Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-07
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tacoma, WASH. has gone Republican.
Republicans carried West Superior, Wis.
Democrats made a clean sweep of Kan
| sas City.
Radicals will abstain from voting at the
Argentine elections.
Governor Flower, of New York, has
signed the Worlds Fair bill.
The South Dakota Supreme Court has
sustained the prohibition law.
Senator Boulton a Dominion statesman,
is anxious to form Canadian free trade
league
The Maryland Legislature has passed
bill taxing distilled spirits in bonded ware
houses.
Hundreds of French Canadians are leav-
ing Quebec Province daily for the Canadian
Northwest.
-Mexico's National Electoral Commission
is in session. 1t will re-elect President D1az,
without doubt.
The Dominion Parliament has voted
$5, 900 as preliminary expenses to an exhibit
in the Worlds Fair.
Through jealousy Cincinnati salesman.
William T. Griffin. shot and fatally wounded
his wife. Griffin is in jail.
Eight negroes on Little River, La, muir
dered a peddler named Patrick Kelley for
his money, and four of them have since been
lynched.
The 81, 900 candle power light, with which
Liberty enlightens the world in New York
harbor. is to be replaced by one of 100000
candle power.
President Palacis, of Venezuela, is badly
frightened over another plot to assass1nate
him. The insurgent army is said to be in
creasing rapidly.
Joseph Dryinal, an employing tailor at
Baltimore, set ND the drinks to his men and
put poison in his glass. His last words were:
"My last treat: my last drink"
The New York NJ E. Conference, in ses-
xl2 lnd wit "a.
sion, by vote of 13s to 80, against the ad-
mission of women to the Conference.
AT Oskaloosa, Ia... Mamie Roberts, who
sued her father and uncle for s20,010 for
falsely incarcerating her In a., an az ooo insane
has written Il letter in which he favors the
continuance of silver coinage, with re-
striction upon its legal tender quality.
-Duringa political argument in the streets
of Kansas City Tuesday night, . local Demo
in the face, and then disappeared in the
crowd.
Miss Lalia Farrow. daughter Of Sussex
county. Delaware, resident, has entered suit
against j. Harry Coates q neighbor, to COM
which she claims occurred June Il, 1881.
Bill Murphy, North Carolina mountain
desperado, has announced his ambition to
kill ten men. He has already slain his
woman, and has dangerously wounded a,
fifth.
"A bad debt collecting agency at Mon
treal placarded names of obstinate debtors
over the town by means of posters. A man
named Aubfn thus posted Tor $50 debt
brought suit for damages, but the Judge dis
missed the case.
About 30 persons were poisoned by eat
ing ice cream at church social In Nash
vile, Tenn, Monday. Two of the victims,
John D. Hudson and Miss Matte Goodwin,
have died. and three others are having
hard struggle for life.
The west span OF the Clarissa street
bridge across the Genesee river at Roches-
ter, N. Y, fell yesterday morning, precipi-
tating into the river, which is at flood
height, five men and q woman. The unfor-
tunates grasped pieces of wreckage and all
were rescued.
New Orleans Democrats are excited over
the action of the committee of seven, the
Democratic Returning Board, in counting
out McEnery ut the primary election. and
counting in Foster, the antilottery candi-
date. McEnery received a maj jority at the
primaries, but the committee threw out
1897 votes and gave Foster 81 majority OF $40.
Yesterday morning locomotive boiler
exploded at Long Island City and eight men
injured. five probably fatally. The probably
the gravel train to which the engine was
alta ached; Andrew Walker, engineer: John
Laffey, water boy; James Losh, a brake
man, and Theodore Van Siber, the fire.
man.
At Detroit yesterday James A. Kier and
Jacob NJ. Smith appeared at the police court
and offered to go on the bail bonds OF
"Prince" Michael and Eliza Court, the ely
ing Roll" disciples. They were accepted as
b, bond dsmen and signed al Of the bonds, nxe
the prince" and his spiritual affinity"
the Court woman, were released.