Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| failure.
! -Cutworms are destroying growing corr
| in Illinois.
The British flagship warspite is found tc
| be defective.
Archbishop Croke fears that the cause OF
The late Congressman Houk was buried
at Knoxville Thursday.
The Pope will not mediate between the
United States and Italy in the New Orleans
| affair.
Owing to the opposition Of the Emperor
the Reichstag building will not be decorated
with marble.
interviews with prominent Kentucky
Democrats have revealed q strong Pattlson
sentiment among them.
-Evicted tradesmen of Tiperary have &C
cepted their landlords terms and are now
reinstated in their shops.
The monument erected by the State of
Ohio to the memory of the Andrews raiders
will be dedicated to-day at Chattanooga.
The sentence of Ben Clarke, who was
sentenced to be hanged to-day at Houston,
Tex, was committed to life imprisonment.
-Ex-Premier Crispi, of Italy, in an article
in the Contemporary Reuie,c, strongly defends
the dreibund, as protection against france.
A London Times correspondent in Italy
sees coming bankruptcy and constitutional
ism reduced to degraded state in that
kingdom.
The Government of New South Wales
narrowly escaped a vote of censure Thurs
day. 1t was tie and decided by the casting
vote of the Speaker.
The Relief Committee in Berlin has
secured long railway tunnel at Charlotten-
burg, in which to shelter Russian Hebrews
en- route to Hamburg for embarkment.
Evelyn, the English woman in Paris who
married and swindled host of men, has
been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment, and will be banished at the end of that
term.
Americans travelling in Sicily say that
the inhabitants are either ignorant or indif-
ferent on the subject of the New Orleans
lynching. The United states is Slc1ly'S Dest
foreign customer.
-Neapolitan papers bewail the "frightful"
exodus ofItaliaus from Southern Italy for the
'laad of assassins." During one week end
iug May 5, $500 emigrants embarked at
Naples alone for the United States.
Two students of Hiawassa College, in
Georgia, John Ward and Alexander Brown,
fought duel recently with Barlow knives,
ia which Brown was stabbed in the heart.
They had Quarreled over college honors and
young woman.
The cooperation of American and Au-
stralian workers was the subject discussed
by the miners conference at Chester, Eng
land, yesterday. 1t was decided to get an
expression of opinion from those two coun-
tries when federation is formed.
Michael Mulligan, resident of Clifton,
Ont, was arrested Thursday on the Erie
flyer as it was crossing suspension bridge
with two Cinnamon, Charles Lee and Rec
kee, secreted on the baggage car platform.
The Cinnamon were from Hong Kong via
Vancouver.
The South Dakota Worlds Fair Conven-
ton, which adjourned Thursday, adopted a
plan for raising money for an exhibit. They
will first endeavor to get an extra session OF
the Legislature with the view. of securing
a $4,000 appropriation, failing which they
will try to raise twice that sum by private
subscription.
Acting under instructions from Attorney 4
General Miller, the United States District
Attorney viii bring a bill IN equity to cancel
in Martin county, Cal. The tract includes
kershaw Island, Point Tiburon and other
property, in all about 5000 acres,
valued at over 81, 100000.
The recent quarantine of Canadian
lambs at Buffalo and other points west,
when they are shipped to the United States,
has been SO severely felt at Montreal that it
is likely some effort will be made to have
the quarantine removed. The American
market has hitherto been practically the
only one for Canadian lambs outside of Can
ada.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the
Worlds Fair decided to send the following
of the Exposition: Major Hanley, Chief of
the Bureau of Publicity and Promotion;
Commissioner j. NJ. Waller, of Connecticut;
Secretary Butterworth, of Ohio; Hon. Carl
Schurz, of New York, and ex-senator Eustis,
of Louisiana.
AT Yesterdays session of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, at Spokane Falls,
Wash, in the hearing of the complaint of
the Merchants Union, of Spokane, the point
upon which witnesses were mainly exam
ined was the ocean competition which the
roads have to meet at their |
Pacific coast terminals 1t was shown to be |
small.
in response to a letter from Mr.. Montagu,
Member of Parliament, asking him to Join in |
for Russian Hebrews the rights ac-
corded to Mohammedan subjects of the Car,
Mr. Gladstone writes that the pressure of |
opinion of the civilized world, based upon |
facts, is the best mode of pro- |
ceeding. He says he has no personal in |
f1uence with the Russian Government, such |
as he once enjoyed. In concluding, Mr.. |
Gladstone expresses the hope that the Sui |
tan of Turkey will support the scheme for |
the settlement of the Hebrews in Palestine. |