Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-18
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

French exports are still diminishing and
imports increasing.
Smallpox is prevalent in the Puget Sound
country
Wabash telegraphers will demand an
increase of wages.
"A Paris art exchange is preparing ex-
hibits for the Worlds Fair.
1t is denied that Mrs Parnell's bank
ruptcy was caused by the Paris fund.
The Western Mining Congress, to meet
at Salt Lake City, has been postponed
s. V. White, the failed Chicago grain
man, has begun to pay his creditors in full.
The rumor of the Whisky Trust absorb.
ing four big independent distilleries is de-
MED.
The s., ,ooO, 900 will of Joshua Hendy, de-
ceased machine manufacturer, will be con-
tested.
The decision of Mrs. Deacon's appeal has
until Tuesday.
The constitutionality of the Wyoming
roundup law will be tested at the present
term OF the Federal Court
"A Democratic jollification at Alexandria.
Ind, ended in general row, in which five
men were badly wounded.
-Hesse Nassau, n Catholic priest in Berlin,
has been arrested for lese mageste because
he preached against the Kaiser.
Children have been systematically steal
Brighton station near Cincinnati.
"A new edict in the Turkish army pro
hfbits all officers below the rank Of Major
from having more than one wife.
Chicago newspapers will unite in the
publication of morning and evening jour-
mails on the Worlds Fair grounds
The Ouray and Ironton stage fell over
an embankment in Colorado yesterday,
fatally injuring several passengers.
Another shortage has been added to the
accounts of ex-Treasurer Woodruff. Of
Arkansas. They now amount to 500. OOO
"A Russian named Saein. whose candida.
nounced last year, has escaped from Siberia.
Captain Frank B. s. Morgan. of Cleveland,
has been granite divorce from Elizabeth,
the daughter of the famous novelist, Amelia
Barr.
AS a result of John L. Sullivan's latest
Jag which he took on board at York, Pa, he
narrowly escaped arrest on charge of
assault and battery.
Auditor W. X. Ackerman, of the " orld's
Fair, has resigned and informed the Local
Executive Committee that a leak exists be-
tween the Treasurer's Office and the gates.
The Executive Committee of the Irish
Landlords Convention intends to issue. SIM
utaneously with the report of the Evicted
Tenants Commission, counter report.
During Democratic jollifcation in a
schoolhouse at Mountain View, Ark, two
kegs of powder exploded. wrecking the
building. Four persons were killed and Is
injured.
The smallpox epidemic at the general
hospital at New Haven. Conn, continues un-
abated. Despite every possible effort to
check the progress of the disease, new cases
are breaking out each day.
Lee Fen and Lee Sin Fun, indicted at An
burn, N. Y, under the Chinese exclusion
act, have been tried in the United States
Court. Congressman Crowley appeared for
the Celestials, who were found guilty.
The Christian Workers Convention,
which has been in session at Boston for sew
eral days. closed with a conservation serv-
ice. The next convention will be held at At.
laDta, Ga. A resolution was adopted aguinst
opening the Worlds Fair on Sundays
"A German prophet, Frederick Engels,
saws he predicted four years ago the down.
fall of protection in America, and that now
the second portion of his prophecy is on the
eve of fulfillment-namely, the destruction
of England's monopoly of the worlds trade
through the advent of free trade with
America.
"A caboose and six cars broke loose from
a Mexican National train which was climb
ing a steep grade. The cars flew down so
fast that one after another left the track
until only two crashed into a double-header
freight train at the rate of 120 miles an
honr, causing terrible wreck. Several
trainmen were dashed to death.
Mayor Grant, of New York, has ap-
pointed nine school commissioners to fill
vacancies. One of the commissioners whose
term had expired was Mrs. Clara NJ. Will
Jams, and strong pressure had been brought
to bear upon the Mayor to induce him to ap-
point woman as her successor, but he did
not do so. and there Is now no female men,
Der of the Board Of Education.