Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Austria will increase its navy.
Deaths from cholera in Mecca average 80
daily
The Manchester Ship Canal is completed
and in use.
"A railroad will be built from Pierre, S. D.,
to Denver.
Texas fever is killing off cattle in the
Cherokee Nation.
The Canadian gulf fisheries are reported
to be total failure.
Edward Gripper & Son, a large grain firm
of London, has failed.
Salvador is preparing for reciprocity
with the United States.
Italy will take part in the Worlds Fair,
but not officially, it is said.
The United States Bering Sea Commis-
sioners have sailed for Alaska.
"A Denver syndicate has bought all the
leading Colorado tin mines for $500 900. =,
Ex-senator ingalls, favors and predicts
the denomination of President Harrison.
"A new installment of gold-S3O0, ,OO0-has
been ordered for shipment to Europe to-
day.
THE United Scandinavian Singers of
America are holding a saengerfest in Mime
apolis.
Baron Hirsch will form great English
company to carry out his Hebrew emigra-
tion scheme.
Captain O'Shea's counsel denies that
Parnell has paid the costs of the captains
divorce suit.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach says oyer-pro-
duction caused the shutdown in Welsh tin
plate mines.
Miners of Mclean county, ILL.,, are out on
strike for the second time this season.
They demand higher wages.
-Fhe number of pauper immigrants re-
turned to Europe from New York yesterday,
exceeds raCOrdS-8l
A rain storm in Duluth Thursday after
noon was so severe that two entire business
blocks must be thoroughly repaired.
st. Petersburg newspapers say the rela-
tions between Germany and Russia are
greatly strained by the renewal of the Drei-
bund.
Suffering peasants of Mimi -Novgorod.
Russia, petition the Governments for the
loan of S., l25,0O0 for the purchase of seeds
and bread.
British Columbian sealers complain Bit
terly to the Br tish Commissioners of the
losses they say they will sustain by the clos
ure OF Bering Sea.
mouth, England, to entertain the officers of
the French fleet, when the proposed visit of
war-ships is made.
The deal between the Chicago Junction
Railway and the Union Stockyards Company
and the Chicago packers, Armour, Morris,
swift, and others is of.
Prof. Snow, who was sent to Colorado to
investigate, reports that the locusts are now
overwhelming part of that State, will prob
ably not invade Kansas.
.-Twenty-eight immigrants, mostly Rus
sian Hebrews, were not allowed to land at
Boston Thursday, on the ground that they
might become public charges.
Senator Carlisle is indignant at the re-
port circulated against him that he has re-
ceived house and lot for his opposition to
the proposed new constitution of Kentucky.
An explosion of gas occurred Thursday
in q coiliery at Pont-y-Prid, Wales. Manager
Abraham, cousin of William Abraham,
Liberal member of the House of Commons,
was killed.
The Yellow Pine Lumber Association, of
Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, met yes
terday with most of the delegates from Ala
bama, at Birmingham, and resolved to allow
for the next 80 days a reduction of 10 per
cent from the price list.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
awarded silver medal to Mabel Mason,
daughter of the keeper of the Mamajuda
Lake Erie, for heroic conduct in
saving Thomas Jones from drowning in the
Detroit river, May II, 1890.
The National Farmers Alliance will not
hold its encampment near Baltimore in Sep
tember. The encampment will be held there
every year, certainly for the next
five years, and it is probable that site will
be purchased. and the institution located
permanently.
McCune returned Thursday evening to st.
Louis, from nine days trip in Southeastern
where they have beeu hunting
among the bayous, lagoons and canebrakes
for moonshiners. They brought back with
them two prisoners, Theodore and Thomas
Patton. The prisoners confessed to selling
illicit whisky, but deny that they manu-
factured it.