Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-04
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
are bad at Franklin.

Burglars are bad at Franklin.
Judgment has been reserved in the May
brick case.
1t is feared at Victoria, B. c., that the
sealer Mascotte is lost.
Three convicts escaped from the Santa
Fe Penitentiary Monday night.
-Helmholtz has been honored by his fel-
low German scien lists with banquet.
-Typhus fever has driven the Russian
army back from the Roumanian frontier.
There are indications that the Jesuits
are finding favor in the eyes of the Pope.
The Municipal Council of Drogheda,
Ireland, has refused to present an address
to Dillon.
Mrs Victoria C. woodhulrs husband,
Thomas E. Stevens, is Liberal candidate
for seat in the British Parliament.
The German Ambassador has informed
Salisbury that Germany repudiates. respon-
sibiity for Emin Pasha's movements.
M. B. Curtis, whose stage name is ''samr
of POSen,r y has pleaded not guilty of murder
ing Policeman Grant in San Francisco
e. NJ. Earle, dealer in machinists' sup
plies. at Allentown. has failed. His father
entered executions of s2l.74 against him.
| The steamer Fulda has broken her own
record, having made the passage from New
York to Gibraltar in eight days and eight
hours.
| The German Reichstag will at once dis
| cuss the taxation question when it meets
| hauled.
The Execu tive Committee Of the Nation
al Education Association has decided to
hold the next annual convention at Saratoga
| Spring, July I2 to Is. 1892.
Henry Arthur Jones' new play, ''The
| Crusades,'' is not success on the London
stage. Its first production was received
with more misses than applause.
"A serious prediction riot between Re-
publicans and Democrats occurred near
Boone, Ia. One man was fatally stabbed,
| and l6 participants have been arrested.
Mrs. LAWS, wife of a convict guard at
Inman, Tenn. committed suicide Monday
with a shotgun. 1t is believed that inhu-
manity to prisoners weighed upon her mind.
BY q collision between two freight
trains on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
yesterday, Brakeman Falley and tramp
were killed.
film HeaIy was publicly horsewhipped
in Dublin yesterday by Parnells nephew,
McDermott. A number of factional fights
occurred around the bulletin board which
announced the news.
Colonel William Hakes one of the S06
who voted for Grant at the Chicago Conven-
tion in 1880. was drowned Mt Fort Townsend
Wash, yesterday. 1t is not known whether
he was murdered or accidentally fell into
the uay.
-Emin Pasha has again been heard from
He was on the point of starting to visit the
King OF Rhunda in territory hitherto un-
explored by white men. Thence he will
probably attempt to cross the Continent of
Africa.
tian regiment in the Austrian service, has
been severely reprimanded for using Ian
guage calculated to provoke the Hungarians
when laying wreath at the foot of the
statue of General Jellach.
james s: Clacque, stock raiser of
Greeley, Col, arose from Pullman car in
hls sleep Monday night and walked off
swiftly moving train near Burlington, Ia.
lie a tn himSalf V hTui cod
half frozen lying beside the track.
Senator Vedder will sue Governor Hill
for sIander, in connection with the latters
statements relative to Vedder and that.
authority for the statement that he intends
to bring both civil and criminal actions.
Mr.. Smith, the United States Minister to
REssia, gave n brilliant dinner last night in
honor OF NJ. de Struve tho Russian Minister
to the United States, who. is about to return
to Washington, and Clark Carr, the United
States Minister to Denmark, who has come
to ST. Petersburg on visit.
Judge Thayer, of the United States Dis
trict Court, in St. Louis, in the case of the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company, of New
York, against the Forest Park and Central
Railroad. has rendered decision that an
issue of 900 worth of bonds made by the
railroad company, 100000 of which have
been sold. is void
There is an epidemic of typhoid fever
in Portland, Me, city and vicinity Many
cases are reported throughout the city, and
IN section OF Deering, just ouside the city
limits there are Is cases. Cases are also re
ported from Sebago Lake, whence Portland
derives her water supply. 1t is thought that
the trouble is due to impurities in the water
The first Information that has reached
Europe concerning Lieutenant Ryder's ex-
pcdition TO East Greenland is dated June 30
and was brought home by sealing vessel.
at tho time the letter was written the bark
Hekla, which had the expedition On board,
was in 10 north latitude near the Island OF
Jan Mayer, andpstill far from the east coast
OF Greenland.
The right of judge to prohibit ttorneys
from the examination OF venircmen has
been controvertcd by the Illinois Supreme
Court. Judge Horton, of Chicago, consid-
cred that in the Donovan case, two wears
ngo, during the Cronin trial, too much time
WAS lost in impane;ing juries, and announced
thik he himself would examine veniremen
Attorney George Boyd determined to ap-
peal the case