Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-15
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Michigan apple crop is the larges
| for years.
| "A new Bible society will distribute Bibles
In Mckeesport at cost.
| Two men were blown to pieces in a mine
| at Kingston, n. NJ, Friday by premature
| powder explosion.
"A 9months-old child Of E. P. Richardson
| of Johnstown, choked to death Friday even
| ing on piece of apple.
The new cotton picking machine has sue
cessfully undergone the elaborate tests al
the Atlanta Exposition.
David Cummings, under arrest at Sioux
| CITY. Ia, has con fessed to wrecking train
| last January while drunk.
"A bill to enlarge the powers of German
| police in dealing with Anarchists will be in
troduced in the Reichstag.
w. E Baird, hate Vice President of the
| suspended MADEIRA Bank in California, has
been arrested on a charge OF forgery.
Although himself an antiParnellite,
Davitt condemns the war which some or his
| colleagues are making upon Kitty Parnell.
Since the action of the New York piano
manufacturers in lowering the musical pitch
the same subject is agitating the English
makers.
from influenza in the famine stricken
districts and in the large towns in the south
of Russia.
"A new sensation among French military
circles has been caused by charges of gross
immortality on which a number OF officers
and privates will be tried
The Car is displeased at Minister Wish
negradskfs financial report. The Minister
offered to resign, but the Gar replied: You
must eat what YOU have cooked"
Over 1000 pools of wheat have been ex-
ported from Odessa within q week, the
great increase being due to the the expectation
of wheat about to go lQtO e1eCt,
Mrs. NJ B. Curtis. wife of "Sam'l of
Posen, :" the actor, who is to be tried in San
Francisco for murder. has sold her property
at North Berkely for Sl25, ,0OO and will devote
the proceeds to an attempt to clear her hus-
band.
Five tramps raided Big Four passenger
train at a station near Danville, Ind, Fri
day, demanded the passengers money and
raised quite a panic before the trainmen
succeeded in ejecting them after stubborn
fight.
The Chief OF the Bureau of Statistics re-
ports that the total value of the exports of
beef and hog products from the United
States during the month of October. 1891,
was IS, e66, ,945. The value of the dairy prod
ucts was S643,9T.
"A colossal sculpture of the American
Republic, 60 or so feet high, will be an orna-
ment of the Worlds Fair ground, and also
vast fountain surrounded by so gigantic
figures. Both are being made in Paris by
American SculptorS.
An emigrant train with six cases of
smallpox on board was stopped at Port
Huron on Friday evening and the afflicted
passengers. all Russians, returned to Canada.
The other travellers we're then quarantined
and the train fumigated.
John Turner and wife left their home
and two childl eli in the care of n servant at
Leadvile Friday. She went across the street
for n few moments, and while absent the
house took fire. The youngest child was
burned to q crisp, while the other escaped
with severe injuries. The house was totally
destroyed
"A Montreal newspaper charges that
Premier Mercicr and his friends received
sl15 600 from John Z. Whelan. who built the
Quebec Court House. Another great scan-
dial is expected to be uiearthed in a few
days in connection with the railway brioge
at Rigaud from which it is charged the
Mercier clique received $4,000.
Madame Melba, from whom Captain
Charles Armstrong is seeking a divorce on
account of her relations with the Due
d'Orleans, sang during the past week at the
Paris Opera House, where she was received
with frantic applause. She comes to London
to attend the preliminaries of the divorce
suit prior to starting for America.
Mrs. AIDA Meinot of Grand Rapids, took |
her L. -year-old son to q museum, where one |
Df the attractions is q William Tell act. |,
Friday she playfully put potato on her |
head, remarking to the boy that he couldn't
shoot il off, The boy had a revolver and, :
aiming it, he pulled the trigger. The bullet
lodged in the voman's neck, and she will !
lie. /