Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-09
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Further massacres in the Caroline Islands
are feared.
California Republicans renominated sena-
tor Stanford.
Emma Abbott's remains may be incinerated
In the Detroit crematory.
The body of Kinglake, the historian, was
cremated at London yesterday
A heavy snow and wind storm ragged In
Northern Kansas yesterday, blockading the
railroads.
A c., B. & @. stock train ran into an Illinois
Central stock train In Chicago yesterday, kill
ing two men.
A provision in the Idaho revised statutes
makes a political trade" a felony, and now
several legislators are threatened with prosecu.
rion under il.
Prince Bismarck, it is said. has declined
the Presidency of the Grand Duchy of Neck
lenburg-Schwerin.
Jerry Simpson, ''the sockless statesman -
denies that he is candidate for the United
States Senatorship.
The emigration from Germany to America
during November waslhIgher than for the same
month in five years.
The trial suits of Havemeyer and of Cam.
eron against the Sugar Trust at Brooklyn have
again been postponed.
"A trail of blood 50 feet long in Bay City,
Mich, led to hole in the Ice in the bay. The
police are investigating.
The Confederate White House" at Rich
mond will be used hereafter for the preserya-
tion of Confederate relics.
One man was killed outright and seven dan
gerously hurt by gas explosion in foundry
at Newberry, Mich, yesterday.
Governors Hiram A. Tuttle, of New Hamp.
shire, and William E. Russell, Of Massachu-
sets, were inaugurated yesterday.
The North Carolina Legislature organized
Wednesday. Farmers Alliance men predomi.
mated, but they are Democrats as well
trolling interest in the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad is denied by George Gould.
"A Saginaw servant girl accidentally mixed
trough on rats" in -four and made her en-
ployers family deathly sick. They are all in q
critical condition.
-Four mysterious murders have occurred in
Granville county. N. C., since Saturday, in the
same locality. 1t is supposed they were COM
mitted by the same person.
Lord Salisbury is said to be satisfied with
Mr. Blaine's utterance on the Bering Sea ques-
ton, which is regarded as a substantial agree
ment to submit the whole issue to arbitration.
Prince Eugene Ghika, OF Roumania, and
NJ. Iermontof, Secretary of the Russian Con-
sulate, fought a duel with pistols at Yassy,
Wallachia. Wednesday. The Prince was
slightly wounded.
Arthur w. WiImean has contracted with a
Detroit museum TO live on nothing but Crotop
water for 30 days. If successful he will receive
SlUOO, and II he prolongs the fast l6 days, he
VIII get 81, 500. Starvation begins Monday.
An Englishman named Wadsworth, who
was stopping at Wallaceburg Ont, with man
named Hardy, has mysteriously disappeared.
He is said TO have had with him So 900 with
which he intended to buy q farm. HARDY
denies all knowledge of his whereabouts
Hamburg dispatches state that several
merchants OF that city are preparing to outfit
sealers to begin cruising in Bering Sea about
May next, and that PROMISE has been given
from Berlin that two of the best vessels in the
German navy will cruise in the North Pacific
daring the sealing season.