Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
Rain is wanted in Michigan badly.


The prevalence of yellow fever at Vera
Cruz is said to be frightful.
The strike at the Omaha Smelter Works
has ended. The men gave in.
Harvesting is in progress in the North.
west. Crops are panning out grandly.
Ten smuggled Cinnamon were arrested
on WILDLY Island, and will be taken back to
China.
The funeral of the late Congressman
Gamble took place at Yankton, S. D.,
Sunday.
The Siamese Government will resist
French encroachments on the Mekong river
provinces.
A tornado in Kearney, Neb., Saturday
night, blew down about 200 feet of cotton
mill wall. Damage, $4,000.
in Central and Northeastern Wisconsin,
and in Northern Illinois, the ground is
baked hard by the drought.
The Government of Curacao, in the
Dutch Antilles, has seized a cargo of muni-
tions of war destined for Haiti.
The famous Manitou, Col, wagon road
has been washed away by cioudburst,
being damaged to the extent of $4,000.
There are two rival ''holy coats of the
Savior-one Treves, in Rhenish, Prussia,
and the other at Argentuil, in France.
The Canadian Government steamer Alert
confirms the reports of the prevalence of the
grip, diphtheria and starvation in Labra-
dor.
Freight trains on the Lake Erie and
Western Railroad are tied UP by a strike OF
brakemen. The dispute is on pay for over
time.
-Advices from Samoa say there is danger of
war breaking out afresh among the nations.
A United States warship is badly wanted
there.
The latest reports from Salton Lake say
that the water is slowly rising and that the
Il ,1,to
tuition.
The suspension of the British Bank OF
Australia, at Melbourne, is announced Liza.
bilities $SOO0O0, half of which is owed to
creditors i'll England.
During storm which passed over Sum.
trated in strip 800 feet wide and many
buildings were unroofed.
The latest balloon accident occurred at
Maeerata, Italy, where the aeronaut fell
from his car into the Adriatic sea. OF course
he vas drowned before help arrived.
"A Desha county, Ark, widow named
Mary Sweet has been awarded by jury $50,
900 for the killing of her husband by a st.
Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad train.
Two persons are dead and "a seriously ill
from drinking impure water from well in
Milwaukee. The water from a marsh near
by is supposed to have found its way into
the well.
Tho will of Mrs. Mark Hopkins-Searles
fails to provide for two cousins Miss Harriet
Hibbard and Mrs. Jane Smith, of Delaware
county, N. Y, whom she supported by small
annuities during her life.
According to the Milwaukee police, a
burglars syndicate or trust exists in that
city and not only in Wisconsin, but similar
combinations flourish in other large cities,
the pioneer of which is New York.
Two highwaymen were shot by police
men, one fatally, while in the act OF holding
up couple who were promenading on the
northern boulevard at Detroit. The robber
who was wounded the least escaped.
Among the inmates of the Milwaukee
county, Wis, poorhouse is George A. Cowan,
to whom the late Emma Abbott owed her
success as a prima donna. He was her first
music teacher, anu when she was discOur-
aged by others he was the first to encourage
her to study for the stage.
The marriage of Christian Hamilton
Gray, of Abbeywood, England, and Miss
Sophie Tupper Cameron, daughter of Major
General Cameron, of Canada, was q runaway
match and the denouement of a romance.
The young couple first met in England, but
the brides father frowned upon the suit.
The farmers of Northwestern Iowa are
besieged by an army of agents of Eastern
elevators, commission houses, ETC., who wish
to contract for all threshed and unthreshed
crops for September and October delivery.
Lower prices than those of last year are Of
fered on the strength of the general bounti-
ful harvest. Many of the farmers have thus
sold their crops in advance but the majority
have heard of the shortage in European
countries ani will hold their grain for higher
prices.