Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-20
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The next Papal Consis.ory meets Decem-
Der H.
Detroit is now in the field for the Repub-
l1can Convention.
The grip is spreading all over South
western France and in Paris.
The St. Clair tunnel will be opened for
passenger traffic December7.
-Aport and harbor will be constructed
at Coatzacoalcos, in the Mexican State OF
|. Vera Cruz.
Russia has enough money now, says the
Course Gazette, which denies that q new loan
is to be issued.
Lorenzo Percy, the Mexican murdere-,
who was to be hanged at Midland. Tex, yes
terday, was respited for week
The immense crop of Florida oranges,
yariously estimated ut from 2s00,G0 to $780,
600 boxes, has begun to flow Northward.
-Parisians don't like the action of their
Municipal Council in decreein2 the demo-
litlon of the Louis XVI. memorial chapel.
The forgery of a Paris dispatch contain
ing quotations, Wednesday. was bear trick
on the Bordeaux Bourse to depress prices.
The directors of the Northern Pacific
Rail- Dad have declared regular quarterly
dividend of l per cent on the preferred
stock.
The liabilities of Potter Lowell & Co. of
Boston, which at the time of the failure were
in round numbers S. 000, ,0G0, have been re-
duced over one-half.
Mrs Caleb Hopkins, of New Egypt, yes
terday named her new triplets Grover
Cleveland Hopkins, Francis Folsom Hop
kins and Ruth Hopkins.
The Federal grand jury investigating
violations of the interstate commerce law.
has returned seven indictments against
prominent Chicagoans.
Joseph j. Ashforsh, Treasurer OF the
Royal Arcanum Building and Loan Associa-
tion in Brooklyn, charged with embezzling
ST., 900, has been arrested in Liverpool.
Tba xJob ioI TJ,,H, boa
called q convention to represent all the
Indian Territory, as well as Oklahoma, to
consider the question of statehood, Decem-
Der Is.
The Morning Mine, near Wallace Idaho
has been sold to a Milwaukee syndicate for
$500, 000 The mine was part of the assets
of the Spokane Wash, National Bank, which
recently failed.
Two sections of a st. Paul Railroad
freight train ran into each other near Pc
waukee, Wis, Wednesday, causing q $4,000
wreck. The engineer was hurt and cars
were piled up 10 feet high.
Natives of Buka. in the Cameron coun-
try in Africa, have attacked Captain Craven
reuths party and killed the Captain and
three blacks after three-days' fight, during
which the Germans made brave defense
The Legislature in the Mexican STATE of
Durango has passed a law authorizing the
Governor to purchase corn and establish
prices for its sale in all parts of the State
where people are oppressed by high prices
caused by the failure or crops.
The grand jury at Auburn, Cal, has in
dicted Al Roberts on 4 charge of wrecking
the Southern Pacific overland passenger
train near Colfax, Cal. October l2. Roberts
was tried with his brother JEFF on the same
charge, recently, but was released.
President W. T. Baker of the Worlds
Columbian Exposition, Yesterday had con-
ference with Secretary Blaine, by appoint
ment, on matters connected with the dis
plays of foreign countries at the Exposition.
The Secretary eInressPd great interest in
the subject
-Ex-king Milan is said to have forced the
Servian Governmen1 to a settlement favora-
bic to himself by threatening to remarry
Natalie, return to Belgrade, and let his
Queen have her revenge upon his enemies.
The populace is enraged over the terms Of
settlement.
Willard Norvell, aged %, of Detroit,
clerk in the National Bank Redemption di-
vision of the Treasury Department, was AZ
rested at Washing ton yesterday for stealing
$500 from package containing $1,000 which
he was given to count in October. He con-
fessed his crime, and $3l5 of the stolen money
has been recovered.
Timothy Woodcock, n lock tender on the
Oswego Canal, was found drowned in the
canal in syracuse last night. The body was
discovered by three boys. A young man
named Fisher fell from an Erie canal boat
at Jordan last night and was drowned. He
boarded the boat at Rochester and was on
his way to Syracuse.
devoured by wolves ut New Brighton, with
in few miles of st. Paul's City Hall. We'd
nesday afternoon. The slaughter of the lit
tie ones was in the woods adjacent to the
Twin City Stock Yards, and while the beasts
were feasting on the bodies hundreds Of
stalwart men were killing cattle within
shouting distance.
The Dublin Coroner's jury, which has
been investigating the case of the Rev.
Samuel G.. Cotton, who was charged with
having caused the death of n boy named
Brown, an inmate of the orphanage in Kill
dare, yesterday returned n verdict declaring
that the boys death was caused by ill-treat-
ment at the hands of Cotton, and expressed
their regret that they could not include Mrs.
Cotton in their findings
The bodies of Captain Delbert EstelIe
and the woman who were drowned OFF the
ill-fated schooner, Hattie Estelle. Tuesday
night, we're recovered about a mile south OF
the piers. The bodies were identified by the
sailors. There is nothing to be seen of the
schooner Estelle except her spars. She was
leaking badly before she was wrecked and
her condition had become so alarming to the
Grew that they determined to beach her the
first opportunity. They struck the bar and
went to pieces.
Judge Hudson, at Newberry, S. c., has
taxation of bank stock. The Controller
General ordered all bank stock returned at
its market price insetad of its face value, a.
had hitherto been the rule. The banks all
over the State resisted the change, and the
test case yesterday was decided in favor OF
the banks. a similar case will soon come
mp in regard to the taxation of railroads.
The Controller has raised the returns of the
railroads in the State.
English Navy Blue Serge Cloths
For hove, So ilor SuitS-ip stonE 70 d,r