Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The latest gold excitement is at La
| Junta, Col.
| Milwaukee Democrats are booming Sen.
| ator Plumb for the Presidency.
| The Baltimore Methodist Conference is
against the admission OF women delegates
| 81 to 1856.
| The first of the trials at Springfield, Kan,
| of the murderers of Sheriff Dunn has ended
| in acquittal.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has de-
cided that pencil marks on Australian bal
lots are legal.
| from the Methodist ministry at Gillespie,
Ill, for blackmafl.
Leopold Hartman, wanted in New York
for defrauding creditors, has been arrested
and held at Liverpool.
Seven Conservatives and two Liberals
have been elected to Parliament in the
province of Quebec without opposition.
The Halske Electric Company, the
largest in the world, will locate in Chicago
and operate branches throughout the State.
AT a meeting of the Memphis City Coun-
Gil Thursday night, q resolution was unani-
mously adopted inviting Senator Hill to
visit Memphis on his Southern tour.
-Chicagoans are still speculating over the
mysterious purchase of IL" road property.
The latest rumor is that a mammoth retail
drygoods house will arise on the site.
Charles N. Ayers, of Detroit, who was
",
hospital Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Ayers is
prostrated in her cell in the Central station.
Joseph Bork, one of the largest and best
known real estate dealers in Buffalo, N. Y,
fs financially embarrassed, and number Of
suits for foreclosure of mortgages have been
begun.
Residents of Nogales Ariz and settlers
in the vicinity have organized q protective
association to fight the Cameron grant title,
which embraces about 5000 acres on the
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town of Nogales.
Judge Otis, at st. Paul, has heard argu-
ments in q suit to test the power OF the State
Oil Inspector and the liabilities of persons
The Standard Oil Company is directly inter-
ested. A decision will soon be announced
r. J. Drohan, a habitual criminal, and
George E. Wells, alias Williams, who were
serving sentences, escaped from the State
prison r at Charleston, Mass, yesterday NOR morn.
saw made from clock spring.
DIR. Nathaniel Ware Halves, indicted at
Boston for alleged tampering with grand
jurymen. appeared with counsel Of his own
accord before the United States Court yes
terday. He was arraigned, pleaded not
guilty and was held in s, ,0O0 which was at
once furnished.
The German steamer California, from
Hamburg, which arrived at New York yester-
day, will be detained at quarantine. She has
case of smallpox among her steerage
passengers; also a case of measles and one
of scarlet fever. Her passengers will all be
vaccinated and sent to Hoffman Island for
observation.
Ralph r. Chandler, the absconding
cashier of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railway, at West Detroit, Mich,
who was arrested in Cludad Juare, Mexico,
has been set at liberty after serving the
regular y hours required by the Mexican
laws, during which time he must be proved
guilty of the crime charged.
In the New York Assembly yesterday
the liquor dealers excise bill was favorably
reported, but SO amended that it Is a COM
promise between those favoring the original |
bill and those who opposed it. A bill was also |
favorably reported. making it unla wful for |
any person or persons to enter into any
agreement whereby the price or sale OF |
goods or merchandise shall be limited, fixed |
OF regulated.
The time of the Iowa State Temperance !
Alliance was taken up Thursday with the |
discussion of q solution to the effect that the |
of the alliance unite to immediate. |
" organize a separate party II the Catch |
bill, now before the Legislature, fs passed by |
the Assembly. The resolution was looked |
upon as an effort to intimidate Republican |
and was strongly opposed by |
many able men in the alliance. The final |
vote was 50 for and 80 against.