Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-13

| of Minneapolis has been uDearthed, and now
there'll be pretty mess OF litigation
| The Grand Forks IN D.) Chamber OF
Commerce has started movement for the
organization of State Labor bureau
Colonel Morton, of Fargo, N. D., who
| graDhed to Senator Davis his opposition to
the anti-option bill.
"A meeting of wrapping paper manufac-
| turers called at Chicago, presumably TO
resurrect the old trust, was a failure, only
| few responding to the call.
H A. Bruins. President of the defuncs
| Merchants Bank at Moorhead, Mimi, has
| been arrested for defrauding customers out
| Of $4,000, on the charge OF his bookkeeper.
Cold weather. $50 below Zero is adding
to the terrors of the famine in parts OF Rus
sia. Many people have been frozen to death
and children arc not allowed to go to school.
Tuesday evening Elijah Todd, trustee of
Polk township, Monroe county, Ind, died
very suddenly. An investigation OF his OF.
fee followed, and an alleged shortage Of
about 81. 2C0 has been discovered.
John A. Mccall was unanimously elecred
President of the New York Life Insurance
Company at a meeting of the trustees yes
terday. The position was offered TO and re-
fused by ex-President Cleveland, it is stated.
The Chicago Chief of Police and a num-
Der of officers, all in citizens attire, found
one of the city's worst gambling dens wide
open yesterday and raided it, Other raids
succeeded, and about 100 gamblers were
roped in.
II. C. RYAN, of Columbus, who is connected
with the Treasury Department at Washing
ton, is in Hamilton, Ont, to look into the
affairs of a concern which has induced Cana
dians to go to the United States by making
misrepresentation to them. About 230
men were sent over from Canada
AT a meeting in Berlin of the committee
on the proposed Bismarck memorial it has
been decided to invest the whole amount OF
the subscription received-now 1,Ol4, 40
markS-in the new imperial loan, and not to
select a site for the memorial until the spot
for the Kaiser Wilhelm monument has been
selected.
Father O'Rourke. priest of Council
Bluffs Catholic Church, refused to allow an
American banner to be brought into his
church Thursday, at a G.. A X. funeral The
procession then marclIed past and no servi-
ces were held in the edifice. Father o. Rourke
afterward apologized, saying he made mis-
take in the rules of his church concerning
secret society emblems.
I'm September a man was shot and killed
Mt Bedford, Mont, by Peter Woods rail-
road hand, and the body was recognized as
that of y. A. Short, of Butte. Woods was
convicted of the murder, and is now serv-
ing a life sentence for it. a week ago y. A.
Short appeared in Butte, proved that he was
alive, and took charge of his own estate. 1t
is now ascertained that the murdered man
was W. A. Short, formerly of Illinois, and
veteran of the late war.
considerable excitement was caused
Thursday in the Lower House of Mississippi
by the introduction of resolution by Rep
resentative Glover that, it baving been ru-
mOred that money used with some
members of the Legislature to get the peni-
tentiary bill postponed for two years, tho
House appoint committee to investigate.
Several members surrounded Glover in a
moment, urging him to withdraw the reso-
lution which he finally did.