Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
me farmers Of Illinois need rain.

| The farmers of Illinois need rain.
twenty-five persons were killed in the
Cordova revolt in Buenos Ayres.
Fannie Jackson, Is years old, tried to
poison her father near Augusta on Sunday
because he had whipped her.
The President has issued an executive
| order closing all the executive departments
next saturday, Decoration Day.
Memorial services in honor of Lovejoy,
the famous Abolitionist, were held at Alton,
H., where he was born, last Sunday.
| The steamship veendam, from Rotter,
dam, which has been, reported as seen at sea
disabled, arrived at New York yesterday.
Senior Carvalha's mission to Paris from
| PORTUGAL is for the purpose of trying to en-
force the completion of the proposed loan.
The Pope has ordered that all newspaper
comments on his latest encyclical, especially
4 sent to him.
! -Forty-six military officers have been ar
rested in st. Petersburg in the past fortnight
for criticising the degradation of Grand
Duke Michael
| M. Bougoureau delivered an address at
! the anniversary of the American students'
| Association, Saturday, in which he compli-
| mented the American artists.
The cause of the recent explosion at
Rome shows that the magazine was largely
overloaded, and that the vibration of q rail-
road train caused the explosion.
Representatives of the Japanese Govern
ment have been in negotiation with the
Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, for the
construction of a torpedo cruiser
David Meeker, pioneer and former
partner of Senator Stanford, died at San
r. rTancisco aanc sunday. He came to California
"A writer in the European Messenger says
that ruin is bound to overtake the Russian
Empire, because gold is not needed in g.
country where paper is the forced circula-
ton.
Margaret Mulhaney died in New York
SUNDAY. Sheweighed $50 pounds and it re-
Quired two graves in which to bury the
body, whichwas enclosed in double-sized
coffin.
Edward Zaiser, living on South Hill, Bur
ISingson, La, heard burglar in his house
into burly fellow, who shot him in the
abdomen fatally and then escaped.
To celebrate the visit of the Czarevitch
to Siberia an imperial decree has been issued
authorizing the Siberian Governors to remit
to ameliorate the condition of worthy con-
victs.
Valuable court records were destroyed
In the recent big fire at Jacksonville, Fla,
9uence. Many of the papers dated back to
l740, among them being old Spanish records
which can never be replaced.
-Telegrams from Rio Janeiro say that,
owing 20 the increase OF exchange on Lon
don, the Brazilian Governments decree
ordering that customs duties be levied in
gold has been rescinded, but that the duties
have been increased 8 per cent.
-Lige Holland and Andrew Pickem and
their wives, the four colored persons who
are in Jail in connection with the death of
Miss Daisy Reynolds, the Wiltshire o.,
school teacher, barely escaped being lynched
by Wiltshire mob early Sunday morning.
The memorial services of Edwin Hum
phrey Post, No. 104, G. A. R., at Higham,
Mass, Sunday, were made memorable by
being held in the First Parish meeting
house, the Oldest church in the United
States, and having as orator the Rev. John
F. Lindsay, of st. Paul's Church, Boston, an
ex-Confederate.