Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A drouth is running crop prospects in
Bengal.
"A Homestead committee is in Chicago.
soliciting aid for the locked-out men,
The Midland Steel Company, at Muncie
Ind, has sianed the Amalgamated scale.
"A building for the exhibits of liberal arts
and ethnoIogy is projected for the Worlds
Fair.
Unless the Texas drouth is soon broken
the schools will have to be closed for want of
water.
"A Kansas City dining room girl, Maggie
Moore. is under suspicion Of poisoning seven
boarders.
The Venezuela Governments General
Cotima, with large force, has Joined
Crespo's army.
Claimants fer the honor OF being the
first discoverer of Jupiters fifth moon con-
Jinue to appear.
This years crop of sugar beets in Europe
is expected to be from Is to 20 per cent less
than that of 1891.
Little Annie Schottman, at Cincinnati,
fell into a large kettle of boiling catsup and
was burned to death.
The National Council, o. U. A. NJ ad-
journed at Manchester. n. H., to meet in
Des Moines, Ia, i'll 1898.
Owing to the present disputes the Lieu
tenant Governor of Manitoba may dismiss
the Greenway Ministry.
Don Carlos the Spanish pretender, pre-
diets that Spain will become a republic but
will ultimately return to Carlist allegiance.
The county clerk of Campbell coun ty, KY,
Thomas Jones, has been indicted for failing
to properly accouht for s., 600, collected on
saloon licenses.
1t is rumored that two American and
three English insurance companies intend
to withdraw from business in Mexico on
account OF the new law there.
The badly decomposed body OF o. 1.
n n. in nj
and contractor of Denver, has been found in
his room at the Revere House.
The German press has at last awakened
to the fact that an attempt to tamper with
the universal suffrage system of the Empire
has been manifested of late in high places.
Sheriff Stein hauber, of vandalia, is hunt
ing all over Chicago Tor j. A. Garland, who
is wanted on charge OF embezzling 50, 500
from the United States Lite Insurance Com
pany.
Some highly finished frescoes dating from
the end OF the fourteenth century and prov
ing the unusual development of Bohemian
art at that time, have been discovered in
Neuphas.
The peculiar manifestations in a window
OF the village church o. Canton, Mimi, are
to be scientifically examined by Bishop
Cotter, OF the Diocease of Winona. 1t is al
legged that portraits miraculously appear.
The Matthew Thornton monument,
erected by the State of New Hampshire and
tuc tOWn Ol McrflmaCk, TO the memory OF
Matthew Thornton, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, has been dedi-
Gated at Merrimac.
Black Peak. mountain of great height
between the ChiGnik canneries and CONAN
gashik, a station of the Alaska Commercial
Company. is supposed to be the volcano
from which the recent eruption in the Aleu-
tian Islands took place.
Three prominent men in st. Louis have
been arrested charged with graveyard in
N "a rQ md
ton, Cephus B. Welton, his brother. an in
surance agent who breaches now and then,
ana Dr. Edward c. Randall.
The will of Jonathan Bass, the famous
osslncd man, VINO died at Lockport, y. Y,
recently, has been offered for probate
Great surprise is manifested because the
estate only amounts to some So co., 1t was
thought he was very wealthy.
Judge Ross, OF San Francisco, has de-
cided that the Mckinley bill did not reneal
the act OF 1888 granting the right of a dra W.
back of 70 cents ton on bituminous coal
which is atterward used Tor fuel on Ameri.
can vessels In the coasting trade.
"A 10year-old Indianapolis girl, Annie
Wallace, was abducted by three men in a
carriage Thursday. Her father and mother
are separated. Her father had KIDNAPPED
the child six wears ago, but she was found
in convent after a long search.
1t is reported that H. 7. Nippal, Sheriff
of Cowley county, Kan, who last week
started In pursuit of the robbers who robbed
the bank at Exeter of 50, 900, located the ban
dts In Los Angeles county, Okla, and in at
tempting to arrest them, was shot dead
In his forthcoming annual report f. G.
O'Brien, the Commissioner OF Navfgat tion Of
the Treasury Department. will recommend
the establishment of nautical schools for
the better scientific education of the men
employed in the merchant marine ON the
Atlantic coast and on the Great Lakes.
Judge Aldrich, of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court, yesterday appointed r Pohart
n. Bowman, the present assiEn ee of the In
ternational Benefit Order receiver of that
body. This action was taken in order that
$1,000 now in the hands OF the State Treas.
urer might be made available to the order.
October l5 the new return postal card
will be placed on sale a: all postoffices, The
other for the International Postal Union
service. have been approved by Postmaster
General Wanamaker, and the work OF print
ing and distributing the cards will be pushed
with vigor.
The Chilean Congress has been called to
conslder among other Things, new French
estimates for 1885, to establish a money
standard and Strange for sufficient volume
OF currency, to consider propositions for an
increase of pay for the army and navy ana
to reorganize the civil service.
-Postofice department. officials have bean
ADVISED OF the attempts to establish in New
1t Is alleged, IS to evade the anti lottery law