Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A Strawberry Trust has been formed at
| Racine, Wis.
Cold weather has formed ice in Louisiana
| and Mississippi.
St Louis school children are raising
| Worlds Fair exhibit funds.
The machinists' strike at Indianapolis
| has been officially Endorsed.
-Insurgent Indians are stirring up trouble
| on the Brazil-Bolivia frontier.
The British Columbian Legislature asks
| for lazaretto for Chinese lepers.
Governor Thomas, of Utah, has vetoed
| the Worlds Fair appropriation bill.
-E1-President Cleveland will open a new
| college chapel at Valparaiso, Ind, May ].
Accounts are still being received of the
terrible ravages of yellow fever in Brazil.
"A peaceful settlement of the Indian.
| apolis street car troubles is now probable.
Milwaukee steamboatmen clamor for the
| prohibition of the employment of Canadian
sailors.
The lower House of the Kentucky Leeis-
lature has passed the bill prohibiting
lotteries.
The President of Peru has forbidden
official interference with the Congressional
elections.
Fully 1000 bushels Of wheat have been
AdTien, Ill.
The st. James Gdzette is ashamed of the
miserable exhibit England is preparing for
the Worlds Fair.
Ball 4 Gray, ladies' hats, $50 Broadway,
New York, made an assignment Yesterday
to Samuel Ray with preference of s., 800.
1t is rumored at Valparaiso that Mr.,
Egan will soon be recalled to Washington
and will be appointed United States Minister
to Brazil.
j. H. Locke, a grain commission mer
chant; WIS yesterday posted at the New
hai f,1o f,
meet his obligations
The Catholic Knights of America are be-
coming impatient over the delay of the
supreme officers in settling with defaulting
Treasurer NJ. J. O'Brien at Cincinnati.
H. w. Fitch, a Christian Science banker
at Spokane, Wash, tried for a week to re-
store to life his dead wife and child by
prayer, but his loved ones are still lifeless
-Ex-Governor Thayer, of Nebraska. says
that he will contest anew the right of Gov
ernor Boyd to hold Office. His ATTORNEYS
have sent to Washington for a COPY of the
recent mandate of the Supreme Court, and,
upon receiving it, will decide upon the
proper line of action.
Michael Redding, an ex-Union soldier,
aged ss years, applied to Justice Kilbreth, of
New York, yesterday to be locked up as he
was starving. He receives pension of $l2
a month, which, he claims, is not suficient
to support him, and Tor days at a time he is
obliged to go without 1ood. He was COM
mitted, pending an investigation.
"A remarkable medical case has come to
light ill., Bellevue Hospital, New York
Charles Krantz, butchers journeyman, l9
years old. slept almost continuously for five
days and five nights and then died without
awakening. The autopsy showed that death
was due to sottening of the brain.
Mrs. Larken and Torgen Thompson, a
boy who live 20 miles east of Willow CITY,
n. s., lost their way during the blizzard
Thursday, and wandered about in the storm
until they became exhausted and lay down.
The boy awoke after the storm subsidized and
made his way to d house, but he, too will
die. -
a suit in the United States Circuit Court at
New York, in behalf of Mack and Mamie
Caldwell. colored, against the East Tennes-
say they bought first-class tickets from
johnson City, Tenn, to Chicago, and were
made to travel on the smoking car. They
want s. 600 damages.