Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-24
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A japanese colony in Sonora. Mexico, is
projected.
-Colored men have been chosen judges of
election in Hia watha, Kan.
johnny Considine, the wounded Detroit
crook, is thought to be recovering.
Garter Harrison, of Chicago, made free
! silver speech at Jimtown Col, Tuesday
night
DIR. Scudder, of Chicago, has been indicted
second time for the murder of his mother
in-luw.
Judge Van Brunt, of New York. has de-
State Hospital.
The G. A. R. is having a fine time st Ell
Paso, Tex, and Confederate veterans take q
hand in the festivities.
Memphis negroes met Tuesday night and
denounced the recent lynching. They
threaten general exodus.
Mrs. Bessie Howrd, aged 20, was killed by
her husband, William. during fight at their
residence ineNew York City. >
Three skeletons OF miners, who disap-
peared IS years ago, have just been found in
lead mine near Dubuque, la.
In non-political row between Colum-
bian soldiers and civilians at Palpa, five per-
sons were killed and IA wounded.
New York Legislature is considering a
bill for the abolishment of imprisonment for
costs of civil actions or other debts.
"A bill will be introduced. in the British
Columbia Legislature to increase the per
capita tax on Chinese immigrants from $50
to 500.
The Virginia State Republican Commit
tee has fixed upon Roanake as the place and
May as the date 1or holding the State Con-
vention.
Frank Radell, employed in Lambert's
barb wire mill at Joliet, ILL.,, fell into a vat
of vitriol Tuesday and was horribly burned.
His I'M uries are fatal.
Eugene Kirby, formerly cashier of the
First National Bank at Marshall, Mich.
pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
A party Of three mine prospectors was
found dead and horribly mutilated on
Bratnard river, Tex. The murder is laid to
Mexican party seen in the neighborhood.
The offers of silver to the Treasury De-
oances The tetal puregRassa gssesasa was
$O.s9l5.
Sarah Brice, a colored woman living near
Arsadla, La, locked her three children in
house caught fire and the children were
burned to death.
One hundred and fifty cigar makers are
on strike at Peoria, ILL.,, for an increase of
from 81 to 81 a thousand for making cigars.
Tuesday night a dozen of the strikers badly
beat the foreman OF one of the factories.
-Tonguers and dredgers at the Woman's
marsh oyster fishery, Maryland, Tuesday,
fought a battle, using firearms. The oyster
police boat took u hand and dispersed the
combatants. One man was fatally wounded.
An Ohio and Mississippi passenger train
was run into at the crossing at Odin, ILL.,, by
an Illinois Central freight train. The coacn
struck, which contained % passengers, was
demolished. Seventeen persons were in
jured.
John Corley, q gambler, was elected
Tuesday night from q restaurant at Coulee
City, Wash. He was intoxicated, and began
firing ut the proprietor and walters. Charles
Pascoe was killed and Pat Egan seriously
wounded.
John Sously, a farmer near South
Bend, Ia, was troubled with sore eye. An
oculist found that grain of wheat had
lodged there, sprouted, and forced its
growth between the scalp and skull. The
wheat was removed and transplanted in q
hotbed.
AT Tullahoma, Tenn, northbound
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis train
Yesterday threw j. W. Allison and his two
children, Charles and Bessie, into Garrison
river, from u bridge. The girl was rescued
some distance down Stream, but the man
and boy were drowned.
The number of victims by the boiler ex-
plosion at East Jordon, Mich, is now seven,
Peter Sheldon having died OF his juries.
ReinEart, who was so terribly hurt, is i'm
eyes were put out and otherwise hurt, is
also OH q fair way to recovery.
Considerable unea siness has been caused
at Wichita, Kan, among the owners, or sup
posed owners, of the fashionable suburb
known as College Hill, by the commence
a suit for the possession OF a large portion
of this property by Mrs. Antoinette Sam
ders, OF Springfield, Ill.,. who claims the
be- maee to
session OF the property, now worth consid-
erabiy over $5OO,O0o