Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Vienna had a snow storm yesterday.
-Drouth continues on the lower Rio
Grande.
"A Malay village will be shown at the
Worlds Fair
The cholera in Persia, after temporarily
abating, is again increasing.
Twenty three bandits have been cap
tured in orizeba, Mexico, by the State
troops.
The Oriental Bank in London has failed
for $4,000 0OO The Mauritius cyclone caused
the wreck.
About 20 Salt Lake City plumbers struck
yesterday. They ask an increase OF pay
from 81 to S..
While out walking Tuesday Charles
Madison, OF New Orleans, aged %, was sud-
denly stricken blind.
A rich lead vein, containing. silver also,
has been struck at Ash Grove, No., by Cap
tain Hobart, of Pottstown, Pa.
President Diaz has appointed commit
tee to report on necessary reforms in the
railroad service throughout Mexico.
-Blaine's last official act was to sign a
treaty with British Minister Pauncefote for
the recovery of deserving merchant seamen.
Alexander Spencer, a guard in the insane
asylum at Tuscaloosa, Ala, was killed by
one OF the inmates with an ak Tuesday after
noon.
An explosion at Kings powder mill, near
Cincinnati killed Archie Grubbs and badly
wounded 1our others. The factory is total
wreck.
The Russian Imperial yacht, bearing the
Gar on his return from his visit to Emperor
William at Kiel, arrived at Copenhagen yes
terday morning.
Among the questions pending between
France and the United States is fresh COM
mercial treaty, making concessions in re-
gard to frozen meat and live cattle.
A Frenchman supposed to be spy has
a
Morocco authorities and sent to the French
Legation, where he was handed over to the
French Minister.
Mrs. Agnes Fritag "a years old, COM
mitted suicide in her apartments at New
YORK yesterday by inhaling gas. Her hus-
band was out of employment, and they were
about to be eyicted.
1t is claimed that the Oil City disaster
son, Ind, after awaking from a trance.
The poor fellow was locked up for insanity
after he made the prophecy.
Mrs. Henry Blocker, or Hyde Park, a
Chicago suburb, has been warned by white
caps to leave her house on peril of being
blown up by dynamite. The desperadoes
accuse her of having murdered her husband.
The London Telegraph thinks Blaine will
eclipse Harrison in the Republican Conven-
tion, but says the prospects of the American
Presidential election are as dark and uncer-
tain as those of the English general cleo
tions.
Mrs. Mary Rogers. a middle-aged woman
who arrived from Chicago where she claims
to have a husband and two daughters, ten
days ago, to become an inmate OF Schwein-
1urth's heaven" became violently insane
Tuesday.
The Anarchists in Rome who threatened
to blow up the residence of Prince Odescal-
Chi unless he deposited $40, 600 lire at a cer-
tain spot and who were arrested while en-
gagged in digging for the money, are named
Tanturli, aged l9, and Santi 90
The veracious denizens of Canton, Miss
declare that the hailstones that fell in that
section during Tuesdays storm were as
large as teacups. Terrible havoc was made
In cotton and corn fields. One farmer was
beaten to death by the missiles from the air
while plowing.
A hundred or more Italian laborers on
the Elk Mountain Railway near Carbondale,
Col, struck for increased pay. A gang of
men attempted to take their places, but the
Italians opened fire and forced them to seek
shelter, and the situation is now in the
hands of the Italians.
DIR. Alex. F. Lee, one OF Quincy's (IIls) |
most promising physicians, has become |
insane. He was to have been |
mans neck for q tumor, cut an artery. and |
left him bleeding in his office while he |
walked into the street and addressed q |
crowd. |
AT the International Congress of Miners I
at London, yesterday the Belgian delegates |
moved, and the Germans delegates seconded, |
the adoption OF the eight-hour principle, to |
be enforced, If need be, by a universal strike. |
followed, and is still in progress, |
the English delegates being divided on the |
subject. |
1t is understood that Captain Louis |
kempff will be assigned to the command of |
the coast defense ship Monterey, which is |
nearing completion at the Union Iron |
W orks, California. In order that ne may |
superintend her fitting out he will receive /
MS preliminary orders during the pres
ent month.
The town police of Fairfield, Conn.,, are
on strike. Their first grievance was an |
order OF Mayor Harrall that they report /
every hour at a wooden post in front of his |
house. This they grudging obeyed, but |
when the Mayor told them they must eat |
their midnight lunch in his barn, it was
more than they could stand and they struck |
Under the grove of trees where eight !
negroes were brought from the county Jail |
n December two years ago. lynched and |
'iddled with bullets, Governor Tillman
made the sensational utterance at the first 4
meeting of the Democratic State campaign
Tuesday: "There is only one crime that |
should bring on lynching. /, as Governor
would head party to lynch any negro that
would crim1nally assault white woman"