Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
The flow of lava from Mt. vesuxius has
ceased.
Both exports and imports are decreasing
In France =
Earthquake shocks still continue in
Northern Italy.
President Fonesca has opened the Bra
lillian Parliament
The Swiss Bundersrath proposes gen.
, eral amnesty to the Ticiro insurgents.
A State examination of the New York
Life Insurance Company will be made.
Mexico is still paying pensions to heirs
of the old Aztec monarch, MOntezuma III.
Chilean interest in the Worlds Fair is
said to be deep, despite the troubles at
home.
The steamer Labrador. from Colon, is in
quarantine ut Bordeaux with yellow fever
on board.
-Locusts have driven natives out of the
Sahara region, and the refugees threaten to
raid Tunis.
English Liberal leaders will cooperate
with the Government to hasten the prorOga-
tion of Parliament.
The census of England and Wales shows
n population of @. 100000, an increase of 3,000,
900 in the last decade.
The Chinese Emperor has issued an edict
ordering the beheading of all persons i'm
pl1cated in the recent riots.
Fall River (Mass.) mill managers con-
template cutting down the wages of their
2,OO0 operatives 10 per cent.
The large new whaleback steamer, Jo-
seph L. Colby, bound from Duluth to New
York, will shoot the st. Lawrence rapids.
The Primitive Methodist Conference in
session at Northampton, England, has
passed resolution censuring the Prince of
Wales.
-Ex-Congressman George. Republican cam
didate for mayor of Portland, Ore, was de-
feated by the citizens candidate, W. 5.
Mason.
When the orchestra played "GOd Bless
the Prince of Wales during Stanley's lee
ture at Carnarvon, England, the audience
Missed.
George Lang's distilIery in Calistaga,
CAL, and his wholesale store in San Fran
cisco have been seized for violation of the
revenue laws.
The Port Huron end of the big tunnel
has caved in. The engine house went down
in the wreck 1t will take two months to re-
pair the damage.
Michael Hicks Beach thinks the passage
of law by Parliament to exclude Russian
Hebrews from England would be initiated by
the United States. --..
"A conflict has arisen between the French
Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the
later insisting that the reduction of cereal
duties shall not go into effect until August.
The Connecticut society has taken formal
possession of the building that was the office
and executive seat of the original Brother
JOnathan'-Govenor Trumbull, of RevO-
lutionary fame.
General Chapman, of California who was
nominated by the Worlds Fair directory in
place of Mr.. Maxwell as chief of the Horti-
cultural Department. was also rejected
by the Board of Control.
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the Newfoundland delegates, after having
several satisfactory interviews with NJ.
RibOt, French Foreign Minister, in Paris,
have gone to Switzerland.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
voted approval of a duty of francs on
maize, with provision for the temporary
admission of the grain free if to be used in
the manufacture of alcohol for export.
Rev. Frank ID. Lee In Fairfax county in
q spell of temporary alteration of mind on
son. aged years, to whom he was devOtedly
attached, and then committed suicide with q
pistol.
-Yonkers police discovered in an ice
house near town 5000 pounds of dynamite
enough to blow up the city. 1t is supposed
the leasers of the building, j. b. Seawell &
Co, have been carrying on contraband
traffic.
The British resident on the Cook Islands
has induced the natives to federate and
ut Raratonga, the chief of these islands,
in order to frame identical laws for the
whole group.
The hearing of Miss Gladys Evelyn's
appeal from the Judgment pronounced
against her in the suit brought against Mr.
William Henry. Hurlburt, and asking for a
new trial, has been postponed until the end
of the present week.
1t is rumored that DIR. Verdi, of Washing
ton, an italian citizen of this country, who
gained nortoriety by q recent interview in
which he denounced the New Orleans vigil
lantes is about to be knighted with the title
of cheValier by King Humbert-
Warner Miller, President of the Nicar-
aqua Canal Company, denies the charges of
extravagance made against the officers of
the company by B. G.. Knight. at New York
President Miller says that Knight is Il dis
charged employc, and is not a stockholder in
the company.
Secretary Foster has telcgraphed the
Presidents proclamation to the Commander
of the Revenue Cutter Corwin, giving him
detailed orders for the pture of any Sealers
taking skins in Bering Sea contrary to the
agreement signed with Great Britain.
Orders for other commanders were also
sent
The Bragg Manufacturing Company of
California, has begun suits for over $500
damages against the cities of New York and
Brooklyn for alleged infringement of the
release device patent obtained by Robert
Bragg has already secured damages from
many other cities.
"A cloudburst at Newmanville, Tenn. con-
verted a small creek into a raging torrent l0)
yards wide. and swept away the store, post
office, dwelling and outhouses of T. y. King.
An iron safe weighing 1900 pounds was car
ried a quarter of mile. A number of OtIier
houses were carried away, and all crops along
the stream were destroyed.
State Controller Colgan. of California, has
announced that he refuses to sign the war
rants granting 100000 to the Worlds Fair
Commission for the state exhibit. He bases
his action on the provision of the State Con-
stitution which says that no money shall be
appropriated for the benefit OF any institu-
tfon not under the exclusive control of the
State.
A manifesto issued by the Central Lib
eral Association, in reply to a letter from
Mr.. Chamberlain asserting that home rule
had been eliminated from the party pro-
gram, says that the propaganda OF home
rule continues increasingly, and that books,
pamphlets and leaflets have been sent
broadcast, educating voters how to establish
an Irish Legislature.