Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-05
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

A carload of seals has just been received
in Central Park, New York City.
The Peoples party of Iowa has nomf-
! mated A. j. Westfal for Governor.
| The Virginia Debt Commission has held
another session without accomplishing any
thing.
| "A movement is on foot to unite the two
Irish factions under the leadership of John
Dillon.
The Rock Island has declared quarterly
dividend of = per cent, instead of the usual
per cent.
The italian immigrants that passed
through the New York barge office Wednes-
| day was 4,3l6
-Ex-President Hayes was elected chair
! man of the Lake Mohonk IN. W Negro Con-
ference, Wednesday.
A hurricane in the Lusa Valley, Italy,
| Wednesday, blew down many houses and
destroyed nine lives.
Lightning blew up a dynamite factory at
Schlebusch, Germany, Wednesday,. Several
persons were killed and many injured.
The making of basic steel by the open
hearth process, which has begun at Chat
tanooga, is to he extended into Alabama.
The Sugar Trust has declared its full
semi-annual dividend, besides having money
enough to lay aside for the next dividend.
English banks have eNerted themselves
to minimize the financial crisis in the Ar
gentine Republic, but disorders are still
feared.
The American Home Mission Society, in
session, elected new set of officers w ednes-
day. Rev. j. II. Seely, of Amherst Mass, is
President.
The wholesale drygoods and shoe firm of
Connell, Hall, McLoster & Co., at Nashville,
assigned yesterday. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets estimated at $725, 900.
Fearing treachery, the Turkish brigands
having German prisoners of high degree,
have declined to accept the $4,000 ransom.
Negotiations are broken off.
Judge Edwards, District Attorney at
Carson, -Ney., has committed suicide by
shooting. He was prostrated by recent ILL
ness and temporarily insane.
Three Spanish bull fighters were killed
and others severely injured in recent exhi-
billions in Spain. The dead men were given
pompous funerals by the grateful nation.
Robert Schilling, Secretary of the new
Peoples party, to-day issued call for con-
vention to be held in St. Louis June Is, to
arrange a plan of action for the coming
campaign
The President has reduced the six years.
sentence of Robert Sigel, son of General
Sigel, to two years and nine months, and
directs that a pardon be issued to yohng
Sigel then.
-NarcisSe Larocque a ShiftleSs fellow who
atrociously murdered two little girls last Oc
tober, was hanged yesterday morning at
L'Original, Ont He died without apparent
emotion and left no confession.
-Paymaster Fred C. Ward, of the Della
ware and Hudson Railroad, is discovered to
be short in his accounts $4,000. Ward was
seriously injured in railroad accident re-
Gently and is in a critical condition.
A mob collected in front of Schwein-
furth's headquarters in Kansas City Wednes-
day night, determined on giving "The Only
True Christ" coat of tar and feathers
Schweinfurth took fright and is hiding.
The Wichita Indians have rejected the
offer of Government commissioners to ac-
cept land in severalty and sell the remain
der of their reservation at so cents an acre.
They will make a counter proposition to
sell all their land for 81 so an acre.
Receiver E. d. Mix, of the Commercial
Bank, Guthrie, Okla, which failed some
months ago, reports to the court that the
bank from its inception was run with view
to take in all it could in deposits and then
fail. The defunct bank started in withouta
dollar.
Famine is raging in several districts of
Russia. Hundreds of persons have died in
poor. To make matters worse tax collectors
are seizing goods by wholesale which have
resulted in a number of conflicts between
peasants and troops
Assistant Secretary Nettleton directed
on Wednesday the return of two Italians
and one Swedish immigrant to their respec-
tive countries. These immigrants arrived
in the United States in January, but have
since pecoHe paupers. Inls Is Ine HrSt Or
der Of the kind issued by the Treasury De-
partment.
Three unknown Young men have been
arrested at Waldo, Wis, on the charge of
having cnused the death of H-year-old Fred
hopwood. Some men were washing sheep
in a mill dam when the boy came along.
They offered the lad a drink of whisky,
which the latter refused, whereupon they
seized him and compelled him to drink the
stuff. The boy then ran, but was recaptured
and thrown into the mill pond, but crawled