phyBicians
In the United States, is critically ILL
Mayor Davidson Will deliver the address at
the reception to be given Senator German May
IA at Baltimore. The affair will be mon.
partisan" and will involve an expense of 5000
Queen Victoria has affirmed the constitu
tion OF the Imperial Institute. The Prince of
Wales is President and there are Is governors
dent.
Two young boys of Prairie Du Chen, Wis.
died almost simultaneously after excessive
nn rntto
phosphorus, nicotine and arsenic combined to
kill the lads.
The defaulting ex-State Secretary of Louis
lana, weary of his voluntary exile has returned
and will take his medicine. When convicted
several years ago he slipped out of the court
room ana escaped to Mexico.
Judge Tuley, at Chicago, has postponed &C.
tlon until to-day on Miss Phoebe Couzins' petit
tion tor an injunction to prevent her removal
from the position of Secretary of the Board of
Lady Managers of the Worlds Fair
Sara Bernhardt is seeing the elephant in
San Francisco. After one nights performance
she made tour OF the opium joints and oriental
theaters OF Chinatown, and "A hours thereafter
she was an eager spectator Of prize fight.
The Presbytery of San Francisco has sus.
tained charges against Rev, John W. Ellis, D.
D.. of appropriating TO his own use funds held
by him In trust, and OF rendering false state
ment concerning expenditures of $500 of such
funds.
The wreck of the schooner R. B. Leeds. of
Somersport, n. j., was found in Chesapeake
Bay. with the bodies of two sailors badly
crushed and lashed to the rigging 1t is sup
posed the vessel capsized in Saturday nights
squall, and that all the crew perished.
The Bundesrath has agreed to the G erman
Governments proposal submitted to that body
Saturday last, authorizing the accepta nee Of
the United Srates' invitation to take part in
the Chicago Worlds Fair, and providing for
the appointment of an Imperial Commi ssioner
"A plant for the manufacture of gun cotton
will probably soon be established in Central
Pennsylvania or elsewhere in the interior This
is not to supersede the plant at the torpedo
station. but to supplement it by second plant
away from the coast, more secure in case
of war. =
: AT Mason City, Ia, Tuesday. Mrs. Ander-
son became violently insane, and taking her
two children by the hand proceeded toward the
cemetery where she intended to bury them
alive as sacrifices. Some wo men banded toy
gether and wrested the children from their
mother.
Sir William Whiteway. the Newfoundland
Premier in London and his colleagues are
drafting bill which. after being submitted to
Lord Knutsford, will be cabled home to New
fOundland to enable the Legislature to have
the first reading of the BILL If possible, before
the Knutsford bill enters the committee stage