Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-22
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Macon, Mo-, suffered from a disastrous
food yesterday.
"A heavy storm caused a flood at Bloom.
ington, Ind, yesterday.
Thermometer 1899 in the shade at Arkan.
sis City, Kan, Thursday.
| Two German missionaries have been
murdered at New Guinea
| -Cincinnati's fifth bridge across the Ohio
| river will be open August %.
Turkish brigands have made further cap
lures of Italian railroad men.
| Earthquake shocks were felt this week in
st. Louis and Southern Illinois.
Foster, the Missouri prophet, predicts
| severe storms and a hard winter.
The Farley National Bank at Montgom-
cry has temporarily suspended payments.
! Sixty bodies of the victims of the tioou
at kollman, Austria, have been recovered.
Lieutenant Michael Giltrude, stationed
| at Fort Sheridan, is missing, and foul play is
| suspected.
Belgium will spend sI5oOOoOO to fortffy
| the MeuSe. 1t is determined to preserve
| neutrality.
been prohibited from being exported from
Russia is false.
The Italian Government threatens to
contscate the Vatican if the next conclave
is held abroad
A scheme is on foot by which the militia
of all States will be put under national pay
and supervision.
Prince Angoa. concerned in the Manipur
massacre, have been commuted.
A mail stage vas held up not far from the
Dalles, Ore, Thursday night, by one masked
man, who captured five mail sacks.
An old and wealthy couple of Council
Bluffs, Ia, named Manning have been ar
rested for issuing 800 bogus $40 notes.
Russia has largely increased the number
of troops on the Austrian frontier. It is
prepared for invasion from that quarter.
The Society of American Florists, in
session at Toronto, has taken the first steps
toward an exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
-Rumored that an English syndicate has
secured control of the great Anheuser-
Busch brewery at st. Louis, paying $4,000 900
therefor.
Lieutenant Ruion, of French Chasseurs,
while ascending the Chambeyron peak fell
down precipice 1900 feet deep, and was
crushed into pulp.
The forger of opium labels at San Fran.
cisco, has been captured. He is Chinese
convert to Christianity named Young Gee
Ong, and has confessed.
A scheme is on foot among South Caro-
lima cotton planters to hold this years crop
for better prices by placing it in the hands
OF system of local trusts.
Warren Leland, the Chicago hotel man,
will be confined to his bed for several days'
once waiter in his employ.
Its rumored that President Ezeta, of Sal
vador, has asked the Mexican Minister of For
eign Affairs to use his good offices to prevent
another war between Salvador and Guate-
mala.
The friends of Clark woodman, the
millionaire member of the Linseed Oil Trust,
who was found dead in a Chicago hotel, in
dignantly denounce the report that he com.
mitted suicide.
"A number of sheet iron and tin plate roll
ers, who went to st. Louis from Philadelphia
to take the place of strikers, have returned
home, alleging that they went under false
representations.
Two boys, the sons of well-to-do 10 farmers,
have been arrested as the would-be wreckers
of the Burlington and Missouri passenger
train at Grafton Station, east of Beatrice
Neb. They confessed.
England has notified China that here
after no British officer will be allowed to
serve in the Chinese navy. This is because
of the failure of China to explain the insult
of the hauling down Admiral Lang's flag
when that British officer was in command Of |
a Chinese feet in 1890.
Governor Francis has granted a six
weeks respite to Harbin, the murderer who |
was to be hanged at Poplar Bluff, No., yes
terday. The ground on which it was granted |
is that a convict in the penitentiary has con-
fessed to the murder for which Harbin was |
sentenced to be hanged.
The cases of John B. Orrick, Charles |
Seaton and Thomas A. Williamson who were |
to have been hanged in Missouri yesterday, |
have been appealed to the Supreme Court, |
which acts as stay. NJ j. Huetz, another |
man who was condemned to die today COM |
1nited suicide upon learning that he had |
been entenced to death.
During thunderstorm at Huron, S. D.. |
Thursday night lightning struck a carriage |
containing Clarence McIlvaine, bookkeeper |
for the Consolidated Land and Iron Com |
pany, and two ladies. The horses were |
killed, the carriage demolished and the |
three occupants more or less injured, Nell |
vaine severely. Several stacks of grain, /
barns and other buildings in the south part |
of the county were also destroyed by light
ming.
The sealing schooner Matte Flyer ar
rived Thursday night at San Francisco, 15 |
days from Land Point, Alaska She was |
warned to leave Bering Sea and did so. The |
cod fishing schooner Arago was hailed by
the United States steamship Marion, which |
fired a blank shot across her bows The
Arago refused to stop, and a solid shot was
fired at her with the effect of making her
heave TO. As the Arago was not a sealing
vessel Sba al 70,