Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-05
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-Locusts are piled up three or four feet
deep at the gates Of Marking, China.
Forty passengers were injured in a
| Spanish railroad collision yesterday.
1t is alleged that the frost killed the en-
tire crop Of corn in Neillsville county, Wis.
-Mexicans Indignantly deny rumors of
revolutionary movements against President
| Diaz.
The rumor of railroad accident in
France which resulted in 200 deaths is de-
| MED. go
Nearly 500 miners at Briceville, Ill, are
on strike for the enforcement of the weekly
pay law.
The Austrian Archduke Francis will
shortly be betrothed to Princess Sophie, Of
Bavaria.
-Ohio's Worlds Fair Commissioners have
visited Chicago and &C cepted their church
uilding site.
Chilly weather in Iowa, which caused Sc
rious frosts Wednesday night, has suddenly
turned warmer.
key which prompted the dfscontented Sui
tan to reform his Cabinet.
Minister Phelps is receiving a host OF
congratulations over the success of his
diplomacy in behalf of the American hog.
Now it is said that the widow of the mur-
dered Burchall was quietly married in Eng
land within six weeks after her arrival
there.
The bandits who robbed the Southern
Pacific express train at Samuels, Tex,
Tuesday, secured booty to the value of at
least $4,000.
Frank Danforth, colored, was legally
hanged at Augusta, Ga, yesterday for muir
dering his sweetheart. He professed religion
on the scaffold..
American Consul Simons at Hongkong
has arrived at San Francisco. He says
there was no war scare in either Hongkong
VrnIr rr-Gn 4 1aff
1t is said that quiet poll of the College
of Cardinals has developed the fact that a
large majority of them are determined that
the next Pope shall be an Italian.
Despite the impassioned oratory of the
French delegates, the French Senate has
system in the Northwest Territory.
The Canadian Trades and Labor Council,
in session at Quebec, adopted resolutions
condemning State-aided immigration and
asking for Chinese exclusion law.
"A thunder storm deluged Paris Thurs
day, flooding cellars and making each street
a surging river. Two men fell into an open
sewer and were washed away and drowned.
Making ice with gas which is afterward
returned to the mains unimpafred is an ex-
pertinent which S. P. Striker, Buffalo in
ventor, will try at International Bridge,
Ont.
Riots on a small scale have taken place
at Akoshi, Japan, caused by the dissa tfsfac-
tion of the natives with the proceedings of
the Municipal Assembly in the matter of
taxes.
The foreign trade of China for the first
half of 1891 compared favorably with 1859,
and for the corresponding period in 1890, the
customs receipts being Sf1 15O, 600, as against
50, ,9ss 900 for the first half of 1890.
Enough peaches have arrived in Balti-
more during the past five weeks to supply
almost four peaches to every inhabitant of
the United States. The number of packages
received has been about 1, ,20O, 900, averaging
200 peaches to the box.
The steam yacht vamose owned by W.
r. Hearst, proprietor OF the San Francisco
Examiner will be sailed around Cape Horn
to San Francisco. The trip will be one of
the longest and most perilous ever under
taken by a craft of her size and kind
There is a strong possibility that the
British Government will be called upon to
make good the damage done to portion of
the valuable cargo OF the steamship Eldo-
recently by the wreckers of the Bahama
Islands.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor. has extended an invi-
tatton, in behalf of the trades unions OF
North America, to the Trades Union Con-
gress now in session at Newcastle-on-Tyne,
England, to hold an International Trades
Union Congress in Chicago.
The Union Pacific Directors yesterday
ratified the deed of trust under which the
collateral for the new notes was deposited,
and the formal agreement was then signed
by the creditors committee. It is said that
over three-fourths of the creditors have al
ready agreed to extend their claims.
"A japanese paper makes an attack on
the Imperial. Postofice Department, alleg-
ing careless handling of the mails Itstates
that complaints have been received from all
parts OF the Empire concerning lost letters.
The paper also intimates that the privacy
of the mails had not been regarded.
Two MASKED robbers held up and at
tempted to plunder the express car on the
Los Angeles express train near Modesto
Thursday night. Several shots passed be-
tween the bandits, the conductor and two
detectives who were on the train, frighten-
ing the robbers away after they had blown
open the door of the car with a bomb. De-
tective Harris was mortally wounded.
During the Japanese typhoon of July 1s
the British gunboat Tweed broke from her
moorings and was driven ashore against the |
wall of the naval yards at Kowloon. A gun |
broke loose and smashed a good deal of her |
deck hamper. When the vessel struck |
against the wall, tubular plating was
smashed and a hole knocked through the |
hull, the vessel filling and settling down. |
The crew on board got ashore safely with |
the exception of seaman. Over 5ojunks |
were destroyed.