Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-04
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Gaudaur-Hanlon race is on.

The Gaudaur-Hanlon race is on.
Typhoid fever is raging in wheeling
| New York expects to have a new 81 ,ooo, 900
| theater.
The German Government ic buying up
| rye and wheat.
-Chattanooga has raised its popular fund
lor steamer line to st. Louis.
The forts at Freidichsort, Germany, will
be protected by submarine mines.
"A physician of Glade Springs, W. Va,
VIII be prosecuted for salivatinga child.
The closing arguments are now being
made in the Davis will case at Butte, Mont.
-Rumored that a tin mine worth s59, 900
Ark.
Oklahoma will ask Congress to pass a
Statehood enabling act to cover the whole
Territory.
Guthrie, OKLA, has sent to Chicagoa
train load of wheat and watermelons as an
advertisement
The first shipment of the new pearl-graY
at Mt Shelton, Conn.
1t is said that systematic mali robberies
nave Deem going on for some time on two
West Virginia routes
"A tornado played havoc with the cotton
crops around Independence, Tex, Tuesday,
besides doing other damage.
Judge Johnston was unanimously nomi-
mated at the Republican Judicial Conven-
tion at Warren, o., yesterday.
burglars robbed Harry Gfbson's hat and
mems furnishing store at Jeanette Wednes-
day night, of about $50 worth of goods.
1T is reported that Russia has dispersed
the Balkan war cloud by advising Servia
to postpone military maneuvers until spring.
The Fourth National Bank of New York
mas adopted the European plan Of lending
money without interest to importers Of gold
while the gold is In transit.
-Seventy-five men in the Forest mine,
near Massillon, quit work yesterday morn
ing because the superintendent refused to
remove breaker from the screens.
"A rumor was rife yesterday that appli-
cation would be made for a receiver for the
Union Pacific Railroad, but Sidney Dillon
declared it to be COMPOUNDED fudge"
There is Free Methodist revival at
Sydenham, Ont. A big bonfire was started
on vacant lot, into which the women threw
their corsets, crying I'VE will die as God
made u.s."
The schooner Pinnonia, which left the
with II persons aboard, was wrecked on the
northeast of the-Hawaiin Islands, and all on
board were lost.
A freight train on the Panhandle jumped
the track early yesterday morning in the
mouth. of a tunnel at Bloomfield station,
derailed ii cars and blocked the main track
No one was injured.
The Berlin Tossiche Zeitu10 thinks that II
the Dardaneltes report is true, an English
fleet may be expected in the Dardanelles to
perform sentry duty which, according to
the treaty, is. is.Turkey's business.
The Dayton man who claimed to be Rob-
ert Wieland son of the millionaire brewer
the late John Wieland. of San Francisco, is
pronounced an 1mpostor in the latter city,
since the true Robert Wieland is in Carls-
bad, Germany.
William Allen, o negro who killed the
marshal OF Guyton, Ca, was taken from
the officers and lynched Wednesday night.
When asked If he had anything to saw he
prayed that God would destroy the world
and blot out humanity, and then told the ex-
ecutioners to go ahead.
While the six Nicaragan exiles, two of
whom were ex-Presidents OF the Republic,
of sympathisers at Corinto fired upon the
guards, killing seven men, including the
Governor of the District and the lieuten-
ant commanding the troops.
B. R. Musgrave, the fugitive forger and
life insurance swindler, cleverly deceived
the public into believing he had perished by
the burning of log cabin recently near
Terre Haute. 1t has been discovered that
ne was In conceafment in Chicago for sew
eral days, but fed Wednesday night.
1t is rumored that in view of recent start
ling disclosures. Premier Albeit has called
upon Secretary of State Chapleau to resign
IL is said Lord Stanley has been urged by
Lord Salisbury to dismiss his government
and dissolve Parliament in view of the
startling revelations made at Ottawa, which
have shown clearly the fact that Sir John
Macdonald purchased with money dishon-
estly taken out of the pockets of the people
Of Canada the small majority he had In the
present Parliament.
An astonishing revelation of cruelty at
the st. Vincent De Paul Penitentiary has
come to light through q discharged convict,
who limped into a hotel in Montreal, and,
taking of one of his dusty shoes, took from
1t a letter from James Ferry, now serving a
ssven years sentence in that institution.
Out of the four years Ferry has served, this
wretched convict has spent he declares, no
less than "a months in the black hole This
punishment cell is a portion of the cellar OF
the penitentiary, and is so closely shut with
iron doors that daylight never reaches the
cells in 10 as long as the convicts are there.