Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-Dipntheria is epidemic in Belleville Ill
Minneapolis has wheat blockade and q
soft coal famine.
The grip is steadily spreading through
France and Germany.
The Fort Wayne branch OF the suspended
American Wheel Works will resume.
AT New Orleans, last week was the
largest in the history of that city's cotton
movement
The Standard Wire and Iron Works of
Chicago has assigned. Assets and liabilities
each about $25,00O Cause, slow collections.
The sensational story of the bloody work
of wolves ut New Brighton, a suburb OF st.
Paul and the big wolf hunt which was being
arranged, appears to have been originated
by u saloon keeper as scheme for advertis-
ing his business.
The Edison Light Company, of Newport,
r. l., which numbers among its stockholders
Cornelius Vanderbilt, l.. L. Lorilard, Ogden
and Robert Goelet and other mtllionaires,
has assigned. The company is said to owe
$4,000 in Newport alone.
Limerick, in commemoration of the death
of the Manchester martyrs. Michael Davitt,
John Redmond, Edward Harrington and
Others met on common platform. The
speakers demanded the release of the Irish
men imprisoned in England.
The shipping of the port of New York
has been greater for the last two months
than ever before. The number OF British
been greater than has ever been known be-
fore. Most OF these vessels came in ballast
to tnke back cargoes of grain.
The Old Homestead Hotel, at James,
town, N. Y, was destroyed by fire at 2
o'clock yesterday morning, and four lives
were lost. The flames spread so rapidly that
escape by the stairway was cut Off, and the
guests lowered themselves from the second
story window. Three servants and child
perished.
The Civil Service Commission will hold
another examination December 8 to secure
eligibles for the position Of Biological Clerk
in the Department of Agriculture; salary,
$1,000. The subjects will be letter writing
ornithology, systematic zoology, systematic
botany, histology, use of microscope. camera
lucids, French and German. Residents OF
the District are not eligible.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, in q long
letter to the electors of Dorset, dilates upon
the proofs recently given that the rural con-
Mr.. Gladstone. He says That MI. Gladstone
will give laborers a practical voice in the
management of affairs closely concerning
them, privilege always withheld from
them by the Tories, even when adopting
Liberal principles.
The American schooner White Cloud
from Chicago arrived at New York Sunday
night SO far as known, the White Cloud is
from the inland lakes. She made the trip in
66 days, touching aG Montreal and also at
Portland, Me. She passed through the
w Cllanu Canal To TedCH Lake Ontar1O, ana
and after reversing that lake sailed down
the ST. Lawrence river, She is loaded with
lumber.
The latest possible clew to the robbers
who recently held up the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and St. Paul passenger train near West
ern Union junction, Wis, is furnished by
the Chicago police. The day before the rob-
berry two strangers purchased, at a Mi1wau-
kee gun store, a quantity OF dynamite, to-
gether with fuse and caps As dynamite was
used in blowing open the express car the
local authorities are satisfied that the two
strangers are the train robbers.
The park Kalsow which was lost at sea,
Off the coast of Chile, was loaded with man.
ganese, After she had been nine days out
her cargo shifted and the vessel was thrown
Oh her beam ends. All her crew, 16 in num-
Der, got off in the small boats. They were
could effect landing on the northern coast.
They had very little food ana suffered
greatly. They reached Fougoy, 30 miles
south west of Coquimbo, whence they went
to Valparaiso