Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Natural gas is failing at Harrisville, W.
-Footpads are numerous around Cleve-
land.
-Militiamen at Parkersburg refuse to pay
fines.
The State Bank of Cuba, Kan, has failed
for S3S0OO.
New cholera cases continue to develop
in Hamburg.
This has been the worst cotton season in
India for 20 years.
CONSTRUCTION of q new railroad in the
Holy Land has begun.
Vienna police refuse to arrest N. Cottu,
the Panama scandal fugitive.
Two Chilean conspirators against their
government have been convicted.
There Is general exodus this season OF
Nova Scotians to the United States.
The majority OF the new legislature of
South Dakota are for re-submission.
A petition urges the Brazilian Govern
ment to declare war against Uruguay.
An Erie manufacturer, John NJ. Ormsbee,
attempted suicide. Cause, paralytic trouble.
All cheap steamship tickets from Europe
to tile Worlds Fair are said to be cancelled.
The Canadian Salvation Army has given
Commander Booth self deniaP check for
s1a, 920.
Navajo chiefs will hold pow WOW on
the compulsory school question. Trouble is
reared.
"A Los Angeles Chinaman in Jail COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself with his
pigtail.
-Yaqui's are again rebellious in Northern
Mexico. A girl whom they worship is in
citing them to revolt.
Mary, the demented wife OF Baggage
master Thomas Stafford, at Niles Grove, near
Erie, drowned herself.
The Ebensburg jury has convicted Mrs.
Kirsch, the young puisoner of her husband.
A new trial is asked for.
Fred Mcguire, the murderer who is to be
electrocuted at Sing Sing tomorrow, seems
to be resigned to his fate.
-Four leaders of Russian cholera riots
have been condemned to death, and 7S
others received severe sentences.
"A negro shoemaker and minstrel per-
former at HolidaySburg, John Pembrooks
is in jail for attacking prominent society
ladies.
Owen Conner was found dead at steuben.
Vile under suspicious circumstances. A
bruise on the hip is the only visible mark OF
violence. He hailed from Pittsburg.
Frank S. Gray. who lost his suit against
Colonel Elliott +. Shepard, proprietor OF the
mas decided to take his case to u higher
court.
The prosecution has completed its case
against Zimmerman Ross, the Chase Mich,
drug list charged with the burning OF his
store, which resulted in the destruction OF
the town.
George Gould has beer elected q director
of the Union Pacific Railroad in place of his
Iather deceased. Mr.. Sidney Dillon Ripley
was also elected director in place of Mr..
Sidney Dillon.
The Russian Senate has promulgated a
law requiring Hebrew artisans to reside In
only such places where boards OF trade
exist. These boards exist only in one-tenth
of the towns in Russia.
Mrs. Sarah E. Edwards formerly the
Granite State Provident Assjcia atiOn, of
Manchester, N. H., has been held in $500 bail
on the charge of forgery.
The Potomac and Appalachian Railroad,
chartered recently in West Virginia, will
run through Hampshire. through Grant to
Franklin and Pendleton, where the head
office and terminus will be.
The unknown white man, with his head
entirely severed from his body, who was
found by a party OF gunners In the Bacon
has been identified as VIM. T. Robinson, OF
Washington, d. G.
Two more women were arrested near
Lemberg, Austria, Friday night for baby
gardens and yards behind the houses. Many
of the children were killed by starvation,
others by exposure to wet and cold.
The New York Supreme Court has de-
cided that the inheritance taxes on the
bequests TO Grace Church and the Metro
politan Museum of Art, made in the will
of Catherine Lorillard Wciie must stand.
The bequest to Grace Church is $355 900 and 1
to the museum $2C0,000
Frank w. Roehl, the young German who
butchered veteran Frank Paulsen with n
hatchet last September, in q room in Hestor
street Ne" Yor6, and aiterward plundered
the apartment, has been found guilty #
murder III the first degree. Roehl will be |
to death this week.
Two striking telegraphers on the Geor-
gia Central Railroad, ut Macon, Messrs. |
Stephens and HaGgard, have been arrested, |
charged with contempt of tile United StateS |
court. Stephens is accused or conspiracy, |
and Haagar1 OF destroying the company's |
The strikers have begun counter |
action.
--Habbi Rosenberg, who was expelled by |
the Congres;a ;ation Beth.JHcob, of Williams |
port, n. T., denies that he ate pork, ana says |
he will ongnge lawyer to ask-tne courts TO |
reinstate hin as Rabbi The reverend gem
tleman says that all the members or the |
Synagogue Betn-Jacob are Reformed He- |
Drews in private and:orthodox in public.