Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-09
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| Worlds Fair.
Extreme heat is causing frightful death
| rate in Rio Janeiro.
George Wise, the English boy murderer.
has been declared Insane.
AN exodus of colored people from Ar.
kansas to Oklahoma b in p}bgress.
| -Ex-Auditor James C. Lavelle, of WASH
| ington, Ind, is SIS, ,463 short IN his accounts
| Knight, the indianapolis iron manufact.
urer at San Antonio. Tex, has been declared
/ insane.
| The court at Darlington, Wis., is finding
| 1t hard task to secure jury to try
| lynchers.
| George Giguere, a young Canadian, was
| arrested at hankakee, Ill, yesterday while
attempting to pass two forged notes amount
| ing to $780,
| The Woman's Relief Corps of Illinois will
| erect home for the old soldiers and their
wives, and old army nurses that are depend
| ent so that the veteran and his wife can
| live together.
| Prof Swift, of the Rochester Observa-
tory, has discovered q comet bright enough
to be seen with an opera glass. 1t is in right
| ascension 10 h. 90 H.. declination south 80
20, and Is moving easterly-
| President Montt, of Chile, Monday called
| the leaders of the Liberal party together
and told them e1nphatically that If they
wanted him to form q new Cabinet from
>,
| secure a majority in Congress-.
| AT New York. the steamship Missouri in
loading the cargo of grain given by the
American people to the starving Russians.
meal, 100000 pounds. Total, 553s, ,734 The
value including expenses donated will be
$l5O.oOO,
&C. L. Meyers the man who was captured
after desperate light in u box car at Pleas
anton, Kan. q few weeks ago, with Jim Nc
Francis the Glendale train robber, has been
turned over to the authorities of Barton
county, Ill. who will prosecute him as one
OF the Larmar train robbers.
The Iowa Iron Works has undertaken to
build a boat OIL an entirely new plan, the
object of which is to navigate the river and
the ocean. 1t will have one bow and two
sterns, each of which will have a rudder and
screw, so if one is disa bled there will re-
main half the power to make port.
AT Washington yesterday morning as
General Schofeld, Commander of the United
States army, was driving to the War, State
and Navy building, his carriage was run
into by an express wagon and the carriage
was overturned. 1t was found necessary to
remove the General through the window,
ceiving rather severe shaking ND.
Mrs. jefferson Davis, widow of the ex-
President of the Southern Confederacy, has
brought suit to restrain Robert Belford and
the Belford Company from transferring the
rights of this company in the memoirs writ
ten by her of her husband to the United
States Book Company. Mrs. Davis further
claims that royalties to the amount of 1900
are due her on the sale OF the book, and she
brings suit for the recovery of this sum,
with interest from September last.
John Boyd Thacher, Worlds Fair Com
missioner, and once an ardent Cleveland
man, but who became a Hill convert, was
defeated last night for the presidency of the
Young Mems Democratic Club, the leading
political organization in Albany, by Con-
gressman Charles Tracey, Q Cleveland Demo-
crat by a vote Of 70 to 9. It Is reported that
the next movewill be to oust Mr.. TEACHER
fromthe Presidency of the State League Of
Clubs.
William Dockery, a merchant of Cleve-
land Miss, had a store built at Boyle's sta
tion, and on Saturday last put in a stock Of
goods worth $500. That day two negroes,
John Rice and Richard Carter, who had
been in the employ of the contractor who
had put up the building. hung around the
plac complaining that the contractor had
failed to pay them for their work. That
night the store and contents were burned.
Tie negroes disappeared, but were after.
ward recaptured.