Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

--latest news from Chile say the rebels are
gaining ground.
The anti-Pinkerton bill has been defeated
in the Ohio Senate.
The Merrimac river has reached the high
est point for years.
Cincinnati Democrats have nominated Gus
tave Tafel for Mayor
The Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Company
has failed for s200, 600.
The new Cremation Society in Boston is
said to be an assured fact.
Tim Healy. who was assaulted in hotel at
Cork, torgives his assailant.
Lawrence Barrett's remains were buried in
Cohassetr, Mass, yesterday.
The North River Bank, of New York City,
has been finally dissolved by the court.
"A project is on foot to transfer the dressed
beef trade from Chicago to New York.
The Sherman Statue Fund Committee an
nounces that it has received sufficient funds
-sH, 7S6.
The Wabash trlplets, James, John and
Jacob Farley, celebrated their Goth birthday
yesterday.
The injuries to Tim Healy's eve are moro
serious than at first supposed. He may be con-
fned to his room for month.
reported that the Portuguese have de-
clared STATE of siege in Manicaland, South
George Wood, a Philadelphia iron man,
succeeds Wistar Morris as director of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Owing TO the recent floods in Southern Cali
fornia, the Southern Pacific proposes to build
new line farther north on higher ground.
frightened by the approach of a train, a
woman at Ransom, Ill., leaped from bridge
81 feet high, but escaped almost unhurt.
The head of girl. apparently 10 years old.
wrapped in bedticking, was found by South
Dakota farmer in Butte county few days
ago.
The California Viticultural Commission
has received diploma and gold medal award
ed to the exhibit of California brandes at the
Paris Exposition.
The Irish Times alleges that American
Fenians and Clan-na- Gaels are Matching dyna-
mite plots in London, but are under the sur
vellance of the police.
-Ramiasatra, the Madagascar chief who
butchered 27S men. women and children, has
been executed, together with his brother, by
order of the Government.
Iowa livestock shippers have sued the
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Company for heav; rebates which they al
lege have been granted other patrons.
a The temporary injunction restraining the
Interior Department from removing ex-Chief
Busny Head has been continued, while decision
on the case is reserved for the present.
Many farms near Arkansas City Kan
have been swept clear of fences, houses and
barns by prairie fires. Many head of live stock
and possibly some human lives were lost.
"A brakeman on Louisville and Nashville
passenger train, near Louisville, threw a
switch before his train had pulled past, wreck.
ing two sleepers and iujuring six passengers.
The Cayadutta creek, at Johnstown, N Y. is
the highest it has ever been, with the exception
of the flood of 1889. Mills along its banks have
been closed down on account OF high water
The Chicago and Northwestern freight
depot and contents. and William Murray's ele-
vator full of grain at Belle Plaine. Ia, burned
Yesterday morning. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$500.
The Marquis di Rudinl, the Italian Pre-
mier, and Lord Dutfern. the British Minister
at Rome. have exchanged protocols delImit-
izing the British and Italian spheres IN East
Africa.
The Michigan Senate has oruered an in
vestigaticn into the allegations of Senator Will
cox that he was offered bribe The Lower
House also calls for the inves tigation of Repre-
sentative Friedlander.
"A tramp named Phil Daugherty. who was
arrested in ShelbyvIlle. Ind, Monday, for
breaking into houses, begging and frightening
women, was soundly thrashed by mob and
narrowly escaped hanging.
There is a clash of authority at Sioux Falls.
s. D.. between United States Marshal Fry and
Captain Somers. of Fort Meade over the pos.