Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-02
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

yellow fever is increasing in Brazil.
A great strike on the Southern Pacific
Railroad is threatened.
The Commercial Club of indianapolis
bids for the Democratic National Conven-
tion.
The Welsh tin plate manufacturers have
reconsidered their decision to shut down Tor
two months
An English syndicate is aiming to cor
rail- the condensed milk factories in New
York State and Illinois.
Grain buyers in Western Kansas have
been compelled by the car famine to refuse
TO receive any more wheat.
waukee has been completed by the formal
transfer OF the Van Blatz breweries.
George E. Barr, proprietor of the Hotel
warwick, at Springfield. Mass, shot ana
killed his wife some time Monday night, and
then killed himself.
1t is announced that, if allowed time: the
Berlin banking firm of Hirschf1eld WON
VIII be able to pay 40 per cent, but II COM
PEELED to liquidate forthwith they can only
pay IS per cent
BY railway collision at Zurich, Swiezer-
land, Yesterday morning, an engine and
number of passenger carriages were
smashed, q driver killed and Stoker prob
ably fatally injured.
The 13 Croatian laborers who arrived at
New York on the steamer Rhynland Satur-
y,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, have been returned
by the same steamer.
A number of German deputies, represent
ing country districts, claim that trichinB
recently been frequently found in American
pork, and they a SIX that steps he Immediately
taken to prohibit the Importation.
The committee appointed by the State
Teachers Association on the DR.. Higbee
memorial, has placed in the Department OF
Public instruction, at Harrisburg, very
lnn hr,St fln Iofn Crlr, arin fo mr.
ent of Education.
-Frnncisco Hernandez, who robbed the
paymaster of the Eleventh Battalion of the
Mexican army in Chihuahua, Mex, and
killed policeman on escaping, has been
captured in Brownsville, Tex, and extra
dited. He will be shot.
The National Line steamship Franco.
which sailed from New York Saturday for
Liverpool, was struck bv a tidal wave off
Fire Island Saturday night. The cargo was
shifted, and Captain Foote had to bring the
vessel back, arriving to-day.
"A span of the Great Northern bridge
over the north fork of the Columbia river,
six miles from Columbia Falls, Mont, fell
of whom were killed. Three of those who
escaped death are thought to be fatally
wounded.
Ira NJ Teller, member of the Oklahoma
Legislature, who, it is charged, murdered
George Embree last winter because the
latter testified against him in land suit, is
now on trial at saltwater, change of venue
having been taken from Guthrie. 1t took
all last week to get jury.
There is a war between the Burlington
and Missouri River and the Fremont, Elk
horn and Missouri Valley Railroads, over a
right of way through narrow pass at the
head of Nevada Gulch, in the Bald Mount
ain district, where both roads are now grad
Ing Tor spurs ana extensions of their SyS-
tens.
II. A. Brady. station agent on the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway, at Wingate, Ariz.,
was held up and robbed by two masked men
at I:39 o'clock Sunday night. They were ac-
longing TO the Wells Fargo Express Com
pany, and the agents gold watch. A cavalry
company is in pursuit.
The crew of the steamer Goodall, of Port
Huron, consisting of Captain Gex, four men
Ont, all being badly frostbitten. The crew
abandoned the Goodall near Gooderich
Thursday, taking to an open boat. In the
meantime the wind had changed, and after
drifting about the lake for four days, not
having oars, and being entirely without food,
they arrived in port.
The trial of John White, late business
manager of the San Francisco Call for en-
bezZlement, has brought out some astoniSh-
ing disclosures. White confessed that he
mad stolen $50 900, most of which he had
sunk IN horse racing and speculation. He
mad an arrangement with the cashier by
Which both took from the money drawer
what they wanted and then arranged the
cash to fit the deficit
The Times divides the bondholders of the
State of Virginia into three classes. First
those who would accept an early settlement
of any kind, so they may secure q profit
from the bonds which they bought cheaply,
Second, those who are dissatisfied with the
present scheme, because they paid higher
figure for their bonds. Third, those who
will lose by the scheme, but who desire the
matter settled SO as to facilitate further
railway enterprises, etc.