Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Iowa coal operators have formed a trnst
The sea serpent yarn has been revived at
Toledo.
Solomon Gerber, an exile to Siberia, ID
on bis way homeward at Omaha
1t is said that very few recover from the
type Of cholera now raging in Russia.
The California fruit crop, especially
apricots, is very short, and prices nave gone
up.
There are IS cases OF smallpox in Vic
toria, B. c., five in Vancouver and one IN
New Westminster.
The schooner General Burnside found
cred near Cleveland yesterday morning.
The crew were saved
The work on the United States torpedo
boat now building at Dubuque, Ia, Is de-
layed by the Homestead lockout.
The opposition to the Farbault public
school plan has caused all but two OF
schools to quit.
"A reward of $40. 900 has been offered by
railroad officials TOR the men VINO com
mitted the last Indian Territory train rob-
berry, and $1,000 Tor any one of them.
An attempt was made to wreck a Bur-
lington passenger train near Monmouth,
ILL.,, by placing ties across the track. The
engine disIodged them without damage.
Iowa farmers are confronted by an
enormous wheat harvest and great scarcity
OF binding twina Prices of the latter are
about cents pound higher than last year
Rock, brutally beat and killed his wife be-
cause she left him after he had whipped her
for some trivial offense. The murderer Is
under arrest.
"A mass of earth 300 feet wide is sliding
down the side or Table Mountain, near
Golden City, Mo-, carrying with it a house,
orchard and garden, and tracks OF the Colo
RADIO Central Railroad.
--RantelI, one of the agitators who helped
precipitate the blowing up of the Frisco mill,
was arrested in Spokane Friday night ana
charged with murder. He is an eloquent
but incendiary anarchist
During q hurricane at Detroit Friday,
the schooner Mary Ames in attempting to
make harbor, struck pier and sank. Ihe
captain and eight sailors were rescued. The
boat was valued at $50, 900.
Seven laborers made their sleeping hunks
under q side-tracked work train, on the
Cotton Belt Railroad, Thursday night. A
freight backed in and moved the car, fright
fully mangling all of the sleeping men.
THEE will die.
kentucky near the Tennessee line for the
Pound Gap murderers. Their last crime
was the killing OF the Mullen family OF SIX
people while they were moving in wagons
from virginia to Kentucky.
Two dozen masked men visited the
house Of Peter Ross, negro, in a suburb OF
Paducah, KY, and gave him severe lash
Ing, with instructions to leave town ut once
OF he would be hanged. Ross wife is q
young white woman from Shawneetown,
Ill. By the death of her father several
months ago she Inherited considerable
property. The negro has left town.
"A Paris cable says that Hallette Alsop
Barrowe, the hero of the unfought duel, Fri
day sent the following cablegram to a rela-
tive in Bernardville n. D.: Harry fined $50
as my second. Is too ill to move. As funds
are lacking must surrender myself to the
Belgian Government in his stead. Lord
Duferin, Minister to Paris, promises to have
the fine refunded in ten days"
L. NJ. Hunter, of Kansas City, has gotten
himself into trouble in Beatrice, Neb.. by
making, it is said, q sight draft on Chicago
commission house for s25. He secared a
local indorser and got the monev. A tele-
gram from Chicago said he had no credit
with the firm, and the indorser had to make
the amount good. Hunter was arrested and
is in Jail. He is said to be an extensive
cattle king.
Major William Tillman, ex-cashier OF the
defunct Falls City Bank, Louisville, WHO
went to Canada ten months ago, after having
wrecked the bank by appropriating $40 COO of
its funds and usins u widows trust fund Of
$l5,0O0 has returned. The money which he
took has been made good and the indict-
Inents against him were dismissed about
two weeks ago. Major Tillman will take his
family somewhere and begin life anew.