Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-19
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


yellow fever is said to be malignant al
Vera Cruz.
Pensacola unveiled a Confederate monu
ment Wednesday.
-Parisian cabmen are agitatng for z francs
day of l2hours.
An English syndicate has bought the
Boston Iron Works.
Boston celebrated its Bunker Hin ami
versary Wednesday.
The baccarat suit cost Sir william Cor
don n-Cu1nming SIS, 500.
The italian Radicals are actively agita
ting against the Dreibund.
The report Of a revolution in Portugal Is
again authoritatively denied.
The Chicago Wire Goods Company has
confessed Judgment for $25, 900.
British and French warships are now
guarding the Newfoundland fisheries.
The next international postal congress
will meet in the United States in 1887.
The financial condition Of Guatemala
under the rule of Barrillas is deplorable.
Three German warships coaled al
Acapulco yesterday on their way to Chile.
The leaders of the Chinese anti European
riots have been put to death by wholesale.
Tho tiding over of the political crisis in
Canada doomed the Dominion stock market.
The Austrian Government will act with
the Liberal party for the sake Of majority.
A mortgage on the Kansas City, Wyan-
dotte and Northwestern Railroad is FORE
closed.
Cashier spaulding, of the North Middle
sex (Mass.) bank, is defaulter to the extent
of So, ,OOO
The public funeral over the victims of
the Swiss railroad disaster was held in Basle
yesterday.
-soureliera Brothers, bankers at Guadala-
tara have assigned. Liabilities, 81, ,40O,O00s
assets, 500, 900.
Many of the burned out residents Of Sea-
bright, \. j., were forced to camp out In the
rain Wednesday night.
British warships will cooperate with
United States cruisers in driving seal poacn-
ers from the Bering Sea.
Rev. Isaac Nicholson, a high churchman
of Philadelphia, is the new Bishop OF the
Episcopal diocease of Milwaukee.
The Indiana Natural Gas and OIL Syndi-
cate has turned over 462 1ndianaleases to the
Columbus Construction Company.
The four Frenchmen, Triponne, Fasseler.
Turpine and Feuvrier, convicted of divulg-
ing the melinite secret, will appeal.
Ex-senator Farwen was the leading
spirit at Wednesdays commencement OF
Lake Forest University, near Chicago.
The Methodist conference at Toronto has
suspended Rev. James Thompson for one
year for asserting that 'there is no material
hell"
-Jewelry worth $14 500 was stolen from
the cabin of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Schles-
singer on the steamer La Gascogne on the
night of June5
The Gautemalan Cabinet has been COM
pletely reorganized, owing to the determine
tion of President Barillas to run every de-
partment himself.
Lord Salisbury refuses to summon con-
ference of Colonial statesmen, looking to
Imperial federation, until definite scheme
for union is prepared.
Treasurer Ross, of the Cherokee Nation,
has opened an office in Arkansas City, Kan,
and will prosecute cattlemen who have in
vaded the Cherokee strip.
The Illinois Central Railroad has begun
q wholesale discharge of passenger conduc-
tors in Iowa. Supposed to be the work OF
spoilers, but no cause given.
The Government scored q victory in the
election in New South Wales. Sir Henry
Parkes, the father of the Federation, and
other Ministers were returned.
The San Francisco subscription book
house of J. T: Ewing & Co. has failed.
Picturesque California" was the rock on
which the firm went to pieces.
Twenty head of imported cattle killed
and 16 cars wrecked were the results of the
ditching of Chicago and Erie train at
Disko, Ind, Wednesday evening.
Among the S,l9s immigrants landed at
the New York Barge ONCE yesterday were
polygamy they will be turned back.
The Congress of Chile has passed an act
providing that hereafter all import dues and
Storage charges must be paid in gold or
silver calculated on bills at 50 pence.
Probably the last man to be legally
hanged in New York State is Samuel E.
Weyman, who was sentenced at Buffalo
Wednesday to be executed August 8.
Engineer R. II. Moore and Fireman c. L.
LaRue, of the gravel train which collided
with the Los Angeles express near Port
Costa, Cal, Monday, have been arrested.
Emperor Francis Joseph has given a spe-
cial audience to Prince Ferdinand, of Bull
garia. This is considered as implying that
the Emperor recognizes the legal status of
Bulgaria.
"A yacht containing IL persons was struck
fy squan and upset In Rice Lake, near
Peterboro Ontario Wednesday evening.
John Foote and his two daughters were
drowned.
The sensational breach Of promise case
of Miss Valerie Wiedeman against Hon.
suited in verdict Wednesday Of s., 500 for
the plaintiff.
The Park bill for taxing railroad property
was defeated in the Michigan Legislature
Wednesday. The Richardson bill for the in
crease of the specific tax on railroad earn
ings was passed.
Herr Isaac, who has had charge Of the
Berlin committee for the reception of the
Hebrew refugees from Russia, is in favor of
sending the larger portion to the new West
eTn States Of America.
Carl Benson Scabia, a Minneapolis bank
defaulter, who misappropriated y, 500, has
been sentenced to 45 days in the county Jail.
This light sentence was given in view of
extenuating circumstances.
Black diphtheria in the Peoria City Hos
pital carried off 12-year-old Lilly Morgan,
who was then Immediately buried When
she was taken i'll her Christian Scientist
tather refused to call O physician.
The first installment of S25OO0o due the
Cheyennes and Arapahoe Indians for their
lands, has arrived at Kingfsher Okla, and
the payment of the Indians will commence
at once. 1t will require nearly a month.
H. Victor Newcombe, millionaire New
Yorker and one of the biggest spectators in
Wall street at one time, has been committed
to an insane asylum. He wanted to shoot
H. NJ. Flagler, the Standard Oil magnate.
The action of the Government in i'm
posing quarantine of Is days on sheep and
swine imported from Europe, is expected to
be followed by the cancellation of the quarnn-
tine entering the United States from Canada.
The jury in the case of State Senator Sol
omon Van Praage, on trial in the Federal
Court at Chicago on charge of suborning
of perjury in the procurement of naturaliZa-
tion papers for aliens, yesterday morning re-
ported disagreement
The demand on provisions keeps prices
up in Chile in spite of the recent heavy iu-
portations from San Francisco. Balmaceda
has prohibited shipments from the South to
ports held by the Congressionalists Mer-
chants naturally are looking to California to
keep up the supply.
Jacob Scheele, who murdered Constable
Drucker at New Canaan, Conn, in 1888, while
resisting arrest, was hanged at Bridgeport
yesterday morning. On the gallows he ex-
pressed sorrow for his crime, which he said
was committed without generalization, He