Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

Ex-senator Ingalls, refuses to be candt.
date or Congressman at large.
The Duke of Westminster offers s5,ooO
reward tor the poisoner of his horse, Orme.
days further lease of life for the Venezuela
revolution.
The Berlin Rreuz Zeit,no SAYS Germany is
the only power in the Dreibund which is
prepared for war.
English correspondents are now busy
taking back their recent stories of alliance
between the United States and Argentina
-Four railroad laborers. were instantly
killed by the dftch1ng OF construction
train containing boarding cars Friday. One
man is missing.
-Workmen excavating on Third street,
St Louis, dug up the cornerstone OF the first
Catholic Orphan Asylum in the city. 1t was
placed there Gu years o.
An immense cave-in has occurred in the
big copper mine at San Pedro. N. M,
owned by the Santa Fe Copper Company
Two miners barely escaped being buried
alive.
N. J. Thompson, an ex- Mayor, was pub
licly whipped in the streets at Harrisburg,
Ark, Friday, by a farmer named Joe Wright
Thompson accused Wright Of stealing his
cattle.
The Whisky Trust has decided to make
the big distillery at Des Moines, Ia, it's only
it cannot be used for the manufacture Of
spirits.
The Colorado Bar Association will take
steps toward the disbarment of the many
lawyers in Denver who make speciality of
obtaining divorces without publicity in
short order.
No trace can be found in Lake Superior
of the schooner Glenoa, which broke away
from the steamer Glengary during the
storm OF Thursday. The boat and crew are
probably lost.
"A boiler explosion near Rocky Comfort.
Ark, killed the proprietor, E. W. Pullen,
his engineer and fireman, and wounding
three men and a woman, all Of whom. it is
thought, will die.
The body of a man, about % years old,
has been washed ashore at Muskegon, Mich.
The head had been nearly severed by some
sharp instrument and weights were tied
around the neck.
ALI graders employed on the Burlington
Railroad extension to the Bald Mountain
districts in South Dakota have struck for
higher wages. The men have been receiving
ST. 10 per day and demand 50.
by an explosion of three kegs Of powder
at Big Stone Gap, near Bristol. Tenn, Zack
Wells and his nephew, Tom Darnell, were
fatally burned. Darnell was drunk and care
lessly allowed fire to reach the powder.
The practice ship Bancroft, built for the
use of the cadets of the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, was launched shortly before
noon yesterday from the yard of the Samuel
L. moore q sons company, at Elizabeth
port, N. j.
james Mahuran attempted to stop rum
away team attached to plow near Ft Scott
Kan, last night. He was knocked down. the
point of the pillow striking him below the
hip and tearing furrow along his body
clear to his neck. He bled to death.
"A condemned murderer of Sherman,
Tex, George Smith, was much displeased
when told his execution had been deferred
80 days. but consoled himself with the
thou rht that the hanging would take place
in warm weather, which would be much
nicer.'
Two masked men, between / and 2o'clock
yesterday morning, aroused H. Fl. Hall,
merchant of Camden, Tenn, on the pretext
of wishing to purchas Sc burial clothes. Hall
opened his store door, whereupon the robbers
presented pistols, forced him to open his
safe and obtained s., 500 in money.
AT Lehigh, Ia, the Mason City and Ft
Dodge and the Crooked Creek Railways
claim the right of way over q portion of the
same territory for side tracks The Crooked
Creek people rot their tracks down first ana
blocked the track with coal cars where the
enemy wished to pass. The Mason City track
LAYERS built their track as far as they could
and then backed q train through the OBJ
cars and cleared lhe track. The
employees of the other road attempted to
hinder the progress of the engine by piling
ties ON the track, but did not succeed Road
master Creiger OF the Mason City road, was
hit OH the head with q slab and badly hurt
Crooked Creek freight train that came
along during the SQuabble was ditched.