Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-05
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| james Spurgeon says no Unitarians will
| be invited TO his fathers funeral.
! "A bill aimed at the Sugar Trust has been
introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
| "A large Paris banking house is in finan-
cial trouble and two of the firm are under
| arrest.
Cardinal Manning's will shows he owns
less than fl00, which consisted of consols
and books.
The outside distilleries say they will
meet the cut in the price of whisky just
made by the trust.
Cleveland Democrats at st. Paul are
making it hot for the Hill section of the
party in tine Northwest.
The first funeral services over the re-
mains of Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon were
held in Mentone, France, yesterday.
london newspapers are waking up their
creditable national exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
"A c., B & Q. freight train struck a
broken switch at Lincoln, Neb., yesterday.
Cars were piled up and one trainman was
day night, unroofing houses, prostratng
telegraph poles and injurng a number OF
persons.
Major de Brazza, the French African ex-
plorer, has abandoned his plan to punish
hostile tribes and will try to make friends of
the natives
"A Sheriff's posse near Marell station,
Ark, has killed in a fight James Odem, n
white man, who wantonly murdered two
negroes last Friday.
Mrs Lenig and her two children burned to
death with their home ut East Jacksonville,
Fla, early yesterday morning. Lenig es-
caped with severe burns.
The Women's Columbian Club in Kansas
will give series Of entertainments in all
the large towns in that State to interest the
N ne Eair
The Nebraska Knights of Labor, now in
session, will complete their alliance with the
Farmers Alliance. and both organizations
will act with the Peoples party.
The Ladies Aid Society managed a
wedding at Tekonsha, Mich, "wednesday
night, and charged 20 cents admission. The
ladies cleared large sum OF money.
Maggie Weissmuller, 20 years old, New
York servant, was shot and instantly killed
by Frederick Zeller, young man about her
own age, who was insanely jealous of her.
The whaleback shipyards at West Superior
have just received from the iron and steel
company of that town the first steel plate
ever made at the head of the Great Lakes.
The Chicago Worlds Fair Directory will
hold a special meeting Monday to consider
the form and amount of the Exposition ap-
preparation bill to be presented to Con-
gress.
wills Howard, the Kentucky desperate
who killed 13 men in the Howard-Turner
1euQ OF TWO years ago, mas O0cn convicted OF
murder at Lebanon, Mo-, and will be
hanged.
A man giving his name as j. E. Beeby, of
Jackson Mich who has turned up at Niles,
Mich, claiming to have been robbed there,
is now thought to be Hedspeth, the missing
Glendale train robber.
All the newspapers now admit the truth
of the story. published exclusively in The
DISPATCH a few days ago, that the man found
dead in a San Antonio park last fall was
Padlewsky, the Nihilist fugitive.
The latest battle between the Turner
and Parton families near Pineville, KY, oc-
Cured Saturday night. A son of Kirk Sharp,
at whose house Turner and his gang were
making their headquarters, was killed. The
seat of war Is now in Tennessee.
-Senor Pereira, Chilean Minister OF For
eign Affairs, called at the United States
Legation and ersonally thanked Mr.. Egan
for Secretary Blaine's recent dispatch ac-
cepting Chile's reply as satisfactory. The
meeting between the two diplomats was ap-
parently of the most friendly character.
Another bloody chapter is to be added
to the Berry barn burning matter, near Hen
dersonville, Tenn. Two of the negroes tried
last fall were acquitted. They were warned
to get away from the county. They returned
at Christmas and were again warned.
Wednesday night mob went to their cabin
and shot through the windows. The old
mother was shot and killed instantly. The
Martin negroes remained in the cabin until
about daybreak, when they fled.