Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-27
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
St Louis big exposition will open Sep
tember2.
The knowing ones in Canada say Tupper
will soon be Premier.
Buffalo lumber showers are striking
against the stevedore system.
The national debt of Haiti was last year
SIG, ,006, ,95s, against SIS, 475, $50 in 1889.
The Lake Erie and Western strike ended
in the complete surrender of the men.
-Emin Pasha's recently reported victor
ious career is centradicted in Brussels.
Desperate home seekers are driving cat
tlemen off the Cherokee strips by spreading
prairie fires.
Three hundred San Francisco employers
have organized for protection against the
trades unions.
Two Duluth letter-carriers have been ar
rested for completely in the postoff1ce en-
bezzlement there.
"A movement is on foot to colonize with
negroes the Indian lands soon to be thrown
open to settlement.
Trieste Austria, has ceased to be a free
port, and is now on the same footing as other
ports in the empire.
Alfred H. Hildeck, New York importer,
committed suicide at his office yesterday.
lie took par1s green.
"A hurricane in Senegal. Africa, wrecked
an Italian steamer and two cutters, Is per-
sons being drowned.
A Paris woman has been arrested for an
attempt on her husbands life by pouring
molten lead into his ear.
The merchants of Barcelona, SpBin, will
formally protest against the new CONNER
cial treaty with the United States.
Chief Byrd, of the Chickasaw Nation,
has given notice that he will grant no more
permits to whites to reside on the reserva-
ton.
While the North American Commercial
Company caught 1924 seals during the year
ended August !, tits estimated that poachers
took 49, 600
During the burning of a Norwegian COL
lier vessel near Bergen, Saturday night.
eight of the crew were drowned and seven
were saved.
because Off violent thunder storm in
County Cork, Ireland corn and hay crops
are nothing, and it is feared the potato crop
will be failure,
"A gas explosion in the Chicago water
day morning fatally burned the man who
carried the torch, Maurice Call.
-Four women have been arrested at
Szenttamas, Hungary, on the charge of poi
soning their husbands and selling poisons to
other women for a similar purpose.
g.
cided that under existing conditions the
State had no right to order the removal of
the convicts from the mines at Briceville.
-Quadruplets-three boys and a girl-were
born in the household of Alvin S. Moore, in
Greenfield, Mass, Monday: The bo, is
likely to live, but the other little ones died
Railroad employees at Western cities are
organizing clubs the purpose of which is to
secure the election of officers who will en-
force laws against the oppression of ca pital.
The Cherokees are wild with excitement
over the Presidents permission for them to
Craze their cattle on the outlet. Some are
working cattle schemes and others are stalk
ing off farms and stretching wires for larg
pastures.
The largest sale of bottled whisky ever
made in the world took place at Lexington,
KY, Tuesday, the distilling firm of James
Epper Co. selling 81, 900 cases of l0-year- old
pepper whisky. The sale amounted to
nearly S500.0OO
Many persons, owing to the permission
granted to the starving Russian peasautry
to use the Cars forest, have taken advan-
tage of it to commit robberies and depreda-
tions. The famishing people are fighting
over the spoils.
The great Lambert-Stees laud case in
volving s5OO,OOO worth of real estate in the
heart of St. Paul, whicn has been in the
Minnesota courts for ten years, has been
decided by the Supreme Court which
awarded the property to Washington NJ.
Stees.
"A sleeping car porter has been arrested in
Chicago for robbing passenger from Du-
buque OF $500. After his arrest he was found
to have two wives in the city between
whom he divided his time, each being igno-
rant of the Others existence. The porter
will be tried for bgamv.
George J. Osborn, the st. Paul suicide
and elevator Superintendent, is believed to
have died a defaulter to the extent of at
least Sl00,000 He lost much money at faro
inVeStlvatlOn l,aS al
ready discovered shortages amounting to
many thousands Of dollars.
Late developments support the theory
that Nebraskas millionaire woodman
shape of his lumber company is found to be
bad and he made his will, giving everything
to his wife, the day before he was found
dead in the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago
. in a street fight in Peoria a notorious ne
gro wounded Frank Berry, carved up a
woman, slashed an officer, chased several
others and was captured by being knocked
down and having patrol wagon driven
over him, which didn't seem to hurt him
much. His victims are in a serious condi-
ton.
-Cholera recently broke out in the steam
er Nainchow, laden with coolies in the China
sea, and within few days 60 dead bodies
were heaved overheard. Arriving at Singa-
pore, only five deaths were reported, none
from infectious diseases. Many of the in
fected passengers landed, which soon spread
Jne ulSedSc III iillb clUy also.
The private chaplain to the Countess of
Mazzarino, at Petcrino, Italy, while cele-
brating mass In the presence of the family
suddenly fell to the floor In violent convuf-
sions. He died in fearful agony. The chap
lain had been poisoned with corrosive subli-
mate, which had been put in the sacrs,-
mental wine served at the mass.
I'm accordance with the policy decided
upon by the Board of Tax Commissioners,
bankers representing each of the three
classes of banks-National, State and pri-
vate-were arrested last evening for refus-
ing to deliver to the board the names of
their depositors and the amount to their
credit April l. Each was fined $500 for con-
tempt of the Board of Tax Commissioners
aud committed to Jail until the fine is paid
By agreement the cases were appealed.
Receiver Agee filed bill against the di-
rectors of late Admission (Ala.) Savings and
Safe Deposit Company. charging them with
neglect of their official duties. The bill
shows that Managing Director Larned sold
to the bank business block for $50, ,OOO. On
the building was mortgage of $1,000 which
was not satisfied. After this Larned mort
gagged the building for 5000, making it cost
the bank 81, 100. The bill also charges that
John B. Rees while President of the bank
overdrew S., $50, for which he gave unsecured
notes, to run three years. Roberts, q cash.
ier, also overdrew 81, 600.