Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The oat millers Of the country have formed
combination at Chicago.
king Humbert has sent 500 to each child
left an orphan by the steamship Utopia dis
aster.
Louis Bulling was to hang in Savannah.
Mo-. yesterday. for murder, but escaped the
night before.
The Portuguese cabinet crisis has been.satls-
factoriy settled. All the Ministers but one re-
tain their posts.
Frederick Schwatka, of Arctic fame, has
departed for new exploration journey in the
interior of Alaska.
The draft Of the new commercial treaty be-
tween Spain and the United States was CON-
pleted in Madrid yesterday.
Russell Petty, who was to have been exc
cuted at Paducah, KY. yesterday, for murder,
has been granted new trial
Major Benjamin +. Talbot well known in
both Boston and Philadelphia, shot himself
dead in Boston while crazed with the grip.
The supposed Indian attack on the Challis
stage near Blackfoot Idaho, is believed to have
been the work of white robbers in disguise.
The directors of the Whisky Trust have
elected a new set of officers. Secretary Glib
son, the alleged dynamiter, was not reinstated.
"A bookkeeper in the employ of the Amer
ican Glucose Company at Peoria. A. l. Ant
water, is accused of purloining $1,000 from his
employers.
"A petrified corpse weighing 195 pounds, re-
sembling hard limestone, was dlslnterred at
Goshen, Ind, Thursday Every feature and
even the hair was perfect
The French Alliance Thursday night gave
banquet in honor of Mr.. Mercier, the Canadian
delegate. whose avowed mission Is to counteract
the United States tariff law.
The political and financial outlook in the
Argentine is not improved. The army and
navy are at variance in regard to General
Roca'S candidacy for the Presidency
byterian preacher Of GTeenville. ILL.,. died yes
terday from a wound received in a fight Tues
day night. Bud Thatcher stabbed him.
The Portuguese Government proposes a
modification of the British draft of the African
Convention, and in the meantime will ask that
the modus vivendi which expires in May, be
prolonged month.
Lebanon, Ind, killed David W. Campbell out
right and fatally wounded William Stewart.
one of the proprietors. The boiler was hurled
100 yards, the smokestack shot upward 40 feet
and was carried 800 feet away. The mill was
wrecked.
"A former student of the North Carolina
State University named Kirby Smith, at Colds
boro, was accused of painting bright crimson
the monument of the founder of that institu-
tion. He sued President Battle and the
trustees for false Imprisonment. but the result
was mistrial.
in reply to letters and petitions from Mid.
lothian constituents in regard to the suppress
sion Of the opium traffic in India, Mr.. Glad
stone writes that he could not support Mr..
Pease's motion, made in:the House OF Com
mons, against allowing the opium traffic In
India. because he doubted that the T. Irse
would support the measure.
The Keweah colony in Tulare county. CAL,
ostensiblv formed to carry out Bellamy's pro-
posed socialistic system, turns out to he bare
faced fraud. Each colonist paid an entry fee
of $500, and for three years of hard labor many
of them received nothing but worthless time
checks. Meanwhile the two founders enriched
themselves at the rate of $1,000 year.
The excitement in Benares, India, originat-
ing from the demolition of temple in order to
provide site for new waterworks, increases
every hour. All the shops in Benares are
closed, and all the natives in the city and dis
trict have stopped work and are gathering in
large crowds In and about the principal thor
oughferes Of the holy city, The result is that
serious riots have already occurred between
the disturbed natives and the local authori-
ties of Beuares, who are supported by the Brit
ish troops Quartered in the vicinity.