Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-12
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Kansas farmers are jubilant over heavy
rains
yellow fever is said to be epidemic at
| Port au Prince.
The Y. NJ C. A. of all lands convenes at
Amsterdam to-day.
The condition of James Russell Lowell
| is becoming very critical.
Sir Edwin Arnold, the English poet, will
deliver so lectures in America.
The United States steamer Pensacola has
arrived at San Francisco from San Diego
Mrs jefferson Davis will be in Richmond
in October to select spot for the burial of
her late husband.
White miners at Middlesborough, KY,
object to the employment of colored labor
ers in the mines. Serious trouble is feared
Whaleback steamers are to be intro
duced on the Mississippi river by the Amer
lean Steel Barge Company, of West Supe-
rior, Wis.
President McGrath, OF the Farmers AL
lance. after a trip through Kansas, reports
that the farmers are generally holding their
wheat for better prices.
Alice Cooper sues in London for n di-
vorce from her cousin, Walter Beverly
Crane. She alleges that Crane forced her
into the marriage by threats of shooting.
Good crops have placed the Peoples
Savings Bank of Atchison, Kan, ,'on its feet
again. 1t failed last winter, but will now
probably pay its creditors dollar for dollar.
A St Paul newspaper says that the
''hold-your-wheat" Farmers Alliance cfrcu-
lar was originated by Minneapolis wheat
spectators. who are paying all the expenses
of its publication.
Oklahoma is likely to be swamped by
free whisky, since Judge Bryant, of the
United States Court, has decided that it is
no violation of the law TO introduce beer in
the Territory to sell.
A Canadian sealer recently seized by the
revenue cutter Rush, in Bertng Sea, but
now just arrived at Victoria, B. c., reports
that the ice fields of the Alaskan Islands
are fairly alive with seals.
The skeletons Of couple of emigrants,
who mysteriously disappeared while travel
ing through dense wood near Munoie. Ind,
40 years ago and were probably murdered,
were found in secluded place Monday by
boy.
kitchen door of many a housein Santa Cruz,
Cal, has Just received a letter from Ger
many, announcing that he is heir to the es-
tates of Count Wolfgang Ballestrom, valued
at S50O,000.
Willie Lytle, boy IS years old, has died
after a wasting illness of three months,
which left him a mere skeleton, weighing l6
pounds. His parents are accused of slowly
poisoning him to get possession of property
recently inherited by the lad.
Secret service officers seized 50, 900 worth
of opium in Shasta, Cal, Monday, and broke
up nine furnaces run by Chinese employed
in manufacturing opium from the crude ma
terial. The existence of the plant was un-
known to the people of Shasta.
Richard NJ. Juvenal's dwelling in Kansas
City. Kan, was blown up by dynamite late
Tuesday night. shaking up the occupants,
but seriously wounding none of them. Mr..
Juvenal accuses former sweetheart, whom!
he discarded to marry another woman.
The Salvadoran Government, which
seized the Pacific mail steamer, City of Pan
anna, declares that it did so because the ves-
sci left the port of La Union without a per-
nit, and followed the American Govern
ment's precedent established by itsdealingsi
ith the Itata.
The failure of a freight train crew to sig.
nal properly, and the failure of the passen-
ger train airbrakes to work, caused a
collision at Briant siding on the Grand
Rapids and Indiana Railroad yesterday.
Engineer Dick and Fireman Brown were
killed, and three trainnen we're slightly in
jured-
Daily arrivals from the region of Sonora,
Mexico, on the Colorado river, report most
wonderful change in the topography and
appearance of the country, wrought by the
earthquake. Many of the old landmarks
are obliterated, prominent natural objects
are wiped off the face of the earth and new
ones created in unexpected places. The
damage done is principally to stock men,
who have lost many head of cattle.