Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
Samoa is quiet now.

| Samoa is quiet now.
Mrs. Maybrick is worse.
Greece felt an earthquake shock.
Cholera has raapr cared At Hamburg.
The Russian export duty on corn ha:
| been raised.
cowboys are still chasing rustlers in
| North Dakota.
The Pope will issue q circular denounc
| ing Free Masonry.
| Another Indian corn mill has been
| started in Hamburg.
-Corow, the absconding Hamburg broker,
has committed suicide.
| DR. Charles Swenk has been elected
| President of Switzerland.
| The Kaiser's immortality has been re.
| 1erreo TO Re1chstag committee.
General 1. n. Stiles, OF Chicago is fast
| lalllng, mentally and physically.
The "Sons of Canada" in Toronto passed
resolutions denouucing annexation.
"A Balmacedist plot to murder prominent
officials in Chile has been discovered.
The United States and European powers
Will probably exchange ideas on emigration.
Western State game wardons are in ses-
sion in Minneapolis. They want uniform
game laws
To the use OF choral for insomnia is at.
tributed the insanity OF William Watson, the
I English poet.
The Worlds Fair Executive Committee
won't permit the erection Of theater at
jackson Park.
Airs. Annie Murphy, the alleged female
Ior+er OF Tacoma WASH, is under arrest at
Huntsville, Ala.
Minister Phelps denounces as a fake the
rumor that he is on bad terms with the
Berlin Government
-Lesperance, a French vessel, has been
wrecked on the island OF Guernsey. All of
her crew were drowned.
Three months Imprisonment at hard
iaDor was the sentence imposed upon Gyneth
Maude by the London court.
-Tchikhatchoff, the Russian Minister of
the Navy, has been perha ps fatally injured
py plank falling upon his head.
TWENTY-FIVE passengers were injured in
Union Pacific wreck caused by a broken
rail near Green River, Wyo., Monday.
A. R. Chafee, Mayor of Aiken, S. c., who
was shot by COlorel l. g. Lamar the Eaolin
King, Monday. died Wednesday night.
John w. Hallenback, President of the
Auburn Park Bank, and postmaster OF Au-
burn, Ill.,, is listed among the missing
Mrs. Jennie Eachims and her two daugh.
tiers, at st. Paul, We're burned to death in
their. boarding house Wednesday night
The French War Department. is con-
Lebel rifles, and new model has been pre-
pared.
-Rumored that Martin Burke, the Cronin
murder convict who died last week, has left
q written confession, duplicating the Clan
na-Gael
Two Mexican boys, under age, Aurelio
Diaz and Nichols Fernandez, fought duel
for girl at Oaxica. Dlaz, the cnallenyed
party, WAS shot dead.
The largest aerolite ever seen in Mexico
struck a cliff and plowed aeep furrow I'm
the mountain, revealing a rich vein OF silver
at one point.
Arson and forgery trials at Waynesboro.
Ga, ended in bloody fight in open court
Charles n. McMorrilI, W. L. McMorrilI and
w. p. Jones were shot dead.
Murderer Charles A. Benson, of Leayen-
worth, Kan, awaiting execution, wounded
the day guard with n knile and then stabbed
himself near the heart yesterday. Benson
is dying.
Appraiser Cooper's advance OF sL per
cent on the duties on imported wursted
coatinEs has been overruled by the Board of
General Appraisers, reducing the duty one
half
The freshman and sophomore classes or
Yale are awaiting with Considerable an xiety
the actien of the faculty in regard to the
now famous Saturday night ''riot'' at Proc
tors Musical Hall.
AT South Creek, N c., Robert Rogers. q
ored, and Tom Moore, colored, killed Rogers
directly afterward.
The Paris Figaro publishes letter signed
Ludwig Loewe in which the writer offered
General Buulanger, the late French Minis
ter of War. the nlant necessary to manu-
Iacture Lebel rifles.
The Kansas City Council is suspicious of
the bill ior fees presented by the pound
master. An ordinance has been passed
that the tail OF every dog killed be presented
q voucher hereafter.
The trnction company trolley line on
Cambridge and Catharine streets, Philadel-
phia, started yesterday. large crowd was
attracted along the line of the route to see
the novelty for this city.
The court martial trial of Commander.
Henry L. johnson, United States Navy,
began at Mare Island Navy Yard Weunes.
day. The principal charge is negligence in
permitting the Mohican to go ashore.
in q Georgia Central collision near Law
ender, Ga, both engines were demolished.
Owing to the telegraphers' strike there was
no operator on duty to give orders Brake
men will probably begin a sympathetic
strike.
The North German Lloyd steamship
IIavel has arrived at New York and has on
board the passengers OF the steamer Spree
which broke her shaft and was towed back
TO Queenstown. The Havel also carried the
Spree's cargo.
During the week beginning Monday next
there will be executed by electricity at Sing
Sing Prison, Peter Schultz, a boy Is years
old, for the murder of baby on Long
Island, and Frederick Maguire, of Middle
town, who killed Mrs. Gregory.
Proceedings have been begun in the
Massa Supreme Court in the con-
test of the Will OF Samuel E. SAWYER of
Gloucester, who died December IL 1859
leaving nearly s., 100000 of which 800, ,OOO is
left to literary and charitable institutions
The mystery surrounding the disappear-
ance OF Banker Linus L. Post, of Tacoma.
WASH, has been cleared up. He has not
been murdered, nor has he committed sui
eide, as generally supposed, Mr.. Post was
seen alive in Hoboken, where, it now turns
out, he took steamer Tor Europe.
The Boston agents of the various steam.
ship lines question the Justice and fntelIi-
gence of the rulings of the Treasury Depart
ment regarding the restriction OF immlgra-
tion. The agents all disclaim any intention
of placing obstacles in the way of travel
from abroad en- route to the Worlds Fair,
but they say the companies must protect
themselves.
The National Fire Insurance Company,
established ii 1885, one of the Oldest insur-
ance corporations in New York has decided
TO liquidate its affairs. Its outstanding risks
were reinsured in the Commercial Union
Assurance Company, of London. Tie Ma
ttonai had agents in the principal cities
throughout the United States, except Phila.
delphia and Southern points.