Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-14
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

London is on the lookout for Cholera.
Cholera has appeared in Acre, Egypt
The attempt at Cincinnati to form leaf
tobacco combine failed.
Western Illinois was visited by destruc-
tive wind storms Tuesday night.
The end of the cattlemen's trials in
Wyoming Is expected early next week.
-Rumored that ten excursfonists and ten
guides have perished on Mount Blanc.
The search for the dead victims of the
st. Gervais landslide is still in progress.
quarantined against Victoria on account OF
cholera.
Eight children at Berkhamstead were
suffocated and burned to death in planning
mill fire.
-Paducah, KY, the scene of the latest race
war, is still in a ferment, and further trouble
is feared.
Rev. J. B. Kissler. Holiness preacher at
Toccoa City, Ca, was arrested Tuesday as q
leader of band of robbers.
A rain and hail storm devastated the
crops in Mercer county, KY, Tuesday. Many
head of live stock perished.
The Chicago carpenters unions have re-
ceived State charter for their proposed
anti-Pinkerton military company.
Mr.. Collins, a non-union man, who Is
missing from Everson, Westmoreland
county, is believed to be one of the dead at
Homestead.
William E. Ray, New Castle wife
beater, tried both the rope and the laudanum
routes to the grave in prison Tuesday night,
but scored a double failure.
Mime. Raymond has been acquitted in
Paris of the murder of Mime. Delaporte-
Lassimonne. The crime grew out of a scan
dal and resultant jealousy.
The affairs OF the Vincennes National
Bank have been in a deplorable state of in
solvency ever since the suicide of President
Wilson NJ. Tyler. He was responsible for
the loss of over S250,00O A receiver will be
appointed.
President j. B. Haddin, of the Anaconda
Mining Company. has decided to have the
entire output OF his mine refined i'll America,
instead OF in Europe and has arranged to
have the product of tile mine undergo the
electro1ytic treatment at Baltimore.
j. R. Redferin. the slayer of P. B. Dunn,
was taken from jail by a mob at Franklin,
KY, Tuesday midnight and hanged. p. B.
Dunn was prominent citizen and ex.Clerk
of the Circuit Court. Red;erin lived in one
of his houses. and Dunn had been trying to
eject him. Redierin shot Dunn through the
heart.
Torrance O'Brien, a footman at the Gay
lord shaft Plymouth, Pa. has been rescued
from horrible death. His lamp was blown
out and he started down the mine gangway
to obtain a light. He was not sure of his
course, however, and wandered off into a
side heading and into workings abandoned
for the last ten years. 1t was fully 81 hours
before he was found, fully two miles from
the shaft.
Suit has been filed in Chicago charging
Mayor Washburne and Commissioner Aid
rich, with collusion and partiality to a mon
opoly in awarding asphalt paving contracts
to the Western Paving and Supply Com
pany. The answer denies the charges of
coliusion and processes ignorance on the
part of city officers regarding the charge
that the Western company and the Barber
Asphalt Company were pooled to control the
Pitch lake product.
AT Spokane, Wash, Tuesday night, Luke
Bowles, Sheriff, stopped with Sims Harris
and his wife, both arrested at White Sui
phur Springs, Mon, for horse stealing. Bob
Mas terson, the celebrated desperado, en-
tered the Pacific Hotel where the Sheriff
was, managed to slip a gun to his daughter.
Harris wife. Masterson then shot Sheriff !
Bowles twice in the breast. AS the Sheriff
sank he shot Masterson through the head, |
killing him instantly. Tho fnfuriated |
woman jumped on his PROSTATE Iorm, but |
he seized her, took her gun away, and while |
lying on his back compelled both to sur |
render.