Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-06
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

yellow fever exists in several Central
American ports.
Sharp earthquakes at Parras, Mex, dam
aged many buildings.
The Governor of the Venezuelan State of
Bolivar has absconded.
Tho Pope has issued an encyclical
against Italian Free Masons.
Six miners have been drowned in a mine
flood at Dewsberry, England.
"A gas well has been struck at Eagle
Creek, Tenn, having q daily capacity OF
1,O00, 900 cubic feet.
Colonel Lyman Gunnip, of Chicago,
veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars was
crushed to death by an elevator yesterday.
"A Homestead man in West Superior,
Wis, Z. kirkwood, was shot and killed
Thursday by P. McCann, Jealous husband.
The Chicago branch OF the Order of the
Iron Hall has passed a resolution OF conf
dence in the Supreme Justice of the So
ciety.
The Colored Alliance is on a rapid de-
cline. The membership last year was 900,
while the officers now are claiming only
$4,000.
The leprosy specialist of Norway, DR..
Hansen, will investigate the disease in
Hawaii in behalf of the Honolulu Board OF
Health.
The Convention of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union at Indianapolis ad-
journed yesterday, after electing as Presi-
dent Bishop Joseph Cotter.
-Four masked robbers robbed the bank at
Benton. Mo-, Thursday afternoon, compelling
the cashier, at the point of revoivers to dis
gorge $1,000. The bandits, being well
mounted, made their escape.
The ignorant deputy sheriff at Ann
apolis who arrested a member of the Swiss
legation because he didn't know what
legation is or what it is for, will be dismissed
on demand of the Governor.
-The Manhattan Reach nornnanr ~
West Okoboji, Ia, Lake. have notified the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad
that their boats will not be at the service of
Sunday excursionists hereafter.
Detroit Sisters of Charity are being ex.
amined as applicants for teachers certifi-
Gates not because they seek positions in the
public schools, but to compare their attain
ments with those of secular teachers.
The fishing tug e; A.; Augur picked
Haven, a small pleasure boat, which was
sinking. The five occupants were nearly
starved. having been drifting for two days.
Collector Phelps, at San Francisco, has
been informed by Secretary of State Foster
that no Chinese sailors shipped outside of
the United States can be employed by the
ship.
Three young women, Nellie Zollinger,
Blanche Simonson and Grace Maxwell went
bathing in the Mississippi river at Port
Byron, Thursday. The first two got beyond
their depth and sank. Miss hiaxwell lost
her life in trying TO save them.
When the agitation over the Jesuit es.
tates act was at its height, few Canadian
Equal Fighters limited that annexation
might be utilized as n last resort to escape
Roman Catholic domination. Now some of
the Irish Catholics and French Canadian
papers are limiting that annexation is the
best way to escape from Protestant domino.
tion.
The celebrated case OF Baird versus Wal.
ker has been settled by victory for New.
foundland. 1t arose out of the closing in
1880 of lobster factories on the French shore
owned by James Baird, by Sir Bald v in
Walker, Captain of II. III. s. Emerald, acting
by Instructions under the modus yiyendi
Thursday upheld Baird's claim, that the
factories were in operation before the modus
vivendi was concluded