Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Gladstone is slowly improving.
Chicago Odd Fellows will build 81 ,OOO-
| 600 temple.
Austria will construct more forts on the
Russian frontier.
Work has been resumed on Chicago's
natural gas pipe line.
Bismarck is said to be suffering from
rheumatism of the spine.
The rise of the Nile is taking place un-
usually early in the season.
"A new cut in lake and rail rates is an
nounced from Minneapolis
The New Brunswick forest fires have
been extinguished by rain.
Iowa miners are about ready to give up
their strike for an eight-hour day.
Russia will have sham warfare in 1892, to
be directed by the Gar in person.
-Rumored that the Anaconda mine has
been sold to Rothschild syndicate.
The selection of Mr.. Abbott as the Do
minion Premier gives satisfaction in En-
gland.
The strike of Chicago architectural iron
workers began yesterday morning as an
nounced.
"A big yellow mad dog made things lively
on Briggs street, Brooklyn, Saturday until it
was killed.
The Portuguese Minister of the Interior
is preparing bill to prevent Portuguese en-
igration to America.
The Princess of Wales has started a SUBJ
scription for the benefit of Mrs. Grimwood,
OF Man1pur massacre fame.
The lnman line steamship City of Rich
mond, which was on fire in nlid-ocean
arrived safely at Liverpool.
Philadelphia hom9opaths will retaliate
against life insurance companies for employ
ing only allopathic physicians.
Seven tons of block tin, the product of
the Temescal mines in Southern california.
have been received at San Francisco.
Tacoma, Wash, is effectuallv enforcing
its Sunday closing law. Even restaurants
and news stands are locked up on the holy
day.
The report of the massacre by African
natives of a French expedition, and that
the victims were devoured, turns out to be
fake.
Mrs. Richardson, wife Of an eminent
physician, has given 100000 to the Medical
Department of the Tulne University, in
New Orleans.
Tho German professors, Virchow and
Mommsen, accuse German anti-Semitism of
being the origin of the Russian persecution
of the Hebrews.
The tugboat F. W. Devol ran into and
sank the yacht Emelia in the Hudson river
yesterday. Frank Jenkins and William H.
Bohan were drowned.
Many people in the southwestern part of
the Indian Territory have been shut off
from communication with the outside world
by the Red river flood.
The Emperor William is on the point of
purchasing Forsteck, a beautiful country
seat near kiel, which formerly belonged to
the brother-in-law of Carl Schurz
There is an active campaign in progress
for the chieftaincy of the Cherokee Nation.
Three parties are in the field. The election
takes place the first Monday in August.
Not only Hebrews, but Baptists and
StundiSts have been expelled from the eau
casus and deprived of their children. The
htter are to be educated in the Greek faith.
The National Board of Control of the
Worlds Fair has confirmed Director General
Davis appointment of Frederick j. Skif, of
Denver, as Chief of the Bureau of Mines and
Mining.
"A. D. Cooley and C. H. Anderson, of
Cedar Rapids, Ia, and two young ladies of
Rockford, went out boat riding at Rockford
Sunday evening. The boat capsized and all
were drowned.
Heat expanding the rails was the cause
of passenger trains wreck on the Milwau-
kee and Northern Railway near Chiffon,
Wis, yesterday morning. Several persons
were slightly injured.
Rev. Z. NJ. Smith, pastor of a Reformed
Presbyterian Church in Baltimore has re-
signed and will join the regular Presby-
terian Church. The proceedings of the
Synod at Pittsburg impelled him to this
course.
Sam Small claims to have been misrepre-
sented- He says he was not expelled by the
presidency of Utah University and that no
charge was preferred against him, as his
accounts were all right.
"A woodsman named Ben Hurd. in the
Black Forest, near W illiamsport, was attacked
by black mother-bear last Thursday, and
in the animals embrace every stitch of his
clothing was torn off. Help arrived Just in
time to save his life, the animal being dis
patched with single blow of an ak in the
hands of James Callahan, a bark peeler.
While the Dearborn street bridge in
Chicago was open yesterday morning to al
low barge to pass, a man drove south over
the viaduct at full speed. He tried to stop,
but man, horse and buggy went over the
brink into the river. The man was not seen
again and the horse was drowned The
police identified the horse and buggy as
belonging to Mr.. Henderson. The theft of
the rig had been reported to the police and
they believe the drowned man to be the
thief.
The speech of Premier di Rudini in the
Senate was incorrectly reported According
to the published reports of his remarks the
Premier said that the Dreibund imposed no
obligations in regard to armaments. What
he really did say was this: ''The policy of the
alliance does not permit us to maintain
modest ornaments. Not only does the Drei-
bund impose obligations upon us in regard
to our armaments, but it Is impossible for
any Italian minister not to contract ties as
fur s Our military UOlfcv Is c0noarued