Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-23
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

IAlE NEW In DhlEF.
Two antitrust diStilleries are in process
of construction at st. Louis.
The Mexican Government has approved
the site chosen for its exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
Indians in Vera Cruz, Mexico, have re-
volted and troops have been sent to subdue
them.
The National Line steamer Holland has
been towed to Queenstown in q disabled COM
dition.
The seventh commencement season of
Amherst College opened at Amherst, Mass,
| yesterday.
"A pickpocIet named Joseph Hayes was
killed at Joliet, Ill, Sunday while attempt
ing to rob a farmer.
Peter Hollen, who murdered his wife in
March last, committed suicide in his cell
| Sunday at Macon, Ill.
The two black envoys of King Gungun-
| hama of East Africa, will see the Queen and
be introduced to the Prince of Wales.
1t is expected that the tin plate works in
Wales will close next week. The efforts to
avert the lockout have been unavailing.
Three men were injured by gas explo-
sion in the Munich Theater Sunday night.
The building was badly damaged by fire.
Clarence Neal, Is years of age, who killed
his. father when only II years old, killed
Charles Skidmore, a boy of Is, at Riverside,
W. Va.
A wind storm at Charleston, Mo-, blew
down several houses Sunday. A number of
Killed.
In Dublin Sunday, Marnell and Healy at
tended a funeral at which there was fight.
IIealy was struck in the face and his assaii-
ant was arrested.
j. b. Haggin. one of the owners of the
Anaconda copper mine near Butte, Mont,
denies that the mine has been sold to an
English syndicate for S25, 100000
John Humphreys was killed by lightning
at Knoxville on Sunday. His brother and
daughter. sitting in the same room, were
shocked but not seriously injured.
Mason City, Iowa, is laboring with a
hydrophobia scare. Two weeks ago a mad
dog bit number of horses and cattle, and
since then about 25 animals have died.
The test of the writing telegraph between
New York and Chicago Sunday was success
full. a message of 60 words was transmitted
and recorded automatically without a break.
Two Italians in Chicago had a fight
Sunday night. One of them was killed
and his assailant escaped Eight men and
one woman have been arrested upon sus-
picion.
A band of brigands recently robbed a
mail coach near Saljan, Russia. After they
had secured the vatuables on the coach they
pillaged the village of Saljan and escaped
with their booty.
The firm of Whitcomb & Paine, at Hol-
brook. Mass, manufacturers of calf boots,
closed their factory indefinitely: This is
caused by the unsettled state of business
throughout the country.
"A mob of laborers attacked the town
hall at Batourga, Hungary, Sunday. The
gendarmes fired on the mob, killing four and
wounding several Others. Thelaborers were
excited by socialiStic agitatorS.
The charge against President Barrillas,of
Guatemala, of appropriating the proceeds
of the sale of bonds is denied. The bonds
did not pass through his hands and were
used in redeeming old treasury notes.
"A riot at Varmintown, Nashville, Tenn,
was averted by the prompt action of the
police on Sunday night. watchman was
shot, and a crowd gathered and threatened
vengeance, but the police appeared in time
to prevent trouble
A balloon belonging to Count Apraxine
escaped from those who were holding it at
st. Petersburg Sunday and carried up four
men who were working in the car. At a
great height it burst and the men fell to the
ground, crushed beyond recognition.
Two factions of Italians at Chain of
Rocks, near st. Louis, were engaged in
warfare which eliminated on Sunday morn
ing, when one of the participants was
stabbed. One of the parties was warned to
leave or all Its members would be killed.
The committee in Berlin, Germany, in.
vestigating the workings of the Standard
Oil Company there, will ask for the abolition
of duty on oil barrels, thus placing sailing
vessels engaged in the carrying trade on an
equal footing with the tank steamers in the
same line.
The Philadelphia grand jury returned a
true bill for criminal libel against Rev. j.
Wesley Hill, of Ogden, Utah. The offense is
writing and publishing defamatory letters
charging criminal conduct upon Rev Sam.
Small, in connection with the funds of the
Utah University.
Dolly Davis, the variety actress, who,
it is reported, had committed suicide at
Croton Landing, n. T., and who was decided
a suicide by Coroner's jury at Sing Sing, is
alive and well. She walked into a newspaper
Office yesterday and astonished those pres
ent by announcing herself.
The demonstration at Montreal on SUM-
day in honor of the rebels of lS37-3s was wit
messed by 5000 people. 1t was intended to
exhume the remains of DR.. Chenier and re-
enter them in consecrated ground, but at
the last moment Archbishop Fahe withdrew
his permission, and the chief feature of the
day was lacking in consequence.
The elopement of Mrs. Joseph Berlin, of
Carver county, Mimi, with Theodore Smith,
of the same place, has been announced. Both
were members of the Moravian Protestant
Church of Chaska' and Smith had been for.
hidden to see Mrs. Berlin by her husband
Mrs. Bierlin left home to see her parents,
but she met Smith, and together they left
for parts unknown.