Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-16
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

| The draft of the Anglo-P Portuguese agree.
| ment, with reference to East Africa, has been
| signed in London.
| Algeria is again devastated by locusts.
| A caravan from Morocco traversed through
| swarms of locusts for 50 days.
The miners troubles at Spring Valley,
| ILL.,, have ended, and it is expected that work
will be resumed next Monday.
Mrs. Batcheler, the wife of the United
| States Minister at Lisbon, who was injured
in the carriage accident, is out of danger.
During the burning of the Christian
Moerlein Brewing Company's establishment
in Cincinnati, Thursday night, a fireman was
killed.
The Prince of Wales, who, like Mr.. Glad
stone and many other prominent people, has
been suffering from influenza, is now conva-
lescent.
Justice Brewer, of the United States Su-
preme Court, allowed writ of error to issue
in the case of the contested Governorship of
Nebraska.
London society has been pleasantly inter-
ested in the published statement that the
Duchess of Marlborough is the mother of a
female infant.
There was renewed riOting in Brussels
Thursday evening, growing out of the
authorities interfering with the workmen's 8
demonstration.
The influenza epidemic is seriously in
Cr6aSlnR III southern Russia. III huSSldl
Poland the disease has decimated the popu-
lation of many villages.
The Pope has dismissed Monsignor Fol-
chi, the administrator of Peters Pence, and
has appointed committee of six cardinals
to administer the funds.
Troops and X, of the Fourth United
States Cavalry which have been stationed at
San Francisco, have left for the national
reservations in the Yosemite Valley.
-Mackeown Bower, Ellis & Co., wholesale
druggists of Philadelphia, have decided to
make an assignment for the benefit of their
creditors. Liabilities, $4,000; assets un-
known.
-Natividad Villaneuva, q celebrated Mex
lean bandit, has been shot and killed in a
battle with a posse of citizens near Guadula-
jara. Before he died he succeeded in killing
civil judge.
The Rev. Thomas F. Gaylor, Chancellor
of the University of the South, at .Sewanee,
Tenn, has been elected bishop of Georgia
by the diocesan convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
"A Russian exile Maurice Lopatecki, now
from his sister, the Duchess Fedorwitz, of
ST. Petersburg, that he is heir to $lO OO0, 900 by
the death of her husband.
Mrs John B. Headsheth, the wife of a
highly respected citizen of Austin, Tex, at
tempted to poison her whole family, to-
getner WITH ner aged aunt, Dy puttlnS
trough on rats" in some some soup.
Nellie R, Goodwin has applied for sep
aration from Nat Goodwin, the actor, on the
ground of desertion. Mr.. Goodwin offered
in court to pay SIS a, week. alimony. during
the suit. The judge reserved his decision.
Major John W. Thomas, President of the
Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail-
road, was married at Nashville on Wednes-
day to Miss De Bow, daughter of the late j.
b. ID. DeBow, editor of the famous ante-bel-
lum Southern magazine, De Bo,o's Reuieao.
John C. Gait, the wellknown retired
railroad man, who at different times occu-
pied the position of General Manager of the
Chicago Milwaukee and st. Paul, and of the
Louisville and Nashville railroads, was
stricken with apoplexy in Chicago yesterday.
in the United States District Court at
Charleston, w. Va, Warren NJ. Frame, of
Raleigh county, has been convicted of viola
ting the lottery law by sending letter
through the United States mails to the
Louisiana Lottery, and was fined $25 and
costs by Judge jackson.
Joseph Williams, q colored man about 60
years of age, was horribly butchered late
last night by Martha jenkins, colored
boarding house keeper, in st. Louis. She
drew a razor and cut his throat from ear to
ear, and inflicted gashes in his cheek and
jaw 80 that it hangs down on his breast