Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-venezuela rebels are preparing for de
| cisive battles.
Indiana peach buds have been only
| slightly damaged.
| The trial of Dr. Scudder, the alleged Chi
cago murderer, has been postponed.
An effort will be made to open for settle
ment the Colville Indian reservation, in
| Washington State.
"A Sioux City, Ia, judge has decided that
Sunday street cars are a necessity. The
| decision disposes of 100 blue law arrests.
The killing of Hebrew settlers in Santa
| Fe, Argen TINA, has been checked by the
! lynching of one OF the assassins. police.
! man.
arrested in Chicago charged with winning
a livelihood by burning houses for the fnsur-
ance.
General Joseph T. Torrens has purchased
lie, and will bring the vessel to Lake Michi-
gan at once. The price was $4,000.
James A. Palmer, who was arrested In
New York, charged with defraudtng Tiffany
in $4,000 bail for examination Monday after
noon.
Several earthquake shocks shook Chilean
coast towns last week, and they came on
time as predicted by a German scientist
there. The next shocks are predicted to
occur between April % and g.
The New York census shows that the
alien population of New York City is s75, 900,
while that of Kings county is 1900 In
New York City there is one alien in every
five of population. The total population OF
the State is 6,4SS652.
Clara Barton, President of American
National Red Cross, has chartered the
steamship Tynehead. The vessel is of $500
tons burden, and will be loaded with Iowa
grain forwarded to New York for shipment
to the starving Russian peasants
Ernest Rapp of Syracuse, n. Y, fright
ened his wife so that she took refuge with a.
neighbor. When she refused to return he
fired three times, one bullet entering her
abdomen and another striking their child in
the hand. He then shot himself in the
breast and took dose of rough on rats.
I'm Philadelphia 5-year-old Willie Schmid-
letter and his sister Bertha, months old,
were playing with a straw Easter basket
full of candy Eggs. Willie took the basket
to a range, lighted it and applied the blaze
to one of Bertha's long golden curls and
trscted by the child's screaming, rushed in
and extinguished the flames, curls and
clothes had disappeared and Bertha was
soon q blackened corpse.
king Teburimoa, of Big Maxim and Little
Maxim Islands. of the Gilbert group in the
Pacific Ocean, sailed from San Francisco for
his island home at Butarituri last night.
The Kings mission here was to cultivate
States, and appointed as his commissioner
to represent him Colonel C. E. Daley. The
latter stated that the King had. written
letter to President Harrison stating that he
fears some European Government will seize
his island and requesting that the United
States establish protectorate over his king
dom.
William Neese, constable at La Grande,
Tex, killed August Mischer, of Rutersyille,
fatally injured Fritz Mischer, a brother of
the deceased. and wounded the third brother
in the arm. There was some feeling between
the parties caused by the arrest Of one of
Mischer's laborers for carrying a pistol.
After the trial Thursday the parties met in
front of the Court House. Neese retreated,
and was followed by Fritz Mischer. Neese
then turned and fired at him, inf1icting a
fatal wound The two other Mischer broth
ers made for Neese with knives, when he
shot one dead and the other in the arm.
ROSA BONHEUR in her home is the SUBJ
ject of a clever foreign letter in THE DIS
PATCH to-morrou