Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-09
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
The grip is waning in Berlin.

| The grip is waning in Berlin.
| ENGLAND is enjoying the luxury of biz
| Zard.
Anarchy reigns in Tapgier town and
| province.
The grip is having an unprecedented
| run in Illinois,
| French cabmen held meeting and de-
| cided to continue their strike.
! "A motion for new trial for DR.. Graves
| will be heard to-day at Denver.
| The Inhabitants of Trevoux. small
| French town, are rapidly dying off from the
grip.
| "A broken rail ditched a fast passenger
| train near Mitchell, Ind, Thursday. No one
| seriously hurt.
After a collision the British steamer
| Crystal sank off the English coast yester-
| day. No lives lost.
Rev. Robert Mcdonald, a 65-year-old
| Detroit diYine, has entel ed the freshman
class OF medical college in that city.
-Cuverville, Admiral of the French navy,
has arrived ct Colon to investigate semi
officially the state of the Panama Canal.
Several Minnesota Democratic leaders
! have left for Washington to urge the claims
of st. Paul to the Democratic National Con-
vention.
The attorney of the Western Distilling
and Feeding Company, says its charter is
the best answer to the charge that the con-
Germ is a trust
Boston boiler makers and iron ship
builders voted Thursday night to cooperate
with tie machinists in their effort to obtain
nine-hour day from Nav !.
Wilton Hill, the Cashier of the James
burg, n. Y, National Bank, who died two
weeks ago of the grip, is alleged to have been
defaulter to the sum of 0O0.
The Democratic Attorney General of
Wisconsin has declined to bring suit to test
the constirutionaIity of the gerrymander of
that State, but the suit will be brought, all
the same.
The Worlds Fair directors have decided
not to purchase replica of the statue of
Diana by Augustus st. Gaudens, which now
occupies position in the Madison Square
Garden, New York
Mexico has two Indian Messiahs man
and woman. Their followers gave battle
to the soldiers and defeated them, but sub
sebuently the tide of victory turned. Sew
eral of the fauatics were captured.
Il. Leopold & Sons, wholesale dealers in
toys, glassware, ETC., at 30 Warren street,
New York, assigned Yesterday to Moses J.
statement can yet be made of the assets or
liabilities, but they will be large.
Parker c. Leonard, who was Treasurer OF
the Open Board Clearing House, of As Broad
street. New York, was arrested Yesterday
charged with lnisappropriating 81 033 Il Of
the funds OF the company. The money is
said to have been squandered on horse
racing.
The reported formation of an Eastern
syndicate to establish gaming resort on an
island Off the coast at Santa Barbara Cal
has been denied by Walter S. Maxwell, of
Los Angeles, SO far as his connection with it
is concerned, and 10y others interested in the
Island of Santa Cruz, which has been men,
toned as the probable location of the resort.
"A man at Brussels, Belgium, named
Wouters was sentenced to five years penal
servitude for attempting to rob and strangle
an old lady living there. He was condemned
on the evidence Of the lady's servant. Thurs
day the girl confessed she hadperjured her.
self to save the real criminal, her lover
who had threatened to kill her if she be-
trayed him. Wouters was at once set at lib
erty.
Just before Jesus Bruno Martinez, q
Mexican murderer. was executed in the
Belen prison Thursday he was permitted to
take leave of his friends and the prison
officials. While he was in the act of en-
Dracing, according to Mexican usage, the
chief OF the secret police, who had been par-
ticularly active in bringing Martinez to JUS
ticc, the latter drew a knife from under his
coat and stabbed the chief three times,
though not fatally. He was Oyerpowered |
and shot without further delay.
Count Tolstoi has established a number |
of eating houses in the famine-stricken dis !
tricis of Russia, where he has fed people at |
2 2shillings each per month, giving them cab |
bage soup, good bread and occasionally ,
eggs, but never meat. Count Tolstoi has |
limited himself and his assistants to the |
same diet. He and his helpers are erecting |
luts OF refuge for peasants, many of whom /
have burned their own barns and home /
steads piecenleal in order to keep warm be- |
fore starting to tramp. Count Tolstoi has
kept open the village schools, and the chill |
dren look bright and healthy.