Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

St Louis carpenters are gradually winning
their strike.
-Nominally there is q carpenters strike in
Milwaukee.
There are 200 colonists in the now famous
community OF Topolobampo, Mexico.
Dalton, the American swimmer, began l6
hours swim in the English Channel yesterday
morning.
The Customs Committee Of the French
Chamber of Deputies has decided that the duty
ON wheat must be reduced.
The rumor that Cashier Brantley. of the Iron
Mountain Railroad. is short in his accounts
about 100000 has been confirmed.
Mine bodies of the wreck of the bark Hegla,
on the Newfoundland coast, have been re-
covered, and another body was sighted.
Daniel Fried. proprietor of a dime museum
in Brooklyn, shot himself three times yester-
day morning. and died almost instantly.
Three generations were represented at the
Century Club dinner in New York. the occasion
being the 9th birthday of George s. Greene.
A Philadelphia paperhanger named Max
J. Guggenmos killed himself by plunging a
pair of scissors into his throat He was an in.
vestor in the ''ger-rich-quick" bubble.
The Collector of Customs at Seattle has
British tug Pilot, for towing American coast
wise vessels iI violation of the statutes.
The schooner Atlanta went down during a
gale on Lake Huron Tuesday. Five of the
crew were drowned in attempting to reach the
shore The life-saving crew rescued two men,
-Rumored that the Newfoundland Govern
ment intends to make American fishing vessels
deposit 81. 900 cash, instead of bonds TO prevent
the expectation of bait to ST. Pierre, Miquelon.
Chicago has an insane victim of the cigar
ette habit. He is Charles Marston, son of
prominent business man, and went mad on
board the steamship Empress of India on the
Pacific Ocean.
Leopold Bloom. one of the most daring of
the millionaire operators on the Chicago
Board of Trade, announces that he has
closed out all of his deals and will permanently
retire from the board.
Walter s. Payne, of Fostoria, O., ex-Com-
mander in Chief of the Sons of Veterans. has
been contaminated and dishonorably dis
charged: He was charged with embezzling
Sl60OO of the orders funds.
ST. Isoui= was excited TuesC ~ by the report
that the famous Maxwell trunk, which is in
great demand from museum people, had been
stolen. A trunk is in its place. but some think
1t is dummy substituted for the real article.
"A man answering the description of the In.
dian Messiah was arrested near Kingfsher,
Okla, Tuesday, He claimed to be descend
ant OF the Tolrecs and Osages, is well educated
and master of six languages. He doesn't claim
TO be the Messiah,
-Ida Brevoort singer in the Excelsior Con-
cert Hall on the Bowery, New York. was shot
and instantly killed by her lover, c. S. Wilbur
early Yesterday morning. Wilbur immediately
placed the muzzle of the pistol to his own head.
shot himself in the temple and fell dead. The
shooting is believed to be the result of lovers
quarrel.
President Warner Miller and Chief Engi-
neer Menocal, of the Nicaragua Canal Con.
struction Company, arrived at Tampa Tuesday
on the United States gunboat Petrol. Mr. Mil
Ter expresses himself surprised and pleased
with the progress of the work on the canal and
is fully convinced Of the Importance and feasl-
bilty of the enterprise.
ON the night of August 20, 1890, the farm |
residence OF Michael Shelby, near Wooster,
o.. was forcibly entered by four masked men
who bound and gagged Shelby and his aged
wife and stole goods amounting to $4,000.
Shelby died from nervous prostration. A de- |
tectlve bureau has just caused the arrest of |
Henry II. Buckley, his grandson; Harry F.
Webb and son, Daniel Buckley, neighbors OF |
the Shelbys. Daniel Buckley was, until few |
weeks before the crime. member of the police |
force In Kansas City, where he was discharged, |