Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-02

Whatever there was of general interest in
any part of the world was presented to the
readers of Sundays DISPATCH II, the foreign,
domestic and local fields being fully covered.
The paper was divided into three parts. the
first being devoted to news features, while the
other two were filled with choice general and
selected matter. Robert Louis Stevenson gave
the first of series of cleverly written letters
from the islands in the South Sea.
Foreign.
Great Britain's gold supply is SO limited that
notes are to be issued, payable in silver....
Gladstone proposes to keep up the fight for
home rule. Crisp;, Italian premier. defeated
in Parliament offers his resignation. An in
cipient rebellion at Oporto quickly put down
by Portuguese troops. Bradlaugh died not
knowing that Parliament had stricken from the
records the proceedings against him.. An En-
glish off Ger to initiate Captain Burnabys ride
to Kheva Banker Monroe at Paris, bothered
over the contested control of Irish funds....
The Scotch railway strikers beaten by their
own mismanagement... The worlds labor ex-
hibition at London set down as speculative
scheme. The aged assistant librarian of the
Victoria University. Manchester. found MUIR
dered in a grotto in France. Another Nihilist
plot said to have been discovered in Poland....
Slander suit threatened in English society
circles over a game of baccarat. Bartholdi in
dorses the fund for American art students in
Paris. Death of Meissonier, the famous
French artist
Domestic.
Cleveland and Hill attend banquet in New
York and shake hands. North Dakota's Su-
preme Court to pass upon original packages....
A. L. Tilden, of Erie, appointed Deputy Secre-
tary of State. Legislative committees to in
vestigate State deposit banks meet at Philadel-
phia :. The Baltimore and Ohio secures con-
troll of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad....
Smoke and feg cause a fatal railroad accident
in Chicago -. Philadelphia bank wreckers in
dicted by the grand jury. Banker Kean post.
pones his proposed settlement at 35 cents on
the dollar Girls of Smith College. North
ampton, Mass, have lively SNOWFALL hght....
Efforts by legislative enactment to do away with
Camden's, N. J., lucrative marriage business.
Theg legislative committee begins its investi-
CATION into the Mammoth mine DISASTER.
Mrs. Mary Perew. living in Crawford county,
Ind, brutally whipped by White Caps. Hog
cholera reported to be spreading in Kansas.
Cincinnati offers ]. NJ. Ward more money than
he ever received before to play in that city,.
Slavin makes another offer to John L. Sullivan
90. Blair County Republican Committee de-
nounces Senator Cameron....C operators
to meet the miners in conference. Judge
the United States District Judgeship....
Western Pennsylvania girl poses In New
York as Mile. Charcot.. Leading Democrats
deny that they want an extra session of Con-
gress. .. Construction of great Protestant
university at Washington, DC assured. 1.-The
Illinois Legislative Investigating Committee
puzzled over the identity of Representative
Taubeneck Conflict of authority between
Unitei States Marshal and Mississippi and
State officers. Many names mentioned for
the vacant Secretarvsbip of the Treasury.
Wanamaker makes some important sug-
gestions in reference to the Postoffce Depart
ment,
Local.
Two Thousand applications for liquor licenses
expected to be filed by next Saturday. An
explosion of gas in the cellar of the residence
of William Sellers. Cassatt, caused a loss of
$500. Contemplated publication of a new
daily paper in Pittsburg abandoned. Guests
of w. Devices Wood robbed during reception
Representation in Allegheny's Select Coun-
Gil to be based on numbers. .Twenty-sixth
and Twenty.eighth ward Republican Com
mittees suggest candidates. The usual Satur-
day grist of desertion cases in the Criminal
Court, Westinghouse to ask an exten-
sion of time for disposing OF
the remainder of the 10000 shares
of preferred stock. .Newsboy William Sulli-
van pushed from a street car and may die....
The Uniformed Rank, y. A. NJ, to parade with
the Juniors of West Virginia at Wheeling....
Squirrel Hill Electric Railway reorganized....
Department of Awards still looking for a site
for the Poor farm. :. Building Trades Council
to ask the Legislature to pass mechanics
lien law. United Mine Workers reafirm the
7O-cent rate. :. Announcement made of many
valuable prizes for the coming dog show.
The iewelry store of John F. Schmitt of Home
stead, robbed of s., 900 worth OF valuables in
daylight,