Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-14
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

Extensive forest fires are raging in the
South of France.
Nine thousand foreigners settled in Eng
land last month.
The drought in Indiana has been broken
by copious showers
The Mayor Of Kansas City, Kan, has
been hanged in efigy.
Six deaths from the previous hot weather
were reported in New York yesterday.
The National Capital Savings and Build
ing and Loan Association is in the hands of
q receiver.
"A great hail storm in the vicinity of Mel
rose, Minn., destroyed thousands of acres
of fine wheat.
"A monument to st. Patrick will be
erected at the place where he died-Down-
patrick, Ireland.
The United States and Great Britain now
each have three warships in the Bering Sea.
not including the American revenue cutters.
The cruiser Mohican, on duty in Boring
Sea, narrowly escaped wrecking on the
rocks of st. George Island during fog last
month.
The slayers of the "Redbones" in Louisi-
ana have been committed without the
benefit of bail to await the action Of the
grand jury.
The funeral services over the remains of
took place at the family residence in Chi
cago yesterday.
. Among the innumerable victims of the
notorious Building and Loan Association re-
Gently exposed are many prominent people
and firms of Los Angeles.
Robert Henry Hendershot has received
a letter from his former chaplain substan-
tiating hts claim of being the original "Drum-
mer Boy of the Rappahannock."
j. NJ. Cammack. San Francisco mine
capitalist, and brother ofa millionaire New
York stock broker, is missing. 1t is feared
ed
suicide.
The siXty-seventh anniversary of the i'm
portation of the famous Lafayette punch
bowl will be celebrated in the family of
Robert L. Beach, at Bath Beach, n. Y, on
Monday.
Chris Young, the murderer of Steven
Ferguson, was hanged ut Lexington, Mo-,
yesterday. His crime was committed dur
ing a saloon brawl on the night of Saturday,
December 10, 1888.
Six members of the notorious Considine
gang in Detroit will be arrested if warrants
can be served. They are charged with the
abduction of Perrin, the millionaire lumber
dealer, last March.
The National Association of Journey
men Stonecutters Wednesday adopted Il res
olution protesting against the competition
of foreign labor with free labor. The con-
vention will meet next year in Denver.
Two hundred stove molders employed
by two concerns ut Quincy. ILL.,, are striking
The men have been receiving half pay for
such work, but now they demand full wages
for it.
The clergyman who performed the mar
riage ceremony for Walter Berkeley Crane,
of New York, and Miss Cooper, has written
to England that there was nothing in the
demeanor of either bride or groom to lead
him to believe that the former was coerced
into the ceremony.
The cutter Rush picked up seven men in
whaleboat from the whaler Triton in
Bering Sea recently. They had been lost in
the FOG and drifted around ten days before
being picked up. They were in terrible
condition when found, one having gone mad
and four others are not expected to survive.
Henry Henson, the wife murderer was
hanged at st. Louis yesterday. The prisoner
spent his last hours joking with the jailor
and executioners. He refused to receive
any visitors, to hear the death warrant read
or to have religious services performed in
his behalf.
The people Of Prussia are greatly excited
over the Russian ukase prohibiting the eX-
port of rye, regarding it almost as q death
sentence. Famine stares the peasantry in
the face. In many European circles the
opinion prevails that the Russian rye crop
is not so small as reported, and that the act
is merely political move against Germany
and Austria.