Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14

floods is said to be greatly underestimated.
Thousands of carcasses OF domestic animals
line the river banks.
The West Indian Ice Company, with
| plants at Trinidad and the Barbados, will
| build o factory and warehouse in George
| town, British Guiana.
Two Democratic tax collectors at Will
| mington, Del,-John Dougherty and George
| W. McKee-are found to be defaulters in the
sums of $l4, 900 and $4,000 respectively.
| Pensioners continue to leave the Erie
| Soldiers Home. They don't like the regula-
| tion recurring them to pay over to the main
tenance fund so per cent of their pensions.
| Whenever any calamity worth mention
ing affiicts the Flowery Kingdom, the loss Of
! Off the Chinese by the hundreds Of thou
| sands.
| Managers Of the Pacific Portrait
House." with business places at New York
| and Chicago, will be tried for receiving
money orders and not delivering their
goods.
| John Evans, fire boss at the Conyngham
shaft operated by the Delaware and Hudson
| Coal Company near W1lkesbarre, was in
| stantly killed yesterday morning by q fall
| of rock.
| Collector Phelps, of San Francisco, has
| forwarded to Washington report Of the
| facts connected with the recent seizure of
| contraband goods on the United States
steamer Omaha
Railroad was thrown off the track by
broken rail at Hav ensville, Kan, Friday.
| Fireman Purcell was hurled upon the dome
| and cooked to death.
| 1t is reported that the Panama canal
prosecution of De Lesseps is connected with
| the scheme of Credit FOncier syndicate to
place the enterprise on new and solid basis
to complete the canal.
The French representative at Port au
Prince Haiti has been instructed to INQUIRE
nationality
chant, Rigaud, said to have been murdered
by order of the Haitian President.
Nine men were buried under a mass of
falling stone in San Antonio, Friday. Vim
cent PachecO was killed outright, and
Charles Heiting John Guhl and John Heck
mortally wounded. All the others were also
hurt
The Irish Bishops, finding that the cost
of maintaining members of Parliament is a
heavy parochial drain, are working to secure
the return of wealthy candidates at the next
general election who will form the nucleus
of new Catholic party.
BY premature explosion ofa dynamite
blast on the Roanoke Southern Railway, be-
men were instantly killed and two fatally
injured. They were all colored except q
boss, who is still alive.
Changes are imminent in the Mexican
Cabinet Latest rumors say that Minister
Romero will be President of the Cabinet and
have charge of foreign affairs, and that his
brother, Cayetano Romero, will succeed
him at Washington.
An unknown aged man, whose mind is
unbalanced, opened window in coach on
the Fort Wayne express while going at full |
speed near Canton Friday night and jumped |
out. He was picked up only slightly injured |
and left with the Canton authorities.
Mrs. C. R. Jaynes, who mysteriously dis |
appeared from st. Louis Thursday, has been |
found After doing some shopping the day |
of her disappearance, she was taken sud- |
denly i'll and went to the Southern Hotel,
where she was discovered late Friday night. |
The Chicago and Nashville flyer ran into |
some freight ears at Sebreo, Ky early yes
terday morning, overturning the engine and |
gineer Clark was killed, Fireman Gum
fatally injured, and the postal clerks badly
hurt.
Charles Scola, q New York merchant,
was charged Friday night by j. w. Carroll,
paper manufacturer, with stealing dia-
mond stone valued at $40 900. The diamond |
is unique stone about the size Of pea and |
is known as the "orange diamond Scola
was arraigned.
Three years ago the inhabitants of the
Bahamas were doing their best to extripate
what they considered noxious weed Then
the new Governor General there recognized
the plant as sisal grass, Of great value in
rope making. The result was that the vain
warfare ceased, anc the cultivation of "Ba-
hama fiber'' is now great industry on the
islands.
The French garrisons along the German
frontier were all summoned to arms about
Tuesday night and put through
course of drill in the way of resisting an at
tack by the enemy. The flashing of lights,
the changing of guns and the commands of |
officers sounding on the quiet air, almost