Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The cotton compress combine is COM
plete.
Toronto is to have electric street rail-
ways.
Louisiana planters are fighting the Rice
Trust.
-Mataadtes are still troublesome in
Samoa.
durham miners have voted to continue
the strike.
Navigation is rapidly opening in the
upper lakes.
Athens police have captured notori-
ous band of robbers.
There is quite on exodus Of French Ca
nadians to New England.
The next international Social Congress
will be held in London, Jcne 10.
La Pdtrie, the French Canadian Liberal
organ, is fiat-footed in favor of annexation.
-Genernl Lew Wallace will be an Indiana
delegate to the Republican National Con-
vention.
Several indictments have been found for
the murder Of Banker Meade at Waupaca,
Wis, in 1882.
Walter E. Shaw, under arrest at Houston,
Tex. has confessed that he killed his mother
and aunt fcr $40.
-Trainmen may be called out to assist the
machinfsts' strike at Indianapolis against
the Panhandle Railroad.
-Cadadian lumbermen are fighting the
duty on mess port and also the export tax
on sawlogs and pulp wood.
-Four desperate moonshiners were cap
tured in Harlan county, KY, yesterday.
Their stills were destroyed.
The seven dogs which Maggie Donager,
the consumptive at Shelbyville, Ind, ate
failed to cure her, and she is dead.
All carpenters at Ottawa, Ill, have gone
out on a strike because their demand for an
e1Qht-hOnr without reduction
was refused.
The Receiver of the United States Land
Office has made a requisition for troops to
be present at the opening of the Sisseton
Reservation April Is.
Senator Finn, of Iowa, has begun the
work of prosecuting the newspaper men
who tried to work up sensations at his ex-
pense during the session of the Legislature.
AT Bennett, ILL.,, Friday a work train ran
into the rear of a freight train on the Ohio
and Mississippi, and although "a men were
in the caboose none were killed nor fatally
hurt.
Two land seekers, white men, while pros
pecting on the Sisseton Reservation, were
met by Indian police ana ordered off. They
resisted, and in the struggle both were
killed.
When Mrs. Jennie Nichols, Chicago
widow, died yesterday after a weeks illness,
the police promptly arrested Mrs. Stebbins
a so-ca1led Christian scientist, who has been
IN aCCeuQdnCo.
Mayor Stewart Of Philadelphia, has re-
ceived a cablegram from the citizens of Kos
trome, Russia, thanking the citizens of
Philadelphia for the relief sent by them to
the starving of Russia.
-Firemen at Posen, Germany, seem to be
unable to hold blanket firmly. Six persons
who jumped from a fourth story upon the
stretched blanket during fire were either
killed OF mortally wounded.
Friday night a highwaynan held up the
conductor of Kansas City cable car, and
when the gripman, George Phillips, ap-
the thigh so that he may die.
Peter Anthony & Son, manufacturers of
silk embroideries at 81 Lincoln street, Bos-
ton, with factory at West Roxbury, have as,
J. r. Nutter, of Boston. Liabilities, s15O,o3o
Through an advertisement for the heirs
of DR.. David Syme, of Fifeshire. Scotland.
four of his children have been discovered in |
They are Mrs. C. Clemaw, of that |
city; Mrs. John McLennan, of Clear Lake, |
Wis, and Mrs. Lewis Howard and Alexander
Syme, of Nenan, Wis. The fortune to which |
they are heirs is large estate in the parish |
of Kilconker.
Mrs. Anne Margaret Montagu, the wife of |
Mr.. Robert Acheson Montagu, son of the late |
Lord Robert Montagu, and nephew of the |
seventh Duke of Manchester, was yesterday |
indicted by the Dublin grand jury ON the |
charge of manslaughter, in causing the death |
Darbarous treatment. Mrs. Montagu was |
also indicted OH charges of cruelty to her |
other children.
Monroe Guion and James Ketchum, both |
It, Louis barkeepers, fought a duel Friday |
1t Creve Occur Lake. The two men were |
rowing together and got into quarrel. and |
when the boat reached shore both were
.eady to fight. Guion was armed with a re-
7olver and ketchum with a shot gun.
seconds were chosen and the comba tants
opened fire at 90 rods. Alter the second shot
Iu1on fell, wounded in the abdomen with
,uclnshot. Ketchum declared his honor
atisfied, and the wounded man was taken
lone.
The assassination OF Charles Austin,
legro, near Eldorado, Union county, Ark,
Tuesday night, has resulted in n hot pur-
uit. Deputy Sheriff Henry Womble and
,osse, who went in search of Evans and Ney-
nan, two white men charged with the
rime overlook them and demanded their |
urrender. They answered the demand
With a volley. One shot struck Womble just
bove the left hip joint, inficting very
'ainful wound. The Sheriff, with posse,
las left for the scene and it is reported
ully 100 men, we'll armed are on the trail. |