Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-28
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hebrew colonists are contracting for
lands in Mexico.
| Moscow, more than other Russian city, is
aiding the famine sufferers.
A trolley tramway will be built in Pan.
anna by an English syndicate.
The anniversary of Chinese Gordon's
death was observed in London Tuesday
| Panama protests against receiving i'm
migrants aided by the Baron Hirsch fund
Twelve Pennsylvania insurance com
panies are not allowed to do business in In
diana.
"A gang of counterfeiters, headed by an
American has been discovered and broken
up at Panama.
There has been serious fighting at Bilbao
between the mob and Spanish soldiers The
troops have been reinforced.
The steamer Albion is two weeks over
due at London. 1t is feared she has foun-
dered with her crew of nine.
The New York Assembly has passed a
bill allowing newspaper Representatives to
witness electrical executions:
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brown. of Washing
ton county, Ind, were both kicked to death
by vicious stallion Tuesday.
-London's death rate last week was 46 per
1,O00 per year, an increase of six over the
previous week. The grip did it.
Aurora, ILL.,, has suddenly come down
with the grip, after having enioyed immu-
nifty from the disease. The schools are
closed.
The Esher faction in the Eyanpe1ico1
Church fight has won, in the Chicago Courts.
a suit involving 81 600, 600 worth Of church
property.
The Mexican Foreign Minister has Or
dered that all cases of extradition must be
referred to the General Governments for the
President to decide If the persons or offenses
are extraditable.
Martin Mohler Secretary of the Kansas
State Agricultural Department. estimates
at 5S,910 600 bushels. This is nearly 5, ,OOO, 600
bushels greater than the estimate made by
Government Statistician Dodge.
The farm house of George Myers, near
kendallville, Ind, was burned to the ground
Tuesday morning, and Marion, the 1s-year-
old son of MIR. Myers, and Mr.. Owens, a
brother of Mrs. Myers, who was sleeping in
an upper room, were roasted to death.
M. Richard. Cardinal Archbishop of
Paris, who few days ago received a letter
from the Pope in which he was requested toll
instruct the French clergy to cease all oppo-
sition to the Republic and to follow to the
fuses to observe the papal mandate.
The ingenious folding window yentila:
tor, in use on all Pullman cars, is to be Ex.
hibit A in patent suit at Detroit, involving
100000, commenced in the United States
Court against the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany: OF Illinois, yesterday, by the Detroit
Car Window Ventilation Company
John A. Macdonald, Conservative, has
been elected to the House of Commons for
Victoria, N. s., defeating William Ross. ey
Minister of Militia under the Mackenzie
(Liberal) regime. His mai oritv is about the
same as at the last general election, when
the same candidate was returned by 5a ma.
jority.
The Union depot at Omaha was the scene
OF peculiar collision Tuesday, by which
two Burlington and Missouri engines were
demolished. An accommodation train had
just pulled in from Plartsmouth when a
light engine backed down the same track to
get out OF the way of through train. Some
body misplaced the switch, and the through
train crashed into the light engine, telescop-
ing it with the accomm odation train and
completely demolishing two of the engines.
"A south-bound freight train on the Phil
adelphia branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, numbering As cars, broke in two
while descending the big grade in Cecil
county, Nd, yesterday morning and the
rear section ran into the forward section,
wrecking ten cars and derailing the others.
Among the wrecked cars were three oil tank
cars, containing about $4,000 gallons each.
These took fire, exploded and set fire to the
rest of the train, blocking travel until the
fire spent its fury.