Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-26
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

| The State debt of Arkansas is 81, ,909, 49,
-Diphtheria is epidemic at Columbus
| Ind.
-Dissensions have broken out in the Spur
geon tabernacle in London.
The price of coal delivered in Cincinnati
has raised 25 cents to s. So ton.
United States District Judge Blodgett, Of
Chicago, confirms the report of his resigna'
| tion.
! and drivers are on strike for their wages
scale.
-Sixty-five British Columbia schooners
have cleared for the sealing grounds this
season.
Barcelona. the only remaining strong
hold of the old Government in Venezuela'
! has fallen.
The Buffalo switchmen are talking of
striking next year when the WOrlds Fair IS
in progress.
Daniel Sullivan, of RosIyn, L. L, com.
mitted suicide yesterday after an attempt 70
poison his wife.
The Swansea Steel and Tin Plate Com
pany of Chica- o has been incorporated
Capital, 100000.
Milwaukee light and trolley wires.
through defective insulation, are causing
accidents daily.
The rival Boards of the Worlds Fair are
at it again. The question of rules Is the
uOHo vi COHteHtlOn now.
Supreme Vice President A. II. Hosmer, OF
the de:unct Order of the Iron Hall, has Deen
indicted at indianapolis.
-Erastus Wiman has begun stumping
tour through the Maritime provinces IN
behalf of reciprocity with the United States.
The Lady Board of MANAGERS of the
Worlds Fair got into real parliamentary
row yesterday over the question or sunday
closing.
The Postal Telegraph Company has
sued for an injunction against the Western
Union to prevent the latter's use OF the
Phoenix building in Chicago.
The remains of the late Emil F.Drier. the
Danish Consul to Chicago, who died on
board the steamship Hecla last Friday were
cremated at Fresh Pond. L. l., Monday.
General Sixto Marques who has 500 Mexi-
can infantry in the Sierra Madre mountains
trying to quell the Taqual Indian disturb
ances, has been repulsed with loss OF ten
men.
For the last few nights the home of
Thomas Watson, near Thompson, Ca, has
been guarded by 200 of his armed followers
He has with him negro named Doyle,
whose speeches have caused trouble.
DIR. Hale, arrested at Belfast for fraudu.
lent practice, is thought to be the same man
who was tried in Denver a year ago on the
same charge and on the charge of sending
obscene literature through the mail.
"A broken rail wrecked an East St. Louis
Phillipsburg, Mo-, yesterday. A. A. Dicker-
son. of Springfield. Mo-, and News Agent
Harwood were killed and Il others were in
jured.
The Norwegian steamer Normand, which
sailed from Bagasaki, October for Singa-
pore, was wrecked on ono of the Piscadores
Islands during the typhoon in which the
steamer Bokhara was lost. Two persons are
known to have been saved from the Nor
mand.
The examination or the books of George
Pike, accountant of the Imperial Bank. who
was missing from Toronto a few days ago,
shows that for number of years he had
the funds of the bank and in
volved them in his own speculations proba-
bly, to the extent of $4,000.
The United States Grand Jury at El
Paso, Tex, has returned indictments against
Collector OF Customs Webster Flanagan,
Special Deputy Collector S. W. Finn and All
Joke, Chinaman, for aiding and assisting
Chinese to enter the United States unlaw-
fully.
At Satiago del Eslino, Argentina, Col
onel Turbas, with a force attacked the Coy
ernors house, intending to rescue Rojas.
The chiefs of the revolution would not allow
Rojas to be taken from the house. They dis
own any responsibility for the Governors
life If the Federal Government should re-
instate him. The revolution has extended
to the Province of Carrientes.