Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-28
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

yellow fever has appeared at Bahia
Brazil.
The negro editors of Georgia have organ
lied State Press Association.
The Upper Michigan straits are frozen
over-the earliest for number of years.
The Russian famine is again killing of
the peasants like flies, say recent reports.
An alliance, offensive and defensive, be-
tween Chile and Brazil, was signed Decem-
Der Is.
Mrs. Langtry's malady is perityphlitis.
The name is making her very i'll, but there
is no ultimate danger.
The Colombian Congress has passed a
law sanctioning the introduction of Chinese
workmen for al classes of industrial enter
prise.
The Treasury drafts for the second con-
signment of $3.50, coo coins for Chicago ana
$4,000 for New York and Philadelphia are
missing.
"A Chicago philanthropist, who won't let
his left hand know what his right hand is
up to, has given $3.50, 900 to the University OF
his city.
The project to establish submarine
cable between Cartagena, Colon and other
Colombian ports, is under discussion in the
Colombian Senate.
Lille Power, a domestic at Birmingham,
Ala went to bed drunk and smoked a
cigarette. The bed clothing caught fire and
she was burned to death.
niisappropriated $4,000 while he was local
manager of the cotton firm of Gassner &
Co., OF Liverpool, has been convicted OF en-
bezzlement.
The rear coach of Southwestern train
was discovered to be on fire near Guysville,
Ill. When the train reached Canaansville
the burning coach was sidetracked and
burned to ashes. 1t was unoccupied.
The kansas Board OF Railroad Commis-
sioners has announced its decision in the
fnlaf IL hold dfr1fr f1nof iS
erless to protect the salt companies against
the competition of the Michigan product.
"A billet of wood loaded with dynamite
exploded in the kitchen stove of Andrew
blown to atoms, the farmhouse wrecked.
and Mrs. BickeI received number of
gashes.
Frederick 81. Marsh, formerly Chief In
spector of Police at Chicago, who was sus-
pended by order of Mayor Washburne for
alleged irregularities, has been reinstated,
the charges against him not having been
proven.
S. B. Jones, under arrest at Kokoma,
Ind, on a charge of bigamy, is supposed to
He owned large wheat farm and was con
sidered wealthy. He had been swindled out
of S., 900 by the tin box game.
During a general fight at negro dance
Monday night in Dover, KY, Ruth Fields,
who went to her lovers assistance, was shot
and mortally wounded. When the Town
Marshal attempted to arrest the whole
party three negroes were seriously injured.
Archbishop Corrigan says he knows
nothing about DR.. McGlynn's plans for the
settlement OF his case except what he has
learned from the newspapers. He said,
however, he was glad that DR.. McGlynn was
back in the Church, and hoped he would get
along, wherever he might go.
Patrick Griffin, a stair builder and
formerly a private in the Elghty-seventh
Royal Irish fusiliers, died at the Newark,
n. j., Hospital, from the effects of laudanum
taken with suicidal intent. He left a letter
stating that Mollie O'Bren. widow OF James
Oliver, with whom he lived, had deserted
him and refused marriage.
Yesterday John and Bill Kimbro,
brothers, after filling up on bad whisky,
started out to take in the town at VandaIia,
ILL.,, They finally came upon Township Col
lector Ireland, who was getting shaved in q
barber shop, and stabbed him to the liver.
They were arrested shortly afterward just
outside of town, and narrowly escaped
lynching.
"A Buffalo attorney has been retained to
carry the case OF Wong Sing Chung, China
man, recently arrested on the Niagara
frontier at Lewiston, under the exclusion
act, to the United States Supreme Court at
Washington, by writ OF habeas corpus.
Wong was sentenced by United States Com