Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-Chicago's big horse show begins Decem'
Der g.
Cholera has O fresh grip on st. Peters
burg.
Socialists stoned the Brussels police yes
terday.
Another bogus scientific society has been
unearthed in London.
Omnibus and street car employees OF ber-
In threaten TO strike.
Jack Chinn, the race starter at St. Louis
may survive his wound.
The Rothschilds will send another 81, 5oo,-
900 to Russia next week.
Chicago lost $500, 600 through irregular
tiles" in the Water Office.
-Neebe, the Chicago Anarchist, will prob
ably not be pardoned after all.
-Osman Digna's deserted camp has been
burned by the Egyptian cavalry.
Nine Spanish convicts were killed yes
terday during a muttny in Tarragna prison.
The British Admiralty has decided not
to build any more guns weighing over oo
tons.
Wyoming regulators have shot two more
horse thieves dead-Mtke Brown and George
Hanks.
The Rockford (Illl Plow Company has
gone to the wall. Assets, $4,000; debts,
$4,000.
The steamship Lahn, which ran aground
in the river Weser, was hoated with out
damage.
brazilian Federal troops and the Rio
Grande do Sui rebels have each won battle
recently.
"A big scandal is being stirred mp in the
Prince of Monaco's libel suit against the
EcLGireur.
The Birmingham Electric Railroad
Company and its employees have settled
their differences.
Martial law has just been raised in shos-
hone county, Idaho the scene OF last sum-
mer's mining war.
"A successful experiment OF q cotton
harvester was made Tuesday on a planta-
tion near Dallas. Tex.
Fair trade" will be prominent issue be-
fore the annual congress of Conservatives
In England next month.
British representatives on the Bering
Sea Commission are preparing further re-
plies to the American contention.
The recent explosion in Paris has stirred
the Austrian police into renewed activity
against Anarchists and Socialists.
Jim Wall, the Australian bookmaker. is
missing from Chicago: Il, His snipy empty cash
Lord Rosebery unveiled yesterday in
st. Paul, London, mar BILE bust of the late
Sir John Macdonald, Premier OF Canada.
Two masked men Tuesday night robbed
the Bank of Woodstock, Minn., of $1,000
after holding up the cashier and his as
sistant.
Floods are devastating the Island OF
Elbe. An entire mountain has been under
mined and threatens to crush the popula-
tion at Its foot
"A. Filictrault, editor of the Canada Re
ufe1U. which was placed under ban by Arch
bishop Fabre, has been arrested on a charge
of criminal libel.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth of bill
iaru balls were stolen from the C. G.. Akram
Company in Chicago during Democratic
jolliication parade.
Reported that Marcus A. schwert,
Town Collector of Hamburg, n. Y, is short
in his account between $4,000 and SIS, 900.
He left home Friday and his whereabouts
are unknown.
Eight cases of smallpox were discovered
in one block in Brooklyn yesterday. The
sufferers were removed to the pesthouse at
Flatbush, and the houses will be disin fected
and fumigated.
Benjamin Blanchard, the notorious pro-
moter wanted by the Wyoming authorities
for trying to bunko Cheyenne out OF $200, 900,
successfully cIrried out similar game in
Chicago which netted him sl0O, ,oOO. He is now
in the East.
One hundred and fifty armed men in
Webster parish, La, are searching for Link
Waggoner, the desperate. Last Saturday
Waggoner's gang fatally shot William Hol-
land while the latter was holding his baby
in his arms at his own house.
The war between the Whisky Trust and
the Suall independent QlSClllerleS Is UraW-
ing to an end. Four of the outside distil-
leries have been absorbed, and the two re-
naming independents are now negotiating
fer the transfer OF their plants.
The Treasury Department has author
lied an allowance of drawback on imported
licorice paste used in the sweetening OF to-
bacco manufactures for export. The manu- |
facturers' sworn statements are to be ac- |
cepted as to the quantity Of hcorice coming |
into the manufacture. - |
"A letter just received from Cordoba, |
Mexico, gives most distressing account of |
the state OF affairs there. Yellow fever has |
ragged with awful violence and carried away |
almost LOCO OF the people of the town. Most |
of the lnDa bitants have fed to the mount |
aims to escape the plague.
Union Theological Seminary has lust
been presented with Sl75,03 The gift was
made without conditions, and is to be en-
seven professorships in the seminary. The
donors are John Crosby Brown, W. E. Dodge,
ID. Willis James and Morris K Jesson.
Russian Poles recently complained to
General Gourko, Governor General of VAR
saw, OF brutal treatment by German factory
overSeers. Gourko has issued an order to |
the owners of factories not to employ men
for overseers unless they are able to speak |
the Russian and Polish language perfectly. |
The Swansea Tin Platers' Association,
which a fortnight ago discussed the advisa- |
Tuesday, and resolved to defer, ''out Of SYM |
pnthy for American Gamers who supported |
Mr.. Cleveland" the pushing of the tin plate |
industry in new markets. 1t was also re-
solved to appoint a committee to watch the |
development of the American tariff as af- |
fecting the tin plate trade. |