Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-18
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Northwestern blizzard is making
lake navigation dangerous.
Joint debates are being held at Mark
ham, Ont, on the immigration question.
commissioner Mccormick says British
| interest in the Worlds Fair is increasing.
-Chevalier Scovel has won new laurels in
London by singing "Lohengrin" in italian.
Ten thousand acres of shocked grain has
been covered by snow in Nelson county, S. D.
The japanese Government will protect
the new Catholic hierarchy in the oriental
island empire.
Nathaniel Curzon has been appointed
successor to Sir j. E. Gorst as Under Secre'
tary for India.
AT Monte Carlo there are 15 new, un.
mitted suicide.
Secretary Foster has declared himself in
favor OF the candidacy of Senator Sherman
for reelection to the Senate.
The liquidator of the Panama Canal
Company has presented gloomy report on
the condition of that enterprise.
-Rumored. that Salisbury has intimated
to Turkey that he is ready to reopen
negotiations on Egyptian affairs.
Contrary to rumors, no congratulation
from Henry George has been received by
the Pope concerning the social encyclical.
The Austrian Minister of War says that
the army of his empire is not prepared for
time ago.
The case of John Hoey, the deposed
President of the Adams Express Company,
has been set over until December / by the
New Jersey Udited States Court.
Captain Hattie Smith, of the Salvation
Army, who was shot last Sunday evening
at Omaha, by Nellie Biedler, who afterward
committed suicide, died Monday.
Henry Cockefur, an s-year-oId boy
of Norfolk, Conn, has been sentenced to
the reform school during his minority. hav-
ing stolen three horses and their turnouts.
-Senator-elect Irby, of South Carolina,
says that if Cleveland is nominated for the
Presidency the Farmers Alliance will sup
port him, or anyone who receives the Demo-
cratic nomination, should he be the evil
one himself.
One of the effects of the English floods
was the breaking of the banks of the River
Parrot, overlooking a large and rich farming
section near the Bristol channel. The back
water from each tide increases the disaster.
The damage already is estimated at $3.50, 900.
Three Yuma Indians have been SEN
fenced to death at Los Angeles, CAL, for the
murder of an old medicine man of their tribe
some months ago. The medicine man had
failed to produce rain when ordered to do
SO, and hence had incurred the tribal death
penalty.
I'm addition to the regular estimates con-
tanned in the ordinary German imperial
budget, there will also be submitted supple
menUdTy eSUJnduos amounting 10 $3.50, UUU
marks. OF this amount it is proposed to de-
vote T. 75l 900 marks to the use OF the COM
missary department of the army.
The Carmen Island Salt Company char
tered under the laws of Kentucky, has been
organized in Chicago with a capital of
81, 600 and the money paid in. The
company own and will operaee Camien
Island, in the Gulf of California, which is
claimed to contain the most wonderful
deposit of pure salt in the world.
The tornado which swept over Santa Fe
Province Friday night. played havoc with
property and crops. The loss in the Argen-
tine Republic will amount up into millions
of dollars. The number OF persons now re-
ported killed is ten, with 20 injured. Besides
Arroyo Seco, several other villages in the
vicinity of Rosario were destroyed.
The miners in half dozen bituminous
mines of Indiana, returned to work Monday
by permission of the officials OF their State
Organization. When the strike began it was
with the understanding that all should
remain away from work until the increased
scale was granted at all Mines Within the
last week number of operators have signi-
fed their willingness to accede to the
miners demands. The granting of permis-
sion to the 400 miners who went to work was
probably to check the discomfort of the men
who have not been heartily in favor of the
strike, and to raise money for relief fund