Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-24
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| "A bakers strike is probable in Detroit
"A free silver club has been organized at
| Helena, Mont.
The Huron copper mine, at Hancock,
| Mich will partly resume about May !.
The Kaskaskia river, which is out of its
banks, is four miles wide at Carlysle, Ill.
| The relief-laden steamer Conemaugh
sailed from Philadelphia Tor Russia yester-
| day.
Victor Cruz, the famous Cuban outlaw,
| has been killed in an encounter between o
| party OF officers and brigands.
The Louisville firebugs we're responsible
| for seven more fires Friday night-au in the
| West End residence section.
Fred Hardness. q captured army de-
serter of fine education, hanged himself ut
Spokane Falls, Wash, yesterday.
The "rustlers" in Wyoming are highly
pleased with letter from President Harri-
son. promising that no guilty cattleman
shall be shielded.
Tho Chicago Walters Association de-
mand more pay, shorter hours and the aboli,
tion of fines. If the demands are not acceded
to they will strike.
John Savage, who has for some time
been an inmate of the Scott county, ILL.,,
Poor House, has fallen heir to an English
estate valued at over sl,0o0,O0o.
James W. Sykes, Of Chicago, accused Of
extensive grain warehouse frauds, will have
a second trial, the motion to quash indict-
ments having been overruled.
The corpse of young woman, supposed
to be Myrtle sturtevant, victim Of the
Golden Rule disaster, was recovered near
Bromley, KY, Friday evening.
Three men were instantly killed and
three probably fatally injured by the COL
lapse OF a brick wall in the county Court
House at Jonesboro, Tenn, Friday.
-Counterteit s. bills are circulating in St.
Louis. The only defect is the Grant head,
etched. The general color OF the bill is q
little light.
While some boys were playing in a sand
pit at Toronto yesterday a slide occurred,
covering portion of the pit to a depth OF
several feet and smotherfng three boys
named Alfred Lucas, Ernst Lucas and Henry
Prettie.
The New Orleans Signal Service reports
the r9in fall in that city for q hours ending
ats A. NJ. April % at ~ inches. Heavy rain
Illinois Central Railroad and many wash
outs have occurred.
There has been another sale OF negro
vagrants at Fayette, Mo-, three men and one
woman. One man sold for 81 for so days
and the woman at $12 for two months labor.
The sale was on the block.
The exclusive privilege of carrying pas
sensers by lake between Chicago and Jack
son Park during the Worlds Fair has been
practically granted to the American Steel
Barge Company, of Duluth, which manu-
factures the ''whale eback' boats.
The Sioux Indians who went to Europe
with Buffalo Bill and vino, since their re-
turn, have been held at Fort Sheridan prac-
tically as prisoners of war, will, with the ex-
ception of two unruIy ones, Short Bull and
Kicking Bear, be allowed to return to their
people in a few days.
Madame de Sinite, 80 years old, a French
widow and teacher OF acting, was found dead
in bed in her furnished apartments, 10Y East
Thlrty-frst street, New York, yesterday,
She had been sutfocated by the gas, which
was escaping from an open unlighted burner
in the room. 1t is supposed to be case Of
suicide.
Insurance Commissioner Mcbride of
Kansas, has reissued the license or the st,
Paul German Accident Insurance Company.
The license was revoked at the same time as
that of the St. Paul German Fire Insurance
Company, the Commissioner erroneousy
supposing that both companies were under
the same management
The jury in the case of Holmes versus the
New York Times, in an action for libel,
brought in q verdict for the plaintiff for
SO, 500, at Saratoga, yesterday. Holmes is the
local undertaken who had charge OF General
Grants remains while they were on Mount
McGregor, and it was charged by the lInaes
that he was intoxicated at the time.