Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Iowa car famine continues.
| The Texas telegraphers' strike is spread
ing.
The Chinese Six Companies threaten &c
boycott the Worlds Fair.
| The epidemic of madness has broken out
| among cattle near Council Bluffs, Ia.
| American traders OIL the Gilbert Islands
| are said to be harshly treated by the
| English.
| The Argentine Government proposes to
! dlsarm large portion OF the navy, from
motives of economy.
Forty Thousand dollars worth OF fine
horses were killed in freight wreck at
| Dallas, Tex, Sunday.
-Roughs at Wyandotte, Mich, mobbed a
| Salvation Army band Sunday evening, badly
| woundfng five of them. A
organized charity in the City of Mexico
| is collecting contributions of provisions for
famine sufferers in that country.
Alfred Dodge, cashier of the Intercolonial
freight office at st. Johns, N. B., is under
arrest. His accounts are Sd, 900 short.
Two alleged horse thieves near bonanza,
Wyo., after having been acquitted in court,
were shot down by masked lynchers.
"A prominent young citizen of Crawfords.
vile. Ind, shot himself dead because his
sweetheart went driving with q rival OF
his.
The London Chronicle has made the re-
cent Carnegie interview published in THE
DISPATCH the occasion for another attack
upon him.
in q head-end collision on the Be ltimore
and Ohio, near Auburn, Ind, two trninmen
were fatally injured-Brakemen Charles
Henthorn and Fireman John Lanning.
The water in the river is so low at
MooduS, Conn.,, that nine factories, includ-
ing cotton, Jwine and hosiery mills, have
been Obliged to shut down, and 800 en-
ployes are idle.
"A Canadian Cabinet change is of1ici-
ally announced. Hon. Edgar Dewdney,
Minister of the Interior, has resigned to ac-
cept the Lieutenant G overnorsnip OF British
Columbia and 7. NJ. Daily succeeds him.
All Greek diplomats and consuls in Rou-
Of an enormous fortune left by a
Greek merchant for the promotion of
husbandry and manufactures III Greece
caused tie rupture.
The Roman Catholic Church in Danburv,
Conn.,, was burglarized early yesterday
morning, and six golden chalices were taken
by the thieves. Other valuable properly
from the affairs are also missing The
chalices alone were valued at over ,00o.
Charles A. White, the alleged CORE
spondent in America of the IHu trated Lo,,-
don Ne,Cs who is said to have been arrested
in New York on a chaHe of embeZzlement
preferred by Ills wife, iYstated in London to
have no connection with the Illustrated n e,0s
of the Hulk at Rosario, Argentine, from
which u large quantity OF powder was re-
Gently stolen by masked men, were in COM
plicity with the ro bbers, and that the pow
der was to be used n revolutionary move
mont.
There is an open rupture now between
President Pena and General Roca in Argen-
tine, and the dissatisfaction among the
higher army officers is much increased ow-
ing to the elevation of Mitre to the chief
command. Radical clubs are forming all
over the country.
Two boys-Sam Davis and the son OF
Herinan Truman, at Leadville-robbed Mr..
Truman's house of 500 in cash, and then
blew up the building with giant powder. 1t
is believed the young thieves themselves
were blown to atoms. Mr.. and Mrs. Truman
were seriously injured.
The Boston granite manufacturers and
the Boston branch of the cutters union
have settled their differences. What the
terms Of agreement were cannot be ascer-
tnined but the men will return to work Tor
members of the New England Granite Man
uiacturers' Association at once.
The trial at Sidney, N. S. W., of the di-
rectors OF the Australian Banking Company,
on the charges of defrauding the share
holders, has resulted in the acquittal OF four
of the directors and q disagreement of the
jury regarding the three other directors, ono
OF whom is MIR. Nathan. .ex-Minister OF Mines.
While Emperor William was at Schoon.
brum the Duke OF Cumberland tried to ar
range u meoCluR III OrQcr CnaG Cnoy mlgnC
discuss the Brunswick succession. The
court officials informed the Duke, however,
that the Emperor was travelling entirely in
his private capacity and could not concern
himself with political affairs
Judge Harlane, of the Circuit Court, at
Baltimore, has decided the long standing
dispute regarding the liability of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company to the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Relief Associ-
alton. The Court decides that the entire
fund for distribution is about $3.50. 600. The
Court also disnllOwed all claims for sickness
or accident benefits accruing after March 81,
1889, which had already been paid by the
railway company, amountipg to $50 900.