Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

"A financial crisis is imminent in Sal
| vador.
"A destructive windstorm visited Gage
| town, Mich.
High water swept away $4,000 bridge
| at DesMoines.
| Arkansas negroes are planning for an e1
| odus to the farther parts OF Africa
There is no truth in the reported killing
| Of Captain Hatfield, the notorious outlaw.
| William Coates has practically secured
| the Democratic nomination for Congress In
| Alabama.
| The Ontario Legislature has passed bill
| providing for the admission OF women to the
| practice OF law.
| Five bandits who have been stealing
Mex, Wednesday.
| Rev. J. w. Phillips, chaplain of the
Joliet, Ill, Penitentiary, has been convicted
OF gross immortality and suspended from the
ministry.
| The United States Court has convicted
| ex-PostmasJer Mulholland, of Paducah, Ky,
| for extracting u registered letter from the
postofice.
As the result a family feud near Brum-
| ley, Miller county, No., Monday evening,
Henry Davis snot and killed his son-in Jaw,
John Witt, and wounded his granddaughter,
| child some or years old.
George and Frank Eastman, aged 10 and
II and boy named Bechtel, ate wild pars-
nips at sioux Falls, S. u. George is dead and
Frank is in a very precarious condition. The
third boy managed to rid his stomach be-
fore being fatally poisoned.
Mrs. Charles Shirley, of Ashland, Wis,
has fallen heir to quarter interest in y
81, 800 OOO estate in New ork City, and has left
The estate was left by great uncle, who
died wealthy and unknown IN New York.
Captain Chris Rath, wbo hnng Mrs. Sur
ratt aud the other Lincoln conspirators in
washington, was suddenly bereft OF reason
Tuesday night on the run to jackson, Mich,
with the mail train. He had been mail agent
for 81 years between there ana Grand
Rapids.
Hon. David Mills has given notice in the
Canadian Parliament that Canada SHOULD
have the right to make her own commercial
treaties, anu that it should be the policy OF
the Government to establish resident gents
ut The most Important commercial centers OF
the world.
Judge John NJ. Hall, of the Connecticut
Superior Court yesterday decided the de-
murrer of the defendant IN the quo warranso
suit OF John s. fhelan versus IL. Jay Walsh
lor the Office OF Secretary OF State, overrul-
ing 1t, and thus placing the case OH the
DOCKET 1or trial on rhe issue OF the facts.
"A commercial traveller who went by the
name OF Watson died in a hotel in Rockland,
Me-, last week, and all efforts to find any
friends Oh relatives failed. 1t is now stated
that he has been identified as q General
Stedman, SAID to have been a noted cavalry
officer during the WAL, who fell into disgrace
and disappeared.
In RockfieId, Warren county, KY, Mon.
day. Bud Price, a white man, killed Bud
Malone, colOred, in quarrel. j. H. Z.
France, Cincinnatian, deputized by the
Sheriff, went Tuesday to arrest Price at his
home Price and his brotner-in-law, Tom
Proctor, ,attackedFraace with pocket knives,
end he shot both assailants dead.
Yesterday, which was appointed by Gov
Massachusetts
Day, was generally observed as a holiday
throughout the State. business was sus-
pended, banks and exchanges closed and no
evening editions of the newspapers were
published. New Hampshire also observed
Fast Day, appointed lor yesterday by Gov
ernor Tuttle.