Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-19
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

"A powder house at Munsford, Tex, ex-
ploded yesterday, killing three people.
-Fifty-seven Esquimaux have reached
Chicago to be exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
Two new cases of cholera and one death
from the disease were reported in Cracow
yesterday.
The United States steamer Macarthur is
reported to have lost her propeller 30 miles
from Humboldt, Cal.
Eight new cases of cholera and three
deaths from the disease we're officially re-
ported at Hamburg yesterday.
People of Southern Kansas ask that
United States cavalry be sent there to pro-
tect them from the Dalton gang.
Nineteen miners were -precipftated to
the bottom of a shaft at Bessemer. Mich,
and all but one were injured, some fatally.
Duchess, the elephant OF Lincoln Park,
Chicago broke loose yesterday and tore up
sidewalks and fences before she was recap.
tured.
Mrs. Alice Princely was shot Dy her hus-
band, Theodore, at st. Louis Monday night
The Young couple had been married but q
month.
The Norwegian steamship Agn es res
cued two of the passengers of the II onduras
steamer Stranger. The rest are sup posed to
have been lost
The London Standards Paris CORE
spondent says: The phylloxera has alta cked
the vines in Lusigny and other districts in
the Department OF Aube.
The Navy Department has not as yet is
sued any definite orders to the authorities
of the Brooklyn Navy Yard as to the date
when the new cruiser Cincinnati shall De
launched.
The Treasury Department has author
lied an allowance of drawback on exporta-
tions of nails and tacks manufactured
wholly from imported scrap steel or boiler
plate shearings.
Eighteen Irish lady postulants, who ere
going to the convent of the Sisters of Mercy
in Cincinnati, sailed from Queenstown yes
terday for New York on the Guion line
steamer Arizona.
The bark Canova, Captain Linklater,
chartered by Dobell, Beckett & Co., left
Liverpool go days ago for Quebec and has
not been heard of since. 1t is feared that
she has foundered at sea.
Congressman Elijah A. Morse, of Bos-
ton, has written to Mrs. Cougars attorney,
stating that he has no wish to do Mrs.
Cougar injustice, and that he has decided to
retract the offensive statement credited to
him.
President Timothy Dwight, of Yale Uni
versity, has written to Major Woods, of the
Connecticut Worlds Fair Commission, ask
ing that 1000 square feet of space be appor-
toned the university for an exhibit at the
fair.
The will of the late George Fowler, a very
wealthy provision packer and merchant of
Liverpool and Kansas City, contains the be-
quests of f65,00o to the Salvation Army and
f45 600 to other charities in England and
Ireland.
Acting Secretary spaulding has in
structed the Collector of Customs at Suspen-
sion Bridge, n Y, to classify imported
dressed veal as raw or unmanufactured
article, dutiable at the rate Of 10 per cent ad
valorem.
There is a vast deal of excitement across
the Kansas State line in Wyandotte just
now over a search that is being made for a
s., ,000, 900 treasure of gold and jewels that
was hidden by the famous Quantrel gang
years ago.
Jose Gomez, a Brazilian, and his wife
Minnie, woman about 45 years old, were
committed to the Tombs prison, New York,
decai Kaufman, diamond broker, out of $l0,-
600 worth of diamonds.
Upon the application of W. n. Stafford,
counsel for Charles A. White, Governor
Flower has consented to give a hearing in
the matter of the demand of the Governor
of yoming for Whites e1tradition on the
charge of grand larceny.
dier General Wesley Merritt. Lieutenant
Colonel Charles r. Greenleaf Deputy Sur
geon General, is constituted to meet at
Helena. Mont, on the 1st of November to Sc
lect site for military post at that place.
The Canadian Government has been ad-
vised OF the seizure OF a Chinese smuggling |
schooner off Saanwich, few miles from |
Victoria. The schooner was the San Jose.
which has been doing a paying business by |
smuggling Celestials into the United States. |
An exchange of telephone messages |
took place yesterday between a telephone !
operator in the American Exchange, New 1
York City. and another operator in the |
office OF the same company In Quincy street. |
Chicago. This exchange OF messages was |
over the longest telephone lines ever sue
cesSfully used.
The New York State Railway Commits