Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-11
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Forest fires are still devastating parts OF
Maine.
Bishop Knights funeral at Milwaukee
to-day.
Emperor William is learning to play
baccarat.
The Chinese have opened another free
port-Chunking.
Only FIVE suicides in New York City yes.
terday morning. -
"A Newfoundland dog went mad Tuesday
and bit several people. .'
-The Confederate Monument at Freder-
icksburg was unveiled yesterday.
The Peoples party is arranging to hold q
series of great mass meetings in Kansas.
--Runored that Won Caprivf will resign
the German Chancellorship within a few
days.
The passenger steamer Idaho has
stranded In Lake SUPERIOR and is going to
pieces.
A delegation from Raleigh, n. c., has in
vited the President to attend the Exposition
in that city.
There is prospect of passenger rate war
among the railroads between New York and
the Northwest.
Over 1000 Hebrews have emigrated from
Elizabethgrade, Russia, and most of them
proceeded tn America.
Chances seem to favor Rev. Mr.. Ten
brock, of La crosse, Wis, as the successor
of the late Bishop Knight.
Emperor william has ordered fine
military funeral for the soldiers who were
struck by the lightning in the royal palace.
Two prisoners confined, in the Jail at
Manitowoc, Wis, quafreled Tuesday. One
thrust q stick into the others lung, killing
him.
Seven soldiers have been indicted and
Colonel Compton censured by the grand
jury at Walla Walla, in connection with the
recent lynching.
Colonel Mcclure, of Philadelphia, lee
tured to the literary societies of Roanoake
College, Va, Tuesday night on 9The
Twentieth Century"
An entire mountain ledge will be blown
up by dynamite at South Bethlehem on the
Lake Shore Railroad next Tuesday. 1t will
be the largest blast on record.
"A treasury agent who visited the Mare
Island Navy Yard near San Francisco, has
discovered a number of naval officers in the
fleet who are guilty of smuggling.
The Seed Trust, in session at Cincinnati,
has declared war against smuggling of seeds
and evasions of the tariff, which work
against the trade of honest seedmen.
The Treasury Department has reduced
spond with the reduction of the number of
seals the Government allows to be caught.
"A hunter at Poplar Grove named John
Persur shot his 10 year-old dead by mistake
while cunning in forest Monday. The boy
was up in a tree and his father mistook him
for game.
Constable Reed, of Canton, Mass, in
who had attempted to kill negro, was shot
dead by hidden assassin on the road Mon
day night
Sam Small, in connection with the Uni
versity at Ogden, has been found 81 600 short
in his accounts by the Methodist Conference
Is. 1.s
Georgia Conference.
The Michigan Lower House has passed a
bill repeating the special charter of the
Michigan Southern Railroad. Ii the bill be-
comes a law the railroad will have to pay
$4,000 more taxes annually.
The Queen of Amatonga, q petty native
kingdom in South Africa, had one of her
officers impaled alive in the presence of her
army of 1000 men and two Missionaries.
The scene was frightful one.
The site for the new Chicago University
has been enlarged through the generosity of
Martin A. Ryerson, who gave S25, 900 toward
the purchase of O tract, the price of which
is $40, 000 The work of building will proceed
at once.
The Ministers at Washington of France,
Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, China and Nicaragua have ac-
cepted invitations to visit Chicago in order
to see the progress of Worlds Fair prepara-
tions.
The California professor mentioned in
Sundays issue as having left stranded his
wife and two stepdaughters travelling in
Europe without funds, is Prof. Hesse, of the
University of California. His friends tell a
different story of the affair, absolving the
Professor from blame.
Treasure valued at S163 900 was captur ed
during Sherman's march to the sea by North
ern soldiers at Kershaw, n. c., and buried.
For 20 years the treasure has been searched
for without success, until last Friday, when
it was unearthed BY the brother of the man
who buried it and one other. Both men
have disappeared with the wealth.
M. j. Green, one of the men who sailed
on the Fenian ship Jackmet for Ireland, in
1857, with arms for the Irish insurrection-
lists, fed from Chicago Tuesday night In ter
ror. Hunted from his home and family in
New York, Green has been mercilessiy pur-
sued from town to town throughout the West
by emissaries of a gang which, he believes,
seeks his life.
"A convocation of Catholic bishops, con-
sisting of Bishops Fitzgerald, Dwenger, of
Fit. Wayne; McCloskey, of Louisville: Rade-
macher, OF Nashville; Chatard, of Fincennes;
Matterson, of Columbus; Foley, of Detroit:
Macs, of Coyington, met with Archbishop
Elder at Cincinnati and selected three
names, which were forwarded to Rome
from which the Pope will select q successor
to the late Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland.
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