Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
The Nova Scotia hay crop will be under
the average.
The damaged steamship suevia ar
rived at New York yesterday.
A gang of 500 pirates is making havoc in
the Chinese Province of Wenchow.
The striking stevedores of San Francisco
will return to work at the old wages.
The text of the proposed German law
against drunkenness has been published.
The Governor of Martinique has issued
an appeal for outside aid for hurricane suf-
ferers.
The new census gives Canada popula-
tion OF 4,s2S,S4 in increase in ten years Of
<ss, ,534.
Admiral Gherardfs North Atlantic
squadron has sailed from Bar Harbor to New
London.
-Rumored that Corea has agreed to Rus
sian protectorate and will throw off the
Chinese yoke.
The treasury of Guatemala is depleted,
and neither the army nor the Federal officers
have been paid for three months.
The steamship State of California, built
for the Allan-State line, has arrived at New
York on her maiden trip from Glasgow.
West Superior, Wis, will become an in.
dependent wheat market, instead of remain
ing subject to the Duluth Board of Trade.
The proposal TO slaugnter cattle AT nIee
Rivers, Can. for canning purposes, is being
vigorously opposed by Toronto exporters.
A call for a Statehood convention, to be
held at Oklahoma City, September a has
been issued by the Commercial Club of that
city.
The Georgia Legislature is being roundly
denounced for refusing to accept on behalf
of the State the Confederate Veterans
Home.
-Four sailors of the warship Pensacola,
which is soon to steam for China, have de-
serted, alleging that the vessel is unsea-
worthy.
Secretary Noble has written to the Gov
ernor of Oklahoma, saying no date has vet
been fixed upon for the opening of the In
dian lands.
The authorities of Kiel have been in
structed to prevent the new Chilean warship
Presiuente Pinto from shipping crew or
war material from that port.
An accommodation train on the st. Paul
and Duluth Railroad was derailed at full
speed near Grantsburg, Mimi, Wednesday,
but only four passengers were hurt.
Texas railroad employees are up in arms
against sweeping reduction in charges,
which are being ordered by the railroad
Commissioners. They fear q corresponding
reduction in wages.
The Pope is preparing an encyclical on
the different forms of government, his OBJ
ject beng to show how much the nations
settlements of differences.
While the police officers of Georgetown,
Ky, were absent attending fair in Lexing-
ton three men were killed in one street fight,
ana the whole town was torroI1Zed by the
murderers, Milton Kennel and his four sons.
A contingent of 81 well-to-do Kansas City
colored men have gone to the border of the
Indian lands awaiting the Presidents open
ing proclamation. The colony is expected
to number 100000 persons from all parts OF
the South.
Miss Leonora Mitchell. the American
actress who was found shot under mysteri-
Gus circumstances in a railroad carriage
between leicester and Bedford, about two
weeks ago, died yesterday morning. The
police believe it to be case of suicide.
Prof Miches, in charge of the microscop-
ical station of Chicago for the examination
of pork for trichina says the present inspec-
tion is the most thorough of any that has
ever been attempted heretofore. He favors
the employment of women in the service.
A tame bear belonging in the village of
Wilma, Russia, having been trained by
servants to drink whisky, entered a tavern
and STAYED in keg OF liquor. The owner
tried to prevent the robbery, when the bear
set upon him and killed him and three chill
dren.
The Grand Trunk tunnel under the st.
Clair river at Port Huron and Sarnia will be
formally opened September l9. The opening
ceremonies will be brilliant. President Har
rison, the Governor General of Canada and
several State Governors are expected to be
present.
The leading manufacturers and export
ers engaged in the American trade at Dun
dee are divided in opinion on the effect of
the Mckinley law in the linen trade. The
prohibitive tariff has killed the expectation
of cheap domestic linens, and manufactur-
ers are using smaller yarns and exporting
only expensive goods.
Floods in Carinthia have DESTROYED many
hri6ppS and hnnSpS q N
amount of other damage. At Jarvis the
river Dravo rose nine feet and flooded
North of Italy are suffering from excessive
rains. An overflow of the Lake of Lesiua
has stopped railway traffic near Colitno.
Lieutenant H. B. Rogers, the inspector of
the United States lite saving stations in the
Eleventh district, made his annual inspec-
tion of the Northwestern University life
saving crew at Evanston, ILL.,, Wednesday.
The beach drill was done in minutes and 20
seconds. The last and most interesting drill
was the capsizing and Fighting of big life
boat.
Rev. George Moore, o colored pastor in
Louisville, has been held for court on the
charge of stealing Bible, a clock and a
chandelier from the church. The parson ad-
mitted taking the articles, but he said the
Bible belonged to him. As an excuse for
taking the clock and chandelier, he said the
had only given him Al cents a
month, and he had to live.
Lightning struck church at Tualis, on
the italian frontier, while the building was
crowded with women. A fearful scene of |
panic followed, women and children Shrek |
ing and praying or else rushing wildly for |
the church doors. The priest celebrating |
mass acted in a courageous manner, and,
reassuring the terrified women, |
he succeeded in restoring order Subse- |
quently it was found that three women who |
were supposed to have tainted from fright |
had actually been killed by the lightning |
which struck the church.