Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-13
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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-Rumored that Queen Victoria has the
| grip.
Five hundred Peoria carpenters are on
| strike.
Gold coin ordered for export to-day,
The strike in the Liege district. Belgium.
| is abating.
st. Louis quarry owners and men have
| compromised.
The United States man-of-war Omaha
has left San Pedro, Cal, for the North.
The Egyptian Minister of the Interior,
Riaz Pasha, resigned because of i'll health
Judge Maxwell, at Cincinnati, will prob
ably decide the Reilly injunction case to-
day.
The Millers' National Association elected
officers in New York yesterday and ad-
| journed.
st. Louis. is actively preparing for the
autumn festivals, to take place there the
coming three years.
The Louisville Deposit Bank, recently
organized, has been denied membership IN
| the Clearing House
The European members of the Anglo
Belgian expedition TO the headquarters of
the kongo have sailed.
William Henry Smith, First Lord of the
British Treasury, has been reelected TO Par-
lament without opposition.
Cordial relations continue between the
Rothschilds and the Russian Finance Minis
ter, says the London Times correspondent.
A bomb exploded and did considerable
damage in the building of the Spanish Min
istry of the Interior Laid to Republicans.
The Des Moines branch of the Irish
American League has decided to give no
financial aid to either Irish factlon untll
they are reunited.
Cuban cigars are now selling at their old
price, despite the Mckinley bill. The reason
is that the foreign manufacturers now make
their cigars lighter.
The Florence silk mills at Paterson, N.
ceiver. Debts, $4,000; assets, $4,000; cause,
general dullness in the silk trade.
Eight more soldiers were arrested by the
military authorities last night for compile
ity in the lynching of Hunt at Walla Walla,
Wash. This makes 16 now in custody.
"A California man named John j. Evans,
while on the streets of Chicago Monday
midnight, camly drew his knife and cut his
own throat in the presence of passer-by.
The party of colonists on the steamer
Lucy Lowe, reported wrecked in the straits
of Juan d'Fuca, arrived at their destination
safely Monday morning, after many hard
ships.
The captain pro TEN of the whaling
schooner Jane Gray treated his crew at
Sitka SO shamefully that they mutinied and
compelled him to return the vessel to San
Francisco.
-Asbury Green, colored, sentenced to 81
years in the penitentiary at Centerville,
Md, for an assault, was taken from jail by
masked men yesterday and hanged to the
limb of a tree.
The members of the British House of
Commons believe that the Parliament build
ing is infested with the microbes OF the grip,
and they will ask that the place be fumi-
gated during the holidays
-Epamimondas Wilson, Boston, manu-
facturer of pianos under the style of the
Boston Piano Company, has assigned. He
owes about S70,000 and claims to have assets
of three times that amount.
The Department of State has received
cablegram from Minister Hicks, at Lima, an
noUncing that the Government of Peru had
officially accepted the invitation to partfci-
pate in the Worlds Columbian Exposition.
DR. c. K Cole, leading citizen of Mon
tana, has received letter from Washington
which stated that Secretary Noble would re-
sign in a couple of months, and Thomas ii.
Carter, of Helena, would be the new Secre-
tary of the Interior.
Representations have been received by
the Canadian Minister of Marine from the
shipping interests of Montreal and other
places, asking that the river police dues at
Quebee and the sick mariners dues through |
out Canada be abolished.
While at play in Kiowa county, Kan, |
the other day, two children dug hole, in |
which the boy sat while the girl buried him
to the chin. An old sow and her brood |
came, drove the girl away, and killed the |
helpless little fellow in the hole with its |
teeth.
C H. Russell, cashier of the Georgia Pa
cific Railroad at Birmingham, was knocked |
on the head, seriously injured and robbed. |
His screams brought the watchman, who |
found the books and papers in and about the |
safe on fire The building was gutted and a |
large amount of freight destroyed. The loss |
is unknown. Tramps were seen about the |
building, and it is supposed they started the |
fire after the robbery.
As a result of the recent White Cap sem
sation near Ducktown, Tenn, young bride |
who was whipped by women White Caps has
since died after terrible torture. Three men |
who were fired upon will die. Editor Craig |
Miles, of the Ducktown Reporter, was called 4
upon by three armed men and ordered to /
leave on account of his published version of
the affair. He seized his gun and held the |
fort. Women mobbers are under arrest, but |
their friends declare they shall not be taken
to jail