Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-ln6 DuS SbIlhs IdS DeBuu.
-Swarms of locusts have appeared in
Northern India.
Excessive heat is causing many deaths
in Southern Russia.
The Governor of Washington has ordered
troops to disarm strikers.
A tornado and heavy hailstorm devas-
tated part of Missouri Thursday.
Alexander & Co., the wrecked firm of En-
glish grain brokers, owe nearly S250)O00.
Russia and Germany are buying Ameri-
can rye. The Russian crop will be short.
The British Government intends to pro-
rogue Parliament at the end of this month
The Cooke Locomotive Works, at Pater-
son, n. j., will close down in a few days.
Dull business.
The suit against ex-State Treasurer Tate,
of Kentucky, on account of his embezzie-
ment, has began.
The threatened Moquf outbreak in Ari-
zona has been suppressed, and the ringlead-
ers are arrested.
Lieutenant Alexander Deane, U. S. A., is
on trial by court-martial al San Francisco.
Conduct unbecominG an officer.
The rumor that Gideon @. Marsh, the de-
faulting President of the keystone Bauk, is
i'll Chicago, was not confirmed.
The Missouri Pacific and the Wabash
railroads are cutting passenger fares be-
tween st. Louis and Kansas City.
-frencn members OF the COVent Garden
Opera Company, London, say they will not
sing before the German Emperor.
Two East Tennessee farmers-George
Jones and William Newton-fought a duel
ON the State line Friday. Both were killed
Robert E. Reese, mining operator at
Seattle, WASH, cut his throat in d tit of men,
tai alteration Thursday night. He was q
State Senator twice.
"A freight train was wrecked in a collision
and burned on the Omaha line, near Men
dota, Mimi, Friday afternoon. Three tramps
are reported to be killed.
The Chippewa Indians will send a letter
to the Great Father" setting forth their
grievances. They claim they were swindled
out of 900 900 acres of land.
Owing to the Mckinley law, the exports
from Sheffield, England, have decreased
$780, 200 in the quarter just ended, compared
with the same period last year.
The Cherokees say they will protect cat
tlemen who will pay for the privilege of
grazing on Indian land. Treasurer Ross de-
mands tax of so cents head.
John Covert, alias Bryant B. Crandall,
who swindled an insurance company of Buff
ialo out of 500 by sending in report of his
own death, has been arrested ut Fine
vile, Pa.
The first attempt of the South African
Beers TO found the projected Republic of the
North on territory claimed by Great Britain
has failed. They were driven back by the
police and troops of the British South Afri-
can Company.
Owing to Germany,s opposition, two
American propositions before the postal
congress were rejected-first, for the crea-
tion of international postage stamps, and,
second, for the free carriage of mails from
country to country.
Sir James Ferguson, political secretary
of the British Foreign Office, has announced
in the House of Commons that provision will
be made for the Royal Commission which is
to provide for the representation of England
at the Worlds Fair.
M Camille Flammarion, the French as
tronomer said the other day that for the
past five years a change has been going on in
Europe, and that both the winters and sum-
mers are growing cooler, but he has noticed
no change of this kind in the United States
Judge Toney, of the Louisville Equity
Court, decided that 81, 200 collected just after
the tornado last year for the sufferers of
Jewell Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor
must be paid to the members for whom it
WAS collected. Payment was refused on the
ground that the money was not needed.
The Vatican authorities have reouested
the Papal Nuncios at foreign courts to i'm.
vite contributions to compensate for the
speculative losses in the Peters Pence f,,nd
The Pope has decreed an extension of the
marriage tax to all Catholic States This de-
cree specially affects Spain and Portugal.
which have hitherto been exempt from the
tax.
Counsel claiming to represent the requ-
lar Chilean Government moved in the Lon
don Law Court that the Rothschilds and the
Earrings be restrained from making pay
ments on Chilean securities, except to duly
authorized persons. The court refused the
application, the applicant failing to prove
himself properly accredited, or that Great
Britain recognized the Government which
he professed to represent.
The Liverpool Board of Trade surveyor,
in mis- report on the fire in the steamer City
OF Richmond, is Of the opinion chat but for
the i;on deck over the cotton and the steam
iajectcrs the vessel would have been lost.
He says that the small orifices likely famed
the Intent lire, and urges scrupulous care in
stopping oven the smallest apertures where
cotton IS concerned, and points to the dan
ger OF carrying cotton under the passenger
Spaces