Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-11

sleeping car line that has ever been operated
between Chicago and Memphis.
Louis Z. Anderson. for the last eight
years cashier In the Long Island City office
of the Long Island Express Company, Is
missing. So Is q large salh OF money
The eigh.y-seventh annual Synod of the
Reformed Church in America has concluded
its business at Asbury Park, n. j. 1t was
voted to hold the next annual meeting
there.
Treasury agents at San Antonio, Tex,
have just finished an unsuccessful search
for a gang of smugglers who have been
bringing many fne blooded Canadian horses
across the border.
Mr.. Dillon cables from Dublin to the
Federation of America that the terms Of
fered for securing united action of the two
factions OF the Irish party are impossible
and not honestly meant.
H C. Begss, who left Oakland, Cal. Mon
day night with about 81, 600 belonging to the
Oakland Consolidated Street Railway Com
pary, OF which he Was Secretary, was ar
rested at Sissons Thursday.
1t is rumored at Elizabeth, n. j., that the
late cordage works there Will be rebuilt on
q larger scale than ever. Other concerns
consolidated with 1t will make it the largest
cordage works in the world.
The increase in the amount of American
corn imported into Germany for the quarter
ending March 81, 1899, as compared with the
corresponding quarter of last year, is shown
to approximate 5GcJ,G GOO DusnelS.
The Mississippi river at New Orleans
again eclipsed itself Thursday, the gauge at
the Canal street ferry wharf registering 17.6
feet. There is little or no danger from the
breaking of the levees in front or above the
city. -
MIR. Laporte, of Laporte's Hotel, Ottawa,
Ont, has received word from Spain that he
has been appointed guardian of the child of
NJ. de Belgueville, Spanish nobleIdan. and
that he inherits under de Belgueville's will
nearly 5000, 600 francs.
"A cloudburst occurred at Kelly station.
Ky, Thursday afternoon, causing great
destruction of property and the inundation
of railroad tracks. The rain is still falling.
Acres of tobacco and grain have been over
flowed and washed out of the ground.
-Ex-Premier Mercier, of Quebec, has aban-
doned his private property, with Tourouvre,
his country seat, and the insurance policies,
to his creditors. His friends in the Quebec
district will doubtless come to his aid. The
liabilities amount to $50. .0O0, an his property,
1t is understood, will only just cover his
debts.
Rev. Dr. Douglass, of Montreal, one of
the most prominent Canadian divines, in his
address before the Niagara Methodist Con-
ference, characterized the political methods
of Sir John Thompson, leader of the Govern
ment IN the House of Commons, as those of
a lay Jesuit, and vigorously denounced the
new gerrymander.
j. A. Vanhorn, who was lost on the
lZ.,
brought in Thursday. He had been eight
days without water and subsisted on the
cacti of the desert ana some canned fruit he
found nearby two skeletons of human be-
ings. When found he was in a helpless con-
ditfon. Martin Weir, his partner, who went
after the rescuing party, was also great
sufferer. He lost 40 pounds in weight from
suffering while hunting his way out of the
desert to get assistance
The poisoning in London of two girls,
Shrivell and Marsh, is assuming an inter-
national aspect. 1t is claimed that the al
legged murderer, whose name is not given,
formerly resided in the United States, and
committed or attempted similar crimes in
Brooklyn, n. Y. If the current reports are
true, he must be a sort of Jack the Ripper,
except that he used poison instead OF the
knife. 1t is asserted that the London and
New York police have been in communica-
tion on the subject of the alleged 1iend.
A family quarrel in Chicago has led to
some startling revelations in connection
with the Cronin murder. States Attorney
Longnecker, it is limited, has not only added
but has in his possession the
instrument with which DR.. Cronin was
killed, which turns out to be stone cut
ters chisel and not an ice pick. 1t is said
he has under observation and has seen the
wagon which carried the trunk and the
doctors body to the basin in Lake View, and
it is further said he has a confession in his
possession.