Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-02

preparing a new ana stringent series ol
regulations to guard against the recurrence
| OF cholera next spring.
Near Denver Wednesday night picnic
| party was crushed into at crossing by q
| Rock Island train. Two deaths are the re-
suit and four are seriously injured.
| Captain A. P. Hastings and Commander
| David l. Dickson, of the British warship
| from all blame of stranding that vessel.
| The New York Health Board reports
| that typhus fever has broken out in the city,
| two cases having been found in a Park Row
lodging house within the past "a hours.
The Calumet Iron and Steel Works, near
Chicago, have been sold to a syndicate OF
| Cleveland men. Work will be resumed on
| the plant, after having lain idle for a year.
Municipal scandals at Madrid have con-
| strained Senior Silvela, Minister OF, the In.
| terror, to resign, because the Premier would
not consent to suspending the Muncipal
Council.
AT San Francisco, Judge Coffey decided
| that Florence Blythe was the illegitimate
daughter of the deceased millionaire and
entitled to inherit his estate, valued at
81, 100000
The Canadian Minister of Agriculture
simile of the model of the Royal William,
the first ocean steamship, for exhibition at
the Worlds Fair.
because of the holdup at Hot Springs,
passenger trains the Northern Pacific on the
Pacific Coast division armed guards have
been placed along the route.
"A severe gale has been prevailing over
Scotland since sunday. Snow storms are
reported in the far North, accompanied by
thunder and lightning. quantity OF
wreckage has drifted ashore.
The special South Carolina house Com
mittee appointed to consider and report
upon all prohibition bills decided upon the
ChiIds bill, drafted by the Prohibition State
Chairman. hot fight is coming.
Mrs. Fannie Adams, of Little Rock. has
confessed that she murdered her husband
the vaV SO She could mary g Gorge WI Williams, IS
the man who furnishad the revolver.
Two men known as Joseph Ross and
Joseph Craft, claiming to hail from Arm
strong county, Pa, are held in Vandalia, ILL.,,
fer obtaining money under false pretenses
by checks drawn on bank at Brookvtlle,
-Rumored that Premier de Boucherville
of Quebec, has notified Sir John Thompson
pointment of Mr.. Chapleau. Minister of Gus
toms, as Lieutenant Governor of the Prov
ince.
"A zinc iron ore shaft, sunk 30 feet, near
Webb City, Mo-, encountered temperature
SO hot that work had to be suspended. The
ore was hot enough to burn the miners
hands. Two other shafts were sunk with the
same result
Through disobedience of orders two
freight trains collided on the East Tennes-
see Railroad near johnson City, Tenn. Both
engines and 20 stock cars were wrecked,
a large number of cattle killed and one or
two trsmps lost their lives.
Secretary Charles Foster is now putting
the finishing touches to his annual report
to Congress. It will be transmitted to Con-
gress next Wednesday. Attorney General
Miller has finished his report, anu it will go
in with the Presidents message Tuesday.
.-E1-Governor Gear has formally assumed
the duties of the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. The President has delegated to
him the power to sign Treasury warrants,
and also authorized him to act az Secretary
of the Treasury in certain contingencies
"A colored man giving the name of Rev.
]. c. Bell, of st. Louis, is in Jail at Cham
paign, Ill, for soliciting money in aid of the
African Methodist Church. He has been
Minneapolis, Kansas City, Des Moines and
other towns.
William Conklin and wife, Edward
Blanchard and wife, and Mrs. Maggie Pitts
were crossing the Erie Railroad, at Elmira,
struck by the westbound vestibuled train.
All were Instantly killed except Mrs. Conk-
lin, who was terribly injured.
"A gang of safe blowers struck Blount
Springs, Ala, Wednesday. Four stores were
broken open and the safes robbed of 81 900
cash and $500 worth of jewelry. A running
fight with pistols occurred between robbers
and citizens, in which one robber was
wounded. The gang escaped, but posse is
after them.
The Connecticut Board Of Adjustment ap-
proved the transfer of stock of the New
Haven and Derby, Danbury and Norwalk
New York, New Haven and Hartford. This
completes the transaction by which the
New York, New Haven and Hartford obtains
control of the three other roads.
The sensation in St. Joseph, No., caused
6xvf he nj a Ia arA
people who had been indicted Oh charge of
renting houses to be used as disorderly
houses, was increased when 1t was learned
that had il not been for q mistake Of the
grand jury as to the ownership OF certain
properly the judge to whom the indictments
were returned might, also, have been in
dicted.
The Governments Gun Factory employes
at Watervliet Arsenal are still ON strike
New men are being engaged to take the
places of the strikers. The employees have
asked CONGRESSMAN Tracy to present their
case to the Ordnance Department at Wash
ington. The workmen say the depart tment
will not sanction an order which compels q
man to watch two lathes. This order is al
legged to be the cause Of the trouble.
Alexander Crawford Chenowith, engi-
neer in charge OF the Croton Aoueduct
and son-tn-law of the late ex-Mayor. Ferdi-
nAnd Wood, of New York, believes ne can
city of Baltimore. He is a direct descend
ant OF William Cromwell, to whom was
decided, early in the seventeenth century,
several hundred acres of land in and about
the city OF Baltimore by Charles Calvert,
the third Lord Baltimore, after whom the
city is named.
"A story is circulating in Atlanta that
when the Georgia party of legislators were
by man %ho saio he was Sam Hill, q fugi-
tive from Justice on a charge of murder.
Hill killed man who ruined his home, was
adJuogeo insane, sent to an asylum and
sa ha for
lives In Toronto upder the name of Chal-
mers. When he heard that Governor
Northen wRs in Chicago he went there, In
tending TO ask him for pardon. but did not,
fearing he would be turned over to the au-
thorittes and made to serve out his life SEN
tence.