Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-03
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Welsh tin platers have decided not to
strike for higher wages.
Detroit has raised $4,000 TO defray G. A.
R. Encampment expenses.
Fully $500 more Clyde iron men have
joined the strikers ranks.
Paris bus owners have demanded police
protection against strikers.
Alexander & Co., large grain firm in.
London and Liverpool, has tailed.
-Rumored that German 1inanciers will
assist Italy out of its money difficulties.
The Worlds Fair bill has finally passed
both Michigan Houses. 1t appropriates
Sl0JOO0
There were four deaths from sunstroke
at Stockton, Cal, Wednesday. Thermome-
ter lOSo.
Militia is preserving order at the coal
mines near Seattle, Wash, where a strike is
in progress.
knoxville is the cheapest coffee market
in the United States. Arbuckle is trying to
drive out competition there.
The news that French troops have occu-
pied Luang Prabang, vassal State of Siam,
is semi-oficially confirmed.
The Supreme Council of the Federation
OF Railway Employees, in session at Terre
Haute, adjourned Wednesday evening.
Contractors on the Canadian $780, Canal
have been compelled by the Dominion Gov
eminent to discharge all American work..
men.
Lord Salisbury has officially notified the
Governor General OF Canada that Her Ma
jesty has bestowed a peerage on Lady Mac
donald.
The Michigan Legislative Committee in
vesting charges of bribery against members
have reported that the charges are unsus-
tanned.
A family of nine persons in London were
poisoned by eating canned Columbia river
salmon. One boy died and others are in a
critical condition.
Nesuvius was suffocated bya cloud of sui
phurous smoke which suddenly enveloped
him and fell into the crater.
The Irish Roman Catholic Bishops. at a
meeting at Dublin Wednesday, reafirmed
their former declaration that Mr.. Pa1nell
was unfit to be the leader of the Irish peo-
pie.
AT sale of unclaimed express packages
at Chicago. Wednesday, one package re-
sembling a box of champagne was knocked
down to Hebrew for 81. When it was
opened it was found to be filled with human
bones.
Minister of Finance Foster has an
nounced in the Dominion Parliament that
Canada, through the medium of Great Brit
ain, has been asked to take part in the
Worlds Fair, and has the invitation under
consideration.
Andrew Row, the wealthy stockman and
mine owner of Wardner, Idaho, was taken
from the eastbound train at Waseca, Mimi,
Thursday, in a violent state of insanity. He
imagineS that the train ran of the track and
that he is to be killed.
Developments fully confirm the report
of the defalcation of Sheriff Warfield at Ar
kansas City, Ark. The shortage will be in
the neighborhood of S25 0J0 In addition,
advices from Little Rock say Warf1eld is
short $50, 600 on his settlement Of last year.
An attempt was made Wednesday night
TO wreck the northbound ''steamboat' train
that leaves Hartford at 9:35. Near that city
the engine exploded dynamite bomb. The
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but the train kept the track and no one was
injured.
"A strange story comes from Henderson
county, Tenn. Thirty years ago a preacher
named Hyde, imprisoned in a cave by means
of a chain his successful rival in a love
affair, named Wilson, and then married the
supposed. The unfortunate man has lust
been found and released, but will die. Hyde
has fed.
A Catholic parish on the st. Lawrence
river became dissatisfied with its priest and
got up independent religious services at
the schoolhouse. When the priest appeared
and accommodated every attendant
women tainted and the men snatched the
him from the building.
At the auction sale of Dr. Raffles' collec-
tion of autographs in London a folio con-
ration Of Independence, of which only p
sets are known to exist, brought 81 $50. A
folio OF letters written by notabilities who
were prominent at the time of the War of
Independence was sold for S. 200. A collec- |
tiJn of autographs of literary and political
personages was knocked down for Sl4s5 |
Americans were the principal purchasers.