Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-01
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
Navigation is open at Toronto.

Bids were opened Monday in Galveston fol
the improvement of Its harbor.
| "A branch of the Malta in Birmingham
| Conn.,, has been using their stilettos.
| Government agents in Oklahoma are busy
| alloting lands to the Sacs and Foxes.
Bernard Mckee of Philadelphia, found
dead after drinking quart of whlskey.
| The United States steamer Mohican is on
| its way from Honolulu to San Francisco.
The relations between Haiti and San Do.
mingo are reported as Icing greatly strained.
Prince Bismarck will celebrate his birth.
day at home with his family and friends to-day
Edwin Booth. the trageiian, yesterday an
nounced his retirement from the stage after
this season.
There Is a rumor that the tack manufact-
urers of New England will combine to stop
| competition.
The Adams Chilled Fow Works at Mum
Gle. Ind, burned Monday night. Loss $4,000;
no insurance.
The jewelry store of Adolph Walter in
Jersey City was robbed Monday night of goods
valued at $4,000.
"A physician in Springfield, O.. fell in love
with a lady while treating her corns, and after
ward married her.
A Colorado mining expert says so persons
perIshed by snowslides during the recent snow
storms in that State.
Mrs. James R. Mckee, daughter OF Presi-
dent Harrison, was given an elegant breakfast
and dinner by Boston ladies.
"A bill introduced in the Illinois Legislature
that women only shall sit ON coroners' juries
In any case OF woman's death.
One of the heaviest rainstorms of recent
years has flooded railroad tracks at Galena. Ill.
The kice tunnel there caved In.
Steve Brodie. the bridge jumper, has been
arrested in Albany, N. Y. for stabbing Walter
Wilson during drunken quarrel.
The American National Bank at Kansas
City, which recently suspended, resumed res
terday with 81. 725. U0O in Its vaults.
The latest move in the Omaha bridge fight
is the survey by the Rock Island Railroad OF a
line to the Nebraska Central bridge.
The Chicago City Council last night passed
an ordinance permitting the erection of q per-
manent art building on the lake front.
AT colored school exhibition near Lber-
ty. Miss, an unknown miscreant thrust a 81 OF.
gun through a window and fired, woundlng IA
persons.
The body found in New York Bay has been
pronounced bv the coroners jury to be that of
Ruttunger, and that he came to his death by
violence.
The Cl1theroe case in England in which a
Mr.. Jackson was compelled to set free his wife
after abducting her, will be carried TO the
House of Lords.
Rochester locked out clothing cutters have
adopted resolutions repudiating the Knights of
Labor and denouncing the boycott. The lock-
out is at an end
The cones of the Halemaumau volcano, in
Japan, have disappeared, leaving hole about
800 feet deep. Slight earthquake shocks were
felt at the volcano.
Representatives of all the German steam
ship lines, in session at Dusseldorf, have decided
to raise the steerage fare to America about
50 So beginning MayL.
The Bulgarian Government has offered
reward of S.. 600 for the apprehension Of the
murderers of the late Mini ter Baltcheff, and
has granted pension for life to his widow.
George Terrier and A. Roper were fornd
suffocated in their air-tight rooms at Genent
works at San Antonio Monday. 1t is supposed
that gas from burning lime asphyxiated them.
Captain Power, National Organizer of the
Citizens Alliance of Terre Haute, is in Cincin-
natl making arrangements for the Farmers
Alliance National Convention to be held May
10.
AS reply to the recent decision of lake
vessel owners not to open navigation until May
l. Chicago lumbermen met, and by resoluti IN
demanded that all steam craft there beready
to leave port
The Illinois Supreme Court has decided
that the Baltimore and Ohio cannot enter
has secured an entry. however, via the Wis
consin Central.
The Spanish Government is making prep.
arations on vast scale for the Columbus cele-
bration. The Duke of Veraugua, a descendant
of Columbus. will be present and receive hon.
ors next to those of royalty
"A patient. named Charles Weeks, in a
Chicago hospital cannot endure personal c. n.
tact with any human heing. Previously he
had fallen on his head from a car, but tue
wound had apparently healed
The Minnesota Senate has adopted the
Judiciary Committees substitute for three bills
to purify elections. 1t limits the amount of ex.
penditures and discrIminates betweea lesiti-
mate and illegitimate expenses.
A dispatch from Vienna saws that $50 Bull
gariau refugees. armed with Russian Berdan
frontier to march on Sofia in the event of the
success of the Benderoh plot to murder Pre-
mier StambulOH.
York Central and Canadian Pacific Railroads
bv which the latter secures terminal facilities
in New York, has raised the question of rate
disturbances in the Trunk Line ana Central
Traffic Associations
Theodore Havemever. head of the big Sugar
Trust, has just left San Francisco for home,
after making 4 compact that will end the long
war which Claus Spreckels and his sons have
waged on the trust. The basis of agreement is
division of territory.
The City Of Detroit, the largest and finest
passenger steamer on the great lakes, went on
a rock and sank in the Detroit river at 12I5
yesterday morning, with 12o tons of freight
The 20 passengers we're landed before they
knew anything was the matter.
-Chicago's millionaire, Grin W. Potter, and
others. have been sued for Sl00. 600 damages by
Eugene Dunnlyant. a former newsboy. The
young man alleges that he was sent to peniten-
tiary for four years on :rumpedup charge in
order to break off the Acquaintance between
him and daughter of Mr.. Potter.