Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

French exports and imports largely in
creased in September.
-Tennyson has written letter condemn
ing the Russian persecution of Hebrews.
Governor Steele of Oklahoma, has SUBJ
mitted his first report to the Government.
The latest news from the Northwest is
that the reports of damage to wheat in stack
are exaggerated.
The statue of Henry W. Grady is in posi-
tion at Atlanta and almost ready to be un-
yelled. The ceremony takes place Wednes-
day.
Singers distillery, at Buda Pesth, has
been wrecked by an explosion, which killed
six men and seriously wounded several
others.
believe that the late disorders in Rome
were lnstigated by the italian Governments
with view to the assassination of His Holt-
ness.
"A company of cavalry will serve as body
guard for the Government Commission, who
are treating with the Nez Perces and other
Indians for the opening of new lands to set
tlement.
Seven more prominent citizens Of Omaha
have been arrested for completely in the re-
cent lynching. Assistant County Attorney
Moriarty, who is also a City Councilman, is
one of them.
Three prisoners escaped from the county
jail at Geneva, ILL.,, Wednesday in an un-
known manner. 1t is supposed that one of
them, who is an expert at the business,
picked the lock.
S. v. White & Co. offer their Chicago
creditors 30 cents on the dollar An investi-
eating committee was appointed, and il
their report is favorable the proposition
will be accepted.
The French war ship Triumphant, now
on the rocks at Vladivostock, Siberia, is re-
ceiving serious damage. The convicts from
the station there escaped and came in col
1ision with the sailors, of whom they killed
several.
An Eastern Minnesota train ran into q
Great Northern freight at Anoka, Mimi,
Wednesday night. About Is cars were
badly smashed and the road. blockaded.
Only two men were hurt, and they but
slightly.
AT a special meeting of the Milwaukee
the Creed reported changes, going consider
ably further in the direction of abandoning
strict Calvinism than the report of the Cen
eral Assembly's committee.
The Collector of Customs at Victoria B.
c., in accordance with the law imposing
poll tax of $50 on all Chinese who set foot in
Canada, has refused to allow United States
steamer the crew of which was largely made
OF Cinnamon, to stop at that port.
The Berlin police are hunting for the
author of scurrilous leafet, which has been
mysteriously circulated, and which contains
an offensive attack on the Kaiser, charging
Will ulSSlpdLlOn anu 1mmOrdllBy, anu
intimating that he is of unsound mind.
superintendent Fillmore, of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, informed Chief of the Order
of Railroad Telegraphers Thurston, at San
Francisco Wednesday night, that the COM
pany will not recognize the order, and will
discharge any employe belonging to it.
An Egyptian Sheik, who was instructing
some students in religious exercises in
mosque at Tantah recently, said to them:
"Now imagine am dead and pray for me-"
The students began their prayers and at the
close found the sheik lying on the floor
corpse.
AT Bensenville, near Chicago, Mrs. Dinan
Mersman, a farmers wife, while driving
across the Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad
tracks, in a wagon with her two children,
was struck by a fast train. The woman and
one child were instantly killed and the other
child probably fatally hurt.
apprehension is felt for the safety Of
Lieutenant Russell and party, who were
sent out by the Smithsonian Institute to ex-
plore Mount st. Elias. Russell and his men
were to have met the revenue cutter Cor
Corwin went there they did not appear, and
q searching party failed to find any trace Of
them.
The family of Herr Manche who was
sentenced to imprisonment for using his Of
fetal position to traffic in titles, had repaid
to Thomas the 10000 marks, which amount
Manche was unable to account for at the
trial. The evidence at the trial also showed
that the late Herr Bitter. the Minister Of
Finance under Prince Bismarck, after the
latter's retirement, traff1cked in decorations
and titles and it was he who embeZzled the
missing charity money.