Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Rio Grande flood subsiding.
The floods in New Mexico are subsiding.
The Iowa miners strike shows signs of
weakening.
Wheeling nailers are on strike on the
wage question.
Striking union carpenters of Milwaukee
arc now locked out.
Moscow merchants petition against the
expulsion of Hebrews.
Worlds Fair people will give labor dele
gates another hearing.
Losses by the forest fires in Michigan
will run into the millions.
The centenary of the Legislature of North
Carolina was celebrated yesterday.
Stone cutters, quarrymen and tool sharp
eners of st. Cloud, Mimi, are on strike,
Negroes are being taken from St. Louis
to Washington to break the strike in that
State.
"A joint resolution is pending in the Flori-
da Legislature to cede West Florida to Ala
bama.
B. F. Wilson, q prominent iron rof
Glasgow, has failed His liabf are
heavy.
Hunger and disease are driving the per-
secuted Hebrews of Corfu and Zante to des-
peration.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
mutual system.
Two men were killed yesterdaynear Flori-
SAINT, Col, by the collision OF freight tram
and push car.
The failure of the clothing firm of Levy
Bros. & Co. has made one of the members, A.
II. Levy, raving maniac.
Gorilla, the exfled Spanish Republican
1aad dor infC thof fha
triumph in Spain and Portugal
"A company of British and French capi.
talists has been formed in London to buy off
the principal wineries in California.
-Ex-secretary of the Treasury Fairchild
was banqueted by the Providence foung
Mems Democratic Club Wednesday night
The Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Science will send an expedition to the Arctic
Ocean in June, headed by Lieutenant Peary.
The new Spanish reciprocity treaty, says
Special Agent of the Treasury Linck, will
give Key West cigarmakers an immense
advantage.
The British warship Undaunted saved
lay, which was ashore at Jaffa, in the Medit-
erraneap.
The physicians in attendance upon Mr..
Gladstone announce that his fever continues
to abate. and that he is expected to be en-
joying his usual health within few days.
The National Conference of Charities
Indianapolis. listened to reports from States
and brief addresses on the subject
The suspension of the expulsion of Jews
from Moscow was owing to a misappre-
hension. The prosecuted people are being
expelled daily, although less force is now
used.
A. G. Porter, the United States Minister,
is still in Rome, but is preparing to spend the
summer in the highlands near Roca Di Papa.
The Minister has no idea Of leaving the
country. -
George W. Walton & Co., Linn, lumber deal
ers, of Philadelphia, on a judgment CON
fessed by the firm to q trustee for long list
of small creditors.
tary post at Mammoth Hot Springs, in the
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., heretofore
STYLED Camp Sheridan, will hereafter be
known as Fort Yellowstone.
John Stinson, of Rochester township,
near Sandwich, Ont, his sons, William and
James his hired man, Thomas Stodhart, and
his housekeeper, Mrs. Dandelet, have been
found guilty of counterfeiting American
silver
A collision between a freight and pas
senger train at Tippecanoe, o., on the Cleve-
land Lorraine and Wheeling Railroad,
wrecked both engines and injured four per-
sons. The freight was running on time not
its own.
-1u6 Cul0l Vi bue Durttu vi DldbISbiCS TO-
ports that the total value of exports of
domestic mineral oils from the United States
during the month of April, 1897, was IS, ,S0S, ,259
The value of beef and hog exports for April,
1891, was So, ss9,7sl.
The latest reports about the condition of
Mr.. Chamberlain and Lord Harrington are
to the effect that they are only suffering from
slight colds. DR.. Charles Tanner has a
serious attack of the prevailing influenza,
and his friends are anxious about his condi-
tiop.
&orty mer have left San Diego, Cal, in
the schooner yacht Fearnaught, with two
weeks provisions on board, for the purpose
of overtaking and capturing the contraband
vessel Halcyon. which left the Sandwich
Islands few days ago with large cargo Of
opium.
The entire mail edition of the El Paso
Times was confiscated and refused transmits
sion through the mails, because the paper
contained a synopsis of the Louisiana Su-
preme Courts decision to compel the Louisi-
ana Secretary of State to submit to the
people of that State, at the next election, an
amendment passed by their last General
Assembly extending the charter of the
Louisiana Lottery Company rs years longer.