Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.


owners to settle in Alsace-Lorraine.
The marauding Apaches have escaped
from the pursuing Mexican cavalry.
Sixty earthquake shocks in Bengal
Thursday, destroyed many buildings.
The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers adjourned at Providence Thurs
day.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers has
abolished the anti-stril1e clause in its consti-
tuition.
Germany fears that Balmaceda's succhss
would mean American commercial suprem-
acy in Chile.
Ex-senator Malone thinks the Farmers
Alliance won't amount to much, politically,
in Virginia.
John Most the Anarchist, was resent
enced in New York Yesterday to one year in
the penitentiary.
Many Jefferson Davis memorial meet
1ngs have been held in Arkansas to augment
the monument fund.
Sixty Chickasaw soldiers, on their way
to eject boomers, all got drunk and terror
lied every white man they met.
-Mataafa still claims to be the rigbtful
King of Samoa, and is taking steps, it is be-
lieved, to forcibly assert his pretense.
James waggener wealthy horse thief
at Cheyenne, l. T., was lynched supposedly
by three United States officers Thursday
night.
Premier Rudini insists upon knowing
what adhesion England will give to the
Dreibund before signing q renewal OF the
alliance.
The Czech students who attacked and
assaulted three Germans at the exhibition
in Prague, have been sentenced to pay
small fine.
Secretary Tracy has invited proposals for
the construction of a steel twin screw sea-
going torpedo boat. Bids are to be opened
August Is next.
Richmond held a mass meeting Thursday
night to endeavor to induce Mrs. Jefferson
Davis to allow her husbands remains to be
buried in that city.
The Senate of the National Union, in
session at Milwaukee, yesterday morning
selected Kansas City as the next place OF
meeting in June, 1892.
Fourteen men were buried beneath the
debris of a falling lumber shed in Berkeley,
Va, Thursday. Munroe B. Kline was killed
and others seriously injured.
-Bruneau's opera founded on Zola's 'La
Reve" was produced in Paris Thursday
evening. 1t is strongly Wagnerian, and it
met with only partial success.
AT the commencement of st. Margaret's
School for Young Ladies at Buffalo Thurs
day night Bishop Coke reproyed his fair
auditors for riding astride on bicycles.
The boiler of the Benwood blast furnace
at Martins Ferry, w. Va, exploded early
yesterday morning, wreckfng the buildings,
killing Charles Rouse and wounding others.
Five Quebec children named Lachance
were PLAYING in q skiff in the st. Lawrence
river Thursday when the waves of pass
ing steamer sank the boat. All but one were
drowned.
While lying asleep in bed at PhiladeI-
phia, Andrew Terry, colored, was stabbed p
times in the neck and body with large
table knife in the hands of q rival, John
Brown, also colored.
Lieutenant Robinson, Explorer Moore
and four of the crew of the revenue cutter
Bear, were drowned in Icy Bay, Alaska,
recently, while attempting to land with the
Russell Mt st. Elias party.
During an investigation of the Coon Rap
ids Railroad wreck by the Iowa Railroad
Commissioners, the engineer of the train
swore that the engine struck u tie which had
been wedged in between the rails.
E. ]. Corrignn, John Brenock and Isaac
G.. Lansing, proprietors of the new race
track at Hawthorne, near Chicago, were in
dicted by the grand jury Thursday for SELL
ing liquor on the grounds without license.
The Republican County Committee of
New York, at their meeting Thursday night,
adopted resolutions expressing approval of
the platform adopted by the Ohio conven-
tion and of the nomination of Major McKin-
ley.
Hawthorne N. j., near Paterson, was
visited by a tornado wednesday, plunging
the village in utter darkness during its
progress. All crops passed over were de-
stroyed, and the usual amount of other dam
age inflicted.
"A package of poisoned crystallized fruit
was received through the mail by Mrs L. ID.
Redo of Richmond, Yesterday. She and five
others partook of the sweets, which made
them deathly sick. Timely medical aid
saved their lives.
Lord Dunlo says he will not take his seat
in the House of Lords until his wife has
abandoned the stage. He declined to state
whether he would be Liberal or Couserva-
tive in politics, but said he meant to find out
soon what those terms meant.
-Uno, the snai1e-charmer of Forepaugh's
show. was nearly squeezed to death by one
of her pets during performance in Chicago,
Thursday. Miss Jennie Yeamans, a SOU
brette of the "Blue Jeans" company, res
cued Uno by choking the reptile into in
sensibilitY.
"A girl named Jennie Williamson is In
Jail at Newburg, N. Y, charged with muir
der arson and horse-stealing. She is said to
have married an old farmer, burned down
HIS house, mill and barn, roasted his weak
minded son to death and wound up by steal
ing livery team.
"A blacksmith of Sebewaing, Mich. named
Heyman shod Il vicious mule with the help
of three men Wednesday. After the job the
brute broke loose and attacked the black
smith with distended jaws, biting OFF his
nose and right cheek. The mule was shot
Heyman may die.
Mrs T. r. Glennan, wife of Past Assist
ant Surgeon Glennan, United States Navy,
arrived at Raleigh Thursday evening of last
week from Washington, with four children.
Since Monday diphtheria has carried off two
of the little ones, and now the other two are
at deaths door from the same disease.
An enormous artificial lake, partly
formed by glacier in the Tyrol, burst its
confines and caused devastation similar to
that of the JohnstOwn flood, except that it
was probably unattended by loss of life.
The Inhabitants of the devastated valley
had been expecting the disaster and were
prepared for it.
Amherstburg, Ont, at the foot of the Detroit
river, Thursday evening. Part of the crew
went ashore, became intoxicated, and, on
returning to the vessel, raised disturbance.
A battle between the drunken and the sober
parts of the crew ensued, in which six men
were shot and wounded.
Thirty of the leading women of South
Dakota, and an Aberdeen newspaper, have
been sued by Mrs. Marietta Bones, of Web
ster, s. D., for $4,000 damages for besmirch-
ing her reputation with set of pun
gent resolutions. The suit grows out of a
row between Mrs. Bones and Susan B. An
thony at the national meeting of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union, last
"A package of flour and another of coffee
were found by q farmer near Hagerstown,
Md named Daniel Shiffler, in Il lane near
his 10 Mps am
Her entire family of six were made deathly
sick. One boy died and another is expected
to die 1t was found that the flour had been
poisoned by some unknown enemy of Mr..
Shiffier, who doubtless expected that gentle
man would use the provisions himself.
The widow of Captain Burton writes
from London that she intends, as far as pos
sible, to publish all of her husbands manu- |
scripts in accordance with his desires, with |
the exception OF his "Magnum Opus'-upon |
which he worked until the day OF his death |