Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-21
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

French vineyards have been ravaged by
storms.
Owners of the wrecked steamship Elder
| will sell her.
Gladstone has written a pamphlet against
woman suffrage.
Citizens patrols are aiding the police OF
San Antonio, Tex. to catch firebuss.
Louisville tirebugs succeeded yesterday
in burning 10 dwellings in four hours.
In litigation over decd worth 81 10 In
Kansas City, Kan, the costs have already
piled up to $780,
John Longwell, OF wellsboro Pa, the
man who elected three snakes from his
stomach, is dead.
Tho Inhabitants OF five Texas counties
Starr, Hfdalgo, Porticas, Zapeta and Duyall
have been reduced to extremtties by fam
inc.
"A reserve for the breeding Of beavers
will be started by Robert Kilgore, of Bas-
com, Ga. Beaver furs are becoming scarce
and high. = .
Thousands Of distressed Russian peas
ants are on the German border trying to
evade the guards and secure passage to
America.
canadian customs returns for March
show that the revenue amounted 70 SSoso,
responding month of 1S91.
The Canadian Governments prosecutions
against Hon. Thomas McGreevy. n. K. Con-
molly and j. R. Arnoldf, the boodlers, have
been postponed until the fall assizes.
There is serious trouble among the sisse-
ton squatters and flers, and more than one
fight is reported. Many quarter sections
now contain two shanties and two residing
claimants.
The American Governments has refused
to reduce the TRANSFORMATION charges on
New Zealand mails via San Francisco, on
the ground that it already pays out more
than it receives.
George B. Watson. q jeweler: Of San
Francisco, was arrested in New York and
5000 worth OF jewelry on his person and
but 80 cents in his pocket.
There is tribal war in Uganda, Africa,
between Catholic and Protestant converts
leads the Catholics. The British East Afri-
can Company has secured the deposition Of
the King.
"A fatal explosion and fire occurred last
tory, in Greenville, on the shore Of Newark
Bay. Two boys. Albert Bottle and John Eft
niger, were burned to death and several
other employees were hurt.
The Grand Council of the Royal Area
mum assembled in annual convention at
Lansing, Mich, Tuesday. The report of the
Grand Secretary shows the membership OF
the order in the State to be 6.7S3. q net in
crease of 3O6 during the year.
-Kushlet1, the Bulgarian, whose arbitrary
arrest at Constantinople by officials Of the
Russian Embassy, and whose subsequent
detention by the Turkish police caused q
great stir in Bulgaria, has been released
after a vigorous note Of protest by Bull
garia.
M. J. Tierney, a freight conductor on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was given
against the Standard Oil Company. He was
mutilated for life by burning from the ex-
plosion of q barrel Of naptha, not properly
labeled, shipped on his train.
Something is the matter with the bottom
of the United States ship Philadelphia, now
at Koy West. She has met with some acci-
dent about which the officers are extremely
uncommunicative. The Navy Department
has been informed Of the matter, and an ex-
pert diver will be sent there to make an ex-
animation.
DIR. Henry Slade, the New York spiritual
fst mas been at Duluth for several weeks de-
ivering lectures to immense audiences He
was caught in vicious practices, so that the
hotel people thrashed him soundly and then
kicked him out into the street. He was then
brought before Mayor D. Autremont, who
ordered him to leave town on the first train.
Two thousand Cinnamon are distributed
along the Washington, Idaho and Montana
line, awaiting the expiration of the exclu-
sion law on May 6, in order to cross into the
United States from Columbia. Eminent
counsel have been retained by the compa-
panies which bring the coolies over under
contract to defend any of the Chinese who
may be arrested after crossing the border on
Mayo.