Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-29
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The grip is epidemic at Melbourne.
Shorthand will probably be adopted in
oil the German Government offices
"A hurricane damaged some l75 0o0, 900 feet
of timber in two Minnesota counties.
The Sultan of Turkey is taking the most
severe measures to suppress brigandage.
Two ladies were killed and two injured
in runaway accident at Marietta, Ga, Sum
day night.
The Belgian Government will create
several new regiments TO garrison the
MeuSe forts.
Chancellor Caprivi has made long op-
timistfc speech to German regiment on its
jubilee anniversary.
John s. Sinclair, a poor farmer Of Nelson
county, y. D., has inherited an English carl
dom and vast estate.
Grafton Dalton, the California train rob-
ber broke Jail Sunday night, in company
with two other prisoners.
Many Geneva persons are in trouble for
making spurious antiquities for sale. Many
museums have been victimiZed.
The potato as well as the grain crops be-
ing failure in Germany it is proposed there
to substitute bananas as an article OF food.
Wharf laborers at Savannah have struck
for an advance in wages. The police and
militia are preparing to suppress outbreaks.
-Emmet D. Stanley, superinten dent of
postoffice, has been arrested for embezzling
about 1850.
The family of Mrs. George T. Lewis at
Saginaw, Mich, were poisoned by drinking
coffee yesterday, and several are in criti-
cal condition.
-Dacoits are gathering for the supposed
purpose of attacking q garrison III BRUSH
BurInah. Several minor conflicts have al
ready occurred.
Captain Hansen, the Yokohama pirate,
has sailed from Victoria, B. c. 1t is sup
posed to be his intention to raid the seal ISL
ands of ST. Paul and st. George in the Ber-
ing Sea.
Barney Baldwin, the diving man with
tie broken neck" attempted suicide by
poisoning ut a Milwaukee dime museum
Sunday evening. His wife had cloped with
a handsomer man.
The Confederated Irish Societies of Chi
cago have issued an address warning the
Irish and American people against the
promoters OF the coming convention of the
Irish National League.
The Catholic investigation of the Louis
vile woman who claims while in frances to
have the "stigmata," or marks of the Saw
ior's wounds, will take up some time. Mean
while her neighbors consider her a fraud.
A masked man. armed with a revolver,
entered the county Jail at Laramie, Wyo.,
bound and gagged the keeper and then lib
Grated Miller, the boy boX-car murderer,
and Parkinson. soldier, also convicted of
murder. Miller was subsequently re-
captured.
Five robber prisoners in the Jail at Gads-
den, Ala. overpowered Deputy Sheriff Mel
ton and were In the act of hanging him,
when a policeman appeared and fired upon
the desperadoes. The prisoners. two of
whom were wounded, fed to their cells.
Melton will recover.
The special Cincinnati grand jury con-
sidering the case of the escape from Jail of
Burglar james Anderson, has reported two
indictments, one against Lewis NJ Hadden,
an attorney, and the other against Calvin
Tucker, Jail watchman, for assisting the pris-
oner to escape. They both gave bail.
An unknown woman's sneeze betrayed
her presence while peering through third
story window upon the secret proceedings
of the United Workmen at Sedalia. Mo. She
fed over the adj dining roofs. 1t is supposed
she is well up in the unwritten work of the
United Worllmen, Knights of Pythias and
MasOnS, all Of whom meet in the hall.
"A freight train at Fargo n. D., switched
Off a car of Gil. The brakes of the car re-
fused to work, and it crashed into a car on
the main track. Oil WAS scattered in all
and was ignited by the engines
headlight. Engineer Curtis and Fireman
Dodge were burned to death. Brakeman
Beaten was perhaps fatally injured. Thir-
teen carloads of cattle were consumed.
"A moonshiner named Tom Mahar broke
Jail at st. Stevens \. B., but was recaptured.
On the way back to prison three men, with
blackened faces and long rubber coats
rushed out of the bushes and, covering the
escort with a brace of revolvers, compelled
them to liberate the prisoner, whom they
took across the border into Maine. The
three men are said to be well known Ameri-
can desperadoes.