Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

losing their fight.
Sitting Bulls cabin will be exhibited at
the Worlds Fair.
The ravages of cholera in Damascus show
an enormous increase.
-Slavin, the pugilist has been arrested and
fined IN England as a common drunk.
Potatoes are among the things forbidden
to be exported by the new Russian ukase
-Copious rains have just extinguished the
prairie fires and put an end to the drought
IN the Indian Territory.
The survivors in one famine-stricken
province in Russia are too weak from starva-
tion to bury their own dead.
Lady Somerset, a peeress and English
temperance reformer, addressed u w. U L.
U. meeting in Chicago Sunday night.
in consequence of the recent accident to
fishing crafts, the heavy gun practice at
Plymouth, England, has been stopped.
Winter is setting in with unusual Sc
verify in Europe. Heavy SHOWS have fallen
Greece.
The Secretary of Building Association
at Evansville, Ind, John L. Morton, is
charged with being short in his accounts
about 81, 700.
The Greek Church Synod<in Russian
Trans-Caucasia are banishing to the noun
tain districts Protestant heads of families
by the hundreds.
The latest lynching in the South occurred
in Mitchell county, Ga. when Murderer
Larkin Mix was taken from the Jail at Meigs
and hanged by the mob.
wrecked by gale in the lower end OF Lake
Erie. The crew was probably saved. as
there were number of vessels in the vi
cinity.
Some ladies of Cork have sent to America
a wreath made of laurel, ivy, shamrOcks and
violets from Mr.. Parnells grave. The
wreath will be given to Mr.. Parnells
mother.
Guinea have been murdered by natives. A
number of other white men are reported to
have fallen victims to native enmity in the
same region.
-Four boys between Il and Is years old,
named John Clarkson, Peter Hewis, Leo
Johnston and William Alliston, were
drowned Sunday through the upsetting of
sailboat in squal.
"A Chicago and Alton train containing
Governor Fifer and 200 other passengers
was derailed by running into an open switch
near Alton Sunday. The engineers prompt
ness saved the train.
"A farmer near Ocouto, Wis, saw three
men removing spikes and fish plates. The
train, which came to a stop just as the front
trucks left the track where the rails had
been spread.
Sam Howell, a near relative of Clark
Howell, editor OF the Atlanta Constitution
and Speaker of the Georgia House of Repre-
sentatives, has eloped with Miss Nina Merch
a saleswoman in q drygoods store at Mid
dlesboro, KY.
Roman newspapers are unanimous in the
opinion that the new opera, "Amico Fritz"
surpasses rCavalleria Rusticana," and that
it is the work of a born genius. The COM
poser, Mascagnf, in an interview during the
performance said that he was SO nervous
that he had eaten nothing for two days, and
he felt like being in dream when called be-
fore the curtain.
An attempt to destroy large amount of
property was made at Clarksburg yesterday
morning by some person firing a car loaded
with merry -go-round which was standing
among a large number of other cars loaded
with merchandise, oil ands powder in the
Baltimore and Ohio freight yard. The fire
who, unassisted, moved a car containing
powder from the end of the burning mass
and prevented an awful explosion. The
merry go-round and car are a total, loss,
amounting to about s., 800.