Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-26
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

eastward from San tranc1scO.
The Canadian Pacific report shows an in
crease of earnings over last year.
The Servian Government is financially
embarrassed. Official salaries are unpaid.
The Metropolitan Watch Company of
gage.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis still refuses to allow
the remains of her late husband to be taken
to Richmond.
-Archduchcss Louise of Tosena is engaged
TO Prince John George OF Saxony, nephew
OF King Albert.
The cigarmakers' strike in Chicago is
driving factories from that city to Detroit
and Milwaukee.
There were 20 cases Of measles among i'm
migrants landed at New York by the steamer
Aller Yesterday.
THE international Machinists' Union ad-
journed at New York Wednesday TO meet in
Chicago next year.
The Dominion will appoint a commits
sion to inquire into the working OF prohlDl-
tion to other countries.
The report that tho Whisky Trust has
obtained control Of Hergel Brothers dis
tillery at Pekin, Ill, is denied.
"A German expedition is on its way to the
interior of Africa to punish natives who
destroyed a former expedition.
The grain louise in Michigan and the
growing wheat in many sections.
-Italy's deficit is 5,44,o9s lire which the
Finance Minister says will be met by fresh
economies and increased receipts.
William H. Cook, ex-Police Clerk of To-
ledo, has been sentenced to the penitentlary
for embezzling S., 600 of city funds.
"A Balmaceda division of the Chilean
army has rejoined the main body after cross
ing snow-covered mountains three times.
sr nofr mill N
Reykjayik to further a scheme of his to
transport the entire population of Iceland
to Alaska.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria,
lunched on board the English flagship vac
toria at Flume, Wednesday. He spoke highly
of the Queen.
The damage by floods in the Texas "Pan-
handle" was worse than has heretofore been
reported. The loss is principally in bridges,
crops and live stock.
The graduating exercises of the senior
class OF Dowdoin College, Brunswick, Me-,
were held yesterday. Degrees OF A. B. were
conferred upon 81 graduates.
A Kansas City letter carrier named
Harlow slept near an open window with the
moon shining full upon his face: When he
awoke he found himself totally blind.
The Grand Hotel at Cincinnati was sold
by the Sheriff yesterday to the second mort
gage bondholders for S26s, GOO. The old man
The remains of Count Lewenhaupt, late
husband of Ellen Bayard, the daughter OF
ex-Secretary of State Bayard, were shipped
for Bremen from New York yesterday.
The body of Fred Broiaw, who was
drowned at Long Branch Wednesday, has
been recovered, and also that of the servant
girl, Annie Doyle, whom he tried to save.
Six thousand Paris bakers passed reso-
luton to strike, and then tried to storm the
Labor Exchange. The police dispersed the
crowd after hard fight and jailed the
leaders,
A cloud burst in Cherokee county, n. c.,
Wednesday afternoon, deluged number of
farms with growing crops and killed two
moonshiners-Harvey Agnew and Jacob
Newton.
"A Viennese medical student named Her
man Fischer committed suicide by stabbing
in court, upon being sentenced to long term
of imprisonment. He died cursing his illegal
murderers."
Five men were propping up roof of
mine near Hamilton, Mo, Wednesday, when
u huge rock fell upon them, killing Paul
Bloise instantly and badly wounding all his
companions.
The steamer Furst Bismarck has broken
the transatlantic record. She arrived at
southampton from New York yesterday,
having made the passage IN Gays, u nours
and 10 minutes.
1t was stated at the Office of Marquesee &
VaTney, of Boston, yesterday, that the firm
had not failed, and the report was attributed
to the reported failure Of E. Marquesee &
Co., New Orleans.
The Illinois State Land Commissioners
have unearthed great frauds on pubic tim
Der lands Millions of feet of logs have been
stolen, and the robberies have in progress
for a dozen years.
r. J. Hinton, special agent in charge of
the irrigation inquiry, says the great COLO
means of irrigation, thus adding 100000
acres to the arabic area.
The British steamship Cid, 976 tons,
bound from Newcastle-on-Tyne for Naples,
has been wrecked of the French coast. The
third engineer and a fireman were drowned.
The remainder of the crew are at Havre.
The jury that has been inquiring into
the sanity of Charles NJ Ozburn, who is to
be hanged to-day at Atlanta for one of the
most brutal murders that ever took place in
Georgia, returned a verdict that Ozburn is
sane.
from being ground to pieces by Hudson
River Railroad train at Irvington, n. Y.
Baggage Master Barnard dragged him from
the track just as an express train came
laundering by.
The British ship New York, from Swan
sea, February g. for San Francisco, has been
wrecked on Staten Island, belonging to Ter
RI del Fuego, while attempting to round
Cape Horn. The crew narrowly escaped
with their lives.
An excursion to Brandywine Springs
from Wilmington, Del, under the auspices
of colored Knights Templar, broke up in
free fight in which Iazors and pistols were
freely used. About 20 negroes were more or
less severely wounded.
The Appellate Court in Chicago has
affirmed the decision of the lower court,
dissolving the injunction on the Chicago
Live Stock Exchange, which sought to COM
pei them to transact their business in the
old Chicago stock yards.
During fire in Davenport's bee hive in
Springfield, ILL.,, Tuesday night, the bees at
tackled the fircmen who, however, stuck to
their post. A dozen firemen were laid up
next day with swollen faces covered with
soda and onion poultices.
james Finnerty, one of the witnesses in
the Camp divorce case at Waterbury, Conn.,,
was horsewhipped by Mrs. Pearsall yester-
day morning. Finnerty at the trial gave
sensational testimony about Edward Camp,
the defendant in the case, and Mrs. Pearsal.
During Masonic celebration in New Or
leans, Wednesday night, runaway, caused
by the fireworks, occurred, in which three
persons were killed. The negro driver, who
was asleep at the time, jumped out in his
fright and the horses plunged into the crowd
of sightseers.
The fight between the Government and
the importers of hat trimming at Chicago
over the excessive duties imposed on such
goods, according to a recent Supreme Court
decision, is likely to be compromised by the
payment of s5,OOoG0o by the Government to
the importers.
by a mandate filed in the United States
Court on Wcdn esday the Great Northern
Railroad must turn over to the Northern
Pacific the funds received from the sale of
36s, 600 acres near where the two roads cross
at Glynden, MINI. Many more thousand
a cees are involved.
-Murretta & Co., the embarrassed Lon
don sil1-eI firm hn1.a hnr.rn1x-ad clIffiniax,t