Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-20
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Chicago is in the grasp of the grip.
Sand rich in gold has been discovered near
Linnius. Mo.
The striking engineers on the Knoxville
Southern are still out.
The maximum freight bill will pass the
Colorado lower House
The Decatur (Ill.) Furniture Factory burned
yesterday. Loss, S500OQ
The late Senator Hearst's will bequeaths
all his estate to his widow.
Charles Ford, the Ottawa, ILL.,, murderer,
has been reprieved till Mays.
Barnes. the Tascott suspect at Aberdeen,
:. D., is free again. He is not the man.
Heavy SHOWS and chinook winds had no ap-
parent bad effect on Montana live stock.
Large districts In Southeastern France have
been flooded. The khone is rising rapidly.
United States Treasurer Huston writes
friend that he expects to return to indianapolis
for good.
The organization of the sash, door and
blind manufacturers Of the Northwest will be
reformed.
John NJ D. Fanshawe, the New ork incen-
diary has been convicted. Penalty, life Im-
prisonment.
Trains have been abandoned in the food
districts in the Mississippi valley where the
levees broke.
Mrs. jackson, who was abducted by her
own husband in England, has been liberated by
order of the court.
Eight hundred union cloth and cap makers
of New York struck yesterday. They claim
they are locked out
The Board of Guardians of Navan, County
of Meath, have rescinded their vote OF conf
dence in M Parnell.
The engine house at the Franklin mine,
Houghton. Mich, burned Wednesday night
Loss, ,0OO; insurance. ST., ,00C.
The Royal Adelphi. an insurance order,
will have its affairs wound up by receiver at
Detroit. The sick benefit swamped it.
Officials of the Chicago Unitarian Church
of the Messiah deny that Rev. Howard Mac
Queary has been called to the pastorate.
Cherokee Strip boomers are wild because
the Usage, Ponca, Pawpee AID Otoe rsserya-
tions are to be leased again to cattlemen.
The right of the Australian colonial Gov
ernment TO prevent the Landing of Chinese has
been confirmed by the PrivyCouncl at London
"A huge oil tank burst near Guttenburg. N,
j., while being tested with water injuring sew
erty.
-Patton's dynamite factory, about four miles
from Ottawa, Ont, was blown up and the en-
tire plant shattered to atoms. No one was in
jhred.
The giving away of cofferdam at the sault
Ste. Marie (Micb.) canal Inundated the new
lockpit, delaying work and greatly damaging
the plant
Secretary Rusk depicts glorious future
for the American hog in Europe He also
thinks that New England will again blossom
with productive farms.
M. ]. Jacobs, of Marshalltown, Ia, has re.
ceived a telegram that his l2-year-old son.
visiting in Nebraska, had been tOmahawked
and scalped by Indians.
The Dominion Government will not ex.
ercise the veto power on the bills regarding
schools and dual languages passed by the Legis-
lature of Manitoba, 1t is said.
Senator Power. of Montana, thinks the sill
yer men of Colorado, Montana and Idaho asked
too much ia the last Congress, and that the
free coinage move was mistake.
Senator Harris says he is opposed to Cleve.
land as an aspirant for the Presidency, and in
favor of Governor Campbell of Ohio-all ON ac-
count of the formers silver letter.
An alleged train robber named Louis Nc
Pherson was captured at Chicago Wednesday
night He is implicated in a regular series OF
robberies on the Chicago and Erie Railroad.
The Bonapartist leaders. in a series of in
tervIews have concurred in determination to
Prince Napoleon's will and to recog-
nize Prince Victor as the legitimate heir to the
throne of France.
The famous Lila Hoyle murder mystery of
confession of Alice Hoyle, made three years
ago and now made public, that she killed her
sister through jealousy.
The wagon factory, blacksmith shops and
other manufactures of D. ]. Spaulding, the
leading lumberman of Black River Falls, Wis,
have been closed. The foreclosure of mort.
gage frightening other creditors caused the |
crash.
The fears that Adam Schrieber perished in |
the flames at the EliZa0ethpOrt COrdage Works |
fire were confirmed yesterday morning by the |
discovery of his bones. Superintendent Will |
iams estimates the loss at S7OO, 900. The COM |
pany was fully insured. |
Prohibition people of n orth Dakota say that |
q huge corruption fund has been raised and |
used by liquor men in and out of the State to |
promote re-submission. When they realized |
that their campaign would end disastrously, |
avery check was cancelled and payment /
81 opped. However, one bank in Bismarck had |
cashed a SlO0 check. A sensation Is expected |
unless the 500 is made good to the bank by |
Organized labor has made its final demand
npon the Worlds Fair directory 1t has al |
ready been granted an eight-hour day and q |
system of arbitration. 1t now asks that in lieu
Of all other concessions asked for the directory
establish minimum rate of wages, the rate to
be that Of union labor as fixed for the various
trades In return for this organized labor will
promise that no effort shall be made to raise
such wages
"A Minnesota Senate bill aims to create a
,rnor, Master of the State Grange and the
Presidents of the State Agricultural Society,
he State horticultural Society, the State For
.stry Association, the State Dairymen's Asso-
,iation and the State Farmers Alliance. The |
members of the board are to have no compensa-
ion. but are to appoint practical farmer as |
al q salary of 81 500 annually.