Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

funds.
,-Arkansas negroes still banker for Okla
homa.
Big snow storms have been raging In
@Ihe cabmen's strike at Vienna began
The carpenters' strike at Decatur. Ill,
mas been declared off,
The reported illness Of Jay Could was
oahard TO aHect the price of stocks.
x-EI-Tax Collector A. ]. Breclker, OF Gov.
ington, ky., has been found 10 be s51, 900 short
IN MS public accounts
me agreement in relation to Bering Sea
mas mas oeen ratified in London by Lord Sails
Dury ana Minister Lincoln.
The two important witnesses against the
o'her oay. nave been recaptured.
Mrs Victoria Woodruff Martin and her
!. slS.er, Lady Cook. have commenced libel
suit against the Chicago Jfda for s10,O 900.
q. 0OKIanoma ooo Ramona farmers are indignant because
G. 6D,uuO Gatue are permanently grazing on the
onerokee strip They fear Texas fever.
Thomas L@wton was hanged in the PEN
tftenIlary at Carson City, Col, Friday night
10 Ior tne murder OF John Hemming, August
H. 1881, during train robbery.
-Edwln 5. Pearl, of Peoria ILL.,, Yesterday
Jumped from the big bridge across the Mis-
I:.P :-..Ppi AZ nneInpnls TO the water below,
Instance OF 80 feet. He was uninjured
The postoffice at White Plains, N. Y, wa.
entered Dy burglars. who blew open the
SAFE, and, after securing a large amount in
stamps and cash, made good their escape.
..DE Teed has completed the purchase Of
ua;rs.a me Hililard lard property at Washington
deights, Chicago, where he and bis flock
are 70 make their new home. The price
paid was s35, ,000
,-Ihe Democrat, of Effinghan, ILL., was ex-
ciuded from the mails by Postmaster Laoy
Friday because it contained a report OF a
Catholic fair in which various prizes were
awarded by vote.
The roof of a rubber factory in Man.
chester, England, fell in Friday upon num-
Der Of employees. Many OF the injured were
taken out and removed to HOSPITALS, and
some or them will die.
The bridge across the Tennessee river at
Florence, Tenn, fell in Friday, precipitating
q freight train 20 feet into the water. The
fireman was killed ana the engineer and two
Drakemen fatally hurt.
IThe jury in Cleveland in the case against
John Anderson. the Dane supposed to have
many wives. brought in Il verdict of guilty
OF stealing 81, 200 from his last victim, Mrs.
Ellen Purcell, of st. Louis.
In the Canadian House of Commons Fri
day night Sir John Thompson Announced
that until Great Britain conceded Canada's
r1ght to legislate on foreign copyright, his
Governmrnt would not grant reciprocity in
COpJ 10 the Y nlteQ states.
The woman at Huntington, Ind, who
went mad FRIDAY, says she was married
three times, her last husband being Dr. St
John Ross, travelling oculist He spent all
her money End then deserted her She saws
her last husband and John Anderson, the
noted b1Gamfst, are one and the same man.
u. o. Donner, the expert ref1ner of She
American Sugar Refining Company, when
asked by reporter about the break in
sugar certificates said he could not attribute
n INV 10Ir7fr ra1d fI,aY.
members of Congress to take off tine half
cent per pound protection which the indus
try now enjoys in this. country, as that, be
said, would undoubtedly kill the industry.
AT Watertown, Mass, Willie Reardon
and Willie Clohessy, aged about II years
each. were playing, when Reartlon met his
death, the prong of a pitchfork penetrating
his brain Clohe,sv says Reardon slipped
ard iell on the pitchfnrlz but Reardon be-
tore doing said: Willie Clohessy did it.n A
6-vear-old boy claims to have seen the affair,
and says that the two boys quarreled and
Clohessy struck Reardon with the fork.
Several prominent Chicago publishing
houses were under investigation by the Fed
eral grand Jury Friday. Anthony Comstock
is at work through his agents there and a
big pile OF literature which his agents have
quietly purcE ased in the last few weeks at
book stores and news stands was laid before
the jury. These books were long ago sup
pressed by the New York authorities, but
they have been published and circulated I'm
large quantities in Chicago and the West.
Archbishop Corrigan has receiveda a cable
dispatch from Rome saying: "Faribault sys-
tenn condemned" This means that the
cause which Archbishop Ireland champs
oned, and whose advancement was one Of
the objects of his journey to Rome, IS put
under the ban. The so-called Faribault sys-
tenn is one which removes all insignia OF
religion from parochial schools and rep GeEs
the course OF instruction entirely secular
until the end OF tho regular exercises, when
the Catholic children remain for religious
while the Protestants go away.