Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-06
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

Tex.
The Danube has overf1own its banks.
The grain blockade at Kansas City con-
tinues.
The making of corn oil is a new Chicago
industry.
The stranded British warship Victoria
mas been foated.
A Paris financier has been arrested for
steallng l,1O0OO0 francs.
The Oklahoma Democratic Central Com
mlttee is for Cleveland
The Prohibition party will fuse with the
Peoples party in Michigan.
-German comments on the death of Dr.
mackenzie are not eulogistic.
Jerusalem is quarantining against Da-
mascus on account of cholera.
The City of Mexico police force i. to be
shaken up from the chief down
Many of the Yaqui Indians in Mexico have
abandoned the rife for the pillow.
There are 40 murderers under death
sentence at the Beleu prison, Mexico.
The holders of the Portuguese debt are
making trouble for that Government.
Emperor William is laboring earnestly
with German manufacturers in behalf of the
Worlds Fair.
-Ex-President Kinney, of the $500 line,
York and Chicago.
-Talton Hall, the Tennessee desperate,
has been sentenced to hang March Il There
are fears of a rescue
"A new Diaz organ has appeared at the
City of Mexico, which will advocate the
Presidents reelection.
Rev. Theodore yenn has sued Rev. Rob-
ert Hughes for libel at Blue Earth City,
Mimi. Both are Catholic priests
Thomas Melrose. poor farmer near
Grantsburg, has just been notified to 90 TO
England and get his fortune of Ell 900, oOO
burglars made an unsuccessful raid upon
the famous Tranby Croft house in England
yesterday while the family were at dinner
The heir to an English fortune of nearly
81, 100000 has been found in Chicago after
five years search. His name is George W.
Northred2e.
e. Goddard & Sons, st. Louis flour mill
ers. have assigned. Assets, s97, ,095 4s: debts,
sl30,0O0. Manipulation of the wheat market
caused the failure.
The Commercial Savings Bank at Kear-
nev. Neb., has been taken in charge bv the
bank examiner. Deposftors will probably
recover about so per cent.
-William Pickett was hanged yesterday
for the murder of Henry Hall at West Irvine,
Ky. Robert Charleton was hanged yester-
day morning at Henderson, Ky.
The banking firm of Marcy. Gerr & Nc
An Ann; GOO OF Ration S n ~ NJ has failed for about
securities caused the crash.
Prof. Wilkinson, President of the Cali
fornia Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind, is in Europe investigating new meth
DDS Of teaching those classes of pupils.
Jos. Hamel shot and instantly killed his
tenant. William Reatt, at De Soto, Mo-,
Thursday, because the latter refused to re-
turn some farming implements. Hamel gave
himself up
twenty-five saloon keepers Mt Ottumwa
Ia, will be indicted. They violated the
revenue law by falling to destroy stamps on
empty packages, swindling the Government:
out of 80 cents on every package sold.
Leon Obregon, editor of a San Antonio
Spanish paper, became raving maniac
after taking alleged medicine prescribed for
him by an old Mexican woman. 1t was
made from poisonous Mexican herb called
toloache.
Miss Alice Mitchell, the slayer Of Freda
Ward at Memphis, when informed by her
lawyer that she would escape the gallows,
grew frantic, and said that she looked for
ward to the day when she should be hanged
as the happiest day of all, as she would then
meet her Freda.
Representatives of the Dominion Depart
ment of Justice are present at the trial for
conspiracy OF the American Deputy Col
lectors Towhey and Smith at Montreal who
were acting in behalf of the Treasury De-
partment The Dominion representatives
will not interfere unless the American
officers are refused fair play.