Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-08
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Rumored that President Pena, Of Argen-
| ttnta, wtllrestGn.
| Tho remains OF Ernest Renan were
buried yesterday.
Hot Springs, 8. D., reports q shock OF
earthquake Thursday evening.
An Oxford student committed suicide
because he failed at examination.
Five carloads OF ore from the Seven
Stars Mine have been sold for $4,000.
The new gusno protocol between Chile
and Peru seems to be mutually satisfactory.
The cruiser Charleston struck bottom in
the San Diego harbor, but escaped unin-
jured.
Ground has been broken at Edinburg,
ILL.,, for the Chicago and st. Louis Electric
Railway.
The Dead Horn mine in the Cripple Creek
district in Colorado has been sold for s40O,-
600 cash.
Precautions have been redoubled in
Buenos Ayres against possible revolution
ary outbreak.
A wealthy lunatic at De Kalb, Tex, W.
j. Moss, kicked his aunt, Mrs. Smith, to
death Thursday.
"A San Francisco Examiner reporter has
succeeded in interviewing the fugitive train
robbers Evans and Sontag.
The Free Baptist Conference has resolved
itself into q chartered organization under
the laws Of the State of Maine.
Illinois statistics, just issued by the Blu.
reau of Labor, show that the daily wages OF
coal miners have increased 15.6 per cent.
1t is announced that Minister Abbott
has succeeded in negotiating a reciprocity
arrangement with the Republic of Colombia.
The B. & o. is the first railroad to make
Worlds Fair dedication rates. Columbus
gets the benefit Of one fare for the round
trip
Frank Beal, who lived on Second street,
bflo doIr 1rr1ft tfQd urri-
eide by hanging himself to cross beam in q
barn yesterday.
Pleasant Mccoy, one of the leaders Of
the notorious Mccoy gang in Kentucky, has
been sentenced to imprisonment for life for
tho murder of his cousin.
Hugo Loewy, a Berlin banker, has been
convicted of embezzlement and fraudulent
bankruptcy and has been sentenced to ~
years imprisonment and heavy fine.
The Chicago Seamen's Union has con-
trihuted $500 to the Homestead locked-out
men. The union decreed an increase of 80
cents in the wages Of its own members.
German Day, the two hundred and ninth
anniversary of the first settlement of Ger
mans in America under Pastorius. was cele-
brated in the Academy of Music, Philadel-
phia, by great assemblage.
The Sixth Auditor of the Treasury re-
ports that during the last quarter of the
fiscal year ended June 80. 1892, the receipts
of the Postoffice Department were $l7, 5Os, ,692
and the expenditures $l9 766, 81
A statement has been received at the
Russian cruisers in the Boring Sea have cap
tured ten Canadian sealing schooners, val
ued at $4,000, and l,90c sealskins worth $40
each.
AT Toluca, in the interior of Mexico the
poorer classes are dying daily by the hun
waited by typhoid fever. the latter cpl
demic is making frightful ravases in Zaca-
tecas
Prof. Pickering of the Harvard Branch
Observatory at AreQuipa, Peru, reports that
he discovered 40 small lakes on Mars He
also confirms Prof. Holden's observations on
the limits and measured attitudes of the
planet.
The Nihilists Stepanoff, Reinste1n and
who were sentenced in Paris
N 1880 to two years. imprisonment for max
ng explosives to be used in Russia, were
yesterday, their sentences having
expired.
BY the use OF coal oil, William Sharp, of
~ his insane wife Thursday The woman
vas perhaps fatally burned in her success
III efforts to prevent Mr.. Sharp from extri-
:ating himself.
Every miner in Polk county, Ia, is out
N strike. and all the mines are idle. All
he mines except that operated by the Des
doineS Coal Company have conceded the 10 |
,er cent advance demanded by the miners,
'ut TeluSeo tne Di-Weckly payment asked.
"A demonstration by~workingmen the |
ay preceding the Worlds Fair dedicatory |
Exercises is safd'to be among the probabili. |
les. This is in consequence of the decision |
o close the gates on October % against all |
rho do not hold invitations and tickets of |
Omission.
Iron ore shipments are 80 well advanced |
his season that with an estimated shipment |
rom mines of about 5000, 900 tons this year
here will be more than 900 600 less to come |
own after October / this year than were
AIKEN from upper lake docks in October and
november, 1891.
During a funeral procession with the
ody Of a child OF Mrs. H. Hill, of Bachelor.
o Jfmtown, CAL, the forward coaoh contain.
ng the corpse, four women, and the driver
nd another man was precipitated down
he hill $50 feet, the coach overturning
We times. All the occupants were injured.
he coffin was broken open.
The new lighthouse tender Columbine.
estined for service on the Northern Pacific
oast, will sail from New York for that sta
on next week under command of Lieuten.
Mt Commander West, United States NAVY.
be will stop en- route at Rio de Janeiro.
Valparaiso and San Francisco.
nd Is expected to reach Portland in about
days.