Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Work on the Detroit river tunnel has be-
gun.
There is a scarcity of provisions at Mani
pur.
The grip in England has extended to East
Kent
The Chicago grain pit was panicky again
yesterday.
Rev. Phillips Brooks D. D., Episcopalian,
has been elected Bishop in Boston.
The victims of the Manipur massacre have
been exhumed and are lying in state
The New Y ork Senate has adjourned sine
die without passing the Worlds Fair bill.
The strike at Senator MacMillan's Michi-
gan Car Works, Detroit, is practically over
-venezuela has thrown off its duties on
grain. Short crops In that country are the
cause.
The official report on the Argentine Ma
tional Bank at Buenos Ayres shows scandal
Gus state of affairs.
"A secret meeting of railroad employees In
St. Louis has resulted in the federation Oh
several of the orders.
The jury in the case of Plenty Horse. the
Indian murd erer of Lieutenant casey, mas ais-
agreed and has been discharged.
The two negroes at Columbus, Miss, Bar
rantine and Lee arrested for poisoning two
persons to DEATH have confessed.
Near Victoria, b. C.. boat containing
seven Crofter fishermen, fresh from Scotland,
capsZed, ana three were drowned.
When notified by reporter Of the Chinese
protest against Blair's appointment, President
Harrison vouchsafed no comment
The French army will maneuver on the
German frontier this month, IN order to make
an impression on their friends, the enemy.
Organizers of the Farmers Alliance are to
be sent to Massachusetts, at once in antlcipa-
tion of the Presidential contest next year.
The case of Miss Phebe Cousins, who claims
to he Secretary of the Lady Managers OF the
Worlds Fair, has been transferred to the Fed
eral courts.
Nj. Roustan, French Ambassador at wash
ington. has been transferred to Madrid. and
will be succeeded by Count de Moulholon, Am-
bassador at Athens.
No place was reserved for Prince Bismarck
in the Won Moltke funeral, and the Emperor
plainly intimated his desire that the Prince
should not be present.
The investigation Of the affairs of the miss
ing bank cashier, Covington, of Montgomery,
Mo-, shows his shortage to be S20,0 The de-
felt has been made good.
"A mad bull, escaped from the butchers,
terrorized st. Johns N. B.. Wednesday night
for two hours before 1t took to the woods.
Several persons were injured.
The ship Wellington, having lost her pro-
peller. was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean by
hei crew, who reached Victoria, B. c., in
"Wednesday night thieves went to LAWN
sky's mills. near verbena. Ala. and carried of
absolutely everything except the mill. The
cnmmissary was valued at several thousand
dollars.
"A Pennsylvania turnaceman named Gu
peta, who had lost his job through the coke
strike, and his wife attempted to drown them
selves in the lake at Chicago. Wednesday after
noon, but were arrested instead.
The priests of Moscow are overwhelmed with
requests from Hebrews for baptism. in order
to avoid expulsion. The law prevents such
conversions except in the cases of Lutherans
and Catholics, and then permits conversions
only in limited numbers.
The Union depot in Indianapolis was the
scene of a terrific collision Wednesday mid
engine and Lake Erie and Western switch
engine. The damage to engines and cars
amounts to $4,000 or $4,000.
Felix Aaron Baron Won Raven, man ar
rested In Little Rock on suspicion Of being
Hot Springs crook. has been identified. HIS
father is prominent official in the German
army, and the suspect is unquestionably OF
noble parentage, but professional bunko.
steerer.
"A returned Kansas traveller, named Mad
dern, in Africa. charges Stanley with exagger-
alton in many things. According to Maddern,
the natives are converted from happy, frugal,
abstemious heathens into disgraceful, lazy
vagabonds. When the Kafirs get religion, he
says. they brood over it and consider only Its
spiritual side.
"A section of a through stock train on the
Toledo, St Louis and Kansas City Railroad.
was wrecked at Greentown, near Kokomo,
Ind, Tuesday morning. The train struck
COW at q crossing. overturning the engine and
eight cars. Engineer Koonerine was caught
In the wreck and crushed TO pieces Fifteen
head Of cattle were killed and a score crippled.
The Custom House detectives in New York
have made the largest capture of Persian
gowns in the history of the office, including 43
cases. They were consigned to fashionable
dressypakers in New York. Philadelphia. Chi
cago, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore. Pittsburg
and other cities. The consignor's agent on this
side of the Atlantic has escaped arrest because
he is in Europe.
"A resolution has been introduced, by re-
of the Western Maryland railroad to John H.
Bryant OF New York and others for 81, 500 000.
1t was referred. The Councilman who offered
the resolution said he did so at the request of
a young man who was recently engaged in OBJ
tanning statistics about the Western Maryland.
The resolution ELECTED q SMILE
"A correspondent. writing from Hamburg.
says that much surprise is expressed there, by
the authorities or justice at the rejection in
America of an emigrant named Barder known
to have been guilty of crime in Germany The
says that there is but little con.
ceament of the custom, in all the German
States. as well as other European countries. of
criminals to America.
"A Hoosier named Walters sojourning in
Chicago was duped by sharper in o way that
wins the victim small sympathy. The sharper
himself as bunko-steerer lying IN
wait to sell rustic worthless $50 bona. Wal
ters agreed to attempt the sale for his friend,
giving him $50 security, with which, of course,
the sharper decamped while the dupe was on
his wild goose chase after the ''green" country