Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-22
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| Missouri fruit prospects are excellent.
Influenza is raging in London, Leeds and
| Sheffield.
The Worlds Fair strike has suspended all
| work at Jackson Park.
Malvern Hill battlefield has been sold to
| William FL. Hale. Of New York City.
The Democratic caucus at Tallahassee, Fla,
| is still unable to nominate a Senatorial candi-
| date.
Union cigarmakers of Chicago threaten to
| strike If they are not granted an advance in
wages.
The funeral of the late Bishop Gilmour
took place ar st. Johns Cathedral. Cleveland,
yesterday.
Continued bad weather has damaged corn
prospects in Kansas, and farmers are dis
couraged.
Most of the Detroit street car lines are tied
up. A strike is on and the strikers are inclined
to be riotous.
While at San Antonio Secretary Rusk re-
scinded his order moving the cattle quaran-
tine line southwark.
Gladstone has been suffering from a fall
in the street, which happened a few days before
the death of Earl Granville.
Paris advices say that Baron Hirsch has
bought a large tract of Pennsylvania land, on
which he will place Hebrew colony.
ALI Hebrews in St Petersburg have been
leave by May l. This report comes from
Vienna.
John c. Calhoun, q well-known naturalist
Of Taunton, Mass. fell from a cliff into the
sea near Placentia, Newfoundland, and was
drowned.
Thirteen hundred immigrants are detained
at quarantine at New York. The health au-
thorites are trying to stamp out germs OF ty-
phus fever and smallpox.
in the coming art exhibition in London of
the Royal Academy the prospects are that ar
lists new to fame will be more than ever
crowded out by the old masters.
Every city in Montana but one where party
lines were drawn was carried by the Republi-
cans in Monday municipal elections. In Butte
the Democrats elect most Of their candidates.
-o'Malley talks defiantly. He maintains the
Italians did not kill Chief Hennessy at New
Orleans. The Italian consul claims to have
proof that all but two of the lynched men were
Italian citizens.
The story telegraphed from New York that
Ann O'Delia Diss Debar was coming to Cali
fornia under the patronage of Senator Stan
ford, is Indignantly denied by both Senator
Stanford and his wife.
The negro William Muscoe. who was hanged
at Charlottesville Va, yesterday, confessed
ms CRIME at the last moment. He was very
IN the. Singing at his scaffold.
"A train on the Staten Island Rapid Transit
Railway ran into an open drawbridge Monday
night, and though crowded with passengers no
one was seriously hurt. The accident was due
TO the carelessness of the engineer.
-Ignatius Donnelly, chairman of a special
committee reported to the Minnesota Legisla-
ture in its expiring hours, that bankers had
raised S25, ,0G0 to defeat the usury law, a large
part he believed having been corruptly used.
The gentlemen of the Union League who
have quietly been raising purse Of sl00 900 to
be given to the two daughters of the late Gen.
eral Sherman, as token of the respect in
which their father was held were greatly an
noyed by the publication of their plan. They
are afraid that the Shermans will now refuse
to receive this fund, just they refused the
other one. Nearly $4,000 has already been
raised.