Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-30
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chicago City Railroad stock is booming
Brazilian imperialists are said to be busy
| just now.
The Ministerial Union of Baltimore ha.
! declared war on Sunday funerals.
The fall of derrick on the Worlds Fail
grounds Monday killed two carpenters.
The Governor of Victoria, Australia,
thinks federation is only delayed, not de-
feated.
Some of the walls on the site of the big
Chattanooga fire fell Monday, badly bruising
| six workmen.
Joseph Richard Cox, an NJ. P, has col.
lected f25, 900 in Australia for the eyicted
Irish tenant fund.
Two Englishmen are arranging to bring
over to the Worlds Fair excursions OF
British workingmen.
Indians are still trioting on the Stock
bridge reservation. These redskins have
abandoned the tribal system.
"A design for the proposed monument to
New Orleans assassinated Chief of Police
Hennessey has been accepted.
-MontreaTs wholesale tweed and wooden
firm, Mills & McDougall, has called meet
ing of its creditors. Debts about S25OOOO.
Lord Randolph Churchill is said to be an
aspirant FOR the British mission iu Paris
made vacant by the death of Lord Lytton.
DIR. Won Holleben, now German Minister
to Japan, will be transferred to Washing
some time ago.
sion at Nagpur, India, "The Town OF Ser
pents." The chairman, in his opening ad-
dress, con. .plimented British rule.
The Imperial Hotel, Baltimore, formerly
the st. Clair, which was the most noted
resort for the theatrical people in the South,
is now in the hands of Sheriff's bailiffs.
The Illinois Board of Live Stock Com
missiOners have decided that lumDlaw in
cattle is dangerously contagious, and that
animals attacked with it are unfit for food.
Juan n. Navarro, Chief Engineer of the
Land Survey Company, and son of the Mex
ican Consul General in New York, was shot
recently in the Mexican State of Chiapas,
and is in a critical condition.
Instead of giving q court banquet to his
nobility during the opening of the new hall
at Lacken, the King of Belgium dedicated
the building with supper to the 500 work
men who built it. Each man was presented
with sweetmeats, a bottle of wine and sum
OF money.
Trouble is brewing between the East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia Railway
Company and its telegraphers. The telegra-
pliers claim that the railway authorities dis
charge an operator as soon as they learn
that he belongs to the Order of Railway
Telegraphers.
When the steamship Bothnia re ached
Queenstown Monday Scotland Yard detec-
tives searched her for Mrs. Osborne, but
failed to find her. 1t is thought probable
that Mrs. Osborne caught the City of Paris
at Queenstown last Thursday and is now on
her way to the United States.
Leah Benjamin McGregor, who in COM
pany with her young husband. J. Bert Nc
Gregor. took morphine at the Hotel Ramona,
at Los Angeles, Sunday night, with suicidal
intent, died Monday night. 1t is row be-
lieved that McGregor first took the poison
and then forced his wife to take the deadly
dose.
The British steamer Ocean Queen, which
has arrived at Norfolk, Va, encountered a
terrific gale in midocean, and four of her
crew was lost. The Captain reported sight
ing a steamer flying flag of distress, but
owing to dense fog he was unable to go to
her rescue He is positive the vessel was
Captain Evans Gordon has accomplished
recently in Cashmere, in the northern part
of India. one of the most remarkable feats of
horseback travel ever performed. He had
occasion TO go from Leh to Srinagar, a dis
tance of 250 miles, by the only route between
those points. He made the distance in Al
hours under great difficulties.
The Minister of Customs has inflicted a
fine of $50 on Chinaman at Victoria, B. c.,
for endeavoring to defraud the department
by impersonating another individual, with |
4 view to obtaining q permit to return to |
Canada. The sum charged for a permit is |
81 and the practice of the heathen Chinee is |
10 send this to friends in China who may be |
coming to Canada. and by this means avoid |
paying the poll tax of S..