Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.
Rome. Ga. is under water.

Rome, Ca, is under water.
The Alabama and Tombigbee rivers are
on bender
The Illinois Republican conveption mas
been called for Maya
The six WaIlsalI Club Anarchists (Lon-
DOM have been remanded for trial.
The constitutfonality of the Wisconsin
gerrymander is to be tested in court
in the Ecuador Presidential election the
nationalist candidate, Cordefc, won.
"A movement is on foot in st. Louis for
combination to fight the Cigarette Trust-
Negotiations for commercial treaty be-
tween France and Spain have fallen.rLrough.
The South Dakota Worlds Fs.lr Commits
sion IS in session. An approp1 Iatlon VIII oe
asked for.
The English Bishop of Chichester has
ordered special prayers for the abatemens
of the grip.
The collier San Mato has been chartered
at San Francisco to take coal to Chile for
naval purposes.
-Ashforth the Brooklyn embezzler UNDER
arrest in London, may escape extradition
by habeas corpus.
Very remarkable ruins, including the
remains of an ancient fort, have been dis
covered in South Africa.
Andrew D. White, n Chicago fruit pre-
serve manufacturer, has brought suit against
the trust in that business.
Metz & Co., general printers, at No. SO
John street. New York, made an assignments
yesterday without preferences.
The Bank of London and Mexico at the
City of Mexico earned Al per cent last year
A 20 per cent dividend was declared.
BY the upsetting of lamp at Milbrook,
Mich, Thursday night, two children Of
William Allen, Jr., burned to death.
Cleveland and Boies is the Democratic
slate suggested by j. }. Richardson. tho
Iowa member of the National Committee.
The execution of Ming How, a China
man, at Baker City, Ore, Thursday, was
bungled. The victim died in horrible con-
vulsions.
Thursday night Anarchists attacked
Bornos, only 12 miles distant from Xeres. the
scene of their former raid. The military
routed them.
The City Club Burlesque Company. which
was so disabled in the recent wreck, is still
quarrered at Charlottesville, Ind. Some are
not expected to live.
Dan, the male ostrich in Robinson's
menagerie: wintering at Cincinnati, died Of
the grip Thursday An $500 diamond was
found in his stomach.
John L. Sullivan signed the pledge and
became q member of Murphy's blue ribbon
brigade this week. The slugger made a tenn
perance speech Thursday night.
The sale of the Ohio and Big SANDY Rail-
road and the Elizabeth, Lexington and Big
Sandy Railroad to the Chesapeake and Ohio,
has been practically consumInated-
The sanity of John Redmond, the Chi
cago maniac who murdered DR.. Wilder. will
lie the subject of judicial inquiry. The Cor
oner's jury advised that he be kept in the
county Jail until his case is disposed OF.
Christopher Furness. VI. P, for Hartle-
pool, England, has invited subscriptions
from British shiDowners to defray the cost
oi conveying to the Russian famine sufferers
4.O000Go pounds of flour contributed in the
United States.
Early yesterday morning an eastward
bound freight train on the New Jersey Cen
tral Railroad jumped the track at Claremont.
Several cars and the engine were almost de-
molished. the engine being pitched from the
track into the snow. The tracks were block
AIDED tor several hours.
The strikers OF the Arkansas Pass Rail-
road will take no further steps until the
members of the committee OF the other roads
have reported to their various orders at
home. If they order boycott of Arkansas
Pass traffic, then the strike will begin in
earnest and on big scale.
-The injunction which Martin A Frank
obtained in his action against the Edison
Electric Light Company and the Edison
General Electric Company, restraining the
Edison Electric Light Company from declar-
inc dividend on an issue of debenture
bonds, has been vacated by Justice Barrett,
of the New York Supreme Court, who had
granted the injunction.
A bold robbery of United States mail oc-
curIt'u III BaJilVi3, L., 1UuISusty DI8nG ab
the Erie depot. The mail for the weStbound
train, consisting of two pouches, was on n
baggage truck on the platform. awaiting the
trains arrival. The employe having them
in charge stepped into the depot for mo-
ment, and on bis return the bags were miss
ing. They were found later under some
planlss near the freight house, been. cut oPeS
and she contents distracted. A tramp who
had been lounging about the depot is sUs-
pected of the robbery.
On November 90 Melone Brothers cloth
ing store in Guthrie, o. r, was closed on n
chattel mortgage for S10,000 held by the Ma
tional Bank of Guthrie. Other creditors
sued for possession under a bill of sale, and
Thursday the Melone Brothers confessed
that the mortgage was fraudulent, and that
the foreclosure was the result. of n plot pro-
posed by i. Destinee-, President OF the
bank by which the Melone Brothers we're to
buy SIS 600 or $4,000 worth of goods in the
East and turn them over to the bank on a
fraudulent mortgage, the proceeds to be
equally divided among the four conspirators.
Criminal prosecutions against the bank Off
cials will be instituted ut once.
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