Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-27
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
kansas has begun shipping new crop
| wheat.
Russia has 5o,4OO more military officers
| this year than last.
Chinese outrages ON foreigners continue,
despite the recent executions. ..
The Portuguese Chamber of Deputies
mas passed financial reform bill.
Five hundred Chicago 1ongshoremen
are striking for an advance of wages.
The catch of nackeral and cod in Nova
Scotia waters is very large this season.
The three Cinnamon who crossed the
river at Detroit have been escorted back.
The German East African Company will
build a railroad from Tanga to Korogwe.
The opinion in Canada is growing that
Premier Abbotts Cabinet cannot last long.
The affairs of the Royal Railway in Por-
tugal are in a bad condition, through lack of
funds.
Charles Rice, of Orangeville, Ont, is in
Jail in Chicago on a charge of smuggling
opium.
Secretary Proctor addressed the gradu-
ating class of Norwich University at North
field, Vt.
Hon. Thomas f. Bayard addressed the
law graduates at the Michigan University
Thursday.
The master plumbers, in session in Gin
cinnati, have adjourned to meet in Washing
ton next year.
"A United Miners strike at Huntington,
Ark, lasted one day and was then satisfac-
torily settled.
Bavaria factories ignore the labor laws,
and consequently the number of inspectors
viii be increased
BY the will of the late Premier Macdon-
aid his etate will be divided between his
widow and his son.
England and Ireland are having severe
thunder storms, accompanied by floods and
damage by lightning.
The deadlock between the two Houses
of the Michigan Legislature over the Rich
ardson tax bill continues.
Five Louisiana White Caps, who oper-
ated against negroes in the usual fashion,
have been apprehended at Lafayette.
Tho State Controller of California has
legal advice not to pay the appropriation
for IA State exhibit in the Worlds Fair.
only the scribners, among the large
publishing firms of New York are actively
preparing for international copyright.
"A Normal college student at Marion,
IND, fell dead at a foot ball game Thursday
evening, while STOPPING to pick up the bali.
Five drunken mutineers on board the
Dutch steamer Batavia were captured Thurs
day by Montreal policemen after terrific
fight.
BY the fall of scaffold at Elizabethport,
n. j., yesterday Gabriel Williams and
Michael Nolan were killed and several
others injured.
"A freight and a passenger train collided
in the Boetzberg tunnel near Brugg, Switzer-
land. The cars were badly wrecked but
only two persons were hurt.
Two notorious negroes in Cass county,
Tex, Will Hatfield and Mum Sheppard,
were shot to death "on general principles"
by unknown lynchers Thursday.
The Michigan Senate has passed the
House bill calling for vote of the people
upon the question of calling convention
for revision of the State Constitution.
-Ex-State Treasurer Woodruff of Arkan-
sas, whose delinquencies have been the SUBJ
ject of legislative investigation for many
months, has been arrested on an indictment
for embeZZlement.
President Harrison has issued certifi-
cate of merit to Harry W. Capron, Corporal
of Company B, Seventh United States Cav
airy, for distinguished service in action at
Wounded Knee creek.
Members of the, Congressional party of
Chile accuse the police serving Balmaceda
tiers, so as to afford the pretext for the arrest
of the Congressional negotiators.
-Lockport, n. Y, has an Enoch Arden
case. Thomas Tisdale who was supposed to
have been drowned years age, has returned to
the second having died some time ago.
The steamer Normandy, from Dieppe
bound for New Haven, went ashore during q
fog at Beachy Head England, Thursday night,
with $50 passengers on board She was after
ward floated with the assistance of tugs.
Mrs. J. F. Goodrich, of Pittsfeld, Mass,
has applied to the police of St. Louis for help
to recover her l8-year-old daughter Clara
The latter, she says, eloped in a balloon with
the sronaut, Walter Cooper, on Memorial
Day.
-EP. Soper, the butcher of Archie Mo-
who murdered his wife and three children
with a meat ak about five months ago.
was arrested yesterday afternoon at West
Plains, Mo. 1t is believed the murderer
is insane.
regatta course at Chicago Thursday. Wen
deli Vandrah q laborer, dove after the lad,
but neither boy nor man came to the surface
alive. 1t is supposed that they struck on
sunken piles.
james A. Simmons, convicted of aiding
General Peter j. Classen, President of the
Sixth National Bank, New York, in the en-
bezzlement of the funds of that institution,
was sentenced to six years imprisonment in
the penitentiary at New York yesterday.
The limitation of the catch of seals will
result in gloomy outlook for the natives,
as seal meat will be scarce, as well as blub-
Der for fuel. The agent of the Alaska Com
pany has sent q requlsltlon Tor large
amount of fuel, food, clothing and sup
plies.
Three officers attempted to raid dis
orderly fandango party ut Encial Tex, on
the Rio Grande, yesterday, but were re-
sisted. Officer Cope was killed and his two
comrades wounded. On the other side, Bias
KEYS and one Riebold were killed and two
negroes arrested.
Reports from the scene of the labor
trouble on the Great Northern Railroad,
Washington, indicate that matters are grow
ing more serious. The Italians attacked
camp and fired several shots, but no one was
injured Four of them were arrested. Col
ored workmen are said to be drilling in the
woods daily.
THE MYSTERY Camille Flammarion,
the great French Astronomer, will describe