Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-04
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Illinois crop prospects are improved.
Anna Dickinson will spend a few weeks in
Goshen, N. Y.
Mexico has officially accepted the World
Fair invitation.
An explosion in a collision at Apedale.
England. resulted in the loss of ten lives
The Jamaica Exposition, in its eighth week.
will almost certainly be a financial failure.
The agitation for a reform of the English
divorce law will be carried into Parliament.
Union painters OF Evansville struck for 30
cents an hour and an eight.hour day Thursday.
The French man-of-war Naiad is visiting
New Orleans, and will proceed thence to New
Z York.
The new Japanese Pacific steamer has CON-
pleted her trial trip of 500 miles from the Clyde
to Liverpool.
The Amalgamated Association will declare
strike at Joliet Saturday unless the company
accedes to their terms.
Union carpenters of Grand Rapids, ]. 200 in
number. will strike if they are not conceded
nine hours day and 25 cents an hour.
Chairman Walker of the Western Traffic
Association, in an address before the Sunset
Club in Chicago, favored railroad pooling.
Governor BOYD. of Nebraska, has again
vetoed the Newberry maximum freight bill.
The Senate will probably sustain the veto.
Farmers in the Michigan Legislature think
the Ann Arbor University costs too much. and
Wisconsin boomers are still trying to form
in line for the latest land grab. which does not
take place till May L The police prevent them.
Governor Jones' of the Choctaw nation,
will recommend that the sale OF the leased dis
trict to the United States Government be
ratified.
Hunter & Marshuntz, shoe dealers of Shell
byville. Ill, have closed up. They owe s4000
or $50. 0OO, and their property foots up about
$4,000 less.
The alleged grave robbers Drs. Blackburn
and Grant, were acquitted at Jeffersonville,
Ind, yesterday. The Hoosiers are displeased
with the verdict.
The Spanish Senate's reply to the speech
from the throne hopes that the latest American
economic measures will improve the financial
situation in Cuba.
Thursday nights heavy storm did much
damage east of New York. The schooner
Blake was driven ashore at Sandy Hook, but
life savers rescued the crew.
Samuel Gompers, President of the Fedora
tion of Labor. will opsn the campaign in be-
half of the c1garmakers in Chicago Thursday
A strike is looked for next month.
"A colored boy named Ernest Forbes, guilty
of heinous crime. was hanged in Annapolis
yesterday in full view of thousands of specta-
tors. The town made the occasion holiday.
A 7-year-old boy made heroic, but vain,
effort 10 save his 4year-old sister, Hattie Ford
from burning to death at Lake City, Mo-,
Thursday. Her clothes caught fire from
stove.
The Figaro declares that besides his
memoirs, the Due de Broglie possesses the
whole of Taleyrand's correspondence from
1853 to the time of his death, which will also be
published.
Martin, alias Cub Maybre, alias Mayberry,
was found dead yesterday hanging to a cedar
tree, near Bryant station, Tenn. The Jury rem
dered verdict of death by the hands Of un-
known parties.
The Farmers Loan and Trust Company, of
New \ ork, is about to protect Dondholders by
foreclosing mortgages to the amount of 81 6OO,-
900 on the property of the st. Louis Ore and
Steel Company.
The defaulting grain dealer of Virginia,
ILL.,, Miller +. Haseman, who disappeared in
place ever since, has just surrendered at Visa
liza. CAL He is nearly $40, 900 short.
In speech at Newcastle. England, J.F.X.
OBrien, M. p, said that Parnell must never
again be allowed to handle the flag that he has
disgraced. He would rather submit to so years
of Balfourism than to Home Rule under Par
nell.
The will of John Plankinton, the dead Mil
waukee millionaire, bequeaths most of his
estate to his widow, John Plankinton and Eliza
beth Plankintou. Many charitable legacies
were made, the largest to the Young Mems
Christian Association.
I'm the Illinois lower House yesterday bill
was introduced to regulate the cash values and
companies. 1t provides against
lapse of policies. and that the value of the |
policy at the time it lapses may be used to pay !
premiums until exhausted, 6 per cent per |
annum being deducted. 1t also provides |
against any waiver clause in any place.