Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-Wreckage is floating ashore At Wexford.
England.
B. P. Hutchinson, late Of Chicago. has
purchased q seat on the New York Produce
Exchange.
David Douglass, the defaulting township
treasurer at Youngstown, has been taken to
the penitentiary.
and Unyoro have been defeated by the Lu-
gard African expedition.
"A Swedish journalist named Undgren
has made voyage from Gothenberg, Swe-
den, to Dunkirk, Scotland, in an open boat.
The engineers of the steamer Wear. at
Durham, England, have struck for more pay
ana overtime. The strike entails idleness
on q, 600 persons.
An unsuccessful attempt was made Fri
day to wreck a train between London and
Plymouth, England, by placing heavy tim
bers across the track.
The quo wsrranto brought by Luzon B.
Morris against Morgan G. Bulk!ey, at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, has been assigned by the
Supreme Court for a hearing November %.
The Duo de'Orleans is named as core
spondent in divorce suit brought in Eng
land by Charles N. 1. Armstrong. His wife
is an opera singer, whose stage name is Nine.
Belle.
morning murdered in his cell in the Cicter-
clan Monastery of Aquibelle in France. 1t
was the work of burglars, who rifled the
room OF its valuables.
A platform on which were 800 or 900
students at Depauw University, Green
occupants about Is feet downward. Many
received serious bruises and cuts.
The United States Government has sent
gold watch and chain to Victoria, B. c.. for
Captain d. D. Roop of the British bark Nor
cross, for the rescue of the crew Of the
American ship William McGilvray, in Au-
Henry wuerder, patient the City Hos
pital, Baltimore. leaped from a four-story
window and landed on the head of Neal
Cook, colored. Cook was temporarily
stunned. Wuerder bounded OF unharmed
and ran away.
Thomas Williamson was hanged at So
dalia, Mo-, yesterday morning. The crime
for which he was executed was the murder
OF Jefferson and Thomas Moore. father and
SON, in May, 1880. After his conviction it
was developed that he had also killed his
wife.
Miss Mary Ellicott, daughter of william
h. Ellicott was married at noon yesterday
at Baltimore, to Lieutenant Rennie Pierre
Schwerin, of the United States Navy, by the
consecrated Bishop Of Milwaukee, who is q
brother-inlaw OF the bride, assisted by Rev.
3. h Paine, at Mt. Calvary P. E. Church.
The owner of Knapp's Villa, picnic re-
SOrt ana several OF MS employees were ar
rested for alleged violation OF the liquor
law. They admitted that they sold beer at
all picnics, but claimed that the proprietor's
license for hotel half a mile away gave
them authority to sell at the temporary
stand. Court sustained the point
Upon application of State Insurance
Commissioner Allen. W. A. Rice has been
appointed temporary receiver of the West
Coast Fire and Marine Insurance Company.
The complaint filed by the Commissioner
accuses the making
turns as to its financial condition and al
leyes that the company is on the point Of
placing it's assets beyond the reach Of cred
itors
Thomas Harris, young scotchman, who
was sent from Chicago to Joliet for two and
a-half years for burglary, has made confess
sion that he murdered Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Search, near GAINESVILLE, July 10, 1885, The
murder vas one of the most cold -blooded in
the history of Rock county. Both of the old
people were shot, the husband while milk
ing q COW at the barn, and the wife at the
house.