Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-23
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF,

The Russian War Department is survey
| ing the Crimea.
-Rumored that Italy will place prohioi-
! tive duty on silver.
Two million pilgrims have already
viewed the holy coat.
The remains of an elephant have pcen
unearthed at Galesburg, Ill.
A great antitrust distillery Will De
erected at Nebraska City, Neb.
| -Rumored that the King of Rouman1a mas
expressed his desire to abdicate.
in a letter to the German and Austrian
| clergy the Pope denounces duellfng.
"A revolt among the Chilean Junta's
troops at Santiago was speedily quelled-
The public schools of st. Paul have been
| temporarily closed by the excessive neat.
Emperor William has christened and
launched the new German ironclad Branoer-
berg.
The Standard Oil Company denies that it
is trying to establish a monopoly in Ger
many.
Six British warships in Canadian waters
will be replaced by newer and more power
full vessels.
The French Government has consented
that the Credit Foncier shall issue the new
Russian loan.
all the adjacent country nearly up to the
tops of the hedges.
A colonization society has been per
manently formed in Springfield, Ill, to aid
Russian Hebrew immigrants.
The English Commissioners have chosen
their site for the British Worlds Fair ex-
hibit, and it is the prettiest spot in jackson
Park.
A hurricane on the State line between
Minnesota and South Dakota unroofed
buildings, blew down barns and scattered
grain stacks.
Mrs. Rathbun, the wealthy Buffalo
widow who mysteriously disappeared from
Chicago, has been heard from. She is now
at home in Buffalo.
Russia, which claims absolute supremacy
over the region, has excluded the English
Captain Younghusband from entering Little
Pamir, in Central Asia.
The destruction of Crampel's mission to
the Kongo has been confirmed. The Brussels
Geo0rdDhiqUe says Crampel pursued the
Bartelfot tactics of off-hand executions.
Almost all of the Russian Government
officials have voluntarily contributed por-
tion of their salaries to the famine fund,
The public talk of bringing bread from
America and Egypt.
Several Russian merchants have been
arrested for selling poisonous mixtures for
bread. Many specimens OF such bread con
sist OF 20 per cent of earth and sand and 80
per cent of refuse farinaceous products.
One convict was stabbed to death by an
other st the San Quentin, Cal, prison supper
table Monday evening. There had been an
old grudge between Henry Baker, the muir
derer, a San Francisco crook, and his victim,
James Bailey.
United States Consul Wahler has applied
direct to the Hova Government in NADIA
gascar for an eXequateur instead of through
the French authorities. The French claim
that Consul Wahler disobeyed the instruc-
tions of the American Government.
LORD George Hamilton, First Lord of the
Admiralty, has written to correspondent,
justifying the permission given to French
officers to inspect English defences and
arsenals on the ground that it would remove
the false impression of England's strength
created by the depreciatory tone of the Eng
lish press.
Richard Hornig, German farm laborer
near Anstell, Ga, has fallen heir to So 600, 900
by the death of his father in Germany re-
Gently, and has just returned from the
with his fortune. His sudden
wealth did not change his old love, for he
has just married his poor sweetheart, who
gave her heart to him in his days of poverty.