Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

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LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
The Catholic Congress meets to-day a
| Molines.
Another heavy gale has damaged th'
crops in North Wales.
Two burglars sawed their way out o
jail at Portland, Ind, Sunday.
1t is rumored in France that all tn,
powers interested will send joint ulti
| matum to China.
DR. Hoist, a Prussian magistrate, ha'
| been killed while climbing the Alps. HI
Tell over precipice.
Halifax will be fortified by two new re
! Volying stone turrets at Fort York. Eacl
VIII hold four cotton guns.
The Vatican has for the third time re
fused to accept Russian nominees for the
vacant bishoprics in Russia.
The Cunard Company will build vessel!
for the Boston trade. in addition to two new
steamships for the new York trade.
The Chickasaw Legislature, now in ses
sion, will consider the question of intruder:
and the allotment ofland to negroes.
"A Berlin speculator, who lost several
million marks in corn in 1889, and who re
Gently failed, has committed suicide.
The powers are forcing China to recog.
nize the Shanghai armed volunteer body
which has existed a long time on sufferance
During hurricane in West Indian wa.
tiers two seamen were swept overheard from
the Quart Castle from Halifax for Bermuda
Frank Parrish, the leading witness in the
Perrien abduction case, has been found in
st. Louis, and will return to Detroit to-day.
-Adolphus Bush, now at Frankfort, Ger.
many, has cabled a denial that the An.
heuser-Bush Brewing Company has sold out
to foreign syndicate.
During the stormy voyage of a cattle
ship, Gloucester City, from New York for
Bristol, England, 81 cattle were washed over
board by one huge wave.f
The removal of the embargo from Ameri-
can pork doesn't aDpease the German de-
mand for bread, and the agitation against
the grain duties continues.
"A woman at London, Ont, has been earn
ing an honest livelihood by dressing up
Cinnamon in Widows weeds and smuggling
them over the river into Detroit.
The seven convict leaders who conspired
to break Jail at San Quentin, Cal, arc still in
solitary cells They were betrayed by a
prisoner whose term had nearly expired.
Every cemetery in st. Joseph, Mo-, re-
fused to sell burial lot to the relatives of
Bulling, the wife murderer, whose hanging
was attended by such revolving incidents.
Owing to the prevailing distress in Rus
sia the Novgorod fair is failure. During
the winter many factories will shut down
"A defective gas pipe beneath a Chicago
sidewalk caused the asphyXiation of three
Italians who were sleeping in O basement
early Sunday morning. One of the victims
died.
William Dalton and Wiley Dean, who are
believed to be two OF the robbers who held
up the train near Ceres, Cal, on Thursday
night. were captured yesterday afterno on
near Traver.
Several Hebrews have been arrested at
Odessa. They are accused of producing an
apparently serious but really harmless skin
affection upon youths to save them from
conscription.
Russian newspapers have given Djeyad
Pasha, the new Prime Minister of Turkey,
to understand that if he desires the good will
of Russia he must put forcible end to the
Bulgarian quarrel.
Peoria Lake, ILL.,, claimed another
aeronaut victim Sunday-this time a lady,
Nine Kiefer On account of the wind SHE
could not control her parachute to alight
where she wished.
Secretary Sutton, of the Irish National
League of America, when asked whether
the forthcoming convention would be for
or against Parnell, said it would be perfectly
Independent of all Irish factions.
The peasants of Silesia, near tho Austrian
and Russipn frontiers, complain that owing
to the hardship of getting bread their chill
dren are learning to lie and steal The jails
are full of these youthful offenders.
William Johns, n furnace engineer at
Niles, was assaulted yesterday by B. Togetto,
an Italian laborer. In self defense Mr.
Johns seized piece of iron with which he
probably mortally wounded his assailant
The "smokeless powder" used in the
European maneuvers has been proved to be
not entirely smokeless. That used bv the
Austrians emits thin blue vapor, while the
German powder, which is better, produces a
brown puff.
Some C-awfordsvilIa Ind -o-~,o...
would have the world believe that an arial
monster Is feet long and 8 feet wide has been
flying over that community by means of
side fms. Through terror not an eve in that
place closed Sunday night
Prof. Tolbert, the aeronaut. narrowly
escaped horrible death at Parkersburp
Saturday, probably through the malice Of
an enemy who had severed a rope of the
trapeze. The cut was discovered just be-
fore the ascension was made.
Mrs. O'Neill, the wife of General o'Neil
claiming to have been an officer in the
United States Army, who, in a ii of jealousy
shot at and dangerously wounded her hus-
band May 70, and was imprisoned, has been
pardoned by Emperor William.
The whaleback steamer. Charles W
Wetmore, left Wilmington, Del, SUNDAY,
for Philadelphia, where she will complete
her cargo of machinery and sail for Tacoma
Masn:, eDont Ihorsday; A number of pas
sun has UeSll at MOrRantOWn bV
William s. Stevenson and others against
Ira De Witt, I. NJ. jackson & Co, and the
South Penn Oil Company for the enforce
ment of contract. The suit directly in
wolves the ownership of over loo, 600 acres of
oil lands.
"A British bark consumed over six months
in her voyage from Australia to San Fran
cisco. During the trip fever and scuryy
broke out, from the effects of which the
Captain and first mate died. All hands
were i'll at one time or another and their
appearance when they landed was frightfuI.
1t is understood that the Samoan Gov
ernment is only awaiting the arrival of an
English warship to make joint demonstra-
tiOn in the three nations to punish the ma
tives who refuse to obey Malietoa. Unless
some action is taken without delay there
will probably be trouble. The great cause
Of complaint among the natives is the way
in which the salary list is climbing up.
jefferson d. Stewart, a married man, and
Mrs. Jane Kennedy, married woman, went
out for a boat ride on Ponce de Leon Lake,
about night. They had with them in an
other boat, as companions, Henry Gignilliat
and Miss Ida Harmon. Suddenly Gignilliat
heard o scream, and on looking around be-
held no trace of the other boat Miss Har-
non tainted, and it was with the most diff
Guilty that Gignilliat saved himself from the
ate of his companions. Reaching shore,
md laying his companion upon the grass,
ne rushed and gave the alarm. The two
bodies were recovered.
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