Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| ..-Ex.P Premier Mercier will take his seat fn
the Quebec Legislature next week.
| Fears of smallpox epidemic arc dis
| turbing the Illinois health authorities.
| ALBERT G. Porter, Minister to Rome, de-
clines to De candidate for Governor Of
| Ohio.
| Andrew Whitley, a white murderer in
the AlbermarIs IN. C) jail, was Iynched
| Friday.
| Friday was the hottest day OF the season
In Kansas City-95o in the shade. Four cases
| OF sunstroke.
| The Chicago insane court has decided
thas Mary Belcher, of Michigan, was driven
mad by the Kelley cure.
1t is reported that Jack Bliss, the "King"
or the wyoming rustlers, has been shot
dead by Deputy Sheriff posse.
The Usage Indians in Oklahoma are still
semi-hostile. 1t is reported they had war
dance over one settler and scalped him.
j. r. Buchanan has declined the Office Of
Chairman of the Western Passenger Associ-
alton, to which he was recently elected by
unanimous vote.
The Continental Union Club at Windsor,
Ont, passed resolutions in pnblic meeting
Friday night, favoring political union with
the United States.
AT Canon City, Col, a guard at the pent-
tentiary accidentally discharged his rifle,
fatally wounding John Astbury, a guard,
and woundtng two more guards and a CON-
vict.
AT Paris, KY, Friday Charles Rea and
Will Haden, both colored, were struck by
lightning while standing under a tree for
shelter. Rea was killed and Haden fatally
injured.
1t is in contamination by the Canadian
Government to embark on q vigorous policy
looking TO the completion of q +foot chain
of navigation from the tide water to Lake
Superior by July. 1894
The Bedouins, inhabitfng the Ell Hejas
district, which lies along the Red Sea- in
Arabia, are in revolt against Turkish au-'
thority. The district includes the sacred
cities of Mecca and Medina.
One of the details of the recent consolf.
dation OF packing interests at Chicago 10
being worked ont in the formation of q new
corporation under the title OF the Consoli- 4
dated Packing Companies. Capital, S., OO0, 900. =,
"A peculiar disease afflictin. sheep 10
ravagiDg many OF the fiocks in the western
part of Monroe, Belmont, Guernsay and
Noble counties, o. The throat swells up in
such a terrible form that the sheep IS unable
to eat and soon dies.
The jury in the case of the negro who
was lynched at Port Jervis, n. u for OUT
raging a white girl, found as follows: "We
find that Robert Lewis came to his death in
the village of Port Jervis on the I'd OF June,
1892 by being hanged by his neck by a per.
son or persons unknown to this jury"
"A circular has been issued to the clergy
by the Austrian aristocracy urging them to
abstain from all participation in the celebra- /
cause the marriage will take place in Prot
estant church. although the bride is q
Roman Catholic.
The composition of President Months
new Chilean Cabinet is as follows: Minister
of the Interior, Barros Luco; Foreign Az
fairs, Isidore Errazuriz; Finance. Enrique
McIver; Justice, Maximo del Campo; Public
Works, Vicente Davila Lorrain; War, Rodri-'
gueZ Rosas.
Guernsey Osborne, for 20 years trusted
cashier of Z. ID. A. Morrison Son, drygoods
dealers in New York City, was arrested
the firm of upward of SO 900 through sys-
tenn of false entries. Osborne admitted thaS
he had stolen at least sl2 900.
The real name of a fashionable swindlerS
known under the aliases of Seaftesbury and
Plantanbont who once operated in Vienna,
Berlin, Paris, London, Liverpool. New York,
and LeiUZig, and who was handed over to
the Austrian authorities May "a by the
Germ an police after serving two years in a
German prison for stealing necklaces valued
at 81 900 marks, is Mason Helmbold, of Phila-'
delphia. He is only 90 years old. He is now
in custody at Vienna He shows symptoms
OF insanity.
The three members of the Whisky Trust
who live in Chicago district. Presidents
Greenhut of Peoria, and Secretary Peter J.
Hennessy, and Director Nelson Morris, OF
Chicago, against HON the first indictments
were quashed by Judge Nelson, of Boston,.
will be asked to give bail q second time on
the indictment returned by the Boston
grand jury. Each of them will decline to
give bond for his appearance in Boston.
The only alternative the United States Conn
missioner will have will be to order tho
three locked up. AS soon as this is donet
writs of habeas corpus will be sued out for
release of the indicted men, on the ground
that they have committed no crime for
which they can be taken to stand trial.