Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-07
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The tin plate strike in St. Louis has been
| declared of.
Cuba has raised ss7,4ss for the Spanish
| flood sufferers.
The Argentine Republic will increase its
army by 1000 men.
The commercial relations between Bra
I'll and Uruguay are strained.
The corner stone of Chicago's 2o-story
Masonic Temple was laid yesterday.
Natives of India have revived their old
practice of human torture to bring rain
Crops in some sections of the Argentine
Republic have been destroyed by a tornado.
The water in St. Clair is lower than for
many years. Navigation is becoming dan
gerous.
Three more soldiers have died from the
injuries received in the India railroad dls'
aster.
The Car altered his route through Ii
vadia, having been warned of plot against
his life.
Chicago has a coal famine. owing to the
strikes in the Pittsburs and Indiana mining
districts.
of seven. is believed to be lost of the Sussex
shore, England.
The famous contest over the estate OF
Thomas Blythe. San Francisco, valued at
81, ,o0O, 600. has been settled
,-weis Brothers, Galveston drygoods
tween $500 900 and 100000.
Cuba rejoices in glowing crop prospects.
Excessive rains however, ruined tobacco
seedlings in some districts.
Poisoned milk Frustrated the Schultz
family of five persons at Saginaw: Mich,
Thursday evening. One child will die.
The weather at Newfoundland is stormy
and unusually cold for the time of year.
There is much suffering in consequence.
"A. B. Spreckels, just arrived from Homo
lulu, says annexation to the United States
is the only hope of the discouraged inhabit-
ants.
Sixteen persons were saved from the un-
known British steamer which burned in the
Mediterranean Sea. 1t is believ ed that nine
persons persisted.
"A train of 25 cars loaded with gold ore,
each car from different mine in the Bald
Mountain district is on its way to the smelt-
ing works at Aurora, Ill.
Encouraged by the result Of the Iowa
election, both the old and the new brewerfes
of Sioux City will resume operations. A new
distillery will also be built.
The Baker wire mill at Lockport, Ill,
closed down Thursday night because the 80
employees refused to desert their newly
formed Amalgamated union.
Miss Mckay put arsenic. instead Of bak-
ing powder: into her pancake batter at Am
herst, n. H.. Yesterday morning She IS
dead now, but the family is convalescent.
The Russian famine has given birth to
various new experiments in the search for
substitute for bread. One that is said to |
be very nutritious and palatable is MKT |
ure of beet root refuse and rice flour.
Judge Sherwood has decided that Cleve- |
land is without legal city government. |
The last census made Cleveland city of the |
first class, while it has continued to do busf- |
ness at the old stand under the second-class |
forms.
The workman Vaucourt, who was ar
rested late Thursday night in Paris on sus-
picion of being the murderer of the man
whose nude and headless body was found in |
the cellar of q house, has been discharged |
from custody.
While out hunting near Birmingham,
Conn.,, Samuel French discovered cow
stuck in the mud, having been IN that
position three weeks living on leaves that
floated down the stream. Two yokes of
oxen were necessary to drag her out.
John Heyer, who was until recently in
the employ Of William Harney & Sons, real
estate agents, Jersey City, was arrested in
San Francisco Thursday night on . charge
of embezzlement telegraphed from the East.
His wife persists in remaining in jail with !
him.
The following foreign corporations were
to-day granted permission to open branch
offices in Pennsylvania, headquarters Of all
to be in Philadelphia: The Life and Marine |
Insurance Company of London, England; |
the Interstate Savings and Loan Associa-
tion of Minneapolis, Minn.. and the Cumber-
land Gap Building and Loan Association of
Tennessee.