Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


Silver has been discovered near Eureka
| Springs, Ark.
Enormous wheat crops are reported from
| the Northwest.
West Point, Miss, was edby'a water
| spout Thursday.
| The Deutsche Bank at Berlinloses about
| S295, 900 by forgeries.
| -Onnalaslla is intensely excited over-the
| British sealing edict.
| -Parnell will appeal against the decision
OF the Bankruptcy Court.
| The Government of Honduras has let
| contracts for railroad building.
The ocean shipping business of Quebec
| shows decrease since last year.
The Danube, swollen by heavy rains,
threatens property in Upper Austria.
Guatemala will levy an export taOon
| coffee to raise funds to pay OFF its army.
BY a collision in japanese waters recent
| ly, 260 laborers were drowned or missing.
-Grasshoppers are devouring oats, clover
and other vegetation near Fort Wayne, Ind.
Mrs Mark Hopkins -Searle's will is to be
contested by her adopted son, Timothy Hop
| kins.
| Men and cattle were hurt by pelting hail.
| stones during Thursdays storm at Regina,
n. W. Il.
"A scheme to smuggle so Cinnamon across
! the British Columbian border was discoY-
| cred and frustrated Thursday.
A Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton ex-
cursion train in ten sections carried 1000
| sightseers to Niagara Falls Thursday.
The House of Lords has decided the his
| toric Berkeley peerage case in favor of
Randall Mowbray Thomas Berkeley.
A new Pullman will be built in New Jer-
sey by the Canada Manufacturing Company,
the basis of which will be great car-making
plant.
have concluded a commercial agreement
which will initiate against the United
States.
The overdue British ship City of Flor
ence was towed into port at San Francisco
Thursday night in disabled condition. She
encountered gale May 26.
Sir Henro Parker, Premier Of New South
Wales, Australia was defeated in the Legis-
lative Assembly in his motion for female
suffrage by a vote of 81 to 81.
Cashier Kirby, of the City National Bank
of Marshall, Mich, who fed six weeks ago
with 100000 of the bankls- funds, has just
been arrested at Sedalia, Mo.
The United States Court at Pierrey-S. D.,
has decided that children of marriages be-
tween American citizens and Indians take
the legal status of the father.
Judge Aiken, of South Dakota, will grant
but very few Of the 96 applications for adj
vorce before him, He proposes to interpret
the law according to the spirit.
Very little Kansas wheat is moving east
ward. 1t is believed the farmers are taking
the advice OF the Alliance leaders by hold
ing their grain for better prices.
-Rumored that the Chicago Stock Yards
Company and the "Big Four" packers have
settled their differences, and that the
former will absorb the new yards at Tofles-
ton, Ind.
Miss Lydia Keeth's parents, at Sydney,
n. Y, who believed in faith cure, allowed
their daughter to die after she had wasted to
a skeleton, but would not allow doctor to
attend her.
B. D. Wheldon, alias E. S. Strong who
collected $50 900 insurance on his own life by
creating the impression that he was
drowned at Birmingham, Ala, about q year
ago, has been arrested at Portland, Ore.
"A pious monk who was killed by acct
dent few days ago at the monastery of La
Grande Chartreuse, in France, turns out to
be General Nicolai, a famous Russian soldier
who was once Governor of the Caucasus.
The Alabama Great Southern depot at
Birmingham was blown up Thursday mid
night by the explosion of 30 kegs of powder
A small blaze which had just been discoy-
cred caused the disaster. No fatalities.
Loss, $4,000.
A mortal combat under ground happened
in Buck Ridge colliery, near Shamokin, be-
tween Nichlas Roach, a pumpman, and a
masked burglar early Thursday morning.
Roach, with pay envelope containing $64
in his pocket, while eating his lunch alone at
revolver in the hands of the robber. In a
fight lasting about an hour Roach saved his
money and his life, but his antagonist es>.
capped.