Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Western Kansas is enjoying fine soak
ing rain.
The Indiana Worlds Fair Commission
| organised Friday.
-Gladstoneis confined tohis room, though
| in much better health.
Hebrews are charged with the murder o1
| Christian girl at Corfu.
Frost in Wisconsin Friday night dam
| aged fruit and vegetables.
Western Missouri farmers are opposed tc
| the Cincinnati convention.
Banks at st. Thomas now refuse to &C
cept American silver at par.
There has been a heavy snowfall in
Wales and Cumberland, England.
The Dominion Parliament will not handle
the reciprocity question this season.
-Lithographers, in session in New York,
are preparing to make Worlds Fair OK.
hibit.
The steamship India is at quarantine at
New York, with two cases of smallpox on
board.
The Arnauts in old Servia are persecut-
ing the Christians and pillaging their
homes.
The Florida Democratic Senatorial eau
Gus will hereafter exclude all outsiders ex-
Lawyer Lattick, of Kansas City, was
horsewhipped in his office for impudence by
a woman on Friday.
Both the Ne,us and the Chronicle, of Lon
don, hold the Government responsible for
the Manipur disaster.
The Canadian Pacific is said to have made
satisfactory arrangement with the New
York Clearing House.
Owing to the greed of landowners, the
project to make National park of Chicka.
mauga may fall through.
The Niagara County IN; y Sunday
of E. P. Roe and Mrs. Holmes.
rheumatism so crazed q Minneapolis
wooden manufacturer that he shot himself
through the head yesterday morning.
The Dalton boys, the alleged Santa Fe
express robbers, have escaped capture by
the United States Marshal after q sharp
fight
The Minister of the Interior of the Meth.
erlands says the reports of disorder In Surf.
nav are exaggerated. Only one negro has
been killed.
The Toronto Globe says matters at Ottawa
are in q painfully critical condition, and
predicts the downfall of Premier Macdonald
in the near future.
"A portion ofthe treasure buried by the
ill.starred Douner exploring expedition In
1857, has been unearthed hear Truckee,
CAL, by miner.
During the trial of q thief at Batoum,
Prince Mershanya, of Russia, shot the pris-
oner dead for jeering at and kicking him.
The Prince was arrested.
The two leading topics to be discussed at
the Presbyterian General Assemblies, which
convene in Detroit Thursday, are West.
minister revision and the Briggs case.
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will not be exhibited at the Worlds Fair. A
not allow 1t to be taken from the city.
The curtailment of the Parliament holf-
day was due to a squabble between Mr.
Goschen and Mr.. Sexton, the latter insisting
that clause of his own had equal right with
Mr.. BalfOur's to be held over.
The maiden record of Atlantic steam
ships has been broken by the Hamburg
Packet Company's Furst Bismarck. 1t made
the trip from Hamburg to New York in
days, II hours and 15 minutes.
The official report of the accident to the |
Chicago Minneapolis express train, on the |
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, |
that plank had been fastened to the track |
at wagon road crossing. |
The suicide clause of the Knights Tenn |
plar and Masonic Indemnity Company Is de- |
,lared void under the Missouri statutes, by |
Judge Caldwell, of the United States Dis. |
tfict Court. The suicide must have been |
at the time the policy was |
issued to work its forfeit.
I'm order to put an end to the difficulties |
md dissensions between the bishops and |
priests of America, consequent on the diyis. |
ons and delimitations of the dioceses, the |
has issued a decree announcing |
that priests affected shall belong to those |
1ioceses wherein they were at the time the |
lelimitations we're made.
Owing to the epidemic of influenza the
medical advisors of the Queen are alarmed at |
;he prospect of her visit to Derby on MAY
2, Whitsun Thursday, when Her Majesty Is
expected to lay the foundation stone Of
lew inf1rmary with much ceremony. All
he gentlemen composing the reception
committee for this occasion, headed by the
Mayor of Derby, are stricken with the NAL
ldy, and there is talk of postponing the
went.