Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-07
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

South Carolina will try to refund hel
State debt.
Portugal has raised its quarantine
against New York.
-Four murderers will be executed at
Columbia, S. c., to-day.
The Mexican quarantine against New
York is held in allegiance.
The delay in the arrival of American
corn in Mexico is causing suffering there.
Extensive preparations are being made
throughout Mexico to celebrate October y.
Wisconsin Unitarians passed resolu-
ton favoring Sunday opening OF the World s
Fair.
Great destitution prevails on Currant
Island, Newfoundland, owing to the short
fish crop.
Bolivia and the Argentine Republic
have given France the most favored nation
treatment.
Mrs. Gilmore refuses to back the band
which for so long has borne her late hus-
bands name.
"A London advertising firm is preparing
an apparatus for making bulletin boards out
OF passing clouds.
The British yacht Catharina has. foun-
dered near st. Es Maries. All but one of the
crew have been lost.
.-Signor Valentino, editor of the Patria
Udiidna, of Buenos Ayres, was killed yester-
day while fighting duel with pistols with
NJ. Tore.
The Argentine Government is preparing
for trouble by placing torpedo boats In the
harbor OF the capital. The army is to be
conciiated.
The Woman's Dormitory Association is
meeting with much success in fitting up
cheap lodgings for women visiting the
Worl1's Fair.
Hog Run tunnel, on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, near Worthwhile, KY,
cavcd in Wednesday, injuring 25 men, some
of whom will die.
-Lue Ling, st. Louis Chinaman, has
mysteriously disappeared, and it is feared
that he has met with foul play at the hands
of Chinese Highbinders.
Secretary of State Foster has been In
formed by the United States Minister to
Brazil that the quarantine against the
United States has been removed.
The Socialist paper, Vo71oaerts, urges Ger
man Socialists TO join in the protest raised
by the Marseilles Congress against the hold
ing OF an elght-hour congress in London.
Alfred G. Hathaway, the husband of the
woman who was with Frank Mezick when
he committed suicide in Chicago the other
day, has filed bill for divorce in Cleveland
Senator Peffers son, an engineer on a
Missouri Pacific freight train, and his fire.
man were instantly killed in the wreck of
their train near Council Grove, Kan, yester-
day.
Justice o. Brien, of the New York Supreme
Court has denied q motion to vacate the
order appointing Thad K. Glynese as tenn
porary receiver of the Order of the Iron
Hall.
Chancellor Caprivi has addressed a cir.
cular to the Federal Governments of Ger
many, expressing the hope that they will re-
woke their severe precautions against chol-
era as soon as possible.
In Lenone county, N. c., a negro farm
hand named Wakefield attacked his wife
and two negroes, and shot and cut o three
The injuries are all pronounced fatal
Wakefield was captured.
The Vermont Legislature has effected an
organization, choosing W. A. Stickney, Re-
publican, o: Ludlow, Speaker of the House,
and Senator Hall, of Franklin county, Presi.
dent pro tenn OF the Senate.
Rev. Mr.. Brown says he will appeal from
judge Hunts decision in the case involving
the possession or WESLEYAN College, He saws
the school will continue to be conducted
under his management, at least for the pres.
ent.
"A cottage at Powder Horn Lake, Minn.,
was searched and found to be q robbers
den. The occupant. named Neil, was also
found to be in possession Of convict suit.
In large kitchen were found six highly
polished skulls and other human bones.
Justice Beach, of the New York Supreme
Court, has decided that Robert B. Mantell
the actor, must pay his wife 500 weak and
$500 counsel fees, pending her suit for abso-
Lutte divorce because Of his alleged inti-
macy with his leading lady, Charlotte Beh.
renS.
"A southbound express on the Housatonic
Railroad crashed into wagon belonging to
Captain j. S. Barnes, of Leno1, at Lee, yes
terday, instantly killing the occupants of
the wagon, Captain Barnes coachman and
Jerry Donovan, also both horses The bodies
of the men were horribly mangled.
notwithstanding recent reports of the
execution of Brubacker the South Dakota
sharpshooter, in Honduras in formation now
is that Brubacker was not killed but was
sentenced to three years. iniprisonment At
first he was court martialed and sentenced
to death, but influential friends saved him.
"A United States Circuit Court grand jury
at Boston has reported an Indictment In Is
counts against John b Patterson and a
others. officers and employees of the National
Cash Register Company, charging them
with creating monopoly In favor of the
National Company In restraint OF trade and
in violation of the Sherman antitrust act
-Apropos OF the Ayr cornerstone laying,
the London Chront Gle says: Carnegie would
be better employed in bestowing his surplus
wealth on his American employees. 1t re-
Quires plenty of confidence OH the part of
the man who passively consented to the
bloodshed Ut Homestead to pose as bene-
factor OF Scotland and eulogist of her
greatest poet"
This resolution has been adopted by the
Conference Committee of the Business
Mems Cleveland and Stevenson Club, of
New York: Resolved, That this commit
tee, through its Chairman, extends to the
President OF the United States its sym pathy
in his anxiety and aff1iction,, and ed rnestly
hopes that He who rules all things may In
His wise Judgment restore Mrs. Harrison to
health"
Harry Houston, of Omaha, "The Man in
Red," is walking IRON Omaha to Chicago
and return on a wager of 81 ,000 The terms
of the wager are that Hueeton, dressed in q
snit of red, should start from Omaha with
but cents in his pocket, walk all the way
to Chicago and back without financial help,
begging his food from door to door and not
sleeping In bed during the time, The
journey is to be completed in 81 days. He is
accompanied By two bicycle riders.