Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
-KentueKy's treasury is empty.

Italy accepted the Worlds Fair invitation.
= County Farmers Alliances are being organ
lied in Oregon.
The Omaha court.martiai has acquitted
| Captain Galley.
THE new cruiser Monterey will be launched
| at San Francisco Tuesday.
Lord Salisbury, it is said is trying to induce
Newfoundland TO join the Dominion.
--Cheyenne butchers have advanced the price
Of porterhouse steak from 10 to 20 cents.
Official reports show that the Minnesota
Farmers Alliance is still growing rapidly.
-TIendryx, the Goshen. Ind, murderer. has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
The irrepressible Jones county calf case in
Iowa threatens to bob up again on rehearing.
| The body of c. Davies. of Boston, who went
down in the Utopia wreck, has been recovered.
| Fire at Philadelphia yesterday caused the
destruction of the Eagle Iron Works Loss,
5000.
"A school teacher in Tuscola, Ill, named AL
bert Siearns. fearing he was going insane. COM
mtted suicide.
Sam Cookston, the murderer Of Deputy
Sheriff Whitman. near Whitman, Tex, Mon
day night is in jail.
Lies were passed and revolver drawn dur.
ing dispute in the Arkansas House Of Repre-
seDratives Friday night.
"A scheme is on foot to form combine Of
all the large Philadelphia breweries with
working capital of sl5.0
-Landslides have covered quarter Of smils
Of the Richmond and Danville Railroad track
In North Carolina 40 feet deep.
The big winery of the Gallegos Company at
1rvington. CAL. has been seized By revenue
officers on charge Of tax frauds.
Kiln men at Trenton, N. j., have refused to
handle non-union made ware, and it Ii feared
general pottery strike will ensue.
insanity induced by, cigarette smoking
caused John \. Broderlck. a New York letter
carrier, to commit suicide Friday.
The Mickey Breen Mining Company has
sold out to French syndicate for 100000
The silver mine purchased is near Ouray. Col
An English syndicate is trying to buy the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
the largest corporation of the kind in the
South.
Three New Mexico miners, A. E. Cassiday.
Pat Lynch and Frenehman, were crushed to
death by rock in mine near Gallup, N. NJ,
yesterday
General Thomas Ewlng's handsome resi-
dence In New York was DESTROYED with its con-
tents. By fire yesterday. The family barely es-
capped with their lives
"A fire in an adjoining building caused a
frightful panic in the Peoples Theater, Of
Chicago, Friday night Many people were
nearly trampled to death.
The notorious female horse thief, Pearl
Starr, and male companion. were arrested by
the Texas rangers near Quanah Wednesday.
Pearl was dressed In cowboy attire.
The snowstorm still continues in virginias
II has been falling fast for So hours, and has
reached a depth of over two feet. IL is the
severest storm for so years in that section.
The ocean racer City of New Y York narrowly
escaped destruction at Liverpool Friday night.
Fire broke out among the cotton in the hold,
but was extinguished after doing considerable
damage.
A Baltimore and Ohio switch engine In
Chicago ran into a crowded cable train Friday
evening The grip car and first trailer were
demolished and the go passengers narrowly es-
capped death.
The simms House, At Cumberland, Nd,
burned early yesterday morning. Loss, 81, 0e0,
fully insured. The pluck of Miss Annie N.
Entler, the proprletor's daughter. saved the
lives OF the 30 guests.
I'm a wreck on the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad at Wellsbridge, N. Y, yes,erday, Fire.
man Fred Pierce was killed, while Engineers
Frank White and William La Grange and Fire
man Fred Cooper were badly injured.
The United States revenue steamer Lot NJ
N orrill has effected an inland passage up the
North Ediston river to Charleston, s. C.. an
important military post. A torpedo fotilla will
probably be devised for coast defense.
The boy White Cap organization, Of South
Chicago, was broken p up Fi Friday: all but the
robbing chicken roosts and freight cars. Their
members range in age from 10 to IL years.
willis Fairchild, aged 10. was arrested In |
Chicago Friday night and locked up charged |
with the abduction of Ruth Ramsey, the a |
year-old niece of Colonel Charles II. Higgins. |
She ran away with him three days ago. The |
boy had failed to secure marriage license.
Among the distinguished orators booked |
to speak at the coming Congress OF Western |
States at Kansas City are T. ]. Henderson, Don |
NJ. Dickinson, Ben Bltterworth John j. In |
gals, William j. Mckinley, q. r. Brecken- |
ridge, j. N. Thurston and Judge j. L. Torrey |
"A new law empowers French criminal
courts, In dealing with certain transgressions.
to postpone sentences for first offeuses for five
years. in hope of the offenders reformation,
and if there Is no second ofense the sentence ID
then void Second ofenses are to be visited
with severity.
"A wealthy New Orleans shoe manufacturer,
named Montelleone, who had trouble with his
workmen. caused the arrest of dozen Of them.
When the time of trial came Monteileone |
pleaded for the release of the prisoners. He |
was induced the police think, by Malta threats.
When interviewed on the subject Monteileone !
admitted the truth of all the police had said.