Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-27
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| Another grain blockade is on at Kansas
City.
Russia is taking decided interest in the
| Worlds FAIR.
| -EnHand will increase her Egyptian army
| of occupation.
The leader of the Dacoits in Burmah has
| been captured.
A reign of terror is again said TO exist at
| Coal Creek, Tenn.
-spiegler & Co., Cincinnati tanners have
have failed for $4,000.
The West Superior, Wis, Board of Trade
| began business Thursday.
Germany has determined not to abandon
her East African possessions.
Governor Markham, of California, will
declare Labor Day legal holiday.
Tin weighing 2O,O4O pounds was shipped
| from the Temescal mines in California
| Thursday.
| stop the dealings in puts and calls outside of
| the building.
Captain Bourke, of the stranded British
warship Victoria, has been reprimanded by
a court martial.
"A civil suit for slOO, 900 has been filed by
the State of Arkansas against Woodruff, its
defaulting ex-Treasurer.
-Four militiamen have been put on trial
at Coal Creek, Tenn, for desertion. One of
them has been convicted.
The s3, 600. 900 will of the late DIR. Samuel
Merritt, of Oakland, CAL, is to be contested
by two disappointed nephews.
The ST. James Gazette has started an En-
glish protest against giving James Russell
Lowell a monument in Westminster Abbey,
Fifteen tramps who visited Mound City,
Ill, Thursday, were thrown across logs and
soundly bastinadoed by the indignant citi-
zens.
"A bar of gold bullion weighing $40 0pounds
was shipped to Phenix,. Ariz., Thursday
an ounce, or about s73, ,440.
Two Thousand men are out of work in
New Orleans owing to the 'longshoremen's
strike. The demand is for an hours pay for
fractional parts of an hour.
George W. Hastings, an English NJ p,
awaiting trial for embezzlement has been
legally declared a bankrupt. This Gusts him
from his Parliamentary seat
The King and Queen of Denmark are
trying to bring the Gar and Emperor Will
lam together at Copenhagen on the occasion
of the Danish golden wedding.
On January 81, a boats crew from one of
the Brazilian men-of-war went ashore at
Manaos, and had a skirmish with the
soldiers, during which two sailors and one
soldier were killed and several wounded.
The Austrian authorities have stopped
the public distribution of food and clothing
among the destitute by Vienna newspaper
on the ground that the assembling of SO
many of the poortogether constitutes pub
lie danger.
Lieutenant Harlow. the Worlds Fair
Commissioner, called upon the Chilean
officials Thursday. He was told positively
but frlgidly, that Chile in her present finan.
cial condition, was not in position to take
any part officially in the Fair.
Conductor Bob Duffy, of the Omaha line,
broke his leg Monday, but seemed otherwise
unhurt until he sank into a stupor and died
from brain pressure, caused by rupture of a
blood vessel. When his aged father heard
of it Thursday, he dropped dead.
"A year ago Lewis Asher, a Springfield.
Ill, merchant, was bitten by hog Last
Friday black spot appeared on his tongue,
and soon spread over the whole surface.
and then the organ began to SWELL The
swelling continued until his. mouth was
stretched wide open and filed with the
swollen tongue. Thursday he died from
blood poisoning.
William Gibson and George Wilson.
white convicts in the penitentiary, were
shot and killed yesterday by Arthur Jones, a
ing outside the walls, when Gibson and Mar
shall sprang upon and attempted to disarm
him. Three other convicts came to the
guards rescue. Gibson and Marshall ran
and Jones shot them.
CHARTERS were granted at Harris
burg. yesterday, as follows: Beaver REIN
ing Company. of Washington county; can
ital stock. S25,00O Pennsylvania Building
and Loan Association, of Altoona: capitsl
stock, Sl,000,000. Bellwood Mutual Buildinp
and Loan Association, of Blair county. can.
ital stock, sl0O00O0. Blaisden Water COM
pany, of Bradford; capital stock, 5000.