Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-20
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Martial law has been proclaimed at Port
au-Prince.
The Elks' reunion at Louisville closed
yesterday.
| President Harrison denies that he has
| sold his cottage at Cape May Point.
The alleged widow of Robert Ray Hamil
ton, Eva Mann, is about to go on the stage
| SO it is said.
Eight firemen were injured at blaze in
New York yesterday by the explosion OF a
barrel of gasoline.
The Czurewitch has so far recovered
from his wound that he has been able to
leave Japan for Vladivostock.
in fight at the Riverside coal mine,
near Leavenworth, between four negroes,
Henry Litcher was shot and killed.
-Four Newark N. j., mechanics went fish
ing in the Hackensack river and were
drowned Four widows and 20 children
mourn their loss.
The Morgan steamship Ell Sol has broken
the record from New York to New Orleans,
having made the run from wharf tc wharf
in days % hours and 15 minute7.
Nothing so far has been heard of H. jaw
Hanchet, the missing secretary of the Los
Angeles, Cal, Chamber of Commerce. who
disappeared from Chicago on the 7th ins5.
Stephen F. Moriarity, manager in Eng
land of the Edison United Phonograph Com
pany, has delivered in person the message
sent to Cardinal Gibbons by Cardinal Man
ming.
Martin Farrell, of Western New York.
enlisted in 1861, leaving a wife and little boy
The father was never heard from until found
by his son the other day in the Dayton co.
Soldiers Home
General Thomas L. Osborne, ex-United
States Minister to the Argentine Republic,
confiscates the property of those who favor
the insurgents.
All the journeymen bread bakers of
Wilmington, Del, Is in number, are out on a
strike for shorter hours and an increase in
wages. The bosses are doing the best they
can, but the supply of bread is short.
While Armstead Homers and Coleman
Perry; Sheriff and Deputy respectively, at
tempted to spill some whisky brought into
the Indian Territory by James Lowman and
his son Joe, the two latter riddled Perry and
Homers with bullets, killing them instantly.
In the Court of General Sessions, at New
York yesterday, Judge Van Brunt over
ruled the demurrer of the New Haven Rail-
road directors to the Indictment charging
them with keeping stoves In their steam cars
contrary to the statute. They must now
stand trial
Judge Van Brunt, in Court of General
Sessions New York, yesterday, dismissed
the indictments for bribery against Billy
Moloney, De Lacey and Keenan,, in connec-
tion with the Broadway Railroad franchise.
These are the last of the indictments in con-
nection with the scheme.
1t is now a settled fact that ex-President
and Mrs. Grover Cleveland will make Tudor
Haven, at Buzzard's Bay, their principal
place of residence during the summer
months, much to the disappointment of the
residents of Marion, who have been hoping
that they would again spend the summer
there.
The special committee appointed to in
vestigate Mayor Somers charges against the
members of the Board of Public Works, in
Milwaukee, in report to the Council
recommends the impeachment of Commits
sioner Dunck for having accepted gtatuities
and benefits from contractors for city work
and persons furnishing supplies.