Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-16
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Earthquake shocks were felt in Greece,
| Tuesday.
spreading Eastward.
Tho split in the ranks Of the German So
cialists is extending. -.
Many people in Northern Newfoundland
| are said to be starving.
| Saint Teresa, of Guayamas Mexico, has
been sentenced to be shot for witchcraft
| In New Albany. George Jamison died
| Tuesday after drinking quart OF whisky.
| The Government of India has decided
not to be represented oficially at the Worlds
| Fair.
| Many strikers have been arrested at
! Barcelona. The situation is still very se-
rious. ..
| Two rival Chilean newspaper offices
| have been robbed, each by crowd of the
| others friends.
Five persons were drowned by tile cap
| sizing, OF a bayou ferryboat at Napoleon
| vile, La, Monday night.
Eleven persons took shelter from storm
| by the side wall of a church at Pradouengo,
Spain. Tuesday. The wall collapsed and in
jured all of them.
The Pope has enjoined Archbishop
Vaughan. of Westminster, England, to avoid
mixing up in party strife and especially not
| to oppose Irish national aspiration.
Eugene Wolff, the newspaper CORE
spondent, confirms the statement of Captain
w ullalilS LHtJ Ilc OdtuOllC HllbSlOnar1eS III
Uganda have been released and have gone
to German territory.
The commencement exercises of the
Johns Hopkins University were ended Tues
day. There were 40 candidates for the degree
OF Bachelor of Arts and 81 for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy.
A meeting of the shareholders of the
German East Africa Company was held yes
terday. For the first time since the COM
pany was chartered dividend OF per cent
was declared on the preference shares.
Police officials of New York have noti-
fed banks and brokers not to negotiate n
number of 8 per cent bonds and six 5000
franc bills which have been stolen. The
robbery occurred on June at Hamburg.
james NJ. Reid was arrested at St. Louis.
He bought from j. a. Melville and A. Green
wood, of Fillmore, Utah, 80 ponies, giving
therefor a deed to 16o acres of Scott county,
Kan, land. Investigation proved the land
belonged to F. Y. Lewis.
The National Association of Dancing
Masters is in session at Cleveland The fol-
lowing officers were elected: President, E.
L. Bass, of Utica, n. Y; Secretary, B. F.
Thuma, of Pittsburg; Treasurer ]. W. Ban
CERT, of Baltimore; Trustee for three years,
A. Z. Wirth, of Milwaukee.
The will of Commodore Hunter, the Sec
ond oldest commodore of the United States
navy, who died in New Orleans Sunday be-
queathed about $4,000 in sums of ST, 900 each
to seveal of his friends, and to 4 nephew he
leaves $4,000 in Confederate currency. This
was the price paid him for his five years
services in the Confederate navy.
For some time man passing himself of
rs United States detective has been max
ing nuisance of himself in Corsican, Tex,
by following women around. The police
finally arrested him, and, finding no bona
flde papers on him, held him on a charge of
carrying concealed weapons. He answers
closely to the description of the man who
recently committed the terrible Denison
murders.
Numerous inquiries are being received
at the Department of Agriculture in regard
states that the department. has never OF.
dered and does not expect to receive any
fat-tailed sheep from Persia or elsewhere.
The consignment to which reference was
doubtless intended was one shipped by MIR.
TruXton Beale, Consul General OF the United
States at Teheran.