Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-15
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The strike of the Clyde shipbuilders has
collapsed.
The European beet crop will not amount
| to much this year.
| DIR. Baker, the wife-poisoner Of Abing-
| don, Va, has been found guilty.
Turkey has sent 700 more soldiers to
| Crete to suppress religious disorders.
1t only costs $40 to kill Hebrew in Rus
STA, according to the tales of refugees.
The officers of the French man-ofwar
| Bisson were lionized at Montreal yesterday.
| Pawn tickets are not negotiable, accord
ing to decision by Judge Henry, of New
| ark, n. j.
| Northern Mexico are said to be greatly ex-
| aggerated.
| "A colony of Baron Hirsh's Russian He
brews, recently settled near Highstown, N.
! j., is said to be starving.
The old United States warship Pensacola
is becoming unseaworthy, and will probably
soon be put out of commission.
The Byrd party were victorious in Mon
| days election in the Cherokee Nation. The
| result means that intruders must CO.
Prof. Ferroneito, of the Turin University,
| has discovered liquid which instantly kills
| the phylloxera without injuring the vine.
The returns of last Saturdays Congress
| ional election in Eastern Tennessee, give
Houk, (Rep) 922S majority over. Woodruff,
| Dem). -.I
The Workingmen's Congress, soon to
meet in Brussels, will endeavor to determine
the attitude the Socialists will assume in the
event of European war.
"A violent electric storm ragged all over
Nova Scotia recently. A traveller saws that
iron rails, car wheels and every iron article
was electrified and encircled with flames.
The Chinese Legation in Paris formally
denies that the son of an eminent Chinese
diplomat in Europe was concerned in issu-
ing incendiary placards against foreigners.
"A number of American and Australian
Dominicans have arrived in Rome to take
part in the coming election of General of
their order. The election will be held at
Lyons.
The Minnesota Worlds Fair Convention
has taken steps to have an rextra session of
the Legislature, hoping to prevail upon that
body to increase its appropriation for a
State exhibit.
james Wallace formerly a prominent
railroad man, committed suicide at his Chi
cago home Thursday evening by hanging
from portiere pole. He was despondent
because of ill health.
Commander in Chief Palmer has an
nounced the appointment of Colonel Fred
erick Phisterer, the present Assistant Ad-
jutant General of the State, as Adjutant
General of the G. A. r.
The Worlds Fair Commissioners in Eu-
rope have completed their labors in Vienna,
and have started for Buda-Pesth, the capital
of Hungary. Thence they proceed to Servia
Roumania and Bulgaria.
Over 1000 cloakmakers, cutters tailors
and pressers went on strike in three shops
in New York. The strike was ordered bv
the consolidated board of the jointeunions,
and work was entirely suspended.
The explosion of a powder mill at Cen.
tral City, KY, wrecked q number Of houses
and killed J. W. Boles, of Huntington. W.
Va, and Timothy Carney, of Catlettsburg
Ky. Two others were badly injured.
"A ukase has been issued in Russia direct
ing the railroad officials throughout the
country to give precedence over all other
trains, passenger or freight, to trains con-
veying grain supplies TO the distressed
provinces.
j. H. Winchell 6 Co., shoe manufactur-
ers of Haverhill, Mass, who employ 900
hands, announced that in future they will
operate free shop: MI. Wfnchell says he
has been dictated to long enough by labor
organizations, and in future will manage his
own business.
"A bottle picked up on the lake shore at
Benton Harbor, Mich, contained a note
Grover, saying they were passengers on the
schooner Thomas Hume, which was sinking
at the time The schooner was lost in Lake
Michigan, with seven men on board.
1T is. reported that Timothy Hawkins
adopted mother, Mrs. Hopkins Jearles The
fight will be long and bitter, involving, as it
does, not only an enormous property, but
also the question as to who shall retain the
balance of power in the Central and Pacific
Railways.
Secretary Dickinson, of the Worlds Fair
Commission, has submitted to the Board of
Control his report OF the expenses of the
National Commission. The exhibit for the
last fiscal year shows a total expenditure
since the organization of the Commission of
Sl59, ,923, against the appropriation of $780, 900.
The expenses for the present year from July
] were $4,0s0 against the appropriation Of
$4,000. The expenses of the Board of Lady
Managers for the present year, beginning
July l. were 1872, against the appropriation
of S36 600