Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-01
LATE NEWS In. BRIEF.

--virginia's tomato crop will be light and
prices will be high.
The Governor of Tennessee has called an
extra session of the Legislature.
The Indianapolis Journal denies that the
pressure of natural gas in that city is grow
ing less.
Mrs. A. D. Barnum, postmistress at
Mann, Mont;s has been arrested on the
The Argentine Republic opposed the
wholesale immigration of Russian Hebrews,
as proposed by Baron Hirsch.
james Anderson, the widely-known
burglar, who escaped from the county jail
at Cincinnati, has been recaptured
BY O fire damp explosion in a colliery
near Bedmipster, England, nine miners lost
their lives and q dozen were injured.
An engine and nine cars of coal ran into
an open draw at Hamilton Beach, Ont, Sun
day night. Two trainmen were injured.
"A secret society of boomers has been on
the Southern Kansas border, who propose to
make an armed raid upon the Cherokee
Strip.
CLAUS Spreckels, now in Paris, denies
that ne has entered the Sugar Trust, adding,
81 mean to paddle my own canoe to the end
of the chapter"
bakers are arranging for strike, taking
in all the cities in the country, on Nay /,
1892, for reduction of the hours of labor
and increased pay.
Within two years J. T. Brown has swim
died Plymouth county, Ia, out of $500 or 5000
the scalps out of wolf hides.
Another serious railroad disaster has
happened in Switzerland. An express train
dashed into another train at Zurich and
many passengers were injured.
The postofiice safe at Leeds, a suburb of
Sioux City, Ia, was blown open by burglars
Sunday morning and some money and s204
worth OF stamps were abStracted.
-Twenty-one claimants have appeared as
contestants of Mrs. Hopkins-Searle's will in
New York. They are mostly poor relatives
she was in the habit of assisting or gave
small sums annually.
is Investigating the charges of Improper
care of cattle on the steamer Loeb Lomond,
which arrived at Dundee last week from
Montreal. Many cattle died on board.
AT Wilmington, Del, Mrs. Lena Bennett,
of Hillside, Mich, worth s, l,000, ,O00, aged 80
and twice widow married Cleasworth.
machinist. She advertised for O husband
two weeks ago and the pair soon exchanged
photographs.
Eugene O'Hara, q New York tough,
sawed his way out of Jefferson Market
Prison yesterday morning. He had been
arrested on charge of stabbing police;
man. He was not searched and evidently
had the saw when locked up.
Two more balloon accidents happened
Sheber fell into lake when he descended
with parachute from height of 1000
feet. but was rescued alive. Julius Kerle
descended into network of live electric
wires and was badly shocked.
The Weather Bureau is endeavoring to es-
tabl1sh a system of disseminating weather
prediction by locomotive whistle. Prof
Harrington has arranged a system of
whistle combinations. This is expected to
assist those living near the railroad and not
in a position to secure newspapers daily.
Nine members OF the Kite Arctic explor-
ing expedition ret 1rned to Halifax on their
wayto New York Sunday night bringing a
large store of botanical and chronological
specimens. They report that all existing
charts of Greenland are incorrect. Lieuten-
ant and Mrs. Peary and the remainder of the
expedition remain in the frozen regions
They will start northward in the spring on
snowshoes to explore tho northern bound
ary.