Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-15
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Mary Mclaughlin walked off New Yorh
Central Railroad train while asleep and wai
killed.
"A corporal of the Palace Guard at Uru
quay attempted to assassinate President Sa-
casa Tuesday. The culprit will be court
martialed
Three French Canadian boys at Man.
chester, n. H, buried a 4-year-old playmate
in sand, and the little fellow when liberated
was dead.
Spreading rails wrecked Missouri Pa
cific passenger train near Coffeyville, Kan,
Tuesday. Express Messenger johnson was
severely injured.
No attempt has been made on Premier
Mercier's life. He sent for the officers to
prevent a charivari at the house of an old
widow who had just remarked.
Lord Salisbury has politely Informed the
Porte that If vessels of the Russian volun-
teerfieet are allowed to pass the Dardanelles,
Great Britain claims the same right for her
volunteer vessels"
General n. P. Banks is to institute a suit
against the United States Government for
$4,000. which he claims it has owed him since
he retired from the office of United States
Marshall, in 1889, at Boston.
The Turkish Government has ordered
the Governor of Scutari to disarm the Al
banians The Governor says it is well nigh
impossible. and would require 80 battalions
of troops and result in revolution.
September IA the bark Archus, of New
Chwang, laden with beans, was totally
wrecked while in typhoon ut the entrance
of Nagaski harbor. All on board perished.
The crew were Chinese, except the captain
and officers.
Major Charles r. Throckmorton, q. S. A..
commandant at Fort Schuyler, n. Y, has
been placed under arrest and relieved OF his
command, pending investigation of charges
OF issuing worthless checks and duplicating
his pay vouchers.
The remains of John Whalen. who has
been missing since August 20, and for whose
disappearance William Coy, with whom
Whalen lived. was held responsible and was
arrested on suspicion of having murdered
him, were found buried on the mountain
side, near Coy's shanty, ut Pinsfield. Mass.
Louisiana lottery and anti-lottery Demo-
Gratis seem to be about evenly matched
At a meeting of the State Central Demo
the construction of the Committee of Gre
dentals was carried by q vote of 80 lottery
to 3s antilottery votes. Chairman Lanier,
anti-lottery, not voting.
-Virchow made a speech at mass meet
ing of the Freisinigge electors Tuesday
evening, in the course Of which he said
Though Germany Is now united, it is capa.
Bile OF still closer union than that based
upon treaties between German princes.
Though German freedom has become II com
mon expression, it is not yet in its full
reality freedom"
Next Monday q representation will be
made to the Chicago Election Commission
ers that the petition on which it is proposed
to print the labor ticket for municIpaI
officers with the regular party tickets under
the new Australian ballot law, is fraudulent
in part, and that there are not enough GEN
uine petitioners to entitle the party to
official recognition.
The figures in the indianapolis election
are as follows: Sullivan was reelected
Mayor over Herod (Rep) by majority of
2I2s. Abrams (Dem.) }, for City Clerk, has an
estimated majority of 937. Buskirk DENY
is elected Police Judge over Wright (Rep.(
by II jority of 1903. The Democrats elect
of the Councilmen at large and of the Is
ward Councilmen. The Prohibitionists polIed
about 200 votes.
The explosion of boiler in Coleman's
heading factory at Upton, Ind, Tuesday.
totally demolished the building ana scat.
tered machinery all over the yards Tho
boiler was hurled so feet into the air and
blown into q hundred pieces. There were 80
men and boys engaged at work in the fac
tory, a number OF whom were more or less
injured The plant, valued at about SIS 600.
is almost total wreck.
At Vladivostocll Siberia, September IA
l6 Russian convicts working on the new rail-
way attempted to escape. Two were shot
down but IL got away. These killed three
inmates of farm house to obtain clothing.
A French officer was killed for the same
reason, and Russian bandmas ster returning
from the funeral of the officer, was also
killed and his body stripped At the latest
account none of the convicts had been cap
tured.