Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-04
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

Chicago schools are short of coal.
The cruiser Boston has arrived at Monte.
| video, Uruguay.
"A long-lost gold mine is said to have
| been found in the Choctaw Nation.
| Germany will take steps to deal with the
| irregularities on the Produce Exchange.
| -Baptists in large numbers are emigratinas
| from Russia, owing to religious restrictions,
| -Goschen's new financial scheme is favor,
| ably received by the London Stock ExA
change.
| The German Court will promote bazaars
and concerts for the relief of famne-stricken
| Russians.
Low tariff and number of big failures
| have caused panic in Australia's metropos
| lis, Melbourne.
| ,-Ruddin & Hairston, large real estate
dealers in Danville, Va, have failed, owing
| $1,000; assets, $50 900.
| "A wholesale slaughter OF English spar.
| rows for the sake of the bounty offered by
the new law has begun in Illinois.
| The United States steamer jamestown,
| which grounded in Hampton Roads Wednes-I
| day, has been pulled OFF without damage.
| The French steamer Delta has foundered
near the Island of Hainan which separates
the Gulf of TonQuin from the China Sea. No
| lives were lost.
The British Governments has awarded
compensation to the families of the fisher.
men killed by the recent gun practice, and
also f400 pounds to the owners OF the sunken
boats, the Sumner and the Alphonso.
| -DOyley Carte. whose attempt to estab-i
| ltsh genuine national opera at the Royal
English Opera House. in London, resulted
recently in a heavy financial loss is about to
make an effort to retrieve mis- fortune with
American singers.
-Tyndale Palmer, formerly engaged in
news paper work in Pittsburg and now lo-
Gated in London. securing investments in
| this country for English capitalists, has just
closed sale of the property of the Etowahi
Iron Company. located in Barlow and Cher
okee counties, Georgia. i
The report OF the Petitions Committee
of the French Senate insists upon absolving
the Government from any sort of response.
bility for the disaster of the Panama Canal
shareholders but urges the Senate to show
sympathy with the shareholders by induc-'
ing Finance Minister Rouvier to make un-
official efforts to assist any possible rehabili.
tation of the scheme.
Warden Brown. of Sing Sing prison, has
everything in readiness for the execution,
next week, of Martin ID. Loppy, the murderer,
who has been awaiting death in Sing Sing
to be done, as the machinery of death has
been kept in the same condition as it was
left after the fatal work in executing Smiler,
Slocum, Wood and Jugiro last July. /
BY a strange mistake jurys verdict was
rendered in the United States District Court
at Indianapolis, Wednesday, acquitting VI.
F. McLoud on the charge of counterfeiting,,
when it was the intention to declare him
guilty. The astounded jury ut once pro-
tested that the verdict was not the one
agreed on, and after little investigation 10
was found that the foreman had simply
made mistake.
The estimates of the damage done by tho
Japan earthquakes give the number of dead
at 1850 and injured at 10.l20, with $3.50
buildings wholly and 2s, ,625 partly destroyed.
Over 10000 people have been rendered,
homeless and destitute. Many curious
freaks of the earthquake have been noticed.
In one place fssure swallowed four per-.
sons. who have remained visible, but whose
rescue proved to be impossible.
AT the inaugural dinner of the London
Shipping Exchange Wednesday evening the
Chairman proposed toast to President Hare
Tison in the following words: 1.-THE Presi-
dent of the United States rules over pow.
erful and energetic people-over more En-
glish speaking people than are ruled over by,
Queen Victoria. We have always received
from the United States and from American
Consuls every attention to our interests
We must love our dear cousins across the
water, and should stand shoulder to shoul..
der and whip creation"