Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-03
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

q day.
| Illinois crops were benefited by rain
| Monday.
The condition of PresidSnt Da Fonseca,
of Brazil, is improving.
Eugene Story was hanged for murder at
| Lexington, Miss, yesterday.
South Carolina will hold State Worlds
Fair meeting on the 18th inst.
Sugar beet planting in Europe has been
delayed three weeks by rain.
| The grip has invaded Balmoral, and has
attacked the Queens servants
| Manitoba crop prospects are Is per cent
| better than at this time last year.
The National Press, of Dublin, accuses
Parnell of misappropriating funds.
"A wind and rain storm did great damage
| Monday afternoon at Covington, lnu.
Coal miners near Du Quoin, Ill, are strik.
ing for fewer hours and weekly payday.
1 Mayor Fulton has just been elected in
| Galveston for the sixth consecutive term.
Section laborers on the wheeling and
Lake Erie Railroad are striking for 81 Is q
day,
British Columbia seal pirates now
threaten to operate under German or italian
flags.
The Standing Committee of the Diocese
| of Virginia is unanimously in favor of DR..
| Brooks.
-Dubedal, the absconding banker Of Dub
| lin, has been captured in Cape Town, South
Africa
The Supreme Court of New Mexico has
| decided against the plaintiffs in the Maxwell
| land grant case.
The Japanese crank who attacked the
| Czarevitch has been sentenced to penal
servitude for life.
The rumor that the Mackey syndicate
has bought the Mobile and Ohio Railroad is
authoritatively denied.
Jackson, Miss, has been filling up with
| visitors intent on witnessing the unveiling OF
the Confederate monument.
Minister Lincoln processes ignorance Of
the reported Cabinet changes to come In
which his name is involved.
The German Evangelical Synod, in ses-
sion at Richmond, Va, has selected Scranton
as its next place Of meeting.
"A rising among the peasants of Samaria
and Simbarisk was suppressed only after q
number of desperate conflicts.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has informed the
Prussian Diet that the Ministry has decided
not to reduce the grain duties.
There is movement on foot in Boston
to raise o subscription to rescue the venera-
bic General n. P. Banks from penury.
Five men were killed and number dan
gerously injured bya boiler explosion in j.
L. Jordan's sawmill in Bowling Green, Va,
Monday.
Interest on bonds of the Toledo, St. Louis
and Kansas City Railroad was not paid when
due Tuesday. An effort was made to payit
yesterday.
There Is a general run on the banks in
Buenos Ayres. Yesterday was the first op-
portunity given the people for removing
their deposits.
Valentine Beck's farmhouse at Beaver
City, Neb., burned early yesterday morning,
and with it his two little children, whose es-
cape was cut of,
pr;t;ab poet,,,o etar Canera I Ra ikes eta tes
that all efforts to induce the United States
Government to institute parcel post with
Great Britain has failed.
Cincinnati was visited by a destructive
storm of wind and lightning Monday after
noon. The clock in a church spire at Gov
ington was struck and ruined.
New men will take the places of the 800
striking coal and ore handlers at the Ash
tabula harbor. The strike has been on six
weeks, and trouble is anticipated.
The two notorious Brumf1eld boys fired
into a crowd of men at Green Shoals, w. Va,
recently, mortally wounding Wade and John
Lambert. The Brumfelds escaped.
For leyying fines'on clothing manufactur-
ing firms in Rochester, on whom boycott
had been in force, number of labor leaders
will be tried in that city for extortion.
Two crooks well known to Pittsburg
police finished their time at the Columbus
penitentiary Tuesday. One was George Jack
son, alias Ned Lyon, and the other was Ned
LoVe1oy.
The shifting channel of the tickle Mis-
souri, river has caused feud between fam
flies of squatters, each claiming land made
by the stream, and all parties are carrying
Winchesters
"A mob in Savona, Spain. vainly at
tempted to rescue two prisoners from the
police Monday. The crowd used clubs and
paving stones, but the officers repulsed their
assailants, killing two of them. >.
The funeral of Ellen Cleary, who weighed
terday morning. the corpse was So heavy
that it required ten pail bearers to carry the
coffin and body downstairs to the hearse.
"A New York crank, a music teacher
named Richard Goerdeler, says he has sent
a challenge to Emperor William to fight a
duel He claims to have had his business
ruined by the Kaiser and Prince Bismarck
for revealing State secrets.
Mrs. Grace Potter, the wife of George T.
Potter, one of the wealthiest and most
prominent men of Fort Worth, Tex, COM
mitted suicide Monday morning at the Lin
coin Park Sanitarium, Chicago, by throwing
herself from a fourth-story window.
Another Gladstonian candidate for Par
lament, Mr.. Dunn, to succeed the late Mr.
Barbour, was elected Tuesday, receiving
4, las votes, against 2,s07 for Mr.. McKerref,
Conservative. Mr. Barbour was a Liberal
also, but was elected on a much smaller
vote.
The United Presbyterian General Assem-
bly,, in session at Princeton, Ind, prepared a
Thanksgiving proclamation in which all |
churches are asked to join, and agreed to |
Join in the movement OF the Southern Pres
byterian Assembly for petition to the Gov
ernments of the world in favor of peace. |
The Assembly also counselled members of |
churches from entering secret orders, even |
when they are only beneficial and not OATH |
bound. |