Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-29
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Mt. Etna is in full swing again.
Cairo printers think they know Berk
man.
-Glanders is prevalent among Texas
horses.
Foreign residents of Samoa fear another
civil war.
There were 2 5s3 cases and l,465 deaths
from cholera this month in Russia
The British East Africa Company has
become firmly established in Uganda.
The Faribault public school plan has
saltwater, MINI.
The Sultan Of Turkey is convinced that
the Ottoman Reform party has project on
foot to assassinate him.
Clarence E. Booran, a postoffice en-
ploye at Saltwater. Minn.,. has been ar
rested for robbing the mails and has con-
fessed.
"A sawmtll boiler explosion near Stanley,
L T., killed two men and injured four others.
The water in the boiler had become ex-
haused.
The Zemstvo of Kazan has asked the
Russian Treasury for loan of 500, 90 roubles
for seed and 100000 roubles tor sanitary
measures.
The boiler in the shingle mill of Hartnell
Smith, on Otsego Lake, Ca, blew up yester-
day morning, killing four men, fatally injur-
ing another and demolishing the mill.
Great Falls, Mont, threw herself under the
wheels of a switch engine yesterday. Sui
cides among Indians are all but unknown.
Owing to the smallpox scare the police
of Boise City, Idaho, have ordered all Japan
ese residents to leave town Immediately.
At Nampa the Chinese were also ordered to
leave.
-Brookshire, the horse thief who killed
two members Of posse near Frenchburg.
KY, Wednesday, is probably still at large.
The man who Is now held at Clay City can
not be identified as Brookshtre.
-Rumored that the British cruiser Cham
pion will seize the johnson group Of islands
in the South sea. The chief island Is
claimed by the Pacific Guano Company. Of
San Francisco, who have hoisted the Amer
ican nag upon it.
Thomas Kelly, OF Cleveland, who II years
ago escaped from tho Toronto police after
having been sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary for larceny, and who was rear
few weeks since. has been released from Gus
tody by order of the Minister Of Justice.
He lived an honorable life in Cleveland after
his escape, and this good showing was the
ground on which he was released.
The draft of the treaty which Sir Charles
Euan Smith, the British representative, re-
Gently presented for the signature of the
Sultan Of Morocco. contained clauses pro-
vfding for the creation of q Moorish State
bank with English capital; the creation Of q
police force in Tangfer controlled by En-
glishmen; the erection of forti6cations by
Che English on the highlands of Marchansi;
the cession to England of various plots Of
land and the recognition of the sovereignty
of England over Cape JUDY.
1t is rumored that pretty young woman
is in the moonlight distillery business in
Berrien county, Ga. Last Friday night q
citizen of Worth was riding along road in
Berrien, when woman on horseback gal
loped past him and went like lightning up
the road. The citizen spurred his horse
and finally succeeded in overtaking her.
The woman, finding that flight was useless,
drew . black mask over her face and held
a conversation with the gentleman. She
said that for reasons that were secret, she
wishod to preserve her identity; but pulling
q flask from her saddle bags, she offered the
gentleman drink of flrst-class corn.
George Denny, white prisoner in Sulli-
van county, Tenn, who thought he was dy-
ing from sunstroke, has made a confession
which clears up a murder and arson case in
Bristol. December l5 last the street car
stables there were destroyed, causing q loss
of about $780, 900. In the debris were found
the bones of the watchman inclosed in some
barrel hoops. Denny confessed that he saw
Will Richards, driver, and James Kinney,
an overseer, murder Jack Overstreet the
watchman, and fire the building, being him
self sworn to silence at the pistols point.
Richards and Kinney are under arrest and
the police think Denny was not an unwill-
ing participant