Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-13
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The big brewers deny that their trust has
collapsed.
Universal suffrage will prevail in the
coming Chilean Presidential election.
Editor De Young, of San Francisco, says
California thinks herself entitled to Cabinet
position.
Mrs. Mark Cohen & Son, a mercantile
firm of Sharon. has assigned. Assets, $40, 900;
debts not given.
The Panama Star and Herald says the
Nicaragua Canal project is as dead as that
of the Panama Canal.
The Ingalls, coal miners, near Oaklan
City, Ind, have struck for an advance in
wages of from IS to 40 cents a ton.
"A safe in the store of w. H. Nees at
Uniontown, O., near Akron, was blown open
by burglars Friday night and 81 500 taken.
Fifty persons on board the italian ship
Taormina were drowned at the time of the
recent collision with the Greek ship Thes-
salia.
The leo employees of the Detroit City
Glass Works are locked out. The men re-
fused to accept a 10 per cent reduction in
wages.
The abductors of Millionaire Bailey and
his friend Albertson-Sullivan, the detec-
tive, and his two assistants-have been held
for trial
ernor Gear, of that State, will succeed Judge
Cooley on the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
Mrs. Annie Hollenschiedt, imprisoned
for life in Jefferson City, NO., for the murder
of her son-in-law, has served her sentence.
She died Friday.
"A poverty-stricken Russian Hebrew
family, of New York, named Potruch, living
in tenement house, are said to have in
herited $4, ,000, 900.
The United States Court at McAllister,
I. T., has denied the motion to quash indict-
VandPrg
the action of the lower courts.
"A duel was fought in Albany, Ga, several
days ago, by Jesse Moore, of Berrien county,
and R. P. Fletcher, OF Irwin county, from
the effects of which Moore has just died.
Fletcher has fled.
of Derry township, Westmoreland county,
was found lying unconscious by the road
side near Milwood yesterday morning 1t
is thought he was stricken with paralysis.
He cannot recover.
in Salvador City alone 40 persons were
killed and GO wounded by the earthquake.
At Comasagua the loss of life was very great,
and of 800 houses only eight are now stand
ing. The shocks still continue, and the COM
ing of the equinox is dreaded.
of the s5.oooo9o subscribed by the Chi
Seeberger says 81, $50, 900 i'll round numbers
has been collected. When $40 900 more, which
will be within day or two, has been re-
celVed, the $3OcO,OOO in bonds voted by the
city will become available.
Floyd Brewer, foreman of a crusher, met
a horrible death at the mines near Aurora,
Me-, Friday. The rollers became choked,
and he attempted to dislodge some of the
rock with crowbar The rollers suddenly
caught the bar, throwing Brewer over on
the rollers, and he was literally crushed to
pulp.
documentary evidence, damaging to B.
r. Musgrove, who tried to swindle various
insurance companies by leaving q skeleton
to burn in log cabin near Terre Haute,
Ind, has just been furnished by Parson &
Co., of st. Louis, dealers in secret society
paraphernalia. 1t was this firm that sold
the skeleton to Musgrave, and the letters
constitute the strongest evidence yet
brought against him, completely substan-
tiating Charles NJ. Trout's con fession.