Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-08
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

The Criterion Comedy Company 10
stranded at Crookston, Mimi.
Six persons were killed in a cyclone that
passed over Lisbon. Portugal, on Sunday.
Crop prospects in the vicinity of EN-
poria, Kan, are said to be the finest ever
known.
-E1-Auditor Lavelle. of Davis county.
burn his books.
The Ketner, Elbon and Shawmut Rail-
road Company, OF Ridgeway, Elk county,
capital $500, zoo. was chartered yesterday.
Charles Beggs, tinsmith of waukesha,
Wis, Yesterday shot and fatally wounded
his wife and then shot and killed himself.
white Caps. of EIgin, Minn., tarred,
feathered and rode on a rail Sidney Green,
who eloped with Farmer Crawford's wife,
The new Khedive of Egypt proposes to
inauguratc his reign by recovering the Sou
t. the fsP s a neoeon of the
Tho millers of Spain are working for the
annulment of the Cuban reciprocity treaty
with the United States. Some think the old
duties on flour will soon be restored.
Ludwig Billfnger and Felix Green, livery
stable employees, were found dead in bed, at
Chicago, yesterday having been asphyxiated
by gas escaping from defective burner.
The census returns show that the popu.
lation of New South Wales is ], I32. 24 These
figures include Is, l56 Chinese and $3.50 abori-
DR. Peck of Chartahoochie county, Ga.
quarreled with and shot dead N. a. Thomas,
q neighbor. He afterward worked to save
his victims life, but without avail. Self
defense is the defense.
Mrs. Annie NJ. Montague, held by the
has secured a change ofvenue on the ground
that the feeling in Ulster will prevent fair
trial. She will be tried in Dublin.
Judge Endicott Of counsel for contest
yesterday filed a formal waiver in behalf OK
Timothy Hopkins ana wife, Of the appeal
from the decree allowing the will Of Mary F.
Searles.
The new British steamer Massachusetts
load. 70 for n New YORK 5000 tons Of tin ~ plates.
This will be the largest shipment, of tin
plates to the United States since the McKin-
ley bill went into effect. go
George S. Moore, the iron merchant who
disappeared two weeks ago from Louisville
heavily involved, has returned. His chief
business difficulty has been settled to the
! satisfaction Of his creditors, and 1t is be.
heved he may be able to resume business.
Final returns Of the elections for mem
bers OF the London County Council, held on
Saturday, show the return of an overwhelm-
ing majority Of Progressives, or Liberals.
The new Council will consist Of 81 Pro-
gressfves and 81 MOderates, or Conserva-
lives
Richard Scanlan. of New York, went
home late sunday night, and became so en-
ragged at finding his brother at his house
that he threw q lamp at the woman. She
was q blazing pile in q moment and died
yesterday from her injuries. Seaman was
arresred.
Tho sixth annual report Of the New
York factory inspectors, sent to the Legtsla-
ture yesterday, shows that child labor has
been reduced in that State over 90 per cent
since l666. The sweat shop evil Is increas-
them with men and women who work from
Is to 10 hours a day, seven days week for
weeks in succession. The swarm Of inferior
Immigrants who have come to the country
within the last few years supply these sweat
shops.