Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-12
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
The Bering Sea bill has received the royal
assent.
The Peoples party tMormons) in Utah
will dissolve.
Scottish Rite Masons will build a cathe
dral at Louisville.
The Cleveland ore handlers strike ended
with q compromise.
The Western Union has declared a divi
dend of IA per cent.
The late Bishop knight was buried in
Milwaukee yesterday.
-Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out among
cattle at York, England.
The Massachusetts, Congressional redis-
tricting bill is now law.
Liberals were victorious in several elec-
tions in the Netherlands.
The MARYLAND Democratic Convention
| will be held on the 3oth inst.
| American dancing teachers were in ses-
sion at Providence Wednesday.
Two Mexican editors have been impris-
oned for criticising the Government.
DE Lesseps will be prosecuted for mis-
leading investors in his Panama canal.
| Chilean insurgents have issued an ap-
| peal to the European powers for recognition.
Alabama Georgia and Tennessee will
exhibit in one building at the Worlds Fair.
The Government is preparing to carry
| out the plan for close season in the Bering
| Sea.
The Pungwe river dispute between Eng
| land and Portugal has been amicablv set
| tied.
The Dallas, Tex, Land Company. with
| assets 81, SOC, 900, has assigned. Liabilities,
| $4,000.
| Opponents of the proposed new State
| Constitution of Kentucky have organized at
| Lexington.
The Portuguese Senate has ratified the
convention with England, and the treaty is
| now in effect.
Both Illinois Houses have adopted the
ballot reform bill-a modification of the Aus
| tralian system.
THE Pope is trying to smooth the way
| for q reunion between the Roman and
| Greek churches.
Fifty Bloomington persons, mostly chill
dren, were poisoned by ice cream. Some
were dangerously i'll.
Jason E. Baker of Indiana, has been ap-
pointed Chief of the Bond Division of the
United States Treasury.
Delegates of various travelling mems
associations met at Chicago to organize
Worlds Fair Committee.
1T is said ex-senator Ingalls, has been
offered the chancellorship of the Washing
ton University, of st. Louis.
The Marquis of Londonderry has offered
his tenants the option of acquiring their
holdings upon reasonable terms.
Lord Salisbury has promised to consult
the Turkish Ambassador in reference to set
ting refugee Hebrews in Palestine.
The Bell Telephone directors have de-
clared the regular dividend of per cent,
and an extra dividend of per cent.
-BulIing, the wife murderer, who escaped
from the Savannah, Mo, Jail, while under
sentence to be hanged, has been recaptured.
morn PuSeion Habrau-S ra ,,ar,,,;+tad
to enter Berlin, and the authorities are hust-
ling them through the country at lively
rate.
James H. Garfield, late Professor of His
tory in the University of Kansas, has been
elected Chancellor of the University of Ne
braska.
The body of Captain c. W. Gettier.
Superintendent of the White Line Transfer
Company, has been found in the Ohio river
at Cincinnati.
The Michigan Senate has passed a bill
abolishing all specific taxes on railroads, and
requiring that the lines shall hereafter be
locally taxed
Ex-senator Warner Miller spoke at the
annual banquet of the San Francisco Cham
Der of Commerce on the Nicaragua canal
Wednesday night.
The French have seized African terri
tory near Cape Palmao claimed by Liberia
The little republic will probably appeal to
the United States.
Austrian empire, unroofed churches, blew
down houses, uprooted an entire forest and
killed a number of people.
Chief Gouveia, in South Africa, has re-
yolted against Portugal in favor of Great
Britain. His territory lies between the
Zambesi and Pungwe rivers.
Train Robber Simmons jumped from a
swiftly moving train near Monticello, ILL.,,
yesterday, while being transferred for trial,
and escaped apparently unhurt.
in the mastering out of the entire Third
regiment. The trouble arose over the dis
honorable discharge of sergeant.
The possession of a United Brethren
church edifice in Fairview, near Wabash,
Ind is in litigation between two factions.
Last Sunday one party broke into the build
ing and held services.
Striking firemen of the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company were riotous yes
terday. They were attacked by the police
and fire department and q stubborn battle
ensued, in which the workmen were worsted.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad has Sc
cured terminal facilities in Seattle, and will
operate line of steamers between that city
ana W hatcom- These facilities were all pur-
chased from the Oregon Improvement Com
pany.
The case against John Cooncy and
Thomas McCrystal for attempting to bribe
Tales Juror Frank j. Gormley, in the Hen
messy case, was continued until Monday on
account of the illness of counsel for the de-
fense.
The sesqui-centennial of st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, at Richmond, Va, was cele-
brated yesterday with imposing ceremonies.
1t was in this building that the Virginia Con-
vention of l775 assembled and Patrick Henry
sounded the keynote of the Revolution.
William II. Forest, bookkeeper in the
Office of the New York ChUchnidn, pleaded
guilty to forgery and was sent to the Elmira
Reformatorv. 1t is thought that the young
man stole more than $50 900 from the firm.
He admits having taken $4,000.
The replication of Judge Luzon B.
Morris to the reply of Governor Bull1eley in
the quo warranto suit. was filed yesterday,
1t is a general denial of all the allegations of
fact made by Governor Bull1eley appertain-
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