Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-31
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| Alabama weather is the coldest for
years.
The winter has been favorable for live
stock in Colorado.
Switzerland has heavily increased its
| tariff on French goods.
| Germany and Russia have agreed to
commercial status quo.
| Wyoming cattlemen are preparing for
| their trials, which begin Monday.
Berlin Hebrews will petition to the
| Kaiser against their prosecutors.
William Mawhoir is under arrest at Sid
| ney, Ia, Tor the murder of i've wives.
The recent Dublin explosion badly
| cracked the walls of the Exchange Court.
-Prussian military had to be called out to
| quell riotous lead and iron mine strikers.
"A grand wolf round up near Virginia,
| ILL.,, scared up two animals, but they es-
| capped.
"A National Congress in India passed res
| olutions demanding home rule for that
country.
made at Chicago against transcontinental
| railroads.
Only go Balaklava survivors eau be found
in England. They enjoyed a banquet in
London the other day.
| White caps at Kokoma, Ind. admins
tered a terrible beating to Thomas McCarty,
an alleged wiTe-beater.
"A young Minnesotian in search of work,
j. H. McLaren, skated his way from St. Paul
to Quincy, Ill, SIS miles.
The first suit in the Crooked Bay Rail-
road disaster in Arkansas resulted in a YER
dict OF s20.oU0 in favor OF RUFUS A Clark.
C S. Christopher, manager of the North
ern Building and Loan Association, Dallas.
$9.0O6
An expedition has gone from Panama to
seek treasures supposed to be hidden In the
rv,N
1ncas.
A Great Northern express train ran into
a herd of Rntelopes near Blackfoot, Mont.
seven of the animals were killed and the
engine was disabled.
Mexican revolutionists on Texas soil near
Laredo, murdered Geafilo Gonzales, boy
whom they suspected OF giving information
to United States troops.
An avalanche in Lemhi county, Idaho,
caught number of freight teams. Several
men narrowly escaped. two horses were
killed and much freight was destroyed.
The Lane Seminary question is ap-
proacning q crisis and, possibly, an appeal
TO civil courts. At all events the seminary
management will stand by Prof. Smith.
President Harrison has proclaimed a
definite arrangement OF commercial reci-
procity with Salvador, concluded on the 18th
ultimo The arrangement is to take effect
from to-day.
The United States Whip Company was
organized in Portland, Me-, with capital OF
81, 900 900. II is understood this company is
to be formed by consolidation OF all the
whip companies in the United States.
The lease of the Commercial Union Tele-
graph Company to the Postal Telegraph has
been compIeted, and the papers were signed
December %. The lease is 1or SO years, from
january l., 1898, and the terms are per cent
to the Commercial Company on its capital
stock.
Frank Schwartz, Washington agent of
the Anheuser-Fusch Brewing Association of
St. Louis, committed suicide at Trinidad, a
snOurD of Washington, d. c., by shooting
himself through the heart on account of do
mestic unhHppiness. The affair was pre-
meditated.
A man in Birmingham, Ala, John Ladd,
attempted to drag his sweetheart, Hiss
Reid, from her fathers house. When her
father and brother interfered he threatened
to slaughter the whole family. Young Reid
seized gun and shot out both eyes of the
ardent lover.
The Harney Peak Tin Company in North
Dakota has begun operations with its Sec
ond battery of COMMENTATORS, and all re-
ports agree that the process, until now eX-
perimental, saves very large proportion
OF the tin crystals in the ore crushed. The
mill will soon be in Iull operation and ship
ping regularly to the Eastern smelters.
The contest made by the old directors of
the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company
against the control of that company passing
into the hands of the Baltimore and Ohio
has been brought to a close by the voluntary
resignation of four of the five remaining
members of the old board. These vacancies
will be filled by friends of the Baltimore and
Ohio.
The Treasury Department has receiveda
telegram from President Hi iginbotham, of the
Worlds Fair, asking for an additional ship
ment of 100 900 souvenir coins. Orders were
at once aiven to push the vouchers through
the several bureaus, and it is expected the
coin will reach Chicago by next Wednesday.
The demand for the coin still continues
strong.
The first case prosecuted, under the
modus vivendi, Tor entering the Boring Sea
last summer, was heard Thursday il the
Admiralty Court at Victoria, B. G. The case
was against the schooners Oscar and the
Hattie, seized by the United States cruiser
Monican at Atu. The defense was that the
schooners only put in for supplies No de-
cision yet.
Mrs. James Brown Potter has sent a
certified check tor $500 to Mr.. H. S. Miner,
in part payment for money loaned her by
him at the time of Mrs. Potter's debut. With
the check was al note Ior 81, 600 the balance
due on the obligation Qt s., 5O0. The note
was indorSed by Jonn Stetson under whose
management Mrs. Potter is now playing in
''Therese ReQuin."
AT Gardnersville, Ky, Thursday even
ing, a neighbor entering the house OF James
Barnes found Mrs. Barnes lying across the
bed dead, with her head crushed, while
Barnes and Kerr were lying in corner of
bHC IOOlny dAoO NSshNs II sAullH VIII
knives. Each grasped a knife in his hand
The surroundings showed that the battle
had been long and terrible.
Railroad detectives are on the trail of
the persons who are believed TO have muir
dered and cremaIed Miss E. O. Ayres the
station agent at Brighton Junction, Cal,
Wednesday night. 1t has been learned that
two men traded gold ring for liquor at
Latrobe early Thursday morning. Two
friends of the dead woman have partly
identified the ring as belonging to her.