Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-25
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
France and Greece are negotiating a

France and Greece are negotiating a
| commercial treaty. -st-
-Rumored that Prince Albert Victor will
be the next Viceroy of India.
The natives OF Pahan, a Malay State, are
in revolt against British rule.
Tho new Chief of the Cherokees, to suc-
ceed ]. D. Mayes, deceased, is c. j. Harris.
The remains OF the late Senator Plumb.
| were buried at Cinporia, KAN, yesterday.
1t is said the German Government will
try to check the influx of the rural popula-
tions into towns.
Governor Pennoyer, Of Oregon, thinks
Flower and Bland would sound well as 8
Presidential ticket.
Uncle Sam is said to be trying to secure
a coaling station In the Gallapator Islands,
belonging to Ecuador.
General Roca has reiterated his declara-
tion that he will not be a candidate for the
Argentine Presidency.
The King of Belgium will give dinner
to 500 workmen who have been labor1ng on
the new royal chateau.
The Euening Journal, of st: Johns, N. F.,
charges Americans with shady practices to
secure herring at low prices.
The first electric street cars in South
America will soon be running in Panama.
English capitalists are building the tracks.
Sixty members of an exploring expedi-
tion in South Africa were killed by powder
explosion. Countinhos, the leader, Is among
the dead.
week. interfering with traffic and causing
number of fatal accidents, is said to be the
worst for ten years.
The Car is said to be displeased at
Frances headlong course in the Bulgarian
quarrel, as tending to hurry Turkey into the
arms of the Dreibund.
The London LAWYERS of Tom O'Brien. the
bunco-steerer Of Albany, n. Y, are using
every effort to prevent his extradition, in
the proceedings now in progress.
The bullion in the Bank OF England de-
creased Ell, IL, coo during the past week. The
proportion Of the Bank of Englands reserve
to liability which last week was 1880 per
cent is now 40.05 per cent.
Surgeon Major Breton. who on Septem-
ber 2s shot and killed q dentist named Gem
iSset at Courbovoie, was sentenced Wednes-
DAY at Paris to two years imprisonment
without military degradation.
The Harbor Grace Standard, New.
foundland newspaper, says: "The strained
relations brought about by the recent tariff
issues have given tho great, burning uues-
ton of confederation its coup de grace"
The North Dakota State Alliance decided
not to unite with the Peoples party; but the
members held an informal meeting after
Adjournment and decided to send delegates
to the Peoples party national convention.
The Dartmouth Mills. Boston, manufac-
turers of wooiens. have assigned. The cap
ital stock of the company is $lOO, 00O all pa id
in. 1t is expected that the corporation will
have no difficulty in effecting nm amicable
adjustment and going on with business.
Papers are being served in ejecrment
suits, Mt West Superior, against all of the
Connor's Point squatters, by parties who
claim to hold the fee to the land. The
plaintiffs claim a record title, and the suits
are the elimination of q long-standing
quarrel and will be the test cases in litiga.
ton involving more than 1000 persons and
their homes.
District Attorney James Mckenzie
Semple, of New York City, died at his resi-
dence yesterday morning. Mr.. Semple, who
had been ailng for some time with stomach
troubles, underwent an operation Wednes-
day night and a few hours later expired
from the effects of it. The operation was
laparotomy. MI. Semple was So years old
and native of Montgomery, Ala. His
father is n well-known judge of that CITY.
and member of the Democratic National
Committee.
AT Augusta, Kan, Wednesday, William
Rhoades mortaliy wounded his divorced wife
and then shot himself Both were quite
young and last year ran away from home to
ret married. The boys parents never be-
came reconciled to the MARRIAGE, and last
summer they induced their son to apply for
a divorce. This he secured. The latter then
sued the parents for damages for alternating
her husbands affections and won her case
After the verdict had been rendered Rhoades
tried conciliation, and asked the girl to
marry him again, but she refused, and the
shooting followed.