Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
LATE NEWS in BRIEF.

The man-oEwar Concord is at vicks
burg.
-Deeming is in irons, but is writing 9
biography in prison.
Troops are concentrating in the City Of
Mexico for the festival of May 5.
| Anarchist pamphlets denouncing the
| Car find means to circulate in Russia.
The Newfoundland Legislature has re-
newed the discriminatory tariff against
| Canada.
| Nichols, the editor of the London An
archist newspaper, the Connsor,a0eal, has
| been indicted.
Miss Upton, of Altamont, Tenn, has
committed suicide because woman she
| loved had left her.
Frank " Kratky, real estate dealer OF
| Blair, Neb, and a bichloride patient, has
| committed suicide.
| lightning killed Alexander Melton at
Lincoln, Neb.,. Monday, and mortally
wounded his wife.
China will request of England a renewal
for six months of the prohibition of the ex-
portation of arms to Hong Kong.
parliamentary opinion at Ottawa, as re-
yealed in debate, seems to favor Canadian
diplomatic representation at Washington.
Rev. DR.. George H. McGraw. prominent
New York Methodist, has denounced that
faith and will become an Episcopal min
lister.
The Austrian school ship, Aurora, is To-
Gated at Philadelphia, to give the midship-
men chance to visit steel yards and steel
manufactures.
-Theo. L. Woodruff. formerly president OF
at Gloucester, N. j., yesterday by being
struck by train.
Grace Barcalon, a 16-year-old New York
heress, eloped yesterday from seminary,
at Greenwich, Conn.,, with DR.. Spencer
Franklin, Of Port Chester, Conn.
frankie Parsons for sake OF convenience,
has threatened Dr.. Kelley, the bichloride
man, with death. She says he killed her
husband.
The cruiser Baltimore passed San Fran
cisco Monday night on tile way from San
Diego to Astoria, where she will take part
in the Centennial celebration in Puget
Sound May I.
Ever since the burning of the negro Gov
at Te1arkana the negroes have been leaving
Arkansas. Planters are greatly alarmed
over the condition of their farms resulting
from this exodus.
General Palmer has issued an order for
all ex-soldfers to give 81 and their autographs
for the Grant monument. The latter will be
placed In the vault and the cash will assist
in finishing the tomb.
Commander in Chief Palmer, of the G. A.
r., has suspended Department Commander
Speed and the Senior Vice Commander of
the Louisiana G. A. r. Thoss officers had
j. B. Cowan, who died in St. Louis Mon
day, is said to have made a confession that
he and negro set fire to wholesale whisky
store nurned in Dallas, Tex, last fall, and
which carried an insurance of nearly 500, ,0OO
Canadian Immigration agents are at work
in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Kansas, Maine
Michigan and Massachusetts, They are
meeting with some success, too, most of the
immigrants going to the Northwest Terri
tories.
IN. E Mannall, of Mannall & Co., Boston,
real estate dealers, and Treasurer of the |
American and Scandinavian Printing Com
pany, is missing. He is charged with having |
mortgaged printing material which was |
only leased, and owing numbers OF people.
"A car on the new electric motor line In |
San Francisco jumped the track Monday |
evening and was overturned. The car was |
filled with passengers and 13 were more or |
less injuaed: Josiah Saunders, the motor |
man, and NJ. S. Ureanus and John Brady, |
passengers, were fatally hurt.
Henry Waterhouse of Honolulu, is in |
Chicago awaiting the arrival of eX-Prime |
Minister Thurston, who comes to Chicago to |
arrange tor a reproduction at the Worlds |
Loa. He says that annexation of the |
Hawaiian Islands to the United States is in
evitable.
-Obstructions placed on the Illinois Gen.
tral track near Holly Springs. Miss, Sunday
night, which were seen by the engineer just
in time, came near wrecking train. After
the train halted it was run into by heavy
freight train, demolishing the sleeper,
which burned to the ground. The engineer
was severely injured.
in the Criminal Court at Nashville Judge
Ridley charged the grand jury to investigate
the lynching OF the negroes there. He said
that all who were present, or aiding or abet-
ting, were guilty of murder. He said also
that those who participated in brea king or
attempting to break open the Jail, or aided |
or abe5ted in such attempt, were guilty of
felony.
M R. Denningcn, a rich 1umberman at
Mich, and a member of the Legis-
ature, put his property out of his hands
and announced in the public prints
that he will no longer pay debts contracted
oy his wie He las lett town, declaring
that he will never return. Denningen'S
spouse is Anna Eliza Young, who won such
lotoriety in her suit against the late Mormon
prophet.
A man entered DR.. H. B. Kauffman's office
n Chicago, Monday highland asked the ply
,ician to come with him to his home, where
young woman was ill. DR.. Kaufman hur-
.iedly threw on his oyercoat, and stopped to
pick up his medicine case. When he arose
le looked into the barrel OF a revolver.
You have roll of bills in your pocket and
want them ALL said the man. The doctor
vas compelled to give up his pocketbOok,
S76, and the thief backed out Of
he office.