Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-24
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Mrs. Langtry is improving.

Mrs. Langtry is improving.
General Crespo has the grip.
Michael Davitt has lost his Parliamen-
tary seat.
SMALLPOX has broken out in the Mercer
county, n. j., jail.
There is no sign of an end to the Nova
Scotia miners strike
-Nez Perce Indians refuse to sell their
lands to Uncle Sam at any price.
William Watson. the insane English poet,
shows no signs of Improvement.
"A bomb exploded at a rich mans door in
Seville, Spain, yesterday. No one hurt.
One of the West Superior counterfeiting
gang, Frank Mclean, has been caught.
extraordinary precautions are being
taken at Valparaiso against revolutionary
plots.
Samuel Tyrant lately sold 900 counterfeit
Vera Cruz lottery tickets to people near
Windsor, Ont.
-Brirands held up q train in Poland in
wild Western style and secured large sum
of money.
The Duluth Chamber of Commerce has
called q National Ship Canal Congress, to
meet in Washington in 1898.
The North American Navigation Com
pany has been organized in San Francisco
to compete for overland and Pacific traffic.
An in junction has been issued against
the New Orleans Seamen's Union, restrain
ing them from interfering with British
ship.
A passenger train and q freight train
collided in Cleveland on the Lake Shore
Railroad yesterday. Many bruises, but no
fatalities.
Floyd B. Smith, one of the largest build
ers in the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut,
has made an assignment. His Liabilities are
SS0, 600, assets none.
The resignation of william B. Greene,
Secretary of the American Bankers Associa-
tion, which was rendered on the goth instan t,
has been accepted
Thomas W. Hanson, aged 20 years, a
farmer from Fargo, Dak., mas arrived at
Lowell, Mass, to marry Mrs. Caroline p.
Hunt, nurse, 6S years old.
Susan Porter, the fasting Burlington
woman, died yesterday. She had been 80
days without food aud drank nothing in that
time but two cups OF tea-
On the strength of Lord onslow's favor
able report on the administration of the
Darkest England" fund, General Booth has
issued fresh appeal to the public for funds
to carry on his plans.
Work on the railway track below
Helena, Ark, which was abandoned on ac-
count OF the mysterious poisoning of
several convict laborers, will be resumed to-
day under double guard.
"A company is being organized in New
York City with a capital stock OF $25. 900 900
to improve the dockage facilities OF Buffalo
har6or. It is said the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad is interested in the
project.
A case of yellow fever has been discov-
cred on the Spanish bark Borinquen, Cap
tain Alsina, ut quarantine at Brunswick,
Ga, and she was sent to United States quar-
antine at Sapelo. She came eight days ago
from Havana.
Fire insurance rates in Brooklyn have
been advanced % per cent by the New York
Tariff Association, because of the alleged in
efficiency or the Brooklyn fire department
The increased rate is to go into effect at
once on all risks.
The Worlds Fair Oyster and Fish Com
pany at Minneapolis has sued A. Booth, the
Baltimore Packing Company the Boston
Fish Company and Platt & Co., to recover
5000 ior alleged conspiracy to drive the
plaintiff out of business.
Burglars broke into the house of Warden
Louis ID. PilsDury, of the penitentiary ON
Blackwell Island, and stole a big cedar chest
containing s., 800 worth of siIverware. The
robbery was committed Tuesday night, but
was kept quiet until yesterday.
The renewal of an old feud over the To-
cation of county road near Snohomish,
Wash, resulted Thursday in the murder OF
two well-to-do farmers I.amed Foulks and
Smith, by two boys. II and 10 years of age
respectively, named Langston and Robin
son.
United States Consul Hanna recently
visi, ed the Italian warship Giovanni Bau-'
son, ut La Guayra, Venezuela, accompanied
by the Italian and Spanish Consuls. The COM
mander of the BAuson failed to honor them
with the usual salute tor Consul When
Commander Crowninshield, of the Kear-