Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-03
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


The price of bread is rising in London.
Texas cotton prospects are becoming
poorer.
-Diphtheria in a malignant form is preva-
lent in Mansfield, o.
The Weather Bureau predicts killing
frosts in the Northwest this week.
Some small Chicago cabinet making
firms are giving in to the strikers.
The Valley Glass Company, of Beaver
Falls, will make decorated lamps.
-"sister Beatrice" the bogus nun, is in
Jail in New York City for vagrsncy.
Employees of the sunbury Lumber Com
pany are striking against O cut in wages.
Violent gales in the British Isles have
resulted in a number of small shipwrecks.
Prince Nicholas, Of Montenegro, is in a
critical condition on account of throat
affection.
The Legislature of New South Wales,
Australia. has voted agaiust levying pro-
tectfve duties.
-"sheeny George" King, silk thief Of
national notoriety, is in jail in Kansas City
Tor rooolng drygoods store in that city.
The Legislature of Victoria, Australia,
has adopted the federation bill, but stipu-
lates that New Zealand shall be excluded.
An order has been issued for the arrest
OF SENEGAL, the boodling Superintendent of
the Canadian Government Printing Bureau
"A farmer named Isaac Carmichael, near
Newark, o., fell dead Tuesday while sitting
on fence talking to O neighbor. Heart
disease.
The river Barrow in Ireland has over
flown, destroying all crops near its banks, as
well as sweeping away houses and farm
buildings.
Mrs. Richardson, an aged woman near
Long Prairie, Mfnn., who apparently died OF
apoplexy and was prepared for burial, has
returned to life.
-Habeas corpus proceedings in the case
of Russian Hebrew immigrants detained at
the New York Barge Office, have been ad-
1ourned to Tuesday.
An attachment for sl2, 900 has been issued
against the property in New York of the
Demorest Fashion and Sewing Machine
Company, OF Williamsport
The recent Hawaiian census shows that
over half the white population has left tho
island in the last six years, having been
crowded out by Asiatic coolies.
Miss Mary, daughter of ex-senator
Pierce, was married Tuesday night at Min
neapolis to Rev Robert S. Inglis, a young
clergyman OF Crawfordsvflle, Ind
William G. Croman died at Carlisle yes
terday from the effects of stabbing he re-
ceived at O campmeeting at Brushton II days
ago. Straitiff. his slayer, is in JAIL
Edward Linn, member of the New York
Produce Exchange, committed suicide Tues
day night at Taylors Hotel Jersey City, by
shooting himself through the head.
"A Pittsburg syndicate has bought 11o-
acre farm at Logstown, on the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie Railroad, in the Beaver VAL
ley, where large rolling mill will be built.
"A Honolulu letter says the Queen of
Hawaii is becoming more unpopular every
cay on account of her English predictions.
The republican feeling is said to be spread
ing
Train robberies are becoming frequent.
The latest was at Del Rio, Tex, in which
dynamite and wfnchesters figured promi-
nently. Only mali and express matter was
rified.
Prof. Love, the aeronaut, has met his
second balloon accident, from which he es-
capped with his life but with broken leg.
His parachute refused to work at Indianap-
oils Tuesday.
When Sheriff Ray entered the iafl at
Franklin, Tuesday, he detected dangerous
on the part of the prisoners. He
prevented their escape and perhaps saved |
his own life by drawing his revolver.
Some one put croton oil in ice cream at a |
boarding house at Visalia, Col, and the con- |
was the IL partakers of the cream |
were immediately seized with stomach |
cramps. Medical aid saved their lives.
The Canadian House Of Commons Privi. |
eges and Elections Committee recommends |
that Boodler McGreevy's resignation be not |
acted upon, since the election protest was |
pending at the time the resignation was |
handed in.
jacob Baney, n weIl-known horse dealer |
Of Myerstown, Pa, has failed. Executions |
were issued yesterday for $35 600. Some of |
the execution creditors are members of his |
own family. There are liens of $4,000 |
against the property.
The paymaster in large mill has been |
,aught in a novel method of embezzlement. |
When an employe lost time he would be cred.
ted with full time on the cashiers sheet, |
nnQEntnd a m av
hat was not earned.
Pilgrims visiting Treves to gaze upon /
he Holy Coat, complain bitterly of poor
accommodations and extortionate prices.
Every second house is O restaurant or beer
'hop, and one beer shop bears the name of |
The Holy Coat of Treves."
While train was running at full speed,
1ear Denison station, Ariz., Tuesday night,
Brakeman E. W. White and Stockman Aug
lst Breenan. Both were riding on top 1.-THE
;ars and were blown ten rods.
Elizabeth Hsney, an aged prisoner in
he Unfontown jail, tried to escape through
/ trap door in the tower which workmen, in
making some repairs, had LETT open. She at
,empted to let herself down from the roof by
means of a rope of bed clothes, but fell, re-
,eiving dangerous injuries
Nearly all the old soldiers now in the |
Home at Milwaukee who are able
20 work will be compelled to leave the insti-
;ution very shortly. This is the result of
Iction taken recently by the National Board,
md seems to be necessary on account of the |
condition of these institutions.
Eight members of the crew of the British
teamer Dunmurry, OF Belfast from New |
FORK for Antwerp with grain, lost their |
ives Saturday through the capsizing of the |
ressel in hurricane. CAPTAIN McMarron |
md 10 survivors have been landed at Hall
AK by the German OIL tank steamer Hans
Iurst.
Richard Nash, of Philadelphia. engineer
IN the fast Reading express while on the |
ookout yesterday morning, was struck by
ZONE obstruction near 0reville station, and
lis head was severed from his body The |
)ody hung out the cab window some min
ties before the fireman discovered the engi-
leer's mangled condition.
DIR. Joel E. Justin, the Syracuse inventor.
las made successful test of q dynamite
hell at PerTyville Falls, Madison county,
few York. The experiment consisted in
hrowing a 6O-pound shell containing 40
'unces of nitro-gelatine from q fve-fnch
,arrott rifle. The shell was thrown a distance
f half a mile against a solid wall of lime
tone rock, where it exploded with great
orce.
1t is said that the magnates of the South.
m Pacific road-C. P. Huntington, the
o take sides in young Hopkins contest,
huntington will be in favor OF maintaining
he Will because Mrs. Hopkins-Searles' stock
locked in his interest under q private con-
ract by which that stock - voted to keep
i'm in his present position as President of
be road.
To THE habitually constipated, your sure,
afe and in most cases, absolutely painless
emedy, is DR.. d. Jayne's Small, Sugar
Dated Sanative Pills.