Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Only anthracite coal will be used at the
Worlds Fair.
| President Diaz opened the Mexican Con-
| gress Tuesday night.
| DIR. Maclagan has been enthroned as
| Archbishop of York with great pomp.
The cruiser Charleston, after coaling at
Honolulu, left for Yokohama and Shanghai.
| Three new Cardinals will be named at
the coming meeting of the Papal Consistory.
| Only u of the 65 passengers of the ill
fated Greek steamship Thessalonica were
| saved.
| -Rumored that the Denver and Rio
| Grande and the Santa Fe Railroad systems
| will consolidate.
| Secretary Sutton, of the Irish National
| League, denies the report that President
| Fitzgerald is insane.
"A Topeka undertaken named Knight has
sued the Kansas Undertakers Trust for
| 100000 for boycotting him.
Germany was the first to follow the ex-
ample of the United States in recognizing
| the new Chilean Government
AS result of the Coroner's inquest Mau-
rice B. Strellinger, otherwise "Sam'l of
Posen," has been held for murder at San
Francisco.
Alarming accounts of brieandage, grow
ing out of the famine, come from the south
of Russia. Murders and outrages are of
daily occurrence.
An English steamer was recently fired
upon by the. Chilean steamer Huascar
through mistake. The cruiser was on the
lookout for Congressional ships.
"A syndicate has been formed in Ger
many to construct pig abbattoirs in Chicago
in order that Germans may control imports
of American pork into Germany.
-Debarth Shorb, Californian, charges
the Worlds Fair management. under Di-
rector General Davis, with being rotten to
the core. An effort will be made for that
officials removal.
Wbita Cona near HvndsviIla Ind
dragged four members of the Mccoy family
ont OF bed Tuesday night and administered
40 lashes upon each. The McCoys were ac-
cused OF petty thieving.
The passengers of two sleeping cars on a
Union Pacific train in Utah were robbed of
their clothing and valuables by thieves who
boarded the train at watering place. The
conductors and porters were asleep.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas south
bound passenger train was held up and the
express car robbed at Leliaetta, four miles
north of Wagner, I. 7. The robbers
cured $500 The passengers were I'M
molested.
in the Dominion Senate Tuesday Pre-
mier Abbott gave notice of his intention to
move an address to the Queen in favor Of
fuller liberty of negotiating commercial
treaties, mention being made of a desire to
extend trade with the United States
Clarence 7. Jenkins, prominent men,
Der of the First Presby tcrian Church of st.
Louis, was arrested Tuesday evening for
embezzling nearly 81, 900 from his employ
ers Armstrong, Gilbert & Co., cork manu-
facturers. He is said to have confessed.
BY collision between freight and an
express train in a tunnel near Girard, Cal,
one man was killed and number injured
The passenger train had been stopped by a
landslide, and the f1agman sent back to flag
the freight train evidently neglected his
duty.
"A Cleveland lineman named McCafferty
was killed by the wires yesterday and hung
suspended from his spur from one of the
iron steps of the pole for three minutes be-
fore he was taken down. The telegraph
wire which he had grasped had come in con-
tact with an electric light wire.
Two months ago the Captain Of the First
Company of the Thirty-seventh German
Fusiliers paraded his men four times in sue
cession. Twenty-one men were absent from
the fourth parade, and were afterward found
walking about the streets. They were ar
rested, tried by court martial and sentenced
to imprisonment in fortress for terms
varying from 16 to q months. The leaking
out of the news has caused a sensation.