Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-27
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Austrian Reichsrath Is in session.
| Venezuela rebels have won another bat
| tie.
| Only half a crop of peaches is looked fo
on the Knobbs and Ohio river bluffs in In
diana.
United States is to exercise q protectorats
over San Domingo.
| Judge Gresham denies that he ever ex
| pressed any willingness to accept the Pre-
sidental nomination of the Peoples party.
Charles w. Austin. the newspaper man
| on trial at Salt Lake City for attempting to
| rob the cashier of the Utah National Bank
| pleads insanity.
Among the exhibits of Colorado precious
metals at the Worlds Fair, will be a statue o
a woman in solid silver, containing O,00t
worth of bullion.
The entire mob at Forsythe, No.. who
killed Deputy Sheriff Williams while that
| oh1cer was defending negro prisoner, will
be indicted for murder.
Sam s. Falk, of the defunct firm of Falk
& Co., Texarkana, Ark, has been arrested
1or the embezzlement of $l,5OO package
from the express office.
The Colombian Government has taken
possession and claims the ownership of the
Panama Canal on the ground that the COM
pany has violated its concessions.
-Newfoundland has refused to have any
conference with Canada unless Canada first
iication OF the Bond Blaine treaty.
British Columbian seal poachers are
thinking of ope rating under foreign flags in
order to ovade tho agreement between
Great Britain and the United States.
Hon. Patrick Nugent, brother of Lord
yesterday for his recent assault upon u lady
passenger in a railway compartment car.
Walter s. Ames, a feeble man of 10 years.
was found in his room in a Detroit boarding
house yesterday morning burned to death.
The fire is supposed to have originated from
sparks from Ames' pipe as he lay in bed.
William Henry Pope, an Englishman,
was arrested at Waukegan, ILL.,, yesterday
morning by order Of the British Consul at
Chicago for the embezzlement on SeDtember
Is. 1890. of several thousand pounds from
Pope. Fish s. Co., of Birmingham, England.
The Colorado Silver League has declared
that "in the event of the Democratic and
Republican National Conventions failing To
men with pronounced silver views, it will be
the duty of the voters to support any party
that may promise the speedy reinstatement
OF silver"
The differences which have for several
years existed in the Andient Order of Hiber-
mans between the American Board and tho
Board of Erin are about to be settled.
meeting OF committees from the two boards
has just been held at st. Paul and commit
tee Of conference appointed to adjust all
points of difference.
j. b. Teller, O horse dealer from Spring
field Mo-. committed suicide Monday even
ing in Kansas City hotel. He wrote letter
to the Coroner stating that he desired to
give that official as little trouble as possible,
and "would inform him that the cause Of
the writer's death was a shot from O pistol
in the writer's own hand"
"A party of cattlemen from Wyoming,
hunting cattle thieves in johnson Hole, the
alleged rendezvous for all horse and cattle
thieves for hundreds of miles, came upon
the habitation of Burnett and Spencer and
in their efforts to arrest them both Burnett
and Spencer were killed. 1t was found
they wcre in possession Of over so stolen
horses.
Mrs. Laura z. Fulton, of Atchison. Kan
was divorced from her husband in March
last. and in April she remarked. Under the
Kansas law n divorce does not become
absolute for six months after the decree has
been granted, but Mrs Smith did not know |
this. She now fears that her former hIis-
band will Cause her to be arrested for |
Az Wheatley colliery. yesterday, n crowd |
Of strikers hooted n minor named Pearson, |
who was at work, notwithstanding the |
strike. Pearson drew pistol and told his |
prosecutors to keep away. They kept |
pushing and shouting and dared him to |
shoot. Pearson fired and severely wounded |
4 delegate of the strikers. Pearson was ar
rested and locked up.