Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

\ -Guatemalans deny the annexation story.
Smallpox is epidemic at Great Norma,
Russia.
The coal miners strike at Foster, Ia, is
| at an end.
Oklahoma is harvesting mammoth
| wheat crop.
The drought in Quebec province is 50 bad
that Catholic churches will pray for rain.
"A bill regulating the granting of divorces
has been introduced in the Dominion Senate.
Fanny Dandy, member Of the Gaiety
| Company, was granted divorce at London
| yesterday.
The new Court House at Indianapolis
collapsed Friday by dynamite explosion.
Loss, $4,000.
Sherman Brooks was executed In public
at Louisville, Ga, Friday for the murder of
| another negro.
The Railway Telegraphers, in session at
| st. Louis have adjourned to meet in Chatta-
nooga next year.
The number of immigrants landed at
| New York Friday was 2,29l-all from Rotter-
dam and Liverpool.
John Most, the Anarchist, was landed in
q New York penitentiary yesterday to serve
his years sentence.
Harriet Hosmer, at Rome, has completed
/ the model of the proposed Queen Isabella
statue for the Worlds Fair.
The Powhatan Club, of Richmond, has
started movement for separate street cars
for white and colored people.
Tho German Hebrew Emigration Com
mittee declines to undertake to send exiles
| to Palestine instead of America.
The steamer Al-ld at San Francisco has
been chartered by the Government for SER
| vice in Alaskan waters as prison ship.
The shortage in the accounts of the
National City Bank at Marshall, Mich, has
been found to be 500 600. A receiver is asked
for.
Several battles have been fought between
French troops and Chinese pirates, yet the
pests of the Eastern seas are still unsub-
dued-
The Kansas Millers' Association has
passed resolutions urging Secretary Blaine
TO hasten reciprocity negotiations with
Mexico.
The Mayor of Atlanta has vetoed all beer
license because most of the sellers have been
selling whisky. unlawfully. Whisky licenses
are untouched.
An ascending military balloon burst at q
fair in Prague Bohemia. The officers and
crew were severely injured. The balloon
ignited and was consumed.
"A heavy rainstorm caused the breaking
of two dams at Fort Scott. The bottom land
settlements were flooded in consequence,
and houses were swept away.
The memory of Emperor Maximilian and
the two Generals, Mexia and Miriamon, who
of Mexico yesterday by grand requiem
mass.
Coal miners at Spring Valley, Ill, have
been on strike since May "A on the screen
Operator Scott to submit the matter to arbi-
tration.
While investigating the cause of an cleo
trio light flickering in Buffalo Friday night,
George kessler grasped q hoisting rod. 1t
proved to be charged with electricity and it
killed him
The railroad collision on the Illinois
Central near Lauve, La. recorded in yester-
days DISPATCH, resulted in four men killed
and six severely injured. No passengers
were badly hurt.
President Pellegrini, of the Argentine
Republic, vetoed the bill providing for a re-
duction of the period of suspension of gold
and silver payments, but the Chamber of
Deputies passed the measure over his head.
j. Rhinelander Dillon, a shareholder and
deposltor of the American Loan and Trust
Company, is going to ventilate in the courts
the methods OF the collapsed company. He
has entered suit against the is directors to
recover the value of 81, 1888 20 worth of stock.
An investigation is in progress by Do
m1nlon Parliament committee of charges of
corruption in relation to public contracts
preferred against Thomas McGreevy, NJ. P.
One contractor testified to giving 100000 to
politicians and go-betweens and for political
purposes.
The Court of Inquiry inves tigating the
guilty of warning on the forces of the EN-
press of India, but not guilty of the murder
of Chief Commissioner James W. Quinton,
British Resident f. st. c. Grimwood and the
other British officials. The Regent has been
sentenced to death.
Frank Nelson, colored, an ex-soldier. was
to have been executed at Nelsonville, Ariz.,
yesterday with Antonio Granada but the
former was granted a ten days respite Nell
son killed woman with whom he was liv-
ing, and also her child, at Fort Grant last
Granada Wifa Qf
Morenci in August Granada was hanged
yesterday.
For over year the mystery surrounding
the murder of Christopher Helm, a wealthy
cattleman, whose body was found on the
Cherokee strip riddled with bullets, has
baffled the authorities. A few days ago
burglar was fatally shot at Cherokee, Tex.
just before dying he confessed that man
named Ben Scott killed Helm and robbed his
body of large sum Of money. It is said
that the authorities have Scott located