Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-11
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

| -heaFy SHOWS nave Dlockaueo Alpine
| passes.
n-esshs mThs Argentine rebellion has been sup
| The owners of the steamship Elder hope
| to save her.
| ANOTHER below zero cold wave Is raging
| in the Northwest.
| People at Killmaster, Mich, are pros.
| pecting for gas and oil.
| The cruiser San Francisco will proceed
to Honolulu next week.
| The Texas Republican Central Commit.
| tee has indorsed Harrison.
Heavy snow storms have killed thou
| sands of head of live stock.
| Brazilian soldiers are disarn1ing dfscon.
| tented citizens at Port Allegro.
| -Ex-Governor Thayer's appointees in
| Nebraska have all stepped down and out.
M. Vidal, the French explorer in Chinese
| Turkestan, has been captured by brigands.
| "A national convention of retail furniture
| dealers will be he held in Grand Rapids,
July lS
-Workmen on the Government building
! at Sioux Falls, S. d., have struck for higher
wages.
Eight thousand coal porters on the Lon.
don wharves are on strike over a wage
dispute.
Grand Master Workman Powderly is at
tending the Michigan Assembly h. of L. at
Grand Rapids
The rumor is revived that the Canadian
Pacific Railroad will build line between
New York and Niagara Falls.
President Montt, of Chile, has lust re-
turned from a tour of the provinces. His
reception everywhere was f1attering.
The New Jersey Central and the Lehigh
Valley Railroads have passed under the CON
troll of the Reading Railroad Company.
The British steamer Sir Walter Raleigh.
which salad from Phi1a adelnhia Eai
mouth, England, January Il, is missing.
An unknown man was found floating and
solidly frozen in a cake OF ice in Lake Michi-
gan, off the Chicago shore, Tuesday night
The British schooner Railway sunk after
collision near Cardiff, Wales, yesterday,
and three of the crew of five were drowned
The butcher, Buschoff, who was recently
acquitted at Xanten of the murder of the
Christian boy, has been sgain arrested at
Cologne.
The Kansas Wagon Company, at Leayen-
worth, lias discarded convict labor. Farm
ers are becoming prejudiced against prison
made goods.
ALI the members of the Mississippi Valley
Lumbermen's Association are to be arrested
on bench warrants from st. Paul, for main
tanning trust.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs
says the presence of the French squadron at
Port Said, Egypt, is meant as compliment
to the new Khedive.
The Federal Court at Keokuck, Ia, has
declined to grant writ of habeas corpus to
stormy" Jordan, the notorious saloon
keeper of Ottumwa.
Certificate holders of the American
Fraternal Circle, dissatisfied with the re-
cent change in the constitution of the order
have filed five bills in court asking for re-
ceiver and an injunction.
Mrs. Blanche Harrison of Denver. fell
off, or in Il OF temporary insanity Jumped
A0n
Ia, Tuesday. She was picked up in a crit
ical condition, but will recover.
Manager Burroughs, of Redmond's Op-
era House, Grand Rapids, has won several
performance. A police court jury has found
him guilty of attending an entertainment
Sunday evening in his theater. He will ap-
peal.
Edwin C. Mills, who for the past ten
years has been bookkeeper and cashier OF
the Kansas City Live Stock Company was
arrested Tuesday for embezzlement from
the company. His peculations have ex-
charged with having taken sS, 100 during
that time.
BENZ. Fritts wealthy farmer living at
Sunnyside, N. Y.,. for years a victim of SOM
nambulism, arose in his sleep Sunday night,
foremost downstairs. He broke his neck,
dying instantly. He was the owner OF
several OF the finest farms in the county.
his Wlle anu turee Culluren survive MIN.
in Newport KY, late Tuesday afternoon,
Chancellor MenZies, of the Campbell county |
(Ky.) Chancery Court, rendered decision |
in the case of Adam Wagner and John Trapp. |
Truestees of the Swift Iron and Steel Works, |
in which the Chancellor ordered Wagner to |
pay over to Master Commissioner $50 600 |
1or the benefit of creditors of the Swift Iron |
and Steel Works.
Tuesday evening, as large number of |
attendants of the East St. Louis races were |
across the bridge, ono of til EN-, an |
unknown young man, suddenly mounted |
the rail and jumped into the river below,
revolving several times in his descent. He |
was drowned, and the body has not yet been
recovered. 1t is supposed he had lost his |
own some other persons money at the
races.
Two negroes were arrested by O mob
near Port Gibson, Miss, Sunday, and hanged
until unconscious in an effort to extort con-
fessions OF robbery. They were afterward
lodged in the Martin Jail, but were brought
to town Tuesday morning for safe-keepfng.
Rumors of mob, 200 strong, forming at
Martin to storm the JAIL induced the Sheriff
to convey the prisoners to Vicksburg. More
trouble is feared.
The failure of Philip Bruins was an
nounced on the New York Stock Exchange |
Yesterday. His liabilities amount to about
s400, COO, all to personal friends who were not
iesirous of pressing the claims, but the pub
ication of the schedules of S. V. White |
Co., showing Bruins q debtor to that firm for |
about Sl60, ,0G0, caused the President OF the |
Stock Exchange to request him to announce |
his suspension, which he did.