Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Texas has begun to raise fax.
Harrison is the official choice of Alabama
/ Republicans.
The exodus of Arkansas negroes to Okla
| homa continues.
"A man digging well in Lincoln, Mo.
| struck vein of silver.
| The blizzard in the Indian Territory is
killing cattle by droves.
Governor winans, of Michigan. favors
German for the Presidency.
| Ex-Governor Campbell is willing to be q
dark horse at the Chicago Convention.
| -Ignatius Donnelly will represent Mime
sofa at the Peoples party National Conven-
| tion.
| The injury to winter wheat in the West
| from the blizzard Is not so great as was
| feared.
cree near Marshalltown, Ia, at depth OF
| l0s feet.
General Howard, now in the City of
Mexico, says the Cara insurrection was a
mere shadow.
Crosses, sundogs and haloes are fright.
ening the superstitious people OF several
Illinois and Iowa towns.
The Roaring Fork Mining Company with
! a capital of $3,0O0,000, has been formed to
mine under the town of Asper, Col.
Charles Crump. who was shot by his
wife at Argillet. KY, has died of his wounds.
The Jail at Greenup is guarded to prevent
lynching.
Dr. James A. Durham, Baptist mission
ary at Benton, ILL.,, has been found guilty of
heresy by church council. He believed in
'sinless perfection
Prof. Clarence C. Dockerty. Prin cipal of
the High School and Business College of
Alexandria, La., was accidentally killed
Wednesday night in friendly boxing bout.
The Lower House of the Missouri Legis-
lature has passed bill imposing n tax of
per cent on the value of all franchises and
capital stock in aid of the State University.
The New York Assembly defeated the
amendment raising the appropriation for
the Worlds Fair from $500, 900 to $500, 00O by a
vote of 20 ayes to 50 nays. The bill was then
passed.
There is a movement on foot in Maine
looking to the formation of societies all over
the State pledged to agitate for resubmis
sion of the prohibitory law to the voters for
reconsideration.
William W. Henderson, Chicago man
whose wife is missing, has probably sue
ceeded in committing suicide. He took
morphine and Then climbed into bath tub
to die an easy death.
President Diaz says it is the fault of the
United States that no reciprocity treaty
exists between the two republics. He points
out that the Grant-Romero treaty, after
having been ratified on both sides, was
killed by the action Of the American Con-
gress.
Miss Belle Davis, daughter of B. F. Davis,
a farmer of Ware. Mass, and niece OF ex-
Congressman George r. Davis, of Chicago,
has caused sensation here by eloping with
her fathers hired man, Frank L. Booth, of
Northampton.
-Adjutant General Gross, of Kentucky,
caused a sensation by inspecting the State
Guard in a gray Confederate uniform at
Bowling Green last Saturday night. He is
quoted as exclaiming that he would never
wear the blue during his term of office, and
expected to keep his word.
Louis Bauer, on his own behalf and that
of other creditors of the American Loan and
Trust Company, has begun action in New
York against Thomas c. Platt, Secretary of
the Navy Tracy, Wallace c. Andrews, Her
man Clark and other directors to ascertain
if they are not liable for certificates of de.
posits held by the creditors which have not
been paid.
"A stir has been created at Nyack, N. Y,
by the action of Captain NJ. Martin, of Ha-
in causing the arrest of a cigar |
dealer for selling cigarettes to his boy. |
W hen the dealer was arraigned in court he |
keepers arrested yesterday for sending his |
boy after liquor, and they were heavily fined |
by the Court. |
The Transportation Committee of the |
Boston Chamber of Commerce reported yes |
terday recommendation that the Chamber |
enter suit in the United States Court pray |
Ing that the Lake Shore Railroad be en- |
Joined from maintaining the present east |
bound freight tariff on the ground that it un- |
lawfully Disseminated against Boston in |
favor of rival cities.
-rhe steamer Guiding Star, on her way up |
from New Orleans, caught fire yesterday |
fire was found to be in some cotton in the |
hold. The boat was headed into the Ken
lucky shore, where the fire was soon ex-
tinguished, but the smoke caused the most |
If Cincinnati, who had an affection of the |
neart was seized with a spasm and died