Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-10
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

| Wheat fields around Decatur, ILL.,, are
alive with wheat lice, or cut bugs
| New Apache outrages are reported IRON
Sonora, and Mexican cavalry are in pursuit
The street car lines of Minneapolis and
| St. Paul, both electric and cable, have con
| solidated.
| Now it is said that the Gear has inter
| fered to mitigate the inhuman treatment ol
the Hebrews.
| General Alger has pronounced in favor
interviewer says.
| Postmaster Clark, of Old jefferson,
Tenn, was assassinated Sunday night by an
unknown person.
Prince Gustave, heir apparent to the
throne of Sweden and Norway, is danger
/ ously ill of the grip.
| Secretary Rqsk is investigating report
| that old horse flesh is shipped from New
York to Europe as beef.
The British House of Commons has for
mally repassed the Bering bill as received
from the House of Lords.
Cardinal Manning, Sir j. E. Gorst and
the Artist Watts have written in favor OF
fewer hours for business men.
An unknown resident of New York. who
signed himself Relieved" !" has sent 1000 to
the Government conscience fund.
Romero, Mexican Minister at Washing
ton, has, it is reported, been summoned
home to take the Treasury portfolio.
The French Government will ask its
Parliament for a credit sufficient for suit
able represen tation in the worlds Fair
The Cars Government has issued q
ukase which forbids the holding of a meet
ing at Helsingfors to discuss labor problems.
-Stockmen, who had been driven of the
Cheyenne strip by the Government, have
quietly returned with their herds, it is slid
&C. N. Cook, the Chicago banker charged
with wrecking the Juneau and Hartiord
(Wis.) banks, has been held under 5000
bond.
The depression in lake traffic has COM
pelled the Chicago Ship Building Company
TO shut down. Two hundred men are out OF
work.
The Esmeralda was just 'spilin'" for a
fight with the Charleston in the harbor of
Acapulco, according to San Francisco
newspaper.
Buffalo citizens have invited President
Harrison and Secretary Proctor to attend
the reunion of the Society of the Army of
the Potomac.
United States Judge Phillips, in an acci-
dent insurance case at Kansas City, has de-
cided that sunstroke is not an accident, but
disease of the brain.
James Hughes, Secretary of Assembly
23l, h of L., convicted at Rochester last Sat
urday of extortion, was to-day sentenced to
one year in the States prison.
"A Madrid editor on Monday shot and
killed Manuel Loring, son of Marquis Loring
ana DrOGner-1n-llW OF Il6 Minister Oh CQe 1n-
terror. The assassin was arrested.
"A party of foreign ministers stationed at
Washington, will leave there Thursday for
Chicago, to Judge of the scope of the Worlds
Fair and report to their Governments.
Harry lie Grand Cannon, very wealthy,
and Miss Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of
ex-Mayor Thompson, of Detroit, worth S.
100000, were married in New York yesterday.
A chaplain assembled the Untersberg,
near SaIZburg, Germany, yesterday, and
while gazing enraptured at the scenery
made false step, fell over the precipice and
was killed.
A great mass of earth and rock rolled
down a hillside and crashed into passen-
ger train on the Burlington and Missouri
Railroad at st. Joseph, Mo-, yesterday morn
ing, causing wreck.
e Rev. j. NJ. Holmes, one of the brace of
prison at Springfield, ILL.,, has published
detailed confession under the title, "The Eff
fects of Bad Company"
While temporarily insane Tuesday night,
Mrs. Annie Tudor, of Wichita, Kan, satur-
ated her 2-weeks-old babe with oil, and was
about to apply lighted match to it when
her husband entered and saved it.
"A thunderbolt struck company of Ger
man grenadiers yesterday morning, killed
two soldiers, injured severely two others and
of the Emperor, who was drilling them.
The last census of Ireland shows that the
Roman Catholics number S,549, ,745, decrease
of Al lag during the last decade. The Protes-
tant Episcopals number 500, $50 decrease Of
IS, 744; the Presbyterians, 446,6s7, a decrease
of A047, and the Methodists, 55,2S5, an in
crease of 1886.
e. c. Thayer, the aged President of the
Brandon National Bank, Of Brandon, VT,
after transacting some business in Omaha,
left that place for Chicago Friday with
small hand satchel containing $4,000 in
notes and mortgages. While he was in the
dining car en- route the bag disappeared,
and he has been unable to get any trace of it
since.
The alleged shortage in the accounts of
the late Jacob Bennett, Secretary of the
Rothschild Building Associations Nos. 10
and 90 has caused Ernest NJ. Bennett, q son
precautionary measure. Liabilities will ag-
gregate 500 000 assets about So 900 or So 900 in
mortgages and what may be realized from
Jacob Bonnett's estate.
A waterspout burst near San Luis Paz in
the State of Guanajuato, Mexico, Sunday,
the water from which swept away many
houses and cattle, uprooted trees, and, in
fact, for a space of three miles, the width
of the current, the country was completely
lives have been lost. Hundreds of people
are homeless and in destitute condition.
Two Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
road freight trains had orders to pass each
other at Frick, Kan. One arrived ahead of
the other, and the engineer seeing cars on
the sidetrack supposed they were the train
he was ordered to pass. He plunged his
train onward, and in the collision that soon
followed three men were burned to a crisp,
and six others were so badly injured that
some of them will die.