Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-13
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

/ Alaska Indians in large numbers have
the grip.
The Berlin treaty is said not to work
well in Samoa.
The Yardmasters' Association closed its
session at Toledo Thursday.
DE Lesseps does not fear the threatened
Panama Canal prosecutions.
The Italian earthquake demolished
many more houses Thursday.
The estimate of the Austrian Budget
Committee shows a surplus of 81, ,S92, ,260.
Montreal was deluged by several success
sive thunder storms Thursday afternoon.
The Argentine Senate will reconsider the
bill to suspend gold payment for six months,
The debate in the Prussian Diet on the
corn duties raised the price of grain in Ber-
lin.
Tasmania has now prohibited seal catch
ing within extensive limits in the South
Pacific.
Samoan natives are agitating the meas
ure of deposing Malietoa and seating
Mataafa on the throne.
Fresh anti-European riots have occurred
in China. More Christian missi, ms have
been looted and burned.
The Manlker-simpson-Ca Methodist
Church scandal at Chattanooga will come on
trial in the Circuit Court
Three white men who had been peddling
whisky in the Sac and Fox country were
killed by Indians Tuesday.
The conference Worlds Fair exhibit bill,
appropriating $500, 900, has finally passed both
houses of the Illinois Legislature.
The law compelling the use on railroad
trains of separate coaches for white and
colored people went into effect in Tennessee
yesterday.
The Michigan Governors veto of the G.
A r. entertainment bill was sustained in
the Lower House of the Legislature by
strict party vote.
The eight-hour law passed by the Kansas
Legislature will cause the closing of all
State institutions unless special arrange
ments are made.
The one hundred and thirty-fifth COM
mencement of the University of Pennsylva-
mia was held Thursday, and 145 students re-
ceived their degrees.
The steamer Kite, with Lieutenant
Peary's Greenland expedition, has just been
heard of from North Sidney, C. b. where it
halted to coal. All well.
Among the schemes endorsed by the
Otter Tail County Mimi, Farmers ALI
ance was one to join with railway employees
in building a road from Duluth across the
State.
During the big landslide on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, near Atchison, O whole ten
acre tract slid down a hill. The land con-
tanned a farmhouse, several hundred trees
and part of wheat field.
DIR. Whitney sewed up wound for Will
lam White, fruit peddler at Chicago. The
man could only pay part of the bill, so the
the physician undid his work by ripping
open the wound The doctor was arrested
"A tank of gasoline exploded on the
tracks of the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road at Wilder's Station, near Newport KY,
early yesterday morning. The explosion
awoke every sleeper in the Kentucky
suburbs of Cincinnati.
The members of an expedition to Alaska
to prospect for minerals have returned to
San Francisco after suffering great hard
ships. One of their number, James Ingram
of San Diego died of starvation and his body
was devoured by wolves.
j. W. Harris, Superintendent of the
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, at
Knightstown, Ind, committed suicide Thurs.
day at the st. Charles HOTEL New Orleans,
by cutting his throat with pocket knife 1t
is thought he was deranged.
The brig Sea Waif LETT Apia Nav l with
a cargo of wreckage from the vessels sunk
in the hurricane of March, 1889, and the
drowned at that time. Their remains will
be inferred at Mare Island, Cal.
Henry Miller, convicted in the United
States Court at Florence, on the 18th ult, of
robbing sthe United States mail between
Florence and Casa Grande, and sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment at hard labor, has
escaped from his sleeping guards, after pick
ing their pockets.
The art museum of the Leland Stanford
University will soon receive a valuable col
lection of Russian minerals, presented by
the Car to Senator Stanford. 1t includes
800 specimens, valued at $4,000. In return
Senator Stanford will send to the Gar
complete collection of California minerals
Chief Justice Gooding, of Arizona, has
Just decided that the Edmunds act. and
other acts of Congress levelled at polygamy
and unlawful coha bitation, apply to Arizona
and all the Territories, and place them
under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
United States, except in the District of Col
umbia.
The Cherokees propose to trv to make
the haycutters in the Strip pay so cents a ton
for hay and the cattle men 81 a head tax
Both have refused to pay anything. The In
dams have ordered out their police, and will
call upon the United States to help them
drive the cattle men and hay men off the
strip if they do not pay up.
Mr.. Phelps, the Collector of the Port at
San Francisco, denies having made a state
ment to the effect that the Struggled goods |
brought to this port by the United States |
steamship Omaha had been released from |
control OF the Collector upon payment of |
duty by way of fine. The Japanese goods |
are now in the seizure room of the Custom |
House. and no fines have been paid.