Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Slight earthquake shocks have been felt
in Washington State.
The French mine strike has ended and
the grievances will be arbitrated.
-Rumored that Russia will prohibit Ithe
expectation of horses. This is said to look
warlike.
The Russian press charges the RESPONSE
bility for the famine to the ignorance of the
peasantry.
Judge of Crimes Foster, at Valparaiso
has appointed a commission to inquire into
Higgins murder. s...s = ...
The Mexican famine has caused bread
riots in the States of Durango and Zacetecas
The Government is arranging q bull fight to
raise money for relief.
Harry r. Whitman has been arrested at
Grand Rapids for issuing a libeIous circular
concerning the Mutual Reserve Life Fund
Association, of New York.
Fourteen laborers arrived in New York
on the steamship Rheinland, under contract
to work in Pennsylvania and Ohio mines
They will probably be sent back.
William Kreger in the employ of the
International and Great Northern Railway
for abstracting letters from the mails.
The London Times says that the report
that Russia is buying silver is true, but that
only. enough will be bought to provide
new subsidiary coinage to replace the nickel
alloy known as billion.
miners, and James 7. McKibben, late editor
OF the brotherhood of Labor have been ar
rested on charge of conspiracy to blow
up and burn Sandoval, Ill.
-Rumored in St. Petersburg that Emperor
William has decided to resign his honorary
colonelcy in Russian regiments, and that
NJ. de Giers mission to Berlin was to dis
suade the Kaiser from his intention.
M. Christophle, Governor of the Credit
Foncier, in Paris, said that as a patriot he
n tn cav tho P1Y QrDo n, r,riua
from ruin, but that he could do nothing
whatever in that direction unless he was
officially invited by the Government to take
action.
Bank in Boston were opened yesterday
morning and the bookkeepers delivered re-
ceiver's certificates to depositors who have
proved their claims. One hundred and sixty
certificates, covering the first proved claims,
have been signed and nearly all issued.
The British troop ship Crocodile, with
1.400 men aboard, ran against the structure
on which is built the extension of the har-
force of the shock was so great that so yards
of the railway were destroyed and three
carriages which had been standing on the
track were rolled into the sea.
p. A. Choquette, a Quebec NJ. P, is in
favor of annexation. He says: at must
come sooner or later, and it will be better
to annex us now en- bloc than one by one, as
is the case by immigration. If reciprocity
brings aDout annexation, TINS Will signify
that we will profit thereby and that the Star
Spangled Banner will be more to us than the
British flag"
Two freight trains on the New England
Railroad collided yesterday morning at
Newington Junction, Conn. Conductor John
Frazer, Engineer James Lamereaux, Fire
man James Warehouse and Brakeman
George Chubb were all seriously injured.
Fireman Lamereaux had both legs cut off
and is not expected to live. Several cars
were wrecked, and the wreckage took fire.
AS a freight train approached Escambia
bridge, Fla, on the Pensacola and At
lantic Railroad, the track sunk sew
eral inches into a "fill," causing truck
about midway of the train to jump the
track. The train was at full speed, and as it
reached the trestle leading to the bridge
coupling broke and four cars and q caboose
were precipitated into the water. NJ. F.
O'Brien, boilermaker was killed. Conductor
Pons and three trainmen went down with the
train, but escaped without serious injury.