Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-Spurgeon is still improving.
The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius is increas-
ing.
The story of yellow fever at Brunswick,
! Ga, is denied.
-NIyriads of grasshoppers are devastating
parts of Wyoming.
The Pope will create three new arch
bishoprics in Mexico.
The grip has broken out in Spain and
many deaths are reported from its effects.
Russia, France and Persia are all pre-
pairing for representation in the Worlds
Fair.
The Bank of Commerce, of Sheffield, Ala,
closed its doors yesterday. Assets ana Ia
bilitieS unknown.
DR.. Zintgraff-s German exploring expedi-
ton in Central Africa has been repeatedly
repuiSed by the natives in battle.
BY the capsizing of the scow schooner
Silver Cloud, On Lake Michigan, Captain
johnson, his wife and were drowned.
William Duncan, who stole $780, 900 worth
of diamonds from his employers in Maiden
Lane, has been arrested in New York.
A census bulletin to be published will
show that there are now 6,250,OC0 Catholics in
the United States over l5 years of age.
The Navy Department fears that trouble
is likely to arise in Samoa between the fol-
lowers of King Malietoa and Chief Mataafa.
-Taubeneck, of Illinois, has charge of the
organization of the Peoples party in Ken
tucky. The leaders there hope for great
things.
by the terms of the will of William B.
Ogden the University of Chicago will re-
ceive $4,000 for the founding of School of
Science.
The public square at Lima, O., will prob
ably be selected by the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington for the site of the pub
lie building.
The Gilman mine, in Washington State,
is strongly fortified against strikers. 1t is
believed the Governor will have to declare
martial law.
The closing of SO lobster factories on the
French coast of Newfoundland, by order of
the naval authorities, has added fresh fuel to
the ire of the colonists.
Taylor Faunce and L. z. Brown, of Phil
adelphia, have been appointed to investi-
gate the cases of the Keystone and Spring
Garden National Banks.
Chancellor McGin of New Jersey, has
declined to confirm the decision of the Or
phans' Court giving George d. O'Neill s., ,000,-
600 from the estate of Josiah Wallace.
Betsy Ann Mason, whose brother has
been trying to have declared insane because
she decided her farm to her nephew, is de-
clared to be sane by Syracuse, n. Y, Judge.
"A mine fire which burned for a week
near White Oaks, n. H, resulted fatally to
Ernest Timony and Geo. Drake. They were
entOmbed by the fire and strangled by gas.
Inc halSer mas presented D1S royal
grandmother, Queen Victoria, with a life-'
sized oil painting of himself in the Uniform
OF British Admiral, standing on the bridge
of vessel.
Miss Kate Mangan, daughter of the
Mayor of Frankfort, Ky, has eloped with and
married travelling salesman named Wizard.
The pair are at Louisville awaiting parental
forgiveness.
The captive, balloon from Paris on the
Worlds Fair grounds was destroyed by
lightning Monday night. Loss, S25 600; partly
insured. The French 8ronautS, Goddard
and Pamis, were injured.
The French Chamber of Commerce
strongly recommends manufacturers to ex-
hibit goods ut Chicago, and asks the Govern
ment 10 obtain from America customs priv
iieTGs and other facilities.
Yesterday morning a tornado passed
through tie country three miles from Clos
ter Miss. Many houses were destroyed and
Il negro woman and her child were killed.
Several other persons were wounded.
United States Marshal Gard, in charge of
the Itata, says that that vessel when she
escaped from port had on board four 60
pound guns, one gatling, one howitZer, 60
new rifles and 200 old rifles, which she had
received from the Robert and Minnie.
During its passage from Calcutta to
Chile the bark Compadre caught fire and
then, after the crew had fosght the flames
several days, a hurricane drove the vessel
upon the rocks in the Auckland Islands
the crew were marooned l03 days on u
desert island until rescued in a terrible con-
dition by passing ship.