Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-14
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

! thefts.
| 1t is proposed to annex Rio Grande dc
Sui to Uruguay.
-Famine-stricken Mexicans are living for
Gays on cactus and mesquite beans.
No more Iron Hall testimony will be
taken at indianapolis till Wednesday.
The troops of the Sultan OF Morocco
have burned two deserted reDel villages.
The Newfoundland Parliament is con-
sidering questions growing out of the great
fire.
Canada will prohibit the importation of
rags from France as q precaution against
cholera.
The Vatican is contemplating the estab-
l1shment of a Catholic Patriarchate at Con-
stantinople.
trate its forces in the Kongo State to watch
the Arab malcontents.
The British cruisers Apollo and Naiad
are fast on the rocks at Bremerhaven, with
great holes in her hulls.
Nearly every business house in Havana
has closed its doors on account of the new
tariff imposed by Spain.
Brazilian troops defeated a band of Anna
zon Indians near Santa Fe recently. The
natives lost their leader.
William Rouse & Co., the oldest worsted
manufacturers in Bradford, England, have
failed. Liabilities, SS0000.
The Southern Passenger Association has
gone to pieces, and the greatest rate war
ever known in the South has begun.
Idle Tennessee troops at Coal Creek are
accused of firing cannon and gattling guns
recklessly into the village for mere mis-
chief.
General Gano Dunn, of New York, COM
mitted suicide by pistol shot at Denver
Friday night. 1t is said there is woman in
the case.
AT a Knights of Pythias carnival in Co
lumbus, Ind, Friday, Will Robertson sailed
away in a balloon and has not been heard
from since.
The British steamship Mendelssohn,
from Liverpool for Baltimore, went ashore
TO be badly damaged.
M. elliot, a Partisan, has invented q
long-distance submarine telephone. He
hopes to test his invention between Paris
and New York before September.
The Gar has countermanded the orders
for the holding of the great military ma
neuvers at Krasnoe SZelo because the coun-
try was made a morass by the floods.
The British steamer Empress of Japan,
from Hongkong via Yokohama for Van
couver. returned to Hokadadi with her
cargo on fire. The fire was extinguished.
Her Majesty's ship warspite. while re-
turning to Esquimault harbor Friday from
a cruise on the west coast, ran over sunken
rock in Discovery Pass and suStainee serious
injuries.
A touching appeal has been forwarded
from San Antonio to President Harrison
asking his clemency for the misguided fol-
lowers of Cara imprisoned for violating the
laws.
An engine on the Canadian Pacific
crashed into handcar containing seven
Swedes in a rock cut near Schreiber. Three
were instantly killed and all the others dan
gerously wounded.
An impromptu race between two
crowded excursion steamers at Peoria WAS
enlivened by tight with Winchesters be-
tween the pilots of the rival boats. One
boat narrowly escaped being cut in two by
the other
raided a gambling house early yesterday
and gathered in nine prisoners in |
clud1ng the mayor, an ex-county clerk,
prominent Methodist and several other |
notables. All the players gave bonds.
The appointment to judgeship of |
to represent the Holborn division in the |
British House OF Commons, rendered a new /
slection necessary. This was held yester- /
lay, and resulted in the return of Mr.. Hall, |
without opposition.
Desire Charnay, the French explorer of |
Phantom City fame. has just received an in |
vitation from the Government of the United |
States to come to this country in October SO |
Is to be able to prepare his exhibits for the
chicago Exposition. He will make exact
mains he found in Mexico.
2Mrs. NJ. W. SewalI, President OF the Ma
tional Council of Women of the United |
States, who has visited Paris in the in ter
ests OF a Women's Worlds Congress at Chi |
cago, delivered lecture Friday in the |
Mayors residence in the Luxembourg dis
rict. She invited the women of France to |
end delegates to the Congress.