Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-26
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The British Parliament will meet Janu-
ary 26.
Chicago police may equip a bicycle
corps.
-Evacua'ion Day was celebrated in New
York yesterday.
-Nihilists are trying to stir up the yolga
peasantry to revolt.
hemmed in by the floods are SAID to be
starving.
The glory-loving French are sadly disap-
pointed because Abomey was captured with
out q fight.
A shoemaker at Danville, KY, John Lin
nev. has become the father of his twenty
sixth child.
Russia has been testing English and
French armor plate. The latter stood the
ordeal better.
"A bill to reduce sleeping car charges
from 50 to 81 so night will beintroduced in
the Missouri Legislature.
Labor Day in New Orleans yesterday was
observed by the cotton screwmen, the larS-
est trades union in the South,
The Transatlantic steamship Trave mar
rowly escaped being dashed on the rocks
near the Lizard during dense fog.
Spain has just concluded commercial
treaties with Norway and Sweden, Holland,
Denmark, Portugal and Switzerland.
-Mrs Maggie Bartalini. OF Chicago,
dreamed that her absent husband was MUIR
dered. She became ravfng maniac.
Business among Chinese manu- 'acturers
in san Francisco is in o bad way. White
merchants have stopped giving them credit.
The Gear has ordered the Minister OF
Finance to purchase sugar abroad 70 sell in
Russia whenever white Russian sugar ex-
ceeds a certain price.
Joseph Traney, u years old, shot him
self over the heart mt the home Of his father,
Franz TIaney, OH East Fifty-ninth street,
New York, yesterday.
The eloquence Of Sheriff Rogers at
Jasper. Tenn, prevented the lynching of
three colored alleged murderers Thursday
night by 900 armed men.
-Four young men working on a Govern
ment scow at Lewiston. Wash, on the Snake
river, drowned Thursday, when their craft
was capsized by blast.
Pacific train near Hot Springs, Wash, rob-
bing trainmen and Pullman passengers of
s., 200, watches and jewelry.
BY the flight of Allan Mcleod, of Mel
vile, p. E. l.. to the United States, q long
series of forgeries has been brought to
light He was IL prosperous farmer.
The anti i-Parnellites are sending DR..
Joseph Francis Cox to this country to re-
organize the Irish National Federation of
America and collect money for the Irish
cause.
"A jealous woman, May Sims, committed
suicide at the Planters House in Cairo, ILL.,.
yesterday, after shooting Captain Ransom
Sampson and his wife. Sampson is dead
and his wife can't live.
The official announcement that the Mex.
ican Government is to discontin the free
importation of grain on the lst has caused ~
stir among the traffic officials of the con-
Meeting railroad lines, and has terrorized
shippers.
Acting Secretary Sutherland ordered the
release of the steamer Weimar, which has
been detained at the lower quarantine sta
tion, Chesapeake Bay, since the 10th instant,
and she proceeded at once to Baltimore to
land her l,s44 passengers.
Judge Truax has granted an Injunction
restraing the Panama Railroad Company
from carrying out its proposed measures to
interfere with the business OF the Pacific
Mail Company in the alleged violation of
its contract of 1872. The order is returnable
Monday.
"A drunken coachman driving a carriage
in Constantinople, in which rode KEENAN,
Bey with two distinguished friends, per-
sisted in attempting to drive the ca arriage
the water and KEENAN, Bey and his friends
we're drowned.
"A little soon OF J. A. Lee, of North Dan
vile. Va. was bitten by 4 small dog Septem-
sons, and five days later died, showing symp-
toms of madness. Two days ago Lee was
taken sick and yesterday developed gem
uine case Of hydrophobia and is not ex-
pected to live
The bi-weekly service of the North Ger.
man Lloyd line of steamers between New
York and Bremen will be discontinued with
the departure of the Saale to-day. 1t will
not be resumed until March One stea mer
only will be dispatched weekly and that on
Tuesday. The local manager says that the
taking OFF of the extra steamer is due to the
20 days quarantine precaution.
The new German emigration bill COM
pels all agents to take out licenses and SUBJ
nit their books to Government inspectors.
1t prohibits the emigration of men between
the ages of IL and % who are liable to mill
tarv duty. 1t also prohibits the emigration
of those who are assisted In any way by
steamship companies or O foreign country.
The bill contains other stringent regula-
tions, the purpose being to render emigra-
tiOn dificult