Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-14
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Honduras rebels have been dispersed.
-Mapchester, n. H.. cigar makers are on
strike.
Granite cutters of Barre, vt.' will not
strike.
Fifty American millers have sailed for
Europe.
"A general strike of Belgian ironworkers
is in prospect
Texas is holding its Worlds Fair Conven-
ton at Forth Worth.
United Mine Workers of Illinois are in
session at Streator
salvador has appointed commissioner
for the Worlds Fair.
Welsh miners have resolved to continue
the eight-hour agitation.
Gold shipments continue at the rate OF
from s, ,0O0,0O to a, 900 900 daily.
The number of striking Iowa miners is
estimated at from 1000 to 10, $50.
All Hebrews are being expelled from
Russian territory beyond the Caspian.
The present crisis in Portugal is said to
be entirely financial and non-political.
The Portuguese Government will pro-
vide an abundant supply of small coin.
Nine Boulangcrs application for a de-
cree of separate estates has been granted.
Six soldiers were killed at Massowah
Tuesday by the collapse of their barracks.
Coal miners in the Iowa regions are pre-
ings.
-Tupper proposes the compulsory inspec-'
ton OF all sailing vessels registered in
Canada.
Medical Student Harris, who poisoned
his wife in New York, has been indicted for
murder.
Deaths from the grip in London last
week, l4s-2l more than the highest grip
record in 1890
The Malta is responsible for the murder
of a family of four near Carrientes, Argen-
tine Republic.
The Belgian Government has warned
General Boulanger to keep his mouth shut
or leave the country.
-Californians are quietly working to To-
cate the next Republican National Conven-
tion in San Francisco.
The grip epidemic has created a panic
among the Indians in Washington State, and
they are fleeing to Idaho.
The steamer Lucy Rowe, reported lost in
the Pacific ocean, has arrived safely at her
destination, the Queetsche river.
The bill in the Massachusetts Legislature
prohibiting the use of fireworks on the
Fourth of July has been defeated.
-Severly, the defaulting Treasurer of
Chippewa county, Wis, has been sentenced
to two years imprisonment. He pleaded
guilty to making way with $4,000.
Secret enmity is said to exist between
the Brotherhood and the Order of Locomo-
tive Engineers, which will probably set the
two organizations by the ears again.
The Florida Horticultural Society has
protested against the appointment of Max
well, of California, as superintendent of the
horticultural department of the Worlds
Fair.
During anti European riotsJht Woo Hoo,
China, the natives burned the Catholic
mission and many European dwellings.
Woo Hoo is treaty port on the Yangtse
kiang.
Prof. Harper, of Yale, who becomes
president of the new University of Chicago
will be succeeded in his professorship by
Edward L. Curtis of the Mccormick Theo-'
logical Seminary, Chicago.
The decision of the United States Su- |
preme Court, holding that Pennsylvania can |
age, will result, it is said, in the collection |
of about 81, 600 of back taxes by the County |
Treasurers of Iowa.
-Four attachments aggregating S27,765 |
were granted yesterday against Levy Bros.
Co., clothing manufacturers, New York. 1t |
is understood that A. H. Levy has been made |
insane by his financial troubles. Liabilities |
estimated at S750,000.
The application of Martin A. Frank for |
an injunction to prevent the consolidation
of the Edison Electric Light Company with
the Edison General Electric Light Company |
has been denied by Judge O'Brien, of the |
New York Supreme Court. |
The duel which was to have been fought |
on Belgian soil between NJ. Henri Rochefort |
and NJ. Isaacs. the sub-prefect who ordered |
the troops on May Day to fire upon the riot |
ers at Fourmies, has been abandoned, owing |
to the vigilance of the Belgian police. |
"A little Lockport, n. Y, girl made faces
at hec priest, Father Darcy, as he passed by. |
The divine chased the child into the house |
and whipped her in the presence of her |
mother, to teach her better manners, he |
said. For this offense the priest was az |
rested and convicted of assault.
Mr.. Tate, who moved to impeach Sir |
Hector Langevin and Hon. Thomas Nc |
Grevy, in the Dominion Parliament on Mon |
day, is reported as saying that he held back |
some of the most damaging testimony |
against them and will make further dis J
closures when the case comes before the |
committee for investigation. MI. Tate says |
the result must be one of two things-the |
expulsion of Sir Hector and McGrevy from /
the House of Commons by n vote of Par
lament or the dow nfall of the Government |
if Sir John Macdonald attempts to condone
the offense.