Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
Smallpox is epidemic in Japan.

The Chicago Ne,cs charges the Beef Trust
with burning its books.
Congressman Morrison is against Hill
and favors Cleveland
Jerry Simpson will inaugurate "cam-
paign of education" in Detroit.
There is much opposition in Uruguay to
the Worlds Fair appropriation bill.
The American Relief Distribution Com
mission have landed in st. Petersburg.
The Missouri Supreme Court has de-
clared unconstitutional the anti-pool law.
Mills men claim that their candidate
will surely be elected United States Senator,
"A trainmen's strike on the Western divi.
sion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad is
threatened.
The Iowa Senate has passed bill requir-
ing railroads to use union depots in all rail-
road centers.
The railroads will give single-fare rate
for the round trip to both the big National
conventions.
Three thousand penniless negroes in one
batch arrived in Ft Smith, Ark, Monday, on
their way to the Cherokee Strip.
Two United States warships, the Marion
and the Nipsic, stranded off the Washington
coast Monday, but were pulled OF without
damage.
Seven sculptured figures, supposed to be
the work OF the mound builders, have been
uncovered by Hiawassee river flood in
Tennessee.
The populace of Raco, Peru, tried to burn
a hereto recently, because in his family
almanac he had pasted q slip Of paper over
the picture ofa saint.
"A sheriff-s posse is pursuing the ring
leaders Of the mob who shot dead Deputy
Sheriff Williams and lynched his prisoner,
Bright at Forsythe, Monday.
The Missouri sailed from New York for
Russia at noon yesterday. About 2, 100 tons
of flour and cernmeal are piled up in the
hold of the ship for the famine sufferers.
The Greater New York bil," which
contemplated the merging of New York,
Brooklyn and adjacent cities. was defeated
in the New York Assembly on its final pass
age yesterday-45a ayes, 81 noes.
Thomas McCue. a workman employed in
finishing the new Franklin Trust Company's
building in Brooklyn, n. Y. fell down the
elevator shaft from the eleventh story yes
terday, but will probably recover.
Municipal Judge Powell, Of Duluth,
Minn., decided yesterday that the city or
dinance regulating the licensing OF saloons
is illegal and void, and so far as it Is con-
cerned the liquor seller can keep open seven
days week. "A hours every day.
The Federal Grand Jury at Boston
has rendered its report in the Maverick
Bank cases, after two weeks consideration.
The following are indicted: Asa Potter, the
banks former President, and Colonel Jonas
H. French and Thomas Dana, directors.
Monday in Ridgedale, suburb of Chatta-
nooga, J. +. Conley, retired Methodist
preacher, shot himself iE the mouth, the ball
passing through his brain. He had told his
wife he WAS going Off on a trip, kissed his
baby, went into the house and fired the fatal
shot.
st. Louis is being searched for E. d.
Crawford, editor of the Sedalta Sentinel, who
arrived there last Thursday night. Mr.. Craw-
ford had large sum of money with him,
and Friday morning started out to purchase
new dress of type for his paper. Nothing
has been heard of him since.
Warden Brown. of the State Prison at
tion by electricity of James E. Minnaugh,
convicted of the murder of Edward Moran.
The execution, 1t is expected, will be carried
out on Monday next the first day Of the
week set for Minnaugh to die.
An old hunter and frontiersman named
George Darling yesterday arrived at DEM
ing, n. NJ, from Casa Grandes, Mexico, and
reports the discovery of a long abandoned
village. Several brick dwellings still re-
nain and the surroundings show that it
must at one time have been large town.
The steamer Oceanic, which arrived at
San Francisco yesterday from China and
Japan, broke two records. She made the
through trip in Is days. From Yokohama she
was IL days going to Honolulu. Here she
was quarantined for 10 hours. Then she
made the run from the Islands in q little
over six days.
The board of supervisors of Macomb,
H., has instructed that suit be brought to
recover damages from United States Senator
John NJ. Palmer. 1t is averred That he was
retained to represent the county in q suit
and did not appear, SO that the case went by
default and s., 500 damages were awarded
against the county.
"A. J. Scott, County Commissioner and
preacher, his brother, Lindsey, and their
sons, George Scott, William A. Scott and
William Z. Scott, together with Albert Jones
and William Condra, ministers of the Cos
pei, were arrested at English, Ind, upon
the charge of taking Church Mattox from
his home with rope around his neck, and
threatening to hang him for stealing pork
/. which he bought from neighbor.