Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-29
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

| Farmers at Holland, Mich, are praying
| against rain.
| The Alice Mitchell trial at Memphis ha q
been postponed till July 1S
| There is q revival Of revolutionary
| feeling on the Mexican border.
-Poachers are reported to be rs bold as
| ever at the Alaskan sealing grounds.
White residents OF Norman, Okla, have
organized to drive the negroes out.
The Manitoba Legislature has been dis
solved. New elections take place July %.
| "A tornado at Fort Yates, s. D., June Is,
killed four Sioux Indians and crippled a
number Of others.
The Louisiana General Assembly has
passed the bill prohibiting lotteries after
December 81, 1888.
The first National Convention of Public
Readers and Teachers of Elocution is in
session in New York.
1t is now said the reported execution of
the celebrated Teresa Urra. the Saint of
Socorro," some days ago is untrue.
The wife of Rev. T. B. Mclean, Of Gin
cinnati, has received a bequest of s., ,O00, 600
from q rejected suitor in Germany.
Edward Reed, a circus animal trainer
had his arm almost torn off by an angry lion
during an exhibition in Duluth Monday.
News has been received in San Francisco
that Andrew Frazier, the well-known min
ing and mechanical engineer, has been mur.
dered in Mexico.
"A negro party has been organized in
Guadaloupe county, Tex, with a platform
which calls for negro nomination for every
office within the gift Of the American peo-
pie, from President down to constable.
George M. Breidner, at one time head
bookkeeper of the firm OF Wietz, Biedler &
Co. Baltimore, wholesale dry goods mer.
en- bezzling $34,0 900 from the house men
toned.
The Court Of Claims at Washington yes
terday gave Judgment for $l04 628 in favor of
recover 500, 1903 for lands in Michigan and In
diana ceded to the United States under
threats.
-Government officers Of Chicago have
learned that Mrs. John 8. Taylor, whose hus-
band was an Illinois Infantry surgeon, has
been made independent by drawing his PEN
sion while he has been public charge in an
insane asylum since 1853.
samuel Gompers. President of the Amer
lean Federation OF LABOR, has written let
tional Liberty Association, in which he says
that the Federation d in favor of the
Worlds Fair being open on Sunday.
"A convention of the Confederate veter.
ans Of South t Caroltna Car lima, has h been called to
Of enect1ng an organization similar to that
of the Grand Army OF the Republic. Ex-
Senator Wade Hampton will preside.
THE chiefs of the Arapahoes andCheyenne
Indians refuse to accept the beef from the
Government, which commenced Monday.
This will be the last beef issued by the Gov
ernment to these Indians, and there is no
little concern among the settlers as to the
outcome Of this surliness among them.
Charles Nelson, the eldest son of the
millionaire dfstiller, Charles Nelson, at
Nashville, has filed notice OF q contest of
his fathers will. The will devises the en-
tire estate OF something above $1,000, 900 to
Mrs. Louisa Nelson, the second wife, young
Nelson being cut or with 800 Der annum.
The excitement at theCoeur d. Allen mines
is still running high. A rumor is current
that the miners are trying to render in
effective the Injunction against them by dis
solving their union. They have, it is stated,
united with the Knights OF Labor, and under
this order can carry on war without liabil- |
ity of trouble.
The suit Of Nathan C. Mckay against |
the United States for $2S4 ,6N for the con- |
struction OF tho monitor Squando. which |
has been pending for u years, was decided |
in the Court Of Claims yesterday. Judg- |
ment was given in his favor for $1l5. liz, be- |
Ing $4,000 less than allowed him by the
naval experts.