Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The Czar regards all Hebrews as Nihi.
| lists.
| Southern Wales has been devastated by
flood.
A post of the G. A. R. has been organized
| in the City of Mexico.
-Awater spout did much damage in upper
New York City Friday afternoon.
The damage to the corn crop in the food
| district of Iowa will exceed 81 100000.
India is painting for the annual monsoon,
| which is later than usual this season.
Arguments in the Phoebe Couzins case
are in progress in Chicago.
Ezekiel Lemax was hanged at Balm
bridge, Ca, Friday for the murder of his
wife.
Both Michigan Houses have passed the
Congressional apportionment bill without
change.
-Reinforcementsh have been ordered to the
Cherokee strip to drive out intruding cat
tlemen.
The doors of the Red Cloud (Neb.) Ma
tional Bank have been closed by order of the
Bank Examiner.
The German warship Kaiser ran agfound
during the naval maneuvers off Dartzig
Her hull is damaged.
Paris police searched the Panama Canal
Companys Office Friday, seizing books, ac-
counts and documents.
Mr. Tupper has introduced bill in the
Dominion Parliament to prohibit the use of
the purse seine in Canadian waters.
The free silver section of the Democratic
party in Minnesota has issued a call for a
conference at Minneapolis on July l.
The German singing societies of New
York will celebrate the four hundredth an
niversary of the landing of Columbus.
One man was probably fatally injured
and five children badly cut and bruised by
Fridays powder house explosion near Gal
weston.
1t is said that the Wabash Railroad has
secured control Of the st. Louis, Alton and
Springfield, known as the Bluff line, and
will take possession July l.
Lord and Lady Brooke threaten to prose-
cute for libel all newspapers that connect
her ladyship's name with the Tranby Croft
legal inquiry.
of the German State Bank, has been sem
fenced to imprisonment for ten years for
forgery and fraud.
With Papal brief consecrating the
Kongo State to the virgin, the Pope has sent
letter to King Leopold, expressing his af-
fection and admira ton for King Leopold's
efforts.
"A dazed old lady from. Cumberland, Md,
said to be los years old, was picked up by
police in Chicago. She had been living with
a son in the city, and started Friday to walk
back to her old Maryland home.
I'm the chicago Criminal Court yesterday
Judge Collins quashed al the counts in the
Indictment against George j. Gibson, of the
Whisky Trust, charging him with conspir-
acy and with having explosives in his pos
session. The charge of attempt to blow up
the Shufeldt distillery was taken under ad-
viSement.
The Anti-Prohibition Convention at
GAINESVILLE Wis, has finished it's labors.
I'VE believe that no people was ever legis-
lated into morality" the platform declares,
and continues: "We are opposed to local
option, because its success means the down
fall of personal liberty. Wherever the local
option principle has taken root the most
strict prohibition measures have followed.
1t will come in Wisconsin as surely as it has
come in Iowa, Kansas and Dakota"
A canvass of Frenchmen has been made
on Tolstoi's denunciation of tobacco and
alcohol. Gounod thinks they produce slug
ishness, and therefore affect the will, but not
the conscience. Richepin condones the Use
of stimulants. lola says he does not drink
wine for the reason that it does not agree
with him. He disagrees with Tolstois opin-
IONS DR.. Charcot thinks Tolstoi's tenets ex-
aggerated and false. Daudet said he had
found that smoking assisted and intoxi-
cation prevented work.
During a heavy thunder storm that
passed over Princess Anna county, Va,
Wednesday night, the house of Howard
Joynes, was struck by lightning. Mr.. and
Mrs. Joynes wer seated in the kitchen of
the.dwelling near the stove. The flash was