Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-14
THE LATEST NEWS,

Crop prospects in Texas are reported as
excellent
Queen Victoria will prolong her stay a,
Grasse one week
"A train on the Mexican Central road badly
shattered by hailstones near Torreon.
Rev. Father Sherman. son of the late Gen.
eral Sherman, preached IN st. Louis on Sun
day.
The Austrian association on representation
at the Worlds Fair want notifications in the
Mckinley tariff law.
The Methodist ministers of Cincinnati yes-
terday appointed committee to ask the Mayor
to stop Sunday baseball playing.
The painters strike in Boston for So a day
of eight hours was inauGurated yesterday and
il is said that over $40 men are out
Fourteen persons have been made seriously
sick in Chattan2o 2oga by eating cream puffs,
which are believed to have contained aresnic.
The amount of silver offered for sale to the
Treasury Department yesterday was 100000
ounces, and the amount pure hased was "a, 900
ounces.
Fred Smith, aged IA yea r. was shot dead
by his cousin, Ami Smith, " wears old, at Win
amac, Ind, while the latter was playfully hand
ling gun. -'
A State convention has been called for NAV
19. by the FIT Worth Chamber of Commerce. to
take steps to have Texas represented at the
Worlds Fair. -ss,
-SundAy night. John Tarkal, while tenn
porarily insane from the effects of the grip
blew his head off with shotgun, at Cedar
Rapids, la.
"A warrant has been issued for the arrest of
Captain Edmund H. Verney. Liberal member
of Parliament He has been arrested upon an Inn
moral charge.
The family of the late P. T. Barnum. be-
coming alarmed by rumors that his, body was
TO be stolen, have engaged several stalwart men
to guard the tomb.
AT meeting of the directors and stock
holders Of the Washington National Bank, of
New York, yesterday it was decided that the
bank should 60 into voluntary liquidation.
The German musicians of Chicago have de-
cided to hold meeting of all the German sing
ing societies Of Chicago to make arrangements
for the Worlds Saengerfest during the fair.
"A crazy negro woman, Sunday night, set
hre to the Crenshaw county tAla) poorhouse,
which burned to the ground. An old bed.
ridden man, named johnson, was burned to
death.
The Boston Committee of Public Health,
with three members dissenting yesterday re-
ported in the Senate bill prohibiting the use
OF arsenic in manufacturing wall paper, fab
rics etc.
Judge Holmes, at Des Moines, has rendered
decision in the Leslie station case, involving
the power of the railway commission to en-
force its orders through the medium of the
courts The case was dismissed.
j
years respectively, were drowned in Arkansas
river. near Ponca, !. T.. on Saturday. The
children were in paddock and were attacked
by bull and driven into the river
AT the Crabtree mine, near Greensburg,
yesterday, John Ferron was crushed to death
by fall of slate; Alexander Erickson had
both lezs'mashed below the knee and Thomas
McGraw was badly bruised and one OF his eyes
knocked out. -ts-.-s-
The three Nayassa island rioters under
sentence of death at Baltimore have been
granted q respite by President Harrison from
May 10 to June L in order to give time to ex-
anime the papers In the matter Of the appli-
catien for a communication of the death sem
tence to imprisonment for life
Mayor Sargent, Of New Haven. Conn.,,
officiated at marriage Saturday, abd he is
now confronted with the information that he
has no power to tie nuprial knots and that the
marriage is consequently void. The couple
went away, and are unaware that thev are not
married according to the laws OF Connecticut.