Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-19
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Cholera is rapidly getting worse IN St'
Petersburg.
Berlin police raided several Anarchist
haunts yesterday.
Cholera has broken out In o prusn Iac.
tory near Lille, France.
Chief Black Horse is persuadfng the
Navajos to take the warpath.
"A colored convention at Atlanta pro-
tested against "Jim Grow" car laws
Two more bodies were recovered from
the lost lake steamer Gilcher yesterday.
Russia has made up her mind not to con-
clude a commercial treaty with Germany.
The report that the Pope will send
nuncio to Washington is denied in Rome.
Thirty feet Of solid salt was struck at
Windsor, Ont, opposite Detroit. yesterday.
A New York syndicate have purchased
Ms. ' WI" ~
The murder trial Of Curtis, the comedian,
will begin in earnest at San Francisco Mon
day.
NV. Reed, of Georgia, has been elected
President of the National Road Masters
Association.
The pilgrimages to Rome on the oc-
casion Of the Pope's jubilee will begin at the
end Of January.
Eight suspected Nihilists have been ar
rested at Sosonowica, Poland, charged with
stealing dynamite.
The German budget shows a revenue of
/ 277 0J0 600 marks, an increase OF b5,0JO.oV
marks over the preceding year.
The Victorian Government. in Australia,
will prosecute the directors OF several de-
faulting banking companies
Paris Anarchists are indignant over the
sxtradition of Francois by an English magis-
trate, and threaten further explosions.
Two large British steamships have as
cended the Brazos river in Texas rs far as
Velasco, where they discharged their car
goes.
the Bank of Hamilton Ont, have been re-
| lieved of between 10000 and $4,000 by for
geries.
Vice President C. K Lord, Of the Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad, says all rumors or
| the Readings absorption OF the former roau
are mere street gossip.
The first souvenir coin has been sold by
the Worlds Fair managers to the Rem1ng-
ton Typewriter Company, for SlO,OVu, tne
highest price ever paid
Eighteen thousand pounds dynamite and
other explosives have been received LOT the
Government lainmaking experiments IN
Texas. The tests will be made Monday.
An Atlantic and Pacific passenger train
was wrecked by broken car wheel near
blackberry, Ari., Thursday. Five cars rolleo
down an embankment. One person was
killed and l3 mi ured.
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Mich, stephen Haven, wealthy young
farmer, will never walk again. Thursday
night he stepped out Of q second story WIN
dow and broke his neck
The election for a member of Parliament
for st. John, n. B., next Tuesday, eIcites
considerable interest," as George Robertson,
the regular Conservative candidate, has
been an advocate of annexation.
The Kansas and Texas Railroad has en-
tered into a contract with the American
TOr,, fO 1arfO arm
business over the entire Missouri, Kansas
and Texas system from February l, 1888.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers an
nounces that unless the Queen and Crescent
and East Tennessee and Georgia Central
railways concede an increase IN wages,
equal to about 81 per month, by Tuesday the
operators will walk out.
/. I'm reference to the remarks of General
Sherman's son at the Army of the Tennes-
see meeting at ST. Louis, inquiry at West
erly, R l., fails to substan tiate MI. Sher-
mans statements, as 1t is said no statue OF
General Sherman is being made or detained
in that town.
The sixth annual convention of the Ma
tional Paint, Oil and Varnish Association in
New York came to O close with the election
of w, W. Lawrence of Pittsburg, as Presi-
dent; E. Adams of Lowell. Mass, Vice Presi-
dent, and d. Van Ness Person, OF Chicago,
Secretary and Treasurer.
The Abbot of komorn, Hungary, has
been deprived OF his ecclesiastical functions
and condemned to imprisonment for one
month for refusing to certify to the baptism
of children born OF mixed marriages. This
is the first instance of such case being
punished by imprisonment.
The Non-Partisan women's Christian
Temperance Union elected the following
officers: President, Mrs Ellen j. Phiney,
Cleveland; Vice President, Mrs. Hugh Camp
bell, Pittsburg; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Florence Porter, Winthrop, Me-; Treasurer,
Mrs. c. Cornelia Landfear. Brooklyn.
The officers elected Thursday night by
the Association for Women's Advancement
were: President Julia ward Howe, Rhode
Island; Secretary, Elizabeth Lord Tiff, New
York; Treasurer. Henrietta /. 7. Wolcott,
Massachusetts; auditors, Caroline Biglow,
New York; Louise NJ. Stearns, New York.
Over 5000 Cheyennes and Arapahoes in
the Indian Territory threaten to take the
warpath. They have been getting only half
rations, the Government expecting them to
supply themselves with the other half by
tilling the SOIL Poor Lo has been a misera-
bic failure as q farmer-hence the ghost
dances.
Frank II. Braden, well-known young
lawyer OF Kansas City, has been missing for
j week. He had counted upon the election
of F. W. Griffin for Prosecuting Attorney,
and had been promised the appointment of
assistant 1t is believed that the defeat of
Mr.. Griffin turned his brain. and that he has
committed suicide.
There is not likely to be any further liti.
CATION over the ''little black trunk" which
has figured in the legal proce edings against
ex-President Potter, OF the Maverick Bank.
The trunk has been opened and its contents
examined by the prosecution, and there is
not a single paper in it which would bear in
the slightest degree on the case against Mr..
Potter.
A Hamilton college alumni association
has been organized in Washington, the Of
fcers chosen being Hon. W. II. II. Miller,
President: Rev. DR.. William Alvin Bartlett,
Vice President, and Ausburn Towner, Secre-
tary and Treasurer, A resolution WAS
adopted strongly commencing the election
of Rev. NJ. w. Stryker. of Chicago, to the
Presidency OF the college.
The Blackstone Manufacturing Com
pany, cotton manufact irers, of Blackstone,
Mass, will advance wages December g.
Price, have not yet been made known. At
Lowell, Mass. the Carpet Corporation has
followed the lead of the cotton mills, and
raised wages per cent, beginning Decem-
Der 5. AGENT Dyon processes to think that
business will hardly warrant the increase.
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