Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Lily Langtry is seriously i'll.
The end of the English cotton lockout is
looked for soon.
Smallpox is raging in the Colombian
province OF Azuay.
AN Indian tribe has conspired against
the government of Bolivia.
The shortage in the State Treasury Of
Puebla, Mexico, amounts to s250000.
The Colombian provinces of Chiquira
ana Nelasco are threatened by bandits.
The heaviest snow storm in Puget sound
for two years prevailed Tuesday night.
Milwaukee Is to have a $500, 900 antitrust
dlsttllery. Another will be built at Beatrice,
Neb
The Salvation Army is selling suits of
apiece.
Lake Forest University will probably
become a part of the University of Chicago
before long.
Edward Parker Deacon has won the suit
against him by the proprietor of Hotel
Splendide, in Paris.
Anarchist Friedlaender, of Vienna, has
been sentenced to 1S months imprisonment
for violent speech.
During large fire in the French village
OF Berson, "a persons perished. The survi-
vors are left destitute.
The Whisky Trust will appeal the New:
burger rebate case, which was decided
o6dAilSG Jlc OLlCdSO
During fight between Dacoits and
British Indian police, Lieutenant Gordon
and four Officers were killed.
over 500 men and women, employed in
the Blackstone, Mass, woolen mills, nave
struck on account of excessive fines.
-"Pawnee Bill" is arranging to lead q
Philadelphia colony into the Cherokee strip
when that tract is opened for settlement.
Texas Jack" the alleged murderer of
from West Superior, Wis, Tuesday night.
The Mexican authorities investigating
the matter have come to the conclusion
that no soldiers are held prisoners at San
Ygnacio.
The first warrant of arrest under the new
Illinois statute against docking horses
tails has been issued against j. w. Doane, of
Chicago.
"A meeting of the creditors of the Marquis
of Ailesbury has been held in London. Tho
estate will not realize more than 81 cents on
the dollar.
Commercial National Bank at Dubuque, Ia,
has been sentenced to five years in the pen,
the minimum term.
Salvation Army people are Offering
special prayers for the recovery of Miss
Lucy Booth, daughter of Gen. Booth, who is
seriously i'll in India.
The Des Moines Presbytery is in session
to try Rev. George W. Baxter of Knoxville
Ia, charged with excessive love for fast
horses and pretty women.
A baby at White Plains, Col. pulled a
lighted lamp over a bed. The fire burned
two dwellings, and the two children of Mrs.
r. Htnckley were cremated.
"A white man named Cora recently sued
a Greek Indian for unpaid wages and Sc
cured q Judgment in the United States
Court A party of Indians then lynched the
man.
The North American Endowment Asso-
citation has gone into the hands OF receiver.
The concern has about SOS, 900 in assets and
about 1000 members. 1t formerly had 5000
members.
Charles L. Goldman, stamp clerk in the
New York general postoff1ce, has disap-
$4,000 He is a son of Judge Goldman, of
Columbus county, n. Y.
"A Colorado Judge instructed jury that
levying assessments to be used in political
campaign is not a crime, therefore no libel
had been committed by the newspaper
which published the accusation.
Sven Wren, the Nellie BLY, of Danish
journalism. reached Chicago,en route home,
via China, India and Northern Africa.
Mr.. Wiren has undertaken the teat of jour
neying around the world without IN onetary
assistance.
Several more fraudulent notes given by
Milo Tomlinson. the fugitive stock breeder
of Craw fordsville, Ind, have come co light.
The forgeries have assumed such proper
tions that the elder Tomlinson has decided
not to stand good.
The hearing of the appeal of Colonel
Nieves Hernandez, under sentence of death
for the part he is alleged to have taken in
the Garza insurrection, has been postponed,
owing to the illness of General Juan n.
Mendez, President of the Supreme Court of
Military JRstice.
The family of John BrendIe at Omaha,
who were left at White Hall, ILL.,, in 1860 |
while the father went to California in search |
Of fortune, are heirs to $780, 900. Brendle |
recently died very wealthy, and on his |
1eath bed requested that his family be |
ooked up. He never explained why he |
lid not return. |
1t is learned here that Cecilia Salinus,
who has been sentenced to three years. i'm |
prisonment by the Federal Court at San An
tonic, Tex, for violation of the United
States neutrality laws, spent August, Sep
tember and October IN Monterey and other
points in the interior of Mexico, working up
the revolutionary movement.