Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| The Missouri Legislature is in extra ses
sion.
Monster Diaz meetings are being held in
| Mexico.
"A fine vein Of. copper has been found
| near Washburn MINI.
| The foot and mouth cattle disease in
! England is getting worse.
DIR. Fox. a McCarthyite M. P, is trying tc
| form new league in this country.
The Oklahoma convention of Republican
clubs has indorsed President Harrison.
| "A wonderful discovery of silver has been
| made IN Sduaw Gulch, near Florrisant. Col.
1t is said plots to assassinate President
Montt of Chile, have been discovered and
| thwarted.
| President Paul Conrad, Of the Louisiana
| Lottery Company, denies that the lottery
intends to move to Mexico.
Seven Arabs who had sought shelter in a
| grotto at Kouba, village near Algiers, were
| grotto.
Indians at Pine Ridge have organized
| ''The Progressive OgallalIas" Society. There
| is no ghost dancing gong on among those
redskins.
The Citizens Insurance Company, of
Montreal, and the Guardian of London
have amalgamated, the former going out Of
existence.
oliver and Paul le Blance have drifted
out into Lake Michigan from Cross Village.
Wis, on a cake of ice, and their fate is yet
unknown.
nand Fontill, shot himself dead Tuesday be-
cause he couldn't find wife after advertis-
ng Literally for one.
The remains of Hon. Alexander Clark,
United States Minister to Liberia, were
buried at Muscatine, Ia, Tuesday, with
military and Masonic pomp.
The Common Council of Saginaw, Mich,
has investigated and found City Clerk John
Z. Matthews guilty OF appropriating CITY
funds That official says he will continue
to hold the fort until removed by some other
tribunal.
Elijah Hoffman, an aged citizen of Red
Oak Ia, was attacked by eight wolves while
on his way home Tuesday night He
wounded one with his knife, and the others
attracted by the smell of blood, allowed him
to escape.
The brakemen on the Mobile and Birm-
ingham road. from Mobile to Selma, a branch
of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
road, struck Sunday for $55 per month, an
advance of $40. Their places have been
filled with negroes
Goldberg and his son, dry goods dealers
at Winona, Minn., are in Jail charged with
setting fire to their store in order TO get the
$l,500 insurance on their stock. Officers
caught the young man in the act, and the
incipient blaze was stamped out.
President Billings, of the Chicago Gas
Trust, has explained why gas bills have been
so generally inflated in that city. He lays it
to dishonest meter readers, medical stu
dents, who, instead of reading the registers.
contented themselves by guessing at an
average.
Rev. Mr.. Edwardes, until recently as
sistant clergyman at Grace Church (Episco-
pal) at Toronto, has disappeared, leaving a
large number of creditors. He had become
addicted to drink. He is the nephew OF
Baron Kensington, and came to Canada in
June last.
was opened Tuesday night by free fight in
which four persons were killed or mortaIly
wounded. In the midst of the fray officers
closed the house, and 25 of the worst charac-
tiers of the Northwest are penned up in O
stockade.
Miss A. A. Chevalier, who made an ex-
pose of the Thomas Harris Community at
Santa Rosa, CAL, last fall, lectured at San
Francisco Tuesday night to a large audi
that she would be guilty of crime not to un- |
cover Harris monstrous iniquities, and that |
proofs are incontrovertiDle. consisting of a |
mass of letters, afidavits and statements by |
people who have left tie community.
Tuesday afternoon, while the rain was
descending in torrents, Squire d. NJ. Hude- |
son, of Paoli, Ind, heard halloo. anu on
on horseback, who wanted to be married
He was directed to go ahead and tie them
together for life as they sat on their horses.
The proper o license ,ls being I, produced, the
and pronounced them husband and wife.
The safe of Douglass & Bloom, the two
Australian embeZzlers who stole 80, 700
and decamped from Sidney nas
been received at the San Francisco Custom
House from Honolulu. The brig Galileo,
which brought the safe, also brought the
furniture, pictures and piano belonging to
the defaulteIs. The freight was paid by a
yelled lady, who left no address. The goods
are in the unclaimed room OF the bonded
warehouse.