Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-10
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


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The fortihcstion of Helgoiand begins
| next week.
The grain crop of Washington State will
be enormous.
Russian grain duties are cut down to
prevent q famine.
"A statue to Robert Burns was unveiled
at Ayr Wednesday.
The trade between Chile and ou- Pacific
| coast is growing rapidly.
Fresh revolutionary outbreaks have oc-
! CURED in the Argentine Republic.
The Parnellite press is exceedingly
! downcast over the result OF the carlow elec-
| tion.
"A number of systematic child murders
have been unearthed at q Cologne baby
farm.
Official record of temperature in San
Antonio Wednesday 10Jo-the highest IN four
years.
"A new method of curing yellow fever,
the Polar-room-has been successfully tried
In Havana.
The last body of the victims of the Gin
cinnatt boating horror of last month has
been recovered.
Illinois Central conductors threaten to
strike on account of the discharge OF several
of their number.
The duchy of Luxemburg has decreased
in population 2 200 in five years. Emigration
to America did it.
Owing to the partial failure of the mon
soon 100000 people are threatened with
famine in Madras.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, tho philan-
thropist of Stamford, Conn.,, has been ao-
judged insane at Kansas City.
The Glucose Association will probably
begin to make whisky in the fall in compe-
tition against the Whisky Trust.
-McChTystal and Claude, the New Orleans
jury br1bers have been sent to prison. The
Supreme Court refused to interfere.
Two tornados struck Summit, Miss, with
in two hours Monday. A number of persons
were injured and one child was killed.
The St. Victor Convent at st. Hilaire,
Que, burned Wednesday morning, and the
inmates escaped narrowly in their night
clothes.
Thomas Saddler, of the English fishing
bark Clio, has been sentenced at Hamburg
to six weeks imprisonment for fishing in
German wators.
James McCargo, an adjuster of the Flour
City (Rochester) Life Insurance Company,
has been arrested charged with forgery in
the second degree.
At private meeting OF the Barings in
London Tuesday, Francis Barring reported
that the business of the firm was much
smaller, but sounder.
"A Savannah negro Osnus Lee, ran amuck
"Wednesday night, attempting to kill mum
Der of people, but was stopped short in his
mad career by bullet which killed him.
A monopoly upon the products Of the
South African diamond fields has been Sc
cured by Premier Rhodes, of Cape Col
ony, which threatens to seriously disturb
the market.
The Senaputti, feigning madness, re-
fuses food and has attempted suicide in |
order to evade sentence or to procure de- |
lay of execution for his connection with the |
Manipur massacre. |
Count Michael Platter, q Polish nobleman |
n +tN-l 10 ar 1r1 rnd
and robbed W Wednesday evening while trav- |
cling on a train running between Warsaw |
and St. Petersburg.
The new Chilean Congress has author |
lied Balmaceda to fine anybody he sees fit |
any amount he may think proper up to |
$50 000, 0O0 the money to be applied to the ex-
pense of suppressing the Congressionalists.
1t is not the intention of the Dominion
to reimpose an export duty on
saw logs and lumber taken from Canada
to the United States In view of the trade |
negotiation which will be resumed at Wash
ington in october.
"A freight train ran over horse near
Ind, yesterday morning, and in
the wreck which ensued two men were
and others badly wounded.
The engine and 13 heavily laden cars rolled
down an embankment.
An English syndicate to be known as
'The Atlantic and Great Lakes Navigation
md Trading Company, Limited" purposes
to open direct water communication for |
freight and passenger business between Chi
cag0 and Great Britain.
Near Edmonton, Ky, Monday Special
United States Bailiff W. NJ. Cutliff was shot |
from ambush as he was passing along the
road about dusk and seriously wounded. 1t
is supposed his assailants were violators of |
the revenue laws whom he had been pur-
suing.
During a tornado at Kyle Tex, Tuesday
night, a man sleeping in the second story of
4 house, which wss demolished, was blown
out of the top of the house and carried 200
yards, escaping without injury. Rocks
weighing 100 pounds we're hurled several
hundred yards.
The German Government informed M. |
Ribot, Minister of Foreign Affairs that the
relaxation OF Alsace Lorraine passport regu-
ations, ordered at the time of the recent
Swiss railroad disaster to enable friends and
relatives of the dead, wounded or missing
TO seek victims, has been made permanent.
The Republican Congressional Executive
Committee was in session at Knoxville yes
5erday and decided to have a primary cleo
lion on August g. to select Republican can
1idate for Congress from the four now seek
ng the neutrality-suspicious.. Rule, Houk,
Neck and Woodruff. 1t is now Houk against
,he field, with the chances in favor Of Houk.