Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-31
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


"A Steam Radiator Trust is the latest.
Michael Davitt says he is still on Glad
stones side
The eleventh victim of the theater panic
at Gates Head has died.
-Barillas saws he is out OF the race for the
Presidency of Guatemala.
The Texas and Arkansas Pass Railroad
is still tied up by the strike.
Natural gas has been found near Blount,
S. Oak, at the depth of 1000 feet
The Maxim -Nordenfeldt Gun Company
will establish factories in the United States
A Florida tract of 100 600 acres has just
been sold to a New York and English syndi-
cate.
Gangs of fre-bugs are getting in their
work very frequently in Valparaiso and
Santiago.
The State Government of Durango, Mex,
has begun a crusade against illegal monastlc
institutions.
Trains of the Santa Fe and the Atlantic
and the Pacific railroads are showed up in
New Mexico.
The Pennsylvania Worlds Fair Commits
sioners are in Chicago with their design for
a State building.
1t is said Bulgaria will declare her inde-
pendence if the Porte actively interferes in
the Chadouine affair.
Mrs Margaret Gilmer was acquitted at
Abingdon, Va, Tuesday of an attempt to
poison her husband to death.
The Indiana mine operators are ignor-
ing the miners organization. and the big
strike threatens to break out again.
Five convicts escaped from the French
prison in Montpelier early Tuesday morn
ing, after strangling another prisoner and
warden.
San Francisco detectives have arrested a
man calling himself Waterman, suspected
of being one of the Glendale, Mo, train rob-
bers OF last month.
The conductors and brakemen of the
Grand Island Railroad threaten strike and
a general tie-up. The dispute is question
OF time-pay for extra work.
-Garza, the Mexican revolutionist, was a
sewing machine agent in 1889, and, being
heavily short in his accounts, fed and was
arrested later on the Texas side.
-Four boxes of dynamite bombs, used in
blasting, burst at stone quarry near Mil
waukee early YESTERDAY morning. blowing
Albert Butlitz and William Walker to
atoms.
I'm New York harbor yesterday a ferry
boat collided with tug. The boiler OF the
tug exploded, throwing four men into the
water. The tug sank and one man was
drowned.
The Topeka Alliance -dduocate makes
grave charges against the National Union
Company, which has been trying to get con-
troll of Alliance business by purchasing all
the Alliance stores in Kansas.
The Government expedition which has
been investigating the poaching on public
timber lands in Northern Minnesota has re-
turned to civilization. Ample evidence of
extensive tresspasslng was found.
The severest storm for years has been
raging on the Pacific coast for the past three
days. The Southern Pacific Railroad is run
ming snow plows day and night. The low
lands have been flooded by heavy rains.
Mrs. Curtis wife of the noted actor
awaiting trial for murder, failed to raise the
money for the expenses of the defense after
making a contract sale of her property.
This places a cloud on the title. and she has
sued the real estate agents.
Seven passengers, including ex-Congress-
man Butler OF Mountain City.s Tenn, were
badly hurt in a railroad wreck on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad,
near Bristol, Tenn, yesterday morning.
broken rail csus ed the disaster.
Near Iron river, Mich, there is war be-
tween the homesteaders and the employees
of the Metropolitan Lumber Company, who
in sist on cutting timber. The homesteaders
declare they will fight to the last for their
rights, even to the use of force
The fast mail train of the Union Pacific
Railroad was wrecked near La Grande, Ore,
Tuesday night. The engineer, firemen and
two tramps were killed. The engine caused
the rails to spread in rounding a curve.
None of the passengers were hurt.
-Labouchere favors independence as the
future destiny of Canada, rather than an
nexation to the United States He calls the
American Bureau ''the most corruot and ras-
cally institution on the earth.' Canada
once free, Australia would soon follow.
Irving Jenkins, who first gave the alarm
after the murder of the family at New
Smyrna, Fla. has been arrested for third
time as suspect, aad this time the Pinker-
tons say they have sufficient evidence to
hold him. The prisoner may be lynched.
"A Chicago engineer has figured out that
his city will be destroyed in 1888. He says
Lake Michigan has washed out the soil of
the city, so that the strip OF earth upon
which Chicago stands has a thickness of only
l6 feet, and is too weak to carry the weight
of the colossal exposition building. When
the depression occurs the city will sink 40
feet to the next stratum.
The town OF Yemen, in Arabia, recently
withstood a ten weeks siege under daily
bombardment. A terrible famine prevailed.
Every person venturing out of the town to
a5tempt to procure food was driven back
naked, with nose and ears cut off or other
wise mutilated, the insurgent chief declar-
ing that he would convert Yemen to
1slamism or extirpate them. When the
Turks relieved the city n general butchery
OF prisoners occurred on both sides