Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

Prince Jerome Napoleon is stin very i'll.
-Firebugs have made repeated efforts TO
burn Leavenworth, Kan.
Fifteen hundred indianapolis carpenters
are idle because of the strike.
Washington State has doubled its Worlds
Fair appropriation to 100000.
The Minnesota Farmers Alliance is said to
be scheming to unload Ignatius Donnelly
Many Canadian residents in Chicago
visited Canada and voted the Liberal ticket.
Two Texas towns have begun suit for a
part of the La Prieta grant, valued at 81, 00O,-
600.
The new McCarthyite paper, The National
Press issued its first number at Dublin yester-
day.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has won its
suit against the Government in an important
land case.
-"The Gondobers' was played before the
royal family on a stage in Windsor Castle, Fri
day evening.
The Texas Farmers Alliance is split into
two warning factions on the Railroad Commis-
soner question.
The Argentine Government announces its
intention to save the banks, even at the cost of
widespread ruin.
Joseph Wilkinson, once a wealthy paper
manufacturer, committed suicide al New York
by taking morphine.
A Mexican woman and five children were
drowned at Soloms, Ariz., while endeavoring to
cross the Gila river on a raft.
j. Edward Simmons has been appointed re-
ceiver of the American Loan and Trust Com
pany Of New York, with bond of 100000.
The body of Prof. Steffen of Louisville
will be cremated in Cincinnati and his ashes
scattered in the Ohio river, as requested by the
deceased.
William H Crawford, who is to be hanged
at Decatur ILL.,. for the murder of Matthias. has
prepared confession for posthumous publi-
cation.
The Parnellites and the anti-Parnellites
are united in support of a Dill in Parliament to
put an end to the police spy system known as
shadowinC.
The State of South Carolina and its IL
censees has been restrained by the Federal
Court for mining phosphates. A private COM
pany claims the monopoly.
e. 2. Whistler, a Pittsburg commercial
traveller. was held up and robbed of his watch
and roll of bills az Springfield, Mo. The
hlghwaymen were arrested.
The first steel steamer built on Lake Mich
igan will be launched next Saturday afternoon.
1t is the property of the Minnesota Steamship
Company, and is named Matoa.
"A farm hand named Trent at Springfield.
KY, who eloped with his aged employers
young wife, Mrs. +. r. Lovelaae j. being prose-
euted by the old man for horse stealing.
Government officials are investigating the
case of a wholesale lumber firm of Omaha who
thousands of acres ofland in Washington.
Frank Antsem. manager of a Chicago livery
stable. was arrested Friday night, charged with
attempting to dispose of $1,000 worth of dia-
monds which he had found. He confessed.
"A colored bootblack at Boston Tex who
had been put off moving Texas and Pacific
train, fell under the wheels and had his legs
cut off, and has been awarded SO 900 damages
Lena Cunningham, aged 81 threw a Quauti-
ty of vitriol into the face of her sister, Ma
n hill rha 1,Tfn 1nN-
bed at Rochester, n. Y. burning her terribly
Russian Consuls in foreign countries are
forbidden TO affix in future their wise to pass
ports of Hebrewish travellers of any country,
leading merchants and manufacturers ex-
cepted.
A series of robheries of the wires of the
New York and New Jersey Telephone Com
pauy has taken place in Union county, New
Jersey. gang of daring thieves is operating
They climb the poles, cut the wires and carry
the latter of.