Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-27
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The London fog is clearing,
Canada has celebrated its frst green
Christmas in Is years.
Samuel Parker, of Altoona, was killed
by locomotive yesterday.
st. Joseph, Mo-, is to have National
Chloride of Gold Institute"
Ninety per cent of the yellow fever pa
tients in the Rio Janeiro hospital are dying.
Flights between Brazilian troops and Rio
Grande de Sui insurgents have been re-
ported.
"A committee of the German Commercial
Diet has declared in favor Of the holding of
an international exhibition in Berlin.
The % public schools Of Salt Lake City
have each been presen ted with an Ameri.
can flag by the Patriotic Sons of America.
Two hundred Italians in the laza retto at
Flore Island, Uruguay, attacked the officers
Friday, and it was only after hard fighting
that they were subdued.
Mrs. Flora L. Dye, OF Salamanca, N. T.,
one OF the fair members of the colony at
Sioux Falls, S. D.. secured Christmas pres
ent in the form of divorce.
Paul c.. Coffin, dealer in hardware and
railroad supplies at 1913 Chambers street,
New York, assigned yesterday to William
j. Livingston, without preferences.
An execution for s42. .s45 has been issued
keystone Standard Watch Company of Ian
caster. The company is now in the hands of
an assignee.
Chicago commercial travellers will build
MAGNIFICENT club house, in which they will
Worlds Fair. An international association
is projected.
Colonel William Pearsall, prosperous
farmer near Goldsboro n. c., his wife and
two children were burned to death with
their home. 1t is suspected the family were
murdered and the house fired.
The miners at Northumberland. Eng
land, have rejected, by vote of s,720 TO
2,sS9, the proposition to advocate tho passage
of a measure providing for legal days
work of eight hours for boys.
Fred, son of Editor Moorhead, of the
Indiana (Pa.) Progress, was accidentally
killed ON hunting expedition near Bay
City, Mich. Fred was the husband offs
niece of the late Governor Geary.
The world failed to come to an end on
Christmas Day, as Mrs c. F. johnson, OF
Kansas City, said 1t would. In response to
an inquiry sent TO her room she wrote:
"Watch and pray; the Lord has willed."
Augustus Enkenberg. aged GO years was
teasing halfwitted youth named Dick
Friday evening. Dick pulled long bladed
knife and plunged it into Enkenberg's ab-
domen. The wound may prove fatal. OFF,
GERS are in pursuit.
During drunken Christmas riot be-
tween Hungarians and Italian railroad
laborers near Steubenvile one man was per-
haps mortally wounded. his face being rid
died with buckshot Officers failed to find
the shooter who was shielded by his COM
rade.
The court martial which is trying Major
Charles B. Throcalmortoh in New York, for
conduct unbeconling an officer. in issuing
fraudulent vouchers and checks, after
short session yesterday adjourned until
Tuesday, on account of the illness of de-
fendant's counsel.
Two freight trains Of the Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic Railroad collided near
Humboldt, Mich. John Harlocher, brake
man, and Emil Uanopen, fireman Of the
eastbound freight, were killed, and John
Reany, engineer, was seriously injured.
Conductor Jones, of the westbound freight
was slightly injured.
The body Of Albert Kennedy, engineer
at the Chicago mine of the Brazil Block
Coal Company. was found on the 1ndianap
oils and st. Louis Railroad track near Car
bon, Ind, Friday, mangled almost beyond
recognition. 1t is thought that he was muir
dered and robbed, and his body laid on the
railroad track to hide the crime.
Yesterday morning at Cincinnati, Robert
Moore, aged "a years. son of a wealthy con-
tractor, entered a hardware store and pur-
load it, which was done, and returned to the
purchaser. The visitor then deliberately
pointed it toward the right temple and
pulled the trigger. He fell dead at the feet
Of the Mortified clerk. No cause has been
assigned for the act
Mrs. Annie Kelly a widow, aged 45 years,
was burned to death in Albany, n. Y, yes
kerosene lamp that was standing on n barrel
in the store exploded, and, egress being cut
off by the flames, she was suffocated and
burned to death before assistance could ar
it is supposed that she could not get the bars
removed from the door in time to eScape.