Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
OCTOBER.

l-Ten striking and riOting cotton pfckerS
(colored) are lynched and one white
man, an overseer, is shot in Lea county,
Ark. Jay Gould suffers n nervous col
lapse at n directors meeting in New
York. Mobs of depositors threaten Bank
President Dill, who las been arrested at
Houtzdale, on Il charge of embezzle-
ment An unknown woman goes over
Niagara. General Boulanger left polit-
lcal testament in which he said his party
would in the end win. Minister Egan is
said to have been too much of a partisan
of the dead dictator.
&Giadstone's address the event of the
Liberal Federation meeting in New
castle, England. The House of Lords
must be mended OF ended, and the for
mer seems impossible. NJ. V. Cannon
elected President of the Irish National
League Of America at Chicago. Banker
Dill is in Jail at Clearfield.
8-Liysey located in Canada and to be e1-
tradited Officials o. 4 New York bank
steal S460,OGo. A large tin plate factory
to be started i'll California. Probably n
dozen men killed in a mine explosion at
Mahanoy City. Grover Cleveland is the
father of a girl. A Louisville young
lady fatally shot by drunken negro.
the wreck of the limited at East Pales-
tine, o. In baseball Boston wins the
pennant and Pittsburg finishes in last
place. The Car and Emperor of Ger
Boulangcr buried without ceremony. An
English physician speaks in favor of
drink as against total abstinence.
4-The system of caring for the poor shown
to be in a score of Pennsylvania counties
relic of barbarism and in 400 townships
the paupers are practically sold to the
highest bidder. Mrs. Frank Leslie
marries the brother of Oscar Wilde.
Canadians declaring the seizure of the
sealing schooner Otto, by Yankee
cruiser, is piracy. General Hazen skep-
tical in regard to Rainmaker Dyrren-
forths plan. Reported that Emperor
William wanted to go to war against
vented it. A monument to Garibaldi un-
vailed at Nice.
5-Prof. Briggs ordered by the New York
Presbytery to be placed on trial for
heresy. 1t is announced that a record
OF Bardsleys loans will soon be shown
by the investigators in Philadelphia.
The suicide of Lydia Miller in London
threatens to involve royal blood in a
scandal.
'-The New York Presbytery rejects Briggs
protest and he accepts the citation and Is
now ready for trial. Young James G.
Blaine denies the desertion charge in his
wie's plea for divorce and pleads pov-
erty to Offset non-support. Salt Lake
Mormons deny that they are in politics.
The Chilean Junta still claims the right
to arrest refugees at the American Lega-
ton. Italy's finances are in bad way,
and the excess of imports over exports
growing larger. Ashley Howell goes on
trial in Warrenton, Ga, for shooting his
wifes insulter. A prominent Cincinnati
clergyman, Rev. Samuel Benedict, is
killed by an elevator. General Franz
Siegel makes an address to a great Ger
mans Day gathering at Fort Madison,
Ia.
England and Ireland greatly excited by
the unexpected death of Charles Stewart
Parnell. Suicide was rumored at first.
His aged mother hears the news with
hysterical grief at Bordentown, N. J.
The Methodist Ecumenical Council
WASHINGTON with E00 1e1ara atao
in attendance. A big silver discovery
causes excitement in Washington State.
The dreaded black fever makes its ap-
pearance in Carbondale, Pa. Monument |
10 General Grant unveiled in Chicago
John Redmond. NJ. p, is called by Par
nellites to be their leader. The case of |
Attorney General Watson against the
Standard Oil Company to oust it from |
its charter rights, is begun in the Ohio |
Supreme Court of Columbus. Lieuter- |
ant Schwatka's party returning from |
Alaska reach Victoria, B. c. O'Malley, |
charged with jury bribing in New |
Orleans, goes free.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany proposes to issue $4,000 900 worth |
of additional stock. A wild mob at |
Omaha seeks vengeance upon a negro |
for the death of little girl, assault the |
Jail and hang the culprit from window. |
Banker Dill, of Clearfield, is at liberty, |
but trial hangs over him. Parr elites
are expecting reaction caused by their
chiefs death.
remains borne across the chan
mel to Dublin. Emperor Williams
drunkenness bill does not meet the ap-
proval of the legislators. Americans
building a church in Berlin. Insured
tions in Cuba suppressed by guards
hired by the Spanish. Millions of Rus
SANS must be fed by the Governments.
Seven member of the Omaha lynching
mob arrested. Rev. Howard MacQueary
replies to Bishop Potter '"The Church
and Scientific Thought discussed by
ministers in council in Washington. The
UnitedStates steamer Despatch wrecked
in a storm. Massillon, o.. miners win
their strike. Greengoods operator caught
at Cory.
Many steamers overdue Shock of earth
quake in California. Important agree
men6 with Germany for admission of
cereal crops duty free in return for beet
sugar. Hundreds of thousands gather in
Ireland to honor Parnel's remains. MeE-
ico's new tariff goes into effect and in
creases business. West Point methods
severely criticised by the Board of Wis
itors.
Storms caused much suffering on the
ocean steamers Augusta Victoria and
Umbria, and scores OF passengers are in
iured. Pronounced earthquake in Cali
fOrnia. Ex-Treasr rer Bell. of Philadel-
phia, collected Bardsley's advertising re-
bates. Pan-Republican Congress meets
in Philadelphia. Revolutionists attack
Uruguayan troops at Montevideo and are
repulsed with much Dloodshed, Follow
ers of Parnell publish manifesto against
reunion and call q convention. Alleged
revolutionists shot IN Mexico.
"A life of Parnell by O'Connor appears in
London. All England and Ireland de-
vastated by gales, and many shipwrecks
occur. John Duffy, gambler, commits
suicide in New Orleans. Henry Sanford
succeeds Hoey as President of the Adams
Express Company. The Pan-Republican
Congress and Human Freedom League,
in session at Philadelphia, adjourns.
ro n !, r,1ieSipu for fOur foy- |
from New York are supposed to have
been blown out to sea. Crop yield OF
Pennsylvania increased.
wreck on the B. & o. R. R. at
Hicksviile, Ind, with many killed and
injured. compromise is reached in
the Hopkins -Searle's will case. The Rev.
Phillips Brooks, ID. D., is consecrated
Bishop of Massachusetts in Trinity
Church, Boston. The Methodist Coun-
Gil at Washington, adopts the report in
favor of Sunday-closing of the Worlds
Fair. Governor Steele's first report rs
Governor of Oklahoma Territory is pub
lished. The Western Waterways Con-
vention opens at Evansville, and in
dorses the Erie Ship Canal scheme. The
prospectus of new Parnellite news
paper is published in Dublin. King |
Humbert confers upon Prof Virchow
the decoration of the Grand Gordon of |
st. Maurice and St. Lazaire. The trial of
GO Anarchists begins in Rome.
In the Waterways Convention at Evans
vile j. A. Henderson, OF Pittsburg. talks
of the need of the Erie canal. The Ecu
menical Methodist Council speakers in
sist upon total abstinence and the neccs-
sity for temperance reform; but several
of them object to the Church allying
itself with any political party. The Rev.
DIR. X. S. Storrs is reelected President of
the American Board of Commissioners OF
Foreign Missions. At the annual meet
ing of the Pullman Car Conn any. stock
holders representing over S1S,0O0,0C0 of
capital stock vote to Issue $1,000 shares
additional stock. y bursting fiywheel i'll
Manchester, N. H., kills three men. The
Rt. Hon. George j. Goschen, Chancellor
of the Exchequer, criticises the pro-
gramme of the Newcastle Congress, and
intimates that MIR. Balfour has received
the appointment of the leadership of the
House of Commons. Timothy NJ. Healy
assaits the Parnellites, calling them fools
and knaves. The Russian Government