Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The attempt to make Tampico deep
water harbor is proving to be successful.
-Guatemalans deny that their Govern
| ment is mixed up in the Honduras revolu
! tion.
The Graves trial took rest yester
day; Judge Macon, attorney for the defense
| is i'll.
--Reports of starvation in Mexico are de
MED, Not a State has asked for outside
| help.
The Reichstag Conservatives will no,
| oppose the third reading of the commercial
| treaties.
A train of u carloads of poultry, worth
| nearly S26 000 entered Boston from Canada
yesterday.
| Canada is getting too much American
silver. Montreal bankers urge the levying
| OF tax upon it.
-Soper, the resigned Secretary of State OF
| Michigan, denies all charges against him
| Governor Winans has appointed a commits
| sion to investigate them.
Eugene McNally was sentenced at Neills.
vile, Wis, yesterday, to five years in states
| prison for robbing the Northern Pacific ex'
press train at Abbotsford of $4,000 last May.
An old fire-blast exploded in the Busk
tunnel, on the Colorado Midland Railroad,
late Thursday night, causing the instant
death of one man and another dying shortly
afterward. A third is fatally injured.
Thirty masked men jumped off train
at Live Oak Fla, and compelled the sheriff
to give up the keys of the Jail. The mob
took out two negro murderers, hanged them
to a tree and riddled them with bullets in
true Southern style.
-Oteisa, late Secretary of the Treasury of
Cuba, has been sentenced to Is years in
prison, three months and one day in the
chain gang, and to pay fine OF l25O0 pese
tas Is, ,5O0) and to return the 100000 stolen
from the Treasury.
General John C. New, United States Con-
sui General in London, presided at the an
nual banquet of the Association of Foreign
Consuls in London Thursday evening. Gem
erai New proposed toasts to Queen Victoria
and to the sovereigns and Presidents OF the
nations of the world.
"A largely-attended meeting of the En-
glish holders of the Virginia debt was held
yesterday in London, and after considera-
BILE discussion it was decided by a vote of 80
to IL to accent the agreement effected be-
tween the Virginia State Debt Commission
and the Olcott Commission.
The Japanese sailors and passengers
on board the steamer Zambesi mutinied
two weeks ago. Two opposing mobs gath
cred on deck to fight out their differences,
and were only quieted by the American cap
tain and officers drawing their revolvers and
threatening TO shoot down tle malcon-
tents.
The latest development in the Merriman
case in Chicago is an attempt on the part of
her former lover, James w. Drouillard, to
have her arrested for perjury. When the
officer and Drouillard went to serve the war
rant on Miss Merriman, she tainted and fell
to the floor This touched the abandoned
lovers heart, and he relented. ''Hold on"
he said, Don't arrest her; I'll not prosecute
her for a thousand dollars And SO Miss
Lille escaped.
After several false starts the Irish Ilde-
pendent appeared on Dublin streets yester.
day, and scored a scoop" the very first day
The paper asserts that a large package, bear
ing no address, was recently posted in the
Dublin postoffice. The sorter of mails no
ticed the absence of an address, and while
examining the package found a fuse pro-
truding from it. The postal authorities
were Immediately notified, and the package
was taken to Dublin Castle, where it was
found to contain quantity of dynamite.