Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-09
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

day.
-Unearned Iowa land grants will soon be
open.
The report that General Longstreet is i'll
is false
The Czar has rejected formal proposal
for q French alliance.
Chinese will hereafter be excluded from
Mecklinburg, Germany.
-Pittsburg occupied ninth place in the
last Clearing House statement.
A new "Passionist" religious retreat was
dedicated at st. Louis Sunday.
The French Bank at Buenos Ayres, which
recently suspended. has resumed.
Queen Victoria has bestowed the decora-
ton of the Red Cross on Mrs. Grimwood.
Secretary Rush has issued regulations
governing the method of exporting cattle.
The Red river in Texas is above high
water mark, and people are fleeing for their
lives.
Berlin artists, actors and singers will
give summer benefits for the Russian He
brews.
The Pope has discharged all the en-
ployes of the Finarce Department of the
Vatican.
Lieutenant Ryder's expedition to explore
the eastern part of Greenland left Copen-
hagen Sunday.
defeated, as all the lumberyards are in
successful operation.
The ST. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
Company will increase its capital stock from
$4,000 900 to $5O,0OO,oO0.
Fresh Chinese mIrders of Europeans are
reported from Wusfeh and Kin Kfang. An
English man-of-war is asked for.
The scheme for the proposed Blue and
Gray reunion at the Words Fair meets
with favor throughout the South.
Restaurant proprietors at the Virginia
mountain resorts have begun q movement
to substitute white for colored walters.
An immense cave-in occurred Sunday at
the Waterloo mine, at Calico Cal, severely
injuring two men and either crushing or i'm
prisoning boy.
AT Wickliffe. KY, yesterday morning,
Evan Z. Shelby was taken from the iail and
hanged by a mob. Shelby was charged with
the murder of Mrs. Sallie Moore in 1882
Judge Nelson, in the United States Cir
emit Court at Boston, yesterday morning dis
charged Clarietta e. johnson, on the habeas
corpus obtained by General B. F. Butler
Ada Vernon, the notorious companion of
Maxwell, the man who murdered Preller at
st. Louis, has committed suicide in Denver
because Of love quarrel with q new lover.
-Parnell says he has prepared balance
sheet of the funds he controlled, which he
will submit to Mr.. 0'Brien when the latter
leaves prison, with permission to publish it
il he likes.
native regiments in the British service, and
who was one of the leaders in the recent
revolt against British authority, was hanged
yesterday morning,
The police of Columbus, Ind, fought a
battle with % tramps who had captured a
train and barricaded themselves in boxcars
Saturday evening. Nine of the fellows were
captured and the others escaped
Near Monument rocks in the Smoky
River Valley, Kan, has been found the
skeleton of pterodactyl, whose skull meas
ures three feet in length. This specimen is
the most complete of any in existence.
Judge Blodgett yesterday morning
Quashed the United States Indictment
against George j. Gibson, former secretary
of the Whisky Trust. The decision was on
and not for the United States Courts.
-Barkeeper Joe Jealison went into the
cellar of his employers tW. w. Bouge's)
saloon at Hartford City, Ind, Sunday even
ing, with lighted match. The natural gas
explosion that followed blew up the build
ing and seriously burned the bartender.
There is now no doubt that the steamer
Taramung, which was employed in the
Australian coasting trade, has foundered
during a gale while bound from New Castle,
n. ). W., to Melbourne. Its wreckage has
drifted upon the Australian shore but the
tate of.the passengers and crew is unknown.
"A great new railroad scheme is on foot
which includes new line of steamers The
plan is to connect Lake Superior with the
Atlantic Ocean. the terminal cities being
Duluth and Norfolk, Va One of the con-
Meeting links of railroad. the Columbus
Lima and Milwaukee, has just been bought
As Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul
excursion train, loaded with passengers,
was returning from Frankland Park Sun
day evening, the engine was derailed by
coblestone at Chicago street intersection
Passengers were thrown from their seats
and panic prevailed for few moments
but no one was seriously injured.
On Sunday morning at Columbus, Ind,
at the hour corresponding with $50 p NJ in
place at the residence of Henry Lang, a
wealthy and influential German of that CITY,
and well known throughout Southern Indi-
ana. At the same hour, on the other side of
the globe, real wedding i'll high society
took place, the contracting parties being
TelatlVeS E OF M. Lang, and his daughter
Emma being first bridemaid Miss Emma
Martin and Mr.. Gus Kuenneck, of Columbus.
represented the real bride and groom
While walking in the woods near AIlinp-
ton, Conn, sunday, three men came across
a spot where severe struggle had evidently
occurred. The grass was much trampled
and covered with blood, and near by Law a
mans hat and coat and a pair of shoes. A
handkerchief covered with blood and
lady's glove, with the fingers torn off. were
also found. The police were notified, and
after an investigation, were of the opinion
that murder had been committed, The
police, during the search, picked up a latly's
bracelet, and also discovered traces of blood
leading to the river.
You have corns, and all druggists sell for
IN cents a n0sifiva na,c-~ a.. o