Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-12
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The New Hampshire Legislature has ad-
journed.
Texas Free Thinkers are in session In San
Antonio.
Rain fell continuously for SO hours at Bur
lington, Ia.
The postofacs at olaths, Kan. was robbed
Friday night
-Italys army is said to be in better condition
than the navy.
Jay Gould and party spent yesterday In
Fort Worth, Tex.
The London Times and Standard uphold
the opium traffic.
The cause of General strongs death in
Italy was apoplexy.
quarts rich in old has been discovered In
the Cherokee strip.
AN unusual crop Of maple sap is being
gathered in II Illinois.
The Lock wood antitrust bill has passed
the House at ST. Paul
The litigation of the Great Western Tels-
graph Company has been revived.
Plague, ia mine and rebellion combine to
make the people Of Central Abyssinia miser.
able.
The m elon crop at Hampstead, Tex, has
been dam aged or destroyed by hail and rain
storm.
There has been no material change in Cen
er al Spin ola's condition since yesterday. He
is still very sick.
Seven prisoners cut off a window bar in the
United States Jail at Ardmore, I T., Friday
night and escaped,
-Switchmen in the Burlington yards ar Den.
yer stru ok yesterday, charging unfairness on
the part OF the company.
Two aged people in Waukesha Wis, Mr..
and Mrs. Christian Preuss, were suHoc2ted at
their home by coal gas.
-Lieutenant Stairs, of the Stanley e1pedi.
ton. has been appointed Captain Of Welsh
regiment in Nova Scotia.
The notorious Charles Jones, known as .
coun terfeiter in every State in the Union, ID
under arrest in st. Louis.
The Hompe railroad bill will probably
pass the Minnesota Senate. It has already
passed the lower House.
The Wisconsin Senate has passed the
Democratic Congressional apportionment bill
by strictly party vote.
"A well-known stockdealer of Muncie. Ind.
Lewis B. Clark, has been missing since March
30. Foul play is suspected.
British troops are advancing rapidly against
Manipur to the relief of the garrison there. A
decisive battle is expected.
Samuel Fisher was the only one of the in
dicted New York pool sellers to be convicted.
The other six were acquitted
The home of the widow of President Polk.
at Nashville is advertised to be sold for the
non payment of 81, 600 in taxes.
The Chamber of Commerce and Mining
Exchange, OF Salt Lake City, lndorses the pro-
posed deep mine exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
Chief Admiral Solier and several Argentine
Generals. who signed manifesto against the
Mitre-Roca coalition, have been imprisoned.
Tenants on one of the Linn erick county
estates have been starved out of the ''plan of
campaign" and will 60 back on the landlords
terms.
The Wisconsin Assembly has Indefinitely
postponed the two co-employe bills. This pre-
vents the passage OF a co-employe bill at this
session.
The small appropriations for the South
Dakota University have compelled the rssigna-
tions of nine instructors. There are no funds
to pay their salaries.
"A dozen bandits near Laredo on the Mex
lean Central Railroad, attacked an express
wagon, killing the driver and express clerk,
and made away with nearly $500 in money.
The new Autralian Constitution will be
su omitted to a convention in each colony, and
if three of them accept it the Imperial Govern
meut will be asked TO establish the new re-
gime.
General Miguel Lopez, who. it is said, be-
trayed Maximilian to the Juarez forces at
Querataro was bitten by mad dog Wednes-
day. and is now undergoing the Pasteur treat
ment.
The g. A. R. Post at Rondout, N. Y.
will investigate the recent flag outrage at LIE
Fevre Falls, committed by Italians The vet
erans are determined to bring the aliens to
justice.
Tho steamship companies have finally
awakened TO realization that the new i'm
migration law Is to be enforced, and the New
York agents have agreed to return the de-
barred immigrants.
The wealthy Kansas City kleptomaniac,
Carrie 3. Ellsworth, has been arrested by order
of the grand jury. after the victimized mer-
chants had refused to prosecute her. Her
merchant father went on her bond,
The court at Sunderland, Eng, has granted
a summons against Mr.. Storey on charge OF
perjury The crime is alleged to have been
committed in his charge against the police OK
assault IN connection with the silk strike.
-Five-year-old Eddie Lips, of Hart, Mich,
was lost in the forest Monday. Three hundred
men searched the woods in vain. Bear tracks
were found. and 1t is surm1Sed the little one
found resting place in the brute's stomach.
The Independents cast more votes at last
Tuesdays St. Louis election than the Repub-
lcans, and under the Australian law the Re-
pubicans therefore lose their right to judges
and clerks of election when the next general
election occurs.
"A call for meeting in st. Louis Of the
Archbishops and Bishops of the United States.
to complete arraDgemen ents for the golden jubi-
bee of the Most Rev. Peter Kenrick, Arch
bishop of st. Louis, and to nominate him for
Cardinal, will be issued.
The, Collector of Customs at Pembroke
Ont, has seized 100 barrels of pork shipped
from Detroit. This pork was entered as mess
pork, liable to pay only ~ cents per pound, or
So per barrel duty. and not containing more
than ten pieces to the barrel
Thomas Kelly, barber, walked up to
policeman at Albuquerque, N. NJ, Thursday
evening, announced that he had shot a man
named Harvel In Denver Sunday night. and |
gave himself up. The tragedy was the result |
of drunken brawl over girl. |
"A lumber-yard foreman at East Atchf- |
son, Mo-, has been arrested for violating the |
Interstate Com Law in 1882 He is |
charged with bribing the Railway Inspection |
Association to certify to short weights on |
freights, thus defrauding the railroads.
Leon We'll. manager of the Buckeye Iron |
and Metal Company, and a well-known citizen |
was found dead in bed at the Hollenden Hotel
at Cleveland Friday night. 1t is supposed he
committed suicide. He had been dead for 48
hours before the hotel people discovered his
body.
Hon. George E. Foster Canadian Minister
of Finance, says that the Bering Sea negotla-
tions are proceeding separately. with good pros