Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-17
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

1t Is stated that Germany has accepted
the invitation 20 the international Silver
| Conference.
Lightning struck the house of W. e.
Bailey at Denton, Tex, and killed his 6.year-
old daughter while she was asleep.
Mike Michel, while returning home from
Waverly, Iowa, during heavy storm, drove
his team Off small bridge and was drowned.
Brooks Tuby, barber of Beaver Falls;
was struck by train yesterday, ana VIII
probably die. He is "a years old and mas
wife in Canton, o.
Frank Crance, O Cincinnati salesman,
shot Hattie Hagedon and then suicided, be-
cause she would have nothing to do with
him. She will die.
AT Childesburg, Ala, Mrs. d. C. Bryant
was assaulted by q negro Two men are
under arrest and only await Identification
to furnish a lynching.
Captain P. W. Egan. OF Chicago. man
nger of the Vessel Owners shipping office, in
opposition to the Seamen's Union, has mys-
teriously disappeared.
fellow Italian at Youngstown yesterday
morning for alleged intimacy with the as
sailant's wiie. He may die.
Thomas Brainbridge and James Robinson
were probably fatally injured at Ottumwa,
Ia, by the explosion of a keg of powder In
O mine in which they were playing.
Johnny" Dobbs. the noted bank burg
lar and robber, and crony of Red" Leary,
George Wilkes and "Big Slim" Thompson,
died in Bellevue Hospital yesterday.
"A girl about IS years old, disguised as q
calf, was shot at Lake Creek. Idaho, while
stealing ore. Several thousand dollars worth
was missed before the girl was shot.
AT Fort Worth. Tex, Henry c. Robinson
was shot and killed by W. H. Cofman for IN
suting the latter's wife. Robinson wounded
Coffman in the fight The dead man was q
hardware runner.
AT Marshal Basin, Colo. Sunday night.
Anthony Berry made a misstep and plunged
to the bottom of the shaft in the Union
mine. lie was terribly crushed, having
struck on his head, and lived but short
time.
John T. Parker, for the murder of City
Marshal Musett, at Corpus Christi, Tex, has
been sentenced to 90 years imprisonment In
the penitentiary. -Four days were spent1n
securing jury, while the trial occupied but
four hours
The trial at Neusatz of three women
charged with poisoning their husbands and
lovers with arsenic has closed. One OF the
women, named Pierdicknski, was found
guilty and was sentenced to life servitude.
The two others were acquitted.
William wilkins. of Nicola, Ill, owned
a vicious stallion, which attacked and
severely bit him. wilkins subdued the
animal by roping him and then picking out
the animals eyes with needle. He will be
held to the grand jury for cruelty.
The United States warship Concord ar
rived ut Cairo at IL o'clock this morning.
She was met below the city by several boats
and tugs and escorted to the landing.
salute was fired from shore. which was re-
sponded to from the ship. A reception was
rendered the crew.
The autopsy in the CAGE OF General Gres-
ser, tho Prefect of Police Of st. Petersburg.
who died n few days ago after being treated
with "Vitaline," disclosed traces of poison in
the body. Gatchowsky, the inventor of
"Vitaline." by whom General Gresser was
treated, has been arrested.
The steam barge j. NJ. Almendinger, lum-
Der laden, from Manistee and bound for
Milwaukee, went on the reef of North Point
lighthouse Sunday, and lay disabled and
water damaged, although tugs worked at
her all day. Part of the deck load was lost,
but the loss will not exceed $, 600.
AT Chicago Albert Geckrosch has been
shot dead, 1t is believed by one of gang of
youthful highwaymen. William Brunt, a
boy of II, has been arrested for completely
in the crime. In a confession he SAYS
that he and another boy, named LAWN. de-
termined on robbing somebody. While
the pockets of their victim he re-
sisted and LAWN fired the fatal shot.