Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Lily Langtry is still critically I'll.
The cholera scare in Hamburg is grow.
ing.
AN Atlanta coin counterfeiting gang has
been broken up.
s-The Rio Grande do Sui revolution is
immering down.
-Starved-out Oklahoma negroes are fock-
ing back to Texas.
American naval officers are being lion
lied now in Valparaiso.
The Prussian Cabinet has unanimously
approved q bill to reform the system of
voting.
The differences between the Big Four
telegraphers and the company are as goo1
as settled.
Maxim and wife, at Sidney. Australia.
who killed l3 babies with needles, have been
committed for trial.
Venezuela is offended at Senator Nor
the Mijares incident
Experts say the newly-disco vered dia-
mond fields in Idaho will be gr eater than
those of Africa or Brazil.
Herr, of Panama Canal notoriety, is an
American electrician. He left criminal
records in Chicago and San Francisco.
e. N. Mellor, of the late lumber firm of
Hoxie & Mellor, Amigo, Wis, which failed
two years ago, committed suicide yesterday.
-Hallfnger, OF JERSEY City, who was sue
cessively Baptist preacher, libertine, prize
fighter and murderer, was hanged yester:
day.
THE entire street railway service of syrat
cuse, n. Y, has passed into the hands Of a
syndicate, in which Cleveland capitalists
are largely interested.
-Ex-Premier Mercier will deliver an ad-
dress at Montreal January on "The Future
of Canada" 1t is understood he will de-
clare for independence.
-Tha 70 Yr,n aTo1 non Won tiOy, MI hoo baau
In session at Springfield, Ill, with view to
amalgamating the four organizations in
Illinois, accomplished nothing.
Three children of Marcus White were
Wednesday night. As usual in such cases
the house caught fire and the children were
cremated.
The Baltimore officials of the Iron Hall,
for whom warrants were issued at Indian
apolis, will vigorously fight any attempt to
get them out of Maryland.
The famous Ross arson case resulted in
acquittal. Tho defendant was charged with
burning down his drugstore, in Chase, Mich,
last April resulting in the destruction OF
almost every building in the town.
George Babcock Hazen, who is generally
credited with much wealth, has been in jail
at Newport, R. L, one week, because he neg
lected to pay damages recently assessed
upon him by the court in case of trespass.
Nelson j. Alender, postmaster at New
LOnQOn, Conn.,, mas not De6n seen IN that
city since Saturday, the day that Inspector
Brush, of the Postof1ce Department, arrived
there. An Investigation showed deficit In
his accounts of s. 900.
Governor Brown, of Maryland, has par.
doned Henry Spencer, a life prisoner in the
penitentiary OF that State for murder. Tho
case has attracted wide attention because
of the extenuatjng circumstances and the
great efforts made to secure pardon.
Theodore Folsom, while crossing the Le-
high Valley Railroad three miles west of
Railway, n. j., was struck hnd instantly
killed Dy tho east-bound train. Mr.. Folsom
was a cousin OF Mrs. Grover Cleveland. He
leaves an aged mother and six daughters.
Unless Health Officer Jenkins, of New
York, is more thorough in carrying out the
order OF the Treasury Department. relative
to importation ofrags from cholera-in ected
districts in Europe some of the merchants
threaten that vigorous measures will be
taken to have the law enforced.
The inquest into the cause of the death
OF Ella Newton, the ls-year-old girl whose
body Was found in the bathing pool at In
vermore, N. Y, was concluded by the Coro-
ner's jury bringing in q verdict that she
came to her death by drowning by some per-
son or persons unknown to the jury.
DIR. J.-J. Worsham, leading .physician
OF Americus, Ga, was shot and killed by
DR.. j. B. Kinkel and DR.. A. B. Kinkel, who
are father and son. DR.. Worsham was a
witness in case against the Ktnkels, and
Kinkels were arrested and narrowly es-
capped lynching.
Mrs. William E. McCreedy, of New York,
has decided to withdraw her suit for divorce
against her husband, the wealthy coffee