Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
HARD wooDs-JoBBING PRICES.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The price of gold is rising in Italy.
Heavy SHOWS have been falling in Colo
! RADIO.
Trains in Washington have been stopped
| by washouts.
Two thousand people in Montevideo are
| suffering from the grip.
Mrs. Campbell, the female counterfeiter
of Idaho. has been indicted.
Fire is still raging in the big coal pile at
Duluth, and more steamers are needed.
During the month of October, Sc, 79s immi-
| grants passed through the New York Barge
Office.
Patrick Brgley, vagabond, i. wanted at
Sayreville. n. j., for the murder Of his
2-year-old child.
with dynamite the Eyre Manufacturing
Company's works and the Eyre residence ut
Lynn, Ont.
Later intelligence from the Andaman
Islands shows that the female convicts also
rescued the survivors of the wrecked steam
ship Enterprise.
The war between the Standard and the
international Oil Companies at St. Louis has
brought down the price of kerosene there to
69 cents n gallon.
Viola Greylock who attempted to COM
init suicide in New York Monday evening,
is probably Annie Miller, from q small in
terror town of New York.
Mrs James Hines, a widow, and her three
children were murdered in their house, in
Faquier county, Va, Tuesday, and the house
fired to conceal the crime.
Owing to hurricane, the steamship Ma
jeStic did not dare to enter Queenstown har-
Dor, but proceeded directly to Liverpool,
where her passengers will be transferred.
Sir Frederick Sargood and Messrs.
Frazier and Hall have resigned their posi-
tions under the Victorian Government in
Australia in consequence of difference of
opinion with Premier Monroe.
The Marquis of Harrington, in a speech
at Manchester complained of what he
termed the apathy and .cowardice of the
Unionists in Ireland as again revealed i'll the
polling at the recent elections in Cork.
Edna Hickman, Kansas City colored
woman, only found out she was free when
her old master died. some months ago. The
Court of Appeals has just awarded her 81, 500
in back wages against the Hickman estate.
The duties heretofore performed by the
wrecked United states steamer Despatch as
lotted to the Dolphin, lately returned from
the China station, and now being repaired
at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
The will of the late E. H. schemerhorn,
known as the Hermit Of Newport" was ad-
estate is valued at sl2, 10000 Valuable lega-
cies are left to relatives, but no public or
charitable bequests are made.
Warrants are out for the arrest of two
toughs. John Lewis and Addison Forther,
living in a locality near Fairfield, Ill.,, nick
named the Barefoot Nation" They are ac-
cused of torturing Miss Minnie Reid, whom
they caught in wood, by pouring Goals OF
fire over her
"A mail pouch was stolen from the trans
fer trucks at Galesburg. ILL.,, last Thursday
night, and the charred contents were dis
covered near the city the next morning. 1t
is now known that large remittances Of
drafts and other letters of Importance were
in the stolen pouch.
The tin plate industry in Swansea, Wales,
has become so depressed, and the demand
for steel has been so seriously lessened that
it is reported that the masters in that place
have decided to close their works when the
existing contracts have been executed
Blamed on the Mckinley law.
George A. Wyard of Montague, and Miss
May White, Of Stockbridge, Mich, have been
sleeping five ana six months respectively
Wyard died Sunday night. The prolonged
slumber in his case followed an obstinate
case of grip. For four months he never
spoke word OF left his couch.
Rev. Mr.. Frances, pastor of the British |
and American Church. at ST. Petersburg, |
gave a sofree Tuesday night at which Mr.. |
Smith, the United States Minister, and |
Arnold White, the representative of Baron |
Hirsch, were present. good collection |
was made for the famine fund.
-Stevedores and wharf laborers of Mon |
treal, who have been in the habit of going |
to the United States for work every winter, |
are wondering how the enforcement of the |
alien labor In w a to ffa hon