Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-13
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Coopers' International Union is in
session in St. Louis.
Express company employees in Chicago
organized Sunday night.
The champagne wine crop will be excel.
lent in quality but not large.
The big guns for she coast defense ship
Monterey have arrived at San Francisco.
The promising harvest in the west of
ireland has been ruined by incessant rains.
Mail Contractor I. B. Farrell is under ar,
rest at Pensacola, Fla, charged with robbing
the mails on his route.
The fourth annual concert and festival
of the United Polish Singing Societies of
America is in session in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Indian Agent Burnett has arrived at
measures to Quell the rioting in progress
there.
The idea of the King of Italy visiting all
the foreign hagships at Genoa was abap-
doned, for fear OF raising questions of pre-
cedence.
David Mclaughlin, son of a Pittsburg
banker, was thrown from his horse while
riding. His horse fell on him and he died
shortly after.
"A West Side mass meeting in Chicago
Sunday afternoon resolved to prosecute
with renewed vtgor the war against the Gar
field Park race track.
In a prize fight near Northampton. Eng
land, between soldier named Clayson ana
a boot-maker named Langley, the latter was
so horribly battered that he died.
The rumor that the Indian Government
will do nothing in the silver question till
after the International Monetary Confer
ence, eXcites great dissatis faction there in
all classes of the community.
The steamer Neshoto is ashore in Lake
Superior between Eagle Harbor and Ke-
wonaw Point. She is reported full of water.
She is one of the largest and best wooden
boats on the lakes, and is valued at Sl35, OOO
The Birkbeck Bank in London is in
volved in the failure of the London and
General Bank, the Liberator Permanent
Building and Investment Society, and the
House and Land Investment Trust and
there is a run on the bank.
Chilean naval officers are looking for
ward with much interest to the visit OF the
American war ships under the command of
admiral Gnerardd Cher raL They will, they say. be
friendly terms, now that Egan and Nc
Creery have left Chile.
AT all the Catholic churches in Illinois
Sunday the priests read from the affairs a
long pastoral letter signed by the Arch
bishop of Chicago and the Bishops OF Peoria,
BellevilIe and Alton, strongly denouncing
the Edwards compulsory education law and
calling upon Catholic voters to enforce the
demand for its repeal.
James Wise, prominent young farmer
near Sault Ste. Marie. Mich, was murdered
Sunday night by woman named Mrs. Dali
ton. There were no witnesses of the affair.
The woman claims Wise chased her and she
ran into her house, took her revolver and
shot him dead. Wise bore the best of repu-
tations. The woman is old and demented.
During a storm of rain and electricity,
which swept over Bloomington, Ill, Sunday
night six business buildings were set on
fire by overcharged electric wires. Three
fires were going at one time and the fire de-
partment had serious time of ft. When
water was thrown rpon the flrTs the men
holding the hose were promptly knocked
down by the currents taking thS water. {