Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-16
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
potted fever is spreading in Texas.

The Upper Michigan Straits are clear.
Nebraska farmers have sown most Of theil
small grain.
The news of the Manipur massacre made
Queen Victoria i'll.
Five persons lost their lives in a London
fire yesterday
Buffalo Bill and his Indians arrived in
Antwerp yesterday.
The faculty for the new Stanford University
at Palo Alto, Cal, is nearly complete.
The death of Charles w. White, a promin.
ent hotel man at Burlington, Ia, turns out to
be suicide.
The statement that Stanley has been ap-
pointed Governor of the Kongo State has been
officially denied.
The Democrats had a walkover in the city
charter election at Albany. N. Y, having things
all their own way.
The St Clair river is completely blocked
with Ice. Such blockade at this season was
never known before.
President Harrison will attend the launch
ing of the coast defense vessel Monterey at
San Francisco on the 18th.
Three hundred union lathers have struck
for an advance in wages of from so to rs cents
day. Some employers have yielded.
Chicago kindergarten educators are pre-
pairing to celebrate the birthday of Froebel,
the founder of their system, on the 21st
All the foreign ministers in Madrid attend
ed the meeting of the International conference
for the protection of industrial property.
Many students at the University at Cincin-
natl were bruised and scratched in an inter
class war over flags during the last few days.
"A mass meeting of lumbermen at Eau
Claire Wis. Tuesday night. demanded that their
working day be shortened from IL to 10 hours.
The eleventh session of the National Farm
ers' Congress will be held in Sedalia, NO., No
vember 10. An excursion to Galveston is on the
programme.
The liabilities of Miss Grace Hawthorne,
the American actress who was recently de.
clared bankrupt in London, amount to s7Y, ,9l5
with no assets.
The race difficulty at Charlotte, n. c., has
been greatly exaggerated. All has been quiet
since Monday morning. Brandham, the negro,
will not be lynched.
Jesse Lockwood, aged TO- of White Plat
n. Y, while insane from grip. beat his wife to
death with club. saying the Lord had COM
maDded him to do So
Tho Democrats of Ell Paso Tex, won their
municipal election against the combined forces
of the Republicans, Independents and Union
Labor people on one ticket.
Bishop Racine. of Sherbrooke. Quebec, has
issued an encyclical letter urging The French
Canadians to go to the new districts of the
province, instead of the United States.
Fifty human skeletons found near Corpus
Christi, Tex, are said to be those of BODY of
Confederate soldiers who deserted and were
captured there and executed on the spot.
The Bureau of Statistics reports that the
exports of breadstuffs from the United States
during March last were Sl2 3S2, l30, against S15-
1929 during the same month of the preceding
year.
The ambition in life of DR.. Arthur vokes,
of fChicago. was to discover specific for Bright's
disease. He believed he had succeeded; but
finding his mistake, he took morphine Tuesday
night and died.
Dispatches from Milwaukee confirm the
rumor that Nolan Hathaway, of Chicago and
Miss Henrietta Bowen, the millionairess of
Delphi Ind, were secretly married in that city
on FebruaryS.
Settlers at Rola and st. John, N D., ap-
peal for soldiers and fort. They have been
terroriZed and their live stock run off by
band of 200 Indians. The settlers are arming
for their own protection.
The Grand Trunk ferry boat Huron has
been stuck in the ice at Port Huron with two
trainloads since 10 o'clock Tuesday night.
tug boat managed tD get close enough to her
yesterday morning to deliver food to the half
victims.
in spite OF the peaceful utterances of Gov
ernment officials of Europe everybody knows
that Russia is making extensive preparations
Tor war, and that her rivals are making counter
for the great struggle which must
sooner or later take place.
John H. Parnell, who conducts an ex-
tensive fruit farm near West Point, Ga, has
Charles Stewart Parnell. 1t is said by those in
his confidence that he is among the number
slated by his brother to stand for Parliament.
The steamer Oregon. which arrived at Port
land, Me-, from Liverpool Tuesday, had Is pas
sengers only. having landed nearly 500 emf |
the. United States by rail. They disembarked |
at Halifax to avoid the new immigration law, |