Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23

-GarZa DrOtner mas Deen captured.
The French have sent feet to Alexan.
dria.
The Brazilian Chambers have been pro-
rogued.
Conflicting reports of the Pope's death
The Aransas Pass strike has been formal.
ly declared OF
IL is said the Whisky Trust is consider.
ing plan for reorganization.
The japanese Commissioners to the
Worlds Fair have landed at San Francisco
King Maiiatoa, of Samoa, still fears to
proceed 20 exSremitieS against Mataafa, the
rebel.
The Attorney General OF Kansas has be
gun proceedings to dlsorgan!ze Garfield
county.
during the Democratic Convention are pour
ing into Chicago.
The Keatucky Legislature will be asked
to appropriate Sie0, coo for State exhibit al
the Worlds Fair.
Glasgow citizens held a meeting Thurs.
day and raised n large sum for the Russian
famine relief fund.
A lamp upset into the lap OF Mrs. George
Collins at Pensacola, Fla, Wednesday night
burHing her to death.
Two oil trains collided and burned near
Tfiis, capital of the Russian province OF
Georgia. Six lives we're lost.
William Jones, a welt-known Liverpool
cotton broker, has committed suicide by
jumping from an upper window.
A woman named Hastings, at Noting.
ham, England, struck her two children dead
with hammer, and then committed suicide.
Director General Davis, o. the Worlds
Fair, will be allowed to install exhibits as he
may see lit. This is victory over President
Palmer.
Part of a rocky cliff at D;eppe. France,
fell yesterday, crushing three dwellings ard
killing two women and cne man and init ur-
ing % Others.
Eleven of the l3 newly elected Indiana
Republican State Committee are for Harri-
son, and the other two promise not to AL
tagontze the President.
The steamer Egyptian Monarch. from
New York, reports that on January 16 q YES
sci, supposed to be American, was on fire in
latitude 4S' north, longitude 100 west.
j. w. Cliff, the Republican Secretary of
the lows Senate, was deDosau with q Dem
ocratic majority of one, Thursday. He will
test his right to the Office in the courts.
Tine Prohibition State Convention, of
Maine, has been called 20 meet at Bangor on
May and 3. The Executive Committee an
nounces that it expects to make strong
fight this year.
M. Laur declares that the refusal of Min
lister Constans TO fight a duel with him saved
that during his recent pistol practice he hit
the mark at every shot.
The steamship Alameda, just arrived at
San Francisco, from sydney via Honolulu,
brought up Captain Huntley and nine of the
crew of the American whaling bark John r.
West, which was burned near Honolulu two
weeks ago.
A French expedition sent to punish a
tribe in the Soudan fought a severe battle
january ii, purchasing victory at the cost
OF killed and 30 wounded. The natives
fought stub6ornly and left several hundred
OF their dead on the field.
AT Camden. Ala, yesterday, Robert Car
ter was hanged for the murder of his wife,
Julia Carter, June %, 1891. Carter had been
divorced from two wives, and shot his third
one on account of jealousy, while she was
going to her mothers funeral with another
man.
The Court at Wilmington, Del, yester-
day refused 3 new trial for the prisoners
convicted Of burning the Dupont Powder
Company's barn, and sentenced them to
terms ranging from three to eight years
imprisonment They are Edward, Mary and
Joseph Clark, and William Gibbons.
just before they were executed at Dan
vile, Va, yesterday. Jim Lyles and Mar
garet Lashley, the colored murderers of
George Lashley, in 1890. Joined heartily in
the prayers and hymns. The man made a
confession, declaring he alone was RESPONSE
BILE for the crime The woman protested
her innocence to the last.
London solicitors for Captain Charles
Armstrong, in his suit against the Duke of
Orleans for alternating the affections of his
wife, famous soprano. Madame Melba, have
answered the last pleadings of the Dukes
lawyers, to the effect that Captain Arm
strong had no 'domicile in England. 1t is be-
lieved the Duke will be compelled to come
TO trial.
The Confederate flag which was cap-
tured from q North Carolina regiment at
Hanover Court House, in 1862 and which is
now in the custody of the County Clerk, at
Boston, WAS the subject OF sharp discussion
at the meeting OF the Common Council, as a
result of which the Alder1nanic order that
it be returned to the regiment was laid over
for one week.
The British schooner william Arm
strong, Captain Mckenzie, from New Orleans
January 12, for Havre, France, with $500
bales of cotton, stranded Tuesday morning
on the Virginia coast, two miles from Cobb's
Island. She is now lying in eight feet of
water. The crew of the vessel is safe and
no danger is apprehended as to her cargo.
Alexander Lewis, for the murder of Ben
c. Travels, in June, 1855, and Sheppard
Busby, for killing Deputy Marshal Barney
Connolly in August, 1891, have been sem
fenced at Fort Smith, Ark, by United StateS
Judge Parker to be hanged April q nex1
Lewis killed Travels during the progress OF
the Verdigris train robbery on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad. Three of his
gang have since been killed while resisting
arrest, and the fifth confessed and saved his
own neck at the expense of Lewis.